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Chapter VII Decision

When Gui Jing and others took out the woods, a fire had already ignited in Jiangyi. This was the Qin army ordered that they burned their supplies before leaving Jiangyi. Seeing this, Gui Jing was even more anxious, but it would take a while to walk to the place where the horses were hiding. Although several people blocked their mouths and noses with cloth when they walked out of the woods, they were still so frightened by the smell of the rotten corpses. This was the battlefield of the Battle of Jiangyi. After the Qin army cut off their heads, the Chu army's corpses were still swept away from the wilderness. The headless ghosts died in battle were all fierce ghosts, and they could not even enter the ancestral temple. It was this point that the old scout frequently touched Jiangyi to detect the enemy situation.

The headless limbs, broken belly, heartbroken, white bones, red flesh, black blood... were attracting countless wild crows and dogs to come to eat. When the three of them stood up, they caused the wild crows to fly angrily. The wild dogs barked, and the flying flies and insects were so scared that they danced all over the sky. The youngest, Fen suddenly felt his legs weak, Gui Jing also shouted guilty in his heart, and the old scout muttered Donghuang Taiyi, and kept promising to the wild ghosts: After victory, they would come back to cover their bones and sacrifice them every year.

Walking in this hellish corpse, his whole body was not cold but trembling. In a trance, it seemed that after walking for an afternoon, the three of them walked to the horse and rode their horses to the south to Chuying. Although the north wind was cold, Gui Jing felt that his whole body was extremely warm under the sun, just like the moon-like body snuggling in his arms in Yingdu.

"Qin people!" Fen came out of the corpse stolen corpse without as much imagination as the royal prince, and his face turned pale after coming out of the corpse. After getting on the horse, he kept looking around, afraid of meeting the Qin people's martial knights. He was really afraid of anything. There were several martial knights drinking horses by the river. Seeing the three riders running south here, he immediately got on the horse and chased after him.

"What should I do?" Gui Jing was anxious. He began to regret that he had not listened to the old scout's advice.

"I can't catch it." The old scout looked back and said helplessly. He suddenly whipped Gui Jing immediately and shouted: "Young Master, go first! Huh-!" His horse was immediately stopped, and the horse riding with him was also unwilling to fight. Both of them were from children, so they could only cover Gui Jing, who was from a royal prince, who escaped first.

"Old scout..." The horse was whipped and ran faster. Gui Jing tried to maintain balance while looking back. He saw the old scout and Fen approaching the Qin people who were chasing him. Although they were just children with humble identities, the wind blew his tears and still drifted behind him with the wind. However, he stopped looking back and didn't see that: Fen, who was following the old scout, stabbed the old scout off the horse, and cut off his head before the Qin people arrived, and then abandoned the sword and held the head and knelt on the dry grass.

"You said that the Qin people retreated from Jiangyi and set fire to the baggage?" The general Xiang Yan, the Chu army camp shogunate south of Jiangyi, did not sit in the position of the chief general. The person sitting in the upright position was Xiong Jing, the new Chu king in Weibian's uniform.

"That's right." Gui Jing replied. "The boy saw the Qin people withdraw from Jiangyi, burning the baggage and came back to report the news. He was still on the way..."

The scouts always come back at night, Gui Jing is lucky to come back during the day, his riding skills are not ordinary, and his courage is great. Xiang Yan praised him a little, "Sima will remember you for your achievements, go down and rest."

"Boy gave up." Xiang Yan said in person that it was a rare thing to remember the merits, but Gui Jing was not happy at all. He first bowed to Xiong Jing, then to Xiang Yan, and then withdrew from the shogunate.

"King..." Although Xiong Jing's arrival increased the number of troops to 250,000, Xiang Yan had to worry about the etiquette of Xiong Jing, the king who had not yet been hung in his hair, in terms of etiquette.

"Bulian said that you will never interfere in combat, and General Xiang does not have to worry about Bulian." Xiang Yan in Xiong Jing's eyes was definitely a arrogant person. This could be seen from his high head and protruding cheekbones from time to time. Xiong Jing showed that he respected him very much from the meeting, but he did not give Xiang Yan the military power of the Jiangdong division. He sat here more because of the military power of the Jiangdong division, rather than the identity of the king. Only with soldiers can he have power. He learned this without a command.

"What do the generals think?" Xiang Yan was arrogant in Xiong Jing's eyes, and Xiong Jing was definitely a monster in Xiang Yan's eyes. He couldn't remember what he looked like, but he completely remembered how his eldest son Xiang Chaowei's looks like - except for talking in a mess and asking someone to wipe his butt after he pulled the shit, he would definitely not be able to sit in a place for a quarter of the time. The king in front of him looked at the sand table and saw that he had been a day. He spoke appropriately and behaved politely, which was really a monster.

"Tell the king, general, we think..." The generals always look at Xiong Jing first and then speak. "...The Qin people's move is to lure me north to cut off my food route, and to trap and kill me like Changping dealt with Zhao people."

The Qin army lured themselves to the north to fight to the decisive battle before, and now they withdraw from Jiangyi just in response to this statement. But some people disagree. The Ying army general Guan You said: "Tell the king, general, the last general thinks otherwise. The Qin people retreated from Jiangyi and retreated to Yiyi and avoid fighting. Everyone should know that all the Qi and Wei have sent troops, and this time is not the same. The situation has changed from the Qin people to the urgent decision of each other to our army to the urgent decision of each other, otherwise the territory of Lu will be in trouble and the counties in Huaibei will be unstable, and our army's food and supplies will be ineffective."

"General Guan is a mistake. Sima has not received any news from the Wei State's troops. Although Qi's army has surrounded Ju County, the city is not pulled out." Guan You said solemnly, and the army Sima Peng Zong immediately spoke to refute the rumors. He did not want the generals to be panic.

"That's true, does our army need not worry about the two countries of Qi and Wei?" Guan You asked back. "I regret that my order Yin was harmed by the bandit Jing Hua, otherwise the order Yin would be there, and Zhao had already sent troops to help. In the current situation, we would think that our army should go north to Yiyi before the Qin army arrived. If it was too late, 300,000 Qin troops arrived, and our army would not win, and there would be losses on the land of Lu and Huai. At that time, the three countries of Qin, Wei and Qi attacked our country and the country would be in danger!"

"That's true. It's better for the Qin army to decide with him than the 300,000 yuan to decide again." Guan You said it was not unreasonable. It's not that the Qin army is anxious now, but that the Chu army is anxious. The more delayed the situation, the worse it is. Many of the generals here agree with his words.

"The last general asks the king, and the general allows our army to fight to the death with the Qin people." Pan Wuming immediately stood up and asked for his orders. He stood up and the other generals also stood up, and the sound of asking for battle was buzzing.

"Since I have been worshipped by the General, whether to fight or not, it will be decided by the General." Xiong Jing once again emphasized Xiang Yan's rights and responsibilities.

"The last general dares to ask the king to grant military power to the General Jiangdong division..." Taking advantage of this momentum, the army Sima Peng Zong turned his eyes and took the lead in worshiping Xiong Jing, and finally asked for military power in public.

"If the general is determined to fight, Buying will grant his troops in Jiangdong. However, the troops in Jiangdong are all Yue people. Buying often promises when he comes. There are several matters to explain in the fashion of handover." This was already a tit-for-tat. Xiong Jing was stunned for a moment before answering. Although he agreed to hand over the military power, he left a tail for several matters.

"I dare to ask what the king has to explain?" Peng Zong immediately asked without leaving any room for anything. "Although the troops in Jiangdong were all Yue people, they were also under the rule of our Chu State."

"The General has set a final battle?" Xiong Jing no longer paid attention to him, but instead shifted the topic to Xiang Yan. "If the Qin people were cautious in guarding the camp and not fighting with me, what would it be?"

"This..." Xiang Yan was also considering this issue. The decisive battle between the two armies was field battle, and field battle was in formation. Although Yiyi could not accommodate more than 200,000 people, the Qin army outside the city had been operating for more than a month, and the ditch was deep and the walls were solid. If he didn't come out to fight, he would have no choice. He could not attack the city, right?

Xiang Yan was speechless and right at Xiong Jing’s problem, and the generals who asked for battle could not think of a good idea. If they went north to fight against Qin people, it would be better to camp here. After all, this place is closer to Xi County and the logistics line is shorter.

"If the Qin people don't fight with me, there is a way for the unspoken one." Xiong Jing laughed, very strange.

"Please ask the king to teach Yu Chen and others." In addition to Xiang Yan, the generals in the shogunate bowed to Xiong Jing.

"Then let's go out and have a look." Seeing Yanglu on the opposite side nodding to him and signaling that everything was arranged, Xiong Jing immediately stood up and left the shogunate.

"Look?" All the generals were surprised, but they had to follow Xiong Jing, the five-foot king, out of the shogunate.

"What is that?" Because of Xiong Jing, the Jiangdong army was stationed in the middle of the camp, close to the shogunate. As soon as the generals left the camp, they saw the hanger of the rock-treating pilot of the Jiangdong army camp with a rock-treating pole of about fifteen or sixteen meters swaying in the air. This was just installed by Xiong Jing's order, and there were only two.

The scars of riding horses that day had not healed. Xiong Jing, who was impatient, walked too fast. When he walked to the catapult with the generals, he felt his butt hurt. He endured the pain and introduced: "This thing is called a catapult. This is different from the cabin guarding the city. The cabin can only cast stones on the city wall. This catapult can cast stones on the flat ground. You...you all go back and take a look first."

The counterweight catapult is already ten meters high, and there is a hanging rod of more than ten meters swaying on it. The total height is nearly thirty meters. When the boom is shaking, the entire wooden frame creaked, which is very scary. Such a huge thing is already intimidating. Before Xiong Jing can retreat, the generals unconsciously moved back.

Xiong Jing also retreated. As soon as he retreated, the soldiers under the catapult raised the flag. Under the machine was Yin Dao, the worker of the building, personally directed it. He heard something. The strong men in the two erected large discs under the catapult began to run quickly in the disc. Every time the disc turned, the 180-degree erected boom was tilted back ten degrees. After fourteen circles, the top end of the boom fell to the predetermined position. The two cannon hands began to fix the boom and put iron bullets on the leather pocket. At the same time, the disc began to rotate - this was to withdraw the rope. The disc was actually a squirrel cage crane. The rope was connected to the end of the boom. If the rope was not withdrawn, the two discs would be thrown out together when the boom was cast.
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