"Good greetings to the king!" The outpost was five miles away from the camp. The camp was not allowed to run at night. Xiong Jing got off the horse after entering the camp. However, his swollen legs made him stagger very much and needed someone to help him, but he didn't want others to help him, so the group of people following him stood at the gate of the camp. The soldiers who were on the camp did not know what to do, and they all bowed down.

"No gifts, get up." The soldier's voice of the king gave Xiong Jing some more strength, and he finally got up.

"The last general pays homage to the king and congratulates the king on his ascension." The central military shogunate was in full bloom and bright. The slightly larger officers were there, and they worshiped a large area under the leadership of the chief general. Of course, because they were wearing leather armor, they just bowed, not to bow.

"The generals are exempted from the gifts. It's late at night. Please step back and rest." Xiong Jing finally sat down. Even if he was kneeling down uncomfortable, he made him breathe a deep breath. Most of the generals led him to retreat, but the chief generals Huang Yong, Yang Lu, Yi Yang Jun, and Lian Po, some of the advisers in the army have not yet retreated. Xiong Jing left the camp yesterday morning and returned to the camp tonight. What happened during this period will be reported and discussed.

"Tell the king: The Qin army that captured Chengyang has set off the camp to the north today." Huang Yong came up with a big deal.

"The Qin army gathered?" The old servant Ge Zheng brought hot water to wash Xiong Jing's face. Xiong Jing was not particular about it, and he washed it while discussing matters.

"The King is wise." Huang Yong flattered calmly. He has been pleasing Xiong Jing recently. The customary fief of Chu State is for three lifetimes, but Huang Xie's fief is too big, and it is not without precedent for one lifetime.

"You're welcome to say nothing." Xiong Jing was a little displeased with him and asked again: "Is there any information about the Qin army gathering in Yiyi?"

"No." Yang Lu replied, "The Qin army's military knights almost abandoned our scouts, and it is difficult for our scouts to know about the matters in Yiyi."

"Where is Xiang Yan? Did he receive the news of the Qin army gathering?" Xiong Jing asked Xiang Yan again. His 180,000 army heading north touched everyone's nerves. If these 180,000 people were surrounded by the Qin army, the Chu State would be basically finished.

"General Xiang only traveled fifteen miles a day, and when Xi County received the news, he rushed to General Xiang." A few days ago, he didn't know how Xiang Yan went north on the road. Now when he arrived in Xi County, everyone knew that Xiang Yan had made some preparations for going north. He had brought a lot of food, fodder, carriages and horses. The daily march was very slow, only fifteen miles. Based on time, it would take three days to arrive in Jiangyi.

"The king, the last general thought that General Xiang was very cautious in going north and traveled only fifteen miles a day. He thought that he was just a decisive battle with the Qin people to break the siege of Chengyang, not really a decisive battle with the Qin people." Yang Lu added that this was his judgment after arriving in Xi County.

"Otherwise." Lian Po, who had always dozed off, spoke, and he was now untiring. "The Qi army went south and the Wei army was about to leave. If he could not decide with the Qin people to the north of the Huai River as soon as possible, he would be afraid that the Qin people would echo the Qi and Wei in the future, and the Chu State would be in danger."

"Zhenping Jun means that our army should be the Qin people to decide the male and female?" Lian Po did not have an official position in the army, and his identity was just Xiong Jing's disciple. However, he had been on the battlefield for a long time and knew the Qin army, so everyone could hear his words.

"The current situation is based on war, and it should be decided early, and it is not good if it is decided late." Lian Po looked at Xiong Jing. He pronounced the word "war" very heavily. In modern language, it is "from a military perspective". As for "from a political perspective", it depends on Xiong Jing's judgment.

War is a continuation of politics, but the result of the war determines politics. Xiong Jing did not mean to change generals in the last battle. What he wanted to do now was to defeat the most powerful Qin State before the Qin, Wei and Qi formed a powerful force. This was not his intentional choice, it was God in front of him. If it weren't for the previous defeat of Jiangyi, Wei and Qi would have hesitated to send troops. Now that Jiangyi was defeated, the Qin army increased its troops, Wei Qi would of course take the opportunity to defeat the water dog and divide the Chu State with Qin State. Even if Qin State did not want to destroy Chu, they hoped to seize several cities and take advantage of it.

"King, have you not sent anyone to the Zhao and Wei countries? Then when will the Zhao army send troops to me?" Yi Yangjun asked, and he suddenly missed Ling Yin Huang Xie. If Huang Xie was still there, the situation would probably not be so serious.

"The whole country of Zhao was controlled by the slander Guo Kai, who had long colluded with the Qin people." What Lian Po said was really shocking. "My eldest son of Zhao, Chunping, entered Qin, and the Qin people did not let him go, so Zhao Yan was able to ascend the throne. Zhao Yan ascended the throne, and everyone who was evil with Qin was removed from office. Four years ago, Chunshen Jun persuaded the five countries to join forces, and the coalition forces did not expel them, which was a great connection."

"Ah——!" Xiong Jingsha looked at Lian Po, feeling as if in a dream. To this day, he no longer has hope for Zhao's troops, but he never expected that Zhao would collude with Qin. Zhao Yan was the throne that Qin helped.

"I have heard of what Mr. Xinping said." Yang Lu was the least surprised in the military. He had already heard similar rumors. "Qin Prime Minister Lu Buwei helped King Zhao ascend the throne, and King Zhao wanted to report Qiong Yao. Jun's resignation was because of this. However, due to the influence of the Lao Ai rebellion, Lu Buwei was unable to protect himself. It is difficult to predict whether Guo Kai would collude with the Qin people."

"The current situation is not expected to be rescued by the Zhao army." Xiong Jing, who calmed his mind, interrupted, "If our army decides early with the Qin army, what is the chance of victory?"

No one dared to answer Xiong Jing's question, even Lian Po was silent, but there were a few strategists calculating their troops. After a moment, the strategist said, "Tell the king, if our army joins the general, there will be 250,000 troops. The Cai County army will be 3,000 troops a day, and if we fight with our relatives ten days later, our army will have 280,000."

"How many Qin troops are there?" Xiong Jing asked again. No one spoke, and even the counselors were there - there was no news from the Qin army, and they had no idea. The only thing they knew was that Qin State claimed to increase its troops by 200,000.

"The city is surrounded by ten thousand people, otherwise the Chu army in the inner city will be defeated. Yiyi is a large camp of the Qin army, and ten thousand people must stay in the battle. Yiyi reaches Qin territory for more than two hundred miles of grain road, and there must be a warehouse for stockpiling and transportation in the middle. In addition, in order to prevent the Chu army from cutting off the food road, the food road may require 20,000 people to guard it. If the Qin army is 300,000, the one who fights with me will be 260,000, and if the Qin army has more than 300,000..." Lian Po, who is most familiar with the Qin army, can only calculate the strength of the Qin army. Without any news, he does not know how many people there are under Meng Wu's command.

"Mr. Xinping, I have something to do." Yang Lu suddenly had a problem.

"Please tell me." Lian Po respects Yang Lu, no better than Huang Yong.

"Yiyi is 600 miles from Wanjun, and there is no waterway among them. How can the Qin army transport food and fodder? Our army relies on waterways, and more than 200,000 people are inconvenient. The Qin army has more horses, and the horse food is ten times more than people, and it is entirely transported by land..."

Yang Lu asked about logistics, Xiong Jing also considered similar issues, and he also calculated specifically: Suppose there was a 10,000 army, which was transported by the Qin Dynasty's double-shaft chariot, how many people and how many horses were needed to transport grain?

The Qin State's double-axle chariot has a single horse, and a coachman is said to be able to carry 25 stones of grain, which can be 60 miles a day. If the army fights to eat (2.7 kilograms per day per person), and the horse food is ten times that of the people, the daily transportation of 60 miles requires 80 double-axle chariots to transport (going and returning), and the amount of horses that is ten times that of the people (80x10), and the transportation loss rate is 8.8%.

This transportation loss rate is very important. The distance the army can leave the granary depends entirely on it. Calculated by 8.8%, if the Qin army has more than eleven days away from the granary (660 miles), the transport of military rations will be consumed on the horses and coachmen who transported the grain. The front-line army will not be able to eat a grain of millet, and if they are not collected on the spot, they will starve to death.

Yiyi is 600 miles away from Wanjun, the rear of the Qin army. With this loss rate, 88 stones are consumed on the road, and the remaining 12 stones can only reach the front line of the Qin army. If you really need to transport grain and fodder from the rear, it will take thirty times (300,000 people) of eighty double-shaft chariots, and it will be multiplied by ten days, and finally divided by 12% - because only so much food and fodder is transported to the front line, the number of carriages will be an astonishing 200,000, which is something that the Qin State cannot bear.

However, the loss rate varies. If the Qin army transported corn rather than shelled millet, the transportation tonnage would be reduced by 40%; if the horses were fed not straw but beans, the horse's appetite was no longer ten times that of people but five times that of people, which meant that the transportation loss rate would drop to 2.88%. The Qin army only needed 48 double-axle chariots for sixty miles, and 300,000, that is, 14,400. Considering the loss of 28.8% (10 days), a total of 20,555 double-axle chariots were required.

Such logistical pressure is not difficult for Qin. This is still the case of fighting food. The army usually only eats when fighting, and usually eats ginseng, so the logistical pressure is even looser.

"Hey..." Compared with others, Xiong Jing's mathematics is outstanding, and he can't solve math problems in his life can be calculated in a few minutes. Thinking of the transportation loss rate, Xiong Jing suddenly had some ideas.

"Can you send someone to investigate three things: First, what is the Qin army's horse-carrying horse-carrying food, is it straw or fine materials? Second, does the Qin army transport corn or millet? Third, how much millet and rice are harvested by the Qin army? ... Also, can we estimate how many horses the Qin army has in total, which does not include the horse-carrying food-carrying food-carrying horses, and how many double-wheeled chariots carrying grain enter the camp every day?"

Xiong Jing said that he was talking about three questions, but in the end he found five questions, but everyone understood his meaning. Yang Lu reminded: "Does the king want to estimate the food and fodder of the Qin army? The Qin people occupied Yiyi for a long time, and it was difficult to count the food and fodder transported in the past."

"Can you do it?" Xiong Jing no matter how much food and fodder the Qin army had transported to Yiyi before, he just wanted to know the loss rate of the Qin army's logistics transportation. Knowing the loss rate of the Qin army's logistics transportation, he knew the extreme distance of the Qin army's offensive.

Xiong Jing explained the five questions and the meeting ended in a while. Everyone knew in their hearts that if the Qin army exceeded 200,000, the Chu army, which did not have an absolute numerical advantage, would not have a chance of winning, but no one dared to say this in front of Xiong Jing. However, after everyone left, Lian Po said: "This battle is so bad."
Chapter completed!