At the beginning of May of the nineteenth year of Hongde of the Great Wei, the large army of Wei withdrew from Shouying to the south, and the target of the first stop was Xiangcheng. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

It is undeniable that the Wei army in this battle was a big surprise, because the Wei army, which had only more than 50,000 infantry when it came, actually reached nearly 200,000 infantry when it withdrew from the territory of Chu, and those Chu people who were willing to defect to Wei were more than one million.

Since ancient times, there has never been an army that has not only been able to fight more and more, but even take away more than a million civilians from enemy countries, and it is inconceivable that the latter willingly followed and left.

But for some reason, His Royal Highness King Su didn't have a smile on his face, but his face was tense, and his eyebrows seemed to be filled with all kinds of sorrow.

Probably tired of the expression of His Royal Highness King Su who seemed to be full of thoughts, Qi Jiang couldn't help but ask: "You obviously won this battle, but you don't seem to be in a good mood?" ”

"Obviously won this battle...... Is it? Straddle the war horse and look ahead, Zhao Hongrun muttered and repeated Mi Jiang's words, and then, he shook his head, frowned slightly and said, "It seems like this kind of victory...... It's far from what I expected. ”

Qi Jiang looked at Zhao Hongrun expressionlessly, and then said with a little sarcasm: "I forgot that the original intention of you and Lu Xi, the king of Qi, was to make the state of Chu lose in this battle...... Disappointing? ”

Zhao Hongrun didn't care about Mi Jiang's attitude, after all, although Mi Jiang kept saying that the survival of Chu had nothing to do with her, in the final analysis, Chu was still her mother country, a country that her father Runan Jun Xiong Hao sacrificed everything to maintain, and in front of her, he always longed for Chu to die, and Mi Jiang felt a little uncomfortable in his heart.

"Very disappointed." Zhao Hongrun didn't mean to hide his intentions, shook his head with a wry smile and said: "It's better to ...... like this kind of anticlimactic war."

Speaking of this, his voice stopped abruptly, after all, the reason for this situation was only because the king of Qi Lu Xi made a small negligence because he was too happy before capturing Shouying, the capital of Chu State, and this negligence not only caused the war of the coalition army to crusade against Chu State to end here, but also cost the life of Lu Xu, the king of Qi, the Ming monarch of Qi State.

Whether it was out of consideration for the deceased, or out of respect for King Lu Xi of Qi, or knowing that even if he complained so far, he couldn't change the established facts, Zhao Hongrun ended his meaningless complaints.

And looking at his dissatisfied expression, Mi Jiang was faintly angry, because in her opinion, Ji Run had snatched too many things from the Chu State.

Insatiable little dwarf!

Mi Jiang spat indignantly in her heart, but looking at the frowning and sighing expression of the person next to her, she unconsciously felt a little distressed.

In short, the mood is very complicated.

At this time, Zhao Hongrun didn't notice that Qi Jiang was looking at him with complicated eyes, looking both indignant and worried, he was thinking about something, something that had puzzled him for a long time.

That is, in the Battle of Shouying, and in the subsequent wars, the resistance of the Chu army was unexpectedly weak, so that the coalition forces easily won those battles.

He felt that the Chu army did not play its due strength at all in those battles, and it felt like releasing water.

But think about it carefully, what reason does Chu Jun have to release water?

Could it be that because of the fall of Wangcheng Shouying, those Chu troops lost the fighting spirit to resist?

Zhao Hongrun couldn't figure it out.

But what he couldn't understand even more was the "Shouying Peace Treaty" signed by the two sides after that.

Zhao Hongrun still can't understand that at that time, Chu Fang had obviously sensed that the king of Qi, Lü Xi, might have died, but instead of thinking about taking the opportunity to fight back, he took the initiative to send an envoy Huang Arsenic to sue for peace with the coalition forces.

Why...... Why not take advantage of the death of Lu Xi, the king of Qi, to launch a counterattack?

Zhao Hongrun really couldn't figure it out, because in the situation at that time, if the Chu side fought back desperately, it might not be able to recover the lost territory and take back the royal city of Shouying from the hands of the coalition forces.

But the Chu side didn't, even when it was clear that the king of Qi, Lü Xi, might have died, the Chu state still sued for peace with the coalition forces and signed the "Shouying Peace Treaty", which was a bit humiliating in Zhao Hongrun's opinion.

The "Peace Treaty of Shouying" states that the land captured by the coalition forces from the Chu state in this war is owned by the coalition states:

According to the results of the private discussions between Qi, Lu and Wei, a large area of land from Xiangcheng to Xuan County and Qi County, and the north of the vortex river will become the territory of Lu State. And Zhongwu, Donghai County, Haizhou, Yangling and other eastern coastal cities will become the territory of Qi.

At the same time, the two sides of Qilu also fought for great benefits for Shaokang, the leader of Wu and Yue, who was unable to attend, and helped Wu Yue recapture almost the entire Huiji County - Huiji County, or the land of Wuyue in Jiangdong, which was originally owned by the people of Wu and Yue.

And Wei is now a solid ally of Qi no less than Lu, and has also obtained several cities such as Guling, Kuxian, and Tongqiu, although Zhao Hongrun doesn't care about these cities.

After all, these cities are the cities swept by the cavalry and rangers of northern Sichuan, and all the property in the territory has been moved, and the local Chu people have also been moved to Shangshui County, leaving only a vacant land, what do you want this thing for?

Wei has uncultivated wasteland in Sanchuan County, so why do you need these enclaves? Note: Enclaves, i.e. land that does not border the mainland.

Don't look at these cities, it seems that they border the Song land of Wei, but to be honest, Zhao Hongrun has never regarded Nangong as his own.

Therefore, before solving the problem of Nangong, it is impossible for Zhao Hongrun to develop these cities, after all, the territory of Guling Jun Xiong Wu is sandwiched between the territory of Song County and Pingyu Jun Xiong Hu, if something happens, Shangshui County will not have time to rescue.

What's more, Zhao Hongrun's own Shangshui County has not yet developed well, so how can he have any energy to develop these cities.

Of course, it is a good idea to throw these cities to the imperial court, so that the imperial court will also have a long face in the eyes of the domestic people.

In addition to cutting the land, the state of Chu also agreed to pay a large amount of compensation, as Qi Jiang said, the Wei army has robbed a lot of things on the side of the state of Chu this time, so much so that Zhao Hongrun felt that something was wrong: why is the state of Chu so generous?

He instinctively sensed that there must be some conspiracy involved.

It's a pity that he couldn't come up with a clue after thinking about it, so he had to stop in the end.

But it is undeniable that his judgment was not wrong.

In fact, when they learned of the fall of Wangcheng Shouying, Shouling Jun Jingshe, General Xiang Mo, Diyang Jun Xiong Shang and other top Liang and virtuous ministers of the Chu State who were shocked to hear about the incident quickly came to the Tiger Fang.

Because after losing Shouying, Xiong Xu, the king of Chu, moved to the tiger side.

In the city guard mansion of Hufang County, when Diyang Jun Xiong Shang saw Xiang Yan, he was grumpy and grabbed the veteran's shirt, because as far as he knew, it was precisely because Xiang Yan chose stupid tactics when defending the city that the Wei army broke through Shouying, and then directly led to the coalition army capturing the royal capital of their Chu State.

In contrast, when he arrived at Shouling Junjingshe in Hufang County at the same time as Xiong Shang, his attitude was much more steady, because he was very suspicious that Xiang Yan, an experienced veteran of the Xiang clan, would actually commit such negligence.

And just when Xiong Shang questioned Xiang Yan fiercely, Xiong Xu, the king of Chu, explained the reason to him and Jingshe, and told the two that it was his idea to make the king fall, and Xiang Yan just obeyed his orders.

This answer made Jing She and Xiong Shang stunned.

After all, they never thought that Xiong Xu, the king of Chu, would be willing to make such a huge sacrifice.

You must know that during his reign, the royal city was captured by another country, which is a great shame for a king, and even if he dies in the future, he will inevitably be stigmatized as incompetent.

In this regard, Xiong Xu, the king of Chu, was very indifferent, perhaps because he had guessed the relationship between the death of Lu Xu, the king of Qi.

He has been fighting with Lu Xi for half his life, and regards the latter as a lifelong enemy, and now that Lu Xu, the king of Qi, has passed away, he Xiong Xu is also pessimistic about the victory or defeat between each other.

Jing She and Xiong Shang looked at each other, after all, when they were about to come to ask Xiang Yanxing for their guilt, they didn't expect it to be this reason.

But having said that, even if it was Shouling Jun Jingshe, who had not had a harmonious relationship with Xiong Xu, the king of Chu, in the past, he had to admit that the king of their great Chu had made perhaps the wisest decision in his life this time.

"In this way, there is no need to take the opportunity to counterattack again." Jing She sighed with some emotion.

After all, when he came, he had already contacted the surviving Chu army nearby, preparing to organize a counteroffensive to recapture Shouying, but now after listening to the explanation of Xiong Xu, the king of Chu, he suddenly felt that Shouying was in the hands of the coalition army, and the situation was better.

Why?

Because it is easier to incite the hatred of the people against the coalition forces.

But Xiong Xu, the king of Chu, shook his head, because he felt that if he released too much water on the Chu side, the coalition army would definitely notice it.

After all, Tian Tan and Tian Yan of the Qi State, as well as the juniors Ji Zhao and Ji Run, who are gradually emerging now, are not easy to fool, in case they see through this matter, although it will not affect the abacus plan of Xiong Xu, the king of Chu, it will cause some trouble after all.

After all, these people will not sit idly by and watch the possibility of Chu State prospering again.

In May and June, the Wei army was busy withdrawing to the territory of Wei and taking away the Chu civilians who were willing to defect to them, while the Qi general Tian Tan settled in Shouying and renovated the city, as if intending to build Shouying into a fortress similar to Pixian.

After all, everyone knows that the battle between Qi and Chu is far from over.

At the same time, the Chu side also began to take corresponding actions.

First of all, Xiong Xu, the king of Chu, spread the news that the most fundamental cause of the fall of Wangcheng Shouying was blamed on those nobles who escaped.

Originally, those nobles in Chu only felt that Xiong Xu, the king of Chu, was looking for a scapegoat, but as more and more nobles were killed and their family wealth was confiscated, these nobles gradually felt that the situation was wrong.

Because if you just want to find scapegoats, there is no need to kill so many people.

The angry nobles thought that Xiong Xu, the king of Chu, was crazy, and they felt that it was time to choose an excellent king from among the sons of Xiong Xu, the king of Chu, to become the new king of their Chu state.

Liyang Jun Xiong Sheng, Guling Jun Xiong Wu, including Huancheng Jun Xiong Tuo, these young princes of Chu gradually became the center of refuge and wooing of various forces in Chu. (To be continued.) )