Chapter 12: Xiong Don wins
On Qiyan's side, the formal alliance kicked off, worshipping the Son of Heaven, sacrificing to the gods of mountains and rivers, and finally all the armies practiced together to strengthen the cooperation between the armies, and when everything was in full swing, Ji Wan had already led the army to the land of Shenlu.
There were many vassal states between Luoyi and Chu, and they all responded to Ji Wan's call and followed the Son of Heaven with their own armies.
Looking at the majestic army, Ji Wan was very proud, and at the banquet, the princes praised him with beautiful words, even more numb than Hou You and Ji Hou.
"Sui Bo Ke?" Ji Wan suddenly thought of someone, so he asked the attendant, You Hou was a little resentful of these Southern Barbarians in his heart, and when he heard Ji Wanzhi's question, he hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, Sui Bo Zhen guards Sui Guo, but he is facing the front line of Chu Man, and he does not dare to move lightly, so the five lords of Hanshui have not come." ”
Ji Wan drank a glass of wine, shook his head and said, "As soon as the widow heavenly army arrives, Chu Man will definitely come down when he hears the wind, why be so cautious." ”
You Hou hurriedly nodded yes, and Handhou, who was also serving by his side, wanted to come forward to explain the importance of these five countries, but after thinking about it, if he wanted to clarify, he would definitely mention Luosu, and it would have the opposite effect, so he just kept silent.
The five countries of Hanshui were all established by Luosu.
At the beginning, Xiong Dun was arrogant and uncontrollable, and the princes of Zhennan organized coalition forces to attack Xiong Dun many times, but he was defeated many times, and Luo Su had already realized that Xiong Dun was probably a rare god of war.
Luo Su does not know how to command troops, but he knows that this kind of person is invincible on the battlefield, and the only way to defeat him is to pull him into a situation that he is familiar with.
Therefore, he decisively stopped the call to attack Chu again, and asked the generals to build a defense line that could trap Xiong Dun in Chu, and he was responsible for the army's population and food.
Luo Su's method is to see that although Xiong Dun has an elite army, his number is small, and although there is a lot of land in the entire Chu State, most of it is empty land and has no population, so Luo Su forced Xiong Dun to fight with him for the consumption of money and grain, and it is naturally not feasible to use the population and food of one place against the population and food of the whole world.
In the end, this defense line built by Deng, Lu, Yan, Tang, and Sui along the Han River appeared, and these five countries were each other's horns, with a convenient field of vision.
This method of warfare caused the Chu army to dare not cross the Han River to attack at all, and Xiong Dun was disgusted, but it was impossible to take the already small population to pull out the city.
As for why the monarch of the Five Kingdoms is so obedient, it is mainly due to Luo Su's strong personality and somewhat arbitrary behavior, and for his orders, there are only two options: execution and thorough execution.
The fate of many nobles in the past has proved that if there is a slight violation of the yang and the yin, they will be reprimanded by Luo Su, and if this leads to a big defeat, it will definitely be the end of seizing the lord and removing the country.
So far, Xiong Dun has not broken through this line of defense, which is why he was overjoyed when he heard that Luo Su had abandoned his official position.
Luo Su's method of not rushing to kill head-on, but slowly stabbing people with a soft knife is simply heavenly, fortunately, he has made some achievements in the south and west over the years, otherwise he would really vomit blood with grievances.
Although the news of Luo Su's abandonment of the government had spread throughout the Zhuxia countries, he had accumulated too much power, and these five princes still did not dare to leave their defense line until this time, for fear that Luo Su would return to Luoyi and punish them.
In fact, these people are panicking all day long, and they dare not leave, but now that Luo Su has left Wangji, is there still a need for these five countries to exist, and whether the three princes in power in Wangji will give them replenishment of population, soldiers and horses, grain and grass, this is a very real problem in front of them.
After Ji Wan feasted the princes of Shenlu and Lu, he was ready to go directly south, to the five kingdoms of Hanshui, at that time, there was only Hanshui left between the Chu countries, in his expectation, 100,000 troops crossed the Hanshui, how could Xiong Dun resist?
In Ji Wan's view, the ancestor King Wu can defeat the Yin Shang army with less victory in Muye, and set the world in one battle, and King Su can defeat the rebels in a battle on the bank of Luoshui, and then conquer the entire eastern countries with a devastating and decaying manner.
When the army arrived at the five countries of Hanshui, they were stationed in the three kingdoms of Deng, Lu, and Yan to rest and prepare for the follow-up river crossing operations.
Xiong Dun, who had been waiting for Ji Wan in Chudi for a long time, heard the news that Ji Wan had arrived, and even sent an envoy to win the championship.
Hearing that the envoy of Chu asked to see the Son of Heaven, Ji Wan, You Hou, Ji Hou and others thought that Xiong Dun was afraid of the army of the Son of Heaven and wanted to ask for peace, and they were quite proud.
Ji Wan received the envoy of the state of Chu in the palace of Deng Bo, a layer of burly guards protected him, several important princes accompanied him, the envoy of the state of Chu was a tall man, without the slightest timidity on his face.
When the envoy came into the palace, he didn't salute, but just bowed his hand slightly, "Foreign minister Jinglin, my king ......."
Before he could continue, Handhou had already jumped out angrily and reprimanded: "Rebel daring? Xiong Dun is not a viscount, how dare he arrogant himself as king in front of the Son of Heaven, don't you think you dare not kill you? ”
Ji Wan's face also turned blue in an instant, he didn't expect Xiong Dun to be so ignorant of life and death, the heavenly army has arrived, and the time of death is just around the corner, so he dares to speak so loudly.
He had even begun to consider Yuki Erhou's strategy in the first place.
In the face of Handhou's angry rebuke, Chu Chen Jinglin was not afraid, and still Shi Shiran said: "The king of my family asked the emperor of Zhou State, I don't know which of my Chu State's Dading or Luoyi's Jiuding is heavier?" ”
"Poof!"
"Bang!"
This time, it was not only Hanhou alone, almost everyone was glaring at this envoy from the Chu State, and Ji Wan, the Son of Heaven, was completely unable to restrain the anger in his heart.
"Xiongton! Look for death! ”
"You thief, go back and tell Xiong Dun, let him wait, the widow will definitely divide his five horses and die!"
The entire hall could only hear Ji Wan's angry voice, he drew out the guard's sword, slashed it on the table in front of him, and roared angrily: "Send troops immediately!" The widow will immediately put Xiong Dun to death in the most cruel way. ”
Although the Marquis of Handan was angry, his reason was still there, and when he heard Ji Wan's chaotic life, he hurriedly advised: "The king can't, my army has been marching for days, and I am tired, and if I cross the river and fight like this, I will definitely be defeated!" ”
But Ji Wanzheng was angry, where could he hear such words, and immediately yelled at Yuki Erhou: "Don't you also stop giving orders? ”
Yuki Erhou also felt that he could not send troops, but he did not dare to disobey Ji Wan's order, so he could only order all the armies to attack.
Seeing that things were unstoppable, Handhou only felt chills all over his body, and only then did he understand why Luo Su had to go, it turned out that he had already seen through Ji Wan's character.
Even if it is persuaded this time, what about the next time?
If Ji Wan's character does not change, he will definitely fail!
No way!
You can't just sit back and wait.
Handhou forcibly calmed himself down, the six armies of the Son of Heaven could not all die here, he wanted to bring back as many people as possible alive.
He remembered a list of nobles that Luo Su had left him, all of them were nobles from the Luohou family, and now if he wanted to conspire with them, he had to rely on them.
He hurriedly began to recall the names of the people on the list, and immediately prepared to start contacting, he believed that anyone with a little brain would be shocked when they heard Ji Wan's order.