Chapter 47: Tomorrow
More than 100 fires illuminate the temple, and the flames erupt from time to time with sparks, shining brighter light. Under the fire, in the dim courtyard of the Taimiao mixed with the smell of pine resin ashes, Taibu Guanyao prayed in a low voice, while constantly bowing to the burning tortoise shell in the brazier. Concubine Zhao, Ying Nan, Song Yu, Zhao Huang, Lan Hao, Qu Sui, Lian Yu, and Wei Jian were worried ......, all of these people knelt behind him and didn't dare to speak.
Divination has long been in decline among the nations, but it is still a major matter related to society in the Chu State. Xiong Jing's first pigeon message was to divination. At this time, Yingdu knew that the Qin people's boat division was going south, and the two armies would fight in Tianchi Daze. Regardless of what auspicious days are not auspicious, Guanyu worships the ancestral gods in the Taimiao that night, divining the auspiciousness.
The long prayer was finally over, and Kan took out the tortoise shell that had been burned and crackled to take a closer look. Everyone was staring at him, staring at his tense lips. After a while, his lips opened, and he said judgmentally: "Unlucky! ”
"No, bad luck?!" It's either good or bad. The people who watched the watch hoped that he was wrong, but unfortunately the watch was not wrong. He turned over the tortoise shell, and the omen patterns were all on the side of 'our army will be defeated', and on the other side, although there were also omen lines on the other side, although there were also omen lines, the armor surface was clearly visible. No one who interprets such a sign will say that it is auspicious.
"This, this ......" Concubine Zhao fell down softly when she looked at it, and Ying Nan on her side hurriedly held on.
In normal times, Concubine Zhao would definitely push Ying Nan away, but now she was trembling, and she didn't care who supported her, and she didn't care whether she was kneeling or lying. She only shouted: "Sima Shang, Sima Shang......, Sima Shang!" ”
The 100,000 Zhao army lost more than 20,000 in the battle of Xiangyang, and the last 50,000 people who could be mobilized were all in Tianchi Daze. If even this little force is lost, the Zhao State will really be destroyed.
Concubine Zhao fell softly, and Wei Jian was also sweating like rain. In order to show the existence of the Wei State, even though the Wei State had no soldiers to fight, the king still decided to send 15,000 elite Wei soldiers, led by Gongsun Mao, to attack the Guanzhong, but he did not expect the Wei army to be defeated on Daze before entering the Guanzhong.
Zhao Huang, Qu Sui, Song Yu, Lan Hao, Zi Mo and others were a little calmer, all the divisions and brigades of the Zhu clan were in Xiangyang, and most of the Song divisions and brigades were in Mulingguan, and the losses were not their own soldiers. After all, Daze is full of the divisions and brigades of the old family, and their divisions and brigades are all wiped out, and the right to speak in the upper court will inevitably be weakened.
However, these people were also cold in their hearts, and they all had a premonition of a catastrophe. If the four divisions of the Ao clan, the divisions of the old clan, and the divisions of the Yue people, if these divisions and brigades are really overthrown, can only the Ying division and the Xiang division resist the Qin people? It can't be stopped!
And the Qin army also has a large-wing war boat, with the temperament of the Qin State, once there is a war boat, it will inevitably be built on a large scale. The Chu army had thirty-seven semi-regular divisions, twelve newly organized divisions, and only sixteen warships with one wing in each division, and even if some divisions and brigades used not wings but large wings, the number of warships did not exceed 1,000.
If the Qin State builds war boats, it will definitely not be counted in thousands, but in tens of thousands, where can the Chu State build ten thousand war ships? There were soldiers beyond the warship. Qin State subordinates tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, rushed them to the war boat to paddle, and if they died, they died; The battle boat of the Chu State Boat Division was full of armor soldiers, and any armor soldier who died in battle had to be reported layer by layer, all the way to the king's death. Names, pensions, burials, sacrifices, ......, and recently said that each division is equipped with a Bai Di painter, and the war dead will draw their faces for future generations to admire.
The land war Chu army can be one as ten, and win every battle; If the water war is that the Qin people also have war boats, and the Chu State is the hometown of water, how can it be fought? One enemy and two will definitely lose.
Zhao Huang, Song Yu, Qu Sui, Lan Hao, and Zi Mo looked at each other, and their thoughts were clear. They are all serious old men, they did not discuss in the court of Taimiao, but only waited for the queen mother and Zhao Wei envoys to be sent away, and then they spoke in the Ming Hall.
"If our army is defeated," Zhao Huang couldn't help but sigh. "The whole army was destroyed, and only the 12th Brigade of the 8th Division of Wuguan Dao, the 8th Division of Fangcheng, and the 10th Division of Mulingguan remained."
"The Wei army still has 20,000, and the Zhao army also has 20,000." Zi Mo talked about several allies of the Chu State. "And the Qi army still has 100,000!"
"All the soldiers are unwilling to fight, and there are many people who defect to Qin." Zhao Huang still sighed. "It is reported that there are more than 100,000 Qi soldiers under Wang Jian out of thin air, all because the Qin people exempt their sons and mothers from money, redivide the acres of land, and behead them can also be promoted.
Zhao Huang sighed again, while Song Yu, Qu Sui and others smiled bitterly frequently. On the surface, there is a Qi country, this Qi country is bright and bright, the goods are all over the world, all the sons gather, and a hundred schools of thought contend. But there is another unknown Qi country under this Qi country, this Qi country is ragged, reversing day and night, money is light and heavy, and the morning is rich and poor.
Knowing etiquette and knowing etiquette and knowing honor and disgrace when food and clothing are sufficient. If everyone is carrying one or even several pieces of money on their backs, and they need to work non-stop day and night to pay it back, what if the Qin army comes? It is a good thing that the Qin army is here.
"If the counties and towns call for more soldiers, there may be more than 100,000 people." Qu Sui said. Qu Shisu is kind to Qi Guo, and his understanding of Qi Guo is far better than others. It is precisely because of this understanding that Qu Sui still puts his mind on his own country.
"Hundreds of thousands of soldiers?!" Song Yu smiled bitterly. "Nothing."
"None?" Qu Sui was surprised. "Today, there are more than six million people under the rule of my Chu State. Five feet to sixty feet, when there are more than a million people. Now there is the valley of Dongzhou, two harvests a year, and the corn is also worry-free. Although the Qin people had war boats, they did not have artillery, iron ......"
"Five feet to sixty?" Song Yu glared at Qu Sui, who was most familiar with military affairs, and sighed: "The first king also sent a five-foot pawn, but it was only more than 300,000. Since the fierce battle with the Qin people, there have been tens of thousands of dead, how can there be more than a million people?! ”
"The past is the old year, in the past I only had the eastern land, and now I have the old Ying, Fangcheng, Bashu, Hanzhong ......" Qu Sui argued. His words made everyone speechless, and even Song Yu stopped looking at him.
"If I knew this, I should have saved Zhao first." After a long silence, Lan Hao remembered Xiang Yan.
"How many years can you delay saving Zhao?" Song Yu did not agree with Lan Lu's statement. "The defeat of the Zhao State is not because I can't save it. Li Mu is the general, and the death of Zhao will be a few years later. The Chu army attacked the key points of Qin everywhere and won every battle, but the Qin state was not dead and the king of Qin was not dead, isn't it the evil of heaven? ”
The Mandate of Heaven is mysterious and mysterious, the Zhou people talk a lot about the Mandate of Heaven, and the Chu people only talk about ghosts and gods. However, the facts are in front of us, from the time the Chu army invaded Guanzhong and pulled out Xianyang, the Qin people seemed to be blessed by the mandate of heaven. As long as the Qin people were a little less lucky, the king of Qin was captured and killed; As long as the Qin people were a little less lucky, Wang Qian's army was annihilated; As long as the Qin people were a little unlucky, Li Xin would not be able to get away last year......
The Chu army did win every battle, but none of them were truly fatal.
A heavy sigh sounded in the Ming Hall again. This is a heartfelt sigh, some of you know about military affairs, and some of you don't know about military affairs, but without exception, you all know that the offensive and defensive situation is about to change. The change of attack and defense is terrifying, and what is even more terrible than the change of attack and defense is the tradition of the Qin people to attack their people without attacking their places alone. In the past, Bai Qi Ba Ying still remembered the old feelings, and Xianyang had the Empress Dowager Mi, Wei Ran and other old Chu people, and there were few slaughters outside the attack. Now it's different, the year before last, Li Xin was already young when he entered Fangcheng.
"If the battle of Daze is defeated...... Song Yu was the first to speak in silence, "Build a sea boat as soon as possible." ”
"Sea boat?" Everyone remembered the Yan Dynasty court meeting ten years ago. The king once said that the clan went to sea, avoided its sharpness, and hit its laziness, and Song Yu agreed with this the most. Now he brings up the old things again, and he has the idea of avoiding overseas.
"There are millions of people in the Chu country, how many people can be carried by the sea boat?" Qu Sui shook his head. "What is the food to avoid the sea?"
"After several years of fierce battles with the Qin people, hundreds of thousands of people died, but now they want to avoid the sea, and the world laughs." Zhao Xiao's sleeves fluttered, and his voice was angry.
"In that case, why did the Zhao clan avoid the East back then?" Song Yu retorted.
"You!" Zhao Huang flicked his sleeves again. Hitting people doesn't slap their faces, Song Yu's words are slaps in the face. More than fifty years ago, the Zhao family moved eastward, and the Zhao clan was among them. There is no logical error in moving east to avoid Qin more than 50 years ago, and now going to sea to avoid Qin.
"At that time, the first king of Xiang made Zhuang Ji lead the army up the river and enter Yunnan slightly west, and there were few soldiers in the country. In the battle of Yancheng, all the soldiers who could fight died, and many men of all clans died. "Qu Sui did not agree to avoid the sea, but agreed to move eastward that year." If we didn't move eastward in the past, how can we recover today? ”
"If he doesn't avoid the sea today, how will he return to the country one day?" Song Yu asked rhetorically. "The pawns of Wu Yue in the east can fight, and the pawns of the old Yingfang City cannot fight. If Daze is defeated, there will only be 21 divisions left in the country, and there will be only 13 or 40,000 soldiers in battle, how can they fight? ”
"Twenty-first Division?! Is it the twenty-first division? When there are 26 divisions and 12 brigades, 200,000 people," Qu Sui stretched out two fingers. "If the counties can recruit more soldiers, there may be 400,000."
"Lu Song's division is weak," Song Yu had to say in detail. "Master Wu is okay. The Fifth Division of the Zhu Clan was only slightly stronger than the new division brigade. Fangcheng and the old Yingshi Brigade can't fight, what good do you summon them? Although Zhao Wei has 40,000 soldiers, how can Liang Wei defend it? Although there are ten divisions in Muling Pass, how can Mu Ling Pass be guarded? The pawn who can fight is not as good as the tenth division. The Qin people have a war boat today, how many can these ten divisions kill the Qin people?! ”
Song Yu was speechless. The soldiers of Muling Pass cannot be mobilized, the 40,000 troops of Daliang Wei cannot be mobilized, and the defense of Nanzheng, Shangyu, and Bashu has to occupy troops, and in fact, there are less than ten divisions in battle.
Offense is the best defense, and for ten years, either the Chu army has maintained an offensive against Qin and occupied the strategic initiative, or the Qin state has no time for Chu because of the destruction of Zhao. If there are not enough troops for the offense, then there is no defense for the defense. Once the weaker side fails to maintain its offensive and occupy the strategic initiative, it will not be far from defeat.
"It's late! Not this year, but next year. "Song Yu's voice is a little sad, he has read a lot of history books and understands this law." If you don't build a boat this year, you won't have to build it again by this time next year. ”
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