More than a hundred fires illuminated the Taimiao, and the flames burst out from time to time, shining brighter light. Under the fire, at the Taimiao court, which was mixed with the aura of pine resin ashes, Taibu Guanye whispered while praying in a low voice, and kept worshiping at the burning tortoise shells in the brazier. Concubine Zhao, Ying Nan, Song Yu, Zhao Shu, Lan She, Qu Sui, Lian Yu, Wei Jianyou..., these people knelt behind him and dared not speak.

Divination has long declined in the countries, but it is still a major event in the Chu State. Xiong Jing’s first pigeon message was to make a fortune. At this time, Yingdu knew that the Qin people went south and the two armies were fighting in the Tianchi Daze. Regardless of the auspicious days or unlucky days, Guan Yi went to Taimiao to worship his ancestors and gods to divine bad luck.

The long prayer was finally over. Guan Yi took out the tortoise shell that was burning and snapped carefully. Everyone was staring at him, staring at his tight lips. After a while, his lips opened and he said in a judgment: "Not good!"

"No, it's not auspicious?!" Either good or bad. The people watching Guan Yi hoped that he had said it was wrong, but unfortunately Guan Yi said it was right. He turned over the tortoise shell and the sign patterns were all on the side of "our army will defeat" and on the other side, "our army will win" also has sign patterns, but the side of the armor is clearly visible. No one who can judge such sign patterns would say it was a sign pattern.

"This, this..." Concubine Zhao fell down as she looked at it, and Ying Nan, who was beside her, hurriedly supported her.

In normal times, Concubine Zhao would definitely push Ying Nan away, but now her mind was trembling. She didn't care who supported her, nor did she care whether she was kneeling or lying down. She just shouted: "Sima Shang, Sima Shang..., Sima Shang!"

The 100,000 Zhao army lost more than 20,000 yuan in the battle of Xiangyang, and the 50,000 people who could be mobilized were all in the Tianchi Daze. If even this little force was lost, the Zhao State would really destroy the country.

Concubine Zhao fell down, and Wei Jian was worried and sweating profusely. In order to show the existence of Wei, even though Wei had no soldiers to fight, the king decided to send 15,000 elite Wei soldiers, led by Gongsun Mao to attack Guanzhong. Unexpectedly, the Wei army was defeated on the big lake before entering Guanzhong.

Zhaoshu, Qusui, Song Yu, Lan She, Zimo and others were a little calmer. The troops of Zhu clans were all in Xiangyang, and the troops of Song di were mostly in Muling Pass, so it was not their own soldiers to lose. If you look closely, the soldiers should be happy. After all, the troops of Daze were all in the army of my husband clan, and their troops were completely wiped out, and the right to speak in the court would inevitably be weakened.

However, these people were also very cold and had a premonition of the coming of disaster. If the fourth division of Ruoao, the teachers of the husband clan, and the Yue people, if these divisions and brigades are really covered, can the Ying and Xiang troops alone resist the Qin people? It will definitely not be able to stop them!

Moreover, the Qin army also had large-wing warships. With the Qin nature, once warships were found, they would inevitably be built in large quantities. The Chu army had thirty-seven and a half-in-one divisions, twelve new divisions, and each division had only sixteen warships with one soldier and one boat. Even if some divisions used not the wings but the large-wings, the number of warships did not exceed a thousand.

If Qin State built warships, it would definitely not be planned by a thousand ships, but by a thousand ships. Where can Chu State build tens of thousands of warships? In addition to the warships, there are soldiers. There are tens of thousands of officials from Qin State who rushed them to row the boats and paddled them, and they would die if they died. The Chu State's boats were full of armored soldiers, and any armored soldiers would be reported to the king's main ward. The name, pension, burial, sacrifice... Recently, it was said that each division would be appointed as a Baidi painter, and the dead would paint the remains for future generations to admire.

In the land battle, the Chu army can win ten, and every battle will be won; if the Qin people have warships, there are warships in the Chu country, how can they fight? If one fights two, they will definitely lose.

Zhaoshu, Song Yu, Qu Sui, Lan She, Zimo and others looked at each other, and they knew their thoughts. They were all polite old men. They did not discuss and speak in the Taimiao court, and they just waited to send away the Queen Mother and the envoy of Zhao Wei, and then spoke in the Mingtang.

"If our army is defeated," Zhaoshu couldn't help but sigh. "The entire army was overthrown, and only the 12th Brigade of the Eighth Division of Wuguan Road, the Eighth Division of Fangcheng, and the Tenth Division of Muling Pass were left."

"The Wei army still has 20,000, and the Zhao army still has 20,000." Zimo talked about several allies of Chu. "And the Qi army still has 100,000!"

"All Qi soldiers are unwilling to fight, and there are many people who join Qin." Zhao Shu sighed. "It is reported that Wang Jian's command has more than 100,000 Qi soldiers out of thin air. It is because the Qin people exempted their children and mothers from money, and they divided the land acres more, and they could be promoted to their titles. Many people in Qi have been poor, so they flocked to them."

Zhaoshu sighed again, and Song Yu, Qu Sui and others smiled bitterly. On the surface, there was a Qi State, which was beautiful and glamorous, with goods spread all over the world, and all the scholars gathered, and hundreds of schools of thought contend. But there was another unknown Qi State under this Qi State. This Qi State was ragged and turned upside down day and night, with light money and heavy money, and rich and poor every day.

If you have a solid foundation, you know etiquette; if you have enough food and clothing, you know honor and disgrace. If everyone carries a portion of mother's money on their backs and needs to work and pay it back day and night, what if the Qin army comes? It is a good thing when the Qin army comes.

"If each county and town summons another soldier, there may be tens of thousands of people." Qu Su said. Qu Su was kind to Qi, and his understanding of Qi was far better than others. Because of his understanding, Qu Su still put his ideas on his own country.

"Hundreds of thousands of soldiers?" Song Yu smiled bitterly. "Nothing."

"No?" Qu Sui was surprised. "Now, under the rule of Chu, more than six million people. From five feet to sixty, there should be more than one million people. Now there is also the valley of Dongzhou, which harvests two a year, and there is no worry about corn. Although the Qin people had warships, they did not have artillery or huge iron..."

"Five feet to sixty?" Song Yu stared at Qu Sui, and Zhao Shu, the most familiar military affairs, sighed: "When the former king died, he sent five feet of soldiers, but only more than 300,000. He has fought with the Qin people until now, and there are tens of thousands of dead, but how can there be more than one million people?!"

"The past is the past. In the past, I only have the East Land. Now I have the old Ying, Fangcheng, Bashu, Hanzhong..." Qu Sui argued. His words left everyone speechless, and even Song Yu no longer looked at him.

"If I had known this, I should have saved Zhao first." After a while of silence, Lan She remembered Xiang Yan.

"How many years can you delay saving Zhao?" Song Yu did not agree with Lan She's statement. "The defeat of Zhao State was due to the struggle between Handan and Dai land, and it was not up to me. Li Mu was the general, and Zhao State was destroyed several years later. The Chu army attacked Qin everywhere and won every battle. However, if Qin State was not destroyed and the King of Qin was not dead, wouldn't it be a destiny?"

The destiny of heaven is mysterious and mysterious. The Zhou people talked about the destiny of heaven, while the Chu people only talked about ghosts and gods. However, the facts were in front of us. From the Chu army attacked Guanzhong and pulled out Xianyang, the Qin people seemed to be protected by heaven. As long as the Qin people's luck was a little worse, the Qin king was captured and killed; as long as the Qin people's luck was a little worse, Wang Jian's army was annihilated; as long as the Qin people's luck was a little worse, Li Xin could not escape last year...

The Chu army did win every battle, but none of them were truly fatal.

A heavy sigh sounded again in the Mingtang. This is a heartfelt sigh. Some people know about military affairs, and some do not know about military affairs. However, without exception, they all know that the offense and defense are about to change their situation. The offense and defense are terrible. What is even more terrifying than the offense and defense is the tradition of the Qin people to "not attack the land alone and attack the people". In the past, Bai Qibaying still remembered the old love, and there were also Empress Dowager Mi, Wei Ran and other old Chu people in Xianyang, and there were few slaughterings outside the attack and battle. Now it is different. Li Xin entered Fangcheng two years ago and was already young.

"If the battle of Daze is defeated..." Song Yu was the first to speak in silence, "You should build a sea boat quickly."

"Sea Boat?" Everyone remembered the Yan Dynasty's discussion ten years ago. The king once said that the Duke's tribe went out to sea to avoid his spirit and attack his laziness. Song Yu agreed most. Now that he mentioned the old story again, he had the idea of ​​avoiding overseas.

"There are millions of people in the state of Chu, how many people can be carried by sea boats?" Qu Sui shook his head. "How can he eat when he avoids the sea?"

"I have fought with the Qin people for several years and died tens of thousands of people, but now I have to avoid the sea, and the world is laughing." Zhaoshu's sleeves were waving, and his words were filled with anger.

"Since that's the case, why did Zhao's family avoid the east?" Song Yu retorted.

"You!" Zhaoshu shook his sleeves again. He didn't slap people in the face. Song Yu's words were slaps in the face. More than 50 years ago, Zhao's family was also among them. More than 50 years ago, he moved east to avoid Qin, but now he goes to sea to avoid Qin, so there is no logical mistake.

"At that time, the ancestor King Xiang of the king sent Zhuang Zhuang to lead his army along the river and into Yunnan slightly west. There were already few soldiers in the country. In the battle of Yancheng, all the soldiers who fought died, and many men from each clan died. The east land was my Chu land. How could the world laugh at me in order to preserve the country?" Qu Sui disagreed with avoiding the sea, but agreed with moving eastward. "If I had not moved eastward in the past, how could I restore Ying today?"

"If you don't avoid the sea today, how can you restore the country in the future?" Song Yu asked. "The soldiers from Wu and Yue in the east can fight, but the soldiers from the old Yingfangcheng cannot fight. If Daze is defeated, there will be only 21 divisions left in the country, and there are only 130,000 soldiers who can fight. How can you fight?"

"Twenty-one division?! Is it the twenty-one division? There should be the 12th Brigade of the 26th Division, with 200,000 people," Qu Sui stretched out his two fingers. "If each county can summon another soldiers, there may be 400,000."

"The army of Lu and Song dynasties is weak," Song Yu had to explain in detail. "The Wu army is still good. The fifth divisions of the country are only stronger than the newly formed brigade. Fangcheng and the old Ying brigade cannot fight. What's the benefit of summoning you? Although Zhao and Wei have 40,000 soldiers, how can you guard the Wei in Daliang? Although there are ten divisions in Muling Pass, how can Muling Pass in Qi be guarded? The soldiers who can fight are not as good as the ten divisions. The Qin people now have warships, how many of these ten divisions can kill the Qin people?!"

Song Yu was speechless when he refuted Qu Sui. The soldiers who fought did not mean the soldiers who fought. The defenders of Muling Pass could not be mobilized, and the 40,000 troops in the Wei area of ​​Daliang could not be mobilized. The defenses of Nanzheng, Shangyu, and Bashu had to occupy troops, but in fact there were less than ten troops to fight.

Offense is the best defense. For ten years, either the Chu army has maintained an offensive against Qin and took the strategic initiative, or the Qin State has no time to destroy Zhao. If the offensive does not have enough troops, there will be no defense. Once the weak side cannot maintain the offensive and takes the strategic initiative, it will be not far from defeat.
Chapter completed!