The spring of the 32nd year of King Jian of Qi came earlier than ever before. The black water on the east side of Linzi and the water on the west side of Linzi turned into ice and thawed early, and only some ice and snow could be seen on the shore. The bitter north wind finally stopped whistling, and the warm spring sun made people lazy. Only when the street market was not the sound of piano building, and the cheers burst out during the cockfighting could make people feel a little more energetic.

When the Chu State attacked Qi, the officials and generals in the court might be a little worried, but for the common people in Linzi City, the only difference in life was that their livelihoods were more urgent. Because of the war, the price of millet once again rose, and the price per stone actually exceeded 200 yuan. Of course, this was intentional. Foreign war was the best time to harvest the wealth of the civil servants and rely on the civil servants. The King of Linzi ordered the chariots, horses, armor and shields, and military funds not only to raise their own responsibilities, but also to Linzi. For a time, the national prices rose sharply.

However, this time there was a different voice. A song that made the court's courage sang in Qi: "Oh, he is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is

Obviously, some traitors did it on purpose. The original song was clearly: Praise, what is it? Baohu, what is it going to return to Tian Chengzi!’ This is the story in "Han Feizi: The upper right hand of the Foreign Crown": A famine occurred in Qi State, and many people starved to death on the side of the road. The people went to Tian’s family with their elders and young people, but no one starved to death. So the people sang this song. Seeing that the people were like this, they knew that the Tian family was inevitable to seize the country, and they regretted it.

The story is naturally fake, but some people tampered with the songs in the story and made them widely sing, which put the Linzi court in a passive situation. Hou Sheng issued a series of kingly orders, requiring all towns to severely punish those who sang songs, but all towns did not take it seriously at all. The officials of the county did not want to form an alliance with Zhao and become enemies with Qin, nor did they want to turn against Chu and become enemies with Chu. They just wanted to reap the benefits of the fisherman and make money while taking advantage of the war rather than being involved in the war.

The Linzi court made arbitrary initiatives that led to the feud between Qi and Chu, and even attacked each other, and then asked them to pay for the war, which made them extremely angry. The King of Chu was not the Tian family of the Jiang Qi period, and it was impossible for him to usurp the throne and become the King of Qi. It would be better to use such songs to warn Linzi.

Although spring is good, there are traitors everywhere. In the Prime Minister's Mansion of Qi, Hou Sheng was listless and knew that someone had reported to the Qin envoy Wang Ao for a visit.

"The Ji River has been opened, I dare to ask about the weapon that breaks the city..." Wang Ao was Wei Liao's man. He had done the marriage matter, and he had also done the war between Qi and Chu. The only last thing that could not be completed was the weapon that broke the city into Qin.

"Since the Ji River has been opened, the weapons that break the city can naturally be transported to Qin, but..." Hou Sheng paused, "I heard that the King of Chu has prepared his troops in Langya and prepared for war. When will the 100,000 Qin troops promised by the envoy arrive in Qi?"

"The weapon to destroy the city arrives in the east county of the country, and a hundred thousand troops can enter Qi." Wang Ao said. "This matter is already in charge. If the army is in love with each other, I can ask the army to enter the country first."

"No need or not." Wang Ao was different from the previous Qin envoy Dunwei and Yao Jia. Wang Ao was kind and never threatened. After he was so polite, he would take a step back, and he did not want the Qin army to enter the country. "If the Chu people defeated Muling Pass, it would not be too late for the army to enter Qi again."

"No." Wang Ao answered seriously. He said again: "That weapon to break the city..."

"The original minister has ordered the Linzi guardian Tian Yang. The weapon that broke the city can be transported out of the city today, but..." Hou Sheng was a little surprised when he remembered the weapon that broke the city. It weighed more than 30,000 Chu jin, and I really don't know how the Chu people made it. From the stone casting machine to the Chu people, and from the Chu people that the Chu army was about to attack Qi, Hou Sheng couldn't help but feel a little dazed and lost.

"Qi Xiang..." Wang Ao was puzzled by why Hou Sheng was so angry that he had to scream.

"Oh." Hou Sheng came to his senses. "But the weapon to break the city was really heavy, and he used more than ten thousand people to fight for the fortune that year."

Twenty simplified versions of the catapult machine have no squirrel cage transmission device, and the configuration is not ten tons but only five tons. With the tall and sturdy frame, the total weight is about seven tons. When it was transported, a catapult machine required hundreds of people to carry it. Now it is transported away, so many people are probably needed.

Hou Sheng was worried about manpower, but manpower was not a big deal for Qin. On that day, under the command of Ye Shun, a great craftsman of Shaofu, more than a thousand Qin people began to carry the two catapults.

Most of the things in Chu State were exquisite, such as Wang Zun's hand-held crossbow, but the city-breaking weapon was made with tens of thousands of pounds so exquisite, which was really something that the great craftsman Ye Shun expected. Before moving, he carefully checked the catapult, which was no different from the human-powered catapult used to defend the city, but the Chu people made it bigger, and did not rely on human-powered pokers to let the counterweight land freely.

A large tripod is only a thousand kilograms, but the counterweight is 20,000 kilograms, which is equivalent to twenty large tripods. This is really incredible. This is not as simple as pouring twenty large tripods together. It also involves the load bearing of the entire frame. The most important thing is the boom and the counterweight, and the rotating hub between the boom and the frame.

Three years ago, Princess Hui of Chu married into Qin State, and the shaft hub of the four-wheeled carriage that was dowed was obviously replaced. From the gossip of the Yushou, I learned that the carriage was very brisk before entering Qin, and it became very heavy after entering Qin State. The road of Qin State was difficult to walk. The Shaofu demolished two of the carriages and found that the shaft hub was all new, and the others were not abnormal. The road of Qin State was also better than that of Chu State.

If the Emperor's hand is true, then the carriage of Chu State should have two types of shaft hubs, one is no different from the shaft hubs of all countries in the world, and the other is the new shaft hub, so it is particularly light. This was just a speculation at that time, but now this speculation has become reality. At the connection between the trench boom and the wooden frame, Ye Tun saw a new shaft hub that he had never seen before. It had no iron mace, no spoke holes, and no lamps...

Ye Shun was not sure that what he saw was a roller bearing. The friction coefficient of rolling friction was almost one-tenth of the sliding friction. Installing large roller bearings on the trench boom was to reduce friction, especially when the configuration was halved, it was necessary to reduce friction and increase the range. However, once the responsible behavior of the founding of the State of Qi was betrayed by the State of Qi, Qin would benefit greatly.

When it was dark, the two cities that had repeatedly urged Qin to break the city were finally transported out of the east gate of Linzi City. At night, the Qin people did not rest, but held fire and shouted horns to put them on the big boat that had been waiting for several months. The big boats would follow the Black Water to the east for several miles and then turn to the northwest. This is part of the Black Water Canal. The Black Water flows through Linzi City to the northeast, and passes through Judian (known as Qingqiu in ancient times, and now Qingshuipo) and the Shishui River converge into the sea.

The water flows northeast, and the water flows northeast, so it converges. However, before flowing through Bochang (now Boxing), the water flows northeast. Its tributary, Mianshui, is the same origin as the water flowing westward on Linzi City. The water turns to the northwest 50 miles west of Linzi City, and then flows to the northwest in Bochang.

During the reign of King Wei of Qi, Qi State dug two canals to connect the Zishui and Jishui. One section connects the Zishui in the east of the city to the Mishui, and the other section connects the Shishui and Jishui in front of the Shishui turn. In this way, a triangle with the intersection of Linzi, Bochang and Shishui as the vertices. This angle of Linzi is at the southernmost end of the triangle, and the Bochang corner is almost parallel to the intersection of the two waters and is at the westernmost; the intersection of the two waters is at the easternmost.

Starting from Linzi, follow the Ziji Canal to the northwest, you can enter the Ji River. The Ji River goes up and go up, and go through the lower (now Jinan), Luyi (now southwest of Changqing County), and Guyi (now Dong'a Town, Pingyin County). Guyi is an extremely important city in Qi. It is located east of the Ji River and west of Mount Tai. The west of the Ji River is the Qin territory, and the south is the Qin territory. Qi State has many equipment here, in order to resist the Qin people in the west.

The dusk was dark, and the halberds on the top of Linzi city could vaguely see the Qin boat passing by the black water with the starlight. Under the same starlight, the Bohai Sea, which is calmer than the Yellow Sea, a team of more than 200 warships had arrived in Laizhou Bay under the leadership of the Zhuque.

It took 56 hours to sail from Langya Port and the boat team arrived at Bailing Island near North Korea. The other sides of the island were mostly lined with rocks, but the southwest was a delicate beach. The entire army landed for five days and set off from Bailing Island five days later and sailed to Daqin Island more than 800 miles away. Daqin Island is located in the middle of the Bohai Strait, next to it, Xiaoqin Island, Nanhuangcheng Island and other islands, but these islands had no fresh water. After only two days of rest, the entire army set out from the west exit of Daqin Island and headed to the zishui estuary more than 400 miles away.

Although each flight was significantly reduced compared to the previous one, the reduction of personnel was still serious. When departing from Bailing Island, the entire army only reduced personnel by 3%, but starting from Daqin Island, the entire army had reduced personnel by nearly 10%. It was not because of casualties. The main symptoms were seasickness, people and horses were also dizzy, and many horses fell on Daqin Island.

After finally entering the calm Laizhou Bay, a new problem arose: at night, the Zhuque cannot determine the estuary of the Black Water. It has already been mastered before departure, but even if the error is only a few miles at night, it is difficult to find. Moreover, more than one river enters the sea nearby, and all the waters north of Mount Tai have this into the sea.

"This knows that the other officer has dereliction of duty." After more than ten days of wind and waves, Xiong Jing's voice was a little hoarse. As it was dawn, he began to be angry that the other officer's Hou spy did not set the direction for the Zhou team. According to the agreement, Hou spy should have ignited a fire at the mouth of the black water.

"I think I can only wait for the dawn." The former general of the boat army, Ou Tuo, was also in the boat team. Now the entire army is stagnant. To prevent collisions, all boats light up. The lights are different from the lights. They float along with the warships, and look like a group of fireflies from a distance.

"Waiting for dawn?" There is no way to go. It's just that after dawn, there will be a patrol of Qi's boat troops in this section of the sea. Once the entire army is exposed, whether it can successfully reach Linzi, two hundred miles away, will become a problem.
Chapter completed!