I will not be king in the Spring and Autumn Period

Chapter 331 Xia Rui meets Wu Zixu again

In this battle, Li Ran divided his troops in many places, pretending to abandon his supplies, and focused on attacking cities.Deliberately attracting Wu Jun to come to sneak attack, unexpectedly, this fell into Li Ran's arms.

Seeing that the general situation was over, Wu Jun had no choice but to abandon the city and leave.

But at this moment, Li Ran and the others had already entered the city, losing 1000 troops in battle. Although it was not a small number, this level of sacrifice was already the minimum price for winning this town.

As the saying goes, "Predict the enemy's victory, plan the danger and the distance, the way of a general." Because Shen Wuyu rushed into the city very suddenly, the Wu army who stayed in the city was caught off guard.

After a search, another [-] Wu troops were captured, and Li Ran also asked Shen Wuyu to immediately confiscate the food and grass in the city. After all, all the luggage outside the city had been destroyed at this moment.

Afterwards, he ordered Yin Yijiu to persuade these captives to surrender, to see if anyone was willing to join them in dealing with the Wu army.

Later, there were actually a thousand captives who were willing to follow them to attack Wu.

It's no wonder, after all, Huarui was originally a place where Wu and Chu were contending for each other.For these local aborigines, it doesn't matter whether they follow the state of Chu or the state of Wu, as long as their family members can live in peace, it doesn't matter to them who controls them.

After the battle, Li Ran only allowed the army to rest for less than a day.The next day, Li Ran ordered everyone to continue on their way.After all, the king of Chu is in danger now, and he must race against time to rescue him.

Shen Wuyu and Li Ran rode side by side. Shen Wuyu also admired Li Ran's surprise victory this time, before anticipating the enemy.

"Mr. is indeed a talent with a mind of latitude and longitude! It's really admirable, admirable!"

Li Ran heard the words, but only waved his hands, and sighed:

"Hey... such a small plan is nothing to worry about. It's a pity that the King of Chu couldn't listen to Da Dao's blunt words, so he insisted on going his own way and suffered from this kind of distress. Li Ran's failure to persuade the King of Chu is really a big mistake. As the saying goes, "Small merit is not worth big Over', I'm really ashamed!"

"Mr. is too modest. I didn't know the advantages and disadvantages of what Mr. said before, so that's why. At that time, although Guan Zhong was able to assist Duke Huan of Qi to achieve hegemony, when he was dying, he advised Duke Huan of Qi not to use Yi Ya, Prescription, and Vertical Diao et al., Duke Huan of Qi also turned a deaf ear to them, and when a calamity struck, they were poisoned by these three men and starved to death in the palace. This is all Duke Huan of Qi’s own fault, so why not Guan Zhongzhi’s sagacity?"

"Hey, but now I have no other wishes. I only hope that after the king of Chu escapes from the predicament, he will find his way back, restrain himself and return to the rituals, and show his virtue..."

After Li Ran said that, he fell into deep thought.Because he knew that even though he hoped so much, based on his understanding of King Xiongwei of Chu, he knew that it was probably futile.

After a few more days of driving, it was already approaching Xiarui. According to reports from Tanmalai, the county magistrate Chuan Fengxu and Sun Wu of Chen Guo had also arrived at Xiarui, which made Li Ran feel relieved.

After confirming that the information was correct, Li Ran rushed to Xia Rui with a few servants.

When Li Ran arrived in Xiarui, Sun Wu and Chuan Fengxu went out of the camp to greet him.

Chuan Fengxu brought more than 3000 people from Chen State this time. Since Chen County is closer to Xia Rui than Zhongli, and most of them are going through the border of Chu State, they were not hindered on the way, so they arrived early. some days.

In addition, besides Chen Guo and Zhongli, Xia Rui also gathered some other righteous men to come.Just as Yi Mo was worried.

Just when Li Ran and the others were discussing how to go to Luo Rui next, they heard a person speak loudly outside the tent:
"Wu Yuan from Chu, willing to go with the army to rescue the King of Chu!"

When Sun Wu heard this, he raised his eyebrows and waved at the man:
"Ah! So it's Zixu who is here!"

When Wu Yuan heard this, he looked up and couldn't help being surprised:
"Ah! So it's Mr. Ziming and Changqing!"

I saw him rushing straight over, without saying a word, he bowed to Li Ran, Chuan Fengxu, and Sun Wu, bowed his fists and said:
"Grandfather and father are now going out with the king of Chu, and are now trapped in Luorui. I would like to go to the rescue with my husband!"

When Sun Wu heard this, he couldn't help laughing and said:
"Zixu, it's just the right time for you to come! Now Mr. is worrying that he has no generals to use. Zixu is here, and the important thing here is settled!"

"Well, since Zixu is the grandson of Duke Jiao, he should contribute based on emotion and reason."

Li Ran agreed to Wu Zixu's request very naturally.

In fact, when Wu Zixu heard that the king of Chu had sent troops to Suodi, he knew that he would be defeated.However, relying on him alone is completely useless.

A few days ago, it was suddenly rumored that someone was going to form a rebel army in Xia Rui, and when he heard the news, he immediately rushed over from Jiao County.

But they never thought that the initiator of this rebel army would be Li Ran!

At the same time, Shen Wuyu and Yin Yijiu also led their troops to join Chuanfengxu's troops, so they made up [-] troops.Although not too much, it definitely has the power to fight.

At the same time, part of the Chu army that was defeated from Luorui also withdrew to this place.

At that time, the Wu army took advantage of the rainy night to descend like soldiers from the sky, and the Chu army fled in all directions. Wu Ju and Ran Dan only collected [-] soldiers and retreated to Luorui. In fact, there were nearly [-] soldiers who fled directly to Xiarui. They were incorporated into Li Ran's rebel army.

In this way, at least they have a foundation of [-] troops, which can barely be called [-].

Afterwards, Li Ran and the others discussed the next itinerary. The Xiarui they were in was not far from Luorui, so a powerful enemy was right in front of them, and there might be a fierce battle to be fought along the way.

Sun Wu and Wu Zixu sat cross-legged on the ground together, and roughly drew the current topographical map on the sand, which became an extremely simple sand table.

"If the king of Chu can hold on until now, then they should still be in Luorui at this moment, but I'm afraid this is not optimistic... According to Yiwu, they should have retreated to Laishan by now, and it is very likely that King Wu's army has already died. Surrounding Laishan, it is even possible that the king of Chu has been completely defeated, captured or killed, that is impossible! Of course, all of this is just speculation right now, "

Although Sun Wu's analysis was not unreasonable, it still made Wu Zixu feel a little uncomfortable.

"Grandfather and father are battle-tested people. Zixu firmly believes that they should just be trapped on Mount Lai at this moment!"

"Well...then we can calculate based on the fact that they are trapped in Laishan. Laishan penetrates deep into the hinterland of Wu, and it will be more convenient for the King of Wu to dispatch troops. Although we have [-] soldiers, compared with Wu's army, we are not as powerful as Wu. It is still far from enough. If you want to reach Luorui or Laishan smoothly, it will not be easy!"

"Besides, it is not known exactly where the King of Chu is trapped. Just in case, the officials suggested that we divide our troops into two groups, one to go to Luorui, and the other to go straight to Laishan! After the location of the King of Chu is determined , meet again!"

(End of this chapter)