In this world, there is never one person who can do everything, and everyone has their limitations.

It is precisely because of this that Kuang Liang and Wei Wuji, who are on the front line, of course, do not know some of the things that Qi Wangjian and Wei Wangyu who are located in the rear, and naturally they cannot understand the reason why Qi Wangjian and Wei Wangyu issued such an unsympathetic order.

The Qin people did not send troops.

Due to the delay and lag of news in this era, and the time that must be wasted on the road to transmit information in order to verify the news, when Qi and Wei confirmed this news, it was already almost a month since the war began.

After learning the news, Qi Wangjian immediately threw the wine jue in his hand far away, and smashed it on the forehead of a dancing girl who was dancing in front of Qi Wangjian.

Naturally, there was an exclamation, and a cliché of kowtowing to make amends.

Looking at the dancing girl who was kneeling on the ground in front of him, trembling like sifting chaff, and the blood on his forehead was flowing but he didn't dare to wipe it at all, Qi Wangjian's face was hideous for a long time, and he finally gave up the idea of killing, just waved his hand vigorously and spit out a word from his mouth.

"Get out!"

So the dancers rolled away as if they had been pardoned.

Qin Wangji once boasted confidently, and the king was angry and ambushed millions of corpses.

Qi Wangjian probably doesn't have the ability of that King Qin Zhaoxiang, but if he wants the king to die in anger, it is still something that Qi Wangjian can do with his mouth open.

This is undoubtedly very bad news.

Qi Wangjian thought about it, and simply left the hall to visit his mother.

After hearing Qi Wangjian's somewhat complaining report, the queen was also stunned for a long time.

Obviously, although the Empress Dowager of Qi, who had only been regent for a few years, had already established a reputation for faith among the kingdoms, she still underestimated the ability of the Qin people to rebel.

Backtracking is actually one of the instincts of all people in this era.

So after a long sigh, the queen finally said what Qi Wangjian wanted to hear the most.

"The old woman is really old when she thinks about it. From now on, all state affairs will be determined by the king, and the old woman will retire in this deep palace and no longer care. ”

Even though the situation in the Qi Kingdom was not optimistic, this news still made Qi Wangjian leave the queen's palace with a few heartfelt smiles on his face.

Then this smile was shattered by the news that "the Yan army broke through three lines of defense in a row and arrived on the north bank of Jishui, and it will be able to cross the river to surround Linzi in three days at most".

Qi Wangjian, who was furious, did not choose to punish the innocent dancing girl or palace people this time, but returned to the table and wrote hard, and quickly wrote two urgent letters.

The first letter was addressed to Kuang Liang, and the content of the letter was the same as what Kuang Liang had told Wei Wuji.

The other is to the Qi State Xiangbang who is still in Handan City at the moment. ‘

It is necessary to continue the peace talks and start immediately.

The reason why Qi Wangjian's attitude changed so quickly was actually related to last year's war.

Linzi, like the big beam, is also close to the big river, and outside the east wall of Linzi is Zishui.

If the water of the Yellow River can flood the city of Daliang, then can the water of Zishui be able to flood Handan?

Qi Wangjian didn't want Linzi to become the second Liang City.

On the other hand, Wei Wangyu also has his own considerations.

During this time, Wei Wangyu was not idle at all.

First of all, taking advantage of Wei Wuji's absence, the matter of getting rid of those leaderless Wei Wuji's subordinates was naturally a top priority.

Don't look at Wei Wangyu, although he was once set aside, after all, he is also a mature monarch who has been in charge of Wei for many years, so he is also very decisive and ruthless.

Many Wei ministers were arrested almost overnight, and then demoted or killed, men were executed, women were sent to prostitution, and so on.

Under the vigorous and resolute methods of Wei Wangyu, many ministers of Wei Wuji's faction in the Wei court were eliminated in a short period of time.

While everything seems to be good, there are no worries.

After learning that Qin would not withdraw its troops, Wei Wangyu's scolding was naturally indispensable.

After all, the people of the Qin State can be said to have played Wei once in this matter, and playing Wei is equivalent to playing Wei Wangyu, that is, slapping Wei Wangyu in the face.

Perhaps with the reference of the Qin State in front, Wei Wangyu felt some regret after being angry.

Maybe the Alliance of the Three Promotions is really not a very bad choice.

After all, Zhao Dan doesn't say anything else, and his reputation in treating allies is still very good.

At least so far, Zhao Dan has not broken his word and gained weight.

So Wei Wangyu became even more regretful.

As a fortunate minister, it is the most basic professional ethics to look at words and look at the meaning of the truth.

Therefore, Duan Ganzi naturally discovered these regrets in Wei Wangyu's heart, and after thinking about it for a few days, he cautiously made a request to Wei Wangyu.

"Your Majesty, do you want to ...... The minister sent an envoy to Handan for the king? ”

For Duan Ganzi's proposal, Wei Wangyu was not angry, but fell into hesitation and entanglement.

And he didn't hesitate for long.

"The widow heard that Housheng is now in Handan...... Then Duan Qing quietly sent an envoy to Handan. ”

There is some irony in the fact that a while ago, Wei Wangyu swore that he would never succumb to Zhao Dan, but now he is willing to send Duan Ganzi to Handan for peace talks.

This actually has practical considerations, after all, in Wei Wangyu's view, Wei Wuji's defeat is necessary.

And the casualties that will definitely follow Wei Wuji's defeat are regarded by Wei Wangyu as the price that must be paid to cut off Wei Wuji's carrion entrenched in Wei's body.

As long as Wei Wuji can be eliminated, these costs seem to be nothing.

But since it has failed, negotiating peace is a thing that must be done.

Wei Wangyu didn't like to be Zhao Dan's little brother at all, but if he wanted to compare it with the matter of getting rid of Wei Wuji, it didn't seem to be a big deal to whisper a few words to Zhao Dan.

This may be another confirmation that all people in this world are fickle.

It was also against this background that Wei Wangyu issued one order after another urging Wei Wuji to fight.

If failure is doomed, it's better to come early.

After all, the Koreans are now attacking Chaoge, and if Chaoge is captured by the Koreans, then Wei will have even fewer bargaining chips to put on the negotiating table.

As Clausewitz said in his book On War: "War is an instrument of politics; War inevitably has a political character...... War is, in its main respect, politics itself, and politics is represented here by the sword, but this does not mean that it no longer thinks according to its own laws. ”

Former enemy generals and rear leaders have always thought differently.

Generals generally only think from the perspective of pure war, good leaders will fully consider all issues and make as reasonable decisions as possible based on the opinions of the generals, and bad leaders will only stand on their own side and dictate everything.

From this point of view, what Qi Wangjian and Wei Wangyu did was not excellent.

So in the urging of Qi Wangjian and Wei Wangyu in unison, the Qi and Wei coalition forces, which should have taken the initiative on the battlefield, had to take the initiative to choose to attack, and the Zhao army led by Lian Po started a decisive battle that everyone was looking forward to.

This battle is naturally called the Battle of Gaotang.