August 20, the first year of the Second Qin Dynasty.
Li Yan lay quietly on the brocade couch, looking at the tent ceiling of the brocade couch with his eyes open.
This is Chaohua Palace, the palace where she lived before she was enthroned as queen. She is sleeping on the brocade couch she has slept on for several years. Now that she is back again and sleeping on this brocade couch, she feels naturally different.
Yesterday, Hu Hai never found a chance to tell Su Wan about Su You in the Su Mansion. Seeing that it was getting dark, after having dinner with Su Wan in the Su Mansion, Hu Hai took Li Yan and Yu Ji with him.
Returned to Xianyang Palace.
Li Yan didn't even go back to Li Mansion.
Returning to Xianyang Palace, Hu Hai asked Yu Ji to accompany Li Ji to Chaohua Palace, naturally giving the two a chance to get close. But he went to Concubine Li's palace. Yu Ji and Li Ji quickly became familiar with each other.
Both of them were women with Hui Zhilan's heart, and they knew exactly what the emperor was thinking. What's more, the two women were almost the same age. By the time Yu Ji left Chaohua Palace, the two women were already sisters.
After Yu Ji left, Li Ji began to feel uneasy.
She was worried that Hu Hai would come to her palace tonight. She was still observing filial piety, so it was obviously inappropriate for her to have sex with a man and a woman at this time. However, she knew very well that Hu Hai was not the cowardly prince she had seen on her wedding night.
, how should I refuse?
But at the same time, she was a little looking forward to Hu Hai coming to her palace tonight. Although she was still a virgin and had never had sex, she knew from Yu Ji's hair style that she had not yet been officially canonized by the emperor in the harem.
The woman had already had sexual intercourse with the emperor. This also made her feel a little unhappy.
One night, Li Yan fell asleep unknowingly in the conflicting mood of worrying about gains and losses.
At this moment, she had just woken up.
Outside the window, it was already bright.
The emperor did not come.
Unknowingly, Li Yan thought of the long letter his father left for him.
…
Hu Hai slept in his own palace, and of course he was not alone. Yu Ji didn't know whether it was because she really ate the marrow to know the taste, or if she wanted to fulfill the regret in Li Fei's heart. Her body had basically fully recovered, and she and Hu Hai
After struggling until midnight, I fell asleep exhausted.
When the morning light showed slightly, Hu Hai had already climbed up from the brocade couch, without waking Yu Ji, who was sleeping and moisturized as delicate as a flower, and began to exercise in the morning.
When Yingyi received the red letter from Jiuyuan and hurried to Xianyang Palace, Hu Hai, who had already had breakfast, was summoning Yu Ji's brother Yu Ziqi in the study.
In two days, Yu Tong will arrive in Xianyang.
Yu Ziqi followed Hu Hai to Xianyang. After recovering from his injuries, he became a soldier in the Huben Army of Bashang Camp. Also joining him as a soldier was Zhongliwei, who had followed Han Xin from Surabaya to Xianyang.
Zhongliwei did not see Han Xin, but found his way to Wei Liao's mansion. Hu Hai specially ordered Yu Ziqi and Zhongliwei to be incorporated into the Huben army at the same time. However, because of a letter from Meng Kuo, Zhongliwei followed the Huben army into Bashu.
, but Yu Ziqi was left behind.
After all, when Yu Ji gets married, Yu Ziqi, his elder brother, has to be by her side. What's more, if Yu Tong comes to Xianyang, he naturally has to meet Yu Ziqi, an unfilial son who has the audacity to take his sister out of the house privately.
What's more, Bashu was facing three counties in South Vietnam. No one knew when Yu Ziqi would die on the battlefield. Hu Hai did not ignore the lives of ordinary soldiers and treated Yu Ziqi specially. After all, Yu Ziqi was also his.
Brother-in-law, it is better to keep Hu Hai by his side than to travel thousands of miles away.
Therefore, Yu Ziqi only became a member of the Tiger Army for a few days before he suddenly became a soldier of the Forbidden Army. As for Yu Ziqi's identity, none of the leaders of the five legions except Ying Yi knew it.
However, once Yu Ji gets married, Yu Ziqi's identity will no longer be concealed.
For the superior brother-in-law in front of him, the more Yu Ziqi got to know him, the more awe he felt in his heart. At the same time, he was lucky for his brother and sister. However, he did not want his brother-in-law to deliberately take care of him because he was Yu Ji's brother. He also
I don't want to embarrass the emperor.
While Ying Yi was talking outside the study, Hu Hai was considering Yu Ziqi's request to join the three major armies that were about to go south.
"Come in!" Hu Hai said calmly when he heard Ying Yi's report.
Yingyi entered the study with a red letter and newspaper from Jiuyuan and immediately saw Yu Ziqi standing in the study. He nodded to Yu Ziqi and strode to the bronze case in front of Hu Hai and said: "Your Majesty, from
Jiuyuan’s red letter!”
Although Yu Ziqi was the emperor's brother-in-law, he was still just an unknown soldier. Yingyi naturally did not need to salute him.
When Yingyi walked into the study room, Hu Hai had already seen the red letter in his hand. When he heard that he said it was from Jiuyuan, he was shocked. Could it be that he just came here because he was worried?
Hu Hai did not directly reach out to open the red letter that was placed in Jiuyuan. He smiled at Yu Ziqi who was standing aside and said, "Brother Yu, please go down first. I will consider what you said."
"Here!" Yu Ziqi responded respectfully.
After Yu Ziqi left, Hu Hai stretched out his hand to open the red letter, glanced at it, his eyes narrowed slightly, and then he said to Ying: "Go and summon the Grand Master and the two prime ministers." At this point, Hu Hai hesitated.
After a moment, he said: "Summon Lord Zongzheng and Zhang Cang together. Come to the Yizheng Hall for a meeting."
Ying Yi had not read the contents of the letter. Seeing that the emperor's expression remained unchanged, he thought it was nothing serious. He felt relieved. Hearing Hu Hai's words, he quickly responded: "The general will obey the order!"
Hu Hai walked slowly to the huge map downstairs, looked in the direction of Jiuyuan and muttered to himself: "This Maodun is really good at choosing the time!"
Half an hour later, Wei Liao, Feng Quji, Li You, Ying Teng, Zhang Cang and Yao Jia and other three nobles and nine ministers all arrived at the meeting hall.
After everyone had bowed and sat down, Hu Hai, who was sitting at the head, walked down the hall and stood in front of the map. He turned around and looked at the confused ministers of the Qin Dynasty and said calmly: "My dear friends, I have just received the letter from the Jiuyuan Army.
The letter reports that the Xiongnu Chanyu Maodun has led at least 400,000 string-controllers southward, and is now heading straight for Jiuyuan. I think we will reach the Great Wall outside Jiuyuan County tonight."
After Hu Hai finished speaking, the meeting hall was silent at first, and then everyone exclaimed in surprise. Then they saw the inexplicable smile on the face of the young emperor standing in front of the huge map and suddenly fell silent again.
The emperor seems to be confident.
"My dear friends, let's discuss this." After Hu Hai finished speaking, he turned his head and looked around the map.
Today, the White Tiger, Qinglong and Xuanwu Army will divide their forces and go south in two directions. The bulky Xuanwu Army will go south to Nanyang via Wuguan Road, and then directly enter Hengshan from Nanyang and advance towards Jiujiang from the west, while the Qinglong Army and the White Tiger Army will send out letters
Guguan then went south to take over the positions of Han Xin and Feng Jie, while Han Xin's and Feng Jie's armies totaling 200,000 people were divided into two groups.
Han Xin and Feng Jie will march eastward with an army of more than 100,000 each after the Qinglong Army and Xuanwu Army arrive. Feng Jie breaks into Jiujiang from Sishui County, which is the lower reaches of the Huaihe River, while Han Xin needs to lead the army to Donghai County, and then cross the Yangtze River into Jiangnan and so on.
land.
After arriving in Jiujiang, Heitie's Black Bird Army has now dispersed to Changsha, Hengshan, Jiujiang, Kuaiji and other counties. Just a few days after Hu Hai arrived in Xianyang, Heitie began to report the movements of armies in various parts of Xinchu and Xiang Liang's visit to Chu.
There was a steady stream of information about the overt and covert struggles between the king and the major aristocratic families in Chu State.
Now the new Chu army, in addition to the nearly 200,000 troops brought back by Xiang Liang, has also recruited no less than 200,000 people from the people captured from Sishui and other counties back to Jiujiang to join the Chu army, plus Wu
With an army of more than 100,000 under Rui's command, Chu's army now reached an astonishing number of nearly 600,000.
Nearly 400,000 of these troops gathered near Shouchun. The remaining 200,000, except for Xiang Liang who sent tens of thousands of troops to guard the hometown of the Xiang family in the east of the Yangtze River, were scattered throughout the country to collect grain or force the people to clear wasteland.
What Heitie doesn't understand is how Xiang Liang feeds such a large army in Chu State. It seems that Xiang Liang is not short of weapons, armors and other items, and is also smelting iron to cast weapons, armors and other items. This
He reported all the problems to Hu Hai.
Hu Hai was also surprised by Heitie's doubts.
It may be possible that Xiang Liang is not short of food. After all, there are so many people and he can at least ensure the supply of the army by collecting food and killing people. But if Xiang Liang is not short of armor and weapons, then there is obviously a problem.
Most of the soldiers in the world were collected by the First Emperor and transported to Xianyang. Of course, there are copper and iron weapons stored in the treasury of various counties and counties that have not been transported to Xianyang, but it is absolutely impossible to arm hundreds of thousands of troops. More importantly,
All the craftsmen from all over the world gathered in Xianyang. Where did Xiang Liang come from to make iron and forge soldiers?
Unless someone is helping him!
And in today's Great Qin, there seems to be no one who can help Xiang Liang and has the ability to help Xiang Liang, except Ziying, who has already established himself as the emperor in South Vietnam and is preparing to go north to regain the emperor's throne.
It would not be unusual for Hu Hai to say that the hidden remnants of the Six Kingdoms had some wealth. But it would be unusual to say that they even had many craftsmen.
However, this guess was only in Hu Hai's mind, and he did not tell anyone. After all, except for Ying Yi, who was able to receive the Xuan Niao Army's message, the rest of the entire Daqin, including Wei Liao, did not know.
Hu Hai also hoped that he had guessed wrong.
Among the four armies, except for the two armies of Han Xin and Feng Jie, which are weaker, the other three armies, Xuanwu Army, Qinglong Army, and White Tiger Army, are all the best among the elite. Use the 200,000 troops of Qinglong Army and White Tiger Army as the central arrow to attack.
The two armies of Han Xin and Feng Jie were placed on the left wing to attack Kuaiji and Jiujiang, which had fewer defenders. Obviously, there was no problem.
The Xuanwu Army, which was the sharpest in both attack and defense, crushed all the way from Hengshan. Even if faced with 200,000 Chu troops, Hu Hai believed that the Xuanwu Army could defeat them in a single battle.
The four armies marched together. This was the marching route that Hu Hai, Wei Liao, and Meng Tian discussed to quickly eliminate Xiang Liang's rebels.
It's just that the timing of taking the risk this time is too good. (To be continued...)
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