Time went back a month and a half ago. Pingyu Jun Xiong Hu had just received the news that he was ambushing the ambush in the "Qu?" area and successfully sank Chu Shuijun's boat with a Wei crossbow, forcing the latter to dock and transfer to land.

After learning about this, Pingyu Jun Xiong Hu was stunned and thought to himself: Did Chen Li fail?

Because according to his instructions to his general Chen Li, he asked Chen Li to try to destroy Chu Shuijun's ship. Only when Chen Li failed, the army in Pingyu Jun Xiong Hu lies in the "Qu?" area would he use war weapons to sink Chu Shuijun's ship.

Such a double insurance arrangement is mainly to avoid making a statement. Just as Chu Shuijun saw through the true identity of the "chaotic army" that attacked him at a glance. In the western part of Chu, only Pingyujun Xiong Hu could get the mechanical crossbow created by the Wei State. Therefore, as long as the Pingyu army under Xiong Hu used the mechanical crossbow, it would inevitably be discovered.

Just two days later, Chu general Dou Lian learned that Chu Shuijun was sunk by the "Ruan Army" on a boat, and came to test Xiong Hu himself. Xiong Hu spent a lot of energy before sending Dou Lian away.

It is no wonder that Chu Shuijun had an extraordinary identity in Chu State. Dou Lian was afraid that the former would be attacked and would involve him, so of course he had to find out the situation clearly until Xiong Hu hinted that this matter had nothing to do with him, and Dou Lian gave up.

It has to be said that in order to kill someone with a knife, he gave Zhang Qigong and Mi Rui and his friends the opportunity to ambush Chu Shuijun, Pingyu Jun Xiong Hu took great pains to kill someone.

But what made Pingyu Jun Xiong Hu quite worried was that he was not sure where Zhang Qigong and Mi Rui were hiding at this time, and whether they could successfully intercept Chu Shuijun who had abandoned the ship. Therefore, after pondering for a moment, he decided to send an ambush in "Guluo County". If Zhang Qigong and Mi Rui were in trouble, he would do it himself.

The area around Guluo County (Zhijiang) is located on the southeast side of Wushan, which is where the Queen of Wei, Mi Jiang, led the Shang Shui Army to ambush Chu Shuijun a month and a half later.

But unexpectedly, he had just decided to send another army to ambush in Guluo County, and received an emergency battle report from the "Xiangyang" and "Fancheng" area, and learned that the Wei troops were out of Nanyang and attacked these two cities.

Xiangyang and Fancheng are located on the south and north banks of the upper reaches of the Xiang River. Pingyu Jun Xiong Hu ordered the construction of the city specially used to curb the Jie tribe in the South Yang.

I remember that during the "Five Directions to Defend Wei" campaign, the Jie people who once lived in Sanchuan County were defeated by the then Wei Gongzi Run and his deputy general Sima An. Among the three major tribes of the Jie people, except for the "Zhe" tribe surrendered to the Wei Kingdom, the other two tribes of the "Jie" and "Ling" were defeated by the Wei army. These remaining Jie people were forced to leave Sanchuan and flee south to Nanyang, and survived on this land from then on.

At that time, Nanyang was also full of local forces, mainly Ba people and Guizhou people, and some bandits.

In order to work together to resist foreign enemies, the Jie and Ling tribes were combined into one. Given that the leader of the Jie tribe at that time, Batulu and the leader of the Ling tribe Akton, both died in this war, the remaining Jie people elected Akton's son "Kyatou" as the leader of the new tribe.

Because the Jie people suffered too much losses in the war with the Wei Kingdom, the Jie people in the Nanyang initially suffered losses in the war with the Ba people, mainly the Ba people expanding northward.

With no choice, Ke Yatu, the leader of the Nanyang Jie tribe, thought of his compatriots in Sanchuan County, hoping to get help from the Sanchuan Jie tribe.

At that time, the Jie tribe in Sanchuan was mainly divided into two parts. One part was the "Zhi tribe" that surrendered to the Wei State. Because the leader of the tribe "Oldmo" was always close to the Wei State, so after the war, these Jie people were not targeted by the Wei State, and even later joined the "Chuanluo Alliance"; while the other part of Jie people were the failed parties of the Jiejiao Tribe Alliance, with the leader of Gu Yigu and the governor Boxile. These Jie people served for free for ten years by Prince Run of Wei State because of their defeat. Ten years later, they established the "North Sichuan Alliance". Among them, the general of the Wei State, Boxile, led the Jiejiao cavalry to be active in the "first melee between the Central Plains" and the "second melee between the Central Plains", becoming the only Jie tribe who served as the chief general of the Wei State.

However, when Ke Yatu, the leader of the Nanyang Jie tribe, asked for help from his compatriots in the Sanchuan Alliance, Bosil was not a general who was officially granted to the general in Wei State. He had no right to speak in the "Chuanluo Alliance" that ruled Sanchuan County at that time. Fortunately, the leader of the tribe, "Ordemo", thought that they were both Jie people, and pleaded with the Qingyang tribe, the most authoritative Qingyang tribe and the Lun tribe, who were at that time in the Sanchuan Alliance.

Amutu, the old patriarch of the Qingyang tribe, is the biological father of Una, and Lu Balong, the patriarch of the Lun tribe, became the loyal lackey of Prince Run of Wei after that war. If Ordemo wants the Chuanluo Alliance to help the Nanyang Jie tribe, he must convince these two.

Amutu was a friendly elder, and considering that the Qingyang tribe had no big grudges between him and the Jie tribe, he agreed to this matter, but Lu Balong, the leader of the Lun tribe, strongly opposed it.

The reason is very simple, because the loyalty of Mr. Wei, Mr. Run, was very disgusted with the Jie people in the Nanyang Jie tribe who refused to surrender to the Wei Kingdom. As the loyal lackey of Mr. Run of Wei, how could Lu Balong secretly help the Jie tribe in the Nanyang?

In this case, Ke Yatu, the leader of the Nanyang Jie tribe, made a proposal to the Chuanluo Alliance, that is, the Nanyang Jie tribe plundered the Ba people, and the Qian people were slaves to exchange food and weapons for the Chuanluo Alliance.

At that time, the Wei State was in a rapid rise. Both the Wei court and the civil chamber of commerce were lacking a lot of labor. Therefore, after repeated consideration, Lubalon reported the matter to the Wei State.

At that time, Mr. Run of Wei was not in Daliang. The person who received the report was Zhao Wei, the monarch of Wei. When Zhao Wei heard that the Nanyang Jie tribe was preparing to attack and loot the Ba people, he tacitly agreed to this matter.

In this way, the Nanyang Jie tribe then joined the Sichuan-Luo Alliance again with the Wei State, and its power increased rapidly. The Lun tribe of Lubalong also turned into the largest slave intermediary in the Wei State, and acquired slaves from the Nanyang Jie tribe, and sold them to the Wei State's court and the merchants of the Wei State. They became rich overnight and became one of the richest tribes in the Sichuan-Luo Alliance.

After obtaining the military weapons and armor built by the Wei State, the Jie tribe in Nanyang finally showed their fierceness as Jie tribes. Within a few years, the Prime Minister and Zheng tribes of the Ba Kingdom returned to the south of the Bashan Mountains and basically controlled the Nanyang area.

At this point, Nanyang became a place for horse-herding people of the Nanyang Jie people.

After the growth of the Nanyang Jie tribe, the attack range was wider, from the Fan clan, the Xiang clan, the Zheng clan, and the Xiying county of Chu state in the west, including Qiandi and Wu county, Duchen gave the hunting grounds to the Nanyang Jie tribe.

Given that the Nanyang Jie tribes harassed and attacked Xiying County several times, out of their nomadic habits, they always liked to move along the Xiang River. Therefore, Pingyu Jun Xiong Hu built two cities, Xiangyang and Fancheng on the south and north banks of the upper reaches of the Xiang River. One was to monitor the movements of the Nanyang Jie tribes and to curb the Nanyang Jie tribes.

As long as these two cities are not lost, even if the Jie tribe in Nanyang tribes try to bypass these two cities to attack Xiying County of Chu, the west of Chu can still leave Xiangyang and Fancheng, and attack the tribe of the Jie tribe "Wan".

In the view of Pingyu Jun Xiong Hu, although the Nanyang Jie tribe is fierce, it is just a nomadic tribe after all. Although it is stronger than guerrilla and harassment, in terms of head-on confrontation, it will definitely not be his Chu Xi's opponent.

Sure enough, after several wars between the Jie tribes in Nanyang and the West of Chu, the Jie tribes in Nanyang turned their focus to Ba and Guizhou in considering that the losses caused too much to attack Chu State.

At this point, there were very few accidents in the Nanyang Jie tribe in Xiangyang and Fancheng areas.

But unexpectedly, today the Wei State's troops were out of Nanyang and tried to attack Xiangyang and Fancheng, which made Pingyu Jun Xiong Hu burst into a cold sweat.

Forget it, the Jie tribe in Nanyang is just a tribe that relies on the fighting with nomadic cavalry. There have been many ways to fight against these nomadic peoples in the past dynasties, but the Wei Kingdom is different. If it is captured by Xiangyang and Fancheng, the Wei Kingdom can build warships and train naval forces in that area. In time, the Wei Navy trained here can go down the Xiang River and directly attack the back of Pingyu County and attack weak places in western Chu.

How can Pingyu Jun Xiong Hu not be surprised?

Therefore, on the day he learned the news, Xiong Hu, the king of Pingyu, summoned Xiong Tao, the king of Xiong Tao, and the general of Chu, Dou Lian. After some discussion, he finally decided to let Dou Lian garrison Jiangzhou. He and Xiong Tao of Xiong Tao of Xiong Tao took the lead in returning to "Xiying (Jiangling)" to try to resist the attack of Wei.

However, the action power of Wei State was much beyond the prediction of Pingyu Jun Xiong Hu. Shortly after he and Xiying Jun Xiong Tao arrived in Xiying, they received bad news that "Fancheng" and "Xiangyang" were captured by the Wei army.

After learning about this, Pingyu Jun Xiong Hu felt a stern.

Pingyu Jun Xiong Hu had a clear understanding of the strength of the Wei army, but he would not have conquered Fancheng and the two strong cities in Xiangyang so quickly, right?

Thinking of this, Pingyu Jun Xiong Hu summoned the defeated Chu soldiers who fled from Fancheng and Xiangyang to Xiying, and asked about their two cities' fall.

One of the five hundred generals replied: "Somehow, a group of thieves smuggled into the city, killed the guards patrolling the city gate at night, and placed the Wei army in the city... As for the Wei army, it seemed to be under the banner of "Shangshui", and there was also a general flag with the words "General Wei Army".

After hearing this, Pingyu Jun Xiong Hu's heart skipped a beat.

When it comes to who knows Wei the most in Chu, then it is nothing better than him. Although the five hundred generals are talking very one-sidedly, Xiong Hu still hears some clues from it.

In his opinion, the group of 'thieves' who attacked the city gate at night were either green crows or black crows. The "Shangshui" flag and the general flag of the "Wei Generals" must be Wu Ji, the chief general of the Shangshui Army.

You should know that the Shang Shui Army of Wei general Wu Ji was one of the most frequently deployed absolute main forces in the past few years. As the Wei army that once swept across the Central Plains under the command of Wei Gongzi Run, the Shang Shui Army was well-known in the Central Plains, especially in the Chu State. The Green Crows or the Black Crows are two major secret assassin organizations under the jurisdiction of the Tiance Prefecture of Wei State. These people joined forces with the Shang Shui Army to attack Xiangyang and Fancheng. To be honest, even if these two cities were indeed strategic places, Pingyu Jun Xiong Hu did not expect that the Wei State would mobilize such a large number of troops.

"Is this a full-scale war going to begin?"

Pingyu Jun Xiong Hu couldn't help but feel a few cold sweat from his forehead.

Since the Second Melee between the Central Plains, Wei State did not make peace with Qi, Chu, Yue and other countries, and even on the Daliang battlefield, King Zhao Run of Wei was still shouting out the bold statements of declaring war on the countries in front of everyone, he could not blame Wei State for not declaring the war, and he just felt a little strange.

Because at the end of last year, Wei had just destroyed Qi. Logically speaking, it should have lost a lot of food. After all, it had to survive this year's autumn harvest. War on him will start next year. Now it is around July, and there are only two or three months left before the autumn harvest. Pingyu Jun Xiong Hu really can't figure out why Wei can't wait for these two or three months.

However, even though he couldn't figure it out, Pingyu Jun Xiong Hu also gave up the idea of ​​retaking Xiangyang and Fancheng. After all, the leader of the Wei army opposite was Wu Ji, and Xiong Hu was very worried that once the two sides met, he would be captured and killed by Wu Ji.

So he sent someone to Xiong Tao, the king of Xiying, and discussed with him: "After the Wei Kingdom sent troops to attack Xiangyang and Fancheng, I believe there must be a follow-up action. I must return to Pingyu immediately and try to resist the Wei army. The king and marquis will be handed over to the king."

Xiong Tao, the king of Xiong Ying, nodded and said, "Pingyu, please rest assured. No matter how brave the Wei army is, it is destined to be unable to defeat Xiying."

Looking at Xiying Jun Xiong Tao's arrogant appearance, Pingyu Jun Xiong Hu wanted to speak but stopped, but in the end, he still refused to dare to attack the former's confidence. He just repeatedly reminded Xiying Jun Xiong Tao to be cautious and defend the city.

After two days after Pingyu Jun Xiong Hu left Xiong Ying on a boat, bad news came again from the battlefield.

It turned out that after conquering Xiangyang and Fancheng, the Wei army did not build water camps and train the waters in the waters of that area as Pingyu Jun Xiong Hu guessed, but quickly led the army southward, almost simultaneously capturing the "Yan County (Yicheng)" on the west side of the Xiang River and the "Nuo City" on the east side, as if coming to Western Ying.

After learning about this, Xiong Tao, the king of Xiong Ying, was shocked and angry.

A few days later, he ordered the troops withdrawn from Ba State to arrive in Xiying one after another. So Xiying Jun Xiong Tao led the army that defeated Ba State and went north to block the Shang navy that had blocked Wei.

After a few days, Xiying Jun Xiong Tao led tens of thousands of Chu troops to "Dangyang" about a hundred miles north of Xiying. At this time, Wei general Wu Ji also led tens of thousands of Shang naval troops to arrive. The Wei and Chu army broke out in Dangyang. In the end, the Chu army under Xiying Jun Xiong Tao defeated Ba state was defeated by Wu Ji's Shang naval troops.

At this moment, Xiong Tao, the king of Xiong Ying, realized that the strength of the Wei army was by no means nonsense, and immediately changed his tactic of taking the initiative to respond, led the defeated troops to retreat into Xiying, trying to resist the Wei army with the walls of Xiying City.

But what made Xiong Tao, the king of Xiong Tao, was that after the Wei army captured Dangyang, did not lead the army southward to directly attack Xiying, but instead turned southwest to "Guluo County (Zhijiang)", which made him puzzled.

Guluo County is located on the riverside road from west Chu to Ba. By capturing this county town, the Wei army could effectively cut off the land connection between Chu and Ba.

"Why did Wei feel uneasy when he learned that the Great Chu had captured the Kingdom of Ba, so he sent troops to try to cut off the connection between our Great Chu and Ba?"

Xiong Tao, the king of Xiong Ying, became nervous.

After all, the autumn harvest is imminent, and after the grain harvest of Ba State will be transported to Chu State in large quantities. If the Wei army blocked the connection between Ba State and Chu State at this time, it would be a fatal blow to Chu State.

Although the Wei army was just infantry, if it was well prepared, it could use ropes, iron locks and other objects to block the river surface, making it difficult for grain transport ships from Ba to Chu to pass in the future.

"It seems that you have to retake Guluo County no matter what."

Xiong Tao, Xiong County, thought to himself secretly.

But to his surprise, the Wei army seemed to be inadequately prepared, or the other party had no intention of blocking the river surface. In short, Xiying Jun Xiong Tao sent someone to monitor the Wei army for a long time, but he did not see any obstacles set up by the Wei army on the river surface.

Even about ten days later, the Wei army retreated back to Dangyang.

Xiong Tao, the King of Xiong Ying, felt inexplicably: What exactly is this Wei army here to do?

So he sent many scouts again to the Guluo County area to inquire about the news, and then he learned that the Wei army was stationed in that area, as if it was just to ambush a group of people.

"Chu Shuijun?!Ba Wang Ge?!"

After pondering for a while, Xiong Tao, the king of Xiong Ying, suddenly realized.

As the Xiong family of Chu, Xiong Tao, the King of Xiong of Chu, certainly would not have any good feelings for the former. Therefore, although he did not support Pingyu Jun Xiong Hu to try to kill Chu Shuijun with the Wei people, he also acquiesced to this matter.

After all, once upon a time, Xiong Hao, the Jung-jun of Runan who ruled the west of Chu, was also a distant uncle who was quite respected by Xiong Tao.

Xiong Tao just thought this was a bit strange: the Wei State Shang navy came from afar and successively captured Xiangyang, Fancheng, Yanxian, Zhengyi, Dangyang, and Guluo, just to ambush Chu Shuijun?!

Confused, Xiong Tao, the king of Xiying, sent someone to tell Pingyu, Xiong Hu.

At this time, Pingyu Jun Xiong Hu had just arrived in the area of ​​Runan County. Although he had not returned to Pingyu County, he had not heard of the Wei State's large-scale attack on Pingyu County. When he was puzzled by this, he received the news sent by Xiying Jun Xiong Tao and learned about Wei general Wu Ji's behavior in the area of ​​"Guluo County (Zhijiang)".

After learning about this, Pingyu Jun Xiong Hu suddenly realized that the Wei army might have mobilized many troops so much to ambush Chu Shuijun.

There is only one person who can do this in Wei State, namely King Zhao Run of Wei.

"It seems that Ajahn is indeed favored in Wei State..."

While shaking his head and laughing, Pingyu Jun Xiong Hu continued to set off, hoping to rush back to Pingyu County as soon as possible.

Although in his opinion, the main purpose of the Shang Shui Army's dispatch this time might be to ambush Chu Shuijun, the Chu State also lost several cities such as Xiangyang, Fancheng, Yanxian, Zhengyi, and Dangyang, which completely exposed Xiying County to the eyes of the Wei army. Once the Wei State officially used troops to Chu State in the future, Xiying County would inevitably bear the brunt of being attacked by the Wei army.

But now that things have come to this point, Xiong Hu, the king of Pingyu, had no choice but to remind Xiong Tao, the king of Xiong Tao, to defend Xiying, otherwise, if the Wei army seized Xiying County, even if the Ba State had been occupied by the Chu State, it would lose its strategic significance.

"Wu Ji is in Xiying County, then, my opponent in Pingyu County is only Shen Yu..."

When he thought that he had hoped to marry his daughter to Shen Yu's son, the two of them were in a hostile position one after another, Pingyu Jun Xiong Hu was also quite moved.

As Pingyu Jun Xiong Hu guessed, the Wei army's attack on Xiying Jun this time may be just a small episode. After the murder of Chu Shui Jun, Wei general Wu Ji did not have any other actions for the time being. He was just committed to consolidating the defenses of Xiangyang, Fancheng, Yanxian, Zhengyi, and Dangyang, and tried to use these cities as the rear of his future attack on Chu State.

After that, a brief peace occurred between the Wei and Chu countries again until October of that year.

In October of the eighth year of Zhaowu in Wei, King Zhao Run of Wei ordered in the name of Tiance Prefecture to appointed Shangshui Shou Chen Yu as the "coach of the West", Sima Shang as the "coach of the middle", and Le Yi as the "coach of the East", and dozens of Wei generals including Wu Ji, Huan Hu, Chen Shou, Xu Li, Ji Wu, Tian Dan, Tian Wu, Tian Kuo, Yan Jue, Li Ji, Cai Qinhu, etc., to jointly attack Chu.
Chapter completed!