Devil’s Advent

At this time, different from what I imagined, the atmosphere in the hall was not oppressive, but bright.

Seven dancers are dancing, and the regent is sitting on the steps under the dragon chair, holding a handful of dried fruit in his left hand, and admiring while eating;

Nian Yao walked in, and the dancers continued without stopping.

Xiong Tingshan, who was sitting in the corner, waved to Nian Yao and motioned him to sit down together. Nian Yao obeyed and sat down beside Xiong Tingshan.

a long time,

After a dance,

The Regent smiled,

road:

reward.

Thank you, Your Majesty.

Thank you, Your Majesty.

After the dancers retreated, the regent leaned back, put his hands on the steps, and looked up at the carved beams and painted buildings above.

Xiong Tingshan stood up and leaned over, saying:

The emperor is very interested.

The regent shook his head and said:

If you win, you will be strategizing, with a gully in your heart, and you will not move like a mountain; if you lose, you will be indulging in pleasure, not thinking about making progress, and dreaming of life and death.

In fact, it has nothing to do with listening to music and appreciating dance itself.

Xiong Tingshan nodded and said, That's the reason. If you win, you'll do the right thing. If you lose, it's a heinous crime to eat half a bowl of rice.

The regent pointed to his side, signaling Nian Yao to sit down.

Nian Yao sat down.

The regent continued to lie on the steps and said:

Things, that's it. Although the news from Fengchao is very simple, it is actually enough. I think that since His Majesty the Emperor of Yan Kingdom made a decree in the capital, this battle must be over. Not small.

It's also interesting, just now Liqing was welcomed grandly, she was conferred the title of princess, and immediately turned around to start a war with me, Da Chu, that Emperor Yan, on the contrary, is very clear about family affairs and state affairs.

But no matter what, people have already decided to fight, we can only accept this move.

Zhennanguan is the key point. If the Yan people want to fight, they must fight from that route. Nian Yao, you have been stationed there, tell me about your strategy.

If you go back to the king, the slave's strategy is to play dumb.

The regent laughed and said to Xiong Tingshan: Fifth brother, look at this slave, alas.

Xiong Tingshan said: Doing less means making fewer mistakes.

The regent nodded and said, I know this, but I still feel uncomfortable.

Nian Yao immediately knelt down and said, This slave deserves to die.

It's not because of you, but I also know in my heart that I, Da Chu, want to compete against the cavalry of Yan State in the field, and I really suffer too much.

Xiong Tingshan said: Brother, my big Chu infantry, even if I encounter the Yan people's cavalry, it may not really be a disadvantage. The infantry phalanx is used well. It can be regarded as the support of elite cavalry, even in the wild, fighting with the Yan people, the outcome is hard to say, the premise must be elite.

Nian Yao said, Slaves are guilty.

Xiong Tingshan smacked his lips and said: This is a matter before the king, so there is no need to hide and care about your identity. After all, you are my Great General Chu. You should be tougher.

Fifth brother is right, they are all family members, so be more casual.

Yes, Your Majesty, yes, Your Highness. Your Highness, I dare not agree with what you said earlier. It is true that the elite soldiers of our Great Chu are all brave warriors who fought against the Shanyue people. Then cooperate with me. Great Chu has long inherited the technique of infantry combat and the technique of military formation. After the two sides set up a battle, even slaves dare to command the Yanren to fight face to face with gongs and drums.

However, this deal is not worthwhile.

The Yan people's cavalry is the most powerful, and the Nanhou of the Yan people, including a group of Yan people's generals represented by the Uncle Hirano, are best at cavalry interspersed with roundabout tactics.

After the Yan people annexed the land of Jin, there was no shortage of land to raise horses, and they accepted all the knights and cavalry of the three Jins. After all, they have four legs, and people are born to run faster than our two-legged infantry. take the lead;

The detour tactics mentioned earlier by the slaves are divided into large detours and small detours.

The big detour is just like the battle between the northern and southern princes of the Yan people and the Jin Dynasty. The Helian family heard that the main force of the people attacked the city of Yan on the horseshoe mountain. As a result, the two strongest cavalry of the Yan people merged and circled a big circle. , appeared behind them, and this was the follow-up to the ten-day battle for thousands of miles and the destruction of two families.

The small detour refers to the fact that the Yan people's cavalry relied on well-trained and well-trained combat tactics developed on the battlefield;

In the second Battle of Wangjiang, although Tian Wujing successfully tricked the main force of the savage king into a truly elite decisive battle under his command, at that time, the main force of the savage army was still more than that of Tian Wujing's main force. much.

However, on the battlefield, there are more than 10,000 people on both sides, and they start to disperse. Each side has 100,000 people. The scale of the battlefield is even more unimaginable. The above is completely spread out to fight, the chief general has no time to grasp the overall situation, at most he tries to lead by preparing the Chinese army as a guide.

And the Yan people, relying on this random method, divided themselves into multiple lanes in the rushing formation, cut and drilled in multiple directions, and forcibly disrupted the main force of the savages, thus breaking them down, and then breaking them down. !

This is a small detour.

In fact, when the two sides fought face to face, not many soldiers died in battle, but after the main force of the savages was defeated, the main force of the savages was able to escape back to the snowfield even if the Xueguan had not been captured in advance by the Yan people's Uncle Hirano , not too many, but for my big Chu infantry, if we win in the field, the Yan people can retreat calmly. It is difficult for our army to catch up. You have to be careful that the Yan people come to feign defeat and set up an ambush on the way of our army's pursuit;

And if they are defeated, and the Yan people's cavalry cover up and kill them, there are probably very few of our army who can withdraw.

It was the same when the Yan army attacked Qian, the cavalry put pressure on them and rushed into the formation, and after the army collapsed, they calmly hunted and killed all over the mountains and fields.

Xiong Tingshan has been in Wutong County all year round, and what he deals with is also those disobedient Shanyue tribes. In the mountains, there are many waterways and dense valleys. Where did the cavalry fight?

Therefore, he couldn't say that he didn't understand cavalry tactics, but after all, he had never really fought against cavalry regiments. After hearing Nian Yao's words, he couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed.

The regent reached out and patted his forehead,

road:

In this way, I, Da Chu, will never have a day to fight Yan Renye?

Nian Yao immediately said:

No, my lord, since my lord settled down the situation, my lord has been cultivating a cavalry team among the imperial guards. Although my great Chu's horses are not as tall as those of the Yan people, they can be used if trained properly;

In my servant's view, I, Da Chuyi, should continue to recruit cavalry and continue to train like Qianguo; secondly, to foreign affairs, we should focus on a steady and steady approach to avoid the sharp edge of the Yan people;

Three, if you really want to fight, you can, but you must choose the right time, place and people and the second of the three before you can attack.

Xiong Tingshan sighed, and said: Brother Huang, I think Nian Yao is right. His big Yan laborer went on an expedition to attack Nanguan, my town, and he had to cross the entire Jin territory.

I, Da Chu, waits for work with ease, so I might as well just go to Zhennan Pass, have a rough time with him, and see how many lives he plans to kill at Zhennan Pass, let's accompany him.

When the Yan people are exhausted, I, Da Chu, will wait for the opportunity to move.

You know, that Emperor Yan has been rumored to be in poor health, and you, Brother Emperor, are still young.

The regent nodded. In fact, he already had a plan in his heart. Previously, he just let the two most trusted generals under his command open and honest.

In particular, my fifth younger brother has always wanted to lead the army on the front line. The regent trusts this fifth younger brother not to rebel.

But what he was worried about was that his fifth younger brother would be arrogant and underestimate the enemy, and he was also worried that his next arrangement would make him feel bad, so he specially watched the dancer dance and waited for Nian Yao to come over to talk to his fifth younger brother.

As the temporarily unnamed emperor of the Chu State, no, to be precise, several generations of Chu State emperors need to have this kind of ability to dance well in order to maintain this symbiotic political form of the Chu State.

In fact, if the existence of the Zhenbeihou Mansion is put aside, the Chu people are actually the best among the four eastern countries in terms of this kind of political ecology.

The scholar-bureaucrat class in Qian State woven layers of nets, not only wrapped in military generals, but also officials. Even the official family of Qian State now relied on the Yan people to go south last time. Only by helping to tear a hole in that net can he make a difference, depose several husbands in one fell swoop, and start to take power in a real sense.

Needless to say, the state of Jin, the royal family of the state of Jin lived in Prince Jin's Mansion in Yanjing, while Situ's family lived in Prince Cheng's Mansion in Yingdu.

They are all surrenders, and the orthodox treatment of the royal family is not as high as that of a prince under his own name.

Yan Guo is walking a tightrope, feeding the behemoth of the Zhenbei Hou Mansion by himself. If it weren't for the unimaginable iron triangle relationship, the current Yan State may not be busy with foreign development, but busy with civil war.

Nian Yao.

The slave is here.

You set off immediately, go to Zhennan Pass, rearrange and improve the defense.

The slave obeys the order.

Fifth brother.

The younger brother is here.

You stay in Beijing, hurry up and train the soldiers and horses in your hands, and in addition, in a short time, all kinds of soldiers and horses will gather in Yingdu, and you will take care of them.

When necessary, you need to go north.

Your brother obeys the order.

Don't blame my brother for not giving you a chance, but this kind of thing, brother, I want to be safe.

Nian Yao's ability, the regent is clear;

Another point is that when facing Tian Wujing, Nian Yao didn't have the slightest arrogance when he put down the rebellion of the princes, but he continued... cowardly.

This is the most reassuring point for the Regent.

In three days, I will hold a ceremony.

The so-called Dayi is a tradition of Chu State.

The nobles in the Chu country are divided into seven classes, and Dayi is a meeting held by the emperor of Chu, where the top three nobles gather together.

Previously, after the regent quelled the rebellion of the brothers, he held a grand ceremony. It was at this ceremony that he confirmed his orthodox status as the royal family of the Chu Kingdom.

Let's move first, and then take a look at how much money the Yan people plan to spend this time. The result of my previous discussions with all the ministers is that the Yan people should not fight again within five years after the Jin Dynasty is destroyed. Now , it seems that the Emperor of Yan Kingdom wanted to gamble again.

What a... lunatic.

The Regent held out his hand,

Scattered the remaining dried fruit on the ground,

road;

There is no reason not to wet your shoes when you often walk by the river.

...

The news that Yan State was going to attack Chu was suppressed by blockade.

Of course, it is impossible to hide it permanently, firstly, it is not possible, and secondly, it is not necessary.

Who can be deceived when the soldiers move out in battle?

It's all hidden, who will go to war?

The current blockade of news is just to give the political situation a stable transition time, so that the court can calmly arrange and arrange.

three days later,

The Golden Phoenix Hall in Yingdu Palace,

The regent sat on the dragon chair,

Below it, sat more than sixty nobles.

Inside, the elderly and middle-aged people each account for half.

According to the political habits of the Chu State, half of the official positions in the imperial court are actually in the pockets of the nobles. Those who do not have equivalent noble status are not allowed to take up this position. Some official positions have even become the hereditary inheritance of a noble family.

In the center of the hall, a row of torches was burning.

According to legend, every time the Marquis of Chu and his vassals discussed matters, they used torches as a guide, and everyone sat in a circle, so this ceremony has been passed down.

In fact, as long as there are no special circumstances, the patriarchs of the major aristocrats will basically work in Yingdu. Even if some have to return to the fief due to physical conditions, they will also send the next generation of patriarchs to Yingdu to replace them. position.

If Dayi wants to hold it, it can really be the same as the court meeting, and it can gather enough people the next day.

The reason why they waited for three days was because the real speakers of the nobles who were closer to Yingdu needed to come from their families, and these families were considered to be the most powerful group in Chu State.

For example, the Zhao family, the Jing family, and the Dugu family.

And at this time,

After everyone is seated,

The old patriarch of the Jing family stepped forward, pulled out a torch, turned around, walked up to the regent, knelt down tremblingly, and raised the torch over his head.

The regent reached out to take the torch and put it in the iron cage prepared by his side.

The old patriarch of the Jing family slowly got up and stepped back;

All the nobles stood up together, faced the regent, and bowed three times and kowtowed nine times under the leadership of the old patriarch of the Jing family.

The Jing family has always been in charge of culture and education in the state of Chu. At the earliest, when she was with the first Marquis of Chu, the Jing family was in charge of sacrifices and etiquette. According to legend, Jing's ancestors once served in the Ministry of Rites of the Great Xia Dynasty.

The gift is over,

The nobles sat down again, waiting for the regent to speak.

The regent stretched out his hand and waved to his side. Several eunuchs held the dragon robe, the crown of heaven and a pair of accessories that should belong to the emperor, placed them in the center of the position, and then quietly retreated.

Many nobles looked at each other, which one is this?

Although we all know that it will be a matter of time before the regent ascends the throne, shouldn't today's Dayi be to discuss the Yan people's countermeasures against Chu?

Why are the emperor's outfits such as the dragon robe and the crown of the sky put on it?

The old patriarch of the Jing family and the old patriarch of Dugu looked at each other. The former cast a questioning look at the latter, because he knew that the swordmaker of the Dugu family had a good relationship with the regent.

The Dugu old patriarch shook his head slightly, indicating that he was not clear about the situation.

The old patriarch of the Jing family pondered in his heart:

The folks in Chu State have always had a tradition of rejoicing, and if there is a war, if a man enlists in the army, if there is a marriage contract on his body, according to the custom, he will get married in advance. First, it represents loyalty, and second, it is also a blessing.

Is it possible?

The regent wants to be happy before the start of the war?

that myself,

Should I advise you?

In fact, there is no difference between the affairs of the court and the affairs of traffickers and pawns.

The great nobles have fiefs and population, and the merchants have a little capital and a batch of goods;

The big nobles need to have a good relationship with other nobles, and when the time is right, they will suppress and annex him; the merchants need to have a good relationship with their peers, and when the time is right, they will also make trouble.

The great nobles need to please the emperor, because the royal family of Chu still holds the most powerful power in Chu; the merchants need to please the officials in the city.

Therefore, at this time, it is not surprising that the old patriarch of the Jing family began to think about whether to push the boat along the way.

But the regent just pointed to the dragon robe and the Tongtian crown placed on the ground in the middle,

very casual

in the eyes,

With a touch of disdain,

open the way;

Which one of you wants this?

for a while,

All the nobles got up again and knelt down together:

The minister waits for ten thousand deaths.

The minister is guilty.

Although I don't know what the regent means, but there are court etiquette and rules in the court, for example, at this time, it is right to confess your guilt first and show an attitude.

The regent did not let them rush to peace,

but shook his head,

road:

The people of Yan are coming, this time, it seems that they are several times stronger than the Marquis of the Yan people at the beginning of the year;

You say,

Shall I prepare a set of white clothes now, and then go find a sheep,

open the door,

Wearing white clothes and leading the sheep, surrendered directly to the Yan people?

What's the matter, you can be a prince for a lifetime of glory and wealth, right?

The old patriarch of the Jing clan immediately raised his head and said loudly:

Your Majesty, how can you say such words, how can I, the Great Chu State, surrender to Yanman!

Yes, Your Majesty, this is the inheritance left by our ancestors.

Your Majesty, we will swear to the death to defend Your Majesty and Great Chu.

Your Majesty, please take back what you just said, or I will slam my head against this pillar to death.

Kings………

enough!

The regent suddenly slammed the imperial case. He himself is a practitioner, and there is a spiritual creature in his body.

this shot,

The royal case broke directly,

this drink,

It made the entire Golden Phoenix Hall completely silent.

Three days ago, I sent Fengchao internal guards to pass the news to you one by one. There are sixty-four nobles above the third rank and above in Dachu, and all the speakers are sitting here;

But for three days,

There are only eleven families who have really mobilized the people in the fief, only eleven!

I just want to ask, the remaining fifty-three families, what are you waiting for, what are you watching;

Are you waiting for me to beg you?

Are you waiting for me to bargain with you?

This big Chu,

is mine,

yes,

But this big Chu,

It's yours too!

this battle,

to fight,

Just give me a good fight and keep the Yan people out. After the war, you will still be the great nobles above the third rank!

If you don't want to fight,

sure,

I went to the Emperor of Yan to ask for the position of Prince, and keep the incense in the ancestral temple;

you,

Then you can go with His Majesty Yanhuang who once stepped into the door,

Have a nice chat.

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Afraid everyone will wait for a long time, one chapter will be released first, and there will be another chapter around 1:00 in the morning, don't panic!