The Qin State was raising cattle and horses, and the counties began to harvest millet in September, and all the new millet and undried millet seedlings harvested in the neighboring counties were transported into the eastern county, apparently in preparation for the winter felling, and the grain accumulated before last year had been exhausted.

In October, on the day of Jiashen, Xiong Jing finally listened to the report of Da Sima with the important ministers of the court. The Qin army recruited servants and wanted to launch another offensive in the winter, and I had told me a few days ago when I was looking at the court, but now this report is to completely determine the strategic intentions of the Qin army, and it will be reported by the Great Sima Mansion rather than the Zhibisi.

"Wang Jian has about 300,000 foot soldiers, and the number of additional soldiers is only 450,000. Most of the sergeants and soldiers in the army are Qin elite soldiers, and there are 40,000 cavalry troops, led by the cavalry generals......"

The courtiers had heard the name of Yu Fen many times, and at first some people scolded him as a thief, but then they got used to it. There have always been many thieves in the Chu State, and the nature of Yu Fen's rebellion as a Yuan person and Jing Hua's rebellion as a nobleman are completely different. Only Fei Jing and Xiang Chao turned their heads to look at each other when they heard the name of Yu Fen, and then their eyes separated.

"The counties and counties of the Qin State also recruited horses, and the horses of the nobles of the government were all recruited into the army, and it is roughly estimated that there may be more than 100,000 horses in Wang Qian's army; There are many servant cattle, plus the existing servant cattle in the army, the number of servant cattle may be 300,000. ”

"Three hundred thousand?!" Dong Yegu, who was most concerned about Wang Qian's army, couldn't help but interrupt. "300,000 servant cattle, more than 100,000 horses, there are only 26 counties in Dongjun, how can cattle and horses be food?"

"The newly recruited cattle and horses are all north of the river, and have not yet been transported to the south of the river." Don't hesitate to explain out loud. "Zhibisi expects that after the ice, Hebei cattle and horse grain will be transported into Henan, or simply not enter Henan, and go straight into Qi in the area of Jingaotang in the plains."

Wang Qian's army was stationed on the front line of Puyang Xueling in Dongjun, and everyone thought that the starting point of logistics would be in Dongjun.

Then don't take the meaning of my words, Li said: "The grain transportation is not a place in Dongjun, and the border of Zhao and Qi, that is, Qinghe County of the Qin people, will be full of grain barns in the future. The Qin people recruited cattle and horses throughout the country this time, and they were determined to destroy Qi. ”

"How much gunpowder does the Qin people still have?" An uninteresting voice asked.

"Not much, not enough to blow up the city." He was slightly stunned. "When the Qin people bombed Linzi, they had used six or seven tons of gunpowder, otherwise they would not have blown up the Linzi city wall. Coupled with the use of artillery, there are only two tons left, which is useless in siege. ”

"Since the Qin people can imitate artillery, they can't imitate gunpowder?" The person who spoke, Xiong Jing, knew who it was without looking. Because of the exchange incident, the courtiers only got the right to supervise the mansion and the Jutie Mansion, and they were still unwilling in their hearts.

"More than 20 cannons cast by the Qin people exploded, which is not as good as my fake cannon." Speaking of the Qin people, they laughed.

The news about the Qin people's cannon casting came later, and the bronze cannon cast by those Bai Di craftsmen exploded as many times, and Ou Chou's judgment on this was that the copper was impure. This judgment is true, and Qi and Wei also tried to cast some bronze cannons, but they were not very successful. The large and long ten-pound cannon could not be cast, but the small and short, similar to the tiger squat cannon of later generations was no problem. It was precisely because of the follow-up information that the courtiers gradually relaxed their criticism of the royal court's unauthorized financing of the enemy.

"Gunpowder Qi Wei and other countries do not talk about imitation, that is, gunpowder does not know what it contains, where does imitation begin? Qi Wei doesn't know, how do the Qin people know? "Say goodbye." The Qin army relied on more soldiers and more food, and as soon as the elite under Wang Jian and Li Xin went, the Qin State died. ”

The pursuit of the wind and snow at the beginning of the year caused a large number of attritions under Wang Qian's command, but unfortunately there were not many elite soldiers. Previously, Li Xin had 400,000, Wang Jian had about 200,000, and Meng Tian had tens of thousands, and these 600,000 soldiers were the pillars of the Qin army.

The state of Chu has recovered Bashu and Hanzhong, although the military system in these places is different from that of the Chu army, but it will not take long for the number of Chu troops to increase to more than 400,000 in three to five years after the pacification of Bashu. Coupled with the 150,000 Zhao and Wei coalition troops, they already initially had the strength to fight a decisive battle with the Qin army. We are getting better day by day, and the enemy is rotting day by day. That's how it is.

The Qin State is a strong enemy, and the situation of the Qin army is very clear to everyone, but the situation of the Qi army after the war at the beginning of the year and the situation of fortification are not very clear. Li then went on to introduce the Qi army: "The Moon of the Punishment of the Emperor attacked Qi, beheaded the Qi army of 200,000, and the army of the Gaotang Dynasty was overthrown, and only the 150,000 Linzi army withdrew to Linzi a year ago, and was lucky to survive tens of thousands.

Among the 300,000 troops stationed in Pingyin, Jixi Hubyi, 150,000 are the pawns of Linzi and 150,000 are the pawns of Jimo. The Qi people took Anping Juntian as the general, the former general Tian Luo as the right general, and Sima Tian Shu as the left general. Jixi is thousands of miles away from Jimo, and the soldiers who planted millet and harvested millet could not return home, although the Qi State Zhengchao said that the field rent would be halved this year, but the Jimo soldiers still complained.

The root cause is that the peasants of Qi State borrowed money to plant millet and mulberry, and after harvesting the cocoon, they had to repay the money of the merchant and the mother. The people who ransomed the debts of the Qin State still had the invitation to harvest the millet on the 20th, and Jixi was thousands of miles away from Jimo, and the Qin people were eyeing the tiger, and the Qi generals were not allowed to return home to collect the millet.

The morale is like this, the land of Jixi is open to boats, but 300,000 soldiers, more than 200,000 soldiers who build cities, hundreds of thousands of cattle and horses in the army are consumed day and night, and the corn accumulated in Qi has been exhausted, and if the corn is harvested two decades later, the army will run out of food. Qi produced 60 million stones of millet last year, this year delayed the spring planting, and the autumn harvest was mistaken, to know that the corn harvested this year is less than 40 million stones, and the new harvest of corn in the spring of next year will be exhausted, at that time the price of millet in Qi will rise sharply, and will definitely borrow millet from me. ”

Qi Chu was once an ally, and Qi turned a blind eye to Zhibisi's activities. The rate of generals, soldiers, morale, and food and straw have always been closely related to war. As in history, the biggest problem of Qi was not only the poverty of the common people, but also the lack of millet production.

The War Division had deduced that the Qin army would attack and harass the spring planting of the various countries, but this incident did not happen, and the production of millet in the Qi State also dropped significantly. Historically, a very important reason for the surrender of Qi to Qin was that there was no or too little corn, and now this problem is becoming prominent.

"If the Qin army has no gunpowder, will the Qi people be able to hold Pingyin? How long can it last? "Li introduced the situation of the two armies of Qi and Qin, but what Xiong Jing wanted to know was whether the Qi people could hold Pingyin.

"It's only March." He replied. "The Qin people did not have gunpowder, but they did have trebuchets. There is no trebuchet, and the city can be annihilated. Once the city is annihilated, Pingyin will not be defended. ”

March in Li's mouth is the time of oblivion. If you really want to annihilate the city, the Qin army is more numerous than the Qi army, and with the combat effectiveness of the Qi army, no one believes that the Qi people can hold Pingyin. Pingyin is the last pass to the west of Ji, and if Pingyin is lost, the Qin army will drive straight in.

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