Wancheng.

This capital, once the capital of the Chu State square city, is now the county seat of Nanyang County, Qin State, which is an absolute "iron city". There are various iron smelting workshops in the city. During the heyday of this city, even if you stand dozens of miles away, you can see countless black smoke coming out of Wancheng, which is spectacular.

At this moment, there was also thick smoke rising in Wancheng, but this was not because the iron smelting workshops in Wancheng opened again, but because it was broken.

The chief general of Chu State and the Grand Marshal Qu Yuan stood on the chariot and entered Wancheng through the open city gate surrounded by many Chu army generals and soldiers.

Behind Qu Yuan, many people looked at the Grand Sima quietly, as if they knew him on the first day.

No matter how many people secretly wrote letters to Chen Ying's backers during this period, hoping to remove Qu Yuan, and regardless of how sad these guys felt when Qu Yuan came up and killed people and established his authority, one thing is undeniable - after Qu Yuan arrived, Wancheng was indeed taken down within a month.

That alone is enough to make everyone shut up.

Qu Yuan looked at the corpses and the many houses that had been almost demolished on the street in front of him, and there was not much joyful expression of victory on his face, but his heart was still a little heavy.

This place used to be the land of Chu State. If possible, he hoped that he would see the extremely busy Wancheng in his memory.

Qu Yuan asked, "Where is Mi Rong?"

The Qin New City Jun Mi Rong, this second-ranked figure who belongs to Wei Ran among the Four Nobles, has always been despised by the outside world, believing that this person is just Wei Ran's puppet.

But in this battle to defend Wancheng, Mi Rong made unexpected achievements to most people.

With the 20,000 to 30,000 defenders in his hands with low combat power, Mi Rong actually defended Wancheng for nearly half a year, and even if Qu Yuan did not come, the time would have to be extended a little longer.

Therefore, after breaking through the city, it was not surprising that Qu Yuan was the first to ask about the whereabouts of this person.

Qu Yuan really wanted to meet Mi Rong in person and ask these people what they felt when they learned that all the tombs of the ancient kings of the Great Chu Dynasty were burned down by Bai Qi.

Wei Ran and Mi Rongke are both natives of Chu. As ministers of Qin, it is actually normal to be loyal to Qin. However, Qu Yuan could not understand what kind of hatred they had with his motherland, so that he could indulge Bai Qi, who was promoted by himself, to commit such outrageous evil deeds to his motherland!

Not to mention, there are the innocent souls of hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians in Yandu!

However, the reply received disappointed Qu Yuan: "I did not find Mi Rong when I returned to the Grand Sima. According to the confessions of some prisoners, Mi Rong had already escaped with all his personal guards as soon as he learned that the city had been broken."

Qu Yuan curled his lips: "Is he running fast? Has the entire city been taken down? How about the damage to the craftsmen and iron smelting workshops? Will someone take over the iron ore?"

Qu Yuan's series of questions were almost all about the word "Iron".

There is no way, iron is really important in the present.

The backwardness of bronze weapons in the war has begun to appear clearly, especially after the Zhao State, which later achieved successive expansion and victory in the military-made full-iron equipment.

The largest iron ore and iron smelting base in Chu State was Wancheng.

Naturally, the subordinates did not dare to neglect Qu Yuan's question and replied: "When returning to Grand Sima, the entire city has been taken down, the situation of craftsmen and workshops is under statistics, and the iron ore is already being arranged."

Qu Yuan nodded slightly and reminded: "Don't relax, especially if you are wary of some people with ulterior motives intervene. Everything must be handled after the king's order comes down. Do you understand?"

Qu Yuan deliberately raised his tone when he said this, which made many Chu generals around him look a little weird when they heard it.

The State of Chu can be said to be the lowest-level centralized country among the five major warring countries in existence. The reason for this phenomenon is that many resources that should have belonged to the royal family are controlled by the great nobles. These generals almost all come from these families, and they all belong to what Qu Yuan said, "people with ulterior motives."

Someone asked again: "Grand Sima, there are still tens of thousands of Qin army prisoners in the city. How should we deal with it?"

Qu Yuan said lightly: "Kill them all, find a place to build a Jingguan so that everyone in the world will know that my great Chu will revenge you!"

No one has any objection to Qu Yuan's words.

Three days after conquering Wancheng, Qu Yuan continued to lead his army to set off.

In the eyes of many generals of Chu, if they actually conquered Wancheng, then the next target should obviously be Dengcheng.

Wancheng and Dengcheng are the two largest cities in Nanyang County. As long as these two cities are taken down, more than 70% of the land in Nanyang County will be recovered. Then you can go south from Dengcheng to recover the Yingdu and Jianghan Plains that are still in the hands of Qin.

However, Qu Yuan's choice was beyond everyone's expectations.

"Dengcheng? No. This time, we will go to Wuguan!"

Wuguan, also known as Shaoxiguan, is located in the northwest of Nanyang County and the southeast of the Qinling Mountains. It is said that it was built by the Chu State in the Spring and Autumn Period more than two hundred years ago.

This pass is also a famous pass in the world. It was once known as "the Shenzhou Control of the Chongguan Tianshi", "It is difficult to invade if the gate is closed without locking the enemy", "Wuguan is closed with one palm, and the road to Xiangyun and Jianghuai is blocked." This is another road leading to Guanzhong besides Hangu Pass, and it is an unforgettable place for military strategists to compete for.

In more than 20 years, the Chu State marched northwest along Wuguan and fought the extremely famous Battle of Danyang and Lantian with Qin. During the battle, Chu State, which was still the real Warring States Period, was defeated by Qin State and Han and Wei State, and then was defeated by Qi State in the Battle of Chuisha. Since then, the country has declined and has no chance to turn around.

Qu Yuan wanted to tell the whole world by regaining Wuguan that the Great Chu had not completely fallen, and that powerful Great Chu would come back one day!

With the order of Qu Yuan, 100,000 Chu troops set out from Wancheng and took seven days to arrive at Wuguan.

As Qu Yuan expected, tens of thousands of Qin defenders had gathered in Wuguan.

Qu Yuan didn't care about this, but ordered people to step up the production of siege weapons and strive to take down Wuguan as soon as possible.

But just the day before Qu Yuan was about to launch a forward attack, a Qin envoy came out of Wuguan along the hanging basket, bringing Qu Yuan a very surprising and puzzled news.
Chapter completed!