The Chu army forced the Qin army to engage in its own predetermined battlefield, the Qin army forced the Chu army to divide its forces according to their own hopes, and both sides were forcing the enemy to act according to their own wishes. When Xiong Jing returned to Shouying, the three-way Qin army, which was one step ahead of Meng Tian's army, had already arrived in the Chu realm. Previously, the Chu army had built fortifications in various waters, and these three Qin armies were besieging those artillery forts.

"The soldiers of the Song Dynasty know that the Qin army is attacking the Song Dynasty, and they are afraid that the Qin people will burn and kill and plunder, so please return to the Song Dynasty." All the news was summarized to the Great Sima Mansion and reported to Xiong Jing by Nao Cunning. "This is the Qin people's plan to divide the army, and it must not be ......"

"The last time the Qin army entered the Song Dynasty, there were many killings, and now the Qin people are coming again, and the Song soldiers are all uneasy." In addition to Nao cunning, there is also Song Di's Ao Lan Luxury, he naturally has to think about Song Di. "Now the forty-five-year-old soldier of Song Di has joined the army, but there are few of them, only one division and several brigades, and there is no way to fight the Qin people, please allow the Song division to return to Song."

"This Qin people's plan to divide their troops!" Li finished what Nao Cunning had not finished. "I don't divide my troops, and the Qin people slaughter the Song land; If I divide my troops, the 300,000 troops of the Qin people will quickly come to Chen Ying and fight, and I will have few soldiers. ”

Speaking of the current predicament, this can't help but remind Xiong Jing of Bai Qi's words: 'The soldiers of Qin are ......, work together, and die without turning their heels." The Chu people fought their own land, took care of their homes, and each had their own scattered hearts, and they had no fighting spirit'.

At the beginning, it made sense that Xiang Chao and others did not agree to retreat, and the Chu army could not fight in their own country, so they could only attack instead of defend and fight in other countries, otherwise they would 'have their own scattered hearts and no fighting spirit'. Xiangshi Sima Pengzong mentioned that if he retreated to the Chu realm, the Qin people would have to divide the troops.

But if you don't retreat to the Chu realm, how will the Qin army pursue after the defeat? In the decisive battle of Kaifeng, after the defeat of the Qin army, the pursuit of the Chu army will be blocked by the Qin army's boat division - the draft of the three-oared war boat is only a little more than one meter, and the Qin soldier is more than one meter and a half tall, so he does not need any trestle bridge at all, and the defeated Qin army can get the protection of the boat division if he runs directly into Daze.

Of course, it's useless to think about it now, Xiong Jing couldn't help but sigh and asked, "What can I do about it?" ”

"The minister thinks that Song Shi should be allowed to return to Song." Lan Hao said loudly. "Otherwise, they have no intention of fighting."

"Don't!" Nao said slyly: "Our army has few soldiers, and if the Song division goes, there is almost no power to decide." ”

The two had opposite opinions, and Xiong Jing had no choice but to stare at Li Ji in the end. Li He also couldn't help but sigh and said, "If you have gains, you must lose something." If Master Song goes, I still have 12 divisions. But two divisions. ”

"The Qin people sent 30,000 troops, plus the first division of Mulingguan, and the Song division only had three divisions...... Xiong Jing found it difficult to judge each other's strength. If the strength of the Qin army is really only 30,000, it is fine, and if there are more troops in the back, it is definitely not something that the third and fourth divisions of Song Di can stop.

"The 12th division of our army, is it full?" Nao slyed angrily. Not only did the divisions not replenish them, but the divisions were not satisfied.

"However, the Song people want to return to the Song land, but they have no heart to fight, so what's the use of staying?" Li looked at Nao Cunning and argued with Nao Cunning in front of Xiong Jing. "I don't divide the troops, Meng Tian will increase the troops again, there is no way to save at that time, the division does not want to fight, it is better to save it! Although the divisions are not yet in number, there are 60,000, 50,000 soldiers, and 60,000 cavalry. ”

"Sixty thousand?" When Nao Cunning heard this number, he shook his head vigorously, stretched out his finger and shouted, "The Qin people are five times as large as me!" ”

"If the Qin people only have one array, what are they afraid of? Two arrays, less than twice as much. "Like Xiongjing, they all hope for the gunpowder buried in the ground." And the thunderbolt is already available, if the artillery strikes the enemy with the thunderbolt......"

Li He also talked about the flowering bomb that the operation department had just tested, and Nao Qian had also seen the test firing of the flowering bomb, and angrily reprimanded: "The speed of fire of the thunder bullet is too slow, the explosive power is limited, it can only be terrifying, it can't kill the enemy, what's the use of hitting it?" ”

"Stop!" Nao and Li Ji actually quarreled, and Xiong Jing was a little displeased. He felt more and more that the situation was very similar to that of Germany in 1944, which was caught between the east and the west, and the twilight of the day was exhausted, and he came up with all kinds of new weapons, in a vain attempt to reverse the disadvantage with these weapons.

Not to mention the danger of flowering shells, the rate of fire is not comparable to that of solid bullets, and the gunpowder contained in them is only equivalent to two projectiles, which will not explode in half, but the fragments are only a dozen pieces, and they cannot kill a few people. Such weapons are practically of little value, which is why they were rarely used after the invention of the flowering shell. In today's technical conditions, the use of flowering shells is not as good as the large-scale use of grenades.

"The Qin people attacked the Song Dynasty, and the Song division could return to the Song Dynasty, so why fight." After Xiong Jing stopped, several people looked at him.

"Ann can be so!" Lan Lu is overjoyed, and Nao is cunning and anxious. "How can we divide our army when we have few troops? And when the Qin people saw that I only sent one division of soldiers, how could I increase my troops? If you don't increase your troops, Song Shi will die! ”

"If you don't divide the army, the Qin people will slaughter the Song people, and the army will not defend the people, what is the use of the army?!" Xiong Jing said loudly. He really regretted it this time, instead of being as embarrassed as he is now, he shouldn't have quit Kaifeng in the first place. "Pass on my Ao order, and Master Song will return to Song to defend against the enemy."

As long as the internal discussion is completed, the implementation of the Chu army's military orders is very fast. On the same day, Chen Ying's two Song divisions and one Song division at Mulingguan returned to the Song Dynasty. The Chao Jia artillery fort of Lishui, the Dangyi artillery fort of Suishui is more than 200 miles away from Chen Ying, and the Song soldiers who returned home did not take a war boat from Huaishui to Lishui and Suishui, but ran directly to Chaojia and Dangyi by land.

As soon as the two Song divisions were pulled out of the camp, Chen Ying only had twelve divisions left. Pei Shi, who was stationed at Muling Pass, also hurriedly returned to Mayi on the Danshui of Songdi, and Dongye Gu, who was worried that the Qin people would attack Lu from Jishui, also sent divisions and brigades to reinforce Tangyi and Fang Yu. For a time, the four waterways in Huaibei strengthened their forces to prevent the Qin army from attacking the Chu realm.

If the offensive forces are insufficient, the defensive forces will be even less sufficient, and the Chu army is showing this evil result. Fortunately, Meng Tian was worried that too many troops would force the Chu army to defend Chen Ying, and after learning that the Chu army had reinforced Zhushui, he did not increase his troops in Zhushui, and even withdrew part of his troops, leaving only a small number of soldiers to plunder in the Song Dynasty.

In March, after some of the Qin cavalry had been sent to Changping, most of the Qin army finally went south by boat from the Sha Gao camp in the northwest of Daliang. 300,000 people, plus livestock, soldiers, baggage, and military rations, the boat fleet stretched for 150 miles, almost half of the size of Daliang to Chen Ying. Fortunately, this is a waterway, the waterway goes down the river, and it can travel hundreds of miles a day without rowing, and in just two days, 300,000 Qin troops all left the sand sea. On the third day, the advance of the army had landed and camped in Changping.

The shogunate was located at the front end of the army, and the cavalry led by Yu Fen and the boats carrying the weeds marched hand in hand, marching to Changping by land and water, and as soon as Meng Tian landed on the shore, he urgently summoned Yuan Fen to inquire about the movements of the Chu army.

"General Yu, the Jing people have not moved, and our army is safe." Yu Fen is getting old, he has a Qin-style eight-character beard, a long undergarment, and a large tarsal injection, and the Qin language is more fluent than what the Xianyang people speak, and he can't hear the slightest Chu sound.

"Really?" Meng Tian ordered the cavalry to go to Changping first because he was worried about a surprise attack by the Chu army. Once a surprise attack, your own forces cannot be quickly assembled, and it is easy to be defeated by each like Li Xin.

"Jing people do not move." Hou Zhengzao, the old scout, together with Yu Fen, "Chen Cheng is seventy miles away, and our army can ride to the side of Chen Cheng City, and the Jing people do not chase me, they seem to want to fight with me." ”

Repulsion was the weakness of the Qin army, and every time they reconnoitred the cavalry, they would be driven and chased by the Chu army's dragoons. Only this time was extremely strange, the Chu army dragoons no longer pursued and killed when they saw their own repulsion, and the two sides often staggered. The Qin army reprimanded and ran to Chen Ying, and the Chu army reprimanded and ran to Changping, and the same was true when they returned.

Hou Zhengzao is an old scout, such a situation is rare but not unseen. However, as long as both sides plan to fight in a dignified battle instead of setting up ambushes and plots, they will not embarrass each other's scouts. On the other hand, as long as the other party does all its best to prevent the enemy from breaking in, there must be a demon.

"Jing Ren Geometry?" Meng Tian has been a general for generations, and he also knows this truth, his tense heart loosened a little, and he asked about the troops.

"Looking at its military flag, there are only 12 divisions." Hou Zheng made the road, and the Chu army organized divisions and brigades in counties, and the name of the county was often written on the military flag, which was easy to identify. "The fourth division of the Wang Division, the third division of the Xiang Division, the third division of the Hubei Division, the first division of the Tang Division, and the first division of the Huainan Division."

"Twelve divisions?" With the addition of Jishui, there were four rivers beyond the chasm that could enter the Chu region, and the Chu army sent four divisions to reinforce these four places. Meng Tian originally thought that all the four divisions were from Chen Ying, but he didn't expect that only two divisions were from Chen Ying.

"Yes, yes." Hou Zheng made the way. "The Jing people did not defend Chencheng, but camped in the west of Chencheng and the north of Shashui, and the camps of each division were distinct. The soldiers of the 12th division, with the number of the first division of the Jing people, have more than 70,000 people, and the soldiers of the battle array are about 50,000. ”

"Horsemanship?" Meng Heng had been listening, not saying much, and had not asked until now.

"There are more than 10,000 riders, and 6,000 dragoons." A wry smile spread across his face at the mention of the dragoon. I thought that the dragoons of the Chu army would fight less and less, but I didn't expect to fight more and more in the end. "The people of Jing must have Longma Yuanyuan, otherwise the country of the extreme west will no longer sell horses to Jing, where will Longma come from?"

Previously, the Chu army's dragon horses were only three or four thousand horses, but now it has increased to six thousand horses, and Meng Tian's heart was also terrified, and he was surprised: "There are six thousand dragon horses? ”

"Yes. When there are six thousand. "The enemy of cavalry is cavalry, especially dragoon cavalry. Thinking of the six thousand dragon horse cavalry rushing towards him, he shook his head for a while, which would take at least thirty thousand Qin horse cavalry to stop. Thinking of this, he suggested: "When fighting with the Jing people, the general should stay in the rear army to prevent the Jing people's cavalry from surviving the rear of the formation. ”

"And the Jing people are arrayed with their backs, and I can't beat them left and right," Meng Tian nodded, and said that the cavalry might not have the results in this battle.

"The Jing people are arrayed with their backs, and the general doesn't need to hit them left and right." Meng Heng said. "In addition to the 30,000 cavalry, the remaining 10,000 cavalry will no longer stand beside the military formation."

"10,000 horsemen no longer stand next to the military formation?" Yu Fen was puzzled. The best position for cavalry is on both sides of the formation, where it is convenient to attack the enemy's flanks and defend your own flanks. "Why? Could it be that this 10,000 horsemen is used as a rear army? ”

"The general has his own orders." Meng Heng blocked Yu Fen with a word, didn't say yes, and didn't say no.

"The army is coming, in order to prevent the Jing people from attacking me, the two generals should not slack off today and tomorrow." Meng Tian was still worried about being attacked by the Chu army, and all he could rely on was his own cavalry. "If the Jing people attack, the safety of our army depends on the two generals."

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