"Is it really possible?" On the stern deck of the Chaos, Xiong Jing looked at the red and asked. When the Zhao people were arrayed just now, the Chu army sailed into the unblocked Niushou Water and measured the depth of the water.

"Tell the king, the water is deep." Red Mo nodded deeply, he believed in the responsibility of his subordinates. "The chaos level can't eat more than one zhang and two feet, and the water depth of the cow's head is more than one zhang and four feet, so you can enter and stop it."

Chencheng has waterways and land routes, and the weakness of the waterway lies in the connection between the East Lake and the chasm, where the water surface is the narrowest, and the width is only more than 300 steps in summer, and the depth of the water is only more than 100 steps in autumn and winter. On the land side, there is a road between the lakes in the south of the city, and the crossing of this lake is no different from other places, all of which are empty and flat fields. This road has been leading to the intersection of Yingshui and Yingshui, and Xiangcheng is crossed by Yingshui. Block the waterway and cut off the land route, then Chencheng will really be surrounded.

"The last general respectfully obeys the order!" Xin Sheng shouted, he had 30,000 cavalry under his command, and he would never let King Jing escape.

"Yiqu-kun, what objections do you have?" Xin Sheng shouted his order, but Yiqu Yu did not answer, and Xin Wu looked at him angrily.

"General Xin, there was a saying last year, 'Kill King Jing and worship the Marquis to seal ten thousand households', do you still count this year?" The Rong people are really straightforward.

Xin Wu was stunned by his question, and he suddenly remembered the shouts of the 200,000 Qin soldiers in the Battle of Qingshui last year, 'Kill King Jing and worship the Marquis to seal ten thousand households', so that he said half-loudly: "Since it is the king's order, of course it will be counted." Why, if there is no reward, you will not kill King Jing? ”

"Corn, weeds, and horses are needed to fight wars, and these all require money, and the warriors of Yiqu cannot die in vain." Although it was only Huaishang, because of the hot and humid climate, many horses of the Yiqu cavalry died of illness, and many soldiers were not suitable for the southern climate, and they also died of a lot of illness. "Didn't the king say that if you kill King Jing and worship the Marquis and seal ten thousand households, then I will kill King Jing and worship the Marquis."

Yiqulu's Qin language with a Rong flavor made everyone just want to laugh. Xin Wu shouted: "Do you have an order? ”

"This gentleman is ordered." Yiqulu was not frightened at all, shook it hastily, and stopped talking.

"General Wang Jian." Xin Wu looked at Wang Jian on the far left, Wang Ben was standing beside him, and behind him was a column of generals of the left army.

"The end will be." Wang cut out the column and shook it at Xin Wu.

"Hold your camp well, and if the Jing people go out of the city, send them back to the city." Xin Wu finally said that he only let Wang Jian watch the house.

"The last general respectfully obeys the order!" Wang Jian has been respectful since he came out, and immediately agreed when he heard the words.

"Refund!" Xin Wu's orders have been issued, and the rest is for each general to return to the account and announce the specific order.

"Father," Wang Ben and Wang Jian returned to the camp in the same car, "General Xin, why don't we wait to fight?" ”

"Then the mouth of the lake is more than 100 steps, and tens of thousands of people can stand." The royal hand of the chariot is also surnamed Wang, although he can hear the words, but this is his own person.

"But ...... "Blocking the mouth of the lake is no different from blocking the city, but the mouth of the lake is just a little different." I always felt that General Xin didn't like us waiting. Wang Ben said with annoyance, "The cavalry is only more than 30,000 people, why don't you send the left army forward, if King Jing abandons the city and leaves......"

"Since King Jing has entered the city, he will not leave the city again, unless we wait for the army to retreat. The Rong people want to worship Hou, that's a dream. "Changping Jun is Wang Jian's backstage, but now this backstage is free, and Wang Jian is actually very annoyed. The reason why he was recommended by Changping Jun as a general was because he was familiar with the north and the Zhao State, and whoever wanted to be a general was the Chu State.

"Why?" Wang Ben asked. "Could it be that more than 30,000 cavalry troops can't stop King Jing?"

"No!" Wang Jian made a louder voice and glanced at his son, as if to blame him for not having eyes. "King Jing is brave and martial, during the Battle of Qingshui last year, the camp of the Jing army was burned and Shuai Jing was captured, did he withdraw from the military formation? Never. Instead, he personally led his soldiers to break through the Qin army's military formation. How could such a man abandon the city and flee? ”

Wang Jian said that his son nodded again and again, and he said again: "If you want to kill King Jing, you must break the city." But you have to wait for the Jing people to die of hunger before breaking the city. Whoever enters the city first will be able to kill King Jing, and whoever will be able to worship the marquis, and I will wait for him. ”

Rong Che had already arrived at the Shogunate of the Left Army, and Wang Ben, who was very excited by his father, asked, "When?" When will the city be breached? ”

"When?" Wang Jian didn't look at his son, he pondered while entering the account, and finally said: "There are many boats transporting grain into the city, and there are no old and weak women and children in the city. ”

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"Your lord, the Qin army has moved, and I heard that the Chinese army is beating the drum and raising the tent, and I am afraid that the city will be attacked tonight." The guard general Chen can not be removed from the responsibility of defending the city due to a mistake in decision-making, and was transferred to Yingdu to prepare for the military academy. Chen Bu was in charge of commanding the county soldiers, and Yang Yu was in charge of sanitation and the newly transferred 5,000 royal soldiers.

"Just drumming?" Xiong Jing looked at Yang Yu and felt that he was making some fuss.

"No, no, no." Yang Yu hurriedly said: "In the past few days, the corner tower has seen Qin people preparing for the transfer. Although they covered it with hay, Lu Li could still see it clearly in the mirror. The transfer is the thing that crosses the city, why do the Qin people not want to attack the city, why are they preparing so many turns? ”

The transfer of the Qin people is like the boat bridge car of the engineering soldiers of later generations, and the city with a width of four zhang can be passed. After the Qin army's battle in July, many transit bridges were captured by the Chu army before they had time to be withdrawn, and Chen Dang was about to burn them, but Lian Po stopped them.

Without burning the boat bridge of the Wei people and the transfer of the Qin people, they also opened the city gate and secret gate on the city wall, with only one purpose, that is, the defenders could attack quickly and retreat quickly. The Chu army occasionally attacked, and the enemy army would suffer a big loss if it was caught off guard. The Qin army was preparing to transfer at this time, either to siege the city or for other purposes.

The north city wall, which is more than nine meters high, has a sense of pride when you stand on the top of the wall and look below. Looking at the Qin army camp a few hundred steps away, he felt even more that everything under the city seemed insignificant. Xiong Jing raised the landing mirror and looked at the places where Yang Yu pointed out, and indeed saw a lot of turning bridges. Although the exposed part of the tent was covered with straw, the magnification of the Lu Lijing was getting higher and higher, and the Zhuanguan Bridge could not be hidden at all.

"What does the teacher think?" Lian Po also came, and his hair was white when he took off his skin, but he was not insulted.

"It's a turnaround." Lian Po put down Lu Lijingdao. "The chariot is heading to the generals, and the Qin people are giving orders, and they should attack the city tonight."

Lian was very familiar with the Qin army, and when Xiong Jing looked at the transfer carefully, he was looking at the generals outside the tents. After the main generals gathered, the generals of the various armies also gathered to give orders. The generals did not beat the drums, but looking at the abandoned chariots, it could be judged that this was an order from the generals.

"Is it Dongcheng?" Xiong Jing muttered. It's almost October, and during the dry season, the area of the East Lake is greatly reduced - this is a lake in the plains, the lake is not deep, only a few meters, but the area is very large.

"Be prepared and don't have to deal with it." Lian Po walked back with Xiong Jing, and when he met the soldiers who saluted at the head of the city, he would pat them on the shoulder.

"The teacher is going to be tired tonight." Xiong Jing smiled. He felt that his role in Chen Ying was symbolic.

"Defending the city for the king, why is it tiring." Xiong Jing's trust in himself made Lian Po find the feeling when Zhao Xiaocheng became the king again. His drowsiness was much better, and even in his old age, he would visit the city once a day. Chen Cheng walked thirty miles a week, and he walked thirty miles every day. In this way, although the name of the soldier is unknown, he remembers his appearance.

Xiong Jing is also learning his methods, but his demeanor of loving a pawn is difficult to learn. Xiong Jing was very relieved that the city was handed over to him, and the soldiers were also very relieved to Lian Po, a native of Zhao, and some bold and aggrieved county guards also complained to him.

After a hasty turn around the city, Xiong Jing went back to bed. He's already a hands-off shopkeeper, but that doesn't mean he has nothing to do. He has a lot of things to do, not to mention the mansion, the teacher school, the military school, the witch school, and the sea school, and the textbooks of these four schools alone keep him busy in the dark.

The teacher school has opened this month, and most of the more than 2,000 scholars who have been admitted are proficient in the Book of Poetry and the Five Classics, but when it comes to addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, most of them will not know; If you go further, when it comes to force, light, heat, pressure, density, and simple machinery, everyone is in the dark.

It is not that physics should be taught in primary schools, but as teachers, we should at least have a certain understanding of these concepts. After graduating from primary school, a very small number of students with excellent character and academic performance can be promoted to secondary school, and after finishing secondary school, they can enter the school to practice. The builders were all illiterate craftsmen who relied on experience to support the Great Voyage, but they could not support the Industrial Revolution.

As a fan of the sail era, Xiong Jing is not keen on the industrial revolution, nor does he intend to promote it by himself. Steampunk does have power, but he thinks it's ugly, how can a black steam battleship have a sail battleship that is quiet and beautiful?

It's just that he has no intention of preventing the Industrial Revolution from happening, or that although he personally doesn't want to push the world into the steam age, the first practical steam engine will be born in Yingdu, Chu State. After the beginning of the Age of Discovery, global resources that had been allocated by land shifted to sea routes, and sailing ships on trade winds connected the whole world in a more convenient and cheaper way.

In this context, the Silk Road was inevitably abandoned, and a large number of people migrated to the coast. Without the huge revenues generated by trade between East and West, the Kushan Empire, the Sassanid Empire, the Gaza Empire, the Turkic Empire, the Arab Empire, the Samanid Empire, the Seljuk Empire, the Mongol Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and ...... these huge empires would not be able to sustain themselves even if they were created.

In this context, the Silk Road was inevitably abandoned, and a large number of people migrated to the coast. Without the huge revenues generated by trade between East and West, the Kushan Empire, the Sassanid Empire, the Gaza Empire, the Turkic Empire, the Arab Empire, the Samanid Empire, the Seljuk Empire, the Mongol Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and ...... these huge empires would not be able to sustain themselves even if they were created.

In this context, the Silk Road was inevitably abandoned, and a large number of people migrated to the coast. Without the huge revenues generated by trade between East and West, the Kushan Empire, the Sassanid Empire, the Gaza Empire, the Turkic Empire, the Arab Empire, the Samanid Empire, the Seljuk Empire, the Mongol Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and ...... these huge empires would not be able to sustain themselves even if they were created.