In late August of the first year of King Zhang of Chu, an army with high morale was attacking the city in Qunshu, Huainan. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Boom, the heavy city gate was slammed open by the Chu army, and a burst of cheers broke out outside the city, and the last stronghold of the Wu State in the land of Huainan Qunshu, "Six", was also captured, so far, the Chu State completely recovered the eastern border occupied by Fucha a year ago.

After killing the recalcitrant Wu people in the city, surrounded by Chu pawns, their commander Wang Sun Shengzhi drove into the city proudly, and as a republic, he accepted the welcome of the nobles and clans of Liuyi.

Compared with the depression and disambition when he was in the Zhao family of Wu State and Qi State, Wang Sun Shengke, who returned to Chu State, was much more beautiful, riding a high-wheeled cart, setting up a uniform jujube red horse, raising the flag and eagle, and carrying a thousand "Chu Wushu" trained by him personally in the past year. This time, he was ordered by Yin Zixi to attack Wu, firstly, to test the combat effectiveness of this new army, and secondly, to avenge Wang Sunsheng's father-in-law, Wu Zixu, and at the same time to avenge the cold treatment of him by his husband when he was in Wu; The third is to use this expedition to seek a fiefdom in the state of Chu.

Wang Sunsheng has been a general in the Zhao family for a long time, and applied the method of Zhao's military training to the nobles and concubines of the Chu State, and gave them the best shark leather and rhinoceros as armor, and the big Ge halberd as a soldier, forming a phalanx, and the effect is really good. With the cooperation of 10,000 Chu soldiers, and the Wu soldiers in the Qunshu area were not elite, they were like bamboos along the way, and they swept Huainan Qunshu in less than two months.

These two Huai land, from the Xia Dynasty is the most concentrated place of the princes surnamed Huaiyi, whether it is Qunshu, or the United Kingdom, the Six Kingdoms, are the descendants of Gaotao, at first vassal to the Xu State, Xu Yan King was defeated, the Xu State was dismembered before it was divided, the power of the Chu State took the opportunity to enter this area, more than a hundred years ago in the period of King Chu Mu, the Chu State destroyed the six, turned this place into a city, and invested a lot of energy in governance and development, but with the rise of the Wu State, this area is often reduced to a battlefield, the belonging is uncertain, and now the people's livelihood is quite withered.

After Wang Sunsheng captured Liuyi, the first thing was to strictly enforce military discipline and not offend the people, and the second thing was to go to the temple of Sun Shu Ao in the city.

Uncle Sun Ao is the prince of Chu State, surnamed Ping, his grandfather Lu Chen was an official to worship Chu Cheng Wang Ling Yin, and his father Jia was the Sima of Chu State, but when Sun Shu Ao came of age, it was when the monarchy of Chu State was falling, and the King of Chu Zhuang did not sing for three years and did not fly for three years. Bao Jia was killed by the powerful nobleman Dou Clan, and the family was tragically destroyed, Sun Shuao took his mother and ran to a place called Haizi Lake by the Chu people for refuge. It was not until a few years later that the king of Chuzhuang eliminated the Dou clan and regained control of the government, that he re-looked for Sun Shu Ao and let him inherit his father's title, so the people of Chu often said that "Sun Shu Ao is lifted in the sea".

The experience of this person in the first half of his life was very similar to that of Wang Sun Sheng, who was a descendant of the dignified royal family and went into exile, and was finally welcomed back to the Chu State, so he knew that there was a temple of Sun Shu Ao in Liuyi, so he immediately came and offered sacrifices such as grains to worship.

The local chief flatteringly introduced that the reason why there is a temple of Sun Shu Ao in Liuyi is because after Sun Shu Ao became the commander of the Chu State, he mobilized the people to settle the land and build water conservancy in the territory of the Chu State. In the seventeenth year of King Chuzhuang, he personally came to Huainan and presided over the establishment of a water storage and irrigation project - Shaobei, Liuyi was also deeply blessed by this project, so he set up a temple for Uncle Sun Ao in the city, and the incense was endless for a hundred years.

Wang Sunsheng couldn't help but praise: "It is really a virtuous order Yin, teach the people, harmony between the upper and lower levels, the world is beautiful, the government is slow and prohibited, the officials are not treacherous, and the thieves cannot afford it." King Zhuang was able to win the Central Plains, thanks to Sun Shuao, who is really a model for our sons. ”

After Wang Sunsheng returned to the Chu State, he tried to integrate himself into the Chu Feng, he was originally gifted and intelligent, he was familiar with the classics of the Chu State, and he worked hard to learn the Chu dialect for a year, which is no different from the native Chu people, so he can win the hearts of the military, and can also make the nobles of the Chu State admire.

And like Sun Shuao, from a broken son of the clan, to Ling Yin and Sima above 10,000 people under one person, it is also Wang Sunsheng's current ambition.

A few days later, when Wang Sunsheng led his army north from Liuyi, he passed through Shaobei.

Shaobi is named because the water flows through the Shaoting Pavilion, Wang Sunsheng looks at it, but sees that this place is located in the remaining veins of the northern foot of Dabie Mountain, the terrain is higher in the east, south and west, and the terrain is low-lying in the north, inclined to the Huai River. According to the local elders, before the excavation of Shaobi, during the summer and autumn rainy seasons, flash floods broke out, resulting in waterlogging, and when the rain was scarce, there were often droughts, and the local people suffered greatly.

However, after Sun Shuao excavated Shaobei, he collected the water flowing down from the mountains on three sides into the low-lying Shaobi, turning it into an artificial lake that stores water. Build five water gates, use stone sluice gates to control the amount of water, open the door to dredge it when the water rises, and close the door to store it when the water disappears, not only do you have water to irrigate the fields in drought, but also avoid flooding with water. Later, the Chu people opened a meridian canal in the southwest, which opened the Wei River to expand the irrigation water source of Shaobi, so that Shaobi reached the scale of "irrigating ten thousand hectares".

For a time, Huainan became the economic powerhouse of Chu, producing a large amount of grain every year, and the king of Chuzhuang was able to go north to compete for hegemony, and Shaobi contributed a lot.

"Shaobi is really the treasure of the Chu State!"

Although Wang Sunsheng did not know that two hundred years later, because his descendants broke the capital of Chu and forced Chu to move the capital eastward, first to Chen, and later to Shouchun, that is, the area of Huaishang Shaobi, relying on the fertile land developed here to maintain the national fortune for another 50 years. But he understood the importance of Shaobi and Huaishang to the Chu State.

Here to control the Huaiying, with the Jiang Tuo, the agriculture and mulberry are developed, and the fertile land is ten thousand hectares, and it must be controlled in the hands in order to consolidate the eastern border of the Chu State.

Thinking of this, he said fiercely to the lieutenants next to him: "It's a pity that the anointed land was stolen by Xiaoxiao!" ”

Everyone knows that Wang Sunsheng's anger is not aimed at the forcible seizure of the Wu State, but the Cai State that was sent by Wu Wangfu to Huaishang and occupied the Cai State in Zhoulai, Shouchun and other places on the north bank of Shaobi!

"After Cai Ben was a traitor to the Zhou family, he was lucky to be sealed in the south of Zhou, with the rise of Great Chu, he was a vassal of our country, called the minister Nagong, and a letter of king, the spirit king had destroyed the Cai State, and the Ping King was in line with the tradition of rising and destroying the country, so that the Cai State was restored to the ......"

"Unexpectedly, Cai Ren didn't want to repent! Secretly resentful, under the pretext of Yin Nangwa's oppression, he dared to betray the Chu State, lead the Wu people to the west, destroy my allies, destroy my Yingdu, and kill my people. Later, because of the benevolence of King Zhao, he repaid his grievances with virtue and forgave Cai Guo, but Cai Hou did not repent, and colluded with the Wu people again, and Wu Zi helped him to migrate, so he occupied the land of Huainan. ”

After arousing the indignation of his subordinates, Wang Sun issued an order.

"The princes all thought that the state of Chu was benevolent and could be bullied, so they repeatedly offended the big countries."

He raised the bronze Yue high: "Today, Wang Sunsheng is going to destroy Cai Guo, come to Tuzhou, and let the world know what will happen to those who dare to touch the tiger's beard!" ”

Wu Guo is in decline, it is the time to slaughter them fiercely, and now Qunshu has fallen, and Cai Guo will be the second stepping stone for Wang Sunsheng to accumulate meritorious achievements!

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The speed of the Chu army was very fast, and on August 24 it had just taken Liuyi, and on August 28 it bypassed Shaobi and came to the city with troops coming to the city.

The state comes, also called Xia Cai, because Cai has migrated three times before, the original country is on the north bank of Rushui, called Shang Cai, and the second country is in the upper reaches of Rushui, called Xin Cai. Zhoulai is already their third capital, after several migrations and dispersions, the state of Cai is also becoming more and more decaying, once a country of five hundred times, now only 100,000 people, barely able to make up 5,000 soldiers.

So in the face of the attack of more than 10,000 Chu troops, Cai Guo didn't even have the courage to resist, but just came from Gushuzhou.

But what made Wang Sunsheng feel strange was that Cai Hou did not send someone to sue for peace, which is not in line with the character of this small country that has always seen the wind and steered the rudder?

Although Wang Sunsheng had doubts in his heart, he still led the army to approach Xia Cai, but when they just arrived at the outskirts of Xia Cai, they saw that in addition to the emerald green flag of Cai Guo, there was also a scorching sun bird flag at the head of the city......

After more than a year, when he saw this flag again, Wang Sunsheng only felt that his mind was buzzing, this big banner for which he had fought was actually chasing him to Huainan in the shadows. Immediately, the people of Chu found that from the city of Xia Cai, an army of 10,000 neat armor rushed out, and there were cavalry guards on both sides, and a cavalry general also came from the formation to beat horses, and called Wang Sun Sheng from afar outside the firing range: "I haven't seen you for a long time, dare to ask Wang Sun, the rice of Chu is better than the millet of Zhao State?" ”

PS: There is one more chapter in the afternoon (to be continued.) )