Chapter 289: Crossing the River
Fenyin.
The messenger sent by Kammao went away in a rage.
Originally, the Yiqu State was defeated by the Qin State, and the morale of the countries was frustrated, and as the hope gradually faded, Gan Mao immediately sent an envoy to contact the King of Wei.
After several rounds of exchanges, the King of Wei was already planning to confront the Qin State across the river, but when the news of the Shangjun Surprise came, the Wei State promised Gan Mao on the front foot, and the back foot immediately changed the hexagram, and immediately strengthened the offensive against Shaoliang.
King Wei watched the envoy leave and smiled disapprovingly.
As the saying goes, things are impermanent, not long ago Wei was still worried about Qin's revenge, but only a few days have passed, and it has become Qin's fear of being attacked by Wei.
Just thinking about it, a waiter came to report: "King, King Zhao is fast and has a message." โ
"King Zhao?" King Wei was stunned for a moment, not knowing how King Zhao, who was attacking Shangjun, could suddenly pass on the news to him.
King Wei responded: "Pass it on." โ
"No."
After the king of Wei took the silk book from the waiter's hand, he opened it and saw that it was the king of Zhao who was preparing to receive the news that the Qi and Wei coalition forces had crossed the river.
King Wei was overjoyed and said: "King Zhao is worthy of being a widow's brother, he really has a heart." โ
Gongsun Xi heard the words and asked, "King, I don't know what news has come from King Zhao?" โ
"You can see it for yourself!" King Wei laughed and passed the silk book to Gongsun Xi.
Cheng Lingjun saw that Gongsun Xi looked at the silk book, and he also showed joy, and couldn't help asking: "Dare to ask Xiwu, what news is there from King Zhao." โ
Gongsun Xi said with a smile: "King Zhao has sent a message that he has taken the rhino head as his general, leading three thousand single horsemen, one person and two horses, and will rush to Hexi to meet us across the river in two or three days." Moreover, King Zhao told us to attack in an all-out way, and at that time, the rhino head would immediately select a ferry and attack back and forth to capture the ferry. โ
Others were overjoyed.
If Gongsun Yan came in person, the possibility of crossing the river would definitely be very high.
Gongsun Yan was originally a native of the Yin and Jin Dynasty of the Wei State, that is, the place where Wu Qi broke the 500,000 Qin army with 50,000 soldiers, but Gongsun Yan, who became a talent in the Wei State, was prominent in the Qin State, and became the Great Liangzao of the Qin State in the early days of King Qin Huiwen's accession to the throne (the highest official position before the establishment of the Xiangguo State in the Qin State, Shang Ying was also Ren Daliangzao).
After Gongsun Yan became Daliangzao, he first took advantage of the civil strife in Yiqu to break the Yiqu and relieve the threat of the northern part of Qin, and then led the Qin army to attack Wei, and returned with a great victory in the first battle, and recaptured Yin and Jin, and the king of Qin was overjoyed to change the name of Yin Jin to Ning Qin.
Then, after five years, it completely crushed the Wei defenses in Hexi, and then, all the upper counties of Hexi of Wei were ceded to Qin, and since then they have retreated to the east of the river.
Just when the Qin State completely recaptured Hexi, and Shangjun became an enclave of the Wei State and it was difficult to keep it, Gongsun Yan was exposed by Zhang Yi because of accepting bribes from the Wei State, and finally Gongsun Yan was expelled by the King of Qin, and Zhang Yi paid homage to the prime minister.
Since then, Gongsun Yan has hated King Qin and Zhang Yi, perhaps, maybe Gongsun Yan will also hate Su Qin...
There is no doubt that Gongsun Yan knows Hexi and the Qin army very well, and is familiar with the internal situation of Hexi.
If other people went to respond, the Wei State might still have some doubts about whether it would be successful, but Gongsun Yan, who knew the root and knew himself and the enemy, went to respond, and the Wei State was more confident in this.
All the ministers congratulated the king of Wei and said, "Congratulations to the king." โ
King Wei said with a smile: "It's all King Zhao Renyi, and after crossing the river by himself, he still wants to help our Qi and Wei coalition forces cross the river." โ
When the ministers heard this, they praised King Zhao one after another.
Ni Liang thought for a while, walked out of the crowd with a straight face, and said: "King, King Zhao should accept us to cross the river, which is naturally a good thing, but the minister thinks that this is not King Zhao's benevolence or King Zhao's brotherhood that attaches importance to the Three Jins, but in fact, it is Li Daitao's strategy to lead the water to the east." โ
"What?" King Wei was taken aback and hurriedly asked, "Why did the general say this?" โ
Ni Liang replied: "Great King, the minister heard that Wei Zhang has sent reinforcements from Hangu Pass to Shangjun to support, calculate the time, and now he should have left the Yinhan Pass, and he will go north along Luoshui today and tomorrow." โ
King Wei was stunned for a moment, then reacted, and said with a cold face: "This King Zhao has long seen him as hateful, and he crossed the river for many days, and he didn't think of sending an army to meet him. As soon as he heard that the Qin State had sent troops, he immediately wanted to come with a widow, and this was to meet the Qi and Wei coalition forces to cross the river, but he wanted the widow to block the sword for him! โ
Thinking about it, King Wei said angrily: "Zhongqing, do you think we can't cross the river yet? โ
When Gongsun Xi heard this, he immediately replied: "Great King, although King Zhao has bad intentions, but Qin is the threat of Wei, and weakening Qin is the primary goal of Wei. Therefore, the opportunity could not be lost, and the minister thought that he should immediately begin to deploy the matter of crossing the river. โ
After Gongsun Xi, others chimed in.
King Wei pondered for a moment, nodded, and said, "Okay, inform Shengzi, from tomorrow onwards, the whole line will attack and storm the large and small ferries in Hexi." โ
"No."
Although Gan Mao had already received the news of Gongsun Yan's attack, but the speed of the single horse was too fast, the first day was the news that the Qi and Wei coalition forces were attacking on all fronts, and then the news came that the single horse was rushing to the land of the West River, and the ferries were not ready, and then three thousand single horses under the guidance of Gongsun Yan went straight to the Pangdi ferry in the north of Shaoliang City, and the ferry was broken before it could react.
Although Gan Mao urgently reinforced, but the Qi and Wei coalition forces were well prepared, and the two sides fought fiercely in Pangdi for a day, and finally Gan Mao saw that the Qi and Wei coalition forces were endless, and it was difficult for him to resist, so he could only take the initiative to retreat.
Two days later.
Most of the Qi and Wei forces crossed the river and besieged Hancheng north of Shaoliang.
Seeing this, Gan Mao immediately ordered the partial division to garrison the ferry outside Shaoliang, and then transferred most of the army to Shaoliang City, intending to defend Shaoliang, the most important ferry.
Luoyi.
Xiong Huai returned from the banquet, and Chen Zhen, who had arrived in Luoyi for many days, immediately reported:
"Great King, the minister has just received news that the envoy of the Qin State entered Luoyi not long ago and went straight to the residence of the King of Qi."
Xiong Huai gloated and smiled: "It seems that the Qin State still has self-knowledge, knowing that it is definitely not an opponent to fight hard with other countries, so it plans to secretly communicate with the Qi State and let the Qi State drag its feet." โ
Chen Zhen responded: "The king is wise, the purpose of the envoy of the Qin State is probably like this. โ
"But the attitude of the Qi State, we must not be unguarded, the reason why the Qi State wants to attack the Qin State is just to transfer the disaster to the Qin State and win over the Three Jins."
"Now that Qin and Zhao have a frontal conflict, it will be difficult to get out for a while, if the Qi State retreats at this time, then I am afraid that the matter of cutting down Qin will be abandoned halfway."
Xiong Huai thought for a while, shook his head and said: "Now the widow is not worried about the retreat of the Qi State from the front line, because in this way, the three kingdoms of Qi, Zhao and Wei will take over the grudge, and the three Jin Dynasty will definitely be more determined to take refuge in the Chu State in order to confront the Qin and Qi countries." Therefore, King Qi would not be so unwise. โ
Then, Xiong Huai paused and said: "On the contrary, another thing that the widow is worried about now is that the King of Qi will continue to attack the Qin State and use the land of the Qin State to buy the two countries of Zhao and Wei, so that Zhao Wei will be strengthened, and after the two countries of Zhao and Wei are strong, plus there is no threat from the State of Qin, there will definitely be two hearts, and they will no longer stand firmly on the side of the State of Chu." โ
Doctor Shangguan hesitated and said, "Great King, is it possible that our Chu State is now going to create an incident in the rear of the Qi State, so as to make the Qi State withdraw its troops and make Zhao and Wei hate the Qi State." โ
Xiong Huai shook his head and said, "No, the Qi State has been weakened by the widows three times in a row, but the Qin State has only been cut off by the widows and stretched out to the Guandong, but not weakened." โ
Saying that, Xiong Huai thought of the extremely excellent terrain of the Qin State, and after the completion of the law change, the Qin State already had the prerequisites for unifying the world and became the strongest contender in the world.
After being silent for a long time, Xiong Huai thought of the Qin State that dominated the world, and said: "If the Qin State can be weakened this time, even if Zhao and Wei are separated from the Chu State, what does it matter." โ
As he spoke, Xiong Huai looked at Chen Zhen and said, "Xianqing, continue to pay attention to Qi State, if there is an abnormality in Qi State, then report it immediately." โ
"No."
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