A Millennium Aristocratic Family Starting from the Shang Dynasty

Chapter 118
Huai State's intelligence network has developed in Chu State for decades, and now it has reached most of Chu State.Of course, there are not many real cores.Half of the money earned by the Huai country caravan was spent on intelligence networks.

After ten years of development, the state of Chu has not only regained its vitality, but its national strength has also improved a lot, and Zhang Huatai in the state of Chu has become a famous palace in Bangzhou.After the Huai State restrained its minions, Chu State Xu felt that he was doing well again, and began to extend his tentacles to the Central Plains.

Chu State wanted to pull out the alliance of Zhong, Huang, Cai, and Jiang.I want to destroy these four small countries together with the Central Plains.It's just that some countries in the Central Plains are afraid of Huai country and dare not do anything, while others want them to contain Chu country.Among them, the attitude of Jin State is like this.

Although the Jin State is temporarily allied with the Chu State to deal with the Huai State, it has always been very wary of the Chu State. After all, although the Chu State is different from the Huai State, they are also eyeing the Central Plains.

Now the relationship between Chu State and Jin State has improved, and it has maintained a situation of fighting without breaking up. It is entirely because of Huai State. On the whole, Bangzhou gives people a very strange sense of peace. Disputes between countries If there is less, they are all clearing up those Yidi to expand their strength.

After investigating the environment and terrain of Chao Country, Wang Jin launched a war against Chao Country in the second year.

Wang Jin ordered his uncle Gong Zimin to be the commander, and Chen Yi to be the general, commanding an army of [-] troops, to attack Chao State on the grounds that Chao State would not pay tribute.

Knowing that the Huai State army was coming to attack, Chao State was in a mess. He quickly ordered the army to resist, and sent envoys to ask for help from the State of Chu.

The country of Chao is located in the south of the Yangtze River, where the waterways are criss-crossed, which is not conducive to chariots. Therefore, the country of Huai has only one hundred chariots this time.The capital city of Chao Kingdom is located on the bank of Chaohu Lake, where the Tianmo Yangtze River can be intercepted in the south, the Dabie Mountains are in the north, and Jinling City can be threatened by going east. It can be said that the geographical location is superior, easy to defend but difficult to attack.

The army of the Huai State marched from Handi, winning successive battles all the way, and the Chao State was defeated in all three battles.Soon the Huai army advanced to the vicinity of Chaohu Lake.

The country of Chao has suffered consecutive defeats and its morale is low. It can only rely on favorable terrain to defend, and dare not fight again.

Gong Zimin tried to attack once, Chao country was tightly defended, the attack caused heavy casualties, and the army of Chu country had already arrived.

Chu's army of [-] was stationed on the other side of the Ruxu River. If Huai State attacked Chao State by force, Chu's army would attack from the flank.In fact, the army of Chu State did not fight Huai State immediately after its arrival. Instead, it seemed to be on the sidelines. It was very cautious to attack when Huai State and Chao State were at war.

Huai army camp.

"Isn't the army of Chu State here to rescue Chao State? What does it mean not to attack?" Young Master Min asked while looking at the topographical map in front of him.

"Young master, the Chu army has been defeated by our Huai country one after another. I guess the Chu army should be afraid of our Huai army." Chen Yi thought for a while and said.

Young Master Min nodded and said: "The Chu army has been defeated by our Huai country. They are indeed afraid. This time, they came here before fighting. How can they be the opponent of my army? I will write a letter to the general of the Chu army tomorrow. Our army retreated twenty miles, gave up our position, and invited them to cross the river to fight!"

"Hahaha, my son is afraid that the Chu army will not dare!" Chen Yi laughed.

"If you don't dare to do this, then take off your armor and go home as soon as possible!"

Chu army camp.

Coach Dou Bo is discussing military affairs with the enthroned general.

"General, the army of the Huai State is in a state of invincibility, and its morale is high. If we confront it now, our army may not be able to win. If we don't cooperate with the Chao State, we will form a stalemate with the Huai State, and then send an army to cut off the food and grass of the Huai Army. .”

"This battle is in the country of Chao, and the Huai country's army is not familiar with the terrain. Our army can use the power of the country of Chao to cut off the way back."

After some discussion, Dou Bo immediately sent a messenger to Chao Country, asking Chao Country to send someone familiar with the terrain to help.

The next day, as soon as the sky dawned, Gong Zimin sent a messenger to the camp of Chu State to send a message.

Camp of Chu State.

Dou Bo was discussing with a general of Chao State where to cut off the Huai army's food road, when a school lieutenant rushed in.

"General, Young Master Min, the commander of the Huai Kingdom, has sent a letter of war to invite us to fight!"

"Gauntlet, haha, Huai country is actually playing this game!" Dou Bo laughed loudly.

Dou Bo picked up the book of war and looked through it. He saw that the general of Huai State said that his army had retreated twenty miles, and then invited him to cross the river to fight. Song, Song Xianggong is like this."

"When the two armies fought, they still put on a gentleman's posture. They retreated ten miles and let our army cross the river. They didn't come to attack. They were really gentlemen. It's a pity that they were defeated by my brother in the first battle and fled in embarrassment. Now this young master is merciful. This trick invites me to fight, I'm afraid they want to take advantage of our army to cross the river and strike halfway!"

"The king of the Song Dynasty is a gentleman, but his son can't be trusted to be sympathetic to me!"

In the big tent, the general of Chu State laughed.Then Dou Bo wrote a letter in hand, and asked the messenger to take it back.

Young Master Min saw the bamboo slips brought back by the messenger, and as expected, Dou Bo refused.

"This country of Chu is full of cowards. Since they dare not cross the river, let's cross the river instead!" Chen Yi said with a smile.

"I'm afraid that the state of Chu won't accept it either!" Young Master Min laughed.

"Look at me to write another letter, and make fun of it!"

Immediately, Young Master Min wrote another letter here, asking the Chu army to retreat for twenty miles, and then the Huai army crossed the river to fight the Chu army.And Young Master Min sarcastically ridiculed in the letter of war, with a cowardly bastard on the left and a Jingchu barbarian on the right, anyone who read it would be furious.

Seeing the written letter of war, Young Master Min immediately sent someone to send the letter of war again, and soon the letter of war was sent to Dou Bo again.

Dou Bo threw the book of war to the ground after reading it, furious: "Huai Yi'an dares to bully me like this!"

"Don't be angry, the general. The Huai people are despicable. They just want to anger the general so that they can cross the river and fight with them!"

"Hey, this battle is not for us to attack, but for the Huai people to cross the river to fight us!" A general next to him picked up the war book and said.

"Arrogance!" The surrounding generals of Chu State were furious and said, "Huaiyi is so arrogant, he underestimates me from Chu! Generals can't just let it go!"

"This is to irritate us, so that we can give them a distance of twenty miles, so that they can cross the river and fight! Humph, it's a good idea! The general refused to agree to the Huai people, accepted the letter of war, pretended to retreat twenty miles, and waited. When the Huai people are crossing the river, if they attack halfway, they will surely defeat the Huai people!"

The generals around asked for a fight one after another, and Dou Bo saw that the morale of the army was available, and immediately said: "Since Huaiyi underestimates us so much, let them experience it this time!"

Immediately wrote the letter of war and sent the messenger to Huai State, agreeing to start the war tomorrow.Then discuss with those generals and prepare to attack halfway.

(End of this chapter)