According to the map of later generations, the provinces occupied by the seven countries are mainly Shaanxi, Shanxi, Hebei, Shandong, Henan, Jiangsu, Anhui, Hubei Province, plus one fifth of Sichuan and half of Zhejiang, with a total area of ​​only 1.5 million square kilometers.

According to the farming level at that time, 30 to 40 million people accumulated in such a narrow area, and their territorial power had reached its limit. In the late Spring and Autumn Period, the nobles of the princes and grandsons had no cities and towns to divide the feudal states. During the Warring States Period, if the nations did not attack and annex each other and did not rob others of the city and land, then the population was thieves would be rampant and the whole country would be in chaos. War was a helpless choice and the only relief.

It is still too late for the sea and boats to connect the world. The countries are already deeply trapped in war inertia and cannot extricate themselves. The common people, even the Chu people who have no livelihood pressure, have to fight to the death with the Qin people because of hatred.

Since the afternoon of the afternoon, the common people gathered in the court in front of the palace. At night, the fire was burning, and men, women, young and old did not sleep all night. As the queen mother, Zhao Concubine Zhao did not know that "save Zhao" was just a plan to lure the enemy by the Grand Sima Mansion. She thought that the Chu army was really going to save Zhao. She announced that the whole city was full of jerk. The common people in the parade were very happy and ate the wine and food until dawn.

The State of Chu issued a king's order to announce the national mobilization. Qi, which had been colluding with the Grand Sima Mansion, also issued a king's order on the afternoon of the same day. The country was mobilized, but at least half of the Qi army had to be piled up on the Jixi defense line and the Yellow River defense line. The Qi army could only fight, and it might even be less than 200,000. Chu and Qi were almost equal, and Wei was equal to the vassal state of Chu. Wei Zeng, King of Wei, naturally did not know the collusion between Chu and Qi (Chu promised that the Qi army would be no more than north of the river). He hesitated until midnight, and only agreed to the suggestion of the prime minister Cai Wen the next morning and ordered the Wei State to mobilize.

At this point, all the Chu, Qi and Wei countries were mobilized, with 220,000 Chu troops, 400,000 Qi troops, and 200,000 Wei troops, and the total total strength reached 820,000. This number is of course a theoretical number. Except for the Chu troops who can fight all 220,000, the Qi army can fight at most. Shangcai County of Wei and Song County of the Great Song County of the State of Wei can only send 100,000 troops because of the border with Qin. The number of people who really fought in the Three Kingdoms coalition forces was about 500,000.

At this time, China did not experience the imperial era, did not have the habit of embarrassing the wrongs, did not understand, and did not bother to sing one or two hundred thousand people into an army of 800,000, or a million troops. When the Three Kingdoms mobilized the Wang Ling to Handan, the number of the coalition forces was 500,000.

When Handan heard the news, the whole city was ecstatic. The Empress Dowager Linghui regretted that she had misunderstood the King of Chu - she had heard that the King of Chu would not allow Zhao to replace Li Mu. Since Li Mu could not replace him, once the Qin army stopped attacking Zhao, Li Mu and other generals would depose Zhao Qian in time and make Zhao Jia the king. After considering her, her only choice was to replace Li Mu and negotiate peace with Qin at the same time. Unexpectedly, Li Mu would replace him. Zhao sent people to discuss peace with Qin, and Chu still saved Zhao.

Linghui felt regretful. What she didn't know was that if Li Mu was not replaced, the Chu army would attack Qin in a large amount in another month. The war faction in the army who breathed after the Qin army returned to the aid would inevitably depose Zhao Qian and make Zhao Jia the king. The reason why she failed was not because of the failure of the decision, but because the Zhao army, which had been struggling for three years and had a severe drought for a year, was too weak to complete the decision. Even so, she avoided death with Zhao Qian a month later.

The ecstatic Handan and the excited Zhao people were incomparable to Xianyang. The day after the Chu mobilization order was issued, Xianyang received the news. On the third day, the news of the mobilization between Qi and Wei also reached Xianyang.

The specific enemy numbers drawn by the strategists of the State Weifu were 550,000 to 600,000, including: 250,000 Chu troops (the 32 divisions of Chu State had a total of more than 214,000 people, Ouyue, Minyue, Nanhai, Luoyue, and Xiou each had one dissatisfied division, plus the soldiers of the other tribes, the number was about 250,000); because Qi State wanted to station Jixi, the number of troops was about 200,000;

The Wei State has the least population, but seven years have passed since the last war. Many children under the age of seventeen have already been Fu Ji. If the King of Wei is treacherous, they can send 150,000 troops. If the King of Wei is conservative, they can also send 100,000 troops. At this time, the reconstruction of the Daliang has ended, and the height of the city wall is more than six meters, two or three thousand people can hold on for several months.

"Report to the National Guard, at least forty-five days, the army of the Three Kingdoms rescued Zhao will cross the river and reach Gongyi." Didao was 1,300 miles away, and Zhao Zheng's king only traveled 30 to 40 miles a day, and he was unable to return to the country for not a month. Now all the military is under the responsibility of Wei Liao.

"Forty-five days?" Wei Liao was a little surprised at this number, which was different from what he had known before. "The farthest Jing people were Nanyue and Luoyue. It took at least six months to reach Daliang."

"Report to the State Eighth, Jing State's sea boats only lasted twenty days from Nanyue to Yingdu, and from Yingdu to Daliang only lasted ten days." The report was Zhang Cang, a disciple of Xunqiu. After Xunqiu left Chu, he stayed in Chu for a long time. Chu State introduced the planner to the Grand Sima Mansion, and Qin State did this very early. After cleaning up a group of old people, Zhang Cang entered the State Eighth Mansion because of Li Si.

"Sea Boat?" Wei Liao had to admit that Zhang Cang was right. The Chu State's sea boat could travel to and from Xizhou in one year, and the Baiyue soldiers had to go through the sea faster than the land.

"How much grain has accumulated in the Three Kingdoms?" Wei Liao asked. "How much grain is transported by sea boats? Can Jing rely on the grain of Xizhou and fight?"

"The Chu State has only three years of grain in the Three Kingdoms, and Wei Qi has only more than one year." Zhang Cang knew some things about Chu State more than others in the Guowei Mansion. "In order to save Zhao, Jing State built large-scale boats and grain transported to Zhao State and stopped building sea boats. Now there are less than 100 sea boats, each of which transports 30,000 stones of grain, and even a hundred are only 3 million stones."

"The sea boat can transport 30,000 stones of grain at a time..." The sea boat had not yet completely entered the sight of the Guowei Mansion. Zhang Cang said that the shipping volume of the sea boat was 30,000 stones per boat. Wei Liao thought about it and asked, "How many stones can a large boat transport grain?"

"A large ship can transport more than 1,300 stones of grain." Zhang Cang was a little puzzled.

"In this way, a sea boat can reach more than twenty large ships. Which is easier, which is better, building more than twenty large ships or one sea boat?" Wei Liao's thoughts were very clear. He remembered another thing and said loudly: "No! No! The sea boat transports grain from Zhao, which can be transported several times a year. In this way, building a sea boat can reach hundreds of large ships."

Wei Liao's voice suddenly rose, and Zhang Cang was shocked by him. Wei Liao said again: "Since you can build a sea boat that can reach a hundred large boats, why didn't the Jing people build a sea boat but build a large boat?"

"This..." Wei Liao asked the extremely correct question. Although he knew the information that Chu State did not build sea boats but built large boats last year, he heard Zhang Cang's statement about the shipping volume of sea boats, and he realized that it was unreasonable. However, many times, even if the correct question was asked, he could not get the correct answer.

"Have the National Guard ever heard that King Jing demolished all palaces to build sea boats?" Zhang Cang stayed in Chu for a long time and had both advantages and disadvantages.

"Of course." Wei Liao nodded. "I have heard of it."

"The sea boat can be made very wood, and it takes a big seal to build a boat, and it will take several years to build it." Zhang Cang said. "The three kings of Qi, Wei and Zhao have demolished palaces to build sea boats. Previously, cypress, cypress, and cypress were not allowed to build boats. Only nanmu, yellow qi, elm, and the King of Later Jing allowed the wood that was demolished in the palaces of the Three Kingdoms to build sea boats.

When the boat was sailing in the sea, there were hurricanes. The boats in Jing Kingdom suffered several hurricanes, and whenever they encountered hurricanes, the boats were broken and destroyed, so they had to be careful. I thought that the Jing people did not build sea boats and built large boats because the sea boats were insufficient, and the big boats had more than enough wood."

"It's reasonable." Wei Liao heard the similarities and differences between the trees in the sea boat and the trees in the big boat for the first time, and immediately expressed his teachings to Zhang Cang. When Zhang Cang returned the gift, he asked, "How can you know about this?"

"Shame." Wei Liao's question made Zhang Cang a little embarrassed. "The Jing people do not believe in outsiders, but they believe in relatives, and the old people believe in them. Lantai is the highest academic residence of the Jing people. Cang has been in Lantai for many years and has learned a lot about everything."

"Oh..." Wei Liao seemed to have some understanding. Among the countries, Chu State's most difficult situation is that the person who went there could not stand firm in Chu State. Even if he could not stand firm, how could he spy on the information?

The war was imminent, and Wei Liao's understanding was only a moment. He had to consider how to fight 550,000 or even 600,000 of the Three Kingdoms as soon as possible. At this time, the Qin army had recruited 800,000 soldiers, 500,000 under Wang Jian's command, and 300,000 under Li Xin's command. Li Xin's 300,000 people retreated to the vicinity of Gongyi to guard against the Chu army's raid. Wang Jian's 500,000, except for 300,000, sweeping Zhao State and attacking Handan, only 200,000 people could go south to join the army with Li Xin's command.

Wei Liao had no chance of winning against 500,000 or even 600,000. If he lost this battle, he would not destroy Zhao, and I am afraid that all counties and counties east of Hangu Pass would be recovered by the Three Kingdoms, just like the Xinling Jun defeated Qin 18 years ago. If this situation really caused, the fate of Qin would end here.

Thinking of this, Wei Liao couldn't help but feel a little restless. The current trend of the world is actually Qin and Chu's struggle for power. Chu State becomes stronger and stronger. If Qin State cannot quickly take over Zhao State and join Qi State, quickly transform the number advantage into strategic advantages. With Chu State's ever-changing national power, it will be a matter of time before it can be defeated.

In the attack on Zhao, he was defeated. In the dead of night, Wei Liao was as worried as Zhao Zheng, because there was not much time left for Qin. If Zhao still could not be destroyed in these three years, both the monarch and ministers knew that the situation was hopeless. Fortunately, Jing Ke's assassination reversed the entire trend.

"Hu..." Wei Liao took a deep breath. He felt that victory was right in front of him. As long as the Qin army defeated the Hezong army, he felt that failure was right in front of him. If the Qin army suffered a great defeat, no matter what, the decisive battle at this time was beneficial to the Qin State. In terms of number of Qin troops than the Hezong army, the Qin army was better than the Wei army and Qi army, but it was not as good as the Chu army.
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