When Xiong Jing woke up in the morning, a piece of ice floated in the copper basin on the shogunate case. The weather was getting colder and colder, and the water seeds might freeze every night, and the icy meant a battle. The Chu army had already entered a state of combat readiness and was preparing for a final try. As for the Qi army, Ba people, and Xiou tribes that were rushing on the way, the Chu army would not wait. The twenty Chu army divisions had exceeded the previous forecasts of the shogunate for troops.

"Report to the king, the ice is thin." Zhuang Wudi shook his head, and under the gaze of the generals, it said that the ice is still too thin.

"How many inches?" The generals of each division were also on the curtain, and everyone was looking at the copper basin. Of course, most people could not see it. Only Yue Wuzhu, Dongye Gu, and Deng Sui, who were seated close to Xiong Jing, could see the thin piece of ice floating in the water. The warmth in the shogunate did not melt it immediately, and it floated calmly in the water until Xiong Jing touched it with his hands.

"One inch." The numbers reported by Zhuang Wudi are no different from those seen by Xiong Jing. The thickness of the ice layer cannot be measured in the evening and in the morning, but when measured in the afternoon and in the afternoon, it is the highest temperature of the day.

"A inch is not enough." Xiong Jing shook his head and said. The general who stretched his neck at the seat, who heard that Bing was only one inch thick, took a breath.

The combat department has long tested records of how thick ice is, and one inch thick ice is definitely not good. With the Chu rule, the Chu soldiers must at least one inch and seven minutes thick ice to march in a single column, two inches and six feet of ice to march in a double column, and four inches and three columns.

In addition to soldiers, the Chu army also had artillery and supplies. These things required the thickness of the ice layer much higher than the thickness of the infantry. The short-barrel gun had a lighter double-shot ratio, and the double-shot ratio was only forty (northodox guns and army guns were 200). The total weight of a 68-pound cannon was still two tons, and it required five inches of ice to be safely operated; a four-wheeled carriage, plus about one ton of supplies on the carriage, needed six inches of ice to be safely driven. Now the ice is only one inch thick, and even one inch of infantry can't even get through, making it even more impossible to fight.

"Is the Huai River frozen?" Xiong Jing asked again. Daliang is 800 miles away from the Huai River. The water near Daliang is frozen, and the Huai River is likely to be frozen.

"There is thin ice." Zhuang Wudi said: "The Grand Sima Mansion thought that after the Qi army arrived in Xia Pi, the soldiers should not go south to Huai River, but to the north to Pengcheng, and then quickly travel from Pengcheng, and can arrive within ten days. The rest of the troops..."

Speaking of the other troops, Zhuang Wudi shook his head, and an inch thick ice would be produced in mid-November. The weather would get colder and colder. The Ba people and Xiou tribes had just arrived at Jianguan and Qingyang. Once the Han River was frozen, it would be impossible for more than a thousand miles to arrive before the decisive battle. Only Qi people had the possibility of coming.

"The Huai River only has thin ice, and cannot come from the Huai River?" Xiong Jing asked subconsciously.

"Today is just thin ice, tomorrow, or the next day." Zhuang Wudi said. "Pengcheng land reaches Daliang by land, and Shouying from Daliang is also 900 miles. If the soldiers of Qi army arrived at Shouying and the gulf was frozen, they could arrive two days in advance."

"Where is the refractive power now?" Xiong Jing understood Zhuang Wudi's meaning, but he didn't know when Qi people would arrive.

"You can go to Xia Pi today." Zhuang Wudi knew his confusion and estimated that: "The soldiers of Qi were lightly equipped and put in three houses a day, and they could go to the seal in ten days. If the gulf is frozen in two days, it will take twelve days to arrive. If the Huai River will be frozen tomorrow..."

The waterway must first reach the Huai River from Si Shui, then go east along the Huai River, and then turn to Honggou after reaching Shouying. This way, you can reach Shouying in two days. The distance from arriving Shouying is equal to the distance from Pengcheng to Qifeng. Which road is faster depends on the weather. Within three days, the Huai River Gate is not frozen, the waterway is faster, and within three days, the Huai River Gate is frozen, and the land route is faster.

"Can't you go along the Danshui?" Xiong Jing didn't want to choose either way, he wanted to take a shortcut.

"The river channel in Mayi, Danshui has been blocked for a long time and it will not be dredged for more than ten days." Zhuang Wudidao. The shogunate has discussed this route.

"After reaching Mayi, abandoning the boat and land, how many miles to Qifeng?" Xiong Jing asked.

"More than four hundred miles." Zhuang Wudi said: "However, there are two Qin troops in the north of Mayi, and Wei land is occupied by the Qin people. Even if the Qi army can fight and defeat them, under the wind and snow, the Qin people will be strong and clear in the fields, and the food and fodder will definitely be insufficient for more than four hundred miles."

"The Wei people really want the Qin people to burn their houses?" Xiong Jing suddenly asked. He did not completely believe in the Wei people, but he believed in the ordinary people in the Wei land. The common people of the Wei State would not willingly cooperate with the Qin people to strengthen the walls and clear the fields.

"This..." Zhuang Wudi couldn't answer this question. Some shogunate advisers also believed that Mai could march for 400 miles from Daliang, but the Qi army was a large army with no establishment, no logistics, and even a barely arrayed battle. No one dared to take such a risk.

"Who is stationed in Mayi?" Xiong Jing asked again.

"Mayi is stationed by Yongbo's Pei army." Zhuang Wudi replied. He had been talking to Xiong Jing for too long and was about to talk about this matter before the military discussion.

"If possible, let Master Pei and Master Qi come." Xiong Jing ordered. Whether the Qi people could come to Daliang along the Danshui River was not something he could judge by himself. But the time is urgent now, and if you can arrive one day earlier, you will have one more hope of victory.

Zhuang Wudi retreated, and then Xiong Jing spoke: "The ice is one inch thick this morning, not enough to fight. Astronomy shows when the ice is only half a foot?"

There are very few cases of bypassing Sima and directly asking astronomical counselors, but the weather is too important, so Xiong Jing has to ask directly.

"Reported to Da Ao, when the sky is so different, the sky is so cold that I think it will be frozen half a foot within ten days." There were several astronomical counselors in the shogunate, and the head of the old man was the one who replied was an intuition of empirical and intuitive judgment, not a judgment of the aviation school instruments.

"Ten days?" Xiong Jing did not believe the old man. He was just surprised that the time was so short that it was only mid-November.

"At most ten days." The old man replied. "Or five or six days."

"If the Qin people want to attack me, they can leave the camp if they are less than half a foot of ice." Peng Zong reminded.

"However, the Qin people also have baggage carriages." Zhuang Wudi reminded him. "The sand sea is seventy miles away from me. If the Qin people did not have baggage, food and firewood, they would camp in the ice and snow, which was no different from Linzi back then."

"There is only two days of marching for seventy miles, and only four days of decisive battle." Dongye Gu has always been a mature man. "After two inches of ice, I can prevent the Qin cavalry from attacking me; if more than three inches of ice, the whole army will lead to the camp and the north, and the Muze will only be two or thirty miles, and you can reach the sea of ​​sand in one day."

"This is the same as what the shogunate discusses." Zhuang Wudi said. "What we are discussing today is the matter of our army's formation and war."

After the troops were stationed for a long time, the shogunate had long made plans for how to fight to the decisive battle. How to arrange twenty divisions, twenty divisions plus fifty thousand Qi troops, twenty divisions plus the Qi army, Ba people, and Xiou tribes..., all have arrangements. The reason for gathering generals today is to explain the formation during the decisive battle, and then the various precautions before the decisive battle:

Soldiers are prone to frostbite in cold weather. If the two armies line up on the Zeshui, neither side can make fire. Although the distance from the sand sea is shortened after the freezing is only more than seventy miles, if it snows, transporting more than seventy miles will become extremely difficult. For this reason, the Military Control Commission has built simple sleds according to Xiong Jing's design, which can transport the unsealed materials to the sand sea. The commanders of each division must learn to control the sled in the shortest possible time.

Everything is very detailed, from formation to artillery, and finally to baggage transportation and medical care, Zhuang Wudi mentioned all the questions that can be thought of. The rate may not be remembered, but these snow season combat details have been bound into books and were distributed to the shogunate last month. Now I will mention it again, in order to strengthen the impression of the divisions and reduce non-combat reductions.

"How about the Qin people?" asked the army of the Zhu clan, Douyi, and asked. "Why don't you know the news about the Qin people?"

Douyi came from Fan Xiang and arrived at Qifeng for only a few days. What puzzled him the most was that there were many reports of the Qin army during the military discussions before, and this time the military discussion basically did not mention the Qin army. What he knew about the military discussion was basically no different from what he knew in Xiangfan.

"The news of the Qin people..." Zhuang Wudi couldn't help but smile bitterly. In addition to being dissatisfied with the editor, there were fewer and fewer reports about the real and useful Qin people.

"Reported to Da Ao, what the subordinates are doing this morning." The shogunate was filled with people, and Gui Jing's voice was not noticeable until he raised something, which was sent by a cavalryman just now.

"Is it armor?" the generals looked at the grayish-white thing and said. "The armor of the Qin people?"

The armor in Gui Jing's hand was quickly sent up. Xiong Jing couldn't see what it was from afar. He immediately knew what it was when he got it.

"Linse armor." He looked at the armor in his hand and threw it away again, very lightly. Then he nodded and said, "It's indeed Linse armor."

"Linse?" Yue Wuzhu had heard of this kind of thing, and Haizhou canvas used linen.

"The country in the west has flax armor." Xiong Jing remembers that this armor was mentioned in the report without any hooks before.

"Flax is cloth, it should be inferior to leather armor." Yue Wuzhu stepped forward and took the linen armor carefully. The armor was extremely thick. He threw it in his hand like Xiong Jing. He also felt that the linen armor was very light and was less than half the weight of the giant armor.

"Linse armor is layered, if it is..." Xiong Jing thought about everything about linse armor, and finally looked at Gui Jing: "Where is this armor obtained?"

"I reported to Da Ao, the result of killing the enemy cavalry this morning was west of Fengze." Gui Jing said. "So the armor is strange, so I brought it back. The cavalry general said: This armor is tough, but it is not penetrated by arrows."

"Riding a bow..." Zhuang Wudi was about to say that riding a bow does not mean that stepping a bow cannot be penetrated, but Gui Jing added another sentence, "If the archer shoots it, it will not be penetrated even after ten steps."

"Ten steps? Ten steps cannot be penetrated?" The entire tent was shocked. There were more than 500 archers in each division. If ten steps cannot be penetrated, what's the use of archers?

"Call the archer!" Xiong Jing was extremely surprised when he heard this. He only knew that there was flax armor, but he did not know the defense ability of flax armor.
Chapter completed!