On the main hall of the Jin Kingdom, the courtiers gathered together.

Jin Linggong pointed to the ministers standing in Wuyangyang under the hall and scolded. "Why have you been preparing for so long, and the army has still not been assembled. It was you who said that there was a shortage of food in the Jin Kingdom, and I asked you to rob you and procrastinate. Why? ”

"Spirit King, the deployment of troops cannot be completed overnight. Please give us some more time. A general surnamed Hua walked out and reported to the Duke of Jin Ling.

"You've said this several times, and every time it's like this, can't you change something new? I think you're just doing one thing in front of you and one thing behind your back. I ordered you to gather your troops and horses, but you have not done it for a long time, is it a deliberate delay?

Or is it that any of you took bribes from the state of Chu and deliberately caused trouble, so you can't send troops until now? The more Jin Linggong thought about it, the more angry he became.

Zhao Dun plucked up the courage to stand up, "Spirit King, except for my Jin Kingdom, the other four countries have all been defeated by the Chu State, do you want to consider the matter of sending troops to the Chu State again?" ”

"How can the four countries of the Kingdom of Qian and the Kingdom of Qi be compared with the Kingdom of Jin. They are afraid of him, but I am not afraid of him. ”

Jin Linggong made up his mind to fight with the Chu State. Zhao Dun's heart was cold, and he still wanted to pull him one last time, "Has the Spirit King forgotten King Zhuang's methods?" ”

"The soldiers on the front line spread King Zhuang to be a god, and those who don't know still think that King Zhuang is a god descending from heaven. How could a man destroy the walls of the city by himself? It must be that the soldiers over there are afraid of punishment, so they deliberately exaggerate their words, so that Lone thinks that it is not that they are incompetent, but that King Zhuang is too strong.

King Zhuang will only use these tricks to pretend to be a ghost, if his Chu army touches the elite iron hooves of my Jin Kingdom, then he will only be defeated and surrendered. ”

Zhao Dun sighed in his heart. Jin Linggong didn't know whether he had listened to the instigation of a traitor, and he was stubborn, thinking that the Chu army was not the opponent of the Jin army at all. However, as far as he knew, King Zhuang of Chu made frequent moves, not only expanding his army, but also upgrading his weapons.

He told Jin Linggong about all this, but Jin Linggong thought that King Zhuang was just a suspicious array. As for the newly recruited men and horses of the Chu State, they have never been on the battlefield to practice, maybe they will be directly weak and tremble on the real battlefield, and Jin Linggong will not take it to heart.

"The matter of conquering Chu is imperative, you are limited to gather the soldiers and horses within three days, otherwise no matter how many men and horses there are, I will be killed in the Chu country." Many people laughed behind his back about the fact that he compensated Chu State with 3,000 taels of silver, and laughed at him for being timid and afraid. He has always been ashamed, wants to conquer Chu to save face, and refuses to give up attacking Chu if he says anything.

"Oh no!" One of the chamberlains ran in.

"What's the matter, panic."

"The border has reported that the State of Chu has gathered hundreds of thousands of horses to attack the border, and now it has taken a city."

Jin Linggong was taken aback. "What's going on? Our soldiers and horses haven't fought yet, why did the soldiers and horses of Chu come first? And what it's like to take a city. What about the defenders of the border city? ”

"The soldiers and horses of the State of Chu suddenly appeared to attack the border city, and the border city was taken in one day. The defenders of the border city were all killed. ”

"How is it possible, the defenders of those border cities are muddy? How could he be killed by the Chu army so quickly? ”

"King Ling, the Chu army is menacing, we should deploy troops to stop the enemy as soon as possible." Zhao Dun hurriedly said.

Jin Linggong didn't realize the seriousness of the situation, and waved his hand irritably. "Why didn't you say that? If it weren't for you, the soldiers of the Jin Kingdom would have been assembled. ”

Zhao Dun sighed more and more in his heart. If it weren't for Linggong's insistence on attacking the Chu State, the Chu State would not have fought back.

The first battle was won, but the weekend will not be impetuous and arrogant. Before each siege, he would deduce with the generals in the army to ensure that the city was captured with the least casualties. Now the morale of the army is like a rainbow. However, he was afraid that the generals would be complacent and delay the fighters, so he still suppressed the arrogance of the generals.

"This siege victory, firstly, our army pressed the border, and the Jin State only had 30,000 soldiers defending the city, secondly, because our weapons were tougher than theirs, and thirdly, I suddenly took out the siege equipment and caught the Jin army by surprise. It's not so easy to play in the back. You must show 12 points of spirit, and do not be complacent and careless. ”

The generals said yes again and again, and they were all convinced by King Zhuang.

In the previous siege battle, although the Chu army had follow-up soldiers and horses that had not yet been assembled, there were 100,000 people, but the Jin State only had 30,000. In addition, everyone in the army was equipped with steel knives on weekends. Steel knives are different from ordinary knives in that they are not only sharper than ordinary knives, but they are also sharpened like clay.

When the vanguard of the Chu State rushed to the head of the city, it was equipped with a steel knife, and the knife of the Jin army was cut down when it was in front of the Jin army. The weapons of the soldiers defending the city of the Jin army were destroyed, and they were easily killed by the soldiers of the Chu army and occupied the city. In addition, during the siege of the city, the siege equipment was suddenly taken out on the weekend, and before the Jin army destroyed the siege equipment, the Chu army first used the siege equipment to attack.

The people of Chu deified King Zhuang, and the soldiers of Jin also heard a lot, seeing that the soldiers of Chu State all held divine weapons, King Zhuang took things out of the air, and suddenly took out siege equipment, destroying the city beyond recognition. The soldiers of the Jin army thought that King Zhuang was really a man of God and had no confidence to resist.

On the weekend, the Jin army was attacked again with three times the number of defenders.

The defenders of the Jin Kingdom could not resist at all, and the defeat was like a mountain. It was only a short battle, and the border city was taken by the Chu army.

The Chu army attacked a city with the speed of thunder, and the Jin army did not have time to react, and the food and some valuable items in the border city did not have time to be damaged or taken away, so that the Chu army made a lot of money. At the end of the week, his pockets were bulging, and with a wave of his hand, he rewarded all the gold and silver belongings to the soldiers who had made meritorious contributions to the siege.

In the tent, the soldiers who received the reward were all overjoyed, and four or five people gathered together to count their gains.

"Fortunately, I heard that my second uncle came to join the army and followed King Zhuang, so I didn't have to worry about having no way out." A tall soldier held the gold and silver gifts he had been given, his eyes full of hope and gratitude.

"Alas, you were close to King Zhuang at that time, did you see how King Zhuang performed the immortal method." Another soldier with a long face poked the tall and thin soldier sitting next to him.

Previously on the battlefield, the weekend took out a flaming trebuchet, a ladder, a crash car, and a large shield. The soldiers saw it with their own eyes.

"Alas, King Zhuang moved too fast, I didn't see it clearly at all."

"King Zhuang is really a god. This time, our Chu State will definitely be able to win a big victory. ”

"It's ridiculous that Jin Linggong still wants to attack our Chu State, it's really Shouxing Gong hanged himself, and he has a long idle life."