Diqiu.
"Your Highness, what's wrong, Liangcheng has been captured by the Chu people."
Zhao Xi was awakened from his sleep amidst a series of frightened and anxious sounds.
After receiving the news of the fall of Liangcheng, the Liang generals in Diqiu City fell into a panic.
But after the panic, when they came to their senses, they immediately realized that the situation had deteriorated to the worst point.
And if they don't prepare early and make corrections, then everything will really be irreversible.
The millions of troops at the Baima camp on the front line, and Liangcheng, the most important transportation hub in Henan and Hebei, will be completely lost by Zhao.
So the ministers of Zhao State who reacted immediately gathered into the palace and came to Zhao Xi's palace, regardless of the night.
"So, without any of you knowing, the people of Chu suddenly descended from the sky with magical troops and attacked Liang City. Then within a few days, they captured this important city."
Listener, please tell me. I finished the story in one sentence. Zhao Xi, who had sorted out the general development context, asked with an ugly face: "Are the Chu army gods? There are hundreds of thousands of people, why did they suddenly rush into Liang?" city.
There are so many towns and two provincial cities along the way. Are the officials there blind?
With so many Chu troops crossing the border, no one reported it to Di Qiu?
And the local defenders, why didn't they stop them and just let the Chu army pass through?
Aren't there fifty thousand defenders in Wating County?
And An Qingyang, a congenital general, gave Gu a place as important as Wating County to him. Is this how this guy repaid Gu and directly let the Chu people enter? "
Question after question, the anger and fear, confusion and confusion in Zhao Xi's heart were vividly displayed.
And those ministers who had gathered overnight, all faced the questions, but they lowered their heads and said nothing.
He looked as if he was ashamed of being asked and was speechless.
But the fact is that apart from feeling a little ashamed, many ministers, like Prince Zhao Xi, were also puzzled by the sudden arrival of the Chu army.
The defense of Wating County was built by the prince. When the defense line was completed, many ministers present accompanied the prince to inspect the county.
At that time, it had been confirmed that this city was strong and could definitely be called an important city. It was extremely strong.
There are 50,000 troops stationed here, and there is an innate master as the guard. Even if the enemy attacks with ten times the strength, even if the enemy has three or four innate people, they can still resist Xiao Banyue.
As long as they can hold on for a while, and when the country reacts, they can naturally send troops and horses to the Wating front line to support them.
To take a step back, even if the Chu army came in too many numbers and was too powerful, it would be difficult for Wating County to resist, and in the end they would not be able to wait for support.
But as long as Wating County sends the news back, a small delay of ten days and a half will be enough for the rear to mobilize troops and rebuild a line of defense again.
Buffer, bridgehead, this is the role of Watting County.
But now, this buffer bridgehead not only failed to play its due role, but the Chu army passed through here almost without any hindrance.
Even the prefectures and counties behind Wating County cannot play their due role.
Not to mention blocking the Chu army and slowing down the opponent's movement, even conveying a message was not possible.
This directly made the princes of Diqiu City blind and deaf. They were completely unaware of the progress and changes on the front line.
Finally came the bad news tonight.
"Your Highness."
After a long silence, among the ministers, the leader of the Nanjing Deputy Stay, Chen Tai, Minister of the Ministry of War, took the initiative to stand up and said: "According to the existing intelligence reports, the Chu people are making such rapid progress this time because they used a large number of prisoners. Not counting casualties.
Last year in the battle of Xingyang, Zhao lost millions of soldiers, and hundreds of thousands of them were captured by the Chu people.
In the first two months, the Nanyang and Henan counties of Wei State surrendered to Chu one after another, and hundreds of thousands of Wei people were used by the Chu people.
Taken together, Zhao and Wei captured and surrendered no less than a million people.
The Chu people had not used these captives before, but only used them as coolies, and we also believed that the captives were newly arrived, cherished their homeland, had unstable hearts, and were basically useless.
Therefore, both the Chu people and us ignored this power.
But now the Chu people are taking a different approach and do not want to conquer the captives for a long time and absorb them for their own use.
Instead, they chose to treat it as nothing but cheap mud in the short term, directly using ants to attack the city, and stormed each big city regardless of casualties.
Therefore, we can achieve such results in a short period of time.
The fall of Watting County and the rapid loss of Liangcheng were all due to this.
But doing so is not without backlash.
If the Chu people did not regard the captives as human lives, how could the captives really be willing to serve.
Therefore, in order to appease them, the Chu people made many promises, such as not sealing the sword for several days after capturing the city, and allowing the surviving captives to wreak havoc in the city to vent their animalistic nature.
Even the villages, towns and countryside passed along the way were slaughtered and burned because of these soldiers with corrupt military discipline.
There has been no news coming back from the local area. Most of them were caused by the villagers who met the Chu army and were killed by them.
As for those big cities, I heard that every time the Chu people passed through, they would leave some soldiers to surround the city and seal it off, leaving no gaps.
In this case, even if the officials and generals from various places wanted to summon them back, they would not be able to do so under the tight blockade of the Chu people.
Even those cities may be captured by the Chu people in a short period of time, and everyone in the city will die, leaving no one to deliver the message.
In this way, they kill while walking along the way. In addition, they move quickly and never stop along the way. With this cruel method, they can naturally become magic soldiers and generals.
When we were unprepared, we raided Liangcheng and took it away. "
Chen Tai's face was slightly ugly, and he told that after sorting out several pieces of information that had been sent back, he finally figured out a vague truth.
Everyone else in the hall, after listening to his story, looked not very good-looking.
Although it is only a rough description, everyone can imagine that a group of ants were forced to attack the city, and the survival rate was almost 10%.
After the war, in that extremely depressed and twisted mental state, what would he do?
Not to mention, the soldiers used by the Chu people to surrender this time were also said to have been surrendered by the Wei army, which was already cannibalistic.
Some of these beast soldiers are leading the Zhao people in the areas where the Chu people have passed.
Some of the ministers present whose hometowns were in that area couldn't help covering their faces and crying bitterly after hearing what Chen Tai said.
Because they could already imagine the miserable plight of their family members who stayed in their hometown in the hands of the Chu army, which mainly surrendered soldiers.
"The Chu thieves are hateful. They are the masters of a great country in vain, but they do such despicable things in the war. They are even worse than those grassland barbarians. They want to unify the world with their methods, bah!"
"That's right, as long as all the people with lofty ideals in the world are not dead, with Chu's brutal behavior, there is no way he can dominate the world. Everyone will resist him, and we will never surrender!"
"It's pity that the people in my hometown fell into the hands of the Chu people. I...I...wuwuwu..."
In the main hall, everyone denounced the Chu army. The anger and sorrow in their expressions, as well as the fear hidden behind them, were simply palpable.
The consequences of Lu Yuan's choice to surrender his troops were revealed at this time.
He is cruel to Jiang Bing, and in turn, Jiang Bing will be cruel to those ordinary people.
Some people always say that the strong wield their swords against the stronger.
But in reality, the strong often bully the weak, and the weak bully the weaker.
The oppression continues layer by layer until the people at the bottom are forced to have no way of living and die full of resentment.
this is the truth.
Now, the Chu army stands at the top as the oppressor, the soldiers are in the middle, and the Zhao people are at the bottom.
Although the soldiers were surrendered due to the brutal war, there were heavy casualties.
But how can those ordinary people affected by the war fare better?
The final outcome was even more miserable than those of the fallen pawns.
After this kind of behavior spreads, it will naturally be despised by the world and make many people angry.
But after the anger, everyone present was deeply afraid.
Chu people do things without any limits.
And now, they have gained such a huge advantage. Needless to say, there is a probability of more than 100% that the Chu people will definitely hit Diqiu City.
By then, along the way, wouldn’t it be another disaster for the place?
There were many people present, but as Zhao Guo's business direction moved southward in recent years, they all settled their families in Dongjun.
Especially near Diqiu City, it is the focus of resettlement.
These key areas will soon be attacked by the Chu army.
When I think about those beast soldiers coming to my home, when I think about my wife, children, and children, they will fall into the hands of the Chu army.
When I think of Diqiu, I will be surrounded by the Chu army.
Everyone present could not help but feel uneasy in their hearts.
Everyone couldn't help it at this time, and wished they could return home, and then ask their trusted servants to quickly rush back to the families scattered outside the city or in nearby areas, so that the families could quickly withdraw to Diqiu City, not to Jizhou, Hebei.
Only when we reach Jizhou and have a big river blocking us can we stop the beast soldiers and get down safely.
It has to be said that sometimes when the lower limit is exceeded, a person's deterrent power instantly rises.
But when a hegemonic country like Chu, already the number one in the world, broke through the lower limit.
Then its deterrence to all countries and people all over the world is simply at the level of a nuclear bomb.
Anyone who hears it will be shocked and frightened.
The ministers of Zhao State in front of them are a living example.
"enough!"
Just when people were panicking, Chen Tai, as an important auxiliary minister of Nandu, couldn't help it. He scolded loudly to silence everyone, and then saluted Zhao Xi and said, "Your Highness, the Chu people have captured Liangcheng. This city is... Once the lifeline of our East County is lost, the entire East County will be in danger.
In this way, the Nandu Diqiu, which we, Zhao, have been running for more than ten years, and the people of Dongjun, which is equivalent to half of the country's population, will be given to the Chu people.
And after losing these, will the State of Zhao still be the State of Zhao?
Close to Jizhou, Hebei, with the remaining eight million people above, even the size of the hegemony cannot be maintained.
By then there will only be one Jizhou that is about to perish. I am afraid that Zhao will follow in the footsteps of Wei and become a small and peaceful country, gradually declining and perishing.
How could Zhao's thousands-year-old foundation be destroyed in our hands like this?
Therefore, Liangcheng had to be saved and taken back. "
Zhao Tai talked about the pros and cons, then kowtowed and asked: "I beg your Majesty to immediately recruit all the soldiers in Diqiu. At the same time, all the people in the three prefectures near Diqiu will be recruited into the army. All males over the age of fourteen must join the army.
In this way, two million troops can be raised.
The veteran is willing to personally lead these troops to the front line of Liangcheng and fight to the death against the Chu thieves.
If they win, Liangcheng will return and Dongjun will be saved.
If defeated, the ministers and the army will all perish. The prince asks the ministers and officials to cross the river and return to Hebei to save their lives.
National affairs, the rise and fall of Zhao State, all depend on this moment.
Please also ask the prince for permission. "
The State of Zhao is no better than the State of Chu or Liang. It has a profound foundation and can continuously produce famous generals in the world.
Just like other ordinary hegemons in Kyushu, the Zhao Kingdom has always had only one famous general, and that is Chen Tai.
It's just that Chen Tai is too old, now one hundred and thirty-five years old.
At this age, even for the Xiantian Grandmaster, it is already the twilight years when he will die at any time.
To make matters worse, the long-term war career, especially the past forty years, due to the tremendous changes in the world and the sudden intensification of the war in Kyushu, has involved too much of his energy.
It can be said that all the wars in Zhao State in recent years have been basically presided over by the veteran Chen Tai.
The management transfer of tens of millions of people all year round, the balance of pressure from all aspects at home and abroad, and the fate of tens of millions of people in the entire country are all weighing on this veteran.
All of this drained his energy.
Even an innate master cannot completely transform into an iron man.
Long-term and high-intensity energy consumption has quickly dimmed Chen Tai's fire of life, and he gradually feels inadequate.
Therefore, as early as seventeen years ago, after personally leading the troops to seize the foundation of Dongjun, Chen Tai had gradually let go of military affairs and left the army to his younger generations.
That is, Zhao Cheng, who is a descendant of the clan and is now in charge of the White Horse Front.
He retreated to the back line and took up the position of Minister of the Ministry of War, which was resounding in the court.
Zhao Chengnai is a newly rising general in the Zhao Kingdom in recent years.
Not only is his martial arts qualification extremely high, he has already reached the second level of Xiantian at the age of only sixty years old.
Since joining the army, he has made extremely dazzling performances in all the wars.
Especially in the previous battle for Zhao State to seize Dongjun, the first success was naturally attributed to the coach Chen Tai, but the person with the most dazzling military exploits under the coach was Zhao Cheng.
Born in a clan, he has great strength and outstanding military exploits, plus he is young.
It can be said that Zhao Cheng, who has gathered all these dazzling auras, is naturally the next generation military leader of the Zhao Kingdom.
Zhao Guo also trained him according to this standard.
However, God did not fulfill his wishes.
Zhao Cheng's training in the early years was indeed good. He made meritorious deeds in the army step by step, and his official rank was rapidly promoted, developing towards a trend comparable to that of Chen Tai.
In everyone's eyes, Zhao Chengcheng will be the new generation star of the Zhao Kingdom by the age of sixty at most.
But it was at that time, seven years ago, that he was only one step away from the standard of a famous general.
A tragic defeat touched his rise.
The State of Wei took the initiative to invite Zhao and Xu to send troops to Liang State, hoping to completely resolve the long-running battle for Zhongzhou with a decisive battle.
From the perspective of the time, after these years of development, the combined strength of the three countries has surpassed the Liang State, and they have obvious advantages.
On the contrary, Liang Guo, after years of conquests, its national strength became increasingly exhausted, and it gradually felt that it was unsustainable.
At that time, in a decisive battle with Liang Guo, the odds of winning were quite high.
Therefore, after receiving the invitation from Wei, Zhao and Xu happily followed the big brother and sent troops together.
In order to train the younger generation, the Zhao State changed the candidate to lead the troops in the battle from Chen Tai, an already senile veteran, to Zhao Cheng, who had been carefully cultivated.
The purpose is to use this battle and the power of victory after victory to launch a new generation of Zhao's famous generals, so as to support Zhao's military for the next hundred years.
Then, everyone knows what the result will be.
Wei Guo is such an idiot for cheating his teammates.
A huge defeat attracted two allies, and the defeat followed.
Not to mention a great victory, the two countries almost lost their pants.
If Chu State hadn't taken action later, Zhao and Xu would have vomited away all the achievements they had made in Zhongzhou over the years.
Under such circumstances, Zhao Cheng's path to becoming a famous general was naturally hit hard and would no longer be possible.
Especially after Chang Yuan's disastrous defeat seven years ago.
The critical situation of Zhao State even had to re-activate Chen Tai, a veteran general who had retired to Diqiu, to serve as Minister of War, while the deputy of Nandu stayed behind to stabilize the overall situation.
So to this day, Zhao Guo's current pillar is still only supported by Chen Tai, a veteran who may die of old age at any time, which can be said to be in danger.
In this situation, the only one who can stand up and take charge of the situation and save the situation is Chen Tai.
"Old general, if you go on an expedition, can your body still hold up?"
Upon hearing Chen Tai's request, Prince Zhao Xi couldn't help but look moved.
He knew that with the physical condition of Zhao Guo Optimus Prime, if he really went on an expedition this time, he would really go on an expedition carrying a coffin. He might exhaust his energy at any time and die suddenly on the battlefield.
When it comes to being loyal to the country, the so-called dedication and death is nothing more than that.
"I know my body well. If you say it can last for three to five years, I really can't do it. But if it can last for a year and a half, that's still no problem."
Facing the prince's concern, Chen Tai shook his head and said: "Given the current situation in Dongjun, without Liangcheng receiving supplies from Jizhou, Hebei, the decisive battle between the Zhao army and the Chu army will not last long.
It will take at most two or three months to decide the winner.
With my body, I can last until the end of the war. "
Zhao Xi nodded slightly when he heard the words, then looked at Chen Tai's serious face and finally agreed: "Since the old general is determined, the survival of Dongjun and the safety of Emperor Qiu will be entrusted to the old general.
Even though the old general leads the troops to the front line, I will definitely take care of all matters in the rear in this Diqiu City and will never bother the old general. "
Zhao Xi took out the military talisman and handed it to Chen Tai personally, making a serious promise.
Chen Tai took it and said solemnly: "Prince, don't worry, I will risk my life to protect me, Zhao Jiangshan, on my last journey."
After saying that, he turned around and left with the tiger charm.
The army is about to be mobilized for an expedition, and the veteran general is also going to summon his old troops to mobilize troops.
'I don't know, I haven't been in the camp for several years, but those little cubs still remember me. '
On the way out, Chen Tai stopped and looked at the clear moon, with a hint of passion and desolation in his heart.
The great Zhao Jiangshan has been deteriorating since the defeat of Changyuan seven years ago.
To this day, only old men like myself can be allowed to go on battles.
Alas, that's all, this is the last battle in life, just do it well.
As for the future of Da Zhao, he couldn't see it and couldn't control it that much.
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