Less than half a month after returning home, an unexpected thing happened - General Xu, who had always been in good health, suddenly fell ill and coughed all day. General Xu said disappreciatively: "I'm just caught a cold in the cold winter season, it's just a little cold, don't worry about it, it'll be fine in a few days." "I didn't ask a doctor to come and prescribe medicine.

But after more than ten days, General Xu still coughed all day long, not only coughing more and more severely, but also getting thinner and thinner, often coughing a few times and thick phlegm gushing up, we noticed that something was wrong.

Xu Cheng immediately sent someone to invite a famous doctor in the city, and the doctor's final diagnosis was tuberculosis, which undoubtedly gave General Xu a death order. The doctor shook his head and said that he couldn't help, so he only prescribed some simple prescriptions: a few dollars and hundreds of parts, Beisha ginseng, white and ......

"This prescription only relieves the condition, not a cure. Pay more attention when taking care of General Xu, this disease is easily contagious. The doctor whispered to us outside the door.

"Doctor, can you help my father cure this disease? Any price can be paid! Xu Cheng looked anxious.

"The general's illness really can't be cured! I'm really sorry. With that, the doctor left.

Later, General Xu coughed up bloody sputum, had a low-grade fever all day long, and the amount of food gradually decreased, and in the end he could only drink porridge. In just two weeks, General Xu's whole body was so thin that he was out of shape.

Since Wu was about to go to war with Qi, Xu Cheng had to train his army all day and had little time to take care of his father.

The heavy responsibility of serving General Xu fell on Sui'er and her subordinates, and Sui'er had to take care of the child, so she looked haggard in a few days.

I didn't have much to do all day, except for occasionally giving Xu Cheng some guidance on renovating the army, and the rest of the time I followed Sui'er to take care of General Xu.

"Don't take care of me, a half-dead man! Go away, go away, this disease is contagious, I know it. General Xu said these words with difficulty, his face covered with sweat.

"Dad, what do you say?" Sui'er wiped the beads of sweat from his face for him, "It's going to be fine, don't think about it!" ”

"Pity you, you've been dragged down by me, the one who is about to go into the ground!"

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Within a few days, General Xu passed away, and the whole person was terrifyingly thin, with bones wrapped in skin and bones, and there was not much flesh in sight. There was a mourning voice in Xu's mansion, Xu Cheng trained the army during the day and kept filial piety at night, and he grew a lot of gray hair at a young age, and Sui'er also aged a lot.

On the ninth day of Xu Chengshou's filial piety, he received a document sent by King Wu, appointing him as the next doctor, and urging him to lead part of his army north to attack Qi.

The king's order was difficult to resist, Xu Cheng had to take the army to the capital Gusu, meet the king of Wu, get the other half of the tiger talisman, transfer troops, and prepare to go north from Hangou to crusade against Qi.

As his staff general, I naturally accompanied him.

I heard that Wu Wangfu had wanted to attack Qi for a long time, but he was forced to take action for various reasons. The day before yesterday, Bao Mu, the doctor of Qi State, fled to Wu State after killing Qi Mourning Gong, which suddenly inspired the fighting spirit of King Wu to attack Qi State.

When King Wu learned the news that Duke Qi was killed, he cried outside the military gate for three days, although everyone knew in their hearts that King Wu was very happy at the moment, but they didn't say anything.

After a fake performance, King Wu began to act, he first used the pretext of Qi to take in Duke Yi Yin, and showed the world that he was going to crusade against Qi, and then led a large number of troops to set off from Hangou.

King Wu's soldiers were divided into two routes, and he personally led the main army from Hangou into the Huai River, intending to attack the southern part of Qi by land. Xu Cheng was sent to lead the Wu domestic river division to the north by sea, approaching the rear of the Qi State, trying to encircle the two roads and take the Qi State in one fell swoop.

The fleet built by King Wu is also quite sophisticated, and the warships mainly include large wing ships, assault ships, building ships and bridge ships. The large wing ship is about 23 meters long and 3.5 meters wide, and can carry more than 100 people such as soldiers and boatmen. The hull was long and narrow, divided into two tiers, the lower floor was the storehouse and where the boatmen rowed, and the upper floor was scattered with soldiers who were fighting. It can carry a considerable amount of supplies and weapons and equipment, and this kind of warship has the advantages of fast speed and good maneuverability, after all, it is the main ship of this naval battle.

Xu Cheng was in charge of the big wing ship, and I was next to him.

The largest number is the bridge ship, which is a small ship with small size, light weight, fast speed, and strong maneuverability, which is used to charge at high speed to cover large warships.

The battleship where King Wu was located was called "Emperor Yu", which was a "meritorious battleship", which had participated in many wars as the royal "Wang Zhou" of King Wu and Fucha, and had a prominent reputation. But the problem is that it's bulky and slow.

Everything went smoothly at first, but when our fleet entered the Langya realm, the situation was different - the wind blew big waves, the ships swayed, many soldiers from the inland water division began to get seasick, and the formation of the entire fleet became chaotic.

Suddenly, those long-lying Qi naval fleets instantly sailed from the upwind direction, launched a fierce impact on us, and shot countless rockets at our fleet, and for a time the fire was raging, and we suddenly fell into a sea of fire, many ships were on fire, and many officers and soldiers were either burned to death, or they jumped into the sea and drowned, with heavy casualties.

Then, more than a dozen large warships came up to surround the "Yu Huang", and they also threw out a strange hook to hook our ship, so that we could neither approach nor escape.

Seeing that King Wu was in a predicament, Xu Cheng immediately ordered the shipwrights to sail the battleship to the "Yu Huang", and with a strong power, he instantly crashed into several large warships of the Qi State, forming a passage, and then, Xu Cheng led the soldiers to rescue the King of Wu desperately, broke through the siege, and fled south, but fortunately, the Qi fleet did not chase over.

In the end, the "Yu Huang" was captured by the Qi army, more than half of our soldiers were lost, and the ship was also lost a lot.

"This time it's a miscalculation!" King Wu sighed in annoyance, clenched his fists and slammed them into the plank.

"King Wu is angry! Careful analysis, our defeat is still excusable, almost all of our water battles in recent years have occurred in inland rivers or lakes, our ships are mainly inland river ships, the problem of inland river ships is that they are slow and difficult to maneuver, and Qi is a coastal country, which has accumulated hundreds of years of experience in navigation and shipbuilding, and the warships are mainly large-wing ships. It is not easy to attack him with his short and long, coupled with the surging wind and waves in the Langya realm, the Qi State has already prepared......" said Nuo Nuodi, a general standing beside King Wu.

"General Chen has a point! Unexpectedly, the State of Qi was not affected by the civil strife. King Wu said indignantly, "The strength of the Qi State is really not to be underestimated!" ”

This battle at sea ended in our defeat.