Overnight, the Qin State became in danger; overnight, Xianyang became the front line of war. Dozens of cavalry ran out of Xianyang overnight, and tens of thousands of city officials transported the corn from the warehouse outside the city into the city. The Shaofu urgently opened the seal of the inspection point for the military armor in the warehouse. The clerks went from house to house to inform Fu Ji that the Qianshou would be expropriated tomorrow...

This happened overnight. When I looked at Chao early in the morning, Zhao Zhengyi, who could not hide his tiredness on his face, said that the Chu army had arrived in Shangyi and was approaching Shangluo, four hundred miles away. The huge Zhengyue seemed to have instantly pumped away all the air, becoming a vacuum that could not transmit sound waves.

The ministers changed their qualities. They knew what the concept of four hundred miles was. Four hundred miles lasted for only four days, but the Chu army's rudeness might last for only three days. Three days, three days, the Chu army came to Xianyang. This was not the surprise attack like last time, but the attack of tens of thousands or more than tens of thousands of troops.

"I ask the king to order Li Xin to save Xianyang quickly." Everyone was still gasping for air. The first thing they realized was Feng Quji. He was more familiar with military affairs than others, and knew that those old and weak in Guanzhong could not defend Lantian. "Please ask the king to avoid Yongcheng again."

"I am discussing. I am discussing..." The Manchu court's comments were discussed. "The people of Jing have thunderous weapons, so the king must not leave them in Xianyang."

After the discussion, the ministers once again proposed the plan to temporarily avoid Yongcheng. Li Xin was far away in Sanchuan County, and only by temporarily avoiding Yongcheng could he wait until Li Xin led his army back to Guanzhong.

"The Jing people attacked Ba Nanjun, but the National Escort did not know; the Jing people attacked Ba Wuguan, but the National Escort did not know. I asked the king to send Li Xin back to Guanzhong, and I also asked the king to avoid Yongcheng for a while, and I also asked the king to change all the national Escorts to punish him." Li Si suddenly started a troubled attack, pointing directly to Wei Liao.

His words aroused a lot of approval among the ministers, and everyone was about to discuss it. Zhao Zheng said with a frown: "I am appointed Wei Qing as the National Guard. With your wishes, I am also guilty?"

"I haven't said it." Li Si was shocked. He now tied the same rope with Xiong Qi. Based on the civil servants' inherent hatred for military officers, he thought he could defeat Wei Liao. "I only said that the National Guard had dereliction of duty. If not, why did the Jing people pull out Nanjun and Nanyang within one month, and why did they quickly break Wu Pass and advance to Xianyang?"

"What the Tingwei said is very true, I am indeed guilty." As soon as Li Si finished speaking, Wei Liao took the lead and confessed his guilt. "I am incompetent and could not get the news from Jing State, so that the people of Jing will be dismissed two counties within one month. I am dereliction of duty and do not know that the people of Jing can come back to Danshui, causing him to bypass Wuguan and enter Xianyang. I am guilty, please ask the king to punish him!"

"Why is Wei Qing this? This is not a crime of war! How can there be an example of breaking a city in one day and breaking more than ten cities in a month?" Zhao Zheng was making excuse for Wei Liao, and even lamenting the speed of the Chu army breaking the city. If the Qin army had half of the speed of the Chu army, the Zhao State would have been destroyed long ago.

His compassionate words made Wei Liao burst into tears, while his questioning words shocked the ministers. If a city is broken in one day, what about Xianyang? If Xianyang is also pulled out within one day, it would not mean that he would face the great blade of the Chu people at most for three days. Every time the Chu army occupied a land, he would kill officials and suppress all the traitors. As a Qin minister, is he also killed?

"I want to lead the army to fight with King Jing in Lantian..." As he was silent, Zhao Zheng's voice echoed in the court.

"You must not!" Feng Quji bowed anxiously, "Why are the old and weak in Guanzhong the enemy of the Jing people?"

"My king must not!" Following him, the entire ministers in the court knelt on the ground and bowed. Once Zhao Zheng defeated Lantian, Xianyang would be over. If Xianyang was deposed, Qin might be destroyed.

Zhao Zheng was unmoved and said, "For more than 80 years, the people of Jing also attacked Lantian. Could the ancestor Zhaoxiang King avoid Yongcheng? How could I avoid Lantian and set up Taimiao? Taishe ignored it? I have decided, so don't persuade me again."

As soon as Zhao Zheng carried King Zhaoxiang of Qin, as soon as he was carried out of Taimiao, Taishe, the ministers did not dare to persuade him even if they wanted to persuade him. Zhao Zheng was very satisfied with the silence of the ministers, and he announced: "The Jing people have a strange plan to stop Jing people from Lantian this time, and they will be rewarded with great rewards."

Last night, Zhao Zheng and Wei Liao discussed until dawn, and every time they thought of a plan, they would write down one plan. Zhao Zheng was rewarded with great rewards for seeking plans, saying that it was a rush to seek medical treatment or a wide range of opinions. No matter what, the Qin army would have to defend Lantian to wait for reinforcements.

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When Zhao Zheng announced his heavy reward, 600,000 Qin troops were passing through the Guest in southeast Shandong. This ancient road was opened in the summer and has been preserved for thousands of years. On the summer day, the Qin troops only marched in the early morning and in the morning, and they had to camp and rest after noon. In this way, they could only walk four or five hours a day, fifteen miles each, only six or seventy miles a day.

As the temperature gradually rises, even if you walk for four hours in the morning, more and more soldiers will faint from heatstroke. After crossing the river, the army can only walk for four hours a day. If it is a mountain road, it will only be ten miles per hour, and it can barely walk for forty miles per hour.

There are queues for marching. Normally, the army will march in different rows. However, the valley road of the sacre valley is rugged, and the narrowest part is less than twenty steps wide. The column can only become one column. Walking forty miles a day, even if the sacre is fifteen people, it will take three days to pass the sacre. Therefore, from the second day, Li Xin ordered the sacre to become twenty people in order to pass the sacre as soon as possible.

Twenty people were basically blocked by the trunk, allowing only one rider to pass. At noon, the king of Xianyang was finally sent to Li Xin, and the generals were shocked.

"What should I do?" Xin Sheng was most anxious. He was a cavalry general, and the cavalry could reach for 400 miles in two days.

"I thought our army should return to Guanzhong quickly, otherwise Xianyang would be lost!" Meng Tian's face was dark and had too many beards. After several battle formations, he had already lost his youth and became more and more like a general.

"If Xiang Yan leads the army, the Jing people can arrive in three days." Feng Jie was surprised that the Chu army suddenly appeared behind Wu Guan. He asked: "Who is stationed in Wu Guan? Why not block the Danshui to eliminate the Jing people's boat army?"

The power of the Chu army's boat division has long been experienced by the Qin army. The terror of the boat division is not because it has a collision angle, but because it can travel hundreds of miles a day. The Chu army's ability to invade Nanjun so quickly and induce the Qin army to gather in Gongyi was all due to this mobility. Feng Jie resented the Wuguan Guardian General not knowing the power of the Chu army's warships.

"What's the point of saying this at this time?" Li Xin glanced at him. "The king has his life: Meng Tian leads his army 200,000 and quickly arrives at Lantian to rescue him."

"My dear..." Meng Tian didn't expect the king to lead his army to rescue him. He was shocked and shouted: "Reward the order!"

"This is..." Of the 600,000 troops, 200,000, the remaining 400,000. However, how many thousand Chu troops attacked Guanzhong and how many tens of thousands of troops defended Nanyang are still unknown. If more than 200,000 Chu troops all entered Guanzhong, the 200,000 people who rely on Meng Tian might not be able to stop them.

Seeing the concerns of the generals, Li Xin said, "The king has made up his mind. General Meng can lead his army back to help. Our army's mission is to recover Nanyang Nanjun and to prevent the people of Jing from outside the Qin territory."

The king's fate is the king's fate. As long as the king's fate leads 200,000 people to help, it will be just Meng Tian leading 200,000 people to help. The generals stopped talking after hearing this.

"After the Jing people entered Guanzhong, they should send the soldiers from Guanzhong to rescue him." Yang Duanhe, who was not aware of his nephew Yang Xiong's crime, said with remarks. The 600,000 army gathered the soldiers of the entire Qin State, with the largest number of old Guizhou heads in Guanzhong. It is better to rescue Guanzhong, the soldiers from Guanzhong should be given the soldiers from Guanzhong.

"Yes. Since you have saved Guanzhong, you should use the soldiers from Guanzhong." The generals nodded repeatedly.

"No." Zhao Zi, a guardian, said, "most of the soldiers in Guanzhong have passed the barrier. If they return, it will take one more day."

Time was urgent, so the Qin army could only go west to rescue Guanzhong by soldiers who had not yet left the pass, and continue to go east and south to Nanyang. Most of the soldiers in Guanzhong had already left the pass, and they had to go to Guanzhong, but they had to pass the pass again. Due to the ruggedness and difficulty of the pass, it would take a day to delay. Rescue soldiers like putting out fires, and one day was enough to affect the situation of the battle.

"It's a mistake for the guardian," Wang Aobian said. "The way of the huhan is more than thirty miles long and only one cart is enough. It takes at least two days for a 200,000 army to pass the huhan. Since this is the case, you can first launch a hundred thousand soldiers west of the huhan, and tomorrow they will launch a soldier east of the huhan."

The valley road of the Guhan Valley is narrow and its ability to pass instantly is limited. Thinking of the narrow valley road of the Guhan, Zhao Zi was stunned and said again: "I can't take a boat to go up the river."

"Are there 200,000 soldiers?" Wang Ao asked back.

"No." Zhao Zi didn't need to answer. The counselor of the shogunate, Zhisu Duwei, had already helped him answer. The Qin army either advanced west from the Kohangu Road south of the Yellow River, crossed the river from Maojin, returned to Anyi, and then went southwest from Anyi, crossed the river from Puban.

The rescue site is not Xianyang, but Lantian, 150 miles east of Xianyang. Walking on the Luhan Valley Road is not only shorter than walking on the Pusan ​​Road, but also no longer has to cross Weinan from Weibei to the south. According to Wang Ao's calculations, even if the Luhan Valley Road is delayed for two days, the distance of 600 miles will be at most nine days. If you abandon all the baggage and loads, you can arrive in seven days. If you want to be faster, it will be very difficult. The Qin army is very tired after a long march. In addition, the weather is so hot that it is impossible to fight when you arrive in Lantian, a hundred miles a day is the limit.

On the seventh day, although Xianyang did not tell the Chu army about the situation and did not explain how the Chu army broke through Wu Pass, everyone knew that the Chu army was the Zhou army, and the Zhou army was the Chu army. The Chu army could go against Danshui to Shangluo, and then pass through Lantian and go to Xianyang from Shangluo to Xianyang. In this way, it took up to three days to Lantian and five days to Xianyang.

After the generals retreated, the shogunate was silent. Li Xin and Wang Ao did not speak, but when they looked at each other, both of them could understand each other's gaze: Meng Tian's help was simply unavailable.

Wang Ao bowed lightly to the queen and said goodbye to Li Xin. Wang Zhi, who came from Xianyang last night, not only asked Meng Tian to lead a 200,000 army to help Guanzhong, but also asked him, the military advisor, to go to Qi State.

Although it is a battle between Qin and Chu, the encirclement between Qi and Wei cannot be ignored. Especially for Qi, once the monarch and ministers of Qi judge that Qin will be destroyed and all the troops from all over the country will be sent to attack Qin, the consequences will be unimaginable. On the contrary, if Qi can be persuaded to be neutral and not send troops to attack Qin or even attack Chu, it will be like the Battle of Lantian that once occurred, and the Chu army hurriedly retreated.
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