It's a pity that Li Yuan should have happily lifted Xiang Yan, who knelt even lower than him, but at this moment, a retainer suddenly broke into the big tent and whispered in Li Yuan's ear for a while, but his face instantly became gloomy.

Of course, Li Yuan would not do anything like "you really eat", and the things that made Li Yuan feel bad came from Qin Jun.

Li Yuan helped Xiang Yan up, and soon hid the gloomy color on his face, and put on that kind smile again, with a little disdain in his smile.

"The State of Qin is really a child's faction, obviously it was my Chu State that declared war first, but it was the first to send troops and conquer Chen County."

Li Yuan's tone was very flat, as if the loss of Chen County was not a big deal.

However, anyone in the Chu State knows that Chen County was originally called "Chen Du" and "Yingdu", the former being a private name for Chen County, while the latter was the official name.

It was the old capital of the Chu State, after Yuncheng and the real Yingdu were conquered by Bai Qi, the Chu Capital, which was the accompanying capital and later the official capital, after the defeat of the last Hezong battle, the Chu State moved its capital to Shouchun, and renamed Shouchun as Yingdu, as if the Yingdu of the Chu State had never fallen and deceived itself.

After all, it is the former capital of Chu State, which is of great significance.

Moreover, as a city only one hundred and twenty miles away from the Qin-Chu border, the Chu State naturally dug deep ditches, built fortifications, and raised the city walls to prevent the Qin army from attacking.

The Qin army was so easily defeated?

"What does the Admiral think?"

Li Yuan took the initiative to give up the right to speak to Xiang Yan, which seemed to further confirm his behavior of handing over the command to Xiang Yan.

Xiang Yan stroked the beard on his chin, groaned, and said, "The strategic intention of the Qin army is obviously to drag our Chu State here, so it captured Chen County to provoke our Chu army. ”

"Well, that's exactly what the general said."

Li Yuan glanced at the aristocratic generals in the tent who looked disdainful of Xiang Yan, his eyes were gloomy, and his voice was a little heavier: "Do the generals think so?" ”

"Yes, what the Admiral said is very true!"

The aristocratic generals recognized Li Yuan, but not everyone was convinced by Xiang Yan, who had a smaller fief than them and was a nobleman of the temple faction, but with Li Yuan's support for Xiang Yan, even if those noble generals who were dissatisfied with Xiang Yan were dissatisfied, they would not dare to engage in yang and yin disobedience.

"I intend that I don't have to wait for the remaining 150,000 troops to assemble, with General Jing Qi as the main general, to go north from Huaibei and gallop to aid Wei. And here the 250,000 elite Chu army marched into northern Chu, first recovered Chen County, and then sought an opportunity to recover the homeland of northern Chu, and then went north to Shangyu and marched to Wuguan! ”

The other 150,000 troops were temporarily assembled after all, so the date of dispatch was temporarily postponed by 15 days, and if it was delayed for another half a month, I am afraid that things would change.

Moreover, the other 150,000 troops were mostly assembled by the two Huai nobles and other nobles in Jiangdong, which was already closer to Huaibei, so they simply entered the territory of Wei from the 150,000 army to help, and their main elite was to recover their homeland little by little.

Xiang Yan did not believe that the Qin State dared not to send troops to increase the number of troops.

Even if the Qin army chose to continue to attack Wei, then even if Wei could not be saved in the end, Chu would also take the opportunity to recover a piece of his homeland in northern Chu.

Xiang Yan's strategy was no problem, after all, the Qin army that crossed the Qin-Chu border was only 120,000, less than half of the main force of this Chu army.

But the premise is that he can defeat this Qin army.

Chubei, Chen County

Zhang Ji stood on the city wall of Chen County, and the generals gathered around him, Zhang Ji looked at Wu Chen, Cai Ci, Shao Sao, and Lu Chen playfully, and said with a smile: "How does it feel to return to your hometown in this capacity?" ”

It's just that the faces of the four of them are not very good-looking, attacking the mother country of Chu as the general of the Qin army, or personally attacking Chen County, which is their hometown, this taste is obviously not good.

"Don't make fun of the minister, wait, the minister just saw his father, and was chased and beaten by his father with a stick, scolding the minister for being a traitor and a traitor."

Lu Chen smiled bitterly, his Lu family is also a strong party in Chen County, his father Lu Qing was born in a peasant family, and he is also a highly respected person in Chen County, he was quite happy in the face of his missing son returning to his original state, but he found that his son had become a general of the Qin army, and he was the first to break through the city, so angry that he almost snorted.

Zhang Ji angrily kicked Lu Chen's back, and the dusty military boots left an obvious footprint on Lu Chen's back.

"Playing this with Ben-kun?"

"You don't see what your father means?"

"If my Qin army wins, then the Chen County Lu clan can rely on the eldest son to rise together, if the Chu army wins and recaptures Chen County, then he is also a loyal minister who destroys his relatives in righteousness, and the temple of Chu State will never punish the Chen County Lu clan in order to appease the people's hearts, and will also take it as an example and give great favors."

Compared with the strong Chen County Lu family, Zhang Ji, an old aristocrat of the Anyi Zhang family, is too familiar with this two-headed betting method.

Lu Chen, who was exposed, didn't feel ashamed, just touched his head and smiled.

"As long as you fulfill the duties of the Qin general Lu Chen, this gentleman will not take care of the two sides of your Chen County Lu Clan, and the same is true for the Wu Clan, the Cai Clan, and the Shao Clan."

Zhang Ji is quite open to this kind of thing, the nobles and heroes are not cunning rabbits, and the Anyi Zhang family is also a branch thrown out by the Qinghe Zhang family, so that the Zhang family can take root in various countries and bet separately, naturally they will not be angry at the family of the courtiers under their command for doing this kind of thing, as long as they can fulfill their duties as Qin generals, Zhang Ji will not care, and even take the initiative to cooperate.

Otherwise, why did Zhang Ji let Wuchen and Lu Chen be responsible for attacking the city, and Cai Ci and Shao Shao were responsible for appeasing the nobles and people of Chen County, to put it bluntly, it was also to give them an opportunity to show favor to their fellow villagers and clansmen, and also reduce the killing of the Qin army when they entered the city.

Moreover, betting separately also means that these nobles will not dare to offend the Qin army to death, at least they will not take the initiative to cause chaos, and it also saves Zhang Ji from worrying about the situation of being attacked by the enemy.

"Li Yuan and Xiang Yan led an army of 250,000 to the north, and the vanguard was the 100,000 people of the Thunder Leopard Legion and the Shadow Tiger Legion, which were already less than 100 miles away from Chen County."

A coquettish voice with a little heroism came into Zhang Ji's ears, and Zhang Ji looked sideways at a female general in white armor.

Dressed in a tulle-like light silk short, covered with a white slim-fitting soft armor, it fits to the slender waist and outlines the perfect curves.

The snow-white lotus root arms and slender jade legs are individually wrapped in a pair of silk sleeves and socks, and covered with a layer of soft arm armor and leg armor tattooed with fine lines like fish scales.

The pure white robe behind him also fluttered in the wind, embroidered with delicate patterns and flashing with silver light, like an elegant cloud.

The long gray hair was also combed into a neat ponytail shape, and the fine white strands of hair shone silver in the sun.

Who else is there besides Bai Jin in this outfit?

"Thank you, ma'am."

Zhang Ji looked at Bai Jin with a smile, this female general who had left the battlefield since she married her also went south to Chu with him this time.

First, Zhang Ji's old troops were all scattered to various places, and only a group of newly recruited doormen were left, with insufficient battlefield experience, and they were at war with the Chu State, if these doormen were useless, wouldn't it be dangerous?

Therefore, at the strong request of his wife and concubine at home, Zhang Ji had to agree to take Bai Jin south to Chu together.

Second, it is also Bai Jin's own desire.

In the past, she was in South Korea, as a woman, and as a marquis, she was naturally eager to gallop and fight on the battlefield.

It's also time for everyone in the world to remember that there is such an amazing female general in this world.

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