As the sound of the squeaking door turning, the gate of the Sang Tunnel finally opened. The woman who didn't understand what was going on saw that the Chu people did not give orders, so she went out of the city to collect millet. It seemed a bit early to harvest millet. The ears of millet in the fields outside the town were heavy, but the millet seedlings were still carrying a few green traces. However, the Wei State lacked food this year, and now it is a big battle again. It is not wrong to harvest millet earlier.

"Master, the Wei people really went out of the city to harvest grain..." A dozen miles away from the Sang Tunnel, the thunderous man who put down Lu Lijing looked at Hou Zheng, slightly disappointed.

"It seems that nothing is wrong." Hou Zhengzao was also a little disappointed. The girl on the city just now spoke naturally, and there was no difference.

"Report!" The cavalry came from afar, "General Xin asked Hou Zheng to return to Ma Valley quickly."

"What's the matter?" Hou Zheng was shocked. Everyone searched for King Jing but failed, and even if they wanted to withdraw, they would not be today.

"General Zhao Shan... was defeated." Xunbing's face was bitter, "General Li ordered me to return to Jiyi to meet Zhao Shanjun as soon as possible."

The defeat was the third day. Although Jiyi was still in the hands of Li Xin, his command had only more than 20,000 defenders. In the southwest of the basin, there were reassembled the Sui and Tang dynasties, with nearly 40,000 people; in the southeast, there were 30,000 Chu soldiers who blocked Zhao Shanjun's retreat. The battles in the east of the Huai River continued day and night, but Li Xin could not escape.

Zhao Shanjun was still insisting, and Li Xin thought of summoning all his soldiers to carry out the final blow. If he could repel the Chu army at the bridge, he could rescue some of the surrounded Qin army. If he could not repel the Chu army at the bridge, he would also have to start retreating, otherwise he would be surrounded and killed in this narrow basin like Zhao Shanjun.

"Defeated..." Hou Zhengzao couldn't believe it. Zhao Shan had 150,000 Qin troops under his command, so how could he say he was defeated? "How did he lose?"

"I don't know, but I only heard that Xiang Yan, the general of Jing State, had arrived in Jiyi." Xunbing said, this was the news he heard.

"Xiang Yan!" Hou Zhengzao took a breath. Isn't Xiang Yan still in Chencheng? Why did he arrive in Jiyi? "Let's go!"

Hou Zheng and the army were on the rank of Sima. Hou Zheng said he would leave, and all the Qin cavalry lying here retreated to Magu. As soon as they left, the news spread to the mansion of Gongsun. Because they were worried that the Qin army would send people into the city and search in the Yiling Mansion, Xiong Jing was transferred to the Gongsun Mansion in the east of Yi.

"Report to the king, the Qin people have retreated." Gui Jing's heart was finally relieved.

"Yeah." Xiong Jing remained silent. He didn't think there was any danger. "What about our army next?"

"Report to the king, I think I should wait for reinforcements here." Gui Jing said. "I have sent people to Xi County yesterday."

Before Xiang Chao left, Gui Jing sent people to Chu State to report the letter. The reinforcements were either tomorrow or the next day. It was safest to leave at that time. But he was still late. At noon, an army quickly approached Sang Tunnel. The knights looking at the city thought it was Qin people at first, but when they saw that it was Chu Banner floating, they immediately cheered. The troops from Cai County came, and Xiang Chao, Cheng Kui and others were leading the horses in front.

"I pay homage to the king." After entering the town, Xiang Chao and others, together with Cai Gong Pan You, bowed to Xiong Jing.

"No gift." Xiong Jing was upset, with thirty cavalry and one soldier. Now he only saw seven or eight knights of Xiang Chao. Are the others dead?

"What's the war in Jiyi?" Xiong Jing was most concerned about the war in Jiyi.

"Report to the king, the general defeated the Qin army the day before yesterday and surrounded the Qin army between the Huai River." Pan You received the news only after dawn today. At that time, the Cai army had already crossed the Ru River and was on the way to Sangtun.

"What about now?" Xiong Jing asked again. "Three Qin troops, this is one of them. Our military forces quickly return to Huaihang."

"Report to the king, I don't know." Pan You certainly didn't know the situation in Jiyi, and he was not sure about the subsequent combat plan.

"Is there a military boatman on the water?" Xiong Jing asked again, and he wanted to arrive at Chu immediately and send a message to learn about everything.

"Report to the king, there are Yingdu, Xixian and Chengyang, all sent boat troops to Rushui." After saying that, Pan You said again: "This is Wei territory. I ask the king to quickly enter Chu, the queen mother, the commander, and the general have been looking forward to the king for a long time, and our Chu people have also been looking forward to the king for a long time."

"There are more than a hundred injured people in the city." Xiong Jing talked about the wounded soldiers accompanying him.

"Please don't worry, I will send them to Xincai." Pan You, who assumed that the floating bridge crossed the Rushui River, sent more than a dozen four-wheeled carriages to pick up Xiong Jing and the wounded.

"Young Master..." The maid shouted softly in Gongsun's mansion.

"What's the matter?" Gongsun Yan had already taken a shower and changed into a set of curved gowns that she didn't wear often.

"When the King of Chu left, he asked someone to hand over the jade ring to the young master." The maid held a jade ring. "I said that he would remember the righteousness of the young master's retreat to the Qin army and would report it to you in the future."

"Let it go." Gongsun Yan was combing her long black hair in front of the bronze mirror. She looked at her side with her tone without caring. When the maid retreated, she turned her head and looked at the jade pendant on the table. She couldn't help but reach out and put it in her hand to play with it.

According to the Zhou rituals, only the emperor could wear white jade. After the rituals and music were broken, the kings of various countries began to claim to be kings and also wore white jade. The jade bead in front of Gongsun Yan was made of white jade. The jade was clean and flawless, with rings and flaws. In the delicate and fine coiled dragon patterns, there was a phoenix carved at both ends. The Chu people admired phoenixes. Although the phoenix was openworked, the blade was naturally smooth and sharp and vigorous. Gongsun Yan's family background was not prominent, but he also knew that this was something that only the Wang family had.

"Tyrant." After admiring the jade pendant in his hand for a while, Gongsun Yan threw it on the table again. She always remembered the cruelty and coldness that Xiong Jing said, "Drag it out and kill it", and could not forget the old retainers who were ordered to be executed by Xiong Jing. But when they thought about the war between Wei and Chu, the two countries were enemy countries, and they felt that this matter was too common in the war. At least he did not use all the people in the massacre like the Qin people...

As she thought about it, she unconsciously picked up the jade pendant on the table again. How would he repay herself? Gongsun Yan thought of this question instantly, and suddenly thought of the "Young Envoy" of the Imperial Order. She immediately blushed with shame, threw the jade pendant down and never looked at it again.

Women's minds are always complicated. For them, loving someone and hating someone is actually the same thing. But sometimes they love you more and more and more and more and more and more and more. Xiong Jing naturally doesn't understand the mystery, and at this time he has no intention of remembering a female princess in the small town on the border of Chu and Wei. What he is thinking now is: When will the Battle of Jiyi end? When will the Zhou army return to the army? When will the Battle of Aocang begin? And, the most important thing is: When will the Qin army north of Shangcai and Yangxia attack?

Facing the 800,000 troops of Qin, Wei and Han, Chu could not make any mistakes at all. Once the war is made and lost, all counties and towns on Huaihang will be lost. If the Huaihang is lost, the more than one million people in Huaihangdong alone will probably be able to preserve the country of Chu except to avoid overseas.

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Chapter completed!