Chapter 111: Tomorrow

No change.

Although the weather after the snow was unexpectedly cold, although the snow was not enough and the roads were completely different, and although this kind of weather was completely unsuitable for field battles, the next morning the Chu army still marched fifteen miles with great difficulty, and camped three miles west of the Shahai Sea. The barracks of the two armies are separated by a gutter, and they can be seen at a glance. At this time, the gutter was already frozen, and the ice was half a foot thick, and it was no longer an obstacle to the battle between the two armies.

However, the ditch is the ditch of the city where the Qin army diverts the water of the Yellow River, and the embankments on both sides of the ditch are more than a foot above the ground. On the other side, the dam crest is less than two zhang away from the ditch surface, and its ditch surface is level with the chasm and the water surface of Fengze. The embankment was not a rammed earth wall built by the Qin army along the chasm, but a steep slope with an inclination of about forty or fifty degrees.

No matter how fine the shogunate sand table is, there is no three-dimensional sense of being on the scene, and as soon as Xiong Jing sees this embankment that is more than a foot above the ground, he feels that the place where the two armies will fight will take place in the gutter, and there is no better barrier to avoid shells than the embankment.

"The width of the ditch is only more than 370 steps, if the Qin people stand here, and 400,000 people divide into formations, I am afraid it will be insufficient." When the Chu army was encamped, Xiong Jing went out of the camp to explore the battlefield, and Zhuang Wudi, Ele, Dongyegu and others also followed. Standing on the embankment and looking at the gutter river that was just over a mile away, Higashino felt that the two armies should not be fighting in a row here.

"That's right." Zhuang Wudi agreed with Peng Zong and Xiong Jing. "The Qin people are arrayed here, and I can't see the formation behind them. The front is not supported, and the rear is forward, and I cannot hit it with artillery. Fortunately, its trebuchet has insufficient range, otherwise it ......"

The movable trebuchet shogunate of the Qin army knew very well that this was another form of the thorn crossbow. The difference is that the crossbow is two crossbow arms, and the direction of the rebound is opposite to each other. The bowstring was attached to the two crossbow arms, and as soon as the crossbow was released, the crossbow arms quickly struck outward, leveling the bowstring forward quickly, and the arrows were shot out;

The elastic trebuchet is a crossbow arm, and the torsion spring attached to the crossbow arm and the crossbow arm is not erected, but becomes horizontal, and the direction of rebound is upward. Once the bracket is released, the crossbow arm will shoot upwards, throwing the stone bullet at the end of the arm. A crossbow arm fires heavier stone bullets and oil bombs, and the range is naturally smaller than that of a thorn crossbow. The captured trebuchet shogunate also test-fired, firing no more than 120 stone bullets made by Qin, and a maximum of 180 steps of oil bombs.

"More than three hundred and seventy steps...... Xiong Jing thought about this distance, the depth of the Chu army's array was not thick, including the artillery array, fifty steps was enough, but from the endless plain to the river channel that was only more than a mile wide, his vision was suddenly blocked, he didn't like this feeling very much.

"Yu Da Ao," Xiong Jing was thinking about this somewhat cramped battlefield, and was rushing to the west of the camp. The snow settles after a while, and even then, it is very difficult for the horses to run in the snow.

"Yu Daao, Zhao Jun, Wei Jun...... It's coming! "The rider who came was a power pig, and it was inconvenient to run in the snow, so he ran out of white gas on the four miles of the crotch. Sitting on the horse, he pointed to the beam: "Zhao Wei's army is coming." After he finished speaking, he said: "The news reports that the Qi army is also coming." ”

"How many miles is the refraction according to me?" Xiong Jing exhaled a long breath of white air, he never thought that Hezong would really succeed.

"Sixty miles." Kwon said. "The snow is not easy to walk, and Dr. Qu said that it will come tomorrow."

"Tomorrow?" Xiong Jing said subconsciously. Fifteen miles forward today, tomorrow the war will begin. If you want to wait for the Qi army led by Qu Guang, then you will have to start the war the day after tomorrow, and if the Qi army that arrives is extremely tired, the whole army will have to rest for at least one day before fighting. It was cold on the third day, warm on the fourth, and on the fourth day the war might start to snow again, and then it would be delayed again.

"There are 50,000 Qi troops," Zhuang Wudi saw Xiong Jing's hesitation and persuaded him. "If the Qin people escape, I have snowboards and sleds to chase them."

"I think I should treat all the people." Higashino Gu also agreed with Zhuang Wuji's suggestion. If the Qi army is 120,000, then it is okay, but the Qi army is more than 50,000 people, although more than 50,000 people can not be used as soldiers, but the width of the array can be increased or decreased by at least 1,000 columns.

"The snow is not frozen, and the depth is not shin, which is not conducive to war." Fei Jing also said.

Fei Jing's words made Xiong Jing have no mind to speak, and the snow did not freeze as determined yesterday - the climate was warmer than two thousand years later, and it rarely snowed south of the Yellow River, and the Chu army strategists had a congenital omission in the severe cold. Unless the snow melts, it can only settle by its own gravity or by stepping on it, and gradually becomes solid from loose and weak. At that time, there will be shallow marks on the foot, but it will not sink even the calves. Now in this situation, the war horse cannot gallop, and it is difficult for the foot soldiers to charge the spear, and only the artillery pawns have no effect.

Xiong Jing had no reason to object to waiting for the Qi army, the shogunate only Xiang Liang was angry with the Qi people, as soon as Zhuang Wudi said that he was waiting for the Qi army to arrive and fight again, he jumped up from the Xi Xi and glared at Zhuang Wudi like an enemy: "What is the use of Qi people?!" The Qi people and the Qin people are two or five couples, wanting to make them echo inside and outside, and turn against Goer in wartime? ”

"General Xiang is angry!" Zhuang Wudi attended and walked in front of Xiang Liang to take a deep look. "This Qi person is not a Biqi person. This Qi person is a farmer and a city man in Qidi, and he was persuaded by the aggrieved doctor, so he went to the Great Liang and the war was also ......"

"Listen! Qi people are Qi people, where do they come from each other? "I can see that Xiang Liang is already trying his best to restrain his anger, if it weren't for Zhuang Wangdi is military horse, he would have already drawn his sword." Yu Da Ao, the minister thought it should not be so. There are many spies in the Qi people, and they will collude with the Qin people. ”

"You hate Qi people?" Xiong Jing's mind turned sharply, and he still asked directly. Seeing that Xiang Liang didn't answer, he said: "The reason why these Qi people went to Daliang to fight is to help our Chu State return to the country and seize power after the war, and they are the enemies of the Qi State." ”

Qi people and generals thought that it was the work of refractive lobbying, and only a few people such as Xiong Jing and Shouying's Nao Cunning knew that this was an exchange of interests. In Xiongjing's view, Qi is similar to modern France, and sooner or later a bourgeois revolution will break out. The strength of Zheng Shang is also very strong, but Zheng Shang has no entity, because of the geographical relationship, he is either engaged in trade or involved in finance, and the merchants of Qi have workshops and entities, although Qi also has many sub-Qian families.

General Sima couldn't have such an impression of Xiong Jing, but they were still very surprised when they heard Xiong Jing's words. Dong Yegu instinctively said: "How can Qu Zi promise this?!" ”

"Refractive is the envoy of Chu, since Refractive has promised, what can he do? And what refractive allows is to help Qi people open up foreign courts. Xiong Jing's expression goes beyond the part of refractive promise, because he sees more and more clearly the part that will inevitably happen in the future. Although he came from later generations, although he built a steam engine, he didn't want to do any industrial revolution more and more, not only did he not want to, but he wanted to stop it more and more-

He is a king, and does the king want to support the bourgeoisie in reforming his own life? How did King Louis XVI of France die? Once the merchants of Qi completely overthrew the Tian nobles, sent the king and queen of Qi to the guillotine, and turned the Qi people created for the united front into the Qi nation, and established a Qi republic similar to the bourgeois republic, the kingdom of the world will suffer.

"The minister thinks that the people of Shangjia City cannot fight." When Peng Zong learned that the Qi people had joined the war for this reason, he immediately opposed these people joining the war.

"Yes, yes." Ole also said, "People from the city have never been able to fight. The people of Qi City are fighting, how are the people of Chu City? ”

"Indeed, we should not fight." Higashino Guya Road.

"Da Ao, you really shouldn't fight." Zhou Hou Ruo and others also immediately agreed. They don't know the history that Xiong Jing knows, and they can't see the trends that Xiong Jing sees. But instinctively, whether it was conservative or stubborn, they made the right decision.

Xiong Jing raised his hand to press down their voices, and said, "Quguang has promised, either with war, and with war, he should help Qi Guo to open up foreign courts; Either they will not be at war, or they will not be helped to start a foreign dynasty if they do not fight. ”

"Da Ao, there will be a lot of snow tomorrow, and it is not yet possible to fight." Xiong Jing asked the generals to do multiple-choice questions, and Zhuang Wudi directly told him that this was not feasible. The weather seemed to have turned into an enemy even more formidable than the Qin army, restricting everything for the Chu army. Xiong Jing succeeded in convincing Xiang Liang, and the weather succeeded in convincing him, so that he had to wait for the arrival of Refractive Light. In this waiting, the 100,000 Qin army led by Qi Brown north of Daliang was hurrying, but instead of heading to Shahai, they received the king's order to return to Huaixian.

The Zhao army went out of Daliang into the Chu camp, and the Wei army went out of Daliang into the Chu camp, and the next day there was a mighty 50,000 Qi army

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