In less than a month, the four men and horses have defeated all eight small countries, and the strength of each group has risen to 30,000. Xiang Yu ordered them to advance to the southeast at the same time, and they wanted to grab a group of small countries in this direction.

On the side of Yiling City, under the management of Shen You, some of the disbanded soldiers also came back when they saw the current situation, and the number of Shen You's army also increased from 25,000 to 30,000.

At the same time, the incident of the Zhou Dynasty's destruction of the Zheng State quickly fermented among the countries, and the countries were very shocked, and they did not expect the King of Zhou to rise overnight. Although Qi and Wei knew in advance that Xiang Yu would attack Zheng Guo, they did not expect Zheng Guo to be destroyed, thinking that the two sides would hold on, and they were even optimistic that Zheng Guo would win, who knew that Xiang Yu would be destroyed in two months.

Now it seems that a tacit understanding has suddenly formed between countries, and they are all quickly annexing small countries. The Qin State was blocked by the Jin State and could not develop inward, so it simply expanded outwards and developed in the direction of Yiqu and Inurong. Wu and Vietnam are still fighting each other.

In fact, the Zheng State under Xiang Yu was an enclave, connected with the Zhou Dynasty, in the middle, surrounded by other countries, which was not conducive to defense.

When Xiang Yu's men and horses attacked various small countries, sometimes there was even a matter of attacking a country at the same time as Chu State, because Xiang Yu had explained that he should not clash head-on with Chu State, so he simply gave way to the other party, changed direction, and attacked other countries. Anyway, to the southeast, there are forty or fifty small countries, and there is no need to fight.

In the process of annexing small countries, the Song, Wei, and Lu kingdoms suffered relatively losses and were relatively weak.

The east of the Wei State is bordered by Qi and Lu, and the small countries in the south are all defeated by Xiang Yu, so they can only grab territory with the Jin State in the west and the Qi State in the north.

The state of Lu was surrounded by Qi, Wei, and Song, and could only go east to grab territory with Qi and Song.

The western part of the Song State was surrounded by Xiang Yu, and it bordered the Lu State in the north, but there were still many small countries in the east and south, but the east wanted to compete with Qi and Lu, and simply attacked the small countries in the south, and no other countries competed.

The terrain of Chu is the most favorable, the south and north directions are all waiyi, and the west is Yongguo plus two small countries, and now Chu is concentrating on grabbing territory with Xiang Yu in the east, and the other directions are not fought first, and Chu has many people and has an advantage.

The state of Chu does not fight the Yongguo now, because the Yongguo has a certain strength. Yongguo used to be the country of Ba, and the country of Ba used to be the state of Shu, and to the north of the two countries were some small countries, and then to the north was the state of Qin.

Qi and Jin have similar advantages, Qi can develop in the north without competition, and compete with Lu and Song in the east, but Song mainly attacks the south. The Jin State could develop to the north and there was no competition, but the Jin State was cunning and fought directly to the east, sealing the Wei State, so that the Wei State could not develop to the north and compete with them.

A month later, the Yue State defeated the Wu State, and the war between them was fought for more than a year, and because both countries were relatively remote, located in the southeast, and both were close to the sea, not many countries paid attention to them. Now that the Yue State has destroyed the Wu State, the strength and confidence have increased greatly, and the King of Yue also wants to dominate the Central Plains, so he continues to advance northward, which brings competition to the Song State.

Now that the situation is getting clearer and clearer, it depends on how everyone fights in the later stage. During the period when various countries were vigorously developing their forces, Xiang Yu Hualong discussed.

Hua Long said: "Big brother, after the completion of this wave of annexation, it will be more than the power of various countries, and it will take a lot of manpower and financial resources to fight a war. It usually takes about 20 years to train a group of people, and we can't wait, so we can only minimize casualties in the war, and after destroying other countries, occupy the territory and population of other countries. Financial resources can only vigorously develop agricultural production, and handicrafts and commerce are not very good in this era, but they can also be appropriately developed. According to the set of plans that General Shen and I have worked out, the economic strength of the entire Zhou Dynasty will increase a lot in a year or two. ”

Xiang Yu said: "Yes, after this wave of annexation, our territory is estimated to be in the middle, but our position is in the middle, and the surrounding areas are all other countries, which is not conducive to defense." ”

Hua Long said: "Yes, the best way to unify the whole country is to advance from one direction to the other, we are in a place of right and wrong, and it is much more difficult." ”

Xiang Yu said: "I can only take one step at a time." ”

Hua Long said: "Our only favorable condition is the king of Zhou, now the Zhou Dynasty, or the people's will, after laying the territory, as long as we appease the people, there will generally be no chaos." When the time comes, the wars between the major powers can also be used to talk about the king of Zhou. ”

Suddenly, the princess ran to the two of them and said, "Brother Xiang, when are we going to fight?" I'm bored to death. ”

Xiang Yu said: "We have been fighting, there are more than 100,000 people fighting outside." ”

The princess said, "I'm asking when you two are going to fight?" I don't want to be with them. ”

Xiang Yu said: "At least it will take more than half a year. ”

The princess said, "It's going to take so long, Brother Xiang, or you can teach me martial arts now." ”

Xiang Yu said: "I've taught you a lot, you can do martial arts now, what does a girl do if she wants to learn such good martial arts." ”

The princess said, "I want to fight." ”

Hua Long said to the princess: "You go and call Ji Yan over to learn together, and your eldest brother Xiang will teach you." ”

The princess choked her mouth: "Then I might as well not learn, you dead rascal deliberately hurt me." "I thought: Ji Yan is here, and Brother Xiang won't pay attention to me.

Coincidentally, Ji Yan and Ji Qing suddenly came, and Ji Yan said to Xiang Yu: "Brother Xiang, I want to ask you something." ”

Xiang Yu was very excited and said, "What's the matter?" I'll definitely help. This is the first time Ji Yan has taken the initiative to talk to Xiang Yu.

Ji Yan said: "Brother Xiang, my younger brother wants to learn martial arts, and he admires you very much, pestering me all day long, saying that he has to learn from you, so I brought him over to find you." ”

Xiang Yu happily agreed: "Okay, I just don't have anything to do during this time, I'll teach him." ”

Ji Yan said: "Thank you, Brother Xiang!" ”

Xiang Yu said: "It's a gesture." ”

The princess was not happy at this time, and said: "Brother Xiang, what kind of person are you, I will learn from you, you have to ignore it, as soon as Ji Yan looks for you, you will be like this." ”

Xiang Yu was embarrassed to say, "You and Ji Qing study together." ”

The princess said, "I don't want to study with this little brat." ”

Hua Long helped and said: "Princess, Brother Xiang didn't mean that, she was saying that you are a girl, what do you do with so many martial arts, sooner or later you will get married." ”

The princess disdained: "I won't marry, I want to fight and kill the enemy." After speaking, she took Ji Yan's hand and said, "Sister Ji Yan, let's go play together, we rarely play together." "She deliberately broke away from Ji Yan.

Ji Yan said, "Okay." Then he went away with the princess.

So Xiang Yu began to teach Ji Qing martial arts, and he was very attentive.

In the evening, Hua Long called Ji Yan and said to her: "Sister Ji Yan, why don't you also learn some martial arts with Xiang Yu, you and Ji Qing will fight with us for a long time, if you don't learn some skills to kill the enemy, you see that I can't do kung fu, and no one can win?" I can't protect you. Hua Long also wanted to shorten the distance between Ji Yan and Xiang Yu.

Ji Yan said: "Big brother, I don't want to learn martial arts from Xiang Yu, if I want to learn it, I can learn it from you." ”

Hua Long was puzzled: "I can't do it myself, how can you learn from me?" ”

Ji Yan said: "I mean: I don't like to learn martial arts, I want to learn the strategy of marching and fighting with you, Xiang Yu is invincible in the world, but the use of strategy is not as good as you, so I want to learn from you." ”