Chapter 379: Illusion (II)
There was no need for a grand ceremony to summon the Chu envoy, and even Lu Zhe simply didn't put on any specifications, just sent someone to the place where Xiang Bo and Jing Ju were staying to say hello.
"This is really too unreasonable, to treat the envoy with such courtesy, and he is really a pariah from the countryside of Longxi." Jing Ju was very angry, and he had completely lost the bearing of the aristocratic Jiawang clan.
Xiang Bo looked left and right in fright, if the sentence just now was heard, with Lu Zhe's temperament, he wouldn't care what kind of envoy you were, and the possibility of sending armor soldiers to surround and kill him was almost ten. He smiled bitterly on his face: "Zongren, don't say a word, let's think about how to fulfill the king's ardent expectations later, so that the two sides can stop fighting and reconcile." ”
"The king's expectation?" Jing Ju scolded in his heart: "It's Xiang's expectation." ”
But now there is no difference, the Chu State completely relies on the Xiang family to survive, so no matter how arrogant and domineering the Xiang family is, as long as they don't have the heart to abolish the bear heart, then some people in the royal family have to endure it.
"Clean up, court clothes, Wang Jie, red paint and other things, the table xiàn out of the great Chu bearing, we will put it all out." Xiang Bo said and walked back to his house.
The state of Chu has special court clothes, and this time Xiang Bo and Jing Ju sent Xiong Xin to give false festivals and red paint. The so-called fake festival is not a fake king's festival, it is a ceremonial guard that is smaller than the real king's festival, and the selection of this ceremonial guard is very particular, and the other is to hang some fur and tails of fierce beasts. As for red lacquer, it is a necessary diplomatic etiquette, and the official title should be given to cinnabar, which is intended to add color and show mutual coexistence.
The people sent by Lu Zhe just greeted and left, and they didn't stay to lead the way at all, so that Jing Ju came out in a loose court dress and looked at the empty street and complained.
"What about the carriage? What about the armor who opened the way? Kicking his feet, Jing Ju was almost roaring: "It's too much to deceive people, it's ......."
Halfway through the words, he was covered by Uncle Xiang: "Bear with it, if you don't bear it, you will make a big plan, who let us be defeated on the battlefield." ”
Jingju yelled: "Someone." Bring the carriage, the people of this sect will run wild in Nanling City today! ”
"You run, you don't have to run, we have to go on foot." Xiang Bo was laughing, and he smiled humbly.
"What!?" Jing Ju looked at the skirt he was dragging on the ground, and then looked at Xiang Bo's also loose court clothes: "Let's go?" ”
"I understand, I understand. If you walk, you will be covered in dust, and your appearance will become wolf," Xiang Bo continued to smile humbly: "Isn't this what Lu Shizhe wants to see?" We have to ask for people, so what's wrong with being a servant? ”
Oh. I forgot to explain, Zongren is not Jingju's alias or table, this year is not a word, Zongren is a kind of honorific title of the Chu people to the royal family, because the royal family of Chu has been changing, maybe sometimes it is the surname Mi, the next moment it becomes Xiong's, and a few years it becomes Shen's, and Shen's soon divided into Ye's, You's, Qu's, and Jing's. It's a bit complicated. However, these surnames are eligible to inherit the king of Chu.
In these years, there is no drama, and the so-called servants are performances for people to see. Of course, the servant expresses more often the white boy who plays with men......
Why did Jing Ju jump up and point at Xiang Bo? Of course, he knew what kind of character the servant was, and a mouthful of blood almost spurted out at the same time. "You" scolded for a long time: "Okay, okay, okay, if you want to sell your ass, then you go!" ”
"Hahaha!" Xiang Bo thought it was too interesting, and smiled with justice on his face: "If my old ass can be exchanged for Lu Shizhe, I won't be embarrassed anymore." So what's the point of selling? ”
Jing Ju is not Xiang Bo's opponent at all, not to say the gap in IQ, but a person who has to die with dignity even if he dies. The other is that you can live and never die, can you eat face or something? Face or something, compared to the actual benefits, that's a bunch of shit!
The two were arguing, Xiang Bo turned Jingju's attention away, and finally came to the mansion where Lu Zhe received them.
Lu Zhe's mansion is very large, and since Jean attaches great importance to his own safety, the mansion must be guarded by armor.
When Xiang Bo and Jingju arrived, they saw that it was the armorers who were constantly patrolling back and forth, and those armorers in red robes and black iron armor made them look a little stunned.
"This ...... Too greedy for life and afraid of death, right? "Jing Ju saw this side.
"No, no, no, I mean, they don't have the military appearance that Qin soldiers should have, and they look more like the military soldiers of the Wei State." Xiang Bo's eyes had been observing the armor on the armor of the armor, and he could see that it was a kind of black iron, and the guy in the armor soldier's hand looked all iron, which made his eyelids continue to jump: "Lu Jun...... They changed their costumes and used iron! ”
The two of them had been standing outside the house for almost a quarter of an hour, and no one was paying attention to them, so they stood and discussed what they saw.
Lu Zhe has iron weapons, but to be honest, as armor is hammered with a blunt weapon, it will definitely be broken, and iron weapons are actually some kind of goods, which look very sharp and actually cut against the bronze weapons that are at the peak.
There is no other reason for putting on such a battle, which is to give the Chu envoy a wrong impression, and make the Chu State feel that not only they have developed qualified iron equipment, but Lu Zhe actually has something to do.
"Three thousand soldiers are equipped with iron weapons enough to deal with 20,000 enemy troops, and you can imagine how much advantage iron weapons have. Right now...... Lu Hou also mastered iron tools, let's ...... "Xiang Bo can't be calm anymore, he is a person who understands iron tools, and knows how much advantage he will have against the army equipped with bronze tools, they were beaten so badly and their will to work hard depends on the lead in weapons."
"Huh?" Jing Ju didn't know that, he didn't even understand military affairs at all, and he couldn't understand what Xiang Bo said except for being stunned.
Xiang Bo was about to speak, and a sound of neat footsteps sounded in the distance. There were not many buildings in Nanling City now, and there was no obstruction of vision, so much so that he turned his head to look at the source of the sound, and teams of soldiers appeared in his eyes.
The soldiers in the distance were newly formed soldiers, and they also changed into red battle robes, and at this time they were walking neatly with their empty hands, and from time to time they would shout "left, right, left" or something.
"What are they trying to do?" Jing Ju only felt majestic in his heart when he saw the soldiers who could be neatly arranged, but each soldier didn't seem to be coming here just by shouting left and right, so he couldn't help but be curious.
"Restructured, Lu Hou restructured." Xiang Bo has seen a lot of troops, and it is not uncommon for troops to be neatly arranged on the march, and he can see that there are still some problems with the coordination of those red-robed armor soldiers, but in the world, they are already considered to be able to pull into the battlefield: "I don't know how many such troops Lu Hou has?" ”
"Not a lot, the camp outside Nanling City stretches for dozens of miles, and there should be close to 400,000 people." Jing Ju just guessed randomly.
"Four hundred thousand?" Xiang Bo recognized Jing Ju's words, he looked at the army in the distance, and seemed to be stunned when he saw something: "The cavalry ......"
Yes, the cavalry, at least more than five thousand knights gathered together galloping can be called the army, they rode across the war horses and galloped, the sound of horses' hooves was already shaking before the sound of horses' hooves, and from a distance, the cavalry galloping at full speed gave people a rather shocking feeling.
"Deafening wow, it seems that there is not only this cavalry, there is another group behind." Jing Ju was too envious, Lu Zhe actually had so many horses, and there were less than 3,000 horses up and down the Chu State: "It's strange, it seems that I haven't seen a chariot soldier under Lu Hou?" ”
"Huh!?" Xiang Bo suddenly turned his head to look at Jingju, and he also reacted in his heart: "Yes, yes!" I really have never seen a chariot soldier under Lu Hou! ”
Chariot soldiers, nobles among soldiers, decide which army is a strong benchmark or not, Lu Zhe has many types of troops, but he has really never seen the charioteer.
"Longxi savages, it is estimated that they don't have the ability to play. Chariot soldiers are not people who can play if they want to, they must have rich wealth and a long inheritance of the art of war, and this Longxi savage can only play with foot soldiers and Hu Chong. "Jing Ju's Hu is not scolding Lu Zhejun for being a Hu person, but referring to being as unskilled as a Hu person.
Xiang Bo was recalling, he seemed to have heard Xiang Liang talk about such a thing, during the Battle of Danyang, more than 40,000 people of the Chu army were charged by cavalry, and the Chu army collapsed. Thinking about it this way, he seems to think that there is something worth studying about cavalry?
"Da Chu is working hard, as long as two thousand chariot soldiers are formed, we will definitely be able to teach Lu Zhejun how to play the aristocratic troops, and see how arrogant Lu Zhejun is when the time comes!" Jing Ju was full of vanity at this time, and felt that he was finally a little more noble than Lu Zhe in a certain place.
"Hmm." Xiang Bo has no reason to refute, and today he still judges whether the military is strong or not by the number of chariots: "We still need to work hard, the Qin State is now a country of 100,000 times, the Qi State will soon be a country of 50,000 times, and the poor Ruyan will also have 10,000 times." We only have a mere two thousand times, too little and too little, that is, we can compare with the weak countries of Wei and Han. ”
"It's better than the Longxi savages, right? Not a single multiplication. Hahaha!! "Jing Ju is a little wrong, when he is frightened, he is respectful both in his heart and in his mouth, but when he finds a little sense of superiority, he is immediately so arrogant that he has no choice but to speak. The two titles of Lu Hou and Longxi Savage, he stayed in Nanling for four days, and the number of exchanges of titles back and forth was so many that it was impossible to calculate.
"Hahahahahaha......ha
Xiang Bo and Jing Ju were stunned for a moment when they heard the laughter, and when they turned around, they saw a man as strong as a bear, this person was wearing an iron armor that felt heavy just by looking at it, and the guy in his hand was at least two meters long and all of it was an iron metal structure.
"Hahaha?" Su Lie actually also had a sense of humor, he changed the huge broadsword to his hold, knocked on the ground a few times, tilted his head and looked at the two Chu envoys who were obviously stunned: "Ha, ha, I will speak again when you have enough." ”
Anger flashed on Jing Ju's face, but Xiang Bo looked at Su Lie, who was at least one zhang tall, with a smile: "This strong man, but Lu Hou summoned him?" (To be continued......)