Chapter 26 Chapter 26 Qin and Sword Locking the Cold River

The Qin-Chu coalition forces have approached the border of Chu State.King Helu of Wu urgently summoned his ministers to seek countermeasures. All the ministers were at a loss for what to do when the powerful state of Qin sent troops to aid Chu, and the state of Yue took the opportunity to attack Wu. Fu Gai asked for a battle: "My lord, the Qin army went on an expedition to the country. The water and soil were not acclimatized, and the soldiers and horses were exhausted. The remnants of the Chu general Ziqi had little courage left. Fu Gai is willing to lead the army to a showdown with the Qin-Chu coalition army. Please rest assured, Your Majesty, Fu Gai will definitely kill the Qin-Chu coalition army without any armor remaining, so that the Chu people will never dare to dream of regaining Yingdu."

He Lu: "If you fail, what should you say?" "Husband Gai is willing to guarantee with his life. If he loses, he will become a hero in the army and never return home!" He Lu: "What does General Sun think?" Sun Wudao: "In my opinion, although Qin's soldiers are strong and mighty, they don't know Wu's tactics. In addition, they marched a long distance and entered Chu territory, so they are not familiar with the geography. Although the Chu army is a remnant army, But the revival of the country is eager, the pain of subjugation is deep, not only the soldiers, but the common people will bet their lives and dare to die. Our army can send troops to form an array to avoid the sharpness of the Chu army and strike the unprepared Qin army. If you return home indolently, you will definitely win."

Fu Gai: "What General Sun said is very true. Please order General Sun and Fu Gai to lead the army to fight together, so that nothing will go wrong." Sun Wu didn't know what Fugai brought him together again, what was his intention?However, he could neither push back, nor did he have enough evidence to immediately expose Fugai's plot. Helu asked Fucha: "What do you think, my son? I have entrusted you with the task of defending Yingdu. You must not disappoint my good intentions." Fu Chai: "General Yifugai's penetrating analysis of the current situation and General Fugai's wisdom, I think that a single piece of General Fugai is enough to defeat the enemy."

He Lu pondered.Fu Chai didn't just think about how to defeat Qin and Chu's army. For him, the troubles in his heart were that a crown prince would eventually be tired, and the first was the uncle Wang.Finally tired after chasing King Chu Zhao to no avail, he was depressed and restless, and fell ill with a serious illness, and he is still bedridden.Although Fugai was not the heir to Helu, he was cunning and ambitious, often revealing his ambition to spy on the throne, and he was not someone who lived under the king for a long time.Not only Fu Chai was aware of this, but He Lu was already on guard.During the battle of breaking through Chu and entering Ying, both He Lu and Fu Chai were surprised to find that the army led by Fu Gai was brave and tenacious, and Fu Gai's wings were getting fuller day by day.Fucha calculated, and just took advantage of this opportunity to let him fight. It is estimated that there will be no problem in winning.Everyone will be happy if they win, and Fugai's army will have to be damaged. If in case of defeat, prepare a backup force. It will be foolproof.Anyway, if you want to send troops, you should send your husband.

As for whether Sun Wu went with Fu Gai, he certainly noticed that Fu Gai and Sun Wu had a close relationship, but he didn't think there would be any conspiracy between the two of them leading troops to fight. . Fu Chai said: "General Fu Gai can lead the army to go, General Sun—" He Lu interrupted Fu Chai's words: "Changqing stayed in Yingdu, plotting for the widow to completely defeat the great plan of Chu State." Fu Gai: "If your Majesty orders General Sun to go with you, you will surely win." Wu Zixu: "Why, General Fugai himself is not sure about defeating Qin and Chu's army? Didn't he say just now that he wants to kill the enemy's army?"

Wu Zixu had long been dissatisfied with Husband Gai's arrogance and ambition. He Lu: "If General Fugai can't win, Zixu can go to war on his behalf." Wu Zixu: "Wu Zixu is willing to go!" Sun Tzu: "It's so good." Fugai was almost irritated: "Your Majesty, I don't need any help, just one person is enough to defeat the enemy! I just swore, and I would like to repeat it, I will win this time. If there is a mistake, Fugai will be the hero of the rebellious army. Do not return home!" He Lu: "Okay, okay, I am very lucky to have such a loyal and brave brother as Fugai! General Fugai will be invincible in this meeting, and one of them is worth a hundred! Come, come, I will hold a banquet for you!"

"No need, Fugai will dispatch troops immediately." During their conversation, Sun Wu thought about it.What he was most worried about was that Fugai would lead the army alone, and if he left King Wu and all his officials, he might do something earth-shattering.Because he had already seen through Fugai's "rebellion", so he interrupted suddenly: "Wait a minute! Your Majesty, General Fugai's departure is of great importance. If we can choose a general to go with us, it will be safe." He Lu narrowed his eyes: "General Sun is going?" Sun Tzu: "You might as well invite General Zixu to go with you."

Fugai: "Does General Sun look down on Fugai? Well, today I will fight with jade in my mouth in front of the king. I will learn from my heart! In the future, before the two armies battle, I will smash the gold Gongs, only drums, I know what to do!" Only the dead had jade in their mouths, and Fugai pulled off the jade pendant on his body and stuffed it into his mouth, expressing his determination to see death as home, never turn back, and fight to the end.When the two armies fought, the gongs were sounded to retreat, and the drums were beaten to advance. Fugai said that the general would smash the gongs and only bring the battle drums, and declared that he would fight to the death and would not give himself a way out.At this time, Fugai lost all his gentleness, amiability, modesty, reservedness, calmness, etc. of the past, his facial features shifted, and he dominated the royal court.

He Lu looked very excited: "The general's courage should not be taken lightly. Come, take the widow's Qingying sword." The attendant presented the famous sword in the world. He Lu personally handed the sword to Fu Gai: "I will give the sword of Qingying to the general as a reward for the general's bravery. When the general returns in triumph, I will personally lead the horse and drive the general!" Fugai kowtowed and kowtowed nine times. "General, let's go out immediately!" With jade in his mouth, Fugai muttered something, stood up without turning his eyes at anyone, walked down the hall with his stomach full.

He was in such a hurry, as if he had snatched something, and ran away quickly. The crowd will disperse.Fu Chai asked He Lu, "Father, why didn't you order Sun Wu and Fu Gai to fight together?" He Lu smiled faintly: "You are such a wet boy!" When Sun Wu returned to the mansion, it was dusk. It was just a day of floating clouds, but at night they suddenly gathered together and swallowed up the setting sun.The sky was very overcast, with dusty clouds hanging down, leaving only a narrow gap in the world.Sun Wu's heart was so stuffy that it seemed to be filled with clouds, making it hard to breathe.He saw something that was not pleasing to the eye, entered the room, and when he closed the door, he used too much force, the door bounced back with a bang, and opened.He slammed the door again, and the door was flicked open again by the wind.The miasma of the Chu country caused countless red bumps on his back, but it only started to itch at this time, and it was so itchy that he couldn't scratch it.Sitting in front of the tables, I didn't care to read the piles of bamboo slips, and pushed them with my hands, hitting the tile inkstone, and the thick ink was splashed everywhere on the table.He was very anxious, which was something he had never experienced before.When he was in front of Sima Rangjuling of the State of Qi, he was not anxious even though it was full of dangers; when he first arrived in the State of Wu, he was left idle in the Gusu Pavilion, and he was not as anxious as he is now; in the thrilling war, every battle It was very tormenting before the beginning, and he was not so disturbed, what happened now?What changed him?He has always been strategizing and has a plan in mind, so how could he have an unexplainable and terrifying premonition now?Moreover, now, what he foresees is a crisis that is crucial to the fate of Wu Guosheji and himself, but he has no way of judging when it will happen.

Is it because King Helu of Wu no longer listened to his strategy? Is it because of an insidious husband? Fu Gai is extremely cunning, he is trying to bite the royal court of Wu State, making you feel that he is a hidden danger of Wu State, but you can't tell.He deliberately wanted to tie Sun Wu with him, but Sun Wu had no way or reason to wash himself clean in advance.Therefore, Sun Wu added another trouble to the series of troubles, and he couldn't help himself from being anxious.Anxiety stems from his wise judgment and wisdom helplessness. The root of anxiety is that this invisible battle is more elusive and more energy-intensive than the roundabout battle of millions of troops. "What did Yiluo do? Call her to see me!" Sun Wu yelled to the old army. Yiluo was restlessly listening to Sun Wu's movements in the room, and at this moment, she hurried over. She knew that she had made a big mistake, or a big taboo.She shouldn't have gone to Fugai's mansion with Sun Wu on her back. However, Ah Jing is not a devil, why can't she go see her?What is Fugai thinking, what is he plotting, and what does it have to do with Yiluo? Yiluo came, but Sun Wu didn't speak. Yiluo was beating drums in her heart.Yiluo was very careful, walking almost silently, and went to wipe the ink stains on the table. Seeing Yiluo being so delicate and delicate, Sun Wu couldn't get angry even if he wanted to. "Why is it so boring? It's going to rain." "It's going to rain, General." Sun Wu said nonchalantly, and Yiluo responded nonchalantly. silence.You have to find something to say, or you will be smothered to death. Sun Tzu: "Do you understand the meaning of the phrase "plan for a rainy day?" "Remember, the meaning of Shang is: while the sky is still clear, while the rain has not come down, quickly use the mulberry root to wrap the dilapidated window lattice. Am I right, General?" Sun Tzu: "No." After a while, Sun Wu suddenly said to himself: "But you just saw the clouds and smelled the smell of rain that no one else has smelled. You said that there will be heavy rain, thunder, and the house will collapse... What can people do?" Do you believe me, can I not call you crazy?" "General, don't just listen to the wind and say rain." "Nonsense!" Sun Wu was about to get angry. Yiluo: "Is the general going to get angry again? Didn't the general swear to never get angry with Yiluo again?" "I'm mad at myself!" "Angering will hurt the liver and spleen, General." "Well." "..." "Today's weather is really boring." "It will be good when it rains. It will be happy when it rains." Sun Wu sighed: "Yiluo huyiluo, don't I know that being angry hurts my liver? Am I making trouble for no reason, and am I willing to get angry with you? But what are you going to do at Fugai's place?" "Go and see Ah Jing. What's wrong with talking between sisters, General?" "Go and visit General Fugai too!" "Even if you visited Fugai, General, would you be guilty of a crime?" "Fuga is very kind to you." "Okay. More than one good word can sum it up? Husband is probably kind to me." "Grace is as heavy as a mountain!" "General, you know it. When Yiluo met the general, it was General Fugai who set up a bridge. This time when Yiluo and the general reunited, it was Fugai's painstaking efforts..." "It should be said that it took great pains." "Yes, yes, it was painstaking, the general said it was painstaking, so it was painstaking." The willful Yi Luo shouted.He didn't know why Sun Wu was so unkind. "So you came here and said you were looking for me to give you a sword, but you spent half a month under Fugai's account first." "What are you talking about, General? What do you mean by smuggling?" "I see." "General, what do you understand?" Sun Tzu sneered: "The praying mantis is attacking the cicada, and the oriole is behind." "What oriole?" Sun Wu: "Only women and villains are hard to raise!" Seeing that Sun Wu was really angry, Yiluo's words became more and more outrageous, and she panicked: "General, you..." Sun Wu still sneered: "It's not a day that Fugai has ulterior motives, and his plot to rebel and usurp the throne has not been a day or two. You, Yiluo, you are Fugai's bait!" Yiluo turned pale in shock, and knelt down in front of Sun Wu: "General, you can't talk nonsense like that, the little girl really can't bear such a crime!" Sun Tzu sarcastically said, "Don't be too modest." Yiluo explained: "There is a saying that the wind arises from the realm of yin and yang, moves on the tip of the grass, travels in the mountains and deserts, and there are winds before there are waves. However, Yiluo doesn't know where the wind comes from. With such an uproar, where did this fatal disaster come from—General!" Sun Tzu: "Fortune is the root of misfortune, and misfortune is the cause of blessing!" Yiluo: "I climbed mountains and waded rivers to come to you just to suffer disaster?" Sun Wu laughed wildly, the laugh was worse than crying: "Alas, my Sun Wu really regards you as a close-fitting silk silk, a grass that relieves worries, you are also like the moon in that day, round and short, unpredictable? Yiluo, Yiluo, you know poetry and books, you know the rhyme of the piano, and you are understanding, you are so smart, I never dreamed of it, and you are quite clever! I got involved in his rebellious conspiracy, and at the same time asked you to come up with a "beauty trick"! In the future, the crime of rebellion will be revealed to the world, and I will not be able to wash it away even if I pour water into the sky! I, Sun Wu, can be regarded as half a lifetime Hero, I was almost caught in a trap by a little woman like you, you mere little girl, how dare you harm me! There is a saying that you are greedy for bait and swallow the hook sooner or later, but you probably never thought that if you fail to fish, the bait will be eaten by the fish instead! " The more Sun Wu said, the more impulsive he was, and the logical reasoning pushed him further and further.He originally wanted to suppress the anger in his heart, but he couldn't suppress it after all.Sun Wu judged that Fugai was completely correct in using Yiluo as "bait", but he further said that Yiluo and Fugai conspired together, set traps, and made a "beauty trap", the great general was completely wrong. Sun Wu himself didn't realize that after he worshiped the general in the state of Wu, his endless war life was quietly and ruthlessly changing him.The successive victories in the war made him very confident, so confident that he was a little paranoid.The general has built his exploits through battles, and he values ​​meritorious deeds more than ever.Merit has become his burden, and he is absolutely unwilling to abandon and destroy it easily.He closely linked his own destiny and fame with the state of Wu, and he was sensitive and vigilant to anyone and anything that might endanger the state of Wu. In his early years, he killed two princesses on the training ground. He watched the warrior drown in the river, which showed that there were cruel things in his life, but the years of battles and bloody fights made his cruel nature Su, expanded.He has always been good at making decisions on the fly, and has always dared to take risks and die for his own established goals. What else is there that he dare not abandon?Now is the most anxious time in his half life, and one of the sources of this unresolved anxiety is Fugai's conspiracy.Today, his indifference, paranoia, and even his anxiety and irritability have all been imposed on Yiluo.When he deduced the result of "beauty trick", "trap", "bait" and "harm", he frantically took the "Yijian" hanging on the wall. He drew his gleaming sword.The sword buzzed. Yiluo almost paralyzed with fright, screamed: "General! You, you, are you going to kill me?" Sun Tzu's hands trembled.The nerve of love was flicked, how could he do it? Yiluo cried, crying very aggrieved and sad.She roared hoarsely: "Don't bother you! I... can die by myself!" With a clang, Sun Wu threw the sword to the ground. It was getting darker.The wind was running against the ground, and the whimpering of the wind could be heard in the room.The rain was about to fall, and Sun Wu suddenly felt cold and shivered. Yiluo held back the tears that flowed like spring water, sobbed, and crawled over in despair, picking up the sword.She opened her tearful eyes and looked at the Yijian she had cast with her own hands, feeling a heartbroken pain; could it be that the sword cut her throat and cut off the fate of the world?Yijian, Yijian, the sword I made cut my own life, why?Yiluo, you are really miserable. You were born in troubled times, you were displaced, and you haven't lived a good life yet!How did you entrust your love to this cruel man?Why on earth did you forge a sword for him and come to the battlefield to find him?Don't you know that he once cut off your sister's head without mercy?She thought, and her heart ached, she thought, once the long sword is horizontal, she will never think, love, or fall in love again, right?After death, what does the soul rely on?Can the lonely soul find her sister?Can I go back to my hometown?She shook her head, her eyes were blank, and she looked at Sun Wu through her tears. Sun Wu had his back to the wall.The rain finally came down, and the raindrops as big as copper coins knocked and shook the window lattice, and the sound of wind and rain accompanied by lightning and thunder swept the world.Every sound made Yiluo tremble.Sun Wu probably couldn't calm down, so he simply went to open the window again, and stood in front of the window to let the wind and rain sweep across.Yiluo choked with sobs and muttered to himself, the rain is so good, it’s so good, let it rain for seventy-nine days, wash off the blood on Yiluo’s body, let Yiluo, who is dry and clean, go clean ... However, I have to die to understand. "Sun Wu!" she roared.Sun Tzu's body trembled, but he didn't look back. "Sun Wu, listen. Yiluo must die to understand. Are you confused? Are you insane? If you explain clearly, I will die soon. How did you know that I was plotting a rebellion? How did you know that I am a husband?" Perhaps an accomplice? You value me too much, General!" She broke down in sobs again. "Birds... when they are about to die, their cries are mournful, and when people are about to die, their words are good. You are a general, and you make killing people. You once used the head of my sister Concubine Sang to prove your competence. You I want to use my blood to prove your innocence. Because of this, you will never be innocent! Who will prove that my sister and I are innocent? Yiluo cast this sword to ask the general to go to the front of the two armies Killing a powerful enemy, the battlefield is an extraordinary situation, you don’t have to frown when you bleed, but this is your house! Do you really want to let this sword be covered with Yiluo’s blood? General... " The rain was pouring down.The whole world is full of fishy smell.Yiluo cried for a while and talked for a while.She wouldn't die if she didn't express all the grievances in her heart. "General!" "Stop talking!" Sun Wu turned around. Yiluo: "Listen, after Yiluo died unjustly today, I will go to find my sister, my sister and I will come back every day, the ghost of death will haunt your soul, and make you restless from now on forever and ever! " elder sister?Yiluo and her sister? ... Sun Tzu shivered again.The rain, and the wind, rushed towards the lamp seedlings, and the lamp seedlings flickered and struggled, and the curtain flew up, rattling and rattling.Inexplicably, Sun Wu saw a Yiluo, another Yiluo, no, maybe it was a concubine, and there was another concubine who was also a concubine, with a white skirt and a blood-stained white face, floating leisurely.Sun Wu's heart was messed up by Yiluo.He almost didn't dare to look at Yiluo, and he didn't dare to look at the sword. Yiluo stopped talking, wiped away her tears, straightened her temple hair, and silently picked up the sword. "General, it's up to you to do it!" Sun Tzu's heart was trembling. "Come on! It's very simple." "..." "If you don't come, I will come by myself." Yiluo suddenly swung his sword across. Sun Wu rushed over suddenly, grabbed the sword, and threw it far into the corner of the wall.This is almost a subconscious action. At this moment, about Sheji, about Fugai, about rebellion, about "beauty tricks", all have lost their driving force, and the complicated, temporarily unresolved, saying no An undercurrent of clear, visceral emotion finally breaks through the hard shell of reason and takes the upper hand.His jumping movements were reckless, even when the bronze sword cut his finger, he didn't care and didn't notice it. Yiluo fell into his arms drowsily. He hugged Yiluo tightly, not daring to move, as if he was afraid that if he let go, the person would be gone. The lamp was blown out by the blowing cold wind. The room was extremely dark, extremely dark, Sun Wu felt that Yiluo suddenly hugged him tightly, Yiluo cried and whispered: "General, Yiluo is your man when he lives, and your ghost when he dies, don't you believe it?" ?” He didn't know what to say.He let out a long sigh. He said: "Yiluo, can I prepare a car and horse to take you to Madam's place? Here, Yingcheng, is not where you stay..."