Chapter 63: New Rice
The state of Chu has successively defeated the Qin army, and what the state of Chu has, the state of Qin must also have, and the state of Qin must be stronger than the state of Chu. This is Zhao Zheng's subconscious, and his more secret idea is that he must be stronger than the unfinished king. This time the king of Chu escaped from him, he was not very angry, if the king of Chu was captured by Li Xin like this, wouldn't he have no opponent in the future? What's the fun of the conquest?
Today, the Qin State is already the overlord of the world, and whoever inherits the throne and holds the authority can be a small prince of the world. It is Zhao Zheng's dream to establish a greater achievement than the first king Zhaoxiang, but the first king Zhaoxiang has the battle of Yique, the battle of Yanying, the battle of Changping, and the battle of Handan.
Today's Chu State is already the Zhao State of the past, and if the Chu State is not defeated, the six Kwantung Kingdoms cannot be swept away, and it is difficult to unify the world. Thinking of this, Zhao Zheng pinched the hand holding the talisman slightly, and his knuckles were a little blue. He no longer cared about those details, and asked in a deep voice, "Now that King Jing has fled, when will the army be able to defeat the Jing people?" ”
"Your lord, the army is ready, the grain and grass are sufficient, and this month is the time to harvest millet, and you can cut down the Jing people at any time." Huan Qi still opened his mouth after speaking, as if there was something he hadn't finished talking about.
"Huh?" Zhao Zheng looked at him, puzzled.
"The minister heard that the Jing people sent thousands of Wei prisoners back to their hometowns two months ago, and they told the king of Wei that this battle was not a battle to destroy Chu, but a battle to destroy Wei and Han in my Great Qin. Once the Wei army is defeated in front of the battle, the Wei state will be destroyed by our Great Qin, and the king of Wei will be terrified when he hears it. ”
The Governor's Mansion is in charge of the Marquis of the world, and he is very clear about the movements of the countries in the world. After Wei Yu arrived in Qin, he persuaded Zhao Zheng to buy off the powerful ministers of the state with 300,000 gold. So much money was scattered, and the magnates of all countries fell to Qin. Even the foreign dynasty people of the Chu State were bought with a lot of money. However, the state of Chu changed one after another, the head of the Hou people, Xuan Jun, actually rebelled against the Chu people, and the false news that came back almost killed the king, and during the period of Zhao Zheng's healing, the family members of the Hou who were stationed in the Chu State were all executed.
"King Wei doesn't want to send troops?" Zhao Zheng didn't know the situation of the Kwantung Marquis, and he only wanted to conquer the Chu State now.
"The king of Wei naturally sent troops, but most of the elite of the Wei army were concentrated in Daliang, and only the old and weak were stationed in Yucheng with our army." Huan Qi Road. Speaking of this, he stopped talking again, and said, "Please forgive the king." ”
"With all due respect." Zhao Zheng flicked his sleeves, and his face was full of anger, but fortunately, this anger was not aimed at Huan Qi, but at King Wei.
"The minister heard that the queen was pregnant, please ask the queen to host the queen in Daliang......" Huan Qi really said bluntly.
"What do you mean?" Zhao Zheng broke off drinking, staring at Huan Qi, eager to kill him with a sword.
"The minister asks the king to allow the queen to be hostage to Daliang, with the heart of the king of Wei." Huan Qi said it again.
The queen's pregnancy was just a move by the Empress Dowager Huayang Zu to calm people's hearts, and no one would have thought that the queen was really pregnant, and the time was a few days before the Shaofu accident. In September, the queen's lower abdomen gradually bulged, and the imperial physician judged that she should be a prince based on the pulse.
Such a happy event soon spread throughout the palace and spread to Xianyang, but I didn't expect Huan Qi to take advantage of this matter and want to hold the queen hostage to Daliang. Everyone in the world said that the Qin State was untrustworthy, but in fact, the Qin State was repeatedly deceived by the Jin people earlier. If the queen is hostage to Wei, she will definitely have one corpse and two lives.
"No one is allowed!" After glaring at Huan Qi fiercely for a while, Zhao Zhengfang squeezed out these words from between his teeth.
"If the king doesn't allow it, the king of Wei will have concerns, it's good that our army wins, but if our army doesn't win, I'm afraid that the Wei army will attack me." Huan Qi Road.
"He dares!" Zhao Zheng was still angry, and his hands waved heavily on several cases, and the bamboo slips piled up on the cases immediately collapsed. At this time, Huan Qi didn't dare to speak anymore, as a courtier, what he could say had already been said.
"Urgently order the armies of Jiyi, Shangcai, and Yucheng to attack Jing State!" Zhao Zheng decided, "Wei and Han, the widow will send an envoy to say it." The widow has no intention of destroying Wei and Han, and the widow only wants to crusade against Jing. ”
"Yui!" Huan Qi said. Everything is ready to attack Chu, if it weren't for the Jiyi Alliance, I am afraid that the army would have entered the Chu realm last month.
That night, the order to attack Chu was issued in Xianyang; The next morning, the envoys to Wei and Han were also on their way. It's just that at noon on this day, a doorman in the Huanqi Mansion resigned in anger because he was humiliated by his servants and sat on the east boat.
The wind and clouds have changed abruptly, the big war is about to start, Xiong Jing who is in the Mulberry Tunnel is unconscious, and he is now in crisis. After dawn, the Sang Tunnel was surrounded by two thousand Qin cavalry, and a man dressed as a scholar shouted outside the door, please see the Gongsun Doctor in the city.
Doctor Gongsun lived in the Mulberry Tunnel, but the King of Wei recruited all the soldiers who could fight in Wei, and Doctor Gongsun had already taken the soldiers to Daliang. After the Yi Commander replied, this man said that he wanted to see the retainer of Doctor Gongsun, who was the same person who had been stabbed to death by the knight yesterday.
"Please send the young envoy to the city to answer, otherwise, the Qin people will not retreat." Yi Ling bowed in front of Xiong Jing, and his eyes turned to Gongsun Yan, who was sitting in the room.
"Who is the young envoy?" Gongsun Yan stood up angrily, and bit and bit her thick lips. The young envoy is the grade of the concubine, although there is no chastity in this era, but she cares about the etiquette of the name, and she never wants to be thought that she has been in harmony with the king of Chu.
"This ......" Yi Ling looked at the king of Chu and then at Gongsun Yan. The King of Chu is more than five feet tall, and five feet is already fifteen years old, and he can't hear half childishness when he talks, he thinks that Gongsun Yan has gone to bed last night.
"How can the king of a country be held behind a woman?" Xiong Jing thought that he could stay in the Mulberry Tunnel for three or five days, but he didn't expect the Qin people to come to the door so quickly, he got up and shouted: "Chang Jiang, give this king armor." ”
"The King?" Several horsemen looked at Xiong Jing, uneasy and excited, they had long wanted to fight the Qin people to the end.
"King!" Yi Ling's face was full of panic. He is like Wei Zeng, the king of Wei in Daliang, how Qin and Chu fight is a matter between Qin and Chu, but the battlefield is in Wei, once the Qin army breaks the city, it is bound to be beheaded and recorded, and then the whole Yi will die.
"The king, the king can't." Yi Ling shouted, he saw that Chang Jiang really gave armor to the king of Chu, so he had to kneel in front of Gongsun Yan and said, "Please save the Sang Tunnel, please save the Sang Tunnel, please save the Sang Tunnel." ”
"The king of Chu killed my retainers and enslaved my Wei people, why did I save them?" Gongsun Yan was not abused, but she still resented the rudeness of the Chu people and pitied her retainers.
"The Qin army broke the city and beheaded both men and women. If the son is not saved, we will die with the king of Chu. "Yi Ling has already begun to howl, he is a person who has been on the battlefield and knows the horror of the Qin army.
"Howl, you know howl." Xiong Jing, who was already in armor, said with disdain, "Don't tell the people in the city to prepare to defend the city." Hold for three or five days, as soon as the Chu army comes, the Qin army will retreat, if the Chu army does not come, death will die, what to fear. ”
"Humph!" Xiong Jing didn't look at Gongsun Yan, and left the house after saying this. Outside the mansion was full of knights, and some lightly wounded people were also among them, and everyone was excited to see Xiong Jing come out in armor.
"If you don't guess wrong, at this moment, the general is leading more than 200,000 troops to surround the Qin people in Jiyi and annihilate them in a bloody battle. This is the only great victory of my Chu State, although we can't go to war, we have to kill more Qin people. Only by killing all the Qin people can the Chu State have a peaceful day and a chance for peace. Honorable people! Go to the city with you. ”
It was another battle of attack and defense of the city, and this kind of war was like nausea when Xiong Jing mentioned it, but fortunately he didn't have to defend it for a few months, just wait for reinforcements to arrive for three or five days. After Xiong Jing finished speaking, he drew his sword, and after him, more than two hundred honorary knights also drew their cavalry swords.
"Your Majesty, please stop." Yi Ling rushed out, and along with him, Gongsun Yan, who was convinced, "The villain asks Gongzi Yan to go to the city to talk to the Qin people, or he can withdraw the army." ”
After Yi Ling finished speaking, he took Gongsun Yan and walked away, Xiong Jing looked at them for a while, turned his head and said, "Prepare to go to the city." ”
"Yui." The knights let out a low shout, and then marched towards the gates under the command of Fei Jing.
The morning sun shone on the south gate of the mulberry tunnel, and all the Qin horses outside the four gates were there. As soon as Gongsun Yan landed in the city, Qin Qi was restless. According to Hou Zhengzao's strategy, please see Doctor Gongsun to know whether King Jing is in the city, but I didn't expect Doctor Gongsun to be gone, and the retainers were gone, and it was a woman who came.
"Who's in the city?" Hou Zhengzao stepped forward immediately, not afraid of the old soldiers at the head of the city.
"Why does the general want to see Jia Yan?" Gongsun Yan stood on the city and asked, "Do you want to pull out my mulberry tunnel?" ”
"It turned out to be Gongsun Gongzi." Hou Zhengzao bowed, he knew that the Gongsun Doctor of the Sang Tunnel was because of the veteran general Gongsun Mao of the Wei Army, and the general record compiled by the National Governor's Mansion said that Gongsun Mao had a brother who lived in the Sang Tunnel. "Qin and Wei have been allied, how dare our army attack the Sang Tunnel, only to pursue the King of Jing to this point, and the detective cavalry said that the Sang Tunnel eats three times a day, so there is doubt."
"Three foods?" Gongsun Yan smiled, "Yesterday, I harvested millet in the mulberry tunnel and tasted new rice, so why did I have three foods?" ”
Tasting new rice is a ritual on the day before the autumn harvest, farmers pick a basket of corn ears from the field, make a new meal and sacrifice to the ancestors, and the family can also get a bowl. Gongsun Yan's answer was not leaky, and Hou Zhengzao immediately laughed: "I see, I see." Contemptible mistake. After laughing, he said again: "Since the mulberry tunnel has harvested millet today, the contemptible people persuaded the general to retreat from the Qin army, so as not to mistake the farmers to harvest the millet." ”
Hou Zhengzao beat his horse and left, and in a moment, the thunderous hooves became farther and farther away, and the two thousand cavalry outside the city were gone. The knights who were about to enter the city looked at each other when they heard the sound, they wanted to fight to the death with the Qin people, but they didn't expect the Qin army to retreat.
"Gongsun Gongzi is really good at arguing, if he doesn't thank him, he will have a report in the future." I thought there was going to be a big battle, but I didn't expect Wei Nu to retire the Qin people in a few words. Although Xiong Jing is unwilling in his heart, he can be favored by others and must reciprocate.
"I'm only for the people of the Mulberry Tunnel." The head of the city spoke, Gongsun Yan sweated, and after speaking, she said: "I said that the Sang Tunnel will start to harvest millet today, and ask the king of Chu to open the gate of Yi, so that the people can go out of the city to collect millet, otherwise, the Qin army will come again." ”
"Open the gate of the city?" Fei Jing shook his head for a while, he rushed in like this yesterday, what if the Qin people also rushed in.
"Now that you have said that you will harvest the corn, you will naturally open the door." Xiong Jing smiled, and he heard the conversation at the head of the city. "This king also wants to taste the new rice of the Wei Kingdom."