The status has not been decided, and the daughters are already competing for favor before entering the palace, of course, such a battle is not something that Xiong Jing pays attention to. According to Da Sima's plan, the Chu army has already adjusted its arrangement, and once the overstretched Chu State miscalculates, the consequences will be unimaginable.

Hundreds of years ago, the state of Chu once stationed Fangcheng in the Nanyang Basin, and a section on the east side of Fangcheng passed through the valley mouth west of the Ma Valley. The west of Fangcheng is the Qin realm, the east of Fangcheng is the Wei realm, and the national boundary of Chu and Wei is the big mountain on the north side of the east valley mouth of Magu (the eastern foot of Baiyun Mountain), this mountain is the source of water, and it enters the Wei realm through the valley road, and it is only more than 100 miles away from Shangcai, where the Qin and Chu armies gathered.

"I don't think I'm worried." Fei Jing said, "The army of Qin and Wei is assembled in Shangcai, and the city is empty. Our army still has more than 480 horses, if we go to the flat ground, the Qin and Wei armies will not know our traces, even if they meet, our army can avoid their edge......"

"How are the wounded? There are not enough medicines. Xiong Jing's words made Concubine Jing speechless. Today, there are more than 100 wounded, the exact number is 113, of which more than 40 are seriously injured.

The sky had already darkened, and the rest of the knights unconsciously leaned over after the concubine came over. Hearing that the king was concerned about the injured, Xiang Chao said excitedly: "Your lord, the minister has a plan to ......"

"I don't listen." In the dark, Xiong Jing glared at Xiang Chao, his so-called strategy was to hold the banner and pretend to be himself to lead away the Qin army. The knights are all children of the Gong clan, and Xiong Jing doesn't want to lose anyone for no reason.

"The minister asks the king to do a super strategy." Fei Jing immediately said. After him, the rest of the knights followed.

"The king," You Shi also said, "Tomorrow Xin Sheng should have a new pawn to help, if Ma Gu Qin knows that I am here, the front and back will be in danger." ”

"You can't stay here for long, but," Xiong Jing simply listened to everyone's words, and he thought about whether he could break out of the mouth of the Magu Valley. It's just that the Qin army in the valley also knows that they will rush towards the valley with all their might, and they can set a trap at the valley mouth and wait for themselves to catch the net; If it is to the west, it is the Qin realm, and it will not work.

"What are the cities in Wei Realm?" Xiong Jing had to put his way out to the north. If you can capture a city, many of the wounded will survive.

"King Yu, since the first king of Ping, after the relocation of the road, Fang, Shen and other countries, there is only a town in the Sang Tunnel here, which is the closest to here." Right Shi Dao.

"Then take the Mulberry Tunnel!" Xiong Jing no longer hesitated.

Chapter 53

As it was almost dawn, the intermittent autumn rain finally stopped. Prior to this, 500 new-style large-wing warships, 565 old-style warships, and more than 1,600 civilian warships had transported 190,000 soldiers from outside Chengyang to the Huaishui coast of Xie Yi overnight.

190,000 people were urgently transported, plus the original 30,000 defenders of Chengyang and Magu, nearly 40,000 county soldiers in Tang and Suier counties, and 14,000 soldiers temporarily levied in neighboring counties such as Xi County. The actual strength of the entire campaign reached more than 270,000 men, while the number of the Qin army was estimated to be between 100,000 and 200,000, which was the same Qin army that had attacked Chengyang a few months earlier.

There is an advantage in numbers, as well as in armor and tactics. During the three months from May to September, all the county soldiers in the country reformed their tactics, and all the halberd spears were eliminated, and the two-zhang and two-zhang four-foot spears became the standard configuration of the soldiers. The most important thing is the establishment, the original old establishment of one hundred men and one soldier has been changed to a new establishment of three hundred and twenty soldiers (including 225 spearmen, 50 riders, 36 archers, fifteen officer drummers, etc.), fifty riders may not be able to be equipped in a short time, or even never, but the archers do not have this problem, but the bow strength is weaker. Three stone archers are not enough, two and a half stones, two stone archers are also fine.

To put it simply, the range of a one-stone bow is equal to a two-stone crossbow, and a six-stone bow is relative to a twelve-stone crossbow. Both of them are the limit of a single soldier, the bow is more difficult, there are only a handful of people in the world who can open a six-stone bow, but more than 10,000 Wei Wushu can each shoot a twelve-stone crossbow. The pulling force of the Qin army's one-armed crossbow is generally three to four stones, which is equivalent to one and a half stones and two stone bows; The pull of a crossbow is about eight to ten stones, which is equal to a bow of four to five stones. The two-and-a-half-stone bow not only had the rate of fire, but also the range could suppress the Qin army's arm crossbowmen.

The spear formations fought in dense formations, and the most feared ones were bows and crossbows. At this time, the armor and equipment of the Chu army were still incomplete. At the time of the Battle of Chen Ying, there were about 60,000 sets of ring armor in the whole army (including 10,000 sets in the city), but unfortunately by the end of the war, there were about 8,000 sets of damaged, mainly the rivets falling off. From May to September, 48,000 sets of ring armor were produced in four months, but in exchange for grain, half of the production capacity began to be delivered to Qi in July. In other words, the Chu army was actually equipped with only more than 88,000 sets of ring armor, and with the repaired ones, there were more than 93,000 sets of ring armor that were really equipped on the front line.

The Chu army that attacked in Huaishui had 230,000 people, and more than 93,000 sets of ring armor, which was equivalent to four out of every ten people wearing armor. A spear formation of fifteen people, with six rows of spearmen in front wearing ring armor and nine rows of spearmen in the back throwing leather armor. This armor is still not high, and the plan of the Great Sima Mansion is that all the soldiers of the army are in armor.

Of course, whether or not superiority in weapons can be turned into victory depends on various factors such as tactics and command. At present, the Chu army is in dire need of qualified front-line officers, and the opening time of military academies has been delayed again and again, and the army can only adopt the method of training and training while fighting with the old and the new.

The only fortunate thing is that the battle of Jiyi was a battle of more and less. Of the 230,000 men, there were more than 850 soldiers and 53 divisions, and some divisions and brigades that were obviously unqualified and had no experience in spear formation operations were arranged at non-breakthrough points; and Chen Ying's division in the siege of the city, the division of the feudal monarch; The 50,000 elite soldiers and 30,000 royal soldiers in Chen Ying's field battle (at this time, each clan began to build its own private soldiers, so the divisions of the clans participating in this battle were abolished), and these 120,000 people were the real main force, arranged at the breakthrough.

At the dawn of the day, the Chu army began to bury the pot to make rice, and ate it at dawn. Although he was about to fight, he could only eat seventy percent full, and at the same time each soldier received two handfuls of grain, which was eaten during the war. There are 60 or 70 miles of Huaishui that crosses the Huaishui to another section, and there is no time to cook food during the pursuit, so you can only eat glutinous grain.

As a veteran of Chen Ying's siege of the city, Chen Sheng's Wu was naturally arranged at the breakthrough. He carefully carried the grain sent by the logistics officer into his arms, but he was reluctant to pat off the fine foam on his hands, and only licked it carefully with his tongue.

Autumn in the mountains is sluggish, and the slight coolness makes people shiver, and the iron armor is even colder. Chen Sheng wore through the iron armor, this is an annoying thing, very heavy, it burns people to death when it is hot, freezes people to death when it is cold, and the coldest New Year's hand will fall off a piece of skin as soon as it is touched. But this is also a life-saving thing, the sound of arrows and halberds hitting the armor is terrifying at first, and it makes people happy when they hear more. What does it mean that a hundred soldiers don't hurt me, this is a hundred soldiers don't hurt me, which is much more useful than the talisman given by the old witch.