Chapter 161 Allied Forces
At the same time, Taishi Huan and Zuo Yan, who were sent by Chen State, went on an emissary that went extremely smoothly.
The princes of the southern states were originally afraid that Qin would take action against them after destroying Lang.
Now that they had been invited by Chen Guo, the kings of several vassal states directly agreed to send troops without even thinking about it.
In just a few days, 100,000 coalition troops gathered, and Chen Bing was at the southern border of Lang State.
When Taishi Huan went to Nanchu as an envoy, he encountered some troubles at first.
Xiong Zhi, the king of Southern Chu, was not willing to join forces with Chen State because the relationship between Nan Chu and Chen State was not friendly.
In other words, Nanchu was not a prince of the Great Zhou Dynasty, but a local people conquered when the Great Zhou Dynasty was founded. It existed in the Great Zhou Dynasty as a vassal state.
It's just that it is located in the hinterland of southern Zhou Dynasty and has been slowly assimilated.
Although Nanchu and other princes were, strictly speaking, ministers of the Emperor of Zhou, one of them was his biological son, that is, he was personally ennobled by the Emperor of Zhou.
The other one, like the Nanchu and Wu clan, belongs to those who became ministers after conquest. They are adopted.
In essence, there are natural differences between these two kinds of princes. In addition, the princes of the Zhou Dynasty have always looked down on the princes of conquering countries such as Nanchu, and conflicts between the two sides have always existed.
Therefore, from the beginning of the founding of the Zhou Dynasty, the two sides would fight from time to time.
At the beginning of the founding of the Zhou Dynasty, Chen State was a first-class powerful country. In the entire Zhou Dynasty, which prince had not been beaten by Chen State?
Therefore, the relationship between Chen Guo and Nanchu was not good.
It was only after the decline of Chen State that the king of Chen State began to restrain himself a lot, and the relationship with Nan Chu eased.
So when Taishi Huan sent an envoy to Southern Chu, Xiong Zhi, the king of Southern Chu, refused directly.
However, there is naturally a reason why Chen Ning was able to send Taishi Huan as an envoy to Nanchu.
Taishi Huan's mother clan is actually the largest clan in Southern Chu, and is also the mother clan of Queen Xiong Zhi.
Therefore, Taishi Huan directly skipped Xiong Zhi and found the Queen of Nanchu who should be called aunt according to her seniority.
When Queen Yuexin of Southern Chu saw her nephew, whom she had loved since childhood, sitting in front of her and telling her about her plight in the Chen Kingdom, she immediately summoned Xiong Zhi.
Although Xiong Zhi was ambitious and wanted to dominate the princes, he was also known to be a man of internal fear.
After Taishi Huan met Xiong Zhi as his nephew and told Xiong Zhi the benefits of joining forces with Chen, Xiong Zhi finally agreed to send soldiers to join forces with Chen.
"Uncle, my nephew came here this time, not for Chen State, but also for Southern Chu." Tai Shi Huan said.
"What does this mean?" Xiong Zhi didn't quite understand why it was said that sending troops to Nanchu would be good for Nanchu.
"Uncle, you see, our Southern Chu army has strong soldiers and horses, but we have never been recognized by other princes. Why?" Tai Shihuan asked.
"Why did you say?" Xiong Zhi also became interested.
"Uncle, we in Nanchu are not the princes of the Great Zhou Dynasty, so if we want to dominate the princes, we must have our own reputation. Before, we in Nanchu only had a bad reputation, but no benevolence.
If we join forces with the Chen State this time, we will definitely gain the affection of Chen and Lang, and it will also facilitate our rise in Southern Chu in the future!"
Xiong Zhi fell into deep thought after hearing this. He felt that what Taishi Huan said was very reasonable, so he decided to join forces with Chen Guo.
"Okay! Then I agree to join forces with Chen Guo, but there is one requirement. You need to lead the army this time!" Xiong Zhi said.
"You have the blood of Nanchu, and you are my nephew, and you are also a minister of the Chen Kingdom. I will rest assured when I hand over the army of Nanchu to you. Of course, I will also send a general to assist you."
"Then nephew, I would like to thank my uncle."
"Family, you're welcome." Xiong Zhi waved his hand and said.
The next day, Xiong Zhi appointed Tai Shi Huan as the general in charge of the army, and appointed Qu Xiao, the general of Southern Chu, as his deputy. He led an army of 100,000 and set off towards the border of Lang State.
Since then, the surrounding princes of Lang State have sent a total of 400,000 reinforcements, plus more than 100,000 remnant troops of Lang State.
Now the military strength comparison between Qin and Lang has been completely reversed. Qin, which originally had the upper hand, instantly became the weaker side.
"What did you say? Are there any changes in the surrounding princes?" Liu Hao said as he looked at the messages coming from various places in his hands.
"Yes, there are currently changes in the southern princes, Chen State, and Southern Chu." Liu Yu said.
Liu Hao stood up and walked back and forth in the tent. Liu Hao did not expect that the surrounding princes would move so quickly and with such force.
Now there are only two roads before Liu Hao. Either the battle to the east is over, and the Qin army retreats to the territory of Qin.
But if you do this, it’s hard to say whether there will be a chance to go east in the future. A series of subsequent plans will be abandoned.
But now the Qin State is already in flames and there is no room for retreat.
Either the Qin State can defeat the surrounding princes, and the result of this is that the Qin State can complete the expected goals faster than expected, and can develop better than he expected.
Of course, the final result was Qin's defeat.
The result of this was that the Qin State was left alone, and what was even more serious was that it was directly destroyed.
Liu Hao was in a dilemma. He didn't dare to gamble, and he didn't dare to gamble with Qin's national destiny.
"Ding, the system has detected the current situation and released the only task of the third stage." The system, which had been silent for half a year, spoke again.
This crisp sound immediately woke up Liu Hao.
Liu Hao quickly asked Liu Yu to withdraw from the tent and stay outside the tent.
"I'll go, system, are you alive?" After Liu Yu exited, Liu Hao immediately greeted the system in his mind.
"This system is always here, but I just don't want to talk to the host." The system said proudly.
"Dog system, didn't you say you would only update it for ten days? It's been half a year and I haven't seen your shadow yet. What have you been doing! You don't even have a mission!"
"I told you, I've been diving since I finished the update, and I've been diving too."
"Then don't say anything!"
"I didn't say anything, didn't you do a good job?"
"But you are the system, shouldn't you give me a task, then I complete the task, and then you give me a reward?"
"This system has its own opinions, and the dog host does not need to say anything."
"Dog System, what do you mean by coming out now?"
"That's because this system detected a dog host and you gave up! As a person selected by this system, how can you give up? That's why this system came out."
"Give it up? Are you talking about the changes in the surrounding princes this time? Dog system, do you really not know, or are you pretending not to know? Do you know how many soldiers and horses the surrounding princes have gathered?"
"This system has calculated that the maximum is only 600,000, which is just over twice your military strength."
"I'll go! You know the dog system, twice as much! Six hundred thousand people! Do you think it's six hundred thousand pigs!"
"Dog hosts, there are only 600,000 people, and you are scared? Trash, bah!"
"If you give me 100,000 AKs, no! 50,000 AKs are enough, and I will dare to challenge all the countries in the mainland! Do you have it?"
"Yes, but I won't give it to you!"
"Dog system! What do I need from you?"
"Dog host, I don't have AK, do you want a mission? The rewards are huge."
"Mission? Tell me about it."
"Ding! In view of the current state of the host country, the third link is now released. The only task is to defeat all the invading princes in the surrounding area. The task reward is: unknown. The punishment for failure: national destruction and death. Forced acceptance."
"Wait! What does unknown reward mean? What does forced acceptance mean? Dog system, please explain it clearly to me!"
"The reward is unknown, that's the literal meaning, even I don't know what it is. It all depends on the luck of the host.
The last time you can get an attribute +1 reward, the best one is Gatling.
Of course, this chance is very high, and there are many other powerful rewards such as designated summon character cards, special troops, unique troops, etc."
Chapter completed!