Chapter 79: Saving the Country
Enter Zhao State from Jieshi Port, then go out from Lingzhi Pass, and go north along the Luan River to reach Chengde in later generations. The grassland is the west of Chengde. However, this road is farther than going out from Yanmen or Yunzhong, and it is one or two days later to Xianyang. However, apart from this choice, everyone has no other choice.
As for how to find Mr. Mi and how to take him out of Xianyang after rushing to Xianyang, it can only be thanks to Lu Gao and Lu Cai. Lu Gao once talked about this method - in the plan he drafted, a supplementary plan was to take Mi Xuan out of Xianyang City with him and Lu Cai, but this required someone to contact him first in a restaurant outside the city. Moreover, he could not guarantee that this plan was feasible, so the safest thing was to find the Master of Knowledge and Admiral.
Xiang Chao and the others didn't look at the plan at all, thinking that everything would be natural in Xianyang. Xiong Han's joining aggravated everyone's blindness. The excited people quickly pulled Gui Jing, Qi Jizengwo and others onto the Three-legged Golden Crow.
After the Ruxu River, the Three-legged Golden Crow fell straight down the river. Although Zhufanggang conducted the last interception, the Yangtze River surface dozens of miles wide was destined to be a failure. Under the fierce north wind, even if the crossbow arrows shot from more than a dozen large-winged warships nailed the boat's shore, the human power was still not comparable to nature. Less than half a quarter of an hour, these large-winged warships that were rowing desperately behind were dragged to the sea by the Three-legged Golden Crow, which had winged sails, forcing the boat officials on the warship to cut off the silk rope. Watching the Three-legged Golden Crows away with the wind, leaving only a shadow of the sail.
The news of the failure of the interception reached Yingdu. Taking advantage of the last sunset of autumn, the Feixun of Zhao State, who asked the State of Zhao to stop these people, sent from Yingdu to Fengzhou and Fanwu. Fengzhou Port was Xiong Jing's fief, and was ready to seize the Three-legged Golden Crow that day, as long as it docked at Fengzhou Port; Feixun sent to Fanwu was not delivered to Li Mu on the same day, and it only moved to Handan the next morning. At this time, the Qin army was about to attack, and Li Mu was in the prime minister's palace to meet Zhao Liang.
The Mingtang was dark, and Li Mu and Zhao Liang alone discussed the war. At this time, thousands of Zhao troops had already left the border. According to the itinerary, they could reach the Yan family's border within 20 days. However, the order to allow the Zhao army to enter Qin has not been issued. Therefore, Li Mu's calm expression revealed a hint of anxiety, and he felt a little dissatisfied. "Now the Qin people gathered heavy troops in Jinyang, and the corn and grass outside Jinyang City were piled up like a mountain. The Qin army will attack me. If you don't send an order, heavy snow will come."
"The Qin people have not yet attacked me, so they cannot enter Qin." Zhao Liang still had his attitude a few months ago: If the Qin people did not attack Zhao State first, the Zhao army would not be allowed to enter Qin.
"Ten days! Up to ten days!" Li Mu gritted his teeth. Feixun could connect to Jiuyuan County, and it would take about ten days to pass the order from Jiuyuan to outside the Yan clan. "After ten days, our army will not enter Qin, and the Chu army will also enter Qin."
"The Chu army entered Qin and then went to Qin." Zhao Liang said indifferently. A small Chu army was ordered by the King of Chu. He entered Qin just to pick up a woman, so the two armies marched together to avoid alarming each other. Because the Zhao army had no orders, the Chu army would not wait outside the Yan clan in order to rush to the King of Qin before the wedding.
"It's too late for the Chu army to enter Qin, our army to enter Xianyang again!" Li Mu's teeth seemed to be about to break. If the Chu army entered Qin, the entire plan to attack Qin would be completely defeated. There were not many Chu soldiers, but if they were allowed to make a big fuss in Xianyang, they would definitely not be able to kill the King of Qin.
"Ziyou should know, how about our country of Zhao today?" Zhao Liang said sadly. Li Mu was concerned about whether the plan to attack Qin was successful, but Zhao Liang wanted to ensure that the entire country of Zhao was not lost. "Now, there are starving people on our country of Zhao, and there are remains of bones in the wild. People sell their wives and daughters, and change their children to eat. If I can not fight, I will not fight. If I can negotiate peace, I will discuss peace. If I can slow down for one month, I will be one month, and if I can slow down for one year, I will be one year."
Handan is still prosperous, singing and dancing are rising, and Zhao Liang naturally knows how it is outside Handan City. This year, this year, there is a severe drought, except for the irrigated fields that can be irrigated, most of the other acres of land are completely harvested. The three countries of Chu, Qi and Wei transport grain, but the transportation is only more than 10 million stones, and the harvest of the irrigated fields is less than one-third of the grain eaten in normal years. Now more than half of the people in the entire Zhao State are hungry, and more people will really go hungry when they fight.
"The Qin people will breathe with a severe drought in Zhao State?" Li Mu looked at Zhao Liang in disbelief and shook his head repeatedly. "The Qin people will take advantage of my severe drought and attack me. The Qin people gathered in Jinyang for more than 400,000 Qin troops, either this month or next month, will go east to Jingxing Pass..."
Why did Zhao Liang strictly order the Zhao army not to enter Qin? In addition to worrying about diplomatic isolation, Li Mu also knew another reason, that is, he hoped that Qin and Zhao would not fight and that Qin and Chu would fight again. From the position of a Zhao man, Li Mu did not object to this, but reality has proved that Qin had no intention of attacking Chu, and the King of Qin wanted to destroy Zhao from beginning to end.
Li Mu was pragmatic, but Zhao Liang was paranoid and believed that things would inevitably turn around. The day before yesterday, he calculated a fortune, and the hexagram was interpreted as a great auspicious by the wizard.
"Report to the general!" Someone outside the hall bowed loudly, saying that he was a Feixun official.
"What's the matter?" Li Mu turned back with some displeasure. He was convincing Zhao Liang that he did not want to be disturbed.
"Report to the General, Yingdu is coming urgently." Feixun official took two steps forward and told him like this.
When Li Mu heard that it was Yingdu’s urgent news, he restrained his displeasure. He did not let Feixun official, but took Feixun and looked at it carefully. After careful look, his nervous expression relaxed a little.
"What's the matter with the Chu people?" Li Mu had a direct connection with the King of Chu, which made Zhao Liang very uncomfortable.
"I came from Yingdu and said that some cavalry generals had already taken the sea boat north, and they wanted to use Yanmen to go out of the frontier in the clouds..." Xunwen was just an order to assist in interception, not a secret.
"The general of the cavalry? Why did the general of the cavalry enter our Zhao State?" Zhao Liang was puzzled, "Who would also go to Qin to pick up the woman?"
"I don't know either." Li Mu didn't want to be disturbed by other things, so he continued: "The King of Qin lives in Weinan. There is no city wall or palace city in Weinan. If our army can break into Weinan, we will definitely win the King of Qin. Once the King of Qin dies, Qin will be in chaos. Only this plan can save our Zhao..."
All the troops of a country are controlled by the king, and they cannot be mobilized without orders. The giant boat like the sea boat is said to be personally handled by the King of Chu. Now some cavalry generals are actually riding the sea boat personally handled by the King of Chu to head north. This...
Could it be the King of Chu? Zhao Liang's heart suddenly pounded. Li Mu's voice echoed in his ears, but he didn't hear a word clearly. After Li Mu finished speaking, he kept suppressing his breathing and said, "Can the King of Chu send Feixun personally?"
"Feedlenews?" Li Mu was already unhappy. He was talking about the strategy of Zhao's country's survival, and Zhao Liang didn't listen at all.
"Is that Feixun sent by the King of Chu personally?" Zhao Liang asked again, his eyes becoming more eager.
Seeing him asking, Li Mu had to take out Feixun and look at him, and said, "That's right."
Zhao Liang has already entered the obstacle. If Feixun was not sent by the King of Chu, it would confirm his guess; if Feixun was sent by the King of Chu, it would be that the Chu people would be more obvious.
"This is the King of Chu! This Chu people want to stamp it for their reputation!!" Zhao Liang shouted, and the man jumped on the mat excitedly. Li Mu was puzzled. Seeing that he was so excited, he was completely confused. "I, Zhao people, will not destroy this day!" Zhao Liang shouted again.
"Come!" Zhao Liang shouted again, summoning his left and right.
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"Is this Jieshi?" Five days later, crossing the stormy East China Sea, the Three-legged Golden Crow entered the Bohai Sea with a slightly calmer storm. Looking at the closer Jieshi Port, Xiong Hangui Guijing and others looked confused.
Hongmu said that Jieshi Port is a northern port, no less than Qi's support, but the brownstone in front of him is not as good as the Chu domestic river port. There are no squirrel cranes, no lighthouses, no water diversion boats, no buildings, only a dense small boat and a large city surrounded by rammed earth walls, and an inland river for those small boats to enter the port area. This is the case. Fortunately, Lu Li can see Hu people wearing different clothes in the mirror, as well as flocks of cattle, horses and sheep outside the city.
"Chu boat is here! Chu boat is here!" Everyone on the Three-legged Golden Crow Hu was a little disappointed with Jieshi Port. The merchants in Jieshi Port were overjoyed by the sudden appearance of Chu State's sea boat. Some of them were trading and closed down the market immediately. More merchants gathered on the banks of the river outside the city, waiting for Chu Hai boat to enter the port and land.
The loading capacity of a sea boat is hundreds of times that of a small boat. Every time a sea boat comes, it will unload a large amount of cargo and then sweep away the goods in the port. This is in summer. Every summer, the Chu sea boat will visit Jieshi Port twice, once in the early summer and once in the late summer. Brownstone, a port connecting later generations of Northeast, North Korea, and even the Russian Far East, quickly adapted to the trading time of Chu sea boats.
Now that the Chu State's sea boat has arrived suddenly, the merchants are very happy, which means that the local products they have in their hands do not need to be hoarded until next year; and the Chu State's goods they have received can go out of the barrier this year and enter Donghu, and can be transported to other merchants in front of other merchants in the spring next year. The merchants are eagerly watching that the port order of Jieshi Port has ordered people to row small boats out of the inland river and lead Chu State's sea boat into the port.
In order to integrate Yan land as quickly as possible, Zhao State has all added officials to the Dukang area and the densely populated grain-producing areas of Jicheng Plain. However, in the Liaodong area east of Guzhu, in addition to resettling the Dukes of Yan, it is mainly managed in a custody manner. In a large port like Jieshi, except for tax collectors and guard officials, the rest are still from Yan.
"Dare to ask..." Outside Jieshi Port, the boatman was on the boat, looking up at the deck of the three-legged Golden Crow, and wanted to ask if the sea boat had entered the port. When he looked out, he saw a young man with black clothes hanging down his hair. But the boy looked at the deck of the stern, and then retreated with the temple people around him. After the boy retreated, the boatman's heart was shocked.
"Why don't the sea boat enter the port, why don't you board the boat to dig the water?" Hong Mou was stunned when he saw the boatman below, threw him a silver coin and shouted. It was the first time he came to Jieshi Port. The water was shallow in autumn and winter, and there was no local water digger who was familiar with hydrology. The sea boat might be stranded.
Chapter completed!