Rebirth of Wu Ba Spring and Autumn

Chapter 241

From Yiguang, Qingji was inspired.

Big fish eat small fish, small fish eat shrimp, and shrimp eat mud!
The weak eat the strong!

Just like all the countries in the world.

Big fish is the hegemonic powers like Jin, Chu, and Qi.

The small fish symbolizes middle-level powers such as Wu, Qin, Song, and Wei.

Xiami is like a small or weak country like Yue, Xu, and Lu.

The difference is that the state of Wu is about to complete the transformation from a small fish to a big fish, while the state of Yue is about to be reduced from a shrimp to a muddy mud.

Occupying the land of the barbarians, the surviving Yue State no longer poses much threat to the Wu State.

However, the state of Wu had to stay with more than ten thousand soldiers and horses all year round, stationed in the land of Guyue, in case Yunchang invaded all the time and made a comeback.

For Wu Guo, this is more or less worth the candle!
Therefore, Qingji's reply to Lu Ming, the envoy of the Yue Kingdom, was to agree to strike and accept the conditions offered by Yunchang.

The State of Yue officially became a vassal of the State of Wu. Yunchang became the Marquis of Yue and the lord of the State of Wu.

Juwu, as the new capital of the Yue Kingdom, let Yunchang offer sacrifices to the ancestral temple.

At the same time, Qingji issued an edict to withdraw the soldiers and horses who were confronting the Vietnamese army in the land of Sanyi.

……

The land of Sanyi.

On the archery tower of the camp, there stood two figures, one large and one small, which were the King Yunchang of Yue and his son Goujian.

At this moment, both of them are looking at the soldiers of the Vietnamese army who are marching towards Juwu!

Since withdrawing to the Sanyi Mountains, including the Vietnamese army, as well as the people of the Yue Kingdom who were forced to migrate here, they all miss their hometown and leave this poor and remote place.

Now, they finally had the chance to return to their homeland, how could they leave Sanyi without scrambling?

"Zhen Qian, you must remember today's humiliation."

With a sad expression on his face, Yun Chang said rather resentfully: "Remember Qingji, and the humiliation that Wu State imposed on me and Yue State today, firmly in my heart!"

"In the lifetime of the widow, I may not see the recovery of my old country of Yue, nor the decline of the state of Wu."

"However, if one day, you become the king of Yue and restore my homeland of Dayue, and when you see the state of Wu weakened, please go to the tomb of the father to worship and tell the father!"

"Yes!"

Gou Jian, who was standing on the side, clenched his fists and replied resolutely: "Father, my child, remember. Don't dare to forget today's humiliation!"

"Good boy."

Yun Chang patted Gou Jian on the shoulder, and said earnestly: "Zhen Qian, do you think that the father is a useless person, a mediocre king?"

"No!"

Gou Jian shook his head and said, "Father, although the child is young, he also knows that Father should be the king of Zhongxing in our country of Yue. It is the country of Wu, and it is the aggressive Qing Ji!"

"It was he who invaded and occupied our country of Yue, and pushed our country to the point where we are now at the end of the mountain. My father paid tribute to the country of Wu and humiliated him to enter the court. I regret what I did!"

"good!"

Children can be taught!
Seeing Gou Jian like this, Yun Chang felt very satisfied.

"Zhenqian, if you can't bear it a little, you can make a big conspiracy. Qingji's heart to perish our country is not dead. If you enter the capital of Wu as a minister, you need to be more careful. You should not take advantage of Qingji to attack Yue. The country's ancestral temple sacrifices are not allowed to stay."

"promise."

……

When Yunchang rushed to Juwu with the soldiers and civilians of the Yue Kingdom, Sun Wu and Wu Zixu had already led the Wu army back to Kuaiji City.

The two of them came to Kuaiji Palace non-stop, and came to report to Qingji.

"Minister Sun Wu (Wu Yuan), see the king! The king is forever!"

"Changqing, Zixu, you don't need to be too polite, just sit down."

Qingji waved his hand, and let Sun Wu and Wu Zixu, who had worked hard and made great achievements, sit opposite him at the table.

Both of them were quite puzzled, and Wu Zixu, who had always been jealous, couldn't help frowning and asked: "Your Majesty, the ministers are about to fight to the death in order to wipe out the remnants of the Yue people. Why did the King fight with the Yue people?" make peace?"

Hearing this, Qing Ji just smiled lightly and said, "Zi Xu, regardless of the military supplies, in your opinion, how long will it take for you to completely destroy the Yue army? How many soldiers will be lost?"

Wu Zixu thought about it carefully, and then replied: "Your Majesty, I estimate that within three months at least, and at most a year and a half, my Wu army can capture and kill Yun Chang, wipe out all Yue divisions, and wipe out all Yue lands." Accepted under the rule of my Wu State."

"As for the lost army, there may be tens of thousands of people. Gein Yue is all soldiers, and there are nearly ten thousand soldiers that can fight. In addition, it has terrain advantages and is good at fighting in mountains. It is not the leader of our Wu army!"

Hearing this, Qingji slightly nodded and said, "That's right. Zixu, you are both civil and military, and possess great talents. You should know that war is always just a continuation of politics, not the fundamental purpose."

"If the widow can destroy Yue in less time and at a lower price, why not do it?"

Sun Wu and Wu Zixu couldn't help but look at each other, feeling quite puzzled.

"I don't know what good strategy the king has?"

In the opinion of the two, it is not wise for Qingji not to take advantage of this opportunity to destroy the Yue Kingdom in one fell swoop, but to let the Yue Kingdom survive.

The Yue Kingdom already exists in name only!
Relying on the terrain advantages of the Sanyi Mountains, they can still fight trapped beasts in a short period of time, but how long can they last under the powerful offensive of the Wu army?
Qing Ji said slowly: "Zixu, Changqing, I don't know what you think, is the python exposed to the sun more terrifying? Or the python hiding in the swamp?"

"Naturally, the python hiding in the swamp is terrifying..."

Both Wu Zixu and Sun Wu are smart people, and they know everything.

Qing Ji compared the Vietnamese army to pythons, either in the sun or in the swamp.

The reason why he agreed to make peace with the Yue State was to let Yunchang lead his army out of the Sanyi Mountains and garrison Juwu, which was to expose him to the sun.

It was naturally not easy for Qingji to tell them such a despicable and unlimited strategy.

After all, in this era, even though rituals are broken and music is broken, the rules of war are broken, and the war intensifies.

But it is rare for someone like Qingji to do whatever it takes to achieve the goal of victory, and completely forget about his own reputation.

Wu Zixu glanced at Qingji in surprise, then lowered his head and said, "Your Majesty, I don't know when your Majesty is going to send troops to destroy Yue? Juwu's back is in the land of Sanbari, and if there is any disturbance, the Yue people may retreat into the mountains and make us Wu Jun has lost his chance."

"The widow is going to order you to lead the army to attack and destroy the country of Gumi, and it will be a matter of destroying Guo by false ways."

Qingji said with a smile.

"Your Majesty Yingming!"

Sun Wu and Wu Zixu, who are masters of the art of war, couldn't help admiring Qingji's good strategy!
(End of this chapter)