Chapter Seventy-Nine: Survival of the Country
Enter the Zhao State from Jieshi Port, and then go out of the plug from Lingzhi, go north along the Luan River, you can go to Chengde in later generations, and Chengde is the grassland to the west. It's just that this road is farther than from Yanmen or Yunzhong, and the time to Xianyang is one or two days later. However, there is no other choice but this one.
As for how to find the young son after rushing to Xianyang and how to take him out of Xianyang, it can only rely on Lu Gao and Lu Chan. Lu Gao once talked about this method - in the plan he had drafted, a supplementary plan was to rely on him and Lu Qian to take Mi Xuan out of Xianyang City, but this required someone to contact him at a restaurant outside the city first. And he can't be 100% sure that this plan will work, so the safest thing is to find Zhibisi.
Xiang Chao and the others didn't look at any plans at all, thinking that everything would be logical when they arrived in Xianyang. Xiong Qiang's addition aggravated everyone's blindness, and the excited crowd quickly pulled Fei Jing, Abandonment Heel and others onto the three-legged golden crow.
Although Zhufanggang carried out the last interception, the Yangtze River's dozens of miles wide was doomed to fail this interception. Under the fierce north wind, even if the crossbow arrows fired by more than a dozen large-winged warships nailed the gangway, the strength of man still could not be compared with nature. The three-legged golden crow was delayed for less than half an hour, and these large-winged warships that were desperately rowing back were dragged to the sea by the three-legged golden crow, forcing the boatmen on the warboat to cut the silk rope and watch the three-legged golden crow go away with the wind, leaving only a sail shadow.
The news of the failure of the interception reached Yingdu, and taking advantage of the last sunset of autumn, the news asking Zhao Guo to stop these people was sent from Yingdu to Xiangzhou and Fanwu. The port of Xiangzhou is already the food of Xiongjing, and it is ready to seize the three-legged golden crow on the same day, as long as it docks at the port of Xiangzhou; The news sent to Fanwu was not delivered to Li Mu that day, and it was transferred to Handan on the morning of the second day, when the Qin army was about to attack, and Li Mu was asking to see Zhao Liang in Xiangbang Mansion.
The bright hall in Xiangbang's mansion was dark, and Li Mu and Zhao Liang discussed the war alone. At this time, thousands of Zhao troops had already left the fortress, and according to the itinerary, they could reach Yanshi fortress in 20 days at the latest, but the order to allow the Zhao army to enter Qin has not been issued. Therefore, Li Mu's calm expression revealed a trace of anxiety, and there was even some dissatisfaction. "Now the Qin people are gathering heavy troops in Jinyang, and the corn and weeds outside Jinyang City are piled up like a mountain, and the Qin army will definitely attack me. If you don't give another order, heavy snow is coming. ”。
"The Qin people haven't killed me yet, so you can't enter Qin." Zhao Liang still had the same attitude as a few months ago: if the Qin people did not attack Zhao first, the Zhao army would not be allowed to enter Qin, so as not to be diplomatically isolated.
"Ten days! Up to 10 days! Li Mu gritted his teeth. Feixun can be connected to Jiuyuan County, and it takes about ten days to transmit the order from Jiuyuan to the outside of the Yan clan. "After ten days, our army will not enter Qin, and the Chu army will also enter Qin."
"When the Chu army enters Qin, the Chu army enters Qin." Zhao Liang didn't care. A small branch of the Chu army was ordered by the king of Chu to enter Qin only to pick up a woman, so the two armies walked together and marched together, so as not to startle each other. Zhao Jun had to wait because he had no order, and Chu Jun would not have waited much outside the Yan clan in order to rush to Xian*** before King Qin's wedding.
"Let the Chu army enter Qin, it is too late for our army to enter Xianyang again!" Li Mu's teeth seemed to be about to crush. If the Chu army enters Qin, then the entire plan to attack Qin will be a complete failure. There are not many Chu soldiers, but if they make a big fuss in Xianyang, they will definitely not be able to kill the King of Qin.
"Ziyou should know, how is my Zhao Kingdom today?" Zhao Liang's words were sad. Li Mu cared about the success of the plan to attack Qin, but Zhao Liang wanted to ensure that the entire Zhao State was not lost. "Today, there are starvation in my Zhao National Road, there are bones in the wilderness, and the people sell their wives and daughters, and they are eaten by their children. If I can not fight, I will not fight, if I can negotiate peace, if I can postpone for a month, it will be a month, and if I can postpone it for a year, it will be a year. ”
Handan is still prosperous, singing and dancing are leveling, and Zhao Liang naturally knows how to do it outside Handan City. This year's drought has caused most of the remaining acres of land to be harvested, except for the fields that can be irrigated by river water. The three kingdoms of Chu, Qi and Wei did not stop transporting grain, but how to transport it was only more than 10 million stones, plus the harvest of irrigable acres, the harvest of millet was less than one-third of the corn eaten in normal years. Now more than half of the people in the entire Zhao State are starving, and there will be even more people who will starve if they really want to fight.
"There is a great drought in Zhao State, and the Qin people will give me respite?!" Li Mu looked at Zhao Liang in disbelief and shook his head again and again. "The Qin people will take advantage of my great drought and attack me with the whole country. There are more than 400,000 Qin troops gathered in Jinyang, either this month or next month, and they should go out of the well in the east ......"
Why Zhao Liang strictly ordered the Zhao army not to enter Qin, in addition to worrying about diplomatic isolation, another reason Li Mu also knew was that he hoped that Qin and Zhao would not fight, and Qin and Chu would fight again. From the position of a Zhao person, Li Mu did not object to this, but reality has proved that the Qin State has no intention of destroying Chu, and the King of Qin has always wanted to destroy Zhao.
Li Mu is pragmatic, but Zhao Liang is paranoid that things will inevitably take a turn for the better - the day before yesterday, he calculated a hexagram, and the hexagram was interpreted by the witch as good luck.
"General Yu!" Someone outside the hall shouted that it was a telecommunications officer.
"What's the matter?!" Li Mu turned back a little unhappily, he was convincing Zhao Liang that he didn't want to be disturbed.
"General, Yingdu is in a hurry." The flyer took two steps forward and told each other.
Hearing that it was Yingdu's urgent news, Li Mu restrained his displeasure. He didn't let the flyer read it, but took the flyer and looked at it himself. After taking a closer look, his nervous expression relaxed a little.
"What's the matter with the Chu people?" Li Mu had a direct connection with the King of Chu, which made Zhao Liang very uncomfortable.
"Yingdu came to the news, saying that some cavalry generals had gone north by sea boat, and they wanted to use the Yanmen and clouds to get out of the jam......" The news is just an order to assist in interception, and it is not a secret.
"The general of the cavalry? Why did the cavalry generals enter my Zhao country? Zhao Liang was puzzled, "They also want to enter Qin to pick up that woman?" ”
"I don't know." Li Mu didn't want to be disturbed by other things, he continued: "The King of Qin lives in Weinan. There are no city walls or palace cities in Weinan. If our army can break through to Weinan, we will win the king of Qin. As soon as the king of Qin died, the Qin country was in chaos, and only this plan could save my Zhao country......"
The soldiers and horses of a country are all in the hands of the king, and they cannot be mobilized without a warrant, and the huge boat like the sea boat is said to be in the hands of the king of Chu, and now there are some cavalry generals who take the sea boat in the hands of the king of Chu to go north, which ......
Could it be the King of Chu? Zhao Liang's heart was pounding. Li Mu's voice echoed in his ears, but he didn't hear a word. After Li Mu finished speaking, he who had been suppressing his breath before he said, "Is the flying news sent by the King of Chu himself?" ”
"Feixun?" Li Mu was already displeased, what he said was Zhao Guo's strategy to preserve the country, and Zhao Liang didn't listen to it at all.
"Was that news sent by the King of Chu himself?" Zhao Liang asked again, his eyes more eager.
Seeing that he asked repeatedly, Li Mu had to take out the flying news and glance at it, and said, "Yes." ”
Zhao Liang has entered the obstacle. If Feixun was not sent by the King of Chu himself, then his guess was confirmed; If Feixun was sent by the King of Chu himself, it means that the Chu people want to cover it up.
"This King of Chu also! This Chu people want to stamp and stamp!! Zhao Liang shouted, and people jumped on the mat excitedly. Li Mu was puzzled, seeing that he was so excited, he was completely confused. "I won't die this day!" Zhao Liang shouted again.
"Someone!" Zhao Liang shouted after jumping sharply, and then shouted left and right.
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"This is the Jieshi?" Five days later, across the stormy East China Sea, the Three-legged Golden Crow entered the Bohai Sea, where the wind and waves were slightly calmer. Looking at Jieshi Harbor, which was getting closer and closer, Xiong Hanyu Jing and the others looked confused.
Hong Mou said that Jieshi Port is a big port in the north, no less than the annexation of Qi State, but the brown stone in front of him is not as good as the domestic river port of Chu. There were no squirrel cage cranes, no lighthouses, no pilot boats, no buildings, just a large city surrounded by dense boats and rammed earth walls, and an inland river for those small boats to enter the port area. The harbor is like this, fortunately, Lu Li can see Hu people in different clothes in the mirror, as well as herds of cattle, horses and sheep outside the big city.
"Chu Zhou is here! Chu Zhou is here! "Everyone on the Three-legged Golden Crow was a little disappointed in Jieshi Harbor, and the merchants in Jieshi Harbor were overjoyed by the sudden appearance of the Chu State Sea Boat. Some of the merchants who were trading immediately closed the market and did not sell, and more businessmen gathered on the riverside outside the city, waiting for Chu Haizhou to enter the port and land.
A sea boat can be loaded hundreds of times more than a small boat. Every time a boat comes to the sea, it will unload a large amount of cargo, and then sweep away the goods in the port. This is in the summer, and every summer the sea boat of the Chu State will visit Jieshi Port twice, once at the beginning of summer and once at the end of summer. Brownstone, a port that connected the later Northeast China, Korea, and even the Russian Far East, quickly adapted to the trading time of the sea boats of the Chu State.
Now that the sea boat of Chu has suddenly arrived, the merchants are very happy, which means that they do not have to hoard the local products in their hands until next year; In exchange, the goods of Chu State can be exported to Donghu this year, and they can be transported to various inland places in the spring of next year before other merchants. The merchants looked at it, and the port order of Jieshi Port had ordered people to row a small boat out of the inland river to lead the Chu State Sea Boat into the port.
In order to integrate the Yan land as quickly as possible, the Zhao State changed the officials to the densely populated grain-producing areas such as the Dukang area and the Jicheng Plain, but for the Liaodong region east of Guzhu, in addition to the resettlement of the Yan princes, it was mainly managed in a fetter way. In a big port like Jieshi, in addition to the tax collectors and customs officials, the rest of the people are still Yan people.
"Dare to ask ......" Outside Jieshi Harbor, the boatman on the boat looked up at the stern deck of the three-legged Golden Crow, wanting to ask if the sea boat had entered the port. As far as he could see, all he could see was a young man with his hair hanging down. The boy just glanced at the deck of the stern for a few moments, and then retreated with the temple people beside him. After the young man retreated, there was a huge earthquake in the hearts of the boaters.
"The sea boat enters the port, and you still don't board the boat to lead the water?" Hong Mu was stunned when he saw the boatman below, and shouted while throwing him a silver coin. It was also the first time he had come to Jieshi Port, the water was shallow in autumn and winter, and there was no local pilot who was familiar with hydrology, so the boat might have to run aground.
The silver coin smashed on his head and it hurt, and Zhouren didn't feel it, he stammered: "Xiao Chen, Xiao Chen... This is the boat. ”