Chapter 16: The Great War Begins (Part II)
On the eighth day of the second month, Shanggu County, Yan Kingdom, the county capital Fuyang.
As we enter February, the weather is getting warmer.
The south gate of the eastern city of Fuyang was heavily guarded, and a large army passed through the city gate.
On the horizon of the official road in the distance, flags were unfurled, dyeing the sky red.
The boats from the Yan River also flowed endlessly, and groups of soldiers disembarked from the boats and began to line up. The materials unloaded from the ship were also neatly piled up on the docks of Fuyang City.
In the temporary army camp outside Fuyang City, red flags fluttered in the wind.
Under the dense banners, there were Yan troops in armor.
The people in Fuyang City, for so many years, have never seen so many Yan troops.
In the restaurants in the streets and alleys, people are discussing.
In the second-floor compartment of a restaurant, three people were looking at a neatly lined line of Yan Jun passing by from the open window.
One of them looked at the marching Yan army, his eyes were complicated, and he said to the person next to him: "Boss, Yan Guo is ......"
The man who was called the boss turned around and whispered, "Don't say more, just look at how many people have passed?" ”
The man who spoke first nodded, and said no more.
After a while, another man said to the man who was called the Boss:
"Boss, there are more than 30,000 troops in the city just now, and there are even more troops outside the city, Yan Guo is going to make a move against Zhao Guodaijun."
The man who is called the boss raised the middle finger of his right hand, "shh
"Be quiet. Although this war has nothing to do with our Wei State, we must also send the news back to Daliang immediately and inform the king and Xinling Jun. Alas! We have so few men in the Upper Valley that we don't get any useful information. ”
Ten days later, Wei Wangyu received a message from Shanggu.
"What? The army of the Yan State has gathered in the upper valley and is preparing to attack the Zhao Guodai County? ”
In the palace, after looking at the military information of the Yan State transmitted by the messenger from Shanggu, Wei Wangyu was very surprised.
"The widow thought that Yan Wangkang was going to attack Handan, but he didn't expect him to choose to attack Daijun. By the way, has the eastern army of Yan been mobilized? Wei Wangyu then asked.
"King Qiqi, although the armies of the eastern counties of Yan Kingdom have been mobilized and their vigilance has been strengthened, there is no movement to send troops to Handan." Someone replied.
Wei Wangyu looked up at the north for a long time, and then asked slowly: "Qin State, is there a reaction?" ”
"Great King, the information has been transmitted back from Xianyang of the Qin State, and the Qin army has not made any moves."
"It seems that Qin Guo is not ready to participate in this matter. As soon as spring began, Yan Wangkang was ready to move troops, it seemed that he was really impatient! This is to catch Zhao Guo off guard. Wei Wangyu said.
"Your Majesty, the Yan State has invaded Dai County, which is a good thing for my Wei State. At the very least, Yan Guo has no plans to attack my Wei State in the near future, which also buys me Wei State time to rest. Shangqing Zhou Xin said to Wei Wangyu.
After listening to Zhou Xin's words, Wei Wangyu nodded and said:
"Zhou Qing's words are reasonable, what my Wei State needs now is time. I, the Wei State, can take advantage of this time to recuperate and recuperate, and sit and watch the two countries of Yan and Zhao fight. It is best that Yan and Zhao can fight for a long time, and in the end, both will lose, which is the best thing for my Wei State. ”
Since Wei was defeated in two battles last year, it has no extra strength to take care of the affairs of other countries.
After a while, Wei Wangyu said to Shangqing Zhou Xin: "Wait a minute, you tell Xinling Jun this information, see what he says?" This time, he can't take the army anymore and support Zhao Guo, right? ”
Shangqing Zhou Xin heard this and laughed: "Wang, I'm too worried." ”
At this time, the most important thing for the Wei State was to quickly come out of the shadow of last year's defeat.
As for the affairs of other countries, Wei really can't manage it now, and he doesn't have the ability to manage it.
The military moves of the Yan army in Shanggu County were soon transmitted back to the Central Plains countries.
The courts of various countries that received the information all believed that this was the beginning of the further expansion of the Yan Kingdom.
In the face of such a situation, except for Qin Wang Yingji, he was a little worried. The kings of the other nations were relieved.
Let's fight! You Yan Guo will fight Zhao Guo to the death!
Is Zhao Guo easy to fight? That's definitely not going to be a good fight!
Zhao Guomin is fierce, generous people, and the people dare to fight to the death.
In order to weaken the power of Zhao State, what a lot of effort did the Qin State waste! But in the end, he still couldn't take down Zhao Guo. On the contrary, it hurt a powerful Qin State in the end.
The final outcome of your Yan Kingdom is best like that of Qin Kingdom. This is great for all countries in the world.
After the news that the Yan army gathered in Shanggu and prepared to attack the Dai County of Zhao State was transmitted back to Juyang, the temporary capital of Chu State, Xiong Wan, the king of Chu, and Huang Xie, the king of Chunshen, also breathed a big sigh of relief after hearing about it.
In terms of national strength and military strength, Zhao State at this time is definitely not comparable to Yan State.
But in the eyes of Xiong Wan, the king of Chu, and Huang Xie, Chun Shenjun, Zhao Guo is not something to be handled casually, this is also a hard bone. If Yan Guo had to gnaw on this hard bone, he would eventually swallow it in his stomach, and he would also have a few teeth broken.
"King Yan is going to attack Zhao, this is inevitable, but isn't it too early?"
Many people with lofty ideals who support Yan Guo as the right thing in the world gathered together and talked about it.
Zhao Guodai County, the county capital Daicheng (now Wei County, Hebei Province), Daihou Mansion.
At the side of the Daihou Mansion, the gate was slowly opened.
One of the Daihou's cronies accompanied one of them in.
After coming to Dai Hou's study, I saw Dai Hou, who was now in his fifties, Dai Bing, who had been waiting for a long time.
"Liu Qi was entrusted by Wu Yangjun to meet the Marquis."
The person, who was introduced by the soldiers' cronies, bowed down and saluted the soldiers.
This Wuyangjun in Liu Qi's mouth is Ji Xi, the eldest brother of Yan Wangkang.
Yan Wangkang's sister-in-law, Ji Xi's wife, is the daughter of the current Daihou,
"Mr. Liu Qi, please get up quickly." The substitute soldier hurriedly commanded.
"Thank you, Daihou." Liu Qi, who is an officer of the Yanguo Intelligence Bureau, said.
Dai Bing waved his hand, Dai Hou's cronies also retreated, and only Dai Bing and Liu Qi were left in the study.
The two sat opposite each other, and Dai Bing looked at Liu Qi and asked, "Mr. Liu Qi is here, I don't know what you are doing?" ”
Liu Qi smiled, took out a letter written on paper from his arms, and handed it to Dai Hou.
"Daihou, this is a letter from Wuyangjun and his wife, personally to Daihou, Daihou knows after reading it."
After reading the letter between his son-in-law and daughter, Dai Bing's two chubby hands couldn't help but tremble.
If you look closely, you will find that beads of sweat have appeared on Hou's fat head.
"Mr. Liu Qi, are you Yan really going to fight Daijun?" The soldier asked.
"Yes, Lieutenant. Our hundreds of thousands of troops have now gathered in the upper valley, and will soon send troops to attack Daijun. ”
Liu Qi replied.
Seeing the nervous appearance of the substitute soldiers, Liu Qi stepped forward and whispered to the substitute marquis:
"Daihou, when Liu Qi came, Wu Yangjun and his wife just wanted to ask Daihou a word: That is Daihou, you forgot your ancestors, how was killed by Zhao Xiangzi?"
As soon as Liu Qi finished saying this, Dai Bing's face changed, and it was very ugly.
After a long while, he said to Liu Qi: "The enmity of the ancestors, I dare not forget it for a day." ”
The Daijun of the Zhao State was originally the Daiguo. Zhao Xiangzi, the ancestor of Zhao Wangdan, married his sister to the then monarch of the Daiguo, that is, the ancestor of the current Daihou, in order to replace the country.
After Zhao Xiangzi gained the trust of the acting monarch, he went to meet the acting monarch. Zhao Xiangzi asked hundreds of dancers in advance to hide their weapons in dance equipment made of feathers, and prepared a large golden bucket for wine.
After Dai Jun arrived, when the wine was in full spirit, the person pouring the wine turned over the big gold bucket, slammed Dai Jun, and killed Dai Jun in one fell swoop. The dancers also took out their weapons from the dance equipment and killed all of the Daijun's entourage.
So Xiangzi used Daijun's car to pick up Daijun's wife and his own sister.
Daijun's wife, when she got the news from a distance, sharpened the hairpin on the road and stabbed herself to death.
Zhao Xiangzi then raised the army and established the Dai County. and named his sister's son as the acting marquis.
Seeing that Dai Bing was like this, Liu Qi leaned over his head and whispered in Dai Hou's ear:
"Daihou, my Yan army will arrive in Daicheng soon, you only need to ......"
After half a ring, Dai Bing made up his mind and said to Liu Qi:
"Mr. Liu Qi, as long as your army comes to Daicheng, I will proceed as agreed just now."
Liu Qi got up, bowed down and said to the soldiers:
"Don't worry, as long as you can help me Yan Guo in this Daijun war, my king will treat you well. The matter is urgent, and I will inform our army of the plan of you and me as soon as possible. ”