Outside Fengyi City, Yang Lingjun is in a very good mood now. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Before this expedition, his mood was diametrically opposite to now, it was very bad, and he was also very unwilling to follow the King of Chu to fight Qi.

As a descendant of the once famous general Yang Youji of the Chu State, his fief was called Yangling, which was the south of the Boyi of the Song State, which was regarded as the northern border of the Chu State.

More than a hundred years ago, there was a pain of Wu Shi Poying's annihilation in the Chu State, that turmoil, and with the subsequent Baigong Rebellion, the Chu State did not know how many feudal nobles perished, and the nobles of Huainan and Huaibei were destroyed because they were on the route of the attack of Wu State and later Bai Gong. However, the Yanglingjun family was able to survive in those two turmoils, which can be said to be quite difficult.

The state of Chu was a state ruled by feudal nobles, and most of the local defenses were presided over by noble feudal lords. After the two turmoil, in order to make up for the lack of defense in Huainan and Huaibei, the state of Chu divided a large number of descendants of King Chu Ping (Jing) and King Zhao of Chu into this area. The descendants of King Chu Ping thus formed the Jing clan of Chu State, and the descendants of King Zhao of Chu formed the Zhao clan of Chu State, plus the old nobleman Qu clan of Chu State, thus forming the situation of three households of Chu State ruling the entire Chu State during the Warring States Period.

This time, the king of Chu raised a large army to attack Qi, and the Jing and Zhao clans wanted to expand their territory because they were in the Huai River Valley, and they were very willing. However, Yanglingjun's fief was surrounded by the Song and Wei states. Since the Jing family and the Zhao family were divided into the Huai River, the old nobles like Yanglingjun are very unkind to see these new nobles, and the new nobles of the Jing family and the Zhao family also look down on the old nobles like Yanglingjun, and the two sides have deep contradictions. In Yanglingjun's opinion, this time he followed the King of Chu to attack Qi, even if he defeated the Qi State and expanded the land, with the Zhao clan and the Jing clan here, he would definitely not be able to share much meat.

Therefore, his opinion on this expedition can be imagined. He was extremely reluctant to send troops to fight, but the order of the king of Chu was issued. He didn't have the talent and reputation like Tian Ji, so how could he dare to resist the order of the King of Chu and not come? So he led his soldiers to participate in this battle of Vaqi with great reluctance.

After arriving in the Song State, Zuo Yin Zhaosui once told him: The State of Chu and the State of Song had an agreement that the Chu army was not allowed to infringe on the people of the Song State in the Song State and not to harass the places of the Song State. Regarding this instruction, Yang Lingjun directly left it behind.

In his opinion, what does the army do when it comes out to fight? Isn't it just to come out to reap the benefits? He raised Lingjun to respond to the order of the king of Chu to cut Qi, this is risking his life to do things, he always wants to give me benefits, right? If you defeat the Qi State and expand the territory, the benefits you can get are also those of the Zhao and Jing clans, and there is no benefit at all with yourself, and if you don't get enough benefits in this war, how can you be worthy of these clan soldiers under your command? It is not beneficial to follow their own soldiers to go on this expedition, how can they be willing to be loyal to them in the future?

Besides, after so many years of fighting in the world, except for standing armies like Wei Wushu and King Chu's Wang Shi, he has never heard of any country's feudal monarchs' private soldiers going out to other countries without committing any crime. Although this Song State is not their target, but in short, it is not within the territory of Chu State, so what happened to him going out to "collect" grain and grass? Even if the King of Chu knew, he couldn't blame himself for such a trivial matter, right?

He is also very familiar with Song Guo. His fief was close to the Song State and had many dealings with the Song State. Although the countries of the Central Plains all called the Song State "the hometown of the first king, with the style of a gentleman", in his opinion, this is a joke.

The Song people do a lot of business, and they are more trustworthy and more obedient, and they look like honest people. In Yang Lingjun's view, this kind of behavior shows that the Song people are a group of stupid and stupid fools. In his opinion, the people of Chu are still powerful. The people of Chu have a more romantic personality, a lively mind, and are all smart people with bright brains. Because of these characteristics of the Chu people, the Chu people are unwilling to be bound by the rules, so they have the courage to break the rules.

At that time, the people of Chu were unwilling to be bound by the Zhou Dynasty because they "did not obey the Zhou", so their ancestors took a blue road to enlighten the mountains and forests. Although the people of Chu are very good, behind this romance is the martial spirit of not being afraid of death and having the courage to fight bloodily. It is precisely because of this romantic and martial spirit that Chu was able to come out of the barren forests in the south and become a great power in the world.

Among the kingdoms of the world, what he admires the most is the Zhao country, and the Zhao people like to be generous and sad, so the Zhao people are martial arts and good at fighting, and the Zhao country can be so powerful. And the people of the Song Kingdom look honest, without a little spirit of resistance, where does the martial spirit come from? In Yang Lingjun's view, countries in the world that do not have this kind of martial spirit are not worthy of becoming great powers.

Although the Song State was not a big country, the people of the Song State in this era were still richer than other countries in this era. In the eyes of Yang Lingjun, such a country is a piece of fat. Since he passed by this piece of fat this time, of course he won't be polite!

However, because of Zhao Sui's previous advice, although Yang Lingjun was arrogant and looked down on the Song Kingdom, he still gave an order to his subordinates: go and grab more food and property, and try not to kill people.

This time, he brought nearly 6,000 ethnic soldiers, who he divided into multiple units and scattered them to "collect food". In a few moments, his troops returned and reported to him on the fruitful results.

Dai Yan's management of Fengyi in the past two years was very shallow, he only collected taxes as usual, and he did not collect any of the forced labor that the people had to serve. In the past two years, Fengyi has been stockpiling grain and picking tea, all of which he paid to hire people to do. In addition, the Mojia and the farmers went deep into the grassroots, they provided the farmers with new farm tools, taught the farmers new techniques, and assisted the farmers in farming, so the farmers' incomes in the past two years must have been much better, and the people of Fengyi have also accumulated a lot of wealth.

However, these are currently cheap to feed Lingjun. Yang Lingjun learned from the report of his subordinates that the people of Fengyi, even the poorest peasants, were not short of food in his family. They easily "collected" large quantities of grain. And the slightly richer families even have copper coins in their homes. Among them, cloth coins, round coins, knife coins, and ant nose coins are available, and a few families actually have a whole piece of copper coins, according to the specifications, it is the standard "one gold".

Although this Fengyi is a small town, its wealth is beyond Yanglingjun's expectations. And after getting so much money, Yang Lingjun's mood that had been unhappy since the expedition immediately improved, so he only left a few clan soldiers around him, and most of the clan soldiers he sent out to "collect grain".

When Yang Lingjun was calculating how much he could harvest from this "requisitioned grain", his subordinates reported that some troops had been attacked.

Troops were attacked? It seems that these Song people are not bloodless at all, he thought secretly. So he asked, "Which of the men is so bold and dares to attack us, just gather forces and beat them back, what is there to make a fuss about?" ”

"Report to the Lord, it's not just the people who are attacking us, but also the army!" The subordinate added.

This news surprised Yang Lingjun extremely much, and he asked: "Go and find out, find out which army of the Song State is so bold and dares to attack our people." After finding out, gather heavy troops and destroy them all! ”

There is an army that dares to attack my army directly, aren't the people of the Song State afraid of annoying our Chu State because of this? Yang Lingjun was secretly surprised in his heart. However, in his opinion, with the powerful Chu State as his backing, no matter who it is, as long as they annoy him and annoy the Chu State, their fate will definitely die!

Shangle Li is the base camp of Fengyi Leshi, which is the most fertile place in the entire Fengyi land. In the past, Le Xin and the people of the Le clan were very satisfied with their possession of such fertile land, but now, he had to hope that the base camp of the Le clan was not here, and the land of the Le clan should not be so fertile. Because just outside the village, two brigades of the Chu army came to collect grain from the Le family!

In the Warring States military system, the infantry was organized into a team of five people, commanded by the commander; The five Wu were organized into one two, commanded by two Simas; Four in two formations into a pawn, commanded by the chief of the pawn, also known as the centurion; The five pawns were organized into a brigade and commanded by the brigade commander, who was sometimes called the small capital commander, the five hundred masters, etc.; Five brigades were organized into a division, commanded by the division commander; The five divisions were organized into a corps and were commanded by a general, who was also known as a general.

Of course, Yanglingjun's army also saw that Le's strength was strong in this place, so they came to Shangle to collect grain, and Yanglingjun sent two brigades.

With the army of the two brigades, the Le clan naturally couldn't resist, but Le Xin couldn't retreat, and behind him were his clansmen. So he personally walked up to a brigade commander of the Chu army and said to him: "Dutong, if you want to collect grain, please let me discuss it with my people, and we will personally send it to you." Don't go into the village, okay? ”

After listening to Le Xin's words, the Chu army marshal was full of contempt for Le Xin, and then laughed, and he said to Le Xin: "We understand the kindness of the patriarch, but we don't like to be done by others for this kind of thing, we prefer to do it ourselves!" With that, he was ready to order his men to rush into Shangle and collect the riches from it!

However, at this moment, he heard the frantic shouting of killing from behind, and he hurriedly looked back, only to find that an army had been killed behind the Chu army, which was about the same number as them, and a brigade commander who came with him was leading his army to engage it. He looked closely and saw that everyone in the army was dressed in cheap brown clothes, but the equipment in his hands was all sharp standard equipment.

In the process of "requisitioning grain", they also encountered resistance from the common people, but most of them were self-organized by the common people, and their equipment was extremely backward, and many of them were even the sickles used by the peasants to cut their crops. However, this team clearly told him that they were not ordinary civilians, this was a real army!