*Fiction God of War White Rising 7*

The God of War was white

The Battle of Yanyin severely damaged the Chu state (7)

When King Huai of Chu learned of this news, he knew that the Chu army would not be able to conquer Lantian for a while, and that the armies of Han and Wei had already driven straight into the hinterland of the Chu state to attack the city, capturing Zhaoling (present-day Luohe, Henan) and directly approaching DengCheng (present-day Nanyang, Henan), in case of being intercepted and retreating, the Qin army would take the opportunity to cover up, and hundreds of thousands of Chu troops might face the end of total annihilation. After much hesitation, King Huai of Chu finally ordered with great regret to withdraw his troops from Lantian and retreat hundreds of miles to protect himself, thus losing the opportunity to completely defeat the Qin state and avenge the shame of the Qin state that had not been encountered in a hundred years.

After the State of Qin recovered its vitality, it then raised troops to force the State of Chu, and the State of Chu lost more than 100,000 troops through the Battle of Lantian, and its vigor had been lost, and it was no longer able to organize a strong counterattack, so it had no choice but to cut the land and seek peace.

In the thirtieth year of King Huai of Chu (299 BC), the temperamental King of Chu, despite the strong persuasion of his ministers, was deceived by the cunning King Zhaoxiang of Qin to meet at Wuguan on the grounds of peace talks, and the King of Qin forced the King of Chu Huai to cut off the land and ask for peace and save his life, but the King of Chu sternly refused.

King Zhaoxiang of Qin became so angry that he put King Huai of Chu under house arrest in the State of Qin for three years. In the thirty-third year of King Huai of Chu (296 BC), king Chu died of illness in a foreign country, and his son Xiong Heng succeeded to the throne, known as King Xiang of Chu. Since then, the strength of the Chu state has been sharply reduced, and it has gradually declined.

After Xiong Heng, the king of Xiang of Chu, succeeded to the throne, he wanted to take revenge on the State of Qin several times, but the national strength was too weak to achieve his wishes. In the sixth year of king Xiang of Chu (293 BC), the king of Chu was eager for revenge, and secretly sent envoys to the princely states of Qi, Zhao, Wei, and Han to plan a joint attack on Qin. When King Zhaoxiang of Qin heard this news, he was furious: "This Vertical Bear Heng is really arrogant, and he does not measure up to his strength to crusade against the Qin State?" Just what the widow wants! So it was decided to send Bai Qi to lead the Qin army to attack the Chu state to the south.

When The chancellor Wei Ran saw that King Qin Zhao was irritable, he hurriedly persuaded, "The Great King is angry. Although Xiong Heng, the king of Chu, was hateful, our country should now stabilize the south and march eastward with the main energy to attack the Zhao state. It is better for the king to first repair a letter and send it to the king of Chu, give a stern warning, in order to explore the truth, and then make a decision to cut down Chu according to the situation. ”

King Zhaoxiang of Qin calmed down and felt that Wei Ran's idea was feasible, so he wrote a letter to King Xiang of Chu. The letter said: "The king of Chu has always been well? I think that since the ancestor Qin Mugong, the Qin State has the ambition to march into Hanzhong, conquer Chu Land, and unify the world, although it encounters hundreds of setbacks, it will not be bent, and the more courageous it is. Today, the State of Qin took the Shu land in the south, marched into the Central Plains in the east, defeated the Han and Wei states in succession, besieged more than 100 cities, killed hundreds of thousands, was invincible, no one could be, and the national strength was growing day by day, and the world was proud. The king of Chu often remembered the shame of the defeat of Danyang and Lantian in the former Chu state, and wanted to unite the princes and fight with the Qin state. The widow also has this intention to meet the king of Chu, not to work the king of Chu for a long time, the widow wants to unite all the princes, do the millions of heroes of the Qin kingdom, visit the chu land, meet the king of Chu under the city of Yingdu (the capital of the Chu state), a duel of life and death, I don't know what the king of Chu intends? The widow was fiercely fighting horses, ready to go, waiting for the King of Chu to reply! ”

When King Xiang of Chu read this challenge letter from King Zhaoxiang of Qin, he couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat, thinking that he was not a rival of the Qin state, and hurriedly summoned all the ministers to discuss countermeasures. After repeated discussions, the ministers and generals all believed that the Qin army was strong and came by taking advantage of the victory of Yi Que, the fighting spirit was strong, and it was difficult for the Chu state to win if it rushed to meet the battle, and it was not as good as the Qin state to talk about peace, and it was the best policy to stop the war and stop the army.

King Xiang of Chu listened to the opinions of the ministers and felt that there was absolutely no chance of victory in provoking a war with the State of Qin, so it was better to make concessions for the time being and then consider the long term. Therefore, the king of Chu was busy replying to King Zhaoxiang of Qin, saying that for the sake of peace and tranquility, the State of Chu had absolutely no intention of fighting with the Qin army to wash away the shame before the snow, and was willing to obey Qin in the future. In order to show sincerity, the State of Chu was willing to marry qin and Jin with the state of Qin and marry a Qin woman as a wife in order to seek reconciliation between the two countries.

King Zhaoxiang of Qin also wanted to march east into the Central Plains and did not want to fight on two fronts, but when he saw that King Xiang of Chu was earnest in his letter, he whispered, knowing that king Xiang of Chu lacked the courage to fight with the State of Qin, so he agreed to King Xiang of Chu's request and sent emissaries to the State of Chu with gifts to show goodwill, and the two countries went on strike and fought in peace, in exchange for more than ten years of peaceful coexistence.

(To be continued)