Infinite War Begins with Cao Thief

On the last day of King Qin Zhuangxiang's reign, Dong Huang spent the last day on the bed where King Qin Zhuangxiang slept.

I understand everything.

Dong Huang only made a slight move, but he was not a mountain that King Qin Zhuangxiang could reach.

The mere Queen Mother Zhao has only one-thirtieth of the fighting power of the giant salamander and is not challenging at all.

In these three days, Lu Buwei was the most confused.

After Lu Buwei tried the low-grade elixir given by Yun Zhongjun, not only did he no longer have pain in his back and legs, and his shoes were wet due to the wind, but he was in good spirits and even had an improvement in his internal strength.

This not only made him further realize the powerful efficacy of Yunzhongjun's elixir, but also made him have other ideas.

In the more than half a year since King Qin Zhuangxiang died, Zhao Ji has changed from the initial hesitation to the current self-confidence and emptiness.

At the court meeting, King Qin did not notice that Zhao Ji looked at Dong Huang with something wrong, but he did.

This made Lu Buwei realize that this woman in her prime wanted a man!

Lu Buwei didn't mind Zhao Ji finding a man. In fact, the Qin people's concept of men and women was simply more open than ordinary people imagined. To be precise, throughout the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the concept of men and women was extremely open, but border areas like Chu, Yan, and Qin were particularly open.

To this day, many places in these countries still retain the tradition of treating guests with their wives, and regard it as the highest etiquette for guests. You know, this is not the domestic prostitutes of later generations, but a serious wife.

Of course, this kind of openness is not so much about incest and fornication as it is about the fact that the newly opened barbarian Rongdi land in "China" is still in the process of transforming from a matrilineal clan society to a patrilineal clan society, and women have a high status in the family. caused by.

It was precisely because of being too open that Mi Yue openly had an affair with King Yiqu and gave birth to two sons in the harem. The people of Qin basically said nothing. Instead, Mi Yue planned to kill King Yiqu to help Qin obtain the land of Yiqu. , everyone felt that Mi Yue was great.

In fact, if Zhao Ji in history only played with men and did not confront Ying Zheng, neither Ying Zheng nor the people of Qin would say anything about her.

Back to business.

As a businessman, it is Lu Buwei's instinct to observe what is happening.

Since Zhao Ji wants a man, he can just take the initiative to send him to her door!

He was worried that Zhao Ji's IQ problem was always holding him back. He decided to use the elixir donated by Yun Zhongjun to completely sleep Zhao Ji and make her obey his words.

Lu Buwei decided to go to see Zhao Ji.

Then, Lu Buwei was left hanging outside Ganquan Palace for a long time. In the end, not only did he not even see Zhao Ji's face, Zhao Ji also asked him to hand over the snare.

The inexplicable request made Lu Buwei so angry that he wanted to force his way into Ganquan Palace and question Zhao Ji: With your intelligence, what's the use of a trap?

Lu Buwei didn't want to give it, but he was a politician after all, and he knew that he couldn't lose Zhao Ji's support at this stage.

Lu Buwei decided to divide the snare into two parts, and gave Zhao Ji the problematic but cunning fox-like mask and some insignificant parts.

After leaving Ganquan Palace depressed, Lu Buwei called Luo Wang's spy, and couldn't help but ask: "Has there been any unusual activity at the Queen Mother's house recently?"

"Prime Minister, there is nothing unusual. The Queen Mother has been in mourning in the palace recently. She only comes out during court meetings. However, last night she summoned Lord Xiang of the Yin Yang family to the palace. It seemed that she wanted to ask about ways to nourish and nourish the skin. However, Lord Xiang did not wait. After a long time, she was sent out of Ganquan Palace by the Queen Mother's chamberlain, and then the chamberlain returned to the palace alone. Other than that, the Queen Mother did not see anyone."

Luo Wangyan replied.

[Is it Mr. Xiang who has a problem? The Yin and Yang family must have a plan for entering the Qin Dynasty. The Xiangjun is good at nourishing and nourishing the skin, and his purpose seems to be obvious. Is he here for the queen mothers? That's not right. Yun Zhongjun is obviously targeting the King and the courtiers, and the other one is targeting the Queen Mother. This can only show that the Yinyang family is indeed well prepared and has a big plan, so it only needs the full support of the King, the Queen Mother, and the courtiers. Absolutely. Not only for the Queen Mother, but also it is impossible to instigate the Queen Mother to ask for a snare from me once we meet! No matter how stupid the Queen Mother is, there is no way she would believe the lies of a person she met only once and do such a stupid thing! The Yin Yang family can't be so stupid! 】

Lu Buwei's mind was spinning rapidly. He first analyzed it from the perspective of a wise man, and then analyzed it from the perspective of a normal person. He finally came to the conclusion that Zhao Ji's request for a snare had nothing to do with the Yin Yang family. It was simply because she had another brain twitch!

[Forget it, didn’t I just think she was pretty, stupid, and easy to control, so I gave her to Ying Yiren? It was my own fault...]

Lu Buwei was also speechless.

Lu Buwei's incident was just an episode, but the fact that he delivered the Hidden Sun to Zhao Ji was definitely an unexpected surprise for Dong Huang.

But Dong Huang did not dare to introduce Jingshu, who was disguised as hiding the sun, to Zhao Ji, because he was also afraid that Zhao Ji would reveal his flaws.

Zhao Ji is a person with a love brain, and she will work hard for love regardless of her own safety. She is also very obedient, but she is just stupid...

There is a difference between stupidity and stupidity. Stupidity may be due to IQ problem, while stupidity is due to a weird brain circuit. You don't know when you will act smart and play backstab. This is something that Lu Buwei knows very well in the court.

Jing Ju can only pretend not to know Dong Huang, swear allegiance to Zhao Ji, and thoughtfully present to Zhao Ji a eunuch who is said to be able to protect Zhao Ji in the palace and act as a liaison - Jingshan.

Then Zhao Ji believed it.

Because Zhao Ji felt that she was the Queen Mother of the Qin Dynasty and the most powerful woman in the world. How could a mere killer dare to betray her!

In short, it is honey confidence.

But, she is obedient.

Stupid and obedient.

She could pose in whatever pose she wanted. As long as Dong Huang made a request, she would not refuse. Occasionally, she did not want to agree to some requests that were too unspeakable, and even looked angry, but Dong Huang As long as Huang showed a cold face and tried to leave, Zhao Ji would obediently submit.

Zhao Ji even took the initiative to suggest that Dong Huang find some maids to vent his anger, because she really couldn't stand it.

When she faced King Qin Zhuangxiang before, Zhao Ji wanted to ask him: Can you do it?

After meeting Dong Huang, what Zhao Ji regretted most was asking Dong Huang: Can you do it?

Now, she can only beg: be gentle, okay?

In front of Dong Huang, any ability to turn the wheel is weak.

When she faced Dong Huang, the gap was even greater than when Dong Huang faced Yu Xin.

Compared to the giant salamander that can last for a month, she is a weakling.

The giant salamander has a constant and stable water splashing jump, but she has gone from water splashing to the waterfall technique, then to the flood seven armies, and then to the waterfall technique and even the water splashing jump.

If it weren't for the nourishment of the elixir and Dong Huang's technique, she would have died of dehydration.

Dedicating her maid was her last resort.

But Dong Huang was not interested in women without status bonus. Instead, he was interested in watching Zhao Ji kneel down and beg for mercy...

But it was useless to kneel down and beg for mercy. It was actually her son Ying Zheng who rescued her from her sweet distress.

Ying Zheng sent someone to invite her to the palace to discuss major national policies - Da Qin's front line had failed.

Now Zhao Ji is not interested in these things, but Dong Huang ordered her to cultivate more wings. Of course Zhao Ji was very obedient. In order to reward the obedient Zhao Ji, Dong Huang also gave Zhao Ji a pen and a pen to the Queen Mother He. , Empress Dowager Wei also carried a pen...

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War never depends on individual will.

In the last year of the reign of King Qin Zhuangxiang, wars continued in Kyushu.

Xianyang, the capital of the Qin State, seems to be peaceful and peaceful, but in fact, it is fighting on three fronts and is under great pressure.

In the north, Meng Ao still had not put down the rebellion in Jinyang.

This was a rebellion that most war agents had no impression of, but the intensity of the rebellion was beyond the imagination of war agents.

The Zhao people have always hated the Qin people deeply. This rebellion was not just a city in Jinyang, but spread to the entire Taiyuan County and even all the Zhao cities occupied by the Qin State.

Even Meng Ao was not so easy to calm down for a while.

Fortunately, the main force of Zhao State did not participate, and the main force of Zhao Army and Qi State really went to defeat Yan.

Facts have proved that Yan State is really a soft persimmon.

The Yan State, which was already in civil strife, was caught off guard by the Qi-Zhao coalition forces.

Lian Po led 500,000 elite troops, including 70,000 Zhao Jun cavalry and 100,000 Qi warriors, and one million auxiliary troops. He easily defeated Yan's general Ju Xin's troops and once again surrounded Jicheng, the capital of Yan. .

Speaking of which, if there is any country that is most grateful to the agent of war, it must be Zhao.

Many of Zhao's war agents wanted to flee to Qin, but most of them failed.

Because of the deadly feud between Qin and Zhao, Zhao's cavalry and archery corps blocked the Qin-Zhao border. A small group of war agents who wanted to sneak across were quickly killed by Zhao's elite army. A small number of war agents were stunned. They recruited legions to force their way in, but they soon saw the gap between their cannon fodder legion and the world's top legion.

What's even more terrible is that these Zhao State legions not only have amazing fighting power, but the speed of their horses is also much faster than that of war agents.

Many of the war agents and troops under their command were captured and used as slaves.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the remaining war agents had no choice but to release their cities in Zhao State.

This made Zhao Guo very happy.

Although they are shielded from consciousness by space, the logistics of the current war must be guaranteed by elite female soldiers, and Zhao State, which even has elite female soldiers in the regular army, is very happy to face these more than 2,000 additional towns. Now, all those who have reached the seventh level, both men and women, including war agents and generals, have been organized into the army by the State of Zhao based on their qualifications and strength. And the people in the towns of these war agents have Many residents were directly moved to several important cities in Zhao State.

On the contrary, many generals with good qualifications got benefits and were used as seeds by the Zhao people who wanted to make all women pregnant and have babies.

Generally speaking, these agents of war can be seen as being absorbed by the indigenous people.

Even more thoroughly than Qin's digestion.

Of course, if these war agents can survive this mission, they may gain more than Qin's war agents.

However, it is a bit difficult to survive.

On the battlefield, even low-level generals have to work hard. Sometimes a cold arrow can kill them. It is difficult to survive for more than forty years, especially the two decades ahead that are full of wars!

Many of Zhao's war agents had to form alliances in order to survive.

A large part of these war agents actually want to find opportunities to surrender to Qin in the future, but the problem is that some war agents want to play a big game and fight to see if they can save Zhao.

Why did the war agent in the south create a big enemy and was about to destroy the Chu State? Can't we?

They made detailed plans and successfully convinced the capitulationists' war agents.

The reason is simple. They currently have a common enemy - Guo Kai.

Even those who want to surrender to Qin must find a way to get rid of Guo Kai at this stage. Otherwise, they may be killed by Guo Kai before they find a chance to surrender to Qin.

In fact, after persuasion, this part of the surrender faction no longer wants to surrender so much.

They suddenly figured out that as long as Guo Kai was killed, Zhao State would be able to have two top generals, Lian Po and Li Mu. Even though Lian Po was old, he should be able to hold on until Li Mu had fully grown up. By then, the war agent If we work together again, we might even be able to create a miracle!

If we just surrender to the Qin State, who knows if the Qin State will continue to kill prisoners? Especially with the participation of Qin's war agents!

As a result, the war agents of the two major factions of Zhao State basically reached a consensus, formed a loose alliance, and set their target on Guo Kai.

These people really succeeded!

Guo Kai only had ninth-level combat power, and his skills were not in combat. Although he also had a mythical first-level bodyguard, he faced a surprise attack by hundreds of dead soldiers and eventually died from a poisonous arrow.

Of course, all those dead soldiers were definitely wiped out by Zhao Jun who came after hearing the news, but Guo Kai died after all.

Although King Zhao was furious, Guo Kai's death was a matter of great benefit to the present generation and to the future for the war agent and the State of Zhao.

The war agents who killed Guo Kai participated in the attack on Yan with all their strength.

They discovered that if they could really destroy the Yan State, the Zhao State would definitely recover a lot, and maybe it would really be able to resist the powerful Qin by then!

Zhao's war agents increasingly felt that they were capable.

Jicheng persisted for three months in total.

The reason why he couldn't hold on in the end was that King Yan was so frightened that he voluntarily abandoned the city and fled to Liaodong.

After that, the Qi and Zhao coalition forces marched all the way to Youbeiping, occupying almost all the territory west of the Liaodong Corridor of Yan State.

Zhao State, whose national power was weak and had strong enemies from Qin State, did not dare to fall out with Qi State. Qi State, which fought on two fronts and had no famous generals, did not dare to fall out with Zhao State. Therefore, the two countries followed the previous agreement and divided the country along the Yishui River. occupied land. As for the remaining land of Yan State, both countries are currently unable to capture it. They just want to digest the current land.

The meat that comes into your mouth is yours.

But even if he was only allocated the land south of Yishui, it was enough for King Qi to be proud, because he found that he was really going to become the King of Qi who expanded the most land in history. Under his rule, the area of ​​Qi State increased. Five percent.

Hou Sheng immediately took the article Chen Lin had ghostwritten for him and sang his praises to King Qi.

Speaking of which, Hou Sheng has been a little worried recently because Guo Kai's death made him sad.

He feels that the Guo Kai of today is himself tomorrow.

Hou Sheng was very afraid of death.

But what is somewhat absurd is that there are two killer organizations who are more afraid of Hou Sheng's death than Hou Sheng.

These two organizations are Daqin's Luowang and Dayu's Tingting.

They realized that once Hou Sheng was assassinated, no one would be able to stabilize Qi. If the King of Qi worked hard to govern and took sides, the consequences would be absolutely terrifying.

It is enough for Qi to attack Yan and Chu, but it must not breed undue ambitions.

The most critical chess piece to curb Qi's ambition is to win later!

In order to protect Housheng, or to be more precise, to seize the opportunity to protect Housheng, the assassins of the two countries started a bloody battle here.

The person who is in charge of Diting here is Fangcun Gongshan. He is one of the special growable mutant servants produced by Dong Huang's military building. He only eats spiritual rice and can improve his evolution.

These special mutant troops produced one individual a day. The beautiful women were kept by Dong Huang to serve as guards; the ugly women and men were given to Bai Ze Ting to enrich their high-end combat power.

At present, a few mutants such as Fangcun Gongshan, who are the most talented, have reached the first level of myth. Fangcun Gongshan changed his name to Fangshan and came to Linzi. He became the person in charge of Bai Zedi in Linzi. On weekdays, his hidden identity is the biggest in Linzi. The owner of Dan Kwai Fong, a seafood shop, contributed 30% of the seafood shop's profits to Hou Sheng and 40% to King Qi.

It can be said that Fang Shan's move directly turned King Qi and Hou Sheng into the backstage of Di Ting in Qi. When Luo Wang, who did not know the truth, sent people to attack Dangui Fang, Luo Wang's failure in Qi was inevitable.

At any time, the upper route is the shortest route.

The changes in the war situation of the three kingdoms of Qi, Zhao and Yan were beyond the reach of both Qin and Yu.

Both countries are gritting their teeth and holding on.

Generally speaking, Dayu has the advantage. The reason is that Dayu uses its own strengths to attack the other's weaknesses.

The core of Dayu's war against Daqin was fought around the Dajiang River. It never went deep into the river. It was a mobile war, a war of harassment, a defensive war, and a war of attrition.

As for Yingdu, no matter how provocative you, Qin, are, I will rely on the fortress for defense.

I just won't fight!

If you destroy one of my forts, I will still have dozens of forts. Moreover, the Yu army also made full use of the dense river network and even the actively dug water network to continuously divide the battlefield and weaken the Qin army to the maximum extent.

The beating made Wang Lu miserable.

He could only ask the auxiliary army to take human lives to make up for it, which was a pain for the war agents of the Qin State, because most of these auxiliary armies were the armies of the war agents, and there were even war agents with weak individual strength and Their generals and advisors.

In this case, thousands of people died almost every day in the Auxiliary Army.

Seeing that the Qin army was an auxiliary army, the Dayu army sometimes sent military formations under training to train troops.

Gao Shun, Zhuge Liang, Zhao Yun and others all took turns to play.

Wang Lu was also keenly aware that the Yu army was using the Qin army's auxiliary troops to train troops. Sometimes he would put elites among the auxiliary troops to give Dong Huang's army a hard blow.

Generally speaking, the battlefield on the Yingdu side. Da Qin and Da Yu had mutual victories and defeats, but the main forces of both sides did not suffer much losses, except for the war agents and space soldiers.

But Jia Xu also fought hard this time. He made up for as many space soldiers died as possible, and he was at war with the Qin army in Yingdu.

The longer Qin is held back, the less Qin will have the strength to attack South Korea, and South Korea will have enough time to digest the territory it gained from Chu, lay out its defense lines, and build a strong army.

Jia Xu's strategic goal this time is that after carving up Chu, Dayu's territory can border South Korea and he can support South Korea openly.

No matter how weak South Korea is, it is still one of the Seven Heroes with a complete military formation. With South Korea at the front, Dayu can get enough time to compile his own elite military formation, and gain the ability to compete with the armies of the seven countries, especially Qin. The army's ability to fight head-on.

Under Jia Xu's strategy, Qin's attacks in several other directions also encountered great setbacks.

Duke Lu's attack on Xiling ended in a bad battle.

Xiling City was not very strong, but Cao Ren and Zhu Ran defended it well and received continuous support from Dayu's army. It would not be easy for Duke He to defeat it.

The Qin army cannot encircle it on all sides, and Dayu's army can provide support from waterways at any time.

Duke Heng even attacked the city several times, but the space soldiers in the city came after the military parade in Haojing. Their morale was high, and with the domain bonuses of Cao Ren and Zhu Ran, they fought to the death while defending the city. This That's disgusting.

Even without the support of the military formation, this kind of street fighting without fear of death caused the Qin army to collapse.

The Qin army once broke through the city wall on the north side of Xiling with the help of the Gongshu family's city-breaking machine beast, and occupied one-third of the city. However, due to the complex terrain in the city, it was difficult for the Qin army to take advantage of the large-scale military formation. It can only be filled with human life.

When Duke Heng's elite finally occupied half of the city, Zhao Yun and Meng Gong appeared behind the Qin army with reinforcements. They captured several fortresses of the Qin army, destroyed the corridors used by the Qin army to transport grain, and deliberately set fire to There was billowing smoke.

At the same time, the Yu army in the city shouted: "The Qin army's camp has been captured! The Qin army has been defeated!"

Seeing the thick smoke from behind, the Qin army suddenly lost their fighting spirit.

Fortunately, Duke Heng was well prepared, and the 20,000 elite men left behind in the rear camp were strong enough to block the attacks of Zhao Yun and Meng Gong. Otherwise, the Qin army would have suffered another major defeat.

The failure of all previous efforts this time made Duke Hui realize that fighting Yu's army on the bank of the river was definitely asking for trouble.

But Duke Heng is also in a difficult situation. He was defeated in Jingling before, but now he can't be defeated again no matter what, and he can't even propose to withdraw his troops.

It was also difficult for Mengwu. The disastrous defeat of the Jibaxiao navy wiped out the elite Bashu navy. This completely caused Mengwu to lose its strategic initiative. The Dayu navy outside Bacheng was even more devastated. The Ba people are ready to make a move.

Although Meng Wu had already prepared a large amount of food and grass at Defiant Pass, which ensured that even if he was besieged, he would be able to hold on for a long time at Defendant Pass, but he couldn't really be surrounded here.

If he and his main force are surrounded here, then Bake will be gone. If Bacheng is gone, the barbarians in Ba County will probably rebel immediately, and Shu County will also be threatened by then.

If something happens to Shu County, who can come to save him?

He might be trapped to death too!

Mengwu finally decided to bring the main force back to Bacheng to aid, and handed over the defense of the pass and the 30,000 troops to his deputy general Baili Kai.

Baili Kai is a descendant of Baili Xi. His ancestor Meng Mingshi was also a general of the Qin State. He has a good family background and the terrain to defend the pass is dangerous. With him guarding the pass and having enough food, grass, soldiers and horses, he can hold on for a long time even if he is besieged. .

Meng Wu, on the other hand, can command the army and prepare to leave Bacheng for support at any time.

[Damn Ji Baxiao! 】

【Abominable Yu Ren】

Meng Wu was furious.

He knew that the Yu Army's plain combat capabilities were actually not strong, and could even be called weak. However, the fact that the Yu Army relied on its naval superiority to continuously maneuver on the river to divide the Qin Army and cut off the Qin Army's retreat was really fucking disgusting.

Even though Dayu's army was fighting back and forth, it was just this trick, but it was effective!

The section from Dajiangxiling to Bacheng is a narrow line. There are almost no roads in many places, only plank roads. As long as Dayu has the naval advantage, it can land at any key location at any time, and then rely on the mountains to build defenses. , either cutting off the Qin army's food route or cutting off the Qin army's retreat route, dividing and surrounding the Qin army. The Qin army, which lost its navy, had no choice at all.

Wu County was divided and surrounded in this way, and so was Qianzhong County. Meng Wu did not want to do this again in Defending Pass.

In fact, Meng Wu also knew that even if the defending pass was surrounded from front to back, the Yu army would not be able to capture it, but the morale of the surrounded Qin army officers would undoubtedly be a big problem.

Not to mention, the Yu army will definitely not take the initiative to attack, and will only follow the old practice of Baidi City to build defensive offensives and besiege the defenders to death. It depends on whether the Qin army wants to take the initiative to attack.

When the time comes to switch offense and defense, this is the most disgusting thing.

If it had not been for Ji Baxiao's defeat, the Qin army would have still maintained certain naval and upstream advantages. Meng Wu naturally did not have such concerns, but now, he had no choice.

It's very annoying.

Meng Wu was simply unwilling to take the blame for such a defeat, especially since his father had suffered a disastrous defeat just last year.

In this case, the blame can only be left to Ji Baxiao.

Mengwu decided to imprison all the Jiba family after returning to Bacheng.

Of course, the most important question before Meng Wu now is how to go back.

He had foreseen that Yu Jun would try every means to torture him.

As expected by Meng Wu, Dayu's army took advantage of its mobility to build many blocking points on land from defending the pass to Bacheng.

What Meng Wu didn't know was that Zhang Ren's troops had increased again.

The 50,000 elite soldiers selected by the barbarians who conquered this world were all led by Wu Tu Gu and sent to Zhang Ren.

Due to the terrain, Wutu Gu could not bring his elephant soldier army, so he could only bring the upgraded rattan armor soldier army and barbarian army.

It is worth mentioning that these barbarians have truly become legions, the kind that master battle formations.

The characteristic of their army is recklessness!

He is brave and fearless, and is good at mountain combat. It is a bit like the bloodthirsty madness effect in the game, but without any side effects.

Although these barbarian infantry have no advantage against the seven-nation military formations in plain ground battles, they have the characteristics of undiminished effectiveness in mountain warfare and are extremely good at complex terrain operations and small group operations.

Moreover, they are all at the lowest level of the eighth level, and a large part of them have reached the ninth level. The general level of the generals is the mythical first level, and there are also a small number of the mythical second level. It is a very reasonable structure of the army.

Zhang Ren, Wang Ping, Wutu Gu, Huo Jun, and Fa Zheng's son Fa Miao, who had entered the army to study, discussed and decided to spread out and do more harassment.

So during the retreat of Mengwu's troops, stones would be thrown and hidden arrows fired from time to time in the dense forests in the mountains. Small trebuchets were set up on some mountain tops. Dayu ships in the water would also monitor and track them in real time, and occasionally fire a few rounds. Crossbow arrows.

If the Qin army does not care, the harassment in the mountains will not stop no matter day or night; if the Qin army pursues, the harassing troops will run away; if the Qin army continues to go deep into the mountains, they may encounter an ambush.

But it disgusted Meng Wu and Qin Jun.

What's even more disgusting is that in some particularly dangerous terrains, the Yu army will build defensive camps in advance to force the Qin army to attack.

To be honest, the camps in these places are just like that, and the terrain is not as good as Baidi City. The difficulty of attacking is not unacceptable, but the problem is that today's march has dozens or hundreds of people killed by sneak attacks, and tomorrow's march will have to attack the camps again and leave them behind. One or two thousand lives, if this happens every day, the gods will collapse.

Meng Wu had never seen such a disgusting fighting style in his life.

Fortunately, most of the Qin Army's cities along the route are still in the hands of the Qin Army, which can be regarded as giving Mengwu's troops some breathing space.

But Meng Wu also knew very well that these cities might soon no longer be owned by the Qin army.

Only then did Meng Wu realize a problem: For the Yu army, which had an absolute naval advantage, defending defensive fortresses such as the pass was of little significance, because the Yu army only needed to lock up this special terrain. At several key points, the Army here is the turtle in the urn.

If Meng Wu knew history, he would know that this was how the Qing army trapped the thirteen Kuidong families.

What Meng Wu is most worried about now is actually Ba's situation.

There is no room for error in Bacheng!

Looking at the demoralized army, Meng Wu gritted his teeth and made a difficult decision - to plunder the city.

This is actually a disguised permission to massacre the city.

Because in the process of robbery, the absolute bestiality will be released, and money will be snatched for a limited time, and then women will become a tool for venting. In the process of insulting women, men who dare to resist will definitely be killed.

The wealthy Quren became the first city to suffer, but it was not the last.

Massacre is addictive.

The Three Gorges area has been a rock salt production area since ancient times. There are salt officials in Quren who specialize in managing the salt industry. The Qin army really grabbed a lot of this.

There was even a saying among the Qin army that "capture Bacheng and go home to be a rich man", and morale has indeed improved to a certain extent.

In order to keep the money and even the large pieces of salt they had grabbed, these Qin troops almost completely gave up on surrendering.

Facts have proved that Meng Wu had a perfect grasp of the Qin Army's military mentality in this era, and used a seemingly controversial method to regain the Qin Army's combat effectiveness and determination to fight to the death.

Zhang Ren and others, who learned late that the Qin army actually massacred their own city, immediately stepped up their efforts to block the Qin army, and allowed the refugees who were lucky enough to escape to go south to spread the word about the Qin army's brutality. They even took the initiative to transport some refugees to Bacheng, Zhi County and other places to spread the word.

The residents of these places may not all believe the words of these forbearing refugees, but it is an indisputable fact that the Mongol army was trapped.

For the Qin army in these places, worse news soon came - Wujun was lost.

Xi Zhicai used cunning tactics to sow discord between the Ba and Qin people in the city.

The Ba people have always had a tradition of rebellion during the Chu Kingdom, and Wu County was once one of the capitals of the Ba people. The natives in the city did not want to accompany the Qin officials in the city to die.

In addition, Qin officials, as conquerors and outsiders, were of course not very honest and honest. Instead, they liked to use chicken feathers as arrows, interpret the "Qin Law" wantonly, exploit and oppress the indigenous people, and the indigenous people had long been dissatisfied.

If the Qin people were strong, of course they would not dare to say anything, but they have been besieged for two or three months now, and no reinforcements from Qin and Bashu have come, which obviously explains the problem.

So the Ba people rioted and opened a city gate. Gan Ning took advantage of the situation and captured Wu County.

Now that Wu County is under control, Wu County is almost determined by a message.

The liberated troops of Xi Zhicai, Gan Ning, and Yan Yan took the local officials who surrendered in Wu County and some of the captured Qin officials upstream and came to the foot of Bacheng, shouting day and night to persuade them to surrender.

The local forces who received preferential treatment for surrendering and the Qin officials who were not harmed were persuaded to surrender, as well as the cries of the Quren survivors who were massacred. The Qin officials and indigenous forces in Bacheng inevitably fell into panic and mutual suspicion.

The natives were afraid that the Qin army would massacre and plunder the city and then flee; the Qin people were afraid that the natives would rebel and sacrifice the city.

From the actual situation of Dayu's army approaching the city, it is not difficult to see that the Qin army and navy must have been defeated. Although Meng Wu did not know whether he was alive or dead, there was a high probability that he would be defeated. This made Qin officials from outside Bajun even more panicked.

The county governor Li Xian and the county lieutenant Wei Tao are both from Guanzhong. Li Xian, whose courtesy name is Tianle, can be regarded as a descendant of Li Bing; Wei Tao is a descendant of Wei Ran. Both of them are firm militants, but the problem now is , It’s hard for a clever woman to make a meal without rice!

In fact, the main troops of Bashu were taken away by Mengwu. In Bacheng, the Qin army only had 590-level regular troops and 3,088-level county soldiers to maintain public order. After all, who could have thought of a military force that rose from the southeastern Hundreds The barbarian country in the Yue land has dominated the area along the river in just three years! Even before Yingdu was defeated, he captured Wu County, defeated Mengwu, and reached here?

"Let the Ba tribe come to support? The Ba tribe in Danqu and other places can also recruit tens of thousands of soldiers who are good at fighting."

Li Xian pondered.

But his tone was not so sure, and he was obviously worried about something.

"I'm just afraid that the Ba people will rebel!"

Wei Tao scratched his hair and looked at each other in silence with Li Xian.

"A letter asking for help has been sent to Chengdu, and a battle report has been sent to Xianyang. I just don't know when the reinforcements will arrive."

Li Xian sighed: "We can only save ourselves. The Ba people outside the city cannot be trusted, but the Ba people inside the city can still be used."

"The most powerful Ba people in the city are Jiba and Fengba. Jiba is the only heir after his death. He should be hating Yu Jun, so he can take advantage of it. Fengba..."

Wei Tao frowned and had a vague idea.

"Feng Ba Shang, the head of the Feng Ba family, only has three women. The second daughter Feng Ba Qing was promised to Ji Ba Xiao, the only son of the Ji Ba family. The eldest daughter Feng Ba Hongxiang and the third daughter Feng Ba Qifu are not married. It is better for you and my brothers to marry each other. one?"

Li Xian saw Wei Tao's thoughts.

"I'm afraid Feng Ba is still unwilling."

Wei Tao sighed.

"State affairs are of paramount importance. If you don't agree, then kill Fengba first. In special times, there is no room for any surprises!"

Li Xian said murderously.

Li Xian and Wei Tao brought murderous soldiers to Feng Ba's house to propose marriage.

The head of the family, Feng Bashang, was dumbfounded. He did not expect that at this time, these two Qin people would still want to marry.

But as a shrewd businessman, Feng Bashang immediately understood what the two meant, and immediately patted his chest and said: "The daughter of the Ba family is definitely a high-ranking candidate for marrying these two people. The Feng Ba family is willing to offer two thousand slaves as a dowry first." , but for the important matter of marriage, it is best to marry the matchmaker."

After getting two thousand strong servants, Li Xian and Wei Tao returned home satisfied. They did not make any farce such as having to get married today, because in that case, it would be like robbing the people's daughters, which would have a negative impact on the hearts of the people who defended the city. unfavorable.

After that, the two went to Jiba's house. The head of Jiba's family, Jiba Dui, said that our Jiba family was willing to destroy the family to relieve the disaster, and immediately incorporated all three thousand servants into the city defense force.

Li Xian and Wei Tao went to other families to fight against the autumn wind, and finally gathered a defensive force of more than 12,000 people.

Speaking of which, after Li Xian and Wei Tao left Feng Ba's house, Feng Ba Shang called his three daughters and told them about Li Xian's forced marriage proposal.

"I don't want to marry someone from Qin. I've met those two people. They are both old men. I won't marry them!"

The third sister, Ba Qifu, immediately expressed her dissatisfaction.

"Little sister, listen to what father has to say."

Ba Hongxiang, the eldest daughter who loved her sister, held her little sister in her arms and looked at her father.

Their father, however, set his sights on Ba Qing, the second oldest child.

"I'm afraid the Qin army in Bacheng can't hold it! Otherwise, the Qin people wouldn't look so ugly! The previous Northern Expedition by Mengwu had taken away most of the food, grass, soldiers and armor in the city. Bajun's troops were completely wiped out, and Shujun probably didn't have much either. Army, although Ba City is surrounded by rivers on two sides and backed by mountains, it is easy to defend and difficult to attack, but as long as the Yu people are surrounded and do not attack, I am afraid that the people in the city will starve to death before the Qin army arrives. How great is the great cause of our Ba family? Thousands of years of accumulation may be taken advantage of by the rebels, and we sisters may be reduced to playthings first, and then food!"

Ba Qing said terrifying words in a calm tone.

"food?"

Ba Qifu's eyes widened and she didn't react for a moment.

Ba Hongxiang couldn't help but shudder.

"Qing'er thinks further than I do. I haven't considered the food issue yet."

Feng Bashang sighed and said solemnly: "I understand."

"I want to go to Yu camp in person tonight to discuss the matter of city dedication!"

Feng Bashang was decisive.

"It's better to seize the city gate directly and let the Yu army enter the city."

Ba Qing saw that his father was still thinking about negotiating terms with the Yu people, and immediately stopped his father's thoughts: "A moment later will increase the risk. These two Qin people have no experience in defending the city. When they react, I'm afraid that all men and women in the city will be gathered together for unified dispatch.

My father might as well order the Ba family to kill pigs and sheep, prepare wine and food, and send them to the mansions of county guards, county lieutenants and other officials and to labor at various city gates to observe the reality. He can also add medicine to the food and seize the city gate in one fell swoop! In order to reduce the suspicion of the defenders, the daughter can also go to work in the army with her father. The daughter can dress in filial piety and claim to avenge her husband!

If conditions permit, we can even..."

At the end of his speech, Ba Qing couldn't help but lower his voice.

"It's a pity that you are a girl."

After listening to Ba Qing's words, Feng Bashang couldn't help but sigh and adopted all Ba Qing's suggestions.

In the afternoon of that day, Feng Bashang slaughtered chickens and sheep to demand labor force in a big way, and in the name of labor force, he controlled the number of garrison guards at various city gates.

In the evening of the same day, Feng Bashang asked the remaining male and female servants of the Ba family to deliver wine and food to various city gates. He took Ba Qing, who was dressed in mourning clothes, and his two other daughters to the Water Gate (equivalent to Chaotian Gate in Chongqing) that Li Xian personally guarded. .

"General, the little old man came here specially to work for the army. This is the eldest daughter, and she came here specially to see the general's style; this is the second daughter. She has a strong temper. Her fiancé was killed by the Yu army, so she put on mourning clothes and vowed to avenge her husband. , these are the three women..."

Feng Bashang introduced them one by one.

"The Ba family is really full of loyal people!"

Li Xian was very happy and even looked at his eldest daughter twice.

He knew that this was his fiancée, she was indeed beautiful, with enchanting features, and she looked like a passionate beauty at first glance.

"The general is so complimentary. This is a fine wine from the court of Chu State. The recipe of bear paw also originated from the palace of Chu State. I would like to invite the general to taste it."

Feng Bashang said with a smile.

"During the defense of the city, you are not allowed to drink alcohol!"

Li Xian chose to refuse.

"General, just take a few sips less."

As he said this, Feng Bashang's voice suddenly became softer: "The general is working hard to defend the city. My daughter cannot bear the suffering of her husband and brother-in-law, so she came here tonight to bring wine to the general."

After saying that, Feng Bashang still blinked ambiguously.

"Um?"

Li Xian seemed to understand something, but seemed not to.

"You two, hurry up and send the food and wine to the general's room."

Feng Bashang greeted his two daughters.

"this……"

Li Xian was still a little hesitant, but when he saw his charming fiancée, widowed sister-in-law, and charming and lively sister-in-law, he couldn't help but swallowed, and was pulled into the private room by Feng Bashang.

(widow)

Food and wine were already placed on the table in the room. The three women knelt down opposite Li Xian with smiles and toasted to Li Xian one by one.

"I want to defend the city, just one drink, just one drink!"

Li Xian picked up the wine glass with a smile, drank it all, and then felt a sharp pain.

"poisonous!"

Li Xian was shocked and subconsciously wanted to call someone.

However, a certain widow who had shown me pity before pulled out a dagger and stabbed him in the throat.

Li Xian, the governor of Qinba County, died.

——

The one at 10 o'clock tonight is gone, and the one tomorrow is at 10 o'clock tomorrow night.