Chapter 65: Urgent Call
120,000 people is counted as only two Wu Di divisions. In other words, except for the two Wu Di divisions, the rest of the divisions and brigades are likely to be unable to rush to Kaifeng to assemble because of the containment of the Qin army. Knowing this result, Nao Cunning asked unwillingly, "Can't you have more?" If you don't let the Qin people notice ......"
"I can't." I have thought about this question many times, and the answer is no.
"If the Qin people know, this ......" Although after the Qin people found out, because the Chu army in various places would reduce the strength of the Qin army, this was probably a disguised gathering of troops, but Nao cunning did not dare to think so.
"120,000 people, and 600,000 people." He looked at the map on the wall, his gaze fixed on the position of the girder. Two months later, a battle of more than 700,000 people will take place here.
"Not necessarily invincible." Li said. "If you can't win, you can retreat into the girder."
Retreating into the girder is already a word of consolation. A victory is a victory, a defeat is a defeat, and retreating into the Great Liang is the same as a defeat, but it can delay the Qin people for a few more months. Seeing Nao's cunning gaze shining on his face, he was embarrassed and had to add: "Artillery, spear arrays, and heavy cavalry can all break the formation, and the Qin people can't break me." ”
"But don't say that there is instability in the city of Daliang." Nao slyly looked away and said something else. "Many ministers of Zhao Wei have surrendered to Qin."
"Really?" Li was not surprised by this, the soldiers were approaching the city, and some ministers who had not surrendered to Qin also wanted to surrender to Qin. "What do they want?"
"I don't know." Nao Wei only mentioned this matter, "They will either persuade Zhao Wei to surrender to Qin, or they will not send troops to fight." So our army ......"
Without Wei Zhao's 43,000 soldiers, the number of Chu was less than 80,000, and there were more than 56,000 soldiers, so the disparity between the two sides' forces would be even greater. I also said before that the Qin people couldn't break my heart and were dumbfounded, and it took a long time before he said: "If this battle is defeated, the two countries will die." ”
"If not, when will it come down again?" Nao asked rhetorically. After that, he sighed: "Plains Jun should not die. ”
Pingyuan Jun has always been close to Chu, but for some reason, he actually agreed to send soldiers into the Chu State to attack and kill Mi Xuan. There is also Queen Yingnan, Yingnan should have hated Mi Xuan, but she went to Xiaoyi to report the news on the night when the Zhao people attacked Xiaoyi. There are reasonable explanations for the details of things, but without looking at these reasonable explanations, relying on intuition alone, Nao Cunning feels that it is unlikely.
Death is like life, and the artifact is exactly the same as the daily utensils, but those who feel a little more keenly will find that the artifacts are very different from the utensils. That's how it feels. However, the difficulty is that the Chu people dislike Zhibisi and also hate Hou Spy, and the Sanjin Hou Spy who knows Bisi can't help him solve his doubts, and their answers are all the same.
Because he was worried that Wei and Zhao would descend to Qin, he sighed that Pingyuan Jun should not die, and if Pingyuan Jun was there, Daliang would definitely be worry-free. He reminded him that his face was cloudy. In the face of 600,000 troops, including him, the generals of the Chu army are all thinking about seeking stability and waiting for the Qin people to collapse themselves, so what will Zhao and Wei think? Are they planning to surrender to Qin or are they going to war resolutely?
Li He was immersed in his own thoughts, and Wang Jian of the Shahai Battalion was shooting arrows under the watchful eyes of thousands of soldiers. He didn't seem to have happened when he came back from Huaixian, and he raised his account as usual every day, but the wrinkles at the corners of his eyes deepened a few more layers.
"Color!" The feather arrow hit the bull's-eye hard, and the surrounding soldiers cheered when they saw this. One of the reasons why they like Wang Jian is that they can see Wang Jian all the time, and they feel at ease when they can see Wang Qian.
"General Zhao, please, shoot." Wang Jian did not shoot the second arrow immediately, but asked Zhao Yong next to him to shoot the arrow.
"General Zhao shoots!" The soldiers took the opportunity to make a fuss. Zhao Yong is just a Xianyang Order, or a Xianyang Order. In the coaxing of everyone, he had no choice but to open his bow, and as soon as the arrow left the string, the people on both sides felt crooked, and sure enough, the arrow was completely missed.
"Haha......" According to the concept of soldiers, generals should be excellent in martial arts, and no one expected that the generals of the right army would not even be able to shoot at the target. Several military officials were aware of Zhao Yong's anger, and they were about to run over and order the soldiers to silence.
"If you don't hit, you won't hit, so what about laughing?" Zhao Yong was generous, and the military officials had no choice but to stand aside when they heard the words.
"General Qiang, please, shoot." The military officials also asked General Zuo Qiang to shoot arrows. Qiang is the general rate of the battlefield, he can shoot on the bumpy cart and on horseback, and now he shoots arrows at fifty paces on the ground, which is naturally not a problem. The crowd didn't see how he took the arrow and opened the bow, but only saw him with the arrow target on his back turned around and flew out with the arrow, and the arrow hit the bull's-eye.
"Color!" The shouts were louder than before, and in the midst of this lively cheer, a person dressed in soap appeared in the crowd.
"I don't know ...... the king" in the shogunate's internal account, Wang Jian watched the speaker speak, a little puzzled.
A few days ago, he went to Huai County with his heart Liu Chi to tell him about the decisive battle in winter, but he didn't expect that the king who had urged the decisive battle was now unusual, and he was not in a hurry. Not only is he not in a hurry, but he is also advised not to be too anxious, the military rations can only last until May next year, as the prime minister said, but can be maintained until May of the next year, and the decisive battle with the Chu army will also take place at that time.
Wang Jian knew about the military rations. The prime minister said that May is only the time under normal levies, and if the people's rations are taken away, it may not be able to support it for another year. A family of five has a food ration of 90 stone a year, and each family takes 30 stone, which is enough for the army to last for a year. But the decisive battle with the Chu army the year after tomorrow, Wang Jian was very puzzled, and it was not until Liu Chi whispered a word of witchcraft on the way back that he woke up.
"The king urgently summoned the general, and he asked the general to go to Huai County with his subordinates." The confessor is the one who was common before, and as before, he summons each other with three bronze runes, which is an urgent call.
"I don't know what happened to the king?" Wang Jian was secretly shocked in his heart. Last year, the Xiongnu detained the master craftsman in the extreme west, and Ganluo went to the country of the extreme west again in order to get the witch medicine master, could it be that Ganluo came back?
"The subordinates don't know. I also asked the general and his subordinates to rush to Huai County. The king is in a hurry. "Every time Wang Jian is summoned, Wang Jian has to arrange everything in the army before leaving, and the confessor is worried that Wang Jian will still be like this this time, so he has to add.
"No. Promise. Wang Jian agreed again and again, and when he got up to get out of the account, he said, "The king also summoned Liu Chi." ”
"No, summon Liu Chi quickly." Wang Qian's expression changed, and there was some joy on his face.
Shahai was not close to Huaixian, but it was an urgent call, and the carriage traveled through the night to reach Huaixian the next night. The two did not enter the post house for a while, but immediately went to the brightly lit main bed. When he arrived at the main bed, Wang Jian realized that when the rooster crowed, Zhao Zheng was still looking at the map on the wall.
"Chen Wang Jian and Liu Chi have seen the king!" Daqin's Wang couldn't sleep at night looking at the map of Daliang, and Wang Jian and Liu Chi were startled.
"Excuse me." Zhao Zheng's voice was a little tired, he hadn't had a good night's sleep for three or four days. "The Jingren camp is sixty miles away from the beam, and the beam is how many miles away from the sea of sand?"
"Your lord, the girder is fifteen miles away from the sea of sand." Wang Jian replied. "Kaifeng to the sand sea, because it goes around the west of Fengze, there are ninety miles."
"What about the ice?" Zhao Zheng asked.
"Frozen?" Wang Jian was a little strange. "Your Majesty, if the ice is sealed and sealed to the sand sea for seventy miles."
"Yes." Zhao Zheng nodded. "The spy of Jing Guohou told me the day before yesterday that the Jing people wanted to attack me when the winter was frozen. Gather 200,000 troops ......"
Zhao Zheng's news shocked Wang Qian, and at this time he had not recovered from the bumps of more than two hundred miles. Jing Guo Hou spy, when did Qin State have Jing Guo Hou Spy? This has never happened before! And then the Chu State gathered 200,000 troops, where is there still 200,000 people in the Chu State? The nobles of the Chu State would rather die than practice the Qin law, how could anyone voluntarily die?
The shock of Wang Jian and Liu Chi fell in Zhao Zheng's eyes, and he was a little proud of this, and the Chu State, which was dark and didn't know anything before, now saw it clearly. Yin Li, the director of the Operations Division, announced the military order on the same day, and the spy spread the news on the same day. The carrier pigeon flew to Xianyang overnight, and Xianyang spread to Huai County two days later, and he urgently summoned Wang Qian.
"What does the general think?" After Wang Jian was slightly surprised, Zhao Zheng asked.
"I don't know why there are 200,000 Jing people?" Wang Jian asked, wondering what to do.
"Yue, Lu, Song, Wu, Nanjun, Ba, and the southern barbarians, there should be 160,000 or 70,000 people, plus Wei and Zhao's army, there should be 200,000." Zhao Zhengdao.
"How could the Jing people abandon so many important places?" Wang Jian is incredible.
"If you gather troops against me, so should you." Liu Chi whispered on the side. He understood what Xiong Jing meant, defeated, and it didn't matter if he abandoned it; If you win, it doesn't matter if you abandon it.
"No, no, no." Wang Jian still shook his head. "The Jing people are accustomed to taking care of their homes and fighting their own places, and they will never abandon their homes and gather troops in Kaifeng. The more in Langya, Zhifu can attack it; Lu is in Muling, and Qi people can attack it; Song is in the waters, and the sea of sand can attack it; Nanjun is in Deng, and Nanyang can be attacked; Ba is in Yangguan, and Shu can attack it; Only Wu Shi and the southern barbarians can gather in Kaifeng. That's less than 100,000 people. ”
"The Guowei's Mansion also thinks that if it sends troops to contain Yue, Lu, Song, Nanjun, and Ba Zhudi, there will be no more than 100,000 Jing people." Zhao Zheng nodded slowly, indicating that Wang Qian's judgment was correct.
"No, no, no." Wang Jian only found out that this was offending Zhao Zheng, and hurriedly bowed. Zhao Zheng didn't care about this, the decisive battle was imminent, and he just wanted to listen to Wang Qian's opinion. "The minister thinks that it is not appropriate to send troops to contain the land, and it is enough to send the people to build momentum. Jing people take care of their families, but when they hear that our army is coming, they don't distinguish between truth and falsehood, and they won't abandon their families and gather in Kaifeng. ”
"Is this a plan?" This time it was Zhao Zheng's turn to be surprised. The Great Sima Mansion of the State of Chu had already issued a military order, and the divisions dared to disobey.
"It must be so." Wang Jian is very sure. "The Song people may go to Kaifeng, but a few years ago, our army entered the Song land, and the Song people were afraid of me and re-entered the Song land."
"100,000 Jing people, 600,000 in our army?" Zhao Zheng was skeptical and said the strength of both sides.
"If you plan before leaving, our army will be less than 600,000 people." Last time, Wang Jian asked Zhao Zheng to increase his troops, but after Zhao Zheng learned of the disparity between the armor of the two armies, he would rather wait for the witch medicine craftsmen in the country of the extreme west than fight a decisive battle immediately.
"No. As you have asked. "Zhao Zheng wants to wait, but the Chu people can't wait, and it is impossible to retreat.
"The minister has another please." Wang Jian took the opportunity to make another request. "The minister asks the king to take the eldest son as his protector."