Rong Yi came, Wei He's eyes lit up, the copper green mountain has been recovered, and the next step of the army has been clear, but after all, the stakes are very high, and many joints are afraid of complications in the future if they do not declare it to Zhou Wang Jihu in person. If Rong Yi goes to Luoyi to discuss the general march, it can save a lot of intermediate links, and it is very happy!

The two discussed, did not stop for a moment, and went to Luoyi at the same time.

"I heard that the naval warship has been built, how to enter the army, Wei Wugong can have a final plan?" As soon as they met, Ji Hu asked straight to the point.

"The minister and the prime minister have agreed on a complete strategy, and in general, there are eight words: take Echeng first, and then take Meili." Wei He did not hesitate at all.

"Your Majesty, let the ministers be careful." Rong Yi arched his hand, walked to the board map that had been prepared and pointed out: "Echeng is the old capital, and taking it can greatly hit the morale of the people of Echeng to resist the king, this is one; The Eshi Zikun ruled the homeland, as if it had become a banner of the E-people, rather than the E-control party. Therefore, Echeng must be taken, take Echeng, and the next step is that the navy can enter the sea along the big river, enter the river from the sea, and raid Meili, and it will be destroyed in one fell swoop. Realize my king's will to 'destroy his kingdom'. ”

"Good!" Ji Hu took the case: "The two Aiqing are very good, and it is completely feasible to look at it!" Aiqing can do it as much as she wants, and the affairs of the court are all left alone. ”

"No!" Wei He and Rong Yi bowed to a promise.

The curtain of a great war was slowly opened.

The sky was white, and Echeng fell into a deep silence.

Shizi Kun stood at the battlement of the arrow tower at the south gate, dressed in white and integrated with the vast snow and mist. Here he stared motionless for an hour, his legs and feet numb, but his heart was bright

Original general.

Before moving the capital, he fasted for three days in a row at the temple. This made Shizi Kun realize that his concern for his father and his initiative to stay in Echeng were completely superfluous. My father had already planned to move the capital, and he had also planned to let himself stay. Despite the sadness, despite the indifference of his heart to the ice, Shi Zikun did not stop his practical affairs. There was only one reason, he could not leave behind the more than 30,000 wounded, old and weak soldiers in this city.

Although the ambush on the south bank of the Great River was defeated, Shi Zikun knew for the first time that the soldiers of the Hubei army were bent on him. The general of the guard said that when the defeat was retreating, the heavy rain was pouring down, and the remnants of the Hubei army did not disperse, but gradually gathered, just because they heard that he was still alive, they all faithfully guarded themselves and did not leave.

The military proverb circulated by the remnants of the soldiers is: "Gongzi Kun is here, and the country of Hubei is here!" "With the remnants of the bloody battlefield like this, can I leave it alone and take care of my father who doesn't need to be cared for? What's more, he has paved the way for his father and marquis when he crosses the border, and he doesn't owe him any more!

After fasting and sacrificing to the temple, Eyu finally issued an edict of retreat to the east.

It was on that night that Shizi Kun saw his father for the last time. E Yufang said that the treasury of the Gonggong Palace and those who can't leave are left, and if they stick to it, they can support it for at least three or five years.

E Yufang finally said: "If you find it convenient, then set yourself up as the king of E." ”

E Kun said: "No, the son is still the son, and one country cannot have two masters." ”

E Yufang said: "It's okay." If he doesn't set himself up as a king, King Zhou won't care. Just look at Xiong Qu, what's the benefit of arrogating to be king? ”

The Kun is not here again

Some of the false stories were entangled with their fathers, without any sorrow of life and death, and the chariot and horse brigade of the Eyu side left in the early morning of the next day.

The first thing Shizikun did was to clean up the entire Echeng left by the Hou Yufang.

Three days later, the new Echeng Decree reported that there were still nearly 20,000 "half-household" people in the entire Echeng, and the population was roughly less than 80,000. The so-called half-household is a family that does not have a male soldier. In other words, the male population that can be soldiers was either killed in battle or taken away by the Ehou Yufang, leaving only the old, weak, women and children.

Immediately afterwards, the treasurer of the government reported that there were about half of the goods, grain and grass in the treasury, the most broken old weapons, and the least bows, arrows and armor.

In the main hall of the palace, the Kun gathered the soldiers above the centurion level, held a grand court meeting, personally announced the population and property situation of the city, and asked the soldiers whether they were willing to fight to the death? The soldiers were extremely excited, and shouted one after another: "Swear to live and die with the son!" ”

Shizi Kun's spirit was greatly lifted, and he swore with the soldiers of the main hall in blood: he was determined to do the battle of the lonely city, bloody Hubei, and death would not spin!

However, a winter is about to pass, and Echeng is in a strange predicament.

Originally, it was expected that after the victory of the Wang Division, he would go south in one go, and the bloody battle of Echeng would start immediately. What I didn't expect was that in the middle of autumn and winter, the Zhou army actually nested in Wancheng and did not go further south. The news from various scouts and business travelers has repeatedly confirmed a change: Wei He drilled the sailors and built warships, which seemed to have the intention of attacking Chu and capturing the Copper Green Mountain.

E Kun's judgment is that this is Rong Yi's usual rumor warfare, this person is in charge of the Nanlin Society, and is good at using intermittent warfare to divide the enemy camp and break the opponent's will to resist

Don't be fooled! However, no matter how resolutely he repeated it, he could not reverse the slackness and fatigue of the Exies.

One winter, the news spread, and most of the country of Hubei was inexplicably paralyzed. For the rest of their lives, the disabled sought out their families and tried to return to their hometowns at any time, while the able-bodied were busy with the ties between their fellow villagers to plan a way out. Everyone feels homesick. The common people of the city also began to flee, and there were so many reasons to leave the city that it was impossible to distinguish the real from the fake.

In fact, after the withdrawal of the Hou Yufang, the merchant travel in Echeng has become extinct, the circulation of materials and goods in the city has been paralyzed, and the livelihood of the people has been greatly difficult; Even if the common people are enclosed in the city, they are forced to teach people to wait for death. If it's wartime, it's all easy to say. But there is no war at the moment, and the news also says that there will be no war in the spring. At this time, if you can't take out the only remaining military rations from the treasury to help the people, how can you stop the common people from fending for themselves?

"Heaven too! I'd rather destroy my surname Yu Mai! ”

The Kun wanted to roar, but fell heavily in the vast wind and snow like a stone figurine......

When the fish woke up, the snow and ice had melted, and the willows in the courtyard had already pulled out new branches. The old lady said that when he was carried back by the soldiers, he was too stiff to pour any potion into it. In desperation, a general from the Orion family used the thawing method of the sorcerer of Chudi to pile up a loose snow mound, and ordered a hundred soldiers to take turns to carry the stiff him in and out of the snow like a stone pile, and so on and so on for a whole night, before he became soft and ruddy.

After that, the old lady doctor used the method of medicinal sleep and taught him to fall asleep for a whole month, and only pried open his teeth every day to pour him in

Add a little broth.

"The resurrection of the son of the world, if it is not the will of heaven, there is no way to explain it!"

"How many months?"

"The third day of March."

"Help, help me up."

When he was stood up by the two maids, he felt that his whole body was no longer his own. The old lady doctor followed, and a group of maids took turns to stand up, walking for a while, resting for a while, taking medicine, drinking water for a while, sleeping for a while, waking up for a while, and so on for three days, and then the Kun gradually came to life.

On the day when he realized that his spirit improved, Shizi Kun insisted on taking a look at the situation in Echeng. The horse could no longer be ridden, so he had to sit on a couch carried by six soldiers and walk slowly.

The steep spring breeze rolled up the residual snow, and the entire market only encountered a few sleepwalking old people. Echeng Xiao was so sparse that he didn't dare to admit it. In the past, it was the most prosperous and lively business hotel, there was not even a single figure, and it was empty and lonely like a cemetery.

There were still soldiers at the head of the city, but they were all leaning on the battlements to bask in the sun and catch lice. However, the rows of thin figures like hemp stalks are unbearable to see.

"How many troops are left?"

"Report to the Son: Echeng has more than 30,000 troops......"

Shi Zikun only asked this question, and never spoke again. Returning to Miyagi, Shizi Kun announced the general of Echeng and the order of Echeng, and ordered him to start planning on the same day, abandon Echeng, and retreat to Meili with the whole army. The two new officers did not have the slightest objection and immediately accepted the deployment.

Obviously, everyone understands the terrible end of being trapped in Echeng: even if the Weihe army does not come, they will wait for death to defend Echeng. The reason is not anything else, but that the Hou Yu Fang poached the country of E

The foundation of the king also blocked the passage between the Hubei State and the rest of the Jianghan countries, and the economy of the Hubei State had been cut off by the orchid madder earlier. There are no farmers, no more craftsmen, no more business travelers, and the vitality of Echeng is cut off.

However, before the evacuation plan was ready, the Weihe army marched south.

Wang Shi came down to the south very suddenly, and when Shizikun received the news, Weihe's army had already crossed the Han River and entered the outside of the three houses. Obviously, the hasty evacuation at this time is conducive to Wang Shi's iron cavalry to cover up the killing, and there is no doubt that he will surrender himself. Facing a precipitous situation, Shi Zikun was very sober, and resolutely ordered to open the treasury and distribute armor and weapons, and all the people in the city were soldiers, and drove out of Echeng overnight to build a barrier on the north bank of Eshui to meet the enemy!

Such a deployment is not based on the fact that Shizi Kun knows that his troops are fighting, but is based on the simplest fact: going out of the city to fight is convenient for escape; trapped in the lonely city, he is destined to be a prisoner of the king's master. The common people and soldiers who were in the middle of the war, everyone understood this truth, and they moved without any resistance.

The remnants of the real Hubei army went out of the city overnight, and the common people in military uniforms drove to the north bank of the Hubei River one after another, and it was already noon the next day, and the soldiers and civilians were deployed as one, and the formation was barely enough to gather 100,000 people, and it was also vast in the new green wilderness.

When the red tide of the royal division of the army was purged, the situation on the battlefield was self-evident.

The 30,000 infantry of the Zhou army overwhelmed the mountains and pressed over in the sound of horns that resounded through the field. The long arrows sent out by the rows of strong crossbows poured down like a storm. The Hu army was still dodging in a panic in the trench, and the trench cars had rumbled overhead, and the sword, shield, and spear phalanx immediately pressed against Hesse

The pace of rectification was like a burst of heavy thunder, and the three steps and one shout were like a tsunami in a mountain, and its fierce murderous spirit made the Hubei army collapse before it could jump out of the trench and set up the formation.