Leaving the encirclement of a group of little girls, Zhou Bian couldn't help but think indignantly, Ye is a person in his twenties, how can he be interested in playing any games with you little boys, it is better to tease the Liu family if he has that spare time, this is the recognized right way. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

And in the blink of an eye, the guard who reported the news ran to his side, and said breathlessly, "King, the fight has started, the fight has started." ”

As soon as he heard this, Zhou Bian suddenly disliked it in his heart, how could there be such a message as a report, so he shouted loudly, "Slow down, who is fighting, but Zhou Gong and Gongyi?" "It seems that now they have the greatest chance of fighting.

The guard was stunned, then shook his head and said, "No, I remember it's not them." When he came, the master explained, the villain ran in a hurry, forgot on the way, the king forgave the sin, and let the little one think slowly. Zhou Bian was speechless for a moment, what kind of person is this. Looking at the anxious appearance of the thin guard, I really wanted to kick it, but I couldn't get off it after all.

However, Zhou Bian's heart also turned, it should have nothing to do with the royal family, otherwise Taishi and others would come in person, could it be the princes, the most restless among the princes is the Wei State, fighting everywhere, but it is also possible in South Korea, didn't the prisoner of Gongyi last year say that there will be a big war this year, thinking of this, he said, "Isn't it Korea and Chu?" ”

The guard was stunned for a moment, and then patted his head, "Yes, it's these two countries, could it be that the king already knows?" ”

"Is there anything else for you to say?" Zhou Bian was speechless.

The guard thought, "No, that's it." ”

Zhou Bian immediately waved his hand and let him go, it seems that in the future, you will still have to choose more capable people for the royal guards. walked back to the Queen Mother, and saw that the Queen Mother showed a puzzled look, and hurriedly explained, "It's not a hurry, the guard just now said that Korea and Chu have fought, and it has nothing to do with my royal family." The guard couldn't tell, but that's all he knew now. ”

"Alas, these princes are not at ease, but don't hurt me Cheng Zhou." The Queen Mother sighed.

Unable to continue, Zhou Bian was suddenly silent. And then the queen mother chatted with all the noble ladies, the queen mother is always in the palace on weekdays, and she rarely sees outsiders, so it is natural to have a good chat during this festival. Zhou Bian couldn't interject and didn't bother, so he quietly retreated, but as soon as he turned around, a group of half-sized girls surrounded him again, Zhou Bian suddenly got big again, looked around for help, and suddenly saw a woman beckoning to him and smiling, and when he looked closely, it turned out to be Liu Qing, and he hurriedly ran over, leaving a little girl who was pulling his mouth.

It's better to communicate with someone older, the two talked casually, Zhou Bian talked about what he had seen and heard in Luoyang, and when he talked about Meng Yuan's mixed rice, he actually made Liu cover his mouth and laugh. immediately attracted everyone's attention, and the Queen Mother couldn't help but look this way. At noon, an attendant brought food and drink, and everyone used it on the green grass by the river, camping in the open air, which had a different taste.

However, after lunch, Zhou Bian remembered the battle situation of Han Chu in his heart, and he couldn't help but feel a little anxious, so he said goodbye to the Queen Mother and returned to Chengzhou alone with his close guards. 、

Back in the Chengzhou Palace, the Taishi was waiting in the main hall, "The old man knows that the king must be concerned about this matter, so he is waiting here." This morning, Jian Jia sent someone from Luoyang to report that he heard the guests talk about the battle between Han and Chu in the hotel, and Jian Jia specially asked the guests from the south, and the original place of the battle was a hundred miles south of Luoyang City, outside Yimen, there were more than 100,000 troops on both sides, and the battle had been going on for half a month. ”

"Then do you think they will fight to the north?"

"The old man thought that it wouldn't, the Chu soldiers had been out of the country for hundreds of miles, and they would definitely not rush north." Taishi shook his head and said.

"Alas, my royal intelligence is too poor, so I just reported to the guard, and I can't even say a few words. This king wants to order the supervisor to allocate a sum of money to set up a separate department to investigate the news, what does the Taishi think? The Taishi naturally nodded, and now the royal family's hands have begun to be less tight.

Taishi thought for a while and said, "The old man also thinks that we should pay close attention to this battle, if Korea is defeated, my royal family can plot Gongyi with Duke Zhou." ”

"What the Taishi said is reasonable. However, there are too few soldiers in my royal family to fight, and after the farming is over, the Taishi and the young master should start to go to Luoyang to recruit troops. Taishi nodded again and again.

The two discussed for another afternoon, and then decided on many matters. Among them, a new intelligence department was set up, named the Intelligence Department by Zhou Bian, and for the time being, he was in charge of it, and selected more than a dozen spies from the army, and Zhou Bian personally trained them before they were spilled out, including several spies sent out when he was chasing the invading soldiers of Gongyi years ago, and they left an excellent impression on Zhou Bian. In the past, there were spies on the march of the nations, but for the royal family, it was the first time that a department had been set up.

Zhou Bian's request was to establish a stronghold in Luoyang first, and if there was any news in Luoyang City, he must send it to him as soon as possible, after all, Luoyang is a big city in the world, and the exchange of news is very developed. The second is to establish the matter of recruitment, by the young master to the countryside, the recruited soldiers into the Royal Forest Army, food and drink all-inclusive, and a soldier's salary of 50 yuan per month, this is Zhou Bian's decision, has been implemented in the existing Royal Forest Army, but it is half a year, presumably by that time, the hotel and shochu business can also make enough money.

A few days later, in the southwest of Imon, among a small hill, in one of the grasses, the grass shook suddenly, and a man's head poked out of it, looked around, and then retracted. After walking dozens of steps towards the back of the mountain, the figure got into a small forest, and after walking dozens of steps, more than a dozen people appeared in front of him, and one of them was a young man, but it was Zhou Bian.

"The king, the small one has already found out that the place where the two armies are fighting is ahead, and the big king can come with the small one, and he will not alarm the two armies from here." This figure turned out to be a spy, who was used by Zhou Bian before, named Jiang Ping, and was sent to the south of Luoyang to check the military situation at this time.

After getting the reward, Zhou Bian waved his hand, "Lead the way ahead." And the crowd walked away cautiously.

In fact, Taishi Jian Jia and others repeatedly persuaded him, but Zhou Bian still insisted on coming in person to see what this ancient large-scale battle was like. Then the crowd followed one by one, and quietly followed the spy to the top of the mountain. After a while, they arrived at the selected location, the guards pushed away the weeds, and Zhou Bian looked through the crack and was stunned.

It turned out that the place where he was now was well chosen, with a fertile field in front of it, and nothing obstructed the view, and from below, no one would notice any movement in the grass above the hill. But the most exciting thing at this time was the army on both sides, everyone was looking south, and a few miles away on the left hand side stood tens of thousands of people in a neat row, standing in several phalanxes, from the banner it seemed to be South Korea. On the right side, tens of thousands of troops are also a few miles away, it must be the Chu army, and it is also separated from the Han army a few miles away, and the two armies are facing each other like this, but they do not fight.

Whether it is in his previous life or now, Zhou Bian has never seen so many people at one time, his eyes can no longer be taken away, he carefully looked at the phalanx arrangement and flags of the two armies, and finally found out after a long time, it turned out that the military at this time was not so fine, basically except for the chariot soldiers are infantry, and the infantry is not so thin, and there are no separate spearmen and crossbowmen, etc., but the left, middle and right three army columns are very aligned.

After half an hour, the two armies finally moved, first the sound of drums was heard, and then several horse-drawn chariots rushed out from each side, and in the dust, with the drums becoming more and more intense, the wagons on both sides fought together.

Zhou Bian is far away from here, and he doesn't look very kind. I saw those few black spots coming and going, which caused the two armies to cheer each other, and it was so difficult to distinguish between them. This fight took another half an hour, and it took a while for both sides to collect their troops, and they were far apart, but they didn't know who won and who lost. After the carriages returned to their respective arrays, both sides actually collected the troops at the same time, and it turned out that the army at this time was the same as the later generations, the drums advanced, and the Mingjin retreated. After the sound of gold sounded, there were officers on both sides to restrain the team, the Korean army slowly retreated to the east, while the Chu soldiers retreated to the southwest, for a long time, and finally this field returned to silence.

How can this be done, I thought I could take a good look at today's high-level fighting. scolded secretly in his heart, and Zhou Bian had to take someone to Luoyang to rush back.

"Jiang Ping, have these two armies been fighting like this all along?" On the way, Zhou Bian couldn't help but ask.

"Exactly, every two or three days, they will each send out a few chariots to compete, but large-scale has never happened."

"There's got to be something wrong with that." Zhou Bian thought for a while and said, "Jiang Ping, you can send another person to Xinchengyi and Yiyang to find out the news. ”

Xinchengyi is one hundred and five miles south of Luoyang, and Yiyang is two hundred miles southwest of Luoyang, both of which are important places in Korea, and the place where Han and Chu fought at this time was between the two cities. Jiang Ping hurriedly agreed.

When returning to Luoyang, the sky was already dark, and it was expected that they could not enter the city, so everyone had to find a small inn to live in the solution on the south bank of Luoshui, which was a small ferry, and the north side of the water was Luoyang, with the light of Luoyang, this small Luoshui ferry was also the size of a town.

Because he slept very late, he woke up the next day when the sun came out, and there was no maid to serve him when he went out, Zhou Bian got up and put on his clothes and went out, but he saw Zhou Mi and others already sitting and waiting in the hall, and saw Zhou Bian coming out and saluting. I swept around but didn't find Jiang Ping, and when I asked, I realized that I had rushed to Luoyang in the morning.

After eating breakfast slowly, everyone found a small boat on Luoshui and went to Luoyang City, looking at the Luoshui that was dozens of zhang wide, Zhou Bian couldn't help but think of the bridge in later generations, if it could be built at this time, how good it would be. In fact, Luoyang, the eastern capital of the Tang Dynasty, the whole city spans the Luoshui, is cut into two cities in the north and south by the Luoshui, and there are as many as five bridges on the Luoshui, so you can think of the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty. And Zhou Bian was thinking, if he could call the shots in Luoyang in the future, he was afraid that he would also develop on the south bank of Luoshui, after all, Luoyang City at this time was still a little smaller, and although the stone bridge could not be built now, the pontoon bridge should still be built.

Just thinking about it, he went ashore into Luoyang City, although there was a war not far from the south, but here was not affected at all, everyone knows, in addition to the internal strife of the royal family, there is really no prince who dares to risk the world's disapproval, the war will be burned to Luoyang, just because of the weight of the world, but not everyone can carry it. Everyone wandered around and took a closer look, but saw that the difference between now and in the past is that there are many gangsters on the street to maintain order, walking on the street together, and when they see which stall is out of line or has a strong buy and sell, they come forward and say, it is really a strange scene, presumably this is the result of Zhang Hu staying in Luoyang to rectify, Zhou Bian couldn't help but look at it and secretly praised in his heart, it seems that this kid still has a little ability.