The sudden northern expedition of the Chu army was really somewhat unexpected.

After all, just a year ago, the Chu army lost tens of thousands of Chu troops on the frontal battlefield of Hangu Pass, and the elite of the Chu army that made a surprise attack on the hinterland of Qin State through Hedong was almost lost.

There were less than 20,000 left of the 40,000 Tenglong Legion of the Xiang clan, and the 30,000 Thunder Leopard Legion directly under the command of the Chu royal family was completely abolished, and the main general was killed in battle, and less than 10,000 survived.

The Shadow Tiger Legion was wiped out because Zhao Cong took the Zhao State Heavy Armor Corps and retreated without telling him, and Ji Heng, the head of the Ji clan who was in charge of the Shadow Tiger Legion, died on the battlefield, and the sixteen-year-old young master Ji Bu had to be crowned in advance to join the army, and rebuild the Shadow Tiger Legion with the assistance of the elders of the family.

And when the elite of the Chu State was almost wiped out, he was able to reassemble the army and go north to attack Wei?

Even the court of Chu did not expect this situation, and this was Li Yuan's first political achievement after becoming Chu Lingyin.

Different from the noble arrogance of Chun Shenjun, who is a descendant of the Spring and Autumn Huang royal family, Li Yuan, who was born in an ordinary wealthy family in Zhao State and lived in the market when he was a teenager, has characteristics that Chun Shenjun does not have.

Sleek!

As the only remaining minister in the edict of King Chu Kaolie after the death of Chun Shenjun, and the uncle of the new King of Chu, Li Yuan's identity and status are not the same as in the past, but Li Yuan seems to be still the guest Li Yuan of Chunshenjun, and still maintains a humble and gentle disguise.

Moreover, Li Yuan was sleek enough when he was in the world, and this tactfulness gave the nobles with whom he got along with an extremely comfortable sense.

This sense of comfort gradually eased the relationship between the court of Chu and the local nobles, and after Li Yuan took charge of the government, he did not make Yin's status noble, and personally visited many large, medium and small nobles.

In the final analysis, the nobles of the Chu State did not want to fight openly and secretly with the Chu court all day long, although it was to defend their power and wealth, but it was also exhausting.

And the political signals released by Li Yuan's series of measures are all expressing a meaning.

That was the beginning of Li Yuan's reign, and the court of Chu and the local nobles of Chu State would usher in a harmonious and friendly honeymoon period, which was also what the nobles were willing to see.

As for the opponents in the court, Li Yuan was not as cautious as Chun Shenjun when he ruled because he was too jealous of the courtiers, and his governing style was very bold.

After all, he also has his own unique political advantages, as his own nephew, Chu Wang Han is only a five or six year old child, it is impossible to oppose his policies, and has the experience of serving as Wang Yin, Li Yuan also controlled the Chu palace in his hands, put an end to the possibility of people who are secretly enemies of him to meet Chu Wang Han, and initially controlled the government of Chu with the cooperation of the nobles.

But if Li Yuan wants to completely control the government, he still needs prestige and real achievements.

In this world of great contention, what merit is more practical than the merit of expanding the land?

What prestige deters opponents more than prestige in the military?

It happened that the vitality of the army controlled by Chun Shenjun was greatly damaged, and Li Yuan got along well with the nobles, so Li Yuan, after consulting with the nobles, recruited an army of 80,000 led by the nobles and gathered in the Huaibei fortress of Chu State.

Many courtiers who opposed Li Yuan in the court thought that Li Yuan was gambling, and the chances of winning were not high in the northern expedition to Wei with those troops who were not good at fighting and whose soldiers were weak, and they were all waiting to see Li Yuan's jokes.

If Li Yuan did not go north to attack Wei, it would only be a matter of time before he completely controlled the court, but if the northern expedition was defeated and defeated, it would be difficult for Li Yuan to control the army from now on.

In troubled times, military power is the most important power.

With military power, everything else is there.

That's the reason why my neighbors are stockpiling grain and I are stockpiling guns.

Li Yuan doesn't understand military affairs, but he understands a truth.

The Wei State fought for many years, the enlistment age was reduced to fourteen, all leather, iron, copper and other mines were forbidden to cast agricultural tools, and only military ones were allowed, plus the Chu State and the Wei State before the Hezong, and the Zhao State and the Wei State clashed many times, plus the soldiers who died in the Battle of the Hezong, the Wei State frontier soldiers have not had soldiers to change their guards for more than two years.

Such a weak Wei State, and then the Qin State invaded the western territory of Wei State, which made the eastern territory of Wei State move westward and plummeted, if the Chu army could not achieve results under such circumstances, Chu State simply turned against the armor and surrendered with Lilly, maybe Chu Wang Han still did not lose the position of marquis.

Everything was as Li Yuan expected, the Wei army moved westward, and the Chu army took the opportunity to capture Dangcheng and Jiaocheng, important towns in the southeast of Wei.

This Jiaocheng is not the Jiaocheng that Qin and Wei fought for many times, located in the south of the Yellow River, but a city located in Huaibei, which is the royal capital of Jiaoguo surnamed Ji in the past, with fertile soil, with many fertile soils such as sandy black soil, fluvial soil, brown loam soil and lime soil, and is a large city of grain production.

The seizure of these two cities also successfully established Li Yuan's prestige among the Chu army, and the court gradually stabilized.

Li Yuan gave half of the land to the nobles who went on the expedition with the army, and this fertile fief made the nobles very happy.

Although the land allocated to each family is actually not much, what is important is Li Yuan's attitude and the integrity of fulfilling his promises.

Of course, the happiest is still the Qin State.

As the leader of the alliance last time, the state of Chu openly tore up the alliance that had not yet been openly violated by the states of the alliance, broke off diplomatic relations with Wei and declared war, and seized the cities of Wei, which was very destructive to the alliance.

The alliance, which was already isolated from the north and south of the Qin State and was difficult to form again, has completely lost the possibility of forming it since then.

On the other hand, Zhang Ji, who still has the last two nights before the wedding, is tossing and turning.

is so close to the wedding date, the girls will no longer mess around, and even Zhao Ji and Chaoxi have honestly settled down.

Zhang Ji, who was used to eating big fish and meat, was suddenly cut off from cooking, but he was a little unaccustomed to it.

Holding the brocade quilt rolling on the bed, it was difficult to sleep.

Suddenly, an internal force fluctuation came, and the door bolt of Zhang Ji's house suddenly exploded.

It was an internal force containing the extreme yang attribute, and the exercises related to this internal force were extremely familiar to Zhang Ji.

Soul Dragon.

Zhang Ji turned around and looked sideways, it was a dignified and elegant, graceful and luxurious figure, wearing a dark blue fishtail dress with orange and yellow sleeves, the evening breeze was gently blowing, teasing the gently dancing skirt.

"Scarlet Smoke?"

Zhang Ji looked at Scarlet Smoke who came to his room at this moment with some surprise, but Scarlet Smoke's eyes did not have the tenderness of the past, nor the excitement and nervousness of getting married, but instead there was a touch of cold.

The cold eyes could feel a tingling pain when they looked at them.

Today's scarlet smoke is a little strange.

In those cold dark eyes, there seemed to be a faint blue light flashing.

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