Rebirth of Wu Ba Spring and Autumn

Chapter 414
"Two and three sons, let's see."

Qingji stood on the huge sheepskin map, picked up his Longyuan sword, and pointed at a place called "Xinzheng".

Xinzheng is the capital of Zheng State.

"In the second month of spring, the state of Chu sent [-] troops to attack Zheng with Zuo Sima Shen Zhuliang as the general and Mi Sheng as the deputy general."

"The army of Chu attacked the sixteen cities of Huren, Yangling, Li, and Changge in Zheng State one after another. By the end of May, the army of Chu had approached the city of Xinzheng, and the capital of Zheng was in jeopardy."

After a pause, Qingji said slowly again: "According to the latest information I have received, the Jin army is already preparing to send troops to help Zheng people break the siege of Xinzheng, so I guess."

"At the latest in August, the war between Chu and Zheng will end. At that time, it will be a great time for Wu to send troops to attack Chu."

"This……"

Fan Li was quite surprised and asked: "My lord, logically speaking, it should be the first time to attack Chu when the Chu army is attacking Zheng and there are not many soldiers in the country to fight. Why did the king wait until the end of the war between Chu and Zheng before sending troops?" ?”

Hearing this, Qingji smiled inscrutablely, and said slowly: "Uncle Shao, could it be that you forgot about Mi Sheng?"

"Mi Sheng?"

Only now did Fan Li, Wu Zixu and Sun Wu remember.

In order to deal with the state of Chu, Qingji took great pains.

Two years ago, that is, the eighth year of Wu Wang Qingji, Qingji deliberately created an opportunity for Bai Gongsheng to pretend to assassinate the king, and then fled to Chu State to win the sympathy of Chu's monarchs and ministers.

After that, the state of Wu also repeatedly made concessions, causing Bai Gongsheng (Mi Sheng) to conquer Wu and capture many cities in the state of Wu, further gaining huge popularity and credit.

At this time, Bai Gongsheng has been promoted to the right Sima of Chu State and the doctor of Chaoyi, which can be described as a high position.

Qingji thinks that the time is ripe to defeat Chu, and it's time to use Duke Bai's trick of victory!

"Your Majesty, is this person Mi Sheng believable?"

Fan Li was still a little skeptical.

Qingji put his eyes on Wu Zixu and asked, "Zixu, you have known Young Master Sheng for many years, so you should understand his temperament. In your opinion, does Mi Sheng have any objections to Chu State?"

"Reporting to Your Majesty, I have watched Mi Sheng grow up since I was a child. I think that this person has hidden ambitions and has wolfish ambitions."

Wu Zixu frowned and said, "Now that Mi Sheng is gaining power again, if the king is behind it, and with Wu's full support, Mi Sheng may not dare to rebel against Chu."

"However, Shen Zhuliang, not Mi Sheng, is the main general of the Chu army that is attacking Zheng. Even if Young Master Sheng really intends to rebel against Chu and establish himself as king, Shen Zhuliang may not agree!"

Hearing this, Qing Ji smiled slightly and said, "It's not difficult for Mi Sheng to take charge of the military power on the front line."

"If the Chu army is unable to attack Xinzheng City for a long time and loses the battle, Shen Zhuliang, the commander in chief, will be duty-bound."

"At that time, the widow can order people to spread rumors in Yingdu, saying that Shen Zhuliang is incompetent, and Mi Sheng's talent is far superior to Shen Zhuliang. If he uses it, the Chu army will conquer Xinzheng and win a big victory."

"Isn't it feasible to buy Nangwa and other slanderous ministers of Chu with a lot of money?"

Hearing this, Fan Li, Wu Zixu and Sun Wu couldn't help sighing secretly.

Qingji's move was really low-key.

However, it is not difficult to understand that Qing Ji would use all means to achieve his goals.

To his enemies, why should Qingji be polite?
Divorce, no matter what era it is in, is tried and tested.

However, in the Spring and Autumn Period, the plan of alienation was basically just in its infancy.

This was proposed by Sun Tzu in "The Art of War"!

For example, Qin separated King Zhao and Lianpo in the Battle of Changping, Qin separated King Wei and Lord Xinling in the fourth joint attack on Qin, Qin separated King Zhao and Li Mu in the battle of Qin's destruction of Zhao, and so on.

These are bloody examples.

The Qin State's three divorce schemes were not very clever, so why did King Zhao and King Wei fall into the trick one after another?

In fact, King Zhao Xiaocheng, King Wei Anli, and Zhao Wangqian may not have seen through Qin's divorce scheme, but they had to fall into it for various reasons.

Qin Guo's brilliance does not lie in the divorce plan itself, but in judging the situation and grasping the key points!

Actually, Qingji didn't care too much about whether the Chu people could really change their generals, remove Shen Zhuliang, and replace Bai Gongsheng as the main general of the Chu army.

Because, even if civil strife did not break out in Chu State, Wu State would still send troops.

Only the effect achieved may vary.

At this time, Wu Zixu had no choice but to stand up and remind him: "Your Majesty, I think that although Mi Sheng has the intention of opposing Chu and standing on his own, but he is the leader of the people and acts recklessly. I am afraid that he cannot be truly controlled by our country of Wu."

Qing Ji waved his hand and said, "I have never thought of controlling Mi Sheng. What I want is to cause internal chaos in Chu, so that my country of Wu can spend less effort to conquer Chu in one fell swoop, and hit Yingdu directly!" "

"Let my state of Wu really dominate the south of the Yangtze River, and present a north-south confrontation with the state of Jin!"

This is Qingji's goal now!
"Your Majesty Yingming!"

Sun Wu, Wu Zixu and Fan Li all said in unison.

"If you want to attack Chu, my Wu country must make preparations early. Sun Wu!"

"Chen is here!"

"You will immediately train a new army of [-] people. They must be familiar with mountain warfare, and it is best to be able to adapt to various complex terrains."

"promise!"

"Wu Yuan!"

"Chen is here!"

"You are responsible for sending envoys to Cai, Xu, Zhongwu, Teng, Xue, Zhu, Ju, and Tan eight countries, and then send another envoy to Tang, and tell them that each country must dispatch at least [-] soldiers. , cooperate with my country Wu, and attack Chu country together.”

"Sir, obey the king's orders!"

"Fan Li!"

"Chen is here!"

"Your task is to immediately take stock of all the food, fodder, and supplies in our country of Wu, and secretly transport them to the east bank of the river as quickly as possible. If there is a war and the soldiers and horses have not moved, the food and grass must go first!"

"promise!"

In order to win this battle, Qing Ji has made sufficient preparations.

He is scheduled to send troops to attack Chu in the spring of next year.

It took half a year to plan ahead, and even if Chu State noticed something strange, Chu people couldn't prevent it at all!
……

early june.

Zheng Guo, Xinzheng City.

"kill!"

"rush!"

"Fire arrows!"

"Stop them!"

Above and below the city, it was an extremely tragic battle.

The generals and soldiers of the Chu army, wearing khaki-colored battle suits, rushed to the city wall bravely, braved the enemy's arrows, and climbed up the ladder.

However, there were very few soldiers who were able to rush up, and many of them were hit by hot oil, rolling logs, stones and other foreign objects thrown by Zheng Jun soldiers who were defending the city, and then fell from the high city. Come down and break into patties.

However, this did not have the enthusiasm to attack the soldiers of the Chu army who were besieging the city.

Driven by the sound of war drums full of killing spirit, hundreds of Chu soldiers rushed forward one after another as if they had been beaten with chicken blood.

End to death!

So far, this has been the tenth day that the Chu army has besieged Xinzheng City.

Whether it is the Zheng army defending the city or the Chu army attacking the city, they are all exhausted physically and mentally, and they are somewhat unsustainable.

On the side of the Chu army, it is good that there are many soldiers and generals, but the most difficult thing is the defenders in Xinzheng City.

Not to mention that they have few soldiers and few generals, they don't have too much military supplies.

In order to inflict damage on the attacking enemy troops, the king of Zheng State even ordered the demolition of the bricks and wood of Li Shu in the city, and used them as stones and rolling logs...

(End of this chapter)