The summoning and training of Qi warriors was only the first step in the start of Qi's war machine. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

In the court of the State of Qi, the ministers of the State of Qi gathered and began to discuss the comprehensive battle plan against the State of Chu.

Qi has always been a military power in the world, and the Tian family is the best among soldiers. Tian's branches Sima Sui Tho, Sun Wu, and Sun Bin are all famous military strategists for later generations, so the military of the entire country of Qi is actually very complete, and the idea of seeking superiority among soldiers has long been in Qi for many years. If you want to start a war with the Chu State this time, you naturally have to prepare for planning first.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the State of Chu has declared war on my Qi State, and my Qi State is naturally not afraid of these Southern Barbarians, so what should I do with the State of Qi?" King Qi asked.

"Return to the king." This is Tian Pan, the general in the clan of the Qi State, who spoke, "My Qi State did not provoke the Chu State, but the Chu State declared war on my Qi State, which is the fault of the Chu State." And since the state of Chu has declared war, it will inevitably come to attack our state of Qi. The method of attacking and fighting, it is better to attack than to defend. In the opinion of the last general, the southern border of our Qi country is Xiapi and Xue City, as long as these two cities are strengthened and a large army is sent to resist, the Chu State will inevitably be blocked at the border of our Qi country. In this way, our Qi State can easily defeat the Chu State. ”

Tian Pan's opinion is to strengthen Xue Yi and Xiapi, who defended the Qi State, and let the people of Chu State attack, and wait for work, so that they can naturally win easily. King Qi bowed slightly, but this was a suggestion worth considering.

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that Panzi's words are ridiculous." A member of the Qi general jumped out to speak, but it was another general of the Qi State, Shen Bind, "The subordinate has heard that when the Jin State was strong, no one in the kingdom of heaven dared to directly attack the Jin State itself, so that the capital of the country was large and defenseless, why not?" The soldiers of the Jin Kingdom are brave, and the armor soldiers of the Jin Kingdom are also profitable. Every time the Jin State fights with the enemy, it will inevitably resist the enemy outside the country, and the military law of the Jin State is to attack and defend, so the Jin State can dominate the world for two hundred years. Now that my Qi country has defeated and strengthened Wei, the king of Wei has led the princes to meet my king, and my Qi country is the hegemon of the world, and the ministers have not heard of the hegemon and are cowardly. The minister thinks that our Qi country should follow the example of the Jin country and keep the enemy outside the country; Our Qi State should take Xue Yi and Xiapi as the rear and fight with Chu in Sishang. In this way, the people of our Qi country will not be disturbed by the war, and our Qi country will have more foundation for dominating the world from now on. ”

Hearing Shen Lian's plan to take Xue Yi as the rear and take the initiative of Qi to attack against Chu State, Tian Ying was greatly moved by this suggestion. In his opinion, if the Qi State was only defending Xue Yi, then his fiefdom Xue Yi would suffer. Chu Guonanban is not so easy to dismiss, after a military disaster, how young will Xue Yi have to recover? If Xue Yi is the rear of the Qi army, then Xue Yi will be extremely safe, and so many war materials will gather in Xue Yi, it will not be too easy to get some oil and water from it.

Therefore, Tian Ying's inclination was obvious, and after Shen Jian expressed his opinion, he immediately jumped out and said to King Qi: "Your Majesty, your son's ministers also think that Shen Zi's opinion is better. Our Qi country is the hegemon of the world, if we allow the southern barbarians to invade our country, then the surrounding countries will definitely despise our Qi country. Erchen thought that our Qi State should take the initiative to attack and meet the Chu State. ”

Qi Xiang Zou Ji's opinion was similar to Tian Ying's thoughts, he also had a fief on the southern border, so he naturally didn't want his fief to suffer. And Zou Ji has another important reason: fighting a war is fighting grain. In the Great War of Qi and Chu, the State of Qi is equivalent to fighting at his own doorstep, while the State of Chu is an expedition of laborers, so that the supply line of the State of Chu will inevitably be much longer than that of the State of Qi, and in his opinion, the State of Qi is strategically advantageous. This era is not far from the ancient era, and the warlike genes in people's blood have not yet disappeared, even Zou Ji, who is a civil minister. In his opinion, if he still retreats on defense when he has an advantage, how timid does it have to be for a prime minister to make such a humiliating decision?

As a result, Tian Pan's defensive-oriented opinion was soon abandoned in the Qi court, and Shen Jian won the favor of the king of Qi with his aggressive offensive strategy, and was appointed by the king of Qi as a general to lead the Qi state against Chu. As a general fighting against Chu, as soon as he took over, he asked the king of Qi to fully mobilize the war force of the entire Qi country, and the king of Qi was not stingy about this. The king of Qi spared no financial resources to order Kuang Zhang to select technical fighters, so a total of 70,000 technical fighters were gathered; He also ordered the five capitals of Qi to send heavy troops to assist, and the five capitals sent a total of more than 75,000 soldiers to participate in the battle; In the end, the king of Qi personally divided his Praetorian Guard with 5,000 people and handed them over to Shen Bin. As a result, Shen had a total of 150,000 troops, and these armies began to assemble towards the fiefdoms of Xue and Xiapi on the border of Qi.

Qi was in charge of the logistics of Qi Prime Minister Zou Ji, and after the army began to assemble, Zou Ji began to mobilize the entire bureaucratic machinery and merchants of Qi to transport grain to Xue Yi and Xiapi. At this point, the war machine of the entire Qi country was running at full speed.

In the southern state of Chu, the king of Chu was quite satisfied after receiving the rewards of the envoys sent to various countries. Qu Boyong personally reported that Zhao had formed an alliance with Chu, and Zhao Hou would personally command the army to attack Wei, so Wei would have less threat to Chu; Although the Song State remained neutral on the surface, it opened its borders to the Chu army and supplied grain and grass to the Chu army, which was indeed a good achievement. It seems that Boyong's son Qu Yuan is indeed a talent, I heard that this Qu Yuan is very knowledgeable and poetic, and he can become a strong arm of my son in the future, he thought to himself. So Qu Yuan was appointed by Xiong Shang, the king of Chu, as the companion of the crown prince Xiong Huai.

However, it seems that too much luck was consumed in the front, and the diplomatic offensive launched by the Chu State in the back was extremely unsatisfactory. Qin rejected the alliance with Chu, only replying that Qin had just experienced civil strife and was temporarily unable to compete with Wei, but Qin would definitely remain neutral in the war between Chu and Qi. And the Zhongshan Kingdom and the Yan Kingdom in the north got even more unfavorable news. After the incident of the alliance between the State of Chu and the State of Lu, the State of Qi was a little uneasy about the countries surrounding the State of Qi. So the king of Qi sent a traveler to persuade Zhongshan to attack Yan. After receiving the support of the Qi State, the Zhongshan State reacted quickly and immediately began to act, and immediately began to attack the Yan State. The first war after the Battle of Xiangwang broke out in this way between the two second-class powers. Because Zhongshan and Yan were similar in strength and strength, as soon as the war began, the two countries were in a stalemate, and Chu's plan to provoke the two countries to attack Qi died before it began.

So the state of Chu had to go into battle in person. From the very beginning, when the Chu State planned to attack the Qi State, it formulated a strategy - that is, to launch the offensive force of the entire Chu State to give the Qi State a heavy blow. This time, the king of Chu personally led the army, accompanied by the great Sima Jingcui, and was responsible for the full command of the Chu army; The crown prince Xiong Huai was in charge of the state in Yingdu, and Yin Zhaoyang was ordered to stay in Yingdu and be responsible for supplying logistics for the Chu army. In order to start this war, the king of Chu mobilized 50,000 of his 100,000 royal divisions and went with him; In the local troops, the king of Chu launched his full force to mobilize nearly a dozen feudal monarchs in the entire Huainan and Huaibei, and all the troops in the hands of these feudal monarchs added up to nearly 80,000; Subsequently, the king of Chu mobilized the entire Huaihe boat division of the entire Chu State, with nearly 500 warships and nearly 30,000 sailors. A total of 160,000 troops from the Chu State Waterway began to assemble at the border of the Chu State.

Wang Rong is a member of the Yingdu royal division, 25 years old this year, his ancestors were also a certain king of the Chu State, due to the age is too old, his family has now fallen, and he is just an ordinary soldier in the royal division, and he has been in the army for nearly ten years. When he was fifteen years old, he participated in the selection of the king's master Chu Wushu. At that time, the assessment item was to put on three layers of heavy armor, hold a sword, carry a heavy crossbow of twelve stones, carry three days' rations, and travel 100 miles in half a day. Although there are many people who take the martial arts exam, there are not many people who can pass, and Wang Rong is lucky to become one of them. When he was a child, he was physically strong and brave in the township. However, this is the case, after this round of assessment, he was also so tired that he almost fell down directly.

When he became a military pawn, his family was so excited that their faces were full of tears. Then his family was given 100 acres of land, and this 100 acres of land was not subject to any taxes, and his family did not need to serve in forced labor from now on. And his life after becoming a military soldier is not simple, people basically live in the barracks, and they have to participate in military training every day, and in case of war, they must be ready to go to war at any time. However, in Wang Rong's view, these are the things that should be done to go out to fight. The king of Chu gave him such a generous treatment, and it was his duty to die on the battlefield for the king.

A new day has started again, and Wang Rong is ready to continue his daily training as usual. However, this day was destined to be an unusual day, for the commander informed all the soldiers that this time the whole army had been assembled, and that the new commander was coming to give a lecture to everyone.

In the open space inside the camp of the soldiers, a high platform was erected. Wang Rong stood in the open space, together with many soldiers, watching a young general in gorgeous armor walk up to the high platform.

"A certain is the king's new life, Qi Zuo, Sima Zhao, slip." The young general said to the many soldiers in the audience, and then he took out the tiger talisman and handed it to the adjutant and all the generals to check it until everyone confirmed that it was correct. He said: "The kingdom of Qi in the east does not respect the Son of Heaven and tries in vain to claim the throne; Disrespectful to our Chu country, wantonly attacking other countries. Now the Qi State has seriously threatened the safety of my Chu State. The king has decreed that from now on, we will go to crusade against the kingdom of Qi. As the king's master, you are the sharpest sword in my Chu country, and this time should be the time for us to unsheath. Everyone knows the military law of the military soldiers, and the soldiers who fight bravely can be richly rewarded, and those who escape from the battle will never escape the investigation of the national law, so I will not say more. Next, each soldier had three days to go home and say goodbye to his family. After saying goodbye, we must reconvene here and leave for Qi from now on. Then he drew the sword he was carrying with him and shouted, "The Chu army wins!" Ten thousand years of Chu State! ”

"The Chu army wins! Ten thousand years of Chu State! All the soldiers in the audience also shouted with Zhao's voice, and their momentum soared into the sky.

When he got the news that the king of Chu was going to attack the state of Qi, Wang Rong had no joy or sorrow in his heart. He is a professional soldier, and his job is to go to war, that is, to kill people, and as for who to fight and who to kill, it is the king's final say. Before the expedition, the general gave these soldiers who were going to go on the expedition a three-day vacation, and Wang Rong was able to return home to say goodbye to his family. During these three days, he took a good look at his parents, wife and children, and then left all these emotions behind and returned to the military camp he was familiar with. He was even more familiar with the people in the barracks than his family, and the chiefs and robes were all acquaintances who had been friends for more than ten years. And he didn't need to do any more training when he came back here, because in the last ten years, he had received enough training, advance and retreat, queue, formation, technique, all of which he had trained thousands of times, and these were deeply engraved in his bones. He also had experience in actual combat, and in the war with Wei a few years ago, he killed one person with his own hands, and also saw his robe being killed by the Wei army. Death wasn't much of a fear to him.

In the state of Chu, it was not only ordinary soldiers who said goodbye to their families. In the Chu Palace, the king of Chu put on his military uniform under the service of the servants, picked up his portable sword, and was about to leave when a little girl of eight or nine years old suddenly rushed into the main hall and asked the king of Chu who was about to leave: "Father, what are you going to do?" ”

The king of Chu looked back, and then said with a smile: "It turned out that the widow's moon was here." He picked up the young "Yue'er" and scratched her nose a few times, until the girl pouted and didn't stop, and then the king of Chu said to her: "In this world, some people have done things that have harmed our Chu country, in order not to let our Chu country fall into danger, my father wants to teach those people a lesson, and my father is also personally protecting our Chu country." ”

The little girl lowered her head seriously and thought about it, and then said to the King of Chu: "Father, then you must teach those bad people who endanger our Chu State a good lesson, Yue'er is waiting for you to come back in the Chu Kingdom." Then the little girl clenched her fists tightly and said to the king of Chu with a firm expression: "When Yue'er grows up, Yue'er will also protect our Chu country like her father." ”

King Chu was amused by his daughter's serious expression, and then put down the girl and said to her: "Yue'er is really ambitious, but it's a pity that Yue'er is not a boy." Then he shook his head and sighed.

After leaving all his emotions behind and handing over all state affairs to the crown prince and Ling Yin, the king of Chu began to go to the army. From this moment on, he was no longer the king of the state of Chu, and he had become a soldier like all the soldiers under his command, and became the actual commander of the army of Vaqi.