My son, Fusu, please abdicate the first emperor!

Chapter 416: The path you choose must be completed even on your knees
Unfortunately, Xiang Yan did not hear these people's doubts.

In order to establish authority in front of his generals, let them manage vertically like the Qin army, resolutely obey any orders he gave, and try to find the Qin army's flaws in a short period of time, Xiang Yan deployed his large account with heavy troops. Surround them and prevent other clan generals from easily entering the account.

But this is a very disgusting behavior in the eyes of the Chu people.

Because of its geographical location, Chu State has always been an alliance composed of relative groups.

Even the King of Chu, when something happened to the country, he would gather the clans together and sit on the same table on the same steps, with the cuffs facing the cuffs, the mouths of the winemakers and the mouths of the winemakers flush, to discuss it together.

These actions immediately aroused dissatisfaction among the generals of the Chu army, and then also aroused dissatisfaction among the soldiers.

Because the relationship between the children of Jiangdong in Chu State is that they are distant relatives of distant relatives.

But Xiang Yan had to do more than that. He first sent someone to ask the King of Chu for instructions. After getting the King of Chu's consent, Xiang Yan gathered together the generals of the clans and initiated a command-style discussion with them.

"In this Qin army, as soon as the commander gives an order, the whole army follows the order without any hesitation. It is this high degree of centralization that allows the Qin army to play a more strategic role."

"Although we, the descendants of Jiangdong from Chu State, are all good boys and men, brave and good at fighting, if we want to defeat Chu State, we must unite as one."

Xiang Yan's face was serious, and she was cruel to these former brothers.

Xiang Yan's expression remained unchanged, "I have known this for a long time. I have asked the king for instructions before, and the king agreed with me to do this. This is the edict, please read it."

"In the future, in this army, you are not allowed to talk about brothers. You only listen to military orders. Once military orders are issued, there must be no mistakes. Just execute them and don't discuss them."

Naturally, no one expected this, and there was a sudden silence in the hall.

When the generals heard this, they all blew their beards and stared.

Everyone felt something was wrong.

"General Xiang, what does it mean to have no brothers in the army from now on?"

Almost all the Jiangdong disciples admired Xiang Yan. Everyone believes in Xiang Yan and treats Xiang Yan as an elder brother.

It's not that the Jing clan likes to make noises, it's just that they think what Xiang Yan did is a bit redundant.

"I thought the general didn't need us anymore. It turns out that he called us here for this kind of thing. It's just the general. When did we not stand on the same front as the general?"

But Xiang Yan suddenly no longer regards them as brothers.

"That's right, General, how could you let us ignore our brothers?"

Xiang Yan had to do this if he wanted to save the Chu State from decline. Otherwise, with the Chu army so scattered, it would be too easy for the Qin army to find weak areas to attack.

As Xiang Yan said, the other generals had already complained in their hearts.

When everyone heard this, they all said, "Yes, today's gathering is really unnecessary."

"I invite you all to come here today. Xiang Yan wants to hear what the brothers think and see what he should do in the future to compete with Qin."

Xiang Yan was brave and resourceful, dared to take responsibility when he made mistakes, and led his troops to defeat Qin again under huge pressure. This was the pride of the entire Chu people.

"Of course we have to fight this war, but after the war, how can we live in the same village with the villagers when we go back? We won't see you when you look up and look down."

When the edict of King Chu of Chu was circulated one by one among the people, everyone also looked at Xiang Yan with reproach, disgust, and disgust.

Only a small number of people support Xiang Yan.

These are the Sun family in Jiangdong and the Qu family. Like Xiang Yan, they all hope that Chu will win this war. It’s not that the Qu family and other clans don’t want Chu to win. It's just Xiang Yan and Xiang Yan's supporters. They have long found a more meaningful motive for the war than the victory over Chu's Jue Lu.

That is to work with the general to defend the homeland of their Chu people and protect their Chu country. Not just to protect the fields, houses, and beauties of your own family.

What Xiang Yan didn't expect was that the more he tried to make up for the shortcomings of the Chu clan's independence, the more the Chu clan refused to follow his lead.

These clan generals all felt as if they had been deceived by Xiang Yan.

Xiang Yan actually went to ask the King of Chu for instructions without telling them, and then told them later, and then pretended to let them discuss how to make the Chu army united.

Xiang Yan had the King of Chu's imperial edict in hand, and so many people did not know in advance what would happen today, and everyone was in a state of ignorance. Things happened so suddenly that these people could only agree temporarily.

"From now on, I will only obey General Xiang's orders and never say more."

When Xiang Yan heard that they agreed to cooperate with him, he felt that he had another guarantee against Qin.

But as soon as these generals came out of the tent, they began to scold Xiang Yan behind his back in authentic Chu voices.

Intentionally or unintentionally, they gathered in a group, said a few words where Xiang Yan passed by, and ran away quickly after seeing Xiang Yan.

This happened for several days in a row, which made Xiang Yan unhappy.

But Xiang Yan didn't care. Long before he did this, he knew that doing so would cause some people to resent him. But for the sake of the Chu State and his descendants, Xiang Yan could only put aside honor and disgrace.
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Both the Qin and Chu armies were busy appeasing people's hearts. The tug-of-war between the two superpowers had not yet begun, but both sides had already felt how harsh the war that would break out in the future would be.

Two roosters of equal strength peck each other. Even if the other rooster dies, the surviving one will not have a few feathers left.

Fusu deduced the development of the war in the military tent. He realized that if he wanted to delay the decline of the old woman Qin, he must control the cost of Qin's war to a minimum.

It would be most perfect to let Chu itself get into trouble first.

Fusu can completely replicate Wang Jian's strategy and tactics against Chu in history, and use Qin's strong comprehensive national power to crush Chu in all directions.

By besieging the Chu army for a year, the Chu army was discouraged and then made dumplings.

Easily eat the Chu State.

But Fusu can't do this!
Because he once boasted in front of everyone that he could destroy Qi and Chu within two years.

Counting the days, there is still a year and a half left.

After eating a country as big as Chu, we must quickly adjust our military strength to destroy Qi, the richest country in the world.

To accomplish this in a short time, you have to use some ingenuity.

Fusu looked at the sand table and his eyes fell on the cities around Funiu Mountain.

Fusu finally set his sights on Cheng Fu.

Passing through Funiu Mountain and heading east is Chengfu.

And to the northwest of Chengfu is Pengcheng.

Historically, Li Xin's defeat was in Chengfu, but because he initially chose Xinzheng as the home base of his army, although this left many new cities captured by the Qin State with empty defenses, it instead attracted the attention of the Chu State army elsewhere.

(End of this chapter)