Chapter 81: The Expedition
Wu Ye took out Zang Ming again, and Zang Ming rose into the air by himself as if he were spiritual, hanging above everyone's heads, Wu Ye said loudly: "Today, in the name of this sword, I vow to live and die with you and build an immortal deed. ”
This team with interests and loyalty cohesion finally along the direction of destiny to take their own steps, many years later people recall this magical army can not imagine that in the early days of the formation of such an episode, perhaps history when choosing a certain executor, will not arrange everything, history is hesitation and suspicion, only the last person, can see the original meaning of history, get the affirmation and acceptance of history, become the history of the heavy stroke.
The state of Qi did not share a border with the state of Zheng, and it was possible to travel from the state of Wei to reach the city of Gongcheng or Yanjin of the state of Zheng, or you could choose the state of Song, Chen, or Cai to enter the southeastern part of the state of Zheng to enter the territory.
The disciples sent by Ji Yuanhou to Wu Ye are obviously carefully matched, some are good at intelligence gathering, some are good at arranging troops, and some are proficient in geographical maps, and now they are under the management of Wu Ye, while serving Wu Ye, Wu Ye also has to bear their daily expenses, just relying on the slogan of a rupture feudal marquis is obviously not enough to make everyone bow to him, and a job like intelligence collection also requires a lot of financial support, Wu Ye is very grateful to Ji Yuanhou from the bottom of his heart for his support, A large number of knife coins are spent every day like flowing water, and tokens such as gold and silver, which were originally limited to the trading of valuables, have also become Wu Ye's first currency because of their high value and easy to carry.
One or two gold can be worth more than 10,000 knife coins, obviously it is a very stupid thing to go to Zheng Guo with hundreds of thousands of knife coins, it really costs money to fight, the gold funded by Ji Yuanhou has been decreasing with the naked eye every day, but at the same time that a lot of gold is spent, intelligence is also continuously sent to Wu Ye, the doorman in charge of intelligence collection is called Tian Xi, it is said that he is a disciple of Ji Yuanhou's henchman Tian Lian, he has an intelligence team of about 30 people, which was originally subordinate to Ji Yuanhou's mansion, and this time he also came with Tian Xi, As a force that is not placed on the surface, exerting a huge amount of energy, Wu Ye was originally confused about the so-called Qinwang Quelling Rebellion, but as the intelligence continued to be enriched, Wu Ye had a very clear understanding of Zheng Guo's current situation.
At present, Zheng Guo is indeed in a period of turmoil, the former monarch Zheng Zhuang Gong has been reckless and militant for many years, so happy, and has repeatedly harassed the neighboring Wei Guo, Song State, Chen State and Cai State, and attacked civilians of other countries many times for no reason, but the reason is not for the gain and loss of one city and one place, it is completely to satisfy his own bloodthirsty and warlike quirks, and what is even more surprising is that in recent years, due to the decline of the Zhou royal family, the attitude of various countries towards the Zhou royal family has been much worse than before, but the superficial subordination relationship continues to be maintained.
Although all countries did not take the current Zhou Tianzi seriously in their hearts, they still said that they supported the Zhou family, admitting that they were subordinate vassal states of the Zhou Dynasty, and paying tribute to the Zhou royal family every year, and this carried away, empty-eyed Zheng Zhuang Gong actually tore off the last fig leaf of the Zhou royal family, he not only intercepted the tributes paid by various countries to the Zhou royal family, but also often led troops to Luoyi, the capital of the Zhou royal family, to show off his troops, and the edict wrote "Seeing the soldiers of Zheng Guo showing off their power under the city, although they were angry and endless, every time they thought about this, they washed their faces with tears", When the Son of Heaven is in this position, it is indeed somewhat sympathetic.
Due to Zheng Zhuanggong's perverse cruelty, not only the surrounding countries were angry with him, but the people of Zheng Guo's own country also hated this murderous monarch very much, in a battle with the Song State, Zheng Zhuanggong was shot in the thigh by the opponent's arrow, and returned to China to recuperate from his injuries, and there was no way to deal with state affairs.
But helplessly, Zheng Zhuang Gong has accumulated power for a long time, and the number of people who dare to really resist him is too small, and the son Ji Hu, who rebelled against the usurpation of the throne, did not rush into the palace, and could only flee to Zheng Cheng, the old capital of Zheng State, with the remnants of the army.
When Wu Ye discussed King Qin's plan with the others, someone proposed to rush to Zheng Guo as soon as possible, and before Gongzi Ji Hu was defeated by Zheng Zhuang Gong, he reached an alliance with Gongzi Ji Hu to help him crusade against Zheng Zhuang Gong, and the condition of the alliance was to exchange Zheng Guo's city. There were also those who objected to arriving in Zheng too early, on the grounds that although Gongzi Ji Hu was driven to Zhengcheng, he still had many ministers and people who supported him, and he also had an army of 3,000 men, which was enough to resist Zheng Zhuanggong's counterattack, and could support it for at least two or three months.
You should wait and see for a while, let them kill each other, and then send troops when they are about to lose each other, at this time, no matter which side you choose as the other party, it will be very beneficial to yourself, after all, Wu Ye's strength is only a mere five hundred, and the chance of winning a head-to-head confrontation is almost zero, and there is no need to do such a brainless move to be brave and ruthless. Of course, there is a third opinion, some people suggest taking advantage of the opportunity of Zheng Zhuanggong's father and son to cannibalize Zheng Guo's land little by little from the periphery of Zheng Guo, and first take Gongcheng, Yanjin or Yanling, and slowly figure it out.
Everyone looked at Wu Ye, because he was the protagonist of King Qin this time, and naturally he made the decision, even Wu Yong just stood behind Wu Ye and said lightly: "No matter what decision you make, I fully support it." ”
Wu Ye didn't rush to make a decision, he felt that the situation was always changing, and his actions would always follow the changes, so he arrived at the border of Zheng Guo first and sat and watched the situation become clearer before making a decision.
The army of 500 men chose to march from the border between Wei and Lu, the most famous of whom was Confucius, a representative of Confucianism, who was not in China at this time, but led his disciples to travel around the world. Lu is proud of Confucius, respects Confucianism, Lu Huigong is the clan of the Zhou family, so the world is called Lu is the defender of Zhou rites, the real Luoyi capital because of many years of poverty, many etiquette has had to give up, only Lu is still unremittingly persistent.
Weiguo is one of the countries with the least number of cities in the vassal state, there are only three cities in the huge country, Yecheng, Chengpu and Chaoge, among which Chaoge is the old capital of the Yin Shang of the dead dynasty, it is said that the two sides of the male soldiers fought fiercely here when the king of Wu fell, the army of 200,000 fought to the end and only 40,000 people survived, in the stormy and gloomy weather, walking in the wilderness outside the Chaoge city, you can also hear the shouts of the war of the year, the lonely soul and wild ghost wander here all the year round, not reincarnated.
Since Wu Ye did not get the documents of the King of Qi, in order to avoid misunderstandings from other countries when the army crossed the border, he did not choose to enter the city and camp, but camped on the spot. At this time, the frost had passed, the climate was very cold at night, and a small fire was lit in the camp tent, Wu Ye had to discuss the plan with the guests every day, tired of calculation, and then immediately fell asleep as soon as he got into bed at night.