Late at night, the Chu army crossing the Mianshui held a torch and advanced quickly westward. The rumbling explosion sounded again on the left bank of Mianshui where they abandoned it. This was not the sound of cannons, but the artillery soldiers were blowing up the cannons and supplies that could not be taken away. Going westward was all mountain roads, most of the cannons were blown up, and the supplies were set on fire. Several Lu Qianli were caring for their unwilling horses, and they could not escape the fate of being destroyed.

At this time, Zhao Zheng, who tried his best to sleep peacefully in order to deal with government affairs, could no longer sleep. The Chu army went west, as if the fish bones stuck in their throat were finally pulled out, and the recovery of Nanzheng and Bashu were far away. The Qin Dynasty was breaking out from its destiny and gaining a new life. Every time Zhao Zheng thought of this, he would inevitably shiver a few times, as if the traveler who was frozen in the snowy night had just entered the warm guesthouse.

"The Jing people fell to the west, and Wei Qing thought it was a matter..." Zhao Zheng was in the old Dao County, and Wei Liao was naturally in the old Dao County. Although the ministers in Yongcheng had been asking Zhao Zheng to return to Yongcheng and move back to Xianyang.

"It's no worries." Wei Liao, who had already fallen asleep, was also awakened by the sound of cannons from the Chu army. Like Zhao Zheng, he, the national lieutenant, did not leave the town. This should not be a matter that a dignified national lieutenant should pay attention to. "If the people of Jing go west, if I can get Bashu, they will always be trapped in the west."

"What if I don't have Bashu?" The servants were still lighting up the candles, and the hall became brighter and brighter. Zhao Zheng looked at the map and landed on the location of Zhudi and Bashu.

"If I don't have Bashu, I can attack Qi and Wei." Wei Liao was Wei Liao after all. Although he fought in Daze and Nanfu Bashu's combat plan was strongly promoted, after calming down, he felt that Wang Jian's letter was more and more reasonable. "Ba Shu is the border of the world. It is not wise to not take advantage of the defeat of the Jing people to quickly attack its foundation."

"If we don't attack Bashu, how about food and fodder?" Zhao Zheng frowned. Wei Liao was only responsible for military affairs and did not involve people's livelihood. He was different. He had to endure the complaints of the left and right prime ministers, court officials, and county officials, and pick out the precious corn from the head of the Guizhou to hand it over to the Guowei Mansion. Last year to this year, the civilians of each county became more and more intense, and more officials died in duty, and more and more complaints from the officials.

"I have a warship, and the warship can go south along the water to enter the eastern part of Jing Kingdom; and I can also go out to the sea at the Ji River and go through the sea to the eastern part of Jing Kingdom." In contrast to Zhao Zheng who frowned, Wei Liao was smiling. He was happy in the battle of Daze, and the formation of the Baidi people made the Yue people's boats fight and could not defeat him. He finally grabbed the lifeline of Jing Kingdom. "I have a warship, and I can seize the land of Qi and Wei, and the grain of Qi and Wei is the grain of my Great Qin..."

"Since that's the case, why not attack Qi and Wei quickly?" Zhao Zhengluo's eyes immediately turned to Wei Liao. "Since that's the case, why fight for Nanzheng and Bashu? Why do you have to fight with the Jing people in Daze?"

"King," Zhao Zheng was a little unhappy and completely forgot his plan to fight in Chencang and the Qin army to defend Guanzhong. "Who knows that it can cover the Jing people and the Zhou army? Even if we can cover the Jing people and the Zhou army now, our army will lose more than the Jing people. Without formations, dozens of Yue people's warships will prevent our army from going south.

The victory of the Zhou army is that I die ten people, and the Jing people will die five people, which is beyond the reach of the Lu army. Previously, the Qin Dynasty fought with the Jing people, and dozens of people died, and even one person was not necessarily killed. This year, Bashu can get the best, and Bashu can not be used to treat our army for a long time. Our army should also move to Qi and Wei to attack the Jing people in the east."

"Waiting for a long time to fight..." The Shaofu's next task was to build a boat, and he kept building a house day and night.

Lord Baidi advised himself not to impose Fusu on the Qiang people at that time, which was the example of Roman. He said that when the Roman Kingdom was fighting with Punic, the Roman Kingdom's boat troops led a storm on the sea, which caused the boat troops to be completely destroyed. However, the Roman people slept on firewood and tasted gall, and in just a hundred days, they built more than 200 warships to fight Punic again, and finally defeated Punic.

The Roman Kingdom did not have tens of thousands of craftsmen and a young mansion with millions of subordinates. The Roman Kingdom built more than 200 warships in a hundred days. If the Qin Dynasty had not been to strictly prevent the spies from spying on the Jing people, more than 1,000 warships would have been able to be built within a hundred days.

Wei Liao didn't know that Zhao Zheng was recalling the battle of Punich in Rome, thinking that he was doubting his strategy. He was excited when he saw the victory and shouted: "If there are tens of thousands of warships in the Qin Dynasty, Jing Kingdom will perish next year!"

The demise of Chu State can be seen, of course only a very small number of people can see it. Wei Liao's bold statement made Zhao Zheng's heart turbulent. At this moment, he climbed out of the abyss of pain and struggle, standing at the top of the world. The Qin Dynasty finally wants to unify the world.

The next day, he returned to Yongcheng at the request of the prime minister and officials. On the day he returned to Yongcheng, he issued the order to return to Xianyang. The court returned to Xianyang the next day. Most of the craftsmen in the Shaofu who had previously hidden in the Weishui River, Weishui River, and Jing River also returned to Xianyang. Boat building is the top priority of the Qin Dynasty. In addition to boat building, all counties and counties also need to train the wizards immediately - a three-oared warship requires 170 wizards, and those 10,000 warships require 1.7 million wizards.

Zhao Zheng's plan was like this, but the day after he issued the king's order, Crimenides requested a visit under the steps of Qutai Palace.

"Your Majesty, you can't build a warship like that. This is a completely wrong strategy..." Wu Ji's absence, Crimenides took a lot of effort to visit him, and he almost broke into Qutai Palace. Wu Ji was not here, so Zhao Zheng had to summon Fusu.

"Father, he," Fusu is competent for the translation work, but he doesn't know how to be tactful.

"How?" Zhao Zheng looked at Fusu with a smile, while Zhao Gao on the side looked at Zhao Zheng with a smile.

"In other words, there are many mistakes in the construction of ships in Daqin." Fusu breathed a sigh of relief and tried to be gentle. "The Jing people's warships do not need to turn, but they are extremely fast. I should not compete with the Jing people, but should compete with the Jing people."

"Compet with the Jing people?" Zhao Zheng didn't understand this. He didn't know what the force in the mouth of General Bai Dizhou's son represented.

"Your Majesty should build a five-oar battleship instead of a three-oar battleship." Crimenides said bluntly. "The Greeks love to build a three-oar battleship because a three-oar battleship saves a lot of working days than a five-oar battleship and reduces more paddlers, which can save a lot of money. Moreover, their paddlers are well-trained and can always go back to the other side's flank to launch attacks.

To be honest, we couldn't do this in the war with Chuni. The Chuni warship always shaved our wooden oars and deviated our flanks. So His Majesty cannot build a three-oar battleship, but should build a five-oar and a seven-oar battleship, so that we can get speed and endurance beyond Chuni warship. We should also learn from the Romans, install crow hangings on the warships, and turn naval battles into land battles..."

The Battle of Daze was a great victory in Zhao Zheng and others, but in Crimenides, it was a complete failure. The battle of 859 warships sank 707, and the other twenty-five ships were injured to varying degrees, only one hundred and twenty-seven were intact. However, these twenty-seven warships were forced to retreat continuously by more than sixty Chuans.

The Chuni warships participating in the war could not determine the exact number. There are more than 400 ships, and there are more than 800 ships, but after verification, it should be more than 400 ships. The Chuni warships sank about 350 ships, but their own side sank 707 ships, and the loss was twice that of Chuni. If this is not a defeat, then what is a defeat?

Fortunately, Qinni was a powerful kingdom. His Majesty the King didn't care about the sank of seven hundred warships and the death of 200,000 soldiers. The craftsmen built new warships day and night, and the generals summoned them to train new oarsmen. Crimenides's visit was to add icing on the cake and formulate the correct strategy for Qinni's navy, which was actually a replica of the Roman strategy.

Don’t compete with the enemy’s oar skills or ship control skills, but have a game of speed and endurance with the enemy; don’t engage in a real naval battle with the enemy, but fight a land battle on the water with the enemy. The warship must be five oars or even seven oars, so that there will be faster speed, better endurance, and more hand-to-hand soldiers.

Being hit is not scary, warships should welcome the enemy to hit. Because once they hit, the crow hang will hook the enemy tightly, and the soldiers on the warship jump over the ship's side and engage in hand-to-hand combat with the enemy.

Intermittently, Fusu translated Crimenides' words one by one. After hearing this, Zhao Zheng did not hesitate and immediately summoned Wei Liao, the great craftsman of the Shaofu, Yan Wuyi.

"No, no." Wei Liao shook his head even before he could finish all of Crimenides' suggestions. "The five-oard warship takes nine thousand working days, and the three-oard warship only takes six thousand working days. Two five-oard warships can build three three-oard warships. I have many wishes."

"More?" Zhao Zhengti understood the word and gradually understood it.

"Yes," Wei Liao said. "The Jing people are soldiers who are stolen, and soldiers are soldiers who are stolen. What's the use of warships? I have a formation, but the Jing people cannot defeat me. I have no formation. When the two boats fight, the other warships quickly sank the two boats, and they exchange for one. There are only 200,000 Jing people, and less than a thousand warships. Our army has more than one million, and there are tens of thousands of warships. What's wrong with 400,000 deaths and Jing Kingdom is destroyed?"

In the war with Chu, so far, the Qin army lost more than 400,000 soldiers. The Qin Dynasty was not afraid of consumption. What Qin was afraid of wasting itself consumed the enemy but was not consumed. The water war successfully achieved the consumption of the Chu State, which is the significance of the warship.

Wei Liao moved Zhao Zheng, and Crimenides, who was standing on one side, suddenly became angry. He said, "If you adopt such a strategic battle, I am very worried about the loyalty of the soldiers to His Majesty the King."

"Soldiers are afraid of the law and greedy for titles, so why do you need anything else?" Wei Liao hugged Crimenides and smiled.

"But..." After listening to Fusu's retelling, Crimenides couldn't say anything. Qinni did not use mercenaries. He thought Qinni was a city-state like Greece, but Qinni was not a Greek city-state, so he didn't have to care about the opposition of soldiers or even generals.
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