"Lord Yizheng, today I went to visit Lord Chu again, but he still told me that Huang Shoufu is too busy, and I am afraid that the negotiations with Yizheng will have to drag on for two days!" This time, Huo Xiaolin, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites who followed Wu up, sat down angrily and slapped the table with a clatter, "They used such a trick just to delay time. If it drags on any longer, how many people will there be left in the new army?"

Wu Qi looked at him indifferently, "So angry? Come, have a cup of tea, go to the fire, and be quiet." Wu Qi pushed a cup of tea in front of Huo Xiaolin.

"Discussing politics, why are you so indifferent, every day it drags on, a lot of people will die in the new army!" Huo Xiaolin said urgently.

"Or, the more anxious you are, the more you will drag it out until we can't stand it." Wu Qi said, "Xiaolin, I advised you not to worry, you don't believe it, now you have hit a wall, right?"

Huo Xiaolin was deflated all of a sudden, picked up the cup, and drank it all in one gulp, "But I'm in a hurry!"

"I'm in a hurry, and I can't show my face." Wu Qi smiled: "The king has already estimated this situation when he came, so Jicheng will have some measures to deal with it, and before Jicheng's reaction arrives here, we should not act rashly."

"When the news of Jicheng reaches here, the daylilies are cold." Huo Xiaolin knocked on the table, "Discussing politics, you have also seen the tragic situation of the New First Army."

"That's why I'm forcing Qu Wan to provide them with food and medicine."

"A thousand catties of rice a day, a team of tens of thousands of people, what can help."

"If you can hang your life!" Wu Qi exhaled, "With some wild vegetables, tree bark, the New First Army still has a lot of mules and horses, it is not a problem to support it for a while, but now that I don't fight, the consumption is correspondingly much less. Besides, under the impetus of the Supervision Yuan, the transmission of news will be very fast."

"What measures did the king take?" Huo Xiaolin asked curiously.

Wu Qi smiled, "The Young Guards Legion has begun to mobilize, if my guess is correct, the vanguard of the Guards Legion has already been launched."

"Hit?" Huo Xiaolin was taken aback, "Didn't you set the tone and negotiate a settlement?"

Wu Qi laughed: "Xiaolin, you are a waiter of the Ministry of Rites, diplomacy is your business, Mr. Xun is old, and he is focused on the matter of universal education, and the affairs above this diplomacy will depend on you more and more, you have to remember that a weak country has no diplomacy, diplomacy must be built on a strong military foundation, the Chu people want to delay, in order to raise the price, then we will inevitably have to-for-tat, if you don't want to talk, then start fighting. If we pay the price of the new army, then the Chu people will have to pay ten times the price to pay back."

Huo Xiaolin nodded, "Discussion, then what are we going to do next?"

Wu Qi picked up the teacup, took a sip gently, and said with a smile: "The scenery of the south of the Yangtze River, it is a rare opportunity to appreciate it, since we are here, we naturally can't miss it, I heard that there is a round in this Yingcheng that is famous in the world, what is it called Shangyuan, let's go and enjoy it tomorrow."

"It's a bittersweet experience! If the parliamentarians in the country know that we are coming to negotiate, but they are drinking flowers and wine in the garden, I am afraid that it will make a lot of noise!" Huo Xiaolin smiled bitterly.

"Let them quarrel, it can really turn the world upside down, as long as we can do the errand well, we will be the hero when we go back." Wu Qi said. Okay, let's visit the magnates of this Yingcheng again today, give gifts, and tomorrow, let's go to the garden and drink flower wine."

Huang Xie has been very busy these days, the Qin-Chu alliance has been officially established after this Pengcheng Battle and Maowei matter, both countries fully realize that it is difficult to resist the soldiers of the Han State by relying on the strength of one country alone, and it is an inevitable choice to join forces, of course, there is countless work to be done, and in addition to this, Huang Xie must also keep an eye on the matter of the explosives workshop that will be built in Suizhou, this is a necessary action not to let the Han people or the Qin people specialize in the front, in case they both have this thing, and the Chu people are left behind, What the ending is, Huang Xie can figure it out with his ass. Thirdly, hundreds of thousands of troops surrounded the New First Army in Pengcheng, and the daily eating, drinking, and chewing of these troops was not a small amount, and the deployment of logistics troops was also something he had to manage.

King Chu Huai is not doing anything as usual, he only asks the result, Taiwei's condescending energy is focused on the whole army, the Chu army has been comfortable for a long time, it is indeed unable to withstand the test of the war, this time the battle of Suizhou, although the high-level of both sides tacitly, but the generals and soldiers below are completely unknown, this is also to deceive the Han people, once the fake fight, it is easy for people to see the flaws. In this battle, the border troops known as the elite of the Chu State clashed with the Qin people, and they were defeated on all fronts in just a few days, which could not help but shock Huang Xie and Qu Zheng, originally they thought that this would be a battle that lasted for a long time, but they did not expect Zhou Yu to defeat his army in just a few days.

Qu Zhong put almost all of his energy into the army's training, and the rest of the things were naturally undertaken by Huang Xie.

Raising his head from the mountains of cases on the case, he reached out and rubbed his temples, patted his face, and made himself look more sober.

"Shoufu, General Zhao Shucheng asked to see him, and he has been waiting outside for half an hour." The waiter next to him whispered.

"General Zhao is here, why don't you sue me?" Huang Xie snorted coldly, "Hurry up and invite General Zhao in."

"Yes!"

The door opened, Zhao Shucheng stepped into the door, and Huang Xie stood up from behind the case, "General Zhao, it's really slack, it's all the people who are not sensible."

Zhao Shucheng said with a smile: "Shoufu is too polite, Shoufu has a lot of opportunities, Shucheng waits for a while, and there is nothing. I came here today mainly because I was a little puzzled by a few things, so I came to discuss with the first assistant."

"Oh? If General Zhao can come in person, then this matter is not small." Huang Xie raised his eyebrows. General Zhao, please take a seat, come here, serve tea!"

"Shoufu, Wu has been in Yingcheng for three days, and his deputy, Huo Xiaolin, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, is impatient, and he runs to Neishi several times a day, and he can't wait to start negotiations with us, but that Wu Qi is an old god, and he doesn't look anxious, and he is only afraid that he is a little tired here."

"What's so funny?" Huang Xie said with a smile: "Wu Qi is an old fox, he has been in charge of the Wei State for many years, and he naturally knows the truth that if you want to hurry, you can't reach it, he wants us to think that he doesn't fight at all, and the Han State doesn't fight at all, but his deputy has exposed his intentions!" Ignore him, dry him for two more days."

"Shousuke, I thought so at first, but today I received an urgent report, and I was a little apprehensive, so I ran this trip." A look of unease flashed on Zhao Shucheng's face.

"What's the matter?"

"The Han State is carrying out a large-scale mobilization, the Young Guards Corps has been assembled, its vanguard has left Jicheng and is advancing in the direction of Pengcheng, the leading general of the Young Guards is Guo Laofu, Shoufu, this is a whole army, as many as 20,000 cavalry troops, if you march with all your strength, it will not take ten days to reach Pengcheng." Zhao Shucheng Road.

"What did you say?" Huang Xie stood up suddenly, "The Young Guards have moved?"

"Yes, the entire four corps of the Young Guards Legion, that is an army of more than 100,000 people, if you go south with all your might, then I am afraid that there will be a big battle between Han and Chu that is related to the fortunes of the country. I'm worried now that Wu Qi and Huo Xiaolin are in the same gear, just to confuse us. We want to cool them down and drag on for a while, do you know if they think the same way?"

"They don't want a new army, it's tens of thousands of troops!" Huang Xie said angrily.

"Shousuke-sama, do you think Takato will definitely care about this army of tens of thousands of people?" Zhao Shucheng took a deep breath, "Even if we order an immediate attack now, with the combat strength of the new army, we can still fight with us for several days, so that our army in Pengcheng will not be easy to quickly leave the battlefield, once it is glued by the enemy, it will be bad, and more importantly, the country is not ready to fight a national war!" You have also seen this time in the battle of Suizhou, our so-called elite border guards are under the attack of Zhou Yu, and there is almost no room to fight back. Unlike the Han army and the Qin army, we have been comfortable for too long."

Huang Xie stood up a little distraught, pacing back and forth in the room, yes, Zhao Shucheng has a point, Gao Yuan must care about the tens of thousands of people in the new First Army? It's himself, in Suizhou, didn't the soldiers who sacrificed there not blink their eyes? In order to achieve greater strategic goals, the soldiers who died were nothing more than numbers in the account books.

"Lord Shoufu, the Young Guards Regiment is the most capable army in the Han Kingdom, with two cavalry corps and as many as 40,000 cavalry troops! We can't afford not to care."

"Do the Qin people know the news?"

"Zhongli has been gone for two days, and I wonder now if they got some wind and ran faster than a rabbit. Shoufu, if we fight, can we really count on the Qin people to help us? I'm afraid they'll be smiling from the side!" Zhao Shucheng Road.

Huang Xie walked around the house in distraught." What did Taiwei Qu say?"

"Qu Taiwei said that now our army is not ready to fight a big battle, not only psychologically, but also militarily, which cannot be compared with the Han State, and we need at least a year to prepare." Zhao Shucheng Road.

"One year!" Huang Xie took a deep breath. The young king of the Han Kingdom, the mind is extremely difficult to choose, this person since the beginning of the army, invincible, invincible, from a soldier, in just ten years, he became the king of a country, such a person must be extremely conceited, this defeat of Pengcheng, is his first defeat in the true sense, it cannot be ruled out that this person launched a big war for the sake of face to recover his lost title of undefeated god of war.

Thinking of this, he turned around and said to the waiter behind him: "Immediately tell Sù Neishi and arrange for me to meet Wu Qi." (To be continued......)