It is another year of chrysanthemum competition, if it is a previous year, Yingcheng at this time must be a sea of chrysanthemums, because Chu Huai Wang loves chrysanthemums to the point of obsession, and does not hesitate to spend thousands of dollars for a good chrysanthemum, but this year, it seems to be exceptionally deserted, and the chrysanthemums in Yingcheng are still blooming everywhere, but they are not as bright as in previous years.

In the back garden of the palace, the precious varieties of chrysanthemums look a little dilapidated because of neglect, those chrysanthemums that need to be carefully cared for in previous years, but this year because of the extreme deterioration of the situation in the Chu State, and because their owner Chu Huai Wang suddenly fell and no one paid attention to it.

King Chu Huai fell after hearing that Qu Wan's army of 200,000 was trapped in Wuguan. From the words of the imperial doctor, Huang Xie and Qu Zhong understood that King Chu Huai had suffered a stroke. Now King Chu Huai is lying in the palace, his hands can't move, his legs can't walk, even if he speaks, it is also vague, and it is difficult for people to hear what he is talking about.

When he walked into this dormitory, Huang Xie felt a cool swishing yin qi, and went straight into his bones. This made him shudder.

Kneeling on a cushion in front of King Chu Huai's hospital bed, Huang Xie still bowed meticulously.

"Your Majesty, there is news today that Jiangdong County has run out of food, and King Gao Yuan of Han has come to Jiangdong County in person, Wenzhuang has surrendered, and Jiangdong County is now gone." Huang Xie said softly.

On the hospital bed, King Chu Huai's body trembled, his lips squirmed, but he couldn't hear what he was saying clearly, Huang Xie could only see a faint tear slip down the corner of King Chu Huai's eye.

"Wen Zhuang can be regarded as trying his best, and there is no way to surrender." Huang Xie sighed, "He has persevered in Jiangdong County for so long, and he can be regarded as doing his best. Now, the entire Chu State has reached its final moment, and Taiwei Qu only rests for one or two hours every day. Every day, he tried every means to mobilize the army and set up a defensive line, and the ministers couldn't sleep at night, trying their best to raise grain, grass, ordnance, and Yingdu. will make a last fight for the 800-year-old Chu Dynasty. ”

"We will take Yingdu as the core, take the entire Jingzhou as the battlefield, and fight to the death with the Han State, Qu Taiwei has mobilized 500,000 soldiers and horses from all walks of life, gathered in Jingzhou, and now, most of the defense line has been almost repaired. All the Yingdu people were mobilized, and they were constantly making ordnance and dry food to send to the front line. ”

"Your Majesty. It's already October, and if we can survive until winter and the snow comes, our Chu country will still have a chance. Huang Xie stretched out his hand and pressed Chu Huai's bare hand.

"As long as you can survive until winter, you will have a chance, and when winter comes, it will be cold. The logistics of the Han people will also be greatly affected, fighting in winter. There are countless difficulties, and we are fighting at home, and we occupy the time, the place, and the people. As long as we can withstand the first wave of attacks of the Han army, we will be sure to hold Jingzhou and drag the Han people to the death in Jingzhou. And at this time, I believe that the Qin people will definitely not sit idly by and do not save themselves. Because if we lose, their end will not be far off. Just let Lu Chao see a little hope of victory. He's going to take a gamble. ”

"If we drag the main force of Gao Yuan at that time, after Lu Chao dumps the Qin State, he sends a letter to Guguan and rushes to the hinterland of the Han State, then our Great Chu will be saved, as long as we breathe this breath, our Chu State will definitely recover the lost territory and fight to Jicheng, we have thousands of people, there are infinite human and financial resources, as long as we can survive this pass, everything will be fine."

"When Weichen enters the palace today, there is another thing to tell the king. The king has been ill for a long time and can't manage the government, and the defense of Yingdu is about to kick off, the soldiers need their king to boost morale, and they need their king to wave the banner for them and beat the war drums, so after many discussions with the princess and the important ministers, he told the queen to agree, and decided to appoint the prince as the king, and respectfully ask the king to recuperate in the harem, and also ask the king to forgive the great disrespect of the ministers. ”

King Chu Huai couldn't speak, Huang Xie said all this, looked at King Chu Huai's expression, saw that King Chu Huai's expression was calm, and there was no anger and complaint in his eyes, and a big stone in his heart finally fell to the ground.

"The king is shengming, so please ask the king to recuperate in the palace with peace of mind, and the minister will go." Huang Xie kowtowed three times, stood up, took a few steps back, turned around and strode out of the palace.

On the ninth day of October, King Chu Huai, who was seriously ill, announced his retirement, and the crown prince Mihua ascended the throne. At that time, the five thousand miles of rivers and mountains of Chu State were already six or seven out of ten, except for the frontier wilderness, mountains and obstacles, and the land of plastering was almost occupied by the Han army. And Huang Xie and Qu Chong didn't pay attention to these places at all, they concentrated all their efforts on one thing, mobilized all the troops that could be drawn, concentrated all the grain and grass that could be concentrated, collected all the weapons that could be used to kill the enemy, and concentrated all the resources in the Jingzhou area, and the Chu State wanted to use the last battle to decide the fate of their entire country.

The Han army from all directions is also concentrating towards the Jingzhou area, and the Chu State wants to gamble on its national fortune in this battle, and the Han State also wants to complete its work in one battle and completely destroy the last strength of the Chu State in the Jingzhou area.

By mid-October, all the troops of the Second Military Region had gathered in Jingzhou, Chu State, and among the four corps of the Young Guards Corps, except for Yang Dasha's First Army, which was guarding Wuguan, the other three corps had also arrived, and all the other troops of the First Military Region had also arrived except for Ding Wei's Fifth Army, Yan Haibo's Sixth Army, and Li Mingjun's Twentieth Army. As a result, the Han State gathered sixteen armies in the Jingzhou region, with more than 300,000 men. This was also the first time that the Han Kingdom fought a war with all the strength of the country.

"Huang Xie and Qu Zhong are both smart people!" Staring at the sand table in front of him, Gao Yuan sighed appreciatively: "If they still want to fight with us from place to place, then what awaits them will be a definite defeat, and it will not cause us much trouble, but now they have gathered all their forces in this small area to fight with what we have." Look at their defense line, there are clear layers, this is clearly the intention to consume all the way with us! ”

"Consume it? Do they have any other plans? We are not afraid of consumption, in such a large place as Jingzhou, the Chu army gathered hundreds of thousands of people, just to eat, but also to eat them, you know, they have no place to replenish grain and grass. Guan Bo, the commander of the Third Army, said disdainfully, "And with the combat effectiveness of our army, they just want to consume, and when will it consume?" ”

Gao Yuan laughed, took a few steps back and sat on the chair, looking at the senior generals gathered in the room, "What do you think?" ”

Everyone present, in addition to Gao Yuan, respected Shangguan Hong, commander-in-chief of the Young Guards Corps, Meng Chong, commander of the Second Military Region, and Bai Yucheng, deputy commander.

Bai Yucheng stood up and said with a smile: "The king is going to test us, then I'll throw bricks and lead the jade, the reason why the Chu people put on this posture is naturally because they know that they have no chance of winning in a field battle with us, so they have no chance of winning in a field battle with us, so put on a turtle battle method, and do everything possible to delay time with us, if my expectations are good, the current Yingdu should have prepared at least hundreds of thousands of troops for no less than a year's grain, in the past few months, Huang Xie, condescendingly let our army attack the city and plunder the land without the slightest care, Preparing for the Jingzhou War Zone, he naturally thought of all possibilities. I think they might be looking forward to winter. ”

"Not bad." Shangguan Hong nodded: "We must mean that the guest army is fighting, and the required grain and materials need to be transported from thousands of miles, especially the weapons of our army, which cannot be raised locally, if the grain and grass can also be solved locally, but our artillery, shells, crossbow arrows and other materials can only be transported from the mainland, once winter comes, the snow is falling, the weather is cold, and our logistics will definitely encounter great difficulties." However, this is also because the Chu people don't know much about the logistics system of our Han Kingdom, and there must be difficulties, but I think it will not affect our operations. ”

"It's not just the weather, or maybe they're waiting for something else, like the Qin people." Meng Chong scratched his head, and then said: "Lu Chao is a smart person, since he occupied Xianyang, he quickly stabilized the domestic situation with thunderous means, if you want to talk about this person's layout in the Qin State, it will not be three or two years of hard work, otherwise it would not have calmed down the civil strife in the Qin State so quickly." Previously, he couldn't spare his hands, he could only focus on the country, if we really fought a stalemate with the Chu people and became a protracted war, if he didn't think about it, it would not be Lu Chao. ”

Looking around at the generals, Meng Chong said: "Everyone, almost all of our Han armies have gathered in Jingzhou, beware of the Qin people, but only Yang Dasha's first army, Ding Wei's fifth army, Yan Haibo's sixth army and Li Mingjun's twentieth army, Yang Dasha's army to defend the Wuguan, can be ignored, if the Qin people really come to attack, we can only put into use, there are only three armies, less than 80,000 troops." Come to think of it, this is where the hope of the Chu people lies. ”

"We are desperately consuming and fighting a stalemate, dragging our hundreds of thousands of troops, and once the Qin people dispatch and attack our homeland in a big way, we will have to withdraw our troops."

"The abacus is well played." Cao Tianci, who came with the army, snorted coldly: "Our troops are not only what Commander Meng just said, don't forget, Niu Teng of the National Security Bureau still controls an army in Shu County, this army has now grown to tens of thousands, even if the combat effectiveness is not as good as our regular army, but in the past two years, we have been replenishing weapons and materials for them through the waterway, which is by no means worse than the Qin army." ”

"There is also the Third Military Region, I heard that Commander Helan is not idle anywhere, I think, the Third Military Region can use at least twenty or thirty thousand people at that time, right? In this way, even if the Qin people attack, we can always use more than ten people, and the Qin people want to attack our homeland, haha, Li Xin also tried it back then, what was the result? Gu Li said coldly on the side, the scars on her face looked particularly hideous under the reflection of the light. (To be continued.) )