It is extremely difficult for an army of 600,000 to march and to line up, not to mention the flat land 60 miles wide west of the chasm, and even to the east of the chasm hundreds of li wide, it is difficult for 600,000 people to spread out and fight in formation. The 300,000 army is different, and the difficulty of commanding the 300 army to march and fight is exponentially less than 600,000. Moreover, 300,000 people will be the elite of the choice, and the 300,000 elite will be different from the 600,000 mixed army.

"What can I do about it?" Chen Ying's Shogunate in Wangcheng, Nao Xin read the news that Meng Tian had selected 300,000 people to fight again, Xiong Jing looked at the strategists in the shogunate and asked. When several advisers were about to answer, he preemptively said: "If there is a strange plan, you can tell Sima." ”

Xiong Jing wants a plan, not an idea. He didn't have time to discern the merits of these ideas, so the shogunate should focus on discussing and screening, and finally consider them thoroughly, put them forward at the final military meeting, and then choose one of them with the generals himself. The old strategists knew this habit and did not speak at all, and some of the young strategists who had just left the military academy did not know about this tradition.

After explaining the changes of the Qin people, Xiong Jing left the strategist tent, but he was soon stopped by someone with a strange plan, this is not in the big curtain, this is outside the big curtain.

"Please take a look at this." Cao Jingfei, the combat master, didn't know where to come out of nowhere, and hurriedly stopped Xiong Jing. He held a round object in his hand, full of anticipation.

Xiong Jing just glanced at it, and couldn't help nodding and said, "Landmines? ”

"Mines?!" The sorcerers had not yet named the weapon, and Xiong Jing seemed to know it, much to Jing Fei's surprise. Then he nodded again and again, "Yet... Yes, too. It could indeed be called a landmine. The minister thought that the artillery hit the enemy to confuse his ears. Since it is a chaotic formation, the grenade is too heavy to be thrown far, too light to kill, why not bury the ground... The mines are in the ground, and the Qin people are arrayed on them, and they can be ignited, and the array is in chaos at that time......"

Jing Fei was worried that Xiong Jing was not clear about the role of thunder, so he deliberately described it, but how could Xiong Jing not know about the mine? China was the first country in the world to invent and use landmines, and the first known landmine in the West was invented by the Spaniards in the 16th century. It was only in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that landmines gradually became used in regular warfare, but most of them were non-standard mines.

Mines he hadn't considered before, but there was a shortage of gunpowder before, and there was not enough artillery, so where was there any excess gunpowder to make mines? Last year, there was finally enough gunpowder, and high-purity saltpeter arrived at the same time. Although no way has been found to produce high-purity gunpowder on a large scale and stabilize its quality, the two-and-a-half-pound grenadiers used by the grenadiers have been able to be manufactured. Two or three tall soldiers were selected from each pawn, and the grenade could be thrown twenty-five paces away, far beyond the distance required to charge the spear.

This is actually a black powder grenade, which is the same as the border area made during the Anti-Japanese War, this kind of grenade often explodes several pieces at a time, or even two halves, and only has a shocking and minor injury effect. If it is not a vital hit, it is almost impossible to be seriously injured or killed. Later, a thinner shell was cast from coke pig iron, and twenty grams of gunpowder were added, but only a few fragments were slightly added, and the power was still limited.

The range of the grenade is basically about thirty paces, and the farther it can only be used on a torsion trebuchet. Lighter than artillery, the torsional trebuchet could throw a 40-pound bomb at a distance of 70 paces, making up for the lack of grenades in range.

As for the flowering bomb, the flowering bomb needs to be equipped with a fuse gunpowder with an extremely stable combustion rate, and a very delicate time-delay signal tube must be processed; Finally, like the grenade, the flowering shell also needs to be filled with high-purity black powder, otherwise the flowering projectile fired by the barrel of the fifteen-pound cannon with a diameter of ten centimeters is just a large border area and will not have much lethality.

The mine gunpowder mansion that Jing Fei took out had made the real thing very early, but there was no further testing, and the report was not delivered to the Great Sima Mansion. Grenades, bombs, and flowering bombs all have the characteristics of easy use, unlike mines, which are buried in the ground, and the enemy will not cause casualties if they do not pass through this place, and the efficiency cannot be compared with the previous firearms.

"How do mines fire?" Thinking that this time he had chosen the battlefield, Xiong Jing's view of landmines changed. Jing Fei was still detailing the experiments of the Technique Department on the power of the mines, but he interrupted them.

"It can be fused and fired, or flint can be fired." Jing Fei stopped describing, his baby face was covered in sweat because of nervousness. "The flint can also be dug and stepped on, and it is not necessary to be towed. It can also be towed, but it needs to be buried into the long cable traction. If there are hundreds of mines, the Qin army's array will be chaotic, and our army will rush to the spear at this time, and the Qin army will be defeated. ”

"Only available once." Xiong Jing is fully aware of the disadvantages of landmines. If the Qin army drove Lifu and weak pawns to step on it, the mines would be ineffective. This is only a disposable weapon, and it is not as effective as a grenade that explodes in half. It is true that the grenadier only has a shock effect, but when the troops are engaged, they need two or three seconds of shock. What is it? This is the copycat version of infantry and artillery coordination, and when the soldiers are not shocked, they have already rushed to the position in a dense column and achieved a breakthrough.

"With the Qin people, a battle is enough!" Jing Fei didn't come alone, he came with Li Ji's follower Shentong.

"Instead of planting mines, it is better to plant gunpowder." Xiong Jing still didn't look down on the mines, he found a piece of Chu paper, and originally wanted to draw the Chu army array, but he gave up after thinking about it. According to the gap between the spear phalanx and the spear phalanx, mark the location of the gunpowder in these gaps, and then estimate the distance between the explosives and the place of ignition, and then say: "Half a ton, one ton of pure gunpowder is buried in each place, and then the fire is fired eighty paces away." Finally, he was not at ease and advised: "To prevent rain, prevent heavy rain." ”

The mine can be held in the hand, it is estimated that it is only twenty or thirty catties, and the heavy cast iron shell is removed, and the charge is only a few catties, no matter how many quantities there are, the shock effect is also very limited. Thinking of the fear of the Qin army when they blew up the walls of Lantian City, Xiong Jing felt that it was better to plant explosives than to plant mines. Tons and tons of high-purity gunpowder were buried in the gap between the large phalanx of hedged spears, and eighty steps were about to enter the range of the Chu army's arrows, and the Qin soldiers were about to rush to the army. At this time, there was a sudden loud bang in the array, and the ground cracked, and if it was not blown up, it would be half frightened to death.

"Good! Great goodness! Jing Fei and Shentong were still stunned, and Xiong Jing was already boasting about himself. He suddenly felt a little resentful of Meng Tian, if he hadn't led only 300,000 Qin troops, but 600,000 Qin troops to Chen Ying, the Chu army would have won the battle, and the situation in the world might not be irreparable. Unfortunately, the Qin army only came with 300,000 people.

"The King's Trick!" Shentong was the first to wake up. In the past, there were no artillery or trebuchets, and the two armies faced each other about 150 paces apart, and only after advancing about 50 paces did they brave each other's arrows. Now because of artillery, the distance between the two armies is more than 700 paces. Fortunately, seven or eight hundred is too far, and the distance of the soldiers is still within 100 steps, and for the Chu army, it is 70 or 80 steps.

"So you have to bury fifteen tons of pure medicine?" Jing Fei didn't expect the effect, but it was a pity to bury so much high-purity gunpowder. High-purity gunpowder is all ground by hand, and more than 3,000 people produce less than 50 tons a year.

"Yes, yes." Xiong Jing is not a pity for high-purity gunpowder, and in June this year, Dongshajun will ship back high-purity saltpeter. "The Qin army will be defeated in this battle, not to mention fifteen tons of pure medicine, it is one hundred and fifty tons of pure medicine, and it is not a pity. However, it must be fried, and this needs to be foolproof. ”

Xiong Jing advised again, and felt that Jing Fei and Shentong's level was too low, and they might not be able to coordinate the overall situation, so he said to the left and right: "Quickly summon Nao and cunning, Li And, don't mess with me, and go to Chen Ying." ”

The largest military meeting before the decisive battle was held in Chen Ying, and the Great Sima Mansion and the Shogunate strategists racked their brains to fully improve the plan with Xiong Jing as the center. Troops, food, morale, and general ......, everything is for a decisive battle. If you win the battle, you will win, and the situation in the world will change from then on; If you can't win the decisive battle, no matter how hard you try, it will be in vain.

Xiong Jing smelled the smell of victory, and Mi Xuan in the East China Sea felt spring.

In addition to craftsmen and boys, there were also young men between the ages of 12 and 17 who had not been crowned. They traveled to Xinying together, and then rowed back from Xinying. This is an extremely hard work, but someone must row the boat from Xinying back to Zhufang. Therefore, Lu Yangjun, who was in charge of evacuation, recruited many nobles and children of honored scholars. These people can stay in Xinying twice in round trip.

When you go against the north wind, when you return, the wind direction begins to change, sometimes blowing northerly, sometimes southeasterly. When the north wind blows, the boat can raise the sail, and when the southeast wind blows, it can only drop the sail. From this one thing alone, the sea trial is valuable - whether it is a Qinghan boat, or a big boat, a big boat, or a war boat, it should be installed with a sail of the style of a fishing boat.

The sail of the fishing boat is a Chinese sail, and the Chinese sail is a longitudinal sail. The only regret is that in ancient times, the Chinese sail had only one layer, and it could not have several layers like the Western sail, or it could not be as tall as the Western sail, and its wind area was smaller. In modern times, the progress of materials and craftsmanship has made Chinese sails the finest sails.

When returning, the north wind blew during the thousand-mile voyage from Yangma Island to Lighthouse Island, and the speed of the boat was not only not slower than when it went, but faster. After passing the lighthouse island, the southeast wind blew again on the section of the course heading to Zhufang. The southeast wind blowing in Zhufang Bay can also use sails, this section of the voyage is faster, and at noon on the third day, I saw the lighthouse standing in Zhufang Port.

"It's... Yes, it's Da Ao! Qi Tong was also on the boat, and when he saw the phoenix flag that had just left the port under the lighthouse, he immediately shouted.

"Da Ao?" As far as 4,000 miles away in Xinying, and back 4,000 miles away, Mi Xuan missed her husband and children every day when she was in Xinying. Unexpectedly, before the person arrived at Zhu Fang, the man had already come. "That Qin people, Qin people......"

The Qin State invaded Chu with an army of 600,000, which was a figure that was extremely feared by all the countries of the world. Qi Xuan remembered that when he left, the two armies of Chu and Qin were still facing each other in Kaifeng, and the man was now welcoming him, could it be said that the war was over. Under the bright sun, the warm wind blew on Mi Xuan's face, looking at the approaching phoenix flag, she was stunned for a while, and she couldn't help herself.

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