Chen Ying in September no longer saw the screams of life and death a few months ago, the festering and stinky corpses that formed a hill, and the spear arrays that made people's hearts chill when they looked at the past, but only the military flags blown by the autumn wind at the head of the city, and the soldiers standing with spears under the military flag. Their reflections fall in the wide East Lake, swaying with the waves. The water of the East Lake is blue, the grass of the East Lake is green, this piece of water that swallowed countless flesh and blood half a year ago, the aquatic plants are longer and more lush than any year, and the fish are fatter than any year.

......Several scouts came from the north, and at first they only besieged the city, and when they approached the city wall for three hundred paces, the knights led by them hesitated for a while, but they still rode their horses and galloped towards the collapsed city wall in the north of the city. It is reported that Xiang Yan's army of more than 200,000 troops was stationed in the city, and once a scout horse approached the soldiers, he would use a thorn crossbow to shoot, and the Qin army would never dare to approach the city again after suffering several big losses, but this time until the scout horse ran under the collapsed city wall, there was no thorn crossbow shot.

"Look!" A knight pointed to the rows of military tents in the city, "There is a black curtain." ”

"Drive!" The cavalry commander also saw the crows perched on the tent, and he whipped his horse, and hurried into the city. He was so like this that several scouts behind him had to follow him into the city.

'Dumb-dumb-dumb ......', the living approached, and the crows on the military tent flew vigilantly. The crows were not one but a flock, one flew up, and the whole flock flew up, and the hoarse cry echoed in the empty city of Chen Ying, making people feel cold involuntarily.

"This empty city too!" The cavalry commander circled around the tent for a while, and finally found that this was already an empty city. "Quick ......"

He hurriedly reined in his horse and was about to turn around and go out of the city, when there was a sound of 'Bang-', and a crossbow shot down from the wall, nailing him to the ground.

"Ahh Chen Cheng is empty?! "In the Wei realm under the cover of night, the general Meng Wu stood up in shock after listening to the news of the reconnaissance cavalry." A few days ago, you saw Xiang Yan in Youyan, why is it an empty city today? ”

"Report to the general, I waited until Chen Ying's city was 300 steps away and didn't see a Jing pawn at the head of the city, so I rushed to the city and saw that there was a black ...... in the military curtain." After the cavalry commander was shot to death, the rider who escaped by luck was very uncognizable, and these are the words.

"Take credit and step aside." Wei Yi fanned a Chu paper fan, and had long expected Xiang Yan's withdrawal.

"What does Shangqing think?" Meng Wu also calmed down from the shock. "Where is Xiang Yan's division going?"

"The Jing people have a large-wing warboat, which can travel hundreds of miles a day." Wei Yi shook his head and smiled bitterly, the most taboo thing about the Chu people now was not Ju Tie, but the Big Wing Warboat. The Chu army with a large-wing warboat can march for four or five hundred miles a day and night, and the reason why King Jing wants to demolish the palaces and mansions in the country is to build a large wing. At that time, why did the Qi people talk about the change of color, because of the 'Yue, the Tiger also', such a fear led to the Qi people knowing that '(Yue) was dead, but still thought that (Yue) was alive'.

Are Qi people timid? Naturally not. The Qi people were just extremely afraid of the Yue people. It is difficult for you to judge that the boat division will attack the county, and even if you judge correctly, you will not be able to keep up with the pace of the Yue Ren Zhou Division, and the result is often that the Yue Ren Zhou Division has already occupied the city and looted it, and the reinforcements arrive on the battlefield.

It is extremely fatal for the enemy to have the offensive initiative, so the Qin army must continue to attack Chu, and drag the Chu army into the field battles and city attack and defense battles that the Qin army is accustomed to, and cannot let the battle situation be dragged into mobile warfare by the Chu army's boat division, which makes the Qin army exhausted.

"Where does Shangqing think Master Xiang will go at this moment?" The threat of the Great Wing Warship was also clear to Meng Wu, but he could not judge the whereabouts of the Chu army.

"I thought that Master Xiang was either to the beam at this moment, or to go up to Cai, or in..."Wei Yi took the fan, pointing to one of the most neglected places.

"Jiyi?!" Meng Wu couldn't have imagined this place.

"Yes, yes." Wei Yu unscrewed the paper fan again with a 'whoosh'. "If the king wants to keep King Jing, Xiang Yan will save him."

The Qin army had been gathering, but Meng Wu had not received an order to attack the state of Chu. What he didn't know was that under the constraints of the Empress Dowager Huayang Zu and the current situation, Zhao Zheng's strategic intentions had not changed: if the new king of Jing could be sacrificed with the art of iron and the weapon of stone throwing because of the retention of King Jing, then the Qin army would attack Zhao one after another, and the Qin army equipped with the iron armor would attack the Zhao army without the iron armor and get twice the result with half the effort; If it can't be retained by King Jing, then the Jing State must be weakened to a certain extent, otherwise if it is allowed to grow, it will inevitably pose a threat to the Qin State in the future.

This is the real policy of the Qin State towards Chu, and it is also the consistent principle of all the strong to deal with the weak: not in what you do, but in what you are.

The only thing Wei criticized for this was that the King of Qin seemed to pay special attention to the King of Chu and ignored the State of Chu itself. He can understand this psychology of King Qin, young people are always unwilling to admit defeat, and they are even more unwilling to admit that others are stronger than themselves, but the contest between countries cannot tolerate the slightest bit of competition, and one day King Qin will pay the price for this.

The Mengwu people were on the east bank of the Wei divide, and even if the news that Xiang Yan had pulled out the camp was sent to Jiyi overnight, it could not catch up with the speed of the Chu army's main wing, not to mention that the Chu army had already pulled out of the camp a few days ago. He could only send this news to the Guowei Mansion to wait for the king's order to attack Xianyang.

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The camp of the Qin army in Jiyi, unlike the dignified general Meng Wu, Li Xin's face was full of excitement. A martial knight sat in front of his desk, which was a hard work. He was no longer the miserable appearance of being stabbed on the chariot by the cavalry knife that day, but the standard dress of a low-level officer of the Qin army: he wore a long crown of double plates on his head, his hair was combed into a fine braid like the Qin people, and his face was a mustache. Under the leather armor, the green right side of the robe is covered with a brown robe that swings above the knee, the lower body is a light green tarsal note, the calf is tied with a xingteng, and the shoes are leather single-beam boots, with a button and a qi (qi), which is a special boot for martial knights.

"Ben will hear about it......" Li Xin looked at Yu Fen carefully, "You were originally a Jing person?" ”

"General, the villain used to be a Jing man." As soon as Yu Fen opened his mouth, it was Chu Yin, although he had been learning Qin language.

"Why did you rebel into Qin?" Li Xin asked again, and he didn't mean to be Chu Yin.

"General, the villain saw that the Qin army could worship the lord, so he entered Qin." It was the last thing he wanted to talk about.

"Oh. Now that Jing can be honored as a scholar, do you want to return to Jing? Li Xin said with a smile.

"Villain, villain......" Yu Fen didn't know how to justify his loyalty to King Qin, and was speechless for a while.

"That's it." Li Xin didn't care how Yu Fen defended. In fact, he killed so many Chu pawns, it was impossible for him to return to Chu no matter what. Even if he changed his surname incognito, the Zhibisi of the Chu State would not let him go. "Ben will ask you, have you ever seen King Jing?"

"General, the villain has seen King Jing. That year, in Yingdu Yuan, the villain waited for King Jing to ride a horse. King Jing rides a horse and has a ......" as soon as he talks about King Jing's hard work, he can't wait, and he generally has to tell everything he knows when he pours beans from a bamboo tube, but unfortunately he was interrupted by Li Xin when he said the most critical point.

"If you want to see King Jing again, can you recognize the truth or falsehood?" Li Xin finally asked the reason why Zhao Yuan Fen came here. It was extremely important for him to confirm that the King of Jing who entered the territory of Jiyi was the real King of Jing and not a fake. The war between Qin and Chu is not over, and King Jing's temperament is rather than bending, and his promise to join the Qin Hui Alliance is a suspicious thing.

"The villain must recognize it." Yu Fen thought about it for a moment before nodding heavily, he always remembered the terrible look in Xiong Jing's eyes when he killed the rabbit and the horse.

"Good." Li Xin nodded and threw over a feather sash, saying, "I order you to investigate the truth of King Jing tomorrow, and then report back quickly." ”

"The villain respectfully obeys the order." Yu Fen took Yu Yu and hurriedly agreed.

"Also," Li Xin had not finished speaking, "after this matter, you will obey the orders of the general." If there is merit, Ben will never slack off. ”

After Li Xin finished speaking, he left overjoyed. That night, he rode his horse to the dock controlled by the Qin army on the other side of Xie Yi, but unfortunately he was still one step late, and when he arrived at the dock, Xiong Jing's carriage had crossed the Huaishui and stopped on the west bank of the Huaishui. As soon as he stepped forward to investigate, the Chu army soldier shouted 'rudeness' and forced him back with a spear.

A small low-ranking officer wanted to get close to the King of Chu's car, which was never allowed. When Yu Fen was dismissed, the generals of the Qin army not only did not dissuade Chu Zu, but glared at him, thinking that he was troublesome. Yu Fen had to retreat to the side and watch the carriages cross the river one after another.

Yu Fen looked at the carriages, and the soldiers of the two armies of Qin and Chu who were looking at each other across the water also looked at these carriages. When the last carriage came ashore, the Qin general waved his hand, and the horses that had been moved were closed again, and a column of Qin soldiers stood along the shore again, confronting the Chu army soldiers on the opposite bank across the water. Zhao Huang watched the flag go farther and farther, his legs weakened, and the whole person fell on the river bank.

"No, no, no." After noon, Li Xin still had not received the reward of Wei Fen, and Xin Sheng, Bai Lin and others kept urging him to do it earlier, this time the king of Chu only brought four hundred armor soldiers with him when he entered Qin, and he was not vulnerable at all.

"If the person in the car is not King Jing, or is just a fake king...... Li Xin explained to the crowd.

"If this man is a false king, how can he defend him?" Xin Sheng and Bai Lin suddenly realized at this time that although they had fought against King Jing several times, they couldn't remember King Jing's appearance.

"I have sent someone to argue about it, if this person can't tell it, the prime minister has sent an envoy to Jing State, and he should know the truth of King Jing." Li Xindao. "Besides, King Jing has entered my Qin realm, and the later he is, the farther away he will be from Jing Kingdom, what do we have to worry about?"

The fish had entered the net, and with each step of King Jing's westward journey, his hope of returning to China was diminished. He had to admire the strategist who came up with this strategy, and a small alliance plan reduced the armor soldiers around King Jing to a handful of four hundred. Of course, 400 people are the dead soldiers of King Jing, but in the face of 30,000 armor soldiers, these 400 people will only disappear without a trace in an instant like water droplets splashed in a charcoal basin.

Thinking of King Jing's frightened expression at that time, Li Xin wanted to smile on his face, he felt that he should say something to King Jing, so that he could be recorded by the historians of the Qin State, he thought for a long time before he thought of a sentence: Why is the king so stupid, have you forgotten the story of the great ancestor Huaiwang?