Tang Hou accompanied Cai Guo's doctor Ji Yuan and Gongzi Qian, and took his entourage to enter Wu State.

The Marquis of Tang arrived in the state of Wu as the king of a country, and was received by the military members as pedestrians (foreign ministers). Therefore, Tang Hou didn't see Lu first, but he met with the soldiers in the pavilion.

Tang Hou knew that the soldiers were the ministers of the king of Wu, so he first informed the soldiers that Cai Hou wanted to accept and beg Wu to send troops to rescue. Wu Yuan also knew the thoughts of Tang Hou and Cai Hou - to form an alliance with Wu to deal with Chu State. Because Tang Hou and Cai Hou were forced to ask for bribes by Nangwa, everyone in the world knew about it. Wu Yuan faintly felt that this was a strategic opportunity, so he entered the palace to discuss with King Wu.

When the soldiers arrived at the Wu Palace, they conveyed Cai Hou's wishes to the beggar to the King of Wu, suggested that He Lu agree to send troops, and made his own point of view: "The national situation is one and the other, Cai and Tang turned their backs on Chu and defected to Wu, and they are very good for me Wu Guo!" Now is the time to cut Chu. He knew that the day he had been waiting for seemed to be coming, and he had to convince King Wu:

Now Tang Hou and Cai Hou have been bullied by Nangwa, causing Cai Hou to be angry and take the prince as a hostage to ask the Jin State to administer justice for him. Therefore, the Jin State gathered 17 princes as the leader of the alliance, intending to cooperate in the attack on Chu, but was unexpectedly sold by Fan Ying and Xun Yin. The minister heard that Chu Shi had gone deep into the capital of Cai State, and Cai Guojun and his ministers were in danger! The soldiers gave a brief introduction to the situation in Cai.

"Nangwa led Chu Shi to surround Xin Cai, although Cai Guo is critical, Cai Guo has always been an enmity with me. Now that the two countries are turning against each other, it is more beneficial to our Wu country, and the widow can sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight. These two countries turned out to be sworn enemies, and today they started fighting in the nest, okay! He Lu was very happy to hear the news, this Cai Guo deserved it!

Wu Yuan knew that King Wu hated Cai Hou, so he began to persuade: "Now that Tang Hou has arrived in Gusu, he is sending Cai Hou's second son, Gongzi, to our country as a hostage." This Tang Hou and Cai Hou were humiliated together at that time, so they were no longer allied with the Chu State, and the minister thought that this was a good time to break the alliance of the subject states of the Chu State. ”

He Lu pondered for a long time, and realized a little: "What does Mr. mean that the Tang State and the Cai State are enemies of the Chu State, and the widow can just ally with them?" ”

Wu Yuan nodded: "The general trend of the world is changing every moment, these two countries used to be our enemy countries, and now they can also become our allies." The needs of the country are more important than anything else, and now that Cai Hou has sent his second son to our country as a hostage, it can be seen that Cai Hou is determined to defect to us and become an enemy of Chu. ”

However, he was angry that Cai Guo had joined forces with Chu State to attack Wu State many times before, and was an enemy of Wu State, so he was still reluctant to send troops to rescue Cai.

Seeing that He Lu was unwilling to let go for the time being, the soldiers resigned and returned to the post house to see Tang Hou. It shows that He Lu is unwilling to send troops and does not want to meet Tang Hou.

Tang Hou knew that Cai Guo and Wu Guo had a deep grudge before, and they had a long-standing grudge, so Lu Lu was naturally a little reluctant to help, watching the two opponents fighting each other, eager to fan the flames, who would help?

Tang Hou thanked the soldiers for their kindness, and when he saw that King Wu did not want to meet, he decided to repair a letter and ask the soldiers to hand it over to Helu.

Tang Hou wrote: "Xianjun is a wise person, and he naturally knows how to distinguish the situation of the country. The Jin State is the country of the hegemon, and the princes of the 17th Route of the Alliance are in Zhaoling, for their own selfishness, regardless of the princes. He was also afraid of the prestige of the Chu State, unable to help the weak and the righteous, and had lost the prestige and dignity of the overlord. And the virtuous monarch has worked hard for many years, and the state of Wu has increased greatly, it is a good time to dominate the world and win the Central Plains. ”

"Saving Cai can show the prestige of a virtuous monarch, and breaking Chu can benefit your country. Tang and Cai Erguo are willing to be the forerunner and listen to the dispatch of Xianjun, why did Xianjun push such a good opportunity? ”

After carefully pondering the book of Tang Hou, he summoned the soldiers into the palace and came up with his own handling opinions: "Mr. sent an envoy to send Tang Hou back to China, and said that the widow agreed to send troops to rescue. The hostage of Cai Guo, Gongzi Qian, also stayed, and asked Gongsun Xing to return to China to inform Cai Hou first, saying that the widow would immediately send troops to rescue in order to relieve Xin Cai's danger. ”

The soldiers handled these things one by one, but they didn't see King Wu make any moves, thinking that Cai Guozheng was in danger under the heavy siege of Chu Shi, and he didn't know what King Wu's idea was.

Wu also persuaded King Wu several times in the court, but he did not see King Wu take any action. It seems that the original promise to Tang Hou was just a delaying tactic, and King Wu never planned to send troops to rescue Cai. Seeing that this great opportunity would be missed, the soldiers were all anxious.

At this time, it was June, and he occasionally had a leg disease and was lying high in the dormitory. This leg disease is an old wound, an arrow wound suffered when he led troops to fight in the past, and occasionally recurred, and the pain entered the bone marrow. He Lu could not go to the court for several days, so he ordered the attendants to tell the ministers that as long as there was a major state matter, they would report directly to the palace.

At this time, He Lu was lying on the couch listening to the attendants reading some ministers' recitals, and the slightly closed eyes were drowsy, but there was an urgent report that cheered him up.

The newspaper said that the Chu army besieged Xincai, and the Cai army defended the city alone. Because the princes were all afraid of the Chu State, and none of them were willing to help, it was extremely difficult for the Cai State to defend the city, and it seemed that the day when the Cai State would destroy the country was not far away. The meaning of the guards here is to prevent the Chu State from taking advantage of the situation to attack the border of the Wu State after destroying the Cai State, and ask the King of Wu to garrison troops on the border.

He Lu interrupted the reading voice of the attendant, and thought for a while, this Cai State was destroyed by the Chu State, and the prestige and morale of the Chu State will be greatly increased, aren't those princes even more afraid of the Chu State? Isn't the state of Chu more powerful? As soon as he thought of this, He Lu thought that he had refused Cai Guo's borrowing of troops before, and it seemed that he was too arrogant.

He Lu was hesitating there, when the palace eunuch came to report: "The military master has returned to Gusu from Jiangkou, and he is asking to see him at the palace gate at this time. ”

He Lu was surprised and said: "The military division is training in Jiangkou, why didn't he return to the capital alone?" Summoning the military division in! ”

Sun Wubai had seen King Wu and sat on one side. He Lu asked: "Why did the military advisor return to Gusu, but the widow was not called. ”

"Although the minister was training troops in Jiangkou, as soon as he heard that the state of Chu attacked the state of Cai, the minister immediately set off to return to the capital, afraid that the king would not be able to make up his mind, so he rushed back first, for fear of delaying the opportunity." Sun Wu explained the reason, and then complained to the king of Wu.

He laughed and forgave him. Sun Wu said: "One of the main reasons why it is difficult for the Chu State to defeat it is that it has many subject states. The vassal states of the State of Chu are surrounded on all sides, forming a defensive line on the periphery of the State of Chu, and it is not easy to penetrate into its borders. I don't know if the king has noticed, this time the Jin State is in the Zhaoling Huimeng 17 road princes, although there is no military gain, and they give up halfway, but among the 17 road princes, there are several princes who are former vassal states of Chu State, which shows that the vassal states of Chu State are gradually dissatisfied with what Chu State has done, and they began to betray Chu State, and they are unwilling to be vassals of Chu State anymore, which is the main thing. ”

When he heard Sun Wu's analysis, he felt very thorough and was convinced.

"Since the princes have grievances, the state of Chu began to be isolated. The minister is the king's calculation, if we attack the Chu State, the ministers may send troops to help the Chu State There are very few princes, and the Chu State is unjust and helpless, and now is a good time for us to vigorously attack the Chu State. The king has waited for so many years, how can he miss it? ”

He Lu suddenly realized, and immediately issued a mobilization to prepare to save Cai Huachu.

He Lu decided to lead the army to conquer in person, so that the doctor was separated as the prince, and assisted the prince Bo to guard Gusu and temporarily regent the government.

He Lu also worshiped Sun Wu as the main general, and Wu Yuan and Bo Yao as deputies; Worship his brother and son-in-law are all pioneers, and Gongzishan is a full-time supervisor of grain and grass. An army of 60,000, known as 100,000, crossed the Huai River by water and reached Cai.

Seeing that Wu was powerful, Nangwa had no choice but to break the siege and go, and was worried that Wu soldiers would pursue, so he hurried all the way and crossed the Han River before he dared to set up camp.

Nangwa camped in Hanshui and sent an envoy into the capital to inform the Wu army of the attack on Chu, and asked King Zhao to send troops to rescue.

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Since then, the monarchs and ministers of Wu have completed many years of military preparations, Wu's Taoguang Yanghui has passed, and there has been a situation of rebellion and separation of relatives in Chu. For Wu Guo, this is a strategic opportunity, if it is missed, how many times can such an opportunity be for Wu Guo, which is in a weak position?

And Wu Wang Lu, as well as Sun Wu and Wu Yuan, these generations of heroes and heroes, will they let such an opportunity be missed?

And the state of Chu was tossed by mediocre talents, and the rebellion and infighting continued, and it was already in danger. Is the country broken? Please see the next volume of "A Thousand Miles of Concealment: The Killing of Chu".