What Shi Mai said is not unreasonable, at least Yunchang quite agrees with it.

Seeing Qing Ji's attitude, he wanted Wu Zixu to kill him at all costs to vent his hatred!

Wu is strong and Yue is weak. Yunchang doesn't think it's worth risking the fate of Yue just to protect Wu Zixu.

After all, if the city of Kuaiji is destroyed and the Yue Kingdom is destroyed, why would Yunchang still need someone as talented as Wu Zixu?

What is its use?

"Your Majesty, please think twice!"

Lu Ming sighed and said: "Qing Ji threatens the king again and again, which is really too much. If the king allows Qing Ji to do whatever he wants, I'm afraid Qing Ji will push his limits and make even more excessive demands!"

"this……"

Yunchang became hesitant again and couldn't make a decision.

The Great Sima Shimaijin said: "Your Majesty, in my opinion, what's the harm in handing over a member of the army?"

"At present, Wu's army is pressing down on the country, and it is almost possible to destroy Yue. If the king only has one soldier, and then pays the casualties of thousands of soldiers, how can he be unworthy?"

In the final analysis, Shimai thought it was not worth it.

In addition to this reason, Shimai also has his own selfish motives!

Selfishness at work!

Because Wu Zixu was very talented and was especially good at running the army and fighting. Once such a person became an official, how could Shi Mai, who was the Grand Sima, not fall out of favor?

How can Shi Mai still have a place among the Vietnamese army?

For this reason, Shi Mai would never allow Wu Zixu to defect to the Yue Kingdom as he wished, and be reused by the Yue King Yunchang!

"Oh! Whatever!"

Yunchang sighed, finally nodded and said: "I will tolerate Qing Ji one more time. Send me an edict to deliver the bodies of Wu Zixu and Ji Guang to the people of Wu. There must be no mistake!"

"Your Majesty is wise!"

Shi Maidi lowered his head, and a smile of relief appeared on his face.

If they knew that Qing Ji wanted to attack Chu, not Yue, and that the Wu army going south only had 8,000 soldiers, would they be so angry that they would vomit blood?

The Wu army that conquered Vietnam was said to have 30,000 men, but in fact it only had 8,000 soldiers and horses. They were just mixed with some civilian men and strong women, and they used random weapons to make up the number, so that people could not tell them apart for a while.

It is worth mentioning that in this era, the number of soldiers and horses on both sides of the war was often identified by flags and fires, and there was never the concept of false names.

For example, during the Three Kingdoms period, 230,000 people were called an army of 830,000 people, and 30,000 people were called an army of 100,000 people. This does not exist!

After all, the saying that a soldier never tires of deceit has not yet taken root in the hearts of the people.

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Just when Wu and Yue were preparing to make peace, the 20,000 Wu army, with Sun Ping as their general, advanced by land and water, using Zuzi as a springboard to cross the river.

Sun Ping originally planned to conquer the impregnable Zhaoguan first, and then divide his forces to capture Shudi. However, Fan Li suggested that Sun Ping make it easy first and then the difficult, lest Zhaoguan could not be captured for a long time, causing the Chu army to counterattack and defeat the enemy!

Sun Ping chose to adopt Fan Li's idea, so he led his army southward and conquered the three riverside cities of Chu State: Que, Yongpu, and An.

The Wu army's advance was extremely fast, and the defenses of the cities on the eastern border of the Chu State were basically useless. Therefore, in less than two days, the three cities along the river of the Chu State changed their flags and became the cities of the Wu State!

Subsequently, the Wu army did not stay on the river bank for too long, but marched straight in with overwhelming momentum and captured various cities in Shudi one after another.

It is worth mentioning that the Shu land of Chu State does not only refer to the city of Shu City.

Shu Di is a vast territory including the nine cities of Shu, Shu Liao, Shu Yong, Shu Jiu, Shu Long, Shu Lian, Shu Bao, Zong and Chao. It has a radius of more than 200 miles and has a large population.

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These nine cities were originally from states with the surname Yan, and were also called "Qunshu". They were all descended from Gaotao with the surname Yan!

However, just like most of the vassal states in the south, they were either destroyed by the Chu State and retained their ancestral temples for worship, or they actively surrendered to the Chu State and became a dependent country of the Chu State.

The kingdoms of Shu were vassals of the Chu State, and their original kings became vassals of the Chu State, retaining great autonomy.

Apart from paying tribute to Chu State on time, Qunshu is actually not much different from other vassal states!

Of course, once the Chu State goes to war externally and recruits troops internally, Qunshu must also respond by sending a certain number of soldiers, horses, food, and supplies.

Therefore, Qunshu is also equivalent to the state within the state of Chu.

During the more than sixty years of mutual conquest between Wu and Chu, the Wu army once invaded Shudi and captured several cities, but they were often recaptured by the Chu people after holding on for a short time.

Sun Ping and Fan Li's method of dealing with Qunshu was also very simple, that is, relying on strong military strength to intimidate Qunshu, and being polite first and then attacking.

Qun Shu, who was frightened, naturally did not dare to resist Wu Jun, so when Wu Jun's troops arrived, they all opened the city to surrender and took the initiative to reward Wu Jun with wine and meat.

This would save Wu Jun a lot of trouble.

The only fly in the ointment was that Shu Renkou was unwilling to accept it and did not allow the Wu army to be stationed in the city. This, to a certain extent, put the Wu army in more danger of being attacked from both sides.

Because no one can guarantee whether Qun Shu will counterattack the Wu army when the Chu army counterattacks.

Shucheng, Wujun Yingzhai.

In the large tent of the Chinese army, Grand Sima Sun Ping was sitting across from Fan Li, the military advisor offering wine!

"Da Sima, now the Nine Cities of Shudi have basically changed their tune and merged into our Kingdom of Wu. However, in my opinion, Qunshu is not sincerely attached to it."

Fan Li shook his head and said: "Da Sima Ling Qunshu helped support the troops and supplies, but so far, our army has only received 1,500 soldiers, and most of them are old and weak!"

"There are less than 3,000 pieces of cotton-padded clothes for winter, more than 600 hard bows, and 5,000 arrows! The remaining rice, millet, and grains are only 2,000 dan."

"It can be seen that Qunshu still wants to play both sides of the fence between Wu and Chu, and he is at both ends of the spectrum!"

Hearing this, Sun Ping chuckled lightly and said, "It's not surprising that Qunshu is like this. Qunshu is a vassal of the Chu State and has always surrendered and rebelled. If not for the strong power of the Chu people, Qunshu would have stood on his own feet and left Chu.

country."

"Many years ago, part of Qunshu was under the rule of Wu. But it didn't last long!"

"If I, the Great Wu, want to completely conquer Qunshu and turn Shu into the land of Wu in a real sense, we will have a long way to go."

Fan Li nodded slightly and said: "Da Sima, having said that, but Qunshu is like this, we have to be on guard. Your Majesty's intention is to take down Shudi and Zhaoguan. Shudi is easy to take, but Zhaoguan is difficult to conquer!"

"I heard that the Chu army has gathered in Qianyi one after another and is preparing to counterattack. If our army wants to defend Shudi, we still need to defeat the Chu army in Qianyi to scare the people of Shu."

"Only with the current troops and horses of our Wu army, we may not be able to defend against the Shu people and at the same time divide our forces to defeat the Chu army."

Upon hearing this, Sun Ping couldn't help but frown and said, "Young uncle, do you want the king to increase his troops?"
Chapter completed!