When Zhuang had no land to return, the mountain stream more than ten miles long in the Rim River was full of fires. The Rim River is an 'S'-shaped mountain stream with a narrow mouth and a large long and wide belly, like a thin-spouted bottle. One mile further north of the Jiayi horizontal stream attacked by the Chu army is the lower end of the bottle mouth, where the mountain stream about 500 meters wide is tightened to 50 meters.

Fifty meters is not narrow, the problem is that the mountain stream is rocky, grass and trees, especially the three bends are the most. And the outermost bend of the three corners is the narrowest. It was like a mountain gate, not too wide to cover a foot, and it was extremely dangerous. If you want to go over, you have to hold on to the mountain vine and stick to the rock, and you have to use your hands and feet together, and there is not even a place to settle down.

The cliffs above the head are dangerous, and the torrent roars under the feet. Even in the Tang Dynasty, when Wang Wei set up a separate business in the Rim River, the mountain road has been dug open and passable, and people here still call this mountain road 'Sanli Qi'. There is a reason why the Qin army ignored the Rim River, this is indeed not a shortcut to cross the Qin Mountains, and Zhao Cheng, who led the Qin army's elite soldiers, was not guarding the Rim River, but guarding the White Deer Plateau.

Drilling rocks, blasting up mountain roads, but clearing and leveling roads, this is the task of the Chu army engineers. The fifteen-pound artillery drill code recommends a road of more than three meters, which is nothing, the key is the turning radius, which is another factor that restricts the maneuverability of the artillery in addition to the load of the bridge. Straight road, open a three-meter-wide road on it, the turning place because there is a certain turning radius, so the ground in the turning radius fan is mostly flat, and the turning place has the most rocks, which greatly increases the amount of engineering.

Thankfully, there are quite a few Ryoma for the towing artillery. The dragon horse pulls, eight horses become six, six horses become four, and the turning radius is immediately reduced by three or four meters. Even if the heaviest cannon is thirty-two pounds, as long as the road permits, six dragon horses can be pulled.

The Rim River under the fire, the ten-mile long stream that the Chu army temporarily assembled before the attack in the afternoon was crowded with artillery trucks and baggage wagons. For the artillery and logistics personnel, it was not known at all how the battle was going on, but everyone believed that the Chu army would win. This trust is such that these vehicles simply have no room to turn.

Fortunately, the battle situation was the same as everyone believed, and the Chu army, which attacked one after another, defeated the Qin people outside the mountain stream. When the news reached the mountain stream, the excited cheers lasted for more than ten or dozens of miles. Taking advantage of the last light before dark, the news of victory spread all the way to the rear and to Yingdu. The Qin army has been defeated, and the solemnity in the day has gradually turned into laughter, and even the sound of the rock drilling hitting the iron drill is a little faster, and the Lifu happily shouted the trumpet and sang the Chu song.

The pawns were cheerful, and the public in charge of opening the way was full of solemnity. If given a choice, he would rather take back what he had said before. The rocks here were stronger than he imagined, and dozens of stonemasons and hundreds of soldiers in the army began to drill the rocks at the time of the great migration, and it took more than three hours to complete the blasting holes that were more than 26 feet wide and more than zhang deep.

Mountain rock is not rammed earth, and even if it is rammed earth, such a shallow blast hole will not be able to blow down the city wall. If only the rock is blown apart, it means that another hole will have to be drilled. The time to dig the hole, the time to wait for the cement to solidify, these times have passed, and the ignition will be at dawn. If the road is delayed until dawn, it is impossible to imagine what will happen.

"Dare to ask the general, can it be blown up?" It had been more than an hour since he heard the sound of the iron drill of the rock, and Wu Kong, the artillery school who couldn't wait, squeezed into the narrow passage in front of him and found the public loss taboo who was negotiating with the Feng people. The artillery has been independent of the crossbow and trebuchet troops, and the public loser was once the superior of Wukong, and Wukong still met with the etiquette of a subordinate official.

"Not yet." The public loser did not answer, and the seal was corrected and rushed to answer. "It takes at least three hours for cement to set, and even if it is three hours, it is insufficient, so it takes at least two hours."

"Two hours?" Wu Kong was taken aback, it was already dusk, night eclipse, dusk, midnight, at least two hours to wait for the night to go out.

"Yes, yes." When Feng Renjiao spoke, Gong Yi Ji looked at him helplessly.

"What the people said is extremely true." The public loses the taboo. "The cement has not set, and the power of gunpowder has broken through the hole, and it is useless. If the cement is condensed, the power of gunpowder is all towards the mountain rock, the rock bursts, and the mountain road is open. For more than two hours, you might as well sleep peacefully. ”

"Sleep?" Wukong shook his head repeatedly. The first battle was won, including the boys and servants, all of whom were excited and went to bed peacefully? Who can sleep at this time. "No one can sleep tonight."

Wukong's words made the public lose jealousy and seal people laugh. Indeed, no one can sleep peacefully on this night.

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"The Jing people hit me, I don't see the baggage, I don't see the witchcraft, this must be from the mountain. If our army does not fight with it, retreats to the Baqiao and waits for its food to run out, and defeats its fall, it can win a great victory. "The Qin army shogunate on the east bank of Bashui, Zhao Zheng, who had settled down, led the generals to start a battle. Zhao Zheng, who was sitting in the center, didn't say a word and listened to what the generals said.

"No, no, no. Jing people defeated me, and I was taken by surprise. If the two armies fight in a dignified battle, why should our army of 400,000 people be afraid of the Jing people? "County Lieutenant Zhao Yang is the one who refuses to admit defeat. Others said that the Chu army was strong and strong, but he emphasized that the Chu army fought more and less every time.

"If the general is not afraid of the Jing people, he will fight with the Jing people, but if the Jing people do not fight with me and go to the Baqiao first, what if?" Yang Duanhe asked rhetorically.

If IQ is not genius, there is basically no difference between friend and foe. The strategies that Zhuang Wudi could think of, Wei Yu, Yang Duanhe, and the young Zhang Han and the strategists of the National Captain's Mansion all thought of it. The difference is only in the internal strife or the correctness of politics - many generals of the Zhao clan were promoted by Zhao Zheng, and the reason why Zhao Zheng was promoted was not that the laws of the Qin State prevented the Zhao generals from controlling the military power, but that there was indeed a certain gap between the general rate of the Zhao clan and the general rate of the six countries in the Kwantung region.

Zhao Zheng's promotion is a kind of trust, and the generals of the Zhao clan who were promoted by Zhao Zheng naturally had to show their brave side in front of Zhao Zheng. The Qin people were taught badly by the Jin people, and the Qin people couldn't catch up with the Jin people in a hundred years in terms of the prudence of their thoughts, the strangeness of their strategies, and the viciousness of their conscience. Yang Duan and these people, from the Chu army's sweep of Bailu Plateau and sending scouts to the north, vaguely guessed the Chu army's next move.

The first strategy for them to deal with it was to send a boat division to prevent the Chu army from building bridges on the shoveling water; The second and more important is to send a large army, or even the whole army, to immediately withdraw the camp and march to Baqiao. The whole army is garrisoned in Baqiao, with its back to Xianyang, and the Chu army can fight as much as it wants, and fight as much as it wants.

But there is a problem with this: 100,000 Chu troops have entered Lantian and 500,000 Qin troops have retreated, and if this kind of thing spreads in the future (if there is flying news, it will definitely spread out, and the news of the Qin army's retreat will be published in the Great Chu News in three days at most, and then spread throughout the Kwantung region), it will be ridiculed by the world. Great Qin is the overlord of the world, how can he be afraid of Chu like a tiger?

Now the Qin State is lobbying the Qi State, intimidating the Wei State, and constantly increasing the persuasion of the Zhao State, which is still breathing. If the Qin army is afraid of the enemy like a tiger, how can it lobby? How to intimidate? How to persuade surrender?

Some people wanted to cross the river to fight the Chu army, and would rather die than retreat, while others thought that they should quickly retreat to Baqiao and avoid giving way.

The Qin army is a long-term and good fighting division, and its tactics and armor are indeed not very good, but in this era, its overall mobilization, strategic implementation, logistics supply, and baggage engineering, not to mention the world, are not the right in the world, even in the entire ancient times, it is also rare.

Tactical victory is only a partial victory rather than an overall victory, the superiority in armor is only an individual advantage rather than an overall advantage, and as long as the advanced technology does not form a generation gap, it is mainly a cost saving and cannot really determine the outcome of the war. After all, no matter how good the tactics, no matter how sophisticated the armor, and no matter how advanced the technology, they will turn into powder in the face of absolute numbers.

The Qin army was good at fighting, and the strategists of the National Captain's Mansion were completely qualified, and before it was dark, they came up with several sets of plans, one of which was to force a decisive battle with the Chu army, and the other was to retreat to Baqiao, and rely on Xianyang to hold on. It is not a matter of details that is being debated about the rate now, but a matter of strategy.

Fighting in defense, advancing and retreating, and arguing over and over again for several hours are these words. "Han Feizi" once said: 'The king does not see what he wants, the king sees what he wants, and the ministers will carve themselves; You don't see what you mean, you see what you mean, and the ministers will express their differences. (The monarch does not reveal his desires, the monarch reveals his desires, and his subjects will whitewash themselves; The monarch does not reveal his intentions, the monarch reveals his intentions, and his subordinates will disguise themselves. ）

Han Fei is the culmination of the Legalists, and Zhao Zheng believes what Han Fei said. The stakes were so high that he did not reveal his intentions at all, but left his courtiers to argue. Through the arguments there, he observes who is talented and who is incompetent, who is loyal and who is cowardly.

'There is no place for it, and there is no place for it. The Ming monarch does nothing to the top, and the monarch and the minister are afraid of the bottom......'

(Silence!) The monarch does not seem to be on the throne; Liao Kuo! His Majesty did not know where the monarch was. Mingjun ruled inaction above, and the ministers were sincerely afraid below. ）

Zhao Zheng's attitude completely achieved the effect that Han Fei said. The generals in the shogunate are fighting more and more, Zhao Yang and Yang Duanhe have sparks in their eyes, if it weren't for Zhao Zheng in front of him, if he didn't accept the Qin Law and strictly prohibit private fighting, the two would be eager to fight immediately.

Taking advantage of the short pause in the controversy, Wei Yu finally turned to Zhao Zheng: "Tell the king that the time will be decided, and the ministers are still undecided, and the king is asked to decide what to do." ”

"There's no sure way to win?" Zhao Zheng remained silent.

"Tell the king, the ministers can't wait for wisdom." Wei Yi is helpless, any strategy has shortcomings.

"Hmm." Zhao Zheng just snorted and looked at the generals in the tent. Under his gaze, everyone bowed their heads. "The widow has heard that those who are good at planning are not brave, and those who are good and brave are not brave. Jing people were taken by surprise and entered the ......"

'Boom! Rumble! Boom, boom...... Boom, boom......, boom, 'The sound of thunder suddenly came from outside the tent, and the generals in the shogunate changed color, especially Wei Yu, Zhao Yong, Zhao Yang and others. It wasn't raining, and the sound was certainly not thunder, but a witchcraft of the Jing people.