The attack on Luhun City was not as simple as the King of Chu imagined, and in two days, although the Chu army climbed to the top of the city several times, they were all driven down. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Everyone in the world knows that the Zhao clan has cavalry and soldiers, so they are invincible in the field, and they are well-armed, and they will pull out the city with thunder every time they attack the city. But how good are they at defending the city? Not many people know, because the terrible thing about the Zhao clan is that they can always solve the opponent in the field, attacking and defending, and will not let the war enter the situation of their own passive defense.

Therefore, the number of times the Zhao city was besieged was very small.

However, in the attack and defense of Lu Hun, the Chu army, which made contact with the Zhao army for the first time, was soon impressed by the stubbornness of the enemy and the variety of ways to defend the city.

At first, they bullied the Zhao army with only 2,000, so they adopted the simplest tactic of moth attachment, in a vain attempt to use their manpower advantage to launch a steady offensive towards the city wall, and climb the city wall, which was not very high.

But after a morning of testing and paying hundreds of casualties, this tactic was stopped by Ye Gong Shen Zhuliang.

"Relying on the strength of the crowd and driving the soldiers to attack the city like ants and moths is just an irrational move to anger and urgency of the generals."

He pointed to Lu Hun and said to Mo Ao of Chu State: "Lu Hun is located between mountain passes, the road is narrow, our army can only surround its south, and only two or three thousand people can be dispatched to attack the city at a time, and it cannot form an advantage. ”

Wang Sunsheng, who defended the city, was very smart, he had already strengthened the battlements of Lu Hun, let the crossbowmen of the Zhao clan condescendingly shoot at the Chu people who climbed the city, and arranged some improvised trebuchets at the head of the city, for a while, flying arrows and sand and stones rained on the heads of the Chu people, and the ladders they used to climb were also pushed away, so that the siege of the moth attached to the city failed.

Mo Ao was a little worried, over the years, he had been dealing with fish belly like Cai, Hu, and Dun, and he had rarely encountered such a difficult opponent.

"How do you get it?"

"Build the earth mountain first, and when the earth mountain is equal to the city wall, use the Chu State archers to suppress the crossbowmen in the city, and then it is not too late to attack."

Ye Gong looked at the mountains around Lu Hun again, pointed to the east and west, and said: "Send two more teams of barbarians into Santu Mountain to find a path, go around to Lu Hun's back, and wait for the army to attack the city together, and attack back and forth." ”

As early as eight years ago, during the Jin Civil War, Shen Zhuliang and Zheng Guo divided the barbarian sub-kingdom, and reorganized the local Rong people into barbarian soldiers and incorporated them into his Wan and Ye divisions. These people have no order and do not know the formation, so they are useless in a dignified battle, but when fighting in the mountains of the Yiluo region, they are good guides and scouts, and can also be used as surprise troops to harass behind enemy lines.

After arranging all this, Ye Gong glanced at the Zhao military banner standing at the head of Lu Hun City, two days after being attacked, the casualties in the city were not small, but they were not frightened by the huge momentum of the Chu army outside the city, many people were still piling up stones and trees at the head of the city, repairing the cracked walls, and from time to time they would point to the city and laugh, it seems that they are very confident in holding the city.

It's a terrible enemy...... Although he only encountered the Zhao family's partial division, Ye Gong believed that they were the same difficult enemies as the Wu State, and if they did not consider moral factors such as the trustworthiness of repaying the favor, it was really not a good strategy for the Chu State to go north to save Qin and the Zhao clan this time.

He couldn't help but think of the divination of the war by Wu Zhu of the Chu State before the army marched north from Yedi......

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Unlike the Central Plains, where humanity gradually takes precedence over ghosts and gods, Chudi retains a strong tradition of witch culture, where the customs believe in witches and ghosts, heavy obscenity, and must make songs and music to please the gods during sacrifices, and various myths and legends are widely spread among the people. This is also the later Qu Yuan's "Nine Songs", "The Classic of Mountains and Seas. The source of the Song and Dance of the Shan Jing and even the later generations of the Huguang area.

Therefore, from the official to the people, there are a large number of witches in the Chu State, and people are generally fond of witches. The so-called "witches", in addition to being in charge of sacrifices, divination is also their full-time, and they must divinate every time there is a major national event, and this time the army to aid Qin is no exception.

However, the divination result shown on the tortoiseshell is "bad luck......

The royal family and the ministers suddenly became suspicious, and they all looked at the king of Chu, wondering what he thought about this.

The king of Chu said: "When the widow first ascended the throne, he was young and weak and could not manage the government, and all state affairs were entrusted to Ling Yin Zichang. However, Zi often despises virtuous ministers, but is superstitious about ghosts and gods, and is good at witchcraft. When worshipping the gods, they often hold feathers (fu) and dance under the altar. The army of Wu has come to the border, Zi Chang led the army to fight with Yu Baiju, set up an altar on the shore of the Han River before the war, Zuo Sima came to ask him to arrange the method of war, but Zi Chang said: Yu is making fun of the gods to destroy the Wu army, how can there be time to arrange such a small matter, Haotian will bless the Chu State......"

He smiled helplessly: "As a result, the second and third sons all know that the Chu State was defeated in the Battle of Baiju, the Wu army broke through Yingdu, the outnumbered people fled, the people were displaced, and the society of the Chu State was endless......

The ministers looked at each other, what did the king of Chu mean that he didn't believe in this divination?

Only Ye Gongzi Gao and Gongzi Qi and others know the reason, unlike the superstitious King Chu Kang and other monarchs, King Xiong Zhen of Chu does not like witches, not only because Zi Chang believes in witches, but also because there are huge differences between the official and local witches of Chu.

Although the custom of the Chu State is to respect ghosts, in fact, ghosts are not effective. It's just that the witches in various places want to make the ghosts appear very spiritual, so they collude with the feudal lords and big clans in the counties, and they inquire about the victory or defeat of government decrees and lawsuits, so that their predictions are as accurate as echoes. If someone doesn't use money to seek witches beforehand, things that should have gone well will not go well.

In this way, Wu Zhu became the head snake of the Chu State, and the Chu people believed in Wu far more than they believed in the orders of the King of Chu, and they would rather disobey the ban of the King of Chu than disobey what Wu said. If many of the government's decrees cannot pass the Wuzhu pass, it will be difficult to implement them locally, which will form an embarrassing situation in which the monarch of Chu State cannot go to the countryside.

To add insult to injury, starting a few years ago, a Wuzhu faction called "Tiandaojiao" began to be introduced into Chu from the Song Kingdom, and it flooded the Chu-Song border. Those Song Wu who hung yin and yang fish around their necks preached the idea that whether it was Yun Zhongjun, Lady Xiang, mountain ghosts, or even the more powerful Dongjun and Donghuang Taiyi, they were actually the embodiment of the order of "Heavenly Dao" in the human world.

Therefore, the thousands of obscene shrines and hundreds of local gods in the Chu State are actually unified in the way of heaven......

As soon as this doctrine came out, it was very popular with Chu Wu, and there were many converts, and the Chu Wu who believed in worshiping different ghosts and gods in the past, and did not interact with each other, were twisted into a rope for a while.

Although this situation is only a local phenomenon on the border of Chu and Song, slowly even Yan Ying has appeared to preach with sorcerers under the banner of yin and yang fish, and the king of Chu can't help but pay attention to it. His dislike of witches and ghosts was even worse, so he had to order someone to lead troops to kill witches and burn obscene shrines, but fortunately, Yin Zixi dissuaded him, so he couldn't bear it.

In Ye Gongzigao's view, the king of Chu led Confucius into Chu, placed him in Yedi, touted him as a sage in the Central Plains, and also sent some noble children to be Confucius's students.

Therefore, it is not surprising that the king of Chu did not believe in the results of divination, but he still had to convince the royal family and his ministers to let them support him in this war.

"Before the battle of Wu Chu Chang'an, Yin Yang begged to fight, and the result of divination was 'unlucky', so he planned to retreat, but Sima Ziyu said: I have to be upstream, why is it unlucky? So he forcibly reoccupied it, and got a good omen, and later the Chu army defeated the Wu army on the long shore ......"

The king of Chu smiled: "The widow doesn't want to change the divination, but just wants to divinate again." ”

He stopped the Great Witch, but personally held the tortoise shell, and said, "Please quit the army!" ”

The results of the second divination came out quickly, and it was unlucky to retreat......

Everyone looked at each other, neither advancing nor retreating, now they really don't know what to do, do they want to garrison in Yedi and sit and watch Qin Zheng's entire army annihilated?

At this moment of dilemma, the king of Chu finally made a decision: "Since the beginning of the first king's canal, there is an old custom in the state of Chu, if the monarch does not send troops for several years, he will be considered by the people to forget the business of the first king, and he cannot be buried with the rites of the first king after death." It has been three years since the last time the army was sent to attack Cai, and if the Chu division is out, if he retreats without going abroad, it is to deceive the allies and be a great shame for the widow! Such divination, it is unlucky to attack, and it is not auspicious to retreat, but compared to abandoning the covenant and escaping the oath, the widow would rather die on the battlefield, at least he will not be ashamed of the previous king if he goes down to the Yellow Spring! ”

"With the heart of death, seek the way to win", although it was only a battle of aid that had little to do with the Chu State, the King of Chu attached great importance to it. For a time, the morale of the Chu people was greatly boosted by the heroism of the King of Chu, and even if they were blocked in the Luhun offensive, their mood was not low.

Just because the king of Chu was still in the army, the people of Chu knew that their king would always be with them.

Ye Gong Shen Zhuliang did not have the fanatical confidence of the soldiers, in his opinion, the fall of Lu Hunyi was only a matter of time, after breaking through this city, the Chu army was likely to encounter the 20,000 or 30,000 people who were attacking Taolinsai, and the Chu State still had a great chance of winning.

But the real test will come one after another, Zhao's main force in Hedong will be caught between the river and the Chu army, if the remnants of Qin, Wei, and Zheng are still there, the Chu army will still be sure to take them to the south bank and complete the goal of sending troops. But if the Zhao army preemptively annihilated them, the Chu army would be embarrassed, not to mention the failure of the rescue, and also made a feud with the powerful Zhao clan...... The state of Chu is likely to face a two-sided attack.

That's the worst-case scenario.

In the evening of that day, the offensive of the Chu army stopped, and over the battlefield filled with gunpowder, the remnant sun was like blood, and there were clouds like a flock of red birds, flying on both sides of the sun......

Looking at this red cloud, Ye Gong Shen Zhuliang became more and more uneasy in his heart, he made up his mind to return to the camp of the king of Chu again, and planned to persuade the king of Chu again: After breaking through the land and showing the strength of the Chu State and the determination to aid Qin, don't be too anxious to go deep into the river, just need to force the Han clan to turn back and take precautions, so that the Qin State can keep Taolinsai, and the Qin and Wei troops in the east of the river should be able to break through smoothly.

At least there is no need to let the Chu army break their muscles and bones and be completely hostile to the Zhao family. The terrible history of the Chu State and the Jin State vying for hegemony exhausted their national strength and was taken advantage of by the Wu State, Shen Zhuliang did not want to repeat it.

However, when Shen Zhuliang walked outside the tent, he found that it was heavily guarded, even worse than a few days ago.

He hurriedly entered, and as soon as he opened the tent, he met the king brother Lu (Gongzi Qi), who was in charge of the guard of the king of Chu, and walked out in a hurry.

"What's wrong with the king?" Ye Gong held his wrist tightly and asked in a low voice and hurriedly.

Although Zilu was calm, he couldn't hide the anxiety in his eyes, he looked left and right, and also lowered his voice and said to Ye Gong: "The king's heart is ......"

PS: Chapter 2 in the evening (to be continued.) )