The palace of Chudu, due to the huge pressure given by Wei and Liang, the Chang Dynasty of the five days of the past has been held frequently recently, as long as there is a military intelligence report, the Chu Emperor will order someone to ring the alarm bell and summon the minister of civil and military affairs to Xuanren Palace to discuss.

Since the sudden emergence of 200,000 troops in Liangguo, coupled with the original 100,000 troops, 300,000 troops have invaded in a monstrous manner, the already somewhat dignified court discussion has become depressed.

Although the ministers of civil and military affairs have a lot of plans for this, they are unable to solve the most important problem at the moment, that is, the problem of time.

The Liang State made a surprise attack, what it did was to catch the Chu State off guard, and attack the city, how could the Chu State be easily resolved?

At this point, the only hope of the Chu court is that the army led by Pang Xiong can hold back the Liang army, and the follow-up plan can be carried out only when reinforcements arrive.

Compared with the bad situation on this road, the army on the east road is diametrically opposite, under the careful planning of the metropolitan governor Zhao Zhe, the Chu army has won successive battles, and the prince is the first to take the lead with the respect of the prince, killing the enemy to throw away his armor and abandon his armor, and his heart is broken, showing the national prestige of the Chu State.

However, this is all a small victory, and in the face of the worrying situation of the Western Route Army, the joy of a small victory is gone.

Sitting on the dragon chair, Emperor Chu glanced majestically at the ministers below, with a trace of imperceptible worry in his deep eyes, his brows furrowed slightly, showing that his heart was not as calm as it seemed, and he asked, "Where have the reinforcements arrived?" How long does it take to get to Xiangzhou? ”

Shang Shuyun of the Ministry of War bowed his hand and said: "The 50,000 reinforcements from Suzhou have arrived in Yiyang City, which is less than 200 miles away from Xiangzhou, and it will be reached in a few days; Yanzhou's 40,000 reinforcements have arrived in Mingyang City, and there are still more than 400 miles away from Xiangzhou, and it will take at least three days to reach Xiangzhou, and Mingzhou ......"

"Order them to speed up the march and rush to help."

"Yes."

"Grain, Grass and Ordnance ......"

When the Chu Emperor and the ministers were discussing politics, a small eunuch quietly entered the main hall, walked behind Xu Zhong, the great eunuch who was standing and serving not far from the Chu Emperor, quietly stuffed an object in his hand into his hand, and whispered quietly behind his ear before bowing and retreating.

This scene was seen by many ministers, but the royal news was passed on, and the ministers would not say much.

Xu Zhong's face showed joy after hearing this, and he didn't care about anything else, and hurriedly presented the object in his hand that the little eunuch had just handed over to him to Emperor Chu, and whispered: "Your Majesty, great joy! Our army defeated the Liang army, causing the Liang army to retreat in Luoyin City and hold out. ”

This object is a silk silk with words written on it, embroidered with golden dragon lace, which is the exclusive object of the royal spies to pass on the news.

When Emperor Chu heard this, a fine light flashed in his eyes, and he hurriedly took the silk silk and opened it to watch, and when he saw the silk silk record when Chen Rui led the army to defeat the Liang army, a complicated light flashed in his eyes.

After reading the secret letter, Emperor Chu seemed to be in deep thought, his eyes looked out of the hall without focus, the light was uncertain, Xu Zhong was a little surprised to see that Emperor Chu did not show joy, and secretly said that His Majesty is very human, and he can be happy and angry when he receives such a happy news.

The ministers below stopped talking when Emperor Chu read the secret letter, and saw that His Majesty showed a strange look after reading the secret letter, and looked at each other in some puzzlement, secretly guessing the content of the letter.

After a long while, Emperor Chu laughed and said: "Our army has suffered a great setback to the Liang army, beheading 90,000 enemies, capturing 60,000 prisoners, capturing more than 100,000 war horses, and carrying countless grains and grasses. ”

There was a sudden silence below, and the ministers showed a look of shock, even if they closed their eyes to recuperate, the old god's expression in Xiangguo Xiaokong fluctuated.

All right! Xiao Kong has small eyes, and he is not really closing his eyes to recuperate.

The ministers then showed a look of ecstasy, and said in unison: "Congratulations to my Great Chu, my emperor is blessed with the world, and my Great Chu is prosperous." ”

Zuo Xiangtian Jie said: "My emperor is virtuous, General Pang is brave, and there are so many loyal ministers and good generals such as King Qin and Xiangguo, and my Great Chu will dominate the world just around the corner." ”

Right Xiangyu stroked his beard and said: "I didn't expect General Pang to be like a god, I really underestimated him on weekdays, hey!" He doesn't want to hold a grudge against me! ”

"Haha......"

Emperor Chu shook his head and said, "Although General Pang has a good command, it is not General Pang who has a great victory over the Liang army. ”

"Who's that?" Tian Jie asked with some surprise.

Emperor Chu did not shy away from saying: "Chen Rui, the vanguard general I appointed, he lured the enemy in front of the camp, set up an ambush, led 30,000 Qin troops to defeat more than 100,000 Liang troops, beheaded 60,000 enemies, captured more than 60,000 people, and escaped only more than 1,000, and he also robbed the Liang army camp, and most of the grain, grass and horses were also captured by him. ”

"Who is this Chen Rui? Why can you lead 30,000 Qin troops? And it was hand-picked by His Majesty. Several doubts arose in the hearts of the ministers at the same time, but they didn't ask too much, because this was an excellent time to pat on the back, and many courtiers arched their hands and said: "My emperor Shengming ......"

Emperor Chu stretched out his hand to suppress it, stopped the voices of the ministers, looked at Xiao Kong, where the old god was there, and said: "The Liang army retreated to Luoyin City and was unable to invade the south, and my Great Chu was unable to invade the north due to the entanglement of the Wei State. ”

Many courtiers pricked up their ears when they heard this, showing a look of interest, this is a good errand! Now that the state of Chu occupies the initiative with a great victory, it occupies an absolute advantage in the matter of peace, and there are 60,000 captives as bargaining chips, it can be said that there is no pressure to negotiate peace, as long as it can get back enough benefits, it is a great achievement, so who wants to eat the fat meat in the mouth?

How could Xiao Kong not know the meaning of Emperor Chu? He arched his hand and said: "Although the minister is old, the minister's heart is not old, so the minister asked for his life to go on this trip in person." ”

"Xiangguo is old after all, I really can't bear Xiangguo to suffer from this tiring journey, but Xiangguo's ambition is not old, please go, I don't want to blow Xiangguo's heart for the country, so I have to be approved, but Xiangguo remember, you are my arm, the pillar of Dachu, you must not lose, you must take care of your body!" Emperor Chu said with a reluctant expression.

He is not hypocritical, he is indeed very reluctant to let the elderly Xiao Kong suffer from this tiring journey, but Su Yu has gone to Zhao State, and none of the remaining people in this court, except for Xiangguo Xiao Kong, can make him feel at ease to hand over this important task to him.

Of course, what he is not worried about is not that he can't talk about this peace negotiation, but that he is not worried that they will not get enough benefits, if he doesn't want to take this opportunity to cut a piece of meat from Liangguo, he is not the heroic Emperor Chu.

It can only be said that the world is unpredictable, but he didn't expect that in the face of Wei Lianglian's attack, not only was he not defeated, but also because he made an unintentional move, he made the Chu army win by mistake, and he won so quickly.

This Chen Rui really made him very helpless!

"Your Majesty is compassionate, and the old minister will not fail in his mission."

At the same time, the third prince Chen Li came out and said: "The eldest brother and the second emperor brother are on the front line to kill the enemy, only the sons and daughters enjoy the blessings in the capital, sheltered, and the sons are very ashamed to think about this, and they can't sleep at night. ”

"Li'er can have this heart, I am very relieved, yes." Emperor Chu said happily.

"Father Xie, the son swears that he will not let the old minister make mistakes, and if he violates it, he will be punished." Chen Li arched his hand.

Who doesn't have ambitions? Do you think that you can get your father's favor by going to the battlefield to make military achievements? Foolish people talk about dreams, even if they make great contributions, they are not as good as Lao Xiangguo's words.

Xiao Kong glanced at Chen Li secretly, not knowing what he was thinking.

Yecheng, the capital of Zhao, one of the big cities with a population of one million in the world, its prosperity is not inferior to the capital of Chu Jinling and the capital of Wei Liangcheng, Liangcheng is also called Kaifeng.

In the palace of Zhao State in Yecheng, a eunuch pulled the voice of the male duck and said loudly: "Xuanchu envoy to meet you." ”

Chu envoy Su Yu, a middle-aged beautiful man with a lofty instrument, in modern terms, is a heartthrob uncle, the kind that can fascinate a little girl screaming.

He had been in Zhao for some time, and he had not been summoned until today.

He was not in a hurry while waiting, because this was the most common means of diplomatic relations, and he would snub for a few days to make the envoy anxious, so that he could take the initiative in the negotiation of diplomatic relations.

Now it is the state of Chu that asks for Zhao State, and Zhao State tells him in this way that Zhao State is not in a hurry, it is you Chu State who is in a hurry, and I, Zhao State, can make you more anxious, or I can pull you into dire straits, all of this depends on your sincerity.

So he can't be in a hurry, and he can't let the other party get his wish.

When Su Yu heard the summons, he strode into the main hall, ignoring the ministers on both sides, looking directly ahead, and saw Emperor Zhao sitting high on the dragon chair, a man who was not outstanding in appearance, not very old but very majestic, he bowed his hand and saluted: "Foreign Minister Su Yu pays a visit to Emperor Zhao." ”

Emperor Zhao Cun is young, but no one dares to underestimate him today, Emperor Zhao Wen died three years ago, at the beginning of Zhao Cun's accession to the throne, because the brothers were not satisfied, they used various means to make it difficult, and even led troops to force the palace, but they were all defeated by him one by one, but his heart was benevolent, just relieved of their rights, put them under house arrest, and did not hurt their lives.

But there are two princes who are not grateful for their kindness, nor do they give up, the two of them took the opportunity to escape with the help of their mothers, led troops to rebel, and respectively led Yan and Liang as foreign aid, and Yan Liang also responded, under the banner of punishing the tyrant to send troops to support.

But the result was that the two princes were defeated and captured under Zhao Cun's thunderous momentum, and Yan Liangliang withdrew his troops when he saw the situation, and a crisis was easily resolved by him.

This time, Zhao Cun didn't have any benevolence for these two brothers, not only beheaded them outside the palace gate, but also slaughtered their mother clan.

At this point, the imperial power of Zhao State is all in his hands, and the ministers dare not disobey.

"Chu envoy is exempt." Zhao Cun stretched out his hand and said.

"Emperor Xie."

"I have been busy with state affairs recently, and I have neglected the Chu envoy, please forgive me." Zhao Cun said with a smile.