Hundreds of thousands of troops must march along the main roads, otherwise the baggage and vehicles will not be able to pass. From the time Yingshi burned the Lantian plank road and returned to the southern foot of the Qinling Mountains, Zhao Yong began to try to repair the plank road that was repaired by the Chu army and then destroyed and burned by the Chu army; Li Xin wanted to go out of Fangcheng to invade the Eastern Lands, and he could only follow the ancient Xia Road.

When the Wei army took a shortcut and approached Cai and was ambushed, the army under Li Xin naturally could not take the shortcut that the Wei army took back then. But take the avenue to go out of the pass, out of the pass out of the roll city, but in the Fangcheng dumb passage directly to the southeast, to Xianghe Pass, Xianghe Pass in the southeast of more than 100 miles. After crossing the Xiang River and turning to the east, first pass through Daoyi, and then pass through the burning, and the northeast of the burning is Shangcai.

Li Xin entered Fangcheng, whether it was going south to Fanxiang or west to Wuguan, and controlling the rolling city - the dumb passage of Zhangguan could be driven straight in. However, if hundreds of thousands of people want to advance eastward, they must first send an army to occupy Xianghe Pass first, and then the army will go down to Xianghe Pass and go to Cai through Daoyi and Qiyan East. Xianghe Pass is directly east of Wancheng, which is already close to the east wall of Fangcheng.

Although the road is winding, the remaining veins of Tongbai Mountain and the remaining veins of Funiu Mountain meet here, and the avenue can only be paved in this way. When Confucius entered Chu, when he came, he entered the city from Yeyi along the avenue and went out of the Guan, Zilu Wenjin and Chu Crazy Reception, all of which happened on the dumb passage of Fangcheng; After leaving Chu and returning to Cai, he took the road that Li Xin was going to take now: Wancheng, Yangqiu, Zhangguan, Xianghe, Daoyi, Qiyan, and Shangcai.

The road is like this, and the intentions are daunting. Li Xin's eastward departure from Fangcheng was equivalent to dividing his troops with Zhao Yong, and it would have taken Zhao Yong some time to cross the Qinling Mountains, about ten days later. Now Li Xindong is going out of Fangcheng to Shangcai, about ten days later. There were also Zhu's five divisions and Xiang divisions to go to Nanzheng, and the battle with the Qin army's Ling division led by Bai Lin and the Qin army's Zhou division led by Zhao Ying was also more than ten days later.

The 26 divisions of the Chu army had 10 in the east and 16 in the west. Eight of these sixteen divisions went to Nanzheng, and the remaining eight important troops were divided into two routes, both to prevent Zhao Yong from attacking Wuguan and to prevent Li Xin from occupying Shangcai. If the time does not coincide, the Chu army can be quickly mobilized by water, forming a force advantage in a short period of time, and now the time in the three directions almost completely coincides - it is likely to be four, Wang Jian may take the opportunity to launch an offensive to contain the ten Chu army divisions in Mulingguan - it is simply impossible to operate as usual.

In order to facilitate the march, the cavalry did not carry a large number of baggage salutes, and after the battle of Xiangcheng, the shogunate did not have a big curtain, and everyone sat under a large camphor tree, and the water that everyone was sitting on boiled, and white gas came out.

When Chang Jiang was serving tea to everyone, Xiong Jing said quietly: "You really can't abandon Nanzheng." ”

The Qin army attacked Tho and entered Shu to obtain military rations, and the Chu army's current hope is that the Qin people will run out of food, the army will be defeated, and the country will die. To give up Bashu is to give up this strategy, Xiong Jing said as soon as he spoke: "Li Siyin has this idea. ”

"Oh?" The troops are really insufficient, so Xiong Jing will let out such an exclamation, but he didn't think that Li would have such an idea.

"Our army only has the 26th Division and 12th Brigade, plus the armies of Zhao Weiqi, there are only 300,000, and 300,000 people have to be stationed in the 3,000-mile defense line from Nanzheng to Qidi. Li Siyin thought that our army should move to the east again, but he was afraid that the courtiers and generals would not allow it. "Shen channel. He inadvertently peeked at Xiong Jing, recalling that the first time he saw Xiong Jing ten years ago was in the Lantai School Palace in Shouying, when Xiong Jing was still a young boy.

"The Suishi and Chengyang divisions are still in Longxi, and the Xishi and other divisions are still on the left bank of the water, how can Nanzheng abandon them? If Nanzheng abandons and Bashu loses, how can the teachers return to the south? Zhuang Wudi completely disagreed. Nanzheng cannot be abandoned, and business in Wuguan cannot be abandoned. If Nanzheng is abandoned, Bashu is in danger; If the business is abandoned in Wuguan, Linpin and Nanzheng are in danger. ”

Shang Yu, Nanzheng, and Bashu were actually one, two divisions in Longxi, and four and a half divisions on the left bank of the water - at this time, Lu Gao had already informed Sima Fu of the breakout route of the division and other divisions, they did not go southeast but west, to Qiang and then to Shu, from Shu to return to Chu; As well as stubbornly defending the land to prevent the Qin people from getting corn in Bashu, no matter how weak the troops are, this line of defense must also be defended.

Even regardless of the strategy against Qin, just returning to Chu for tens of thousands of comrades was enough to make the Chu army not give up these three places; Similarly, the Chu army could not sit idly by and watch the Qin army invade the eastern lands. Back then, Mengwu invaded Yiyi and killed countless people, Wei Yi invaded Song Land and killed countless people, and Li Xin invaded Fangcheng and killed countless people, and Li Xin must be stopped this time.

The situation is such that everyone can't help but take a breath. Xiong Jing asked, "How can you fight it with only Yingshi?" ”

"Only with Master Ying'......" Zhuang Wudi's gaze fell on Xianghe Pass, and then shook his head. Li Xin had the first-mover advantage, and the infantry of the Yingshi division was still in Xiangyang, and he could not rush to Xianghe Pass to stop the enemy. "The only way to defend Shang Cai is to die."

"Shang Cai?" Everyone's eyes moved to Shangcai on the east bank of Rushui.

"Yes, yes." Zhuang Wudi said: "Li Xin's army is 200,000, and our army is only 30,000, so we can only defend it according to the fortified city." If the king of Qi did not attack Weishui, the division of Song and Wu could help me, and I might be able to fight with Li Xin at that time. ”

Li Xin marched eastward, and Wang Jian definitely attacked Chunyu, Gumu and other cities on the left bank of Weishui. If I don't ask the Eastern Front to send troops to help me, and if the Eastern Front doesn't ask the widows to send troops to help, thank God. "The 100,000 Qi army can't be fought, and the combat effectiveness of the Lu and Song divisions is not strong. Xiong Jing's worry was also the worry of the rest of the generals, and when he said thank God, the generals smiled heartily. After rescuing Zhao became the routine task of the Chu army, saving Qi also became the routine task of the Chu army.

"What does the king want?" Hearing that Xiong Jing was unwilling to guard Shang Cai, Zhuang asked without ground.

"How many troops do we have?" Xiong Jing did not answer, but asked.

"There are more than 8,300 riders." Zhuang Wudi is a military horse, and he said a more accurate number.

"The widow remembers that there were still 11,000 horsemen when he left Luguan." Xiong Jing was a little surprised by Zhuang Wudi's numbers, there were not many knights killed in battle, very few to be exact.

"That's true." Zhuang Wudi said: "It is rainy, the driving is long, and the military horses are sick." If the king wants to attack Li Xin with cavalry, the king should be cautious, and the horse should not work too much, if he can't rest for more than a month......"

It is difficult to train a cavalry south of the Yellow River, and it is also difficult to fight after training. Fortunately, the Chu army is basically fighting on the inside line, and at this time it is the season when the crops are ripe, and there are ready-made corn and beans in the fields, and the only fly in the ointment is that the beans must be fried temporarily before they can be fed to the horses.

"How can you rest for a month?" Xiong Jing shook his head again and again, what he wanted was not only to prevent the Qin army from invading the Eastern Lands, but also to kill Li Xin. He shook his head and then asked, "What is the length of Li Xin's march?" ”

A Qin lieutenant marches in a single column, and the length of the march is about 14 li, and 20 lieutenants are 280 li. But on the five-track avenue, the Qin army was able to march in four columns, and the long march path was within a hundred miles.

As soon as Xiong Jing asked about the long path of the march, Zhuang Wudi changed his color a little, stood up and said hurriedly: "Absolutely not!" Li Xinnai is a general, how can he not know ......"

"What about knowing?" Xiong Jing also stood up. "Li Xin has 200,000 people, and our army is only 30,000. If you want to kill Li Xin, you must take advantage of the fact that he is passing through the mountains, and the long march path is too long, so that he cannot collect the soldiers and attack him quickly. As long as Li Xin is killed, the Qin army will be defeated if it is not defeated. ”

Xiong Jing interrupted Zhuang Wudi's words, and when he thought about it before, he had already looked at a place, "This battle is convenient between Xianghe Pass and Daoyi." There are only three tracks of Xia Road passing through Heguan, and there are five tracks behind passing through Daoyi......"

"Li Xin will definitely equip the general, and the general will have no less than four thousand soldiers. And if I had set up an ambush beforehand, the army would have been aware of it; If I go fifty miles to it, the Qin soldiers can be saved for several miles before and after, and there are probably no less than tens of thousands of people on Li Xin's side at that time. Tens of thousands of people gathered to defend it, and our army has no artillery, how can we break through the formation and kill the enemy? Zhuang Wudi briefly described the situation after the two armies clashed.

The key to the problem is the reaction speed, which in turn affects the distance. If the distance is too close, it becomes an ambush, and if the distance is too far, it becomes a strong attack. The former was easily discovered by the Qin army's scouts and former army searches, and although the latter would not be discovered by the Qin army, it was too far away, giving the Qin army enough time to react.

"Although the track between Xiangheguan and Daoyi is narrow, the mountains are undulating, and the forests are deep and ......" Shentong, as a personal companion of Li, is very familiar with geography, especially the geography of Chu. It was not impossible for the king to be determined to kill Li Xin between the Xiangheguan Daoyi, but he was very worried about the mountains and forests on this road.

"In the end, you have to be there to know if you can attack it." War cannot be built on paper, especially this kind of attack warfare that relies on geographical advantages, and you must be on the scene to see the problem. "You tell Xiangyang with a pigeon, the Hubei division and the Tang division are stationed in Wuguan, and the Yingshi immediately traces the water to Biyang, from the Magu to Yiyi, and the northernmost cannot cross the Mulberry Tunnel."

The king decided to attack Li Xin with Yingshi, and the general did not object, but strategists like Zhuang Wudi and Shentong turned pale. Zhuang Wudi persuaded him for the last time: "Master Ying's entry into Shangcai and the defense of the fortified city, what's wrong?" Why did the king have to kill Li Xin? ”

"Victory!" Xiong Jing knew that according to Shangcai, he could block Li Xin, but he wanted more than just blocking Li Xin.

"Victory?" Solemnly repeating the word. After Qin, he was very unaccustomed to double-byte words.

"Yes. Only victory can lift the hearts of the army and the people, and only victory can make the Qin people remember that they have been defeated in every battle in the past ten years. Xiong Jing waved his hand. He didn't want victory, he wanted momentum. "If you don't fight back quickly, don't kill Li Xin, the Qin people will no longer be afraid of me!"

"Afraid of me?!" At this time, everyone looked at Xiong Jing, Fei Jing, Jing Sheng, Qi Ji Heel, Xiang Liang, Dou Jian, and E Wu, all of these people stood when they heard this.

"Yes." Xiong Jing nodded heavily. "Fear makes people deaf, faints, and breaks the heart. The Qin people are already deeply afraid of me, and if Daze does not fight back quickly, they will no longer fear me. There are millions of Qin people, if you are not afraid of me, how can the Chu State exist?

The teachers sent one or more people to Xianghe and Daoyi together with the widows, so as to preempt the Qin people. ”