Xiong Jing had a very pleasant day, and he finally knew what was going on west of the Kunlun Mountains, a Hellenistic world pioneered by Alexander. Blocked by the quicksands of the Green Mountains, Alexander stopped at Bactria, conquered Bactria, and then turned south to conquer India. Unfortunately, the young Alexander had the ambition to conquer, but his men did not want to continue fighting, so this conquest, praised by Westerners, came to an abrupt end somewhere in India.

This had to make Xiong Jing worry about the great voyage he was looking forward to. What if your subordinates don't want to fight, to occupy Malacca, to occupy the Cape of Good Hope, to occupy the Suez Canal, to occupy the continent of Dongzhou, and to occupy all the valuable areas of the world?

This question has always been thought of as he fell asleep, and at the moment when he fell asleep, Wei Zeng, the king of Wei, who was far away in the palace of Daliang, was facing a life-and-death decision. People are always different, Xiong Jing is worried about how to occupy the world, so that all the states and nations on the earth remember his name and the three-headed phoenix banner of the Chu army, Wei Zeng is worried about how to preserve the only few hundred miles of land left in Wei and the society that has been inherited for more than 160 years.

Qin and Chu are not easy to mess with, one is the country of tigers and wolves, the other is the state of barbarians, and the state of Wei is sandwiched between the two. Attacking Chu with the Qin army, there is no good fruit to eat, and if you don't attack Chu with the Qin army, there is also no good fruit to eat.

"Big... The king," Han Fei, the Korean envoy in front of him, told him that he had quietly entered Wei yesterday. "King Qin... Treat... Precious me... The two countries... The armor is exhausted..., and they will destroy Wei... Destroy Korea. Chu Shi..., good at fighting, if you can... Dark Alliance... With the state of Chu..., Qin Jun...... When the big defeat. Qin Jun... Defeat, no more... Out of the east, you're me... The two countries... Ann, Ann also. ”

Han Fei still stuttered when he spoke, but because of King Qin's appreciation, he gained more and more trust from Han An, King of Han.

"The king, Han envoy is also good." Wei Jian, the son of Xinling Jun, urgently advised, "If the Wei army is defeated again, there will be no more soldiers in the country, and the Wei state will die." At this time, our Wei State should join forces with Chu State again and defeat the Qin army. ”

"Ahem." Wei Zeng coughed a few times, but he was still puzzled by King Qin's annihilation of Wei. "Why does the Han envoy think that the Qin State will use this to destroy my Wei State?"

"...... of the country" Han Fei looked at Wei Zeng, at this time Wei Zeng had already abandoned irrelevant people, and there were only Wei Zeng, the king of Wei, Wei Xi, the servant Wei Xi, the king of Xinling, Wei Jianwu, and Bai Yi, a great merchant of Wei who had a deep relationship with Chu, and he was a representative of Chu. He finally spoke: "Despicable country... The Princes... It's in... Qin State... The Governor's Mansion, therefore... Know. The day before yesterday... It makes people come to report, the widow is shocked, and the ministers are ordered... into the girders. Ministers, please... King... Cannot... Again... Qin people, otherwise, the country will also perish. ”

"Who is in the Governor's Mansion of the State of Qin? What kind of job does it have? Wei Zeng asked himself, and Wei Jian and Bai Yi also looked at Han Fei closely.

Han Feidun was uncomfortable with them. If he doesn't say it, he can't win the trust of the King of Wei, and Wei is the main direction of attack of the Chu army, and the Chu army led by Xiang Yan is approaching Chen Ying of Wei, only when Wei and Chu join forces, the Qin army can be defeated, and Korea can survive this crisis of annihilation; But if he said it, then the Hou people would be exposed, and the exposed Hou people would definitely become an outcast and be destroyed by the Qin State.

Han Fei stammered, but he was able to write a masterpiece like "Han Feizi", analyze the country at the organizational level, and build an absolute monarchy, which naturally has extraordinary wisdom. Han Fei only hesitated for a second, then spoke: "Captain, Huan Qi." ”

"Captain Huan Qi?!" Wei Zeng pointed at Han Fei in disbelief. He had heard that Zheng Guo, who repaired Zheng Guoqu, was a Korean marquis, and the king of Qin should be expelled from the guests, but he didn't expect that Huan Qi, the national lieutenant who was in charge of all the armor soldiers of the Qin State on behalf of the prince, was also a Korean marquis.

"Hahahaha, hahahaha......" Wei Jia couldn't stop laughing. He has been suppressed for a long time and has not been so happy for a long time, the wolf-like King of Qin, the invincible Qin State, his captain turned out to be a marquis.

"The King?" Wei Jianwei and the others were shocked by the foresight of the Koreans, and they didn't understand why the king was laughing.

"Hahahaha......" Wei Zeng couldn't help laughing, and it was only after half a sound that he stopped laughing, and asked again: "If the widow has not guessed wrong, Chang'an Juncheng has a lot to do with South Korea." ”

"Yes." Han Fei nodded in acknowledgement. "Empress Dowager Xia... After the sage, Chang'anjun... Ben Zhao also. But I... Korean Houren... Also with the Chu people... For the alliance, all the punishment... Zhao Ji's party, Wen Xinhou... Therefore... Resignation. How... King Qin... Don't attack... Zhao Guo, is attacking... Chu State, this is... Affected... You and I are both countries. Greetings to the King... Don't hesitate, 300,000 today... Qin Jun... It's all in... East of the chasm, if you can... With the state of Chu... Alliance, Qin people... Defeat also. ”

"If I am allied with the State of Chu, can the King of Qin let the State of Wei go?" Wei Zeng sighed.

"Not with... The state of Chu is allied, Wei and Han... All are dead. Han Fei continued. In fact, the situation in Korea was worse than that of Wei, which still had the power to resist Qin, and Korea did not even have the strength to resist. As soon as the king of Qin said that he would attack Chu, the soldiers of the whole country of Korea went out with the Qin army, and Xinzheng only left more than 10,000 people, while the Wei State, to this day, there are still 100,000 elite Wei troops stationed in Daliang, and most of the people who went out with the Qin State were old and weak.

"Great King, the King of Chu is a man of faith." Bai Yi spoke at the right time. "If my Wei State defects to Qin, the Chu State will not care about the past suspicions."

"If the Qin State attacks me because of this, will the King of Chu save me?" Wei Zeng looked at Bai Yi and asked.

"If the king defects to Qin, why doesn't the king of Chu save him?" Bai Yi asked rhetorically. "Great King, the King of Chu is by no means a short-sighted person."

"There is no definite relationship between the state, the king of Chu allows me today, and I will be reckless." Wei Zeng shook his head again and again, the lessons of reality made him not trust anyone.

"If the king does not ally with the state of Chu again, the state of Wei will perish." Wei Jian said worriedly. "Ziji can be the minister of the king, and he can also be the minister of the king of Qin. Only the king and I and other princes and merchants were not tolerated by the king of Qin. Now the situation, if the king of Chu is defeated, he can retreat to the south of Huaishui, if my Wei division is defeated again, there will be no soldiers in the whole country except for Daliang, and the Qin State will swallow all the Wei land, and the Wei State will only have one city. ”

The situation is pressing, and if you don't join Chu and Wei, it will be finished this year. Wei Zeng's forehead was covered with beads of sweat, and his Adam's apple shook again and again, and he finally said: "If the widow has the heart to join forces with Chu, the king of Chu will be happy?" ”

"The king has a heart, and the king of Chu naturally expects it." Bai Yi breathed a sigh of relief, glad that King Wei was not very mediocre.

"When will the king of Chu be allowed to be widowed? If it was too late, Wei Jun ......" Wei Zeng was worried about time again, he was worried that Ziji had buried all the Wei troops by the time of the negotiation.

"Don't worry, the king, if the king has the heart to ally with the Chu State, there will be a reply the day after tomorrow." Bai Yi said.

"The day after tomorrow?" The short time is amazing, just thinking of the flying news of the Chu people, King Wei is not surprised.

"Your Majesty," Wei Jian said hurriedly. "Please ask the king to give his ministers military talismans and axes to seize the military power of Ziji."

"You want to take Ziji's military power?" The front line of 200,000 Wei troops is being led by Xiangbang Ziji, and the remaining 100,000 Wei troops are all assembled in Daliang, while the Qin army, 50,000 people, is still stationed in Daliang, and the remaining 300,000 together with the Wei army, have begun to attack the state of Chu.

"Yes, yes." Wei Jian said worriedly. "After the minister entered the shogunate of the army, he immediately seized the power of the sub-ji, and then led the army back to the division of Daliang."

"If you lead the army back to the division, Mengwu will not allow it." Wei Zeng did not approve of Wei Jian's approach.

"The Great King is also false." Wei Jian worried, "The king and the king of Chu are allied, and they should ask the Chu Guozhou division to quickly attack the 50,000 Qin divisions outside the city of Daliang, and the minister will say to Mengwu after seizing the military power, saying that he will return to the division to rescue Daliang." If Meng Wu is still unwilling, please ask the king and Chu Shi to cut off the grain and grass of the army. ”

"This plan... Very good. Han Fei said enviously. South Korea did not have such courage, and the South Korean army could only retreat with the Qin army. It is unlikely that the defeated Qin army will destroy Korea, and Korea will monitor Wei as a loyal servant of Qin.

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On the Yingshui, the latest large-winged warships rowed by two hundred and fifty hand-wrenched men were like a black fish, crossing one after another large-winged warships and heading away in the waves.

This latest style of large-winged Dasima Mansion was named the Pawn Wing Warboat to indicate that a large wing could fit just one soldier. Because of the presence or absence of cavalry, there are two types of warships, one is the ordinary type without cavalry, which is thirty-two meters long, five .eight meters wide, and has a displacement of fifty tons, in addition to two hundred and fifty soldiers, sixty armor soldiers can stand on the deck;

The other was a cavalry type, with a length of 37 meters, a width of 6 meters, a displacement of 60 tons, and an increase in the number of men to 270. The deck of this type of warship was higher than that of the cavalryless type, and the width was no longer two meters, but six meters. War horses with a body length of about two meters will be placed horizontally in the fence of the deck facing each other, occupying a length of about thirty meters.

Although the design is good, it is a pity that the cost is expensive, not counting the wood, and it costs fifteen gold to make a cavalry-type winged warship. If calculated from the felling of timber, a cavalry-type winged warship costs more than 70 gold, and the cost is 1.2 gold per ton. Another headache is the draft, the draft of the new 40-ton large wing is only between 1.1 meter and 1.2 meters, the draft of the ordinary pawn wing warboat has increased by about 0.25 meters, and the cavalry type needs to increase by 0.4 meters.

The problem is these problems, and Xiong Jing knows the pros and cons from the pawn wing warboat. Although the cost of a single boat has increased, there are more than 100 soldiers installed, and the price spread on the head of each soldier - the new large-wing warboat is 0.30 gold, the pawn wing warboat is 0.22 gold, and the cavalry-type winged warboat is 0.23 gold, which is actually reduced.

Man-hours were also reduced, with 4,000 man-days (0.24 man-days per pawn) for a new large-wing shipyard and 6,000 man-days (0.19 man-days per pawn) for a cavalry-type winged warship. The 300,000 Chu army needed more than 1,800 new large wings, but it only needed less than 1,000 cavalry-type wings, or 1,112 ordinary wing-type warships.

Because of these advantages, when the wood removed from the palace is exhausted, shipyards across the country will completely renovate the warship. Due to the two problems of dry timber and the construction of sea boats, it will take six to ten years for the Chu army to fight in boats, crisscrossing rivers and lakes.