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The wide Qin Road is lined with green pines, and Wang Jiannan, who returns to Pinyang from Huaixian, crosses the Yellow River from Hangu Pass into Guanzhong. As a general, he hugged and watched from behind, and when he returned to his hometown due to illness, he was only accompanied by the Wang clan and the old servants.

A good general doesn't do it, but wants to return to his hometown, even if the clansmen will inevitably have such complaints, every time he hears this kind of rhetoric, Wang Jian always smiles kindly, and he doesn't feel any regrets at all. Indeed, a fighter can climb to this high position, return to his hometown due to illness at the age of sixty, and have a great title (sixteenth class), which is already blessed by the ancestors.

Qin State is still short of horses, Wang Jian and his entourage have no carriages, only ox carts, four ox carts into the Hangu Pass, but they don't want to go out of the west side of the gate and are stopped by a soapy servant: "Dare to ask, but General Wang Jian ......"

"W-Who?" No one cared about them along the way, and when they entered Hangu Pass, someone suddenly asked, including Wang Jian who couldn't help but be surprised.

"I am a servant of Chang Wenjun's family." The soap-clothed servant's voice was not loud, and his face was full of smiles when he spoke.

Three years ago, Changping Jun Xiong Qi was split, although Changwenjun Xiong Meng was imprisoned, but after careful investigation and interrogation by the whole government, it was indeed not related to Changping Jun, and no carrier pigeons were found. If there is no evidence, it depends on the meaning of the king, if the clan is punished, Chang Wenjun will also be split, and Chang Wenjun will escape death if he is not punished. The final result was that Changping Jun's house was split, and Chang Wenjun was no longer in the court.

When Changping Jun was the right prime minister, Changwenjun's mansion was also full of people. Changping Jun's car cracked, Chang Wenjun seemed to have disappeared in Xianyang, no one saw him again, but he didn't expect to appear in Hangu Pass today.

There was no ox cart from Wang Qian, but on the carriage of Chang Wenjun Xiong Meng, and the two met quietly. Wang Jian is old, Xiong Meng is just middle-aged, as soon as he saw Wang Qian, Xiong Mengli immediately bowed and said: "Brother Quanxia knows, I must thank the general." ”

Xiong Meng bowed suddenly, and the floor of the carriage where his head was banged loudly, Wang Jian did not avoid it, and directly accepted his reasoning. When he looked out of the car and found that the servants of the two were ten steps away, he said: "The bad man is just fulfilling the promise of the year, why should the king thank you?" In the past, if there was no recommendation from the prime minister, not to mention the world, there were a few people in Daqin who knew my Wang Qian. Please get up, please get up, please get up. ”

"However, the general returned home from illness in order to fulfill this promise...... Xiong Meng raised his head and glanced at Wang Qian, and then bowed again.

The matter of Wang Jian telling the old man is not a secret, the army knows it, and there are rumors in China. When Xiong Meng left the customs, he thought that he might meet Wang Jian on the road, and asked his retainers to pay attention to the so-called township carrying goods in the carriage with a flag on the car. Things, don't. No, miscellaneous silks, half different widths, the flag is half red and half white, and I really met it.

"Old man, old man." Wang Jian didn't want to say much about the old man. He didn't want to say what he promised Xiong Qi back then, after all, this matter has passed. "The gentleman does not live in Xianyang and goes out of the customs, what is the so-called?"

I didn't expect Wang Jian to ask about herself, Xiong Meng's surprise was a little unnatural. He forced a smile and said: "Guanzhong said that the Chu army was coming, so he sent a letter to the valley." The soldiers of the Great Qin are all in Daliang, and the king and the court are also in Huai County. ”

Hearing Xiong Meng's words, Wang Qian's eyes changed, he didn't ask again, but said, "Does the king have wine?" ”

"Wine?" Xiong Meng was still in unnature, and when he heard that Wang Jian was looking for wine, he laughed, and he said, "There is wine." Naturally, there is wine. Come! ”

Chang Wenjun's sake is naturally not the old sake of the army, but the best sake. There was wine and meat, and the two of them drank happily in the carriage, until the sun set in the west, and they immediately went to sleep, and then the ox cart and the carriage parted ways. The carriage hurried into the Kanya Road, and lodged in the east, and the ox cart hurried thirty miles westward, and arrived at the reverse journey before sunset.

"Your Majesty, if Wang Jian tells others about your departure, I am afraid that I will ......" After resting overnight in the east of Hangu Pass, Xiong Meng remembered the conversations with Wang Jian last night in the morning. He told Yong Li, who couldn't help but be a little worried.

"Nothing." Remembering that Wang Jian was implicated with himself, Xiong Meng's heart was slightly lowered. However, he was a little distressed and said, "I can't do it." ”

Xiong Meng, who was born in a wealthy family, can't be as clever as a Hou spy like Yong Li, and when he heard his exclamation, Yong Li persuaded: "The king is a nobleman, why do you need to respond?" ”

"How can you ...... strain" Xiong Meng didn't want to say any more, in fact, he didn't know what he was doing when he sent a letter to Guguan. Last year, the Chu army was defeated by Tianchi Daze, and after all, it failed to attack Guanzhong again. Now that 600,000 armor soldiers are attacking Chu, Wang Jian can't delay it for a year, and the king is eager to fight a decisive battle before the Chu people evade. If the Chu army is defeated, no matter what he does, he will not be able to recover.

Qin Dao is like a stone, in the soft spring light, Xiong Meng's carriage drove quickly to Luoyang, and at the same time, Xiong Jing, who was not convinced, was galloping on the bank of sand and water in the west of Chen Yingcheng. This is not an outing, this is a field trip.

For the generals who command the battle, it is extremely important to explore the terrain on the ground. Without a precise map printed in your head, it is difficult to deduce the entire process of the enemy from approaching, to array, to galloping forward. War does not begin when the enemy sets up a position, but should begin with the mobilization of the enemy.

The Chu army retreated, the Qin army chased directly, and the choice of the battlefield was already in the hands of the Chu army, as long as the Chu army blocked the waterway of the chasm, the Qin army going south along the chasm would have to go ashore, but the Qin army could also land in advance and then come in formation. The terrain of the battlefield, the road to the battlefield, both must be carefully chosen, and even carefully constructed.

"Your Majesty, this is the land of Shang Shichen." Peng Zong was also on the horse, but he didn't dare to run on his horse, and only when Xiong Jing had run for a while and stopped for a while, he chased after him.

"Chenyu Kingdom?" Xiong Jing hadn't heard of the name of this country, but Peng Zong said that this was the Fang Kingdom of the Shang Dynasty, and it was normal that he hadn't heard of it.

"Shang Zhibu said: 'Go to prison, but chase Chen Yu deer without disaster', it is this Chen Yu country, merchants used to raise deer here to hunt, and there are still rammed earth low walls." Peng Zongdao. "When the first king Zhuang was king, he cut Zheng and oak. Ziliang said: 'Jin and Chu do not fight with morality, but they can also fight, Jin and Chu have no faith, how can I have faith? 'It is to turn his back on Jin and follow Chu. King Zhuang and Zheng and Chen are here.

Chen Yingzhi's sand water comes to the west from Yingshui, sixty miles also. Passing through Chen, a hundred miles to the south. Therefore, the minister thought that the battle should be fought on the west side of the chasm, not on the east side of the chasm. to the east, only a hundred miles of sand and water; To the west, although the north Yingshui comes from the west, the Weishui comes from the north. ”

Peng Zong elaborated on the terrain west of Chen Ying, which was about an inverted 'a'. Shashui is the middle side, the west side is Yingshui, the east side is the chasm, is Xiangcheng. The shape is like this, and in terms of specific proportions, the middle one is sixty miles horizontally; On the east side of the chasm waterway, Xiangcheng to Chen Ying seventy miles; On the west side of the Yingshui waterway, Xiangcheng to the intersection of Yingshui and Shashui is about 70 miles.

Peng Zong's intention is to place the battlefield west of the chasm, and there can be two arrangements here, one is to line up north of Shashui; The other is to let the Qin army cross the sand and water, and the Chu army will line up with Xiangcheng on their backs. Carrying the sand and water on his back can achieve the effect of Li Xin's backwater battle in the Battle of Xiangcheng the year before last, and the cavalry cannot detour to the flank. Considering that the Qin people had 40,000 cavalry, these 40,000 cavalry were like a heavy hammer, which could smash the Chu army's army formation at one time, and it was necessary to form a formation with their backs to the water.

"To the west of the chasm, the road is wide." Zhuang Wudi expressed a different opinion. "Daokuan, the Qin people are coming in formation, how can I hit them? Our army should indeed fight against the water, but if the Qin army's formation is not organized, it should also be attacked quickly before it is not formed, such as the battle of Da Ao Po Li Xin. ”

Zhuang Wudi mentioned the battle of Lao Ou Mountain last year. The reason why Yingshi was able to defeat Li Xin's 200,000 people was that Li Xin's 200,000 did not expand. The road south of Xiangheguan was rugged, and Li Xin couldn't expand it at all.

"Meng Tian has 600,000 people, our army should not fight with him, but should fight while the Qin people are not in battle." Zhuang Wudi said again. Including the Great Sima Mansion, the generals had two suggestions, one of which was that the two armies fought in a dignified battle and fought with 600,000 people;

The second is Zhuang Wudi's opinion, like wanting to deal with Li Xin, when the Qin army of 600,000 people was not fully deployed, he stormed up, disrupted the 600,000, and forced it to collapse. It's entirely possible. There are not many old soldiers in the Qin army, and there are many new soldiers. Even an old pawn can't do anything about this moment.

"Why bother?" Xiang Chao opposed Zhuang Wudi's proposal. "It is natural to fight after the battle, otherwise, the Qin people will be defeated and complain to me. In the dignified battle, the Qin people were defeated and feared me, just like Weinan in the past. Do you think our army is invincible? ”

"Me?" didn't expect Xiang Chao to say such a thing, Zhuang Wudi really didn't know how to answer, he could only look at Xiong Jing: "Da Ao broke the battle of Li Xin, and the battle was fought before the battle." This is true for breaking Li Xin, and it is also true for breaking Mengtian. ”

The Battle of Weinan and the Battle of Laoyu Mountain were both commanded by Xiong Jing, one fought after the battle, and the other fought without the battle, probably only Xiong Jing can tell which one is right. Everyone's eyes were fixed on Xiong Jing, Xiong Jing's eyes looked at the chasm more than ten miles away at this time, the withered willows on the green ditch bank had already budded, and a team carrying the common people went south.

These are the common people who migrated north of Chen Ying, and they are going to gather in the suburbs of Shouying like last time. Xiong Jing looked at these migrating commoners, and the generals followed him, not daring that his gaze did not only stay on those big people. He turned around and saw that there were people working on the acres of fields west of Shashui, and when spring came, the peasants were already plowing in the spring light.

"The common people are not afraid." Xiong Jing looked around and smiled. Although the Chu army was defeated by Daze, the common people were not afraid that the battlefield was just a stone's throw away.

"The common people are not afraid, so why should we be afraid?" He said again. This seems to be answering the dispute between Xiang Chao and Zhuang Wudi, and it seems to be talking to himself.

"Da Ao Yingming!" Xiang Chao felt that Xiong Jing was on his side, and immediately said.

"The Qin people are 600,000, and our army is ......" Zhuang Wudi mentioned this frightening number again, and before he finished speaking, the cavalry in the distance was getting closer and closer, shouting urgently. u