022 Reluctantly divide the troops
"What's going on? It's just been a long time since you rested, why did you stop again? β
"See for yourselves."
"This?"
"No, is there a mistake?"
After Wang Su and Li Ling respectively read the 100,000 urgent letter, they both showed unbelievable faces, and they couldn't believe that Ying Yiren would give such an order at such a moment.
It turned out that on the day when it was determined to send troops, Ying Yiren sent three teams of men and horses at the same time, LΓΌ Buwei went to Zhao to deal with the events after the destruction of Zhou Tianzi, and Wang Qi and Mi Chen went to Wei and Korea respectively to persuade the two countries to allow the Qin army to borrow the road.
The location of the Zhou royal family was surrounded by Wei in the east and north, and Korea in the west and south, and the Qin army wanted to pass, but it had to borrow one of the two countries, and it was impossible to avoid it.
The reason why the army waited for three days in Xianyang before leaving, firstly, was to gather troops, and secondly, it was able to gain time, and even if it embarked on the journey, the speed of the army's advance was not very fast.
Just as the 200,000 army was about to arrive on the bank of the Yellow River at the junction of the Three Kingdoms, Meng Biao waited for the news of Xianyang, but this news really caught Meng Biao a little off guard.
As the envoy of Qin, Mi Chen, the uncle of Yingyiren, was actually detained by South Korea, but fortunately, his entourage loyally protected the lord and fished out Mi Chen, and at the same time, Wang Qi also came with the news that Wei allowed the Qin army to borrow, but he wanted a piece of the pie.
Faced with such a situation, coupled with hearing that her younger brother was almost killed in Korea, the Empress Dowager Huayang directly forced Ying Yiren to temporarily change her war strategy and split the army attacking the Zhou royal family into two.
Wang Su led an army of 80,000 to attack Korea directly, and the remaining 120,000 troops were led by General Meng Fu as the main general, Li Ling as the deputy general, and went straight to the Zhou royal territory behind Korea through Wei.
"This is just nonsense!"
"No, there's something strange about this."
Meng Fu and Wang Su scolded angrily, but Li Ling seemed to have noticed something unusual.
"Korea has been weak for a long time, and Mi Chen is the king's uncle, the monarch of South Korea will not be stupid enough to want to detain Mi Chen and make my Daqin an enemy, right? It is counterintuitive that he is seeking his own death by doing so. β
"Hiss~~ It can't be a fraud!"
Listening to Li Ling's words, Meng Yu gasped violently.
"It's hard to see that Han Wei has a conspiracy with each other, and on this ground, he forces us to divide our forces, and then divide them and attack them?"
A terrible thought came out of Wang Su's mind, if it was really as he thought, while Mengfu was attacking South Korea on a large scale, he led his army into the hinterland of Wei, and then they cut off the rear of the army, but it was really over.
"No, after Han and Wei got the news of our troops, even if they immediately started to contact and discuss, it would be too late. Perhaps, Wei Guo did agree to borrow the way, but what happened in Korea may not be as that Mi Chen said! β
"What did the Master say about this?"
"This son of a bitch, this is to risk the lives of my 200,000 soldiers in Daqin and even the national fortune of my Daqin for his own selfish interests!"
Wang Su didn't ask about the affairs of the court at all on weekdays, he was a complete military general, and he didn't understand the meaning of Li Ling's words.
But as an old fritter in the officialdom, Meng Fu immediately understood the meaning of Li Ling's words, and angrily scolded directly.
"So what do we do? After all, this is a command of the king. β
Well, in fact, Li Ling himself just felt that there was moisture in Mi Chen's words, and even Li Ling naively thought that it might just be that Mi Chen wanted to find an excuse after the negotiation failed, but he didn't expect Meng Ling's scolding to make Li Ling really understand the key.
Originally, Zhou Tianzi had already sent an envoy to jointly resist Qin, and now if Daqin suddenly sent troops to attack Korea, it would inevitably completely promote the joint resistance to Qin, and by that time, Meng Wei had already led a part of the army into the territory of Wei......
This Mi Chen didn't make excuses for the failure of the negotiation at all, but wanted to take this opportunity to get rid of Meng Fu directly, and also get rid of Li Ling by the way.
"I will immediately go to the king, and I will attack Korea, but as long as there are 30,000 horses, Wang Su and the master and the two of you will immediately lead 170,000 troops straight to Gongcheng, remember, once you find that the momentum is not right, withdraw immediately! In addition, after conquering Gongcheng, you can't fall in love with the war, just capture that Wenjun back to Xianyang! β
Meng Fu is also a ruthless man, directly disobeying the king's order to change the deployment, first cut and then play, and then only 30,000 horses to attack South Korea, and handed over the 170,000 army to Wang Su's command, so that even if the situation turns sharply and falls into a heavy siege, Wang Su, who has 170,000 heavy troops, is still capable of killing back.
"But if the king blames it, this is a big crime to punish the nine clans!"
"Of course, the king will condemn the guilt, but if we win a big victory and the merits and demerits are offset, I believe the king should know that the court cannot miss me from being defeated."
"Wang Su will not let the general down!"
"Okay, the two of you act immediately, bring enough grain and grass, I have my back to Daqin, you don't need to worry too much."
......
That night, just as the 170,000 army began to cross the river, Meng Fu led the 30,000 army to launch a night attack, and broke through the pass into the hinterland overnight, directly taking the important town of Gaocheng.
As the sky gradually brightened, the main force on Wang Su's side finally completed the river crossing, and all the rest were heavy grain and grass, which seemed to be much easier, but in fact, Wang Su knew very well that crossing the river with heavy grain and grass was the most time-wasting.
Sure enough, the army waited on the bank of the Yellow River for a full day and a night, and all the grain and grass were crossed.
After a short rest and recuperation, he set sail again without stopping, and after the 170,000 troops completely crossed the river, it took only three days to reach Mengjin of Wei.
Mengjin and Gongcheng are across the river, just across the bank of this unusually wide river, which is the goal of their trip.
The unusually gentle river made Li Ling almost can't believe that this is still the magnificent Yellow River in his impression, if it is a normal day, this is definitely an excellent place to cross the river, but now it is in the middle of a war, and it is an ancient war.
There have been many years of grievances between Qin and Wei, and now in the territory of Wei, Wang Su can't get many boats that can cross the river, standing at the ferry, Wang Su and Li Ling are a little headache, they still think things are too simple.
"The two generals are worried about crossing the river?"
Just when Wang Su and Li Ling were at a loss, a voice suddenly broke the silence.
The person who came was not a soldier of the Qin army, but a man wearing a red robe and a sword at his waist, this person was dignified and extraordinary, and he looked like he was thirty or forty years old, and the only fly in the ointment was that he was a little shorter.
Li Ling estimated that this person is only 1.65 meters tall at most, and if he is more than ten centimeters taller, if he is put in the 21st century, it will definitely make countless women crazy, and this girl is a perfect uncle.