Chapter 245: Into the Tiger's Den
The obscure day is actually the last day of each month, the thirtieth day of the big month and the twenty-ninth day of the small month.
Because it is not the relationship of the "Taichu Calendar" now, some days are different from the "Zhuan Calendar".
In the obscurity of the "Calendar", there are quite a few taboos, including the unsuitability of soldiers.
Xiong Xian, the king of the Chu Communist Party, squinted his eyes and looked over, with an expression of "You are teaching me to do things".
The man who was whispering immediately fell to his knees and trembled.
Fortunately, he is engaged in the profession of "witch".
The social status of the "witches" in various countries is very transcendent, with their own supporters, and they also have some right to speak and interpret.
In the state of Chu, the status of "Wu" was far better than in the state of Jin.
Xiong Xian, the king of Chu Gong, was extremely annoyed in his heart, but he couldn't say the words "pull it down and cut it".
Zi said in a low voice: "It is just a dark day, and the Jin people will be unpredictable. ”
A group of aristocrats began to pat the ass of Xiong Xian, the king of the Chu Gong.
The "witch" chose to silence him.
He knew that Xiong Xian, the king of Chu Gong, was a ruthless character, so he should not beep more.
Otherwise, what if you disappear one day?
Bozhou Plough said: "The two countries have not yet declared war. ”
The high-ranking officials of the Chu State were stunned.
The king of Chu Gong exclaimed: "Fortunately, Dazai reminded him that the widow did not lose his morality. ”
Now is the era of "etiquette".
The state of Chu may not be polite to every country, and even more often it is not polite, but it can't be like that to the Jin state.
In many cases, the State of Chu and the State of Jin faced each other, and even behaved more respectful of "courtesy" than the State of Jin.
There's no way around it.
Who made the confrontation between the Chu State and the Jin State more defeats and fewer victories!
As the side that has been defeated repeatedly, he is naturally even more unconfident in his heart, and it is natural to accommodate more of the strong.
Ling Yizi slapped his forehead and said, "The minister should send someone to inform Luan Shu." ”
The official position is Sima's son, who has always been at odds with Zizhong, and wants to speak a few words of ridicule, but after thinking about it, he still bears it.
That's right!
The state of Chu is not monolithic internally.
The sub-anti and the sub-weight are opposites.
Both men each have some adherents.
Their struggle was no less than that of the Jin State, and it was even more bloody, and it was often to plant false accusations against the opponent, so that the Chu State would frequently break out in rebellion.
This so-called rebellion is actually the defeat of certain families in the struggle, which led to the "rebellion".
The Chu Jun of the past dynasties were happy to push the boat down the river, kill whoever was killed, divide most of the benefits, and leak some soup and water.
Because of this operation, the monarchy of Chu was guaranteed.
The premise that can be guaranteed is that the strength of the princes of the Chu State has been strengthened, unlike the princes of the Jin State that have been weakened to the point of not being able to do so.
Not only the Chu State, but also the monarchs of all countries who can do everything they can, without exception, are all because the strength of the clan is strong enough.
That's the reality.
There are no soldiers in hand, and he happily serves as a signboard, at most a few beeps at certain moments.
Dare to beep, or rely on the ministers may not have the courage to kill themselves.
The two countries have gathered such a large number of troops, and they have come face to face, but they have not yet declared war?
This is actually quite an embarrassing thing in the current era.
In fact, it was also because the two sides had been fighting back and forth for too long, and they didn't expect it to become such a situation in advance, which led to embarrassing things.
Zizhong was still picking people, and the envoy of the Jin Kingdom arrived first.
It was Wei Xiang of the Wei clan who came.
Xiong Xian, the king of the Chu Communist Party, originally didn't plan to meet the envoy in person, but he didn't want to miss it when he heard that it was Wei Xiang.
The last time Wei Xiang sent an envoy to Qin, a "Book of Absolute Qin" made it famous all over the world.
The Chu State actually didn't get the full text of the "Book of Absolute Qin", but he only knew that Wei Xiang was a brilliant person, and then he knew that Wei Xiang was very famous in other countries.
There's no Baume & Mercier effect right now.
After all, the current level of education is just like that, and then the nations are not obliged to help anyone in a certain country to make a name for themselves.
Wei Xiang did a good job so beautifully that even the scolded Qin people applauded.
In addition, the vassal states that participated in the attack on the Qin State gained a lot and were willing to sell the Jin State to save face.
Otherwise, if you don't give the publicity money, if you don't give it, why work in vain!
Xiong Xian, the king of the Chu Gong, was still a very authentic monarch, and when he heard that Wei Xiang was coming, he didn't forget to give his courtiers a chance to open their eyes, and everyone who should be summoned shouted.
Some of the nobles of Chu had heard of Wei Xiang's reputation, but more had never heard of it at all.
After all, the territory of Chu is really large, and due to the constraints of transportation, many nobles don't want to go out at all, except for the usual contributions, and the news is really closed.
They had made up the lessons beforehand, and they learned what Wei Xiangdu had done, and they were curious about how this young man would scold Chu Guo.
"Wu, stand closer to me later." Wei Xiangke heard that the Chu people were far more barbaric than the Qin people, and they would draw their swords and cut people at every turn, and they felt a little burdened in their hearts.
Lu Wu bowed his head silently, and he agreed.
Of course, the views of the Central Plains countries on the Chu State will not be fair, and from time to time it is considered light to hack the country, and some countries simply want to hack the Chu State.
Hostile not black?
What kind of hostility.
Isn't it?
Lu Wu came over this time, not wearing a heavy armor, just a regular suit.
He is purely here to recognize people, not to fight.
When they first arrived at the Chu military camp, they were immediately watched.
It seems that the people of Chu are generally slightly shorter than those of Jin, and if you take the average difference in height, it should be about eight centimeters shorter.
Don't look at the short size of the Chu people, but the average height is more than 1.6 meters.
Actually, this is also normal.
Being able to go to the battlefield is generally carefully selected, who would especially bring a bunch of crooked melons and cracked dates to the battlefield to play their lives?
In addition, the samurai who can be passed down are by no means the same as the physical fitness of the common people.
No matter how dilapidated the samurai is, the food is definitely better than the civilians, and the physical fitness is worse than the civilians, it is very unpleasant.
On the official scene, it must not be in line with the actual situation.
To put it simply, the honor guards of various countries must be façade troops, which does not mean that the country is all a mold.
The honor guards I saw were all 1.82 meters tall, which does not mean that all the people in the country were 1.82 meters.
It's just that if you don't even have a good façade team, you can imagine what that country is like.
In Lu Wu's opinion, the state of Chu is more particular than the state of Wu.
Wu Guo came to too many people with disheveled hair that time, and he didn't seem to pay attention to it at all.
What is Zhuxia?
Heavy clothing is the foundation, and hair binding is an established custom.
Wearing it must also be very particular, and it must be the right side of the clothes.
If you have a left shirt, anyone can open their mouth and say, "You beast".
What they didn't know was that the nobles of the Chu State learned that an envoy from the Jin State had come and drove away a group of barbarian troops early.
Otherwise, it was normal for Lu Wu and Wei Xiang to come over and see barbarians dressed in animal skins, and it was inevitable to see some mosaics with leaves to cover their shame.
Lu Wu and Wei Xiang, as well as the rest of the guards, stood outside the big tent and waited for the communication.
They didn't talk, they just glanced around.
It should be because when I came to the core area, I casually swept over, and what I saw was a group of exquisite people.
What is the point of emphasis?
It's a must to look clean.
To be a soldier is to wear at least one piece of leather armor.
Lü Wu saw that most of the Chu soldiers wore rhinoceros or crocodile skins, and habitually assessed the defensive strength of the armor.
Armor made of rhinoceros and crocodile skin is now considered a luxury!
It's not that rhinos and crocodiles are in small numbers.
In fact, in some areas, rhinos and crocodiles are simply overrun.
The use of rhinoceros and crocodile skins for armor is a luxury because of the high cost of hunting.
The rhinoceros is a hot-tempered animal that goes berserk and dies one by one.
Want to shoot a rhinoceros with a bow and arrow?
It's not that a bow and arrow can't kill a rhino, but it usually can't.
In this way, the killing of rhinos requires hand-to-hand combat, which often causes the rhinos to bleed all over their bodies, especially the more blood on the horns.
And that blood was left behind by the hunters.
The crocodiles on Zhuxia's side are relatively small, and the crocodiles in Zhuxia belong to the habit of living in groups, and they are too rare to move alone.
Every time a crocodile is killed, it is bigger than a hunt held by a nobleman.
The aristocracy hunted tigers, bears, wolves, and other herbivores, and although the scene seemed large, dead people were rare.
Rounding up crocodiles is a different matter.
Every time a crocodile is rounded up, many people die.
Isn't it because it is difficult to hunt and kill that it is difficult to obtain?
Otherwise, we all know that rhinoceros and crocodile skin are easy to use, why not use more people like leather armor made of other animal skins!
What is more strange is that the rhinoceros later became extinct in the territory of Zhuxia, and even the crocodile became an endangered species.
Lu Wu saw something, and couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth.
He saw a fat man with two tusks hanging from his chest.
The fat man was wearing a rattan armor, and he seemed to have an argument with a man in a gorgeous costume.
The fat man has a cloak and ugly-looking tattoos on both sides of his cheeks.
"Barbarian leader." Wei Xiang had obviously done his homework beforehand, and said in a low voice: "But the barbarians south of Yunmengze. ”
Now, of course, there is already Yun Mengze.
This Yunmengze covers a large area, almost the size of a Wu country, which is larger than the territory of many countries in the Central Plains.
The capital of Chu State, "Ying", is on the edge of Yunmengze, and to the south is a wild land.
They call "Ying", the southwest of the place is called "Baipu", and the southeast is collectively called "Yang Yue".
The early state of Chu would also expand southward.
It may be that the environment in the south is really too bad, and the Chu people gradually stopped the pace of exploration, and instead subdued some barbarian tribes, and formulated a kind of bondage policy.
The so-called "fetters" is actually a strategy of "using razing to defeat raze".
Put a rope around the neck of some groups, make them obedient, and go to the rest of the group to find trouble.
Under Lu Wu's gaze, the nobles of the Chu State who had quarreled suddenly drew their swords and stabbed them into the neck of the barbarian leader.
The barbarian leader didn't even scream, subconsciously covered his injured neck with both hands, and looked at the nobles of the Chu State with wide eyes.
As if his strength had run out, he fell down on his knees first, the blood in his neck could not stop flowing outward, and then he leaned heavily on the ground, making convulsive movements all over his body, and it took more than two minutes to drown in his own blood.
That's right.
Absolutely!
The neck is hit hard, as long as the head is not moved, the blood rushes in and blocks the trachea, and it is generally blocked by blood to death.
If you're lucky, you bleed too much and died.
Of course, it can still hurt to death.
Wei Xiang's face was a little unsightly when he saw that scene.
He took it for granted that the Chu people were demonstrating.
The nobles of the Chu State who had killed people squatted down and then reached out to grab the two tusks fixed by the rope, and walked away.
The people of Chu around didn't make any moves, they just watched like that, and many of them were talking in low voices.
A few Chu people even laughed out loud.
"Ridiculous." Wei Xiang looked disdainful and replied: "Ridiculous." ”
What the hell!
Think this will scare us?
Think too much!
Wei Xiang looked at the halberd in front of the big tent and asked politely, "When will Chu Jun summon you?" ”
That's really the Halberd Lang, but it's just a different thing from the Halberd Lang in the future.
There is an ace class in the state of Chu, and they have a weapon similar to that of Zhan Ge, except that an extra spear can be used to stab the Ge part.
This weapon is far more difficult to use than Zhan Ge, and it can be used well but it is a big killer.
The soldiers of the Chu State armed with war halberds were obviously taller and taller than the rest of the Chu people, and they also looked more burly.
The halberd man just glanced at Wei Xiang and didn't say a word.
Lu Wu asked in a low voice, "How is this weapon?" ”
Wei Xiang was stunned for a moment and said, "For the exclusive use of the Chu people." ”
Lu Wu stopped talking.
Now is it the exclusive use of the state of Chu?
In the future, the old Wei family will plagiarize this technology and install it on their own heavy infantry to create the Wei Wushu class.
Lu Wu pondered that his heavy infantry had participated in the battle several times, and many deficiencies had been revealed.
Among them is the lack of ability to break formations.
That is the old Lu family's soldiers have been restricted in their weapons, whether it is a short spear or a war sword, they do not have an advantage in the effect of breaking the formation.
He pondered, isn't it a war halberd?
I can make it all at home!
Or, take a step ahead of the old Wei family and get a Lu Wushu?
This, in fact, can be had!
They waited and waited, and waited for at least two quarters of an hour, and Xiong Xian, the king of the Chu Gong, could be regarded as letting them in.
During the waiting period, the nobles of the Chu State kept coming.
Every nobleman of the Chu State who came over would inevitably look at them a few more times before entering.
There was no Chu nobleman who deliberately put on a fierce attitude.
Of course, there were no nobles of the Chu State to talk to them.
Wei Xiang walked ahead.
Lu Wu followed.
The rest of the Jin people who came over stayed outside the tent.
As soon as Lu Wu walked in, the smell of grease came to his face, and he smelled rather choking.
The big tent is really big, and the space inside is not small.
Facing the main seat.
A man who looked quite magnificent, but had a very young face, sat on his knees on the throne.
He had a large backing behind him.
Is that really a shield, looking like an all-copper structure?
This kind of screen, which is not a screen, is the mainstream at present.
It's just that not everyone has the financial resources to use all copper, usually copper-clad wood.
There are not many nobles of the Chu State in the big tent, sitting on the left and right sides.
After Lu Wu entered, he began to look at the past one after another, trying to recognize who was Yang Youji and who was Pan Dang.
Wei Xiang, who went in first, stopped at a distance of about five steps away from Xiong Xian, the king of the Communist Party of Chu, and saluted and said, "Greetings to Chu Jun ......"
I'm not done.
An old man shouted directly: "Bold! My king is a king, how is he a king? ”