Established a millennium family since King Wu defeated Zhou

Chapter 88

When people in the Central Plains were moving frequently, Chu State and Wu State were fighting frantically on the Hanyang Plain with white knives in and red knives out.

On the surface, this battle was very chaotic, but Qingji and Sun Wu's goal was very clear. This was the only way to win quickly that Sun Wu had studied for many years.

"From the top of the big river, going upstream, you will definitely be blocked by the Chu State. There is no certainty of victory. Only by taking the Xinyang Passage can you win the battle, but the key is to drag the elite main force of the Chu State on the Hanyang Plain. .”

This was the war plan formulated by Sun Wu, but the development of the war situation soon exceeded everyone's expectations. Wu Guo originally only wanted to contain the main force of Chu State on the Hanyang Plain.

But I didn't expect that the general of Chu State was too stupid. Sun Wu planned, and Qing Ji, who was wearing a three-layer heavy armor, was too brave.

If it weren't for Chen Guo's harassment of Ying Guo to be effective, Wu Guo's food and grass would be a little unsustainable, and it could even be pushed all the way to the edge of the Han River.

In the end, the two armies confronted each other for a while, Chu State breathed a sigh of relief, and Chen State was even more proud that a small country could interfere in the dispute between big countries.

The coldness in Sun Wu's eyes was deep, "My lord, Chen Guo harassed, and it is unrealistic to want to fight Chu Guo on Hanyang.

It is still necessary to follow the previous strategy, take the Xinyang passage, and go straight to Yingdu.

The primary goal is to capture the nobles of Chu, the secondary goal is to try to destroy their land, and the third goal is to capture the population of Chu. "

Qing Ji nodded approvingly. The two monarchs and ministers never expected to take the Jianghan Plain into their pockets. Previously, they expected to divide the border along the Yingshui Dabie Mountains, but now they may have the opportunity to re-block the Chu State to the west of the Hanshui River.

After the plan was set, the wise and powerful monarch and his ministers immediately began to implement it. The Chu army, who was belatedly aware of it, did not report to Yingdu until long after they lost the Wu army.

Yingdu.

The war with Wu State these days has exceeded everyone's expectations, and now the entire Chu State is full of impetuousness, and there is also a sense of panic and uneasiness.

"Wu Guo doesn't want to directly raid Yingdu?"

"How is this possible? On the Yangtze River, the advantage of our great Chu's boats and ships is not comparable to that of Wu."

But when Wu's army suddenly appeared in Xinyang and defeated Chu's last elite army, the nobles in Yingdu suddenly panicked.

In the main hall of the royal palace, almost the nobles of the entire Chu Kingdom gathered here, and everyone felt that the disaster of doom was about to befall them.

The queen mother was full of anxiety and fear. She was a very beautiful woman, but in war, such beauty would only be a disaster.

At this time, Xiang Ci stepped forward. He is the grandson of Xiang Cheng, and Xiang Cheng is the former Prime Minister Ling Yin.

Looking at the flustered nobles of the Chu Kingdom, he was very disappointed, and said sharply: "Calm down, don't make any more noise!
It's just a small failure, is it worth the panic?

During the Battle of Yanling, all the troops of Chu State were buried in the Central Plains. Isn't Chu State still so prosperous now?
The state of Wu is not the state of Luo, King Su will not bless him!
The Supreme One is in the sky, Chu people will never surrender! "

Xiang's prestige in the state of Chu is already very high, and he is close relatives with the royal family. The key is that when everyone is in a panic, Xiang Ci's appearance is very reassuring.

The current king of Chu is just a child of seven or eight years old, the Queen Mother is the regent, and the Jing family is the prime minister.

Guo is very dissatisfied with the performance of the neck thorn, and he wants to explode immediately. The characteristic of an idiot is that even if the sky is about to fall, he still wants to fight among himself.

Fortunately, the queen mother spoke first. She is a woman without independent opinion and ability, and she became a widow at a young age.

Seeing the heroism of Xiang Ci now, I felt at ease, and couldn't help asking happily: "Does Xiang Qing have any good strategies to defeat the enemy?"

"Good strategy?"

Xiang Ci sighed and said, "Wu Guo has been planning for a long time, and came to Yingdu.

If it was possible to draw a tie with Wu Guo in Hanyang before, or to block the Wu army in Xinyang, we can still negotiate now.

But after a complete defeat on the battlefield, do you still want to retreat the enemy with words?

If hundreds of years ago, Xiang's ancestors were still there, maybe they could do it with the blessing of King Su, but now it is just a dream. "

Unless it is those countries that will lose even if they are far away, what you can't get on the battlefield, you won't get it on the negotiating table.

Xiang Ci's words made the glimmer of hope that had just risen in the hall fall again, but Xiang Ci did not despair, he looked at everyone in the palace.

Slightly closing his eyes, his grandfather's Chunchun teachings were in his mind, he opened his eyes and said loudly: "Although we have suffered a failure now, this is only the success of Wu Guo's tactics.

Chu State is still a behemoth that Wu State cannot touch at all. The population and land in the Jianghan Plain and Nanyang Basin are still there. Now it is just a failure caused by some incompetent people.

The only thing Chu State can do now is to reduce the losses caused by the breach of Yingdu. I ask the Queen Mother and the King to retreat to Qin State.

Qin and Chu have a close relationship, so they will certainly be able to invite Qin to send troops. As long as the royal family is still there, all the soldiers from all over Chu can be transferred to the capital.

At that time, the state of Wu will not fight us between the Jianghan Plain and the Nanyang Basin.

Jin, Luo, and Qi have an alliance to eliminate soldiers, and Wu cannot be the opponent of the coalition. At that time, there will be some fighting on the Hanyang Plain. "

Xiang Ci paused for a moment, stared at the Queen Mother and said decisively: "The Queen Mother, the king can't stay in the capital now.

You have to run away with the king and nobles immediately, if it falls into the hands of Wu, then Chu will be seriously injured this time.

After that, how can you compete with Jin, Qi, and Luo for the position of the world's hegemony?
As for Wu's army, leave it to the minister to decide. "

After the break!

Now use the soldiers and horses in and around the king's capital to stop Wu's army. It is said that the queen is cut off, but it is nothing more than death.

His tone was sonorous and forceful, as if he was not going to die, but to attend a banquet. The Queen Mother looked even more beautiful, and regretted why she didn't reuse the neck thorn sooner, so she said softly: "Xiang Qing, you can't!" , you are the pillar of the Chu State, if the Chu State loses you, what should we do in the future?

Leave the rest to others. "

Xiang Ci sighed, "The Queen Mother, Your Majesty.

It has been more than 200 years since the ancestor Luoyan entered Chu, and the former kings entrusted the Luo family to Xiangdi. How much favor has the Xiang family received from the previous kings?
Now it's just a matter of returning all these things.

The minister's decision has been made, please take the king with you, and immediately retreat from the Yangtze River to Bashu, and then go to Qin State.

If the army of the Jin State betrays the alliance when they go to the Han River, everything will be over.

The other aristocrats diverted from Hanshui, Jin will not target the minor aristocrats, they are safe.

I hope that when you come back with Qin's reinforcements, I will still be alive. "

Qin and Chu developed Bashu in order to allow the two countries to communicate with each other. Unexpectedly, the first time they used it was the Chu royal family who fled for their lives.

The Queen Mother went straight down to the palace, held her hands and wept and said, "I didn't know your loyalty until the country was in danger. Please take care."

Xiang Ci bowed slightly towards the Queen Mother, and then his eyes fell on the little King Chu. He took a few steps forward, knelt on the ground and kowtowed.

"Chen stab, thank the queen mother and the king."

Above the main hall of the Chu Palace, all the officials were silent, only Xiang Ci's voice resounded.

He bowed slightly, knelt on the ground and kowtowed, saying that he was willing to die and exchanged his life for the king's life. The sun shone into the hall and fell on his body, stained with a layer of golden light.

This scene fell into the eyes of Little Chu King who was sitting on the throne. For a moment, he seemed to see the sun.

That heroic figure was deeply engraved in his mind, very warm, he whispered softly, no one heard, "Xiang Shi, Xiang Shi."

The execution of the neck stab was very fast. After the Queen Mother handed over the position of Ling Yin of Chu State to him, he drew up the list of the first batch of nobles who fled without any delay.

There are also a large number of elite soldiers in the capital, all of whom went to protect these nobles, and batches of nobles left Yingdu in an orderly manner.

He himself took a lot of troops left by each family, and began to deploy on Jianghan, and began to prepare to face Sun Wu.

He knew that he was not Sun Wu's opponent. That person could rely on Wu's national strength to defeat Chu.

"Su Wang, the most noble, you see, the descendants of the Xiang family are no worse than the main family in the Luo Kingdom.

Even without your blessing, Mrs. Xiang can still treat the royal family loyally, and Mrs. Xiang can still protect the eternal prosperity of Chu State. "

Looking at the busy Ying Du, Xiang Ci secretly said in his heart.

The development of things is independent of human will. The neck thorn is much stronger than the previous Chu generals, and it did cause a lot of trouble for Sun Wu.

But after such a long war between Wu and Chu and the loss of a large number of elite soldiers, the two countries have already changed positions.

Facing a super military master like Sun Wu, unless he was a completely unreasonable military master like Xiong Dun, he might be able to directly decipher Sun Wu's perfect strategic plan from the tactical point of view.

Obviously, the neck thorns did not have this ability, especially when the nobles retreated and took away a large number of elites, the gate of Yingdu was shattered.

"The defeat in the first battle, the accumulation of decades, was destroyed once, and the next revival of the Chu Kingdom will never be seen."

Xiang Ji refused to surrender, and was killed by Qing Ji himself. After killing Xiang Ji, Qing Ji felt a little emotional, "Xiang is the most loyal and upright Luo family among all the small Luo clans. It is completely incomparable with Xiang Shi."

Sun Wu shook his head and said: "My lord, the upper nobles in Yingdu have all fled, and it seems that the biggest goal cannot be achieved.

But they left in a hurry, and there are countless wealth left here.

The state of Chu is probably going to the state of Qin to rescue soldiers, and we don't have much time. "

……

The impact of the Wu-Chu War was huge. In the third volume, the editor proposed that the iron curtain between the Ji-Jiang Alliance and the Ying-Mi Alliance had completely fallen, and the two major military groups had been completely formed.

The two sides confronted each other in the land of Weihan and Yanling. After the Battle of Yiluo, the Jin State cut off the land for Qin and Chu. The Yingmi Alliance had an advantage in the Weihe Plain, Nanyang Basin, and Hanyang Plain. The sudden emergence of an army and the rapid war redefined the sphere of influence between the two sides, and the front line of the confrontation between the two sides was pushed to the Yingshui area.

This kind of ebb and flow between the two sides will dominate the future for hundreds of years, especially on people's thinking. On the body, the impact is far-reaching. —— "General History of the World Eastern Zhou Dynasty Volume Four"

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