Chapter 142: The Great War Begins

The state of Teng was in the southeast of the Southern Chu Dynasty, and they were bordered by the Nanban Mountains to the south, and a vassal state of Heng to the east. This vassal state was naturally not a vassal state of Southern Chu, but a vassal state of the Eastern Qi Dynasty.

The strength of Heng and Teng is about the same, they are both second-class vassal states, and Teng is stronger, because Southern Chu is rich, and Teng is gone. In addition, Tengguo has a large copper mine, and the copper ore produced every year has brought huge wealth to Tengguo.

Teng and Heng are next to each other, and these two countries belong to different dynasties, so the relationship between the two countries will naturally not be much better. The two countries are feuding, and for more than two hundred years, the two countries have fought dozens of wars, killing and wounding countless troops.

In the thirteenth year of the Great War between Southern Chu and Eastern Qi, Teng entered the hinterland of Hengguo, surrounded the capital of Hengguo for more than a month, and killed a prince of Hengguo. Later, the Eastern Qi Dynasty won a great victory, and the armies of Heng and another vassal state entered the Teng State and killed the father of Liang Yufeng, the lord of the Teng State, and all the two countries were mortal enemies.

Recently, there has been a lot of friction between the two countries, and the cause is because of the copper mine. A copper mine has been discovered on the border between the two countries, and it contains a lot of it. Hengguo was very poor, and when he found out that there was such a thing, he immediately sent 10,000 troops to occupy this copper mine, and also wiped out more than 1,000 Teng troops near here.

Teng Guo quit and mobilized more than 10,000 troops to go over. The letter was sent saying that this copper mine is a branch of the main mine of Tengguo, but Hengguo has not found a copper mine, so this copper mine should belong to Tengguo. In fact, Tengguo didn't particularly want this copper mine, but they didn't want to give it to Hengguo. Hengguo is very poor, and once it gets this copper mine, the pressure on the domestic economy will be reduced. The enemy country has a good time, and the Teng country will definitely have a hard time, so it can't be allowed.

There was no major war between the two countries, because the Eastern Qi and Southern Chu had signed an agreement more than ten years ago. If a big war breaks out, it will be held accountable by the courts of the two major dynasties. So the matter stabbed into the court of the two major dynasties, and Zhu Gui didn't care too much after getting the news. It's just a small mine, what about Hengguo? What is there to rob?

The Southern Chu court casually discussed, and the cabinet issued a document to let Tengguo maintain restraint and not provoke disputes for no reason. The court on the Eastern Qi side discussed it, and also ordered Hengguo to maintain restraint and focus on consultation.

Chu Yuge had secret agents in Eastern Qi, and after they learned the results of the court, they sent the news back. After Zhu Gui got the news, he didn't pay attention at all. There is a little friction between the two vassal states, if he keeps staring, he, the prime minister, will die of exhaustion.

The price of grain on the side of the Eastern Qi Dynasty has been rising slowly, and Chu Yuge has also gotten the news about this matter. However, after Chu Yuge went to investigate further, he found that the problem was in the Great Zhou Dynasty. The feedback from their investigation was that several major trading houses of the Great Zhou Dynasty secretly purchased a large amount of grain and grass in Eastern Qi.

This time it attracted the attention of Zhu Gui and ram Qiu Sima Yue!

They asked Chu Yuge to mobilize a large number of spies to investigate the movements of the Great Zhou Dynasty. It turned out that the Great Zhou Dynasty was secretly preparing various military materials, and the army was quietly mobilizing, and a large number of troops were gathering towards the border of the North Vietnamese Dynasty.

After getting the confirmed news, Zhu Gui and the ram Qiu invited the bear out and held a great court meeting to discuss the changes in the Great Zhou Dynasty. Mi Xiong was nervous when he heard the changes in the Great Zhou Dynasty, and now the strongest of the five dynasties is the Great Zhou Dynasty, and the Great Zhou Dynasty has produced a master of Zhongxing, and now the soldiers are strong and strong, and the rest of the dynasties are quite stressed.

However, when he heard that Da Zhou was going to use force against North Vietnam, he relaxed. The Great Zhou and North Vietnam have not been fighting for a day or two, they have fought once two years ago, and if it weren't for the fact that North Vietnam produced a female god of war, North Vietnam might have been destroyed two years ago.

Qi Xiong casually discussed, asked Chu Yuge to keep an eye on, and asked Ram Qiu and Sima Yue to pay attention to the changes in the border army and retreated. He doesn't have the heart to pay attention to these now, as long as he doesn't fight the Southern Chu Dynasty, he will fight the Great Zhou and North Vietnam in smoke, and it doesn't matter to himself.

Time passed quickly, and a month and a half after Wu Jian reported the news to Li Yunyi, something finally happened on the side of Hengguo and Tengguo!

The two countries were negotiating, and Teng wanted to buy the copper mine for a sum of money. After more than a month of negotiations, the negotiations were almost ready. Heng suddenly sent troops and suddenly attacked Teng's more than 10,000 troops stationed near the copper mine.

Originally, Hengguo only had more than 10,000 troops on this side, and the strength of the two sides was equal. But Hengguo quietly mobilized 10,000 cavalry and concealed all the scouts of Tengguo. With more than 10,000 cavalry and more than 10,000 infantry, this side has an absolute advantage in military strength, or can Teng Guoyan be an opponent under a sneak attack?

Two hours!

Teng's side line was defeated, more than 10,000 troops were killed, most of them were captured, and only more than 2,000 troops escaped. A grandmaster and two grandmasters sitting here besieged him, but fortunately he desperately escaped and was not killed.

The news spread overnight, and the whole of Nanchu shook.

There was an agreement between Eastern Qi and Southern Chu, and if the agreement was torn up, it would cause a major war between the two dynasties. Small-scale friction is no problem, and killing tens of thousands of Teng's troops at once is not a small friction, but a big event.

Almost at the same time!

Suddenly news came from the north of Southern Chu that the troops of the Great Zhou Dynasty stationed in the south said that a general was missing and was suspected to have been killed by the Southern Chu army. They brazenly launched an attack, launching a fierce attack on Longmen Pass, a checkpoint north of Southern Chu, and dispatched an army of 300,000.

This news exploded like thunder and made the civil and military officials of Southern Chu dizzy, didn't the Great Zhou want to attack North Vietnam? Why didn't they declare war and directly attack Southern Chu?

The bear was taking a nap, and jumped up directly after getting the news. I didn't have any clothes on, so I went directly to the imperial study and urgently summoned the rams Qiu Sima Yue and Zhu Gui. After only half an hour of deliberation, Ram Qiu and several generals flew towards the north on flying beasts.

Subsequently, Mi Xiong convened a great court meeting and urgently mobilized a large army to reinforce the northern border. The national strength of the Great Zhou Dynasty is very strong, if the Longmen Pass is breached, and the Great Zhou army drives straight in, then Southern Chu may be destroyed.

In addition, Mi Xiong summoned the envoys of the Eastern Qi Dynasty in Chujing, formally protested, and asked the Eastern Qi Dynasty to order the Heng army to withdraw immediately and compensate Teng for the losses. Otherwise, it will be regarded as tearing up the agreement, and Nanchu will not give up.

Mi Xiong summoned envoys from the Western Jin Dynasty and the Beiyue Dynasty, asking the two dynasties to join forces to put pressure on the Great Zhou Dynasty to stop the attack. Mi Xiong promised a lot of benefits, especially the North Yue Dynasty, which promised heavy benefits, so that North Vietnam sent troops to suppress the Great Zhou.

For a while, the atmosphere of the entire Southern Chu Dynasty became extremely depressing, and there was a feeling that the mountain rain was about to come and the wind was full of buildings.

All parts of Southern Chu and the major vassal states are discussing this matter, and many people are panicking, always feeling that the Southern Chu Dynasty is in trouble.

......

Jingcheng, Beidaying!

Wu Jian walked in with a volume of information in his hand, and saw that Li Yunyi was in a daze at the map, he smiled and said, "My esteemed Royal Highness King Yi, the information from Tengguo's side is here." ”

Li Yunyi turned around, smiled and said, "If I'm not mistaken, the 10,000 cavalry of Hengguo should have been broken into pieces and dispersed and infiltrated, right?"

"God!"

Wu Jian sighed, looked at Li Yunyi carefully, and said, "I have time to wonder, have you learned the witchcraft of the unknown prophet? The 10,000 cavalry of Tengguo were disguised as grain transport teams, and hundreds of hundreds of them were mixed in every day. There are more than 10,000 troops in Hengguo, but the grain is being transported little by little, and Tengguo thinks that Hengguo is poor, so he doesn't care. Tengguo's intelligence organization raised all waste, and the number of grain transport teams and carriages returning every day was so small, and he didn't even notice it, Liang Yufeng estimated that he was going to kill a group of people. ”

"Hmm!"

Li Yunyi nodded and said, "The war between Tengguo and Hengguo is just the beginning, and this side is just a breakthrough. Teng Guo was torn out of a hole here, and the army of Eastern Qi could drive straight in, ridiculous... Nan Chu's side actually thought that it was just a dispute between the two countries, and they didn't pay much attention to it. If my prediction is good, within ten days, the Eastern Qi army will quickly pour in from the mouth of Teng State, and after the army enters, Teng State is estimated to be destroyed in half a month at most!"

"This ......"

Wu Jian's face changed slightly, and he said, "If Tengguo is destroyed, then Cai Guo will be in danger, they will push it over, Cai Guo will soon be destroyed, and it will be our turn to Jingguo in the future." ”

"You're thinking too much!"

Li Yunyi waved his hand, pointed to the map and said, "In the eyes of Dongqi, we and Cai Guona are all small shrimps, and it is insignificant whether they are destroyed or not. Even after destroying Tengguo, they didn't have the slightest sense of accomplishment. The reason why they wanted to defeat Teng was to tear a hole in the defense line in the eastern part of Southern Chu. After their army circled from Tengguo, the eastern defense line was exposed to the enemy and could easily collapse. Once the eastern defense line collapses, the entire Dongqi will be a flower girl who has taken off her clothes, and Dongqi can play as much as she wants......"

"I see!"

Wu Jian stared at the map for a few moments, and understood, "Sima Yue spent more than ten years building the eastern defense line, known as the iron wall. This line of defense is used to defend against Eastern Qi, and if a large army appears behind it, this line of defense is basically useless. ”

"That's right!"

Li Yunyi nodded and said, "Don't worry too much, Sima Yue is known as the god of war, and there is a large army in the east of Southern Chu, which can be contained." It is still impossible to break through the eastern defense line in an instant with a surprise attack in a short time. ”

"What about the Great Zhou Dynasty?"

Wu Jian pointed to the map and said, "The 300,000 troops of the Great Zhou are storming Longmen Pass, if the Great Zhou and Eastern Qi join forces, then Nanchu can withstand it?"

"Impossible!"

Li Yunyi shook his head and said very firmly, "There is a mortal enemy in the north of Great Zhou, and that female god of war in North Vietnam is not an idiot. If the Great Zhou and the Eastern Qi joined forces to fight the Southern Chu, the Western Jin Dynasty would not sit idly by. Because they all know that the Great Zhou and Eastern Qi swallowed Southern Chu, they can continue to join forces to swallow North Vietnam, and then join forces to defeat the Western Jin Dynasty, and then the Great Zhou and Eastern Qi will equally divide the world. Do you think the North Vietnamese and the Western Jin Dynasty would be so stupid?"

"So!"

Li Yunyi paused for a moment, and said with great certainty, "The Great Zhou and Eastern Qi can only fight separately, and the goal of the Great Zhou is still North Vietnam." My previous inference was correct, Da Zhou is now just attracting firepower to Dongqi and allowing them to lay out calmly. Otherwise, it will not be the 300,000 army that will attack Longmen Pass, and the 300,000 army will want to conquer the northern border of Southern Chu, which is a fool's dream!"

"Then when are we moving?" Wu Jian asked curiously.

"Don't worry!" Li Yunyi said with a smile, "When the battle situation is chaotic, it will be our turn to play." ”