Listening to Qiao Shan's words, Wen Zhuang's face became gloomy a little, "The people of Great Chu should believe in the imperial court, not the rumors circulating in the market, the rumors stop at the wise, you are all wise people, why do you listen to some completely marginal lies?" ”

Qiao Shan shook his head and said: "County guard, why are you hiding it, the Han army's attack was too sudden, our Great Chu was not ready to fight at all, I don't want to talk about the mistakes of the princes of the imperial court here, but we are also very clear that the king has now abandoned Jiangjiang, according to the information I have received, the troops that Qu Taiwei is now gathering are approaching Yingdu, Taiwei This is the idea of fighting a decisive battle with the Han army in Yingdu, victory, although it is gratifying, but once it fails, the state of Chu will die." ”

Wen Zhuang said coldly: "Since the outcome has not been decided, why have you lost confidence?" ”

"It's not that we have lost confidence, but the county guard, can we wait until the moment of the decisive battle in Yingdu? According to the news obtained below, the king of Han still attaches great importance to Jiangdong County, the central city in the south, and he does not want to make it a blank land, but as the day of the decisive battle of Yingdu is approaching day by day, I think the Han army is about to lose patience. Jiangdong County, there are no reinforcements outside, no grain and grass inside, how to hold on? Qiao Shan looked directly at Wen Zhuang.

"If that's all there is to it, the bigger problem is that the 200,000 elites led by General Qu Wan are blocked in the south of the Qin State and cannot return. If the decisive battle with the Han army in Yingdu is the 200,000 people of General Qu Wan, then even if all the food is sacrificed, there will be a glimmer of hope, but who are the people gathered in Yingdu now? The county guard is an important minister in the court, and he should know more than us. With these people, can they stop the Han people's tiger and wolf army? The patriarch of the Wang clan, another big merchant in Jiangdong County, also interjected.

Wen Zhuang's eyes sharpened: "What do you want to do?" Could it be that Wen is weak and can be bullied? ”

Qiao Shan smiled slightly: "County guard." You have great power, the power of life and death in the palm of your hand, the millions of lives in Jiangdong City are in your hands, and a few of us are nothing, but because of this, it is not easy to ask the county guard to think more about the people. At the end of the war, the lives and souls are in misery, but it will still be useless when the time comes. The king of the Han Kingdom has arrived outside the city, and it seems that the confrontation of the Han army against the Jiangdong county has reached the limit of patience. We have soldiers without food, and some people have no morale, how can we fight this battle? ”

"Gao Yuan has already arrived in Jiangdong County? How do you know? Could it be that you are colluding with the Han army? Wen Zhuang said sharply.

Qiao Shan sighed: "County guard." Although I am a businessman, I am still a Chu person, if I am equal to the Han people and really collude, is this Jiangdong county still in the hands of the county guard? We did get this news from the Han people, but it was only told to us by some of our former business friends, and his original intention was to let us quickly find a way to leave Jiangdong County, because the general offensive of the Han army was about to begin. ”

Wen Zhuang didn't eat the meal in the end. Instead, he left the Lingering Garden in discouragement.

"County guard, these people are simply lawless. Why don't you take them all down, so that the soldiers will also have food, and they will not have to worry about the pain of running out of food? Out of the Lingering Garden, the captain of the pro-soldier was still angry.

"The soldiers have food, but what about the people of the city?" Wen Zhuang looked back at the Lingering Garden in amazement. "Actually, Qiao Shan and they are right, the Han people don't fight Jiangdong County. It's not because they can't fight, but because they don't want to fight, probably Gao Yuan wants to keep the most prosperous city in the south completely! ”

"Now that Gao Yuan is here, I am afraid that the battle to attack Jiangdong County will start soon, and there will be no food. It doesn't matter. Wen Zhuang smiled bitterly.

"The county guard!" The captain of the pro-soldier was taken aback.

"Needless to say, I want to be quiet." Wen Zhuang waved his hand.

At the beginning of the morning on another day, the Han army camp, which had been quiet outside Jiangdong County for a long time, finally began to move, and in the rumbling of drums, groups of soldiers lined up from the camp.

The sound of drums alarmed the Jiangdong county town, and after a while, the Jiangdong county officials led by Wen Zhuang heard the news of the city tower, and looked at the Han army gathered outside the city, as well as the dense artillery and countless siege vehicles, and everyone in the city was pale.

"Those swarthy things must be the artillery of the Han army!" Wen Zhuang turned his head to Tian Shangyuan beside him and said, "Our sailor died in a battle, but he was hit by the artillery carried on the ship of the opponent's sailor and could not fight back at all. ”

Tian Shang Yuan closed his lips tightly and did not speak. But Wen Zhuang noticed that the other party's hand was trembling slightly, and he couldn't help but sigh in his heart, it will be the courage of a soldier, even the main general is already timid, let alone an ordinary soldier.

In the camp of the Chinese army of the Han army, a yellow dragon flag was suddenly raised, compared with other main flags of the Chinese army, this yellow dragon flag not only rose higher, the key thing is that the flag of this yellow dragon flag was embroidered with nine gold edges.

The soldiers who heard the drums looked back in the direction of the Chinese army, and in the silence, a deafening cheer suddenly erupted.

"Long live the King!"

"Long live the King!"

The cheers came and went one after another, and the originally quiet Han army array was like boiling water at this time, and countless weapons were raised high into the sky, and the sharp blades shone with a cold light under the sunlight.

The Yellow Dragon Banner inlaid with nine golden edges, in the Han Kingdom, there is only one person who is qualified to unfold it, and that is the supreme ruler of the Han Dynasty, the Great King Gao Yuan.

The drums stopped suddenly, and the sound of the loud military horn came from under the banner of the Chinese army, and with the sound of the military horn, one by one the arrays instantly fell silent again. A flag-bearer holding the flag high and rushed straight out of the Chinese army, until he reached the artillery position at the forefront.

Immediately, the artillerymen began to act, the muzzles of a black hole began to rotate, and the gunners began to get busy.

"Their artillery is about to attack, please Wen Junshou and your lords go down first!" Tian Shangyuan was a general after all, and as soon as he saw the opponent's movements, he immediately judged that the attack was about to begin.

But before the people in the city began to retreat, under the city, the artillery of one gate suddenly began to roar. In the smoke-filled place, red projectiles drilled out of the barrel and flew towards the direction of Jiangdong County.

The entire city wall seemed to be shaking, and Wen Zhuang was also crumbling, if it wasn't for the captain of the pro-soldiers on the side to grab him, maybe he would fall to the sky.

To everyone's surprise, it was just a round of shelling, and there was no follow-up. When the smoke cleared, the Han army on the opposite side did not attack, and the left and right of the city looked at it, but not a single wounded person was seen.

Wen Zhuang suppressed the surprise in his heart, and when he looked at the city wall outside, his mouth opened with a bang, and he couldn't close it anymore. These shells were basically below the middle of the city wall, and it was clear that this was a demonstrative shelling by the other side and not a real siege, otherwise it would not have been possible for all the shells to fall on the walls of the city walls without falling on the walls.

The flag-bearer, holding his banner aloft, rushed straight from the artillery position to the moat, and at this distance the slightest bit of the archery in the city could hit the arrogant fellow with an arrow, but no one pulled the bowstring.

Because behind this person, there are countless black holes in the muzzles, if you shoot him down, the next moment, the terrifying cannonballs, I am afraid that they will fall on the city wall.

"Wen Jun Shou is here?" Under the city, the generals raised their voices and shouted: "I am He Weiyuan, the commander of the personal guard of the king of the Han Dynasty, our king has a few words, let me bring it to Wen Junshou." ”

Wen Zhuang took a deep breath and stood on the edge of the city wall, "Wen is here, what does General He have to say?" ”

"My king said, the Han army has been to Jiangdong County for more than a month, not to fight the intention of the county, want to come to the county guard is also well aware, now the entire Jiangdong County has been under the control of my Han army, Jiangdong County has become a lonely city, the county guard is looking forward to the reinforcements may not come, where to go, if Wen County Shou has not made up his mind by now, my king will inevitably be disappointed. At the end of the war, this thousand-year-old city, the largest commercial center in the south, will inevitably be destroyed, it is easy to destroy, but it is difficult to rebuild. For an hour, before Wen Junshou opened the city gates, then our general attack was about to begin. Kaesong surrendered, you can protect your lives and property without worry, but once the city is breached by our army, it will have to be said. ”

He Weiyuan dropped these two sentences, and did not wait for Wen Zhuang to reply, but turned the horse's head in circles and walked away.

The city, deathly silent.

Yingdu, the royal palace. Huang Xie walked towards the kingdom with a disgraced face, now most of the territory of Chu has been occupied by the Han army, but at this time, King Chu Huai couldn't bear this major blow, and he couldn't afford to get sick, and he saw that the illness was getting heavy day by day. Pingsu, the king, doesn't seem to be very important, it seems that all the national politics, himself and Qu Chong, can be provoked by one article and one martial arts, but today, Huang Xie found that without this Dinghai Divine Needle, it seems that everything has become difficult.

The strategy of the decisive battle of Yingdu is being implemented, and countless troops are concentrating on Yingdu, which will be the last strength of the Chu State, and hundreds of thousands of troops will be concentrated in the Jingzhou area to make the final desperate fight against the Han army. If you lose, there will be no more Chu State. (To be continued.) )