The next day, Hua Long and Liu Hu took all the troops and siege equipment and stormed the city of defending the country.

Storming the opponent's walls and gates with a catapult, as soon as the opponent came out, he fired arrows and crossbows, and the opponent fled but did not pursue. After the city is beaten, rest for a day, and then fight the next one, and the city that has just been beaten will not be defended.

At the same time, Xiang Yu's side came to the front of the Three Kingdoms Alliance and asked for peace with Shen Yu. Shen You also wanted to make peace in his heart, but it was impossible to agree directly in front of the armies of Qi and Wei, so he said that he wanted the three countries to discuss and discuss together. The generals of Qi and Wei did not dare to make decisions easily, so they sent messengers back to China to report back. So Xiang Yu went to make peace every two days.

In Weiwang's Palace, a few days after the envoy of the Zhou Dynasty Yan Shu left, the envoy of Zheng Guo came again, saying that King Zheng wanted to drag Xiang Yu to death with Wei Guo, and King Wei said that he would consider sending someone to reply to King Zheng. The envoy of Zheng Guo was gone for less than two days, and the front line came to report that the Zhou Dynasty attacked the border city of Weiguo. King Wei was shocked, wasn't Xiang Yu's troops dragged on the border of Zheng State, how could anyone still beat me to defend the country, so he sent troops to support.

Two days later, a messenger from Weiguo's coalition forces in Zheng came to report that Xiang Yu had asked for peace with the allies. At the same time, the front line came to report, saying: The army of the Zhou Dynasty has captured 2 cities in 4 days, and the momentum is like a bamboo. At this time, King Wei was a little panicked, and thought: No wonder Qi and Zheng want to drag the widows into the water, it turns out that they have suffered a big loss in front of Xiang Yu, so he immediately sent someone to inform the troops who went to the front line to support, not to attack, to negotiate, and asked the messenger to reply to the guards in Zheng State, and to hold the troops.

On the second day after Wei Guo supported the troops on the front line, he received an order from King Wei to stop the offensive and hold talks. So on the same day, the two sides held talks, and Hua Long said: "Our conditions are: first, the patriotic city we have laid will return to the Zhou Dynasty; 2. Wei Guo immediately withdrew his troops from Zheng State. Hua Long thought: the tougher the attitude, the better.

After receiving the messenger's report, King Wei thought: Agree to withdraw the army as soon as possible, and fish a few cities, and now pay two more, if you don't agree, Xiang Yu and the widow will die, although I have an army of 350,000, but to win him, it is estimated that I will have to take more than 100,000, not cost-effective, take advantage of the loss now, and let's make it.

Soon, Hua Long received a reply from Wei Wang's messenger, saying that he agreed to Hua Long's conditions. At the same time, the troops on the Patriotic Front withdrew, and Hua Long also let King Zhou's 3,000 troops go back, and he and Liu Hu brought 9,000 men and siege equipment, returned to Jicheng and Xiang Yu to join them, leaving 1,000 people to manage the two cities they had laid, and let them recruit some more soldiers themselves.

In less than 3 days, on the side of the Three Kingdoms Alliance, the Patriotic Army withdrew, Shen You was shocked, and hurriedly sent someone to inform King Zheng. The Qi army also sent someone to inform the king of Qi, saying that the defense of the country had withdrawn. In this way, there are only two countries in the Three Kingdoms Alliance, and Xiang Yu is injured, and he will not attack, and the two sides will not be able to fight for a while.

Hua Long and Xiang Yu said: "Big brother, although we now have more than 50,000 horses, you are injured, so let's wait and see the movements of the Qi army." ”

Xiang Yu said: "My injuries have been recuperating for almost 3 months, almost, if the Qi State withdraws its troops, it will take more than ten days for their messengers to go back and forth, and it will be almost all well by then, and it will be much easier to fight." ”

After more than ten days, Qi and Zheng suddenly withdrew in the middle of the night, because the king of Qi ordered the Qi army to withdraw, Shen You was afraid that Xiang Yu would attack after the Qi army withdrew, so he discussed with the Qi army and retreated suddenly.

Seeing that the coalition army had withdrawn, Xiang Yu and Hualong discussed, and asked Wang Hedong and Lu Fei to lead 13,000 men and horses each to defeat the four small states south of Zheng State: Xiang, Bujiang, Hu, and Xu, and Liu Hu led 17,000 people to attack the small cities of Zheng State, striving to eat half of Zheng State's territory, and Xiang Yu's headquarters left 10,000 people to defend.

Hua Long said to Xiang Yu: "If we defeat these small countries, our troops will increase a lot, and then we will strive to destroy Zheng Guo in one fell swoop." After the destruction of the Zheng State, the major princes and parliaments were shocked, and they would accelerate the annexation of small countries and expand their own strength. Now there are more than 100 countries, and after we destroy Zheng Guo, it is estimated that there will only be about 10 countries left in 2 years, and the battles with these countries will be large-scale battles, and it will be much more difficult to fight. ”

Xiang Yu said: "If you want to unify the world, you can't complete it in 10 years, we all have the advantage of the prophet because of our understanding of this history, otherwise we can't fight at all." ”

Hua Long said: "Yes, if it goes well, 10 years is enough, we have been here for a whole year." ”

In less than two months, the three men and horses sent to defeat the four small countries of Xiang, Bujiang, Hu and Xu, and occupied half of the territory of Zheng State, and Xiang Yu's entire army increased from more than 50,000 to 80,000, but including the princess's 5,000 men.

Xiang Yu occupied the western part of Zheng State, Zheng State held the east, and now Zheng Guo's army has increased to 150,000 through conscription, Zheng Guoguo is in Yiling, Zheng Wang transferred these 150,000 people here to do the final defense, if Yiling is captured, Zheng Guo will die.

Xiang Yu transferred the army to camp 20 miles outside the city, and then gathered everyone together and said to everyone: "The battles we fought before were all small-scale battles, and they were not far from the Zhou Dynasty, and the 200,000 troops of Qi and Shen You's 100,000 troops were defeated by the other party's carelessness and underestimation of us. Now this battle is a long journey, it is already hundreds of miles away from the Zhou Dynasty, it is a war for Zheng Guo to preserve the country, they have already suffered a loss, this time to defend to the death, it is very difficult to fight. On the march to fight, grain and grass come first, we must send heavy troops to defend, Xia Qi, Chen Rong, Chen Lichuan, Wu Changfeng, the four of you take 10,000 people to guard the grain and grass, as soon as there is a wind and grass, immediately come to report, you can only defend, not allowed to attack. Let's discuss how to attack Yiling, the capital of Zheng State. ”

Everyone turned their eyes to Hua Long, and Hua Long said: "This is a war to destroy the country, the other party attaches great importance to it, and I have no choice, it is up to you, there is only one goal: Yiling must be taken." ”

Everyone was thinking about it, and it was relatively quiet, and the princess suddenly asked: "Brother Xiang, when you were assassinated last time, you said: Call me second brother, ...... fish, what does "fish" mean?" ”

Everyone was stunned by her, and almost laughed out loud, at such a serious moment, everyone was thinking about how to attack Yiling City, she suddenly came out with this sentence, and Xiang Yu didn't look at her. But everyone was also very curious, but no one dared to ask, Hua Long said: "Princess, are you here to be funny?" ”

The princess said: "I'm just curious, Brother Xiang's injury has not been better, I'm embarrassed to ask, I feel uncomfortable in my heart, just now I saw that everyone had nothing to say, so I took the time to ask, and it doesn't affect the war, I don't believe you ask if everyone wants to know." ”

A few of them still couldn't help laughing, and they all looked at Hua Long, they knew that Xiang Yu wouldn't say, Hua Long must know the reason, so everyone also coaxed: "Brother Hua, let's listen to it." ”

Hua Long said: "Brother Xiang likes to eat fish, which means: in case he can't survive, ask me to cook more fish for him." ”

The princess scolded: "You dead scoundrel, who are you fooling, we are all fools." ”

Xiang Yu didn't want to explain, so he immediately relieved Hualong and said: "The attack on Yiling City is not a matter of one or two days, and here today, they are all dispersed, who thinks of a good idea, let's discuss it together." ”

Everyone left, Hua Long and Xiang Yu walked together, the princess did not give up, caught up with them and asked, "Brother Xiang, do you like Miss Ji Yan?" ”

Xiang Yu didn't answer, when he saw Ji Yan, he thought of the dead Yu Ji, the two of them were nine points similar, the first time I saw her, I felt like Yu Ji had come back to life, because I was too excited, I was stabbed by Ji Yan. Xiang Yu thought: I have always thought that she was Yu Ji in my heart now, and I wanted to make up for her, but I led someone to kill her father, and she stabbed me again, I have nothing, but she probably won't accept me. The second brother understands me and finds a way to keep her by his side, and I am already satisfied that I can see her often. ”

Hua Long said: "Princess, don't gossip, Ji Yan is like a relative of Brother Xiang who died before, you keep asking him, he feels sad." ”