Chapter 946: One Year

In the 15th year of the Lord's Calendar, one year has passed since the fifth national war, and the Lord's world is still full of disputes and wars.

The emperors, kings, and dukes either fought against each other or accumulated strength.

Alexander the Great of Macedon captured the capital of the Ottoman Turkish Empire, Ogedei stepped up his encroachment on the Mughal Empire in India, Tuo Lei fought with Persian and Arab civilizations, and Yekaterina’s Tsarist Russian Empire and Holy Roman Empire, Kingdom of Sweden, Poland Kingdom conflict broke out, the Roman Empire, the Kingdom of Spain, the Kingdom of France, and the Kingdom of England tried to establish colonies in Africa, and the United States attacked the Mayan civilization...

The largest empire, the Han Empire, has entered a rare period of peace in the past year.

Xiacheng's Jixia Academy set up a thatched cottage for the eldest son Chu Wu.

Those who are qualified to teach the son are top talents in various fields.

"The winners and losers of the ancient times have their talents. Even if they are weak, they must be strong. Gou is not his own person. Although he is strong, he is easy to be weak... Cough cough, Your Highness?"

Xun Yu noticed that Chu Wu was distracted, so he reminded him.

Wang Zuozhi's talent, Xun Yu, became one of the teachers of the eldest son Chu Wu at this time.

In the world, how many people are qualified to let Xun Yu, Jia Xu, Sun Bin, Sang Hongyang, Wu Qi and others be teachers at the same time?

"Sir, I was wrong..."

Chu Wu lowered his head, but his eyes were fixed on a small stone thrown from the window.

Xun Yu looked at the direction of the shadow, and guessed that it was almost time: "Let's call it a day."

After all, Chu Wu was only nine years old, and he ran out immediately after Xun Yu announced his resignation.

Xun Yu shook his head.

But he wasn't worried either.

If Chu Wu was just a good boy, it would make Xun Yu even more worried.

In troubled times, it is useless to reason with others, you must speak with your fists.

From this point of view, perhaps an active eldest son is better.

Li Xiuning, who was in charge of protecting Chu Wu, regarded Chu Wu as his adopted son, and when he saw Chu Wu coming out, he immediately followed.

Chu Wu is the heir carefully cultivated by Chutian. If he is assassinated, it will be a heavy blow to Chutian's forces.

Chutian forces gathered civil servants and military generals from all dynasties and generations, and even civilizations. As the lord, he must be strong enough to suppress these people.

"Sister Lu'er!"

When Chu Wu saw the small stone thrown into the thatched cottage, he knew that Ma Yunlu was nearby.

Sure enough, a twelve or thirteen-year-old girl in green clothes leaned against a tree and waved to Chu Wu.

Seeing that it was Ma Yunlu, who was childhood sweetheart with Chu Wu, Li Xiuning relaxed. Ma Yunlu usually also studies in Jixia Academy, and at the same time learns martial arts with Mu Guiying, Hua Mulan and others.

"Sister Xiuning."

Ma Yunlu knew that Li Xiuning was Xia Liang's trusted bodyguard and was currently protecting the safety of his son.

Li Xiuning said to Ma Yunlu: "Lu'er, why don't you go to the palace, the princess might want to see you."

In Xiacheng's teleportation array, Lu Fan, a retainer from Jiangdong Sun Jian's forces, was ordered to secretly go to Xiacheng.

He needs to determine one thing—whether King Xia is still willing to keep his promise with Sun Jian.

King Xia once sent Lu Su to negotiate peace with Sun Jian, and was willing to let his son marry the daughter of the Sun family as his concubine.

But even if the two parties made a promise in private, King Xia might not necessarily keep the promise because he is in a strong position.

In particular, when Sun Jian of Eastern Wu heard that Prince Xia's son was a childhood sweetheart with Ma Yunlu of the Ma family in Xiliang, he ordered his guest Lu Fan to come and find out whether the rumors were true.

Lu Fan found a carriage returning to Xia Palace from the direction of Jixia Academy under the protection of the Tiger Guards.

continue reading! A female general got out of the carriage, and a boy and a girl got out of the carriage at the same time.

"You actually used the Tiger Guards for protection. Presumably that young boy must be the heir of King Xia, and that person...is our eldest lady's competitor, the daughter of the Ma family in Xiliang."

As one of the famous ministers of the Jiangdong forces, Lu Fan naturally has eyesight. Based on the age and scale of trips of Prince Xia's son, he inferred his identity.

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The eldest lady Lu Fan said was naturally Sun Shangxiang.

Sun Jian and Mrs. Wu had four sons and one daughter. Sun Shangxiang was the only daughter born to the royal family, so she was deeply loved by her father and several brothers.

"It seems that there is no need to continue to inquire. Miss Ma's family has entered the Xia Palace, and the Xia Palace may have recognized Miss Ma's family. The marriage agreement between King Xia and the Lord is probably a tactic to delay the battle."

Lu Fan believed that seeing is believing, so he returned home and reported to Sun Jian.

Sun Jian, a fierce tiger from the east of the Yangtze River, overturned the tea table in front of him and was very annoyed: "I believe in King Xia, so I am willing to marry the tiger girl to his son, but how can you deceive me!"

Sun Jian loved his daughter very much, and now Chutian showed signs of breaking the marriage, so he was very angry.

"Father, since King Xia looks down on our Sun family and uses the marriage contract to restrain us, let's attack Hefei City again and make King Xia regret it!"

When Sun Ce heard Lu Fan's return, he was also very angry.

On the one hand, Sun Shangxiang is a group favorite in the Sun family. On the other hand, Sun Jian, Sun Ce and his son felt cheated.

Because of a marriage contract, Hefei City did not go to war for two or three years.

However, based on what Lu Fan has seen and heard in Xia City, the probability of King Xia repenting is very high.

Sun Jian and Sun Ce thought it necessary to use force to remind Chutian that Chutian had violated the agreement with them.

"If we can't become relatives of the emperor, we will serve King Xia in the future, and we will only have a few horses and dozens of servants. Our Sun family in Wujun will definitely not be as prosperous as it is now."

Sun Jian originally put the hopes of the Sun family on his daughter, but seeing that the hope was slim, he had to consider other ways out.

Sun Ce said: "Wu Wang has generals such as Xie Xuan and Zhou Yu, and his father to help him guard the natural dangers of the Yangtze River, which is enough to rule the river with King Xia."

Sun Jian sighed: "King Xia has been preparing troops for the past year, and so is King Wu. King Wu even asked me to set up six legions and recruit 300,000 troops. It's just that King Xia's iron cavalry will go south and hunt in Jiangdong. block."

Sun Ce's eyes were firm: "If King Xia really deliberately humiliated our Sun family, then my son would rather fight to the death than suffer this insult, let alone sacrifice Xiangxiang in order to beg for everything."

"Prepare for battle."

Sun Jian also knew that with the military power in his hands, there would be room for negotiation in the future.

Now Chutian can break the contract at will, but the Sun family dares to be angry and dare not speak out. The reason is that Chutian has great influence, but the Sun family has no right to speak.

In the Yangtze River Basin, Zhou Yu, Lu Meng, and Gan Ning's naval forces are all over the place, as if entering a land without people.

Wu Jun controlled the entire Yangtze River Basin, and Xia Jun had no ships operating in the Yangtze River Basin at all.

Lu Meng in white looked at the vast river: "Since King Xia pacified Liaodong and Xiqiang, there has been no movement for a year."

Zhou Yu shook his head lightly: "Xia Jun didn't move, but it made people more disturbed. The mountain rain is about to come and the wind is full of the building."

"Although King Xia is accumulating strength, my lord has been working hard to build ships and crossbows this year. He may not lose to King Xia. The northern army is good at cavalry, while the southern army is good at sailors. No matter how fierce King Xia's cavalry is, As long as you can't cross the Yangtze River, then it's hard to beat us

continue reading! With Gongjin's fire attack ability, once the enemy's ship is approached by the fire ship, the loss will be unimaginable. "

Lu Meng had seen Zhou Yu's terrifying ability.

Every general has more or less his own abilities.

Among the naval commanders of the Han Empire, Zheng He was the master of navigation, while Zhou Yu was the descendant of the god of fire.

Lu Meng had seen the horror of Zhou Yu's fire attack.

When the Wu army fought the Song army, Zhou Yu's fire attack completely ruined the Song army's boat division, so the Wu army was able to defeat the Song army and force the Song army to surrender.

Lu Meng believed that as long as Zhou Yu guarded the Yangtze River, the Xia army would not be able to cross the river.

Even if the Xia army has unparalleled cavalry, it will not help in water battles.

Moreover, after more than ten years of accumulation by the Jiangdong Army, Tongque has obtained a large number of generals.

Not only Zhou Yu, but Lu Meng, Gan Ning, Xie Xuan, Liu Laozhi, Sun Jian and others are also good at commanding naval forces. Cooperating with Zhou Yu is comparable to the Great Wall built on the Yangtze River.

After the city of Ye was built, Tongque ordered Xie Xuan and others to train soldiers and horses, massively expanded the army, and absorbed a large number of young and strong Shanyue tribes.

For one year, for a whole year, the northern army did not move at all.

If you are not familiar with Chutian's style of work, you may think that Chutian loves peace.

However, the more silent Chutian was, the more restless Tongque became, because Chutian was constantly building up his army.

Once the army has accumulated to a certain level, Chutian's offensive will be quite fierce.

"I have built a solid line of defense. If you want to unify the Han Empire, you must pass me first."

The Bronze Sparrow inspected the soldiers and horses being drilled.

The generals that Tongque participated in the national wars and activities recruited for many times, in fact, rarely appeared in the sight of the northern princes. Only Song Wang Yang Shilang, who fought against Tongque, knew the generals of Tongque.

A young general was also forced to go into battle and participate in the training of soldiers and horses.

Tongque almost exhausted the talent potential of the entire Jiangdong, and wiped out all the wild generals wandering in Jiangdong.

Because Tongque knew that if he didn't do this, he would not be Chutian's opponent at all.

At this time, Lu Xun had just become an official, and Tongque immediately appointed Lu Xun, who was only 16 years old, as the captain to train Jiangdong soldiers and horses, and raise the level of Jiangdong's various legions as soon as possible.

"Lu Su is at Chu Zimou's place. I have the third of the four major governors of the Eastern Wu. Maybe I can prevent Chu Zimou from drinking the Yangtze River."

The possibility of the Battle of Red Cliff made Bronze Sparrow feel lucky, maybe he could achieve an epic victory like the Battle of Red Cliff.