A Millennium Aristocratic Family Starting from the Shang Dynasty

Chapter 207 Showing the enemy to be weak
Chu State, Han River Plain.

The war that was originally expected did not break out.After Wu Qi saw that the state of Chu had adopted the method of staging strongholds and fighting dumbly, he did not attack by force. Instead, he sent two partial divisions to outflank the left and right. The team strangled.

Although there was no large-scale war, the killing of tens of hundreds of people was happening every day.

Sticking to the camp does not mean that only food and water are enough. Collecting firewood is also very important.

There are thousands or even tens of thousands of people in a camp, and even more people in a city. These people need fire to eat, and consume a lot of firewood every day.

Although there are accumulations in the city and camps, whenever there is an opportunity, the generals defending the city will send people to collect firewood to supplement consumption.

Especially in a situation like the current confrontation between the two armies.

Although the casualties of this kind of strangulation battle are not high each time, the accumulated casualties over time are equally astonishing.But even with such a huge loss, the princes and nobles of Chu did not shrink back. This is completely different from the way the nobles used to preserve their strength.

Wu Qi asked the secret guards to pass back the news of the state of Chu, and soon found out from the information that the king of Chu had distributed all the land in the Hanshui Plain and the Nanyang Basin to the lords and nobles. After receiving the information, he immediately understood why these nobles and princes worked so hard.

"The King of Chu wants us to fight head-on with these lords and nobles! Use our hands to get rid of these nobles." Wu Qi looked at the information and smiled lightly.

"Xiangguo, what shall we do then?" A general next to him asked.

"Of course they can't let them do what they want!" Wu Qi said: "This attack on Chu State is already prepared for a long-term war. With our background in Huai State, we can sustain it, but Chu State cannot sustain it."

"Besides, the Chu Kingdom reluctantly agreed with the outside world because of the pressure of the war. If so, then order the entire army to suspend the attack. At that time, these nobles and lords will help us!" Wu Qi said with a smile.

"As long as we show our weakness to the enemy, those nobles and lords will soon split up."

Following Wu Qi's order, the fighting on the Han River Plain dropped by half.Even under Wu Qi's deliberate indulgence, these nobles, nobles and lords from all over the country can now fight with the Huai country's army.

The original crisis that was overwhelming like Mount Tai disappeared in such a silent manner.And after there is no survival crisis, all kinds of selfishness that had been suppressed began to appear.

Hanshui Plain and Nanyang Basin, as the two most developed areas of Chu State, are of great importance to Chu State.

This time, the King of Chu distributed all the land in the Hanshui Plain and the Nanyang Basin to the nobles and princes of various places, which almost divided the most essential part of the land controlled by the Chu royal family.

And the nobles and nobles who received these land rewards and the princes from all over the world were also ecstatic.After receiving these land rewards, many people's land directly increased by one-third.Such a generous reward made the nobles, nobles and lords swear to defeat Huai State and defend Chu State.

We must know that the Han River Plain has fertile land and convenient water sources. It is a rare fertile field, and it can be harvested even in a drought. This place can be said to be the granary of Chu State.

For these fiefdoms, nobles and lords spent a lot of money to recruit soldiers.Originally, after recruiting soldiers, these nobles and lords should gather together for deployment, and then go to various cities and camps to defend.

The Hanjiang Plain and the Nanyang Basin are the two major grain-producing regions of Chu.These two areas were divided into nobles and feudal monarchs. As long as these nobles and feudal monarchs can hold on, the influence of their Chu State will become greater and greater in the future.

Similarly, after the loss of these two areas, the strength of the royal family of the Chu Kingdom was greatly reduced.The king of Chu also used this method to tell those nobles and princes from all over the country that the state of Chu would no longer carry out reforms and delegate power to the nobles.

After Qu Qing and the king of Chu paid for two fat lands, they finally got these nobles and lords to use all their strength to resist the Huai country.

The calculations of Qu Qing and the King of Chu were almost perfect. According to their plan, the nobles and lords of Chu State suffered heavy losses in the attack of Huai State, and the royal family would move westward to Pakistan with their royal heritage.

If these officials and nobles really blocked the Huai Kingdom, the Nanyang Basin and the Hanjiang Plain would also become the territory of these princes and nobles and officials, which could serve as a buffer between the Chu State and the Huai State, but the King of Chu and Qu Qing knew very well , How can a group of insects stop a tiger?

From the beginning to the end, Qu Qing and the King of Chu did not think that these princes and nobles could win.

After discovering that Huai country's offensive strength had declined, these lords and nobles began to have some thoughts of their own.

A sentence Cao Zi said back then is very suitable to describe these nobles as kings, that is, meat eaters are contemptible and fail to seek far.

It's not that they don't have vision. On the contrary, many nobles, nobles, and kings are farsighted and smart, but when a large number of nobles, nobles, and kings are together, do you think they will become smarter?On the contrary, they will all become fools who only care about their immediate interests.

This scene has not been staged once in history.

After these officials and nobles found that the Huai country did not continue their onslaught, they no longer agreed to give their private soldiers a unified command.At the same time, these officials and nobles were worried that the king of Chu would regret it later, so they led their soldiers to the fief on the Hanjiang Plain, preparing to station in the fief.

Before the war was over, these officials and nobles began to divide the territories entrusted by the king of Chu.At the same time, after the king of Chu gave up a lot of rights, these nobles and nobles also began to fight.

The originally unified defense line of the Han River Plain also became completely chaotic, and those feudal monarchs and nobles began to fight for power and profit.

Seeing this situation, the soldiers of the Huai army who followed the army were also dumbfounded.

"Aren't they afraid of our sudden attack?"

"Of course they are afraid, it's just that people have a fluke mentality! Or they think that as long as they go back, they can stop us again."

"Not so long ago they were able to unite because of our oppression, which forced them to do so. Now without oppression, they are just a mess."

Wu Qi looked at the news sent by the secret guard, but in just one month, many of the lords and nobles of Chu State had already started to fight over the demarcation issue, and immediately laughed and said: "The time is right." Arrived!"

"Order the army to prepare. Tomorrow, three shifts will prepare meals, four shifts will organize the army to eat, and five shifts will destroy the enemy's camp!"

"Here!" Everyone in the camp responded in unison.

(End of this chapter)