"These are the three provinces of the Great Sima Mansion?" Xiong Jing looked at Nao Cunning. The two were too close, Xiong Jing suddenly found that Nao Cunning had become unfamiliar, his hair was gray, and his eyes were heavy, and he was no longer the majestic Sima of Chu who spoke like a crossbow before.

"The minister thinks that the Qin people are short of food, and they should be good not to attack the Qin people." Under Xiong Jing's gaze, Nao's cunning head was lowered.

"The Qin people are short of food and will attack me. Instead of Qin attacking me, it is better for me to attack Qin. "The troops have been stationed for a long time, although they have no worries about food and clothing, and they have relieved the siege of Daliang, but their morale is still declining, and Wang Qian's goal of delaying the war is being achieved little by little.

"However, it took a few days to build one cannon of the broken boat, and now only more than 80 guns have been built, how can the army cross Fengze?" Nao asked slyly. "If you don't control Shuize, after the Qin people can hit me, they will cut off my grain channel."

A building ship requires twenty or thirty guns, and it takes at least ten or more building ships to control Makize. If the naval guns on the twenty gunboats were not used, Jutiefu would not have been able to produce so many guns in just one year. As for the use of Haizhou artillery, not to mention that the safety of the evacuation boat may not be guaranteed, even if the 480 naval guns on the Haizhou are used, there is no way to ensure the safety of the flank of the Chu army.

The girder after flooding is the fruit of the branch of the chasm, which floods the low-lying land with the girder as the corner point and the corner of the chasm. There are two other fruits on the west side of this branch, one is the largest garden field, which is larger than the water area around the beam, and to the east of the garden field, there is Zhongmuyi; The other is Rongze to the west of the Great Wall of Wei and Han, Rongze is slightly smaller than the water area of Daliang, and its west is Rongyang City.

Kaifeng is in the south of the Daliang waters, and the sand sea is in the northwest of the fruit. Kaifeng wants to go to the Sand Sea, or directly take a boat to cross the water to reach the Sand Sea; Otherwise, they can only take the land between the waters of Daliang and the fields of Putianze, and then cross the chasm, which is wider than before, and the gutter that leads the water of the Yellow River.

The Qin army had nearly 1,000 warships, and it was unrealistic to go to Shaohai by water, so they could only go to Shahai by land. The problem with the land route is the wrapping of two fruits, one east and one west. As long as they wanted, the Qin army could quickly seize Kaifeng by water after the Chu army left, cutting off the Chu army's land grain route. And if it is stationed in Kaifeng, it is inevitable to divide the troops, and it is a question of whether to save or not.

It is okay to attack Shahai regardless of the rear and grain routes, but with Wang Qian's slippery style, there is a chance that the Qin army will retreat. But if Wang Jian died in the sand sea and the waters north of the sand sea, the northwest channel of Daliang is extremely complicated, and among the four rivers that flow horizontally from east to west, the southernmost is the chasm, which comes from the west and turns almost ninety degrees in Daliang City to the south; Above the chasm is the Nanji Water, which forks out from the north end of the garden to the east and flows to the east on the north side of the girder; To the north of Nanjishui is Beijishui, which stretches out from Rongze to the east; The northernmost is Bepushui, which forks out from the Yellow River to the east.

Four rivers flow east-west and two rivers flow north-south. The westernmost side is the straight cross ditch, and the south end of the cross ditch is connected to the garden field, but the location is east of Nanjishui. That is to say, the cross ditch and the Nanji water meet in the east of the nursery field and the north of the chasm; The northern end is connected to the Yellow River, but downstream of the Bepushui where the Yellow River is connected, that is, the cross-ditch and the Bepushui meet east of the Yellow River.

The gutter is in the shape of a '┒' here. Between Beipu Water and Beijishui, it forks out from the Yellow River to the east, and flows for a distance after intersecting with the cross ditch, and only approximates a 90-degree turn when it gets closer and closer to Beijishui, and runs through the Beijishui, Nanjishui and the chasm converge in the gap on the west side of Daliang.

The Shahai camp is north of the chasm, east of the gutter, and south of Nanji. Because the waters south of Daliang blocked the nearest way, it was necessary to cross the chasm from north to south and then from east to west to cross the gutter to get to the Shahai camp. If the Qin army retreats and the Chu army pursues, it will cross the Nanjishui from north to south; If the Qin army retreated not in the direction of due north, but in the direction of the northwest, it would have to cross the gutter from east to west again.

If the Qin army continues to retreat, then the Chu army will have to cross the Beijishui in the north and south; If the Qin army did not retreat due north, but to the northwest, then it would have to cross the cross ditch from east to west and the yin ditch where it was already flowing from east to west. But the Qin army withdrew here, and there was only the Yellow River in the rear.

The Operations Division calculated that excluding the Yellow River, the Chu army would have to cross a maximum of seven rivers in order to force the Qin army to retreat north of the Yellow River. The most likely course of action for Wang Jian was to set up seven defenses along the banks of the waters, and at the same time seize Kaifeng and cut off the land and water grain routes of the Chu army. If the Chu army is really in a hurry, they may simply destroy the dikes on both sides of the gutter, so that the west side of the girder will also be flooded as around the girder.

Nao's cunning words reminded Xiong Jing of this judgment made during the last battle. The Chu army was dressed in heavy armor, and once the embankment broke, tens of thousands of people would likely sink to the bottom. Even if it does not sink to the bottom of the water, the Qin army on the war boat cannot resist.

"I can only sit and wait, what if so?" The water that flashed in his mind was that the soldiers of the Chu army, whose water was not up to his chest, were mercilessly hit by the bronze collision horns of the Qin army's war boat, and Xiong Jing sighed. He didn't like the wait. Nao said that if he didn't attack Guanzhong last year, he thought that it was too late for the Chu army to attack Guanzhong, and it was too late because the sulfur arrived too late, and there was not enough gunpowder, and the Chu army could only stop south of the Qinling Mountains.

If the Qin State is short of food, the transportation of millions of stone potatoes into the Qin State will not improve the disaster situation of the Qin State in a short time, and when the disaster situation can be improved, the decisive battle between Qin and Chu will be over long ago. Because of this, Xiong Jing judged that the Qin State was not short of food, at least the Qin army was not short of food, and Wang Jian did not send it, except to discourage the morale of the Chu State, or he was brewing some new weapons, such as gunpowder.

"The king really wants to attack Qin, or he can wait for winter." Nao Cunning didn't have such a strong desire to attack as Xiong Jing, he just wanted to drag Qin Guo to death.

"Winter?" Autumn is halfway over, and winter is about to begin.

"Yes, yes." Nao said slyly. "Now that our army is short of artillery, it is dangerous to attack the Qin people, so it is better to wait until winter. This winter will be cold, and after the water is frozen, the Qin people can no longer use the water equipment as a defense. ”

Nao Cunning put forward what he thought was the most feasible plan. According to this plan, the attack on Qin may have to be delayed until the month of aid, when it is already a wax sacrifice. When I thought of Xiong Jing, I immediately thought of my wife, and she was going to give birth to a child alone this winter.

"Da Ao ......" Nao saw that Xiong Jing was distracted, and waited for a while before shouting in a low voice.

"Da Ao, please resign from the ministers." The confessor hurriedly went up the stairs to tell each other outside the hall, and after the dispersal of the court, the courtiers came to the road gate to ask for their resignation. Xiong Jing got up and walked to the Ming Hall, and the people under the stairs looked up, hoping that he would say something, but unfortunately Xiong Jing waved his sleeves with a hard heart and shouted: "Go!" ”

"Da Ao cherishes!" Zhao Huang and the others shouted. The rest of the people also shouted, "Da Ao is precious. Then he wiped away his tears and left.

Xiong Jing stood on the high platform and watched them leave without saying a word for a long time, and when he saw them leave the royal city, he hurried into the hall again, and dragged the stairs up from a narrow room in the west general chapter. After the wooden palace was demolished, the palace was made entirely of concrete. The concrete pillars were stronger than the wood, and in order to highlight the majesty of the king, the main bed was raised several feet high, and it became the second only building after the Taisha and Taimiao.

Xiong Jing quickly climbed onto the roof of the Si'a Chong House, because the main bed was located on the north-south axis, and this position just happened to see the south gate of the royal city, and also the gate of Shouying. At this time, most of the ministers went out of the south city gate and disappeared, and after a while, they walked out of the cover of the city wall and appeared on the Feishui, and they would sail out of the Yangtze River from the Yinglu Canal and arrive at Zhu Fang.

Dozens of courtiers and their family servants and servants totaled no more than a hundred boats, but with the craftsmen in Shouying City and the boys of Yingdu, the sail shadow was filled with fat water. The boats carrying the ministers blended into the endless boats, and in the blink of an eye it was impossible to distinguish which ones were them, which were craftsmen, and which were children.

"Da Ao." Old Chang Jiang and Nao Cunning also climbed up, and Chang Jiang was holding a Lu Lijing in his hand.

Xiong Jing didn't take Lu Lijing, looking at the boat on the fat water, shaking his head and lamenting: "I'm still incompetent." ”

"How could Da Ao say this?" Nao and Chang Jiang were taken aback together, and the historian who was chasing after him also shook his head vigorously when he heard this.

"If it weren't for Da Ao, the state of Chu would have died early!" Yixian said loudly.

"The world has been overturning for a long time, how can Da Ao be guilty?" Zuo Shi Candle Yong also said. "It's a pity that King Huai was imprisoned by the Qin people, otherwise why would the state of Chu be like this? Because of this, our Chu people have tried their best to kill more than 200,000 soldiers, but they have not been able to save the general trend of the world. But if the Zhao people are less selfish and more righteous, why will the Zhao country die? But if the Qi people are less selfish and more righteous, how can the Qin State exist? ”

"Isn't the general trend of the world irretrievable by my Chu State alone?" Leaning on the Constitution. "The nations will not succeed, and if they fight for land and bribe Qin, the world will not die? The world should die! ”

Relying on the constitution and getting old, the older you are, the more profound you look at the problem. Xiong Jing heard him shout angrily at the end, 'The world should die', and his body shook unconsciously.

"Da Ao has changed the trend of the world several times, but at this time, the mandate of heaven is not in Qin, how can people win the sky?" Yi Xian said again. "I ask Da Ao to move to Penglai in the spring of next year, so as to wait for a comeback."

"How can the people of Chu give it up lightly?" Xiong Jing refused without thinking about it. "The Qin people destroyed the country, this generation of Chu people should die in battle, and the next generation of Chu people will avenge us." Seeing that Yixian couldn't bear it, he couldn't help laughing and said, "What's so hard about dying? But for a moment; The hard thing is to survive, and it takes a lifetime. ”

Xiong Jing revealed his will to die to his subordinates for the first time, and even Nao was very surprised.

"But, can ......" Yixian didn't know how to admonish, but Changjiang said: "Ao Hou reads Da Aoye." ”

"She?" Xiong Jing thought of his wife, and shook his head firmly while laughing. "If she is really Empress Ao, she should be proud of my death in battle and ashamed of my return."

What kind of wife you have, what kind of children you have; There are children, and there are tribes. Xiong Jing believes that his wife will be proud of herself, not crying. Nao Qian and the others were stunned when they heard this, and they stood on the roof of the main sleeping four heavy houses, looking at Xiong Jing's smile completely petrified.