At the end of the month of aid, the end of the sacrifice should be the day when the government closed the dynasty, but the Qin army pressed the border, and all the officials were not allowed to rest. The same is true of Xiong Jing, who just completed the wax sacrifice yesterday, and the three aspects of state affairs, family affairs, and private affairs are all entangled during this time, making him tired of coping. In particular, the artillery deal with the Qin State was too much of a mess.

In the Yingdu Dasima Mansion, Nao Wei gradually had hope for Xiong Jing's northward advance, hoping that this would crush the Qin people's will to war, so as to deter the Qin people, so that the war could end as soon as possible. Xiong Jing, who had similar hopes to him, ran for more than a hundred miles, but saw a fire burning in the direction of Xianyang.

"Tell the king, the Qin people set fire to the millet!" The cavalry galloped in the land of Weinan, and Xianyang City did not dare to send scouts at all. The heart of the Qin State is now at the mercy of the cavalry of the Chu State.

"Burnt millet?!" Everyone, including Xiong Jing, was taken aback. It is said that there is a lot of Su in Aocang, but Aocang is still a big difference compared to Xianyang Cang. The millet of Aocang is measured in tens of millions of stones, but the Xianyang Cang is measured in hundreds of millions of stones, and the two are not an order of magnitude at all. It took Chu five years to accumulate more than 130 million stone corn, which is not as good as the accumulation of Xianyang Cang in one year.

"Yes, yes." Scout Rider Road. "There are people in the warehouses outside Xianyang City who set fires, and our army only disperses one."

"King, Xianyang millet is enough for our army to eat for a hundred years." Although Zhuang Wudi was surprised that the Qin people set fire to the millet, he was only surprised. "The Qin people don't burn millet, and our army should also burn millet."

"What else?" Xiong Jing nodded. The Chu army was short of food, but after defeating the Qin army the day before, they grabbed a batch of corn. Even if there is a fire in Xianyang Cang, it cannot be burned out in one or two days. casually extinguishing a few warehouses with an accumulation of 100,000 stones is enough for the Chu army to eat for a month.

"Not yet." The scout was about to retreat, but he suddenly remembered what he saw when he passed by Weishui, and said: "When the minister returns to the camp, I will see that our military engineers will build a bridge." ”

The sappers did not assume a pontoon bridge on the Ba River, and now they have finally built a bridge on the Wei River. Is it just that the bridge is ready to cross the bridge immediately? This is a problem. After the scouts retreated, the sappers came to report, and Xiong Jing looked at the shogunate generals: "How many miles away is the Qin army from me?" ”

The Qin army had already reported the previous reconnaissance cavalry, and Xiong Jing only wanted to confirm it if he asked again. Nao Xin replied: "Three hours ago it was reported that it was ninety miles away from me, and it was encamped. ”

Lantian is one hundred and fifty miles away from Xianyang, and Dao Tong Road is about one hundred and twenty miles. In other words, the Qin army only walked thirty miles a day today. Perhaps some of the soldiers were less than thirty miles. For example, Meng Tian's army on the White Deer Plateau was more than ten miles north of Lantian City, and today it has traveled at most twenty miles. Walking so slowly, it is naturally impossible to have a long march, which is equivalent to saying that the Chu army has no chance to take advantage of it.

"The Qin people abandon Xianyang!" Ole shouted, his words very unpleasant.

"Then our army will pull out Xianyang!" Pan Wuming glared at him and shouted.

"Nonsense!" Xiong Jing scolded Pan Wusheng, and then he looked at Zhuang Wudi, Dou Chang and others, "The Qin people abandoned Xianyang, what is the strategy of our army?" ”

The Qin army did not catch up closely, and the next step was naturally to cross Weishui north and capture Xianyang. When the king asked, he naturally wanted another choice. Dou Chang shook his head for a while, he couldn't think of any other choice. Zhuang Wudi also had a wry smile on his face, and he finally said: "King, at this time, our army can only cross Weishui north and pull out Xianyang. ”

"There's no other way to do it?" Xiong Jing knew that this was the result, but he didn't give up on asking.

"There's no other way." Zhuang is not authentic. "And our army needs to pull out Xianyang quickly, and the minister thinks that the Qin army has sent troops to attack Shangluo to prevent me from returning."

The Chu army had more than 120,000 people, more than 7,000 four-wheeled carriages, one cart and four horses, and 30,000 horses in addition to war horses. It is equivalent to one horse for every four people, so that the march will not be tiring in a day. It's not that the Qin army can't reach this marching speed, but that the old and weak can't reach it, which is the weakness of the Qin army.

If the Chu army's return route is cut off, and it is waiting for work in Bailu Plateau, then this weakness will no longer exist, and the situation will be like a battle after a battle without saying anything about the city, rather than a battle without a battle as the Chu army wants. Therefore, the Chu army must act quickly, quickly pull out Xianyang, and then return to Shangluo before the Qin army's careful deployment.

"Yes." Xiong Jing had to nod. He said uneasily: "Order all divisions, both enter Xianyang, and be the guards of military discipline." Plunder can only be in the royal city and the eastern city, but not in the western city; You can only kill Ding Zhuang, not women and children. plunder, not arson......"

Xianyang is the capital of the Qin State, and the prosperity of a city can be imagined. Thirty miles away from the Tong Road, there are already countless cities, to the shore of Weishui, there are mostly shops on both sides of the river. Plunder is the right of soldiers, and as long as it does not interfere with the march and battle, Xiong Jing does not want to deprive him of this right. It's just that the plunder should also be regulated, and what should be done and what should not be done should not be stated in advance.

Xianyang is similar to most of the capitals in the world, the east city is where the nobles live, the west city is where the Su people live, the middle is the royal city, the back of the royal city is the big city of Xianyang, the back of the big city, and some places in the west city are the Shaofu workshop. Looting was only allowed in the eastern and royal cities, not in the western cities—and the common people actually had nothing to rob.

Hearing that Xiong Jing issued an order to plunder the army, and said that it was not allowed to set fire, Cheng Tong hurriedly said: "It is necessary to burn the palace of the Qin people." ”

"What's the benefit of burning the palace?" Xiong Jing retorted. Xiang Yu once burned the Qin palace room.

"The Qin people burned my tomb and destroyed my Ji Ying, I should burn his palace!" Cheng Tong's face was bruised, and when he thought of this, he couldn't wait to burn all the eighty miles of Xianyang City.

"Instead of burning his palace, it is better to kill all the craftsmen of the Shaofu." Ele, who was disliked by the generals all the way, finally put forward a suggestion that impressed everyone. Xianyang City is almost equal to an empty city, and the most valuable of them is not the warehouse with hundreds of millions of stones outside the city, but the craftsmen of Shaofu. With the Dingkou of the Qin State, it is only a few years to accumulate hundreds of millions of stone grains, and it will take decades to train more than 100,000 craftsmen.

"Neither shall the officials be indulged." Zhuang Wudi added. "Take the sorcerer as the key."

"The Prime Minister's Mansion and the Governor's Mansion should also be burned." Nao Xin added. "The Captain's Mansion may have a Hou spy case ......"

"I thought Jiuding should be transported to Yingdu." Someone actually thought about Jiuding.

"King," Right Shi Yixian was inspired by Jiuding, and suddenly remembered something that was a thousand times more important than Jiuding. "The Qin people destroyed the Zhou, and took away all the historical books, which should be stored in the Xianyang Palace."

"I heard that the Qin people seized the history books of other countries, and destroyed them after reading them, so as to highlight the history of Qin." Two weeks and eight hundred years, if there is really a history of Zhou that the right history says, he will naturally take it away, but Nao Xin poured a basin of cold water on him.

"I ask the king's permission." Right Shi said again.

"The minister also asks the king's permission." Zuo Shi Candle Yong also said. "The Qin people burned books, if they got the history of Zhou, they must not stay in Xianyang."

"Take it with you." Xiong Jing didn't care about the history of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, he cared about the history of the Western Zhou Dynasty and the history of Shang and Xia that were earlier than the history of the Western Zhou Dynasty. If these things are really still there, they should be thousands of years old. Shang Dynasty Xia, Zhou Dynasty Shang, the place where these things may exist used to be Feng Hao, and now it is naturally Xianyang.

Xiong Jing didn't look like too much, his favorite now was that Qin Jun caught up, but this was obviously impossible. He said in a cold voice and ordered, "Order the whole army to camp across Weiwei." ”

From the moment he received Zhao Zheng's royal order in the morning, Xianyang City fell into chaos. The Chu army went straight to Xianyang, but the Qin army was far behind, and it was too late to catch up, and Xianyang could only rely on its own strength to wait for help. Xianyang Tianxia Xiongcheng, the city is seven zhang two feet high, the wall thickness is twenty-one zhang, counting the slope protection of the foot of the inner and outer walls, that is twenty-six zhang.

Such a Xiongcheng is not difficult to defend for three days according to the king's order, but the Chu army broke through Lantian City in only an instant. As soon as the witchcraft roared, the walls flew into the sky. Although the officials and people in Xianyang City did not witness it with their own eyes, for more than half a month, the Chu army relied on witchcraft weapons and spread all over Xianyang in one day. Even the important ministers in the court did not feel that they could hold Xianyang.

Not to mention. In order to block the Chu army in Lantian, including the Shi Zi of the school and the vertical son of the palace, Ding Zhuang in the city made all his efforts in Lantian. The rest of the city were either old or weak, officials and craftsmen. Including the people of the palace temple, there are more than 80,000 officials, and there are as many as 280,000 craftsmen in the Shaofu (including a large number of subordinates). Although there are many people, few have experienced battle. These people can't even hold the Ge steadily, and the battle is about to collapse at the first touch, and the defense of the city is unbearable.

Therefore, as soon as the court meeting presided over by Zuo Prime Minister Kui Xiang, Ting Wei Li Si, and Lieutenant Zhao Bo dispersed, Dongcheng fell into chaos. Immediately after the big city behind the royal city, the city was crowded with people, corn, sauce, chickens and ducks, cattle and sheep, ......, as long as they could be eaten, they were all snapped up.

The rush to buy in the big city naturally caused chaos in the west and suburbs. The Qianshou of Xicheng also entered the city to grab corn and grain, and the Qianshou on the outskirts of the city either fled to other places or poured into the city.

Under the rule of Qin, all the heads of Qian, but the heads of Qiantou also have ranks. The Qianshou of Xianyang is one level higher than the Qianshou of other cities of Qin, and the Qianshou of other cities is one level higher than the Qianshou of the countryside and wilderness, and the Qianshou of the wild land is one level higher than the new Qianshou of the newly conquered area. Officials will naturally not be as busy as they are with the new Qianshou in Xianyang.

At this time, Zhao Bo, the lieutenant in charge of Xianyang's city defense, issued a military order: Ding Zhuang, a man and woman in each part of the city, were required to prepare their own armor and soldiers to garrison the outer city in sections.

Qu answer, car, stack, line, slash, orange tree, Lian Yuan, long axe, long vertebrae, long hoe, hook, flying rush, criticism, rope ......, if there are these city-guarding equipment, to be immediately moved to the city, no, Shaofu overnight manufacturing; Charcoals, stones, thistles, rolling wood, gravel, iron filings, ash, chaff, grain, husks, horse urine, and human excrement, these fortified things were to be brought to the city and collected as soon as possible.

In addition, the city also needs a thousand steps and a table, two hundred steps and a floor, a hundred steps and a pavilion, fifty steps and a stove, and thirty steps and a Hou Lou (protruding outside the city wall, similar to the later horse face), and the city should be buried obliquely outward, blocking the planting of the ladder car, and the inner side of the moat should have the firewood that sticks out outward or even a low Fengyuan.