In the Huaishui Goddess Palace, after offering sacrifices during the autumn harvest, the entire palace rarely became peaceful.
But not long after, all the young and old of the Ziche family went to the Huaishui Goddess Palace to tremble.
The furious Princess Ying Ying of Yeyue almost wanted to kill Zi Che Bai Butt with a sword. If the female soldiers guarding Ying Ying had not stopped her, the former Qin Zuo Quma would have died on the bank of the Huai River.
"Ignorance! Stupid! Unreachable Stupidity"
Anger made Ying Ying murderous, and Zi Che lay on the ground with her white buttocks, not daring to say anything.
The secret envoys arranged to return home may have just arrived in Shangyu, but this wave of emissaries is to persuade the Marquis of Qin to send troops to the northwest of Chu State, and then attack Chu State from a flank, completely cutting off Chu State's hope of rising again.
According to the original secret agreement, the Qin Army and the Huai Army respectively wanted to destroy all the natural dangers of the Chu State, so that even if the Chu State preserved its national system, it had to fully shift to strategic defense.
A large amount of defense spending will be invested in both the north and east directions.
After years of slow bloodletting, he then sought an opportunity to kill Chu in one wave.
In theory, this is the best operation.
It's just that obviously when implemented into concrete things, it's not that wonderful at all.
I don’t know if the Marquis of Qin was cowarded, but the Marquis of Qin did not send troops to the northwest of Chu State within the agreed period. This is what happened in reality.
When such a change occurred, Princess Yeyue immediately chose to save the unfavorable situation. She had far more confidence in her husband Li Jie than the people of Qin.
To Ying Ying, it was obvious that the Qin and Huai sides at this time did not intend to continue the help of Qin from Huai Shui Bo Mansion. With or without the restraint of Qin, Li Jie planned to attack Chu by force.
There is fat to eat and hard bones to chew. This is not the time to pick and choose, but the system operation of Huai Shui Bo Mansion. Under the current conditions, it is constantly expanding.
If over-expansion fails, limited expansion must be maintained.
The operation of the war machine has its ups and downs, but it cannot stop. Almost every department within the shogunate serves this purpose.
Although Ying Ying did not have a clear understanding of Li Jie's family background, she knew that regarding the attack on Chu, there was obviously a plan within the shogunate for the Qin army not to send troops.
So when she heard that there was no news of the Qin army taking action in the land of Shangyu, Princess Yeyue knew that her husband must be planning to leave Qin alone and go it alone.
And if nothing unexpected happens, as long as Qin does not take action during the meeting, no matter how much territory Qin seizes from Chu, it will eventually spit it out.
If Qin does not vomit, then the soldiers will fight each other and talk on the battlefield.
"Self-righteous, self-smart, self-destruction!"
boom!
Ying Ying raised her hand and patted the table hard. The fruit plate on the table was shaken around, and a few fresh peaches even rolled to the ground. They rolled in a big circle and disappeared from the table. Almost rolled to the threshold.
Throughout the main hall of the shrine, Princess Yeyue closed her eyes helplessly, then opened her eyes and said, "Qin will be suffocated to death in Hexi!"
"Your Highness! Your Highness! Things can still turn around, as long as..."
"roll!"
"yes!"
The entire Ziche clan was sweating profusely, but after Ziche took the lead to retreat, the white-haired elders of the Ziche clan had no choice but to retreat angrily.
After leaving the Huai River Goddess Palace, Zuo Quma, the former Qin State, sighed: "There is a saying in Huai that there are people who are 'short-sighted', but I don't take it seriously. Today, I know that the eyes of rats are only short-sighted!"
Originally, when Qin failed to attack Chu as scheduled, there was still a chance to save it. After Princess Yeyue became furious and insulted the old Qin family, the Ziche family sent a secret envoy to return to the country as soon as possible to urge the king to send troops.
If you miss this God-given opportunity, you will really miss it.
If he had not been in Huai Zhong City, based on Zi Che's past experience, he would definitely have looked at Chu and sent troops after the Huai War to eat the biggest pie and get the biggest advantage.
But it’s not that simple!
Huai Shui Bo Mansion is completely different from the previous countries, and Li Jie, the powerful man appointed by the King of Wu, has a very different style of conduct from the monarchs of other countries.
Who would have thought that they could conquer Yingdu in just half a month?!
The King of Chu and the Queen Mother of Chu are now in prison, and the great turmoil in the entire Chu Kingdom can already be seen.
Even just now, when the Ziche family, old and young, came to the Huaishui Goddess Palace, news came from the front line of the Dabie Mountains that the three passes of the Chu Kingdom were in turmoil. Except for the Datun Pass, the guard of Ming E had already escaped.
The name guard Ming E uses is "King Qin" and he wants to return to the capital of Ying to rescue the king.
In fact, he is afraid of the enemy like a tiger and moves in crazily.
The three armies led by Sima Hai, Zhao Pan and Shusun Ji were also seriously affected.
The border troops are already rebellious, and they have been hanging out in the Dabie Mountains all year round. The professional quality of the army is obviously much better than that of the improvised military divisions.
More importantly, in order to guard against Li Jie, Chu State had piled up a large amount of supplies at the three passes.
Even if it was the veteran Danyang Gong Douzun, no matter how fearful the Chu royal family was, they still gave him a lot of support.
Weapons and equipment, food, fodder, chariots and horses... can be said to be everything you need.
This led to a situation where the border troops, which were already strong in combat effectiveness, were now rich and had no need to go to the newly formed Lingshi Army.
In particular, Zhao Pan, the general of the Central Army, was a member of the Empress Dowager Zhao. It was unheard of for a Jin man to be the chief general of the Chu State. The Sanguan soldiers, who were already angry, even more confidently refused to abandon Zhao Pan.
In addition, the King of Chu has indeed fallen into the hands of Li Jie, so the people in Ming'e Pass are naturally more arrogant and have more solid reasons.
Where on the front line does the life and death of the king matter?
Holding high the banner of "King of Diligence", he ran away in a flash.
The defenders of Ming'e Pass ran too fast and ran directly to the Han River. They did not see that they were following the Han River from south to north and rushed to Yingdu to rescue people. This cunning operation made the three armies of the Ling Division look at it. Understand?
I was thinking that you, Ming'e Guardsman, said nicely that you were going home to be a diligent king, but in the end, you were just so diligent?
So Zhao Pan, the general of the Lingshi Central Army, sent an envoy to order the soldiers at Ming'e Pass to go south and not stay north of the Han River.
The communication between the two parties was not smooth. Ming'eguan killed Zhao Pan's people without saying a word.
After killing the envoy from the Central Army of Lingshi, he sent another envoy to the Lingshi to spread the word that Zhao Pan was a spy of the Jin State and came to the Chu State just to defeat the Chu Army!
All he needed to do was name Zhao Pan, saying that the temptress Queen Mother Zhao deliberately brought Zhao Pan to ruin the state of Chu.
This drama caused a great deal of commotion. Shang Wuji's army was still building a wood and stone stockade outside the Great Tunnel Pass, and the middle army of Chu's mausoleum division began to fight among themselves.
The troops at Ming'e Pass were not dispatched, but Zhao Pan controlled the army. In just one night, there were middle and lower-level officers, with their own soldiers, fighting for power overnight on the pretext of "King of Qin kills thieves".
Not only did the internal strife come quickly, but it was also extremely fierce. The Chinese army had 20,000 to 30,000 men, plus various civilians, young and strong, working hard, and tens of thousands of people were killing each other in the dark, from being invisible until the sky was slightly bright.
When the sun rose the next day, there were less than 20,000 people left in the entire Chinese army. The general of the Chinese army, Zhao Pan, was missing. The main chariot force of the Ling division was damaged. It was a small matter that more than half of the two thousand chariots were damaged. The charioteer...
...there are still seventy or eighty left to die.
As for the common people, young and strong, they all disappeared as soon as daybreak.
Can you not run? If you don't run, you will die. If you run, you can still live.
Moreover, there are also smart young and strong civilians who grab some weapons and equipment and then run away. On their way back to their hometowns, they find a dock to sell their weapons and equipment to foreigners. This is a lot of money for nothing.
After making such a fortune, if you don't run away quickly, you don't necessarily have to wait for the warlords to serve you, right?
No one expected this drastic change in the Chu army. Even Shang Wuji outside the Great Tunnel Pass could not imagine what a huge drama was being staged on the other side of the mountain. It was simply a group of elves doing it. It was so magical.
My uncle completely thought that Chu State was going to self-destruct.
No matter how much he tried to stop the spread of the news, the general of the Great Tunnel Pass, Danyang Gong Douzun, could not hide it. While he was running away at Ming'e Pass, Douzun asked his son Douyu to take over the defense of Ming'e Pass.
Because he kept watching, there was no major problem with the defense after all. Most of Shang Wuji regretted it when he knew that such an incident happened at the Ming'e Pass. If the timing was good, maybe the third pass would have been broken like this.
When Douyu switches to the defensive level, there will naturally be no drama.
However, news of the Chu State's chaos still spread to the Jianghuai area through the Huai River, and gradually spread to the Central Plains.
Half a month after Shadong organized civilians to seize Chu's grain, the battle between Wei and Zheng, which was originally a stupid battle, actually completely extinguished the flames of war, with no intention of continuing.
This incident in the south really shocked Zheng Guo and Wei Guo, and even a certain old man who planned to retire in Chaoge was completely frightened by Mr. Li's coquettish manipulation.
The nervous Marquis Wei found Lao Jianghu again and quickly asked what to do next.
Should we continue to fight to the death with Zheng Guo, or should we stop the war quickly and have both sides stop for peace talks to deal with the coming situation where the southern family will dominate.
Back then, when facing the Chu State, there were still ways to do it, whether it was to find Qin, Jin or Qi, or to unite the small powers themselves, or to find something more barbaric like the Wu State. In short, there was always foreign aid to check and balance.
But once the Chu State collapsed, who among the Central Plains princes could stand Li Jie's dog-like behavior?
Marquis Wei had no choice but to bring gold, silver, jewels, silk and satin to ask the old masters for advice.
"Please master, please teach me!"
After meeting the former Grand Prime Minister of Wu State, Marquis Wei looked very solemn, "Now that Wu Jie has conquered the capital of Ying, the civil war in Chu continues, the Jianghuai River is shaken, and the world is shaken! I'm afraid that during the holidays, the power of the Huai River is comparable to that of Wu
Chu Lianhe!"
"Wu Chu Alliance?"
Zi Qi, who was getting older and older, laughed disdainfully, "Your Majesty, you know nothing about Li Jie."
After saying this, Ziqi did not continue to mock, but said seriously: "It is not unwise for your Majesty to stop your hands at this time, but as I see it, why not take advantage of this opportunity to make Zheng Guo unable to recover?"
"Huh?" Wei Hou was stunned and quickly saluted, "Please teach me, Master!"
"Zheng Chengzi is not the king of Zheng after all. Now that the south is undergoing great changes, he must be on guard. The peace talks between Zheng and Zheng are exactly what he wants. If he pretends to have peace talks at this time and takes advantage of his unpreparedness to destroy Zheng's division, the land east of Zheng and Henan will be destroyed.
It is what you have in your pocket."
"hiss……"
Unable to help but consider the rationality, Wei Hou suddenly felt that this was a good idea.
And there is no need to share it equally with the Song Dynasty!
"It's just the changes in Chu State..."
"Your Majesty!" before the Marquis of Wei could finish his words, Ziqi interrupted him directly, "Even if the Chu Kingdom is destroyed, how long will it take Li Jie to subdue the people of the Chu Kingdom?"
A very simple truth, after conquering a country, you must eventually digest the country's land, population, and resources.
The hatred between Wu and Chu has lasted for generations, how can it be so easily resolved?
Normally speaking, even if Li Jie destroyed the Chu State, he would still have to invest a lot of resources in order to slowly digest the benefits of eating it.
This period of time, at least ten or twenty years.
Ten or twenty years...what are you afraid of? What else is there to be afraid of?
Thinking of this, Marquis Wei's eyes suddenly lit up, he stood up quickly, and solemnly saluted Zi Qi: "Thank you, Master, for teaching me!"