Chapter 71: Qi Jinchu's tacit understanding
After Wang Jin planted a secret guard in the Jin State, he began to deal with the threat of the Chu State. The loss of the Chao State was a major defeat for the Chu State, especially after the loss of the Chao State, the connection between the Chu State and the Yue State was broken. This frustrated Chu's goal of uniting with Yue to deal with Huai.
The state of Chu was unwilling to give up the strategy of uniting Vietnam to resist Huai, so he once again gathered a large army to prepare to attack the nest and prepare to take the nest back.
After Xiong Yun, the king of Chu, ascended the throne, he made great efforts to govern the country, and in three years the state of Chu was strong, and then began to annex the surrounding small countries. Most of these small countries are viscount states, and the place is no more than a hundred miles.
In the third year of Chu Yun, he destroyed the Second Kingdom, and then destroyed the Gu Kingdom, the Hanging Kingdom, and even destroyed the Yellow Kingdom's in-laws.
Within ten years, the Chu State destroyed the thirteenth country, and it can be said that the national strength was strong, so it would join forces with the Jin State to attack Huai, and the result was a big defeat, and then he recuperated for ten years, and was defeated again in the Chao State.
In order to achieve its strategic goals this time, the state of Chu once again recruited 150,000 troops to attack the nest, and at this time there were only 50,000 Huai troops in the nest country. And Chuhou Xiong Yun personally led the troops.
Chen Yi, the general of Huai State, who was stationed in Chao State, immediately ordered the army to return to the city when he saw the army of Chu attacking, and fortified the wall.
The Chu State learned from the experience of the Huai State in this expedition to Chao State, and directly entered Chaohu Lake from the Mixu River with a water division, and the naval army and the Chu army advanced in two ways.
The Huai State Navy and the Chu State Navy fought in Chaohu, and the two sides won and lost each other.
The morale of the state of Chu was high because Xiong Yun personally led the army of the Chu army. The Huai army fought with it in the field, because there were many enemies, and they did not take advantage of it.
As for sending troops to attack the back of the Chu army, it will be difficult to do this time. The Chu army has been defeated so many times, and has learned enough lessons, and it is very strict about guarding the back road.
For a time, the state of Chu and the state of Huai were in a stalemate and confronted each other in the state of Chao.
Wang Jin learned that the army of Chu was conscripting the nest, and immediately ordered Huai to send 100,000 troops to prepare to attack Chu, but just when Huai was preparing to attack Chu, Qi in the north of Huai suddenly recruited a large army and held a military parade in the south of Qi.
After several turmoils, the Qi State finally settled down. A big country like Qi, once it settles down, as long as the Marquis of Qi doesn't mess around, it will soon recover its national strength, although the strength is not as good as that of Qi when Qi Huan was the prince, but seventy percent of the strength is still there.
More than ten years ago, Huai Guohuan broke the Qi army, and after all these years, the Qi country recuperated, but he always wanted to take revenge.
Since Wang Yue, Huai has cultivated for ten years, strengthened its national strength, and the strength of other countries has also improved. In addition to the State of Qi, the State of Jin was not to be outdone, and summoned the State of Cao, the State of Zheng, and the State of Chen to ally with the State of Song. Although neither the Jin State nor the Qi State attacked the Huai State, and even the armies of the two countries were still one or two hundred miles away from the border of the Huai State, Wang Jin did not dare to bet.
had to send an army of 100,000 to Huaibei to confront the Qi and Jin states. Then 50,000 soldiers and horses from Handi and Wu were requisitioned again to aid the Chao State.
Six years after Wang Jin's accession to the throne, Sun Shuao died of illness, and the internal and military strength of the Huai State began to decline. Although Xu Yong, Ram Sheng, Chen Yi and others are assisted, they can only encourage and support them. Xu Yong inherited Sun Shuao's water control skills, but he lacked governance in terms of governance.
As for Ram Sheng, if his ancestor Ram Shuo can be a hundred, he is only seventy-five at most. As for the academy, although there are many talents, there are no talents like Sun Shuao.
After Wang Jin in Huaiguo, there was a fault line in high-end talents, as for the use of the recruitment order, Wang Jin also used it, but it is a pity that the recruitment order did not recruit more than eight stars this time, and the two people recruited were evaluated by six stars.
This level of talent is more than enough to dominate the party, but it is far from being the prime minister.
In this case, Wang Jin can use a lot less chips, Gongzi Min has been stationed in Xiapi because he wants to guard against Qi and Jin, and in the end Wang Jin can only let Ram Sheng lead the army to the battle.
The army of Ram Sheng gathered, and soon came to the country of Chao, but because of the strength of the Chu army, the Ram Sheng did not dare to rush into the army, but echoed with the Huai army of Chaodu, in order to fight against the Chu army.
Chuhou Xiong Yun originally wanted to take advantage of the Ram Sheng's unstable foothold to send troops to defeat the Huai army, but the Ram Sheng used the troops extremely steadily, although there was no trick, but it was used to defend it, which is why Wang Jin sent him here
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In the art of war, with righteousness and harmony, with odd victory. But in the vast majority of the time, the two armies fought with dignified soldiers, and the state of Chu did not use any maneuver this time, but attacked with dignified soldiers, and did not give Huai a chance at all.
Gongzi Min is good at winning by surprise, but in the face of this kind of grandiose way, surprise is not only invincible, but easy to seize the opportunity.
The Huai army came, the two armies confronted each other, and a small force of troops would be sent to fight every day. The stalemate between the two sides lasted for more than three months.
The army of Chu came from afar, although there was a waterway of the Yangtze River to transport grain and grass, but the expedition of 150,000 troops in March, the cost was also extremely amazing.
But up to now, the Chao State has still not been captured, and the land of the Chao State that is now occupied, as long as the Chu army retreats, the Huai State will soon be able to regain it.
Xiong Yun was very unwilling to retreat in his heart, and Qu Hong, the doctor of Chu, saw the embarrassment of the Marquis of Chu, so he wrote: "The expedition of the king's labor division has been three months, and the army has spent a lot of food and grass, but there is no progress, why don't you withdraw the troops first?"
"Qu Qing, Gu also knows this, but the army has been conquering for March, but there is no inch, how to appease the army when you go back, and at the same time it will damage the prestige of the Chu State!" Xiong Yun said with some distress.
"The king sent troops to solve the connection between the Chu State and the Yue State, and now the Huai State is strictly defended, and our army cannot capture the Chao State, but it can take another path." Qu Hong said and pointed to another country on the map.
"Shu Guo!"
"The State of Shu is located in the south of the Yangtze River, and the Yue Kingdom is very close to each other, since it is impossible to occupy the Chao Kingdom, it is better to capture the State of Shu! In this way, it can not only connect the Yue country, but also obtain land, and destroy the country, which is enough to show the strength of the Chu country, and this time the Huai State and our Chu State are at war and fall behind, which has let the world know that our Chu State is not as good as Huai!"
Huaiguo: Not as good as Huai???
Xiong Yun thought for a moment, and immediately agreed, "Then attack Shu Guo!"
Shu Guo: I'll just see, how did you get beaten?
"It's just that this time our army and the Huai army confronted each other and retreated rashly, how about the Huai army's surprise attack?"
"The king can put a few big drums in the camp and hang the goats on the drums, the goats are panicked, their hooves are shaking, and the big drums are sounding, and the Huai army must think that our army is still in the camp."
Xiong Yun immediately ordered people to hang sheep on the drum, put more flags in the camp, and then quietly retreated at night. The Chu army withdrew from Chaoguo, and the army took advantage of the situation to move south and invade Shu, and Shu was destroyed.
Although Ram Sheng found that the military drums were sounding in the camp of Chu State, it was very strange, but he thought that Chu State was engaged in some conspiracy, so he became more and more cautious, but there was no movement for two days, and it was not until the third day that he found that Chu State had evacuated.