Jing Cui and the three of them glanced at each other, and finally Jing Cui spoke: "King, the Qi army camp is extremely strong, with complete weapons, according to Wei Chen's visual inspection, there are about 50,000 troops in the Qi camp. If the army attacks the camp, it will inevitably be hit by the Qi army and suffer heavy losses, so according to the minister's opinion, in order to avoid a large number of casualties among the soldiers, it is necessary to build a large number of siege weapons step by step to reduce the casualties of the soldiers. ”

Tang Gong Sun Yan nodded together and said: "King, the words of the Zhu Kingdom are very true, and the ministers seconded it. ”

Xiong Huai also knows that in the face of the current situation, there is only one way to prepare for a protracted war.

After a pause, Xiong Huai asked: "Zhongqing, now that the main force of the Qi army is planning to confront us in Zhongwu City, do you think we can bypass Zhongwu City and attack the rear of Qi from the flank." In this way, the Qi army was lured out of Zhong Wu's sturdy turtle shell. ”

Gongsun Yan shook his head when he heard this: "Great King, if you bypass Zhongwu City, to the north are Xue Di and Lu Kingdom, although Xue Di is easy to fight, but this needs to borrow Pengcheng near Song Kingdom." ”

"The minister has dealt with the king of Song, the king of Song is very assertive, and he is full of vigilance against the two countries of Qi and Chu, and Pengcheng next to us has 100,000 Song troops to defend, this is the proof, the king of Song will not agree to borrow from my Chu country."

Jing Cui also spoke: "King, the last time we united with the Song State to attack the Qi State, after the defeat of the Qi State, the Song State has been in constant contact with the Qi State, and the ministers are worried that the Song State will defect halfway. If the Song State cuts off our back road, then our army attacking Xue Di will become a lone army, and we may be worried about the annihilation of the whole army. ”

Tang Yu said: "Not only that, but now Zhong Wu has gathered 250,000 Qi troops, if you ignore the Qi army here and the army goes deep behind enemy lines, it will be inappropriate to hand over the grain route to the Qi country." If only a small number of troops were sent to attack Xue Di, although Xue Di's defense was weak, Meng Weijun's father and son had been running Xue Di for many years and won the hearts of the people. Moreover, when Tian Ying's funeral was still going on, Meng Weijun had already built a city wall in Xuedi, although it had not been completely completed, but a partial division might not be able to capture Xuedi. ”

Seeing that the three generals around him were all opposed to bypassing the Qi army in front of him, Xiong Huai had no choice but to give up.

Xiong Huai himself couldn't think of any good way, so he had to say: "Okay, then according to what Zhu Guo said, build siege weapons, advance steadily, and prepare for a protracted battle with the Qi army." ”

As he spoke, thinking of his Mai Mi plan, he couldn't help but sneer: "Fighting a protracted war, the widow is really not afraid of Qi Guo, see who can consume whom." ”

"Zhu State, the widow remembers that the last time our Chu State was due to lack of time and insufficient troops, and did not break through the county seat north of Xia Picheng, right?"

Jing Cui responded: "King, that's exactly the case. ”

"Hmm!" Xiong Huai said with a smile: "Since you are ready to fight a protracted war, Zhuguo, you will send people to empty all the five counties that have surrendered in the south. Although the mosquito is small, it is also meat, and the widow is never picky eater, and he ordered that all of them, whether old or young, move to Dongting to increase the population of our Chu country. ”

Hearing this, the three of Jingcui saluted: "The king is wise." ”

At this time, Zhongwu was in the city.

Meng Weijun, who was dressed in plain clothes, saluted Kuang Zhang and said: "General, the last general was ordered to recruit the troops of the two countries of Lufei and the Four Kingdoms, and now that the mission has been completed, I am here to hand over the order." ”

Kuang Zhang said with a smile: "The whole country of Qi is singing about Meng Weijun's virtuous name, and it really lives up to its name when I see it today." Lu Fei, these small countries, I thought that if I could send 20,000 troops, it would be considered loyal to our Qi country, but I didn't want Meng Weijun to go out, and I was able to let them hand over 50,000 troops, which greatly exceeded the general's expectations. ”

Meng Weijun shook his head and said: "General, I don't dare to take credit for this matter, it's all the credit of the Chu army." When these four countries heard that there was a famine in Chu, not only did they even eat the wheat and rice for emergency relief, but there was still a shortage of food, so they could only plunder the population of other countries to use it as rations, regardless of men, women, and children, all of them would rush back to Chu to make jerky. ”

"The people of the four countries were frightened, and they heard that once Zhongwu City was lost, the Chu army would be able to drive straight into and plunder many small countries, so they mobilized the power of the whole country to help our Qi country defend Zhongwu City."

What Meng Weijun said, Kuang Zhang naturally knew what was going on.

Since the last time the Chu army plundered the population, the State of Qi has vigorously promoted the threat theory of the State of Chu to various countries, and Meng Weijun, who was among the army of his father's illness and death, has made a great deal of hype, demonized the State of Chu, and spared no effort to publicize the matter of the Chu Army plundering the people to all countries and all parts of the State of Qi.

Now the people of Qilu have heard that their colors have changed.

Kuang Zhang nodded with a smile.

Meng Weijun continued: "General, not only that, but in order to allow my Qi State to withstand the offensive of the Chu State, the Four Kingdoms have also generously donated 100,000 stone of grain to our Qi army for military use. ”

Kuang Zhang laughed out loud when he heard this: "Okay, good, this battle is now invincible." ”

"There is a cloud in the art of war: the time is not as good as the location, and the location is not as good as the people. Chu and Yue have repeatedly invaded our Qi country, and now our Qi country is not only united by the people, but also has other countries to help with all their might, this is to occupy the people. Now the city will be defended, this is the geographical advantage. And I, Qin, Qi and the two countries, have been preparing for this war for a long time, and this is the time to occupy the sky. ”

"I have all the world, heaven and earth, and I will win this battle."

Hearing this, Meng Weijun arched his hand and said: "What the general said is very true, I will definitely publicize these words to the army, and my army will win this battle." ”

Kuang Zhang nodded with satisfaction.

Soon after Xiong Huai returned to the barracks, he saw Doctor Shangguan and Chen Zhen coming one after the other, and Doctor Shangguan came over with a happy face: "King, there is news from Zhao State, King Zhao has appeared, and Zhao has become a general, and he is stationed in Lingqiu, ready to cross the river to attack the land of Henan in Qi State at any time." ”

Xiong Huai was overjoyed when he heard this: "Okay, it seems that King Zhao is not carried away by beauty, this is good news." ”

Doctor Shangguan smiled: "King, there is another good news, Song Wei came to report, not long ago, the combined forces of Song and Wei came out of Dayozawa, and they have been at war with Qi State, and they have broken through the four cities of Qi State, and Qi State cannot resist it." ”

"Good!" Xiong Huai was overjoyed.

Although the Song and Wei had little hope of breaking through Pinglu, they could contain a large number of Qi troops.

At this time, Chen Zhen said: "King, the spies have come to report, Lu Fei and the four countries of Lu Fei sent troops to help Qi State, with Meng Weijun Tianwen as the general, and the 70,000 allied troops have arrived in the north of Zhongwu City. ”

"Among the 70,000 coalition troops, 20,000 are strong men from Xue Di, and Meng Weijun wore plain clothes and entered Zhongwu City with a coffin."

As he spoke, Chen Zhen looked at the King of Chu, saw that the King of Chu's face was ugly, and said thoughtfully: "Tian Wen declares that he wants to avenge his father and fight to the death with our Chu-Yue coalition army!" ”