In the eyes of that dangerous careerist and adventurer, a gamble was the right choice. He led the team to turn south, and a day later reached the north side of the Yangtze River. The husband robbed several small boats and sent scouts to search for the transports. Luckily for the husband, the scouts brought the fleet upriver two days later.

The husband was overjoyed, as if he saw the empty throne shining golden light before his eyes; He took the army back by boat, but left the unsuspecting Lu to stand on the dock and wait all day until the coalition army attacking Yingdu came.

At the same time, he was dumbfounded when he got the news that his husband had robbed the ship. Fortunately, the people of Wu did not destroy the city defense facilities of Yingdu, and they could resist for a while with high walls and deep pools.

However, the road to withdraw from the army has not been cut off, and only a group of ships have been taken away by the husband (the transport fleet is departing in batches one after another). The scouts eagerly searched for a follow-up fleet, and when they did, they asked the captain to avoid the husband's interception. The fleet used various methods to avoid being discovered by the husband, and it took great difficulty to reach the base of Nagisa Palace.

Because the people of Wu have many princes, princes, and grandchildren, and the noble children of major families; The coalition forces threw a rat trap, so they did not dare to attack rashly. Later, the two sides secretly reached an agreement: 11 The Chu army let the Wu people live, and the Wu people promised not to take away or hurt any Chu people, and not to rob property again. The Wu army then boarded the ship and returned the capital to the Chu people.

After nine months, Yingdu, who had endured hardships, finally returned to the arms of the Chu people.

Although the Wu army fled the Chu state with the consent of the Chu people, the commanders of both sides knew in their hearts that "this matter is not over". Zixi temporarily handed over the management of Yingdu to Shen Zhuliang, and then rushed to Baiju with his son and led Baiju's division through the Dabie Mountains to launch the "most severe revenge" against Wu.

During the time he was sailing on the ship, his mind was constantly running, calculating how the Chu army would act. On the way, he received the news that his husband had proclaimed himself king in Gusu. He pondered: "If the husband does not say that the king does not matter, the country will not fall into the hands of foreigners after all." What would I do if the widow was Prince Yishen? The husband hijacked the ship and fled by water, indicating that Baiju had been occupied by the enemy; If the widow returns to China directly, once Yishen attacks from Dabie Mountain, Chaoyi will definitely fall; Chaoyi fell, and Shu Jiu would also rejoin the Chu State. The husband is easy to lose, and the nest is difficult to take; The widow will not tolerate that kind of thing! ”

When the fleet sailed to the south of the nest, he ordered the ships to dock, and he abandoned the ships with his army and landed on the shore, and after a day's rapid march, he entered the nest and hid.

Zixi and Ziqi passed through Dabie Mountain, repaired in Qiancheng for a day, and then turned southeast and headed for Chaoyi. The nest is about 150 miles away, built on a high hill, and looks like a bird's nest built on a high place from a distance. Outside the southern wall of the nest is a steep stone wall, and to the north is a gentle slope several miles long, on which weeds grow half a man tall (now in late autumn, the weeds have dried up), and there is a dirt and stone road from the gate to the bottom of the slope.

The scouts of the Chu army quietly touched the gentle slope, and saw that several military flags on the city of Chaoyi were hanging weakly, and even half a sergeant at the head of the city could not see it (the small cities in remote areas were in this state in non-war times), and it seemed that they were not prepared at all. They captured two more locals, who also said that there were only 500 city guards in the city.

Zixi was overjoyed and suddenly launched an attack on Chaoyi in the early morning of the next day. Zi Ximan thought that he could capture Chaoyi before noon with his own forces, but He Lu had already completed the defensive deployment in advance. He hid most of his army in the city, and ambushed the rest in the wasteland on either side of the city walls.

The Chu army rushed to the city and began to attack the city gate, but the ambush soldiers in the barren grassland outside the city suddenly jumped up and shouted frantically. The people of Chu panicked and hurriedly turned around to deal with the ambush soldiers, and the gate of Chaoyi was immediately opened, and the main force of the Wu army poured out of the city gate like ants of the same army; The Wu army cut the Chu army into two sections by flanking it, forming an encirclement with the army rushing out of the city; The Wu army, which attacked head-on, began to mercilessly eliminate the enemy in the circle, and the flanks resisted the Chu army outside the circle to rescue their comrades.

Ziqi and the reserve team observed the battle situation on the uphill slope, and when he saw that the situation was not good, he immediately divided the army into two divisions and advanced up the slope in a fan shape. Seeing that the enemy forces were appearing more and more, Zixi had no hope of saving the lives of the besieged soldiers, so he ordered to retreat. The Wu army, who was in charge of blocking the task, did not hesitate and formed a phalanx to force the Chu army; Their intention was that when their companions destroyed the encircled Chu army, they would rush to attack the enemy with them.

However, the arrival of the sub-period destroyed the enemy's small abacus, because the sub-period broke up the team, the Wu people could not find the power point of the attack at all (the number of the Chu army was superior, and the Wu army could not start a skirmish with the opponent), and they were afraid of being surrounded by the Chu army and turned around, so they had to watch the Zixi army withdraw from the battlefield.

The battle ended before noon, and the Wu army no longer hid its whereabouts, but simply swaggered outside the city to set up camp (nearly half of the army was stationed in the camp), and built a section of the corpse wall outside the camp gate with the victims of the Chu army to deter and intimidate the Chu people. However, this cruel act greatly stung and angered the Chu people, and according to Zixi's original words, this move was to "build the remains of our army dead in battle into a Jingguan", to "show off evil and atrocities in a frenzied manner", and to "an intolerable insult to the Chu royal family and soldiers".

But when it came to how to attack the enemy army next, Zixi felt at a loss, because although the Chu army was superior in numbers, it was in a disadvantageous position in terms of terrain, and if the Wu army was stormed, it would only make that section of the corpse wall higher and longer. The generals and soldiers of the Chu army were very depressed.

In the evening, the weather suddenly changed, a strong north wind blew on the ground, the temperature dropped suddenly, people couldn't even open their eyes in the face of the north wind, and some tents were uprooted and blown everywhere. Many of the fires used to make food and light were also blown apart, and the fires even ignited some firewood and grass tents. The sudden situation caused some minor commotion, but order was quickly restored to normal. After the soldiers dealt with the scene, they found the handymen they had brought and asked them for winter clothes.

Ziqi's eyes lit up, and he hurried to see Zixi and said, "There is a large area of dry grass between the camps of the two armies, and now the north wind is blowing again, this is an excellent opportunity given to us by God. As long as we set a fire, we can burn Wu Jun to death! ”

Zixi looked at the slope, shook his head and said: "The people who are piled up into the wall of corpses are our brothers and uncles and nephews, we can't collect the bodies for them, and now we have to set fire to them, is it too cruel to the ancestors?" ”

Ziqi said: "The country was almost destroyed by the jackal beasts of the Wu country, if the dead have spirits in the sky and know that we are for revenge and to continue the sacrifice to them, they will definitely not resent us!" ”

Zixi nodded with difficulty and agreed, and the plan was passed. Ziqi personally led a few people to climb the halfway slope and set fire to the dead grass. At this time, it was time to enter the shift, and the north wind was blowing more violently. The wildfires spread upwards at breakneck speed, scorching the earth wherever they went. Nothing could stop the onslaught of fire: the fire swept through the walls of corpses and burned straight into the barracks; Moments later, the barracks was on fire; The fire was so great and burning so fiercely that it lit up the cloudy, dark sky red.

He remained in the city, and the wind swept through the trees and buildings, making a low or sharp whistling sound; Those strange voices made him feel a sense of foreboding. Restless, he climbed the wall with a few followers, and soon saw the tragedy that had taken place in the camp outside the city.

The fire in the front camp burned the hardest, and many people were choked to death when the fire entered the camp gate; The living became a running fireball, screaming and running around, only to set other people or things on fire; The military dogs and war horses barked wildly, and they were even more aimless.