Xiang Chao galloped in the field north of Qifeng City, his spear in his hand was erected, but the tip of the spear was not a swallowtail flag, but a woman's mattress, the north wind hunting, and the bright red mattress was also hunting. As he galloped, he stood up and shouted at the Qin soldiers who were boarding the boat, but the north wind blew back the saliva foam that had been sprayed out when he shouted, and made him lose face.

His voice was also blown back by the north wind, and no one on the boat heard his shout. Following the order of the boatman, the boats docked on the pier set sail one after another and rowed to the depths of Makizawa. The angry Xiang Chao continued to gallop north, and finally ran along the long trestle until the northernmost part of the trestle.

The whistling of horses spread farther than the shouts of people, and at this time, the Qin soldiers on the boat saw the Chu knight who was chasing after him on the trestle, and after reading it, he turned back expressionlessly, not caring at all that the spear in the knight's hand was hung with a woman's mattress.

"Brother, this Qin people are afraid of me and don't dare to fight with me." Xiang Chao was so angry that he finally threw the riding spear in his hand directly into Daze, and his younger brother Xiang Liang was very happy to see the retreat of the Qin army, and he didn't know what his brother was angry about.

"You ......" Xiang Chao's sword was drawn, pointing halfway to thinking that this was his own brother, he hated in his heart, and the sword was thrown on the trestle, and the blade of the sword was half a foot into the wood, trembling. Xiang Liang looked at his brother in some surprise, feeling that his anger was not just as simple as Qin Ren retreating, not only because of his father's hatred, but also because there must be other reasons.

Chu people are irritable, not only because they cannot be offended, but also because their temperament is also very eager. It has been four years since the recapture of the old Ying, and this year is the fifth year. The four-year war killed and wounded more than 100,000 soldiers, and also exhausted the money of each county. Previously, there were national debts, but after the second battle of Osawa last year, there were no more national debts. Nowadays, there is nothing on the market that does not increase prices, everything is rising, and it is not uncommon for a stone millet to be sold for four or five hundred Chu yuan.

Xiang Chao inherited his father's title, and naturally became the patriarch of the Xiang clan and began to take charge of the family. In addition to the advisers and guards in his tent, there was also an extremely important person: the priest. The secretary will report to him in detail on his monthly income and monthly expenses.

After four years of war, the Xiang clan, which had three divisions, including three cavalry divisions, had gone bankrupt, but what was more serious than the bankruptcy of the Xiang clan was that many of the soldiers in the Xiang division were also bankrupt, and many of the soldiers asked to go home, at least when the farm was busy. Regardless of whether he won or lost, Xiang Chao hoped to have a decisive battle with the Qin army earlier, but Wang Jian withdrew his troops like this.

"Ahh Ah——!h Thinking of reality, Xiang Chao couldn't help but roar on the trestle. One step ahead of his pursuit of the Qin people, the news of Wang Qian's withdrawal reached the Chu army shogunate, which had just landed. Hearing the news of Wang Qian's withdrawal, the strategists were not surprised at all, but Xiong Jing and E Le, Deng Sui, Fu Jing, Ruo Ao Duxing, Peng Qiu, and Huainan Shi led Zhou Ruo, these generals knew in their hearts that this would be the result, but they were still inevitably disappointed. The difference between them and Xiang Chao is only that they didn't chase Wang Jian as crazy as Xiang Chao.

"So ......," Le began, "will our army advance?" ”

"The north of Qifeng is Daze, how can our army enter it?" Zhuang Wu said, he knew the current situation very well.

"The Qin people are attacking me with the power of the world." Eshi Sima Ecao said that he also knew what the Qin people wanted to do.

"It's not about attacking me." Tang Shi Sima Dou often corrected. "This is a weary to me. Fortunately, my Chu country has the valley of Dongzhou, and it is harvested twice a year, otherwise it will ......"

Dou Chang sighed that the state of Chu had grain, and he didn't panic in his heart. It's okay that he didn't mention food, but Xiong Jing was even more worried when he mentioned it. The land of Shu was lost, and the 30 million stone accumulation millet every year was gone. Hanzhong, Shangyu, Fangcheng, these places have also been lost, and now the remaining millet production land in Chu State is only Dongdi and Jiuying, and these two normal years add up to about 110 million and 120 million stones. Planting the valley of Dongzhou, although the harvest cannot really be doubled, the annual grain output is close to 200 million stone in a normal year.

Of course, this was a normal year, and it was surprising that there were two-thirds of the yield in a normal year when there was limited labor and only women and children cultivated the fields. After three months of storage, the valley of Dongzhou will sprout and rot, so that the common people can only be taught to steam and dry it for preservation.

How much grain can be harvested in a year in the whole country, even Yin Yin can't say; How much Dongzhou Valley can be stored in each county by drying it, and Yin Yin, the county princess, is also unclear. Anyway, the price of millet broke 400 last winter, and the grain of Dongzhou broke 100 - this thing has a lot of water, and it does not suppress hunger, and poor people exchange millet for grain, and the money for food can save a lot of leftovers.

Harvesting and storage are one thing, but how to get grain out of the hands of the common people is another. These are all ways to do this, whether they can be collected in kind, how they can be purchased with money (from the sale of government bonds), and how ......they can be collected in disguise through hard labor. It's just that these approaches are becoming less and less effective.

It is said that the tax has been levied in some counties and towns, but it still cannot meet military needs; The world is about to fall, rich people are making boats to avoid the sea, and there are very few people who buy treasury bonds. And even if the county has money in its hands, how much corn can money buy when the price of corn skyrockets? As for servitude, there is not much labor in the township, so how can it be levied?

Expropriation and expropriation, scraping bones and sucking the marrow, this is not something that nobles and honorable people can do, they don't have this ability. The reason why things like King Zhou Xuan's people in Taiyuan can be recorded and passed on to future generations just shows that King Zhou Xuan did not mow all the world like a lawnmower, he only expected the people to be in Taiyuan, not the whole world. Later, the Qin State and the Three Jin Dynasty were no longer regarded as tyranny, and the common people were accustomed to this, but they were worried about it and took the initiative to wait for the officials to feed the people.

Only money can mobilize the resources of the Chu State, but what the Chu State lacks now is money. This is what Xiong Jing is worried about. The generals didn't know his thoughts, Zhuang Wudi knew, he deliberately coughed heavily, and said: "The Qin army retreated, is our army ......?"

"Naturally, our army is retreating." Oro is very natural. "Chen Ying has traveled 260 miles here, and it takes two days to travel by boat, and it takes two days to return. If you can treat the enemy in Chen Ying, there is no need. ”

"Now that the army has arrived, there is no reason to retreat." The Huainan division was led by Hou Ruo, and he opposed the retreat. "I thought our army should advance to relieve the siege of Daliang. Don't forget that there are still tens of thousands of soldiers in the city. ”

"How do I get in?" Zhuang asked rhetorically. "To the north of Qifeng is Daze, and above Daze there is the Qin Army Boat Division."

Daze and Zhoushi are words that everyone does not want to hear, and this is the scar of Chu Jun. If the defeat in the first battle of Daze was due to haste, then the battle of the second war was a dignified defeat by the Qin army. Today, the Qin army has built more and more warboats, and the warships concentrated in the whole Chu State are no longer its opponents. And Wang Jian chose this place as the place of confrontation, relying on the advantages of the Qin army's boat division, so that the Chu army did not dare to pursue forward.

"Please Da Ao order, the minister is willing to fight with the Qin people again!" Bu Liangju, who was sitting at the bottom of the gunboat, quickly stood up when he heard this, and at this time there were more than twelve large wing gunboats under his command.

Xiong Jing didn't look at him directly, just glanced at him, and said, "It's useless, sit down." ”

"Big ......" Bu Liangju looked at Xiong Jing longingly, but Xiong Jing's attitude did not change, and he could only sit down disappointed in the end.

A sunken Caron cannon was not so easy to build, and the narrow waterway was not conducive to the detour of the large wing gunboat. The big wing is three oars, and three oars can't outrun five oars. The waterway is also not straight, which means that if several five-oared warships chase and collide with the large-wing gunboat, the large-wing gunboat will eventually be hit due to speed and the bend of the waterway (shoal).

As soon as the combat commander Cao came to this conclusion in the actual test, the Great Sima Mansion ordered to stop refitting the large wing gunboats. This is a weapon that seems to be useful, but it is actually useful, but it is likely useless when encountering the Qin Junzhou Division that covers Daze. Bu Liangju will be here, he is here to play 'some' role, not really to fight against Qin Junzhou's division.

"If we can't advance, our army should retreat." Once again, he asked for a retreat.

"Where can you retreat?" It was no longer the general who led the strategist to speak, this time it was Xiong Jing who spoke directly.

"Retreat to Chen Ying." Elo Road.

"Is that two hundred and sixty miles less waterway?" Xiong Jing asked rhetorically. That's probably the only benefit of going back.

"What does the king think of our army?" Ole also asked rhetorically. Practically, he doesn't know what he can do by retreating, but it's always good to be closer to his home country.

"Retreat, there is nothing to do; There is nothing that can be done here. Xiong Jing had a kind of contempt on his face, this was for Wang Qian, and he knew that Wang Jian would not fight.

"Or can you cross the water, Suishui, and Danshui to enter the girder?" Dou Chang said that this was a way to avoid Daze's northward advance.

"No, you can't. Who is stationed on the pontoon bridge? Peng Zong hurriedly shook his head.

"Just block it." Dou Chang replied. "It's only sixty miles from the girder."

"No." Eshi Sima and Cao also felt that it was impossible. "Someone must be stationed in the blockage, how can our army defend it? This is not a pontoon bridge, but three pontoon bridges at intervals of twenty or thirty miles, and the Qin people can land from the blockage. ”

"This place is sixty miles away from Daliang, but if you want to bypass Muze and cross Lishui, Suishui, and Danshui to the east, it is nearly a hundred miles." Deng Sui also spoke out against it. Once the Chu army detoured to the east, these three waterways would become the convenient routes for the Chu army in the state of the Qin army's division and march. The number of troops was already pitiful, and it was divided into four sections by the Qin people, and the completion of the division was basically equivalent to defeat.

"If our army can ...... from Danshui" Dou Chang said an impossible idea, so that he didn't say it himself. It is impossible for the Chu army to transfer from the chasm to Danshui, which is equivalent to letting go of the road into Chu and allowing the Qin army to penetrate deep into Chu.

"It's a pity it doesn't snow." Xiong Jing, who remembered that year when he was chasing Wang Jian in the wind and snow, complained that if it snowed, Wang Jian would not be able to rely on more and more Qin army war boats to play this kind of confrontation trick with Shuize as a defense.

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