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The Yellow River's zigzag-shaped river encircles the northern part of Shaanxi within the zigzag, and the small half of Ningxia is divided by the river to the west of the zigzag. M. Hu cavalry came from the west in the shape of a 'few', and the Qin army had deployed reconnaissance cavalry all over Henan, and they had no way to detect or cross the river to intercept the cavalry on the other side.

It's just that this road disappointed Dou Yu Pheasant, Lu Gao and others. Tens of thousands of people did not have enough horses, and there were no supplies along the way, so there was no way to cross the uninhabited land west of the river. Instead of going to Hexi, it is better to go to Henan, the Qin State has forty-four counties near the river in Henan, one county after another, and there are always some people who can cross the Yin Mountain and enter the grassland.

Or take advantage of the fact that the Qin army is stuck in the road, and the corn harvest has just ended, and there are still a few months of military rations in hand, so they will enter Shu this winter, and join the Ba people, and they can return to Jiuying by summer water next summer, and maybe they can catch up with the decisive battle of Qin and Chu.

Dou Yu Pheasant and Lu Gao thought about this, and went north to Pingchuan, and the Chu soldiers without horses could carry more corn; If you go south to the mountains, the Qin people may set up a prince in the dangerous place of the river valley, and they will not be able to bring much dry food all the way south. When everyone was thinking about how to leave Qiangdi, the flying officer hurriedly came, and Dou Yu Pheasant did not take the flying news, but asked him to read it in front of the generals Sima.

"To: General Fight; From: Shouying Da Sima Mansion. The king decided to fight with the Qin army when the moon of the evening of the winter was frozen and the Qin army was ......, and this victory would lead to the death of the Qin state; This defeat and the death of the Chu State. Your army should not live in Qiang for a long time, and should quickly attack Guanzhong to be contained, if Su is insufficient, you can wait for the opportunity to cross the Qinling Mountains and go south. This order. Yin Nao, the Great Sima Mansion. The moon of winter and the early eclipse of Dinghai. ”

When the king decided to fight the Qin army, everyone in the hall showed a look of surprise, they couldn't figure out why the king wanted to launch a decisive battle now? Now to launch a decisive battle, if you lose next year, you can't avoid moving, is the king already sure of victory? But if the king was sure of victory, why did the Great Sima Mansion wait for the opportunity to cross the Qinling Mountains and go south?

The text was read quickly, and when I read it, word by word flowed through everyone's hearts, and once I finished reading it, I suddenly found that I had forgotten everything. The six gods and no master fought in the pheasant and said: "Read again." ”

"To: General Fight; From: Shouying Da Sima Mansion. The king is determined to fight with the Qin army when the moon of the evening is frozen this winter, and when he is in the pasture...... "The flying officer read the text again, which was only ninety-nine words. After reading this time, several Sima noticed that the date of the message was the month of winter and evening, that is, the beginning of last month, which was only a month ago.

If it is a Haizhou transmission, Xunwen can't reach Qiangdi for a month, this should be a news pigeon transmission, and the Great Sima Mansion will send the news to Zhenyan Mountain, and Zhenyan Mountain will quickly spread it here. In addition to time, everyone once again felt that the confidence of the Great Sima Mansion in victory was extremely low, and it was not clear whether to contain the Qin army, but it was also possible that the Great Sima Mansion was not sure whether he could receive the news before the decisive battle, and he did not have hope for containment.

After reading the second time, the flying officer retreated, and the Ming Hall was silent at first, and the first was the voice of Sima Song and the voice, "The Qin army is all in the way, if our army attacks the pass, it must break the road first." ”

"The king is determined to fight with the Qin people, and the Qin people should know it. The Qin people know that the Qin people stop at the Tao as a fake ......" Cai Shi led Cai Zhi to mutter, looking at Lu Gao, this is Lu Gao's judgment just now.

Lu Gao himself didn't feel it yet, but now that he was being watched by Cai Zhi and others, his face couldn't help but feel a little hot. He was not sure that the two armies would fight, and his guess was that the Qin army would have to fight, not the Chu army. The state of Chu took the initiative to launch a battle that was not too certain, why is this? Lu Gao couldn't figure it out.

"Please quickly order all divisions to pull out their camps and attack Guanzhong." Pan Wuming shouted. "Our army will be able to pull out Xianyang again!"

Pan Wuming has not changed from when he entered Jiyi with Xiang Yan twelve years ago, and he still has a happy and indomitable temperament when he hears the war. His words made the generals excited, and he said: "However, if you attack Guanzhong, our army can pull out Xianyang again." ”

"No." Lu Gao, who was thinking about why the king launched a battle, didn't expect the generals to want to pull out Xianyang, and subconsciously said no. "The Qin people are strong and clear, and Didao to Xianyang is nearly a thousand miles, and the wind and snow are combined, and it is impossible to arrive in January. Along the way, our army has no grain, no dry firewood, and no cavalry, how to go to Xianyang to pull out Xianyang? ”

"So what?" Dou Yu looked at Lu Gao and wanted to know his idea.

"Attack Guanzhong, pull out Chen Cangdang and don't go east." Lu Gao Dao. "Or go north along the road of the king in the past to go out of Yan's stop, pass through Nanyang to Yinshan for winter, and then enter the grassland next spring; Or break through the Dasan Pass in the south of Chencang, cross the Qinling Mountains and go south. ”

"How's the King?!" Lu Gao said that it was all about how his army got out of trouble, and he didn't say how to contain the Qin people at all.

"I'm helpless in the battle of Daliang." Lu Gao Dao. "The Qin people have the convenience of the boat again, with the cold of this year, our army has been decided to the battle of Chencang!"

"Nonsense!" Pan Wuming shouted angrily, "The Qin people are all in the Kanto, if I pull out Xianyang, the Qin State will die." ”

"King Qin, the Qin court has long been moved to Hanoi County, and Xianyang is just an empty city at this time." Lu Gao looked at Pan Wuming and smiled bitterly, not knowing what he was going to do with an empty city.

"Even if it is an empty city, its craftsmen must be beheaded." Pan is lifeless and does not give up. He remembered that the last time he attacked Xianyang, he was merciful and did not kill the craftsmen, and these craftsmen built war boats, and the battle of Daze was lost to the Qin people.

"Alas! The Qin people gathered their troops in Daliang, and they must know that I will enter the customs. Knowing that I am in the customs, how can there be craftsmen in Xianyang? Lu Gao said again. General Dou Mingjian, I thought that there was no hurry to Xianyang, and now I should quickly pull out the camp to enter the customs. ”

"But our army is all in the Qiang land." The military plan reminded. "If there is no corn, our army will ......"

"How much corn is there in the army?" Lu Gao asked. According to this, the Qiang land is 400 miles, and he really doesn't want to wait for the corn from the Qiang land to come and set off again.

"Two months at most." The military plan pondered for a moment and replied.

"The military situation is urgent. There is no need to wait for the millet of the Qiang land, our army should quickly go east to enter the pass. Two houses a day, ten days to Chencang, pull out Chencang and then determine the whereabouts. Lu Gao confirmed, he looked at Dou Yu Pheasant again, "Whether it is to contain the Qin army or return to Chu, you must be as soon as possible, and you will regret it later!" ”

"When it is." Lu Wu did not support Lu Gao all the time, and this time it was even more so.

"It is so." Fei did say. "This winter is cold, and one day earlier is one day earlier."

"This goodness too." Pan Wuming rarely agreed to Lu Gao once, he thought that this little white face was frightened by the Qin people.

"Yes. Command the whole army, and pull out the camp the day after tomorrow. Dou Yu Pheasant also made up his mind, and immediately issued an order to pull out the camp the day after tomorrow.

It is by no means easy for tens of thousands of troops to immediately pull out the camp, and it is necessary to ship more than a month's worth of corn, and the time for the camp to be pulled out is already very tight the day after tomorrow. In less than a quarter of an hour, the generals in the Ming Hall disappeared without a trace, including Cheng Kui, who had just been wrapped in the wind and snow and had just entered the Ming Hall.

Lu Gao did not have a siege brigade in Mingtang or on land, he went straight to the shogunate. The shogunate was very busy at this time, and since the shogun had already made a decision, the shogunate formulated a reconnaissance plan and a marching plan according to the general's wishes. Lu Gao looked at the map that had not yet been put away by the city staff and was stunned, he never imagined that the Chu army would launch a decisive battle.

This is a complete contradiction to the idea of the previous evacuation plan: if victory is not assured, then why a decisive battle? If victory is assured, then why avoid? Li is a cautious person, he is unlikely to make such a contradictory decision, the only possibility is that the king wants to start a decisive battle as soon as possible, but why does the king want to do this?

Lu Gao couldn't think of a reason. However, there is no exact reason for what happened on the battlefield, only subjective speculation. Because of this subjective miscalculation, one or even both sides will unexpectedly invest heavily in grabbing a worthless target. The decisive battle two thousand miles away can't help you, but the decisive battle can help your own people.

Lu Gao became more and more aware that he believed that the 100,000 Qin troops led by Bai Lin had gone east by boat, if not 100,000 Qin troops, but 80,000 Qin troops, because 20,000 people had to be left behind to clear the wilderness, so that his army would not be able to obtain food, grass and dry firewood. In addition, the entire Guanzhong is empty, and the soldiers who can fight have been transferred to the decisive battle of Daliang. If that battle is won, these 30,000 or 40,000 people occupying Xianyang will not change the overall situation; That battle was lost, and it didn't matter whether Xianyang was lost or not, because the Qin state was already dead.

The snow is falling, and the north wind is calling. The wind was so strong that the roof tiles were swept up by the north wind, and then they fell to the ground. This sound shocked the shogunate's advisers, and their frightened hearts had not yet calmed down, and for some reason the closed door was blown open by the north wind, and it was thrown against the wall with a loud 'bang'. Snowflakes also blew in, and the documents that were being sorted out and packed on several cases flew to the ground. Some pieces of paper also flew into the brazier, where they were rushed out by the staff officers, destroying the sparks on it. Some of them didn't grab it in time, and they could only watch it ignite a bright flame under the charcoal fire.

'Unlucky! Lu Gao couldn't help but chuckle in his heart, faintly feeling that it was not good. Not knowing what force controlled his body, he stepped forward and kicked over the brazier, ignoring the red charcoal fire on the ground, the sheep fur on his body quickly pounced and extinguished the burning paper.

"Your Majesty......" The staff officers looked at Lu Gao strangely, but he looked at the burnt yellow piece of paper on his hand that was burned in half, and laughed: "It's just a small illness, the words are all there." ”

"Your Majesty, the clothes are ......on fire," the staff officer reminded him, pointing to Lu Gao's gradually smoking sheep fur. He shook the sheep's fur and hurriedly extinguished the sparks on the wool above, but it could not be extinguished by burning a small hole.

Lu Gao's rescue was not a big deal, it was just one of the many forms and documents in the daily life of the Chu army, and the young staff officer couldn't help but feel that he was a little lost because of the two small holes burned in his sheep fur, but he didn't dare to say anything, and made a military salute to continue to sort out the documents. Lu Gao was glad that he had decisively snatched the document, which seemed to mean that he had redeemed his original unlucky fate.