Xue Yan seemed to see Jiang Shaoxin's doubts, and when Bai Lu arranged for her to be a lobbyist, she also explained the pros and cons and persuasion techniques to Xue Yan, so Xue Yan knew very well what Jiang Shaoxin was wondering about. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

That was the reason for the attack of the state of Chu.

Speaking of which, Xue Yan herself came here to deceive the Han Kingdom into participating in the war. So this argument has to be reasonable and convincing.

"Uncle Jiang is probably wondering, why did the Chu State suddenly attack the border army of the Han State, for this, our Egret military division of the Xia Kingdom has a speculation, I don't know if Uncle Jiang is willing to hear it?"

Chen Kong took the lead first: "But that rare genius military advisor in the world of Xia Guochuan? Okay, you should tell me quickly, why did this Chu State attack us on a large scale?"

"First of all, it needs to be clear that the relationship between our Xia State and Chu State is a great enemy of life and death, not to mention that Chu State invaded our country first and took away the land of ten counties, and then our country was forced to fight back and destroy the enemy with floods. Although it destroyed the border army of Chu State, it also damaged the grain-producing counties of our ten counties, and no one was much better. Xue Yan sighed and said helplessly. "So what I say next is just an objective analysis of Chu Guo's practices, and does not carry Xia Guo's position and propositions, and I hope that my uncle will know it. ”

"I know, just say it. Jiang Shaoxin nodded, knowing that his niece would not speak falsely, even if it was, he had his own judgment and would not easily echo Xueyan's statement.

"Well, I'll make it clear here. In recent years, the state of Chu has been reckless, and the expansion of the army alone is more than that of our Xia State and the Han State combined. With so many soldiers and horses, of course, they are not just for the defense of the homeland, which must be seen by you, uncle. Therefore, the state of Chu must have a plan and purpose of attacking the Han and Xia states. ”

This point is very clear, not only the Chu State, in addition to the Han State is more conservative, the Xia State may not have no intention of expansion in recent years, Jiang Shaoxin is clear.

"And attacking the Xia State is the first step of the Chu State. The other party did take advantage of the critical illness and civil strife of our country's lord to capture the ten counties of our border pass. It's just that what the other party didn't expect was that a flood of the Egret army division of our Xia State annihilated the 100,000 border troops of the Chu State, causing the other party to die without a problem. However, the state of Chu has been planning for many years, so it is natural that it will not give up the offensive easily, so this is why the Daming Mansion transferred troops and the Guannei army attacked. Xue Yan continued, "The reason why I said that this transfer of troops was to attack the border pass of the Han Kingdom, the most important reason is also the problem of destroying the enemy in our Xia Kingdom. ”

"So that's to say, why doesn't the other party continue to attack your Xia Kingdom, after all, now you can't resist the second invasion at all, not to mention the logistics of your army, the 300,000 disaster victims alone are enough for you. Chen Kong held this question and continued to ask.

"Lord Chen is right, 300,000 victims is a huge number, and my Xia Kingdom has been in reserve for many years, and it is difficult to do my best to ensure that these victims do not starve. And it is precisely because of this that the Chu State will not continue to choose to attack the border of our Xia State. Xue Yan began to answer Chen Konglai positively, "My lord, if the Chu State deploys troops to attack the border of our Xia Kingdom, it is indeed not difficult to defeat it, and it is not even difficult to occupy it. But the state of Chu is so kind that at this juncture, it will capture the border of our Xia country and take over the resettlement of 300,000 disaster victims? Will they consume their own grain and grass to feed these disaster victims? In addition, the land of the ten counties is all flooded, and the governance has not yet begun, and it is simply a wasteland with no ability to provide for it, and it will be a time-consuming and thankless act for the Chu State to just want to govern these places. Therefore, even if the border of the Xia State is weakly defended now, the Chu State will definitely not do such a loss-making business!"

Chen Kong was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly realized.

What this Xue Yan girl said is absolutely right, what is the benefit of Chu attacking Xia State? Now the border of Xia State is simply a mess, not to mention how much effort it takes to deal with the flood in these ten counties, even if it doesn't matter, these 300,000 disaster victims are an inescapable problem for Chu State. If it is to arouse the anger of the people, the damage caused by the 300,000 victims to the Chu army is absolutely not to be underestimated. Therefore, as long as the commander of the Chu army has a little brain, he will not choose to run to find trouble on the border of Xia State now, but it is better to wait for Xia State to manage everything on the border, and then talk about the problem of attack.

In this way, the attack on the Xia State by the Chu State was not so much to gain land and wealth as to fall into a quagmire itself, and such a battle was completely meaningless. However, if the state of Chu attacked the border of the Han state, the situation would be completely different. ”

Jiang Shaoxin heard the point, and his face was straight.

"What do you mean by that?"

"The state of Chu marched, to put it bluntly, in order to capture the Han state and the Xia state. Now the border of Xia is a quagmire, but the border of Han is not. Uncle Jiang knew that the Han border had prospered and prospered under the construction of these years. Especially Lord Chen, your wolf narrow county town is even richer. There's no mistake with at least 500,000 gold being traded in your county every year. ”

Xue Yan smiled and glanced at Chen Kong.

Chen Kong's face froze, "How do you know, no, where did you get the news?"

"Master Chen doesn't need to be in a hurry, this is just a simple inference. The weapons and food you buy are all recorded, so it is not very difficult to estimate your income over the years. "Xue Yan really didn't arrange spies on Chen Kong's side, and this ability to speculate data is also the answer directly given by Bailu's side.

"I can deduce that so many elites and so many good generals in Chu will not see the wealth of the Han border? Moreover, Han Hu has not fought with the Han Pass in these years, to be honest, I am afraid that the army on the border of the Han State is not as brave and strong as before, and the lack of combat for many years has made the army on the border of the Han State pampered and pampered, and the strength has dropped by more than one layer. Judging from the captain-level generals born under your hands in the past few years, Uncle Jiang, you can know this. Therefore, the strength of the Han border army is not as good as that of the Chu army, which is the first point to bear the brunt. ”

"Moreover, the border between the Han State and the Xia State was bordered, and because of the alliance, the two sides did not establish hostile checkpoints and fortress cities. The road between the two was unobstructed, and the march was not affected. If you take the Han Pass here, it will not be difficult to continue to invade the Han domestic territory or turn to attack the Xia domestic territory. ”

"In the end, under the situation that there was just a big battle between Xia and Chu, who would have thought that Chu would gather troops so quickly and directly attack Han. Strategically, this is completely unexpected. I think if I don't come to report to Uncle Jiang today, I don't think you would have thought that the Chu State would behave like this, am I right?"