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In the north in February, it is still warm and cold, and on the edge of the Yangtze River, the spring breeze has been on the south bank of the Green River, but it is already extremely warm.

Zhu Fangyi of Wu State, that is, Zhenjiang in later generations, the spring and autumn era, the estuary of the Yangtze River is still here. Outside the city of Zhu Fang, it is the widest place on the water, as wide as twenty miles, at a glance, you can't even see the outline of the opposite bank, only a little sandbar floating in the center of the river. The warm evening breeze blew sparkling waves, and the river tide slapped on the embankment of Zhufang Wharf and retreated back in a lonely manner......

A doctor wearing a typical Chu-style crown belt is standing here, with a handsome face and a triangular beard fluttering in the wind. Surrounded by the Yue Ren spine and rattan soldiers under his command, he looked at the vast river without blinking.

His name is Wen Chong, and he was originally from Chu Guowan, because he was depressed in Chu State, so he became a doctor in Yue, and he was called "a kind doctor". It was also bad luck, he just entered Vietnam for a few years, and caught up with the battle of Fujiao, Wu Wangfu was defeated by Yue Wang Goujian, Gou Jian was ashamed of Huiji, please descend to Wu to serve the husband, Fan Li accompanied him, and Wen Chong stayed in the country to deal with national affairs, and managed everything in order, and at the same time blamed the cruelty of the Wu people for the bad life after the defeat of the Yue people.

After Gou Jian returned to China, with the assistance of Fan Liwen, three years of life and three years of lessons, and finally nine years ago, when Wu Wangfu sent troops to defeat Huaibei, he once again raised the banner of Yue Yue, revived the Yue country, and once pushed the battle line to the capital of Wu State, and almost captured the prince of Wu State.

However, after Zhao Hou Wuxian intentionally or unintentionally released the water, half of the elite of Wu State could return smoothly, and after returning to Jiangdong, Fucha began to take crazy revenge on Yue Guo!

For several years, the two rivals of Wu and Yue have almost been fighting all year round, and the battle line has been pulling in the three rivers and five lakes.

If it is one-on-one, Yue is not necessarily the opponent of Wu, but Fucha's previous large-scale construction and reckless military force exhausted the people's strength, and was defeated by Zhao State, and his morale was low. And the Yue people, inspired by military merits, are not afraid of death, and are dedicated to the shame of the king.

What's more fatal is that Sun Sheng, the king of Chu, was also named the White Duke, and he set up a shogunate in Juchao, organized the people of Qunshu to Tuntian, and at the same time continuously launched land and water armies to attack Wu.

Under the encroachment of Chu and Yue, the formerly powerful Wu State was weakened day by day, and it relied on the money and grain support of Zhao State to barely keep the territory of Jiangdong and Jiangbei, which is equivalent to two counties.

And the real decisive battle took place two years ago.

Wen Chong remembers that battle vividly.

Two years ago, that is, when Zhao Wuxian destroyed the Zhongshan Kingdom, Zhao had no time to take care of the south, so Gou Jian decided to launch an offensive against the Wu State.

The Vietnamese army mobilized the whole country, and they invaded the Wu realm, and after Wu Wangfu got the news, he also swore to lead his troops to meet the attack, and the two sides were deployed on both sides of the Kaze River.

The battle of Li and the battle of Fujiao, this was the third decisive battle between Wu and Yue, and it was also a collision that determined the national fortunes of the two sides.

This battle was personally commanded by Gou Jian, who divided the 30,000 men who came out of the air country into three armies, and at night, the left and right armies crossed the river with drums first. When Fucha heard the sound of drums in the upper and lower reaches, he mistakenly thought that the Vietnamese army had crossed the river at night and came by two routes. After the Vietnamese army reconnoitred the Wu army's middle scorers, Gou Jian then led the elite Chinese army to cross the river without sounding drums or igniting fires, and the 6,000 "gentleman's army" was the vanguard to smash the Wu army camp. The Wu army was not much left, and in a hurry, it was beaten and scattered, so Gou Jian set fire to the Wu army camp, and the fire could even be seen in Gusu City, which was dozens of miles away.

In the night, the upper and lower armies of Wu were shocked when they saw the fire in the rear, and they were about to return to the army to rescue, but they were pursued by the left and right armies of the Vietnamese army across the river and broke it.

Fucha's main force lost more than half, retreated to Wuxi to contain the stragglers, reorganized the team, backed Hengshan, and defended according to the stream. However, Gou Jian did not let him go, and the Vietnamese army followed closely behind, forcing forward to the front of the battle and scolding.

At the same time, Fan Li repeated his old tricks, led the boat division to detour to Zhenze (Taihu Lake), ran to the rear of the Wu army, and followed the example of Wu Shi into the first battle, abandoned the boat, the navy crossed the Hengshan on foot, and suddenly launched a surprise attack on the side of the Wu army. In the melee, the general of Wu Shang's army, Xu Menchao, was killed, causing the Wu army to waver, and Wu Wangfu saw that the situation was unfavorable, so he had to retreat again.

The Vietnamese army crossed the river in Kaze, attacked without Xi, won two battles and won two battles, and the morale was high, and the current pursuit of victory was carried out, and the suburbs of Wucheng were hit again, and the city of Yuecheng was built outside the Xu Gate, thus beginning the two-year siege of Gusu......

Gusu City is the only inheritance left by Wu Zixu to the state of Wu, although this virtuous minister died unjustly, his grace continues to this day. Although Fan Li learned the hearsay Zhao artifact "trebuchet" and made a similar "flying stone", the power is much inferior to the terrible Shaoliang cannon and even the ballista, and it is difficult to cause critical damage to the city. In addition, the Yue State hastily raised troops before, failed to kill people with a soft knife as in history, and used the borrowing of grain to make the Wu State lack of food, and the treasury in Wu City had many years of looted savings, so the husband took 5,000 soldiers, relying on the high and deep pools of the city, and persisted for two full years without falling!

But the Yue people were not idle outside the city, in the past two years, they cut off the communication between Gusu and the outside world, and sent doctors and generals to attack the cities of Wu in the rear, Nanwu City, Gansui, Yunyang, Yanling, one by one, one city was lost...... Even Wucheng, the old capital of Wu, fell into the hands of the Yue.

Today, under the leadership of Wen Chong, he finally occupied Zhu Fang, the last city of Wu in Jiangdong, and the Wu State Naval Division, which was originally stationed here, was retreating on the river and retreating towards the sea......

On the river, a huge boat division was chasing them, but it was not a Yue boat, but a ship of the Chu State, Bai Gongsheng's ship......

What Wen pays attention to is the next move of this domineering county magistrate.

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Bai Gongsheng was standing on top of a huge building ship at this moment, squinting slightly as his elite soldiers defeated and frightened Wu Guo's boats one by one.

His car, named "Shenhuang", is three stories high, with a wide and sturdy hull, floating on the river like a huge water fortress, majestic. Each floor of the shipbuilding has its own usefulness, whether it is a place to hide soldiers, or a storehouse of arrows, or a place to row oars, and it is very divided. And the way this behemoth fights is the Arrow Tower, which is full of soldiers with bows and crossbows. The crossbow was originally an invention of the Chu people, and the strong bow and crossbow combined with the tall body of the ship, so that the sailors of the Chu State could be superior and shoot arrows at the small boats of the Wu State, killing them without the power to fight back.

In addition to the walls and sails of the building ships towering like a forest, there are also various warships under Bai Gongsheng's command one after another, such as big wings, small wings, and ships, etc., which rely on Zixi's trust, Bai Gongsheng took over the Chu State Boat Division, and operated the Anhui land for nine years before forming a powerful water force.

In contrast, Wu Guoze lacked national strength, and the old ships that they were still using to defeat Zhao Guozhou's division in Langya had not been launched for several years, and with low morale, how could it be undefeated? Therefore, Bai Gongsheng has been able to win many battles in the past few years, constantly advancing along the Yangtze River to the hinterland of Wu, and now he has finally crossed the river and cut the head and body of Wu in two.

Seeing that the last remnants of the Wu people were defeated and would flee to the mouth of the sea by the direction of the wind and the current, Wang Sunsheng did not let people chase deeply, and the boat division began to clean up the battlefield, and his building ship slowly approached the port of Zhufang......

I haven't seen him for several years, Bai Gongsheng already has the prestige of a secretary, when he stepped on the back of the tiger Ben and got off the boat, there was already a doctor from Yue Guo on the shore to greet him, and he saluted with a smile on his face:

"Foreign ministers, I've seen Bai Gong! On behalf of the widow, greeting the king of Chu and making Yin unharmed! ”

"You are the well-known Chu Yue's seed doctor?" Bai Gongsheng did not show any pride at all, and returned the favor to this Yue Guo doctor, and gave him a boatload of captured Wu armor as a gift.

He had lived in Wu for many years and knew Wu Yue's grievances well. Wen and Fan Li, can be called Gou Jian's right-hand man, Fan Li is the main outside, the Wen is the main inside, they offer the nine techniques of cutting Wu, is an important reason why Yue can defeat Wu State......

Without them, Gou Jian's dream of recovering the country is just nonsense, in Bai Gongsheng's mind, the vulgar and backward Wu off-road people, if there is no talent from the Chu State to help, how can they build a strong state?

Nowadays, Bai Gongsheng sees that the literary style is extraordinary, although he has been in the country for many years, he is still wearing the clothes of the Chu State, and he suddenly loves in his heart. But now that the status of Wen Chong in the Yue Kingdom is equivalent to Ling Yin, Bai Gong, a feudal county duke with his status, how can it be said that he can be moved to serve?

"Shen Zhuliang, you are known as the first county prince of Chu State, but you are blind and have delayed a lot of talents...... "Bai Gong immediately slandered his political opponent in the country, Ye Gong Shen Zhuliang, at the beginning, Fan Li and even Zhao State's Taifu Ling Ji Ran had taken refuge in Ye Gong, but the shaft was only raised, causing the three of them to run away later.

Ye Gong's choice of the people to use is the most serious defect of the Chu State, that is, he only values the nobles and not the scholars, and the relatives are respectful, and the descendants of the non-royal family cannot be reused. Bai Gongsheng often sighed at this outdated system, and vowed to change the state of Chu from the bottom up, so that the phenomenon of "Chu Cai Jin use" and "Chu Cai Wu use" will be extinct!

This time he joined forces with the Yue Kingdom to defeat Wu, if he can destroy the husband, it will be an immortal achievement, and when the time comes, see who can prevent him from entering the court and implementing the law!

For Bai Gongsheng, Wen Chong did not dare to be careless, when he led the army to the Northern Expedition, Fan Li once warned him to be careful of this person.

Bai Gongsheng is the grandson of King Chuping, who was exiled since he was a child, and was brought up in Wu by Wu Zixu, but later took refuge in Zhao for personal ambitions. More than ten years ago, he complained that the Marquis of Zhao treated him unfairly, and rebelled against Zhao again, and after returning to the Chu State, he relied on his royal grandson background to obtain a small title of "Doctor Chao", and had his own team and territory.

This person is not simple, relying on the only 3,000 people in his hands, he actually swept through Qunshu and re-established the rule of Chu in the local area. After he was named Bai Gong, he showed extraordinary ambition, his territory was different from the layers of feudalism in other counties and public districts of Chu State, but imitated Zhao Fa, boldly used scholars and civilians as generals, issued decrees, swept away the accumulated evils, and created a "Chu Wushu" who was only loyal to him.

This army strictly enforced military discipline, changed the atmosphere of the large but weak Chu army, and repeatedly defeated the Wu general Xu Menchao in Huainan. Under the attack of the boat division by land and water, it occupied many Wu cities, such as Jiuzi (Wuhu), Zhanling (Xuancheng) and other places, and the Yue people took Tongwei as the boundary.

This person was born in Jianghuai, breaking Fan Li's original plan to take the river as the boundary with the Chu State, and there are many Yue tribes in that area, hoping to follow Goujian, it seems that the border dispute between the two countries is inevitable in the future.

However, Fan Li also reminded Wen Chong that he should have a good relationship with him, Bai Gongsheng will never be an enemy of Yue in a short time, but an ally.

Not to mention that Xiong Zhang, the king of Chu, is the grandson of Goujian, the king of Yue, and outside of Chu Yue, the two sides have common enemies.

Wu? The state of Wu is no longer distinguishable from destruction.

Now, a behemoth that is more powerful than Bai Gong and Chu is entrenched in Huaibei, and has extended its hand to a place across the river from them......

Bai Gong and Wen Chong met this time in order to reaffirm the Chu-Yue alliance, exchange intelligence, unify the pace of the two countries, and be sure to complete the plan of destroying Wu.

After the two sat down at the riverside pavilion, Bai Gong said: "As early as last month, the Xu and Zhongwu armies of Zhao State were ready to move, and Zhao Guangde garrisoned Shandao in a vain attempt to contain Yu's soldiers from attacking Jiangbei, and Xu Cheng also sent a boat division to stop in the ditch to prevent the Chu State Naval Division from entering the canal. ”

Dazai Boyao, who guarded Jiangbei in Wu State, seemed to regard himself as the county guard of Zhao State, and allowed all Zhao army's excuses, so the forward 3,000 people of Zhao army had arrived in Hancheng (Yangzhou) under the leadership of Qu Ao to prevent Chu and Yue from attacking Jiangbei.

"It's not a wise move to start a war with Zhao at this time."

Noticing Bai Gongsheng's annoyance, Wen Chong hurriedly reminded.

Thinking of the 150,000 troops gathered by Zhao Hou when he attacked Qi, the literature was a little trembling, and the Yue Guoman was only 30,000 foot armor, and there were many injuries in the war with Wu. Bai Gongsheng's subordinates are only this number, if they rashly clash with the Zhao people, they may not win the battle on land, and I am afraid that even the destruction of Wu will have to be delayed.

The best way now is to endure this breath and ask the Zhou division of the State of Chu to cross the river, anyway, the sailor of the State of Zhao is weak. Then the Yue State broke through Gusu in one go and destroyed the Wu State, so that Chu and Yue could complete the partition of Jianghuai and Jiangdong.

"Yue Jun has besieged Wucheng for two years, but he has not been able to break through it for a long time, if the troops are insufficient, he needs to help, although the doctor said bluntly."

Bai Gongsheng's words were thorny, Chu and Yue were allies, but they were also rivals, he was eager to expand his territory, and he coveted Jiangdong, the richest and most densely populated land in Wu. If Wen allowed the Chu army to go to Wucheng, he was afraid that after the war, this area would not be owned by the Yue Kingdom.

So Wen Chong politely declined Bai Gongsheng's "kindness" and told him a good news.

"Just yesterday, the foreign minister received a letter from the young uncle, saying that the widow had led the army to break through the outer city of Wu, and the husband had retreated to Guxu's platform."

He said with a smile: "The foreign minister promises that as long as Bai Gong can stop the Zhao people and prevent them from going south, within ten days, the Wu Kingdom will die!" ”

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