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Chapter 14 Explain

"Da, the king is sick... sick?" Chen Ying was sleeping in the Mingtang. When the Wei envoy who had not seen the King of Chu was still not seen until Yan Shi, he said this. He looked at Yang Wenjun, Xiang Yan again, and finally looked at Yin Yingli, a doctor who was both witch and doctor, and seemed very helpless. Daliang was waiting for the King of Chu, but he was sick here.

"Can you ask the king to move to Daliang? If there is a doctor with excellent medical skills in Daliang, I will ask the king to treat the king." Wei envoy said.

"The envoy of Wei thought that my Chu State was not very good at medical skills?" Xing Li sneered. He knew what a bacterial person was.

"I dare not think." Wei envoy knew that he had said the wrong thing, so he could only apologize. "But the war is approaching, and Chu is a great country in the world. How can he lose his trust in the world? Yang Wenjun, this matter also concerns Qin. If it is delayed, Qin will also..."

The envoy of Wei finally found a legitimate reason. The war is approaching and the State of Chu cannot break its trust in the world. If it has been stopped in Chen County, how can it fight the water battle with the Qin people? If the Qin people are angry, the consequences will be unimaginable.

"Please rest assured the Wei envoy. Isn't there still five days to fight with the Qin people?" Yang Wenjun smiled harmlessly. From yesterday, he knew that the Qin and Wei coalition forces were about to be approaching. How could the king go to Daliang?

"However, it will take three days to get to Daliang in Chen County." The envoy of Wei stretched out three fingers. "A day of rest before the war will be only one day."

"One day is one day." Yang Wenjun said, "I asked the envoy of Wei to stay in Chenying for a while."

After Yang Wenjun said that, the envoy Wei said goodbye. Less than a quarter of an hour after he left, Xiong Jing came out of the dormitory. Yang Wenjun Xiang Yan and others immediately saluted. After a while, Li Qi from the Operations Department, he knew that the officials should not give me the words, and the generals of the Zhoushi, such as Hongzhang, Outuo, etc., also came.

After the irrelevant person retreated, the white silk with a map was hung on the wall. The Han and Wei countries on the map were like butterflies that had been cut by a knife, leaving only the back half. South Korea was just a large spot on the upper edge of the left wing. The upper end of the wing was almost neat, the middle of the lower end was concave, and the edge was also concave, which looked like a W character. Chen Ying's position was in the west of the middle of the wings, less than fifty miles away from the left wing (Weijing). Yangxia (now Taikang) north of Chen Ying happened to be in the most concave in the middle.

Daliang is the center of this half of butterfly and the remaining nerve center. It is less than a hundred miles north of Qin. To the south, the west is Honggu, to the east is the Mishui River, and to the east is Sui River, and to the east is Danshui River, which intersects with Si River from Lu and Pengcheng. The four rivers all flow south through Daliang, forming a fan shape of about 60 degrees, which penetrates directly into the Huai River in Chu.

Xiong Jing remembers that a counselor at a meeting in the Grand Sima Mansion said: If you want to defend Huai, you must guard Daliang. If you do not guard Daliang, you will guard Shouying. The idea of ​​opening and closing is very consistent with Xiong Jing's appetite, but such a big advance and retreat is not in line with everyone's interests: about 70% of the population of Chu State is in Huaibei, and more than 70% of the generals of the Chu army disagree to give up Huaibei and retreat to Shouying.

"According to the news, the Qin army has entered Wei." Li Qie spoke, "Chen Ying is only more than 330 miles away from Daliang. The boat can arrive for three days, and five days will be the day of the water battle. Some boats of the boat army have new styles of big wings, while others are not. The king is worried that the Wei people and the Qin people will collude with each other and attack our boat army."

"I am not afraid of the Wei people!" Hong Kong Ou Tuo looked at each other and said. Hong Kong Kong said again: "The Wei people have less than two hundred boats. Even if they conspire with the Qin people, I will be fearless in attacking each other."

"However, there are only 34 new-style large wings." Li Qie didn't understand water war, and Xiang Yan didn't understand water war, so how to fight water war, he could only discuss face to face with Hong Liu, Outuo and others.

"However, my boatman is extremely hated by the Qin people." Hong Kong said loudly. "The Qin people are beasts, without trust and righteousness..."

"I want you to be alone, at least a new big wing." Xiong Jing had to speak. The thing he was most worried about was that the Qin and Wei countries seized the Sanji warships and then imitated them in large quantities. Although some things that the Qin people could not imitate, such as giant iron bolts, black paint for the seams of the ships, keels, ribs, and rudders, could always be made as long as the Qin people spent their hard work.

"I will accept the order and will not lose a new style of wing. I am willing to live with my life..." Hong Kong swore, saying that he was decisive.

"I don't want your life!" Xiong Jing interrupted him. "If any big wing is lost, the Qin people can imitate it. Once imitate it, the consequences will be unimaginable. Do you understand?"

"I know!" Hong Yun was sweating profusely. He had never thought about this problem before, and was shocked after being reminded.

"Tell every big winged boatman must not fall into the hands of the Qin people." Xiong Jing explained: "Also, you must not drink the water and grain of the Wei people. The boatman will bring his own ten days of food; and, the rivers near Daliang are intertwined, so don't get lost. If you get lost... can the boatman distinguish between the north and the south?"

"..." It is not easy to distinguish between the north and the south, and the red wall was stunned and refused to answer.

"If you can't tell the difference between the north and the south, then look at the needle. Tell the Zhouli, the State of Chu is in the south and you must not go north." Xiong Jing sighed deeply. Many Zhouli are hereditary. These people can swim and know how to fight water, but most of them cannot read. Fortunately, the Zaofu has already built a compass. These illiterate people can go home as long as they can read the compass.

"I know, I know!" Hong Kong bowed and broke out in cold sweat.

"Each big wing has only twenty-five armored soldiers. This battle is not allowed: if half of the armored soldiers are injured or killed, they can retreat from the deck and retreat without fighting." Xiong Jing issued another order. "Qin and Wei attack Chu, and naturally they will attack Chen Ying. You must fight to the death in Chen Ying instead of Daliang."

"I respectfully accept the order." Hong Liu and Outuo bowed and accepted the order.

"What else should I explain?" Xiong Jing was angry that the Zhouye was not defensive, and forgot what else to explain.

"If the Wei people attacked me, I think we should burn the Wei people's warehouse report." Li Qi reminded. The Operations Department had two plans. One was to ignore the situation and not fight in the water. The Zhou troops took advantage of the Wei people's unpreparedness and directly entered the Liang Dynasty; the other was to fight as promised. If the Wei people intervened in the battle, they would fight in the Wei people again.

After discussing the former, I felt that it was inappropriate. Thousands of soldiers in the boat did not play any role. I also gave Wei's excuse to attack Chu. It would be better to be wary of it and wait until the Wei people attacked it before taking action. It was not to kill people, but to burn the granary outside the beam.

"If General Hong can..." Li Qi looked at Xiong Jing, and before Xiong Jing could react, he said quickly: "...If you can lead your troops to burn Ao Cang, the Qin people will attack me, and it will take three years later."

"Absurd!" Xiong Jing scolded. "How could the Qin people not have equipment in Ao Cang's heavy land? The entire boat master may not be able to burn Ao Cang if he fills it in!"

"My name..." Hong Chuan looked at Li Qi and then at Xiong Jing. "Reported to the great king, the new style of Dayi can travel 400 miles a day. Since we reach Daliang, why can't we go more than a hundred miles north and burn the Qin people Ao Cang."

"Report to the king, I am willing to take on this position." Outuo also said. "If the king is worried that the new big wings will fall into the opponent, I will lead the old big wings to attack him."

"Have you been to Ao Cang?" Xiong Jing asked back. "Do you know how many defenders there are in Ao Cang? How to attack it?"

Ao Cang was the largest granary of Qin, located in Aoshan (now Mangshan) in Rongyang. The Qin people attacked the Three Jin and Qi, and the military rations were all distributed in Ao Cang. The corn stored here should be calculated in a million stones. In the information given by Xiong Qi, Ao Cang accumulated as high as 42.5 million stones of millet, which was equivalent to 570,000 tons, enough for 1.7 million people to eat for a whole year.

If Ao Cang is really burned, the Qin army will be paralyzed on a large scale, and the entire middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River will not be able to fight on a large scale for at least three years, but the problem is not that simple. Ao Cang was built on Ao Mountain, and there is no other way except for the Luo River (now the Yiluo River) to connect to the outside world. There are 20,000 Qin troops stationed here. Even if the big-wing warships attacked Ao Cang from Luo River, there are four or five hundred 100,000 stones in Ao Cang. How can 2,500 soldiers burn? The food is not gasoline, and even gasoline, there will be no fire prevention measures?

"There are too few soldiers in the boat, and it's just a drop in the bucket." After hearing Li Qi's plan, Xiang Yan also focused on it for a while before saying regret.

"Just burn the Wei people's warehouse." Xiong Jing said. "The Wei people allowed the Qin people to use the road, and they must have controlled the supply of food and fodder for the Qin army."

"I know!" Both the king and the general rejected the plan to burn Ao Cang, and Hong Liu and Outuo had no choice but to give up.

"If nothing else is done, I will set off to leave Chen Ying the next day." Xiong Jing reminded, and he was worried and told him in the end: "Don't let the big wing fall into the hands of the Qin people."

Hong Liu and Outuo were just generals of Zhoushi. After some of the matters were explained, they retreated. When they left, Wenjun from Yang said, "I dare to ask the king, what should I do? Do you go to Daliang to meet the King of Wei, and what should I say if you meet the King of Wei?"

"The Grandpa will leave Chen tomorrow, and on the fourth day, he will arrive at Daliang. He will also inform the Qin people when he complained to the King of Wei and fight as promised." Li Qie said.

"Go to Daliang first?" Yang Wenjun was puzzled and had an enlightenment. "Will the boat master arrive at Daliang on the fifth day?"

"That's right." Li Qi nodded. This was a discussion. The Zhou Shi did not spend the night outside Daliang City to prevent the Wei people from conspiring.

"If the Wei State's boat troops attack me, Yang Qing can go to Bai Yi's mansion to avoid it for a while. The water battle is outside the city, and the boat troops may not be able to connect Yang Qing to the warship." Xiong Jing explained. Yang Wenjun's trip was dangerous. If Chu and Wei fight, he would become a prisoner.

"I think I should go to the palace to question the King of Wei, why did he attack me with the Qin people?" Yang Wenjun's idea was unexpected, and he actually came to the door. "There may be a way to survive."

"Okay." Xiong Jing nodded slowly. He didn't really want to use the Wei people to kill Yang Wenjun, but he really wanted someone to enter Daliang first to stabilize the Wei people and Qin people. This person is the most suitable person as the Dazai Yang Wenjun. "If you don't want to, you can change..."

"No, no need to change people." Yang Wenjun stood up, "Nan Gong said, I will die in the old Ying."

The man from Nangong was the Yin-Yang family in Yingdu. When he was young, he entered Qi and learned Yin-Yang techniques to return to Chu in his old age. Some nobles from Yingdu often asked Nangong to be ordered. Yang Wenjun passed by once and said: He died in Jiying.

"I'm leaving." Yang Wenjun was not afraid, and bowed to Xiong Jing very casually, and then floated away.
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