On the same night, in the Chu army camp outside Wuguan hundreds of miles away from Hangu Pass, Qu Yuan also waited for the Chu envoy.

"Why are you?" Qu Yuan looked at the envoy of the King of Chu in front of him, and his face clearly showed a look of surprise.

The person who came was not someone else, but Xiong Zilan, the chief of Chu State.

Xiong Zilan laughed and said to Qu Yuan in front of him: "The words of Grand Sima are a bit interesting. This marquis is the minister of the king. Isn't it natural to pass on the will to the king?"

Looking at Xiong Zilan's expression, Qu Yuan suddenly had a bad premonition in his heart, but his face was still calm and he said, "Where is the will of the king?"

Xiong Zilan took out a decree and signaled to Qu Yuan: "The decree is here, Grand Sima, please accept the decree."

Qu Yuan took the will from Xiong Zilan and read it carefully.

The more Qu Yuan read, his face became more gloomy, and finally he couldn't help but slap the table: "It's simply nonsense! King... How could Da Chu turn away from the alliance with Zhao at this time and instead form an alliance with Qin?"

Qu Yuan suddenly looked up, looked directly at Xiong Zilan in front of him, and shouted: "I understand, you, Zhao Qi and others must have misled the king! He was so short-sighted and short-sighted!"

Afterwards, Qu Yuan simply pointed at Xiong Zilan and cursed.

Xiong Zilan didn't care and said with a smile: "Grand Sima, you have no reason. You can go to the people of your Qu family in Yingdu to ask. At that time, the king specially convened the palace discussion and discussed with many ministers of the Great Chu. This marquis did express some opinions in the palace discussion, but is there anyone else who made the final decision besides the king? Could it be that you, Qu Yuan, are you so arrogant now that you are not willing to accept the orders of the king?"

Qu Yuan stared at Xiong Zilan. If his eyes could kill people, Xiong Zilan would probably not be able to find a piece of good meat on her body now.

Xiong Zilan's face was pleasant and she smiled at her.

There was an extremely stagnant silence in the big tent.

After a long time, Qu Yuan spoke with great difficulty: "Okay, very good. Xiong Zilan and you abandon the interests of the Great Chu for your own selfishness. In the future, the future historians will definitely nail you and other treacherous slander to the pillar of shame!"

As soon as these words were said, Xiong Zilan couldn't stand it no matter how thick the face was. Her face immediately became gloomy and she said coldly: "Qu Yuan, don't say these nonsense here. This is the command of the king, and the command of the king is to be obeyed and obedient. If you want to disobey, you can do it. Do you dare?"

Qu Yuan's face had returned to calm, and he said coldly: "Very good. Since it was the king's order, then you ask the Qin people to hand over Wu Pass immediately, and then I will naturally lead my army north to Hangu Pass and his team."

No matter how angry or helpless he was in his heart, Qu Yuan could not disobey the orders of King Chu.

Xiong Zilan smiled and said, "The people of Wuguan and Qin will naturally hand over it, but you don't have to do the job leading the north."

Qu Yuan was stunned for a moment and said, "What do you mean?"

Xiong Zilan took out another decree from her arms and smiled and said, "What does it mean? Just look at this decree and you will know."

Qu Yuan was shocked. After taking the second order, he saw it. Then he was shocked all over and could hardly be able to do so himself.

There is a sentence written on it.

"The Grand Marshal Qu Yuan worked hard and made great contributions to the country's war, and he was very grateful to me. He was specially appointed as the Right Yin of the Great Chu, and returned to Yingdu to take office today! The Order Yin Xiong Zilan took over the position of Qu Yuan as the head general."

Under the imperial court of Chu, there was the upper throne country, the left Yin and the right Yin, and then the Grand Sima Qu Yuan.

This is indeed an absolute promotion.

For a long time, Youyin was actually the position held by the head of the Qu clan, but because the Qu clan has not been strong over the years and the Qu Yuan, the head of the family, is not likable, this position has been empty for a long time but has not yet fallen. Now that he has given Qu Yuan, it is also a kind of affirmation of Qu Yuan and Qu clan.

But the problem is that at this point, the King of Chu suddenly promoted Qu Yuan to the post. The real purpose was obviously not just to reward Qu Yuan's military achievements, but to let Xiong Zilan replace Qu Yuan's position as the chief general and take military power from Qu Yuan's hands!

This is actually something imaginable. After all, Qu Yuan strongly advocated dividing Qin with Zhao, and now let Qu Yuan fight against Zhao... It is not appropriate no matter how you look at it.

As for the You Yin, to be honest, it is a little better than the Grand Sima. Without more military achievements, all Qu Yuan's prestige was completely exhausted at the moment of rising to You Yin. If you want to further promote any reform, it would be a dream.

Qu Yuan sat there and felt like a bucket of cold water pouring on his head, extinguishing all his enthusiasm.

Whatever serves the Great Chu, what is loyal to the king, it seems so ridiculous at this moment when the birds are covered with bows!

Xiong Zilan looked at Qu Yuan who was in a daze and felt better. Without urging her, she sat there and looked at Qu Yuan with a smile, admiring the very happy scene in front of her.

After a long time, Qu Yuan moved again.

The new Chu State Order seemed to have grown several years old all of a sudden.

Qu Yuan slowly took out half of the tiger talisman from his hand and placed it on the table in front of him.

Xiong Zilan immediately took out another half of the tiger talisman from his hand, and the two tiger talismans immediately formed a complete tiger talisman.

Qu Yuan stood up and looked at Xiong Zilan deeply.

"Xiong Zilan, don't think that this will succeed. As long as I, Qu Yuan, still breathe a sigh of relief, I will not let you continue to control the government and miss the future of the Great Chu!"

Qu Yuan turned around and left.

Xiong Zilan looked at Qu Yuan's leaving figure, frowned at first, then snorted heavily, and a sarcastic smile appeared on her face.

"It's just a wailing dog, ridiculous!"

...

Unlike Wen Tian, ​​Bao Yuan has always been a person with no ambitions.

He was appointed by the previous generation of Korean kings and believed that he was loyal to the Korean royal family. Even when he was wronged some time ago, Bao Yuan always felt that he could find a way to cleanse it up - if it really doesn't work, he just fled to other countries.

Now, an excellent opportunity seems to have arrived.

The only thing worth worrying about is whether the King of Zhao would be angry and beheaded Bao Yuan in public.

However, Bao Yuan felt that the King of Zhao could have built such a huge foundation at such a young age, and should not be so narrow-minded. Besides, after King of Zhao killed Bao Yuan, it would not be possible to completely control the Korean army and instead add an enemy. No matter how you look at it, it is unnecessary.

Thinking about the experience of Zhang Kui, a fellow Yan State, who followed Qi to attack Song State a few years ago, Bao Yuan had to sigh, indeed, there is no reason why Zhao State could defeat Qi State and become the new overlord.

The next morning, Bao Yuan came to the top of Pingtou Mountain as usual, which is the "front line command center" of King Zhao.

Bao Yuan really doesn’t know where this King Zhao came from so many strange words.

As soon as he reached the top of the mountain, Bao Yuan saw Zhao He and Le Yi sitting on the stage, talking and laughing, not knowing what they were talking about.

Bao Yuan came to Zhao He and saluted Zhao He: "Bao Yuan has seen the king."

Zhao He smiled and looked in a good mood: "Come on, General Bao Yuan sits down. I have good news today to tell you."

Bao Yuan thought to himself that no matter what good news, what if I say the withdrawal of the army later, you, the king, will not be able to laugh.

Bao Yuan said: "Here."

Given Zhao He's good intentions, Bao Yuan felt that he should not be a villain for the first time, and he should wait until Zhao He finished speaking before starting.

At this time, the day's battle had begun, and countless soldiers from Zhao shouted to go through the original ruins and headed towards Hangu Pass not far away.

At the edge of the ruins, at the foot of Pingtou Mountain, many siege equipment such as Chongchewanglou have also begun to be ready to go and are ready to enter the battlefield.

What made Bao Yuan feel very strange is that Zhao He has never ordered the construction of a catapult. Is it really just because of the Qin people's retreating strategy that the young King Zhao did not consider the catapult at all?

The launch of a catapult on the flat ground may not be more threatening to directly hit the high ground from Pingtou Mountain, but it is not an undesirable option. After all, Kuang Zhang did not say that he had been scattering a catapult on Pingtou Mountain for three years, but this plan that he thought of after trying many ways but failed. It took only a few months from the actual implementation to the breakthrough.

However, these are no longer important to Bao Yuan. Anyway, after he made it clear, he will run back to China with all the remaining Korean troops today.

Bao Yuan sat down and waited for Zhao He to say what he said next.

There was a table in front of Zhao He. He took out a piece of paper from the table and smiled and signaled to Baoyuan: "General Baoyuan, come and see the latest battle report I have received."

"War Report?" Bao Yuan was immediately confused when he saw this.

Speaking of which, the Chu army should have headed north in just a few days. Could it be that what Zhao He received was this battle report?

But it is not right. If it was really this battle report, the King Zhao in front of him would never be able to laugh.

With doubts, Bao Yuan took the battle report and looked at it intently.

Then……

Bao Yuan was shocked and the battle report in his hand almost fell to the ground.

After several breaths, Bao Yuan recovered from his loss of composure and raised his head in shock: "This, this is..."

Zhao He laughed and said to Bao Yuan with smugness: "How is it, my cavalry did not disappoint General Bao Yuan, right?"

A storm of waves broke out in Baoyuan's heart.

According to this battle report, almost half a month ago, the 30,000 cavalry led by Lianpo of Zhao State defeated Meng Ao's 70,000 army in Ji County. Not only did they defeat Meng Ao's troops, but they also directly broke into Guanzhong and pointed directly at Xianyang!

The moment he saw the battle report, Bao Yuan was almost doubting his eyes.

How could 30,000 cavalry defeat the mixed army of 70,000 stairs in a head-on war?

Although cavalry has received a lot of attention over the years because of the rise of Zhao State, there is no reason to be so powerful, right?

This simply goes against the military common sense accumulated by Bao Yuan over the past decades!

All along, what Bao Yuan learned from the battlefield was that the chariot soldiers were strong but the infantry was stronger, and the mixed sport was invincible in the world.

Now……

Bao Yuan suddenly didn't know what to say.

The cavalry rose up in China with Zhao State, and it only took twenty years.

It's so terrifying!

After a long time, Bao Yuan finally recovered from his loss of composure and said to Zhao He: "Congratulations to the King, congratulations to the King."

Zhao He laughed loudly, obviously very proud.

Of course he had reason to be proud. When he placed Lian Po and Zhao She in the back of Qin, Zhao He had already had the idea of ​​"these two guys should be able to bring some surprises to me", but even Zhao He himself did not expect that the surprise brought by Lian Po and Zhao She was so amazing and so huge that it could even be said to have changed the situation of the war.

Zhao He blinked at Bao Yuan and smiled and said, "General Bao Yuan is also a famous general in the world. Since this is the case, I will take you. Do you know what impact this battle will have on the entire situation?"

Bao Yuan was still silent and shocked before. After hearing Zhao He's question, he had time to think about this question carefully and couldn't help but take a breath.
To be continued...