Two months ago, Xiong Jing could only peek at Sha Xian from the warboat on the Yangtze River, and two months later, he was already standing on the north wall of Sha Xian looking at the Yangtze River. Of course, his eyes couldn't just look at the surging river, his eyes looked more at Yunmengze in the north of the river, and the old land in the north of Yunmengze.

Forty-five years ago, Yancheng could not be attacked for a long time, so the Qin army diverted water to irrigate the city, and the whole city was destroyed; Forty-four years ago, the Qin people who had been sacked set fire to the Qin people, and Ji Ying, who had built the capital for more than 400 years, has been barren and ...... since then. Every time he thought about it, his heart was broken, and the more brutal and bloody scenes recorded in the history books continued to roll in his mind, making him uncontrollable anger and tremors.

It's just that he can't do anything now, not only can't he do it, but he also has to lead his army to Qi to deal with the completely collapsed Chuqi diplomatic relations.

Does Ju Iron work? It may be useful, but in wars between countries, the use of iron is far from enough;

Do Warboats work? It may be useful, but not everywhere in the world can be boated, at least west of Sanmenxia, you need to look at the river and sigh;

Does gunpowder work? It may be useful, but gunpowder is not enough to change the shape of the war, and neither power nor quantity can determine the outcome of the war;

The state of Qin, the deadliest of all, was its capital, and once the city of Xianyang was broken, the county officials would not disperse in a hurry and set themselves up as kings. But Xianyang is far west of the mountains, and there are mountains and rivers. It is impossible to attack Xianyang from the east, and it is also impossible to attack Xianyang from the south, and the most suitable for attacking Xianyang is the west and north, but it is another world, a world that is difficult for the Chu people to touch.

"King, the north wind is too cold, please go down to the city." Xiong Jing stood motionless at the head of the city, and Chang Jiang had to shout softly.

"Got it." The wind was indeed cold, and Xiong Jing felt that his face was already numb from the cold, but he still didn't move.

"When the king came to Chengyang, it was also a long hope." Chang Jiang, who had served Xiong Yuan, naturally understood Xiong Jing's thoughts. Although the abilities of the Father and the Son are different, the minds are the same.

"Oh." Xiong Jing glanced sideways at Chang Jiang, he thought that his father often indulged in wine, but he didn't expect to look at Jiu Ying for a long time.

"Yes, yes." Chang Jiang made a gesture of please, Xiong Jing smiled, and subconsciously stepped forward. "The first king also wanted to regain Ying, but Yin didn't allow it. The eastern land is thin, from five feet to 60 feet, but there are more than 100,000, plus Wu and Yuedi, it is less than 300,000. And the clans have their own plans, and they are still unstable inside, so why use troops outside? ”

"That's true." Xiong Jing sighed. Qin and Chu have been married for hundreds of years, and it is a tradition to be pro-Qin, and it is this tradition that makes the Chu State waver, one will listen to Qu Yuan's pro-Qi, and the other will listen to Zilan's: 'Why don't you want Qin Huan?' ’

"The king is the king of Chu for hundreds of years, and my Chu country has a king like this, why not prosper?" Chang Jiang, who was walking, suddenly bowed to Xiong Jing at the head of the city, and persuaded him like this.

"You ......" Xiong Jing couldn't help but smile: "You are flattering more and more." ”

"I don't dare. When the minister saw that the king was worried about the affairs of the state, but could not share the burden, he was very uneasy. Chang Jiang sighed.

"Get up." Xiong Jing looked around, and left and right Shi did not follow this time. "Do you know who in the country has the most superb swordsmanship, and you don't want to learn swords."

"The minister will inquire when he returns to Ying." Chang Jiang kept this matter down, and he understood what Xiong Jing meant: he didn't want to learn swords from Zhao Ren.

The Yingshi attacked Shaxian, and the Qin State, which was worried that the Chu army would take advantage of the situation to attack Nanjun, immediately transferred 300,000 armor soldiers to the south, and the attack on Zhao stopped for a while. It was only less than a month before the river froze, and the Qin army began to attack the city again. Zhao sent an envoy to Chu again, asked Chu to send troops to rescue him, and promised to make every effort to mediate the diplomatic relations between Chu and Qi, so that the two countries would not meet each other.

Cutting down Qi was not what Chu State wanted, but what Qi State did made it difficult for Chu State to ride a tiger and had to cut down. Therefore, some people in the court who were reluctant to use troops felt that Zhao's strategy was feasible, and it would be great if Chu Qi could restore the old good. However, Xiong Jing saw the essence of Chu Qi's diplomacy clearly, and if he couldn't get rid of the pro-Qin Hou Sheng party, Chu Qi would never be able to get along. The State of Qi must be defeated, and the State of Qin can only rely on the State of Zhao itself to support this round of three-year attacks, and the State of Chu cannot be saved.

Five days later, Xiong Jing returned to the court with such a heart. Shaxian, who has become an empty city, only leaves twenty Yingdu Yushi and their subordinates, and they will be responsible for recruiting the population and filling Shaxian when they become the lords of Shaxian. Population is precious, in addition to going to the other side of the river to pull people, they also go to Korea to 'buy people' - Korea is mountainous, not as rich as Wei, but the tax and military service are not less than Wei, so there are traitors from Korea to sell Dingkou.

The king pulled out the sand and returned with envy, and Yingdu was empty of thousands of alleys, and greeted him in the southern suburbs. In the face of the enthusiasm of the people in Yingdu, the soldiers of Yingdu couldn't help blushing. They only ate a month's rations in Xiayi, and only a small number of the two divisions that participated in the battle participated in the battle, and the battle lasted only one afternoon, and the number of casualties was less than three hundred. Because of this, this battle was not honored.

The people didn't know anything about this, they only knew that Yingshi captured a county in Qin within a month of his division, and this kind of record seemed to be even greater than the battle of Jiyi three years ago, which was only a withered border city.

The enthusiasm of the people could not be suppressed, and the whole division finally sang the Kai song under the order of Xiong Jing's king, as if it had really defeated the Qin people. After entering the city, the divisions were disbanded, and the soldiers went home, so that the lights of the whole city were extinguished very early that night. However, it seems that the lights of the Great Sima Mansion will never go out. After returning to the palace and simply freshening up, Xiong Jing came to the Great Sima Mansion.

“…… Last month, the waves of the Yellow Sea were seven feet high, and the waves were two or even three feet high when the wind was strong, especially the waves of Yangma Island and Chengshanjiao were the worst; This month, the wind and waves are more urgent, usually the waves are eight feet high, and there may be four zhang waves when the wind is strong, turning the sky and the sea upside down, which is very sinister. "In the Great Sima Mansion, Hong Mu, who was already the captain of the Vermilion Bird, talked about the winter wind and waves in the Yellow Sea. After heading north from Panyu, he commanded the Suzaku to sail to the Yellow Sea to survey the sea conditions, and now it was time to return.

The aligning countries cannot fight big wars, nor can they fight for a long time. The best way is to attack with a decapitation, that is, to go to sea from Langya Port, bypass Chengshanjiao, enter Laizhou Bay, and then trace the water from the water to Linzi for more than 200 miles. The water originates from Mount Tai, flows east through Linzi and enters the sea, more precisely, the water is actually the moat in the west of Linzi.

Unfortunately, winter is the season when the wind and waves in the Yellow Sea are the most urgent, and under normal circumstances, the wave height is 1.5 meters, and the wave height is sometimes as high as 8 meters when the cold wave passes, which is no different from the typhoon heading north. In order to achieve the effect of the surprise attack, in addition to traveling around the Shandong Peninsula, the war boat also had to avoid the boat division patrolled by the Qi people.

More than 200 years ago, the states of Wu and Qi fought a naval battle in the sea near Langyatai. The state of Chu made good use of the boat division to fight, and it was impossible for the state of Qi not to be wary of this. In order to avoid the Qi people's boat division, the entire boat team is estimated to have to row more than 2,000 miles before it can quietly reach Laizhou Bay.

This is naturally impossible. There are two kinds of voyages, one is to row day and night in an emergency, but this is only one day, and the speed will be greatly reduced the next day; The second is to row at an even speed, the five-person three-pulp winged war boat can do 400 miles a day, and the hand should have a good rest at night, and the duration should not exceed five days, and more than five days should be completely rested.

Even if the winged warboat could row to the mouth of Laizhou Bay in five days, and could travel more than 200 miles to Linzi, they would not have the strength to fight. The end of the strong crossbow cannot penetrate Lu Mian, and the Yingshi who arrives in Linzi will definitely be defeated by the Qi people.

"Can big waves be intervals of days?" Xiong Jing asked, "How does the air pressure change?" ”

"Yes." The Suzaku has been in the Yellow Sea for almost two months, and Wu Jiheng has gradually become familiar with the weather in the Yellow Sea. "There may be six or seven strong winds every month, and the wind magnitude is mostly seven or eight, and there are also twelve winds. When approaching, the air pressure drops first, and the sky is covered with cirrus clouds, and then there are low clouds, or there is rain. When the rain stopped, the weather was settled, and the wind direction remained unchanged. However, this is only one or two days, and after two days, the wind direction changes again, the wind and waves are strong, the air pressure rises sharply, the temperature drops sharply, the rain is pouring, and the rain stops before the wind and waves stop. ”

Wu Jiheng deserves to be the best learned in the first issue, and the things he summarized can't even be described by the red Mou they have experienced together, let alone the storm like he did.

"Will the storm rest after the year?" Xiong Jing nodded in approval, and then asked a question that no one could answer.

"I don't know." It landed on Yangma Island in March last year, and the official record of sea state information will not be until April. What the sea conditions were in the Yellow Sea in the first month, January, and February, no one knows.

"King, looking at it from the past year, the Yellow Sea will be a wave break in March." Hong Mou remembered the sea conditions in the Yellow Sea in March last year and suggested that he leave in March.

"March is too late, February at the latest." Xiong Jing said a reason. "The March Wave is well known. I don't think so. ”

Holding the re-surveyed and corrected chart of the Yellow Sea, Xiong Jing pointed to Langya and said: "The boat master went east from Yingdu along the Huaishui, went north to Langya after reaching the East China Sea, and went east to ...... after arriving at Langya."

To the east of Langya is the Korean Peninsula, and Xiong Jing's finger landed somewhere on the peninsula: "Rest here for a few days." Then go north along the island, go straight west to the latitude of Temple Island, and enter the bay, how many miles does this voyage take? ”

The map is still inaccurate, and Xiong Jing cannot tell how many miles there is from Langyatai to the Korean Peninsula, but judging from the entire map, the voyage of more than 2,000 li is divided into two sections, even if a few hundred li are added, it will be shorter than the previous 2,000 li. In particular, a break in the middle of the way can keep the soldiers from being so tired. And crossing the Yellow Sea to North Korea is also an ancient route, the difference is that the ancients crossed from Dengzhou, and now Xiongjing is from Langyatai.

"Or thirteen hundred miles." The map does not have a scale, and Hongmu can only guess a distance.

"Yes." Xiong Jing heard that it was only 1,300 miles, and immediately said that he could cross it. "The Suzaku immediately looked for a suitable anchorage, prepared coal, firewood and grass, and measured the voyage from Langyatai to North Korea and from North Korea to Miaoshan Islands."