There is a great difference between the elite and the ordinary foot soldier, and this difference is reflected in the physique, but also in the tactics and will. In the past nine years, the Qin army has been defeated in successive battles, excluding those who died of illness and death, and only more than 400,000 soldiers were killed in battle. This time, in order to destroy Zhao and the decisive battle, the elite soldiers of the Qin State concentrated on the Zhao State and Gongyi at full speed, and the remaining men in the pass, if not the old and the young, were also some men with weak physique.

Among the 600,000 Fu men, because of the limitations of physique and property, only one-third of them can become a soldier, and less than one-tenth of them can become a scholar.

It is said that the counties contracted by each clan and the Lu area sealed by the honorable people should be supplied to Yingdu, but in fact, Yingdu constantly subsidizes the honorable scholars and armor soldiers of the whole country. Give them the best armor, give them thousands of arrows, give them garments made of Indian muslins, give them armoury made of Persian calf skins, and replenish them with tons and tons of meat from time to time......

The Chu army, if not a full-time army, is already a semi-full-time army. Because of the geographical relationship, the average height still can't go up, but the weight, chest circumference, and lung volume have greatly improved. The most important thing is that you can no longer see the vegetables on your face and you can't see your ribs on your body. When the non-farm is busy, practice five days off and one day off, and practice one day off and five days off when the farm is busy. Drills within the division every ten years, monthly drills within the army, and quarterly national drills. The targeted and frequent training has rapidly improved the combat effectiveness of the division and brigade.

Such an elite division fought with those old and weak in Guanzhong, and it was an exaggeration to say that one enemy was ten, and one enemy was three to seek truth from facts. However, the battle is not fought one by one, and as long as there is a breakthrough in the battle, the army without the will to war will collapse on all fronts. Artillery is not deadly, what is fatal is the overwhelming impact of sixty rows of spears. Not to mention the old and weak army, even the elite soldiers of the Qin army have not really comprehended the power of the spear array.

As he spoke, Xiong Jing seemed to see the hundreds of thousands of Qin troops gathered in Lantian and crushed with one blow. Xiong Qi didn't know what he was thinking, so he only said: "I only hope that Brother Wang will treat Qin Min well." ”

"The Chu army does not kill women and children." Xiong Jing drank a lot last night, so he thought about it from Xiong Qi's point of view for Qin Guo. In fact, he and the soldiers of Chu all hated the Qin army very much. "If there is no place, there will be no slaughter of the city, and there will be no arson in Xianyang."

"Qin Min is just acting on orders." The Chu army killed heavily in Nanjun, so Xiong Qi explained again. "Under the rule of the Qin State, even if there is a lord, if the duke and the Shangzao have no money, they must go to the official residence to serve as a shield."

"The instruments of crime must be destroyed." Don't slaughter the city, don't set fires, this is the kindness of the Chu people, but to say that the Qin people are helpless and shouldn't be treated badly, Xiong Jing couldn't help but refute. "And what is the reason for the distinction between the old and the new?"

Xiong Jing's words, Xiong Qi couldn't answer, and he had also heard of the old Qianshou who moved from Guanzhong to Kanto to bully the new Qiantou. Even if the old Qianshou was a sinner or an official slave, he was still a man of honor when he arrived in Kanto. And moving them into the Kanto region had a strong political purpose in itself, and it was called mixing sand as the saying goes. If the old Qianshou of Guanzhong, who is the sand, and the new Qianshou of the newly conquered region, everyone is equal before the law, then how can this sand be mixed?

It is extremely normal for Qin officials to shield the old Qiantou, and the new Qiantou to sue and not accept it, and not to punish it. It was in Jiuying and Nanyang that the most powerful people who killed the Qin people were not the Chu army, but the local old Chu people. Xiong Qi didn't know this truth, but he could imagine it. What he feared most was that the Chu army would bring this hatred into Guanzhong and bring it to Xianyang.

The brothers were speechless for a moment. It was a moment before he moved on to something else. "Brother Zirui and I will return to Qin tomorrow, what about Xuan'er?"

"Xuan'er will enter the Wei State to meet him." Xiong Jing Road. At noon, he had already sent a message to Wang Zhou from Yingdu, asking them to turn to Rushui and enter the Wei realm. Speaking of this, he seemed to be able to anticipate Mi Xuan's regrets, but there was no way to regret them. He must lead his army westward and attack Xianyang. Only by uprooting Xianyang and reorganizing the Qin State will the world be peaceful.

This night of conversation on the walls of Wancheng was the last meeting of the brothers. The next day before the dawn, Xiong Jing went out of Wancheng to lead his division straight down to Dengyi, and after Dengyi, he traced the Han River to Linpin. Linpin rested for one night, the next day Wang Zhou changed to a two-oarled mid-wing war boat, went north from Danshui to Shangmi, rested in Shangmi at noon, and went to Jingziguan in the afternoon.

At this time, the Jingziguan Valley was full of boats and soldiers, as well as continuous military curtains. Fortunately, the valley is more than 60 miles long, and with the soldiers belonging to the tribes of the Yue, Xiou, Tai, and Miao people, plus the baggage logistics troops, it is not narrow for 200,000 or 300,000 people to gather in this valley. It's just that more than 10,000 boats are parked on the water's edge, and many warships are even docked side by side.

The scene Xiong Jing saw was that more than 60 miles were almost all military tents, and both sides of Danshui were full of boats. Fortunately, the narrowest part of Danshui at this time is also more than 40 meters, and after docking three rows of boats on both sides, there is still at least 18 meters of channel left in the middle, and Xiongjing's boat is slowly ascending from this channel.

"The king has an order: Don't think the king is here, do your own thing! The king has an order: Don't think the king is here, do your own thing! In order not to disturb the army, the temple people on the boat in front of the king boat shouted in unison, and some of the Chu soldiers who wanted to run to the waterfront to salute heard this order and could only stop in place and look at the king passing by in the middle of the Danshui. However, the Yue soldiers, who could not understand the Chu language, rushed to the water's edge without any scruples, and even rushed to the shore of the war boat very rudely, which immediately aroused the angry eyes of the king's soldiers.

Xiong Jing didn't pay attention to these rude Yue soldiers, and he followed the black smoke more than thirty miles away, raised his Lu Lijing and looked at the Chu army sappers who were cleaning up the sinking boat in front of Jing Ziguan. The further you go, the more you can hear the roar of the steam engine, but at this time, the Chu army shogunate has arrived, and the battle boat turns into Qishui.

"The ministers pay their respects to the king." After the guards landed on the shore, the king sailed into Qishui and docked. Chengtong led the divisions in the shogunate to lead the tent to meet Xiong Jing, Dou Yu Pheasant and others, and the bells and drums were great for a while.

"Military etiquette should be concise, and no courtesy." The Chu people like Zhong Le, so the army also carries Zhong in battle, as well as female singers and female music. This is, of course, a remnant of the old tradition, and although the Great Sima Mansion expressly forbids it, the divisions still do not follow it.

"Where have the former troops been?" The shogunate was located on a hill where the Dansui and Kisui rivers meet. The strategists, calculators, astronomy, geography, and general chiefs in the tent saluted Xiong Jing. This is actually the shogunate of the Wakao clan. After seeing Xiong Jing, these people quickly retreated, and only Xiong Jing, Dou Yu Pheasant, Chengtong, Dou Chang and the generals of each division were left in the big tent.

"Tell the king, in terms of time, the former army can reach Zhulin Pass today." Chengtong is the way.

"Oh! So quickly? "At noon the day before yesterday, Feixun ordered Chengtong to quickly attack Zhulin Pass, and now it has only been more than 30 hours, and the former army has rushed to Zhulin Pass. There are 200 miles of waterway from Jingziguan to Zhulinguan, but the straight-line distance is only 140 miles. The extra sixty miles are all Danshui winding and twisting in the mountains. Xiong Jing thought that he would be able to attack Zhulin Pass tomorrow, but he didn't expect the Chu army to rush up today.

"Yes, yes." The day before yesterday, Chengtong ran to Jingzi Pass without sacrificing to the ancestors to seize Ruoao's military power, but he didn't expect that he had just arrived in Wancheng's military order to chase him, and the military order required him to quickly take Zhulin Pass, so a reprimand was instantly changed to condolences.

"Your Majesty, our army can go down to the Bamboo Forest Pass tomorrow." Dou Chang Dao. "Today, I only followed the division to Zhulin Pass, and the people who passed away at night arrived. Bamboo forests are everywhere. The Thai people led Tai Zhu Yan Tai to fight the bamboo forest, so he and the great elder Song invited Ying to go. ”

The jungle war Chu army is indeed inferior to the Yue pawn, Taizhu this person Xiong Jing also has the impression that he is a single name bamboo, and the Chu people are used to calling him Taizhu. What surprised him was one of the great elders of Zhu Ao, Song, who was so old that he actually went into battle in person.

"Ao Song will go down, and the bamboo forest pass will go down." Xiong Jing said reassuringly. "How about just blocking the waterways and sinking the boat? Tomorrow, our army will march into Lantian, and if the sinking boat does not go, how can we march? ”

"Your Majesty, at the latest tomorrow at noon, you can clear the sinking boat." The former general of the artillery corps is now also the general of the engineers. It was he who commanded the sappers to clear the sunken boats on the Dan water.

Different from the chasm and Nanji, the boats on the Danshui River, especially the boats in the upper reaches of the Danshui River, are mostly small boats with a displacement of several tons. These boats are loaded with earth and rock, and after sinking into the Dan water, they can be pulled up neatly by floating tanks. The pontoons went retrograde along the Danshui River, pulling up those sunken boats one by one, and then pushing them to the shore or river bay, which was easier to clean than the large sunken boats in the chasm and Nanji.

"How many divisions are going north to Zhulin Pass now?" Xiong Jing asked.

"Your Majesty, there are already six divisions going north to Zhulin Pass." into a channel. "The minister has ordered them not to rest once they have pulled out this pass, and to march into the merchant city as soon as possible. If they can't pull out Shangyi, they must also gather troops on the mountains to prevent the Qin division from retreating westward. ”

Wuguan is eighty miles to the west, and Zhulinguan is one hundred miles to the north, which is Shangyi. But ten miles east of Shangyi, there is a square mountain with a radius of twenty miles. Fangshan is not high, only two hundred meters, but it just blocks the Wuguan official road and the Danshui waterway. The Wuguan official road from the east should pass through the north side of Fangshan, and the Danshui from the west should flow from the south of Fangshan and then turn south.

The strategic role of this Fangshan is much more important than that of Shangyi in the west. Whoever controls the Suhe Mountain will control the Shangluo Shangyi Basin, and can keep Wuguan in the east and Danshui in the south out of Fangshan.

"In the year of King Zhao's attack on the tiger, in order to attack the barbarian clan, Shen Gong Shouyu led the army to be stationed on the mountain of Suhe." There are many important points in Wuguan Road, in order to make the king more clear about the mountains and mountains, Dou Chang talked about the past. "Occupy this mountain, and the Wuguan Qin army will be defeated quickly."

"What if the Wuguan Qin army occupies this mountain?" There was a sand table in the shogunate, and Xiong Jing saw the importance of this mountain.

"Tell the king, if the Qin people occupy this mountain...... Cheng Tong looked at Dou Chang, and also looked at the strategists in the distance, and finally said: "If 50,000 Qin people occupy this mountain, Xianyang is afraid that it will not be defeated." ”

Xiong Jing frowned when he said, but fortunately, the military Sima Douchang said again: "Our army scouts and cavalry are cut off from traffic, and the Qin people don't know that I have pulled out the Jingzi Pass, nor do they know that our army has entered the Zhulin Pass." ”