The enemy is facing us. At this time, what we fear most is internal problems.
Lu Chang's words made King Chu suspicious, and his frown deepened.
He narrowed his eyes slightly, and after a moment, he waved his hand gloomily and said, "You go down first."
Lu Chang secretly observed the words and expressions, and quickly bent down to salute: "Yes, I will retire."
After he left, King Chu couldn't help but take a deep breath, his thoughts were changing, and then he shouted: "Here comes someone."
The attendants outside the palace entered and saluted respectfully.
"Go and ask Jiang Gu to come over."
Jiang Gu, the leader of the Black Flag Battalion, planned many assassinations and also cleared many obstacles for the King of Chu to secretly succeed.
The next day, Cui Ji Mansion.
A large number of Black Flag Battalion personnel forced their way in and lined up on both sides of the courtyard, with swords hanging on their waists.
Not long after, Jiang Gu walked over, and Cui Ji, who heard the commotion, happened to rush over. Seeing this, he couldn't help but stretched out his hand and pointed:
"Master Jiang! What do you mean!?"
Jiang Bei's face was expressionless, and he turned slightly sideways, "According to the king's order, I came here to ask Mr. Cui to come with us."
"What!?" Cui Ji's heart sank, and he subconsciously looked around at the situation. Standing on both sides were members of the Black Flag Battalion.
"Please!" Jiang Gu said again.
"This, this..." The latter swallowed, knowing in his heart that it would be impossible if he didn't leave.
After taking him away, Jiang Gui signaled to a leader, who understood and immediately waved his hand, and a large number of Black Flag Camp personnel quickly poured into all parts of the house...
Another day passed, in the study room of the King's Palace of Chu.
Cui Ji was brought over. When he saw King Chu, he felt as if he had seen his savior. He knelt down in a hurry and said excitedly: "Your Majesty, I was arrested by the Black Flag Camp for no reason. You must make the decision for me! "
King Chu glanced at him and didn't say anything about it. Instead, he picked up a letter from the king's case and threw it to the ground. "This was found by Black Flag Camp from Mr. Cui's study. Please explain it."
The letter was thrown in front of him. Cui Ji was stunned for a moment, then picked it up in confusion, unfolded it and glanced at it.
The content of the letter was his correspondence with Jia You a long time ago. It was just ordinary greetings, nothing special.
After reading it, Cui Ji also said quickly: "Your Majesty, this, this is just a letter from a long time ago. Why should I be guilty of this?"
"Who is the other party? He is an important counselor under the command of the King of Qin. Now Qin and Chu are at war. As a minister of the Chu State, you are communicating with the enemy. What do you want to do!?" The King of Chu asked.
Cui Ji knelt down, holding the letter, and immediately became anxious: "Your Majesty, it is clear that this letter is several years old. The loyalty of my minister is a lesson to heaven and earth!"
"What about these!?" King Chu picked up the other letters on the table.
Cui Ji explained: "When I was young, I studied in Huizhou and met Jia You. There was indeed some friendship between us. Now each is his master, so naturally he will be loyal to the emperor! These letters are all from a long time ago, and they are believed to be Most of them are due to the shortcomings of the parents.”
There is indeed no problem with the content of these letters, but King Chu said solemnly: "But who knows whether there have been secret messages between you recently."
"Your Majesty, if I really collaborated with the enemy, why would I leave these letters? Your Majesty must not be instigated by treacherous ministers." At this time, Cui Ji also realized that he might be accused of being cunning.
However, his words did make King Chu pause for a moment, but soon, King Chu said coldly: "Cui Ji! Even if you can barely justify the letter, you, as a minister, should criticize me in private. What a crime!"
"This, this, I am so sincere, why would your Majesty say this?" Cui Ji said anxiously.
"Your advice to abandon Xiangyang and retreat to the Yangtze River was not adopted. Did you say that this king is fatuous and not as good as King Qin or two-tenths!" King Chu said with a gloomy face.
Hearing this, Cui Ji suddenly panicked: "There is absolutely no such thing, there is absolutely no such thing. This is completely slandering a minor minister, and it is groundless, Your Majesty."
"You still dare to quibble!" King Chu was furious: "You usually complain a lot, but when something doesn't satisfy you, you make irresponsible remarks to me in private. Do you think I don't know about it?"
"I am wronged..." Cui Ji could not say anything else. He could only kowtow quickly, touch his head to the ground, and stick his butt high in the air.
"Hmph!" King Chu's anger continued: "As long as your strategy is not adopted, there will be many complaints! Do you really think that our Chu country can't do it without you!"
The King of Chu was not a magnanimous person, and he would never tolerate any of his ministers daring to criticize him. After getting angry, he raised his voice and said, "Come here! Take Cui Ji to me and put him in prison!" "
"No!" The guards outside the palace immediately came in, pulled up Cui Ji from the ground and left.
The latter naturally started to shout loudly: "Wei Chen is wronged, Wei Chen is wronged -"
"The king listened to the villain's slander and abandoned the loyal and good, which is what the blind king did -"
His shouts gradually faded away, but in the ears of King Chu, he was undoubtedly very angry. He couldn't help but throw the bamboo slips to the ground, "You are so disrespectful, so outrageous and hateful!"
If this had been done to anyone else, the King of Chu would probably have killed him long ago, which also shows that Cui Ji's status in Chu State is still very important.
the other side.
With more than 10,000 troops, Jiangling fought bloody battles for several days, and was finally defeated by the Qin army without reinforcements.
On top of the city, looking at the city defenses on both sides being completely destroyed, there were not many soldiers left by Sergeant Wu, who were fighting and retreating. The situation was irreversible. Yu Fang held his sword in hand and couldn't help but look up to the sky and sigh:
"The isolated city is trapped and there is no hope of reinforcements. It is not Yu Fang's fault..."
After sighing, he also looked down at the sword, then closed his eyes, placed it on his neck, and pulled it down hard.
Blood splattered and the sword fell to the ground.
Although Yu Fang is not well-known and a little cautious, as a general, it is very good to be able to defend the battle to this point.
"General -" a shout came from one side, and the deputy general's eyes widened.
When the surrounding soldiers noticed the movement, they were also frightened. The already panicked people were now even more confused. They were no longer fighting and retreating, but scrambling to escape the city defense.
Jiangling had already been defeated, and with the death of the guard, the situation can be imagined.
Not long after, the flag of the Qin army was planted on the top of the city. Then, Peng Shuang led a large army into the city. When he saw Yu Fang's body, he took a deep breath and said seriously:
"I have always respected generals who swore to defend the country. Although Yu Fang was an enemy general, he still wanted to be buried with a rich burial."
"Yes!" General Youbiao took the order.
"King of messengers, report the details." After saying that, Peng Shuang waved his hand again: "Enter the city!"
Jiangling was captured here, and at the same time, the main force of the Wu army also withdrew from Linzhang to the south of the Yangtze River.
The battle reports from all parties were sent back to the camp. After Xiao Yuan read them, he summarized the battle situation and immediately summoned the generals to hold a military discussion.
