What Shi Mai said is not unreasonable, at least Yun Chang agrees.

Looking at Qingji's posture, it is at all costs to let Wu Zixu be ambushed and punished, in order to vent the hatred in his heart!

Wu is strong, Yue is weak, if in order to protect a Wu Zixu, and bet on the national fortune of Yue, Yun Chang also thinks it is not very worthwhile.

After all, if the city is broken, the Yue Kingdom will be destroyed, and Yun Chang will be so talented as Wu Zixu?

What is it used for?

"King, please think again!"

Lu Ming sighed and said: "Qingji has repeatedly blackmailed the king, which is really too deceitful. If the king connived at Qingji's wanton behavior, lest Qingji make an inch, and have even more excessive requirements! ”

"This ......"

Yun Chang became hesitant again for a while, unable to decide.

Da Sima Shi bought in and said: "King, in the opinion of the minister, why not hand over a soldier? ”

"At present, the soldiers of Wu State are pressing the border, and there is almost a tendency to destroy Yue, if the king only serves the soldiers, and then pays thousands of casualties, how can he be innocent?"

In the final analysis, Shi Mai thinks it's not worth it after all.

In addition to this reason, Shimai has its own selfishness!

Selfishness!

Guy Wu Zixu has great talents, especially good at managing the army and fighting, once such a person is Shiyue, will Shi Maiyan, who is the great Sima, not fall out of favor at that time?

Among the Vietnamese army, how can there be a place for Shi Mai?

For this reason, Shi Mai must not let Wu Zixu get his wish to defect to the Yue Kingdom, and be reused by Yue Wang Yunchang!

"Alas! That's it! ”

Yun Chang sighed, and finally bowed his head and said, "The widow will tolerate Qingji again." Spread the widow's edict to deliver the corpses of Wu Zixu and Ji Guang to the Wu people, there must be no mistake! ”

"The king is wise!"

Shi Mai lowered his head, and a relieved smile couldn't help but appear on his face.

If they knew that Qingji's ambition was to attack Chu, not Yue, and the fact that the Wu army going south only had 8,000 soldiers, they didn't know if they could vomit blood in anger?

The Wu army of Van Yue claimed to be 30,000 people, but in fact there were only 8,000 soldiers and horses, but they were mixed with some folk husbands and healthy women, and they were indiscriminately filled in them, so that people couldn't distinguish them for a while.

It is worth mentioning that in this era, the number of soldiers and horses on both sides of the war is often distinguished by flags and stoves, and there is never a concept of false claims.

Like the 230,000 people in the Three Kingdoms period, known as the 830,000 army, and the 30,000 people claimed to be the 100,000 army, this is a thing that does not exist!

After all, the saying that soldiers do not tire of deception has not yet taken root in the hearts of the people.

……

Just when Wu and Yue were preparing for peace, the 20,000 Wu army with Sun Ping as the general advanced by land and water, and crossed the river with Luzi as a springboard.

Sun Ping's original plan was to conquer the impregnable Zhaoguan first, and then divide his troops to capture Shudi, but Fan Li suggested that Sun Ping's first easy and then difficult, so as not to be unable to capture Zhaoguan for a long time, resulting in a counterattack by the Chu army, and the success was lost!

Sun Ping chose to adopt Fan Li's idea, so he led the army south, all the way to conquer the three riverside cities of Que, Yongpu and Shore in Chu State.

The speed of the Wu army's march was extremely fast, coupled with the cities on the eastern border of the Chu State, its defense was basically useless, so in less than two days, the three achievements along the river of the Chu State changed their flags and became the cities of the Wu State!

Subsequently, the Wu army did not stay on the river bank for too long, but drove all the way into it with a momentum like a bamboo, and successively captured various cities in Shudi.

It is worth mentioning that the Shu land of Chu State does not only refer to the city of Shucheng.

Shudi is a vast territory including Shu, Shu Li, Shu Yong, Shu Jiu, Shu Long, Shu Gong, Shu Bao, Zong, Chao nine cities, with a radius of more than 200 miles and a large population.

These nine cities were originally surnamed Yanguo, also known as "Qunshu", all of which were after the surname Gaotao!

It's just that, just like most of the vassal states in the south, they were either destroyed by the Chu State and kept the temple for worship, or they took the initiative to bow down to the Chu State and become a subsidiary state of the Chu State.

The Shudi kingdoms belonged to the vassals of the Chu State, and the original monarch of the state became the feudal monarch of the Chu State, retaining great autonomy.

Aside from paying tribute to the state of Chu on time, Qunshu was actually not much different from the ordinary vassal states!

Of course, once the state of Chu fought externally and recruited soldiers internally, Qunshu must also respond and send a certain number of soldiers and horses or grain and straw.

Therefore, Qunshu is also equivalent to the state within a country of Chu.

In the more than 60 years of mutual conquest between Wu and Chu, the Wu army also once invaded Shu and obtained several cities, but they were recaptured by the Chu people after holding on for a short time.

And Sun Ping and Fan Li's way to deal with Qunshu is also very simple, that is, relying on strong troops, deterring Qunshu, and saluting first and then soldiers.

The frightened Qunshu naturally did not dare to resist the Wu army, so as soon as the Wu army arrived, they all opened the city to surrender and took the initiative to take out wine and meat to reward the Wu army.

This saved Wu Jun a lot of trouble.

The only fly in the ointment is that the Shu people were unconvinced and did not allow the Wu army to be stationed in the city, which to a certain extent, made the Wu army a little more dangerous to the enemy.

Because no one dares to guarantee that when the Chu army counterattacks, Qunshu will not attack the Wu army in the end.

Shucheng, Wu military camp.

In the big tent of the Chinese army, the big Sima Sun was sitting opposite Fan Li, the military priest's sacrificial wine!

"Great Sima, at present, the nine cities of Shudi have basically changed their course and merged into my Wu Kingdom. However, in my opinion, Qunshu is not sincerely attached. ”

Fan Li shook his head and said: "Da Sima ordered Qunshu to fund the soldiers, but so far, our army has only received 1,500 soldiers, and most of them are old and weak!" ”

"There are less than 3,000 cotton clothes for the winter, more than 600 hard bows, and 5,000 arrows! The rest of the rice and millet grains are only 2,000 stones. ”

"It can be seen that Qunshu still wants to meet the source between Wu and Chu, and the first rat is at both ends!"

Hearing this, Sun Ping chuckled lightly and said, "It's not surprising that Qunshu is like this. Qunshu was a vassal of the Chu State, and he had rebelled from time to time, if it were not for the strength of the Chu people, Qunshu would have already stood on his own and separated from the Chu State. ”

"Many years ago, part of Qunshu was also under the rule of Wu. But it didn't last long! ”

"If I want to completely conquer Qunshu and turn Shu into the land of Wu in the true sense, the people's desire is a long way to go."

Fan Li bowed slightly: "Da Sima, having said that, Ran Qunshu has to guard against this." The meaning of the king is to take down Shudi and Zhaoguan, Shudi is easy to take, and Zhaoguan is difficult to overcome! ”

"I heard that the Chu army has been assembled in Qianyi one after another, preparing to counterattack, if our army wants to hold Shudi, we need to defeat the Chu army in Qianyi to deter the Shu people."

"With only the current soldiers and horses of our Wu army, we may not be able to guard against Shu people at the same time, and at the same time, we will divide our troops and defeat the Chu army."

Upon hearing this, Sun Ying couldn't help frowning and said, "Young uncle, do you want the king to increase his troops?" ”

"It has to be so."