After abandoning Chen Ying, Xiangcheng, which is more than 70 miles west of Yingshui and south of Chen Ying, became the front line of the war, and more than 80,000 soldiers who withdrew from Jiyi rested here. The 900 miles a day and night of the large-wing warship is only a theoretical figure to be exact, and it can be done smoothly and under extreme circumstances, but it is difficult to achieve it in large-scale operations. It took three days to travel more than 1,400 li from Jiyi to Xiangcheng, two-thirds of the way was smooth, and only more than 480 miles were rowed on average every day, and the soldiers were tired enough to continue to rest in Xiangcheng.

When Xiong Jing's winged war boat arrived at Xiangcheng, there was a commotion in the military camp on the west bank of Yingshui, and the soldiers rushed out of the camp to look at the king.

"Long live the King! Long live the King! Long live the King! Under the three-headed phoenix flag, Xiong Jing, dressed in Wei Ben's suit, stood on the deck of his warship, and a person of the same age stood beside him. Hearing the shouts of the soldiers, he turned to the soldiers on the shore, and the soldiers on the shore hurriedly paused, and the shouts of long live were even more urgent.

"Do you know why the soldiers shouted long live?" Xiong Jing looked at his younger brother and asked, Xiong Han had the usual confusion of children of this age.

"Brother Wang is the king of my Chu country......" Xiong Han, who left the palace for the first time, is quite fresh. Long live this era was only a self-cheer, but he still felt the respect of those soldiers for his brother.

"Ridiculous." Xiong Jing knew he would answer like this. "Because Brother Wang has fought side by side with them, because Brother Wang is not afraid of the people of Qin, and because Brother Wang is Ao and Da Ao, they will cheer so much."

"Ao?" Xiong Han only knew about the king and had never heard of Ao.

"Ao, it's Haoyu." The Pawn Wing Warboat was docking, and Xiong Jing supported his younger brother, who was unsteady under his feet. "The heroes in the mountains and forests, even the tigers and wolves dare not provoke, the ancestors thought that the fierce beasts were the most brave, so they borrowed their name Ao."

Xiong Han has not yet grown up, he is active and playful, but he is very restrained in front of his brother, he knows that he is a pig. I thought that the pig was used for eating, but I didn't expect the ancestors and the royal brother to be proud of the pig.

"The minister has seen the king and the prince." On the dock, Xiang Yan led the generals to greet him. Xiong Jing's arrival here was an accident, but as soon as he came, the morale of the whole army was immediately boosted, and Xiang Yan and others were also happy about it.

"Excuse me." Xiong Jing looked at the generals and smiled, and his eyes finally fell on Xiang Yan, "The battle of Jiyi is well fought!" ”

"The king praises." Xiang Yan and the others were very polite, and some generals laughed happily. "Our army can defeat the Qin people, all by the power of the king and the tiger."

"Dawang Temple is counted first, can the Qin people be undefeated?"

"How was the battle of Aocang?" Xiong Jing asked casually, and immediately thought of his younger brother Xiong Han beside him, and said: "Although the younger brother is young, I don't want him to live in the palace forever, I just hope that he will be on the battlefield more, and I hope that he will also become a hero in the future, and not disgrace the ancestors." ”

Xiong Qiang, who had fine skin and tender flesh, stood beside Xiong Jing, surrounded by a group of generals in huge armor, and there was an unconscious fear, but Brother Wang was by his side, which gave him some courage.

"The king is wise, and the prince will become the hero of my Chu country." The generals present all nodded. They are more concerned about the fact that there is no chaos in the rear, the prince is by the king's side, and there is no one to trouble him anymore.

"Let's get in first." Xiong Jing spoke, and then instructed Chang Jiang to wait for Xiong Han to rest first, he was already tired.

“…… The enemy's forward has reached Fangzhong, and tomorrow and tomorrow will be under the city of Xiacai. "Facing the map, the military Sima Peng Zong introduced the enemy situation." The Qin army was reported to have 300,000, with Meng Wu as the general; The Wei army was 200,000, and Xiangbang Ziji was the protector, led by Jin Zhu, Gongsun Mao and other generals. They did not attack the city, and when they encountered the city, they left several divisions as a containment, in order to directly attack Xia Cai.

The army of Qin and Wei was 500,000 people, hundreds of miles of grain roads, and every 30 miles there was a division to attack and disturb, and tens of thousands of troops were escorted by grain transportation, and those who went to the city of Xia Cai were only 200,000 or 300,000. The pontoon bridge on the chasm, Qin and Wei each had 50,000 people stationed ......"

"Is 50,000 enough?" The Qin and Wei armies were on the east bank of the chasm, and the girders were on the west bank of the chasm, and if they wanted to transport grain to the front line, they had to pass through pontoon bridges. The Qin people's transfer to Xiong Jing was impressed, but he thought that the pontoon bridge was not able to be hit by a large-winged warship.

"Your Majesty," the general of the boat master, Hong, was worried. "Before the Qin people's pontoon bridge, there were several miles of boats, and ordinary Qinghan boats could pass because the boat was short, and we waited for the big wings to be more than ten zhang long, and we couldn't pass it."

"The Qin people sank the boat?" Xiong Jing's expression also became solemn, and the Qin army also blocked the mouth of the East Lake with a boat full of earth and stones in Chen Ying's battle to defend the city, but they didn't expect them to pick up the old plan and play this trick on the chasm.

"Yes, yes. The boat sank seven or eight miles away, the pontoon bridge was in the north of the sinking boat, and there was a large army on the side of the sinking boat. "The red mob has a headache to death in this blocking operation. If it is an iron chain across the river, the boatman can still pull it, and the boat full of earth and stone sinks in the chasm, and dozens of big wings can't pull it.

"What's the best idea?" When Xiong Jing came, the generals were discussing the appropriate measures, and before the results of the discussion were reached, Xiong Jing came.

"Your Majesty, there are two strategies." Peng Zong said. "First, Bai Gongzi ordered someone to send a flying news that the King of Wei is willing to join forces with my Chu State to attack the Qin State. The Wei army is stationed in the west of the chasm, and if our army arrives, it should be defeated and abandoned. ”

"King Wei?!" Xiong Jing was surprised, "King Wei, he is not ......"

"Great King," said Li of the Operations Division: "The Qin people attack me, and it is also the same to destroy Wei and Han, and the King of Qin has no heirs to be sent to Daliang as a proton, and the King of Wei is also." In order to protect the community, it is the proper meaning of the King of Wei and me to join forces. ”

"I see." Xiong Jing is no longer as surprised as before. This is not the first time that the incident of the false Dao is defeated, there are about 300,000 troops left in the Wei State, and if these 300,000 troops are destroyed, the Wei State will also be destroyed.

"The king, the ministers think," Peng Zong looked around, saw that many generals nodded and said, "King Wei has no faith." ”

"Yes. In detail. Xiong Jing asked, he didn't trust the Wei people very much.

"The king of Wei serves Qin like his father, if he can ambush our army, the king of Qin will be happy, or he can leave his society to control my Chu country. In this way, Qin was able to attack Zhao in the north. Peng Zongdao. This is what everyone is talking about, but not all.

"King Wei and I are in the same direction, can we dredge the chasm?" The battle of Jiyi is over, and the next thing is the battle of Aocang, if you don't take Aocang, the grain of Chu will be poor - the migration of the people of Huaishang to Jiangdong has been determined, and the Chu State needs grain more than ever.

"Bai Gongzi's news did not say anything about dredging the chasm, only that the son of Xinling Jun had obtained the military talisman and axe given by the King of Wei, and was going to the Wei camp to seize the military power of Xiang Bang Ziji. If our army can feint to attack the beam, the prince can lead the army back to the division. "I said.

"The two armies of Qin and Wei are monitoring each other, how can Meng Wu let the 200,000 Wei troops return to Daliang?" Xiong Jing asked.

"Bai Gongzi said that Gongzi had already planned, if the Qin army did not allow the Wei army to take things seriously, the county of Weijing would cut off the grain and straw and force the army to go back."

During the corn harvest season, the Chu side either cut the millet first and buried it, or set fire to the corn field, and did not leave it to the enemy in any case. After seizing Aocang, the Operations Division believed that the enemy army could fight for another half a year with the newly harvested grain from Wei and Han, and if Wei did not transport grain to the front line, the Qin army would have to withdraw within a month. It's just, is there really such a good thing?

"Great King, if you join forces with the Wei State, you should unite with the Wei army and attack the fall of the Qin army; If you don't join forces with Wei, then you should try to bypass the place where the sinking boat is located and attack Aocang first. Xiang Yan, who had been sunk for a long time, expressed his opinion, which was also the focus of debate among the generals.

"How do I get around the shipwreck?" Xiong Jing asked.

"Your Majesty, please look," Xiang Yan asked someone to carry a sand table, pointing to the location between the chasm on the east bank of the pontoon bridge and the water. "After the chasm is excavated, the river water enters the water (濊水), Suishui Zhushui, and the old road of Zhushui is different from the new road after the excavation. There were twists and turns in the vicinity of the girder, and the water was diverted after the excavation. If a new way of water can be dug so that the water overflows into the old road, the place where the sinking boat can be bypassed. ”

The sand table is not made in equal proportions, and the old road that Xiang Yan pointed to looks like it is only a small section, but it may actually be more than ten miles. And, this is on the east bank of the chasm, where the Qin army is stationed. "Feasible?" Xiong Jing asked.

"I think it's possible." Xiang Yan also didn't believe in the King of Wei, he would rather get the grain of Ao Cang first, and then clean up the Qin people. "After defeating the Qin army, our army dug the embankment on the west side of the river overnight, so that it could be connected to the chasm again, and the war boats could turn from the chasm to Aocang."

"Since it is feasible, we should attack Aocang first." Xiong Jing nodded.

"King, if this is the case, King Wei should not be with me." Li and supported the joint attack with the Wei state, and once the Qin army was defeated, the Qin people should no longer attack Chu within a few years. And Aocang, more than 40 million stone corn is indeed a lot, but there are many people in the Qin State, and they can receive hundreds of millions of stone corn in a year, so what if they take Ao Cang? After capturing Aocang, the Qin State can also raise military rations from various counties. Perhaps Wei Han's grain was not yet exhausted, and Qin's corn was transported to the front again, and at this time the Chu army was bound to fight for the Kunhan Valley Road.

"If you don't think that the King of Wei is not brave, how can you influence the movement of our army because of the unbrave people." Xiong Jing still doesn't believe in the Wei people in his bones. "If the army and I take Ao Cang, the momentum will be even stronger, why won't the king of Wei join me?"

"Qin has the heart to destroy Wei, if our army captures Aocang, the king of Qin will show favor to the king of Wei, and the king of Wei has no worries about the loss of the country, so he should not join me." Li He repeated what he had said before, and he thought that he should seize the opportunity to pull the king of Wei from the arms of Qin.

"Those who are compatible, and those who are not compatible." Xiong Jing is not the thinking of a Zongheng family, but the thinking of a warrior, "If the King of Wei betrays me and returns to Qin to attack me in the future, what can I do?" ”

"It doesn't matter what the King of Wei does after that, if the King of Wei joins forces with me this time, the 350,000 Qin army will be defeated." He said hard. The command of the army is in Xiang Yan's hands, but he still wants to win Xiong Jing. "If you are defeated, you will not be able to cut me down for several years."

What Li said also made sense, the attack on Aocang could not stop the Qin people's conquest, but the alliance with the Wei State could make the Qin people stop the conquest. Although the Wei people have no faith, as long as there is a letter this time, it is enough, the Chu army in a few years is not the current Chu army, even if there are only 300,000 people, they can still kill the Qin people and abandon their armor. Xiong Jing had to think when he heard this, and the generals in the shogunate were silent, waiting for the king to make a choice.

"There is no free meal in the world." In the expectation of the generals, Xiong Jing said.