"Oh..." A sigh echoed in the Mingtang of the Grand Sima Mansion, and the newspaper was gently thrown on the low case painted in red lacquer. This short case is different from other short cases. It has copper horned hoofs and feet. The table is painted with clouds, thunder, birds and beasts, but vortexes the size of feathers. There are as many as thirty-six vortexes, which are arranged neatly like military formations.

The vortex is deep, just like the current situation of the battle. Even though the strategists of the Operations Department racked their brains to accurately judge the direction of the war, everything still jumped out of control in the end - it was not that they did not calculate what the Qin people did, but that they did not calculate what the army was like.

"Our army advances north, and the Qin people should abandon Xianyang!" The news came just in the morning, and the Chu army had just crossed the Changshui River.

"If the Qin people do not save Xianyang and cut off my way back, it will be dangerous." Naojiu was worried about this. "Why did the king insist on advancing north? If we use the case of B, our army should attack Li Xin in Fangcheng..."

"Li Xin is not good at it." Li Qi shook his head, "I know the truth about the fact that Li Xin's army is getting slower and slower, and now he only travels thirty miles a day. If the case of B fails, it is better to pull out Xianyang and shock the Qin people."

There must be a plan for combat, but unfortunately, no matter how careful the plan is, the enemy will not follow the direction specified in the plan. The plan will always change, because of the enemy, because of us, according to the heaven and earth, and change from time to time. In Li Qi's opinion, going north to Xianyang is the best choice.

"What's the use of shock?" Naojiu shook his head repeatedly, "The rescue of Zhao State is beyond help. After Zhao State was destroyed, our Chu State was the first to be hit. Just shock, the Qin people will no longer attack me?"

"Ju Tie Mansion has built 200 artillery pieces. The Qin people called artillery a witch weapon, and they were very afraid of it." Li Qiong said. "Next year, artillery soldiers can be established. If the Qin people attack me next year, they can be rejected. Later, the army was completed in Ying, Hanzhong, and Nanyang. At that time, our army would have more than fifty troops, and the Qin people could not defeat me."

"It's not easy to talk about!" Naoji was not as optimistic as Li. The Chu army did occupy the old Ying, Nanyang, Shangyu, and Hanzhong (it has not been occupied all yet). However, except for the old Ying, only the war ended, the two counties of Nanyang, Hanzhong, and Shangyu belonged to the state of Chu.

The war was easy to initiate, but it was difficult to end. If the war continued, these counties not only could not provide qualified soldiers, but instead needed existing Chu soldiers to garrison. It had been a month since the war started. According to the documents sent back by Zhaoshu from the old Ying, the situation in the old Ying was not optimistic. Most of the old Chu people only knew that there was Qin but not Chu. For fifty years, they had become accustomed to the Qin people's "law" system and was not used to the Ao system of Chu.

In the old Chu area, the situation in Nanyang, Hanzhong, Shangyu and other places was even worse. Although people kept seeking the Chu army in the village, these people were not mainstream. More people were still waiting and waiting for the final result of the battle between Qin and Chu. The victory of Chu will of course belong to Chu. When Qin will win, it will belong to Qin again.

Before this battle, the Chu army had to station Daliang and Xiayi, and at most Shangcai. Now, the troops in the east should not only station Dongdi, but also Shangyu, Nanyang, Hanzhong, and Yiling. Since the battle of Qingshui, the Chu State has never been so fragile. Thinking of this, Naoji also felt that the king should lead his army to advance north. Perhaps as Li Qi said, the pulling out Xianyang might shock the Qin people.

In the Great Sima Mansion of Yingdu, Naojiu gradually had hope for Xiong Jing's advance north, hoping that this would defeat the Qin people's will to war and shock the Qin people so that the war would end as soon as possible. After running with similar hope to him, Xiong Jing ran for more than a hundred miles, he saw a fire lit outside Xianyang City.

"Report to the king, the Qin people set fire to the fire!" The cavalry ran in Weinan, and Xianyang City did not dare to send scouts at all. The Qin State's confidant land is now allowed to gallop by the Chu State cavalry.

"Burn millet?" Everyone, including Xiong Jing, was shocked. It is said that Ao Cang has a lot of millet, but Ao Cang is still a lot worse than Xianyang Cang. The millet of Ao Cang is calculated at tens of millions of stones, while Xianyang Cang is calculated at tens of millions of stones. The two are not the same order of magnitude at all. It took Chu five years to accumulate more than 130 million stones of millet, which is not as good as Xianyang Cang's accumulation in one year.

"That's right." The detective cavalry bowed. "There are people setting fires outside the warehouses in Xianyang City, and our army only dispersed one."

"King, the accumulation of millet in Xianyang is enough for our army to eat for a hundred years." Although Zhuang Wudi was surprised that the Qin people set fire to the fire, they were just surprised. "If the Qin people did not burn millet, our army should also burn millet."

"What else?" Xiong Jing nodded. The Chu army was short of food, but after defeating the Qin army the day before yesterday, he robbed a batch of corn. Even if the Xianyang warehouse was in great fire, it would not be burned in one day or two. At that time, just a few warehouses of hundreds of thousands of stones were wiped out, which would be enough for the Chu army to eat for a month.

"No." The detective cavalry was about to retreat. He suddenly remembered what he saw when he passed by the Wei River and said, "When I returned to the camp, we saw that our military soldiers were about to build a bridge."

The engineer did not assume a floating bridge on the Ba River, and now he finally built a bridge on the Wei River. But should he cross the bridge immediately after the bridge was built? This is a question. After the reconnaissance cavalry retreated, the engineer came to report, and Xiong Jing looked at the generals of the shogunate: "How many miles away from me in the Qin army?"

The Qin army's distance from Geometry has been reported by the previous reconnaissance cavalry, and Xiong Jing asked again but wanted to confirm. Nao Xin replied: "It was reported that the Qin army was ninety miles away from me and had already set up camp."

Lantian is 150 miles away from Xianyang, and about 120 miles to Zhidao. In other words, the Qin army only walked thirty miles a day today. Perhaps some soldiers were less than thirty miles. For example, the army of Meng Tian on Bailu Plain was more than ten miles north of Lantian City, and today it was at most twenty miles. Walking so slowly, it is naturally impossible to have a long march path, which means that the Chu army has no choice but to take advantage of it.

"The Qin people abandoned Xianyang." Ele shouted, his words were very unpleasant.

"Then our army will pull out Xianyang!" Pan Wuming glared at him and shouted.

"Nonsense!" Xiong Jing scolded Pan Wuming, and then he looked at Zhuang Wudi, Dou Chang and others, "What about our army when the Qin people abandoned Xianyang?"

The Qin army did not catch up with him, so the next step would naturally cross the Wei River north and capture Xianyang. The king asked this, obviously he wanted another choice. Dou Chang shook his head for a while, and he couldn't think of any other choice. Zhuang Wudi's face also smiled bitterly, and he finally said, "King, our army can only cross the Wei River north and pull out Xianyang at this time."

"There is no other plan?" Xiong Jing knew it was the result, but he did not give up.

"There is no other plan." Zhuang Wudi said. "And our army needs to speed up the attack on Xianyang. I think the Qin army has sent troops to attack Shangluo to cut off my way back."

The Chu army had more than 120,000 people, more than 7,000 four-wheeled carriages, and four horses. In addition to war horses, the entire army had 30,000 horses. It was equivalent to having one horse for every four people. It would be better to go there in one day. The Qin army could not reach this marching speed, but the 300,000 old and weak soldiers could not reach it. This was the weakness of the Qin army.

If the Chu army's way back is cut off and the effort is waiting for work in Bailuyuan, then this weakness will no longer exist. The situation will form a formation that Zhuang Wudi said and then fight, rather than the Chu army wanting to fight without formation. Therefore, the Chu army must act quickly, quickly pull out Xianyang, and then quickly return to Shangluo before the Qin army's careful deployment. Otherwise, they will have to return to Chu.

"Of course." Xiong Jing nodded. He said with concern: "I ordered the troops to enter Xianyang and should defend the military discipline. The plunder can only be in the royal city and the east city, not in the west city; only kill the young and the young, not kill the women and children. Only loot, not arson..."

Xianyang is the capital of Qin State. It has lost thousands of towns and a city. The prosperity can be imagined. Zhidao is thirty miles away from Xianyang, and there are countless cities. When it reaches the bank of Weishui, most of the two sides are merchants. Looting is the right of soldiers. How to not affect the marching and fighting? Xiong Jing does not want to deprive them of their rights. It is only necessary to regulate the looting. What should be done and what should not be done must be stated in advance.

Xianyang is similar to most capitals in the world. Dongcheng is where nobles live, Xicheng is where millet people live, in the middle is the royal city, behind the royal city is Xianyang City, behind the city, and in several places in Xicheng are Shaofu Workshops. Raiding is only allowed in Dongcheng and the royal city, and not in Xicheng - there is nothing to grab for the common people.

Hearing that Xiong Jing issued a military order to rob and said that it should not be set on fire. Cheng Tong said urgently: "It is necessary to burn all the Qin people's palaces."

"Why do you do if you burn the palace?" Xiong Jing retorted. He suddenly remembered Xiang Yu.

"The Qin people burned my Yiling and destroyed my Jiying, and I should burn my palace!" The blue veins on Cheng Tong's face burst out. Thinking of this, he wanted to burn all the eighty-mile Xianyang City.

"It is better to kill all the craftsmen of the Shaofu than burn their palaces." Ele, who was disliked by the generals, finally made a suggestion that everyone was impressed. Xianyang was almost an empty city, and the most valuable ones were not the warehouses with hundreds of millions of grain and stones outside the city, but the craftsmen of the Shaofu. With the Dingkou of Qin, it took only a few years to accumulate hundreds of millions of stones of grain and fodder, and it would take decades to cultivate hundreds of thousands of craftsmen.

"Officials should not be careless," Zhuang Wudi added. "Please use the skills as the key."

"The Prime Minister's Mansion and the National Wei Mansion should also burn them." Nao Xin added. "The National Wei Mansion may report on the case of the Hou spy..."

"I think the Nine Tripods should be transported to Yingdu." Some people actually worried about the Nine Tripods.

"King," Yixian, the Right Shi Yixian, was inspired by the Nine Tripods, suddenly remembered something that was thousands of times more important than the Nine Tripods. "The Qin people destroyed Zhou and seized all the historical books and bamboo slips of Zhou people, and should be stored in the Xianyang palace."

"I heard that the Qin people took away the bamboo slips of history books and bamboo slips of other countries, and after reading them, they destroyed them to demonstrate the history of Qin." In the past two weeks and eight hundred years, if there was indeed a Zhou history that the right historical person said, they would naturally take it away, but Nao Xin poured a pot of cold water on him.

"I ask the king to allow it." The Right Shi said again.

"I also ask the king to allow it." Zuo Shi Zhuyong also said. "If the Qin people burn books, if they get the Zhou Dynasty, they must not leave it in Xianyang."

"If you have it, take it away." Xiong Jing didn't care about the history of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty. He was concerned about the history of the Western Zhou Dynasty, the history of Shang and Xia Dynasty earlier than the history of the Western Zhou Dynasty. If these things were really still there, they would have a history of thousands of years. The places where these things might exist in the Shang Dynasty, Xia Dynasty, and Shang Dynasty of Zhou Dynasty, were used to be Fenghao, but now they are naturally Xianyang.
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