Coming from Jiangdong, the easternmost part of the Chu State, even if it was by water, because of the lack of boats, more than 56,000 soldiers walked for more than a month. The Jiangdong of the Chu State refers to the hometown of Wu Yue, and the east of the Yangtze River in a broad sense, because of this, the Wu State has only 32,000 soldiers; Since the death of Wujiang, the people of the Yue Kingdom have scattered and moved south, and the former powerhouse now has only 24,000 soldiers.

Regardless of Wu Yue, the people are actually Yue people, and the Yue people are naturally broken hair tattoos and carved black meat. War is not etiquette, decoration is not important, but the Yue people also have a habit of making the generals and military rates of the leading troops very distressed, that is, the Yue people stomp on their feet.

As we enter October, the farther north we go, the colder it gets, and the colder it gets, the more people will suffer foot injuries. When he walked to Zhongli, two hundred miles east of Yingdu, the military Sima Zhou Wen counted the number of the whole army and found that there were only 50,000 soldiers left who could fight. The weather is getting colder and colder, and according to this trend, I am afraid that when we arrive in Xixian next month, there will not be more than 40,000 soldiers in battle.

The nobles wear silk, the rich wear skin, and the poor wear grass. For the infantry, nothing is more important than the feet, Huang Xie, who learned of the situation of the Jiangdong division, ordered people to rush to buy grass in various cities for several days, and then hoped that after the Jiangdong division arrived in Yingdu, it could enter the city to rest for three days, and then set off for Xixian after three days. Unfortunately, both the Great Sima Mansion and the front line rejected his request on the grounds of the urgency of the war, and he even heard some rumors that the king had already died in the army, and the prince wanted to kill him.

Jiangyi was defeated, and there were many rumors in Yingdu, one would say that the Qi people had sent troops and Ju County had been lost, and the other would say that the Wei army was attacking Chen County, and Chen Ying was in danger, and Huang Xie all scoffed at this. Qi Wei did not send troops, and the crown prince, rare early wisdom, is a smart man, in the past, someone persuaded the prince Yu Yingdu to implement joint sitting, so as to eliminate the thieves and assassins, the prince refused as a prevarication because he had no power.

Although this matter is small, it can be seen that the prince understands very well that the state of Chu is actually immutable. If you want to kill yourself, there are more opportunities, so why wait until today? Even if he kills himself and lets Zhao Huang and others be Ling Yin, what can Chu Guo do? It's not a set of Yingdu to do Yingdu, a set of county and county, if you want Chu to be like Qin, then fight city by city. There are more than 100 cities in the Chu State, and when the prince is all conquered, the country is estimated to have perished.

Get up in the morning, rinse your mouth with salt water, wash your hair with rice juice, wash your face with beam juice, and finally apply ointment, dress and wear a crown. Unlike in the past, Zhu Guan and Li Yuan came to see them off together.

"Hey——! Rumors are rife in the city, and the lord is in danger of entering the city. The news that the prince was going to kill Huang Xie was heard by Li Yuan, and his face was full of sorrow, and he was deeply worried about Huang Xie's safety.

"Lord, can you take a day off today?" Zhu Guan and Li Yuan have the same meaning, "Tomorrow, the division of Jiangdong will come to Yingdu." ”

"It is precisely because the division of Jiangdong will arrive in Yingdu tomorrow that I need to enter the city today to arrange all things." Huang Xie, as a few days ago, did not believe that the prince wanted to kill him. He said and laughed: "When the division of Jiangdong arrives in Yingdu, it will also be transferred to Xixian, and the left army in the city is 5,000, what about taking leave?" ”

"The lord ......" Huang Xie said was not unreasonable, but Zhu Guan still felt uneasy.

"If the eldest son ......" Li Yuan's eyes flickered, and he suddenly bowed to the ground. If the eldest son is not in favor of the lord, I will kill him to take revenge. ”

"Rude!" Huang Xie reprimanded, "Why did the eldest son kill me? If you kill me, the king will blame me. Seeing that the two of them still wanted to talk, he immediately preemptively said, "This matter must be mentioned again." Then he got in the car.

According to the time system of the Chu State, October is already six days and ten hours of the night, that is, six hours during the day and ten hours at night, while the shortest month of Qu Xi has only five hours during the day and eleven hours at night. After a long time, Huang Xie's car slowly went out, from the small city of Fengyi to Shouying, there were more than two miles of road, and it was just dawn when he walked to the city gate.

The road was flat, but the uncomfortable thing was the cold wind blowing from the north, and even if it didn't blow into the car, they still whined outside the car. It's a little strange that the tightly closed car was blown away by the strong wind. The cold wind was cold, and Huang Xie suddenly felt that it was difficult to breathe, and even if he breathed, the air was cold and cold. Outside the window, under the dark sky, the lights of the head of the Yingdu City can be faintly seen in the fog.

"The master atoned for his sins." The servant who was with the car hurriedly closed the window tightly, Huang Xie ignored him and continued to think about the question he had just thought.

"Who's in the way?!" Outside the car, there was the voice of the emperor Ji Rong, and the sound of the sword of the guard in the car being unsheathed.

"Haha......" There was a hearty laugh, and after laughing, the man asked, "Huang Xie is in the car?" ”

"Do you dare to call Ling Yin's name?" Ji Rong was a little annoyed in his words.

"How about calling Ling Yin's name? Haha, I'm going to kill him again. "In the whining cold wind, this person's voice is particularly cold, and there is a kind of bitter hatred." Come! With a yellow break. ”

With the order, it was the sound of a group of armor soldiers rushing forward, and the sound of leather shoes was extremely neat. Huang Xie couldn't sit still any longer, he got out of the car without waiting for the armor to get close, and shouted at those black shadows and asked, "Who are you waiting for?" This gentleman is to order Yin Huang to rest. ”

As soon as these words came out, the sound of horses' hooves was urgent, and Huang Xie, who was standing outside the car, saw a taller black shadow in the fog getting closer and closer, and before the guards in front of him raised their swords, the thing that the shadow was holding was a wave, and then, he was no longer conscious, and at the same time that blood was splashing around his neck, his body fell into the cold wind outside the city of Yingdu.

"It's Huang Xie who killed!" The knight rode his horse in reverse, but instead of leaving, he dismounted and took Huang Xie's head. At this time, Ji Rong saw that it was Jing Hua, the general of the left army, who killed the lord.

"The eldest son has a life: Huang Xie intended to kill the king, and his crime should be punished. Now I will take his head and restore his life. Seeing the stunned guards accompanying him, Jinghua said loudly. The people of the Huang clan and others are guilty of the crime, and Huang Xie's fief will be recovered on the same day. You wait. ”

Jinghua was not alone, the fog cleared a little, and Ji Rong saw that both sides of the road were full of soldiers of the Left Army standing with long soldiers, and the number seemed to be thousands. He mechanically asked people to carry Huang Xie's body to the car, and mechanically turned the horse's head and went to Huang Xie's fiefdom. At first, the speed of the car was slow, and after a short walk, when he came back to his senses, the car was almost running wildly.

"Just let the Huang family go?" The general of the left army, Lifeng, looked at Jing Hua a little puzzled, he knew that the main general hated Huang Xie very much in his heart. "General, if you don't kill his son, this revenge will not end."

"Personal enmity is not as good as the public, this is not a personal vendetta, only for the state of Chu." Huang Xie's head was in a leather bag, and Jing Hua, who was on the horse, exhaled. "Quickly pass on my military order: Huang Xie wants to kill the king and rebel, and close the city gate from today to prevent Jiangdong's army from attacking the city."

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"Your Highness, Huang Xie rebelled, Huang Xie rebelled." Half an hour later, Deng Sui hurried to the East Palace, and the city gate was closed.

"Where is Huang Xie? Why rebellion? Looking at Deng Sui who was in a hurry, even if he was mentally prepared, Xiong Jing still felt cold in his heart.

"General Jing said that when the sky was dark, some Yue soldiers pretended to be business travelers and entered the city, and tortured that they were the division of Jiangdong and were ordered by the army to seize the door." Deng Sui became more and more anxious, "Fortunately, General Jing has already taken precautions, and when he saw that these people were all wigs, he became suspicious." ”

The Yue people did not grow beards, and when Chu and Yue were fighting, the Yue spies were all wigs. Xiong Jing, who heard Deng Sui's words, sat on the ground, "This Huang Xie is really the opposite." But after a while, he sprang up again and asked, "Where is the fierce brother?" ”

"I don't know." Huang Xie rebelled only to establish Xiong Han as the king, intentionally or unintentionally, under Wang Yin's arrangement, during this time, the temple people and palace maids in the palace paid more attention to Xiong Han: as long as Xiong Han was in the palace, Huang Xie should not rebel.

"Your Highness, Your Highness......" Wang Yin also ran in a hurry, and he almost cried: "Your Highness, Prince Huang is nowhere to be found." ”

"Ah——!h There is nothing better than this to prove that Huang Xie has rebelled, Xiong Jing was horrified again, and the last bit of luck was gone. After gasping for a long time, he said: "There are more than 50,000 troops in Jiangdong, and all the Fu people in the city are gone, only women and children are left, and the left army is only 5,000, plus the sanitation and Donggong armor, it is only 8,000. No, I want to see Jinghua and discuss how to defend the city. ”

"Your Highness, Your Highness," Wang Yin, who had already cried, suddenly hugged Xiong Jing's legs, and he sobbed: "If Yin is reversed, there must be arrangements in the city, and His Royal Highness must not leave the palace, and must not leave the palace!" ”

"Your Highness really shouldn't leave the palace." Cai Bao, who rushed to hear the news, also said the same. "If you want to take counsel about defending the city, call it to bed."

"Okay, summon Jinghua quickly." Xiong Jing breathed a sigh of relief, which made the word Yin weigh on his heart like a mountain, and what made his bones chill and powerless was another thing: Huang Xie rebelled at this time, I am afraid that his father is really dead.

"Wait! Lu Wenjun of the Great Sima Mansion was also summoned. The festival bearer hurriedly went out, and Xiong Jing hurriedly shouted. If there is more, Gong Yin Dao will also be summoned. ”

Unlike the countries of the Central Plains, the state of Chu did not have the position of Sikong, and the responsibilities of Sikong included water conservancy and construction, so these affairs were all under the Dasima Mansion. At this moment, the rebels are about to attack the city, so they naturally want to find the Da Sima Mansion to check the key points of the city defense, but Gong Yin Dao is only responsible for building the palace, and the prince summoned him but I don't know why?

The sky is getting brighter, although it is not necessary to go to court early, and all the officials have arrived. From the Hundred Officials' Mansion outside the Pheasant Gate to the main bed inside the Ying Gate, there was only one Zheng Dynasty, and the prince was called, Lu Wenjun and Gong Yin Dao came in a hurry, and with the two of them, there were several uninvited Mr. Li of the War Bureau, as well as two small officials of the Great Sima Mansion who held the city defense map.

"Your Highness, the city of Yingdu is one hundred and thirty-five steps in sixteen miles on Friday......" The main bed that had not lit a fire for a long time seemed very cold, and after the map was expanded, Lu Wenjun shivered before he began to talk about the city defense of Yingdu. With the order of ten husbands in fifty steps, three thousand three hundred and eighty-seven soldiers were needed, six thousand seven hundred and seventy-four women were needed, and finally three thousand three hundred and eighty-seven old and infirm.

Thirteen thousand five hundred and forty-eight men were needed to defend the city. In consideration of the change of day and night, it was necessary to defend the city with 27,096 men. Ding Nu is worry-free, and General Ran Jing has only more than 5,000 apprentices, and there is still a shortage of more than 1,600 people. ”

"Our troops will assist in defending the city." Deng Sui said that he had a thousand palace guards under his command. "The remaining 600 or so people can choose the able-bodied ones from the temple people's erections."

"Good. The palace sanitation ...... "The men in the city have gone out to fight, and the palace guards have to be transferred to the outer city to guard the city."

"Your Highness, no." Xiong Jing was arranging, and someone dissuaded.