After Xiong Huai left the main hall of the meeting, his face instantly returned to calm, and then he walked into the side hall next to him with a cold face, and said to Li Qiu, who was following behind: "Please come to see the widow." ”

"Yui!"

Not long after, Xiong Huai saw that Gong Yin had arrived, and when there were only two people left in the hall, he immediately asked: "Gong Yin, I don't know if the kite that the widow asked Xianqing to make before has been prepared." ”

After asking, Xiong Huai immediately looked at his teeth nervously.

The kite is a task that Xiong Huai specially gave to the tooth when the ministers discussed building momentum for the five-color stone, and the purpose was to pretend to be a god and scare the people.

At this time, as soon as Xiong Huai asked, he immediately nodded and responded: "Back to the king, the minister is already ready." And after the experiments of the ministers, as long as all the fire phoenixes are tattooed with colors, as long as they are not watched from close range, they look at it from a distance, as if the live fire phoenix is hovering in the air, and it is difficult to distinguish the real from the fake. ”

"Good!" Xiong Huai nodded, then thought for a while, and said: "Gong Yin, the sparsely populated but particularly eye-catching place near Yingdu is undoubtedly where the temple of my Chu Guozong is located. And even Ling Yin, without the permission of the widow, could not enter the temple.

Therefore, later Xianqing can take the kite and the five-colored stone to the temple, and the widow will ask Taibu to help Xianqing. Then from the day after tomorrow, Xianqing flew a kite in the temple, and the widow wanted to let the world know that the heavens sent miracles to Yingdu. ”

"Yes, King!" He nodded vigorously.

"Okay, Xianqing hurry up and prepare!"

"Yui!"

After the tooth left, Xiong Huai looked at the void and muttered: "The Mandate of Heaven Xuanniao, descending to give birth to Shang, Fengming Qishan, these are all myths passed on by everyone, if the myth becomes a reality, the widow looks at each other, who will not admit that the widow is the destiny of heaven, who will not admit that the destiny of heaven did not fall in the Chu country!" ”

As he spoke, Xiong Huai took out the silk silk again, and then wrote down three edicts, solemnly stamped the seal of the king of Chu, and put the edicts into the wooden box. Then, on one wooden box, Xiangyang Shou Qu Yuan was written, on another wooden box was written General Zhuang Ji, and on the last wooden box, Fangcheng Shoujing was written.

After writing, Xiong Huai walked outside the hall with the wooden box, and then handed the wooden box to Li Qiu with his own hands, and instructed: "Si Gong, quickly order someone to pass the edict of the widow to Qu Yuan, Zhuang Ji, and Jing Que, so that they can obey the order, except for the edict of the widow, they are not allowed to accept anyone's orders or requests, if they violate it!"

Extermination. ”

Li Qiu listened to the murderous words of the King of Chu, and immediately responded solemnly: "Only! ”

After Li Qiu took the wooden box, Xiong Huai spoke again: "Also, from tomorrow, the widow will bathe and fast for three days to pray for the protection of heaven!"

During this time, no one was seen. ”

"Yui."

···

Wancheng.

After Zhuang Xin received the request for help from the Shangyong County Guard, he invited the general Zhuang Ji as soon as possible.

After Zhuang Ji arrived, Zhuang Xin handed Shangyong Shou's request for help to Zhuang Ji, and then said: "Brother Xian, Shangyong is in danger, I am here to ask for help, I don't know what Brother Xian wants?" ”

Zhuang Ji heard the words and took the silk book handed by Zhuang Xin, then unfolded it and read it, then closed his eyes and pondered for a while, slowly shook his head, and then handed the silk book back to Zhuang Xin.

Seeing this, Zhuang Xin's eyebrows flashed with a hint of worry, and asked, "Brother Xian is unwilling to send troops to the mediocre?" Now that Shangyong is in danger, only the army of the virtuous brother stationed in Wancheng still has the remaining strength, even if Yingcan send reinforcements, I am afraid it will be too late.

If the virtuous brother does not send troops, then the mediocrity will inevitably be lost. If you don't keep it, Danxi can't keep it, and in this way, Wancheng will also be in danger, this is the so-called cold lips and teeth! ”

Zhuang Ji shook his head and said, "Brother, it's not that I don't want to send troops, but it's too late." Shangyong's elite soldiers have long been transferred to the Great Wall of Hanzhong, and now the Great Wall is defeated, the army is scattered, and the Qin army is rushing all the way to kill Shangyong, calculating the time, I am afraid that the Qin army will besiege Shangyong City between today and tomorrow.

The small people of Shangyong City are tired of soldiers, and the weakness of Shangyong faces the tiger and wolf division of Qin State, I am afraid that it will not take a day or two to be overcome by the Qin army. And Wancheng is too far away from Shangyong, even if I set off immediately, day and night, it will take eight to ten days at the earliest. At that time, I rushed to Shangyong, just to add merit to Gan Mao.

Therefore, it is too late to rescue the mediocre. ”

Zhuang Xin shook his head and said: "Brother Xian, when you led the army to Wancheng, the king asked you to support all places at any time.

Zhuang Ji shook his head and said, "No, the king only asked me to support Fang Cheng and Danxi, but he never let me go to support Hanzhong Shangyong." And..."

Zhuang Ji glanced at Zhuang Xin and said: "Compared with the mediocre, I am more worried about Wancheng!" It is a foregone conclusion that Shangyong will not defend, and it is inevitable that Danxi will not defend, after the Qin and Han coalition forces defeated Ye Gong's department, I am afraid that they will besiege Wancheng to force the king to surrender! ”

Zhuang Xin was stunned for a moment, then showed a look of great fear, and hurriedly shouted to the outside world: "Order, immediately send someone to the west, and prepare to meet the rout." Order, pass the order down, recruit the people, and prepare to hold Wancheng..."

Xiangyang.

After Qu Yuan learned about the affairs of Shangyong in Hanzhong, he immediately summoned Deng Lingguang, and said with a heavy face: "General Deng Ling, I don't know if the general knows about the affairs of Hanzhong." ”

Deng Lingguang nodded and responded: "Guang has already heard that it is said that the general suddenly died in the barracks, and then Hanzhong was lost. ”

Qu Yuan bowed slightly, and then said with a heavy face: "General, Hanzhong Shangyong is related to the overall situation of my Chu State, and there is no room for mistakes." As far as the eye can see, only I Xiangyang is closest to Shangyong, if it is against the current, it will be possible to reach Shangyong in three or five days. Moreover, at this time, I still have 70,000 elite soldiers in Xiangyang.

Therefore, Ping wanted to ask General Deng Ling to immediately lead the king's personal guards and soldiers to rush to Shangyong to defend first, as long as he could hold on for a day or two, Ping would personally lead 70,000 troops to relieve the siege for Shangyong. ”

Deng Lingguang shook his head without hesitation and said: "The king has an order, only let Guang train soldiers in Xiangyang and garrison Xiangyang City, but never let Guang defend other places, Guang is the commander of the pro-guard army, and he does not dare to act without authorization." ”

Qu Yuan glanced at Deng Lingguang strangely, it was hard to believe that such pedantic words would come out of his mouth.

Thinking about it, Qu Yuan persuaded bitterly: "General Deng Ling, as the so-called generals are not subject to the orders of the foreign monarch, now that the military situation is urgent, how can I not know how to be flexible." Now that the edifice is about to fall, the general is sticking to the orders given to him by the king a year ago, before the war broke out, without making the slightest change. Could it be that this is the way of faith and righteousness of the Mo people, is this the wisdom of the Mo people, and is this how Mr. Deng Ling taught his disciples? ”

Qu Yuan asked three questions in a row, which immediately made Deng Lingguang dumbfounded.

Qu Yuan saw that Deng Lingguang was silent, so he spoke again: "General, the ink is good at guarding, the world knows it, the king's personal guard, can travel more than 200 miles a day. At this time, Shangyong continued to reinforce the army to boost morale, and if the general traveled day and night, he could rush to the city to guard Shangyong before sunrise the day after tomorrow, before the Qin army surrounded Shangyong.

As long as the mediocrity is not lost, Danxi, Fangcheng, Deng Wan and other places will also be exempted from the scourge of swords because of the general.

If this is the case, the righteousness of the general is no less than the behavior of Mozi for Song and Chu in the past, which is the righteousness of the Mo family! ”

Qu Yuan finished speaking affectionately, and then looked at Deng Lingguang intently.

It's just that Deng Lingguang was silent for a long time, and finally, looking at Qu Yuan, he still shook his head.