"How can a thundering weapon be like a wife?" Before Xiong Jing could speak, the impatient general Peng Qiu sneered at the request of the envoy. With gunpowder and artillery, the Chu army blocked the city of bombing the city, and the enemy blocked the enemy. Fighting was as simple as walking. Such a treasure could be given by giving some silk or beauty.

"King, the thundering weapon is the profit of Chu, and it cannot be borrowed." Dong Yegu, the general of Lu's army and one of the Ao, also quickly said. Qi and Lu had been entangled for hundreds of years, and the artillery was lent to Qi, and Lu was in danger.

"I dare to ask the Qi envoy, but now the Qin people are all coming to me. The East County is empty, and there is no thunderous weapon. If the Qi people don't know how to attack the city?" The generals of the Pei army were even more disdainful. They were all led by the division north of the Song territory. Like the Southern Army, the Northern Army was also divided into two groups. The Sui, Xi, Qi, Cai and other divisions that had previously attacked Nanyang were now on the front line.

"King, I think the Qi army has weapons to break the city, but it is not impossible to break the city." Chen Zhi's Chen Zhi's words were not as ugly as others, and he spoke very tactfully. "Besides, Qi's army is good at fighting, and it is easy to break the city."

"Cough cough..." The generals below opposed it, and Xiong Jing was relieved for a while before he was able to cough. He looked at the general of the Northern Army, Dou Zhi, "Chu Qi is a country of marriage, Dou Qing thought... what should I do?"

"King, the Qi people sent troops several times, but they did not fight with the Qin people. I don't know..." Dou Yuzhi replaced Cheng Jie, who was not dead and Cheng Jie was the commander of the Northern Army. Compared with the gentle Lu Army, the Song Di Army, which had weak combat power, the Rushui divisions were the strongest in the upper reaches of the Huai River.

"Tell the king that if there are thunderous weapons, Qi army will surely pull out the East County." Tian He said loudly. "Although I have weapons to break the city, it will take several months to break the city. If I cannot pull out the East County quickly, how can I restrain the Qin people and help the Chu army?"

"I would like to remind the king that if there is a thunder weapon in my town, you can attack Chenggao Rongyang to control the Qin army." Wei Jianyou said. If the East County is just a disease of scabies from the Qin people, then Rongyang and Chenggao are the troubles of the Qin people. Regardless of whether you can attack or whether you can defend it, the king and minister of Wei State think that you can get the thunder weapon first.

"Then why don't you save Zhao?" Xiong Jing asked. "Then the unscrupulous attack on Qin, but to save Zhao."

"The king, my town attacked Dongjun to save Zhao." Tian Hedao. "The east county should be pulled out and crossed the river to save Handan."

"The king wanted to send my town to save Zhao, so my town sent troops to rescue Zhao." What Wei Jianyou said just now was actually for the sake of Chu. Rescuing Zhao could not help Chu restrain the Qin army and attack Rongyang, Chenggao could.

"Please envoy the young marquis." Dou Yuzhi looked at Xiong Jing, and looked at Li Qi who had arrived in Wancheng the day before yesterday. The few of them had thoughts in their minds.

He said this, Xiong Jing agreed and asked someone to ask Tian He. Wei Jianyou to rest. After the two left, the generals in the tent also retreated. Dou Yuzhi said, "If Qi and Wei can save Zhao, this is a great good."

"Save Zhao at this time..." Li Qi knew the meaning of fighting Yu Zhi, but when he thought of the current situation in Zhao State, he did not have any hope. "Wang Jian defeated Zhao, and his army went straight to the heart of Zhao State. Today, Zhao State, Yan, to the south of the country, only a few cities in Handan existed alone. What's the benefit of saving it? We should send the two armies to Nanyang west to help me."

"It's best to help me, but now all boats and oars are in the old Ying. It takes two or thirty days to reach the land, and there is no food and fodder transportation." Xiong Jing said. The Grand Sima Mansion did not include the Qi and Wei armies in the plan at the beginning. "At most, 100,000 Wei troops will help me."

"If Handan does not go down, Zhao's territory will be unstable. If our army attacks Xianyang, Zhao's territory will be restored soon. The countries fought fiercely, but Qi has been watching it until now, and its national strength is still incomplete. If it annexes the land of Hedong in the future, it will be a great enemy." Dongye Gu said. He was looking at it.

"Dongyeqing is worried that Qi is too strong, but not honest, but worried that Qi's army is not strong." Xiong Jing is not a Lu person, and is not affected by the grudges between Qi and Lu. "The attacker of Handan is Wang Jian. This person is good at fighting and should not be underestimated. If he saves Zhao, the Qin people will get my artillery..."

"If the Wei army assisted me, Qi army would be 200,000, Xiang Bo's fourth division had 30,000." Zhuang Wudi said. "Wang Jian's army attacked Handan was only 200,000, and the rest were all in Hejian. The artillery can be handed over to the Xiang army first and then to the Qi people, so that's not a loss."

Zhuang Wudi can only be regarded as Xiong Jing's aide, and his words made Xiong Jing think. However, it was indeed a waste that the Qi and Wei army were piled up in Daliang, or just attacked Dongjun and Rongyang.

"What do you think?" Xiong Jing looked at Li Qi, his opinion was very important.

"If the army of Qi and Wei cannot help me, it would be better to save Zhao. If Zhao State does not perish, it can be controlled by Qi." Li Qi also began to consider the post-war period. "However, I have something to ask the king: If the artillery returned to Xiang Bo to save Zhao, will it be better to attack Qin? If Zhao is saved, will our army be sufficient for gunpowder?"

The old gunner brought a bunch of young gunners who were only twelve years old, which was the current situation of the Chu army's artillery. He even transferred the gunners on the sea boat, and then he barely gathered two artillery regiments and one siege artillery battalion. He transferred to save Zhao, how many cannons should be transferred to save Zhao? This is a problem.

Another problem is gunpowder. The ratio of ammunition and medicine was only 3:1, but because the gunpowder is insufficient, it became 3:4. Taking the fifteen-jin cannon as an example, fifteen-jin cannons require 5,221 grams of gunpowder. One hundred and forty-four cannons and two hundred rounds of calculations require 150 tons of gunpowder, which contains fifteen tons of sulfur.

This is not the main thing, the most important thing is to blow up the city wall. The city wall is more than 20 meters thick, and it takes twenty tons of gunpowder every time. Xiong Jing's practice of blowing up Jiangling City on three sides caused a complaint from the Operations and Military Preparation Department that when fighting like the king, the Chu army could only stop at Baiyu City. The explosion of ten cities was 200 tons. The extremely thick city walls like Wuguan and Xianyang were estimated to be nearly 100 tons. Before the war, the Chu army reserved more than 600 tons of gunpowder, but did not plan to save Zhao's dosage.

"Saving Zhao is a field battle, and one battalion of cannons is enough." Li Qi reminded him, Xiong Jing thought about it carefully before answering.

"How about gunpowder?" Li Qi asked again, and the Military Bureau Jingshu nodded repeatedly. Apart from the existing ones in the army, he still had more than 260 tons of gunpowder left in his hand, of which 200 tons were left for Wuguan and Xianyang. One of the reasons why the Chu army did not break the city was to save gunpowder.

"Since it's just a gun battalion, gunpowder is enough. And after the Red Ocean Storm Season, the sea boat can transport dozens of tons of sulfur." ​​The sulfur bear jing is no longer worried. The Seleucid merchants could only provide hundreds of kilograms of sulfur from the beginning, and later they could provide several tons, and now they have been supplying dozens of tons.

"It's not enough saltpeter." He felt a little regretful after saying that. The output of the nitrate field was very low. If more than 60 tons of sulfur were transported back from Wublai Port, there might not be more than 400 tons of saltpeter to match.

"What should I do?" Dou Yuzhi was not good enough and didn't know what was wrong.

"It's enough." Xiong Jing said. "Not being honest, this battle is enough."

"Our army breaks the city all depends on gunpowder." Dou Yuzhi told him. "If there is no gunpowder, countless people will die."

Without siege equipment, the march will naturally be fast; if you don’t use human lives to attack the city, the casualties will naturally be greatly reduced. Now that the morale of the Chu army has reached its peak, every division wants to go to the battlefield but cannot. When they heard that the Qin people were coming, they really hoped that the Qin people could run faster. Of course, this is just the idea of ​​ordinary soldiers. Dou Yuzhi knew that the Qin army that came was not only more people than the Chu army, but also all were elite. This battle was not easy to fight.

The discussion within the shogunate ended soon, and Tian He and Wei Jianyou summoned them to the shogunate to discuss. After paying the price of fourteen artillery more than the original plan - basically 10,000 soldiers were paid to the price of one artillery, and Qi and Wei were willing to help Chu save Zhao. As for the engineering troops who helped Qi attack the East County after saving Zhao, and helped Wei attack the areas south of the Yellow River, that was a later story.

"Father, father..." Xiang Chao hurriedly walked into the Mingtang in Daliang City. "The king came to save Zhao Youwang."

"Ah! What does it mean?" Xiang Yan was looking at the map of Nanyang County. The Qi army was unwilling to save Zhao, while the King of Wei believed that 130,000 people were not Wang Jian's opponents, so he was unwilling to send troops. Xiang Yan was bored and could only look at the map carefully and discuss the battle between Chu and Qin with the army Sima Peng Zong.

"The king has a message and said that the people of Qi are asking for artillery. After giving them twenty fifteen pound cannons, the people of Qi are willing to send troops to rescue Zhao." Xiang Chao pointed at Feixun, his face full of smiles.

"Good. Great Good!" Xiang Yan got old. He held Xunwen with both hands and stretched far away to see the small words on it. "However, when will the artillery be transported to our army? When will the Qi army start to rescue Zhao?"

After reading all the news, Xiang Yan looked at the command and artillery handed over these two things. The order was very clear. The artillery given to Qi was still operated by the Chu army gunners, and even if Zhao was rescued, the same would be true in the future. Before handing over to the two countries, the Chu and Qi coalition forces were still commanded by him.

"Wan County has the fastest waterway to this point, but the waterway is about two thousand miles, or ten days." Peng Zong also finished reading the news. "I thought that with the character of the Qi people, when our army attacks Lantian, we must send troops to rescue Zhao."

The Qi people have always been cunning. However, due to their ally, there is no Sima of the Chu army. The court officials would bluntly say that the Qi people are cunning. This is too harmful to the Qi people's feelings, but the Qi people in the eyes of the Chu people are like this.

Peng Zong's judgment was very reasonable. In the eyes of the Qi people, the Qin army was rushing to Nanyang. In order to stabilize the retreat, the Chu army must fight to the death with the Qin army that arrived. This battle is the same as the unsuccessful battle of Gongyi, and it is related to the fate of the world. Of course, the Qi people are willing to stand on the side of the winner. As long as the Chu army defeats the Qin army, they will still take advantage of the situation to attack Qin without artillery.

But what the people of Qi didn't know was that the State of Chu mobilized boats across the country, mobilized countless women, and students paddled to achieve strategic deception, and they fought a time difference. The Chu army would not fight the decisive battle with the Qin army in Nanyang, but would quickly go west and attack Wuguan. The reason why the Northern Route Army stagnated in Nanyang was because the Han River section had just been opened. Perhaps the Northern Route Army led by Chengtong and Ruoao alone had already stepped forward against the Dan River.
Chapter completed!