Chapter nine hundred and forty fourth: fall short
The setting sun was like blood, reflecting the battlefield like Shura hell. Two thousand Chu cavalry fought in one battle. The broken arms and limbs were covered with battlefields several miles wide. The flags fell down, the soldiers were everywhere, and the ownerless war horses were wailing, wandering among the dead bodies everywhere, and from time to time, he lowered his head and arched the soldiers who were no longer moving.
The people who were moaning and screaming in pain, and the breath was left, were lying on the ground, looking at the setting sun in the sky without any hesitation. The people of Qi were waiting for their comrades to clean up the battlefield and save them, but their military career ended, while the people of Chu were still waiting for the enemy to make up for themselves.
Zhou Jiyun's saber sagged, and blood was still dripping from the tip of the knife. His eyes did not fall on the battlefield, but looked at the lonely figure on the gentle slope.
He hated his opponent very much. Over the past month, this general named Jiang Tao has suffered a lot. His flexible and changeable tactics have amazed him. He slipped away from his hands again and again, and let himself chase behind his butt day by day and eat dust. Zhou Jiyun almost forgot his original intention and only wanted to catch this person to prove that he was not weaker than the other party.
But he knew that he had failed. If it weren't for the help of the soldiers of the four counties and counties, which compressed Jiang Tao's range of activities and space bit by bit, he would not be able to catch this cunning fox at all. Just to command the cavalry, he would be completely defeated.
What made him even more unwilling was that the other party was still a weak scholar with no martial arts skills.
He slowly rode his horse toward that gentle slope. No matter what, the final winner is still himself. Only those who live to the end are qualified to reflect and make themselves progress.
He didn't want to kill this person anymore. First, this person was a senior general of Chu State, and secondly, he was indeed a pity for talent. If he had been in a place, Zhou Jiyun felt that he was afraid he would not be able to hold on for so long.
He suddenly stopped.
Because he saw that the man who had been like a sculpture since the war began.
He got off the horse and inserted the Chu phoenix flag forcefully on the ground. Then he took off a skin from the saddle, poured the liquid in the skin on the phoenix flag, and poured it on his body.
He took out a fire note from his body, shook it, and the pale flames ignited, and he calmly lit the phoenix flag.
He sat down, holding the burning phoenix flag with his hands.
Mars fell and splashed on him. With a bang, flames ignited into the sky on his body.
Zhou Jiyun's heart twitched.
He saw the man raising his head in the fire, as if he was looking at him, as if he was smiling at him. He saw that the man had a sharp dagger in his hand, and he smiled and calmly inserted it into his heart.
He held the burning Chu State Phoenix Flag and hung his head.
He was burning with the phoenix flag of Chu State.
Zhou Jiyun's strong body shook slightly, and somehow, he suddenly felt relieved in his heart. Such a person should not be a prisoner, but now this is his best ending.
He rode his horse slowly towards the burning torch.
"If everyone in Chu is like this, it is really not easy to conquer Chu." Zhou Jiyun rolled off the horse, clasped his fists with his hands, and gave a solemn gift very respectfully.
"Go away!"
The capital of Qi, Chang'an, Emperor Cao Tiancheng looked very bad. Over the past few days, he has been under increasing pressure. Several troops and horses that invaded Qi, causing great harm to Qi.
The Qi general Jiang Tao and ten thousand cavalry were rampant in several counties, and Zhou Jiyun surrounded and blocked them. The effect was very little. The four counties were filled with life and wars. A large number of people lost their houses and property, and became impoverished with nothing. The officials, gentry and powerful men of the four counties cried and wrote a letter to him, begging His Majesty the Emperor to launch a large army and quickly eliminate the Chu army.
Another Chu army led by An Ruhai created a greater momentum. An Ruhai and Jiang Tao were different. Every time he went down to the place, he burned the houses of local people, grabbed all their food, and then accompanied these people to rush towards the next target, and then repeated the story of the previous place. Now, An Ruhai has gathered tens of thousands of people, and among them, there are only a few thousand people in the Chu people. The others are Qi people who have lost everything. If they do not follow this army, they will have to starve to death or be killed.
Cao Tiancheng knew that this method was extremely destructive. Hunger would release the devil in the hearts of people. However, Qi State was not harmonious and the people lived and worked in peace. Today, Qi State has many landlords and powerful people, and exploited the people extremely hard. In some places, landless farmers were like crucian carp crossing the river, countless. In the report from the ghost, there were a county, with only more than a hundred households in some lands. The rest had become tenants and even had to be sold as slaves. Even if Qi State strictly prohibited anyone from raising slaves by any means.
Qi seems powerful, but it is like cooking oil in the fire, with only the only one who knows the bitterness and bitterness in it. But for a long time, Cao Tiancheng did not dare to make a big move to solve these problems. Because with a powerful enemy like Chu, if he had solved the domestic problems by himself, Cao Tiancheng would not dare to guarantee that there would be no trouble. If the people of Chu move again when they hear the news, the country and the country will be in danger.
This time, the transaction with the Ming State gave Cao Tiancheng hope to solve the problem. He exchanged the land of the three counties for a transaction with the Ming State, and induced the Chu State to send troops. Finally, in Luzhou, he surrounded the Emperor of Chu and more than 100,000 Chu troops. As long as this force is completely eliminated, the Chu State will no longer be in trouble.
With such a brilliant victory, he raised his knife high and cut down the pus in the country hard, squeezed out the pus, so that Daqi could gain a new life.
Ming Kingdom is about to grow into a big trouble. If we cannot make ourselves stronger before this enemy becomes completely strong, we are afraid that the future Qi Kingdom will be worried.
But now, the pustule was pierced by the Chu people first. Before he was fully prepared, this great trouble that had already threatened Qi State broke out early.
Cao Tiancheng saw a strong sense of conspiracy in it. If it means that the person did not make a single step here, Cao Tiancheng would not believe it even if he was beaten to death.
Who did this tactic begin with? Moro, Shuntian Army of Yue Kingdom.
The last troops of the Shuntian Army were all swallowed up by Qin Feng's Taiping Army, and no one was better at doing such things than them.
Zhaoguan, the Ming general Wu Ling sharpened his sword, and the cavalry had even crossed the border and burned, killed and looted within the Qi State. In the northwest, the Ming army even opened fire to help the Chu people, Xinning County Magistrate Wu Teng, conquered Ningchuan, and opened the gate to the northwest of the empire. Although the only one who marched into the northwest of Wu Teng, once the situation in the empire was out of control, Cao Tiancheng dared to guarantee that the Ming army would inevitably rush in the northwest.
Otherwise, where did Qin Feng transfer his treasure cavalry Zhuifeng Camp to where he came from?
He has been patient because his target is the hundreds of thousands of Chu army in Luzhou. As long as he can swallow it in one bite, kill these tens of thousands of Chu border troops, kill or capture their emperor, he can use this brilliant victory to successfully solve the domestic problems. But now, the surrounded Chu army still has the power of resistance, while the pustules in the empire have already splashed thick juice.
He has to make a decision.
A spark can start a prairie fire, but now, the chaos caused by An Ruhai is no longer a spark, but a prairie fire. In the empire, those guys who were intimidated by the Qi army and hid their tails deeply are now ready to move, and some, even can't wait to jump out and raise the flag openly to rebel.
He sighed silently, looking at the quarrelsome officials in the court. You have made great contributions to the empire at this point.
The first minister of Qi State, Prime Minister Tian Feng, had tens of thousands of hectares of land at home.
The censor He Li had 5,000 hectares of land in his home.
There are also the three ministers and nine ministers, the six ministers, and the one who is not rich and has many servants.
We have to make a decision. The Chu people are completely unable to kill this time, and there is another time. Even if they have resuscited their lives this time, they will still be injured. From then on, they have no spare energy to launch an attack on the Great Qi. After this battle, it would be good that they could defend the remaining territory. With the six eastern counties of Chu to compensate and the gains of annihilation of a large number of main forces in Chu, Qi finally gained more in this battle.
Moreover, a cold light flashed in Cao Tiancheng's eyes, which happened to solve many problems by taking advantage of this domestic chaos.
It’s just a pity that Prince Cao Yun created this opportunity, which was so heartless that he failed and could not achieve a great perfect ending.
"Issued the order Cao Yun to launch a general attack immediately, end the Luzhou war, and defeat the Chu army, the army immediately became the case and wiped out the rebels in the country." He sat on the high throne, looked at his ministers coldly, and issued an order.
In the hall, the mountain shouted long live, and the ministers bowed their heads, looking at the familiar faces, Cao Tiancheng sneered in his heart. In addition to being unable to use it, at least half of these people would say goodbye to their lives at Caishikou.
Empire needs a rebirth.
He turned his sight to the distant north, where his next main target, Ming Kingdom.
"The State of Chu is no longer a problem, you are the next one, Qin Feng, are you ready?" He said silently in his heart. "Having a good opponent really makes my blood rush!"
He stood up and left with his sleeves. Behind him, the eunuch's long voice of retreating from the court echoed in the palace.
The fast horse came out of Chang'an and ran towards Luzhou.
Chapter completed!