After the autumn rain, Fangcheng was as warm as the sun shining in Nanzheng, and that day Yingshi passed through Xianghe Pass and went north, and once again chased to Fenchengsai. The Qin army fled in the wilderness, leaving behind the baggage, soldiers, and grain on the way, and then took the first step, and rushed north after entering the Fen Fortress.

An army that is determined to flee and whose roads are clear will not be able to catch up. The Qin army was one step ahead of the Yingshi division, and fled to the rear in all directions in one day, but the Yingshi could not catch up, so they could only stop at Fenchengsai.

Fencheng Sai was originally the gateway of Chu State, but it was in the most powerful Wei Wang period of Chu State and the early period of King Huai, raising these generals who had beaten chicken blood many times to ask to pull out Fen Cheng Sai, Xiong Jing smiled at this and said nothing. The garrison outside the Fencheng Sai was one day, and the next day the Chu army sang the song back to the military city.

At this time, the news that Yingshi had killed Li Xin and defeated the Qin army had spread all over the world. Those envoys who came to the Yingdu of Chu State worriedly, when they heard the news, changed their sad faces, and did not go to Yingdu, but turned directly to Fangcheng, and greeted Xiong Jing who had returned triumphantly at the entrance of Fangcheng.

Fighting to the death, returning home triumphantly was praised and congratulated by everyone, showing their bravery, this is the pursuit of the Chu soldiers. Outside the city, nearly 10,000 envoys, soldiers, and commoners went out of the city to greet them, and Xiong Jing was still half a mile away, and they had already bowed their heads.

When Xiong Jing walked in, first the courtiers and envoys shouted: "Congratulations to the king on defeating the Qin people again!" Then nearly 10,000 people cheered: "Long live the king!" Hooray......"

The voice of Long Live is naturally not as good as the shouts of the soldiers on the battlefield, and this kind of voice always sounds a little less masculine and more flattering. However, this cheer made him uncontrollable and happy, and it also made Yingshi's soldiers happy.

Holding back a smile, Xiong Jing looked at the ministers who greeted him in the crowd, Zhao Huang was here, Shi Yan was there, Lu Yangjun from the Great Sima Mansion was there, don't be here. Standing beside them were the envoys of the various countries, Zhao Heng, the prime minister of Zhao State, Pingyang Jun, Wei Guoxin, Lingjun Wei Jianwei, Qi State Jimo Doctor Tian He, and Korean Doctor Han Zheng. Next to it were the merchants headed by Bai Yi, the Yi family, the Kong family, the Xian family, the Shi family, the Guo family, the Duan family, and ......, and the people of the Zhu clan knelt beside Bai Yi and bowed to themselves.

Most of the people were smiling, but Lu Yangjun and Bei Yi and me, one of them was obviously smiling, with a stiff smile and a gloomy gaze; The other had a gloomy face, and the two thick eyebrows were joined together, and they were about to turn into one eyebrow. Xiong Jing understands that whenever his two eyebrows become one, something bad always happens.

In the grand congratulations and cheers, the steps of the soldiers became more vigorous, and the military boots stepped neatly on the hard mud ground, shaking up bursts of dust like light smoke. As they entered the rolling city and settled in Fangcheng, the crowd of people in the suburbs gradually dispersed.

"The minister has seen the king!" Xiong Jing did not summon Zhao Huang, Shi Yan and the envoys of various countries, but first summoned Lu Yangjun and Don't Ji me. It is not surprising that the two of them were met first, the king has always been pragmatic and not pragmatic, and the state and military affairs are important.

"What?" Xiong Jing asked as soon as he opened his mouth, his eyes fixed on the two of them.

"Minister......" The two glanced at each other, and it was Lu Yangjun who said first. The battle of Nanzheng, alas, ......," he sighed before saying, "Defeated!" ”

"Defeat?" Xiong Jing's heart sank suddenly, and the original joy disappeared without a trace. The newly built large-wing gunboat went west to Nanzheng, in order to fight this decisive battle, but it was defeated. Could it be that the state of Chu is going to be destroyed in the hands of the Qin Junzhou Division?

"Before the war, the Qin people retreated into Daze, and the two armies were arrayed on the Ze, and the Qin people had more than 450 warships, and our army only had more than 280 ships. However, the Qin people's warships were densely arrayed, and after the collision, they hooked our army's warships with hooks and sickles......"

Lu Yangjun rushed from Xiangyang to report a long telegram sent to the Great Sima Mansion after the boat master returned to Nanzheng. The report not only described the battle process in detail, but also counted the losses of the Chu and Vietnamese armies. Of the more than 280 warships, only 116 of them withdrew from Daze and returned to Nanzheng. Chengfeng's right army was annihilated, and more than half of the five divisions of the Zhu clan and the Yue division were sunk. The only ones who could be regarded as retreating were the right army led by Xiang Chao and the big wing gunboats led by Bu Liangju. In addition, the flagship on which Su Kai was riding was also sunk, and no one knew the news of Su Kai and Jing Turtle.

Before, Xiong Jing just didn't have joy, but now he was chilling all over, and the cold air rushed up from his back, and he was dizzy. More than 280 warships sank more than 160 ships, more than 40,000 soldiers were killed in battle, and only 30,000 survived!

What's more deadly is that you can't block the fish pass, and if you can't block the fish pass, the loss of Bashu will be unavoidable. And the Qin State obtained Bashu, and the six divisions and one brigade that retreated to the Qiang Land may never be able to return to the Chu State.

"The only way to abandon Nanzheng is to abandon it!" Xiong Jing tried his best to restrain his mind and try his best to remain calm.

Abandoning Nanzheng is not Xiong Jing's idea alone, after the Great Sima Mansion received the news from Nanzheng, the first suggestion of the Operations Division was to abandon Nanzheng.

Abandon Nanzheng, Shangyu, Fangcheng, and retreat to Fanxiang. The front contracted, and the predicament of the Chu army's serious lack of strength could be alleviated to a certain extent. Huguan - Xiangyang - Shangcai - Daliang - Taoyi - Muling Pass, so that a rudimentary line of defense can barely be maintained.

However, the strategic retreat will bring violent shocks to the Chu State, and some of the honored scholars and feudal lords will be forced to give up their fiefdoms and fiefdoms, what should their subjects do? If all of them were to move south, it would cost millions of people a huge expense, and Jiangdong's receiving capacity was also very limited, and even if there was a valley in Dongzhou, the limited land might not be able to feed so many people.

Another worry came from the report of Zhibisi, when Xiong Jing abandoned Nanzheng and made Lu Yangjun silent, he said again: "King Qiyu: King Qin demolished Zhangtai Palace, Qutai Palace, Extreme Palace and other palaces to build a war boat ......"

"The Qin people have also demolished the palace room!" Xiong Jing was surprised.

"Yes." Don't let me nod deeply, "The Qin man-made boat yard is non-stop day and night, and there are more than hundreds of warships launched every month. ”

After Xianyang was burned, Guanzhong continued to cut down trees in order to rebuild Xianyang City within a radius of 80 miles. This is also the reason why Zhibisi has no way to judge the Qin army's construction of war boats from the amount of logging, and hundreds of thousands of subordinates of the Qin State have been logging for several years, and they have never stopped.

A fang out, Shushan Wu. After the construction of Afang Palace, the mountains and forests of Shu will be gone. Although the poet exaggerates, it may not be without historical evidence. According to the statistics of the shipbuilding yard, it takes more than 630 large chapters to build a sea boat, and 55 large chapters to build a winged warship, and the wood of 11 winged warships is equal to a naval battle.

If the Qin State launches 300 warships in January, 300 warships are 27 sea boats, this is only a month, and 327 sea boats in a year, which requires 200,000 large medals. The consumption of Dazhang is so huge, it is naturally not enough to rely on the forests of the Qinling Mountains, Hengduan Mountains, and Liupan Mountains alone.

The Qin people were short of timber to build war boats, so they had to dismantle the wood from the palace to build boats. Xiong Jing was no stranger to this approach, but when he thought of the scale of the Qin palace and the huge palaces in the north and south of Xianyang, he seemed to see countless five-oarled war boats rushing towards him.

He exhaled heavily, Lu Yangjun didn't bother with the question of whether Nan Zheng abandoned it, and he also said: "Fu Yin thinks that our army should build a war boat quickly, otherwise the Qin people will attack me with a war boat, and our army will be defeated." ”

"What's the use of building a war boat?" Xiong Jing heard him say 'Fu Yin thinks', not 'Li and thinks'. "No matter how many warships there are, are there any soldiers? No matter how many warships there are, is there artillery? Even if all the artillery of the Lingshi division was loaded onto the battle boats, it would only be two or three hundred war boats. You said that the big-winged gunboats can only break the boat but not sink the boat, what is the use of the big-wing gunboats? ”

"Minister......" Lu Yangjun was speechless for a while. The Qin army's Zhou division defeated the Chu army twice, causing a large number of casualties, so that there were almost no soldiers in the country, which was the fatal problem faced by the Chu state. The military system of the Chu State was different from that of the Qin State, and the Chu Prefecture had not even implemented the people, and there was no way to recruit new soldiers in a short period of time, and it was also unable to effectively use all the resources, and was dragged down by the newly recovered areas.

"The minister thinks that the old Yingfang City should follow the Qin law, not the Qin law, and the new land will not be able to be soldiers, and our army will not be able to fight." Don't worry, I also see the biggest problem of Chu State at the moment. The biggest problem is that the military force cannot be replenished, and the biggest reason why it cannot be effectively replenished is that Chu Fa is not suitable for Qin.

"Good!" When Xiong Jing heard this, he immediately turned his head to stare at me and asked loudly, "How?!" ”

"The minister thinks that one of them should re-recruit officials. If there are no Qin officials in the Qin State, Qin Law will not work either. In other words, the laws of Qin are all in the Qin officials, and without the Qin officials, there would be no today's Qin State. Today, we don't collect grain, soldiers don't fight, and taxes don't collect, all because there are no officials in Chu State. ”

Xiong Jing's expression was calm, and he listened to me, and there seemed to be infinite anger under his expression. Don't let me go, he plucked up the courage to continue: "Second, be a waste of money. Qi died under Wang Jian and could fight, but he couldn't fight under Qi people, why? It's all because the Qin people wasted their sons and mothers. There are still 100,000 Qi troops, if they can waste all the money of their children and mothers, Qi people can fight!

The minister's advice, only for the king, only for the Chu country, please think twice! ”

The more I said to the end, the more impassioned he became, and when he said, 'Please think twice,' his eyes suddenly moistened, and he couldn't help but cry. As the Si Yin of Zhibisi, he is fully aware of the current situation. The mother country is in danger, and if you can't come up with a surprise plan to turn things around at this time, the mother country will perish.

After his words were finished, there was silence in the Mingtang for a while, Xiong Jing and Lu Yangjun did not speak, and after a long time, Xiong Jing sighed heavily, suppressed his anger and asked Lu Yangjun an extreme analogy: "Great hunger, you have no food, do you eat?" ”

"Minister......" Lu Yangjun instantly understood what Xiong Jing meant, he didn't think about it, and directly shook his head and said, "The minister doesn't eat." ”

"If you don't eat, you'll starve to death, so what?" Xiong Jing asked again, but this time he was not asking Lu Yangjun, but asking himself.

"I don't eat." Lu Yangjun endured it for a few years, but when he thought that he was eating, he still shook his head and said: "Rather than eat, the minister would rather die." ”

Xiong Jing and Lu Yangjun asked and answered, of course I know what the metaphor is, and he thought that the situation was so irreparable, and his mother country would eventually die at the hands of the Qin people, he couldn't help it anymore, and cried loudly. His cry also made Xiong Jing and Lu Yangjun sad, and Xiong Jing comforted him: "Since you are a nobleman, you can do the things of a nobleman, how can you change it suddenly?" ”

"If you don't change, the state of Chu will be ruined!" Don't let me say out loud, with tears all over my face.

"If you can change, you will change it; No, it won't change! It's hard to return, why don't you know?! "Don't let me cry Xiong Jing also wept, and then Xiong Jing did not waver at all. If you want to lose your country, then you will lose your country.

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