When the hearts of the people in the Central Plains were moving frequently, the Chu State and the Wu State were fighting frantically with white knives and red knives out on the Hanyang Plain.

On the surface, this war was very chaotic, but the goal of Qingji and Sun Wu was very clear, and this was the only quick way that Sun Wu had studied for many years.

"From the top of the river, going upstream, it will definitely be intercepted by the Chu State, there is no certainty of victory, only by taking the Xinyang Passage can we go down in a battle, but the key is to drag the elite main force of the Chu State on the Hanyang Plain."

This was the war plan formulated by Sun Wu, but the development of the war situation soon surprised everyone, and Wu originally just wanted to contain the main force of Chu on the Hanyang Plain.

But he didn't expect that the general of Chu was too stupid, Sun Wu planned, and Qingji, who was wearing three layers of heavy armor, was too brave, and beheaded Chu generals again and again, and as a result, the Wu army fought successively.

If it weren't for the effectiveness of Chen Guo's harassment of Ying Guo, it would make it a little difficult for Wu Guo's grain and grass to continue, and he could even push it all the way to the edge of the Han River.

In the end, the two armies temporarily confronted each other, Chu State breathed a sigh of relief, and Chen State was even more proud, with the domain of a small country, it was able to interfere in the dispute between major countries.

The cold in Sun Wu's eyes was deep, "Monarch, the Chen State is harassing, and it is no longer realistic to want to fight with the Chu State on Hanyang."

It is still necessary to follow the previous strategy, take the Xinyang channel, and go straight to Yingdu.

The primary goal is to capture the nobles of the Chu State, the secondary goal is to destroy their land as best as possible, and the second goal is to take the population of the Chu State captive. ”

Qingji nodded thoughtfully, the two monarchs and ministers did not expect to be able to pocket the Jianghan Plain, and they had expected to divide the boundary along the Yingshui Dabie Mountain, but now they may have the opportunity to re-block the Chu State to the west of the Han River.

The plan was set, and the wise and martial monarchs and ministers directly began to implement it, and the Chu army, which realized it later, reported to Yingdu long after losing the figure of the Wu army.

Yingdu.

The war with the state of Wu in these days has exceeded everyone's expectations, and now there is a sense of impetuousness in the entire state of Chu, and there is a sense of panic and uneasiness.

"Wu Guo doesn't want to directly raid Yingdu, right?"

"How is this possible? On the Yangtze River, the benefits of my Great Chu's boats are not comparable to those of Wu State. ”

But when Wu's army suddenly appeared in Xinyang and crushed the last elite army of Chu, the nobles in Yingdu panicked.

In the main hall of the palace, almost the nobles of the entire Chu State gathered here, and everyone felt that the catastrophe was about to befall them.

The Queen Mother was full of anxiety and fear, she was a very beautiful woman, but in the midst of war, this beauty could only be a curse.

At this time, Xiang Thorn stood up, he was the grandson of Xiang Cheng, and Xiang Cheng was the former Minister of State Ling Yin.

He looked at the flustered nobles of the Chu State, very disappointed, and said sharply: "Calm down, don't make any more noise!"

It's just a small failure, is it worth the panic?

During the Battle of Yanling, all the armies of the Chu State were buried in the Central Plains, isn't the Chu State still so prosperous now?

Wu is not Luo, King Su will not bless him!

The supreme Taiyi is in the sky, and the Chu people will never give in! ”

Xiang's prestige in the Chu State is already very high, and he is a close relative of the royal family, the key is that when everyone is panicking, Xiang Ting's appearance is very reassuring.

The current King of Chu is just a seven or eight-year-old child, the regent is the Queen Mother, and the ruling minister is Jing.

Guo was very dissatisfied with Xiang Ting's performance, and immediately wanted to have a seizure, the characteristic of the fool is that even if the sky is about to fall, he still wants to fight.

Fortunately, the Queen Mother opened her mouth first, she was a woman with no assertiveness and ability, and she was widowed at a young age.

Now seeing Xiang Qing's heroic spirit, he suddenly felt at ease, and couldn't help but ask happily: "Does Xiang Qing have any good strategy to retreat from the enemy?" ”

"A good idea?"

Xiang Thorn sighed: "Wu Guo has been planning for a long time, and he is coming to Yingdu.

If you can make a draw with Wu in Hanyang before, or if you can block Wu Jun in Xinyang, you can still negotiate now.

But once you are defeated on the battlefield, do you still want to retreat the enemy army with words?

If hundreds of years ago, the ancestors of the Xiang family were still there, and they might be able to do it with the blessing of King Su, but now it is a dream. ”

Unless it is a country that is far away and will pay compensation, what cannot be obtained on the battlefield will not be obtained at the negotiating table.

Xiang Ting's words made the glimmer of hope that had just risen in the hall fall again, but Xiang Thorn did not despair, he looked at everyone in the palace.

Closing his eyes slightly, his mind was his grandfather's Chunchun teachings, he opened his eyes and said loudly: "Although we have suffered defeat now, this is just the tactical success of Wu Guo.

The state of Chu is still a behemoth that Wu cannot reach at all, and the population and land in the Jianghan Plain and the Nanyang Basin are still there, and now they are only defeated because of some incompetent people.

Now the only thing Chu can do is to reduce the losses caused by the attack of Yingdu, and ask the queen mother and the king to retreat into the Qin state.

Qin and Chu have a cold relationship, and they will definitely be able to invite Qin to send troops, as long as the royal family is still there, all the soldiers from all over Chu can be transferred to the royal capital.

At that time, Wu will not fight with us between the Jianghan Plain and the Nanyang Basin.

The Jin State, the Luo State, and the Qi State have an alliance of soldiers, and the Wu State cannot be the opponent of the coalition army, and there will be a battle on the Hanyang Plain at that time. ”

Xiang Thorn paused, stared at the Queen Mother, and said absolutely: "Queen Mother, the king can't stay now."

You have to take the king and the nobles out immediately, if it falls into the hands of the Wu State, then the Chu State will really be seriously injured this time.

After that, how can you compete with the Jin State, the Qi State, and the Luo State for the position of the overlord of the world?

As for the army of Wu, leave it to the ministers to cut off the queen. ”

After the break!

Now use the soldiers and horses in and around the royal capital to block the army of Wu, saying that it is a broken queen, but it is just sending it to death.

His tone was sonorous and powerful, as if he was not going to die, but to a banquet, the queen mother looked at the beautiful eyes with colorful ripples, regretting why she didn't reuse the spur as soon as possible, so she said softly: "Xiang Qing, no, you are the pillar of the Optimus of the Chu State, if the Chu State does not have you, what should I do later?"

Leave the matter to someone else. ”

Xiang Thorn sighed and said, "Queen Mother, Your Majesty."

It has been more than 200 years since the ancestor Luo Yan entered Chu, and the first king divided the Luo family to Xiang Di, and it has been more than 200 years now, how much favor has the Xiang family received from the previous kings?

Now it's just a matter of getting it all back.

The will of the minister has been decided, and I ask you to take the king, immediately retreat from the Yangtze River to Bashu, and turn to Qin.

In case the Han River runs into the Jin army's betrayal of the alliance, then everything will be over.

The other nobles were diverted from Hanshui, and the Jin Kingdom would not target the minor nobles, they were safe.

I hope that when you return with reinforcements from the Qin State, the minister will still be alive. ”

Qin and Chu opened up Bashu in order to allow the two countries to communicate with each other, but I didn't expect that the first time it was used was the Chu royal family to flee for their lives.

The Queen Mother walked directly down the hall, held her hand and cried and said: "When the country is in danger, I know your loyalty, this is the sin of the concubine, and the identity of Ling Yin is the only thing you can do, please take care of the prime minister." ”

Xiang Thorn bowed slightly to the Queen Mother, and then his eyes fell on the body of King Xiao Chu, he took a few steps forward, knelt on the ground and kowtowed.

"Assassin, thank the queen mother and the king."

Above the main hall of the Chu King's Palace, the ministers were silent, and only the voice of Xiang Thorn resounded.

He bowed slightly, he knelt on the ground and kowtowed, saying that he was willing to die, and exchanged his life for the life of the king, and the sun shone into the main hall and fell on him, dyed with a layer of golden light.

This scene fell into the eyes of the little Chu king sitting on the throne, and for a moment, he seemed to see the sun.

That hero-like figure was deeply engraved in his mind, very warm, and he whispered softly, no one heard, "Xiang, Xiang." ”

Xiang Thorn's execution was very fast, and after the Empress Dowager handed over the position of Chu State Ling Yin to him, he drew up the list of the first batch of nobles who fled without the slightest delay.

There were also a large number of elite soldiers in the royal capital, all of whom went out to protect these nobles, and batches of nobles left the capital in an orderly manner.

He himself took a lot of military strength left by each family, began to arrange on Jiang Han, and began to prepare to meet Sun Wu.

He knew that he was not Sun Wu's opponent, that person was able to use the national strength of Wu to defeat Chu to lose his armor, this was an unborn god of war figure, but Xiang Thorn was not afraid.

"The supreme and noble King Su, you see, the descendants of the Xiang family are no worse than the main family in the Luo Kingdom.

Even without your blessing, the Xiang family can still be loyal to the royal family, and the Xiang family can still protect the eternal prosperity of the Chu State. ”

Xiang Thorn looked at the busy Yingdu, and said secretly in his heart.

The development of things is not subject to human will, and Xiang Thorn is much stronger than the previous generals of the Chu State, which did cause great trouble to Sun Wu.

However, after such a long war between Wu and Chu, after losing a large number of elite soldiers, the two countries have already changed their offensive and defensive positions.

In the face of a super military master like Sun Wu, unless it is a completely unreasonable soldier master like Xiong Dun, he may be able to directly crack Sun Wu's perfect strategic plan from the tactical point of view.

It was obvious that Xiang Thorn did not have this ability, especially when the nobles retreated and took away a large number of elites, and the gate of Yingdu was shattered.

"The defeat of the First World War, the accumulation of decades, was destroyed in one fell swoop, and the next time the revival of the Chu State will be seen."

Xiang Thorn was unwilling to surrender, and was killed by Qing Ji himself, after killing Xiang Thorn, Qing Ji sighed a little, "The Xiang family is the most loyal and upright of the Luo family among all the small sects of the Luo family, and the office of the Ying Kingdom and the Xiang family cannot be compared at all." ”

Sun Wu shook his head and said, "Monarch, the upper nobles in the Yingdu have all fled, and it seems that the biggest goal cannot be achieved.

But they left in a hurry, and there are countless riches left here.

I'm afraid that the State of Chu is going to the State of Qin to move the rescue troops, and we don't have much time. ”

……

The impact of the battle of Wu and Chu was enormous, and in the third volume, the editor proposes that the iron curtain between the Ji-Jiang alliance and the Ying-Mi alliance has completely fallen, and the two major military groups have been completely formed.

The two sides confronted each other in the land of Cuihan and the land of Yanling, after the battle of Yiluo, the Jin State cut the land for the Qin and Chu countries, and the Yingqi Alliance occupied an advantage in the Weihe Plain, the Nanyang Basin, and the Hanyang Plain, but the sudden rise of the Wu State and the rapid war redefined the sphere of influence between the two sides, and the front line of the confrontation between the two sides was pushed to the Yingshui area.

This kind of trade-off between the two sides dominated the next hundred years, especially had a great impact on people's thinking, the single fight between countries completely disappeared, and the thinking of no alliance and no war was implemented on everyone, and the impact was far-reaching. ——The Cambridge History of China: Eastern Zhou Vol. 4

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