Chapter 162: The Chu People Guarding Korea
In the northern part of the Yan Kingdom, the cold wind is raging all year round, extremely cold, and the people here worship white, probably because this color is close to the color of ice and snow. It's hard here, it's poor, even the Hu people don't want to come here to plunder, the cold wind here has created a group of warriors who are good at drinking, bold, and pay attention to affection, Wei Wuji will probably get along with the warriors here very happily, in these years of the princes' conquest, Yan has been in a weak situation for a long time.
It was even difficult to parry the attack of the Hu people, but fortunately, the overlord of Qi led the Central Plains princes to help, which gave Yan a chance to survive, Yan State's land is barren, household registration is scarce, and the people everywhere are unable to understand the language, and it is difficult for soldiers to communicate, so that Yan's comprehensive national strength may not be as good as South Korea. And because of this, we can see the superiority of General Le Yi, he was the first to lead these soldiers who were not elite enough, not very sophisticated equipment, and less food supplies to crusade against the Qi country.
Compared with the cities in the north, the climate of the capital of Yan is not so bad, but at this moment, there are still snowflakes falling here, the snowflakes are not big, falling on the ground, or people's shoulders, they also disappear quickly, leaving only a stain, but the ground has become muddy because of this, and it is very difficult to walk. The samurai stood in the courtyard, raised the short sword in his hand, took a sip of wine, and then danced the sword, the sword shining brightly, swinging with his posture.
The knock on the door interrupted the samurai's sword dance, and the samurai was not angry, he hurriedly put away the short sword, and then stepped forward to open the door, outside the door, there was a young man with a red face, the young man exhaled a breath of mist, looked at his friend in a daze, the samurai smiled, hurriedly welcomed the young man into the courtyard, and said, "Where have you been these days?" I went to your house, and your father said you were far away... You don't tell me a word. ”
The samurai enthusiastically pulled his friend, but he soon discovered that something was wrong, his friend who loves to joke and was cheerful by nature, but at this moment he became extremely silent, his eyes were full of sadness, the whole person seemed to be numb, and he didn't react when he was pulled, the samurai let him sit in front of him, looked at him seriously, put the short sword on his knee, and asked: "Who wants to murder you?" ”
Hearing his friend's inquiry, the person who came was a little touched, he raised his head, looked at the friend in front of him, and was silent for a long time, then he carefully handed him the bamboo slip in his hand, and he said seriously: "This is the method of keeping out the cold taught by Ma Fujun, I have copied a copy, please be sure to teach it to the people of Yan Kingdom." The samurai was stunned, clenched the bamboo slip, and said in surprise: "What's going on?" You defected to Ma Fujun of Zhao State? ”
The visitor did not answer his question, but just shook his head and said, "Please help me take care of my family." ”
The samurai was a little frightened, and hurriedly said, "What kind of things can't you tell me?" You still have your parents at home, and you have just married a wife, why did you have the idea of dying? ”
"I have not been able to fulfill the orders of the king." The person said, slowly stood up, bowed down to his friend, closed his eyes, sighed, and asked, "Are you going to see your relatives at home?" The visitor shook his head, not knowing what he was thinking, he drew his sword again, put it in front of his friend, and then turned and walked out of here, the samurai just watched him go, wanting to say something, but he could not keep it.
In the palace, King Yan sat on the top seat and looked angrily at the warrior in front of him who had returned in vain.
Not long ago, the angry King Yan summoned dozens of brave warriors in the country, rewarded them, and sent them to kill Ma Fujun, there were not many warriors willing to go, and the rest committed suicide because they didn't want to murder Ma Fujun and because they couldn't complete King Yan's orders. In the end, only sixteen warriors went to Zhao State, but none of these people came back, and now this one is the only one who has returned to restore his life.
When King Yan heard the news, he was very happy, he felt that he dared to come back, it must be because he successfully killed Zhao Kuo, but he didn't expect that just after meeting this warrior, the warrior told himself that he had not been able to complete his mission, and King Yan's face became even more gloomy, staring coldly at the warrior in front of him, and no longer spoke. The warrior put the bamboo slip in his hand in front of King Yan, who picked it up, looked at it for a moment, and then asked, "What is this?" ”
"This is the method of keeping out the cold taught by Ma Fujun...", the warrior failed to assassinate himself again, and Ma Fujun told King Yan all the words he said to himself. King Yan was stunned for a moment, took the bamboo slip in his hand, looked at the warrior in front of him, and asked in confusion: "Is this really what Zhao Kuo asked you to bring back?" The warrior nodded, and King Yan asked again, "Does this really work?" ”
"Yes, I saw the finished product with my own eyes at Ma Fujun's place, and it was made by a craftsman named Du."
King Yan was silent, he looked around, the whole palace, but empty, at this time, he always missed the chestnut belly very much, the chestnut belly can always solve the confusion in his heart, thinking of this, he vaguely regretted that he had disposed of the chestnut belly's family, he looked at the warrior in front of him, and said unhappily: "You go and call the drama luck." The warrior was stunned, hurriedly took the order, and walked out of the palace.
King Yan sat in the palace, looking at the bamboo slips in his hand, his expression was uncertain, and he didn't know what he was thinking, after a long time, the warrior brought an old man into the palace, the old man called the old man, and he was also a friend of Pang Lao, who had assisted King Wuling, but, because he had previously participated in the affairs of the new king, he was not loved by King Yan, and now, Yan Guo has lost one sage after another, but King Yan remembered him again.
Ji Xing was a thin old man with no grace, and King Yan looked at him for a moment before letting him sit down.
"The widow sent someone to kill Zhao Kuo....", King Yan told Ji Xing what the warrior told him, and then asked, "Why did Zhao Kuo do this?" Ji Xing stroked his beard and said without hesitation: "I heard that Ma Fujun is a sage of Zhao State, he once defeated the chestnut belly, but let go of the soldiers of Yan State, he now passed this method to Yan State, and because of his benevolence and righteousness, he does not regard Yan people as his enemies..."
"Zhao has such a sage... This is Zhao Guo's luck. ”
"Isn't he courting the widow? Do you express the idea of please and? King Yan asked again, Ji Xing shook his head and said, "Shangjun, he once dared to face the Chestnut Xiang with a few thousand people, would he still be afraid of the assassin and show you goodwill?" King Yan thought for a long time before he nodded, and then asked, "What should the widow do?" ”
"You should teach this method to the people of Yan Kingdom, but you can't tell them that this is taught by Ma Fujun, and you can tell the people that this is a method that the samurai stole from Ma Fujun, and Ma Fujun also killed two samurai who stole this thing for the people of Yan Kingdom...", Ji Xing said. King Yan was stunned for a moment, slowly stood up, and wandered back and forth in front of Ji Xing, and suddenly, King Yan laughed.
He shook his head and threw the bamboo slip on the table.
"The widow wants to kill him, because of the chestnut, Qing Qin, and Lejian, even if the widow is not a Ming monarch like the eldest father, but he is not a villain, Zhao Kuo can ignore the grudge between us, and tell the widow such a beneficial method to the Yan Kingdom, how can the widow frame him like this? You can retrieve the warriors who assassinated Zhao Kuo and spread this method to all parts of the Yan Kingdom, telling them that it was taught to them by Ma Fujun! ”
Ji Xing looked at the Yan King in front of him in surprise, he stood up and said: "Shangjun, Zhao Kuo is very famous in Yan Kingdom, and the soldiers are grateful for his benevolence and righteousness, if you do this, it will only make his reputation higher, if he attacks Yan Country with soldiers in the future, how can Yan people stop Zhao Kuo for you?" Yan Wang laughed, he clapped his hands, and suddenly there were beauties smiling and rushing in from the side, there were more than a dozen.
Even in such a cold winter, they wore very little, they crowded around King Yan, and there were warriors who brought fine wine, King Yan drank fine wine, hugged left and right, and sent someone to call the musician, the drama looked at this scene blankly, and hurriedly pushed away a few beauties in front of him, causing the beauties to scream, walked in front of King Yan, bowed down, and said: "Shangjun, you must not do this." ”
"Just do what the widow said, by the way, in the future, you will be the minister of Yan Kingdom, and the rest of Yan Kingdom's affairs will be handed over to you!"
Ji Xing asked: "Then what if Zhao Kuo attacks Yan Kingdom?" ”
"Then the widow will lead the army himself! Drive him out of the Yan Kingdom! Yan Wang said, laughed again, and hugged the beauty in his arms. Ji Xing was dumbfounded, looking at the extravagant and absurd scene in front of him, he sighed helplessly, turned around and left. After sending off the drama, King Yan saw the warrior of the Yan Kingdom standing not far away, helpless, and King Yan shouted angrily: "What are you still standing here for?!" You have not fulfilled your mission, do you still want to enjoy with the widows? Go home! ”
The warrior bowed deeply to King Yan and left the palace with him.
Until they left the palace, the samurai were a little confused, so did they want to die or not?
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In Xinzheng, South Korea, on the city wall, Xiang Xian stared at the Qin army camp in the distance and fell into deep thought. He had long known that Bai Qi would definitely ambush him on the road, but even if he was prepared, he didn't expect that Bai Qi would actually disguise himself as a fleeing Korean to ambush him. As soon as Xiang Xian passed through Nanyang and entered the land of Korea, he saw the Korean rout pursued by the Qin people, and he immediately lined up, wanting to let go of the Korean rout, and then pursue the Qin people in the distance.
However, these routs were disguised by the Qin people, and when they passed through the formation of the Chu State, they suddenly attacked, which made Xiang Qian's forward formation chaotic, and then the Qin people who pretended to chase and kill the Han people directly launched an attack, Bai Qi chose the best time and the best place, so that the Chu army was caught in the narrow road and trampled on each other, if Xiang first stopped the loss in time and blocked Bai Qi's strong attack, I am afraid that the 50,000 Chu people will be annihilated by the other party.
Bai Qi attacked quickly, and the evacuation was also very fast, Xiang Xian was gathering the remnants of the army, reorganized again, and learned the news that the Korean army was ambushed, but he did not dare to support at full speed, so when he arrived at the battlefield, the Koreans were killed cleanly, the Korean general Feng Ting, would rather die than give in, and died in a tragic battle, his side, full of corpses of the Qin people, died without blinking, Xiang Xian learned that Bai Qi pretended to be the Chu people who came to the rescue... The old trick was repeated, and the army of the Koreans was killed in a daze.
Xiang Xian took these remnants of the defeated army and returned to Xinzheng.
Naturally, the defeat returned, so that Feng Ting died in battle, he could not be greeted by King Han with a smile, King Han was very angry, gritted his teeth, if it were not for his defeat, Feng Ting would not have died in battle, and he would not have lost so many Korean soldiers, but King Han held back his anger, because in Xinzheng, there were less than 20,000 Korean soldiers left, and he still had to rely on Xiang Xian to resist Bai Qi.
It's just that he doesn't have much hope for Xiang Xian anymore.
This kind of despair, not only in the body of the king of Han, but also the people of South Korea have lost confidence in the war, hiding in the house in horror, not daring to go out, the same is true of the Korean soldiers on the city wall, they just heard the name of Bai Qi, they were all trembling with fright, they couldn't hold the weapons in their hands, only the soldiers of Chu were better, and they still had the will to fight, but the problem was that Xiang Xian didn't dare to go out of the city at all.
After Bai Qi hit him hard, he didn't think about attacking Xinzheng, his soldiers, who didn't know where to go, occasionally appeared outside the city, and occasionally disappeared without a trace, just a corpse was tied to a horse, and came to Xinzheng's city wall, these corpses are all messengers sent to Xinzheng from all over the world, they are here to ask for help, hoping that King Han can save them, they are powerless to resist Bai Qi.
Xiang Xian knew that this was Bai Qi's plan to attack the heart, he sent scouts to investigate, but the scouts who came back were also tied to horses, their heads had been cut off, and the headless corpses were swaying under the city walls, the Koreans were almost collapsing, and some Korean soldiers had begun to jump down from the city walls to commit suicide, Xiang Xian didn't understand very much, and died because he was afraid of death??
At this time, Xiang Xian saw several knights appear in the distance, and the knights came slowly in the direction of the city wall, and they all had heads, not corpses, Xiang Xian looked at them seriously, they were Qin people! Xiang Xian immediately ordered the generals on the city wall to prepare to meet the enemy, and at this moment, the knights had already come to the city wall where Xiang Xian was, and there were only twelve of them, and the person at the head raised his head high, as if he was observing the Chu people on the city wall.
The Chu people were okay, they were not afraid of the envoys of the Qin State, they looked at them with disdain, the bows and crossbows in their hands were directly aimed at them, and the Han people who were standing beside them had begun to tremble at this moment, they seemed to think of those knights without heads, trembling, they were also learning from the appearance of the soldiers of the Chu State, aiming the strong crossbow at the enemy under the city, and looked at them in horror.
"We were sent by Wu Anjun to negotiate a truce with King Han!" , the knight at the head suddenly shouted in Korean.
"Whoosh~~", in an instant, a crossbow arrow shot out from the city wall, and suddenly shot a Qin soldier off the horse, fell to the ground, and there was no life, the knights were furious, and they all reined in their horses and retreated, the leader did not retreat, but just looked at Xiang Xian angrily and scolded: "How can there be a reason in the world to treat the messenger like this?!" Xiang Xian was also very annoyed, looked left and right, but it was a thin Korean soldier who was only in his teens, he looked around in horror, and cried: "I'm not.. No.. Not intentionally. ”
Xiang Xian stared at him, but did not scold him, he turned to look at the Qin knight who was the leader, and he said in Chu language: "The continuation and end of the war!" It should be a matter of negotiation between monarchs, Wu Anjun, as a general of Qin, can he negotiate with King Han instead of King Qin?! ”
The envoy of the State of Qin gritted his teeth, stared at Xiang Xian on the city wall with resentment, then looked at the corpse on the side, and said with a sneer: "You are the general of the State of Chu, the war between Korea and the State of Qin, you are not qualified to participate, so please tell the King of Han and let him decide this matter!" ”