"Okay." Xiong Huai listened to King Song's loud words, and immediately said with great joy: "If King Song can do this, the widow will be relieved." ”

After a pause, Xiong Huai spoke: "Since the King of Song and the widow are dissatisfied with the Wei State, and now the widow plans to send troops to attack the Wei State, I don't know what the King of Song thinks?" ”

The king of Song swore solemnly: "If the king of Chu has this intention, the widow will definitely follow the king of Chu and attack Wei with all his might, I don't know how the king of Chu intends to attack Wei." ”

"Okay." Xiong Huai was overjoyed, and then said that the Chu State wanted to gather all countries to attack the Song State.

King Song was silent for a moment when he heard this, glanced at Hui Ang beside him, and then responded: "It's feasible." ”

Seeing that King Song agreed, Xiong Huai smiled and said, "Good, good." ”

After the two countries agreed on the content of the troops, two days later, Xiong Huai took Tang Wu as the general and led 50,000 Chu and Song coalition troops to defend Kuangzhang stationed in Lu in Xuedi, and then Xiong Huai and Song Wang led nearly 300,000 Chu and Song coalition troops to Tengcheng.

A few days later, the Chu-Song coalition army came to the outside of Tengcheng and began to prepare for a confrontation with the nearly 200,000 Qi army led by Shengzi.

Inside the city of Teng.

Teng Junwang sat on the main seat, without saying a word, looking at Zhai Qiang and Shengzi with wandering eyes.

Shengzi asked anxiously: "Teng Xiang, now that the 300,000 Chu and Song coalition troops have arrived under Tengcheng, I don't know where the army of Wei has arrived now." ”

Zhai Qiang was appointed as Teng Xiang by the King of Wei on the second day after Tian Wen's visit to the Prime Minister, and set off for Teng on the third day.

After rushing to Tengcheng in a hurry, he didn't have time to do anything, and he got the news that the Chu and Song coalition forces were going north to Tengcheng. As a result, Zhai Qiang, the Teng Xiang, immediately played his due role, that is, to ask for help from the Wei State.

Several days have passed, and the news of Wei's dispatch of troops has not yet arrived, and the Chu-Song coalition army has arrived.

In this regard, Shengzi is secretly anxious.

It's not that I'm worried that Tengcheng won't be able to hold it, but that the Wei army is delayed, and Shengzi is worried that something will happen to the Wei State.

Zhai Qiang said slowly: "General Shengzi, please be relieved, the prime minister has already sent the news back to the Wei State, and General Xiwu's army is stationed on the north bank of Jishui, but it is a little far away, and it is already on the road at this time." ”

As he spoke, Zhai Qiang asked Shengzi: "General Shengzi, I don't know if General Zhangzi, who is stationed in Lu State, has come to aid Teng State now." ”

"Zhangzi?" Shengzi shook his head and said: "Tang Wu led an army of 50,000 troops to be stationed on the border of Lu State, and it was difficult for Lu State to protect itself because the main force was all lost in Xue City, so General Zhang Zi stayed in Lu State to defend Tang Wu at the request of Lu Jun. ”

What Shengzi didn't say was that the edict from the King of Qi said that the State of Qi no longer wanted to fight hard with the State of Chu after losing 100,000 troops. The reason why it is still in a stalemate with Chu is because it wants to pull Wei into the water, as long as the Wei army is under Tengcheng and officially confronts the Chu and Song coalition forces, so that Wei officially betrays Chu, then the purpose of Qi will be achieved.

Zhai Qiang frowned when he heard this.

This is different from the previous calculation, according to the meaning of the Wei State, the Chu and Song coalition forces fought for several months, even if they rested for a period of time after capturing Xuecheng, but they could not hide the fact of fatigue and war weariness. Therefore, now is the time to take the opportunity to fight a decisive battle with the Chu-Song coalition forces. For this reason, Gongsun Xi brought all the soldiers he had trained in the past few years.

It was also because of the call of the military pawn that it took some time, Zhai Qiang knew about this, but the martial pawn, as the trump card of the Wei State, was to be a blockbuster and kept secret, so the Wei State did not even inform the Qi State.

As a result, Kuang Zhang did not come, and the tens of thousands of Qi troops in his hands did not come.

With nearly 200,000 Qi troops in Tengcheng, plus the 180,000 troops of Wei, such a huge army, tens of thousands more and tens of thousands, does not have too many advantages.

If you add the tens of thousands of Qi troops in Kuang Zhang's hands, then the Qi-Wei coalition army will exceed 400,000, so that it will have an absolute advantage over the Chu and Song coalition forces, and the chances of victory will be greatly increased.

Thinking about it, Zhai Qiang couldn't help but speak: "General Shengzi, although the main force of the Lu State is already suffering heavy losses, but Qufu is a big city in the world, the city is high and deep, and there are hundreds of thousands of people in the city. Why did Zhang Zi agree to Lu Jun's request? ”

Shengzi replied as a matter of course: "Teng Xiang's words are wrong, the Chu and Song coalition forces defeated our Tianjia army, the famous town of Qilu land, Lu Jun is worried, and the people of Lu are afraid, isn't this normal?"

Besides, Lu was invited by the king of Qi to send all his troops to Xuecheng, and as a result, the army and Xuecheng coexisted and died. Now that the Chu and Song coalition forces are in danger of the Lu State, can we leave the State of Lu? How could a widow do such an unkind and unrighteous act? ”

"This..." Zhai Qiang was about to say something.

At this time, a general walked in and reported to Zhai Qiangyu: "Report to Xiangguo, General Xiwu has sent a message that 150,000 Wei troops have arrived in the territory of Qi State, and they will be able to reach Tengcheng in four days." ”

"Okay." Zhai Qiang was overjoyed in his heart, and then, thinking of Kuang Zhang's absence, he suddenly froze, thought, and waved his hand: "Okay, send someone to reply to General Xiwu, and say that the true appearance is already known." ”

"No."

Seeing that the Wei army was about to arrive in Tengcheng, and the purpose of Qi had been achieved, Shengzi on the side was overjoyed: "Teng Xiang, since the Wei army will soon arrive in Tengcheng." Then Ben will make arrangements and prepare for the arrival of the Wei army. ”

"General, please take care of yourself." Zhai Qiang responded.

Looking at the back of Shengzi leaving, Zhai Qiang couldn't help but ponder.

Kuang Zhang didn't come, and neither did the most elite martial fighters of Qi under his command, so the Qi-Wei coalition army could only overpower the Chu coalition army in terms of numbers, and there was no obvious advantage.

In this case, a decisive battle with the Chu-Song coalition army, even if the Chu-Song coalition army can be defeated, its own losses will definitely not be light, which is not what Wei wants.

Wei is located in the middle of the world, once the loss is too great, other countries will come to pick up the cheap, not only Chu, Qin and even Zhao, it is possible, and even, even if it is an ally Qi, it will fall into the ground.

Therefore, war is not advisable at this time.

Thinking about it, Zhai Qiang couldn't help but show a hint of worry.

The Wei State has already sent troops and has already turned against the Chu State, and if it retreats at this time, it will undoubtedly offend all the countries.

For the sake of Wei, it is best to surrender without a fight, or forcefully force back the Chu State, so as to show the strength of the Wei State, so that all countries in the world can see the confidence and determination of the Wei State, so that they can win over Han Zhao and the Qin State afterwards, and then form an alliance to weaken the Chu State.

After thinking about it again, Zhai Qiang already had a plan in his heart, so he spoke: "Someone." ”

"Yes, Sangkook." A waiter bent down in response.

Zhai Qiang instructed: "Send someone to the Chu camp outside the city to submit a letter of worship, and say that Zhai Qiang, the prime minister of Teng, wants to see the king of Chu, and asks the king of Chu to give him a meeting." ”

"No."

After the waiter left, Zhai Qiang thought about it again, and after making sure that there was nothing missing, he raised his legs and walked out, preparing to go out of the city to meet the king of Chu.

After walking six or seven steps, when he was about to walk out of the gate of the palace, he remembered that it seemed that Teng Jun was still sitting in the palace.

So, he immediately turned around and saluted Teng Jun and said, "Your Excellency, the minister wants to go to see the King of Chu outside the city, I don't know if the king has anything to explain." ”