Zhao Hai's doubts Qi Brown couldn't answer. It's not that the sunken boats that block the river can't be cleared, but it's time that matters. As long as the Qin army north of the river enters Nanyang County, Wuguan will be safe. The sinking boat on the chasm Chu army has not been cleaned up for more than a month, and now it only takes half a month for the Qin army to rush to Nanyang.

It is obviously impossible to clean up those sunken boats in half a month, not to mention that Jingzi Pass and Zhulin Pass have their own defenders. The two were puzzled, and Zhao Hai, who was not at ease, could only wait for tomorrow to send more scouts out of the customs to investigate, especially in the direction of Danshui.

"Why are you frightened?" After running out of Wuguan for more than ten miles, the reprimanded rider gradually reined in his horse, and Dou Zang looked at the thoughtful Cheng Kui and asked.

"That man's arrow ......" Cheng Kui was still thinking about the arrow that General Qin had just shot. It is not a myth to pass through the Yang in 100 steps, but to shoot an arrow that comes out of the string, such a fast and such a small target, or the first arrow hits, this kind of archery is ashamed of itself.

"Garrisoning Wuguan is the army of the lieutenant and guard of the Qin State," Douzang is older, hunting in Tongbai Mountain in peacetime, and is the chief of the cavalry with the division in wartime.

"Lieutenant, Lieutenant Army?" The military system of the Qin State is more similar to the Three Jin Dynasty than the Chu State, and Cheng Kui Dao. "Is the king a pawn?"

"Yes." After the dissolution of the king's pawn, the counties took the king's pawn as the backbone, and these backbones played a great role. "The two armies are the kings of the Qin people. The Qin people are known for their talents, and this person's archery skills are so profound, he must be a person from the Kanto region. ”

Dou Zang also saw the Qin general who shot the Chu army in Guancheng one after another, if it weren't for the fact that every knight was wearing a hundred soldiers and Mo Xiang armor, I was afraid that several people would have died. "This person should tell all divisions that there are good shooters in Wuguan."

Sharpshooters are no different from snipers. Sharpshooters can sometimes even decide the outcome of a war. During the Spring and Autumn Period, Chu and Jin fought for hegemony for a hundred years, and both sides honed their archers who wore Yang in a hundred steps. In the Battle of Yanling, the Jin general Lu Qi shot an arrow into the eyes of the king of Chu. If the arrows were more powerful, the king would probably fall on the spot. After being hit by an arrow, the king of the Communist Party called for Yang Yuji in pain, handed him two arrows and ordered him to shoot Lu Qi. As a result, Yang Yuji sealed his throat with an arrow, and took the remaining arrow to the king to return to his life.

Although the scale of the war in the late Warring States period was even greater, and although the role played by the archers was smaller, the archers still could not be underestimated. Dou Zang This is Lao Cheng's words, and Cheng Kui is very unwilling to hear it. Unwilling to return, but he really didn't have the confidence to shoot the arrow of General Qin.

As the sun set, the unfinished glow shone on his young face, full of frustrated chagrin. Under the same glow, Ruo Ao was walking alone in the valley in front of Jingzi Pass. Of course, he did not travel alone, but led the entire retinue to the gallop.

What kind of people bring what kind of soldiers. When Chengtong led his division to attack Shangmi, which is what the Qin people called Danyang, Ruo Ao went north alone under the pretext of going north to be on guard, and went forward alone with his follower. In his eyes, business secrets are worthless. Qin reinforcements are coming, and the most important thing for the Chu army is speed.

Once the Wuguan is broken and the troops reach Lantian, the entire layout of the Qin army will fall into chaos: either take a gamble, bet that the Qin army in the pass can block the Chu army, and gamble that Xianyang City is impregnable. In addition, it is necessary to bet that once the troops enter Nanyang, the Chu army will retreat immediately if the rear road is unstable. If you lose, Xianyang and the King of Qin will be taken by the Chu army, and the Qin State is likely to be destroyed;

Or, honestly order the Qin army, which has crossed the river to the south, quickly go north to Hangu Pass and rush to the aid of Guanzhong. Lantian to Xianyang is only more than 100 miles, but Xianyang City is on the north bank of Weishui, the Qin army has a boat division, and the Chu army without a boat will inevitably take some time to cross Bashui and Weishui. Even if the city of Xianyang was broken, the Qin army could still protect the Qin king and escape from Xianyang, and the Chu army could not capture the Qin king in a short time. At this time, if the hundreds of thousands of Qin troops who returned to Xianyang arrived, the Chu army, which numbered less than 100,000, could only withdraw.

The Chu army is strong and sharp, but it also has a weakness: that is, it can't afford to lose. The result of not being able to afford to lose was that they could not engage in a large-scale battle with the Qin army, and they were successful in one battle. Rather, it is necessary to turn the general battle into a small battle. Win through one small battle after another. Even if this kind of small battle fails, it can afford to lose. But to create such a situation, it depends on strategic maneuver, that is, speed.

Jingzi Pass is one hundred and twenty miles northwest of Shangmi, this section of Danshui is relatively straight, and there are few shoals and reefs. It took only four hours for the division's two-oared small-winged warboat to row forty miles downstream of Jingzi Pass. Here, the Qi water flows into the Danshui from the north, and as soon as the river crosses, you can see the boats blocking the Danshui waterway.

Fortunately, these shipwrecks are not dense, and the two-oared winglets that are only 13.5 meters long and only 3.6 meters wide can still pass. Even if it could not be passed, more than 50 soldiers of the whole boat went into the water and pulled the fiber in the shallow water, and the war boat made of pine wood could be dragged across the shallow water. But after going up more than 20 miles, the river was completely blocked, and the whole division could only abandon the boat and go ashore and speed in the river valley.

As the sun sets, the valley is shady. When the Chu army rushed to Guansai for ten miles, the Qin people who were watching from the wall beat the drum to warn in a panic. And if Ao is alone, at this time, he can take a closer look at the Jingzi Pass that has been seen countless times on the map and on the sand table.

Danshui flows out of the deep gorge, after the stream is ten miles northwest of Jingzi Pass, the front suddenly opens up, and the water flows into a long and narrow valley that is 60 miles long and 4 to 6 miles wide. Ten miles out of the stream, Danshui weirdly turned out a standard '匚' word. The word '匚' is seven miles long and four miles wide. The fortress was built within the word '匚', and the entire valley was traversed.

"How should this be?!" The soldier looked at Jingzi Pass and was stunned. At this time, the boat is more than ten miles away, and Guanzhai is on the side of the mountain on the left bank, because the Danshui downstream of Guanzhai flows close to the cliff on the left bank, in order to tow artillery, a small part of the Chu army can only choose to march on the right bank, and the result is that now the soldiers and Guanzhai face each other across the Danshui.

"Where?" Bacheng must be artillery, if Ao goes north alone, there is a company of artillery in the boat.

"General, my company has arrived." The company commander was a nobleman wearing a leather crown on his head, Shi Pan.

"Hurry up." Ruo Ao Duxing didn't like this company commander because he was too pretentious, but this was assigned to his troops.

"Artillery columns!" Pan Xuan didn't care about Ruo Ao's lonely eyes, his exquisite leather boots were like soldiers stepping on the mud after yesterday's rain. He ordered the artillery commanders to line up, and added another order: "Examine the horses carefully." ”

As the vanguard, the horses assigned to the artillery of each division are all half-ton dragon horses. It was these dragon horses that ensured that the artillery could keep up with the pace of the divisions. Dragon horses are precious, and Pan Xuan has to order the riders to carefully inspect the horses every time they are released, especially the horses' hooves.

The cannons were quickly put into line, and with the first cannon sound, the Chu soldiers who were looking across the water immediately cheered. It's just that at this time, the Chu army walking on the rugged left bank has not yet seen a figure, and the artillery bombardment only shattered the female wall of the city, so that the Qin soldiers above did not dare to raise their heads.

"General, my division has not yet arrived." Shelling the Guancheng on the other side of Danshui could not kill or injure many Qin troops, Pan Xuan reminded.

"Hmm." Ruo Ao Duxing pointed to his ear when he heard this, and asked, "What's the sound?" ”

"Shout." Pan Xuan listened, and there was no sound, only the cries of the Chu soldiers and the drums of the Qin people on the other side.

"Yes, yes." Ruo Ao nodded alone. Ever since there was artillery, the soldiers cheered every time they fired. The soldiers already felt that as long as there was artillery, there was no city that could not be pulled down, and no enemy could not be defeated. After speaking, he pointed to the left bank of Danshui, "Our army is also here." Come! Prepare a raft. ”

The raft was light, and the sheepskin raft was already blowing full air in the rumbling of the cannons. Attacking the city, if Ao alone does not worry about others, he must personally command.

Four artillery pieces bombarded the wall to cover the sappers digging under the wall. However, Jingzi Pass is a small city, and the Qin generals stationed here are not only defending but not attacking. Seeing that the sky was already dark, more than a thousand Qin soldiers suddenly opened the door and came out, killing the sappers under the wall. When the Chu army tried their best to save them, nearly half of these sappers had been killed or wounded.

"Summoned Pan Xuan, ask him to close the door with a quick shot." Qin Jun is looking for death. The sappers dug the wall and bombed the city, because the city gates were blocked, and since the Qin army dared to open the door and go out, it meant that the city gate was not blocked.

"Boom ——!" After more than a quarter of an hour of silence, the sound of artillery resumed. In order to get closer to closing the door, Pan Xuan had pushed the cannon to the water's edge. After the cannon fired, the shell flew more than 600 meters, but nothing hit it, because it flew into the fortress.

"The ruler is six hundred, to the left zero and five, and the height is reduced by six. One test shot of live ammunition. "Artillery has always been a technical job, and if you want to hit a gate that is only three zhang wide and only four zhang high from 600 meters, it is even more technical, and Pan Xuan has personally observed it.

"Boom ——!" The cannon rang out again, and the shell hit the wall solidly, but it was still to the right.

"The ruler is six hundred, zero zero to the left, and the height is reduced to zero. One test shot of live ammunition. Pan Xuan ordered again, and this cannon bombarded out, and the cannonball flew over the wall and into the gate. He continued to adjust, and he adjusted dozens of cannons all the time, but still not a single shell hit the city gate.

Any artillery has a dispersion, and in general, the dispersion is a narrow left and right, elongated front and back ellipse. The standard twelve-pounder Napoleon cannon at a distance of eight hundred yards had a dispersion of five .8 yards horizontally and seventeen.8 yards vertically. When the shell falls within this dispersion, the gun commander does not need to adjust the design angle, because the adjustment is useless.

Although the Chu army's artillery was drilled and bored to reduce the clearance of the breech, they were all smoothbore guns, and the dispersion was not much better. If there was only one artillery, Pan Xuan would immediately refuse and bluntly tell him that he would not be hit. Four guns increase the chance of a hit, and even within the dispersion, there is a fourfold chance of hitting this small gate.

The four artillery pieces roared continuously, and the Qin army, sensing that something was wrong, quickly extinguished the fire on the wall, and at the same time strengthened the gate that was not blocked. But by this time it was too late, the artillery had already completed the test firing, and there was no need to adjust the angle. The cannonballs landed around the gate ...... bang, and finally, a cannonball found its target, hitting the gate and piercing the entire wooden door. Seeing the firelight in the village overflowing from the hole in the closed door, the Chu army roared like thunder.