Chapter 51: The Battle

When Xia Yang woke up again, he found himself lying on the grass, and when he looked again, he saw that his bare feet and the pair of leather he was wearing were gone. The sun was already overhead, and strangely there was no march. Starting from Xianyang, he walked four houses in two days, but he went to Lantian is five houses, and now there should be thirty miles away from Lantian County, but when he stood up barefoot, he found that he was outside Lantian City.

Lantian is not a big city, just a small city about twelve miles around the city. After the water of the Rim River flows out of the mountain stream, it joins the Bashui that has just turned 90 degrees in the east of the city. Xia Yang's trap camp is on the east bank of Bashui, across the county seat from Bashui to the north.

The 300,000 army gathered in one place, and as far as Xia Yang could see, there was nothing but the military tent or the military tent, except for the Qin pawn or the Qin pawn. He was in a trance, and the shouts of the mountain and tsunami the day before yesterday came again-in the downstream of the water, under the protection of dozens of old-fashioned big wings, a building ship with the sun and moon flags slowly approached.

Of course, the building boat representing the king cannot be the kind of building boat of the boat master, the boat building boat of the boat master is only two floors, but the Wang Zhou floor that Zhao Zheng is riding on now has four floors. The floors are one floor higher than the other, and the higher you go, the smaller they get. Each floor is equipped with a female wall, the armor soldier who holds the sword stands on it, the constant flag is erected on the fourth floor, the female wall is also planted with the military flag, and the flag on the building ship is lined up from a distance, and the voice is very strong.

Such a tall building boat almost fills up the entire Ba Shui, but fortunately, the boat does not need a slender man, and the hand on the building boat rows the oars, and travels to Lantian County, which is more than ten miles away at a slightly faster speed than walking. The soldiers on both sides of the Bashui not only knelt on the ground when they saw the ship coming, but also shouted loudly, even if they were wearing armor.

"Why don't you kneel?" A voice suddenly asked. When Xia Yang wanted to say that the intermediary did not worship, he found that he had nothing but a long shirt and a tarsal note.

"Why don't you kneel too?" Xia Yang saw that the other party did not kneel and worship, and there was no armor on his body. He only had a jar of wine in his hand, and after questioning, he was raising his neck to pour wine, not seeing his embarrassment.

"Those who are about to die, why should they kneel again." A sentence reminded Xia Yang, and when the wine jar was put down, Xia Yang saw this person's dark face, except for two thick eyebrows and horizontal eyes, he couldn't see the complete appearance.

"If the Chu army doesn't come, how can it die?" Xia Yang seemed to comfort himself, he didn't want to die in Lantian, there was his family in Xianyang City.

"Chu Jun?" The black-faced pawn laughed. "Hehe, it's a national thief."

"I'm not a thief! I am ......" Xia Yang's reflexive confession, as the building boat got closer and closer, and the majestic and mighty long live cry covered all his words. However, the black-faced pawn didn't care about his defense, and he didn't care about the national thief.

Bashui originally flowed east-west, and became north-south through Lantian County. Previously, it was the Qin pawns on both sides of the lower reaches of the Bashui who were shouting, and as the Wang Zhoulou boat approached, although the Qin pawns in the upper reaches of the Bashui could not see Wang Zhou, they also shouted loudly.

300,000 to 400,000 people along the Bashui River were cheering, and the cries were earth-shattering. So much so that Xiong Jing, who was still climbing the ravine dozens of miles away, also heard this movement. He didn't know that 'he' had been shot to death by Zhao Zheng, and if he knew, he would definitely scold his mother. Isn't this the legendary puppet villain pricking a needle? Of course he could have died, but it was very infuriating to die so badly. Fortunately, he didn't know about it yet, and he was only amazed by the Qin people's voice.

"Tell the king, this is the Qin people calling the king of Qin." The soldiers with sharp ears stood on the high place of the mountain stream, and although they couldn't really hear the wind, they could roughly guess that the Qin army was shouting the call of the king of Qin.

"King Huqin?" Xiong Jing sneered. The sneer was followed by resentment.

Although on the sand table, this valley road from the Rim River out of the Qinling Mountains is easier to walk than the others, and the valley road is also wide, but there is only the trend of mountains and rivers on the sand table and no vegetation distribution. So as he walked, there were four people holding the big chapter in the middle of the road, and a single person could pass sideways, and the carriage, artillery, and baggage had to be felled.

Except for the delay in the first half of the day, the rest of the logging is cut in advance, but the ravines that constantly appear often block the way. This had been expected before the march, but the sappers had not prepared enough. Engineers and people built roads and bridges all night, but still could not guarantee the normal march of the Chu army, and on the third day, the whole army climbed to the high place of the Qinling Mountains, and there were still dozens of miles down before they could get out of Sichuan.

Gongchuan Road, in the Tang Dynasty Wang Wei's pen, there are paintings in poems, and there are poems in paintings ("Rim Sichuan Picture"), and now the Chu army is walking with blood in sweat and tears in blood. When the artillery cannot move forward, it can only be disassembled and lifted on the shoulder. The barrel of the ten-pound cannon weighed 440 kilograms, and it was barely difficult for four people to carry it on the mountain road; The 15-kilogram cannon barrel weighed 586 kilograms, and it was really difficult for four people to carry it, and it was difficult for six people to carry it on the mountain road.

As soon as the pilots and gunners hit their shoulders, they couldn't lower their shoulders until they were in the right place, and when they couldn't hold on, their bodies kept shaking, and their tears couldn't help but fall down. Fortunately, after climbing the highest col, the rest of the road was not only smooth, but also downhill.

Xiong Jing originally expected to be able to leave the Rim River and enter the Bailu Plateau this afternoon, but it was already noon, and according to the itinerary of the mountain, no matter how desperate he was, he would not be able to leave the river until noon tomorrow, and the whole army would be reassembled tomorrow afternoon or even in the evening. At that time, Meng Tian's 200,000 people had already arrived in Lantian.

The only hope now is that the troops can be taken by surprise by Bailuyuan. Bashui turned a right angle from east to west, turning a right angle to the east of Lantian City, and flowing north into Weishui. To the south of this right angle is the Rim River, and the two rivers form a straight three-way junction. Because of the restrictions of the river, the 500,000 Qin troops must be distributed on both sides of the Bashui River.

More than 80 years ago, the Chu army was invincible, mainly because it was unable to cross the upper reaches of Bashui, which flowed east-west after leaving Lantian Road. To the west, it was blocked by the Rim River, and even if it crossed, the Qin army had already occupied the mountains to the west of the Rim River and southeast of Bailu Plateau. The Chu army attacked the high place from a low place, and once the arrows were exhausted, they were completely at a disadvantage.

Now the Chu army does not swim out of the river from Bashui, but from the west of Bashui, and at least the Qin army on the west bank of Bashui and near Lantian City can be annihilated first. As for whether or not the Qin army on the other side of the water can be annihilated, it can only depend on the situation.

Because of the restrictions on telecommunications, the operations division of Wancheng and Yingdu could not fully understand the terrain of Gongchuan Road, and they could not give too many suggestions at all. Dou Yu Pheasant, Cheng Tong, Dou Chang, Pan Wuming and others thought that after coming out of the mountain from Bailu Plateau, they would first annihilate the Qin army on the west bank of Bashui, and then cross the river to defeat the Qin army on the east bank of Bashui, especially the call from noon today made them insist on this point even more.

Ele, Zhuang Wudi and others thought that it would be enough to take the Qin army west of the water by surprise. Next, we should not cross the Bashui to attack the Qin army, but should follow the Bashui to the north, and after crossing the Chanshui, we should seize the citrus road west of the Baqiao - Qin Xianyang is not the Xianyang City of the later generations, but a little west of the north of Xi'an in the later generations.

Bashui and Chanshui out of the Qinling Mountains after the sandwich place is the White Deer Plateau, the north end of the White Deer Plateau (out of the mountain more than 80 miles), the two waters flow into Weishui after the confluence. The river bay at the entrance to Weishui is vast, and the sediment is silted, which is not suitable for building bridges.

Therefore, from Lantian to Xianyang, basically take the east bank of Bashui, after the confluence of Chanshui Bashui, before Bashui enters Weishui, the narrowest part of the river is Baqiao (about 100 miles out of the mountain), and once you cross Baqiao, it is the Tongdao Pavilion. If history does not change, twenty-two years later, the prince of Qin will 'plain car and white horse, with a neck to group, seal the emperor's talisman festival, and descend to the side of the road', and the Qin State will perish.

To the west of the Dao Pavilion is the Qingong Weinan, and there is a long bridge between the Xingle Palace in Weinan and the Xianyang City in Weibei. The bridge is six zhang wide (13.86 meters) and 380 steps long (526 meters), which is a shortcut to Xianyang.

If the Qin army does not follow, Xianyang, which is almost an empty city, is likely to have no time to block the gate of the city - the Xianyang city gate is extremely wide, only the middle of the royal road is 12 zhang wide, and the doorway on both sides is more than five zhang, since Zhao Zheng dares to fight a decisive battle in Lantian, Xianyang City's door hole is likely not to be blocked, and the artillery is bombarded, and Xianyang will be broken.

Shang Ru Qin army followed, 500,000 people rushed north more than 100 li to seize Baqiao, considering that the real elite division was only more than 200,000 people under the command of Meng Wu, and these 200,000 people had just rushed more than 600 li, and the soldiers who could really rush to Baqiao were only a part. It was this part of the Qin army that the Chu army wanted to attack, and after defeating this part of the Qin army, it would cross the Bashui to the east, attack south along the coast, and fight from the north end of the Qin army's long snake formation to the south end, if there was no accident, 500,000 people would be defeated.

The shogunate was sweltering in the mountain stream, and when Zhuang Wudi said '500,000 people are defeated', the generals in the tent were all stunned.

"The minister thinks ......" Pan Wudi is in a hurry, he subconsciously feels that Zhuang Wudi's strategy is unreliable, 100,000 to 500,000, 500 people are too exaggerated, but he can't find any reason to refute it.

"The Qin army must have a boat master...... "E Junle said, without a boat master, he is the most unaccustomed to it.

"The Qin army is afraid of my artillery, and Weishui is only four or five hundred steps, not to mention the narrow Bashui?" Zhuang said without a ground.

"If the Qin army is divided into two routes, one to the west of Bashui, and the other to the east of Bashui, what if so?" Dou Chang asked.

"So good." Zhuang is not authentic. "Our army has taken great pains to get to this point, isn't it just to make the Qin people divide their troops? The Qin people are divided into the east and west of Bashui, and our army can fight with the Qin army on the east side, and also with the Qin army on the west side. In any case, it is not 100,000 versus 500,000. ”

After Zhuang Wudi finished speaking, he turned to Xiong Jing, "The minister thinks that the commander of our army is better at fighting than the soldiers in Guanzhong, and he is more excited than the army of Mengwu. I fight, and the pawn in the pass is not as good as me; I can, the army of Mengwu is inferior to me. This battle must not be fought after battle, but when it should be done, it will be fought again, and it will be fought while walking. The army of Mengwu is tired, the soldiers in Guanzhong are weak, and if they fight without battle, the Qin people will be defeated. ”

"However, our army does not have much food." Dou Yu Pheasant reminded. The Gongchuan Road is inaccessible, and the soldiers only carry seven days' dry rations, and today is the third day.

"But," Xiong Jing and Zhuang Wudi said in unison, and finally Xiong Jing said: "We can take the enemy's food." ”

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