Once the Chu people were excited, the nine-headed cows could not pull them back. It was useless to appeal to them, so they could only slowly persuade them according to their nature and let them calm down slowly. Unfortunately, after successive victories, no one could calm down. Those who originally agreed to retreat to Jiangdong gradually felt that they could defend the Huai River with the Daliang and the Great Wall of Wei.

However, in Xiong Jing's eyes, there was a plain on the Huai River that was not dangerous to guard. Daliang only guarded the main road. Wei State was next to Dasong County of the East County of Qin State. He flowed through Taoyi (now Dingtao) and turned south, intersecting with Si Shui in Lu, near the border between Chu and Wei. Si Shui directly connected to Pengcheng and then flowed into the Huai River through Xia Pi.

This is a river outside the control of Daliang. The Qin army can threaten Pengcheng along with it. Even if this river is controlled by the Chu army, there is about 400 miles of danger to guard the section east of Daliang to Dayeze (now north of Juye). The same is true to the west of Daliang, and Shangcai County, which is bordered by South Korea outside the Wei Great Wall, is as dangerous as Shangcai County outside the Wei Great Wall.

If the Qin army advances through the Shangcai County of Wei by land and the Dasong County of the State of Wei, then the defenses of Daliang, Chen County and Xiang County will be meaningless and they will be isolated on the north side of the battlefield. Xiong Jing is very puzzled why Xiang Yan doesn't understand this truth. Could it be that he will die in Xiang County because he was sealed in Xiang County?

It was already dark, and Xiong Jing pressed the urge to summon Xiang Yan and continued to discuss military affairs with Li. When he woke up the next day, he sent someone to summon Xiang Yan with peace of mind, wanting to know what he was thinking.

"Report to the king that the ancestral temples and tombs are all in Xiang, so I don't want to go to Jiangdong." Xiang Yan told the truth in the main bedroom.

"Can Xiangcheng be defended?" Xiong Jing did not object directly, but changed his question.

"No." Xiang Yan shook his head, but he said again: "Although it is impossible, if the Qin army wants to decapitate Xiangcheng, 200,000 will die."

"Twenty-hundred thousand is only a drop in the ox for Qin State." Xiong Jing sighed. "Perhaps, these 200,000 are not Qin people, but Wei people, Zhao people, Qi people. Qin State is twice as many as me, and I have more soldiers. One person died in our army, and ten people will die in the Qin army. Xiang Qing thought that the exchange ratio could be reached by one to ten in the decisive battle with Qin in Huai?"

"King, it's a shame to retreat before the battle. You can retreat, but the soldiers will not retreat, what can you do?" Xiang Yan naturally mentioned the soldiers of the Chu army. "All the people of the country moved to Jiangdong, but they were not willing to do so. The soldiers all heard that Jiangdong was in a turbid place. Instead of retreating to Jiangdong, they would rather fight with the Qin army. If they died, they would die. They would rather die in the country."

"How is Jiangdong a land of malaria?" Xiong Jing laughed, but when he thought that Chen County was considered a friend of the barbarians and Xia by the Central Plains, he was speechless.

"I heard that the king wanted to lead Ying's army to attack Linzi by sea. Although the sea was dangerous, Ying's army won first and its morale rose sharply, it was impossible." Xiang Yan said again. "The army who attacked Linzi for two thousand miles across the sea was about to retreat to Jiangdong without fighting. Do the king think it's normal?"

Xiang Yan's rebellious question made Xiong Jing look stunned. This is indeed a question. How can an army that can cross the sea to attack the enemy's capital for two thousand miles, retreat thousands of miles away without fighting?

The Chu army is by no means the kind of army that Sun Tzu said in the Art of War that "those who are good at defending hide under the nine lands, and those who are good at attacking move above the nine heavens, so they can protect themselves and win completely." Wu Qi once said that in dealing with the Chu army, we must "attack and disrupt their garrison, take away their energy first, advance lightly and retreat quickly, and work hard on them, and do not fight against them, as their army can be defeated."

"Qi" is very important. The Chu army with "qi" and the Chu army without "qi" are completely different manifestations. With "qi", one leaps forward thousands of miles, and one should be ten; without "qi", the entire army will be shocked, the soldiers will have no fighting spirit, and the soldiers will have no fighting spirit.

"Why is Xiang Qing a slander?" Xiong Jing couldn't help but smile bitterly. His people would only advance wildly and would never retreat without fighting. He had been thinking about Jiangdong for several years, and the Lingnan plan was wasted.

"I also know that I should retreat to Jiangdong, but..." Xiang Yan also smiled bitterly like Xiong Jing. "For the sake of the present, it is better to use attack as a defense and restrain the Qin army from Zhao, one south and one north, so that the world may be defended."

"The Zhao people are not kind. If I attack Qin and Qin people attack me, the Zhao people will not save me." Xiong Jing said. Xiang Yan proposed this idea more than once, but he was rejected by Zhu Ao.

"However, I have the advantage of the boatman." Xiang Yan said again. "If Qin attacked me, it would be impossible."

"How about corn?" Xiong Jing said about corn. "If Qin is swallowed up Wei, then Shangcai County and Song County will attack us. All counties on Huai Shang are battlefields. How can the soldiers and civilians eat?"

"The king is wrong." Xiang Yan said. "With other soldiers who have poured the whole country and the Qin people who fought to the death in Huai, one point of victory or defeat. It is better to ask the Qin people to attack us again today, so that the common people on Huai retreat to Jiangdong, and then fight to the Qin people in Jiangdong in the future. In this way, the country of Zhao can be slowed down. The Qin people destroyed Zhao at least twice, and most of them will be three, which is beneficial to me."

"Ah?!" Xiong Jing looked at Xiang Yan in surprise. He only realized today that Xiang Yan was thinking so.

"This is my plan. I am stupid, I have the only plan." Xiang Yan bowed to Xiong Jing, his voice calmly.

"There is no other plan? I can't, and I can't retreat with the entire army?" Xiong Jing hesitated for a while before speaking again.

"The Chu people are fierce and determined. If they only do their own things, they would rather die than retreat." Xiang Yan said.

"Can't you advise and order?" Xiong Jing asked again without giving up.

"The Chu people were rebellious and forced them to retreat, even the king could not." Xiang Yan said again.

"This..." Xiang Yan said very well, but it was precisely because he was right that Xiong Jing was a little angry. Although he was the king of Chu, he might not have the ability to reverse the will of the Chu people. According to Xiang Yan's plan, he attacked Qin to burn his body and used the reason of shortage of food to force the Chu people to retreat to Jiangdong. He felt unbearable.

If the Qin army had not flooded the city with water, causing all the soldiers who could fight to drown, the Chu people would never have given up on the old Ying and moved to the east. Similarly, if the Chu army had not suffered a great defeat, it would have been impossible for the Chu army to retreat to Jiangdong. If the 200,000 Chu troops really had to lose all their losses to complete the strategic retreat? This is not a retreat, it is a death!

"In the Battle of Daliang the previous year, I thought it was defeated but not win. If we lose, we, the Chu people, can still revive the flag in Jiangdong in the future. If we win, we can only fight to the death with the Qin people in Huai, and there is no chance of recovery. Now that Qin State attacks Zhao, if Zhao does not save Zhao, Zhao will also be destroyed."

Before Xiang Yan left, his voice floated in the bedroom and did not dissipate for a long time. Xiong Jing'an sat on the mat for a long time, motionless. He seemed to know the Chu people very well, but he didn't really understand it until this moment; he seemed to understand the war very well, but he didn't really understand it until this moment.

The original plan was completely ineffective, and everything had to be pushed back and started over. Such setbacks made him unable to breathe. It took him a while to comfort himself: Maybe what Xiang Yan said might not be correct, maybe the king ordered that although the Chu people were unruly, they would still retreat to Jiangdong...

With such comfort, Xiong Jing spent the La Festival in a daze. For the Chu people, this was another rare New Year. Without war, the price of millet has always been maintained at more than fifty cents. The farmers had money in their pockets. They used to be reluctant to buy what they couldn't afford to eat, but now they dared to buy it and eat it. The craftsmen and merchants who worked in the last business have been booming because of this. The vehicles transporting goods in the wind and snow blocked the roads and blocked the ports. The lavish festivals in major cities in various places were even open for business with lights a few days before, making a lot of money.

The preparations for the war have not been interrupted under the lively atmosphere. The Zhuque has been wandering in the turbulent Yellow Sea, so that the main mast was blown by a storm by a strong wind, and several sailors who were urgently reclaiming sails fell into the water and died; the boat troops arrived at Langya Port with the latest style of the winged warship, and they will try to cross the Yellow Sea in the first month;

A large number of grain, canned food, military tents, wood and coal are being transported to Langya, and the Zhuque, which can sail against the wind, will transport these materials to selected docks one after another; the soldiers of the Ying army began to assemble at the beginning of the first month and conduct targeted training on the Huai River to adapt to the endless cross-sea paddlings for three days and three nights.

Everything is orderly, but some difficulties still exist: because of the big waves, the catapult cannot be transported across the sea to Linzi, and the lack of the catapult makes the city siege a problem;

The second is the tide difference, the Yellow Sea tide, the tide is mainly half-day tide, the tide difference is the west coast of the Korean Peninsula, West Korea Bay (the bay is injected into the Yalu River, the Liaodong Peninsula in the north, and the Wengjin Peninsula in the south), Jianghua Bay (the Wengjin Peninsula in the north and the Tai'an Peninsula in the south) is more than eight meters, and Incheon can reach ten meters. Now we are avoiding the bay and we will stop at Bailing Island outside the Wengjin Peninsula between West Korea Bay and Jianghua Bay, but the tide difference here is several meters.

The only thing that is fortunate is that when I learned that the general of Ying's army crossed the sea and attacked Linzi for two thousand miles, the general was not afraid at all, but he felt that I was the only one who attacked like this.

He claimed that he was very high and was also the expression of the Chu people's ambition when they were full of complacent. Xiong Jing was a little surprised, but he realized it after a while. In contrast to these generals who were overjoyed, he calmed down and monitored all the arrangements of this battle. He left Ying and rushed to Langya Port in the middle of the moon.

The Ying army was nervously preparing for the war, and the Hou spies could not go deep into the Qi State of Chu State and only heard some winds. For this reason, the Qi State's boat troops frequently went outside Langya Port to spy, driving away one wave after another. The Qi people were indeed familiar with the Yellow Sea. The reconnaissance boats they sent were not big wings with deep water, but the kind of big wings with extremely shallow water. Once the big wing warships were driven away, these big wings would immediately dock and sway to the shallow water.

A few times later, the Chu army also sent Maotu to Langya Port to expel Maotu, and then the Qi people were able to snoop. However, the Qi people were too slow to snoop. The news of the military capital of Langya Port also spread to Qi and Linzi.

At this time, Tian Jian, the King of Qi, no longer cared about state affairs. The Prime Minister of Qi, who was in charge of the government, hoped that the two countries would fight. He was not worried but happy about this. However, the Jimo doctor Tian He transferred to the port defense general Tian Wu was worried and worried. Tian He knew that the King of Chu would never give up. Tian Wu had seen the sea boat in Chu. Both of them suggested that Qi immediately prevent the Chu boat troops from raiding from the sea. Especially Tian Wu, in order to prevent the Chu boat troops from rushing to Linzi, he actually suggested blocking the sea water.
Chapter completed!