Chapter 408: Ambition and Conspiracy

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Yi Wucun is a sergeant of the Qi State, serving as a city gate official in Maiqiuyi on the north bank of Jishui, a family of two brothers, and he is the eldest. When the conscription order of the Marquis of Qi arrived at Maiqiu, his father was about to marry him to the daughter of the ruler of the household.

The little sergeant decisively gave up his wife, who had not passed the door, to his younger brother, and he enlisted in the army, and as a mere "company commander", he led more than 200 conscripts in Maiqiuyi, and set off for the battlefield under the banner of Sima Huamei.

Since he was a child, he has heard the ballads and stories of Qi Huan Gongbei cutting lonely bamboos and cutting down mountains, and he was in an urgent mood when he set off, dreaming of witnessing the wonders and winning wealth and glory. The war seemed to be a great adventure, a wonderful journey that he could never have dreamed of.

Day after day, the Qi people began to gather at the time of the autumn harvest, and they traveled west along the Jishui, hurrying by day and sleeping under the eaves of the village houses at night, until at last the trees gradually thinned, and rolling hills, winding rivers and sun-drenched fields appeared before them. On the plain, the skeletons of several burned-out houses stood like charred rotten teeth, the marks left by the Qi pioneers when they attacked Yiyi. After walking for another whole day, they vaguely saw the watchtower and gray walls of Yiyi City towering over the banks of the yellow-green river.

Looking at this situation, Wu Wucun, who had left the territory of Qi for the first time, said one sentence after another in public.

"If you don't die this time, you will definitely make a great contribution, and marry the Guo clan and the Gao clan after returning!"

Guo and Gao Erqing are the top two clans in Qi for hundreds of years. is still the second guard of the Son of Heaven, and his status is transcendent. Together with Chen and Bao, who are members of the Qing family, they are not necessarily worthy of the daughters of these two families. Generally, they are married to the Son of Heaven and princes, and the status of the little sergeant is not high. But with great ambitions.

So his wild words were ridiculed by everyone, and even slowly spread in the military camp, and finally reached the ears of Qi Hou Jiu.

Qi Hou thought this person was interesting, and actually summoned him personally at the banquet, and let the two warriors under his command, Dongguo Shu and Li Mi, try his strength and martial arts. Their abilities are unusually high.

"O strong man! Wine! ”

Qi Hou was overjoyed, he didn't have much insurmountable consciousness of humility and humility, and he has always been more tolerant of talented people, but he loves and abandons quickly, such as treating Sima Sui Tho.

So the waiter fought with him and drank wine, and when he did not have any thanks, he got up and drank it immediately, and the wine juice flowed down the thick whiskers to the bulging belly. There was a gurgling sound inside, which made everyone laugh.

Qi Hou stopped the laughter, his face showed shame, and said, "It is bitter cold in the army. The lack of meat for the soldiers made such a strong man hungry, and the sin of widowhood. Come on, give it to you! ”

The waiter is shoulder to shoulder with his life. I am not present and you are welcome, there is no seat. He sat down on his shield with a big grin, and took the pig's knuckle in both hands and gnawed on it, as if a hungry tiger were devouring a calf.

Qi Hou looked at him and quipped, "I heard that you vowed to marry the daughter of the country and Gao?" ”

Yi Wucun wiped his oil-stained mouth, and his voice was thick: "Yes! The great husband stands in the world, and if he marries a wife, he will marry the great clan, if he can't, it is better to die in the city for the king! ”

Everyone in the audience was amazed by his boldness, Qi Hou was overjoyed, and promoted Yi Wucun to be a military official beside him, and after the young Chen Heng's eyes turned to him and whispered beside him, he also turned around and asked Shangqing Guoxia beside him, but he was stingy with the woman of the Guo clan.

Guo Xia glanced at Chen Heng, who seemed to be smiling but not smiling, although Yan Zi asked Qi Hou to be careful to watch out for Chen before he died, but he was a gentleman with soft ears. Chen Heng can speak, is handsome, can have fun with the monarch, and can also put forward some pertinent suggestions from time to time, and now he is being favored, and his difficulty is even worse than that of his father Chen Qi, so that Guoxia is helpless.

It can be seen that Qi Hou is using this outspoken person as a means to encourage morale, if Guoxia can't understand this meaning, it is inevitable that Chen Heng will be framed, so he agreed very easily.

"If you can make the merit of taking the city first, why not allow you to be allowed to be a daughter of the Clan?"

If you can't do it, then it's as if it didn't happen. If he can really make the first achievement, the Marquis of Qi has always been very generous to the heroes, and this credit is enough to be promoted to a doctor and have his own territory, and the Guo clan will not suffer at that time.

This can make Wu Cun overjoyed.

The Qi army besieged the city for a month and attacked the city almost every day, but the Zhongxing clan soldiers in the city were well guarded, and several opportunities fell short. They were looking forward to reinforcements from the west of the river, but they didn't know that the main force of the Zhongxing clan was confronting the Chen clan in the Jiahe River, while Fan and Handan were held back by the patriots. As for Lao Zhao and Xiao Zhao, they were happily sweeping both sides of Pushui at this time, making profits for their own interests, so they were not interested in helping the Bank of China to take the blame.

Earlier, when it was rumored that the Qi people were going to attack Xilu, what did Fan and Zhongxing do besides gloating?

The bravest of Qi's strokes was naturally Wuliu, on this day, he was wounded several times, and finally really climbed the city wall of Yiyi first. But just as he was standing at the top of the wall laughing, he was hit in the vest by a stray arrow from behind, and died on the top of the wall, and then the Qi army was repulsed, and his colleagues did not have time to recover the corpses that were not even left.

Driven by the absence of any existence, the Qi people suddenly felt the same grief, and the mourning soldiers will win. Dongguo Shu, who followed behind Wu Wucun, knocked down the two Yiyi people and climbed the city wall again, and Limi followed closely behind, the two of them were one left and one right, like horses and horses, blocking the counterattack of the Yiyi people, dominating the attack and defense of the city wall, and the Qi people poured in like a tide hitting the shore along the road they opened.

"The city is broken!"

"The city is broken!"

From the end of August to the beginning of November, after two months of fierce battles with 50,000 people, this city was finally captured!

……

After the victory, the Marquis of Qi drove into the city in a chariot and enjoyed the taste of the victor, and he was in high spirits, rewarding him with the plough who was said to be the first to ascend the city.

But the plough was thanked. He said, "Those who climb the city wall first, and their subordinates follow." The man had left his brass shirt behind in order to be able to move quickly, and wore only a white scarf. Also wearing a boar skin cloak. ”

After he finished speaking, his gaze turned to Dongguo Shu, and the Marquis of Qi turned to reward Dongguo, together with the auxiliary Limi, but the two of them resigned again.

"If there is no heroic death, we will not have a chance to go to the city, and I hope that the king can find the body of this warrior and place it properly."

"Of course, as it should be."

The Marquis of Qi bowed his head, but the Qi people attacked Yiyi. Thousands of casualties were killed, and he also paid nearly a tenth of the casualties, and the corpses were piled up on the battlements, and there was no way to find them.

So the Marquis of Qi summoned thousands of Yiyi's troops and announced: "Who can find the corpse that has not survived, reward five households, and exempt it from ten years of hard labor!" ”

Under the heavy reward, the corpse and various debris were cleared extremely quickly, and the corpse was soon found. He was hit by several arrows, but when he died, his eyes were round. Still holding the short sword and the wooden shield and not letting go, the two strong men of Dongguo Shu and Limi couldn't break it, so they could only be buried like this.

And the deadly arrow in his back was pulled out at some point......

Everything was lost in silence. It seems that everything is a coincidence, not a long-premeditated conspiracy.

Since Qi Hou has done it, he will make the form sufficient. He went down in person, dressing the dead body three times. He was given a noble cart decorated with rhinoceros skins and a long-handled umbrella as a burial offering, and the body was returned to McHill first. He asked the Yiyi people who pulled the cart to walk on their knees. Tens of thousands of people in the whole army wept about him, and Qi Hou even pushed the cart himself in the mud......

"How about Youjun, how can you fight to the death!"

"The Jin people have been oppressing my Qi people for a hundred years, and I have to pay them back one by one this time."

The people of Qi were boiling, originally they were full of thoughts that they could disband and return home after defeating Yiyi, but now they were embarrassed to put it forward, but they gave birth to the idea of fighting for Qi Hou again, anyway, this winter is not too cold, and the farm work has to be started one after another.

"The military heart is available! Chen's strategy is really a clever plan! ”

After the crying and crying performance in front of the people, Qi Hou washed his hands over and over again in disgust behind the people, burned all the robes and clothes that were soiled when walking in the muddy ground, and replaced them with a new set.

It turned out that from beginning to end, this matter was a strategy proposed by Chen Heng, the son of the Chen family, to Qi Hou.

"Your Majesty, I have read such a sentence in Sima Fa, treat soldiers with benevolence to save them from their dangers, encourage them to fight with morality, distinguish their merits and demerits with wisdom, lead them to battle with bravery, make them obey with prestige, reward them with wealth to serve, and inspire them to win with meritorious deeds. It's better to promote Wu Wu and make him a warrior and a role model. ”

After Wu Cun died in battle, Chen Heng suggested again: "Sima Fa also said that the reward is not overdue, and the people want to get the benefits of doing good quickly." Although Wu Wu is dead, it is especially useful, it is better to let the two meritorious men of Dong Guo Shu and Li Mi push the merits, and then find the body of Wu Wu, and give the highest honor to the war dead......"

The result was as Chen Heng expected, and the Qi people were greatly boosted! shouted slogans that they were willing to die for the king.

Yiyi is a large city of 5,000 households, and the Zhongxing clan regards this as a county system, and there are thousands of rooms such as cake, tang, liao, mei, and apricot, with a total population of more than 70,000. In the process of besieging Yiyi, the Chen clan had already volunteered to take these places one after another, and at the same time confronted the 20,000 soldiers of the Zhongxing clan and Handan across the Yellow River.

After the loss of Yiyi, the Jin State had no stronghold east of the Yellow River, and the Qi State uprooted this fortress that threatened the Wei State from the north, and won the initiative in the Qi and Jin hegemony!

"The situation in Yiyi has been decided, why don't you take advantage of the winter snow and go south to rescue the guards, or as Chen suggested, attack the Lu State and recapture Xiaqiu?"

Qi Hou was carried away by the dazzling victory, and he didn't plan to stop the war in moderation, not to mention that Yang Hu's plan to attack Lu in the past also made him excited, if he attacked Xilu, he could also use this person as a guide.

As long as the Lu State is forced to surrender and the few territories of the Zhao family are swept away, the entire Eastern Kingdom will fall into the hands of the Qi State, and the position of the overlord is so close that the Qi Hou will not be able to endure until the beginning of spring next year.

After the Marquis of Qi insisted on giving the order to rest for a few days and then go south, in the corner of the tent, Chen Heng, who was no more than twenty years old, showed a conspiratorial smile like his grandfather Chen Wuyu and his father Chen Qi, everything was in the calculation of their father and son.

"Qi Hou is afraid that he has forgotten that Sima Sui Tho also said that there is no reward for the victory...... The ancients did not prosper the army for three years, gambling on the people's labor, although the country is big, the belligerent will be dangerous. Let's go and go, just take the office, the country, and the high soldiers to jump into the fire pit, and by the way, help me clear the Xilu of the Zhao family! ”

For some reason, the Zhao boy, who became famous at a young age, always made Chen Heng jealous. (To be continued......)

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