The night in early autumn is a little longer, the moon is as bright as water, the sky is full of stars, and it is still a little cold in the second half of the night. However, the Qin cavalry general Xin Sheng, who was standing in the chariot, tightly his lips and his head is covered with sweat. The sweat and the dust attached to his face have formed a thick layer of dirt.

When galloping at night, even if there are torches on the car, it is very dangerous. Fortunately, this is the Qin Road, and this road is related to the transportation of food and fodder on the front line of the Qin army. The Qin State built a flat like a thorn and straight as an arrow. The only thing that makes people worry is that the Qin Road is not as hard as mud, and it is extremely hard. If you gallop like this overnight, you will not know how much the army and horses will lose.

"General, there are still thirty miles to Jiyi." A cavalryman came back in the opposite direction with the chariots.

"The order: detain the cavalry to explore the road ahead, and the entire army stopped feeding the horses." Xin Sheng looked at the moon that was already west and decided to feed the horses for a while. For the cavalry, it was not difficult to travel a hundred miles overnight. He wanted to accumulate horse power and block the Chu army that was siegeing the city from his back in the morning.

"Hi!" the rider agreed loudly, turned around and issued a military order to "stop the cavalry and explore the road ahead, and the whole army stopped feeding the horses."

On the Qin Road, there are huts ten miles, thirty miles, and fifty cities. Although the well of 5,000 horses per house is not enough, there is water in the sheepskin water bag, so you can barely feed the horses. The thousands of cavalry ordered slowly stopped and galloped in the middle of the night. Most of the horses sweated. At night, the temperature in the mountains and fields was very low, and white smoke rose from some military horses. The knights waited for the horses to sank before they started feeding water and feeding them.

The Qin cavalry was only thirty miles away from him, which no one had ever thought of. But the Qin cavalry was very famous for the Chu generals. Not only because of Changping, but in the forty years, Bai Qi defeated Yan, it was the cavalry. At that time, the Qin army was carrying three horses, carrying soldiers, armor, food and fodder, and rushed to Deng County (now near Xiangyang) overnight. After the loss of the northern city, the Chu State was Deng, and the barrier to the north was Deng. After Deng County was lost, the Qin army could enter.

"All things have been done?" Xiang Yan did not sleep all night, his eyes were covered with blood.

"It's finished." Pan Wuming, who had just come in, replied. The military order was issued in the first half of the night, and it was completed in the second half of the night. "It's a pity that the fire was so urgent. We only found more than 600 heavy vehicles and 730 military horses inside and outside Jiyi."

Jiyi is equivalent to the Qin army's large army station. Since it was captured, the Chu army naturally had to replace the cannons, and the two legs were changed to four legs. Xiang Yan, who had listened to the report, did not think anything was wrong and said, "Six hundred grain trucks are enough."

"This car is not a Chu cart, but a double-shaft cart unique to the Qin people; most soldiers will not ride the army and horses." Sima Peng Zong interrupted.

"Double-shaft chariot?" Xiang Yan then remembered the original creation of the Qin people: the double-shaft chariot. A normal car has a single shaft. Because the shaft is in the middle, at least two horses are required to pull it. The Qin double-shaft chariot takes a different path, with two shafts on both sides of the carriage, and a single horse can be dragged.

"That's right." Peng Zong said, "Although he is good at driving, he is not as good as a double carriage."

A double-shaft carriage is naturally not as equipped as a single-shaft carriage, but the Qin people are not stupid. The two double-shaft carriages are equipped with more than a single-shaft carriage. The most important thing is that a single horse is convenient for the commander to be in charge, and the training time of the commander is short. Indeed, the skills of the soldiers in the Warring States Period were not as good as those in the Spring and Autumn Period, but during the Warring States Period, it was a contest of the overall national war, and the number was the basis for determining the victory of the war, not an individual, or a certain elite unit. The Qin military system reflects this everywhere, while the Chu military system violates this everywhere.

"There are a few people who can carry, and the injured must take a car. As for the seven hundred military horses, if you can't ride, you can tie them to the horse." Xiang Yan was helpless about this. He suddenly thought that his son, who might have arrived at home, could ride horses and had excellent riding skills.

"That's all." Pan Wuming replied. "When will our army depart the camp?"

"Don't stay here for a long time. Send orders to make meals immediately and start before dawn." Xiang Yan waved.

"Is this a concern for the Qin cavalry?" After Pan Wuming went out, Peng Zong asked. "If the cavalry comes, how should our army deal with it?"

"With a carriage," Xiang Yan said without thinking. He said again: "Can there be a report on the east side?"

"Most cavalrymen belong to Xiang Zhi's army, and those who can ride horses go east to inquire." Peng Zong said this and looked at Xiang Yan a few times. He raised the rebuke of the cavalry and said a sentence in his heart. He didn't know whether to say it or not: The leader who led the rider to the east to explore the enemy was very likely Xiang Chao.

"Ga, go-to--!" Peng Cheng remembered Xiang Chao, when Xiang Chao was low and rushed on the official road.

Just now, outside the road house thirty miles away from Jiyi, he happened to see the Qin cavalry who were standing by the roadside to feed horses. The horses were so far away that the horses were neighing. Thinking of the scouts' important matters, he wanted to get closer and count the number of Qin troops, but suddenly the Qin army was secretly spotted, and then another desperate rush was staged on the official road under the moon.

The Qin army knight crossbow is a regular weapon, but unfortunately the distance between the night is not easy to judge. After the first few arrows were shot, Xiang Chao, who was riding a Qin horse, gradually distanced himself from the Qin army knights. When the pursuers disappeared, he did not slow down his horse speed and ran towards Jiyi.

"Who is the order?!" Five miles outside Jiyi, someone shouted in the darkness with Chu Yin.

"Kill Qin!" Xiang Chao replied loudly.

"Of course, don't shoot the Chu people." The secret whistle replied, and Xiang Chao had slowed down slightly at this time.

"Did you really meet the Qin cavalry?" The camp was about to be drawn, and the military tent had been removed. Xiang Yan, who was fully armored and armored, stood on the open space like a nail. Pan Wuming and Cheng Tong were also there. Everyone was extremely surprised by Xiang Chao's news. It was too fast!

"Yes, father. The child did see the Qin cavalry, with carriages and horses stretching for miles, with more than 3,000 people." With Xiang Yu's son who was "walking in a brocade clothes without night" like Xiang Chao, he was not as good as that. At this moment, his face was full of excitement. The scene just now was so thrilling. Now, if you think about it for a moment, your back felt numb and you got goosebumps all over your body. When you talk about this, those playmates must envy him, but they didn't kill a Qin soldier, which is a pity.

"Father, there are few people in Qin. Our army can set up ambush on the official road, but the Qin people will definitely not be prepared." Xiang Chao suggested.

"Absurd!" Pan Wuming was about to respond, but Xiang Yan angrily scolded. "Get out the camp immediately."

"General, where are the camps going?" Cheng Tong asked urgently. The established plan was to join Xiang Zhi's troops westward, and whether Fuyi was captured or not, they would block the mountain pass, unless the Qin army advancing eastward to Chu territory returned large-scale assistance, or the Qin army advancing eastward in Nanyang broke through the mountain pass. Now the Qin cavalry in the east suddenly appeared, Cheng Tong couldn't help but think of the predetermined retreat: 30 miles south of Jiyi is the valley of Tongbai Mountain. There is a small path here to cross the mountain and return to Liyi, Sui County, Chu State on the west side of the Dabie Mountains (now Yindian Town, Sui County).

"Where can we go?" Xiang Yan asked back. The marching was reduced, and the casualties and casualties in the dusk battle, the Xi army led by Cheng Tong had less than 3,000 troops capable of fighting. Some servants were also asked to wear armor and hold swords, but Xiang Yan didn't care. "Of course, it was going back and forth. Our troops blocked the mountain pass for a day, and the Qin people would cut off food and fodder for one day. If the food and fodder were exhausted, the Chengyang would be safe."

"Now!" The general insisted on fighting the Qin army in this small basin, and everyone could only accept the order.

The ox and horse who had been frightened for a night finally left the stables that had been lit all night. The carriages and horses were Xiaoxiao, and this army of less than 10,000 people, including the servants, drove westward. After they left, Xi came out secretly in the fire. Looking at the business, travelers, women and children who also emerged from all over the place, he tightened his body and walked into the city by avoiding others. He returned to the city that had been burned out and collapsed. He had to hide it inside and be discovered, otherwise he would be suspected of being raped by the State of Chu.

Thirty miles away, Xin Sheng, who was discovered by Jingren's detective cavalry in the middle of the night, was more cautious because he was worried about being in trouble. In addition to sending more scouts to investigate the situation in Jiyi, he only started to walk the last thirty miles after dawn.

This does not violate the military order - Qin meter is 0.232 meters, six feet per step, three hundred steps per mile, and only 12.528 kilometers in thirty miles, while the cavalry trotted at 150 meters per minute, which is 9 kilometers per hour. He could reach Jiyi at Chenming as long as he was a little faster. Besides, the Chu army was alert and it was impossible to take advantage of the situation. If he sprinted to Jiyi despite the danger, he would be dismissed from office and imprisonment if he was in trouble.

Qin is a country ruled by law, and legal avoiding crimes is the choice of all smart people. This is the case for Xin Sheng. They are not hateful. It is human instinct to seek profit and avoid harm. They just want their wives not to be official slaves, but to be able to kill enemies for Qin generals and for the country.

The real "hazard" are those who seek profit, such as Chen Sheng, the famous uprising leader. Over the past few hundred years, he was the most successful one. He used the real or false law of "heavy rain and lost time, and he should be killed." This true or false law dragged nine hundred garrison soldiers down the water and turned them into his original capital. No matter how many people he had under his command in the future, this first pot of gold was always the most important.

When Xin Sheng, who legally avoided his crime, arrived twenty miles away from Jiyi, he finally got the exact information: the Jing people captured Jiyi yesterday and withdrew from Jiyi before morning and dawn. Finally, the detective cavalry brought back two Qin soldiers with incomplete armor, one of whom was actually a Shangzao (second-level title).

"How many people in Jing? How did Jiyi get rid of it?" Xin Sheng felt a kind of pressure. The responsibility of Jiyi get rid of it was completely different from that of him. He felt that it was necessary to pursue the Chu army and lose his merits.

"Report to General, I don't know how many people in Jing..." The one who spoke was the one who was not an old Qin man, with a strong Nanyang County accent. "We only know that the city magistrate went out of the city to meet the enemy. After being defeated, the Jing people came in."

"That's all?" Xin Sheng believed a little, "Where did the Jing people go? When did they leave the city?"

"Report to General, we... we don't know where the Jing people are going." Shangzao replied. His pause was not because of fear of Xin Sheng, but because of organizing the language. "At that time, the flags and drums fell, the squad leader and the squad leader were all killed in battle. We were extremely arrogant and outnumbered, so we had to fight out of the siege and hide in the forest at night. We really don't know when the Jing people left the city."

Xin Sheng smiled, "Are you really that?"
Chapter completed!