Whether Tian Luo agreed or not, Shi Yi would lead his army to leave. The only thing that hindered Shi Yi's action was that it was dark. Under the night, Shi Yi could only order the entire army to set off the camp tomorrow. The wind and snow stopped the next day, and the rest of the divisions and brigades were still making meals. The 30,000 people would set off the camp first, stepping on the snow, and walking along the straight road to Linzi, one hundred and thirty miles away.

"Why is the general allowed to return to the capital?" The smoke of cooking cooking rose up. Tian Luo, who was standing at the head of Tanguo's city, picked up Lu Lijing and looked at the army eastward.

"Does the Qin people attack me?" Tian Luo put down Lu Li's mirror and exhaled a long white breath.

"It's not true." Xunwen Gaozhui from Linzi also looked at it. If it weren't for the Grand Sima Mansion, he would have angrily denounced him as suspicious. "But the Qin people really attacked me at this time..."

"How?" Tian Luo turned to look at him. He thought about whether the Qin people came to attack him for a night, but he couldn't think of where the Qin army had soldiers. Including Wang Jian's 300,000 soldiers, all of these soldiers rushed to Fangcheng, and there were no troops to attack Qi.

"I'm not prepared." Gao Zhui pondered first, then opened his eyebrows. "How can the Qin people attack me? It's just a little bit more than the enemy's ears."

The major event of the country is in the Rong. Qi has expressed its submission. Why did Qin attack Qi and let Chu breathe? This is what Gao Zhui couldn't understand the most. Although Qi was determined to win the throne, it was not now. It must be a time when Qin and Chu fought one after another, and both sides were exhausted. Qin divided their troops to attack Qi, and wouldn't it force the Qi people to the side of the Chu people?

The idea of ​​chasing is the idea of ​​most people, and the doctors in Linzi's court also said this. Yesterday, the Grand Sima Mansion suddenly asked Sima of the city gates to strictly investigate the talismans and impose curfews, which made some doctors very dissatisfied. After the La Festival to the New Year, it was a day of feasting, so that some people had not yet recovered from the holidays. The Grand Sima Mansion requested a curfew, and the entire Linzi and the royal palace would be dead. This kind of life was unbearable.

When I was looking at the court in the morning, a group of doctors were questioning the Grand Sima Tianzong when they exclaimed outside the hall, Sima Tianshu from the Grand Sima Mansion rushed up.

"What's the matter of panic?" It was Tian Jiao who was still in charge of the government affairs. Although more than one person wanted to be the prime minister, the doctors were dissatisfied with each other, and instead made Tian Jiao stay on the stage.

"Report to the king, report to the prime minister, the people of Chu come to the news..." Tian Shu said that the people of Chu are the people of Chu. "The people of Chu say that the people of Qin will attack me."

"Chu people?!" Qi and Chu had long broken diplomatic relations. The Chu State's Xunwen was able to spread to Linzi because it was related to it. However, this Xunwen, which was related to it, immediately caused a burst of laughter in the court.

"The Qin people are attacking Chu, why should they attack me?" Anping Juntian said with a smile.

"This must be a threat from the Chu people, saying that I hate Qin." Some people have no surprises.

"What else does Xunwen say?" Only Tian Zong was serious, he looked at Xunwen in Tian Shu's hands.

"Xunwen also said that the artillery obtained by the Qin people had been transported eastward." Tian Shu said that the cannons were stunned. This was something that the Qi people had dreamed of but could not get. "This is the news that the day before yesterday, and it was said by the King of Chu." Tian Shu added in the end.

Xunwen sent it from Ji Ying the day before yesterday. It was already dark before Chu State. It was transmitted to Qi State yesterday. However, most areas of Qi were windy and snowy, so the message could not be transmitted until this morning.

The news from the day before yesterday arrived today. I heard that it was the King of Chu who spoke again, and no one in the court laughed anymore. However, just as their eyebrows began to frown and their expressions gradually became solemn, the sound of drums from the east of the city was endless.

*

The morning dynasty in Linzi this day was destined to be difficult to end. Ji Ying's morning dynasty was just a meeting and then the court was dispersed. Because of the artillery transaction, Xiong Jing was in a cold war with his ministers. It was impossible to hand over the Juti Mansion. The ministers quickly changed another requirement, which was to divide the gunpowder in the Ying army's inventory.

The art of making artillery is becoming more and more mature, and the artillery ordered by various counties and towns have been in production. The sulfur was insufficient, and the fleet led by Hong Shu killed Wubule Port. However, before the war, the Seleucids played a fire attack. The sea boats and all the sulfur in the port were used by them to make fire attack ships. Not only did the fleet not grab the sulfur, but instead consumed a large amount of ammunition.

Zaofu has also tried gunpowder without or with less sulfur, but the attempt was a failure. Gunpowder without sulfur and with less sulfur is difficult to ignite. In the gunpowder formula, sulfur is the most flammable, and the existence of sulfur reduces the decomposition and explosion temperature of the gunpowder. Another function of sulfur is bonding. Without sulfur, charcoal and potassium nitrate cannot be bonded and it is difficult to granulate. But this is still secondary, mainly the former.

When gunpowder is affected by flame, sulfur can easily form vapor. Sulfur vapor can interact with charcoal and potassium nitrate at 150 degrees to form substances such as potassium sulfide and nitrogen oxide; at the same time, heat is released in the reaction to increase the temperature of the drug. If there is no sulfur, the decomposition temperature of charcoal and potassium nitrate will double, and it will decompose at 320 degrees, and it will explode after exceeding 350 degrees.

The potassium nitrate purified from Zaofu is not pure, and contains a large amount of nitrates and sulfates that do not participate in the reaction. Five percent of the sulfur has made it difficult for the gunpowder to be ignited. If it is added less or no sulfur, it will be even more difficult to ignite.

There was a shortage of sulfur, and there was no way to replace the general. The divisions and brigades with gunpowder without medicine required the construction of the government to replenish gunpowder, no more or less, and according to the Qin people's standards, each gun was fifty (the Qin people had one hundred, but only twice the charge). This made Xiong Jing very passive. The artillery of each division and brigade had nearly 500 pieces, while the Ying division had more than 140 guns, and the reserve of the gunpowder was no more than 200. If the gunpowder was really divided, the reserve of the ammunition would be reduced to less than 50 pieces.

Xiong Jing was not very happy about this. In the long run, this was irrelevant, but dividing gunpowder into various divisions and brigades and reducing the gunpowder inventory of Ying's army was not a strategic matter. In addition to field artillery, the Chu State also had to arrange city guard cannons in Fan Xiang and other cities. The city guard cannon did not use the largest forty-five kilograms, which was 32 kilograms, but the loading of 32 kilograms was twice that of the fifteen kilograms.

Xiong Jing refused to agree, and the ministers did not let go, and both sides were very unhappy. The only thing worth being happy during this period was to denounce the cavalry to confirm that the Qin people had transported the artillery east of Puyang. Wang Jian's flag continued to march westward, but the army under Wang Jian's command had quietly gone east.

It is a great thing for the Qin people to attack Qi. It is also a very distressing thing for the Chu army to continue to attack Hanzhong and Bashu next year to protect their flanks. Although Lu Gao suggested that the enemy's investigation of the marks of the cannon truck wheels, the marks cannot be detected by reconnaissance. Xiong Jing cannot take risks with the State of Chu.

While knowing the enemy, the army aided Qi continued to march towards Fangcheng while reconnaissing the cavalry. When the Qin people were confirmed to attack Qi, the army had arrived in Chengyang. The day before yesterday, the army urgently ordered the army to change direction, and the whole army traveled east all night. Today, when we arrived at Zhongli, the Huai River was frozen. At this moment, Naojiu and others were reporting to Xiong Jing about the schedule of the Chu army formulated by the Operations Department.

"At this time, our army was stationed in Zhongli, and the Huai River had been sealed. We could only go north on land, pass through Xu, Xiapi, Jucheng, and Muling Pass into Qi territory, reaching Linzi 1,300 miles and 800 miles to Muling Pass. We went on a hurry two days ago, and the soldiers must rest for three days..."

The day before yesterday, the Qin army was confirmed to attack Qi, and it took twenty-five hours to travel a thousand miles, which was a desperate effort. Xiong Jing didn't want the army to rest. He interrupted the cunning statement and asked, "How many days can the Qi people resist the Qin army?"

Li Qi replied, "If the Qi people listen to our words and block the city gate, they can wait for Jimo's army, if they cannot..."

"So what if it can't?" Xiong Jing asked. He thought the cannons he traded would be used on the heads of Chu people, but he didn't expect that it was the unlucky country of Qi. Will those Qi people who wear dustpan crowns and speak out loudly cry to ask for compensation from themselves?

"Linzi is abolished." Li Qi replied. "Even if our army is in Jucheng, it will take ten days to arrive in Linzi. The defense of Linzi and the defense of Linzi will only last three days before. Three days later, the Qin army has no weapons to attack the city, so they can only wait for Wang Jian to lead the army to arrive. At this time, Jimo's army arrived."

The best way to destroy Qi is to attack Linzi. The surprise attack on Linzi failed, and Wang Jian's army slowly advanced from Jixi, which took about ten to fifteen days. The Jimo army, who had already prepared, could reach the city of Linzi in six days. The Chu army did not arrange it in Xia Pi as Lu Gao guessed, but was arranged south of Jucheng. The time to arrive in Linzi was almost the same as that of Wang Jian, and it was also ten days.

Wang Jian's army was 300,000, plus the Qin army that was attacked by surprise, and the Chu and Qi coalition forces were 320,000. The troops were not superior, but there was no problem in assisting the Qi people to defend Linzi or covering the Qi people to retreat to Weishui. Because of the previous mobilization, the Chu army was thirteen days later, of which three were rest time and ten days were marching time.

"If Linzi was defeated by the Qin people, I would make Qi Prince Tian Sheng the King of Qi and lead the army to fight with the Qin people." Naojiu talked about the arrangement after Linzi's destruction. "What our army wants is that the Qi people have no way to go south of Muling Pass."

"Tian Sheng is in Ji Ying at this time." Li Qi added. "The princess of Qi has also entered the Chu territory..."

"If Linzi was defeated by the Qin people, the King of Qi was captured by the Qin people, and Qi was destroyed." Xiong Jing hoped that Qi could defend Linzi, not just the Weishui line. It would be easy to retreat to the Jiaodong Peninsula and leave Muling Pass Avenue. In this way, the Qi people could still threaten the Qin people's side back, but the side back is the side back.

"Tell the king..." Don't let my voice come from the bottom of the steps, and he quickly climbed up to the steps and appeared in front of everyone. "The Qin army has arrived in Linzi, and the Qin army has arrived in Linzi!"

"So fast?" Xiong Jing, Naojiu, was full of surprise, only Li was pondering.

"Yes." Don't hand me the latest news. "The Linzi Feixun has been cut off, and the Qin army will be besieged."

"I think this is the Qin cavalry." Li Qi quickly made his own judgment. In winter, the rivers were frozen, and the cavalry could rush directly from Zhao to Linzi City with one horse, and the journey was only more than 400 miles.
Chapter completed!