Chapter 85 Li Qin 2
After the Jing River, which started in Laolongtan, Liupan Mountain, flowed for more than a thousand miles, finally came out of the gorge at Jiuji Mountain north of the Weishui Plain and rushed to the Weishui River flowing eastward. Zheng Guo Canal was built at the mouth of the gorge. It uses a parallel Weishui River channel to lead the Jing River eastward into the Luoshui 300 miles away. The Jing River flows at the entrance of the valley very fast, so you can build a canal here to get water into Luoshu as much as possible.
When the water comes out of the gorge, the sound is like thunder. Whenever the sun sets west, the sunlight shines on the gorge often refracts into colorful colors. Accompanied by wisps of steaming white water mist, the entire valley entrance is in colorful clouds and smoke, like a beautiful fairyland.
Yiyang Hou Yitu stood north of the valley entrance and looked at the fairyland-like gorge. Zhao general Li Qi stood behind him. Relying on the upstream boat bridge, the two people who had crossed the Jing River had no time to appreciate the fairyland. Instead, they were watching a heavy car slowly pushing to the right side of the valley entrance. The heavy car was like a siege rushing car. Although the wall could not be broken by the siege van, the Qin soldiers on the wall hurriedly threw down the rocks and rolling wood, and some crossbowmen took the risk to shoot arrows under the wall.
Since it was a chariot, of course it was not afraid of the rocks and rolling wood on the wall, and covering the arrows was no longer a problem. Yi Tu was careful of the mist at the entrance of the gorge, and gunpowder might not work. When Xiong Jing set off, he explained in detail: Gunpowder should not encounter water. Zhao Qi wanted to know the secret of the Chu people breaking the barrier. Before that, he only heard the roar of thunder, and then Yan's army was blown up to the two-foot city wall, a five or six-meter-wide hole was blown out. The soldiers of the Zhao army were desperate and slaughtered all the living things in the city.
After Yitu and Zhao Qi were Xiong Han, Gui Jing and others. They relied on the horse's express to force the cities on the front line of Fangqu and Yiqu. Before the defenders reacted, they all left. The only ones who could catch up with them were the Qin army's Feixun on the front line of Ma Lianshui.
As a senior general of the Chu army, Gui Jing had heard of gunpowder, but he didn't know that gunpowder could break the plug. He did not look ahead, but was taking care of Xiong Han's mount. Xiong Han, who was flowing with Xiong's blood, was a little nervous before entering Qin, and became more and more excited after entering Qin. But he didn't know how to take care of the dragon horse under his crotch, so Gui Jing was feeding his dragon horse water.
War horses require much more water than horse materials. A 500 kilogram of war horse requires 12 kilograms of horse materials every day when exercising vigorously, but fifty or even sixty kilograms of water. These waters must be clean and salt must be added. They are carefully fed after exercise. From the time of the Yan clan attack, the knights of the Chu and Zhao armies were less than 3,500. At this time, all the cavalry were feeding the horses water.
"Report to Yihou, everything is ready." Riding the arrows on the wall, the engineers ran to Yitu to bow to him.
"When will it take?" Yi Tu looked back behind him, and the cavalry on the entire official road were feeding the horses, so he asked Xiang Shiji.
"I am a master who is a small relocation." Seeing the Japanese is an official position in the Chu army, I examine the heavens and the time to know the taboos and good fortunes. This is similar to the "should be admitted to school" and "avoid travel" in the lunar calendar in later generations.
"Is it Xiaoqian?" It takes time to feed the horse, but it was already afternoon instead of the original morning or noon.
"I thought it should be done quickly." Li Qi knew Yitu's concerns. The Zhao army did not feel sorry for Di horses, but the Chu army cherished the dragon horses. "It was October. After noon, it was small migration. It was time for the time of the storm. It would be dark after the great migration. Our army was still more than 80 miles away from Xianyang City and a hundred miles away from Weinan..."
Li Qi actually doesn't like to break the block at this time, but if he doesn't break the block at this time, he will have to wait until tomorrow. He is so anxious, but Yi Tu is not in a hurry at all. He looks at his Sima Yitong again, "Is it okay?"
The Chu State is different from the Three Jins customs. The Chu army prayed in Taimiao before going to war. When the decisive battle was about to be fought, the army Sima Bu asked about the good and bad; when the San Jins went to war or before the battle, they asked about the good and bad luck. The result of divination was bad luck, and the Chu army would usually cancel the battle, or divine again. Yitu asked about the good and bad luck at this time, causing Li Qi's heart to come to his throat. He was worried that if it was not good, the Chu army would cancel the battle.
"Not auspicious." Yi Tong, who had been tightly closing his lips, replied without any slightest concealment.
"Not auspicious..." Yi Tu sighed lightly when he heard this. "Do you again."
Divination did not take too long. After a piece of tortoise shell was engraved with the words "味, good", it burned the flames in Yi Tong's prayer. Without the cover of the tent, Yi Tong's movements and prayers attracted Xiong Ren, Gui Jing and other Chu generals and knights. They watched the tortoise shells that were crackled by the flames, and prayed like him.
"Not auspicious!" The burned tortoise shell was taken out, but the result was still unlucky. More than 200 knights were instantly moved.
"Do you know again!" Yi Tu said again after looking around everyone, and his teeth were clenched tightly.
"It is auspicious for our army to make a fortune. In the end, I think there is no need to make a fortune." Yi Tong's divination not only shakes the morale of the Chu army, but also mobilizes the morale of the Zhao army. If it is still unlucky next time, the morale of the Zhao army might collapse. "Please ask the Marquis of Yi not to forget the battle of Jifu." Li Qi said.
The Battle of Jifu was a war rarely mentioned by the people of Chu. According to the military tactics of the Spring and Autumn Period, the sun was not fighting (the sun was the last day of each month, and the sun was without moonlight, and the battle was unlucky). At that time, the Chu army and Wu army confronted Jifu (now southeast of Gushi County). Because it was the sun, the general of the Chu army, Qi Yue, expected that the Wu army would not attack, so he relaxed his guard. King Liao of Wu deliberately chose to attack on this day. The Chu army was in a hurry and retreated because of the national army under his command.
Li Qi pointed out the battle of Jifu to persuade Yi Tu not to stick to the ancient methods. It can be said that it is auspicious, and everything is for morale. Unexpectedly, Yi Tu did not hear it at all. He proved: "I heard that King Liao of Wu died at the hands of the assassin Zhu, which is the harm of the sudden attack on the sun."
Li Qi was speechless, and at this time Yi Tong's prayer had ended. He took out the tortoise shell in the fire regardless of the heat, and then was stunned. While everyone was waiting for good luck, he handed the tortoise shell to Yi Tu. Yi Tu looked at the crack on the back of the tortoise shell without hesitation, and raised it towards everyone. Li Qi was too late to stop it.
"It is really unlucky for Sima to make three fortunes." Looking at the more than 200 Chu knights in front of him, Yi Tu's eyes were extremely serious. "However, I was ordered by the king to enter Qin and would welcome the prince Mi to return to Chu. Therefore, even if it is not auspicious, I will go there. If I am not my family, those who want to go will follow me, and those who don't want to return to the country as the same way. There is not much time, so they will decide quickly."
Three destiny but not auspicious, unprecedented. Although Yi Tu is a marquis, he has no right to order his soldiers to participate in a battle that gods have predicted failure. After all, many of these knights are not his retainers. If he overthrew the army, he would commit suicide. Yi Tu urged the soldiers to make a decision quickly, and the Zhao army knights suddenly had a commotion, and a terrible word spread among the crowd: "In this battle, the Chu people are not auspicious..."
"The Chu army is not auspicious, but our army is very auspicious!" Li Qi didn't bother to persuade Yi Tu, and he had to work hard to restore the morale of the Zhao army.
"Our army is very lucky!" A piece of tortoise shell looked like a life-saving straw. Li Qi raised it high, and the chaos of the Zhao army turned into a noisy. "The King of Qin is eighty miles away. Have you forgotten your blood hatred?"
The canyon was filled with Li Qi's echoes, and the Zhao army's knights gradually became quiet. When Zhao army was pacified, Li Qi looked back at the Chu army and only heard someone draw his sword.
"For the king!" The sword was sharp and Gui Jing's sword had been unsheathed. The light reflected by the sunlight made Li Qi feel dazzling.
"For the king!" Xiang Chao and others' swords were unsheathed, intersected with his sword, and one sword was pressed against the sword. At this time, the sword was no longer just dazzling, but turned into a ball of light that made people unable to look directly at it.
"For the King!!" At the same time, more than 200 Chu army knights and more than 100 soldiers shouted. So what if the three fortunes are not auspicious? They were fighting for the king and died only for the king.
"Ignite!" The order to explode was finally issued. After igniting the fire, the two Chu soldiers rushed out of the heavy car under the wall and raised their shields to the crowd fifty steps away. Unfortunately, they were still a little slower. When they ran to more than twenty steps, they heard a loud tremor behind them. Then the earth suddenly trembled, and the wave of air that was chasing them pushed them heavily.
As an engineer in the Ying Division, such experiences were not uncommon. Li Qi and others who were staring at the walls tightly, were shocked by the earth walls and smoke caused by the gunpowder explosion. It seemed that something broke out from the ground and turned the tall walls into powder in anger.
It was at night to break the Yan clan and go to the city. At night, there was nothing except hearing a dull roar. Now the whole process was fully displayed in front of you. Even Yi Tu was shocked by the power of gunpowder. As silence as death, most people were in a daze, and some soldiers were dismounting and kneeling down until the engineers and soldiers responsible for the blasting came to report.
"Reported to the Yihou, the walls of the gates have been destroyed, so you can go straight to Xianyang." The entire army was silent, and the commander of the soldiers felt uncomfortable.
"Good." Yi Tu agreed and rode his horse forward. He did not run quickly. He waited for his mount to pass the exploded wall before he ran. Following him, the fearful Knight Chu Zhao also rode past the exploded wall and then ran. On the Xianyang Plain, more than 3,000 cavalry formed a torrent and rushed to Xianyang City north of the Wei River.
"Report to the general, King Jing is out of the valley!" Hou Li, who had accumulated heavy troops in the northwest of Xianyang City, rushed into the county government and reported loudly.
"How can King Jing break the barrier?" Zhang Han was looking at the map with a group of county magistrates. He immediately turned around when he heard this.
"I don't know." Qin-style Feixun has limited communication capabilities and can only convey established information and cannot write and describe it.
"I don't know?!" After passing Qi County, the enemy's actions were under the control of Zhang Han. He said inexplicably. "When King Jing Xiaoqian arrived at the entrance of Gu, and now Xiaoqian has not passed, he has broken through the blockage. Why?"
"Report to the general, the villain doesn't know..." Ling Bing thought Zhang Han was asking him, but he didn't even know the answer. In fact, Zhang Han was asking himself, he wanted to know what secret technique could break the wall that was six feet thick at the entrance of the valley within one hour?
No one can answer this question. The old Xianyang Order Zhao Yong even wanted to say that it was King Jing who used witchcraft. However, Zhang Han quickly asked another question: "Where has Mi Liangren been?"
Chapter completed!