Without any defense, six ladders were set up on the top of the city.
The first batch of siege soldiers raised their shields and cautiously emerged from the wall.
As a result, when I looked around, I saw that not only did I not see the spears and swords coming towards me, but I also saw the defenders on the city fighting each other in chaos.
Except for the few feet around the newly minted 'General', which was empty, the rest of the city wall was in a mess.
How is this going?
However, this was not a time to think too much. First, a sergeant used his strength to jump in from the gap between the wall stacks and killed a soldier who had his back turned to him and was fighting with another soldier defending the city. , gain a foothold on the city wall.
Follow-up soldiers followed up one after another, and within a short time they occupied the top of the city.
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Chu State, Chengdu.
"Bang——" A piece of exquisite paperweight carved from mutton-fat white jade was hit hard on the ground and shattered into pieces.
"When did this happen! How did Wu Jun cross the river?" Chu Wang Xiangtong said angrily.
The land of one mansion is not a trivial matter. There are only sixteen mansions in the entire Chu State. It would be easy to say that there is a series of wars and disasters ahead, but there is no sign of the loss of this mansion. I have never heard that Wu State has a large army crossing the river. .
"Three days ago." Taiwei Ji Feng said in a deep voice: "I came here immediately after receiving the news. Your Majesty, the Wu Kingdom did not cross the river. It was the Jiang family who colluded with the Wu Kingdom general to capture the entire Nanhe Prefecture."
The political system of Chu State is basically similar to that of other countries, and it is also a system of three ministers and nine ministers.
Taiwei is one of the three princes and the highest military officer of Chu State. He is similar to the general of Wu State, but he has certain real power.
"Four days ago? In other words, the Jiang family colluded with the Wu State and conquered the entire Nanhe Prefecture in just two days? Is there no one in Nanhe Prefecture who is loyal to our great Chu?" Xiang Tong was stunned and said angrily.
"That's not the case. On that day when the Jiang family was in trouble, only seven of the twenty-three counties in Nanhe Prefecture were traitors, and the remaining sixteen counties were all loyal to our great Chu. But I didn't expect that the Wu Kingdom's fighting generals were so fast that they conquered seven cities in one day. First, they They cut off the communication inside and outside Nanhe Prefecture, and then captured the big county Baichen the next day. The remaining counties were divided and they couldn't do anything, so they had to surrender to the Jiang family."
Taiwei Ji Fern explained.
After hearing this, Chu Wang Xiangtong's face suddenly turned cold. He squinted his eyes slightly to hide his murderous intent, and looked at Ji Feng without saying a word.
In the view of King Xiangtong of Chu, if the Taiwei Ji Fern had not always been loyal, just based on his words, he should have killed him - he was fooling himself into thinking he was mentally retarded!
There is a saying in the art of war: "If you fight for an advantage fifty miles away, you will defeat the general!" '
What this means is: marching fifty miles hastily to fight will lead to fatigue of the soldiers and an unorganized army. Even the general who is good at using troops will suffer a big loss.
There are seventeen county towns in Nanhe Prefecture. Even if each county town has a paper wall and the defenders are even more vulnerable, the total distance between the cities is more than a few hundred miles - this distance is not enough to defeat a general. , even five or six of them are enough.
Not to mention that there is no army in the world that can travel hundreds of miles in a day, and has to continuously attack a city, and it will be defeated without siege equipment!
If there is such a force, it will definitely be an important weapon for the country. The royal families of various countries must enshrine it. They will never be used until the battle of national destiny.
If the Chu State had such an army, and a large soldier died, the King of Chu would be heartbroken to death.
It's really not worth spending it on continuous attacks on ordinary county towns.
As for the Jiang family, can they have such an army?
Are you kidding me? If we could really train such elites, wouldn't the Jiang family build their own country?
Ji Fern was a little embarrassed to be stared at by King Xiangtong of Chu like this - even he felt like he was talking nonsense.
As soon as he heard the news, his first reaction was that someone was lying about military information.
However, the information from the military system, the intelligence from the secret espionage system, and the information from the business traveler are similar in content, so the credibility is very high.
What's more, the Jiang family and the Tang family are not monolithic. There are also people who are loyal to the Chu state. The information they revealed is mutually corroborated with the three sets of intelligence from the military, espionage and business systems, so that Taiwei Ji Fern can only believe it.
"I can't believe it, but this matter is absolutely true - I have four sources of information, and they corroborate each other, so I can be sure of it.
I have compiled the information from all parties into a book and asked the king to read it. As for the witnesses, they are also waiting outside the palace. "Ji Feng took out a volume from his sleeve, ordered the palace attendant to hand it to the King of Chu, and said.
The five countries in the Central Plains are all big countries, and they have been fighting against each other for years. Military affairs are the core part of a country's government affairs, and Taiwei is the highest military officer of Chu State.
To be able to achieve the position of Taiwei, Ji Feng's cleverness is another matter, but his work is absolutely flawless and beyond reproach.
Since he knew that this matter sounded ridiculous, he naturally had to collect all the evidence before he dared to report it - otherwise, it wouldn't have been delayed until now.
King Xiangjian of Chu was half-convinced and took the book presented by Ji Fern, while flipping through it with his hands, feeling annoyed.
The last news that came from Nanhe Prefecture was that Wu Guodou's general Lu Wu rushed into Nanhe City by surprise and killed two people, the governor of Nanhe Prefecture, Qu Wenyi, a sage from Chu State, and Xu Yang, a Legalist scholar.
Xiang Tong was furious when he received the news. He mobilized elite experts and ordered the Wu general to be surrounded and killed at all costs. To be on the safe side, he even sent people to ask Gongsun Boyang, the master of Chu State, to take action.
However, although Master Gongsun is a master of martial arts, he has always seen the dragon but not its tail. Especially after returning from the Wu Kingdom, it has been a month since he could find anyone, so Xiang Tong could only order others to set off first.
But before Wu Guo's fighting general could be executed here, the news came today that the entire Nanhe Prefecture had fallen - what was going on?
Nanhe Prefecture was one of the three prefectures taken from the State of Wu, and was not the fundamental place of the State of Chu.
But in the past thirty years, the Chu State has gradually subdued the people of Nanhe Prefecture and other three prefectures through means of immigration, transfer of enfeoffments, sending officials, and strengthening mutual trade.
Except for a few former nobles of the Wu State whose interests were damaged, they have basically integrated into the Chu State, and their manpower and material resources can be used by the Chu State.
Now the incident happened suddenly, and it was autumn and grain harvest season. If Nanhe Prefecture could not be recovered in time, Chu State's total grain harvest would be reduced by 10% this year.
What's even more troublesome is that if the Chu State fails to quickly regain Nanhe Mansion and shows its cowardice, the surrounding countries will pounce and take a bite.
At that time, internal and external troubles broke out at the same time, which was the real big trouble.
"Come here, call for the generals to come." Xiang Tong ordered.
Daxing is the name of one of the Nine Qings, not a personal name. His responsibility is to be responsible for the diplomacy of Chu State.
Before the news about Nanhe Mansion has spread, we must first use diplomatic means to stabilize the other major Central Plains countries.
Even if Wu and Yue and several small countries on the border with Chu came to attack together, Xiang Tong would not take it seriously.
