In winter, the narrow water in the narrow section of the river above Huaishui County was only one mile wide, which was also the reason why the Qin army could cut off the shipping in Chengyang when it besieged Chengyang. In order not to affect the Huaishui shipping in winter, this section of the waterway was particularly dredged. A steam engine-powered digger pulled out mud and sand along the river channel. The water level was deeper, but the water surface became narrower, with about 150 steps left.

For sixteen hours a day, the waterway officials responsible for the unobstructed waterway patrol the water surface. When they find that the ice surface, they throw stones of standard weight onto it. If the stone falls, they will not be frozen. If the stone falls on the ice surface, it means that the ice layer is thick enough and the ice boat needs to break the ice. The so-called ice boat is a giant warship equipped with a large iron horn on the bow. It is rowing by manpower and breaking through the ice layer by weight.

There is such an ice-breaking technique, but after all, it is a wooden ice-breaking boat. Once the ice layer is too thick and the frozen river section is too long, the ice-breaking boat is useless. Spreading salt on the road can prevent icing. Spreading salt on the entire river is astronomical.

Li, don't give me, Li Xin... As long as people with a little bit of military knowledge know the importance of Huai River, E Zhuo from the Transportation Department simply lives in Chengyang and listens directly to the reports of the waterway officials every day. He is always worried during the dawn of the morning. When the sun comes out, what should be reported has been reported, and only then can he relax and endure another day.

When the sun came out, the military discussions in Li Xin's shogunate had ended. After breakfast, the Qin army set out again as usual. The inside and outside of the Nanyang Basin were plains, and the ice was smoother for thousands of miles. There was no need to build bridges to cross the water in winter. The Qin army of forty lieutenants did not march in columns, but in loose straits. From a distance, it was not an army, it was a boundless moving forest.

The Chu army's cavalry was like a group of wolves outside the sheep pen, running with the Qin army for several miles and dozens of miles. Whenever they wanted to get close to the Qin army, the sheep dogs in the sheep pen would run out to stop them. The Qin army knights who attacked at short distances were all heavy armor. They used to drive the Chu army's cavalry several times their strength, so that they could not get close to the Qin army in the march.

The overall advantage brought by the dragon horse is not very big. In addition to the more than 1,600 sweat-blooded horses sold by Hu Danso, there were more than 7,600 dragon horses in the Chu army. Subtracting from two thousand mares, one hundred stallions used for breeding, there are only 5,500 dragon horses available.

Of these 5,500 dragon horses, the artillery took away 800 horses, and the first heavy horse division was organized by 1,080 horses. In fact, 20% of the horses were prepared. This was another 1,200 horses, and there were 3,500 horses left. The Ying division had two light horses, and the Xiang division also had dragon horse light horses (not satisfied), and the rest were more than ten horses and dozens of horses in each division.

Although the desecrations of each division have been concentrated as much as possible, hundreds of dragon horses can handle the Qin army. The desecrations' advances are completely dispersed by thousands of Qin cavalry. Of course, the knights are not willing to accept this result, but the front command of Wancheng to sacrifice to risk his life to break into the enemy camp, only asking them to monitor the movements of the Qin army.

The Qin army marched all over the mountains, and the knights on both sides were galloping on the frozen snow like hunting. Cheng Kui, carrying a longbow, looked at this scene and felt it was boring. He was lying on a bed for half a year and finally could wear armor again. He wanted to fight happily. The playful fighting in front of him was really not his appetite.

"How many Qin people?" The Qin army was marching, and Cheng Kui, who had just left Fangcheng yesterday, was not surprised by the number of Qin troops. If the Qin army had no number, it would not be the Qin army.

"About 400,000, there are forty lieutenants." The Qin army's marching speed was not fast. The catapults of the cavalry and horses limited the speed of the marching. They had to stop and stop after running for a while. Since the Qin army left the Xiangcheng camp, Douzang has been following. "There is the place! Qin people's lieutenant flag."

Douzang pointed to a nearby Qin army lieutenant and said. The Qin army was becoming more and more regular, and the soldiers' robes were still mixed, but the flags became clearer and clearer. The lieutenant flag inserted in the chariot was spreading across the air under the north wind, and the word "Qin" could be seen on the flag: white.

"Bai?" The first thing Cheng Kui, a general who took Bai as his clan, thought of Bai Qi.

"Yeah." Douzang also thought of Bai Qi. "I heard that after Bai Qi's death, his relative's title was also taken away by King Zhao of Qin. This person..."

"Report——!" Several cavalrymen rushed from afar. Douzang thought they had captured the captives, but he saw that the horse had nothing. When he arrived, he heard the cavalrymen in the leader said, "The Qin people are more than fifteen miles away! The Qin people are more than fifteen miles away!!"

The Qin army went out of Xiangyang and advanced fifteen miles a day, but today it exceeded fifteen miles. Douzang looked at the position of the sun, his expression suddenly became stunned, and shouted: "The Qin people have changed! Jia—, Jia—"

Douzang beat the horse, Cheng Kui followed the horse, and the two rushed to the forest several miles away, with all the knights around them following. The cavalry spears in their hands were erected, and the swallowtail flags on the spears were hustling, and the north wind blew the tails of the flags all floated to the left. Douzang was responsible for commanding dozens of cavalry on the east side. He rushed towards the Qin army. The knights who were reconnaissance quickly moved closer to him when they saw this. Although some people were far away, more than a dozen knights gathered around him.

Seeing the Chu knights running, the Qin cavalry guarding this direction also rushed towards the full speed and almost intercepted Douzang's dozens of cavalry outside his own queue. Douzang did not want to break into the Qin army. When the two sides were fifty steps apart, he suddenly turned his head and ran south. He turned to Cheng Kui and others behind him, even if they wanted to try, they could only turn.

The Qin cavalry was also very tactful and turned around. They were not greedy for the heads of the Chu army's cavalry, and it was difficult to get the heads of the Chu army's cavalry. Outside the tacit understanding between the two sides, as long as one of the Chu army's cavalry was killed, they would be retaliated by crazy. If the cavalry was not enough, the light cavalry would be transferred to retaliate; if the light cavalry did not work, the heavy cavalry would be transferred to retaliate. Even if it could not be retaliated, the retaliated cavalry would be stabbed to death by other Chu soldiers when they dismounted and chopped off their heads.

The task of the Qin cavalry generals is to ensure that the enemy's cavalry will not break into their own ranks. If the Chu cavalry really pushes him in large numbers, others will not be able to save him. The key is that the exchange is ugly. If you kill one dragon cavalry of the Chu army, you will die three or four people, and you may not be able to grab the head. If you encounter a dragon horse heavy cavalry, you will die ten people, and the other party may not be able to die. When you win the remarks, you will lose all your title and be guilty.

Therefore, as long as the opponent does not forcibly advance and drive away, the safest thing is. The Chu cavalry general turned fifty steps away, indicating that he had no intention of advancing. The Qin cavalry general breathed a sigh of relief and turned southward. The two cavalrymen ran parallel across fifty steps. After several miles, the two armies gathered more and more knights. Just when the Qin general was worried that the Chu army that had gathered was going to advance, Douzang turned his horse to the east again and left the Qin army.

"The Qin people must go to a house today." After running five miles away, Douzang suddenly stopped his horse and said to Cheng Kui.

"Yi She?" Cheng Kui heard that the Qin army had been marching half a half a day ago. "What do they want?"

"In the future, you can reach Juancheng." At this time, the Qin army was more than 70 miles away from Juancheng at the north end of the Yakou and ninety miles away from Juanguan south. Douzang was worried. As far as he knew, there were not many soldiers in Juancheng. He was not very clear about the situation of Juanguan 15 miles behind Juancheng, and the situation of the forts inside and outside the wall.

"Come!" said Douzang, worried. "Tell me that the Qin army must go through one house or two houses today, be careful."

"Yes!" The knight who came up shouted, and he repeated the content in front of Douzang: "Tell me that the Qin army must go to one house today, or two houses today, be careful." Seeing Douzang nodding, he beat his chest with his right hand and rode his horse to Juzang, which was more than 70 miles away.

The cavalry who also flew back appeared in the Qinling Mountains west of Shangluo and Hanzhong in the Ankang Basin. Without exception, these news reached the Grand Sima Mansion of Jiying. The Feixun Officer held the news and shouted: "The Qin people are here! The Qin people are here!"

Such shouting did not panic the Grand Sima Mansion, but made people happy. Today's Huai River is the same as yesterday. The only thing frozen is the river (where the rui river bends or converges). If the Qin army is sure to attack Chu, then the Chu army can complete the last maneuver and the main force is transferred back to Fangcheng.

"The Qin people all moved and attacked me." Li Qie was a little depressed when he reported to Naojiu, and he made a mistake in his judgment.

"How can the Qin army know that it is attacking me for only one day?" Naojiu frowned and spoke. Although rationally, the Huai River was frozen in the Former Qin people attacked Fangcheng and the Kwantung countries were beneficial to the Kwantung countries, but Naojiu didn't want such a result in emotionally.

"Report to the prefect," Don't let me cough and handed over a message. "Xianyang Gexin."

"What do you mean?" Nao Ji looked at him. The news of Xianyang pigeons was first transmitted to Shouying, and it could only be transmitted to Jiying after dawn. This should be the latest news.

"He said that the King of Qin had already left Xianyang the day before yesterday," said not to me: "It's coming to Luoyang."

"Luoyang?" Nao was cunning. Luoyang was Sanchuan County, with Yingchuan County to the south and Fangcheng to the south. Li Xin's army set out from Xiangcheng, Yingchuan County. Of course, the King of Qin did not go to Luoyang for fishing, but was to put Li Xin in a formation.

"Why did the Qin people attack me but not Qi?" Naojiu was still not convinced and asked out the doubts in his heart.

"Or...or..." Li Qie looked at me and stopped talking.

"It should be the crime of the subordinates." Don't make me smile bitterly. In Xiong Jing's words, this is called shooting oneself in the foot. If there is no counter-espionage plan, the King of Qin will not be angry, and the King of Qin will not be angry, and he will not order the Qin army to attack Chu...

He thought so, but Nao looked at him strangely: "If the Qin people originally wanted to attack Qi, but now they attacked me, Dongjun is more than a thousand miles away from Xiangcheng, and the army will only arrive in a few days?"

Don't let me be stunned by the cunning question. If Qin really abandoned Qi because of the counter-espionage plan and launched a large-scale attack on Chu, the army of Qi would not have time to transfer to the West in those days. As long as we did not get the news of Wang Jian's army's transfer to the West, we could not judge that the Qin army had changed its strategic direction. At most, the Qin army was going to attack Chu, and the counter-espionage plan allowed Qin to attack Chu in advance.
Chapter completed!