"It seems Jishui from the front..."

One day in mid-March, "Za Wu", one of the leaders of the Qing Crows, brought more than 30 Qing Crows brothers who disguised as ordinary civilians, pretended to be fleeing refugees, crossed the Han-Qi border in Julu County and arrived at the downstream of the Jishui River.

When he arrived at the Jishui River, Jaw Wu looked around and said to the brothers of the green crows behind him: "If the information we have is correct, if we cross the "Ji River", we will reach the capital of Linzi, the capital of the King of Qi... His Highness attaches great importance to this investigation operation and raises my vigilance."

"yes!"

The green crows responded in a low voice.

Seeing this, Ya Wu nodded with satisfaction and nodded to the green crows under his command and said, "Let me find a way to cross the river and see if there are bridges nearby, otherwise we will have to swim to the other side of the shore in the evening..."

Although the climate has gradually warmed up in mid-March, it is still cold at night, not to mention that you have to cross the river. Even if the crows have undergone rigorous and rigorous training, this does not mean that they are willing to suffer.

Seeing the green crows scattering around, Crow turned his head and looked at the slightly surging Jishui, and couldn't help but recall something that happened ten days ago in his mind.

That day, he suddenly received the summons from the crown prince of the Eastern Palace Zhao Run...

"Your Highness, did you summon me?"

After being summoned, Ya Wu came to the study of His Highness and saw that His Highness was sitting behind the desk, and immediately bowed his fists.

At the end of last year, Zhao Hongrun actually had a group of green crows, about twenty people, who were responsible for delivering messages. However, due to heavy snow, and the Shanggu cavalry under Shanggu guard Ma She surrounded Julu City, even if it was the Green Crows, it would be difficult for the news here to be delivered to the Wei State under such difficult weather and war conditions.

At this time, in Daliang, the capital of Wei State, the false news that Bao Yuan and Jin and Moumou spread "the prince Zhao Run defeated Guantao and lost Julu", which once caused panic in the Wei State, and even the Daliang court caused a commotion. In the end, it was the Emperor Zhao Wei, who took action personally to stabilize the situation.

During this period, as the leader of the Qingya Zhong Daliang branch, Ya Wu sent people to South Korea to search for news about Zhao Hongrun, and asked Qingya Zhong for help several times for this.

It was not until the New Year that the Shanggu cavalry on Julu who were blocking the road due to heavy snow, weakened their surveillance of Julu City. At this time, the green crows around Zhao Hongrun had the opportunity to convey the news to the Wei State. As for Jaw Wu, at this time, he had already obtained the whereabouts of the Wei army led by Zhao Hongrun from the Wei State and arrived in Julu City.

"Um."

Zhao Hongrun nodded, waved his hand to signal Ya Wu to walk in front of him, and said in a deep voice: "Ya Wu, I have something important to you, it is related to my national policy and policy of the Great Wei..."

Upon hearing this, Ya Wu, who had already been holding a serious face, became more serious, and he clasped his fists and said seriously: "Please tell me your superiors."

Zhao Hongrun stood up and said in a deep voice as he walked, "I want you to take the green crows here immediately to Qi State to monitor the movements of Qi State, especially the situation of the war between Qi State and Chu State. You should pay special attention..."

Speaking of this, he glanced at Ya Wu, and after a brief thought, he added: "You are the old man of Qingya, you are trustworthy, and it is okay for me to have a brief relationship with you... The war here, the defeat of South Korea has been revealed, and the enemy of our Great Wei is left with Qi and Lu... Qi and Lu are currently attacked by Chu, but for the interests of our Great Wei, I cannot sit idly by and watch Chu annex Qi and Lu just like this. You go to Qi and keep in touch with me at all times. If Qi and Lu can resist Chu's offensive, I will not move my troops; but if Qi and Lu are unable to resist Chu, I will order you to send people to send news here day and night. At that time, I will personally take up troops to attack Qi and... Can I entrust this task to you?"

After hearing this, Ya Wu's face was moved and flattered.

Because in theory, Zhao Hongrun had no need to explain so much to him, just give orders, but the Eastern Palace Highness told Ya Wu that the reason was originally made, which not only made Ya Wu understand that this task was of great importance, but also made Ya Wu feel respected - the prince in front of him was a puppet who truly regarded him as a confidant, rather than a puppet who spyed on information and conveyed information.

What's more important is that he was a member of Wei from Chu, which made him even more flattered.

Immediately, Ya Wu patted his chest and said, "Don't worry, even if you are crushed to pieces, you will never dare to destroy Your Highness's plan!"

Hearing this, Zhao Hongrun laughed, patted Ya Wu's arm and said with a smile: "What are you doing so seriously? I just asked you to inquire about the news, but I didn't want you to go up to the mountain of swords and seas of fire. Qi Guo is currently unable to take care of himself, so how can I have the energy to search domestic fine works? Don't worry... After I come back, I will celebrate your merits."

"Yes!" Ya Wu retreated with fists.

...

"What an incredible Your Highness..."

Standing by the Jishui River, Ya Wu touched the arm that had been patted by the Prince of the East Palace, and felt inexplicably excited.

Regarding the closeness of His Royal Highness of the Crown Prince's arm patted by His Royal Highness, there is a saying in the Crown Prince's Army (formerly the King of Su Wangjun). It is said that it was reported by a sect guard Mu Qing, who did not want to be named: The reason why His Royal Highness is used to patting others' arms to show closeness is because of the height of His Royal Highness of the Crown Prince. If he wants to pat their shoulders, he can only tiptoe, which is quite indecent.

Of course, this was just a joke. Although when the joke was quietly spread, a Zongwei Mu Qing, who did not want to be named, was sent to the logistics of the Shang Shui Army in vain and became a hot soldier for several days.

Well, the height of the crown prince is indeed a regret. Many people, including Ya Wu, secretly sighed that it may be that this crown prince is too outstanding and so outstanding that God can't see it. Therefore, some restrictions were imposed on the matter that the crown prince was most concerned about, so that the crown prince, who swept through the Central Plains and was well-known in various countries, still had a height difference of that crown prince's height when he became an adult, which became the lifelong regret for the crown prince.

However, the regret of height is not enough to affect the mind and courage of the crown prince. For example, Ya Wu, who is obviously a head shorter than him, but in his eyes, the highness is extremely tall, which makes him feel sincerely awe.

『After defeating South Korea, is Your Highness already trying to find a way to restrict Chu State? Although I was once a Chu person,...」

As he stroked his arm, the position he had photographed by the Your Highness, Ya Wu's eyes were unshakable.

"Fifth brother, about two miles away, I saw a bridge, but there seemed to be a team of soldiers guarding, probably soldiers from Qi."

Not far away, the voices of the brothers of the Crow were heard.

Jaw Wu nodded, and after summoning a group of green crow brothers, he reminded him: "We will pretend to be refugees later and try to cross the bridge. If they are exposed by the soldiers of Qi, kill them!"

Although the combat ability of the Green Crow Crow is indeed not as good as that of the Black Crow Crow Crow, this is just a comparison with the murderous ghosts of the Black Crow Crow Crow Crow. If it is an ordinary soldier, even if it is an elite soldier of the Shang Shui Army, even if the Qing Crow Crow Crow cannot kill the other party, he can basically escape unscathed, let alone face the soldiers of Qi.

You should know that the strength of the Qi soldiers was only based on the Qi army's advanced weapons and equipment and terrifying war weapons. The advantages of these two make the Qi army seem invincible and powerful in front of the Chu army. However, facing the Wei soldiers who also have this advantage, the strength of the Qi soldiers is worth discussing.

Carrying bags, baskets, farm tools and other miscellaneous items, Jaw Wu and the crows under his command pretended to be honest country civilians, bowed their heads and walked towards the bridge in the distance.

As the Green Crow who came back reported, on the other side of the bridge, the other side of the Ji River, was indeed a team of soldiers from Qi State stationed. There were not many people, and there were about seven or eight people on duty outside. As for the barracks next to the bridge, I don’t know how many people were there.

However, judging from the size of the barracks, Ya Wu estimated that there were only about twenty or thirty soldiers guarding here.

While waiting for Yawu to cross the bridge, he found that half of the seven or eight Qi soldiers were sitting on the ground and talking about something to each other. Even Yawu and others had already walked to the bridge, and these people did not see it. Perhaps, these people did not fail to see it, but were not alert.

"Hey, hey, guarding the bridge is so relaxed?"

Ya Wu was secretly shocked.

Because if it were the Wei army, this would be quite serious dereliction of duty.

At this time, Ya Wu even felt that if they suddenly attacked, they would be able to kill all these people in an instant and end the battle.

Of course, this is just thinking about it, there is no need to do that.

"Hey, stop, stop."

Just as Ya Wu and others were about to reach the other side, only one man who was probably the leader of the team came up among the Qi soldiers and asked with a frown, "Where did you guys come from?"

Although the Qi soldier had a strong accent, Ya Wu could roughly understand it, so he stammered in the tone of Julu, which he had just learned for a while, and replied: "Brother of the military soldier, we are from the north..."

"This seems to be the accent from the Korean region." The team leader frowned and asked again: "Are you Koreans?"

Ya Wu blinked his eyes, pretending to be puzzled.

Seeing this, the team leader realized that there might be language barriers between each other, so he gestured and asked, "What are you here to do?"

Ya Wu deliberately pretended to be ignorant and replied: "We are fighting over there, and many villagers have escaped."

"War?" The team leader muttered secretly when he heard this: "Can the Wei army have reached the heartland of South Korea?"

So, he asked Ya Wu and others carefully about the coming. Ya Wu then picked some things that were not important and revealed a little to the other party, roughly expressing the meaning of South Korea's fierce battle with the Wei army. At the same time, he also indirectly tested the situation of the war in Qi: "...A lot of people died on our side, so we fled here. There should be no war here, right?"

But unfortunately, this team leader didn't know much about it. Apart from letting Ya Wu learn that the king of Qi was not in the war for the time being, there was nothing else to gain.

During this period, the two sides were still in harmony, until a soldier from Qi asked aloofly: "Since you are escaping, why are you the only ones who are young and strong, and the women and children in your village?"

After hearing this, Ya Wu knew that they were still exposed—or rather, they were not far from being exposed.

So, more than 30 green crows suddenly attacked, and killed seven or eight Qi soldiers here in a few seconds. By the way, even the dozen Qi soldiers in the barracks next to the bridge killed all of them.

"Too weak, are they really soldiers from Qi?"

After the battle ended in just a short moment, a green crow swung the blood from the triangular sting in his hand, put it back into the pole of a hoe to hide it, and asked in an incredible tone.

Hearing this, the other crows also agreed.

You should know that in the world's evaluation, the soldiers of Qi State are still quite powerful. Unexpectedly, they are so vulnerable. Even if the soldiers sent here to guard the bridge are only soldiers of Qi State's county level, they are not as weak as this?

"... With just this kind of strength, can Qi State block the Chu State's army?"

Ya Wu frowned and looked at the corpses all over the ground, wondering whether he would just send a message to the prince, asking him to lead his troops here as soon as possible, and take the lead in launching an attack on Qi before the Chu army had not yet attacked Linzi. Anyway, in his opinion, Qi would probably not be able to stop the Chu military power.

After all, Ya Wu was a Wei native from Chu. Although he did not recruit soldiers as a grain to join the stage of Chu's foreign war, he at least knew a little about the Chu army.

But after thinking about it, Ya Wu gave up. After all, God knows whether Qi State still has any trump cards hidden?

Thinking of this, Ya Wu said immediately: "Buried the body, go to Linzi immediately!"

About two days later, Yawuyi and his group arrived at Linzi, the capital of the Qi king.

Only then did he realize that although the Chu army had not yet attacked this side, the panic about the war spread throughout the Linzi area.

For example, when the crow rested at a tea stall next to an official road, he saw many people from Qi who had fled from other places.

After asking, most of these Qi people fled from Donghai County of Qi.

So Ya Wu asked these refugees from Donghai County, Qi State indirectly. From their mouths, Ya Wu had a rough understanding of the current situation in Donghai County.

At this time, except for "Tancheng" still falling, seven out of ten other counties had fallen into the hands of the Chu army.

This is also impossible, because in Tancheng, Qi's powerful general "Tian Wu" was guarded. From last year to this year, Tian Wu defeated the attacks of the Chu State's Shouling Jun Jingyun, Di Yang Jun Xiong Li and others several times with his extraordinary terrible force, and the Chu army attacking Tancheng was in a mess. It is said that so far, seven or eight Chu generals of the 3,000 generals have been killed by Tian Wu on the battlefield. This courage made Ya Wu secretly shocked after hearing this: There are also powerful generals in Qi State who can compete with generals such as Wu Ji and Jiang Bi?!

Unfortunately, there is only one Tian Wu in Donghai County. Even if Tian Wu is bravest in the three armies and defeating the Chu army that attacked Tancheng several times, it cannot save the situation where Donghai County almost fell into the hands of the Chu army.

Although Ya Wu was just an intelligence assassin, he could understand the situation: it was difficult to defend the lonely city. If Tian Wu did not choose to retreat, he would probably be besieged by the Chu army in Tancheng.

The other table of fleeing people in Donghai County seemed to be talking about the battle situation of the main force of Chu State - the one led by Mr. Xiong Tuo, the young master of Chu, Yangcheng.

Before the winter of last year, Tian Ao, a veteran general of Qi, considered that if Lu was destroyed, he would suffer from the pain of his lips and teeth. He resolutely led a weak force to delay the main force of the Chu army in the "Pengcheng" area, and successfully dragged the war there for a winter, until the beginning of this year.

But unfortunately, as the ice and snow melted after the beginning of spring this year, Xiong Tuo, the Jun Yangcheng of Chu, led a large army to launch a rapid offensive against Pengcheng. Tian Ao, the veteran, could not help but gradually could not hold on, retreating again and again, and has retreated to the territory of Lu.

It is no exaggeration to say that in the face of the rapid offensive of Chu, the resistance of Qi and Lu was very weak. If this continues, Ya Wu estimated that even if the Chu army fought against two, it would probably be able to conquer Qi and Lu. In fact, Chu did not fight against two, but against three. You should know that in the land of Wu and Yue, the Chu general "Xiang Kai-" was also attacking Yue, which made Yue unable to breathe. He could only rely on the terrain and use the help of the local barbarians to resist the Chu army together.

It has to be said that this is the terrible force that the great power with the largest territory in the Central Plains and a population of 40 million after fully launching the war machine, defeating the "Qilu and Luyue Three Kingdoms Alliance", a small group headed by Qi, was in a mess.

At the same time, it also fully demonstrated how critical the "Qi Lu Xi's alliance" was to the "Qi Lu and Yue Alliance" after the death of King Qi and Qi became weak due to civil strife.

Look, when Wei was still standing on Qi's side, even though Qi King Lu Xi passed away and Qi became weak due to civil strife, Chu still did not dare to act lightly. However, when Wei and Qi were in conflict, Wei and Chu then formed allies, and the Chu State, which was completely released, beat the Qi, Lu and Yue three-state alliance with one combination of punches to the point where they could not find the North.

But I don’t know if this incident can make the arrogant Qi people who are still living in the era of King Lu Xi of Qi, a little more sober.
To be continued...