The bloody news spread to Xianyang. So many words had exceeded the ability of Qin-style flying news, and they had to be sent to Guanzhong by post cavalry. However, this urgent letter did not reach Xianyang. When passing by Yingchuan County, the official cavalry was intercepted by the Koreans who appeared in the mountains and forests. After going around, the urgent letter was first passed to the Great Sima Mansion of Yingdu, and then to Xiong Jing. At this time, he was already in Wancheng, Nanyang.

From attacking Guanzhong and then to withdrawing from Guanzhong, it took about fifteen days. The soldiers of the Chu army dubbed the Guanzhong Banyueyou. In this battle, they captured the capital of Qin, burned the Qin people's ancestral temple and the Zhengchao, and then defeated more than 600,000 Qin troops, then drove the Qin king to Fengshui, and finally returned triumphantly. This is a great achievement. Qin has never suffered such a heavy blow since its establishment.

The soldiers were proud of this. The generals of the Grand Sima Mansion led the strategists but did not feel happy at all. Dou Yuzhi believed that the battle in Guanzhong was completely failed, and the biggest failure was that more than 300,000 Qin soldiers were not killed; Zhuang Wudi, the strategists also believed that the battle in Guanzhong was basically failed, and the biggest failure was that they did not capture the King of Qin; Xiong Jing also felt that this was a failed battle, but he couldn't say where the failure was.

The war in the pass was basically failed, and the rescue of Zhao would also be in failure. Li Xin's urgent letter stated that the Qin State, at least the generals of the Qin army had seen the importance of Handan. Handan was dismissed, and the Chu army would face two armies of Li Xin and Wang Jian. On his own, after the loss of these 100,000 people, the Wei State had completely lost its combat effectiveness; the 200,000 Qi army led by Xiang Yan was defeated, and the Jixi army that attacked the East County had stopped its progress.

"The unspoken thought..." Xiong Jing did not ask Ruozhihe. This was not a problem that Zhuang Wudi could solve. "...I should go back to Yingdu once."

"King," Wudi, who was intercepted, read the intercepted bookstore. He could probably guess why Xiong Jing returned to Ying. "I think I can't save Zhao."

"Why?" Xiong Jing stared at him. He remembered that Zhuang Wudi had opposed saving Zhao from the beginning.

"Our army is in short supply." Zhuang Wudi looked at Dou Yuzhi, and Dou Yuzhi also nodded slightly. "Li Xin will not fight with me. If I divide my troops to rescue Zhao, he will come out to attack me again. And the king will not Don't forget Guanzhong, Meng Tian and Monk Yang Duan have 200,000 soldiers. If our army divides our troops to rescue Zhao, these 200,000 people will go out of Wuguan and enter Fangcheng."

Li Xin had 400,000 people, Meng Tian, ​​Yang Duanhe, and 200,000 people, or even more than 200,000 people. When the Chu army entered Yingchuan County and even Sanchuan County, the Qin army in Guanzhong would attack Shangluo and Wuguan fiercely, trying to attack Fangcheng from the west. Only when the Chu army was in Fangcheng could it form a balance with the Qin army, but the price of this balance was to let Handan be pulled out by the king's sword and the Zhao State was destroyed.

"No!" Xiong Jing shook his head repeatedly. He didn't want such an ending. "What are the soldiers of the old Ying?"

"It's not enough to be used for three months to half a year." Dou Yuzhi knew very well about the soldiers recruited by the old Ying. Ruoao's family had already included the occupied Biyang, Huyang, Chongqiu and other places in their jurisdiction, and the soldiers recruited were being trained. "And there were not enough officials and leaders, it would be difficult to form an army without officials."

"Half a year is too long!" Xiong Jing frowned after hearing it, and Handan had already fallen into pieces after half a year.

"Our army's spear soldiers are different from the Qin people's spear formation." Dou Yuzhi said. "You can only raise spears to form a formation in half a year, but you can't rush to attack the spear. How can the king not know how difficult the spear formation is?"

Dou Yuzhi looked at Xiong Jing in surprise. The spear formation was invented and promoted by Xiong Jing. At the beginning, Wang Zun just raised his spears into a formation. The spears were rushing into a swarm, and three rows of spears were later. Raising into a formation was the first step, rushing into a formation was the second step, rushing into a row was the third step, and changing the formation was the fourth step.

The infantry warrior believes that the first step takes at least three months, the standard time is half a year, and the rows of spears take one or even two years. The column running warriors write about five years, but some divisions and brigades are still considered to be not truly qualified. Experience believes that spears should start practicing column running from the age of eight to start school, practice tirelessly every day, and constantly fight to hone their courage to truly form a formation.

The change in formation is not written into the infantry rituals. This is actually another manifestation of the column running. The difference is that some columns go to the left and some columns go to the right. Because the pace of the soldiers in the entire army is completely consistent, the columns interlaced, stalked, entangled, covered..., and all kinds of tricks can be played.

"If you can't, you can't..." Dou Yuzhi's surprise reminded Xiong Jing of these details.

The impact spear formation must train thousands of people into a real whole, which is more difficult than training the archer and the sword and shield hands for ten years. The archer and the sword and shield hands can become a qualified warrior without the talent to practice hard for ten years. If there is not enough discipline, tacit understanding and courage, the spear formation may not be truly formed after ten years of practice. Many generals put their hopes on the students in the school, which is the reason.

It is impossible for the old Ying to create a real spear formation! Before conquering Old Ying, the Education Department of the Ministry of Military Affairs made such a judgment mercilessly. The reason for making such a judgment is very simple: after the Qin people ruled and killed for fifty years, many of the people in Old Ying and Chu have become weak people.

The spear formation is not a flower stand. When blood and fire run, the array of blows or casualties cannot be chaotic, let alone collapse. Master Chen cannot do this at all, and it is difficult for the Song Dynasty, Wu Dynasty, and Lu Dynasty to do this. Most of the Ying Dynasty, Xiang Dynasty, Ruo Ao, Western Regions, and Yue Dynasty can do this.

Although they are all humans, they look the same, but they are actually completely different. This is actually the same as Qi Jiguang's selection of soldiers more than 1,700 years later. Everyone knows that Qi Jiguang chose the Yiwu soldiers, but the more brave ones are the Chuzhou (Lishui) soldiers.

The reason why Yiwu soldiers are inferior to Chuzhou soldiers is that the Chuzhou soldiers have their own small groups. They must discuss with them in advance who to fight before the war and how to fight. If they agree, they can fight. If they don’t agree, they will never fight (if they don’t fight hard, so outsiders think that Chuzhou soldiers are not resilient). Yiwu soldiers do not have such small groups. The generals are in a position to fight, and they are unambiguous, but discipline and combat effectiveness are one level worse; Shaoxing is rich, and Shaoxing soldiers are smart, so Shaoxing soldiers are the most popular. They should be divisions instead of charging into battle.

Organization means combat effectiveness. You can think arbitrarily and rudely: (same training level and equipment level). Wherever there are bureaucrats, the combat effectiveness of soldiers is weak; wherever there are nobles and tribes, the combat effectiveness of soldiers is strong. Economy is also a factor. Soldiers in wealthy areas must be weak, and soldiers in poor areas must be strong. In addition, there is geography, soldiers in plain areas must be weak, and soldiers in mountains and forest areas must be strong.

But these factors are closely related to each other. Plain areas are easy to cultivate and the people are rich. They are the first to be cultivated and are also the areas that are frequently competed for by countries. From the perspective of the world, the Central Plains are all plains, the richest and the earliest bureaucratic, so they are weak in combat power. Outside the Central Plains, they are either water and mountains, which are extremely barren, and are regarded as barbaric by China. Because of this, these places retain aristocratic fiefs and tribes, so they have strong combat power.

Fuying has never been a product of military correctness, but a product of political correctness. Everyone tacitly understood this and did not explain it. However, in specific matters, such as the training of soldiers in the Old Ying and Nanyang areas, the military consequences gradually emerged.

"I think I can't save Zhao." A few days later, Yingdu was sleeping, looking at Xiong Jing who hurried back to Ying, Li Qi said this. "Shangyu, Fangcheng must be stationed. The king thought Shangyu should be stationed. How many soldiers should be stationed in Shangyu? Li Xin outside Fangcheng was staring at him. The king thought that there were many soldiers to be stationed in Fangcheng? There was still Daliang. The Wei people lost 100,000 troops, and the territory was all under the Qin army's military front. How many soldiers should be stationed in Wei?"

Shangluo, Shangyi has stationed four divisions, two divisions in the Han River, two divisions in Yiling, and at least eight divisions from Fangcheng to Jiuying. These are sixteen divisions, accounting for more than half of the Chu army's troops. If the remaining fourteen divisions do not assist the Wei people, they can still be maneuvered. If the Wei people are assisted in stationing Shangcai County and Dasong County, the remaining divisions are probably only able to cruise on the Yellow River instead of fighting in the field.

Li Qi's problem made Xiong Jing a little confused, but there was something even more confusing. Naoji took out a pigeon news and said: "The Seleucao detained our sea boat in Wubulai Port more than ten days ago, and the sea boat was equipped with sulfur that was urgently needed by the founding palace..."

"What is it?!" Xiong Jing looked at Ge Xun and couldn't believe it. "They dared too!"

"King?" Xiong Jing's face suddenly turned pale, and Li Qi and Lan She were all shocked.

"Why is this?" Xiong Jing probably remembered that the amount of gunpowder in the army was less than one hundred tons.

"I don't know why," Naojiu shook his head. Who knows what happened thousands of miles away? "Fortunately, Hu Dansao has arrived in Yan's land, and the caravan has tons of sulfur."

Even if Hu Dansaozhi had ten tons of sulfur, it was only equipped with a hundred tons of gunpowder. Xiong Jing felt bitter. He pressed this matter and asked, "From the combat department, what should our army do?"

"When you go west." Li Qi said without hesitation.

"Enter westward?" Xiong Jing was surprised. "Do you enter Xianyang again?"

"No." Li Qi pointed to Nan Zheng on the map, "Before the autumn, our army should go against the Han River and take Nan Zheng. Only by taking Nan Zheng, the Qin people's arms extended to the south, and Shang to make Yiling stable."

Military must be based on geography. Qin and Chu were originally bounded by Tongbai Mountain, Dabie Mountain and the Yangtze River. Now that the Chu army restored Ying and broke this geographical boundary, a new geographical boundary was established. Qin and Chu either took the border before the war or took the border before the Qin State to take the border before Bashu, otherwise, the western boundary would be unstable.

"Can't Xiangfan City be the boundary?" Xiong Jing understood this principle, but it was difficult for him to accept this practice.

"No." Naojiu pointed out the problem: "If the two cities of Xiangfan are used as the boundary, what are the remaining honorary scholars?"
Chapter completed!