PS: The third update, tomorrow's update is in the afternoon......

"Prince, this is it, this is Hongkou!"

The husband asked people to stop and look, but they saw that this place was unremarkable, but a small river called Hongshui crossed the plain.

But for Wu Guo, for Fucha, the significance here is extraordinary.

Twenty years ago, when the Song Guohua Xiang was in rebellion, the princes intervened one after another, and the Wu State was no exception, and it was the Hua and Xiang rebels who helped them. In October, Hua Deng led the Wu army to rescue Hua's family, and Wu Zhiming, the general of the Qi State at that time, was also defending the Song State. On October 17, the Qi army and the Song army defeated the Wu army at Hongkou and captured the chief general and deputy general of the Wu state, who were Gongzi Kuyu and Yanzhou respectively.

Wu's first attempt to enter the Central Plains after the Shoumeng era came to an abrupt end, and they were no match for the Qi people at that time.

Every time Fu Cha thinks of the defeat of the year, he feels that this is a great shame for the Wu State!

"But this time it's different!" Fucha is full of confidence, their father and son have replaced the Wu Wangyi line, ruling this abandoned Zongji country on the seashore, they have soldiers, Sun Wu, and tens of thousands of armor soldiers, enough to conquer the vast territory!

The husband will get what he wants, as long as he wants something, he will definitely get it, and he will definitely get it to support the Xiang family and control the Song Kingdom.

Of course, other aspects cannot be pulled down.

The Song State is only 700 miles from east to west, and only 400 miles from north to south, which is only equivalent to the Huaibei land of Wu State, but the population is the same as that of Wu State. Therefore, the husband came all the way from Pengcheng and Xiaoyi, and what he saw on the road was completely different from what he saw in the sparsely populated Wu country.

Although the Song Kingdom was in turmoil, the war was mainly concentrated in the west and north of Shangqiu, and the Hongkou area was still peaceful, and the wheat seedlings in the fields on both sides of the road were green, and they were already half a foot high. The growth is gratifying, and farmers are seen working in the fields from time to time.

There were also more pedestrians on the road: there were young men walking with swords, old men with grandchildren, and women carrying pottery water urns, all of which were local natives, and there were many dusty and vegetable people, helping the old and the young. It should be a homeless who has fled from other cities. Seeing the passage of the army, the peasants in the fields got up to watch, and the pedestrians and homeless people on the road took refuge.

The husband sees it in his eyes, and he is happy in his heart, and it is not the wheat seedlings that he is happy about, but the number of mouths.

"The Song Kingdom is really densely populated and has a lot of savings, just a small township, you can catch up with the wealth of a town in the Wu Kingdom!"

Faced with such a grim scene. If you don't do something, you won't be the Wu people who are described by historians as "returning to birds and beasts".

The husband remembered the art of war taught to him by his grandson: those who make good use of soldiers, no longer serve in the army, the grain is not for three years, and the food is used for the country, because the food is for the enemy, so the army can eat enough!

As for why the last war against Chu failed, Wu also had a summary internally. Sun Tzu thought that he had failed to win the hearts of the people of Chu, but Fucha did not see it that way.

He believes that the reason why Wu is impoverished because of the war. It was due to the expedition of the army that had to carry out long-distance transportation. Long-distance transportation inevitably led to the poverty of the Wu people, and even led to the depletion of materials and goods, and the inevitable increase of taxes and labor, so that his uncle and husband could take advantage of the dissatisfaction of the people to establish themselves as kings. The result of that war was. On the battlefield, Wu's army was exhausted, the domestic financial resources were exhausted, and the people's private property was depleted by seven-tenths. Public property, due to damage to the vehicle. The horses were exhausted, and the loss of armor, bows and arrows, spears, shields, and ox-carts cost six tenths.

In the years since, Wu has been recovering, and now it has not reached the pre-war level.

Therefore, a wise general must settle the grain and grass in the enemy country, and get one minute of grain from the enemy country, which is equivalent to twenty minutes when it is shipped from his own country, and one stone of fodder in the local area is equivalent to twenty stones when he is shipped from his own country!

Along the way, the husband did it strictly according to this, he solved the supply on the spot, and also asked for a large amount of military expenses from the Xiang clan to send troops to help.

This was not enough, the greedy guest was full of oil, and when he saw that the feast was about to end, he couldn't stop the trip that he had come all the way to make if he didn't have something in his hand.

He has already decided that this time he will return to Wu, in addition to the uninjured 2,000 Wu Jia, at least 20,000 forcibly recruited Song people will be brought behind him, so as to fill the empty Huainan population, and 20,000 people will be enough to reclaim a large piece of land. It's not bad to put it on the seaside, this year's boiled salt is sold to Cao Guo and Xilu, but it is a lot of income......

Xing Ao, who was a translator of the swift and clear-thinking heralds, ordered: "Let the Wu people march all night and arrive at Shangqiu before Zhao Wuxian, while the soldiers of the Xiang clan will collect their labor and escort the goods and baggage!" ”

……

Compared with Zhao Wuxian's cavalry, the speed of the Wu people did not lag too low, and now it was late autumn, but they were still wearing short armor, and they were walking on their feet, and their steps were fast on the dirt road leading to Shangqiu, much faster than the clan soldiers brought to the clan.

"It is rumored that the Wu people can cross the mountains and forests with a pair of bare feet, it turns out to be true." Sima Geng looked at Wu Jun who was walking like a fly, worried, his heart was for Zhao Wuxian, but his identity still belonged to the Xiang family, and he had to be handsome under the pressure of the two brothers to be included in them.

"What is this? Six years ago, Wu attacked Chu, parked the boat on the edge of the Huai River, marched from Yuzhang, and rushed to the Han River to confront the Chu army. These soldiers are the elite left over from that war, their bare feet can travel thousands of miles, although Zhao Wuxian's soldiers are known as elites, they will not be able to do so! ”

The Grand Sima of the Song State stood proudly on the car, looking at Wu Jun as if he was reviewing his own army.

Sima Geng turned his head and muttered: "Zheng Guoziyou's handsome is also an old pawn, isn't he also defeated by Zitai......"

Xiang Wei's smile suddenly froze like a winter sacrificial meat, "Ziniu and my brother......" he said gloomily, "which side are you on?" ”

Brother is like a father, Sima Geng lowered his head: "Of course I am from the clan......

"It's good that you know! Our brothers and Sicheng Le were originally friends, but after clearing the rebels, they will compete for the position of ruling the Song State, and if Zhao Wuxian continues to support Le Ziming, he will be our enemy! ”

In the face of his brother's reprimand, Sima Geng was resigned, but he didn't feel good in his heart, and this feeling reached its peak when Xing Ao sent the military order......

"The prince of Wu asked us to gather all the young men and women we saw along the way and escort them to the rear army!?"

Sima Geng turned his head to look at Xiang Wei, who looked a little embarrassed: "What is he trying to do?" Do you want to drive the people to attack the city? ”

This time it was Xiang Ao's turn not to answer, but Xing Ao said with a smile: "It's not to attack the city." The population along the way was collected in order to send them back to Wu after the war. ”

Sima Geng stared at the smiling Xing Ao incredulously: "Send back to Wu State?" ”

However, the number of people in Wu has not increased, which has always been the prince's heart disease, and this time he entered the Song Dynasty and saw that the people of the Song Kingdom were displaced. I have no land to rely on, so I have a plan to help your country resettle the people...... Don't worry, little Sima, this is the condition that your country's Zuo Shi and Da Sima agreed, from Pengcheng to this place, they have always done this, and the cities and towns destroyed along the way, grain, cloth, and goods are also the same. ”

"Brother, is this true!?" Sima Geng asked his brother angrily, and Xiang Wei had to nod yes.

"Where are these friendly countries that came to assist the Song State in quelling the rebellion. It's a robber who robs with fire! Sima Geng was not angry and scolded loudly.

Xiang Wei hurriedly hinted at him to silence, pulled him aside and said, "Ziniu, we have no choice but to do it!" ”

Sima Geng pointed at the Xiang clan soldiers who pounced on the innocent people on the side of the road like wolves, and his fingers trembled a little: "Brother, you and I are the secretary of the Song Kingdom, who should protect the territory and the people, but now they are doing things that harm the people and ruin the people. You also tell me that this is a last resort!? ”

Xiang Wei was a little afraid to look at his upright and irritable younger brother: "You also know Xiang's past. Twenty years ago, anyone could have expelled or killed us with a single word. You were still young at that time and didn't remember, and your eldest brother and I were in a difficult situation, and we were able to keep the sun by meeting everywhere, and after the monarch succeeded to the throne, I tried my best to please him. Only then did he get appreciated and slowly restore the status of the Qing clan, is it easy? ”

Sima Geng's throat was bitter: "The two brothers are not easy to live in, I know, but ......"

Xiang Wei has already fallen into memory. He said to himself: "But the monarch has no good intentions, he just wants us to balance the big heart." Now that Le Daxin suddenly rebelled, the main force of the Xiang clan was annihilated, and the thousand people who could still fight were also thrown into the battle of Meng Zhu by you, and more than half of them were lost, I can only make up this little bit of people at the moment, a group of rabble, who can I fight against? After this battle, Ruole Daxin and the fourth prince were defeated, and according to the monarch's temperament, the Xiang clan would be liquidated as a retainer who caused the rebellion, so that he could return to power. Therefore, for the survival of our clan, we have to take refuge in the Wu people, even if we do something for them now, we have no choice but to do it, I hope you will be considerate......"

Sima Geng was a little confused for a while, but then he became firm, and he shook off his brother's hand with one hand: "No, you keep saying that it is for the continuation of the Xiang clan, but in fact, it is not, it's just that you are reluctant to be rich and powerful, if the ancestor Zuo Shi Xiang Rong is still here, he will never do such a traitorous thing and ruin the people!" ”

He looked at the Song people who were caught by his compatriots for no reason, and the old people and children were chasing the Song people who were crying bitterly behind him, and then looked at the Xiang officials and Zai who were smiling and currying favor with Wu Bing, and suddenly he was sad and indignant, and suddenly drew his long sword, cut the bridle of the carriage, threw a saddle on the horse's back, jumped up, and shouted loudly to the soldiers who were hesitant to help the Wu army rob the Song people.

"Second and third sons, listen to me!"

But everyone who could hear it looked back at Sima Geng, wondering what this gentleman was going to do.

"Second and third sons, Wu people are like Feng Feng and long snakes, they are insatiable, and they don't want to be a tiger for them, follow me to Zhao Xiaosikou, and it's still too late to invest in Sicheng Le's family!"

Xiang Wei also had a bad temper, and suddenly became angry, pulling the horse and scolding: "Because you are a young brother who is ignorant, I have told you so much, and you still don't listen?" The prince of Wu hasn't gone far yet, what do you want to do with your shouting, don't you want to rebel? Don't let me down yet! ”

"A traitor is a traitor!"

Sima Geng kicked his brother to the ground with a kick on the horse, and took off the crown of Xiang Wei, and the wide sleeves of his robe were covered with dust, and he looked at his younger brother who had always been respectful to him in disbelief.

"You...... You...... Unfilial piety! ”

"Brother, this is the last time I call you brother, and you will treat me as a mad and unfilial traitor! My Master said to me, "The mad are enterprising, and the ruthless are inactive, and I cannot do such a thing as a cruelty to the mother country!" ”

After speaking, Sima Gengjing rode away from his horse, and under his shouting all the way, many Xiang clan soldiers who were dissatisfied with the behavior of the Wu people followed with weapons, a total of seven or eight hundred people, and there were more people behind......

swept the floor to Wei, Xing Ao showed a meaningful smile, then restrained his smile, and went to repay his husband with a sad face.

……

"Sima Ziniu is gone? also took nearly a thousand people to vote for Zhao Wuxian? ”

After learning the news, Fucha's face was annoyed, and his right-hand man Zhuan Kun asked for an order: "Prince, let me go and capture this son, and the car will be split before the three armies, so as to deter the Song people, how is it?" ”

"The person who jumps the beam, it's the same with him or not, and you can settle the account afterwards."

The husband still remembered what was going on, so this time he suppressed his anger and turned to the scout who came to report and asked, "How far are we from Shangqiu?" ”

"It's only twenty miles, and you can reach it in half a day!"

"What about Zhao Wuxianjun?"

"The main force of 3,000 people is still in the area of Mengcheng, only more than ten miles away from Shangqiu, as for the forwards, ......"

"So fast!? Mengcheng was indeed conquered early, but the hateful Zheng Guoren left without a fight...... "Fu Cha was shocked, and continued to ask: "Where is the striker?" ”

"The forward light cavalry has knocked on the door of Shangqiu Mengmen......"

Mengmen is facing Mengcheng, which is the northeast direction of Shangqiu, and Fucha is forcing Yangmen to the east, Wu Guoren came all the way without delaying the trip, who expected that Zhao Wuxian would take the lead.

The husband was suspicious in his heart: "Regardless of the ride, could it be that Zhao Wuxian's foot is faster than that of Wu Ren?" ”

What he didn't know was that Zhao Wuxian had a sharp weapon called leggings, which he had been using since he raided Zhenyi three years ago......

But he forced himself to calm down again: "It doesn't mean anything to arrive under Shangqiu City first, they don't have the Xiang clan's internal response hidden in the city, and they can't easily capture Jiancheng, I will wait for them to get tired and go down to Shangqiu in one fell swoop to help the Xiang clan control Song Gong, and the Song Kingdom is still mine!" (To be continued.) )

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