"Cough cough cough...ah——!"

Gong Ao felt mixed emotions in his heart. He leaned on the edge of the bed with his left hand and clutched his chest with his right hand, still unable to stop coughing.

In the eyes of the eunuch, Gong Aohu's eyes were wide-eyed, and there was blood between his clenched teeth, just like a sick tiger.

The eunuch trembled all over and lowered his head to touch the ground. The beast at the end of its life is the last thing to be easily provoked.

"Ying Bu is a bandit, Wu Rui is an old official who rebelled against the Qin State...Bashu is also the place where the Qin State exiled prisoners...none of them are good." Gong Ao suddenly had a sinister smile on his face, "But it's okay...haha

...The defenders of Yufucheng have already laid iron ropes on the river. If the people from Bashu rush past, they will be capsized in the river!"

Gong Ao originally did not plan to fortify Bashu, but a magician once told him that the Linjiang Kingdom needed to take into account the danger in the west, so he made preparations in advance.

Huang Jizhong died because the sorcerer said that Huang Jizhong would betray the country, so he had early murderous intentions.

"Exactly...exactly." The eunuch carefully agreed.

Gong Ao wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, calmed down slightly, and said to himself, "If Huang Jizhong dies, he will die. Linjiang Nan County alone... has 600,000 people, and there is no shortage of them."

Soldiers! We have borrowed troops from Xiang Yu. Jiujiang and Hengshan are no match. We can definitely resolve the crisis..."

Three of the four countries around Linjiang are attacking. Gong Ao, as the Huai Wang Zhu Kingdom, must not ask for help from the Qin people.

For the sake of Linjiang's safety, Gong Ao had ignored Xiang Yu's collusion with Ying Bu to kill King Huai.

"How many people did Lu Pheasant bring?" Gong Ao asked.

"I don't know... I just heard that on the river, there are ships as far as the eye can see." The eunuch replied carefully.

"Oh, it only takes less than a hundred boats to spread all over the river." Gong Ao gradually calmed down, "Bashu originally only had 20,000 to 30,000 people, and even if we recruit troops and horses, only 50,000 people can attack. I immediately recruited troops and governors in person to give Bashu a taste.

Taste the pain!"

Gong Ao got out of bed and stood up. The pain that had been tormenting him suddenly disappeared, and his breathing became extremely normal.

"As long as I am alive, Linjiang will not die. Go quickly and call Situ and the doctor!" Gong Ao said loudly.

"No!" The eunuch nodded heavily, turned and left.

After a while, the maids returned, kneeling on the ground and carefully wiping the blood.

Gong Ao looked at the slender-waisted palace maid, and a trace of desire arose in his heart. As the king of a country, he is over sixty years old and has only one son, Gong Wei. The king's heir is indeed a bit shabby.

"Whoever is willing to follow me to Yufucheng City, if you have an heir after this battle, I will definitely reward you greatly." Gong Ao said with a smile, narrowing his eyes.

The faces of all the palace maids were cold, and they were all silent. Gong Ao was extremely unusual today, and he must have returned to his former glory.

With Gong Ao's recent temper, both the palace maids and palace maids will be buried with him!

"Escape quickly! If you don't escape, you will die!" A palace maid suddenly shouted, looking around at everyone.

Everyone was stunned for a while, then regained their composure, exchanged glances, gritted their teeth and nodded.

"What are you going to do? How dare you act so arrogantly in front of everyone?!"

Gong Ao said angrily, reaching out to catch everyone. The nearest palace maid ran slower, and was held tightly by Gong Ao's wrist.

"I am the pillar of Chu State and the king of Linjiang. No one dares to disobey me!"

"Let go!"

The palace maid summoned up all her strength and pushed Gong Ao away.

Gong Ao's newly rising strength disappeared in an instant, and he was pushed heavily to the ground. His face turned pale and he looked old.

"This...this is...?"

"You are going to die, and Linjiang is going to die too!" the palace maid spat, quickly escaping from Gong Ao's sight.

Gong Ao didn't even have the strength to raise his hands, and his eyelids gradually became heavy and slowly closed.

"It's impossible... Linjiang was defeated by me personally... It won't be in my hands..."

Gong Ao forced his eyes not to close, looking half-open and half-closed at the empty and blood-stained palace, his vision gradually darkened...

...

"Gong Ao is the king of Linjiang Kingdom, and his subordinate Huang Jizhong will betray him." Ziying took a sip of water and said to Lu Matong with a smile.

After traveling for five days and five nights, the army stopped to repair and eat. Only then did Ziying realize that the wounds on his feet had already scabbed over and were not as scary as he had imagined.

Lu Matong chewed the steamed bun and said in a muffled voice, "Didn't the king just say that Huang Jizhong had followed Gong Ao very early? Why would he betray him again?"

"Huang Jizhong is a man who knows the situation well. He will join any country that has a legitimate name and strength," Ziying said.

At that time, Huang Jizhong also followed Gong Ao wholeheartedly. As a result, Liu Bang destroyed the Three Qin Dynasty and attacked Xiang Yu in order to avenge King Huai of Chu. He sent Lu Wan and Liu Jia to send troops to the river. Huang Jizhong immediately defected to Liu Bang.

During the battle to conquer Linjiang, Huang Jizhong tried his best and even captured the communist captain alive.

Later, he followed Liu Bang in the battles and put down the subsequent Yingbo Rebellion, and was granted the title of Marquis of Qin.

"This man is really strange. How can another country betray his old master while being honest?" Lu Matong muttered, "Gong Ao will be angry to death one day."

"It's true that he is the most likely to win the world. Huang Jizhong is shrewd." Ziying said with a smile, "Gong Ao is old and sick, and Linjiang is no longer against Jiujiang and Bashu. I'm afraid I won't be able to wait until that time."

In the rare free time during the rapid march, Zi Ying used it to relieve his boredom and analyze the general trend of the world to Lu Matong.

"Then he is still a traitor." Lu Matong's tone was slightly contemptuous.

"In case he follows me in the future, Commander Lu should get along well with Huang Jizhong." Ziying warned, someone who could lead the army to defeat Yingbu was a dream come true.

"The king had a good idea. Maybe Huang Jizhong died in the battle. The king could only mourn from a distance and buy a horse bone for a thousand gold." Lu Matong joked.

"Smelly mouth." Ziying rolled his eyes at Lu Matong.

"Even if he doesn't die, he may not necessarily follow the king." Lu Matong said with a smile, "The Hengshan Kingdom seems to be the powerful and justifiable country that the king said."

"Wu Rui? His name is nothing!" Ziying was slightly angry, and carefully checked to make sure that the Baiyue soldiers could not hear what they said, "The Poyi order personally granted by the First Emperor actually rebelled against the Qin Dynasty. If it hadn't been for him, he would have been one of the most powerful people in the world.

The commander-in-chief of the Yue soldiers is Zou Wuzhu, and Zouyao all obeys his orders. I really want to destroy Hengshan."

At the end of the Qin Dynasty, Poyang Lake was in great turmoil, with bandits and bandits often appearing. The young Wu Rui led his family to defend the villagers, and also collected stragglers to strengthen his team.

Wu Rui, who was only eighteen years old, had nearly 20,000 troops in his hands, while Xiang Yu would not have military power until he was twenty years old.

After the system of prefectures and counties was implemented in the world, Wu Rui, who was well-known, was elected as the magistrate of Poyi by his hometown people and obtained the permission of the First Emperor.

As a result, Chen Sheng and Wu Guang rebelled, and the first official of the Qin Dynasty to raise troops to respond was Wu Rui.

Baiyue people Zou Wuzhu, Zou Yao, Mei Rui all returned to Wu Rui, and Yingbu became Wu Rui's son-in-law. He had a wide network of contacts and extraordinary power, even inferior to Zhang Er, the later king of Changshan.

Xiang Yu was well aware of Wu Rui's ability and won the title of queen in the world, so he deliberately suppressed Wu Rui and the Yue people.

Wu Rui was only given Changsha County, and Mei Yuan was granted the title of Taihou, and the fiefdom was also in Hengshan. As for Zou Wuzhu, Zou Yao and Zou Yao were not crowned kings, so they returned to the southeast in despair.

Xiang Yu's move made the people of Baiyue dissatisfied. It was precisely because of this that during the conflict between Chu and Han, the people of Yue all followed Liu Bang.

"So Wu Rui is so powerful?" Lu Matong was surprised, "Then the king won't be able to match him in the future, right?"

"There is no need to worry about this." Ziying smiled with relief, "The Hengshan country is strong again, and Wu Rui can only be a minister, not a king. Does Commander Lu know what Wu Rui's biggest wish is?"

"Rong Chen, think about it." Lu Ma Tongquan regarded it as Ziying's test for him, frowning and thinking deeply.

"The Baiyue people...are extremely powerful...then his biggest wish must be to let the Yue people rule the nine states in the world!" Lu Matong said seriously, looking at Ziying with a burning expression, "The king said that Wu Rui is the one who dominates the world.

The descendants of King Wu Fuchai must be determined to dominate the world."

"If Wu Rui had this intention, the world would have been his for a long time." Ziying said with a smile, "What Wu Rui wants to do most is to spend the rest of his life with his family."

"What? Isn't this too petty?" Lu Matong couldn't understand.

"Why else would Commander Lu think Wu Rui, who has always been calm and composed, easily sent troops to Linjiang? His daughter died in Linjiang. This is his weakness." Ziying explained.

After Wu Rui helped Liu Bang win the world, he was heavily rewarded and named the King of Changsha. He was also the only one among the eight kings with different surnames in the early Han Dynasty who was not killed or deposed by Liu Bang.

Wu Rui gave most of his fiefdom to Liu Bang's children and returned to Fuliang with his family. When he was forty, he and his wife both died without illness.

"In short, among the princes in the world, the only opponents of Da Qin are King Bao of the Western Wei Dynasty, King Zang Tu of Yan, King Yingbu of Jiujiang, Overlord Xiang Yu... King Liu Bang of Bashu!" Ziying stood up and shouted, "You have rested long enough, let's march again

!”

The army all stood up and advanced behind Ziying.

Two hours later, an army of 10,000 people stopped in front of a stone mountain dozens of feet high. The Minjiang River below was rushing and the sound was loud. There was no doubt that anyone who fell in would be swept away instantly.

Ziying frowned and walked around for a long time, and finally found a low place on the opposite side where a bridge could be built.

"Finally we are at Huashi Gorge." Ziying turned around and shouted to the Qin soldiers, "The soldiers cut down trees to build a bridge. We must cross this river today!"

"promise!"

Hundreds of lieutenants responded, took out their axes and saws from their backs, and headed straight for the trees in the mountain.

"It turns out that the king really didn't lie to me." Lu Matong muttered in a low voice.

Ziying didn't answer, thinking about the time.

If Lu Pheasant had not been blocked, he would have reached Jiangling long ago. If he had been blocked by Lord Linjiang, he would have passed Yufucheng and reached Yiling long ago. With 50,000 troops and the Linjiang Kingdom facing an enemy, as long as he did not

With a 700-mile company camp, Jiangling will be within half a month's reach.

If you are on flat land, it is not difficult to travel a hundred miles a day. But in the mountains, the speed cannot reach half.

The Seven Hundred Dangerous Road, even if you have ten days, would still require you to travel seventy miles a day, which is simply impossible to achieve.
To be continued...