Yue Kingdom, Zhu Fangcheng.

Wearing armor on his body and a long sword hanging on his waist, Si Tian, ​​the guard of Zhufang City in the Yue Kingdom, walked among the streets of Zhufang City.

Although the war has not yet come to this city, the heavy clouds of war have already shrouded the sky over Zhufang City.

His feet moved forward slowly, and an indescribable solemnity appeared on Sita's face.

Since the beginning of the war, the Yue Kingdom has retreated again and again on the battlefield.

First, the Qi army captured Langya, the former capital of the Yue State, and then the Chu State performed a triumphant song north of the river.

Even if more than 10,000 Vietnamese troops defended the city to the death and blocked the Chu army from the city for several months, they could not save Guangling City from being captured by the Chu army.

After working with Qi to seize the land north of the river in Yue, including Guangling, the Chu-Qi coalition's troops naturally reached the north bank of the river.

After the Battle of Guangling came to an end, Sitian discovered that Chu scouts were constantly coming from the north bank of the river, trying to find out the reality of the garrison city.

Sitian knew very well that the Chu army would never stop on the north bank of the river, and a big battle might be coming soon.

With this heavy feeling in his heart, Sitian climbed up the stairs to the top of Zhufang City.

His eyes swept over a famous soldier standing next to him. The eyes of some Vietnamese soldiers were obviously different from those of other comrades.

These soldiers came not from elsewhere, but retreated from Guangling City on the north bank of the river.

If I had to use one word to describe the eyes of these soldiers, it would probably be numbness.

It was a kind of thing that crawled out of a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood, and it was also a kind of numbness that was used to seeing life and death.

Sita was originally unwilling to let these soldiers who had escaped from Guangling City set foot on a life-and-death battlefield again, but the Chu army that was about to cross the river forced him to choose to do so.

Slowly walking up to a soldier, Sita just stretched out his right hand and patted his shoulder gently, but said nothing.

Because he didn't know what to say, maybe it was useless in front of these soldiers who were already a little numb to life and death.

With this pessimism about Zhu Fang City, this war, and even the fate of the Yue Kingdom, Sitian climbed to the top of Zhu Fang City.

As far as the eye can see, the surging river water comes from the west and merges into the sea. The place where the river and the sea meet has a vast atmosphere.

However, at this time, Sita had no intention of admiring the magnificent scenery in front of him. All his attention was focused on the warships on the river in the distance.

Those were not warships belonging to the Yue Kingdom, but the Dongting Lake Boat Masters of the Chu Kingdom traveling down the river.

As the overlord of the southeastern land, the Yue Kingdom once had powerful naval forces, but they all came to nothing in the civil strife.

Since the current Yue King Wu Zhuan succeeded to the throne, the focus of the Yue State has been entirely on restoring national strength, and naturally there is no spare energy to rebuild the huge Yue State Boat Division.

Now the front line of the battle between Chu and Yue has come to both sides of the river. Sitian, who is the guard of Zhu Fang City, is also watching the Chu boatmen running rampant on the river.

A feeling of powerlessness emerged in his heart, and a power suddenly emerged from Sitian's body.

"boom!"

Smashing a fist on the city wall, Sitian's eyes were full of grief and anger, "If there hadn't been that civil strife, why would our Yue country be afraid of the Chu country?"

"General."

A call from behind interrupted Sita's thoughts. He slowly retracted his thrown right fist, and his whole body gradually returned to calm.

"What's the matter?"

"General, the scouts sent out have heard that the Chu army on the other side has been mobilizing more and more frequently in the past few days, and they may cross the river at any time."

When Sitian heard the report from the deputy general behind him, a look of vigilance immediately appeared in his eyes.

"The scouts sent out are ordered to keep an eye on the Chu army's movements. If there is any abnormality, report it at any time."

"In addition, security should be strengthened everywhere in the city to prevent the Chu army from sneaking in."

"The general will obey the order."

After receiving Sita's military order, the deputy general turned around and prepared to retreat, but at this time, another voice came from the front.

"etc……"

After a slight pause, Sitian looked at the river in front of him and asked in a complicated tone: "Has there been any news from Kuaiji about when Wei will be able to send troops to help me cross the border?"

"not yet."

"You go down first."

When the sound of the deputy general's footsteps gradually disappeared, Sitian's face suddenly showed a bit of self-mockery.

The once powerful Yue State had to wait for assistance from Wei State when facing Chu's attack.

Although he was thinking this in his mind, Sitian's eyes still subconsciously looked to the west, with a bit of hope in his eyes.

…

After all, Wei did not live up to the expectations of the Yue monarchs. While the Chu army was launching the Battle of Zhu Fang, Wei General Pang Juan, who was guarding Daliang, finally moved.

However, Pang Juan did not lead his army to the front line of the confrontation between Chu and Yue, but went directly south to attack the central part of Chu State.

Although the current gap has not been completed, it still played its role in this war.

Through this artificially excavated river, grain and grass baggage from the east of the Wei River and Hanoi flowed down the river and were sent to the front line with an efficiency that was many times higher than before.

With the help of this small test gap, Pang Juan once again demonstrated the extremely powerful combat effectiveness of his Wei army to the Chu State and even the princes of the world.

In just ten days, Pang Juan's 100,000 troops took over Chen County, an important town in the central part of Chu State.

Using Chen County as a springboard, the Chu State's Yangcheng, Yanling, Dengcheng, Shangcai and other counties were also quickly captured by the Wei army. The battle lines of Wei and Chu were directly pressed from the Yingshui line to the Rushui line.

When the news that the Wei State sent 100,000 troops and captured Chu's cities one after another came back to the capital of Ying, the whole Chu State was shocked.

The ministers of the Chu State had long heard that the Wei army was powerful in battle, and the past battles had proved this time and time again, but the two sides had not had a real head-to-head confrontation in more than ten years.

Unexpectedly, if the Wei army did not go out to fight, it would be fine. Once they went out to fight, they would directly seize several cities in the central part of the country, and their front would be even more difficult to stop.

Faced with the somewhat rotten battle situation in front of them, the sound of the Chu State's army returning for reinforcements began to appear above the Chu State's court.

However, before this voice became a trend, it was directly suppressed by the forces of Chu King Xiong Liangfu and the Qu Jingzhao clan represented by Ling Yin Zhaoxixie.

Xiong Liangfu, the king of Chu, knew very well that sooner or later, the Wei State would move south with all its strength.

What Chu can do is to accumulate strength as much as possible and eliminate hidden dangers before Wei goes south, so that it can have the power to fight Wei.

Now seeing the ferocious offensive of the Wei army, they directly transferred back the army that was attacking Yue. What will Chu do in the future to deal with the Wei army that is even more powerful than this time?

Can't be transferred, not even a single soldier can be transferred!
Chapter completed!