Wei Liao gently packed the gunpowder back again, and the cast iron ball was put back into the wooden box. Zhao Zheng looked at his action and waited until the end and said: "The Jing people have witchcraft again, what can I do with Daqin?"

"The witchcraft can only break the formation, and it is invincible." Wei Liao listened carefully to Wang Ao's report. He already understood the performance of the cannon. The tongue of fire and the roar cannot be explained, but the power is not incomparable. "For the sake of the present, I can only break the Zhao State first. Only by defeating Zhao can I connect the people of Qi to control the people of Jing."

The strategy of attacking Zhao first seems to be wrong, but the mistakes are correct until now there is no need to go into the deeper investigation. The Daqin chariot has chosen to destroy Zhao, and it is almost impossible to stop.

"If I am..." Zhao Zheng suddenly thought of Mi Xuan. He felt that he should not marry Mi Xuan immediately. King Jing loved Mi Xuan very much. Maybe Mi Xuan could be an important bargaining chip in the future. After saying that, he realized that King Jing did not have the ability to arbitrarily govern the court. He might compromise for Mi Xuan, but the people of Jing would never compromise for Mi Xuan.

"Our army should attack Zhao quickly. If Zhao does not destroy this year, it will be necessary to destroy Zhao next year!" The Qin army has recaptured the Yan clan pass, headed to that city, and strengthened its troops in this direction, and then quickly attacked Yunzhong and Jiuyuan counties to cut off the retreat of King Jing. The most important thing at the moment is to quickly destroy Zhao, and it is best to destroy Zhao in this winter. Three years of fierce battle and a severe drought, Zhao has reached the moment when the oil is exhausted. As long as Li Mu is defeated, Zhao will be destroyed.

Speaking of destroying Zhao, both the monarch and ministers thought of Li Mu, and also the guard Jing Ke who was sent to assassinate Li Mu. The news of Jing Ke's family was spread last year. If he really wanted to assassinate, he should have taken action.

*

It was ten days later that Xiong Jing returned to Hequ again. When he left Qin, all the food, fodder, horses and horses that the Yan family blocked and the city were collected. Some Qin people were also captured by Zhao Junsheng and thought they were slaves.

There was already wind and snow outside the Great Wall. The robbed Qin army tent was not Pippen, so the Central Army Shogunate lit more than a dozen basins of fire, which was so cold inside. Although it had left Qin, the situation was still serious.

The situation in the army was: plus the total number of injured soldiers was 3,079, including 495 Chu soldiers and 2,584 Zhao soldiers; war horses were more than 3,000 in the Lishui Valley, and they were rushing for days and overcoming the service. Only more than 1,600 were left when they returned to Hequ, including 709 Chu soldiers and less than 1,000 Zhao soldiers.

Moreover, the news from Jiuyuan County was that Yunzhong County was occupied by the Qin army again, and the Qin army occupying Yunzhong was attacking Jiuyuan. The county magistrate Zhao Shi suggested that the cavalry not retreat from Jiuyuan and return to Zhao from Yunzhong.

In Guanzhong, the speed of the Chu and Zhao cavalry, which had retreated to Hequ, was not as fast as that of the Qin army. Under the shape of the "Ri" in Guanzhong, the right half of the "Ri" is the Shangjun of Qin, which can be connected from Shangjun to Yunzhong County. It is very easy for the Qin army to intercept the cavalry. It is just as long as the Feixun is sent from Xianyang. Even if the Feixun cannot explain it, it can send troops to send orders from Xianyang. It can be reached in a few days. No matter how you rush here, you can't hurry.

The retreat route was cut off. Even if he retreated, the soldiers did not have enough horses, and at least the Zhao army was not enough. The Chu army had sixteen fifteen kilogram cannons. These cannons were extremely inconvenient to march on the grassland, but they could not be discarded. Therefore, Xiong Jing summoned all the generals to discuss the issue of returning to Zhao.

"I think we should cross the river west of Henan, cross the Yin Mountains and reach the grassland, so that we can return to Zhao." Li Qi was still the general of the Zhao army, so we had already discussed how to return to Zhao. "It was October, and it was more than 2,500 miles away from Yanmen County. Our army should go quickly."

"There is already ice and snow north of Henan. Our army has less horses. It takes more than 2,000 miles to 50 days, and it cannot be done for more than 2,000 miles." Yitong. After saying that, he felt a pity. "After we entered Qin, we did not take the horses of the Qin people..."

Near the Yanshi Pass was the horse farm of Wushi, but he was very anxious to enter Qin and had no time to grab the horse. When he came back, the Wushi Pass had already moved, and no one knew where he drove the cattle and horses. The land of Wei was also the Qin State horse farm, but the retreat was very urgent and he did not grab the horse. If these two horse farms snatched any of them, the cavalry was not currently in a state where there was no horse available.

"How about going here for winter next spring?" Xiong Jing looked at the generals sitting.

When the generals heard this, Li Qi said, "King, the Qin people are attacking Zhao State. We are looking forward to returning home. I hope the king will understand clearly."

"Narrow of Yinshan Mountain, the temperature will be minus twenty degrees below zero in one month. General Li wants to freeze how many people can return to Zhao?" Xiong Jing asked. Even the Chu army had to tow artillery and ammunition trucks and transport wounded people, but there were not enough horses. Go out of Yinshan to the grassland, and then from the grassland to Yanmen County. In this way, you can certainly avoid the Qin army in Jiuyuan County and Yunzhong County, but you can't escape the wind and snow outside the frontier.

How many degrees below zero is Zhao General confused? After Wu Jieheng explained, Li Bo said: "The king's intention is that we need to live here for several months?"

"This place cannot be kept for a long time. After the Qin army captured Jiuyuan County, it will go south." Yidao.

"What if?" Li Bo was puzzled. Since he wanted to spend the winter here, he could not stay here for a long time.

"We should find a place to spend the winter," Xiong Jing said. His eyes looked at somewhere on the map, but it was hundreds of miles away.

"Where will the king go to spend the winter?" Li Qi asked.

"Hundreds of miles away." Xiong Jing did not say it clearly. "Our army should plunder the Qin people again to get more food and fodder, otherwise..." Xiong Jing looked at Yi Tong, "How much food and grass are there in our army?"

"Reported to the king, it is not that our army still has food and grass, but that this place cannot be kept for a long time. The food and fodder in this place cannot be taken away all the food and fodder." Yidao. "Except artillery, all horses carry food and fodder, and each person only has two stones of grain, and can only eat for one month..."

"Each person can carry two stones and the robberies he stole." Hearing that there was only one month's foe, Gui Jing was also anxious.

"Everyone can indeed carry two stones of grain, but what about the curtain, military weapons, and armor?" Yi Tong was interrupted by Gui Jing before he finished speaking. "And the women robbed by General Li's soldiers, how can they bear two stones of grain?"

In the world, there are few rapes, but it is common for women to be born. This is a spoil. The poor can be wives and the rich can be concubines. When they broke the dynasty and siege the city, the soldiers of the Zhao army not only robbed treasures and money, but also robbed many women.

"This is the last general's crime." Li Qi was ashamed. He had no choice but to do anything about this. It was the spoils of the soldiers.

"How much food can a cart carry?" Xiong Jing didn't want to worry about robbing a woman, he only cared about the ability of the army to carry.

"Most of the carriages, two-shaft chariots have been broken from Yan's block, and only two or three hundred can be used. Even if they can carry food and fodder, each person will only be one stone." Yidao. "Our army lacks horses, and there is no horse. It can only be three or forty miles a day. If one person can have two horses, it can be six or seventy miles a day. Each horse can carry five or six stones a day."

"How many horses are there in the car?" Xiong Jing asked again, thinking about where to get a horse in his mind.

"Most carriages are chariots, and only more than 300 horses are slaughtered." Yi Tong said about the current situation. He had to let Xiong Jing understand one thing, that is, in addition to the way out of retreat and insufficient food and fodder, the army's mobility is also insufficient.

There are some other words that he was not easy to say in front of Zhao people and arranged for everyone to find horses everywhere, and then he said: "King, the Zhao army is not trustworthy. Our army has 709 horses, plus 300 horses, which is already a thousand. A thousand horses are enough for our army to go out of the frontier and return to Zhao."

"No." Xiong Jing disagreed with his own strategy, "If our army is like this, the people of Zhao will complain."

"Zhao General Li Qi is eager to return to Zhao, so that he can go first." Yi Tong said again. After he said that, he saw Xiong Jing not answering, and immediately guessed Xiong Jing's intention, "Will the king want to enter Xianyang again? Do you want to welcome the young lady Mi?"

Xiong Jing was not thinking about this matter in his heart. Yi Tong asked him and asked him. After hearing the news of Qin, he quickly chased him to save Yi Hou, Xiong Han and others. His decision was not wrong. Two hundred and thirty-two people survived the Chu army and more than 150 people died in battle. If he didn't come, including Xiong Han, these two hundred and thirty-two people would die in that valley.

Mi Xuan is still in Xianyang, and he is not in Ying, but outside the Qin Great Wall. He is only a thousand miles away from her and is only four or five days away from her. However, the King of Qin is dead. He has not thought of entering Qin again, but he is unwilling to leave here.

"In a few days, I know that there will be spies from the army going out of the frontier." Xiong Jing replied.

"The king is waiting for the spy?" Yi Tong asked, "If the spy from Hou Yan can enter Qin again to welcome the young master Mi, what is the king?"

"Unsy..." It's really a difficult question to answer. Xiong Jingzhang said several times: "If you are trustworthy, you should enter Qin."

"If this is another Qin plan, what can I do?" Yi Tong pressed step by step. After this, he did not want Xiong Jing to be in danger again: "The king is the king of our Chu State. You must not be in danger for a woman. If you want to enter Qin again, you should send your ministers and others into Qin."

Yi Tong's words made Xiong Jing feel uncomfortable. He felt that Mi Xuan was his private matter and his ministers should not have sacrificed for him. A few days later, the news brought by Hou Ji increased his mentality.

"The King of Qin is not dead?" Xiong Qi's servant Yongli was stunned.

"I'm not dead." Yongli was exhausted, and Yan's pass could no longer leave the pass. He ventured out of the frontier from Fangqu.

"Why don't you die?" Cheng Kui's archery technique Xiong Jing completely believed that he said that if he hit the shot, he would be impossible to miss it, and it would be even more impossible to lie.

"I don't know." Yongli shook his head. "The lord asked me to tell the king that the queen mother has passed away."

"The Queen Mother Zu has passed away?" Xiong Jing was surprised again, and he asked anxiously: "How about Mi Xuan?"

"After the death of the Empress Dowager, the daughter of the Queen Mother, cried every day. The Empress Dowager Zhao Ji was already the leader of the harem and had already decided on her wedding day." Yong Li said.

"When?" Xiong Jing asked unconsciously, not realizing that his fists were already clenched.
Chapter completed!