When the long night was about to pass away, the Chu army set out camps and prepared for marching as usual. Although the soldiers of the Wei army were reluctant, they could only collect the tent under the strict orders of the officers. Unlike the previous few days, after the two "turned left", the direction of the army was no longer west, but east. A 150,000 army retreated to Qi in the darkness before dawn. After dawn, they arrived in Pingyin, and the entire army received the order to set up camp on the spot and be on guard.

It would be fine if he didn't pursue him, but he retreated fifty miles to set up camp in Pingyin, and the soldiers were a little nervous. Sima Shang, Gongsun Mao and other generals were also puzzled at the beginning. In fact, the Three Kingdoms coalition could pursue the Qin army one hour earlier, and perhaps kill some Qin people. Unexpectedly, Xiong Jing's order was to retreat, and he retreated fifty miles before he could stop.

Except for Xiong Jing himself, no one knew why he ordered to retreat. However, Hu Ying felt something, but it was hard to explain because there was no evidence. Soon the generals also guessed the meaning of Hu Ying: The King of Chu did not believe in Qi people.

This idea is heartbreaking, but it may not be wrong. No matter what, the army, which is only 159,000 people left due to the reduction of personnel, is the only mobile force in the fight against Qin. If there is any accident in this army, the Three Kingdoms will be really dead.

The rising sun shines on both sides of the Ji River. Although the entire army is on guard, most of the soldiers in the camp are basking in the sun to catch lice, and a small number of them are doing exercises and practicing spears. The soldiers have received orders and will camp here today, and will go to camp after eating early tomorrow.

The Chu army was in Danming camp, and the Qin army, more than 20 miles away, had already set out in front of the camp. At noon, the coalition forces were not chasing each other, and everyone from Wang Jian to the cavalry breathed a sigh of relief. Four days ago, four hundred and eighty miles were running, and the entire army was seriously reduced. More than 50,000 soldiers were frozen to death on the road alone, and more than tens of thousands of injured people were barely following the army. These people were reluctant to go forward, for fear of falling into the hands of the coalition forces.

The coalition troops stopped running. To prevent it, Wang Jian did not order the entire army to stop advancing, nor did he inform the entire coalition that had stopped in Guyi. The more than 400,000 troops were camping one hour earlier than the previous day. After arriving in Fanyi, there was hot water and hot food. The camp was one hour later on the second day and camped one hour earlier. When he advanced to Puyang, where food and firewood were sufficient, he would not retreat.

The high-intensity march took the potential of the human body. Once there was no threat, people would quickly fall down and get seriously ill. Some people could recover, while others could not afford to get sick. Although the Qin army did not fight with the coalition forces, the non-combat reduction caused by the march exceeded 100,000, and the losses of vehicles, horses, supplies, and equipment were countless, which was equivalent to a defeat.

But for General Wang Jian, what is more serious than the defeat was the trust of King Zhao Zheng of Qin. The king ordered to take over Qi in winter, and this task would definitely not be completed. If the king was furious, even if the Qin army won the entire battle - the entire army attacked Qi and killed more than 200,000 people, more than 60,000 people died, and the Qin army was unable to join the army due to frostbite, there would be only 120,000 people - he could not escape the blame.

With a nervous mood, Wang Jian, who was ordered to return to Xianyang, set off in the early morning. Obviously, Wang Zhi was not anxious. Except for the days when he left Puyang, the carriage started from Baixing to Shangdang County. He no longer traveled three houses every day, but only two houses. It was more than 20 days later that it was March 20. In early spring of March, the frozen Wei River gradually froze, and most of the willow trees on both sides of the shore sprouted and thirsty. Zhao Zheng did not summon him at Zhangtai or Qutai, but in the gardens in Weinan.

"I have humiliated the king's order and have not destroyed Qi. Please punish the king." Zhao Zheng was wearing a bright red Wei Bian suit, with neither happy nor angry face. Beside him were the national lieutenant Wei Liao, Lord Bai Di, and the great craftsman Yan Wuyi. When Wang Jian saw Zhao Zheng, he apologized and bowed to his head to listen to the punishment.

After coughing slightly, Zhao Zheng squeezed out a smile on his face, "What is the crime of the general retreating?"

Zhao Zhengzhi's words made Wang Jian's hungry heart slightly relieved, but he still didn't dare to feel completely relieved, and he bowed: "I am guilty. I dare not fight with King Jing. I have not achieved my mission. This is a serious crime."

Wang Jian apologized for sincerity. He really did not dare to fight the coalition forces, so he could only be driven away by the coalition forces and drove out of Qi all the way. If it were a conceited general like Bai Qi, he might have died in Puyang and buried his sword. He rushed to Xianyang, more than a thousand miles away, apologized to Zhao Zheng, because he did not want to die.

"General is worried too much." Zhao Zheng took a few steps forward to help Wang Jian up. "You can save Qi once, can you save twice? You can save twice? You can save twice? The coalition forces stopped at Guyi, which is the intention of Qi, not the intention of King Jing. Jing Qi has already had a grudge. If the general attacks Qi again, Qi will be destroyed."

Zhao Zheng said something relieved, Wang Jian withdrew from Qi without fighting. He was furious at the beginning, but considering the reality, his anger gradually subsided. After the Battle of Weinan, he was no longer the King of Qin who had always wanted to compete with King Jing in everything. He now only wanted to do one thing, that is, to use all means to destroy the Kingdom of Jing and make King Jing and his subjects surrender to him.

"Last month, the National Wei Mansion had confirmed the news. When King Jing was in Guyi, he was furious and said that he would not save Qi again. If the general attacked Qi again, Qi would be destroyed." Zhao Zheng comforted Wang Jian, and Wei Liao also comforted Wang Jian. The battle of Qi did not meet expectations, but Qi also lost the Gaotang army through this attack. The Qi people re-garrisoned Jixi, but Jibei was nowhere to be defended for the Qin army.

"I will attack Qi again, if it is not destroyed, it will be as if there will be a day." Wang Jian made a vow on the spot, and then he retreated. He retreated until he retreated outside the garden, and he breathed a sigh of relief. The warm wind in March blew, and the coldness on his back was cold, and his mysterious clothes were all wet.

Wang Jian was cold all over. Zhao Zheng rarely felt a little happy today. It was not just because Wang Jian vowed to destroy Qi, but because Qin took more than two months to finally cast twenty witchcrafts.

The Jing people were cunning and the witchcraft given to Qin were all problematic inferior products. Every ten shots of these inferior products were blown up, twenty shots, and the craftsmen who set off the witchcraft were killed and killed. However, it was at the cost of blood that Qin gradually became familiar with the performance of witchcraft and knew the structure and use of witchcraft. It was precisely because of this understanding that Shaofu could imitate witchcraft.

As Chen Tang said two hundred years later, "One Han enemy of the Five Barbarians (the exact thing should be Rong)" reflects, the closed Guanzhong has not been a developed military technology since ancient times. The bronze technology of the Zhou people directly inherited the merchants, the political system of Qin, and military technology originated from Guandong, and imitation was the Qin's distinguished ability. Although imitation tools cannot be compared with Guandong, what determines the outcome of the war is not necessarily technology, but more importantly, scale.

The two wings and three-winged arrowheads of Yan and Zhao countries are the same as those of the Huns. They are extremely excellent and suitable for riding and shooting. The arrowheads are made of iron. They are technically superior to the countries, but the production difficulty is higher than those of the countries. The three-edged arrowheads of Qin countries do not have the edges, wings and blades of the three-winged arrowheads of Yan and Zhao countries, and are just a simple pyramid; they do not have a curve that conforms to aerodynamics, and there is no blood groove, and some arrowheads do not even have barbs. However, they are simple to produce and fast to cast, which can meet the large-scale consumption under the war of the whole nation.

This is true for arrowheads and witchcraft. At this time, the witchcraft imitated on the grassland in the gardens is completely incomparable to the inferior witchcraft given by the State of Chu. The copper witchcraft imitated by Shaofu is bumpy on the surface and it is irritating to the touch; the witchcraft of Chu is natural, with a smooth and flat surface, and no concave burrs can be felt from beginning to end.

When this happens, the lengths of each other are different. The imitation witchcraft should be short, especially the witchcraft cast by the Mohist craftsman next to Yan Wuyi is the shortest, with a length of less than eight feet. Although the witchcraft cast by the Baidi craftsman brought by Aristotle IV is not as long as the witchcraft of the Jing Kingdom, it is one to two feet longer than the witchcraft cast by the Mohist craftsman, and one is even close to or more than one zhang.

The expert could tell that it was not. Looking at the witchcraft that was lined up side by side on the ground, Zhao Zheng, a technical layman, could also intuitively feel the skill gap between Baidi craftsmen and Chu State's craftsmen, as well as the skill gap between Shaofu craftsmen and Baidi craftsmen.

Zhao Zheng refused to say anything about this. Whether it was the craftsman of Shaofu or the Baidi craftsman brought by Aristotle IV, they were all craftsmen of the Qin Dynasty. The reason why the Qin Dynasty was powerful was because it was good at learning that it became the overlord who was about to unify the world from a small western country.

"Can you shoot?" Zhao Zheng looked at all over twenty witchcrafts and asked.

"I'll tell you that you can shoot." Yan Wuyi and Wuji bowed quickly.

Although the king refused to say anything, the Baidi craftsman and the Shaofu craftsman were in secret competition. The Baidi craftsman cast twelve five-meter-high gold men, and the Shaofu craftsman also cast a five-meter-high gold men. The five-meter-high gold men are still, except for their own weight and are not subject to external forces. When the witch medicine is ignited and exploded, all the four walls of the witchcraft are subjected to huge force. This is not just a matter of casting, but also involves the sturdyness of casting. Aristotle IV and Baidi craftsman fully believe that the Shaofu craftsman will definitely fail in this competition.

The witchcraft school Zhong, who had previously attacked Linzi with the cavalry, was ordered and quickly brought the witchcraft soldiers forward. Zhao Zheng and others retreated a hundred steps in a row. The uneasy Weitu even asked the Weiwei to raise the shield and squat in front of Zhao Zheng, guarding against the witchcraft explosion.

Even if it was a test firing, there would be a marquis. Two large tiger-skinned marquis were raised one hundred steps away. The witchcraft soldiers dragged out two doors from the witchcraft imitated by the Shaofu craftsmen and the Baidi craftsmen. After loading the ammunition, they quickly fired out the prepared monarch flag. Zhao Zheng nodded slightly and ordered the fired monarch flag to be raised at Tu Sui's instructions.

The witchcraft given by the Jing people deliberately made fraud. According to the news of the Great Chu, King Jing responded to the court officials: "... (witchcraft) was cast with pig iron, and it exploded after dozens of shots. The best ones were only forty-one shots, and all of them were unbearable to use."

The news was in January. Zhong Dan only had three days to learn about this news. He was not very sad when he thought of the worker who had been killed before. So now he saw the launching flag and suddenly became a little dazed. He only came back to his senses when he coughed left and right.

"Pull it in front, medicine behind?" he asked routinely.

"Yes." said the soldier.
Chapter completed!