Chapter Twenty-Three: The Turning Point is in an Instant
Wars never stop because of someone's opposition.
Although, Wei Kai advised the King of Qin through Yingqu Liang: Qin lacked siege weapons, and the soldiers lacked weapons and equipment, on the contrary, the soldiers of Shaoliang City were well-armed, and rashly attacking the city would only consume the lives of the soldiers in vain. However, the bamboo slips that were played were like stones sinking into the sea, and there was no response.
Soon, Wei Kai received the news that the Qin army had besieged Shaoliang City three times and returned with a crushing defeat. Wei Kai looked at the bamboo slip in his hand and sighed: "Time is also, life is also."
Suddenly, with his hair scattered and blood still on his armor, the grizzled Yingqu Liang broke into Wei Kai's tent. Yingquliang asked Wei Kai anxiously: "Wei Kai, do you know medical skills?" ”
Without waiting for Wei Kai to answer, Yingqu Liang hurriedly pulled Wei Kai to the big tent of the Chinese army.
As soon as he entered the big tent, he saw that the anxious Jing Jian was also here. The tent was simply furnished, with a large screen sewn from the skins of wild animals dividing the tent on either side. There is only one quaint big case in the middle of the front of the tent, and the big case is now stacked on it, and there are bamboo slips that have not been processed yet, and more than a dozen stools for deliberations, and nothing else. However, at this time, the stoves around the tent were gradually lit, and as soon as Wei Kai entered the tent, he felt a wave of heat coming, and faintly heard the sound behind the tent, as if it was persuasion, and as if someone was angry.
Seeing Wei Kai coming, Jing Jian was originally anxious to walk back and forth, just about to speak. Yingquliang took Wei Kai directly to the back of the tent. Lifting the thick wolf skin hanging curtain, Wei Kai saw an angry Ying Qian holding the hospital and asking him what to do, and then looked around, and saw the energetic King Qin, who was now covered with a warm quilt sewn from tiger skin, with gray hair scattered on the soft silk pillow, his eyes closed, and he was lying on his bed with a tired face of pain, and suddenly looked old and twilight.
Seeing Wei Kai coming, Ying Qian also let go of the medical officer, and hurriedly said, "Wei Kai boy, do you know how to heal?" ”
Wei Kai looked at King Qin lying on the bed, and he also understood what was going on. Hearing Ying Qian's words, he was shocked, but his medical skills were not as good as that of a Mongolian doctor. Looking at the Qin State medical officer who had been lying on the ground since just now, trembling, Wei Kai understood that if he wanted to save King Qin's life, he had to rely on him. Wei Kai hurriedly helped him up and said to him: "The eldest prince, he has a short temperament, and he offended Mr. a lot just now, I hope Mr. will not blame him." At this time, Yingquliang, who had a bloody face, also said to the medical officer: "My eldest brother, what was wrong just now, Yingquliang apologized to Mr.", and gave a big salute to the medical officer.
The medical officer only came to his senses at this time, and when he saw Wei Kai and Yingquliang saluting him, he didn't care so much about what had just happened. After all, it is the king of Qin who is lying on the bed now, and he is also his king. Looking at King Qin, who was still unconscious, the medical officer glanced at King Qin on the bed, then shook his head and said, "Your Majesty, you were injured by the secret arrow of the Wei army, and you didn't hurt important parts. But the Wei army's arrows are coated with poison, and the key to the king's injury is to solve the poison of the Wei army."
When Wei Kai heard this, he was immediately shocked. Now is not the era of any special medicine, if you are highly poisoned, even if you get the antidote, it will leave huge sequelae. Looking at King Qin, who was lying unconscious on the bed and moaning from time to time, Wei Kai felt that the situation was urgent.
Wei Kai had no choice but to carefully clean King Qin's wound again, apply Wei Kai's homemade anti-inflammatory powder, and then use a clean cloth to bandage the wound well. As for the rest, Wei Kai could only hope for his life on King Qin, and Wei Kai couldn't do anything. Even so, looking at King Qin's gradually calm face, Ying Qian and Yingqu Liang both regarded Wei Kai as a god, including the medical officer who had been wondering the secret of Wei Kai's medicinal powder since just now.
Looking at King Qin, who was gradually sleeping, Wei Kai glanced at Ying Qian and Ying Quliang. The two sighed to each other, and then took Wei Kai to the office of the big tent and began to discuss.
Although the King of Qin is out of danger, the current situation of the Qin State is very critical.
Before he sat down, "It's all those bastards", there was a bang, and Ying Qian patted the case and said. When Yingquliang heard this, he immediately asked Ying Qian not to be angry, so as not to disturb the monarch's father.
Ying Qian looked at the direction of the screen, sighed, full of anger, and was held back by this burly man, but his hands were clenched and he didn't put it down for a long time.
After listening to what Yingquliang said, Wei Xingzhong could only say that the people's hearts were not enough to swallow the elephant, and he understood why the changes of the Six Kingdoms and why the Qin State was the most thorough and the most tragic.
The Qin State inherited the Ji and Zhou cultures, and there were also many feudal clans in the country. However, compared with the clans of the Central Plains countries, the clans of the Qin State are also weak but more ignorant because of the weakness and backwardness of the Qin State's national strength. The expeditions of the Qin State were all led by the private soldiers of each clan and the army of the monarch to crusade together, and the monarch could not directly order the private soldiers of the various clans. Although, since the new policy of the Qin State, there are enlightened clans who are willing to directly obey the command of the king, but the concept that the courtiers of the courtiers are not my courtiers still exists.
This time, it was precisely because several clans united that they wanted to take advantage of the great victory of the Qin army to privately send troops to attack Shaoliang City, but unfortunately they were besieged by the Wei army in Shaoliang City, resulting in the King of Qin having to attack Shaoliang City and was injured. Although several leaders who sent troops privately have been killed in battle and cannot be held accountable, the Qin army has left more than 10,000 corpses under Shaoliang City in vain.
After listening to this, Wei Kai thought for a while and said: "Childe, the top priority is to calm the hearts of the army, strictly order all armies not to move without permission, and at the same time guard against a sneak attack by the Wei army." After hearing this, Yingqu Liang glanced at Ying Qian, who was secretly annoyed next to him, and said to Wei Kai: "I have discussed this matter with my eldest brother and sent three generals, Meng Yan, Bai Hui, and Xiliju, to defend against the sneak attack of the Wei army tonight. Mr. Wei Kai, now that the life and death of the monarch's father are unknown, the Qin army's heart is in turmoil, the Qin army can no longer fight, and I intend to withdraw the army. I don't know what Mr. Wei Kai thinks? ”。
After Ying Qian on the side heard it, he was about to stand up and object, but when he thought of it now, his dead hand slowly let go, and he could only curse secretly: "Dog thief".
Wei Kai took a look at Yingqu Liang and Ying Qian, and then said slowly: "Your Excellency's life and death are unknown now, and it is feasible to withdraw the army." However, if our army hastily withdraws, the Wei army in Shaoliang City will definitely be killed. At that time, our army's heart was turbulent, the Wei army was newly victorious, and the desire to fight was strong, and it would definitely be entangled by the Wei army, and then it would be slowly intercepted and killed in this Hexi Plain, consuming our army. I'm afraid that the king will not be able to reach Liyang quickly, and our army will also suffer a big defeat."
When Ying Quliang heard this, he said: "This is also what Quliang is worried about. I wonder what Mr. Wei Kai has to say? ”
Wei Kai said: "Originally, our army besieged Shaoliang City, and adopted the strategy of attacking the heart first, and attacking the city second, on the one hand, waiting for the Wei army in Shaoliang City to collapse, and then waving the army to pull out the city, so as to be able to conquer Shaoliang in one fell swoop under the condition of preserving the strength of our army." The other side is waiting for Wei to take the initiative to sue for peace, and not to give Wei an excuse to attack our Qin State in the future."
Wei Kai sighed and continued: "Now that the Wei army has just won, the morale will definitely rise, and the plan to attack the heart will have no effect. Now our army must pretend to take the initiative to attack the city and create momentum, firstly, to cover the safe withdrawal of our army to Liyang, and secondly, to wait and see the news of Han and Zhao, and to force Wei and Qin to sue for peace."
Ying Quliang agreed very much after hearing it. After all, although the Wei army repelled the attack of the Qin army, the Wei army was still besieged by the Qin army in the city of Shaoliang and could not move.
No one will give up the meat that has already reached the mouth, especially when it has cost a lot. The Qin army has suffered more than 150,000 casualties in this attack on Hexi, and neither Yingqu Liang nor Wei Kai wants to waste the opportunity of Gongsun Acne being besieged in Shaoliang City, even if the Qin army retreats, they must use Shaoliang City as a bargaining chip to exchange for greater benefits with Wei.
Talking about benevolence and righteousness, in this era of decay and happiness, has little value. Not everyone is like Song Xianggong, so they can't do it like Song Xianggong, although this kind of behavior was praised by some schools of thought at the time.
However, the basic norms between countries will still be observed by both sides, after all, not any country dares to do something like Wei.
King Han is actually very depressed now, and he formed an alliance with Wei, but was broken by Wei, which was an insult to his Han king, Han Wu.
Now he was originally surrounding the Wei army in Xinzheng with Zhao Guo, but it seemed that this ally could not help, and King Han was very angry in his heart, but he dared not speak out in anger. After all, his own capital is still in the hands of the Wei army, and he still has to rely on the Zhao army, not that South Korea needs the combat power of this Zhao army, but that it needs the Zhao State behind it.
The night is getting deeper, "Hey, hey" King Han, who had just finished handling military affairs, didn't know how many sighs he had. Thinking that Xinzheng had been occupied by the Wei army for more than two months, and the century-old wealth accumulated by Korea's successive dynasties, King Han was very sad every time.
Tossing and turning, just as King Han summoned people to serve him, he only heard the sound of horses' hooves outside the tent, and immediately an inner attendant announced: "King, the Hexi army has arrived."
When King Han heard this, he hurriedly got up, and before he had time to get dressed, he ran out barefoot, and took the military information sent by the fast horse, and after a while, King Han's royal account came: "Good, good, good." The Great War of the Qin and Wei Hexi Rivers was of great concern to all countries. Now, South Korea has received the news of Qin's great victory in the Hexi War, how can it not be happy, then the Han and Zhao armies can immediately recapture Xinzheng.
Just when King Han was very happy, Han Yang, the current "palace guard general" of South Korea, hurriedly reported in tears: "Your Excellency, the last general went to the Zhao army camp and found that the Zhao army camp was empty, and those Zhao troops retreated."
When King Han heard this, his face, which was originally very happy, was instantly suffocated, and he pointed at the sky and scolded for a long time: "Zhao Chong, the villain is also", and then fell headlong.