Chapter 3 The Banquet

Shanwu City is the seat of Yanmen County, because it is a border city, the city is not big, the vertical and horizontal is not more than five miles, but the regulation is a lot, and it is also the inner and outer cities. The outer city was mostly occupied by soldiers, merchants, and common people, and in the inner city, in addition to the huge county guards, most of the people lived in the inner city were nobles. At this time, a banquet was being held in the inner mansion of the city guard mansion, and the chief was not Li Mu, Marquis of Wu'an, but his son Li Bo.

"My father has made the Marquis of Wu'an, and there are 100,000 households in the city." Li Bo was very young, and as soon as he opened his mouth, he told his father that he had been made a marquis. "The Yan Kingdom is newly dead, so the king ordered my father to pretend to guard Jicheng to prevent the Yan people from rebelling. Before Yan's death, his crown prince Dan had been in the Qin State, begging the Qin State to save him, but the King of Qin did not stop attacking Chu and had no time to save Yan. When I wanted to save Yan, my Zhao army had already gone down to Jicheng, and Yan Wang was killed. It was the time when God blessed the Great Zhao, and the year before last, the Chu army attacked Qin's Aocang and plundered its millet. Last year, there was a great drought in Qin, and it rained in June, and the common people had no food and ......"

Hu Tansuo left Zhao in the ninth year of mourning King Xiang, and entered the second year of King Zhao, and the year was three years, but it was actually only two years. In the past two years, the situation in the world has changed, and the biggest thing is the destruction of the Yan Kingdom. This can be said to be the credit of Li Mu, it is the border army led by Li Mu who broke through Juyongsai, and the Zhao army attacked before and after, and the defense line of the Yishui Great Wall was broken through by the Zhao army in the south.

Jicheng is a plain, and once the 300,000 Zhao troops pull out Jicheng, the resistance of the entire Yan Kingdom will stop. The fall of Jicheng lies in the breakthrough of King Yan, and before the city is broken, he left the city with thousands of cavalry at night, intending to go out of the Great Wall to Donghu. However, he met Li Mu, Li Mu had been waiting for him at the mouth of the Great Wall, and after a not tragic fight, the king of Yan was killed by a arrow, and the country of Yan died.

Hu Tansuozhi was Li Mu's guest for a long time, and when he heard that this guest had just come from Hudi, Li Bo told him with great interest about the changes in the world. Hu Tanshaozhi listened carefully, and the two templars sitting under him could only drink mare's milk wine and eat roast mutton because they could not understand the elegant words. It's just that it doesn't stop them. Young Canu was not used to sitting under his buttocks, and disliked the absence of a stool; The old man complained that the dancing women were uglier and more shriveled than the other, believing that in Marakanda such women were not even qualified to be prostitutes.

"Childe ......" When Li Bo was gushing, a servant came up to tell him.

"What?" Li Bo was not happy that someone interrupted him.

"Yes, it is the housekeeper who rebelled against the brigade and said that there were several nobles from the Chu State who came to Shanwu, but the hostel was full." The servant whispered, and as soon as he heard that it was a noble man from the Chu State, Li Bo's expression changed immediately. Said: "Please, please." ”

When Lu Chan in the hostel was hiccuping, the people from the county guard mansion finally came with a carriage, and when the group arrived at the city guard mansion, Li Bo, who got the news, had already been greeted out of the hall. "Distinguished guests come to the north, Bo Dai father welcomes him, please upgrade."

Lu Gao and Lu Qian had already risen to the rank of Fu. Lu Gao was still a little confused, and Lu Gao, who had been in the Great Sima Mansion for a while before leaving, knew why Zhao Ren was so polite. He and Lu Chan said: "Da Chu Yu Shi Lu Gao and Lu Chan have seen Gongzi. ”

The treasure knife was exposed from under the clothes of Lu Gao and Lu Xuan, and in the Chu State, only the Yu Shi could be equipped with the treasure knife, and the Jia Shi also had a knife, but the shape was completely different from the newly designed Yu Shi Knife. Li Bo saw that the two of them were the same age as himself, and the smiles on his faces were even bigger, and he hurriedly introduced them into the Ming Hall.

The singing music in the Ming Hall has stopped, the charcoal fire is blazing, and the warm fragrance makes people moan comfortably. The courtiers who were originally sitting on the left gave way to their positions, Lu Gao sat on the lower left, opposite Hu Tansuozhi, Lu Gao sat under Lu Gao, and the holy envoy Ben Bo rode directly opposite.

Chu State rarely saw Hu people, saw a Hu man wearing a small white felt hat sitting in front of him, and then saw this bearded Hu man squeezing his eyebrows at the servant, Lu Chan showed his white teeth and barked at him. The bowl rider knew that his color changed immediately, and he didn't dare to look at the servant anymore, nor did he dare to look at Lu Chan, and lowered his head and chanted something silently.

"My father likes the distinguished guests of Chu the most, why is my father not in the city, so I have Bo to respect all the distinguished guests." After Li Bo sat down, he picked up the wine cup and saluted Lu Gao and the others. "Dare to congratulate the king of Chu!"

"Congratulations to the king!" When it comes to the king of Chu, the hearts of the people will be a little hotter, Li Bo said that he is the king, and everyone also shouted a word for the king, and drank the wine in the cup. After drinking, it was three meals, and after the meal, Li Bo asked about the purpose of the trip.

"There are few horses in Chudi, and I only came to the north to sell horses." Before leaving, Lu Gao thought of an excuse for this trip. After the large-scale war between Chu and Qin, the war horses became more and more thirsty, the clans bought horses on a large scale, and the Yushi also bought horses.

"If it is ......" Li Bo looked at Lu Gao and the others, these two honorable men had ten followers. If you don't give up, you are willing to give good horses to two. ”

"Childe is kind and contemptible, thank you." Lu Gao immediately thanked him. "We already have horses, and this trip is to sell horses."

"This ......," Li Bo pointed to Hu Tansuozhi, "He is also a Hu merchant who sells horses into Chu, and all the horses he sells are good horses, and there is even a thousand-mile horse, which is very handsome." ”

"Childe, that's the horse of the king of Chu." Hu Tansuozhi hurriedly explained that he was going to Chu State, and it was impossible to sell the horse here.

"The king's horse?" Lu Gao and Lu Qian were moved, and looked at Hu Tanshaozhi a few more times.

"The villain was ordered by the king of Chu to sell good horses." Hu Tansao said. "If you sell horses, let them go to the depths of the grassland. But spring is not the season for horse trafficking, you should go in autumn. In autumn, the Huns will march into the forest, and the horses at that time are the fattest......"

Horse trafficking is particular, but the Sima Mansion of Chu State doesn't know anything about it, and Hu Tanshao was stunned by what Lu Gao and Lu Xuan said in a few words. When I came to the grassland, I always had to bring some horses back, but I didn't expect things to be so complicated.

Li Bo on the side also saw some Mingtang, knowing that the two of them didn't understand anything, and he kept sighing in his heart. After the matter of selling horses was finished, he asked about the things he was most concerned about: How was the battle of Daliang fought in the winter before last, and it was really caused by the sacrifice of the city by Xinling Jun?

"At that time, I was not waiting for the beam, I don't know." Lu Gao's answer made Li Bo a little disappointed. The reason why King Yan abandoned the city and fled was precisely because he heard that Daliang was broken by the Chu army, and the trebuchet that the Chu army had broken through Daliang had been placed outside Jicheng City and began to break the wall.

"Then why did the Qin army retreat in the end?" Li Bo asked again.

At that time, the river was not frozen, and the grain that had been transported to the north of Daliang continued to be transported into the north city of Daliang. Even if it is frozen, the Qin army will also attack the Liang, and in the spring of the next year, the water will thaw, and the troops will have to be withdrawn, and they will not be able to pull out. "It was Lu Gao's regret that he did not participate in the Battle of Daliang, but as an honorable man, he had a deep understanding of that battle.

"If the girder doesn't ......fall before the ice freezes," Li Bo said with a terrible assumption.

"If not, the Chu army should fight the Qin army in the north of the Great Liang." Lu Gao said with a smile.

"Who wins?" Li Bo asked, he had been looking forward to the decisive battle between Qin and Chu. "The Qin army has a million soldiers."

"The Chu army may not be able to win." Lu Gao told the truth. "However, the Qin army will die more than 600,000."

"Hooray! How magnificent. Li Bo sighed. The Battle of Changping was already the largest and most tragic decisive battle in the whole world, if the 1.3 million army of Qin and Chu really fought a decisive battle north of Daliang in the winter of the previous year, and the Chu army fought to kill 600,000 Qin troops, then nearly one million soldiers and soldiers died in this battle.

"Of course," Lu Gao hadn't finished his words yet. "The Qin army died 600,000, what about the Wei army? Zhao Junruo? What is the world? ”

"Please teach me." Li Boyi said that he had been brought into the hypothetical history by Lu Gao's words.

"Don't dare." Lu Gao said with a smile. "I don't know about that. I only know that there is still a breath in the state of Chu, and I will never surrender to Qin. ”

"Do barbarians really have hundreds of thousands of troops?" Li Bo was enthusiastically boiled by Lu Gao's last sentence, and Ben Bo Caizhi and Jia Nu Ban discussed the size of the Orientals' army.

"That's their boast, their history is full of lies, especially the number of troops. There are also no 30,000 troops in the whole of Bactria, how can the barbarians have hundreds of thousands of troops? The entire Persian Empire could not afford to raise an army of 300,000, so how could they have an army of millions? "I've been to East Asia before, and I have some impressions of each country.

"The most difficult thing to solve is the food of the soldiers, how many cattle and sheep are needed for an army of a million? How did these cattle and sheep get to the front? Ahura Mazda! The people of this land are all liars, and I hope they have not completely fallen into the darkness. ”

Naturally, the two envoys chanted the Book of Light in order to banish the darkness of the land. In contrast, Li Bozai Lu Gao, Lu Qian and others are talking about the current situation in the world.

After the Battle of Daliang, seeing that the Su of Aocang was transferred to the city of Daliang again, the Qin army had to give up the idea of fighting a decisive battle with the Chu army in the north of Daliang and began to withdraw the troops one by one. At the same time, the Qin State sent an envoy to Chu, in addition to discussing peace, but also invited the king of Chu to be the emperor, and the world attracted attention for a while.

Naturally, there was no result in claiming the emperor, and the peace negotiation was also dragged until the river was frozen according to Zhao Guo's request. As soon as the river was frozen, the Chu army's boat division guarding the ferry could no longer prevent the Qin army from crossing north, but at this time, the Zhao army broke through Jicheng, the king of Yan died, and it was impossible to attack Zhao to save Yan.

Qin can only directly send a large army to attack the Yan land, in order to help the Yan people to restore the country, but this has to send troops from Taiyuan County, the winter snow covers the mountain, have to wait until tomorrow spring, the next year in the spring of the whole Qin country drought in the whole country, until the summer of June It rains, and the matter of recovering Yan can only be done.

It is impossible to be lucky for two consecutive years and lucky in the third year, Zhao Guo looked up and down to see the Chu State send troops, and the two countries worked together to fight against the Qin people. Lu Qian may not understand this truth, but Lu Gao knows it. Because of this, he used the excuse that his status was too low and he didn't know the inside story, and avoided talking about the two countries working together to resist Qin.

The facts are actually very clear, and it is unlikely that the current Chu State will save Zhao. Since Zhao refused the invitation of Chu that year and did not attack the eastern county of Qin, then now Chu will naturally refuse Zhao's invitation and not help Zhao people contain the Qin army. These things were decided long before the Battle of Daliang, and it was difficult to change.