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Care is chaos. Xiong Jing couldn't help but order the trumpet when he saw Gui Jing injured and worried that he would die at the hands of the Qin people. In fact, the gutter of 370 steps wide was not enough for so many cavalry to rush and fight. After the first hedging, the two sides squeezed together.

In simple battles on horseback, the Qin cavalry was not as good as the Chu cavalry wearing huge armor to protect the Chu cavalry, but they squeezed together like a synchronous battle. The Chu cavalry could not play the advantage of the dragon horse. As a result, this was a cavalry battle that both sides hated. Before the sound of cannons, people on both sides retreated from the river one after another. When the cannons dragged onto the embankment and fired, the Qin army immediately sounded the sound of the snails, and the Qin cavalry retreated like a tide.

With the sound of cannons, Gui Jing came back to report. Before Xiong Jing could speak, he apologized and said, "I am not careful and I am fighting with the Qin cavalry."

According to the shogunate plan, the Chu army would drag the cannons to the embankment after reaching the west bank of the gutter to protect the workers and soldiers to burn fire and dig soil. The cavalry battle was not only redundant, but also affected the established plan. Fortunately, the cavalry battle ended soon and did not delay time.

"Go to the medical camp first, then go to the military headquarters to collect the crime." Xiong Jing said without expression, and after saying that, he turned toward the Qin army formation on the other side of the river bank.

The Shahai Camp is in the east, not in the west, so the embankment on the east side of the gutter is higher than the west side. The embankment on the west side is one meter above the ground, and the embankment on the east side is only a few feet higher than the river channel, about fifteen or six feet higher. With the snow covered, the Qin army formation that Xiong Jing could see was just a row of densely towering chief spears and military flags fluttering in the wind, as well as feather flags representing the general. Unfortunately, as the Chu army soldiers ignited a fire on the inside of the opposite embankment, the dense spears suddenly disappeared.

"The Qin people are sitting." At this time, a nest car had been set up on the dike. The six or seven-meter-high nest car could clearly see the actions of the Qin army behind the dike on the other side, and also see the Qin army general Wang Jian and Qin prince Fusu under the Yujing, as well as a group of strategists standing beside them.

Liu Chi, who was bent down and glad to the eyes, stood beside Wang Jian. He knew the operation of the entire shogunate. Wang Jian imprisoned him not to punish him, but to not want him to spread panic. During the decisive battle, Liu Chi naturally had to stand in the formation. Many things that Wang Jian could not handle alone in the battle. Only when the old shogunate Liu Chi was present can he seize the most favorable opportunity in the unpredictable battlefield.

When the Qin people were sitting in the nest cart, Liu Chi also spoke to Wang Jian again, "The Jing people have many witch medicines, so they must blow up this long dike. Although our army's catapults do not retreat, they should also set up horses to prepare for departure."

Using the eastern embankment of the gutter as a fortification was a defensive plan formulated by the shogunate earlier to prevent the Chu army from attacking the sand sea. Now that the two armies are fighting decisively, it is not impossible for Wang Jian to use the eastern embankment of the gutter to block the Chu army. If the Chu army rushed forward rashly, they would be hit by the dense Jing crossbows and piles of turbulent oil bombs by the Qin army. However, the Battle of the Great Groove has indicated that this cannot bring real obstacles to the Chu army.

Liu Chi's suggestion was very pertinent, and Wang Jian immediately sent an order. Seeing this, Liu Chi said again: "I think that if the earth is not frozen, you can dig a ditches to prevent it."

"Digging the ditches to prevent them?" At this time, dense fireworks were lit every other section of the gutter channel. This was the Chu army's army burning the ferrous frozen soil. Wang Jian was looking at the fireworks and did not understand what Liu Chi meant.

"Yes." Liu Chi nodded deeply: "The Jing people attacked me with witch tools. After the witch tools were shot out, they fell and shot, and they fell, killing our army. If our soldiers dig the ground into a ditch, the entire army would hide in the ditch, and the bullets of witch tools would be harmless."

During the days of imprisonment, Liu Chi was both worried and afraid, and had nothing to do and could only think about how to win this decisive battle. Just like the cavalry attacking the artillery array, if you think about some things carefully, you can still find a solution. For the artillery of the Chu army, he naturally thought of the trenches in later generations.

Trenches are natural products under heavy artillery bombardment. They did not originate from the Civil War or the Russo-Japanese War later, but had an earlier history. In the 16th century, the Spaniards had learned to dig field trenches and let infantry hide in them to avoid French artillery fire (1512, Battle of Ravenna), and earlier, they could be traced back to Italy in the 15th century. Italian generals were good at using field fortifications.

It would be fine if Liu Chi didn't say it. Wang Jian shook his whole body. He looked at Liu Chi for a while before looking down at the land under his feet: "The earth is frozen, how can I dig a ditch?"

Wang Jian was a little stunned because of excitement. The question he asked was not required to be answered by Liu Chi. Chu Jun had already told him the answer. Understanding this, he called someone, and Liu Chi stopped him and said, "Why is the general like this?"

"Our army digs a trench to wait for the Jing people. The Jing people attacked. Our army climbed the ditches and attacked them. Why do we need the cavalry to attack the witchcraft formation again? Alas, why don't you say early!" Wang Jian became more and more excited. In order to delay the artillery shooting of the Chu army, the Qin army must arrange 15,000 cavalrymen to attack the artillery formation in front of the formation, but these just one trench were solved. "Come on! Find combustible things quickly and then work hard to dig the trench..."

Liu Chi thought of digging ditches to avoid the Chu army's artillery attack, but he did not expect that this would eliminate the suicide link of the cavalry's rushing forward. When Wang Jian issued the army's order, he turned his mind and said hurriedly: "General, this is not enough."

"Why not?" Wang Jian's words were already a little angry. If he could save 15,000 cavalrymen, he would definitely attack the Chu army's back. Thirty thousand cavalrymen broke through the Chu cavalry's defense and hit the Chu army hard as described by the Taifu Bai Di, and the military formation would collapse. "So quickly!" He waved his hand and asked the military officer to go quickly, and then he spoke to Liu Chi.

"If the general wants to dig a ditch, how deep, how wide it is, how long it is?" Liu Chi asked. "Its depth is at least five feet, its width is at least six feet, and its length is at least eight miles. How can this ditch be made in half a day? Moreover, our army has been flooding the city, and the sandy sea has long been muddy, and now it is muddy and frozen. It is set on fire and it will take two or three days to complete."

It was okay to have a length and width. When Wang Jian mentioned that the trench was eight miles long, he became disheartened. He knew how the Chu army exploded the city. He could just dig holes in the city, and not the entire section of the earth dike had to be leveled. He knew very well that the mud in the sand sea was frozen now and it was indeed impossible to dig out within a day.

"Oh!" Wang Jian sighed, but Liu Chi thought of another idea at this time. "If you can ask King Jing to wait for two days in the name of the eldest son..."

"Our army is here to burn fire, King Jing doesn't know?" Wang Jian pointed to the black smoke coming out of the gutter ahead, not thinking that Liu Chi's plan was feasible.

"Then you can dig it quickly at this moment. Every time you dig a mile, you can hide a mile's soldiers; if you dig an eight mile, you can hide the soldiers in the front line." Liu Chi also knew that this strategy was not feasible, and the King of Chu might not agree to Fusu to delay the battle.
Chapter completed!