In the end, the Thunder Leopard Legion and the Shadow Tiger Legion only stayed less than fifty miles away from Chen County and stopped marching, and the army led by Li Yuan and Xiang Yan also advanced to Xiangcheng.

The Chinese army stationed in Xiangcheng made Xiang Yan quite emotional.

Xiang Cheng's Xiang and Xiang Yan's Xiang have the same root and origin, and three hundred years ago, this was the capital of Xiang State.

Xiang Guo is the fief of the descendants of King Wen of Zhou, the viscount, so it is also called Xiang Ziguo.

In the eighth year of King Xiang of Zhou (644 years ago), the sixteenth year of Duke Lu, the state of Lu gradually became stronger, and the national strength of Qi gradually weakened with the death of Guan Zhong, and even Duke Huan of Qi was seriously ill, and Duke Huan of Qi summoned Duke Song, Marquis Chen, Marquis of Wei, Zheng Bo, Xu Nan, Marquis Xing, Cao Bo and other princes to meet in Huai.

In the spring of the seventeenth year of the reign of Duke Lu, the armies of Qi and Xu coordinated to attack the British, and Duke Lu led the rest of the princes on his behalf. Duke Lu took the opportunity to order the rest of the princes to destroy Xiang and occupy the land of Xiang State.

The Xiang clan fled in all directions, and a considerable part fled south to the land of Chu and became the courtiers of Chu.

Many years later, the Duke of Qi Huan died, the State of Qi lost its position as the overlord, King Chu Cheng sent troops to capture Xiangdi, the Xiang clan made military exploits in the war, and was sealed in the lower phase, since then the Xiang clan who went south to Chu has been based in the land of Jiangdong and has become the nobles of Jiangdong.

Speaking of which, Xiang Cheng is to the Xiang clan of the Chu State, which is dominated by Xiang Yan, is like Qinghe to Zhang Ji's Anyi Zhang clan, but the latter does not have Xiang Yan's noble attachment to his own bloodline and origin.

After all, in later generations, who has not had a few celebrities on their ancestors, who is not a descendant of a nobleman, who is not a descendant of Yan Huang or a descendant of Chi You?

Even in the area where he was naturalized in China, there were many celebrities of different races in his ancestors, so there was not much obsession with Zhang Ji about bloodline.

And Xiang Yan was stimulated to fight.

Or rather...... Ambition!

That ambition is not the ambition to be kingly and hegemonic, but the ambition to restore the glory of the ancestors.

To tell a joke about the Chu State, if you can be a nobleman of the Chu State, why bother to find yourself unhappy to be the king of Chu and be the nest of the nobles?

To put it mildly, if it weren't for the fact that Qu Jingzhao's three major clans were the clan of Chu after all, otherwise the nobles would unite and change the king of Chu at any time, but they would be able to enjoy all the treatment that a king could enjoy in their own fiefdom in this era of bad etiquette.

However, when Xiang Yan convened a military meeting, the generals had already quarreled over whether to take the initiative to attack Chen County.

The Zhao clan has been a pro-Qin faction since the time of Yin Zhaoyang of Chu more than 100 years ago, although the current head of the Zhao family, Zhao Zhu, resolutely helped Chu to resist Qin, but he still believed that the strength of the Qin army far surpassed that of the Chu army, and he was a conservative in the Chu army, and quarreled fiercely with the radical generals.

"The Qin army is brave and good at fighting, over the years, Han has destroyed Zhao, crowned the world, and it is that Zhang Ji who personally leads the troops, even if the enemy is outnumbered, you can't rashly attack!"

Even though the three major clans are all clans and have extremely deep ties of interests, in terms of their attitude towards the Qin State, the Jing and Qu clans, who are both three major clans, are staunch anti-Qin factions.

Jing Qi, the head of the Jing family, had been ordered to lead the 150,000 soldiers and horses gathered by the two Huai nobles to gallop north to aid the Wei state, so the heavy responsibility of the radical faction fell on Qu Ding, the head of the Qu family.

"Five years ago, I followed Chun Shenjun to embark on a journey from here and began the fifth joint attack on Qin, and Nanyang County was returned to my Chu State. Wherever the army of Chu went, the people wholeheartedly welcomed it, and it was really a good time. ”

"That kind of vigorous and vigorous realm of competition is still in front of us."

"Could it be that after only five years, my Chu army is so inferior to the Qin army?"

"You must know that the Chu army was defeated back then, and the primary responsibility lay with Yan Dan, leaking the military information and cutting off my back road, otherwise Xianyang City would have been breached a long time ago, where is there today's Qin State?"

"No matter what, 250,000 vs. 120,000, the advantage is mine!"

The old god Li Yuan was there, and Xiang Yan each knelt in front of a separate handsome case, reviewing the government affairs sent from Shouchun, and handling the logistics tasks in the army by the way, without interfering with the generals' arguments at all.

In other words, he was waiting, waiting for Xiang Yan to make a statement, and then supporting Xiang Yan.

This made Xiang Yan quite moved, at least in this regard, Li Yuan was far better than Chun Shenjun!

Chun Shenjun doesn't understand military affairs, that is, he is at the level of talking about soldiers on paper, but he likes to command this and that, which makes the generals of Chu who participated in the joint column quite a headache.

But Li Yuan has a full understanding of his military level, he will never overstep the command, nor will he give orders easily, he really handed over everything to Xiang Yan to command as he said before, and he, Chu Lingyin, is like a marching master book.

After dealing with the last batch of government affairs at hand, Li Yuan stretched his waist and looked at Xiang Yan, who seemed to be more calm than him.

As an eight-sided villain, he is naturally good at observing words and feelings, but from Xiang Yan's face, he can't see a trace of eagerness and anxiety, or even half of worry, and he has a faint sense of confidence?

From the perspective of his political interests, Li Yuan hoped that Xiang Yan would send troops.

Chen County, as the previous capital of the Chu State, was captured by the Qin army, and if the Chu army did not fight, his political enemies in the court would inevitably impeach him for being weak and losing the blood of the Chu people.

"Quiet."

Finally, Xiang Yan spoke out to stop everyone's quarrel, and the prestige accumulated in the army over the years, as well as Li Yuan's support, gave Xiang Yan unprecedented command in this army that was not so one-hearted.

"Take the initiative, yes."

Xiang Yan looked at the hopeful eyes of the radicals and conservatives, and slowly spoke.

Looking at the excited and excited appearance of the radicals, Xiang Yan's words turned around.

"If you take the initiative to attack, the Chu army will inevitably suffer heavy losses." Xiang Yan looked at Qu Ding, the representative of the radical faction, shook his head and said, "Don't forget the Mo family's tricks. ”

"Compared with attacking, the Mo family's organ technique is best at defending, and Zhang Ji is the leader of the Mo family."

"But general, my Chu country also has the mechanism technique provided by the Chu Mo family, and it may not be impossible to break through the city where Zhang Ji is stationed!"

Qu Ding still wanted to fight again, but when he said it, he also realized his stupidity.

Chu Mo is famous for Moxia, and what he is best at is fighting alone and assassinating, but Qin Mo is based on forging as the core, and the Mo Family General Academy is based on the mechanism technique as the core, compared to Chu Mo's mechanism technique, which is nothing.

"It's okay, General Qu Ding and rest assured."

"Ben is not blindly conservative, but this is not the most suitable time to attack."

Xiang Yan showed an undisguised look of confidence on his face, and this confident look infected all the generals in the tent, even the conservative generals couldn't help but guess, thinking that Xiang Yan must have found a flaw in the Qin army.

"Before the time comes, just continue to confront the Qin army, and there is no need to rush."

Xiang Yan didn't believe in the stinky kid of the Zhang family, and he couldn't believe in the white-haired contemporary Guigu Hengjian, but he could trust the head of the Zhang family, the father of the city.

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