It's just that Qi is really so easy to attack?

King Yue glanced at Yue Meng, saw Yue Meng nodded slightly, and after a moment of silence, he said to Tang Yu: "This condition has been agreed." As long as the Yue State recovers the capital Langya, if the Chu State still has not captured Jucheng, then the widow will personally go to the aid of the Chu State and help the Chu army to conquer Jucheng. ”

Tang Mo smiled and arched his hand: "Then the minister will thank the king of Chu in advance!" ”

After discussing the details again, Tang Yu took his leave and left.

After Tang Yu left, King Yue was silent for a while, and asked Yue Meng: "Xianqing, I wonder if Qing thinks Chu State's strategy can be realized?" ”

Yue Meng hesitated for a moment, shook his head and said: "Back to the king, I don't know if the strategy of the Chu State can be achieved, but there is no doubt that this matter is not harmful to my Yue Kingdom." ”

"Cheng, we will go north to capture Yancheng, and even the old capital Langya. No, we are just pinning down the Qi army, and there are no losses. ”

King Yue laughed and said, "Yes, there is no harm to Yue Guo anyway!" ”

The other side.

Tang Wu returned to the Chu camp and reported to Xiong Huai about the Yue camp.

Xiong Huai asked with a smile: "Si is defeated, I don't know if Qing thinks that the king of Yue will think that the widow is really ready to attack Tancheng and Jucheng, attract all the attention of Qi State, and then let Yue Guo take the opportunity to subdue Langya City?" ”

Tang Yu recalled the expressions of King Yue and the others, especially the flush of Gongzi's hooves, and said: "Great King, will King Yue believe that our Chu State wants Tancheng Xue Cheng, this minister doesn't know." However, the minister knew that as long as we contained the main force of the Qi army in Xuecheng, the Yue Kingdom would definitely be interested in Langya City. ”

Xiong Huai glanced at Tang Yu, saw the banter in his eyes, and couldn't help laughing: "Yes, it is this reason, the old capital of Yue Kingdom, the attraction of King Yue is self-evident!" ”

Saying that, Xiong Huai said again: "That being the case, Lao Xianqing will go to the Song camp again and tell the King of Song that the widow wants to change the conditions." ”

Tang Yu arched his hand and said, "The minister receives the order." ”

Song Yingzhong.

Tang Yu informed the King of Song about the change of conditions in the state of Chu.

When King Song heard this, he looked at Tang Yu and was silent for a long time before he said, "Okay, please ask Tang Zi to reply to King Chu, and say that the widow agreed." ”

After Tang Yu left, King Song asked Hui An: "All the hard work has turned into flowing water, and what can I do about it?" ”

Xue Di actually wanted to eat all of them, but the Qi State was strong and the Song State was weak, and there was no Chu State to share the pressure, and the Song King was worried that the Song State would not be able to bear it.

Hui Ang arched his hand and said: "If the two countries of Chu and Song capture Xuecheng, then we will help the Chu State to break through Tancheng, and then the Lu State and the Jucheng State of Qi will be exposed in front of the Chu State." In this way, even if our Song State obtains all Xue City, then Chu State is still the primary target of Qi State. ”

King Song's spirits perked up, and he said proudly: "Yes, as long as Xue Di is captured and Tancheng is broken, no matter whether Chu State has captured Jucheng or not, then Qi State can only attack Song State from Pinglu, and the widow will not be afraid!" ”

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The next day, the three kingdoms, which had privately divided the pumpkins south of the Great Wall of Qi, reached an agreement without half a minute of twists and turns, and agreed on the matter of cutting Qi.

Then, after the blood was the alliance, the army was officially dispatched.

On another day, the Chu army officially set off and went to kill Xue Di.

Xue Di's defensive strategy was different from that of Tancheng, which was the territory of the King of Qi and was strong, so he adopted the strategy of dividing his troops, intending to deplete the strength and morale of the coalition army by holding on to the county seats, and then fight a decisive battle with the coalition army in Tancheng.

Xue Di was different, because of the weak strength and the patchwork of the army, Meng Weijun gave up the rest of Xue Di, and then gathered all his troops in Xue City, intending to defend Xue City to the death.

Therefore, the Chu army set out from Zhongwu City, all the way to Xuecheng, the road was unimpeded, and after seven days of marching, it arrived at Xuecheng.

At this time, because the Song army was close to Xuecheng, the 150,000 Song army had arrived in Xuecheng for two days and was building siege equipment.

Following.

A mound in the southwest outside Xue City, Xiong Huai and King Song stood side by side, and the Chu general Song Jiang stood behind the kings of the two countries, looking at Xue Cheng from afar, and was discussing how to break the city.

The mound was built by the Song army in two days, specifically to observe the internal situation of Xue Cheng.

At this moment, Xiong Huai looked at the city wall not far away, the width of the city wall was more than three miles, the height was more than two zhang, and the city was densely covered with flags, and sighed: "Xue Cheng has become more and more prosperous after more than 30 years of operation by Tian Wen and his son. As far as the widow can see, the size of this Xue City is probably close to 20,000 households! ”

King Song responded: "Yes, if it weren't for the frequent attacks of Chu and Yue on Qi in recent years, Xuecheng became the front line, and many merchants in the city moved to other places for fear of war. I am afraid that this time we are facing a large city with more than 20,000 households in one city. ”

"20,000 households, even if you don't count the large households and huge rooms, only according to the calculation of five people in one household, there are more than 100,000 people in the city alone, even if there is one person in each household, then there are 20,000 strong men."

Saying that, King Song turned his worries into joy and said: "Fortunately, in the past few years, because of the flight of merchants in Xue City, the people in the city have not increased but decreased, otherwise we are not facing Xue Cheng with only 50,000 elite Qi troops and 100,000 rabble. ”

Xiong Huai nodded, but his face was still heavy, although Xue Cheng had declined due to the war, it was still a big city.

"King Song, we've seen this Xue Cheng too, let's talk about how to fight! I don't know if the Song Kingdom has a strategy to break the city. ”

King Song smiled: "In order to attack Xuecheng, the widows have been preparing for a long time, but now there are still 150,000 troops in Xuecheng, and in an instant, the plan prepared by the widows to break the city is difficult to work." Therefore, it was necessary for the Chu and Song armies to storm Xuecheng in order to consume Xuecheng's strength. But..."

Saying that, King Song looked at Xiong Huai and said, "King Chu, the widow remembers that Xue Jun, the original owner of Xue City, is in Chu State." The widow means that the king of Chu why didn't he invite Xue Jun and let Xue Jun contact the old department in the city to speed up our destruction of the city. ”

Xiong Huai shook his head: "King Song's news is outdated. ”

"Twenty years ago, the State of Qi officially abolished Xue Jun, Tian Ying took all the Xue Land into his pocket, and the original Xue Jun died of illness shortly after fleeing to the State of Chu. Now Xue Jun Xue Deng of Chu State, who is just in his early thirties, is working as an idle doctor in Chu State, where is there any old department! ”

After a pause, Xiong Huai said: "Even if the original Xue Jun is still there, I'm afraid the help provided to us is extremely limited, the Xue State has been occupied by the Qi State for more than a hundred years, and Xue Jun has been weakened in the Xue Land for more than a hundred years, and the power is not as good as day by day, and it has been extremely small." Otherwise, when Xue Jun was deposed, he would not have no resistance at all, and ran to Chu State with his wife and children and more than a dozen relatives. ”

Although King Song didn't have much illusion about Xue Jun, he was immediately disappointed when he heard that the current Xue Jun was only a child of about ten years old twenty years ago.

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