Therefore, Aristotle IV stood helpless outside the prison gate, and he could not imagine why Wuji would choose to betray, why would he abandon his noble Greek identity and prefer to degenerate into a member of a lower civilization that is about to be destroyed. Maybe his research was wrong in the first place, but at least he has to cover up this mistake now, and he can't die of illness or accident, but he can't die because he admits that he is a Xia person.

'Boom——! The thunderous sound of cannon rang out at this moment, and Aristotle IV shuddered. Wu Ji said with surprise in elegant words: "Chu Jun, it's Chu Jun!" ”

"Child, the Chuni army has been surrounded for a long time, and General Meng said that soon they will starve to death." Although there is little point in correcting it, Aristotle IV used to do it. He continued: "I will ask Your Majesty to forgive your sins as soon as possible......

The 'boom, ......boom' cannon fire became so intense that Aristotle IV's last words were completely drowned out by the cannon. With that, he quickly left the foul-smelling prison accompanied by Zaras.

Surrounded by Meng Tian, the Chu army was thirty miles away from the old Daoyi, and this army occupied high ground on the left bank of the river, and somehow transported huge artillery to the mountainside near the river, so that it could bombard all the enemies who approached from a high position.

Aristotle IV came to his hometown to study artillery. Qin Ni cast the cannon, but the life span was not as good as the 'fake cannon' given by Chuni when he handed over the cannon. The same phenomenon occurred in Alexandria, where artillery made could not be used. Neither could be used, but there was a difference between the two, and the envoy Palops said that it was difficult for Egyptian craftsmen to cast a cannon into a standard narrow cylinder; The Qini can be cast into cylinders, but the barrel of the cannon is very sturdy and will shatter when it explodes.

The identity of Lord Bai Di made it convenient for Aristotle IV, and it was discovered that the Bactrian craftsmen in Xianyang were able to cast the cannons because of the fact that they were Qinni craftsmen, who were responsible for the clay molds used for casting, and Bactrian craftsmen who were responsible for metal formulations. Their metal formula was very different from that of Qin Ni Shaofu, which caused different results.

However, the Bactrian craftsmen were backward in the eyes of the Egyptians, who simply followed the customary recipes of the known world, but did not refine the copper, and succeeded because the craftsmen of the Chini provided excellent clay molds. Their copper was not pure—in the Mediterranean and Syria, artisans had long used the poling method to refine copper – and like the Chini craftsmen, they had to refine blister copper again and again, which made it difficult to obtain a high degree of purity.

The clay molds made by the craftsmen of the Qinni, together with the copper and tin refined by the craftsmen of the Mediterranean, should have made it possible to cast a truly usable cannon. However, this was part of the secret agreement between Aristotle IV and Palops, as was the case with the Cinnies on how to produce saltpeter of higher purity.

According to this secret proposal, Aristotle IV also needed to help the Egyptians acquire Chuni's artillery-making skills, as well as other things (such as iron smelting and sea ships), before he could become the next director of the Alexandria Library after Edorase.

The artillery of Egypt and Chinni was given only 4.48 mina (1 minna = 437g), and the cannonballs fired by the Chuni army were usually larger and heavier, close to Jiumina. It was not the heaviest, the heaviest shells fired by the Chuni reached 22.4 minna. All of Chuni's artillery was made of Chuni iron, which was much cheaper than making it from copper.

"The Chuni, the Chuni are shooting their shells here." Before leaving the prison and entering the Imperial Palace, Palops came out of nowhere and grabbed Aristotle IV. In addition to the sound of cannons, there are drums, the shouts of soldiers, and a very distinctive howl. "I think the Chuni army must have discovered that King Qinni is ...... here."

"It's not good practice to guess, Palops. The Chuni are on the other side of the mountain, and they can't come here. Aristotle IV spread his hands, very helpless. The others walked towards the city wall, and only by standing on the wall could they see the situation on the other side of the mountain.

After being besieged for more than ten days, the Chu army finally launched a breakthrough offensive, which was not unexpected. Surprisingly, their breakthrough was not to the east, not to the south, not to the west, but to the north. The Yuanhu Mountain Range probes from the east to the water, and the ridges of the mountains are all east-west, except for the two ridges occupied by the Chu army, which are on the verge of water, and the rest are extremely gentle slopes.

The Chu army, which concentrated on artillery bombardment, quickly crushed the stone fortress that the Qin army besieged itself, and then the artillery pushed forward again, and several earthen fortresses in the rear were also destroyed one by one.

More than 100,000 people can't deal with more than 30,000 people, Meng Tian was complained by Zhao Zheng before, and now more than 30,000 people are attacking the old Daoyi, thinking of Zhao Zheng who lives in the old Daoyi, the strategists in the shogunate can't help but feel a little sour. Fortunately, the lieutenant and the guard lieutenant were stationed in the south of the old Daoyi, and before Meng Tian gave the order, the lieutenant had already engaged the attacking Chu army.

"Jing Ren Geometry? Jing people geometry?! Meng Tian was urgently awakened, and he asked loudly before entering the shogunate.

"General, I don't know yet." The advisors replied directly that they didn't know. "I can't see things at night, I only hear the sound of killing, and I don't know how many people there are."

"Before the night and a half, the Jing people attacked me at this time, but they made a feint." The huge cannon of the Chu army can collapse the city wall of the old Daoyi with one cannon, but Meng Heng still feels that this is a feint attack by the Chu army. "The picture is not the old way."

"Where is the Jing people's plan?" Meng Tian looked at him, and he became more and more dissatisfied with the strategists left behind by his father.

The "Jing people ......" Chu army will definitely break through, but no one in the east, south, and west directions is sure which direction it is.

To the east, go down to the fork and go southeast for a hundred miles is the Bao Slope Road, this road was not fully controlled by the Qin army - after Bai Lin led his troops to Tho Land, the Southern Zheng Chu army that received reinforcements recaptured Qipanling and was advancing north along the Bao Slope Road; Although there is Lingguan Gorge to the south, the Chu army has been cutting down Dazhang and making rafts during this period of time, and they may not be able to take the raft south;

The last is to go west, and although the possibility of going west is very small, who can say for sure? After crossing the water and before entering the Lingguan Gorge, the right bank is still a mountain road, but it is only a hill like a hill. Away from the water, you can go all the way to Chengxian along the mountain trail, and when you reach Chengxian, you can go east to Hanzhong, or you can go south to Bashu. The road may seem long, but it is safe.

Meng Tian glanced around, but no one dared to answer, and he didn't care, and said: "Send orders to the army on the right bank and the army of Yuanhu Mountain, and rescue quickly." ”

"If the Jing people get away...... Meng Heng was shocked. The king will be furious! ”

"If the Jing people attack the old Daoyi and the witch weapon enters the city, the king will not be angry?" Meng Tian asked rhetorically.

"But that's the guilt of the lieutenant and the lieutenant." Meng Heng argued. "The responsibility of the general is to encircle and annihilate the Jing people, and if the Jing people escape, the general's sin is also. The witch weapon struck into the city, disturbed and injured the king, and the crime of the two lieutenants, what does this have to do with the general? ”

"The Jing people broke through the barriers of our army and attacked the old Daoyi, and at this time the Jing people have been out of trouble." Meng Heng's words are not unreasonable, things are said separately, but when they are connected, they still failed to besiege themselves, and the Chu army escaped.

Meng Tian no longer hesitated, and issued a feather to let the military officials quickly give an order, and about half an hour, countless torches were lit on the right bank of the river, and the army first went north along the river, crossed the pontoon bridge near the old Daoyi, and lined up in the south of the old Daoyi. At this time, the lieutenant's army had been crushed by the Chu army's charging spears, and the sound of artillery was getting closer and closer to the old Daoyi, and the iron bullets had fallen a few miles south of the old Daoyi.

"The king asked the general, did the Jing people attack the old Daoyi?" Meng Tian was no longer in the shogunate, and he personally led short soldiers to guard in front of the old road.

"Or also." Meng Tian didn't know how to answer, although he felt in his heart that this might be a feint attack by the Chu army, but what if it wasn't? "Jing people are cunning and brave, if they really attack the old Daoyi, the ministers will also be guilty."

Zhao Gao came to ask questions on behalf of Zhao Zheng, and after he wrote down Meng Tian's words, he then asked: "The king asked the general, when will the Jing people be killed, and the army will go south to recover Zheng Bashu in the south?" ”

"Minister......" Meng Tian's forehead suddenly dripped beads of sweat. The Chu army was stuck here, the waterway was blocked, and the land route was unable to move south because of the containment of the whole army. "The minister is guilty, please ask the king to surrender."

Meng Tian knelt down as he spoke, and Zhao Gao saw him kneeling down and the corners of his mouth moved, and said politely: "Why should the general be like this." It is not that the generals and soldiers are ineffective, but that the Jingren witch weapons are unstoppable. However, if Nanzheng and Bashu are in the hands of Jing people for a day, the king will not be at ease for a day......"

Before the Chu army abandoned the eastern fork, it not only rushed to transport grain, straw and horse materials, but also rushed to transport extremely important ammunition. A few days ago, standing on the Mandarin Crane Mountain, through the Lu Lijing, Zhao Zheng witnessed the power of the witch weapon with his own eyes. The Qin army rushed towards Jing Ren like a tide, and the closely arranged witch weapons instantly sounded rapidly, spewing out clusters of flames, and the Qin soldiers who rushed to the front seemed to be the corn seedlings harvested by farmers, and they fell in rows more than a hundred steps away. No matter how brave the soldiers were, they would not be able to rush to the Thorn Array, they would only pile up corpses in front of the witchcraft.

Zhao Zheng, who blamed Meng Tian for his ineffective fighting, no longer blamed him after that, but Meng Tian felt more and more guilty. More than 100,000 people cannot encircle and annihilate more than 30,000 people, and this matter will surely become a laughing stock in the world.

Zhao Gao politely explained, explaining that this was not Zhao Zheng's rebuke. As he spoke, the sound of military reports burst out, and the lookout on the tower shouted: "Jing people are crossing the water!" Jing people are crossing the water! Jing Ren ......"

"Sure enough!" Meng Tian, who had just stood up, was a little dizzy. The Chu army really attacked the north and attacked the west, and the west crossed the water.

Meng Heng was afraid that Meng Tian would kneel down again and plead guilty, so he rushed to speak. "This Jing people are running out of food and dying in the west, and our army can return to Nanzheng on the same day."

"Why?" Zhao Gao only understands the law, not the military.

"The Jing people died in the west, our army can go south, pull out the south Zheng Fu Bashu, and the Jing people will not be able to return to Jingdi!" Since bad things have happened, Meng Heng can only try to say the good. What he said is not impossible, as long as the Qin army can quickly pull out Tho and Bashu, together with the Chu army in Longxi, they will be the same as Zhuang Ji, and they will never be able to return to Chu.

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