I am a nobleman in Spring and Autumn

Chapter 237
The meeting at the edge of the Yellow River made Zhiyao have a very good impression of Bai Gongsheng.

If it weren't for his acting skills, it seems that Bai Gongsheng has a very distinctive personality, emphasizing friendship and speaking very directly, and to some extent also shows that he values ​​personal kindness more than national interests.

But then again, Bai Gongsheng led the army to crusade against the state of Zheng with personal feelings, which contradicted the national policy of the state of Chu.

Chu State did not want to fight frequently with Zheng State recently, purely because Bai Gongsheng wanted to avenge his father, Chu Junzhang and Ling Yin Zixi knew Bai Gongsheng's character, so they had no choice but to allow Bai Gongsheng to lead the army to attack Zheng.

The current state of Chu, firstly, does not want to fight against the state of Jin, and secondly, the threat of the state of Wu is even greater.Attacking Zheng State can gain some benefits, and continuing to expand northward is more likely to make the overly sensitive Jin State turn its attention to Chu State again, which is really not a good thing for Chu State.

Therefore, Chu State, which repeatedly attacked Zheng State, did not occupy Zheng State's cities, and every time it finished a battle, it conducted a thorough squadron.

Chu State annexed Chen State, right?Chen Guo is one of the three Kes of the Zhou royal family, that is to say, Chen Guo is a country responsible for offering sacrifices to Yu and Shun, and it will be destroyed if it is destroyed.

The other two "ke" are Qi State and Song State, which correspond to the relevant sacrifices of Dayu and Yin Shang respectively.

What?Is Yue the country that was enfeoffed to worship Dayu?That's right.

However, Qi State and Yue State are both descendants of Dayu, and there is a division of labor in sacrifice.

Zhou Rites emphasizes sacrifices, countries with special sacrifice missions, they may have been or are very weak, and they used to not have to worry about subjugation. Now the situation seems to be different?At the very least, after the country of Qi knew that the country of Chen had been destroyed, it should worry about whether it would suddenly die one day.

Logically speaking, Jin, which is still seeking to become the hegemon, should condemn Chu for destroying Chen, but it didn't.

The national level did not speak out. Today Zhiyao and Bai Gongsheng met above, and they did not talk about the topic of Chen Guo.

"Why did Jin attack Zheng this time?" Bai Gongsheng asked.

Zhiyao said: "How dare Zheng not punish me for my misfortune."

Zheng Guo participated in the civil strife in Jin State, and the Fan and Zhongxing camps they chose were defeated and must be punished.

Can Bai Gongsheng not know that truth?For sure.

"In this way, you and I may strike 'Xinzheng' together." Bai Gongsheng suggested.

Zhiyao shook her head and said: "'Xinzheng' is a strong city, my four 'divisions', the soldiers under Bai Gong's account are less than [-], and the attackers will cause casualties."

Not to mention that it is difficult to capture, even if it can be captured, the casualties will be great.

Furthermore, it is difficult for Jin and Chu to trust each other, and there is no cooperation based on mutual trust, so how could there be less intrigue in it.

Bai Gongsheng showed a surprised expression, and said: "Everywhere you go, will you lose the reputation of being sure?"

What do you mean?
It is about Zhiyao's deeds of conquering "Linzi", "Puyang" and "Xianyu", but he came to "Xinzheng" but didn't want to conquer it. Nicknames are flawed.

Zhiyao said truthfully: "If I want to conquer Zhengdu, I need two 'armies', or two years old?"

The two legions must also all come from the Zhi family and cannot be troops from other families.

Bai Gongsheng was silent for a while, then burst into a big laugh, and said while laughing: "The eldest son of the Zhi family is a wonderful person, and he is also a good friend."

Leaving aside the matter of Bai Gongsheng's conclusion about Zhiyao, Zhiyao's statement is undoubtedly very pertinent.

"Xinzheng", the capital city of Zheng State, is different from other cities. In the early days, two outer city walls were set up under the original city scale, and it became a city with three walls combined with the palace city; In order to expand abroad, six "illegal" defense chains were created, which suddenly turned "Xinzheng" into a strong city with nine defense chains.

This kind of city can take down one defense of the enemy and there are still eight defenses, which means that it is not possible to peel off all the outer shells by means of a surprise attack, and can use deceitful means to take down a city wall while it is unprepared. Hard power to seize one by one.

So, there is almost no possibility of tricks if you want to conquer "Xinzheng". If you don't bring enough troops and determination, what's the matter?
Zhiyao was a little entangled by what was said.

Will there be flaws in finally gaining the nickname "Siege Master" based on strength?No one is happy.

Of course, Zhiyao had relevant psychological preparations in advance, and had already thought about what to do.

Zhiyao chatted with Bai Gongsheng for a long time, from morning to evening, and had a meal together in the middle.

just right?Bai Gongsheng was a little bit dumbfounded that Zhiyao still had a meal at noon.

People nowadays, even the nobles, basically have two meals a day, and they don't have the concept of having lunch.

Zhiyao didn't explain, and there was no need to explain.

In fact, not everyone in the Zhi family has three regular meals a day. At first, Zhiyao made it in their own family first, and later even the Xinjun did the same, and it gradually spread to every eligible family.

The reason why the new army eats three meals is quite simple. Their training tasks are too heavy, no matter how good they can eat, eating one more meal will not easily break the body.

Don't think that Zhi's new army is the first to do this, Wei's has been doing it since he was training heavy infantry.The difference is that Wei did not provide the heavy infantry with food and drink. The heavy infantry who were trained were completely overwhelmed. Some people brought extra food and had a meal at noon. The hunger could be relieved to cope with the physical exertion in the afternoon, and the rest followed suit.

Before Zhiyao had time to catch her breath when she returned to the camp, a group of friends surrounded her.

"It really is Duke Bai who insists on attacking Zheng?" Wei Ju asked.

Zhao Bolu asked, "Does our army want to attack the city?"

Han Geng, Hu You, and Zhong Wu also had questions, which were roughly the same as those of Wei Ju and Zhao Bolu, so there was no need to ask them again.

It must be that Bai Gongsheng insisted on attacking Zheng State, and Chu State's monarch and ministers agreed in desperation, and the troops given were only [-], and their quality was actually a bit worrying.

Bai Gongsheng was able to lead the Chu army of that quality to defeat Zheng Jun repeatedly, it can only be said that his ability to command troops is really not bad.

The attack on "Xinzheng"?Zhiyao knows that "Xinzheng" is difficult to conquer, and Bai Gongsheng has no reason not to know, it depends on whether Bai Gongsheng is rational or not.

Zhiyao didn't mention whether Bai Gongsheng would attack Zheng Guo's capital, and said: "Yao wants to enter the city, who will go with him?"

For a while, the scene fell into silence.

After a while, Hu You seemed to have lost his mind, and asked in a daze, "How to enter the city?"

Anyway, it's not about attacking with troops, peeling off the shell layer by layer before entering.

"Wu Xiang." Zhong Wu said.

As "Qing", Wei Ju and Zhao Bolu are not suitable to appear in public.

Zhiyao looked at Han Geng and Hu You who did not express their views, and finally fell on Zhong Wu beforehand, and said, "So, the two of us will enter the city."

In fact, after Zhong Wu made his statement, the rest of the people looked at him differently.

Of course, instead of going in by force and sending people to make a request before entering the city, Zheng Guojun and his ministers will kill the guests if they have a sick mind, even if these guests first wreak havoc in the territory of Zheng State, and then lead troops to the city of "Xinzheng".

Zhiyao and Zhong Wu's security is based on the strength of the Jin State, not to mention that the Zhi family as a family is stronger than the Zheng State in terms of soft and hard power.

Later, Zheng Junsheng agreed to Zhiyao's request to enter the city and sent Ziyong to lead the way.

The reason why Zheng Guojun and ministers agreed to Zhiyao's entry into the city was that the Jin army who came to the outskirts of "Xinzheng" did not build siege equipment, and then they wanted to meet Zhiyao to understand the intention of the soldiers coming to the city, and maybe there were other things they wanted to discuss.

In the early morning of a new day, all kinds of clamor from the Chu army in the south could be heard, and the commotion seemed as if the siege would start today.

"I'm new here, where's the time to build siege equipment? It's just a demonstration." Zhiyao thought.

Zhong Wu followed Zhiyao into the city. Naturally, the accompanying guards were indispensable. In fact, there were not too many. Fifty soldiers from the Zhi family and [-] soldiers in other forms came from the same number of guards from the Zhong family.

It's not that Zhiyao and Zhong Wu don't want to bring more guards, but also whether Zheng Guojun and his subjects are happy.

Even if there were only [-] soldiers in total, Zheng Guojun and his ministers still had some doubts. If the number was not small enough to match the identities of Zhiyao and Zhongwu, they would have preferred Zhiyao and Zhongwu to enter the city.

There is no way, people in the world today, who would dare to ignore Zhi Yao who successively conquered the capitals of the Three Kingdoms! ?

The jack gate of the city gate was slowly pulled up amidst bursts of noise.

"It seems to be recorded somewhere that Confucius' father, Shu Lianghe, carried the thousand-jin gate to force the friendly army to retreat? Was Shu Lianghe in his 50s or 60s at that time." Zhiyao looked at the thousand-jin gate that was slowly being raised, More or less doubt that it is an old man can carry it.

Of course, Shulianghe did not raise the city gate in "Xinzheng", but in a place called "Biyang".

The jack gate was pulled up, and torches were lit inside the city gate, so that it would not look completely dark.

A considerable number of Zheng Jun put on a defensive posture, which seemed to prevent the Jin Jun from making a sudden move to seize the door.This shows how defensive Zheng Guojun and his ministers are against Zhiyao.

Seeing Zheng Jun's posture, Zhong Wu subconsciously looked at Zhiyao, trying to see the smug expression on Zhiyao's face.

To be honest, one person should be proud that one person can make a country's monarch and ministers so afraid.

Zhiyao just had no expression on her face, and no one else knew what was going on in her mind.

Into the city.

Zhiyao passed through the city gate, and saw another city wall about a mile ahead. Looking around, she didn't see many buildings. There were also soldiers standing in front of the buildings. The city of soldiers sandwiched by the walls.

After passing the second city wall, the number of buildings increased, and the figures of Li Shu also increased.

Zhiyao saw the deployment of 'Xinzheng' with her own eyes, and thought: "Facing this kind of tortoise flow, unless it can break the defender's will to resist, how much will it cost to overcome it?"

They did not go to Miyagi, but stopped after passing the fourth wall.

Going out of the city gate again, Zhiyao saw Zheng Junsheng and Zheng Guozhong's ministers in Chinese clothes.

No hospitality in Miyagi?This is Zheng Guojun and ministers who don't want Zhiyao to read the overall deployment of "Xinzheng"!
It's all because Miyagi is built on a high ground, and standing on it, you can look at the overall situation of "Xinzheng", and you can still see it clearly.

In the face of Zhiyao who has the nickname of "Siege Master", in fact, Zheng Guojun and his ministers can't be too cautious!
(End of this chapter)