Wang Jian shook his head a little when he heard the Lai people. He heard King Wei of Qi's praise and the smile on his face suddenly disappeared. After a long time, his eyebrows were a little relaxed. The barbarians were hard to fight and equipped with the best military armor in the world. The degree of difficulty in fighting was probably comparable to that of the Chu army. Fortunately, this army was not large in number and was all infantry, otherwise the war would have been like Zhao State for several years.

After Wang Ao finished speaking, Jimo and Lai people, Wang Ben was still standing in front of him. Wang Jian saw that he had something to do and asked, "What else is there?"

"And..." Wang Ben came from the direction of the shogunate. The news he brought was not only the Jimo army entering Linzi. "Xianyang ordered me to transport all the witchcraft in the army into Xianyang."

Relying on the thirty witchcraft, he attacked the city and drove all the way, and now only five witches are left, Wang Ben is reluctant to hand over these witchcraft. Wang Jian, like the open-mindedness just now, raised his hand and pointed to the catapult behind and said, "The weapon to break the city is enough."

The artillery was extremely sharp and the power of the trenchers was beyond imagination. When the Zhao people retreated, they burned hundreds of trenchers in Handan City, but they only burned them and did not destroy the copper bearings at the joints of the booms. The craftsmen of Shaofu quickly built more than a hundred new trenchers, which were in Wang Jian's army and followed the army to Linzi.

"Does the witch medicine need to be transported into Xianyang?" Wang Ao asked.

"It seems that the Wu Yao has not been mentioned." Wang Ben recalled the news. He rode a horse quickly, and now the military officers who were instructed to arrive hurriedly. Wu Yao was also in the line of transportation, but he did not say it was all. After hearing this, Wang Ao focused on the point. In addition to the catapult, the Qin army also had Wu Yao. Although he had not seen with his own eyes how Wu Yao broke the city, he had seen the description of Wu Yao breaking the city in the Guowei Mansion.

After a roar, the entire city wall flew into the sky. Thinking about it carefully, this is the same as the explosion of the chamber. If the Chu army's witchcraft is filled with too many witch medicines, it will explode like the Qin army now after igniting it. With those witch medicines, the Qin army can also break the city like the Chu army. Thinking of this, Wang Ao suggested: "I thought our army should go to Linzi quickly, otherwise the Jing people would arrive."

"Oh. Is there any Jing people reported?" Wang Jian, Wang Ben, and Wang Jian's confidant Liu Chiquan looked at Wang Ao. Qin State had very little knowledge of Chu State, especially the movements of the Chu army. Qi and Chu broke up, and Qin Hou had been spreading the incident in Daliang that the Qi army had defied defeat and led to the death of General Xiang Yan. With the Chu people's temperament, they could not support Qi. But these are speculations, and no one can guarantee this.

After a few people watched, Wang Ao said, "I don't know. However, I know that King Jing will save the people of Qi. Our army should quickly reach Linzi, and the State of Qi will be destroyed."

"Otherwise." Wang Jian's face smiled again, and a trace of determination flashed in his eyes. "The battle to destroy Qi must be repeated, but it can be destroyed. How many days can the Jing people save Qi? March, half a year? One year? The Jing people attacked Hanzhong. Because the terrain of Hanzhong was convenient, the soldiers below him were like a high house and Jianlingshui. The Jing people must pull Hanzhong and gain Bashu. Bashu was occupied by Jing people, and Ji Ying was able to be stable. If Hanzhong was not allowed, the war would not stop."

Wang Jian was stunned when he said that, and he thought about it carefully. How long can the Chu army save Qi? Once the Chu army rescues Qi, Shang Yu and Hanzhong will be gone. Attacking and defeating Hanzhong, Bashu is the most important thing for Chu. No matter how Chu saves Qi, it will only be a moment. When spring passes, they will take advantage of the rising rivers in summer to attack and defeat Hanzhong and Bashu.

"Then our army..." Wang Ao said this and felt that he shouldn't have said it. Under such circumstances, the Qin army's strategy was very obvious. He had no need to ask more questions at all. Asking more questions would only make him stupid.

Lixiayi is 290 miles away from Linzi, and travels thirty miles a day, at least nine days. Even if Wang Ao urged him all the way, the Qin army still took ten days to arrive in Linzi. More than 500,000 troops suddenly appeared in the wilderness west of Linzi City, and the police drums at the top of Linzi City were ringing again. This time, the Qi people were not as panicked as last time.

"Qin people!" The Qin army camped ten miles away from Linzi. Ten miles away could not tell that it was an army, but a concave and uneven mountains. Tian Zong raised Lu Lijing and looked for a while before nodding and putting it down.

"Chu... people in Chu said that Wang Jian's army had more than 500,000?" Sima Tianyang could not hide his worries. The 500,000 army was camped ten miles away from Linzi. He felt weak when he thought about it.

"What are you afraid of?" Tian Zong was not worried about Wang Jian's more than 500,000 Qin troops. "The Qin people were not well fed, so they would have to withdraw their troops for ten months."

More than 400 miles from Guyi to Linzi, the daily consumption of 500,000 troops, plus horses and strong soldiers must exceed one million people to eat. This is also the reason why the Qin cavalry quickly retreated if they could not get down the city. Six or seventy thousand war horses, one horse and ten people to eat, equals an army of 600,000 to 70,000 troops. After eating the horse feed carried by the military horses, the Qin people would be hungry.

Season is very important to military affairs. The advantage of winter attack is that it is flat and the plain is infinitely defendable. However, the price of winter attack is that it is impossible to collect food and grass on the spot, and there is no way to use water transportation. You can obtain supplies by attacking cities and towns, but if the time for attacking cities and towns is too long and the food and grass obtained is not as much as the army consumes a day, it is better to attack cities and towns.

With a large army of 500,000, plus the horses in the army, more than 40,000 war horses of Qin cavalry, and the soldiers with military strength, the consumption of food and fodder may exceed 1.5 million people. The weight of these food and fodder exceeds 110,000 stones (1,500 tons), and at least one thousand four-wheeled carriages are required to carry. Such huge consumption is not something that ordinary countries can afford.

Linzi is a strong city with 300,000 troops and more than 200,000 common people. In addition to the horses in the army, there is no food for one million people, and there is always 800,000 people. Fortunately, the Chu army once besieged the city five years ago. After that siege, Qi purchased the Chu State's cement glutinous tendons to build a warehouse, and stocked more than 30 million stones of corn and 40,000 tons of dry firewood.

If the food is enough for people and horses to consume for two years, dry firewood will be less. According to the general rule, a family of five uses 20 kilograms of firewood a day, saving ten kilograms of firewood during the war. Nearly 600,000 military and civilians equals 120,000 households, and 120,000 kilograms of firewood a day, that is, 300 tons. Forty thousand tons of dry firewood is burned at most for a hundred days. After that, Linzi will demolish the house. It is not a joke to split the body and make it a cuan (cuan).

Tian Zong really wanted to buy the coal storage of Chu State. One kilogram of coal is equivalent to one kilogram of dry firewood. However, the boat transportation capacity was insufficient, so this matter could only be given up. In the end, Linzi could only reserve dry firewood.
Chapter completed!