Chapter 146 Winning the World (Thanks to Book Friend 160514140318651 for the Monthly Pass)
But at this time, in the large camp behind the Chu army, Ah Liu had an ominous premonition in his heart since he was told to go back by Mao Ba.
The Qin people thought that Zhou Tianzi raised horses and became a marquis, so the war horses of the Qin State were well-known princes, and their long-strength, endurance and speed made countries compete for purchases.
Naturally, some of the war horses of the Chu State were also purchased from the Qin State.
And it is common for the war horses on the battlefield to live more arrogantly than the soldiers, and the hay they eat and the high-grade feed mixed with black beans may not be enjoyed by some of the lowest soldiers, let alone the slaves who raise horses.
And it is not a big deal for the war horse to fall ill on the battlefield.
Although these war horses are Qin horses, they are tall and strong, but after being cultivated by the Chu people, they have long adapted to the climate of Chu, and suddenly they came to the north and were pampered on weekdays, and it is possible that they cannot adapt.
I couldn't sleep in the middle of the night, thinking about it, Ah Liu suddenly sat up and woke up the sleeping brother next to him, "Huzi, you said those people wouldn't attack the war horse, right?"
In the past few days, Chu and Jin have made a truce, and they can finally steal back to lazy, wrapped in thin linen clothes and sleeping in Zhengxiang, snoring a few Huzi, they were awakened by a slap, and they couldn't find the north and south, thinking that the marshal was going to war against Jin again, turned over, picked up the guy and prepared to open the way.
"What's wrong?"
"Is there a war? Is the marshal going to war again......"
In the dark, in the small tent, there was not even an oil lamp, and Ah Liu said in a deep voice, "It's not a war! I think that the war horses have been one after another recently, and they are strangely sick, and some of them are even crazy." ”
"What's this?"
"My Chu people are still unaccustomed to the north of the country, vomiting and diarrhea, those war horses are better than our slaves, and now the army is short of food like this, we are all hungry, not two meals a day to supply their beans, just like this, still sick, really delicate!"
"What's more, on the battlefield, the drum beats, not to mention the horses, everyone is scared!"
In the small tent, the slaves were unimpressed.
"That's it...... Aliu!"
Huzi laughed, "snort", and took a big breath of cold air from the north, "Look at the weather in the north seems to be getting cold again, I didn't feel anything when I fell asleep just now, but when I woke up, my stomach was hungry and my body was cold, not to mention the war horse, I couldn't stand it." ”
A group of slaves huddled together in a small tent, trying to absorb a little bit of warmth.
However, as slaves, they had been hungry for a long time, and all the remaining food in the army was saved, and the commander repeatedly ordered that all informants should not spread the word, disturbing the morale of the army in this final stage, and at the same time ordering the slave camps to hunt and supply the army while the soldiers were out in battle.
"Damn, this ghost weather in the north is really going to freeze us to death!"
As slaves, quilts and straw mats, now even a bowl of porridge is a luxury for them, several slaves are cold and hungry, big hands rubbing their frozen limbs vigorously, driving away the cold on their bodies, hugging themselves, hungry and lying down again, "Sleep, sleep!"
"It's going to be dawn soon, and we have to hunt, and hopefully tomorrow we can hunt more, or get more food from the nearby rice fields, so we can have a surplus to share!"
Ah Liu watched them lie down again, his eyes glaring, "I'll be serious with you!"
Pointing to the armoured and halberd-wielding soldiers patrolling outside the slave camp, "Do you all want to go back?" Do you really want to be beheaded by the rebels who were being rebellious by the soldiers guarding outside the camp?"
"Yes, yes!"
"We dream about it, but haven't we noticed anything unusual?" everyone looked at the cold halberd outside the tent, and their spirits were shocked.
"But the horse doctors in the army all say that the water and soil are not adapted, what can we do?" Huzi spread his hands.
"No, let's go to the stables again!"
Seeing that it was bright outside, Ah Liu put on his coat, and then opened the small tent and ran out, Huzi and the others beckoned, "Wait, let's be together!"
Everyone quickly passed through the Chu army camp located south of Beimang Mountain, and headed towards the stable in the rear.
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Thirty miles west of Beimang Mountain, at this time, the two armies of Chu and Jin were about to meet on the bank of Luoshui and at the foot of Beimang Mountain.
Beimang Mountain is nearly 100 miles longitudinal and horizontal, with a high mountain, it will naturally divide the two places of Cheng Zhou Zheng State and Jin State, and it has always been the place where Zheng Guo is heavily guarded.
The Zheng army in Yinggu did not need Zheng Gong's order at this time, and had all withdrawn from the battlefield belonging to the two overlords in the world, not only Zheng Jun stood on the city tower from afar, looking forward to it, looking at the final result of this battle, the envoys of all the princes and princes also gathered here, and the sound of the decisive battle seemed to be heard in the nearest Luoyi royal city.
This battle is not only a battle that determines the life and death of Ji Liuyu.
It is a battle that determines the hegemony of the Central Plains!
In the end, it was the Chu Dynasty Jinba.
It is still the Jin State that dominates the Central Plains.
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All the Zheng soldiers stretched their necks from between the battlements, raised their eyes, and saw that the two armies of Chu and Jin were only ten miles apart, and shouted, "Doctor, the Chu army is about to catch up with the Jin army in front!"
"When we meet, we meet, we all wait for a day and a night, it's time to meet!"
A young doctor of Zheng Guo, dressed in deep clothes, walked out of the guard in the city tower, raised his hand and yawned, and then raised his eyes to see the red sun on the horizon vigorously coming out, the morning light shining on his body, and said leisurely, "Now that the siege of Xinzheng has been resolved, this battle has nothing to do with my Zheng Guo." ”
"We Zheng Jun just need to watch from the side, Qing and the two countries of Chu and Jin have the results, and we can return to Xinzheng to report to Zheng Gong!"
"The smell of this big war is really bad!"
"A smell of earth!"
The young doctor wrinkled his nose and looked disgusted.
The military Zuo around him has long been accustomed to these big wars, Zheng Guo is located in the war zone of the major powers, and it has long been reduced to a racecourse, as soon as the horse runs, the loess rises everywhere, as soon as the horse leaves, the corpses are all over the field, and when he hears the words, he stepped forward and smiled, "My lord, this battle has not yet started, the really bad smell is still behind, and when the time comes, when the Chu and Jin countries withdraw from my Zheng land, the corpses are all over the field, and I Zheng people will come to clean it up!"
"Don't talk about these post-war things, you will lose your appetite when you listen to them!"
Zigong waved his hand again and again when he thought about that scene, and after waiting for a night of hunger, his chest was pressed against the back of his abdomen, and at this time, his index finger was already moving.
Stretching out his moving index finger, he smiled and called to the Zi family, who had stood on the city tower all night, "Zi family, we have been guarding all night, and it seems that the Jin army will not come to attack Zheng again, so ask the cook to prepare breakfast!"
"My index finger is moving!"
Zigong smiled and raised his big index finger.
"Zigong, didn't you see Zhao Chuan running away! He still doesn't know how Zhao Chuan will transfer his anger to my Zheng Guo!" Zijia turned his head to look at him angrily, and even Jun Zuo was silent and stood to the side.
It's really not enough, and there are more than enough foodies.
"No, no!"
"This is what people want!"
Zigong didn't dare to agree, smiled and ordered someone to pass on the order to make rice, and ordered that the bear's paw fish meat must be prepared, which is extremely delicious, "Whoever cuts off what I want, it is better to kill me!"
"When the first thing you don't think about eating is good!"
"That's impossible, in this troubled world, a full stomach is the most important thing!" Zigong shook his head with a smile, paced down the city tower, and went to the back kitchen.
"Sooner or later, you will die on this 'full stomach'!"
The son was angry, but he had no choice but to curse a few sentences and continue to take people to watch the battle from afar.
At the beginning of winter, the whole Beimang Mountain is dyed, and the autumn leaves are frosty, covering the Central Plains with thousands of miles of gold.
The north wind swept by, and frost leaves flew all over the sky.
It should have been the most beautiful late autumn and early winter on the bank of the Luoshui River, but at this time, because of the arrival of thousands of troops, it was golden.
The Chu army spread along the plain, the shield held the shield in front, the spear held in the back, the archers held their bows and arrows high, the Chinese army belonging to Ruo Ao Ziyan was protected in the middle by a hundred chariots, the cavalry was distributed on two wings, and the scouts of various countries with different patterns on their backs roamed in front of and behind the Chu army.
The smoke and dust are all over the sky, the flags are like clouds, the horses' hooves are rumbling, the ruts are swinging, all the way from the official road and the rice fields to grind in, within a radius of nearly 100 miles, there is a muffled thunder all day long, and there is a choking smell of loess in the wind, not only Zheng Juncheng Zhou can hear it, even the main army of the Jin State who fled north can also hear it.
At this time, the Jin army, which had even abandoned all the heavy chariots, had already crossed Luoshui and crossed Beimang Mountain, but Zhao Chuan, who had been running for a day and a night, listened to the rumbling sound of war horses in his ears at this time, and a trace of worry appeared in his heart.
"Dashuai, let's hurry up!"
The soldiers around him urged in unison, "If you don't leave, the Chu army will break through the encirclement of Gongzi and chase after you!"
His eyes flashed with a hint of ruthlessness, attributing all the faults in this battle to Ji Yi'er's willful and reckless behavior, Zhao Chong took a sip of water, got up and said, "Go, you can enter the Jin Dynasty immediately!"
"If you can't come back!"
"I will kill this little boy and avenge him!"
In the face of the mighty Chu army, the Jin army in charge of the broken only felt a long-suppressed despair in their eyes, and Zhao Chong on the other side had ordered someone to destroy the stone bridge through Luoshui, cutting off their way of life, and it was difficult for them to fly across Luoshui even if they had wings.
The 50,000 Chu troops waved their Changge in unison, on the plain, as if they could bring a hurricane, blowing across the entire Luoshui bank, blowing the white horse flag of the Jin State in their hands, and they could hardly hold it.
Everyone looked at their main general and cried, "Childe, the Chu army is coming!"
"We're going to be able to beat it!"
"The Chu army has defeated Chen, Song, and Wei along the way, and Zheng Guo has also surrendered to ......"
"Now it's down to our Jin Kingdom. ”
Ji Liuyu sat on top of the horse, looked at the desperate soldiers, looked at the man who came from the Central Plains on the horse further east, pulled down the porcelain bottle on his waist, pulled out the wooden stopper, and steadily poured a few pills into his mouth.
Xian contempt looked at his pale face because of the medicine and a strange flush on his face, showing a trace of worry, since returning to China last year, Ji Liuqi's body has been riddled with illness for a long time because he has been repeatedly chased and killed by the people sent by Empress Li and Empress Mu for several years.
"Childe, don't eat too much of the elixir given by the wizard!"
Xian Xian had seen the Duke of Jin not listen to the doctor's advice, take the medicine of the witch doctor, and finally die, so at this time, he watched him eat several pills in a row, and he was very worried.
"To deal with Ruo Ao Ziyan, we must use our lives!"
"Otherwise, we won't be able to defeat it!"
Slowly inhale the choking smell of loess on the plain.
Ji Liuyu looked at the military horses approaching in the distance, waiting, waiting for the pill to integrate into his bloodline, and when the limbs and bones gradually had a feeling of blood swelling, he gave birth to boundless strength and courage, and let out a long roar, looking at all the Jin troops who were on the verge of collapse, and struggled to rise.
He said loudly: "My soldiers of the Jin Kingdom, today's battle is not only a battle of our personal life and death, but also a battle to defend my great Jin hegemony!"
"Win, gold, silver, wealth, silk and beautiful land, I, Ji Liuyu, hereby guarantee in the name of the ancestor of my Jin Kingdom surnamed Ji, everyone has it; and if I lose, I, along with all of you, no one will be spared death! Because the Chu army that came with menacing strength this time, you have already seen that they are no longer the Chu army that our Jin army could "laugh at fifty steps and laugh at a hundred steps" back then, they have become more ferocious than fierce beasts in the hands of Ruo Ao Ziyan, completely losing the etiquette of the nobility and tearing up the etiquette of war!"
"So either pick up the halberd in your hands!"
"Wait for death!"
The Jin army, which had been defeated and retreated by the Chu army for several days, first fell into silence, and then broke out into an earth-shattering shout, "We don't want to die!"
At this time, all the Jin army had already understood that if they did not want to die or become a prisoner of war slave, they could only face the Chu army head-on, and people's desire to survive at this moment overpowered all useless fear and weakness...... Instead, he chose to hold the weapon in his hand tightly, even if he fought hand-to-hand at the end, "We want to go back alive!"
The mourning soldiers will win!
"Good!"
Seeing that the whole army was holding the weapons in their hands again, Ji Liuyu laughed and said, "My Jin Kingdom could defeat Chu nineteen years ago, and today, nineteen years later, we can still let the Chu army taste defeat and stop at Zheng!"
"Today is the day when my Jin Gongzi will reappear as the tyrant of Duke Wen!"
Inspired by the defeat of King Wen of Jin and King Cheng of Chu, Ji Liuqi told the whole army that the Chu army was not invincible, they were defeated under the hands of Duke Wen of Jin for 19 years, and they did not dare to go north, "The Chu army will be defeated!"
The words immediately ordered the warriors to re-erect the war drums that Zhao Chong had discarded and fled, and beat the drums to strengthen their morale!
"Beat the drums and get ready for battle!"
"Hit the Chu army!"
The war drums between heaven and earth suddenly sounded, and the Jin army quickly lined up on the north bank of Luoshui, and all of them raised their battles to meet the Chu army.
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Among the 50,000 Chu troops on the opposite side, Sun Wuyi saw that the Jin army was already in array, and he stepped forward to ask for his life, "Dashuai, please take your life to lead people to the Jin army, and you will behead Ji Liuyu under the horse and dedicate it to Dashuai!"
If Ao Ziyan had not yet given the order, the Jin army on the opposite side separated from the left and right, and a horse galloped out and rushed into the battlefield where the two armies were fighting.
Ji Liuyu rode on a high-headed horse, holding a sword, a sword pointed at the man in the army, his eyes were full of energy that he had never seen before, his thin lips were as thin as blades, and he evoked a touch of coldness, and his whole body seemed to be surging out with inexhaustible strength.
He had long known that there would be a battle between him and Ruo Ao Ziyan today.
If Ao Ziyan will not let him return to China, and as the prince of the Jin Kingdom, he will never allow such a fierce opponent as Ao Ziyan to survive in the world.
Looking at the men guarding the layers of Chu army, they clasped their hands together, clenched their hands, clamped their feet around the horse's belly, and roared, and the two armies were heard: "Come on!
"Let's bet each other's surnames, the glory of a country, and fight to the death in the way of nobility!"
The 10,000 Jin troops behind him let out a thunderous shout when they heard the sound, and the sky was shaken.
"Long live Childe!"
"Childe will win!"
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Jiang Liu, who was the right of the car, frowned when he heard this, "Childe, be careful of deception!"
Even Sun Wuyi dissuaded again and again, "Great commander, don't go deep into the enemy army alone!"
Ruo Ziyan stood on top of the chariot, looking at the man riding out of the Chinese army on the opposite side through the tassels flying from the canopy, his eyes widened, and he also pulled up a sneer, and raised his hand to stop the words behind Jiang Liu, "I know, he is forcing me to comply!"
"It's just that if I, Ao Ziyan, am I a rat?"
"If you want to win, you have to win to convince him!"
After the words were ordered, Yan Bing was pulled out from behind by the river, impatiently gouging his hooves, snorting restlessly, and a pair of big black and shiny eyes showed an abnormal red light, looking at his master.
If Ao Ziyan didn't notice, he untied the big cloak that hindered him, tore it off and threw it to the ground, without further words, turned over and got on his horse, holding a whip woven with high-quality rhinoceros tendons in his hand, and with a sharp sound like thunder, he galloped out and responded to another man on the battlefield.
The man on the horse, with a golden crown and his hair, flew in the wind, like a golden phoenix flag flying behind him, the corners of his plump lips grinned to the largest arc, and a huge smile rose from his deep eyes.
Graceful and unreasonable, covering the princes.
Feng Sheng's sword, slapped the sword out, the sharp sword cut through the sky, and the long roar of the phoenix in the wind rose to the sky, and the sword pointed at Ji Liuyu and laughed, "Okay!"
"Compare a game, no matter life or death!"
Until this moment, he faced Shang Ji Liuyu.
It made his blood really boil.
For the greatest ambition in the world, swallow the eight hundred princes of the world, sweep away the four seas, and achieve the expansion of thousands of miles, the road of the king, to fight, to fight, to win!
This is the fight for the world!
Chess meets opponents!
Really hearty!
At this moment, the encounter in front of Ji Liuyu will be the strongest enemy in his life.
Even if it is far away, he can feel the momentum of Ruo Ao Ziyan who does not lose to the prince, and he is coming to meet the battle strongly, only the Ruo Ao clan of the first clan of Great Chu has accumulated three hundred years to raise such a proud son of the sky.
Both tactically and momentum-wise.
Every point was forcing him to surrender with his sword.
But as the grandson of the king surnamed Ji, what naturally flows from his body is the pride of the royal blood surnamed Ji, so that he will never bow his head to the son of Ling Yin, or even admit defeat and surrender, unless he dies.
Two men who are comparable to each other in the world, in this troubled era where the princes rise together, from one south and one north, like two black lightning bolts, will eventually meet under the same sky in the north, make their strongest voices, and ride the hurricane of the times to soar upward, creating a legend that belongs to him or his times in the future.
The long wind swept across the plains, just like the "Book of Songs" in the "Zhan Pi Luo, Wei Shui." The gentleman stops, Flurutz. The ancient tune of "...... of the six divisions" reverberates on Luoshui.