"Tell the king: Our army was defeated in the battle of Jiangyi last year, and the four-wheeled carriage must have been captured by the Qin people in this battle." The four-wheeled carriage has been kept secret since its invention, but no matter how secret it is, there will be a day when it is lost - trade is exchange, and war is even more exchange.

"The king, the minister thinks that the Wei State should be defended, and the Wei State has a precedent for sending troops with the Qin people, if the Qin State intends to attack me, the Wei and Qi countries will be the scene." Li and followed Lu Yangjun closely, he always thought that Qin Guo was preparing for the next success.

"Why didn't the Qin State attack the Zhao State?! It's not that ......" Xiong Jing wanted to rip his hair off. It's ridiculous that he didn't want to form an alliance with Zhao last year, but now retribution is coming, and if no one in Qin will be killed, he will cut down Chu.

"Great King, after the Qin envoy Changping Jun returned to China, he wantonly slandered my Chu State, saying that there were only 400,000 soldiers in my Chu State, and the soldiers were weak, and the battle of Qingshui was really a fluke." Don't let me relay the words of the spy, and tell everything I heard in Xianyang.

"What does the Great Sima Mansion think, when will the Qin State attack me?" Xiong Jing didn't have time to regret it, his face immediately became gloomy, and he looked at the three people in front of him like a wolf.

"Tell the king, the ministers think it's ......" Li looked at Lu Yangjun and said: "The ministers think that if Qin Ruo cuts me, there may be signs next month." Chengyang can only fight for land, if you want to lose the country, when Bachen County, the time or in August and September. Or maybe they have been attacking again and again since May, so that our army will be exhausted, and when we are beyond our strength, we will ......"

"Go and summon the general at once." Xiong Jing suddenly stopped Li Yan, turned around and asked someone to summon Xiang Yan immediately. The Four Kingdoms are even attacking Chu, and he must let Xiang Yan get involved now and make the most adequate preparations.

The post house in Yingdu has been full of county generals who have made meritorious contributions last year these days, and when Xiang Yan moved in, all the generals who had checked in earlier came out to greet them, and they saw the general's words one after another. The meeting between the generals was full of comrade-in-arms tacit understanding and toughness, Xiang Yan entered the post house without talking too much with other people, and then asked Xiang Chao for questioning.

"Your father heard that you and Princess Qian once rode on the same horse?" Xiang Chao looks very much like his wife, and he can't be ruthless when he sees his son Xiang Yan.

"Father, who does he listen to?" Xiang Chao no longer wears a leather jacket all day long like last year, covering up the fact that he is crowned, he has matured a lot after seeing blood.

"Yes and no?" Xiang Yan's eyes widened, as fierce as if he wanted to kill. Although Xiang Chao met his gaze recklessly, it didn't take long to avoid it. "It is true, but it ......"

'Smack——! A sharp slap on his son's head, Xiang Yan scolded: "Shaft! Men and women are not at the same table, how can you ride the same horse with Princess Qian?! ”

"Father!" Xiang Chao jumped up violently, "Princess Qian and I abide by the etiquette, it's just, just to teach her to ride a horse." ”

"Teach her to ride a horse? Princess, why do you want this erector to teach you how to ride a horse? "Xiang Yan is especially angry." Are you thinking about it? ”

"What about non-separation?" Xiang Chao felt wronged, "Back then, Zhong Jianneng married Wang Mei, why can't I ......?"

"Shaft!" Xiang Yan slapped again, Xiang Chao didn't dare to avoid it, but after this slap, his temper also came up. "Father, the son is grown, my fair lady, the gentleman is good. I can kill the enemy right away, and I can drink under the horse, so why can't I think about the twilight, princess? Why can't I marry Princess Qian? ”

"You! You ......" forced out his son's sincerity in a few words, but Xiang Yan couldn't get angry. At this time, Xiang Que came in, he helped the panting Xiang Yan to sit down, and pulled Xiang Chao to sit down, "Zichao doesn't know that King Qin wants to marry Princess Qian?" ”

"I know!" Xiang Chao still felt aggrieved, "But what about King Qin?" If the King of Qin dares to duel with me, I will kill him! ”

"You!" Xiang Yan had already sat down, and when she heard her son say this, she stood up angrily again, "Piff! You're a puppet! How have I taught you over the past ten years?! King Qin is the king of a country, how can he duel with you? The Son of Heaven is angry, millions of corpses are ambushed, the Chu State is about to die, who will still duel with you? ”

"Then call King Qin? If he dares to come, the huge blade in my hand will kill all the Qin dogs and destroy the Qin State! Xiang said in a loud voice.

"At the behest of my king, summon the general to the palace to discuss matters." Xiang Yanzheng was so angry that he couldn't do it, so the temple people came. Seeing this, Xiang Que said, "You go, Zichao will leave it to me." ”

"Shaft." Xiang Yan glared at her son before getting up and leaving. Indeed, he was disappointed in his son, in this unpredictable world, the State of Chu needs not only a strong man, but also a wise man, but unfortunately, the State of Chu does not have a wise man, even if he is born to know the king, he does not know that the consequence of refusing to ally with the State of Zhao is that the State of Qin will attack again.

The last time he attacked Chu, Lü Buwei insisted on going his own way, and now that Lü Buwei is leaving, who is going his own way? Last time, the 27th Chu army faced 210,000 Qin troops, and now more than 300,000 Chu troops will face how many Qin troops?

The rain seemed to be getting heavier and heavier, and when Xiang Yan's car arrived at the Maomen court, the drizzle instantly turned into heavy rain. Entering the Great Sima Mansion, Xiang Yan's vest and foot clothes were all soaked, and the rain was cool, but what was cooler than the rain was the intelligence of Zhibisi.

"If the Qin people attack me even on the horizon, the more than 300,000 Chu troops will be overstretched, and the ministers ask the king to quickly attack the Qi country, if they can seize the Muling Pass City, it will be difficult for the Qi people to attack me; If the Wei people borrow the road from Qin, our army should march to Daliang before the Qin army, and raise the army to ask for guilt......"

After knowing all the information, Xiang Yan, as last year, thought of taking the initiative instead of sitting still. After listening to his strategy, Xiong Jing, who had some bottom in his heart, asked: "It's the middle of April, and it's ...... Got in time? ”

"I thought it was too late." Xiang Yan pointed to Ju County and Muling Pass on the map, "After last year, our army did not immediately recover Ju County, and the Qi people have been slackened." The State of Qi did not have the intention of attacking me on a large scale, and there were less than 20,000 soldiers guarding Juxian County and less than 30,000 soldiers in Mulingguan. Our army has trebuchets, Juxian is not a strong city, and it can be broken in three days; Hit Muling Pass again, and it will be broken in five days. ”

"Eight days?" Xiong Jing made a note of Xiang Yan's estimated attack time.

"Muling Pass is built on the mountain, and the city is not as strong as the city wall of Juxian, only under the pretense of the mountain." Xiang Yan explained: "The minister remembered that it took five days, but in fact it was three days, two of which were transported trebuchets. If the trebuchet can be transported under the Muling Pass, it will break through the Qiren Pass in three days. ”

The power of the trebuchet is known to all four people, except for me, who knows the other side. After watching the performance of the trebuchet, he sighed that 'there is no strong city in the world', and Xiang Yan concluded that Jucheng could be broken in three days, and Muling Pass could be broken in three days - Muling Pass is an important pass of the Great Wall of Qi, and there is no city in the mountains, but there are two Great Wall here, and a gate with a circumference of dozens of miles is clamped out. In the past, the Chu army had also entered the Guancheng, but it did not break through the second line of defense of the Qi army, and finally had to abandon the outer city under the counterattack of the Qi army.

"This time to break the Qi, should be an elite soldier. The minister implored the king to order the king to go east on the same day, and the 1,500-mile waterway from Yingdu to Mulingguan could be reached in 12 days, and the heavy grain and grass could be arrived within 20 days. When our army broke through Qi, it was when the Liang Zhou Division broke the Qin people. ”

"Grain and grass can be requisitioned from Pengcheng and Ludi, and in addition to the armor, Yingdu only needs to transport trebuchets to Ju." He reminded. "Don't worry about the Qi people being vigilant, our army is fanfare, but the Qi people don't suspect that I will attack the city within twenty days. On the other hand, this time the Qi is broken, the king and the general are not allowed to go east, and it is best to claim that they will go to Daliang to watch the water battle between the two armies. ”

Li and not the Chu family, his lineage can be traced back to the Li State, hundreds of years ago the Li State was destroyed by the Jin State, the Jin and Chu fought for hegemony, and his ancestors went south to become Chu Chen. When he was young, he traveled around the world, and when he was old, he retired in the Great Sima Mansion. Unexpectedly, the new king reformed the Great Sima Mansion, and the nursing home became the General Staff. At this time, he suggested that the king and the general go to Daliang to bully the people, and couldn't help but let Xiong Jing and Xiang Yan look at him twice.

"There's nothing wrong with that." Lu Yangjun said, "If the Qin State attacks me even on a rampage, our army should be the first to break through the Qi State." If you can occupy the city of Mulingguan, you can refuse less and more in the future, and go to a big disaster, and the more than 300,000 Chu troops will no longer have to worry about it. ”

"To date, how many sets of armor have been made in Jutiefu?" Xiong Jing asked, Xiang Yan had no objection to proposing to send elite soldiers to the battle, but he was more concerned about the number of iron armor made by Jutie Mansion. This time in the battle with the Qi army, he wanted the front row of honorable soldiers to raise huge soldiers and wear iron armor.

"Tell the king, it's less than a thousand sets." Lu Yangjun remembers the number of iron armor very well, but unfortunately there are very few new iron armors.

"Less than a thousand? Why not 1,000 sets? If you can roll out huge iron plates and have several tons of hammers, why is armor making so slow? Xiong Jing said unhappily, he remembered that Gong Yin Dao showed him the rolled iron sheet last month.

"The king doesn't know." Lu Yangjun also knows the rolling mill, "Jutiefu rolls out the iron plate less than one foot wide, so a pair of iron armor needs several pieces of iron plate riveting, which takes less time than in the past, but the riveting of the nail piece is still time-consuming and time-consuming; In addition, the thickness of the rolled iron plate is not only uneven, but the thickness far exceeds the need to make armor, so the craftsman still needs to carefully forge the thin ......"

There is no half-body armor that Xiong Jing imagined and punched out with a heavy hammer, and some are still riveted ring armor - rolling iron plates require rolls, and the thickness and width of the rolled iron plates depend on the diameter error of the rolls. If the thickness of the roll itself is uneven, then there is no way to roll out one or two millimeters of iron plates, suitable for armor, and the craftsman still has to take great pains to thin the thick iron plate to reach a thickness of one or two millimeters, otherwise the armor is too heavy for the soldiers to carry at all.

Then there is the width of the rolled iron plate, the longer the roll, the wider the rolled iron plate, but the longer the roll, the more uneven the thickness, the more uneven the thickness, the thicker the rolled steel plate, the more places to be thinned. The whole body armor seems to be high-end, but in fact, it is better to rivet a pair of ring armor with a narrow steel plate, and the time for this whole body armor can be more than a dozen sets, or even dozens of sets of ring plate armor.

The rolls of Jutiefu are processed by Yufu, but it is difficult for smart tools to exceed the limits of people, and the machine tool, Xiong Jing feels more and more important about it.