A moment later, Li Mu, Meng Wu, and Wang Jian came to the gate of the Qin Palace, where Zhao Gao had been waiting for them for a long time.

"The three adults are here, and the king is urgently summoned!" Zhao Gao stepped forward and saluted.

Li Mu, Meng Wu and Wang Jian looked at each other and saluted Zhao Gao and said

"Lord Zhao, what is the king summoning us in the middle of the night for?"

Zhao Gao motioned for the three of them to walk and said, the three of them kept up with Zhao Gao's pace, Zhao Gao said

"I don't know exactly why, as a slave, but the reason why the king summoned the three generals here is related to the Chu State."

Hearing Zhao Gao's words, the three of them were slightly stunned, and then a fine light flashed in their eyes, summoning them in the middle of the night, and it was related to the Chu State, the biggest possibility was that the Chu State had changed, and they needed to attack the Chu State in advance. Ying Zheng summoned them at night to explain that this matter was very urgent, and even directly bypassed the previous dynasty, and privately prepared to send troops.

Without saying anything all the way, the three of them were brought into the palace where Ying Zheng was located by Zhao Gao, and after a courtesy of the monarch and ministers, the three of them stood below, and Ying Zheng sat above and looked at the three of them and said

"The widows are preparing to attack the Chu State in advance, what do you think?"

After the three of them looked at each other privately, Wang Jian stepped forward and said

"Dare to ask the king if there has been a change in the Chu State?"

"It's not that there has been a change in the Chu State. The teacher is now trapped in Yun Mengze, Xiong Qi sent someone to fence off all the roads of Yun Mengze, it should be to do something to the teacher. ”

"What!?"

Wang Qian, Li Mu and Meng Wu's pupils flickered with shock, they couldn't believe what they heard, Ziyou was trapped in Yun Mengze, this was something more important than the change in the Chu State. Ziyou is not only the face of Qin, but also the lining of Qin. It is indispensable that the Qin State can have a situation where hundreds of schools of thought gather, the people are rich, and the country is unprecedentedly strong.

The three of them also understood why Ying Zheng would wake them up directly in the middle of the night, Ying Zheng did not consult with them, but asked them to come up with a way to attack.

"Now that all the cities in the north of Chu have been taken by us, if you want to attack Chu State, you only need a large army to go south, and you can be like a bamboo. There are three things the only thing the army has to worry about. First, Xiang Yan, Xiang Yan's ability to lead the troops ranks among the top in the world. Second, it is His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is now in the Chu State, and if we rashly declare war on the Chu State, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will fall into a dangerous situation. Third, the climate of Chu is humid and hot, and there are many people in my Qin country, and now it happens to be the dog days, and the south is even hotter and rainy, and the miasma is rampant.

If there is no perfect preparation, rashly attacking the Chu State will be extremely unfavorable to our Qin State. Wang Jian said.

As a veteran general of the Qin State, after Wei Yu left the Qin State, Wang Jian was responsible for the unification of the Six Kingdoms, especially for the old opponent of the Chu State was studied very thoroughly, and all the entire Chu countries and abroad were studied clearly.

"If you are asked to lead the troops, how many people do you need, and how long will it take to take Yingdu?" Ying Zheng looked at Wang Jian and asked.

"If you only take the old land of my Qin State, you need 300,000 troops." Wang Jian arched his hand and said.

After thinking about it in his heart, Ying Zheng looked at Meng Wu and Li Mu.

"What about Meng Aiqing and Wu Anjun?" Ying Zheng asked.

"The number of troops required by the minister may only be much more, and Xiang Yan is indeed difficult to deal with. In particular, there are many mountainous areas in the three places of Nanjun, and it is difficult to carry out cavalry operations that the minister is good at. Meng Wu said truthfully.

Meng Wu also understands his own strength, if he wants to fight against Xiang Yan, he needs to fight a protracted battle, and Ying Zheng needs a quick victory, if it is in the plains, he can try, but the three places of Nanjun with mountains and rivers are not his home field.

"The minister doesn't know, the minister and Xiang Yan have not fought each other, nor have they fought with the Chu State, and they don't know much about the situation in the Chu State. But if the king wants to take Yingdu quickly, there is a way! Li Mu said.

"What's the solution?" Ying Zheng asked with a flash of hope in his eyes.

"At the beginning, Qin's strategy of attacking Chu was to disrupt its internal affairs, divide its geography, and weaken its national strength. Xiong Qi's pseudo-Chu occupies the three places of Nanjun, the three places of Nanjun seem to be large, and the mountains are mostly mountainous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, but the comprehensive national strength of the same three places is not strong, except for the rich grain of Nanjun, most of the other places are undeveloped deep mountains, which is destined to be far inferior to Qin's national strength.

And the entire army of the puppet Chu is also placed in three positions, one of which is the front line of Dangyang, Xishi, and Anlu, to deal with the Lantian army. The second is Zeng Xi's second place, beware of Yang Duanhe generals, and the third is Xiling to prevent Li Yuan's attack.

Combined with the national strength of the puppet Chu, they divided their forces into three routes, each of which seemed to be strong, but in fact it was just a façade, we only needed to send three routes and three armies to attack the puppet Chu from three places. Pseudo-Chu only has Xiang Yan as a famous general, but he can't fight against the three-way army at the same time. Only one person needs to drag Xiang Yan and make it impossible for him to take care of the other two ways, so that he can go straight to Yingdu and take down the pseudo-Chu. Li Mu said.

Li Mu's meaning is very simple, that is, to use Qin's strong national strength and logistics capabilities to open up three small battles to destroy the country, so as to crush Xiong Qi and Xiang Yan, Xiang Yan's ability to lead troops is strong, and there are these four major corps and more than 200,000 troops under his command, which seems to be a lot, but compared with Qin's million-strong army and hundreds of thousands of old soldiers, it is not enough. Once the troops are divided, the army in Xiang Yan's hands will not be enough, even if Xiang Yan's ability to lead troops to fight is in the forefront of the world, but it is impossible for you to deal with Wang Qian, Meng Wu and Li Mu at the same time.

Wang Jian himself and Xiang Yan are evenly matched, although Meng Wu is not as good as Xiang Yan, but it is not as good as Xiang Yan alone, and Li Mu, the first person and the person who competes for the second fight is a dimensionality reduction blow.

It's just that Li Mu's method is too risky, not to mention the huge logistical pressure caused by the division of troops into three routes, but any route that is defeated by Xiang Yan will be a huge blow to the entire Qin army. This method was denied at the first time in the heart of Wang Qian, who sought stability.

"It's too risky." Wang Jian said.

Ying Zheng thought about it for a while, he was a little moved in his heart, the current Qin State has the ability, and let Zhang Cang be in charge of the grain and grass of the three-way army, although it is a little difficult, but it can also be calculated.

"The widow thinks it's possible." Ying Zheng banged on the table and said.

Seeing that Ying Zheng had finalized this matter, Wang Jian didn't know what to say, and began to collect useful information in his mind.

"At the same time, the intelligence transmitted from the three places of Nanjun said that in order to deal with our Qin State, the pseudo-Chu wantonly recruited troops and stockpiled grain, and there was a great disregard for the life and death of the people. After the establishment of the puppet Chu, the implementation of the Qin law was still the Qin law, but the people who implemented the Qin law were the puppet Chu magnates, they just regarded the Qin law as a banner to stabilize the people, and used the Qin law to oppress the people and earn benefits for themselves. The people of the three places are dissatisfied, and they miss the orders and prohibitions under the rule of our Qin State.

As long as we spread the news during the attack and inform the people of the three places in Nanjun, they will definitely abandon the darkness and turn to the light to meet the royal army. Wang Jian said.

Hearing Wang Qian's words, Li Mu glanced at Wang Qian, Zhao Guo was a factor that had lost outside the battlefield many times.

"This matter is thus decided, the three of you immediately go back to prepare for the south, and when the court meeting is over tomorrow, you will start preparing for war." Ying Zheng said.

"No!"

The next day, there were also people in the court of the Qin State who opposed the current war of Chu, but the war of Chu was already a matter determined by Yingzheng, and they had no way to oppose it, so the entire Qin State was running again, and a huge war might be avoided as much as possible for other countries, but on the Qin State, except for a small number of people, everyone else in the Qin State would like to fight a war every three or five times.

In the face of Qin's big moves, he naturally couldn't hide from the spies of Chu, and soon the information about Qin was presented in front of Xiong Qi.

Xiong Qi looked at the information in his hand and asked the chamberlain to invite Xiang Yan, and half an hour later, Xiang Yan, dressed in military uniform, came to Xiong Qi's palace.

"Great Sima, Qin Guo's movements are faster than we imagined. Our previous move to block Yun Mengze was indeed inappropriate. Xiong Qi handed the information in his hand to Xiang Yan.

Xiang Yan unfolded the information, looked at the contents and pondered for a while and said

"King, it's useless to regret it now, according to the intelligence, the Qin State has now transported all the food and armament to Lantian, they should be going to take the dry fish mouth from Lantian, and the sailors are going down the river and approaching Yunmengze. At the same time, he led his troops to continue south, passed Dangyang, and went straight to Yingdu. ”

"The widow is worried that Yang Duan, who has lived in two places, will send troops from Zengxi, and then we will be attacked by the enemy." Xiong Qi said.

"We still have time, the Qin State is mobilizing the army, there are only 30,000 Qin troops in the two places, as long as we defend to the death, we can block Yang Duanhe, as long as we defeat the Qin army on the battlefield, then we have hope." Xiang Yan arched his hand and said.

"The three thousand Yue female sword troops have been trained, although they can't be compared with the original three thousand Yue archers, but they can also fight with Qin Ruishi." Xiong Qi said.

"Thank you, King!" Xiang Yan said.

"I will mobilize the strength of the whole country to support, and the next big Sima needs to recruit and train soldiers as soon as possible, as for food and armaments." Speaking of this, Xiong Qi's eyes flashed with fierceness: "If you suffer hard, the people of my Chu State, if it is not enough, the widow will go to those powerful people to borrow, even if it is robbed, it can be robbed enough to support the war between you and the Qin army." ”

"Thank you to the king, but the king had better not touch these magnates, these people are all grass on the wall, if we are ruthless, they may fall to the Qin State." Xiang Yan reminded.

"The widow knows that Da Sima is training his troops with peace of mind and preparing to meet the enemy." Xiong Qi said.

"No!"

After Xiang Yan left, Xiong Qi sat on the throne and said to the chamberlain beside him

"Go and invite Guo Kai!"

"No!"

At this time, Guo Kai's mansion, Guo Kai saw off a powerful person from Yingdu at the gate.

After sending off this magnate, Guo Kai breathed a sigh of relief, this magnate is Zuo Yi of the Chu State in Yingdu, and his voice in Yingdu is very important.

Since Guo Kai came to Yingdu, he directly found Xiong Qi's allegiance, originally Xiong Qi was unwilling to accept Guo Kai, but Guo Kai gave too much money, plus Guo Kai brought a lot of residual strength of the Zhao magnates. Thinking that the State of Chu was about to be the next target of the State of Qin, Xiong Qi temporarily took in Guo Kai and gave him a position as a doctor, the kind that is in name only.

In his heart, Xiong Qi is still wary of Guo Kai, not only because Xiong Qi thinks that he is a generation of Ming Jun and has no good impression of a minister like Guo Kai, but also because he is worried that Guo Kai will make friends within Yingdu and take advantage of the opportunity to make money.

"It's just one step away." Guo Kai said in a low voice.

The reason why Guo Kai wanted to entertain Zuo Yi was because Zuo Yi had an extremely important vacancy in his hands, supervising Ma Yin. Supervisor Ma Yin was in charge of the affairs of the horses of the Chu army, and was an official position with close ties with the Chu army, and was the most suitable position to spy on the military situation of the Chu State. Guo Kai did not forget the task given to him by Ziyou when he came to Chu State, otherwise he would not have tried his best to climb up.

Just when Guo Kai was about to go back and prepare what he promised to Zuo Yi, Xiong Qi's edict came, and Guo Kai was slightly stunned and then followed the chamberlain to the palace of the king of Chu.

"Minister, Guo Kai greets the king!" Guo Kai saluted Xiong Qi and said.

"Doctor's excuse." Xiong Qi said, "I have wronged Guo Xiang, and I am a doctor in my little Yingdu." ”

"What grievances can people talk about when they lose their country? The king's ability to take in those of us who have lost our country is enough to make us grateful. Guo Kai said.

"It's no secret, the Qin State is now transferring troops to Lantian, and I'm afraid it's about to attack the Chu State. I summoned Guo Xiang here this time to inform Guo Xiang that you can make plans in advance, and the Chu State will not be able to bear it for long. Xiong Qi's tone was touching, like a good person who thinks about his friends.

Guo Kai was slightly stunned and then saluted and said

"Guo Kaiben is the official of the Zhao State, the Zhao State was destroyed by Qin, the king would rather offend the strong enemy than take us in, so the favor ministers and others can not be repaid, although Guo Kai came to the Chu State for a short time, but the king, colleagues and the people of the Chu State did not regard the ministers as outsiders, and now the Chu State is in danger, how can the ministers abandon the Chu State?

Although Guo Kai can't write and martial arts, he is still willing to fight for the Chu State! ”

Hearing Guo Kai's words, Xiong Qi was a little moved in his heart and asked tentatively

"Guo Xiang is willing to live and die with the State of Chu?"

Hearing Xiong Qi's words, Guo Kai was stunned for a moment, but quickly suppressed it. Xiong Qi was keenly aware of Guo Kai's move, and felt a lot more relieved, if Guo Kai was really willing to live and die with the Chu State, he felt that there was a ghost. Now Guo Kai's reaction made him feel at ease, so he spoke

"The widow is just joking, my Chu State has 200,000 elites, and there is a big Sima Xiangyan in charge, and the Qin State is at war, and who wins and who loses is two words."

"I wonder if the minister has anything to serve?" Guo Kai asked.

"This time the doctor was summoned to ask the doctor to send someone to contact the old nobles of Zhao to see if they were still willing to revive Zhao, if they were willing, the widow hoped that they could raise the banner of revival in the old land of Zhao when Qin and Chu were at war, so that Qin would be in turmoil." Xiong Qi said.

Hearing Xiong Qi's words, Guo Kai fell into deep thought, looking at the pensive Guo Kai, Xiong Qi continued

"Aiqing can think about it."

(End of chapter)