Wang Kan ascended the throne and succeeded to the throne of the king.

Wang Pu's death relieved the states of Bangzhou and Zhou, and when Wang Pu ruled the Huai State, even the Chu State was destroyed, which was a huge pressure on the countries.

And not long after Wang Puxue died, Wu Qi also died of illness. In just two months, Huai Guo has lost two pillars of Zhenguo, which makes the countries of the world also a little nervous.

All the countries in the world want to weaken the Huai State, after all, the Huai State is too strong.

West Chu, Jiangdu.

After learning that King Huai and Wu Qi had died, King Que of Chu was so excited that he almost jumped up in the palace.

Since the westward migration of the Chu State, the King of Chu has always been worried that the Huai Kingdom will attack Kuimen with all its strength and destroy the Chu State. It is also this sense of crisis that makes the King of Chu dare not slack off at all.

It has been more than 20 years since the Chu State moved westward, and the 20 years of law changes have greatly improved the strength of the Western Chu State. Among the states of Bang and Zhou, the countries that changed the law most thoroughly were Chu and Qin.

The state of Chu was because there were very few nobles after moving westward, and the state of Qin was because of the strong support of the marquis of Qin, and the nobles of the state of Qin did not dare to oppose it.

Twenty years is enough time for a generation to grow up, and after the reform, the state of Chu waged a long-term war against the surrounding barbarians in the land of Ba, plundering a large number of people.

At the same time, water conservancy was built in Brazil and Bazhong, and wasteland was reclaimed, and a large amount of fertile land was obtained in Western Chu. At the same time, due to the westward migration of the Chu State, the original population of about 5 million was sharply reduced to more than 1 million.

In order to increase the number of people, the king of Chu decreed that families with three children and one child could be exempted from taxes by 30% every year, and families with more than four children could be reduced by half.

After the introduction of this policy, the population of Chu began to grow significantly, but in twenty years, it doubled, coupled with the continuous plundering of people from the surrounding barbarians, the population of Chu reached more than two million and nearly three million.

At the same time, because of the reclamation of farmland and water conservancy, there was no oppression by the aristocracy, and the treasury of Chu was full, and it had accumulated for 20 years, so that the national strength of Chu was at its peak, and there were 200,000 soldiers in the country.

Now the strength of these 200,000 armor soldiers in the Western Chu State is much higher than the 200,000 armor soldiers in the Chu State period. After twenty years of reform, the armor of the Western Chu State was all elite.

After learning that Huai Gong and Wu Qi had died one after another, the king of Chu finally decided to go east for revenge.

The army of Chu was 200,000, and the soldiers were divided into two routes, one set off from Jiangdu, took Kuimen, and attacked Yicheng, and the other way was from Shangyong, and went down the Han River through the Han River.

The Han River is turbulent, but it is able to go downstream, but it is extremely difficult to sail against the current. At the beginning, after the Huai State captured the Chu State, it wanted to attack Hanzhong with the help of Han Water, but it turned out that there was no way to sail against the current.

And by land into Hanzhong, the mountains are steep, and you need to break through several steep passes. At that time, the Huai State had already destroyed the Chu State, and the soldiers had made war exploits one by one, waiting to go back to reward them, and they were not willing to risk their lives to attack these steep passes, so the soldiers did not have the heart to fight to the death.

Wu Qi knew the situation in the army, so he did not attack again, but established a fortress in a dangerous place to prevent Western Chu from attacking.

The army of the Western Chu State attacked, and the Huai State was also prepared, and Wang Pu had trained the Shanyue Tengjia Army and stationed it here all the year round, just to attack the Western Chu.

This time the Western Chu State attacked, although Yicheng and Yunyang were not as dangerous as Kuimen, but they were also easy to defend and difficult to attack. The state of Chu sent an army of 200,000, but because the mountain roads were difficult to travel, it was unable to attack with the advantage of troops.

As for the Hanshui River, this time the Huai State adopted the Chu State's practice in Kuimen, nailing wooden stakes into the Hanshui River and crossing the river with iron cables on both sides.

The army of Chu flowed down and was blocked by iron cables.

Although there are many 100,000 troops, but the surrounding areas cannot be used at all, the Western Chu State occupies the land of Hanzhong and Ba State, the terrain is dangerous, and it is difficult for the Huai State to attack, but it is not easy for the Chu State to come out.

Huai Guo built passes on the road that the two Chu States must pass, and above the Guancheng, there are catapults made by the Huai Guo Gongyi clan. This kind of catapult is one zhang high and two zhang long, and it needs five people to operate, and it can throw ten pounds of stones out of about 100 meters.

Huai Guo will catapult on the city wall, filled with gravel, after the launch, a large number of rubble smashed down, even the Chu soldiers wearing armor, hit by these stones are also head broken bleeding, heavy casualties.

If the Western Chu State wants to come out, it can only pay a heavy price. Even if the Western Chu State attacked desperately and broke through the two passes by luck, the reinforcements of the Huai State had already arrived, and the Western Chu State could only retreat back again.

After seeing this situation, the king of Chu had no choice but to retreat even if he had a deep enmity with Huai. If the evacuation is late, waiting for the Huai army to arrive, and then retreating, there will be heavy casualties.

The Western Chu State sent 200,000 troops to attack Huai, but it did not even take two passes, and the first battle of the eastward was over.

The Marquis of Wei recruited talents with high-ranking officials and talents, and soon many talents took refuge. The best of them all was a scholar named Pang Juan. This person is proficient in the art of war, but he is not a soldier of a family, but a member of the Guigu faction. Although Guiguzi did not go to the Huaiguo School Palace, many of his disciples were in the School Palace.

After all, the Zongheng faction needs very good eloquence, and there is no better way to exercise eloquence than the daily debates in the Huaiguo Academy. There are many students of the Zongheng School in the Huaiguo Academy.

Pang Juan, as a disciple of the Guigu School, did not learn the art of vertical and horizontal, but learned the art of war.

It's just that Pang Juan thinks that there are many talents in Huaiguo, and the soldiers Sun Wuzi and Wu Zi have successively come out of Huaiguo, and there are many disciples, even if he goes to Huaiguo, he will not be taken seriously, unless he can be like Sun Wuzi or Wu Zi, a genius in the sky, and suppress a lifetime, so that he can be directly worshiped as Xiangguo.

But what kind of characters are Sun Wuzi and Wu Zi? Although he was very confident in himself, he didn't dare to compare with the two military sages.

On the contrary, the Wei State is different, because of Wu Qi's Benhuai incident, the soldiers withered, and now they are defeated by the countries, and they need the soldiers to show their skills. At the same time, Wei Hou took out high-ranking officials this time, as long as he was talented, he could get it, which was much stronger than Huai Guo.

The treatment is better than that of Huaiguo, and the competitive pressure is less. Pang Juan did not hesitate, and went to the Wei State.

After Wei Hou took the examination for Pang Juan, he found that this person was really talented, and even if he worshiped Pang Juan as a general, he commanded Wei Wushu.

Pang Juan had just paid homage to the general, and the Qin State attacked the land west of the river again. This time, the Marquis of Qin sent his younger brother Gongzi Che to lead an army to attack Shaoliang. The Shaoliang defenders couldn't resist it, and Pang Juan led the army to rescue.

When Gongzi Che learned that Pang Juan was leading the troops to come, after learning that he was just an unknown person, he didn't take it to heart at all, and only sent 50,000 Qin troops to block it.

Although Pang Juan led the army for the first time, this was his first battle, he did not dare to be careless, and personally led 5,000 soldiers as the vanguard, traveling lightly, carrying three days' rations, and letting the remaining 40,000 troops march at a normal speed. Then he traveled all the way, and it only took a day and night to travel 300 miles to get there.

At this time, Qin did not know that Pang Juan had arrived, Pang Juan asked the soldiers to rest, and waited until the Qin army returned to the camp in the evening, and personally led the army to attack, Qin was defenseless, the soldiers were not wearing armor at all, and it was impossible to see how many people the Wei army came in the dark night.

Pang Juan took the lead, even broke the Qin army camp, burned the camp, the Qin army was in a hurry, trampled on each other, suffered heavy casualties, 100,000 Qin troops were defeated, Shaoliang's danger was solved, and Pang Juan became famous in a battle.

(End of chapter)