Huai's intelligence network has developed in the Chu State for decades, and now it has access to the vast majority of the Chu State. Of course, there aren't many of the real cores. Half of the money earned by the Huaiguo caravan was spent on the intelligence network.

After ten years of development, the state of Chu has not only recovered its vitality, but also improved its national strength a lot, and the Zhanghuatai of the state of Chu has become a palace of the famous state of Zhou. After Huai Guo reined in his minions, Chu Guo Xu felt that he could do it again and began to extend his tentacles to the Central Plains.

The state of Chu wanted to pull out the alliance of the four countries of Zhong, Huang, Cai, and Jiang. I want to destroy these four small countries together with the Central Plains State. It's just that some of the Central Plains countries are afraid of the Huai State and dare not make a move, and some want them to contain the Chu State. Among them, the attitude of the Jin State is like this.

Although the Jin State temporarily allied with the Chu State to deal with the Huai State, it has always been very wary of the Chu State, after all, although the Chu State is different from the Huai State, they are also eyeing the Central Plains.

Now the relationship between the state of Chu and the state of Jin has improved, and the situation of maintaining a fighting but not breaking situation is entirely because of the presence of the Huai state, on the whole, Bang Zhou gives people a very strange sense of peace, there are fewer disputes between the countries, and they are all clearing those Yidi to expand their strength.

After exploring the environment and terrain of the nest country, Wang Jin launched a war against the nest country in the second year.

Wang Jin ordered his uncle Gongzi to be the commander, and Chen Yi to be the general, commanding an army of 50,000 and attacking the Chao State on the grounds that the Chao State did not pay tribute.

Knowing that the Huai army was coming, Chao was in a mess, and hurriedly ordered to gather a large army to resist, and sent an envoy to Chu for help.

Chaoguo is located in the south of the Yangtze River, in which the waterways are vertical and horizontal, which is not conducive to chariots, so the Huai State set out this time, and there were only 100 chariot soldiers. The capital of Chaoguo is located on the bank of Chaohu Lake, where the Yangtze River can be intercepted in the south, there is Dabie Mountain in the north, and the east can threaten Jinlingyi, which can be said to be strategically located, easy to defend and difficult to attack.

The Huai army marched from Handi, and won successive battles all the way, and Chao was defeated in three battles. Soon the Huai army advanced to the vicinity of Chaohu Lake.

The Chao country has suffered successive defeats and low morale, so it can only rely on favorable terrain to defend and dare not fight again.

Gongzi Min tried to attack once, but the Chao State was heavily defended, and the assault suffered heavy casualties, and the army of the Chu State had already arrived.

The army of Chu was 60,000 and was stationed on the other side of the Misu River, and if Huai attacked Chao, the Chu army would attack from the flank. In fact, after the arrival of the army of the Chu State, they did not immediately engage the Huai State, but had a kind of intention to watch from the wall, and wanted to attack while the Huai State and the Chao State were at war, and they were very cautious.

Huai army camp.

"Isn't this army of Chu here to rescue Chao Kingdom? What does it mean to come and not attack?" Childe Min asked, looking at the topographic map in front of him.

"Childe, the Chu army has been defeated by my Huai State in a row, and the minister estimates that Chu *** should be afraid of my Huai army." Chen Yi thought for a while and said.

Gongzi Min nodded and said: "The Chu army has been defeated by my Huai State in a row, it is indeed fearful, this time I came to be cowardly before fighting, how is it the opponent of my army, wait for me to repair a letter to the generals of the Chu army tomorrow, our army retreats twenty miles, gives up its position, and invites it to cross the river to fight!"

"Hahaha, Childe is afraid that the Chu army will not dare!" Chen Yi laughed.

"If you don't dare to do this, then take off your armor and go home as soon as possible!"

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The Chu army camp.

The commander Dou Bo is discussing military matters with the enthroned general.

"General, the Huai State army is like a bamboo all the way, the morale is high, now against it, our army may be difficult to win, why not cooperate with the Chao State, form a horn trend, and stalemate with the Huai State, and then send an army to cut off the Huai army's food and grass."

"This battle is in the Chao Country, and the Huai State army is not familiar with the terrain, so our army can use the power of the Chao Country to cut off its rear road."

After some deliberation, Doubo immediately sent a messenger to the nest country, asking the nest country to send someone familiar with the terrain to help.

The next day, as soon as it was dawn, Gongzi Min sent a messenger to the camp of the state of Chu to preach the news.

The Great Camp of the State of Chu.

Dou Bo was discussing with a general of Chao Guo where to cut off the Huai army's grain route, when a school captain hurried in.

"General, the commander of Huai State, Gongzi Min sent a war letter to invite you to fight!" The lieutenant bowed

, both hands to present the war book.

"War book, haha, Huaiguo is still playing this one!" Dou Bo laughed.

Dou Bo picked up the war book and flipped through it, and saw that the lord of Huai said that his army had retreated twenty miles, and then invited him to cross the river to fight, and casually discarded the war book, and said with a smile: "Back then, my brother and my eldest son Yu led the army to attack the Song Dynasty, and Song Xianggong was like this."

"The two armies fought, and they put on a gentleman's posture, retreating ten miles to let our army cross the river, and they didn't come to attack, it was really a gentleman, but it was a pity that I was defeated by my brother in the first battle, and fled in embarrassment. Now this young man has invited me to fight with this trick, I'm afraid he doesn't want to take advantage of our army to cross the river and attack halfway!"

"The monarch of the Song Kingdom is a gentleman, but his son's compassion for me is not credible!"

In the big tent, the general of Chu laughed. Then Dou Bo wrote a handwritten letter and asked the messenger to bring it back.

Gongzi Min saw the bamboo slips brought back by the messenger, and as expected, Dou Bo refused.

"This Chu country is full of some gutless rats, since they don't dare to cross the river, then let's cross the river instead!" Chen Yi said with a smile.

"I'm afraid that the Chu State will not dare to accept it either!" Childe smiled and said.

"Look at me and write another letter, and make a mockery!"

Immediately, Gongzi Min wrote another letter, asking the Chu army to retreat twenty miles, and then the Huai army crossed the river to fight the Chu army. And Gongzi Min ridiculed the war book to the extreme, a gutless rat on the left, and a barbarian sentence on the right, anyone who reads it will be angry.

Seeing the written war book, Gongzi Min immediately sent someone to deliver the war book again, and soon the war book was sent to Dou Bo again.

After reading the war book, Dou Bo threw the war book to the ground with all his might, and was furious: "Huai Yi'an dares to bully me like this!"

"The general doesn't need to be angry, the Huai people are despicable, it is precisely to provoke the general, so that he can agree to cross the river to fight them!"

"Hehe, this battle is not written to let us attack, but the Huai people cross the river to fight with us!" A general next to him picked up the battle book and said.

"Arrogance!" The surrounding generals of the Chu State suddenly said angrily: "Huaiyi is so arrogant, he looks down on my Chu people! The general can't just leave it at that!"

"It's provoking us so that they can give them twenty miles so they can cross the river and fight! Hmph, it's beautiful! The general refused to allow the Huai people to accept the war letter, pretending to retreat twenty miles, and when the Huai people crossed the river, he would attack halfway through, and then he would definitely be able to defeat the Huai people!"

The surrounding generals asked for battle, and Dou Bo saw that the military heart was available, and immediately said, "Since Huaiyi looks down on us so much, then let them see it this time!"

Immediately wrote a war letter, asked the herald to send it to Huaiguo, and agreed to start the war tomorrow. Then he consulted with the generals and prepared to attack halfway.