Three days later, the crown prince recovered from his illness and began to supervise the state council.

Xiong Huai didn't particularly care about this, but thought that his comfort had worked, and specially sent someone to encourage the prince again.

And Xiong Huai himself continues to live in the harem, and he can't come out of the dynasty.

In the blink of an eye, another month has passed.

this day.

Zuo Sima ordered Deng Lingguang to enter the palace.

"Great King, the spies from the north came to report that because the people in Wuyuan City rebelled against Qi and returned to Yan more than a month ago, the Yan-Zhao coalition army conquered Wuyuan in one fell swoop, and then Yan recaptured the land between Qi and Yan. Therefore, under the influence of this, the coalition forces have gained momentum.

On the Qi side, because of the civil strife in Qi and the expulsion of many Tian clan relatives by the King of Qi, the morale of the Qi army was already low, and the loss of Hejian made the morale of the Qi army even more sluggish.

Therefore, the coalition forces of Wei, Han and Song took advantage of the high morale of the coalition forces to defeat the Qi army led by the Qi general Tian Da in the western part of the Qi State in one fell swoop, and took advantage of the victory to pursue and kill Acheng to block the retreat of the main force of the Gao Tang Qi army.

Then, the Qi generals saw that the left and right flanks were lost, and the rear road was about to be cut off by the coalition forces. As a result, the Qi general Touchzi left part of the army to contain the main force of the coalition led by Zhao's father, and then the main force of the Qi army led by Touche Zi secretly left Gaotang and attacked the Three Kingdoms alliance army outside Acheng.

Subsequently, the main force of the Qi army led by Tentacles joined forces with the Tian Dasuo who retreated to Acheng and broke the Three Kingdoms alliance army in the west of Acheng.

On the battlefield of Gaotang, Master Zhao noticed that Gaotang was abnormal, so he commanded the coalition army to storm Gaotang, in which Gongzizhang personally led the army to storm the city, and the morale of the coalition army was greatly boosted, and the next day he broke through Gaotang, an important town of Qi.

Then Zhao's father took Gaotang as the center and ordered the coalition army to capture the surrounding cities, and in ten days, a total of 27 large and small cities of Qi were captured.

It wasn't until the Qi general Tentacle Tianda led the Qi army to kill again that the Five Nations Alliance stopped attacking the city.

In the end, because the coalition army and the Qi army had their own victories and defeats, and both sides were exhausted, the Qi army and the five-nation alliance army took the front line as the boundary, and each withdrew its troops. ”

Xiong Huai heard that the Six Kingdoms had withdrawn their troops, but he just smiled slightly in his heart, and then asked: "The Qi State was defeated at the same time in the north and west, at that time, did the Qi State transfer troops from Tancheng in the south?" ”

Deng Lingguang immediately responded: "Back to the king, after our spies in Tancheng have repeatedly inquired, we can confirm that Qiluteng and other allied forces of Tancheng have been stationed in Tancheng without any signs of leaving. ”

Xiong Huai said with a smile: "It seems that the King of Qi is extremely strict with the widows, even if the two roads are broken, he still has not relaxed his vigilance against the widows." ”

When Deng Lingguang heard this, he just stood in place with a straight face, and did not express any opinion on the words of the King of Chu.

Xiong Huai paused, and seeing that Deng Lingguang didn't interject anything, he continued to ask: "Xianqing, what is the movement after the five countries collect their troops, and continue to attack Qi next?" Or is there something else to do? ”

When Deng Lingguang heard this, he immediately responded: "Great King, after the Five Kingdoms collected their troops, Yan Guo ceded the five cities to Zhao State in order to thank Zhao State for sending troops to recapture Wuyuan and other riverside lands for Yan State.

At the same time, Zhao ceded ten cities to Wei and five to Korea, and Wei cut five cities to Song.

According to the news sent back by Gu Yangjun in Yan State, Yan State has sent people to make peace with the Donghu people in the north, and has drawn a large number of troops from the north to the south.

Moreover, from the news from the four kingdoms of Zhao, Wei, Han and Song, the current center of gravity of the four countries is still in the east.

Therefore, judging from all indications, it is very likely that the five-nation alliance will attack the country again after the rest is completed. ”

Xiong Huai nodded, and then asked, "What is the current situation of the Qi Kingdom?" ”

"Back to the king!" Deng Lingguang arched his hand and said: "In the past few months, the State of Qi has been sending people to contact the State of Qin, the State of Wei, and our State of Chu.

Because the Qin State had a big battle with the coalition army before, and the damage was not light, it was unable to attack the closely united Three Jins, and the Qin State also hated the Qi State and the five countries before entering the palace Qin State. Therefore, the Qin State has always snubbed the envoys.

On the Wei side, the King of Wei was angry that the Qi State attacked the Wei State, and because the Three Jin Dynasty had a close relationship, the King of Wei did not see the Qi envoy at all.

As for our Chu State, in the past few months, the Qi State has been sending people to bribe the important ministers of the court, including Ling Yin Zhaoju, most of the important ministers have received heavy gifts from the Qi State, and promised to further promote the union of Qi and Chu. ”

"Hmm!" Xiong Huai smiled and nodded, not angry at the courtier's bribery.

After all, this is also the result of his own covert push.

Otherwise, he was not sure of the other ministers, but he was sure that Ling Yin Zhaoju would definitely not accept gifts from Qi State, and also promised to deepen the relationship between Qi and Chu.

Thinking about it, Xiong Huai smiled, and then ordered: "Xianqing, continue to keep an eye on the Six Kingdoms, and inform Zai Qi's assassin Shi Ling, so that he can get rid of Tian Yu as soon as possible and disturb the Jixia School Palace." ”

"Yui."

A few days later, on the first day of the second month, the Chu State Dynasty.

At the court meeting, Ling Yin Zhaoju took the lead in speaking: "Great King, since the capital of Chu has been moved from Yingdu to Shouying, and at the same time it is connected with Qi, Song, Wei and Han and other major countries. And our Chu country has been conquered by various countries one after another, and the country is in turmoil, and the ministers feel deeply uneasy every time they think about it, so that they can't sleep all night.

The art of war is cloudy: Qudi is a joint friendship. Today, Shouying, the capital of our Chu State, is in line with the shape of Qudi, and it should be widely married to the princes to reassure people's hearts. ”

"What Ling Yin said is extremely true." Xiong Huai nodded vigorously.

After saying that, Xiong Huai looked at Qu Yuan on the left.

Xiong Huai was ready to let Qu Yuan personally visit the Qi State to deepen his relationship with the Qi State.

There are two reasons for this, one is that Qu Yuan has always been friendly with the Qi State, and has gone to the Qi State many times to establish diplomatic relations.

Second, Qu Yuan is not only an important minister in the court, but also the host of the change, let Qu Yuan go to the State of Qi, not only to show the sincerity of the State of Chu, but also to show weakness, so that the State of Qi thinks that Qu Yuan, who presided over the change of the law, personally visited, maybe there was chaos within the State of Chu.

Of course, the reason why Qu Yuan was allowed to go to Qi was because the internal stability of Chu was becoming more and more stable now, and even if Qu Yuan left Chu State in a short time, there would be no chaos.

At this time, Qu Yuan, who was sitting beside Zhao Ju, saw that the eyes of the King of Chu fell on him and did not move, and his heart moved, and he knew what the King of Chu meant.

Qu Yuan thought for a while, and then arched his hand and said: "Great King, the Qi State is a big country whose strength is not weaker than my Chu State, and it is necessary for important ministers to go to show sincerity. ”

Xiong Huai immediately smiled: "Yes." ”

After getting the candidate to envoy to Qi State, Xiong Huai then looked directly at Doctor Zuo Cheng and ordered: "Song State, the neighbor of the widow, Zuo Qing has sent envoys to the Song State many times, and this time I went to make friends with the Song State, and the widow still handed it over to the Qing." ”

Zuo Cheng immediately responded: "Please rest assured, doctor." ”

Then, Xiong Huai looked at Doctor Sanlu and said: "Doctor Sanlu, not long ago, Wei Qi of the Wei State Sect came to visit, and few people thought about it, so he should return to visit Wei, Qing is an important minister of my Chu State clan, and the matter of this return visit to Wei State will be handed over to Xianqing." ”

"Yui."

Then, Xiong Huai said to Xiang Chengjun again: "Xiang Chengjun, the widow knows that Qing is friendly with King Han, and the matter of this mission to South Korea will be handed over to you." ”

"Yui."

After deciding on the candidates to make friends with various countries, Xiong Huai pondered for a while, and then said: "Just now Ling Yin said that Shouying is accessible in all directions, and at the same time it is connected with Qi, Song, Wei and Han, and the widow thinks so, and he is uneasy in his heart.

Now, Shou Ying is guarded by all the 100,000 troops led by the Zhu State, but these 100,000 troops are not specifically used to guard Shou Ying after all, once something happens elsewhere, these 100,000 troops still need to go to battle.

However, once the 100,000 army left Shouying, that Shouying seemed too empty. ”

As he spoke, Xiong Huai looked at the ministers and said under the gaze of the ministers: "Therefore, the widow intends to recruit 20,000 troops from the Jianghuai region again to guard Shouying, although there is a war in the country, but the 20,000 army is not easily mobilized.

As for the 20,000 people who are the commanders of the Shouying army..."

As he spoke, Xiong Huai set his eyes on the ministers in the palace.