Chapter Seventy-Three: The Death of the State of Chu 2
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Chu State, Wu County. I'll tell you that the fastest update of the novel is the eye. Hurry?
After the news of King Qin's violent death reached Wu County, the monarchs and ministers of Chu realized that there were probably many twists and turns in the matter of Hezong. Even if the Qin State is willing to join forces, within a year, it will not use swords. This meant that Korea would have a year to digest the newly occupied land of Jizhou and Jingzhou, which the state of Chu could not allow.
Uniting the three kingdoms of Zhao, Yan, and Qi to prepare for the use of troops and stirring up friction on the border to distract Korea became the unanimous choice of the monarchs and ministers of Chu. Although if Qin did not participate, it would be difficult to persuade Zhao, Yan, and Qi. But the monarchs and ministers of the state of Chu are still willing to try. Unfortunately, before this decision was issued, the news of South Korea's dispatch of troops reached Wu County.
100,000 Han troops crossed the Ganshui River and defeated the Chu army; 40,000 Jingzhou sailors set out from Pengli Lake and confronted the Chu Guozhou division in the Songyang area; 200,000 Chu troops were ready to move in Xia Cai, so that Shouchun's Chu army could not move; More than 200,000 Chu troops crossed the Huaishui and surrounded Qisi County. The entire Chu State, except for Jiangdong County and Huiji County, can be called calm, and the rest of the places are full of wars.
At least judging from the current intelligence, South Korea has mobilized more than 500,000 troops at once, which is definitely not a simple revenge for the Chu State to win over various countries, intending to conspire, but has the ambition of completely exterminating the Chu State. After all, the old and weak of the entire Chu State can only make up an army of 400,000, and the South Korea uses all elites, and the strength of more than 500,000 troops is enough to destroy the Chu State.
After learning the news of the large-scale invasion of the Korean army, the first reaction of the king of Chu was not anger but fear. South Korea must already know that it has instigated the affair, and if it wants to warn itself and force it to give up the unrealistic idea of a concerted conspiracy, it can send an envoy to lobby it first. Even if the troops are directly mobilized, two or three hundred thousand is enough to make oneself aware of the situation. But South Korea did not do this, but directly and secretly mobilized more than half a million troops! What does this mean? This shows that in the heart of South Korea, it has lost its qualifications for negotiations, and the two sides have lost the need to disguise their disagreement. Or maybe South Korea thinks. If you don't hurt yourself, you will die without repentance!
Whether to cut the land and sue for peace without spine, or to fight to the death and hope that the soldiers would serve to the death to defeat the Han army, it became a difficult and urgent choice in front of the monarchs and ministers of the Chu State. The Korean army was menacing, and the outermost defense line of the Chu State had been lost, and South Korea did not leave much time for the Chu State to hesitate at all. Whether it is war or peace, life or death, it all depends on the thought of the king of Chu.
However, even if it is peace, in order not to let the Korean lion open his mouth. If too many conditions are proposed, the state of Chu cannot be defeated too badly. To the north of the river is the most densely populated place in the Chu State, and the prosperity is no less than that of the east of the river, so it must not be lost. Shouchun is one of the most important cities, and it is the capital of accompaniment. Therefore, although it was not determined whether it was war or peace, the king of Chu still ordered the first time to let the general Jingyang lead an army of 100,000 to cross the river to aid Shouchun.
Jingyang took away the 100,000 troops of Jiangdong County. The available soldiers and horses in the entire Jiangdong County are not less than 50,000, of which. There are only 10,000 who can be called elite, and the remaining 40,000 are all old and weak.
In Jiangbei, the state of Chu had already invested more than 250,000 troops. To the west of Huangshan, there were 80,000 troops blocking the offensive of the South Korean army. In Huiji County, only 20,000 soldiers and horses remained. This is the distribution of the 400,000 army of the Chu State, and how much the army on the front line lost. The king of Chu didn't know. But under the estimate of the king of Chu, the loss was not less than 40,000 people. In other words, there are only 360,000 troops left in the Chu State!
The large-scale invasion of South Korea has disrupted all the deployments of the Chu State, and all the troops and horses that can be mobilized in the entire Chu State have been concentrated, but the Chu State is still not very relieved. So. The king of Chu sent four waves of envoys one after another, and went to Qin, Yan, Zhao, and Qi to ask for help, but on the issue of whether to seek peace with Korea, the court of Chu was very divided.
Zuotu Huang Xie resolutely believed that no matter whether Qin, Yan, Zhao, and Qi could save Chu or not, Chu should ask South Korea for help as soon as possible. South Korea can silently mobilize more than 500,000 troops to attack the Chu State, which is enough to show that South Korea is afraid of the Chu State. When the king of Han was proclaimed emperor, only the state of Chu did not send ministers to congratulate him, and the state of Chu's disobedience to Korea was clearly revealed. Whether it is for the needs of the north, or to deter the world, it is necessary for Korea to destroy the state of Chu, and if not, at least the state of Chu will be severely damaged. The state of Chu has virtually become the meat shield of the four kingdoms of Qin, Yan, Zhao, and Qi, and before the trouble of the state of Chu is solved, South Korea will not deal with the four kingdoms of Qin, Yan, Zhao, and Qi.
South Korea's national strength is too strong, and the Qin people are unstable, and they can't use swords and soldiers. Without the Qin State to balance South Korea, the four countries of Chu, Yan, Zhao, and Qi alone would definitely not be able to compete with South Korea, not to mention that it is now the State of Chu that is fighting alone. The three kingdoms of Yan, Zhao, and Qi would even wait and see in order to preserve their strength.
Sue for peace, let South Korea relax its vigilance against the Chu State, and the Chu State will have the opportunity to regroup and take South Korea by surprise. If you hold on to death, the Chu State will definitely not be pleased! In order to win the trust of South Korea, Huang Xie invited himself to enter Luoyang with the prince.
Ling Yin Qiliang believes that South Korea has made up its mind, and taking the initiative to seek peace will only weaken the morale of the people and make South Korea look down on him. The current situation is only a battle to the death! For the four kingdoms of Qin, Yan, Zhao, and Qi, coercion and temptation, it was clear that if they refused to send troops to rescue them, then Chu was willing to cut off the king's title, attach to Korea, and help Korea unify the world. As long as the rescue of the four kingdoms of Qin, Yan, Zhao, and Qi is timely, the state of Chu can still survive this crisis, it is just a matter of how much it is lost! If Korea is ill-prepared, Chu may even have hope of recovering Xuzhou.
The ministers were divided into two factions and quarreled, and the king of Chu was also overwhelmed and at a loss. For the first time, the king of Chu felt that it was very reasonable for the rafters at the beginning to rot first. If it hadn't provoked its own conspiracy, and if it had kept to itself, South Korea might not have taken its own prestige first. It's just that the matter has come to this point, and it is useless to regret it. The king of Chu can only hope that good news will come from the front line as soon as possible, or that the four kingdoms of Qin, Yan, Zhao, and Qi will respond and be willing to send troops to support him!
But sometimes the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment, General Jingyang led an army of 100,000 to cross the river for only ten days, and the state of Chu received the news that Songyang was conquered by the Korean army, and the 50,000 Zhou division of the state of Chu was annihilated. South Korea's 100,000 land and water army is even downstream, has captured the fortress of Jiuzi on the river, and is heading to Taihu Lake along the Zhongjiang River! There is no doubt that with the Han army controlling the river, the state of Chu was once again divided into two!