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Chapter 61 Farewell

"Are these three provinces of the Grand Sima Mansion?" Xiong Jing looked at Naojiu. The two were too close to each other, and Xiong Jing suddenly found that Naojiu became unfamiliar, with gray hair and deep bags in his eyes. He was no longer the grand Sima of Chu who used to speak like a powerful aura that was launched by Jing crossbows.

"I think the Qin people are short of food, so I should do good to not attack the Qin people." Xiong Jing's gaze, Nao's head lowered even lower.

"The Qin people are short of food and will definitely attack me. Instead of Qin attacking me, I will attack Qin." After a long time, although they had no worries about food and clothing, they also lifted the siege of Daliang, but their morale was still declining. Wang Jian's goal of slowing down was achieving little by little.

"However, the cannon of the boat breaks has only been built in a few days, and now it has only built more than 80 gates. How can the army cross the Fengze?" Nao asked cunningly. "If you don't control the water zodiac, the Qin boat army can attack me and cut off my food route."

A tower ship requires two or thirty artillery, and control Fengze Muze requires at least ten tower ships. If the naval guns on twenty gunboats are not used, Jutiedu Mansion will not produce so many artillery in just one year. And if you use sea boat artillery, not to mention the safety of evading boats, it may not be guaranteed. Even if you use 480 naval guns on the sea boat, you cannot guarantee the safety of the Chu army's flanks.

After the flood, the Daliang is the fruit born on the branch of Honggou, which floods the low-lying land in the corner of the corner of the branch with Daliang as the corner. There are two fruits on the west side of this branch. One is the largest Putianze, which has an area larger than the waters of Daliang. To the east of Putianze, there is Zhongmuyi; the other is Rongze, which is west of Weihan Great Wall. Rongze is slightly smaller than Daliang waters, and to the west is Rongyang City.

Qifeng is south of the Daliang waters, and the sand sea is northwest of the waters. Qifeng wants to go to the sand sea, either directly crossing the waters to reach the sand sea; or he can only take the land between the Daliang waters and Putianze by land, and then cross a wider gap than before and the gutter leading to the Yellow River water.

The Qin army had nearly a thousand warships, and it was unrealistic to go to the sand sea by water, so they could only go to the sand sea by land. The problem with land was the double-team of two fruits, one east and one west. As long as they were willing, the Qin army could quickly seize the seal through the water after the Chu army left, and cut off the land grain route of the Chu army. If the seal was stationed, then the troops would have to be divided, and it would be a problem to rescue or not to rescue.

It is okay to attack the sand sea regardless of the rear and the grain channel, but in Wang Jian's smooth style, the Qin army would most likely retreat. But if Wang Jian died on the sand sea and the water north of the sand sea - the northwest river channel of Daliang is extremely complex. Among the four rivers flowing horizontally from east to west, the southernmost one is Honggu. It comes from the west and turns an almost ninety-degree bend in Daliang City to the south; above the southern gulf is the Nanji River, which is forked from the north end of Putianze to the east, and flows to the east from the north of Daliang City; the northern gulf is the Beiji River, which extends from Rongze to the east; the northernmost one is the Bipu River, which comes from the Yellow River to the east.

There are four east-west rivers, two north-south rivers: Cross Valley and Yin Valley. The westernmost part is the straight Cross Valley, which is connected to Putianze at the southern end, but is located east of the Nanji River. In other words, Cross Valley and Nanji River meet to the east of Putianze and north of the Kungou; the northern end connects to the Yellow River, but is in the lower reaches of the Bipu River connect to the Yellow River, that is, Cross Valley and Bipu River meet to the east of the Yellow River.

The gutter is in a '┒' shape here. It comes from the Yellow River to the east between the Bipu River and the Beiji River, intersects with the Cross Valley and flows for a while. When it gets closer and closer to the Beiji River, it turns about a 90-degree turn, running through the Beiji River. The Nanji River and the Honggu merge at the Kungu west of Daliang.

Shahai Daying is north of Honggou, east of the gutter, and south of Nanji. Because the waters in the south of Daliang block the nearest way, you must first cross the Honggou north and south, and then cross the gutter east and west to the Shahai Daying. If the Qin army retreats and the Chu army pursues, it will have to cross the Nanji River north and south; if the Qin army retreats not to the north direction but to the northwest direction, it will have to cross the gutter east and west again.

If the Qin army continues to retreat, the Chu army will cross the Beiji River from north to south; if the Qin army does not retreat north to north, but to the northwest, then cross the Cross ditch east to east and west, and the gutter that is already flowing east to west. However, when the Qin army retreats here, there will be only the Yellow River behind it.

The Operations Department calculated that, excluding the Yellow River, the Chu army had to cross at most seven rivers before forcing the Qin army to retreat north of the Yellow River. Wang Jian's most likely approach was to set up seven defenses along the banks of the waters, and at the same time seize the seal and cut off the Chu army's water and land food routes. If the Chu army was really chasing, it might simply destroy the embankments on both sides of the gutter, so that the west side of the beam would flood as much as the surroundings of the beam.

Nao's words reminded Xiong Jing of Li Qi's judgment during the last battle. The Chu army was wearing heavy armor. Once the dam broke, tens of thousands of people were likely to sink to the bottom of the water. Even if the water did not lose its head, it would be impossible to resist the Qin army on the warship.

"I can only wait, what can Ruozhi do?" The Chu soldiers whose water was not in their chest flashed in their minds and were ruthlessly hit by the bronze horn of the Qin army warship. Xiong Jing sighed. He didn't like this kind of waiting. Naoji said that if he didn't attack Guanzhong last year, he thought that it was because the Chu army's attack in Guanzhong too late. It was because the sulfur arrived too late, and there was not enough gunpowder. The Chu army could only stop south of the Qinling Mountains.

If Qin was short of food, transporting millions of stones and potatoes into Qin would not improve the disaster situation in a short time. When the disaster situation could be improved, the decisive battle between Qin and Chu would have ended long ago. Because of this, Xiong Jing judged that Qin was not short of food, and at least the Qin army did not lack food. Wang Jian did not send any more money, except to dispel the morale of Chu, or to brew some new weapons, such as gunpowder.

"The king really wants to attack Qin, maybe he can wait until winter." Naojiu did not have the strong desire to attack as Xiong Jing, and he just wanted to drag Qin to death.

"Winter?" Half of autumn has passed, and it is winter soon.

"Yes." Nao said cunningly. "Now our army lacks artillery and is in danger of attacking the Qin people. It is better to wait until winter. This winter will be cold. After the water is frozen, the Qin people should not be able to prevent the water equipment."

Naojiu proposed the plan he thought was the most feasible. According to this plan, the attack on Qin might have to be delayed until the moon of the aid of the sun, which was already a La Festival. When thinking of the La Festival Xiong Jing, he immediately thought of his wife, and she had to give birth to another child on this winter day.

"Da Ao..." Nao Ji saw that Xiong Jing was distracted, and waited for a while before shouting in a low voice.

"Da Ao, all the ministers are resigning." The envoy rushed up the steps and told him outside the hall. After the court, the court officials came to the gate to resign. Xiong Jing got up and walked out of the hall. The people at the steps looked up and looked forward to him, hoping that he would say something. Unfortunately, Xiong Jing waved his sleeves hard and shouted: "Let's go!"

"Grass the Great Ao!" Zhaoshu and others shouted. The others also shouted, "Grass the Great Ao." Then they wiped their tears and left.

Xiong Jing stood on the platform and watched them leave for a long time without saying a word. When they saw them leaving the royal city, they hurried into the hall and climbed up from a narrow room in the west, pulling the stairs up. After the wooden palace was demolished, the palace was made of concrete. The concrete columns were stronger than wood. At that time, in order to highlight the king's majesty, the main bedroom was raised several feet high, becoming the second only to Taishe and Taimiao.

Xiong Jing quickly climbed up to the roof of Si A Chongwu, because the main bedroom was located on the north and south axis. At this location, you can see the south gate of the royal city and the gate of Shouying. Most of the ministers left the southern gate at this time and disappeared, but after a while they walked out of the city wall and appeared on the fat water. They would drive out of the Yangtze River from the Yinglu Canal and arrive at Zhufang.

Dozens of court officials, together with their family and servants, had only a hundred boats in total. However, with the craftsmen in Shouying City and the boys in Yingdu, the sails were filled with fat water. The boats carrying the ministers mixed into the boat team that could not see at first sight. In a blink of an eye, it was impossible to tell which ones were them, which ones were craftsmen, and which ones were boys.

"Da Ao." Old Changjiang and Naojiu also climbed up, and Changjiang was holding a Lu Lijing in his hand.

Xiong Jing did not meet Lu Lijing, looked at the countless boats on the fat water and shook his head while lamenting: "I'm still incompetent."

"How could Da Ao say this?" Nao Ji and Chang Jiang were surprised. The historian who caught up with him shook his head vigorously when he heard this.

"If it weren't for Da Ao, the State of Chu would have been destroyed long ago!" Yi Xian said loudly.

"The world has been overturned for a long time, how can Da Ao be blamed for being a crime?" Zuo Shi Zhuyong also said. "I am sorry that the ancestor King Huai was imprisoned by the Qin people, otherwise why did Chu State be like this? Because of this, the people of Chu have fought for more than 200,000 soldiers, but they have not been able to save the world's general trend. But if the people of Zhao have less selfishness and more righteousness, how can Zhao State perish? But if the people of Qi have less selfishness and more righteousness, how can Qin State remain?"

"Isn't the general trend of the world that our state of Chu can recover?" Yixian said. "Even if all countries are united, they will not succeed. If they fight for the cedes of land and bribe Qin, will the world Hu not perish? The world should perish!"

Yi Xian is old, and the older he is, the deeper he looks at the problem. Xiong Jing heard him angrily shouting, "The world should perish", and his body was shocked unconsciously.

"Da Ao has changed the world's situation, but at this time the destiny is in Qin and not in me, how can a man overcome heaven?" Yixian said again. "I ask Da Ao to move to Penglai next spring to wait for another start."

"How can the people of Chu be abandoned easily?" Xiong Jing refused without thinking. "The Qin people destroyed the country, and this generation of Chu people will die in battle, and the next generation of Chu people will avenge us." Seeing that Yixian couldn't bear it, he smiled and said, "What's the difficulty of death? It's just a moment; the difficulty is to survive, that's a lifetime."

Xiong Jing revealed his deceased aspirations to his subordinates for the first time, and even Naojiu seemed very surprised.

"Yes, yes..." Yixian no longer knew how to advise him, but Chang Jiang said, "Empress Ao is thinking of Da Ao."

"She?" Xiong Jing remembered his wife, and smiled and shook his head firmly. "If she is really Empress Ao, she should be proud of me as death in battle and ashamed of me returning to Ying."
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