Even if the big-winged warboat fluttering the flag was gone, the Queen Mother Concubine Zhao still stared in the direction of the direction and was silent for a long time. Two years ago, she sent her husband away, and a year ago, she sent her son away, and the parting again and again made her desensitized.

Concubine Zhao was silent, Mi Xuan and others around her were buzzing and crying, and the people in Yingdu said that the king would be left by the king of Qin. In the past half a month, there have been countless admonitions, but the king has made up his mind, and no one can persuade him. So everyone's anger was vented on the head of Ling Yin's house, angrily scolded and couldn't understand the hatred, one day and night, Ling Yin's mansion actually caught fire, no one could have imagined that it was an old lame man who mixed in the wine shop every day, and after the arson, he did not go away or avoid, waiting to be arrested.

The public opinion was like this, and Ling Yin Chengjie, who knew it, had to ask Zuo Yin to pardon this person. Xiong Jing also had to speak out to clarify the significance of the alliance on the Great Chu news: In the three years of the Chu-Qin War, if there is no truce with the Qin State, the people north of Huaishui and west of Lishui will inevitably all migrate to the south of Huaishui. Chu Guozhou is not enough, the most important thing is that the autumn harvest is imminent. If the autumn harvest is delayed, the Chu State, which is already short of food, will inevitably starve to death countless Chu people this winter......

The state of Chu, which had not been able to fully prepare grain before, could almost be described as exhausting the current situation: there was not enough corn, there was not enough boats, half of the soldiers had not undergone complete spear formation training, and the huge armor could only add 5,000 sets every month because it had to be sold to the Qi state. Of course, in terms of military affairs, these are secondary, and the most important thing is that there is a serious shortage of trained and experienced basic officers, and this is the key to affecting combat effectiveness.

can't go on, this is the truest portrayal of the Chu State.

Above the Huaishui, the large-winged warship that went up against the water was as fast as the wind, and the journey of nearly 800 miles from Yingdu to Chengyang could be reached in a day and night. It's just that every time you go to a county or a town, there will be news delivered to the boat, most of these reports are to persuade Xiong Jing not to trust the Qin people, and there are some information gathered from all over the country sent by Zhibi, especially Zhao Di. After the capture of the nine cities including Yecheng of Zhao, the Qin army had already withdrawn, but the soldiers were not disbanded and returned home, and there is evidence that these Qin troops had entered Wei and Han. The Qin army entered Wei and Han, and its meaning was self-evident.

"Great king, the king of Qin will keep the king and then attack me." Zhao Huang, Changjiang and others no longer dared to persuade him, and Youshi still dared to speak out. "Please don't enter Qin, the king."

"Why don't you enter Qin?" Xiong Jing handed the news to Chang Jiang and continued to correct the test papers—in the past two months, his energy has been spent mostly on the aviation school, which is a course that he can teach.

"Whether the king enters Qin or not, the Qin army will attack me." Right Shi continued to persuade each other. "With the king here, the morale of the Chu army will inevitably be greatly boosted, if the king is not allowed to return because of the Qin people's stay in Jiyi, the morale will be weakened."

"If you don't enter Qin, how can your husband give up." Xiong Jing dropped his pen and sighed. Everything has a price, and if you want your husband to return to his heart, he naturally has to take advantage of it. "And the state of Chu also needs to negotiate peace, and the people of Chu need to breathe."

"Qin is the country of tigers and wolves, how can the king believe it." Zhao Huang, who is in the same boat, is resting again. He felt that the king had always been wise, and the irony was that such a wise king did such a stupid thing because of the situation in the country.

"Qin Guo is not a fool, so he naturally doesn't believe it." Xiong Jing's cold light flashed, "It is not yet known who will win and who will lose in the Jiyi Alliance. ”

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"Prime Minister," the wide wooden coffin was placed in front of Xiong Qi, and the whole map of the handover of Qin and Chu and Jiyi was drawn on it. The general who spoke was Li Xin, the king's favorite general, who had fought with the Chu army several times and was most familiar with the situation of the Chu army. "There are as many as four or five thousand armor soldiers accompanying King Jing, and the general will think that it is too much, please tell King Jing that he can only bring 500 people into the alliance."

"If King Jing doesn't want to, what if?" Xiong Qi's gaze only fell on the map, and he glanced at Li Xin slightly.

"If King Jing is unwilling, an army of 800,000 will cut down Jing." Li Xin sneered in his mouth. Compared with the Qin state, the Chu state is only a small country, and every victory can only obtain small results, and once it fails, it will be a catastrophe. Moreover, the state of Chu could not continue to fight for several years, which was determined by the national strength of the small state; The Qin State, on the other hand, could attack the Chu State for more than ten consecutive years until the Chu State sued for peace.

"Is five hundred too little?" Except for Li Xin, Xin Sheng is also in the account. "Xiang Yan's army is still in Chencheng, and the Chengyang army is only tens of thousands, so he will not dare to go deep alone, even if King Jing's 5,000 people enter the country, they will not be able to defeat our army's hundreds of thousands of soldiers."

"Don't make too much trouble." Li Xin looked at Xin Sheng, and he knew why Xin Sheng asked for this.

"Please tell the Jing people that except for King Jing, only 500 people are allowed to enter the alliance." Li Xin took back the wooden tree on the case.

"No." Xiong Qi smiled, "I will tell King Jing today that only 500 people will be allowed to enter the entourage tomorrow." ”

"The last general thanked the prime minister." Li Xin didn't see that Xiong Qi's smile was a little stiff, he raised his hand and retreated.

"Lord!" The Kawasa stood on one side. Although Li Xin and others did not say it explicitly, the meaning of more than 100,000 armor soldiers placed in Jiyi was self-evident.

"Tell Brother Wang, the alliance is deceitful." Xiong Qi whispered, his eyes looking at the high platform of the alliance outside Jiyi City. It was built by the king a few months ago, when he was preparing to form an alliance with the new king of Chu, but when the news of the defeat of the Qin and Wei armies came, he had to return in defeat. Now, although this high platform is not used to meet the alliance, it can be used as a bait to lure the king into an ambush.

After Xiong Qi gave the order, Yong Li went by car, and there was a festival hanging on the car, and the Qin and Chu armies did not dare to stop them along the way. It is more than 140 miles from Jiyi to Chengyang, but it is less than 100 miles from Jiyi to Xieyi, the actual border between the two countries and on the east bank of Huaishui. Xiong Jing's convoy did not stop in Chengyang for long, but directly arrived at Xie Yi on the border between the two countries.

It's a pity that this is the limit of the boat's water trip. Here Huaishui is like the horizontal 'self' word, Xie Yi's position is in the middle of the three verticals, and then you can only go to the top and turn left to the west. It is impossible to go west, which is full of tidal flat boulders, and the riverbed is curved and greatly dropped.

Soon after Xiong Jing arrived in Xieyi, he crossed the river to Xie Yi with a Yong hat of Jingjie. Xiong Jing met him in Chen Ying last year, and when the two met again, their eyes were avoided, and their faces were expressionless, as if they had never seen each other.

"The contemptible people told the king on the orders of the prime minister that there should be no more than five hundred people who will join my Qin Realm Alliance." Yong Kasa bowed and then said, which immediately caused a lot of criticism.

"How can it be!" The Chengyang guard general Pan Wuming, who led the army to protect him here, shouted loudly, he was going to follow Xiong Jing to Jiyi. "If the prime minister of your country is afraid, you and I can meet on the Huaishui, why do you need to go to the Qin realm."

"The contemptible country is the leader of the alliance, and the alliance has already been built, how can it be an alliance on the border between the two countries." Yong Li, like Changping Jun, showed his disdain for Chu everywhere. He finally said: "Whether you go or not is in the king, and the envoy will return to Jiyi tomorrow." Retirement. ”

"You!" Pan jumped straight without anger, and he wanted to slash Yong Li with a sword, but he couldn't do anything about Yong Li.

"Please go down and rest." Xiong Jing instructed Chang Jiang to take him down.

"Great King," Shouling Jun Shouyi had been waiting in Xie Yi for a long time. "It is not easy for King Qin to be willing to make peace with me. If you don't go, Qin Jun will attack me, please go. ”

"If the king is at fault in this trip, what if? Do you apologize for your sins? If the gaze could kill, Shou Lingjun would have died a thousand times, and at this moment, Zhao Huang was staring at him and asked loudly.

"If the Qin people attack me because the king doesn't go, what if?" Shou Yi was not afraid to meet Zhao Huang's gaze. It is difficult for the argument between the two to come to a conclusion, after all, Xiong Jing has not yet entered Qin, and he doesn't know whether the Qin people will be true or not.

"What's the point of fighting?" Xiong Jing glared at Zhao Huang, he looked at Shou Yi and said: "If you don't go to Jiyi, if the Qin people say again, the king of Qin will not go to Xianyang to meet the alliance, what if?" If you go to Xianyang, the king of Qin said that if you want to meet the alliance, you need to cut off your head, what if? ”

Xiong Jing's question made Shou Yi stunned, and also made Cai Wen and Mu Boxun who accompanied him stunned. Stopping them who wanted to speak, Xiong Jing said: "I just want to know, where is the bottom line?" If you don't go, where will you wait to give up on the Qin people?! ”

"If the king is afraid of death, he can return to Ying." Shou Yi was also anxious, he thought that as a king, he should do whatever it took to make peace, since he dared to go to Qin alone to seek peace, the king should also have such courage.

"What do you mean by that?" Xiong Jing looked at him and smiled. "Do you want to kneel in front of King Qin and beg him to stop the army?"

"That's not what I mean!" Shou Yi said loudly. "The minister thinks that if the king is afraid of death, he can return to Ying."

"If I don't die, the Qin people still won't ......make peace with me," Xiong Jing said again.

"I would like to die with the king." Shou Yi was very irritated by Xiong Jing's question, and had to speak like this.

"What's the use of you dying?! What the state of Chu wants is to strike the army and make peace, not to let you die. If you can't stop the army, what good is your death? Xiong Jing retorted. If you don't make a life here, you won't enter Qin's Jiyi tomorrow and join the Qin people, and if there is a change during the period, you will return to Chu. From then on...... "Xiong Jing looked at Cai Wen, at Mu Boxun, and even at Shou Yi. "If you dare to make peace with Qin again, cut it!"

"The king is so ......" Cai Wen and Mu Boxun are smart people, knowing that this is Xiong Jing's bottom line, both of them were silent, only Shou Yi still thought that Xiong Jing was afraid of death. Before he finished speaking, Xiong Jing rushed to him, raised his head and looked directly into his eyes: "If the King of Qin says, peace is okay, but the widow wants the head of the King of Chu, don't you cut off the head?" ”

Shou Yi was forced to look at Xiong Jing, his gaze finally avoided, but he said: "If it is a minister, the minister is willing to cut off his head to seek peace." ”

"But if you cut off your head, King Qin is still at odds, what if?" Xiong Jing asked, catching his evasive gaze.

"The minister has done his best, and discord is discord." Shou Yi replied, his gaze still wandering.

"You dare to cut off your head and sacrifice it to the King of Qin, why don't you dare to pull out the sword that cut off your head and stab it at the Qin people?" Xiong Jing's voice was full of regret. "I don't forgive you because of Gong Yin's plea, I don't forgive you because you are indomitable and bent on making your brother king. Who wants! You turned out to be such a coward who would rather die than resist. ”

Xiong Jing's words were like a sharp awl piercing Shou Yi's heart, his face turned red, and he only moved his lips when he wanted to defend himself.

"From now on, don't say that you are from Chu." Xiong Jing dropped the last sentence and walked out of the account.