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Chapter 32 The Horns

Only a few doctors of Win Li and Tu could cut out such a symmetrical knife edge. When Xiong Jing stroked the scars with his fingers, a sound came from afar. Lu Yangyan, who saw his scar for the first time, was stunned and made a strange cry.

"Fuss!" Xiong Jing murmured and put Zeyi on and continued to carefully wipe his body with the stream.

"I have something unknown." Lu Yangyan stood in the water, and Chu soldiers were far behind him.

"What's the matter unknown?" Xiong Jing said angrily. The wound could not touch water. He wiped his armpit and landed on the shore. The grass was so gentle that it made people unable to bear to step on it. "I would like to persuade me to take the opportunity to escape?"

Lu Yangyan has always advised him to abandon the Chu soldiers and escape alone, but now he has sweared with Neacas. Even if he does not swear, he cannot leave the Chu soldiers alone. As for the Chu State, he believes that Zhengchao and Naojiu will handle the remaining affairs.

"I suddenly died, but there was still Langya in Da Ao's chest..." Lu Yangyan looked at Xiong Jing's chest covered by Zeyi and expressed his long-standing concerns. The Langya was embedded in the sternum and did not take it out. Xiong Jing frowned and said, "It's okay." Before Lu Yangyan asked him again, he quickly changed the topic: "The wind in the East China Sea should have turned."

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The green of Guazhou is just a wave in the sea of ​​yellow sand. In early April, Chu land has passed the season of blooming flowers. Willow trees with leaves and scissors are built to hang down on the water bank in the gentle spring breeze, decorating the river bank into turquoise green. The cunning on the royal city tower can see the turquoise green inside and outside the royal city, but there is no joy on his face.

The war in Shouying ended after his death. Wang Jian, who followed the king's order, was not ready to throw the remaining Qin army into the siege, so he lived in the outer city and waited for reinforcements in the rear. In the vast area controlled by the Qin army, the soldiers who had just finished their spring farming were immediately recruited, as well as soldiers from Qi who had not yet fought for a long time. At this time, the Qi people who had exempted their mother-in-law from their mother-in-law gradually heard the cruelty of the war, but they were too regretful. Under Qin's law, even the initiator Shang Yang could not escape, so what could they do?

At the same time as the new round of national recruitment, Dunwei, who was on mission to Qi, forced Qi to send troops to attack Bamuling Pass and Langya. The focus of the March war suddenly changed from Shouying to Langya. Yue Wuzhu, who escaped back to Langya by luck, was unwilling to abandon the capital. However, the Qin army seized the Chu army's siege cannon. Under the day and night bombardment of eight siege cannons, Langya City was finally out of the blue. Including the fifteen Chu army gunboats that blocked the sand sea, the Chu and Yue armies had to withdraw from Langya and retreat south.

In other people's eyes, the fall of Langya, which was two thousand miles away, had nothing to do with Shouying, but Naojing knew very well that Langya and Shouying were a pair of mutual support horns that Chu Yue prevented the Qin army from moving south. Langya was in trouble, alarmed Shouying; Shouying was in trouble, implicated Langya. The reason why the Qin army that occupied Langya did not send the boat troops south at this time was because the warships built by the Shaofu had not yet bypassed Chaolai and arrived at Shaohai. Once the Shaofu warships arrived at Shaohai, the Qin army's boat troops would quickly go south and conquer Yue.

Because of this, he was standing on the Que Tower without any joy, and the Chu army will also evacuate here from today.

"The Qin people are still the same, but they have not seen any abnormalities." Tai Zhu stood on the Que Tower and saluted Nao cunningly.

"Yeah." Naojiu nodded, and Naoxin on one side pulled Lu Lijing and handed it over. He knew that Naojiu wanted to watch Qin camp himself.

The Qin camp was no longer the same as before. It stood in the city of Yingdu, occupying half of the city to the north. Like the royal city, the Qin army also built long walls and dug trenches. The huge Chu was divided into two cities in the north and south. In the sight of Lu Lijing, Naojiu could only see the top of the walls, the Qin army in the trenches, and could not see the Qin army behind the walls. There were also the broken walls and beams in the south of the city. Naojiu was familiar with every place of Shouying. Seeing that the once prosperous Shouying turned into a ruin, he couldn't bear to look at it anymore.

"Send the order! The powerful soldiers will leave the city." Naojiu put down the Lu Lijing Dao in his hand. The Qin army could not capture the city for a long time, and searching for grain and firewood would inevitably affect the surrounding cities and villages. The common people who were close to Shouying could escape into the city, while the common people who were far away from Shouying could only leave the will. The soldiers, powerful soldiers, common people, and the huge crowd of nearly 100,000 people could not evacuate in one day. Naojiu could only order them to retreat first, and they would evacuate the soldiers before evacuating them.

When the common people and strong soldiers climbed the boats one after another, Wang Jian was not in the shogunate. At this time, he was in the northernmost part of Shouying. The shogunate was equivalent to the Shaofu of Qin and was the core of the Chu manufacturing. The Qin army destroyed all the houses of Shouying, but retained the houses and sheds of the Zaofu. Without any Chu craftsman, the Shaofu craftsmen represented by Yan Wuyi and Ye Tun, and the envoys of the known countries in the world represented by Aristotle IV were very interested in Chuniti, thunder weapons, gunpowder, and sea boats.

If you don't get a craftsman, you can only come to Shouying Zao Mansion. Seeing the porcelain cylinder placed in the Zao Mansion, Aristotle IV exclaimed, and said, "This is part of the machine that roars."

On the Yuanwu Mountain, the Chu army had a machine that would roar. With this machine, the siege cannon weighing tens of thousands of kilograms dragged it up the ridge. The Chu army finally evacuated this machine, but the iron steam engine could only be broken and not broken. The parts of this machine that could roar were sent to Xianyang to reassemble. Aristotle IV had seen it and had a deep memory of the machine's cantilevers, cylinders, and boilers.

"This is not a horse." Ye Shun told the word through the news, which was the name that Shaofu only knew later. "The Jing people asked for horses to smel iron, mine, pump water, and take twenty horses to smelter one machine, which is called horse power."

"Horsepower?" Aristotle IV was stroking the porcelain cylinder. The news was not clear about what horsepower was, so it could only be translated literally.

"It's the power of a horse." Ye Shun had to say more carefully.

"A machine is equivalent to twenty horses working?" Aristotle IV understood the meaning of the name "Fo's horse". This is a machine that can work on horses, which can replace horses, and naturally can replace people. No wonder the Chuni people can continuously make Chuni iron, thunder weapons, and so many merchant ships.

He patted the porcelain cylinder discarded in the empty work shed, and said with some regret: "It's a pity that we didn't get the complete fujia, and I don't know what it works."

"If you get the craftsmen of Jing people, you will naturally not be able to get the horse." Ye Tun was not regretful. He believed that the Qin army would be able to plow the courtyard and sweep the caves and directly attack Xinying, capturing all the craftsmen of Chu.

In another empty shed, Wang Jian was not thinking about anything at once, but on several destroyed iron smelting furnaces. Large-scale converter production cannot flow into the converter like trials as soon as the pig iron is released. It must be heated by the iron melting furnace before it can flow into the converter and is refined.

Now the place where the converter was installed was empty, leaving only a concrete foundation. The iron smelting furnace and the iron smelting furnace were not all moved away, but the furnace bricks inside were completely destroyed after removing them.

"This is the place where the Jing people smelted iron." Yan Wuyi followed a group of craftsmen, and he was talking to Wang Jian. When he walked to the converter, he squatted down and groped on the ground with his dry hand, and took out a handful of iron slag and handed it to Wang Jian.

Wang Jian took a closer look, nodded and said, "The Jing people's iron smelting skills are unparalleled in the world, I'm not as good as that."

"However." Yan Wuyi knew very well what happened in the Shaofu iron smelting. "If the furnace was not blown up that day, I could also produce huge iron today." Yan Wuyi, who said this, suddenly stopped and turned to look at the craftsmen behind him. Seeing this, the craftsmen stopped quickly. Then he said, "I heard that the iron materials of the Jing people's craftsmen all came from Pengcheng. If I had this crafts, I could also produce huge iron."

"Pengcheng?" It is difficult to conceal large-scale iron ore transportation. Pengcheng is a city where all the waters gather, so it is even more difficult to conceal. "Can the iron ore in Pengcheng produce huge iron?"

"The people of Jing used the iron from Pengcheng to produce huge iron, so I can do it." Yan Wuyi mentioned this because he wanted to go to Pengcheng to find iron ore. He continued: "Since the general does not attack the royal city, can he send a lieutenant army to Pengcheng to find iron ore?"

"This..." The army behind was coming. Before the reinforcements arrived, it was okay to divide a lieutenant to go to Pengcheng. Wang Jian was about to agree, but the military marquis Wang Le hurried over, "Report to the general! The people of Jing retreated."

"Ah?" Wang Jian was surprised when he heard this, and then asked, "Does the boat master go south?"

The Chu army had limited troops. When the Qin army advanced by land and sea, it would definitely not stick out too many battle lines to prevent one from losing sight of the other. A dozen days ago, Langya fell, and the shogunate judged that the Chu army in Shouying might retreat voluntarily. If it did not retreat, the Qin army's boat troops appeared at the estuary of the Yangtze River. Whether it was to capture Zhu Fang or to occupy Jiuzi (i.e. Wuhu, where the Zhongjiang River was controlled, the Zhongjiang River led to Taihu Lake), the retreat route would be cut off. If the boat troops went directly to Kuaiji, Yuedi Yuedi and Wuzhu could not stop the boat troops going south.

"I don't know." Wang Le did not receive the news from the boatman going south.

"If we haven't gone south, the Jing people are afraid that our boat troops will go south." Wang Jian has his own judgment. The Chu army stationed in Shouying can also go from Gan River to Xiang River to Nanyue, but he thinks it is unlikely. Hundreds of thousands of Chu people waiting to escape are in Yue, and the Chu army in front of him will definitely go to Kuaiji to make a last fight with the boat troops.

Thinking of this, Wang Jian couldn't help but feel a little regretful. He hurriedly called the map behind him. The map had been remembered in his heart for a long time, but it was still more intuitive to unfold. After the map was unfolded, Wang Jian's hand went east along the Huai River, and when he arrived in Huaiyin, he followed Hangou south and pointed to Guangling.

"This is a thousand miles." Wang Jian pointed his finger at Guangling's position.
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