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Chapter 3 Banquet

Shanwucheng is the capital of Yanmen County. Because it is a border city, the city is not large, and it is only five miles away. However, it is a little bit regulated, and it is also an inner and outer city. Most of the outer city are soldiers, businessmen, and common people. In addition to the huge county magistrate's mansion, most of the people living in the inner city are nobles. At this time, the inner city is holding a banquet. The head of the city is not Li Mu, the Marquis of Wu'an, but his son Li Bo.

"My father has been granted the title of Marquis of Wu'an and has a fief of 100,000 households." Li Bo was very young and told his father that he had been granted a marquis as soon as he opened his mouth. "Yan State was newly destroyed, so the king ordered my father to guard Jicheng to prevent the Yan people from rebelling again. Before Yan's demise, his prince Dan had been in Qin State and begged for the rescue of Qin State, but the King of Qin continued to attack Chu and had no time to save Yan. When he wanted to save Yan, our Zhao army had already arrived in Jicheng and the King of Yan died. At that time, God blessed the Great Zhao. The Chu army attacked Qin's Aocang, the year before, and all his grains were plundered. Last year, Qin State had a severe drought, and it rained in June, and the common people had no food..."

Hu Dansaozhi left Zhao in the ninth year of King Daoxiang, and entered Zhao in the second year of King Zhao. The first year was three years, but in fact it was only two years. In the two years, the biggest thing was the demise of Yan State. This can be said to be Li Mu's credit. It was the border army led by Li Mu that defeated Juyong Pass, and the Zhao army attacked front and back, and the defense line of the Yishui Great Wall was broken by the Zhao army in the south.

Jicheng is a plain. Once the 300,000 Zhao troops pulled out Jicheng, the resistance of the entire Yan State stopped. The fall of Jicheng lies in the breakout of the King of Yan. Before the city was broken, he led thousands of cavalry to leave the Great Wall and join Donghu. However, he met Li Mu. Li Mu had been waiting for him at the entrance of the Great Wall. After a tragic battle, the King of Yan died in the arrow and Yan State was then destroyed.

Hu Dansorzhi was Li Mu's guest of honor for a long time. When he heard that this guest of honor had just come from Hu, Li Bo talked to him about the changes in the world. Hu Dansorzhi listened carefully. The two priests sitting at the head of him could not understand elegant language, so they could only drink horse milk wine and eat roasted lamb because they could not understand the elegant language. However, this could not block their mouths. The young Ganu Ban was not used to the seats under his butt and disliked that there was no stool; the old Benbo Qizhi complained that the dancing women were ugly and shriveled, and believed that in Malacanda, such women were not even qualified to be prostitutes.

"Young Master..." As Li Bo talked endlessly, a servant came up to tell him.

"What's the matter?" Li Bo was unhappy that someone interrupted him.

"Yes, it was the servant of the strange traveler who said that several nobles from Chu came to Shanwu, but the hostel was full." The servant whispered, and when he heard that he was a noble man from Chu, Li Bo's expression changed. He said, "Please please, please."

When Lu Chou in the hostel was burping, the county magistrate's mansion finally arrived with a carriage. When the group arrived at the city guard's mansion, Li Bo, who had received the news, had already welcomed him out of the hall. "The distinguished guest came north, Bo would welcome him on behalf of his father, please advance to the ranks."

Lu Gao and Lu Feng had already ascended to the ranks of the ranks. Lu Gao, who had been in the Grand Sima Mansion for a while before departure, knew why the Zhao people were so polite. He bowed to Lu Feng and said, "Lu Gao, a great scholar in the Great Chu, Lu Feng has met the young master."

The treasure sword was exposed from Lu Gao and Lu Chuang's clothes. In Chu State, only the priests could match the treasure sword, and the armored soldiers also had swords, but the shape was completely different from the newly designed priest sword. Li Bo saw that the two were about the same age as him and the smile on his face became even stronger, so he hurriedly introduced them and his group into the Mingtang.

The music in the Mingtang had stopped, the charcoal fire was burning, and the warm fragrance made people moan comfortably. The accompanying minister who was originally sitting on the left made his way aside, Lu Gao sat in the lower left head, opposite Hu Dansazhi, and Lu Qi sat under Lu Gao, and the holy envoy Benbo was directly opposite to Zhizhi.

The Chu State rarely saw Hu people. When they saw a Hu man wearing a small white felt hat sitting in front of him. When they saw this big bearded Hu man winking at the actor, Lu Chui showed his white teeth and bared at him. My cavalry immediately changed his expression and dared not look at the actor again, nor did he dare to look at Lu Chui. He lowered his head and recited something silently.

"My father likes the most distinguished guests of Chu State. However, my father is not in the city, so Bo treats all the distinguished guests on behalf of his father." Li Bo said after sitting down. He picked up the wine cup and greeted Lu Gao and others. "Dare to congratulate the King of Chu!"

"Congratulations to the King!" When the king and the people of Chu were warm, they said to congratulate the King, and everyone shouted to congratulate the King, and drank the wine in the cup and finished it. After the wine, there were three meals. After the meal, Li Bo asked about the purpose of this trip.

"There are few horses in Chu, and I came to the north just to sell horses." Before leaving, Lu Gao thought of an excuse for this trip. After the large-scale war between Chu and Qin, he became increasingly eager for war horses. The families bought horses on a large scale, and Yushi also bought horses. Some quick-witted vendors flocked to Zhao at the beginning of last year, and Lu Gao was considered late.

"If so..." Li Bo looked at Lu Gao and others. There were ten followers of the two honorary scholars. "If you don't give up, Bo would like to give the good horse to both of you."

"Young Master, I wish I thank you." Lu Gao immediately bowed to thank you. "We already have horses, so this trip is to sell horses."

"This..." Li Bo pointed to Hu Dansozhi, "It was also the Hu merchant who sold horses into Chu. All the vendors were good horses, and there was also a thousand-mile horse, which was very good."

"Young Master, that's the horse of the King of Chu." Hu Dansozhi quickly explained that he was going to Chu and it was impossible to sell the horse here.

"The King's Horse?" Lu Gao and Lu Chuang were moved and looked at Hu Dansazhi for a few more times.

"The villain is the order of the king of Chu to sell good horses." Hu Dansozhi told. "If you sell horses, you should go deep into the grassland. But spring is not the season for selling horses, you should go in autumn. In autumn, the Huns gathered in the forest, and the horses were the fattest at that time..."

There are some specialties in selling horses, but the Grand Sima Mansion of Chu State was not aware of this. Hu Dansaozhi said a few words to Lu Gao, Lu Qi and the others. When they came to the grassland, they always had to take some horses back, but they didn't expect that the matter was so complicated.

Li Bo, who was on the side, also saw some Mingtangs. He knew that the two of them knew nothing and kept sighing. After finishing talking about horse sales, he asked what he was most concerned about: How was the Battle of Daliang in the winter of the previous year? Is it really caused by Xinling Jun Xiancheng?

"At that time, I was not waiting for Daliang, I don't know." Lu Gao's answer disappointed Li Bo. The reason why the King of Yan abandoned the city and fled was because he heard that Daliang was broken by the Chu army, and the cage of the Chu army's attack on Daliang had been placed outside Jicheng City and began to break the wall.

"Then why did the Qin army retreat again in the end?" Li Bo asked again.

"At that time, the river was not frozen, and the grain and fodder that had been transported to the north of Daliang continued to be transported into the northern city of Daliang. Even if it was frozen, the Qin army would still attack and pull out Daliang. When the spring of the next year, the waters would freeze and withdraw their troops, and they could not be pulled out." It was a pity for Lu Gao to not participate in the Battle of Daliang, but as a honorary scholar, he had a deep understanding of that battle.

"If the beam could not fall before the ice was frozen..." Li Bo said a terrible assumption.

"If it doesn't go down, the Chu army will fight the Qin army to the north of Daliang." Lu Gao said with a smile.

"Who can win?" Li Bo asked, he had been looking forward to the decisive battle between Qin and Chu. "There are millions of soldiers in the Qin army."

"The Chu army may not win." Lu Gao told the truth. "But the Qin army will die more than 600,000."

"Wow! How magnificent." Li Bo sighed. The Battle of Changping is the largest and most tragic decisive battle in the world. If the 1.3 million Qin and Chu army really fought to the north of Daliang in the winter of the previous year, and the Chu army fought desperately to kill 600,000 Qin troops, then the two soldiers killed in this battle would be nearly one million.

"However," Lu Gao's words were not finished. "The Qin army died 600,000. What is the Wei army? What is the Zhao army? What is the world?"

"Please teach me by the honorary scholar." Li Bo said, he had been brought into the hypothetical history by Lu Gao's words.

"I dare not." Lu Gao smiled. "I don't know about this. I only know that Chu State has a moment of rest and will never surrender to Qin."

"The barbarians really have hundreds of thousands of troops?" Li Bo was so excited by Lu Gao's last sentence. Benbo Qizhi and Ganuban discussed the size of the army of the Eastern people.

"That's their boastful words. Their history is written all about lies, especially the number of troops. There are no 30,000 troops in the entire Bactrice. How could the barbarians have hundreds of thousands of troops? The entire Persian Empire cannot gather 300,000 troops, how could they have a million troops?" Benbo Qizhi had come to East Asia and had some impressions of all countries.

"The most difficult thing to solve is the food of the soldiers. How many cattle and sheep are needed for a million troops? How can these cattle and sheep be transported to the front line? Ahula Mazda! The people on this land are all liars, I hope they have not completely fallen into the darkness."

The two holy envoys naturally recited the Light Sutra in order to drive away the heavy darkness on this land. In contrast, Li Bo Zai, Lu Gao, Lu Qi and others were explaining the current situation in the world in detail.

After the Battle of Daliang, seeing that Ao Cang's grain was transported to Daliang City again, the Qin army had to give up the idea of ​​fighting the Chu army to the north of Daliang and began to withdraw its troops one after another. At the same time, Qin sent envoys to Chu. In addition to discussing peace, he also asked the King of Chu to be the emperor, which attracted the attention of the world.

The emperor was naturally unsuccessful. The peace talks were also dragged until the river was frozen. As soon as the river was frozen, the Chu army's boat troops guarding the ferry could no longer stop the Qin army from crossing north. However, at this time, the Zhao army captured Jicheng, and the King of Yan died. It was impossible to attack Zhao and save Yan.

The Qin State could only directly send large troops to attack Yan territory to help the Yan people restore the country, but this required troops from Taiyuan County. The mountains were covered with heavy snow in winter, and they had to wait until the spring of tomorrow. The whole Qin State had a severe drought in the spring of the following year, and it would not rain until June in summer, so the matter of restoring Yan could only be given up.

It is impossible for two consecutive years to be lucky for the third year. Zhao State all looked forward to Chu State sending troops, and the two countries cooperated to fight against the Qin people. Lu Cai and others may not understand this truth, but Lu Gao knew it well. Because of this, he used some excuses that his status was too low and did not know the inside story, and avoided talking about the two countries' concerted efforts to fight against Qin.
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