Bow and arrow, spear guard, halberd help, weapons and weapons must be coordinated. Although Xiong Yuan has not directly led the army to fight, he has read the book of war, and he knows much more about war and tactics than Xiong Jing. And in his opinion, at this time, his son should still read more military books, instead of discussing military games here. It's just that Xiong Yuan was asked to leave by Ling Yin and Nao Cunning: Without him, the Qin army is going to attack Chu.

"The minister respectfully told the king: Chengyang urgently reported that the Qin army wanted to attack me in Biyang." Chengyang's urgent report reached the Great Sima Mansion, and Nao Cunning immediately came to report. "It is said that to the west of the canyon, the chariots are adjacent, and the military flag covers the sun."

"The minister also has something to tell the king," Xiong Yuan had not yet recovered from the news of the Qin army's attack on Chu, and Huang Xie told again: "Last month, the king of Wei saw my envoy, and although he did not refuse to join me, a few days ago, the Qin merchants had transported countless grains into Daoyi. Daoyi is the border of the Three Kingdoms, and the Qin people transported grain here, which is afraid to be the military food of the Qin army. ”

"King Wei," Xiong Yuan's face suddenly turned purple, he choked hard, and said weakly: "Why is King Wei like this?" ”

"King!" Chang Jiang was horrified when he saw Xiong Yuan's color change, and he scolded Huang Xie and Nao slyly: "The king doesn't know about the military, and the king doesn't know about the military." As he spoke, he was holding Xiong Yuan and wanted people to drive Huang Xie and Nao Cunhe out.

Chang Jiang was shocked, Huang Xie and Nao Cunning were also panicked, Yi Yin had explained before, the king should not be overjoyed, and the news he reported now, especially Huang Xie's Wei and Qin collusion and false way to transport grain for the Qin army, is really too appalling.

"The crime of capital punishment! Death penalty! The two bowed their heads and were about to retreat.

"The two secretaries... Please. Xiong Yuan also felt a dull pain in his heart just now, and he was about to fall down with his weakness, but fortunately, he closed his eyes for a while and eased up. The purple color on his face dissipated, and it was replaced by a gray black. "The Qin army attacked me, and the Wei State transported grain for it, what if so?"

Although Xiong Yuan spoke, Huang Xie and Nao were cunning but did not dare to answer, for fear that the king's heart disease would occur again.

"Zixie, what do you say, what should happen today?" Xiong Yuan had to ask questions by name.

"Minister...... thought that when he sent Yu Wei again, he bribed his nobles and ministers with a huge amount of money, and asked him not to allow Qin Liang to enter the country under false means. Huang Xie opened his mouth to be a huge amount of gold, but fortunately, Xiong Yuan's expression did not change.

"Wei is forced by the prestige of Qin to allow Qin to fake the Tao, how can I be allowed not to allow Qin grain to enter the country?" Wei was not a strong country for a long time, and such a country dared to collude with Qin to calculate itself, so that Yin had to bribe him with a huge amount of money, and he was cunning and displeased.

"The Wei State can not only allow Qin to transport grain on a false road, but also transport troops on a false road." Huang Xie was also a little angry, "The huge bribe to Wei is to make Wei refuse Qin's troops." All the waters in the Wei realm pass through our country, if he allows Qin to fake the way, my woe will also be. ”

"No!" Xiong Yuan agreed very calmly, he was fully aware of the danger of Wei falling to Qin.

"The minister asked the king to send an envoy to Zhao with 10,000 gold, and not to others, only to Guo Kai......" Huang Xie said again.

"Wanjin?!" Nao's eyes widened, and Huang Xie's eyes were not angry, but stupid.

"No." Xiong Yuan's beard trembled, and he was also surprised by Huang Xie's generosity, but at this time, he urgently needed Zhao Guo to send troops, so what could he do.

"Chengyang is very heavy, and the widow wants to make the king go to Chengyang, what does Yin think?" Endure the pain of losing gold, Xiong Yuan asked again.

"The king is an elite soldier, and it is the best to go to Chengyang, but the minister asks the king to still take Xiang Yan as his general." Huang Xie emphasized.

"King, please go to Chengyang to fight Qin." Nao slyly rushed to say, when he came, it was like leading the king's pawn to help Chengyang.

"The king's heart disease has not healed, and the war is complicated, if the great Sima goes to Chengyang, who will preside over the plan in Yingdu?" Huang Xie asked rhetorically.

"The widow takes Xiang Yan as the general, receives the axe, worships the general, and the king is also under his command." Shen Yinyu, Zimo and others failed in their diplomatic rejection of Qin, and Xiong Yuan had to regard Huang Xie as a reliance and obey him.

After the plan was completed, the two retreated, and Xiong Yuan only stared at the distance in a daze. What he thought of was: At this time, even if he abdicated and Jing'er ascended the throne, he couldn't do it, and the Qin army had already attacked. Originally, I hoped that after his son ascended the throne, he could calmly change and make Chu stronger, but he didn't think that the Qin people would come to kill him, and Wei would help him, how could this Chu country be a mess in the future.

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The September sun is sprinkled in the mountains and forests, maybe it is already afternoon, it no longer has the heat of July and August, and it only feels warm on people. Birds singing in the mountains, gradually the leaves turn yellow in the broad-leaved forest there is a tree is extremely strange, the other trees come in the breeze, the limbs sway, the leaves are swaying, but this tree is swaying with the wind, swaying without wind, and also swaying in various postures, as if it has become a essence.

At this time, the dryad was swaying, like the branches of the arm, up and down, in an incomprehensible pose. On the top of the mountain more than ten miles away, a pair of eyes stared at these postures from the Lu Lijing, reading out the numbers one by one. When it was over, someone jumped down to the top of the mountain like a harrier and went deeper into the forest.

"Report to the general, news from Chengyang." In the middle of the dense forest, the army lurks. Xiang Yan's big tent stood in the open space of the woods, although it was wide, it looked a little dim. Across the tent stood the sergeants, and the messenger prostrated himself to the ground and reported in a loud voice.

"Read." In the tent, Xiang Yan sat without a sword, his sword crossed his lap, and he was polishing his sword. In addition to him, the first person sitting on the lower left is Pan Wuming, the general of the county division of Cai County, and Chengtong, the general of the county division of Xi County; On the right hand is the army Sima Pengzong, and the Xiang County Division led Xiang Pheasant. Under the four people, there are several military leaders of the three county divisions, and the accompanying army officials and humerus wings are either in this tent or busy in his tent - at this time, the army has left Chengyang overnight and entered the mountains and forests at the junction of Chu and Qin, marching in the forest, and what they do is very secret.

"The king has an order: take the general as the general, receive the axe, worship the general......" The news from Yingdu encouraged everyone, but the good news was more than this, "The king went to Chengyang on the same day and returned to the general." ”

"Is there still a life?" Xiang Yan was still wiping his sword, and he didn't have any joy. Everyone knows that it will take more than 20 days for the king to rush to Chengyang on the same day, and the Qin army has already flooded Chengyang by that time.

"None." The messenger handed over the declassified news to the strategist in the military tent who was in charge of intelligence archiving, and waited for Xiang Yan's reply.

"Tell the king and the big Sima: Yan has left Chengyang to fight with Qin, and the general can't bear it." Xiang Yan sent the messenger away.

"General, the last general thinks it......" Cheng Tong of the Xincai County Division saluted, he had something to say.

"Zitong thinks that the Qin army will cut me down from Biyang? Should our army be transferred to Tianmu Mountain to wait for the enemy? Xiang Yan smiled undeniably and returned his attention to the sword. The Tianmu Mountain he said was the mountain on the east side of the canyon at the junction of Chu and Qin Biyang, and the Qin army must pass through this mountain when they invade the territory from Biyang.

"Exactly." After Chengtong is Ruo Ao, although the Ruo Ao clan is the king of Chu Zhuang has lost power, but the tree has deep roots, as the early prince of the Chu State, his descendants have penetrated all over the Chu State. "Our army scouts have seen the Qin army's front division and outside the valley, and Ling Yin told the Wei State that the quasi-Qin people transported grain in Daoyi under the false road, and the Qin army must go to the Magu Road."

There are pros and cons to the existence of flying news: the advantage is that the transmission of messages is extremely fast, even if you leave the city, as long as you are not too far away, you can also erect a communication pole to send and receive messages; The disadvantage is that there is a lot of information acceptance, which makes people a little overwhelmed.

"The general's concern: Jiyi is a familiar land for Qin, and it is a common way for business travel, and it is a familiar road for the Qin army to enter from here." The judgment of the chief general was not in harmony with the current situation, and the military Sima Peng Zong had to open his mouth and thin the mud.

"If the Qin army offends me from Biyang," Peng Zong picked up three calculations, "First, this road is trackless, and it is difficult to drive heavy cars." "He put down his first plan;" Second, if the Qin army commits me, I will go down to Chengyang. However, Biyang is more than 200 miles away from Chengyang, so it is impossible to get to Chengyang City quickly. He put down his second plan; Third, if the city is not down, it will be useless in the war. Lü Buwei wanted to provoke a war and quickly pull out the Qin army; If you don't pull it out, Qin's internal turmoil is still there, and Chang Yu has not been executed, and the king of Qin may order the Qin army to return to China. ”

After Peng Zong finished speaking, the last plan was settled. He smiled and said: "In this way, the Qin army will come from Jiyi, and our army should go to Jiyi." ”

"If the Qin army didn't come from Jiyi, what could I do?" Chengtong was speechless by Peng Zong's words, and only one sentence came out in the end.

"I will bow down with my sword and apologize." Xiang Yan replied, and the atmosphere in the military tent was tense, and the next Xiang said anxiously: "Brother, no!" ”

"If the Qin army does not come from Jiyi, I will apologize with my sword." Xiang Yan ignored Xiang Zhi and repeated what she had just said, gambling with her life. "Zitong, no life, is this okay?"

"The general is too worried, as long as the last general can kill the Qin people, there is nothing to do!" Pan Wuming is a fierce general, and the main general will fight wherever he says, not as thoughtful as Cheng Tong, nor as much as Chen Beggar.

"......" Chengtong sighed and said, "If Chengyang is lost, Xixian should also bear the brunt." The last general doesn't know if it's okay or not, but I hope the general is right. ”

At the end of the Warring States Period, the private soldiers who fought with the army were basically invisible, and some were just county divisions and divisions in each county. The soldiers are out of the county, the grain is out of the county, and the chariots, horses, and weapons are also out of the county's ......, and such an army is not so much the Chu army as the Chu County Division. The fighting spirit and morale of such an army could not be compared with Qin Zhao's division at all, so that Lian Po, who was dug up by Huang Xie as a treasure, sighed after the Chu general: "I want to use Zhao people." ’

The Lord will have a life, but the generals will not listen, even if the Lord will bet his life on himself, his subordinates still have concerns. Xiang Yan didn't mind this, the tradition of overthrowing the army and killing generals has a long history in Chu State, and he knows the underlying logic very well: take away the sons and husbands of the countrymen in a hurry, and when they come back, there is no merit and no bones, and of course the generals are guilty.

When the Qin army attacked, it attacked Jiyi instead of defending Chengyang, which was okay, but if it was wrong, not only Chengyang would be lost, but the whole army might also be destroyed. He is bound to commit suicide with a sword, but Cheng Tong, who led the county division of Xi County, is equally guilty: the nine thousand children of Xi County are lost, and the Qin army takes Chengyang and the soldiers are in Xi County, how can he steal his life from this county Sima?

"Whoever believes in me wins!" Xiang Yan smiled lightly at Cheng Tong, and after laughing, he had a look of arrogance, which was intimidating. But when the messenger came again, he was heard shouting outside the tent: "Report! General, the Qin army, with Meng Yi as the general, attacked the Horse Valley,"