"Tell the king: Last year, our army was defeated in the Battle of Jiangyi, and the four-wheeled carriage must have been captured by the Qin people in this battle." The four-wheeled carriage has been kept confidential since its invention, but no matter how confidential it is, it will be a day when it is lost - trade is exchange, and war is exchange.

"King, I think Wei is the defense, and there is a precedent for Wei to send troops with Qin people. If Qin intends to attack us, Wei and Qi will follow us." Li Qi followed the advice of Luyang Jun, and he always believed that Qin was preparing for the next alliance.

"Why didn't Qin attack Zhao?! Didn't it mean..." Xiong Jing wanted to tear off his hair. It was ridiculous that he didn't want to form an alliance with Zhao last year. Now the retribution has come. Qin will not attack anyone, so he will attack Chu.

"King, after the Qin envoy Changping returned to China, slandering our Chu State, saying that our Chu State had only 400,000 soldiers with armor and weak soldiers, so it was a lucky battle in Qingshui." Don't let me tell you what the spy said, and say everything you heard in Xianyang.

"The Grand Sima Mansion thought, when will Qin attack me?" Xiong Jing had no time to regret it. His face immediately became gloomy and he looked at the three people in front of him like a wolf.

"Report to the king, I think..." Li Qi looked at the King of Luyang and said, "I think if Qin attacked me, there might be signs next month. Chengyang can only compete for land. If you want to destroy the country, you should deprive Chen County. It may be between August and September. Or it may be since May, so that our army will be exhausted and wait until my strength is too low...."

"Go and summon the general immediately." Xiong Jing suddenly stopped Li Qi and turned around to ask someone to summon Xiang Yan immediately. The four countries have all attacked Chu. He must let Xiang Yan participate now and make the most preparations.

The Yingdu posthouse has been filled with the county soldiers who made contributions last year. When Xiang Yan checked in, all the generals who had moved in earlier came out to greet him. He had seen the words of the general ones one after another. The meeting between the generals was full of tacit understanding and toughness of comrades. Xiang Yan did not talk too much with others and then asked Xiang Chao to ask questions.

"Your father heard that you and Princess Hui once rode on the same horse?" Xiang Chao looked very much like his wife, and he couldn't get cruel when he saw his son Xiang Yan.

"Who did my father say?" Xiang Chao no longer carried a leather armor all day like last year, concealing the fact that he had given up the crown. He had matured a lot after seeing blood.

"Is it true?" Xiang Yan glared at her eyes, as fierce as if she was going to kill someone. Although Xiang Chao showed off his gaze, he avoided him soon. "This is true, but..."

‘Ba—!’ He slapped his son on the head with a slap. Xiang Yan cursed: “Sir! Men and women are still different. How can you ride on the same horse with Princess Lu?!”

"Father!" Xiang Chao jumped up, "Princess Rong and I are observing etiquette and law, but we just teach her to ride a horse."

"Teaching her to ride a horse? How can you, the princess, teach you how to ride a horse?" Xiang Yan was angry. "Did you have any unreasonable thoughts?"

"So what if you think it's wrong?" Xiang Chao felt unfair. "Why can't Zhong Jian marry Wang Mei..."

"Sir!" Xiang Yan fell over again, and Xiang Chao dared not avoid it, but after this palm, his temper also rose. "Father, my son is already old, a beautiful lady, a gentleman. I can kill the enemy immediately and drink under my horse. Why can't I miss Princess Lu? Why can't I marry Princess Lu?"

"You! You..." A few words forced out your son's sincerity, but Xiang Yan couldn't feel angry. At this time, Xiang Que came in. He helped Xiang Yan sit down, and then pulled Xiang Chao to sit down, "Don't Zichao know that the King of Qin wants to marry Princess Hui as his queen?"

"I know!" Xiang Chao still felt wronged, "But what about the King of Qin? If the King of Qin dares to duel with me, I will kill him!"

"You!" Xiang Yan had already sat down, and when he heard his son say this, he stood up again, "People man! You are a pie! How did I teach you over the past ten years?! The King of Qin is the king of a country, how could he duel with you? When the emperor was angry, he was buried in a million corpses, and the State of Chu was about to perish. Who still duels with you?"

"Then call the King of Qin? If he dares to come, I will kill all the Qin dogs in my hand and destroy Qin!" Xiang Chao said loudly.

"After my king's order, summon the general to the palace to discuss matters." Xiang Yan was so angry that the temple's people came. Seeing this, Xiang Que said, "Go, Zichao will leave it to me."

"Sir." Xiang Yan glared at his son before getting up and leaving. Indeed, he was disappointed with his son. In this unpredictable world, Chu State needs not only a strong man, but also a wise man. Unfortunately, Chu State has no wise man. Even the king who was born to know did not know that the consequence of refusing to join forces with Zhao State was that Qin State would attack again.

The previous attack on Chu was Lu Buwei, but now Lu Buwei has left his post, who is still determined to act? The previous 27th Chu army fought against 210,000 Qin troops, and now more than 300,000 Chu army will face how many Qin troops?

The rain seemed to be getting heavier and heavier. When Xiang Yan's car arrived at the court of the Thunder Gate, the drizzle instantly turned into heavy rain. When he entered the Grand Sima Mansion, Xiang Yan's vest and footwear were all soaked. The rain water was cool, but what was cooler than the rain was the information of the Zhibi Office.

"If the Qin people attacked me in a row, the more than 300,000 Chu troops would be in short supply. I ask the king to attack Qi quickly. If I can seize the city of Muling, it will be difficult for the Qi people to attack me. I ask the king to build more new types of large-wing warships. If the Wei people use the Qin people to Qin, our army should advance to Daliang before the Qin army and launch an army to punish me..."

After learning all the information, Xiang Yan was just like last year, thinking of taking the initiative rather than waiting for death. After listening to his strategy, Xiong Jing, who was a little relieved, asked: "It's mid-April now, and the attack... is there enough time?"

"I think it's time." Xiang Yan pointed to Ju County and Muling Pass on the map. "After last year, our army did not immediately recover Ju County, and the people of Qi were lazy. Qi State did not intend to attack me in large numbers. There were less than 20,000 soldiers guarding Ju County, and less than 30,000 soldiers in Muling Pass. Our army had a throwing stone weapon, and Ju County was not a strong city, so it would be possible to break it in three days. When attacking Muling Pass again, it would be possible to break the pass in five days."

"Eight days?" Xiong Jing recorded Xiang Yan's estimated attack time.

"Muling Pass was built against the mountain. The city of Guancheng is not as strong as the walls of Ju County. It is only utilizing the mountain. "Xiang Yan explained: "I remember it for five days, but in fact it is three days, and two of them are transported by the catapult. If the catapult can be transported under Muling Pass, the Qi people's city will be broken in three days."

The power of the stone trencher is, except for those who know the enemy, don’t let me give it to me. After watching the stone trencher’s performance, Li Qi sighed that “there is no more strong city in the world”. Xiang Yan concluded that he could break Jucheng in three days and Muling Pass in three days. Muling Pass is an important pass of the Qi Great Wall. There is no city in the mountains, but there are two Great Walls here, which makes a Guancheng with a circumference of dozens of miles. In the past, the Chu army also entered the Guancheng, but did not break the second line of defense of the Qi army. Finally, under the counterattack of the Qi army, he had to give up the outer city.

"This time we defeat Qi, we should use elite troops. I urge the king to order the king's soldiers to go east immediately, and the Yingdu will reach 1,500 miles of water from Muling Pass. It will be available in the twelve days, and the baggage and food will be available in the 20 days. When our army defeats Qi, it is the time when the Daliang Zhoushi defeats the Qin people."

"Food and grass can be recruited from Pengcheng and Lu. In addition to military and armor, Yingdu only needs to transport trenchers to Ju." Li Qi reminded. "Don't worry about the people of Qi being alert. Our army is making great contributions, and the people of Qi do not doubt that I will attack the city within 20 days. In addition, this time, the king and the general are not allowed to go east. It is best to claim that they will go to Daliangguan to fight the two armies."

Li Qi was not a Duke of Chu. His clan can be traced back to Li. Hundreds of years ago, Li Qi was destroyed by Jin and fought for hegemony, so his ancestor went south to become a minister of Chu. When Li Qi was young, he traveled to various countries and was in the Grand Sima Mansion when he was old. Unexpectedly, the new king reformed the Grand Sima Mansion and the nursing home became the General Staff. He was knowledgeable and loved military affairs and finally became the head of the Operations Department. At this time, he suggested that the king and the general go to Daliang to bully Qi people, so Xiong Jing and Xiang Yan couldn't help but look at him more.

"I think there is nothing wrong with it." Luyang Jun said, "If Qin State attacks me in a row, our army will take the lead in defeating Qi State. If it can occupy Muling Pass City, it can stop more in the future and eliminate a major problem. More than 300,000 Chu troops will have no worries."

"To date, how many sets of armor have the Juti Mansion made?" Xiong Jing asked. He had no objection to Xiang Yan's proposal to go to war with elite troops, but he was more concerned about the number of iron armor made by Juti Mansion. This time he fought with the Qi army, and he wanted the front row of honored soldiers to raise the great soldiers and wear iron armor.

"Report to the king, there are less than a thousand sets." Lu Yang Jun remembers the number of iron armor very much, but unfortunately, there are very few newly made iron armors.

"Not as much as a thousand sets? Why not as much as a thousand sets? Since you can roll out a huge iron plate and have several tons of heavy hammers, why is it so slow to build armor?" Xiong Jing said unhappily. He remembered that Gong Yin Dao showed him the rolled iron plate last month.

"The king doesn't know anything." Luyang Jun also knew the rolling mill. "The width of the iron plate rolling out of the Juti Mansion is less than one foot, so a pair of iron armor requires several pieces of iron plates to be riveted, which is indeed less time than before. However, the riveting of the armor plate is still time-consuming and time-consuming; in addition, the thickness of the iron plate rolling out is not only uneven, but the thickness is much greater than that of the armor. Therefore, the craftsman must be careful to forge thin..."

As Xiong Jing imagined, some of the half-body armors that were punched out with heavy hammers were still riveted ring armors. The rolling iron plate requires rolling rolls, and the thickness and width of the rolled iron plate depends on the diameter error of the roll. If the rolling roll itself is uneven in thickness, then there is no way to roll out one or two millimeters. For iron plates suitable for armor, craftsmen still have to work hard to carefully thin the thick iron plates to achieve a thickness of one or two millimeters, otherwise the armor coat is too heavy and the soldiers cannot carry it.

Next is the width of the rolled iron plate. The longer the rolling roll, the wider the rolled iron plate will be. However, the longer the rolling roll, the more uneven the thickness and the more uneven the thickness, the thicker the steel plate will be, and the more places you need to thin it. The whole body armor seems high-end, but in fact, it is better to use a pair of full body armor to rivet a pair of ring armor than a narrow steel plate. This way, you can make more than a dozen sets of ring armor, or even dozens of sets of ring armor in this way.
Chapter completed!