I’m The King Chapter 1144: : Carry on the past and open up the future (thirty-four)

"Master Yizheng, today I went to visit Master Shi of Chu, but he still told me that Huang Shoufu is too busy, and the negotiation with Yizheng may have to drag on for two days!" He sat down angrily, and slammed the table loudly, "They used such a trick to delay the time. If the delay continues, how many people will be left in the New Army?"

Wu Qi looked at him calmly, "So angry? Come on, drink a cup of tea to get rid of the fire, and be quiet for a while." Wu Qi pushed a cup of tea in front of Huo Xiaolin.

"Delegating politics, why are you so indifferent, every day, the new army will die a lot of people!" Huo Xiaolin said urgently.

"Or, the more eager you are, the more you will procrastinate until we can't take it anymore." Wu Qi said, "Xiao Lin, I advised you not to rush. If you don't believe me, now you have hit a wall. Right?"

Huo Xiaolin lost his temper all of a sudden, picked up his cup, and drank it with a gulp, "But I'm in a hurry!"

"I'm anxious, and I can't show it on face." Wu Qi smiled: "The king has already estimated this situation when he came, so Jicheng will have some measures to deal with it, and the reaction in Jicheng will arrive. Before we get here, let's not act rashly."

"When the news from Jicheng reaches here, the day lily will be cold." Huo Xiaolin knocked on the table, "You have also seen the tragedy of the new army."

"That's why I forced Qu Wan to provide them with food and medicine."

"One thousand catties of rice a day, what can a team of tens of thousands of people do?"

"It's fine if you can hang your life!" Wu Qi exhaled, "Add some wild vegetables, bark, and the New First Army still has a lot of mules and horses. It's not a problem to support for a period of time. Now that we don't fight, the consumption will be corresponding There are much fewer. Besides, with the promotion of the Overwatch Council, the news will be delivered very quickly."

"Dealing with the government, what measures did the king take?" Huo Xiaolin asked curiously.

Wu Qi smiled, "The Young Guards Corps has started to mobilize. If I guessed correctly, the vanguard of the Guards Corps has already set off."

"Fight?" Huo Xiaolin was taken aback, "Didn't you set the tone and negotiate a settlement?"

Wu Qi laughed loudly: "Xiao Lin, you are the minister of the Ministry of Rites. Diplomacy is your job. Mr. Xun is getting old, and he is focusing on popularizing education again. , more and more affairs above diplomacy depend on you. You have to remember that a weak country has no diplomacy, and diplomacy must be based on a strong military foundation. The people of Chu want to procrastinate in order to raise the price If you don’t want to talk, then start fighting. If we pay the price of the new army, then the people of Chu will have to pay ten times the price.”

Huo Xiaolin nodded, "Yizheng, what should we do next?"

Wu Qi picked up the teacup, took a sip, and said with a smile: "The scenery in the south of the Yangtze River is a rare opportunity to appreciate it. Since we are here, we must not miss it. I heard that there is a famous Yuanzi in Yingcheng. What is it called Shangyuan, let’s enjoy it tomorrow.”

"This is really hard work! If domestic congressmen know that we are here to negotiate, but drink flowers and wine in the garden, I'm afraid there will be an uproar!" Huo Xiaolin smiled wryly.

"Let them quarrel, it will really turn the sky upside down, as long as we can handle the errands well, we will be heroes when we go back." Wu Qi said. "Okay, let's visit the dignitaries of Ying City again today Give gifts, tomorrow, let's go to the garden and drink flower wine."

Huang Xie has been very busy these days. After the Battle of Pengcheng and the Maowei Incident, the Qin-Chu Alliance was officially established. , Uniting is an inevitable choice. Of course there are countless tasks to be done, and besides this, Huang Xie must also keep an eye on the explosives workshop that will be built in Suizhou. This is to prevent Han people or Qin people from exclusively The necessary action before the United States, if both of them have this thing, but the Chu people are left behind, what will happen to Huang Xie can imagine with his ass. Three times, tens of thousands of troops surrounded Pengcheng The new army, the daily food, drink and chewing of these troops is not a small amount, and the deployment of the logistics army is also something he must manage.

King Huai of Chu didn't care about things as usual. He only asked about the result. Taiwei Qu Zhong put all his energy on the whole army. The Chu army has been at ease for a long time. Although the high-level leaders of both sides knew it, the generals and soldiers at the bottom didn't know it at all. This was also to deceive the Han people. The elite frontier troops clashed with the Qin people, and they were completely defeated in just a few days. Huang Xie and Qu Zhong were shocked. They thought it would be a long-lasting battle, but they didn't expect Zhou Yu to be here in front of them. In just a few days, he defeated his own army.

Qu Zhong devoted almost all of his energy to the training of the army, and Huang Xie naturally took care of the rest.

He raised his head from the pile of documents piled up on the case, reached out and rubbed his temples, and patted his face to make himself appear more awake.

"Shoufu, General Zhao Shucheng has been waiting outside for half an hour to see you." The waiter beside him said in a low voice.

"General Zhao is here, why didn't you tell me?" Huang Xie snorted coldly, "Please come in General Zhao."

"Yes!"

The door opened, Zhao Shucheng stepped in, Huang Xie stood up from behind the table, "General Zhao, you are really negligent, the subordinates are all ignorant."

Zhao Shucheng said with a smile: "The first assistant is too polite, the first assistant has a lot of things to do every day, so it's okay for Shucheng to wait a little longer. I came today mainly because there are a few things that I don't understand, so I came to discuss with the first assistant."

"Oh? Let General Zhao come in person, then I'm afraid it's not a small matter." Huang Xie raised his eyebrows. "General Zhao, please sit down, come and serve tea!"

"Shoufu, it has been three days since Wu arrived in Yingcheng. His deputy, Huo Xiaolin, the servant of the Ministry of Rites, was impatient. He ran to Neishi several times a day and couldn't wait to start negotiations with us, but Wu Qi But the old **** is here, looking not in a hurry, I'm afraid there is something tricky here."

"What's so tricky?" Huang Xie said with a smile: "Wu Qi is an old fox. He has been in charge of Wei Guo for many years, so he naturally knows the truth of haste makes waste. There is no dispute at all, but his deputy has exposed his intentions! Just ignore him and let him hang out for another two days."

"Shoufu, I thought so at first, but today I received an urgent report, and I felt a little uneasy, so I made this trip." Zhao Shucheng's face flashed a trace of anxiety.

"What is it?"

"Han is undergoing large-scale mobilization. The Young Guards Corps has assembled. Its vanguard has already left Jicheng and is heading towards Pengcheng. This is a whole army, a cavalry force of up to 20,000 people, if they go all out, they can reach Pengcheng in less than ten days." Zhao Shucheng said.

"What did you say?" Huang Xie stood up suddenly, "Young guards moved?"

"Yes, the entire four armies of the Youth Guards Corps, that is an army of more than 100,000 people, if they go south with all their strength, there will be a big battle between Han and Chu that will affect the fate of the country. I am worried about Wu Qi now The purpose of partnering with Huo Xiaolin is to confuse us. We want to cool them down and delay for a while, do you know if they think the same?"

"They don't want the new army, it's tens of thousands of troops!" Huang Xie said angrily.

"Master Shoufu, do you think that Gao Yuan will definitely care about this tens of thousands of troops?" Zhao Shucheng took a deep breath, "Even if we order an immediate attack now, with the fighting power of the new army, we can still Fight with us for several days, so that our army in Pengcheng will not be easy to leave the battlefield quickly. Once the enemy sticks to it, it will be bad. What's more, the country is not yet ready for a national war Ah! You have also seen the Suizhou battle this time. Under Zhou Yu's attack, our so-called elite frontier guards had little room to fight back. Unlike the Han army and Qin army who have been fighting for years, we have been at ease for too long."

Huang Xie stood up a little disturbed, and paced back and forth in the room, yes, what Zhao Shucheng said made sense, would Gao Yuan care about the tens of thousands of people in the New Army? Suizhou, didn’t the soldiers who sacrificed there didn’t even blink their eyes? In order to achieve a greater strategic goal, the soldiers who died are just numbers on the account book.

"Master Shoufu, the Young Guards Corps is the most capable army in the Han Kingdom. It has two cavalry corps and a cavalry force of as many as 40,000! We must not be careless."

"Did the people of Qin know the news?"

"Zhongli has been away for two days, and now I wonder if they got some wind, so they can run faster than a rabbit. Shoufu, if we fight, can we really count on the people of Qin to help us? ?I'm afraid they will look at it with a smile on their faces!" Zhao Shucheng said.

Huang Xie walked up and down the room distractedly. "What did Qu Taiwei say?"

"Qu Taiwei said that our army is not ready to fight a big battle now, not only psychologically, but also militaryly. This cannot be compared with the Han Dynasty. We need at least a year Time to prepare." Zhao Shucheng said.

"One year!" Huang Xie took a deep breath. The young king of the Han Dynasty was extremely hard to choose. , In just ten years, he became the king of a country. Such a person must be extremely conceited. This time, Pengcheng's defeat is his first major defeat in the true sense. It cannot be ruled out that this person is out of face And launched a great war to restore his lost title of undefeated God of War.

Thinking of this, he turned around and said to the waiter behind him: "Tell Nei Shi immediately and arrange for me to meet Wu Qi." (To be continued)