In February of the first year of Wei Zhaowu, Wei and Chu were at war. The king of Chu, Du Shouying, appointed Pingyu Jun Xiong Hu, one of the Three Pillars, as the "chief commander of the armies in western Chu to attack Wei". He was responsible for leading all the armies in western Chu to attack Wei together.

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When attacking Wei from the west of Chu, the target of the attack is undoubtedly Wei's "Shangshui City", which is Wei's first line of defense against Chu.

This commercial water defense line covers many areas. It starts from "Yique" in the west, which was the residence of the Ling tribe of the Sheang tribe. Later, after it belonged to the Wei State, in order to effectively expel the Jie tribe in the Yishan area, the Wei people collapsed.

The soldiers then built passes in Yishan - the mountain road "Yishan-Yangzhai" later became an important road for merchants to travel from the hinterland of Wei to Sanchuan County.

Going east from Yique Pass, passing through Yangzhai, then passing through "Fenxing Fortress", "Wall", "Xuxian County", "Zhaoling", and finally connecting to "Shangshui County", this is the complete "Shang Dynasty of Chu".

"Water Defense Line", the entire defense line is nearly 350 miles long. There are many sentries, city walls, fortresses and local Wei army camps along the mountains and rivers. Compared with the Fenxing built 20 years ago to resist the Chu State,

The defense capability has more than doubled.

In mid-February, Xiong Hu, Lord Pingyu of Chu, led his "Pingyu Army" and stationed at the border between Wei and Chu, "Shangcai".

Shangcai has been a deserted land at the junction of Wei and Chu decades ago. The abandoned city "Cai City" standing in this wasteland has always been home to a group of outlaws.

Before Run and Chu Gong Zixiong started smuggling, this was the most important smuggling channel between Wei and Chu.

Returning to this strange yet familiar land again after twenty years, Pingyu Jun Xiong Hu could not help but feel a little emotional.

Because twenty years ago, when he and Xiong Tuo attacked Wei for the last time, they sent troops from Shangcai. Xiong Qi, Lord of Biyang, restrained Fenxingsai's army, and then Xiong Tuo and Xiong Hu led an army of 160,000.

Launched a sudden attack on Wei.

At that time, the war started very smoothly. Xiong Tuo's three generals, Zi Cheyu, Zaifu Gen, and Lian Bi, together with Pingyu Jun Xiong Hu, conquered Wei Guoqi in just over two months.

I remember that Xiong Tuo and Xiong Hu were very proud of this at that time: at this rate, in about a year at most, they could attack Daliang, the capital of Wei at that time.

But they never expected that their ferocious offensive would lead to the emergence of a remarkable figure in Wei State, namely Wei Gongzi Run, or in other words, the current Wei King Zhao Run.

"Twenty years...?"

Sitting in the commander's tent in the Caicheng military camp, Pingyu Jun Xiong Hu recalled the battle that year, and then he felt a dull pain in his legs.

This was actually a psychological effect. After all, his legs were not injured, but it could not be denied that after capturing him, Mr. Wei's son Run stabbed his legs through with a dagger.

He has never forgotten the childish yet frightening face of Wei Gongzi Run, who was only fourteen years old back then.

"Zhao Run...if you think about it, he's quite handsome."

With a sneer, Pingyu Lord Xiong Hu stood up and walked towards the outside of the tent.

It's strange to say that the war is about to come, but Pingyu Jun Xiong Hu is thinking about Wei Wang Zhao Run's cousin-in-law, and his sister, Wei Queen Mi Jiang - he feels that his brother-in-law and sister are really very close.

A good match.

Brother-in-law Zhao Run is certainly a hero, but sister Mi Jiang, even if she doesn't smile, she is a cold-faced beauty. Once she smiles one day, it will surely make the country and the city fall. Beauty and hero complement each other.

As he thought about it, Pingyu Lord Xiong Hu thought of his nephew, the Crown Prince of Wei, Zhao Wei.

Compared with Xiong Tuo who has been staying in Shooying these years, Xiong Hu has actually been paying attention to the conditions of Mijiang, Zhao Wei, mother and son, and even Shen Yu, the Wei general in Shangshui County opposite, sometimes sends some Mijiang. Come over with letters or portraits of mother and son.

It has to be said that Pingyu Jun Xiong Hu never thought that Wei Gongzi Zhao Run, who stabbed him twice and almost left his legs disabled, would later become his cousin-in-law, let alone that he Xiong Hu's nephew turned out to be the Prince of the Eastern Palace of Wei State.

This is really...

"...God's will is unpredictable."

Standing in the camp, Pingyu Jun Xiong Hu looked at the direction of Shangshui with his hands behind his back, sighing secretly in his heart.

At this time, a young man wearing armor came from a distance, walked up to Xiong Hu and clasped his fists, saying, "Father... no, my father is handsome."

Xiong Hu turned to look at the young man.

The young man in front of him is none other than his third son, Xiong Miao.

Xiong Hu had four sons and three daughters. The eldest son was called Xiong Jun, the second son was called Xiong Yi, the third son was called Xiong Miao, and the fourth son was called Xiong Kui.

Among the four sons, his favorite was his third son, Xiong Miao, because this son was clever and smart. Unfortunately, this son was destined to be unable to inherit his hereditary title of "Pingyu Lord". Therefore, Xiong Hu favored the general. The third son, Xiong Miao, was recruited into Pingyu's army and focused on his cultivation. He hoped that this son could live up to his trust and obtain a fiefdom on his own, so that his "Pingyu Xiong clan" could become more prosperous.

This was also the expectation of his father, who died early due to alcoholism.

"Miao'er, there is going to be a war with Wei State soon, are you afraid?"

Xiong Hu called his son Xiong Miao to him and asked.

"Father is handsome, the child is not afraid." Xiong Miao shook his head, but from his eyes, Xiong Hu could still see a little panic.

It's no wonder, after all, this is Xiong Miao's real first battle.

"There is no need to be afraid. This time we use troops against the Wei State, I, Chuxi, can gather at least 200,000 troops..."

Having said this, Pingyu Jun Xiong Hu paused, and after thinking for a moment, he lowered his voice and said: "Remember what my father told you, if you can't fight, run away, if you can't run, surrender, those people on the opposite side of Shangshui , you can also be called an old acquaintance of my father, they will not make things difficult for you... Remember, never act out of your own whim."

"Father is handsome..."

Xiong Miao looked at his father with a wry smile and muttered to himself: In your capacity, is it really appropriate to say this?

He blinked and said with a bit of ridicule: "Father, did you do the same thing back then?"

"Bastard!"

Xiong Hu patted his son on the head and said angrily: "Dare you make fun of your father?"

Saying this, he felt a little sad in his heart, because Xiong Miao was only born a year after he was released by Zhao Run. In other words, if Zhao Run really killed him back then, not only would he not be able to survive until now, but his preferred His son, Xiong Miao, could not be born either.

After being patted on the head by his father, the young Xiong Miao chuckled. Then, as if he had thought of something, he whispered: "By the way, handsome father, I'm here to report to you, Biyang Lord Xiong Qi." Your Excellency has arrived."

"Oh." Pingyu Jun Xiong Hu nodded, and just as he was about to speak, he heard a burst of footsteps behind him. When he turned around, he saw Biyang Jun Xiong Qi leading a large group of people heading this way. Come.

Seeing this, Xiong Hu immediately lowered his voice and said to his son: "What my father just told you must not be revealed."

"Are children that stupid?"

Xiong Miao rolled his eyes.

Later, Xiong Hu led his son Xiong Miao forward to meet Xiong Qi, Lord Biyang.

He and Xiong Qi, Lord of Biyang, were also old acquaintances. When Xiong Tuo attacked Wei State, Xiong Qi, Lord of Biyang, was responsible for containing Wei general Xu Yin who was stationed at Fenxing Fortress.

In fact, the Xiong nobles in Western Chu have a very good relationship with each other, especially when they jointly fought against the Xiong nobles in Eastern Chu.

"Good brother."

"Brother Xian."

After greeting each other, Pingyu Lord Xiong Hu and Biyang Lord Xiong Qi held hands and laughed.

They haven't seen each other for several years. The reason is Chu Xi's "Bashu Strategy". Although Xiong Tuo and Xiong Hu are in control of the overall situation, the person who implements it is Xiong Qi, Lord Biyang.

In the past ten years, Biyang Lord Xiong Qi has gone to Bashu more than once, continuing to play Xiong Tuo's old trick of "supporting one group and suppressing the other" to provoke internal wars in Bashu. By supporting a certain party, they In exchange for Bashu's war horses, ores, slaves and other resources.

This is why Chu Xi resents the Jie people in Nanyang Wandi, because many times the small Bashu country they support will be attacked by those Jie people. To put it bluntly, those Jie people are like fighting against Chu Xi. Steal business.

As the saying goes, when colleagues meet, they are extremely jealous. If the backers behind the Jie tribe were not the Sichuan-Luo Alliance or even the Wei State, I am afraid that the former would have been destroyed by Chu Xi's army long ago.

"This time I sent out troops, I specially brought two thousand war horses..."

"good!"

Pingyu Lord Xiong Hu was overjoyed when he heard this.

To be honest, although Bashu's war horses have good endurance, their frames are very short, and they are far less tall than northern horses such as Sanchuan horses and Hetao horses. But in any case, no matter how short a war horse is, it is better than nothing, especially for those with very few cavalry. As far as the Chu army is concerned.

After a while, Xiong Hu invited Xiong Qi to the handsome tent.

At this time, apart from the two of them, there were only Xiong Hu's son Xiong Miao and Xiong Qi's personal bodyguard in the tent. Neither of them were outsiders, so Xiong Qi, Lord Biyang, said in a somewhat complaining tone after sitting down. : "I thought that our generation would never see the war between Chu and Wei..."

"Haha." Pingyu Jun Xiong Hu smiled and said nothing.

In fact, he had similar emotions in his heart.

To be fair, he has no objection to starting a war with Wei, but the problem is that once the two countries go to war, the people who will confront him on the battlefield will be his old acquaintances.

Just like Shen Yu, the Wei general who was stationed in Shangshui County. As the former chief of the imperial clan of Wei King Zhao Run, Xiong Hu often went to Shangshui to drink with Shen Yu in previous years. There were even several times when Xiong Hu was intoxicated. Hu also intends to marry his unmarried daughter to Shen Yu's son.

Anyway, in his opinion, although Shen Yu was just the son of an ordinary military household, his identity as "the former clan guard chief beside King Wei" was more useful than any other king, let alone Shen Yu's replacement for King Zhao Runtong of Wei. Yushangshui County.

Unexpectedly, before the marriage between the two families was settled, a war between Chu and Wei was triggered.

Pingyujun Xiong Hu also had some regrets about this.

Just like what Xiong Qi, Lord Biyang, said, the war between Chu and Wei came too early. It would be better to wait another ten or twenty years until their generation is buried, then - no matter what they are.

It’s a matter of this generation.

"We should do our best to live up to the emperor's salary and be loyal to the emperor. I don't think those people on the other side will be merciful to us." Pingyu Lord Xiong Hu said with a smile.

Biyang Lord Xiong Qi nodded.

Strangely enough, neither Pingyu Lord Xiong Hu nor Biyang Lord Xiong Qi seemed very worried about the upcoming war.

Maybe they all have their own little thoughts in mind, but they are indeed very familiar with the people in Shangshui County of Wei State.

"Speaking of which, how should we fight this battle?"

After chatting with each other for a while, Biyang Lord Xiong Qi finally brought the topic down to business.

Seeing this, Pingyu Lord Xiong Hu stopped joking, spread the map flat on a table, and said to Biyang Lord Xiong Qi: "Shangshui County, you and I both know what the situation is... Wei Jun's

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To be continued...