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In addition to the newly added cement ships of about 40,000 tons, about 480,000 tons of boats and more than 200,000 Chu people, they crossed the East China Sea by the last southeast monsoon and headed for Xinying, more than 4,000 miles away. Following the migration of the Chu people, a small number of Wei and Zhao people also moved to Penglai, but compared with the Chu state, their boats were still too small, and the number of migrants was less than 10,000.

Similar to the state of Chu, the heirs of nobles can leave Daliang, such as Wei Zeng, King of Wei, Empress Dowager Zhao, and Wang Qian of Zhao, not to mention migration, these people can't even cross Muze to Kaifeng. Relying on the cover of a few building ships, the common people who moved out were really limited, and once they left, the soldiers and civilians in Daliang City would no longer have the determination to hold on. What can be expected is that this year's winter Daliang will snow and freeze, and only when Muze freezes, hundreds of thousands of people can leave Daliang and avoid Chu State.

The Chu army hoped for snow this winter, and the Wei and Zhao people also hoped for snow this winter, but Wang Jian of the Shahai camp did not want snow this winter. Relying on the heavy obstruction of Mizusawa, the Qin army, which has a strong boat division, can be firmly nailed to the sea of sand. Once it snows and Mizusawa freezes, the Chu army will definitely take the opportunity to attack this place.

How the Qin army, which was not ready for a decisive battle, should deal with it was a question. The training of the new soldiers has been completed, and the armor, a gratifying thing is that the Shaofu got more than 20,000 sets of huge iron armor from somewhere, although these huge armor are only the most ordinary Chu made giant armor, they are also much stronger than the 80,000 sets of cloth armor sent by Shaofu; Then there are the huge iron spearheads, more than 20,000 spearheads that have not been used at all, plus the original more than 30,000, plus more than 20,000 that the Shaofu considers qualified to be able to break the armor, the Qin army now has more than 80,000 chieftain spears that can break the armor.

More than 80,000 are the unqualified chieftain spears. Unless this kind of chief spear pierces the weak point of the giant armor, or pierces the gap of the huge armor, it can be said to be tickling the Chu army wearing the huge armor. Wang Jian had no choice about this, and Shaofu could only make such a chief spear. He didn't dare to tell anyone other than the generals the truth, because once he did, the whole army would be in chaos.

It's a pity that the defects of the armor are still noticed by some soldiers, especially the old soldiers who fled back from Chen Cheng. They found that the newly issued spears were either too brittle or too soft. Too brittle, it is very easy to break when it pierces hard objects; It was too soft, and the hard object had already rolled up before it could penetrate the spearhead, but fortunately, they did not have the new style of the Chu army's armor as a target.

"It's going to snow this year." The shogunate of the Shakai Camp in October is full of chill, and compared to the situation in previous years, this year it will definitely snow, heavy snow. Liu Chi reminded Wang Jian again: "If King Jing attacks me......"

"How?" Wang Jian looked at his heart and wanted to know what countermeasures he had.

"Does the general want to fight with the Jing people?" Liu Chi asked.

"Is it possible to win a duel with the Jing people?" Wang Jian asked rhetorically. "The Zhao army has 20,000, and the Wei army may have 20,000. plus the Jing people, these 100,000 people. ”

"I thought," Liu Chi coughed, "that at this time the cavalry was already wearing cloth armor, and I had 40,000 sets of armor, and I had 63,000 sets of armor, and by December I had 80,000 sets; I have 80,000 spears, and 100,000 in December. If I can take Wei Zhao's armor, what if? ”

"Capture Wei Zhao's armor? If you take Wei Zhao's armor? Wang Jian asked in surprise.

Previously, Wang Jian had the idea of Qi State armor, but unfortunately there were not many Chu soldiers in Qi State, and if he asked Qi State to ask for it, it would inevitably attract the attention of Chu State, so he could only give up. I also fought the idea of garrisoning the soldiers of the Lu Division in Mulingguan, but Mulingguan was too far away, and it was not realistic to divide an army to go to Mulingguan.

It is impossible to have a girder in front of you, the girder is surrounded by water, the city is extremely strong, and the most important thing is that the Chu army is on the side, and the building ship is also through the girder, and none of the shogunate's strategists thinks that the girder can be pulled. Now Liu Chi wants to take Wei Zhao's armor, which really surprises Wang Qian.

"If the general wants to fight with the Jing people, he should go to Kaifeng as soon as the snow is frozen." Liu Chi found a map and pointed to the location of Kaifeng. "Wei Zhao saw that our army and the Chu army were in a decisive battle, if they were saved, they could be attacked by cavalry on the way, the two armies were only 40,000 people, and 40,000 cavalry troops were enough; If you don't save ......"

"What if you don't save it?" Wang Jian said: "Do you pull out the beams? ”

"Yes." Liu Chi nodded, his eyes blinking. "Hou spy in the city at this time, as long as our army enters the city, threatening that the Jing people have been defeated, Mu Ze is frozen, and the Wei people and Zhao people in the city will abandon the city and flee."

The three Jin marquis spies infiltrated the Qin state, and the Qin state used these marquis spies to infiltrate the three Jin states. Most of the Hou spies fell with the wind, and if it was advantageous on that side, it would be biased towards that side. It is not uncommon for a doorman to betray the lord, and it is not surprising that a Hou spy who is more unprincipled than a doorman seeks glory. In the tenth month of the siege, many Wei and Zhao ministers had already sent people out of the city to pay allegiance to Qin.

Liu Chi took advantage of the moment when Mu Ze's frozen girder was relieved and pulled out the girder, Wang Jian did not doubt it. But he said: "However, our army has been defeated in a battle at this time, so what is the use of pulling out the girder and taking the armor?" ”

Wang Qian's words made Liu Chi silent for a while, but his eyes kept flickering, obviously he already had an idea. At this time, he didn't say, just stuck the slurry on the case and wrote on the wooden case. Wang Jian was taken aback when he saw the first line, he wanted to ask Liu Chi hurriedly coughed and stopped him. Writing the second line, Wang Jian stopped talking, and when he wrote the third line, Wang Jian had already closed his eyes.

At this time, Liu Chi spoke: "It will snow this year, and our army is not strong enough in armor, so if you want to fight, you can only fight like this." And the military rations will be until May next year at the latest, and by May our army will only have 110,000 chieftains. It is better to seize the armor of Wei and Zhao and fight against the Jing people. ”

"Wei Zhao armor soldiers are no more than ......" armor has become the most important reliance of the Qin army's decisive battle, 100,000 chieftains, and the remaining 500,000 people are full of burning sticks, so that the shogunate strategists think that the 100,000 chieftain spears should be painted with color, so that the front row of soldiers can take the spears and fight again.

"There are nearly 20,000 Wei soldiers, and there are still more than 20,000 sets of Chu-made armor in the Wei arsenal; The Zhao army had 20,000 sets of armor, and the 100,000 Zhao army moved south to Daliang, and there were more than 20,000 sets of old-style armor. The total number of armors of the two armies is no less than 90,000 sets. According to the number given by Hou Spy in Daliang City, Liu Chi spit out this number that made Wang Jian smack.

"I didn't say that there was Jing Ren armor in the arsenal before." Wang Jian muttered. The number he had heard before was more than 30,000 sets, and at most 40,000 sets. "Before counting the soldiers in the arsenal, there are more than 50,000 armor soldiers in the arsenal." Liu Chi explained. "And the Wei people have ten witch weapons, if they can take ......"

Four years ago, the three kingdoms of Chu, Wei and Qi were united, and Chu gave ten artillery pieces to Wei and twenty artillery pieces to Qi State, but in the Battle of Anyang, the Qi army was defeated in front of the battle, and the twenty artillery pieces of Qi were not given, and ten of them were given by the Wei people. Now these ten cannons are placed at the head of the southern city of Daliang, but when the Qin army approaches, they will fire cannons.

Of course, Wang Jian wanted to capture the ten cannons, but he knew that the artillerymen would blow up the artillery that could not be taken away like the Chu army at the foot of Yuanhu Mountain when they were defeated and could not evacuate. Blown up artillery cannot be repaired, and there are more than a dozen such guns in Shaofu.

"Even if you can't take it, you can still take a lot of witch medicine in the arsenal." Liu Chi said.

"What's the use of witch medicine without witch weapons?" Wang Jian smiled bitterly. He thought of the witch weapons cast by Shaofu, and he couldn't go far at all.

"It's useless, and you can get tens of thousands of sets of armor." Liu Chi brought the topic back to Bing Armor. "There are tens of thousands of sets of armor, and there are hundreds of thousands of spears in our army. Meng Tian has a way to break the Jingren witchcraft, although he can only break it for a while, he can also take the opportunity to run to the Jingren array to fight the troops. And at this time, the Jing people are winning streaks, and the shogunate has a plan to lure the enemy......"

When Liu Chi wanted to continue, Wang Jian stopped him. Whether to delay the decisive battle with the Chu army in May next year, or to take advantage of the snow and ice in winter to fight the decisive battle with the Chu army according to Liu Chi is a difficult matter to decide.

In terms of armor alone, the decisive battle in winter suggested by Liu Chi had more hope of victory, and without the available chieftain spears, the Qin army did zero damage to the Chu army. A strong crossbow can break through armor, but a strong crossbow is only shot for a while before the engagement, even if the Qin army is covered with strong crossbows in front of the formation, it is difficult to kill and injure many soldiers of the Chu army. Once the two sides exchanged troops and the Chu soldiers began to charge their spears, all the Qin army could do was accept the slaughter. Maybe the cavalry can save the day, but what good can the cavalry do if the infantry array has already been defeated?

And in the decisive battle in winter, as long as there is a slight mistake in the attack on Daliang, as long as the armor in Daliang City is not captured, the whole battle will be completely defeated. If it is defeated, Great Qin will no longer have the strength to fight a decisive battle with the Chu army, and Great Qin will die.

The decisive battle sounds magnificent, but once the 600,000 army is pressed up, the victory or defeat will be determined by heaven. Liu Chi stopped talking, Wang Jian kept sitting, I don't know how long it was, he shouted: "Someone! Prepare the car. ”

"General, what do you want?" Liu Chi didn't know what Wang Jian wanted.

"If we decide in winter, our army will not have enough troops, and we must discuss with the king." Wang Jian said. He was going to Huaixian to discuss with Zhao Zheng in person. Liu Chi was stunned when he heard this, he didn't expect Wang Jian to decide. "You go with me." Wang Jian commanded again.

*

When Wang Jian sat down to decide, in the Kaifeng camp dozens of miles away, Xiong Jing was teaching his younger brother Xiong Han a lesson. This guy is the same age as Xiang Tang, and he used to be good friends in the Lantai School Palace, so the golden cicada hid in Xiang Shi's camp after coming out of his shell. The armor of the Chu army has a face armor, and no one knows who the person wearing the armor is when the face armor is pulled down, and can only hear the voice. Xiong Han also showed a flaw in his voice, so that Lu Yangyan, who had returned from injury, heard it, and then pulled him out from the Xiang Division jockey.

Outside the shogunate's tent, just after a mossy execution, the military officials put the moaning bear in front of the bear. Sweaty on his head, he tried his best to restrain himself from moaning and complaining, Xiong Jing sneered at the corner of his mouth when he saw his strong appearance, "Still don't admit your mistake?" Don't admit your mistake and fight again. ”

"Da Ao is angry, Da Ao is angry." The only people who can persuade Xiong Jing are E Le and Peng Zong. To this day, E Le is the oldest member of the same sect, and Peng Zong has been Xiang Shi Sima since Xiang Yan. "Prince Fierce is a man from my Chu country, and he is eager to fight, what's wrong?"

"He wants to fight?" Xiong Jing was furious. "The smell of milk has not dried up, and he has committed fraud, this is my good man in Chu State?!"

Xiong Han was originally forced to pout, but when he heard his brother scolding him for cheating, his momentum couldn't help but be frustrated, and then he thought that he had suffered a lot in the camp for this behavior, and he wanted to cry aggrieved.

Xiong Jing didn't care so much, and directly threw a letter on the bookcase to him, "Your mother doesn't see you, she is already sick, when can you stop your mother from worrying about you, when can you stop my brother from worrying about you?!" ”

"I ......" Xiong Han snatched the letter that fell to the ground, and after reading it, tears burst into tears, he choked, "I just... But I want to help... Brother Wang......

"Help me?!" Xiong Jing laughed exaggeratedly, "You have done such a villain act to help me, and let my brother be ashamed of you." ”

Xiong Jing's accusation made his younger brother embarrassed, but he did something wrong, he really shouldn't have come to open the seal with the golden cicada out of his shell, but should have made a formal request, but the possibility of being agreed to was zero. Xiong Jing didn't want him to die on the battlefield.

"I don't want to see you again! Roll me back to Xinying today. Xiong Jing finally shouted, extremely ruthless.

"Well, in a few years, you can indeed kill the enemy." Xiong Jing nodded, he had already gone to the mansion, and his younger brother wanted to follow, but was immediately stopped by the guards.

"Ao Ao is eager to fight." Ou Chou saw that Xiong Jing blocked his younger brother outside the house, and couldn't help but help him speak.

"He's only sixteen, so how can he kill the enemy." Xiong Jing doesn't speak through his brain, at the age of the common people, this kind of height, he has long been recruited by the county and added to the division and brigade. "What is the nickel that Ou Qing said?"