Chapter 44 Reactionary
The devil is one foot taller and the road is one foot taller. Although the Chu army defeated the Qin army several times, the Qin army became stronger and stronger. Outside the war, he vaguely felt the destiny behind the war. Existence is reasonable. If the Qin system is unreasonable, why would it exist? If the Qin system is unreasonable, why could the Qin State grow stronger?
For example, the reforms of Shang Yang and Wu Qi, the law of death of Shang Yang, and the law of death of Wu Qi, the law of death of death of Wu Qi, the difference between the reforms of the two countries reflects the destiny behind the reforms - if Qin is the whole world, then the reforms are the destiny; if Chu is the whole world, then the unchangeable law is the destiny.
In the world, reforms have been on the rise and fall for more than a hundred years, and countries are competing to change the law. If there is no destiny for reform, why will all countries reform? After the reform of Qin, the Qin State is invincible and stronger, and the Kanto countries are intrigue and cheating, competing to bribe Qin. If it weren't for the destiny of Qin system to unify the world, why could Qin State gradually grow stronger and why could it be lived repeatedly in succession of defeats?
Qin State was like a fish in water, and was full of luck. Chu State kept hitting walls when it left the east. Even if Ying's army is as powerful as a bamboo shoot, the soldiers of the newly formed army brigade always wanted to go home and flee endlessly. This was the result of treating them as comrades and being unrestrained. But isn't this a concrete manifestation of the destiny of heaven not in Chu? They are only suitable for the Qin system where everyone sues traitors and beheads and promoted ranks, but not for the Chu system where honor is supreme, and close to brothers. If the soldiers are like this, the world will not be like this?
Today's Chu State's mavericks seem to exist in the world. Although everyone curses Qin State, the common people of Qin have truly resisted. If they don't live forever, they would rather die. The head of Qian committed suicide under Qin State's rule? No, none! The Han people who were just conquered, the Zhao people who were just conquered, and the Qi people who were just conquered, all quickly integrated into the Qin war machine and became a screw on it.
No matter how unwilling he was in his heart, no matter how he didn't want to admit this fact, Xiong Jing understood one thing more and more: the Qin system was the real way of ruling this land, and the Chu system was no longer suitable. In other words, just like the two armies of the Mian River at this time, no matter how cruel Zhao Zheng did, he would follow the will of heaven, and no matter how kind he did, he would do it against the will of heaven.
The Qin army sailed south, and the Grand Sima Mansion urgently formulated countermeasures. Many news articles were sent to Yuguan in succession, just to know Xiong Jing's opinions. Unfortunately, Xiong Jing had no opinions. From the morning to now, he just fell silent, quieted down, and thought about everything. The answer he thought hard was: Zhao Zheng was a progressive person who followed the will of heaven, and he was a reactionary person who went against the will of heaven.
If he was ten years younger, he would not mind being a reactionary who went against the will of heaven, but if he added up all the years and months he had lived in his two lives, he was over fifty. Forty, he knew that he could indeed create the times, but that was to use the momentum to create momentum, not to create momentum. He also knew how to follow the trend, but he could not do it, nor could he do it.
The Tao did not work, and floated on the sea... When he remembered Confucius, Zhuang Wudi and Nao Xin walked in.
"It's going to be late, so I dare to ask the king to reply quickly." Zhuang Wudi bowed quietly. Today, Japan should be the day to leave Lantian Valley. Unfortunately, since the morning, the shogunate has not issued the order of the founder's army, nor has it reported the situation of Chen Cangdao's war.
"No news." Xiong Jing looked at him, his eyes extremely clear.
"No..." The king thought about it in the morning until now, but the result was no news. Zhuang Wudi and Nao Xin were shocked.
"Leave the will of heaven and do our best. Cheng Tong has already dealt with the situation in the Grand Sima Mansion, and I have no news." Xiong Jing said slowly.
"But..." Nao Xin was so anxious that he stepped forward a few steps. He found that he had exceeded the courtesy and retreated.
"The king has said everything," Zhuang Wudi was not as excited as Nao Xin, and seemed very calm. "Why didn't the king do everything?"
"How can I do my best?!" Xiong Jing smiled bitterly. "If I don't discuss peace with the Qin people, I will decide the decision. It is also my intention. The Qin people made five oars and wings, which was not something that the Chu State could stop them. The Qin people set up a suspicion array, but knew that the other officials were still figuring out the virtual and real Qin people before the war. Cheng Tong Pang Nuan wanted to close the door, but it might not be impossible. Although the Qin people went south early, there were countless obstacles to the fish gate upstream..."
Excited, Xiong Jing finished speaking in one breath, and his face smiled even more bitterly. "The things that Chu State did are not wrong, and the ministers and generals are not slacking off. This is a matter of duty!"
"But if the battle is defeated..." Xiong Jing was excited, and Zhuang Wudi was also very excited. There were less than 200 warships on the big lake, and the Qin army's warships "covered the Mian River, countless," how could he not worry?
"If Chengtong is defeated..., thousands of miles apart, how can we make Chengtong undefeated?" Xiong Jing asked back.
"King..." Feixun is not connected during the rainy season. What can I do if Feixun can connect to Juyi? As soon as the Qin army passes Yuguan, the Chu army must fight to the death, otherwise they will lose the Nanzheng Basin and also lose Bashu. Xiong Jing's words smashed Zhuang Wudi's last trace of longing, and he shouted "The King" with sadness.
"It is a victory or a defeat, and it is all in the will of heaven." Xiong Jing sighed. "Let Taibu sacrifice and divination."
"Yi." Nao Xin just passed the court, and soon he calmed down. Regarding a battle that happened thousands of miles away, he could only wait for news. He agreed and wanted to go out to reply.
"How dare you ask our army?" Zhuang Wudi also calmed down.
"Burn the plank road and prepare to pull out the camp." Xiong Jing's expression was cold again and he replied briefly.
"Yes." Zhuang Wudi also agreed. This time he did not hesitate at all and soon came out of the curtain. But the generals outside the tent were not as calm as him and Nao Xin. The army burning the plank road was in one go, and the generals broke in.
"Why is the king..." Ruo Ao, impulsive, broke into the shogunate alone and asked loudly.
"Ignorance!" Chang Jiang angrily scolded, and all the soldiers in the tent were also numbered.
"I have seen the king, how dare you ask why the king ordered the plank road to burn?" Deng Sui, Yang Wei, E Le and others walked alone in the old Taoist path. They asked after they knew how to perform their respects.
"The Qin people have built nearly a thousand soldiers and winged warships, and their boat troops will fight Chengtong Yu Daze." Xiong Jing knew that the meeting was coming in and did not blame him. He described the current situation in the simplest words.
"Ah?!" Everyone was shocked.
"How could the Qin people build warships?" Ele kept shook his head: "No!"
"Hou Ji personally saw the Qin people's warships. Li Siyin thought that with the craftsmen of the Qin State's Shaofu and hundreds of thousands of ministers, thousands of officials could build thousands of ships in three months." Xiong Jing replied in one breath. "The false king Lu Gao witnessed the Qin people's warships covering the Mian River at dawn today at the foot of Yuanwu Mountain, and countless people......·
All the news and texts are here, please wait and see it."
The curtain was extremely quiet when Xiong Jing spoke. The shocked and uneasy generals looked at Deng Sui, Yang Wei and others looking through Xunwen. After they read it, Xunwen passed it down again.
"Our army..." Deng Sui wanted to ask what our army should do, but for some reason, he suddenly bowed deeply to Xiong Jing and said, "I respectfully accept the order."
"I respectfully accept the order!" Deng Sui took the lead, and the lieutenant general led the ranks to Xiong Jing, and then all said retreat. Xiong Jing watched them retreat, and understood that this was not loyalty, it was trust. The general trusted him to lead them to win again. But if Cheng Tongzhen was defeated, could he really do it?
When Xiong Jing is alone, he can calm down. When he is with the general, his heart will become hot and hot, and he cannot let them down!
If Chengtong is defeated, the downstream of the Han River will not be taken care of, and Zhudi must be defended to the end. The Grand Sima Mansion ordered the troops to retreat to Zhudi instead of the downstream of the Mian River. As long as the Zhudi is defended, the Qin army will not be able to enter Sichuan, and the Qin State's dilemma of shortage of food cannot be solved.
Outside Bashu, Daliang where the waters meet, Taoyi where the north and south meet, Zhifu of Qi, and Langya of the East China Sea, all these places need to be installed immediately. The easiest way is to sink a boat near the city and block it.
No matter how technically the building of the palace is prepared, the large-wing gunboat must be built or modified immediately. Indeed, if the gunboat is fired at a distance of 400 meters, the two sides will collide in just 77 seconds; if the gunboat is fired at a distance of 200 meters, the collision time will not be too late for the gunboat to load and fire again. However, there is a fact that the boatman who tested the large-wing gunboat deliberately forgot: What if the gunboat does not collide with the enemy boat?
If the large-wing gunboat did not collide with the enemy boat, but kept a distance of one or two hundred meters with the enemy boat, the time would not be seventy-seven seconds. Maybe seven minutes, maybe seven minutes, maybe seven more minutes, maybe longer. Whether it is seven minutes or seventeen minutes, the Qin people's five-oat big wings are not sail battleships. Their ship gangways are very thin, and even ten-pound cannons can destroy their boat boards.
In addition to gunboats, we must also quickly build more sea boats. Once Chengtong is defeated, the confidence of the common people and merchants will plummet. Without confidence, Chu money will depreciate significantly, prices will rise rapidly, and the whole of Guandong will panic, and the more panic the more the price will be, the higher the price. Not only should we accelerate the construction of sea boats, but we should also fight a victory as soon as possible to inspire people and end the panic...
From time to time, Xiong Jing began to write down countermeasures on Chu paper. This was his reply. He finished writing it in a hurry until the sun sets. "So quickly to Yingdu!" Looking at Nao Xin who had been waiting for a long time, he ordered.
"Vei." Nao Xin smiled brightly, and he felt that the king he was familiar with was back.
When he smiled brightly, Cheng Tong, who was standing on the deck of the flagship in Tianchi, was almost crying. In the morning, the last Yue warship sent to Yuguan to block the Qin people was slowly sinking, thinking that the Qin army's boat troops, hundreds of miles away, suddenly appeared in front of the entire army.
"Report to General Sima, since he cannot retreat, he will fight with the Qin people! The Zhao people can defeat Qin on land and water." Feixun official thought of the flag words called by Sima Shang and reported in this way.
"Report to General Gongsun, so did General Gongsun." Another Feixun official said.
"Report to General, the Ba people ask for a fight!" A more anxious voice.
In the morning, the army agreed that although the divisions who were not familiar with the water war had already decided to retreat to Juyi, they also decided to retreat to Juyi, artillery, horses, military supplies and other boats. Juyi was not a big city, and the wharf was limited. They thought that the generals who went south only tomorrow and the next day asked the baggage boat team to retreat first, and they retreated tomorrow and the next day. The result of a difference in thought was that they had no choice but to retreat.
"General..." Cheng Mo stood straight behind Cheng Tong. He did not blame him, but only had the determination to live and die with the entire army.
"Uncle..." Cheng Kui also stood behind Cheng Tong, his longbow had been wound.
Chapter completed!