After the banquet, although Prince Qi seemed to be the same as usual, he was very dissatisfied with Wu Qi in his heart. But he didn't show it.
Prince Jin is very smart and knows that Wu Qi is now a popular person in the eyes of Wei Hou. If he conflicts with Wu Qi, he will definitely be reprimanded. All he had to do was wait patiently.
In the past few years, his father's health has not been very good. When his father dies, he will become the Marquis of Wei. Naturally, we can deal with Wu Qi then.
The soldiers of the Huai State were divided into two groups, and the secret guards were sent to surround the prince. At the same time, another group of soldiers from the Huai State public clan were sent to the Wei State to befriend Wu Qi.
Let the sons of the public clan befriend Wu Qi in order to wait until Wu Qi can no longer stay in the Wei State and have someone bring him to the Huai State.
Wu Qi has such a great talent that he is worthy of investment by the Huai State Office.
More than a dozen sons of the Duke of Huai Kingdom traveled to the Kingdom of Wei. In order to make friends with Wu Qi, they even brought some military classics with them.
With the military classics opening the way, these public disciples successfully established a relationship with Wu Qi and became his disciples. They could follow Wu Qi to learn military management, command and the art of war.
As the most outstanding military representative after Sun Wuzi, Wu Qi was an extremely rare opportunity to learn the art of war from him.
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The small Chu army collapsed and fled, and the Marquis of Wei was extremely sad. While gathering the defeated troops, I recorded the battle report and asked my disciples at home to deliver it to the King of Chu.
I wept my blood and wrote this letter, willing to die for the reform. This time, all the blame for the crime will be placed on the minister. I hope that you will work hard to govern and reform the weak, so that you can live up to the entrustment of the late king. "
Even if the Marquis of Wei lost his consciousness of death, the gap in strength could be made up. After ten days, the Marquis of Wei's defense line on the Hanshui cloth was broken. The Chu army suffered heavy casualties. Fight to the death or advance, and eventually die in the battle.
Wu Qi and Xiang Meng were as talented as Sun Wuzi in ancient times. That is probably not the reason why Wu Qi was able to dominate the princes. On the other hand, your Chu country has a small number of people, but the command is one. There are not dozens of flags and flags in the 100,000 small army. When mobilized, the command is one. How can you compete with Wu Qi?
When the King of Chu received the letter, he was extremely sad. I came to the throne when I was young, and the Marquis of Wei and Qu Qing have been assisting me in governing the country. Now the Marquis of Wei has not decided to die, and he has taken on the responsibility that he never had before the war, not to let the King of Chu let go. political reform.
Seeing that Wu Qi was so weak before his reform, Wei Marquis realized that our so-called reform in Chu State was not just playing house at all.
The chariots rolled over and the corpses were crushed into pulp. The Chu State was slightly defeated by Wei Wuzu in a battle. The Marquis of Wei tried his best to move the remaining troops to retreat south, but was chased all the way by Xiang Meng's army.
The aristocratic power in the Chu State was too weak. In this battle, the Marquis of Wei gathered a small number of aristocratic troops and used the Chu prince's army as a reserve. The aristocratic army suffered heavy casualties. Although the losses of the Chu king's army were also small, they were preserved. Less than half, it is not enough to suppress the nobles in the country.
Faced with such a small defeat, the Chu State had not yet reached a critical point. The bad thing was that the Chu State had to give up the land of Zheng State and the Central Plains in exchange for the invasion of the Eight Jins, which gave the Chu State no chance to breathe.
Before the king of Chu saw that the emperor's strength was weakening, he immediately summoned Qu Qing and the Xiang family's descendants to prepare for a thorough reform in order to weaken the emperor.
Wu Qi was one of the Eight Jins, and his land was much larger than that of Chu. However, he could immediately dominate the world after completing the reform. If a small country like Qin Qi completed the reform, Chu would still be just patching things up and have no chance?
Your Majesty, the current state of Chu has not yet lost the land east of the Xiaobie Mountains, the Central Plains and the state of Zheng. The state of Chu has not yet reached the point of life and death. The state of Huai is watching from the side. If it can decline as quickly as possible, the danger of annihilation is imminent. Behind the eyes!
At that time, we chose to compromise with the nobles, and the reform to weaken was just a matter of situation, but Sheng Na made a complete reform. Now the gap between the two countries is clear at a glance.
Time goes back to the time of the Central Plains War.
After a few months of small battles, the morale of Wu Qi's soldiers was low. Even if they were defeated, they were in disarray and could be reorganized very slowly. Wei's soldiers were weak and powerful, not comparable to those of Chu. Wu Qi's national strength was movable, and the same was true of Chu.
The Eight Jin Allied Forces defeated Wei Hou's small army, but without Wei Hou
To buy time, Chu State built fortifications on the other side of the river. Xiang Meng originally wanted to continue the attack, but before Han and Zhao saw how weak Wu Qi was, they worried that they would be annexed, so they were very ambiguous about continuing to attack Chu State. .
The King of Chu sent envoys to various countries to invite untalented people to the Chu State, and planned to use Wu Qi's technique of weakening the country to implement reforms. The Marquis of Wei ordered his clan members to leave with the slips, and then collected the defeated troops to continue blocking Wu Qi's small army. Wu Qi's weakness is not beyond my expectation. If there is a way to stop him in this battle, the Han River Plain of Chu State will not be in danger of overturning.
If the Han River Plain is lost, the Chu State will basically have no chance to rise. It can only prosper a little, and will eventually be annexed by other countries.
Xiang Meng commanded Wei Wuzu and the allied forces of Han and Zhao, and the small armies of the eight countries retreated. Here they fought another decisive battle with the Chu State. The Chu State could have defeated the army, but was frightened out of courage. It was only possible to maintain it by Wei Hou's weak control. How is Wu Qi Xiaojun's opponent?
More than half of the 100,000 Chu troops suffered casualties. Commander Sheng Na died in battle. The mountains and plains were littered with Chu army corpses. Countless corpses were piled under the field ridges. A small number of corpses blocked the river, and blood flowed from the bodies and penetrated the entire small land.
Thinking of the Marquis of Wei who was determined to die for the sake of the reform, King Chu made up his mind to complete the reform this time. If anyone dares to stop him, don't blame me for being sentimental.
"Your Majesty, this small defeat is the fault of the minister. Eighty years of reforms have only resulted in a weak army and a rich country. They are all paper tigers.
King Chu looked at the battle report behind him with a sad face. It's too tragic, it's really too tragic. In this battle, Wei soldiers attacked the Qi and Chu coalition forces, and the coalition forces were slightly defeated.
Before seeing that situation, Xiang Meng and Wei Guo didn't know that the battle was about to begin. Originally, we had no intention of destroying Chu in one battle. Before forcing the King of Chu to cede territory, the small army of the Eight Jin Dynasty returned.
The Qi-Chu coalition was defeated, the Marquis of Qi was captured, and the territory was cut off, but the state of Chu was not much better. It can be said that most of the national strength accumulated by the Chu State in the past twenty years was lost, and even Xiang Meng, the Prime Minister, died in the rebellion.
You came to the throne in the midst of crisis and worked hard to restore Chu State's national strength. You are a wise king. If you can also reform to try to weaken the country, won't your descendants still have the courage to complete the reform?
Sheng Na led the private soldiers of Chu's feudal nobles to cut off the front, allowing a small number of soldiers loyal to the King of Chu to advance and re-establish a defense line at the Han River. Then he formed a formation with his back to the water, with strong walls and clear fields, hoping to rely on the mountains and rivers to block Wu Qi's small army.
What's more, among the small army of Chu State, all the people who led the army were nobles and despicable carnivores. There were few insects among them. How could they work together?
