Lin Peiyuan's routine of using troops was still the same as last time, after arriving at Yulin City, he set up camp fifty miles away from the city, and did not move.

The Song army guard in Yulin City was Deng Wenying, the eldest son of Deng Yuanjue, and he knew that the Qin army was here to act again as soon as he saw this posture, so he didn't pay much attention to him, except for the increase in the combat readiness level by one level in the city, the lives of the people were still the same as usual.

Although the Song and Qin battlefields here are peaceful, but the territory of Chu is not so peaceful, Deng Yuanjue is the same as last time, first with a large army to surround Chaisang City, and then let Wu Teng, Deng Wenhao and Xun Yuqing each lead 10,000 people to occupy nearby small cities and small counties as their own supply points.

Gao Kegong, who was guarding the city, also learned a lesson, and he didn't come out of Chaisang City, and he didn't care about the loss of the surrounding cities, anyway, he was dragging Deng Yuanjue's main force and not letting him continue to move in the direction of Shouchun.

Deng Yuanjue was not in a hurry, and while making a small fuss, he was looking for new opportunities.

The situation in Xiangyang City is similar, after Xiang Tong's death, Xiang Chu has matured a lot. In the face of Tian Wuji's various provocations, he was able to hold back his temperament, and refused to go out of the city to face the battle, just like Deng Yuanjue faced Xiang Tong's Chu army back then.

Tian Wuji later tried to sell all kinds of flaws to lure Xiang Chu, but unfortunately the current Xiang Chu knew that he was far inferior to his father, and he had no ability to distinguish which ones were true and which ones were false, so he simply gave up, anyway, the eight winds could not blow, and he sat alone on the Zijin Terrace.

Tian Wuji had no other better way for a while, so he could only surround Xiangyang first and slowly fight a war of attrition.

These two battlefields have been in a stalemate for the time being, but Pingliang is different, Xiang Peng really lived up to expectations, winning Jiang Huan Chu seven battles in a row, Xiang Peng began to feel that he was the second Xiang Tong.

The successive victories were transmitted back to Shouchun, and Xiong Huan finally showed a smile that he hadn't seen for a long time, and specially sent people to Pingliang to reward the three armies.

After losing seven battles in a row, Jiang Huanchu's mood seemed to be at the bottom, drinking every day to eliminate his sorrows, getting drunk, and not caring about military affairs.

Xiang Peng was even more overjoyed when he learned the news, thinking that this kind of royal child could not accept failure, and knew how to escape with wine when he encountered a setback.

That night, Xiang Peng took advantage of the light of the moon and quietly left Pingliang City with a large army, and went straight to the camp of the Qi army.

When the army marched to the front of the Qi army village, he saw the lights in the Chinese army's account from a distance, and Jiang Huan Chu fell drunk on the wine table in front of him, snoring and sleeping.

Seeing this, Xiang Peng shouted and led the Chu soldiers directly into the camp, and the Qi army was unable to react for a while and was caught off guard.

After a while, Xiang Peng rushed into the camp of the Chinese army, stretched out his hand and stabbed Jiang Huanchu who was lying on the table, and the tip of the gun was picked up again, who knew that it was actually a bundle of straw, and it turned out that Jiang Huanchu in front of him was just a straw man with a coat.

Xiang Peng yelled badly, and hurriedly reined in his horse, wanting to escape. At this time, the drums behind the tent roared, and countless Qi troops also came out from all directions, blocking the Chu army that was sneaking in the camp, and the first general led by Xiang Peng also blocked in front of Xiang Peng.

"Jiang Huan Chu, you actually use tricks, I underestimate you too much." Xiang Peng was a little annoyed and angry.

Jiang Huan Chu laughed: "General Xiang, I don't want you to be like Xiang Chu and Gao Kegong, hiding in the city every day and not daring to fight, so when will I be able to take Pingliang?" If you want to blame, you can only blame yourself for being too underestimated. ”

If it was Deng Yuanjue or Tian Wuji who came to attack Pingliang City, Xiang Peng probably also hid in the city and did not dare to fight. It was only in the face of Jiang Huanchu, a new recruit who had just entered the battlefield, and Xiong Huan also pinned his hopes on him, hoping that he could defeat Jiang Huanchu to turn the whole battle around, which caused him to make meritorious contributions and fell into Jiang Huanchu's plan to show weakness.

Xiang Peng didn't regret it, and stabbed Jiang Huanchu with a gun in his hand, as long as he could catch him alive, he had hope of escaping.

Jiang Huan Chu looked at him with a smile, and had no intention of making a move. Behind him, a figure jumped out and slashed towards the top of Xiang Peng's head with a volley palm.

Xiang Peng raised his gun and stabbed the man's throat with a shot.

The man somersaulted half a somersault in the air, and slammed the Great Sumeru palm on the spear.

The strength of the Great Sumeru's palm was transmitted along the spear to Xiang Peng's palm, and Xiang Peng only felt that the tiger's mouth was numb, and the spear fell out of his hand and fell to the ground.

After Hou Ying landed, another palm struck out, Xiang Peng's side of his body wanted to dodge, but unfortunately he was still a step slower, and the big Sumeru palm was in the right shoulder, and he only heard two clicks, and his shoulder blades were shattered.

Jiang Huan Chu looked at Xiang Peng, who was sitting on the ground, and asked with a little playfulness: "I'll give you two choices, the first is that I will send you to Beijing, and you will spend the rest of your life in Beijing." The second is that you kill yourself. ”

It is impossible for the children of the Xiang family to surrender, even if Xiang Peng is a soft bone, Jiang Huan Chu will not dare to use him, so he will not bother to persuade him to surrender.

Xiang Peng looked unconvinced: "I have a third choice...... Before he finished speaking, his whole body pounced on Jiang Huanchu, wanting to make a final fight.

With a loud "bang", Xiang Peng's body flew out more than ten meters away, fell into the Qi army array, and was stabbed to death by the surrounding Qi army.

Hou Ying withdrew his palm power and shook his head: "Stubborn resistance, why is this difficult." ”

Xiang Peng died, and the Chu army who came to rob the camp also scattered, Jiang Huan Chu ordered a siege, but quietly left a gap, allowing some of the Chu soldiers to escape.

The Chu soldiers, who had finally managed to break out of the encirclement, fled towards Pingliang City, but what they didn't know was that not far behind them, Tian Kangyou was quietly following them with a troop.

The moment the gate of Pingliang City opened, Tian Kangyou also led his troops out, and the Chu generals at the head of the city wanted to close the city gate, but how could the thousands of Chu soldiers blocking the city gate agree, they hadn't entered the city yet.

The city gate was so big, so many people crowded and trampled on each other, and the speed of entering the city was even slower. After a while, Kung Fu Tian Kangyou was killed in front of him, and the city gate was lost. Half an hour later, Jiang Huan Chu arrived with a large army, and Pingliang City was officially included in the territory of Qi State.

Originally, the court of Chu State pinned their hopes on Xiang Peng to defeat Jiang Huan Chu to reverse the situation of the entire battle, but they didn't expect that he would be the fastest to lose now.

Xiong Huan didn't say a word after learning the news that Pingliang was lost and Xiang Peng was killed in battle, and he didn't even go to the morning court for two days. It wasn't until Prime Minister Wu Shiqi knelt outside the palace with hundreds of officials all night that Xiong Huan showed up.

"Your Majesty, after Jiang Huan Chu rested in Pingliang for three days, he led an army of 100,000 to Jincheng, Jincheng only has 20,000 defenders, and Zhou Yunjing may not be able to defend it for a long time, please send reinforcements to support it." Wu Shiqi didn't care about Xiong Huan's mood at this time, and directly reported the current battle situation.

Xiong Huan looked like he didn't care about himself: "Da Chu has killed 250,000 troops in the past three years, Xiang Peng has just lost another 50,000 people, and the remaining 100,000 troops are in the hands of Xiang Chu and Gao Kegong respectively, where are I still sent reinforcements to support Jincheng?" ”

Although Xiong Huan was telling the truth, he couldn't ignore Jincheng, Wu Shiqi took out the plan that had been prepared a long time ago: "Now that the country is in crisis, we might as well give each county the right to recruit soldiers on its own, and all expenses after recruitment will be borne by each county itself, and the imperial court will not collect any taxes from them in the next three years." ”

The big Sima Gaoyi on the side immediately said: "No, this move will inevitably lead to chaos in the world, and the local forces will take the opportunity to strengthen themselves, and in the end, even if they repel the Qi and Song coalition forces, these local forces will not be able to fall, and then they want to take back their power, I am afraid that they will have to pay a greater price." ”

Wu Shiqi still insisted: "Da Sima's worries, the minister has also considered it, and it will not be ruled out that there will be a situation that Da Sima said in the future, but if we don't do this, we may not be able to pass this hurdle in front of us, and I ask Your Majesty to decide." ”

Xiong Huan thought again and again: "What the prime minister said makes sense, I can't take care of it in the present, where to take care of the future, just do what the prime minister said." ”

Wu Shiqi saw that Xiong Huan agreed, and then said: "Your Majesty, now my Great Chu is no longer as good as the Qi and Song coalition forces in military terms, but we still have an advantage. I beg Your Majesty to personally write a letter to Shen Nanxing, the leader of the Hidden Star Sect, and ask him to send a master of the sect to help us assassinate the generals of Qi and Song. Sect Master Shen is the first person in today's martial arts, and he is alone in the world with martial arts, far better than Qi Tianfang, the leader of the Tianqi Sect, and Ding Jiaxuan, the head of the Tiandao Sect, and there are more masters in the Hidden Star Sect than the Tianqi Sect and the Tiandao Sect, as long as he is willing to help, we still have hope of winning. ”

Xiong Huan's eyes lit up: "What the prime minister reminded me of is that I forgot about Sect Master Shen, although the national strength of Great Chu is not as good as that of Qi State, but the Hidden Star Sect is better than the Tianqi Sect, I will write to Shen Nanxing now and ask him to help." ”

Xiong Huan decentralized, and the counties and counties of Chu immediately increased taxes, and at the same time recruited troops on a large scale, and some people who could not afford to pay taxes had to join the barracks. Stimulated by this strong policy, the state of Chu also resisted the attack from three directions for a while.

However, in the long run, this kind of policy was to quench thirst, and a large number of young and strong laborers joined the army one after another in order to escape conscription, resulting in a large number of fields being left uncultivated, and after a long time, the economy of the entire Chu State had to regress by several decades.

Jiang Wushuang learned that Jiang Huan Chu actually won Pingliang City before the two famous generals in the world, and the joy in his heart was also overflowing. Jiang Wushuang is also in his fifties this year, and he has not thought about his successor. Although the crown prince was established early, when Jiang Huan Song was established as the crown prince, Jiang Huan Chu was only two years old.

Over the years, the performance of the crown prince Jiang Huan Song has become more and more unsatisfactory to him, and in private, he and Jiang Huan Qin worked together to harm Jiang Huan Chu, Jiang Wushuang did not know, but on the premise of ensuring that Jiang Huan Chu's life was not in danger, he did not stop it.

In fact, among the four princes, Jiang Wushuang's favorite is the third prince Jiang Huanyan, but this child is too obsessed with the things he likes, and he doesn't care at all about the things he is not interested in, such a character is really not suitable for being an emperor.

The second prince Jiang Huan Qin is ruthless and reckless in order to achieve his goals, and it may be okay for him to be the first generation of entrepreneurial masters with such a personality, but if Jiang Wushuang hands over the country to him after reunification, he will soon lose the country.

Recently, as Jiang Huan Chu has become more and more mature, he has not only emerged militarily, but also has a good appearance in dealing with the government affairs of Changli and Pingliang, and the most important thing is that the general Tian Wuji has also begun to favor him, which has to make Jiang Wushuang reconsider the issue of the candidate for the position.