A Millennium Aristocratic Family Starting from the Shang Dynasty

Chapter 220

Wang Kan ascended the throne and inherited the position of monarch.

The death of Wang Pu relieved the states of Bang and Zhou. When Wang Pu was in power in Huai State, even the state of Chu was destroyed, which put great pressure on the states.

And not long after Wang Pu passed away, Wu Qi also died of illness.In just two months, the Huai country lost two pillars of the town, which made all the countries in the world a little bit ready to move.

All countries in the world want to weaken the Huai country, after all, the Huai country is too strong.

Western Chu, Jiangdu.

After Chu Wangque learned that both King Huai and Wu Qi had passed away, he was so excited that he almost jumped up in the palace.

Ever since the state of Chu moved to the west, the king of Chu has always been worried that the Huai State Council will attack Kuimen with all their strength and destroy the state of Chu.It was also this sense of crisis that made King Chu dare not slack off at all.

It has been more than 20 years since the state of Chu moved westward, and the reforms in the past [-] years have greatly improved the strength of the state of Western Chu.Among the countries of Bang and Zhou, the countries that have undergone the most thorough reforms are Chu and Qin.

In Chu State, there were very few aristocrats after the westward migration, and in Qin State, it was because the Marquis of Qin strongly supported it, and the nobles of Qin State did not dare to oppose it.

20 years is enough for a generation to grow up. After the reform, the state of Chu waged a long-term war against the surrounding barbarians in the land of Ba, and plundered a large number of people.

At the same time, water conservancy was built in Brazil and Bazhong, and wasteland was reclaimed, and the Western Chu State obtained a large amount of fertile land.At the same time, due to the westward migration of Chu State, the original population of about 500 million dropped sharply to more than 100 million.

In order to increase the population, the king of Chu ordered that families with three children and one child can enjoy a [-]% tax reduction every year, and families with four or more children can enjoy a half tax reduction.

After the introduction of this policy, the population of Chu State began to increase a lot, but it doubled in 20 years. In addition, Chu State continued to plunder the population from the surrounding barbarians, and the population of Chu State reached more than 200 million Close to 300 million.

At the same time, due to the reclamation of farmland and the construction of water conservancy, there is no aristocratic class to oppress, and the treasury of the Chu State is full. The accumulation of 20 years has made the national power of the Chu State flourish, with 20 soldiers in the middle school.

Now the strength of the 20 armored soldiers in the Western Chu State is much higher than the 20 armored soldiers in the Chu State.After 20 years of reform, the soldiers of Western Chu State are all elite.

After learning that Duke Huai and Wu Qi of Huai State had passed away successively, the King of Chu finally decided to go east for revenge.

The 20 troops of the Chu State were divided into two groups. One route departed from Jiangdu, walked through Kuimen, and attacked Yicheng, and the other route departed from Shangyong and went downstream through the Han River.

The Han River is turbulent, but it can go downstream, but it is extremely difficult to sail against the current.After the Huai State captured the Chu State, it wanted to use the Han River to attack Hanzhong, but found that there was no way to sail against the current.

However, if you enter Hanzhong by land, the mountains are steep and you need to break through several steep passes.At that time, Huai State had already wiped out Chu State, and the soldiers all made military exploits, waiting to go back to reward them. They were not willing to risk their lives to attack these dangerous passes, so the soldiers did not have the heart to fight to the death.

The soldiers had no fighting spirit, and the mountain roads were steep. Wu Qi knew the situation in the army, so he didn't attack again. Instead, he built pass cities in dangerous places to prevent Western Chu from attacking.

The army of the Western Chu State attacked, and the Huai State was also prepared for it. Wang Pu organized the Shanyue Tengjia Army and stationed here all the year round, just to attack the Western Chu State.

This time the Western Chu State attacked, although Yicheng and Yunyang were not as dangerous as Kuimen, they were easy to defend and difficult to attack.The state of Chu sent 20 troops, but because of the difficult mountain roads, they could not use their strength to attack.

As for the Hanshui River, this time the Huai State adopted the practice of the Chu State in Kuimen, driving wooden stakes into the Hanshui River, and at the same time crossing the river with iron cables on both sides.

Chu's army flowed down, but was blocked by iron chains.

Although there are a large army of [-], they can't use their surroundings at all. The Western Chu Kingdom occupies the land of Hanzhong and Ba Kingdom.

Huai State built passes on the two roads that Chu State must pass through. Above the pass city, there is a catapult made by the Duke of Huai State.This kind of catapult is one foot high and two feet long. It needs five people to operate it, and it can throw stones weighing ten catties about a hundred meters.

The Huai State set up the catapult on the city wall, which was filled with gravel. After the launch, a large amount of gravel fell down. Even if the soldiers of Chu army were in armor, they would suffer severe casualties when they were hit by these stones.

If the Western Chu Kingdom wanted to come out, they could only pay a heavy price.Even if the West Chu State attacked desperately and broke through the two passes by chance, the reinforcements from the Huai State had already arrived, and the West Chu State could only retreat again.

After seeing this situation, the King of Chu had no choice but to retreat even though his feud with Huai was as deep as sea.If the evacuation was late, and the Huai State army arrived before retreating, there would be heavy casualties.

The Western Chu State sent 20 troops to attack the Huai River, but failed to capture even the two passes. The first battle to go east was over.

Wei Hou recruited talents with high officials and rich salary, and many talents soon joined him.The most outstanding of them was a scholar named Pang Juan.This person is proficient in the art of war, but he is not a member of the military family, but the Guigu faction.Although Guiguzi did not go to the Huaiguo Academy, but most of his disciples from the Zongheng School were in the Academy.

After all, the vertical and horizontal faction needs very good eloquence, and there is no better place to practice eloquence than the daily debates in Huaiguo Academy.In the Huaiguo Academy, many students of the Vertical and Horizontal School became officials.

As a disciple of the Guigu School, Pang Juan did not learn the art of vertical and horizontal, but the art of war. When he wanted to become an official after his studies, someone suggested him to go to Huai country.

It’s just that Pang Juan thinks that there are many talents in Huai State. The military strategists Sun Wuzi and Wu Zi have both served in Huai State successively, and there are many disciples. Only by suppressing it for a lifetime can he be directly worshiped as the prime minister.

But what kind of characters are Sun Wuzi and Wu Zi?Although he is very confident in himself, he dare not compare with the two military sages.

On the contrary, Wei State is different. Because of Wu Qi's rush to Huai, Wei State's military disciples withered, and now they have been beaten and defeated by various countries. They just need military disciples to show their skills.At the same time, Marquis Wei took out high-ranking officials and rich salaries this time, as long as he has talent, he can get them, which is much better than Huaiguo.

The treatment is better than that of Huaiguo, and the pressure of competition is less.Without hesitation, Pang Juan went to Wei to become an official.

Weihou found out after Pang Juan passed the examination that he was indeed a great talent, so he should worship Pang Juan as his general and lead Wei's military pawns.

Pang Juan had just worshiped the general, and Qin State attacked Hexi again.This time Qin Hou sent his younger brother, Gongzi Che, to lead an army to attack Shaoliang.The Shaoliang defenders couldn't resist, so Pang Juan led his army to rescue.

Young Master Che learned that Pang Juan was leading the army, and after learning that he was just an unknown person, he didn't take him seriously at all, and only sent [-] Qin troops to stop him.

Although Pang Juan was leading an army for the first time, this was his first battle as an official. He dared not be careless. He personally led [-] soldiers as vanguards.Then he rushed all the way, and it took only one day and night to travel three hundred miles to arrive.

At this time, Qin State didn't know that Pang Juan had arrived. Pang Juan asked the soldiers to rest. When the Qin army returned to camp at night, he led the army to attack. Qin State was defenseless, and the soldiers were not wearing armor at all. how many people.

Pang Juan took the lead, broke through the camp of the Qin army and burned the camp. The Qin army was in a panic and trampled on each other.

(End of this chapter)