Rebirth of Wu Ba Spring and Autumn

Chapter 88
What Shi Mai said is not without reason, at least Yun Chang quite agrees with it.

Seeing Qingji's posture, he wanted Wu Zixu to be executed at all costs to vent his hatred!
The state of Wu is strong and the state of Yue is weak, if in order to protect Wu Zixu, it is not worthwhile to gamble on the fate of the state of Yue.

After all, if the city of Kuaiji was destroyed and the Yue Kingdom perished, what would Yun Chang need Wu Zixu to do?

What is its use?
"Your Majesty, please think twice!"

Lu Ming sighed and said: "Qingji blackmails the king again and again, it is really deceiving people too much. If the king allows Qingji to act recklessly, I am afraid that Qingji will make more progress and make more excessive demands!"

"This……"

Yun Chang became hesitant again for a while, unable to make a decision.

Da Sima Shi bought in and said, "Your Majesty, in my opinion, why not hand over a Wu Yuan?"

"Currently, Wu State's troops are pressing down on the border, and there is almost a tendency to destroy Yue. If Your Majesty only pays the casualties of tens of thousands of soldiers for only one member of the army, how guilty is it?"

In the end, Shimai didn't think it was worth it.

In addition to this reason, Shi Mai has his own selfishness!
Selfishness!

Because Wu Zixu has great talents, especially good at running the army and fighting wars, once such a person becomes an official, how can Shi Mai, who will be the chief minister, not fall out of favor?
How can Shi Mai still have a place in the Vietnamese army?
For this reason, Shi Mai must not allow Wu Zixu to go to the Yue Kingdom as he wished, and be reused by the Yue King Yunchang!

"Oh! Whatever!"

Yun Chang sighed, finally nodded and said: "I will tolerate the celebration once more. I will pass on the order of the widow to hand over the corpses of Wu Zixu and Ji Guang to the Wu people. There must be no mistakes!"

"Your Majesty Yingming!"

Shi Mai lowered his head, and a relieved smile appeared on his face.

If they knew that Qingji's ambition was to conquer Chu, not Vietnam, and the fact that the Wu army that went south had only [-] soldiers, would they be so angry that they would vomit blood?

The Wu army that conquered Vietnam claimed to have [-] soldiers, but in fact there were only [-] soldiers and horses. They were just mixed with some civilian husbands and healthy women.

It is worth mentioning that in this era, the number of soldiers and horses on both sides of the war is often distinguished by banners and stoves, and there is never the concept of false names.

Like the [-] people in the Three Kingdoms period, the so-called army of [-], and the [-] people called the army of [-], this does not exist!
After all, the saying that soldiers never tire of cheating has not yet been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

……

Just when Wu and Yue were about to make peace, [-] Wu troops with Sun Ping as the general marched by land and water, and crossed the river using Zhenzi as a springboard.

Sun Ping originally planned to conquer the impenetrable Zhaoguan first, and then divide his troops to attack Shudi, but Fan Li suggested that Sun Ping should make it easy first and then difficult, so as not to be unable to attack Zhaoguan for a long time, causing the Chu army to counterattack and failing!
Sun Ping chose to adopt Fan Li's idea, so he led his army to the south, conquering the three riverside cities of Que, Yongpu, and An in Chu State along the way.

Wu's army marched extremely fast, and the defense of the cities on the eastern border of Chu State was basically useless. Therefore, in less than two days, the three achievements along the river of Chu State changed their banners and became the cities of Wu State!
Afterwards, the Wu army did not stay on the river bank for too long, but drove straight in with the force of a bamboo, and captured various cities in Shudi one after another.

It is worth mentioning that Shudi in Chu State does not only refer to the city of Shucheng.

Shudi is a vast territory including the nine cities of Shu, Shuliu, Shuyong, Shujiu, Shulong, Shuyu, Shubao, Zong, and Chao, with a radius of about [-] miles and a large population. .

These nine cities were originally the kingdoms of the Yan surname, and they were also called "Qunshu". They are all descendants of the Yan surname Gaotao!

However, just like most of the vassal states in the south, they were either destroyed by the state of Chu and kept the ancestral temple for sacrifices, or they took the initiative to bow their heads to the state of Chu and become a subsidiary state of the state of Chu.

The countries of Shudi belonged to the vassals of Chu State, and the original monarchs of their countries became the feudal monarchs of Chu State, retaining great autonomy.

In addition to paying tribute to Chu State on time, Qunshu is actually not much different from ordinary vassal states!
Of course, once the state of Chu fights abroad and recruits soldiers internally, Qunshu must also respond by dispatching a certain number of soldiers, horses or food and fodder.

Therefore, Qunshu is also equivalent to a state within a state of Chu.

During the more than [-] years of mutual conquests between Wu and Chu, the Wu army once invaded Shudi and captured several cities, but they often held on for a short time before being recaptured by the Chu people.

And Sun Ping and Fan Li's method of dealing with Qunshu is also very simple, that is, to rely on a strong army to frighten Qunshu, and to use courtesy first and then soldiers.

Qun Shu who was frightened naturally did not dare to resist Wu Jun, so when Wu Jun's soldiers arrived, they all surrendered in Kaesong and took the initiative to reward Wu Jun with wine and meat.

This saves Wu Jun a lot of trouble.

The only fly in the ointment is that Shu Ren is not convinced and does not allow Wu Jun to station in the city. To a certain extent, this makes Wu Jun a little more dangerous to be attacked by the enemy.

Because no one can guarantee whether Qun Shu will fight back against Wu Jun when Chu Jun counterattacks.

Shucheng, Wu Jun camp.

In the big tent of the Chinese army, Grand Sima Sun Ping was sitting at the table with Fan Li, the military commander, offering wine!

"Great Sima, at present, the Nine Cities of Shudi have basically changed their course and merged into our Wu Kingdom. However, in my opinion, Qunshu is not really attached."

Fan Li shook his head and said, "Grand Sima Ling Qunshu subsidizes the troops, but so far, our army has only got [-] soldiers, most of whom are old and weak!"

"There are less than [-] cotton-padded clothes for the winter, more than [-] hard bows, and [-] arrows! The rest of the rice, millet and grain are only two thousand shi."

"It can be seen from this that Qun Shu still wants to have a good relationship between Wu and Chu, and they are at both ends!"

Hearing this, Sun Ping chuckled, and said, "It's not surprising that Qunshu is like this. As a vassal of Chu, Qunshu has fallen from time to time and rebelled from time to time. If it hadn't been forced by the power of the Chu people, Qun Shu would have stood on his own and left Chu. country."

"Many years ago, a part of Qunshu was once under the rule of Wu State. But it won't last long!"

"If I, Great Wu, want to completely conquer Qunshu and turn Shudi into the land of Wu Kingdom in a real sense, it will be a long way to go as the hearts of the people want."

Fan Li nodded slightly and said, "Even though you said that, Da Sima, Qunshu is like this, so we have to guard against it. Your Majesty's intention is to take down Shudi and Zhaoguan. Shudi is easy to get, but Zhaoguan is difficult to overcome!"

"I heard that the Chu army has gathered in Qianyi one after another, ready to fight back. If our army wants to defend Shudi, we need to defeat the Chu army in Qianyi to frighten the people of Shu."

"Only relying on the current soldiers and horses of our Wu army, we may not be able to defend against Shuren and at the same time divide our troops to defeat the Chu army."

Upon hearing this, Sun Ping couldn't help but frowned and said: "Uncle Shao, do you want the King to increase his troops?"

"It must be so."

(End of this chapter)