The Qin army, which had been immobile outside Changping for several days, finally advanced. In order to line up at any time, most of the Qin soldiers who lined up did not walk on the road, but walked directly in the already muddy fields. The fields have long been muddy in the spring rain, the muddy water is not enough to extinguish the tarsus, the wide mouths of the soldiers are not only soaked, many of them are still stuck in the mud and cannot be pulled out, and the whole army has not walked a few miles, just like the Yue people.

The infantry soldiers are like this, and the chariots of the hundred generals and five hundred lords are also deep in the mud, and they can only rely on their own short soldiers and their corporal soldiers to pull them to death, so that they can move forward with difficulty. At the end of the array were heavy trucks loaded with soldiers' tents and dried corn and firewood, these vehicles were even more unlucky, after the 300,000 soldiers trampled on them, the already muddy fields became even more muddy, and the vehicles were stuck in some places and immediately lost half of the wheels, and it took dozens or hundreds of people to drag these heavy vehicles out one by one.

The general Meng Tian, who was walking on the official road, shook his head when he saw this scene. Without marching in columns, the army is deep in the mud; The column marched, and they were worried that they would be caught off guard by the Chu army. He has been waiting for the rain to stop, but the spring rain has been continuous, and it has not stopped, and the king behind him has been urging urgently, saying that the Jing people are about to relocate, and they should fight quickly.

"This march is only half a day." The Qin army was deployed in battle arrays, walking in the mud with one foot deep and one foot shallow, and only the shogunate walked on the official road. Only one day later, the shogunate had to gather all the generals to discuss the strategy of the march.

"Then I'll give it up in a day." Meng Tian was very helpless about the complaints of Zhao Yong and others, and he couldn't bear to take a closer look at the soldiers who were stomping forward.

"So Jing people are waiting for work, our army is tired." Zhao Yong was the right general, and Qiang became the left general.

"The fields are muddy, and the horsemen can't run freely." Yu Fen couldn't stand the continuous spring rain, and in this case, it was difficult for the cavalry to complete the orders issued by Meng Tian, especially the 10,000 cavalry soldiers listed in the center of the array could not complete the orders.

"The spring rain is endless, and the witchcraft may not be able to hit me." Meng Heng comforted. Of course, this is just comfort. Hou Zhengzao reported every day that Jing was trying to shoot witchcraft, and the sound was like thunder, and it was endless.

"Jing Renguo 60,000 or 70,000 people? No deceit? Zhao Yong asked this question that the generals were very suspicious of. The Chu army liked to concentrate all its forces to attack the Qin army, while at the same time trying to avoid a decisive battle with the entire Qin army. Two months ago, the Chu army went north to Kaifeng, and this time the Qin army was allowed to go south to Chencheng, which is very incomprehensible.

Zhao Yong asked, all the generals looked at the general Meng Tian, Meng Tian restrained his desire to look at Hou Zhengzao, and said with a smile: "There are indeed only 60,000 or 70,000 people in Jing, and there is no way to know whether there is deceit or not. In my opinion, the Jing people are not deceitful, but deceitful. ”

"Trickery?" Zhao Yong read this word at the head of the general, as if he had an understanding.

"It's a witch weapon!" General Zuo's eyes blinked, and he spat out the word witchcraft. Qiang has always been under the command of Wang Qian, and the young Meng Tian was worshiped as a general, and there was always some estrangement between them. "Dare to ask the general, if the Jing people hit me with a witch weapon, how can I break it?"

"The general has a way to break witchcraft." Meng Heng spoke before Meng Tian, and after answering, he quickly said: "The general is not summoned to discuss the battle, but to march. The roads were muddy, and they only traveled fifteen miles a day, and they had to stay in the mud, and the soldiers were all complaining, and the shogunate had distributed dried grass and firewood to the lieutenants, as well as wine and meat. Captains of all armies should inspect their camps and appease the troops......"

Meng Heng turned the conversation back to the point. Although the spring day is warm, it is only daytime, and it is really complaining that you have to camp in the mud after walking fifteen miles on your feet, and you will be cold when you sleep. While the shogunate was deliberating, smoke slowly rose from the Qin army barracks, which had been encamped for only an hour and a half after the morning meal. From today onwards, there are grass mats to camp on the mud, there is dry firewood, you don't have to go to collect firewood, and most importantly, there is meat and wine, which has greatly alleviated the complaints of the Qin soldiers.

Meng Tian summoned the generals of the various armies to enter the curtain in order to calm the hearts of the army, the first time he was a general, he could not have an extremely strong self-confidence like Wang Jian and his father, he often suffered from gains and losses to his subordinates, which couldn't help but make the generals laugh secretly in their hearts, young after all, young is young, and there is no perseverance and experience that a general should have.

Even if you don't say what you think in your heart, you can understand it by observing words and colors. Meng Tian himself also sensed that something was wrong with him, and he seemed to be too concerned and generous to the soldiers, so that the generals looked down on him a little.

"I ......" He was about to tell Meng Jue about this feeling, when an urgent report came from outside the tent: "Jing people are coming!" ”

The wind blew north, and the blood-stained three-headed phoenix flag fluttered in the warm spring breeze, and the guards and knights surrounded the bears. Behind him, countless dragon horse knights followed closely, hunting with military flags, and armor and riding equipment, which was daunting. The dragoons are flanked by horse knights, who are not as powerful as the dragon horses, but their armor is shining in the spring light, and they should not be humiliated. The knights were followed by the infantry of the 12th Division, and they did not list the horizontal march to the Qin army as they did, but the phalanx of charging spears.

The whole army followed the three-headed phoenix banner forward, and the front of the formation was flanked by the cavalry of the two armies. The dragon horse reprimanded the horse and drove the Qin horse away like a fly, and the Qin horse was driven away and quickly turned back, and then was driven away again, and some of the Qin horses were shot and killed by the dragon horse rebuke. Xiong Jing didn't care about the cavalry battle in front of him, his attention was all in the distance.

The twenty-mile-long Qin military camp tent stood on the muddy field in spring, the cooking smoke curled, and from the south of the camp tent, except for the cooking smoke, the large and small military flags, the continuous military tents, and the shogunate and banner of the general Meng Tian, nothing else could be seen. Qin Jun was as leisurely and comfortable as a spring outing, without the slightest bitterness or complaint.

As he approached, the drums beat suddenly. Originally, there were countless Qin soldiers in the camp where there was only cooking smoke, and they quickly unloaded the accounts, filled the wells, and dismantled the stoves under the orders of the hundred generals, and finally lined up to stand by. The military vehicles in the camp were also galloping rapidly, and the shogunate had to issue the final battle order before the arrival of the Chu army, first the military officials who rushed out of the shogunate to the battalions, and soon the generals who hurried to the shogunate to receive orders.

The Qin army marched for two days, and the two armies of Chu and Qin were only more than 30 miles apart. As soon as the Chu army left the camp, the Qin army sent back the news; The Chu army walked less than ten miles, and the generals and thirty captains of each army were all summoned to the shogunate, and then hurriedly returned to the army and announced the military order; Twenty miles away, the Qin army had already listed the battle array: it was a military array as thick as a hundred lines and about seven miles wide, plus the cavalry arranged on both sides, the military array was more than ten miles wide.

The Qin army thought that a decisive battle was about to be made, so they were in a hurry; The Chu army was nothing more than a fire reconnaissance, so it was not slow. In this regard, the shogunate strategists and the divisions pointed at the Qin army's military formation, and smiled. The generals of the divisions were full of reluctance. They didn't understand what fire reconnaissance was, they only knew that approaching the Qin army and retreating without fighting was a sign of timidity.

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