Bingyin is the tenth day of the first month, and the semi-circular moon hangs in the sky when the car is suspended, and the stars are like bubble nails, but the copper ones are replaced by silver ones, and these silver bubble nails are dotted on the indigo blue sky, so the night sky becomes the boots on the feet of nobles.

The starlight reflected the moonlight, the north wind howled as usual, and the military flag made a crackling sound. Liu Bang, who was standing in the snow, looked up at the sky, hummed while untying his hands, his crotch shook and shook, and finally urinated on this cold day. The liquid is injected into the large tank from the water inlet, and the inside of the tank immediately "peels and peels".

Before dusk, the soldiers had already dressed up, and some of them were even half-dressed in huge armor. Lu Xuan, who helped Liu Bang hold the spear, was very puzzled when he heard the sound of cooking 'peeling', and said, "Tomorrow's war, you still drink?" ”

"Why don't I drink tomorrow?" Liu Bang grinned, the big jar became hotter and hotter, and he could only throw the jar between his two hands. Before approaching, he said: "This wine is not easy to come by, and it should be drunk with the brothers when it is hot." ”

"You?!" Lu Xuan's eyebrows almost raised when he heard this, the wine was not distributed now, it was only distributed before the battle. Liu Bang went out once in the afternoon, and when he came back, he had more than this jar of wine, which should have been stolen from the soldier's tent. He actually wanted to share the stolen things with the whole army, Lu Juan really didn't know what to say.

"Brothers in the same army, why am I stingy? …… Yes... Woo.... Scald. Liu Bang explained, the jar in his hand was getting hotter and hotter, so hot that he grinned his teeth, and the jar couldn't hold it and had to fall on the snow.

The bell rang at this time, and the drummer did not beat the drum, only the voice of the chief Xiao Red: "Listen to my military order: assemble, stand - right!" ”

The ranks of the pawns were originally loose and did not form columns, and as soon as Xiao Yu shouted, the fifteen by fifteen spear formation immediately formed a formation, and it was not a little late because it was a gathering formation at night. After the establishment of the Great Sima Mansion, the training of the Chu soldiers was extremely frequent, but the expenditure was extremely limited. Divisions and brigades do not need to gather soldiers from other counties and towns, and they are called soldiers from all over the world, and they are the soldiers of their own party, and their training is also their own party's own contempt, similar to the militia of later generations.

It seems that the militia is weaker than the regular army in terms of combat effectiveness just by name, but this system is suitable for all the people in the Warring States period and saves money. Soldiers can train themselves after finishing farm work every day - the intensive training led by Da Sima Fu is at the division and brigade level, and the soldiers below the division and brigade can train by themselves in peacetime. Native to the hometown, good practice is naturally respected, and is regarded as a seedling of honorable people; If you don't practice well, you will not only be laughed at, but you may also be bullied in the future. Save money here.

One pawn is not counting cavalry and baggage, but according to the establishment, it is two hundred and seventy men. The phalanx of two hundred and seventy people stood in front of Xiao Shu, the head of the pawn, and the spear in the hand of the soldier stood erected in front of him, and the spear and spear divided the starry sky. Secretly unable to see people, Xiao Shu still glanced at the rows of soldiers. He couldn't name everyone, but he could figure out the faces and locations of the array sergeants with his eyes closed.

'Wow...', he punched the huge armor on his left chest, and then the two hundred and seventy people immediately returned the salute. He said: "The Great King said: The Qin people are afraid of me!" And those who fear me think of Wang Jian ......"

Not one pawn array, all the pawns are arrayed; It's not one pawn, all the pawns are saluting. The military salutes came and went, and Xiao Shu's words were also spoken by the rest of the guards, and the soldiers in the formation seemed to be listening to several duets.

As he kept recalling the words, Liu Bang's hand holding the spear became tighter and tighter. This will be his first real battle, during the Qin army's three-year war against Chu, he and Lu Juan did not actually enlist in the army because of their studies. There was no major war for six years after that, and last year's Battle of Fuying, the Battle of Bashang, and the Battle of Weinan had nothing to do with Peishi, who was stationed in Xinye at that time, and the Qin army led by Li Xin did not attack Xinye.

He enlisted in the army because of his envy of honor, and when the battle really came, his mind was full of chaos. He heard all the words of the pawn chief, but he did not understand the meaning of the words at all, until the pawn chief finished speaking, and shouted in a dragging voice: "Listen to my military order, turn to the left!" He reflexively responded and turned around mechanically.

"Start ——, advance! Enter!! The military orders also came and went, the sound of turning, the sound of starting and walking, constantly staggered, and soon all the pawns went forward with the other pawns. In winter, the earth was frozen, and there were no rivers and lakes to block it, and under the moonlight, the 170,000 allied troops marched in a horizontal formation to Linzi, which was more than 50 miles away.

The width of the horizontal array was more than fifteen li, and the army array was aimed at Linzi City for ten li, and on the west side of the Qin army camp camped on the Qin plain - in the battle array discussed by the shogunate, more than 200,000 Qi troops were arranged on the east side, and they would occupy a position of fifteen li outside the west wall of Linzi City, that is, the east and left flank of the army formation, and the Chu army and the Zhao and Wei coalition armies were on the right flank.

The most combat-savvy divisions and brigades were arranged in the middle as much as possible, that is, the halberd-wielding army of the Qi army was arranged on the right side of their own array, and the Ying division was arranged on the left side of their own array. The cavalry of the three kingdoms of Qi, Chu and Wei were all arranged on the far right flank to facilitate the pursuit. Breaking through the enemy formation was no longer the task of the cavalry, but the task of the artillery, which was arranged in front of the Yingshi formation.

Because it was the convergence of the two armies, the Qi army and the coalition forces had to strictly abide by the time and action in the battle plan, not sooner or later. This point is actually the most difficult, the Zhao Wei coalition army and the Chu army have trained together, and they have traveled thousands of miles, and they have a lot of tacit understanding with each other, the Qi army is different, the Qi army has never coordinated with the Chu army, and there is little or even no coordination between the Qi army and the Qi army.

Under the moonlight, the whole army marched towards Linzi, which was fifty miles away, on the ice and snow, and Mu Chong also galloped to Linzi on horseback. He was very worried about those Zhengchao doctors, for fear that they would be clever and deliberately let the coalition army fight with the Qin army first, and the Qi army finally went out of the city to join the battle.

His worries were not unreasonable, but when he arrived more than 20 miles away from Linzi City, the east city wall was blazing. Including the two gates that were blocked, all three gates were wide open. What came out of the city were not soldiers, but common people who drove ox carts and went with the old to the young. This is exactly what part of the whole battle plan.

When he arrived at Ji Ying, the strategy he proposed was to take advantage of the Qin army to divide his troops and annihilate Wang Qian's army in one fell swoop. Once Wang Qian's army is annihilated, the elite of the Qin State will be lost, and the military strength will be greatly damaged, and then it can only be slaughtered by others. To do this, it was necessary to make the Qin army a decisive battle - the Qin and Chu armies had been playing hide and seek, the Qin army wanted to fight a decisive battle with the main force of the Chu army, and the Chu army only attacked the Qin army's partial divisions.

In response to Wang Qian's caution, his original plan was for the Chu army to ambush Niushan in the south of Linzi and rush to Linzi at night; The Qi army let the Qin army enter the city and kept the two armies stuck through street fighting, which forced Wang Jian to fight a decisive battle. The Qi army was nearly 300,000, except for the part of the street battle, the remaining troops had to go out of Dongcheng to line up with the Chu army and fight with the Qin army.

The operation before going out of the city is to ask for surrender, and after the surrender, the common people will go out of the city first. The reason why the common people went out of the city first was that the king asked to surrender, but some of the common people did not want to surrender to Qin as Qin people, so they were allowed to go east to Chu. The reason is that the actual purpose is to open the gate of the eastern city, and the soldiers will go out of the city to join the Chu army in the second half of the night. If the Qin people ask why they will lead their soldiers out of the city, the reason is the same as before.

It is impossible for the movements of hundreds of thousands of troops to be kept secret, and it is impossible for the Qin army to wake up and suddenly find the four-nation alliance army standing in a military formation on the Qin plain. The Qi army went out of the city in batches, but at this time, the Qin army may not be able to fully understand the intention of the Qi army to go out of the city. Is this really unwilling to surrender to Qin and enter Chu, or is it because the Chu army has arrived, and the Qi army, which has rekindled hope, wants to fight with him and make a final struggle?

Neither Qi nor Chu knew much about Wang Jian and didn't know what kind of decision he would make. However, it has come to this point, and the Qin army will pay a heavy price whether it fights or not. In the plan, the time for the Qi army to go out of the city was the rooster's crow, and the morning meal until dawn had four hours, which was enough for the Qi army to go around Linzi for thirty miles, and the coalition army was arrayed in the north of Qinyuan.

Even if the Qin army gathered to discuss with the generals when the rooster crowed, there was no preparation, and it was difficult for more than 500,000 people to assemble and pull out the camp at night. If you don't abandon it, you can only travel 30 or 40 miles a day, and the coalition forces will pursue it or fight a decisive battle.

And in this case, chaos in the camp is inevitable, once the Chu army dragoons rush into the Qin camp that is being assembled, the chaos will only get worse. If an army loses its structure, it will not be able to find soldiers, soldiers will not be able to find generals, and it will not be far from being destroyed.

In Mu Chong's understanding, Wang Jian is in a catastrophe, and he will die under Linzi City.