"Crackling", the tortoise shell made a slight cracking sound as the fire burned, and the cloaked Zhu Tuo closed his eyes and listened to the whispering of the ghost in his ear.

As the so-called three kings are different turtles, the four are different, and each has its own good fortune. Zhu Tuo is the great blessing of the country, palm in the greeting, in the event of a major event, pray for the blessing of ghosts and gods, etc., because he is good at divination, so occasionally replace the position of Taibu, for the monarch to do the turtle policy.

Wei Ren inherited the culture of many Yin Shang and attached great importance to turtle Bu.

On the occasion of the Spring and Autumn Period, Lin, Phoenix, Turtle, Dragon, known as the Four Spirits, Zilu once asked Confucius, why divination is best with tortoise shell, Confucius replied: Divination is like a naïve child who wants to ask a why, maybe he will first go to a white-bearded old grandfather, the old grandfather must be an experienced person in the eyes of children. The tortoise shell is the first choice when divination, because the tortoise has the longest lifespan, it knows everything from the past to the present, so who can you ask if you don't ask the tortoise when you have questions?

Therefore, the tortoise shells in the treasury of the Weiguo Mansion are all made of large turtles in Pushui, and the burned armor is dotted with small holes made of scalding, and there are fine cracks caused by high temperature around the small holes, and these textures are also mysterious symbols left by the emperors and ghosts after hearing the prayers, and their veins are closely related to the fate of the state. They may determine the direction of the country, or they will determine the war, or the peace, or the relocation of the capital, or whether the harvest will be smooth.

At this time, after the fire was removed, Zhu Tuo ignored the residual heat on the tortoise shell and gently stroked it with his fingertips.

"The tortoise shell is scorched, and if the subordinate moves forward rashly, it will be unlucky!" After half ringing. Zhu Tuo lowered his eyes and reported the results of the divination to Wei Houyuan, who was waiting anxiously on the side.

"Unlucky? You said that the widow led the army through Zhongmuyi. Attacking Handan's territory is unlucky? ”

As he grew older, Wei Hou's temper became more and more irritable. He hates those who disobey him.

It's mid-October, and it's been a month and a half since the Qi people launched the Battle of Yiyi, and it is said that now after thousands of casualties on both sides, Outer Guo has been breached, leaving only the inner city still desperately resisting.

As long as the siege continues for a period of time, the Qi people will be victorious, and the Yiyi will be uprooted, and the Jin people will have no stronghold east of the Great River, and the northern border of the Kingdom will be free from their threat.

But the Jin State is an old overlord after all. Although the six secretaries are independent, even if they are only two or three secretaries working together, it is enough to fight against the Qi State! In a small state like Weiguo, it would be nice to be able to stand up to any secretary.

After the reform of the Bank of China Muzi, the Bank of China had few chariots and many soldiers, and the Bank of China gathered 300 chariots in the land of Dongyang, and more than 10,000 people were on the west bank of the river, but the opposite bank was guarded by more than 10,000 soldiers of the Chen clan of Qi State, so they could not cross the river to help.

Zhong Xingyin appealed for domestic support. The Handan clan, the in-laws of the Bank of China, naturally could not ignore it, and their 300 chariots and 9,000 soldiers were also leaving Handan and heading for that area.

As an ally of the Bank of China clan. The Fan clan had more chariots and fewer soldiers, and they also gathered 600 chariots in Chaoge, totaling more than 10,000 people who were about to go north. But the plan was disrupted by the sudden rebellion of the defense ten days ago. Now he has to stay in Zhongmuyi and confront the left and right armies of the country. Although there were not many chariots for the defense of the country, only 500 horses. But the number of soldiers was as high as 20,000.

Although Zhongmu's Yi Zai Buddha Di was a minister of the Zhao family, he had already taken refuge in the Handan clan and shared weal and woe, so he was able to join forces with the Fan clan, the enemy of the Zhao clan, to protect himself.

After helping the Qi people drag the Fan family, Wei Hou You was not satisfied, and he was also ready to go north to the Handan area. This is a risky military operation, but it is secretly in line with the principle of "attacking the enemy and saving the enemy" in the art of war. At that time, maybe the Handan clan can be forced to return to the master, and in that case, the pressure of the Qi State in Yiyi will suddenly be reduced by half.

But just as the guards were divining what happened to Zhongmu, the tortoise shell was scorched, which was a bad omen.

The subordinates all advised the Marquis of Wei that it was better to stay here, not to stay too far away from the country, and now they have dragged one-third of the troops east of Taihang of the Jin State for the Qi people, and they have done their best.

"Enough!"

Wei Hou Yuan said categorically with a gloomy face: "The Fan clan and Zhongmu have six hundred times together, and the chariot of the defense country is only five hundred times, but there are widows, which is equivalent to one hundred times, which is equal, why be afraid!" If you want to achieve great things, how can you not take some risks? ”

So the left and right armies of the Wei Guo passed through Zhongmu, and Fan's soldiers set up a posture outside the city, wanting to attack the Wei people.

However, Chu Shipu, a defender who fled to Zhongmu to seek refuge because of his bad relationship with the Marquis of Wei many years ago, advised Fan Ji: "Although the country is small, they have the monarch in the army, and their morale must be high. ”

"If the guards go north, sandwiched between Zhongmu and Handan, not only will we not be able to go north smoothly, but the Handan clan may also be dragged down, and when the time comes, the army will be alone, and Yiyi will be in danger......" Fan Ji analyzed the situation with a dark face, and it was not what he wanted to see the battle like this.

However, since he had the intention of preserving, Fan Jishu would not do his best to fight to the death with the guards, so he could only let the guards cut off their own way between Huanshui and Qishui, and they couldn't get around it, and they didn't want to fight.

In terms of defending the country, although Wei Hou played an adventure as if he had been beaten with chicken blood, although he was willing to take advantage of the fire for Qi people, he was not willing to consume himself too much.

So the Wei army and the Fan and Zhongmu armies confronted each other in this area for several days.

Most of the wars in the Spring and Autumn Period were like this, Jin and Chu fought for hegemony, and the main forces of the two countries met countless times, but the big war only fought Chengpu, Yi, and Yanling three times, and there were only a few small battles.

For example, when Jin Guoyang's virgin father attacked Chu, the gate was in Fangcheng, and he met the Chu division led by Zhu Suo, the son of Xi, and then withdrew. In the next few years, Yang's father invaded Cai again, Sima Zi of Chu rescued Cai, Jin and Chu were caught in the army, Yang's father retreated from the Chu army, and the Jin army was also returned. After the Battle of the Horn, the Valley of the Horn, and the Rushui Encounter, they were all like this, and they were held across the river or the city several times, and they would rather you advance and I retreat, and you would rather retreat and I would not have a desperate decisive battle.

This was an excellent strategic containment, and the Wei army, under the planning of Wang Sunjia, calmly waited for more than a month, and if it did not move, it was enough, and it hit the key point of the Jin reinforcements as soon as it moved. Now, not only Fan's soldiers can't move. Even the Handan clan was suspicious, and half of the troops were divided to come back to defend.

However, when the news of a fire broke out in the backyard of the Patriotic Empire. The position of the guards became extremely awkward in an instant......

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"Ziliang Sima set out from the state and crossed the sacrifice ground. Later, in the territory of Zheng State, as if entering the realm of no one, and then through the Song State, through the Cao State, around an arc, five hundred miles around the Shengdou of the Wei Kingdom, and made a world-beating achievement, which can be described as a feat that has never been seen before or since......"

Outside Shengdouyi, the two armies at the meeting were all holding the Zhao clan's Xuanniao banner fluttering in the wind, and Zhao Wuxian helped up the worshippers, looking at him and his subordinates although tired. But he was still in good spirits, and he couldn't help but admire.

No one could have imagined that this was actually the vanguard that Zhao Ying had previously assigned to advance eastward, and the elite of the division commanded by Sima Youwuzheng of the Zhao family.

After the ambush battle west of Juyeyi, Zhao Wuxian immediately sent troops to Punan in the name of arresting thieves and punishing the defenders for betraying the Jin in the name of recovering from the Jin.

He first asked Ran to take Juyeyi, which had been consumed into hollow bamboo, and then asked people to hold Gongsun Qi hostage, pretending to be a defeated guard to knock on the door, and Chuiqiu City was the first to be fooled and was easily taken down. The same is true of the Lishan camp where the Wei Division was stationed before, after occupying this commanding height, half of the southern land of Weiguo Pu has fallen into the hands of Zhao Wuxian, leaving only Chengpu and Shengdou.

However, the Shengdou Yi where Sima Shiman, who died in battle, was extremely well guarded. actually saw through the rout that the person who returned from the rout was pretending to be and refused to open the door. However, they were only concerned with guarding against the enemy in front of them, but they were caught off guard by the men and horses from the rear. The city was lost.

It turned out that as early as a month ago. After receiving Zhao Wuxian's letter and the "serial plan" narrated, Zhao Ying sent the forward of the 1st Division of Post Wuzheng to Wendi. After learning that Wei Guo went to war against the Jin State. He immediately crossed the river and arrived at the Jin state's stronghold south of the river.

The sacrificial town was originally an ancient sacrificial country, and after King Ping moved eastward, it became the territory of Zheng State, bordering Bishan in the south and the big river in the north. In the twentieth year of King Ding of Zhou (587 BC), Zheng Guo attacked Xu State, Xu Guo asked for help from Jin State, and Jin State sent troops to occupy Zheng Zhi's sacrificial yi, and gave Zhi Shi as a leader. Although Zhi and Zhao Erqing were not very dealable, the Zhao family was willing to send troops eastward, and the ruling Zhibo could not find a reason to stop him, so he could only turn a blind eye and let the post cross the river.

After crossing the river, as an ally of the Qi people, Zheng Guoren immediately surrounded him, wanting to encircle this Jin people.

The whole division of Post Wuzheng actually left behind his baggage, and traveled all night with only a few days' rations, boldly passing through the northern border of Zheng Guo. The reason why he dared to do this was because most of his team were chariot soldiers, and there were cavalry soldiers who learned from Zhao Wuxian, and there was Post Wuzheng, who was known as "Zhao Zhibole", the person who knew the most about chariots and horses in the world, even if Zheng Guoren wanted to intercept, where could they catch up, they could only watch them grab a few miles of supplies on the spot and go away.

After the Zheng State, it was the Song State, and although the Song State broke away from the alliance with the Jin State, it did not take refuge in the Qi State. The Zhao family was able to protect the Le's back then, and Zhao Wuxian's long-sleeved dancing in Songcheng also won the favor of Song Gong, plus Sicheng Le's and Nanzi's words from it, the matter of borrowing the Tao was quite smooth.

But he was stopped by the ruling Ledaxin.

"The Jin people's trip must be to plot against the in-laws of the Song State to defend the country, not to go to the west of the Lu State as Zhao Qing and Zhao Wuxian said in the letter, and then go north to Yiyi, the king must not agree!"

The fifth prince of the Song Kingdom also seconded the proposal, and the Xiang clan followed up and quarreled with him, and this borrowing once again became a question of whether to surrender to Jin or Qi, which was indispensable.

The military situation and fighters are fleeting, how can you wait for the Song people to rip off? He was so bold and careful that he directly led his troops from the gap in the Song Wei border all the way east. In this way, even if the old-fashioned Song people come to ask for the guilt, they can avoid blame by saying that the gap is not the Song realm.

Needless to say, the relationship between Cao Bo and Zhao Wuxian was in the honeymoon period, and with a stroke of the pen, he agreed to the request of Yu Wuzheng to borrow the road, and Zigong waited on the border between Song and Cao with supplies and a lot of recruited laborers and even horses, to replenish the heavy grain and grass for Zhao Bing.

"I also hope that Sima will enter the guard, so that he can kill less." As a defender, he couldn't bear Zhao Wuxian's plot to defend the country, but as a retainer of Wuxian, he could only let it go, and even had to help.

The truth of eating the king, the matter of loyalty to the king, is also true in the Spring and Autumn Period.

So in less than ten days, You Wuzheng completed a feat rarely seen in this era, and made a big detour to the south of the country, giving Sheng Douyi a fatal blow, and successfully rendezvous with Zhao Wuxian. (To be continued......)

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