Chapter 122: Zhang Yi enters Chu and Han surrenders to Qin in humiliation
Wei Si couldn't help but look a little anxious at this moment:
"Our Wei and Han armies fought fiercely with the Qi army in Qi, and the Qin State attacked Han at this time, obviously trying to force the King of Han to turn his back on our Sanjin and serve Qin, if the widow does not save Korea, then Korea will be driven by the Qin State in the future, and the Sanjin Alliance in Quwo before is probably a joke!"
陈轸 says:
"Yes, the Qin State has besieged Yiyang for nearly ten days this time without attacking, nor has it attacked the weakly defended Xincheng, with the current strength of the Qin army, it is definitely easy, this is indeed a bit strange, if according to the King of Qin's threat to capture the Han capital Xinzheng this time, this is true and incomprehensible, it may be as you said, the Qin State sent troops this time to force South Korea, and there is no trace of the heart of killing Korea!"
Meng Wan said:
"Since the king and Mr. Chen Zhen both think so, then our Wei State can't sit idly by and ignore this matter, if Korea really becomes a vassal of Qin, then the place where our Wei defends Qin State will no longer be Hexi and Shangluo, but to Daliang!"
Wei Si's expression was quite helpless:
"It seems that the widow can only draw 50,000 troops in Yuyu to support the new city of Korea, in order to show my Wei State's heart to save Han, and then all the 50,000 troops in Shangluo will go outside Hangu Pass and threaten to attack Hangu Pass, to see if they can force Qin to retreat."
Tomb of the State of Chu.
Xiong Huai, the king of Chu, was hunting in the forest with Zheng Sleeve.
Zheng Sleeve saw a hare passing by in front of him at this time, and immediately pulled the sleeve of King Chu in surprise:
"King, there is a rabbit there, there is a rabbit, you hurry up and capture him, the concubine wants to eat rabbit meat!"
The king of Chu chased after the hare with a bow and arrow, and for fear that the attendants around him would rob his rabbit, he also ordered everyone not to follow him.
After chasing for a while, the king of Chu saw that the hare seemed to be lurking in the grass in front of him, so he picked up the bow and arrow "bell", and the arrow cluster flew over, and the king of Chu hurriedly ran to the grass, fixed his eyes to look at it, and found that after the grass, a person was lying in a pool of blood, and his arrow just got into the chest of this person, and this person was none other than Zhang Yi, the prime minister of Qin.
At this time, the king of Chu was even more excited than hunting a rabbit, and pointed to Zhang Yi who was lying in the bloody water and said:
"Okay, you Zhang Yi, you also have this fate today, the widow has finally taken revenge today, revenge!"
After the king of Chu finished speaking, he squatted down again to check if this Zhang Yi had lost his breath, but he didn't expect that when he just put his finger close to Zhang Yi's breathing, Zhang Yi suddenly reached out and grabbed the sleeve of the king of Chu:
"King Chu, do you really want me Zhang Yi to die like this?"
After speaking, Zhang Yi shook the blood on his body, pulled out the arrow cluster that had been broken in half, and stood up.
When the king of Chu saw Zhang Yi's bloodstained appearance, he suddenly grabbed his sleeve and stood up, and he was so frightened that his soul was almost gone:
"You...... You...... You! ”
Then he looked left and right and tried to call his attendants, but no one came.
Zhang Yi smiled lightly:
"King Chu, I, Zhang Yi, are not dead, I Zhang Yi have come to see King Chu this time, you want to defect to King Chu!"
King Chu patted his mouth and breathed a sigh of relief:
"You...... Aren't you Qin Xiang? Why did you come to our Chu State again? ”
Zhang Yi replied:
"The King of Qin is already old and faint, and he doesn't trust me Zhang Yi anymore, and my Zhang Yi's stay in the Qin State is just the fate of Wei Ying back then, so Zhang Yi I thought about it for a long time before I decided to come to the King of Chu!"
The king of Chu was a little confused:
"Then if you are coming to the widow, why are you so frightened by the widow?"
Zhang Yi replied:
"King Chu, you can't wait to cut me Zhang Yi with a thousand knives, if I don't let King Chu vent your anger first, how can I gain your trust King Chu?"
The king of Chu slowly stopped being confused:
"Then since you want to defect to the widows, what benefits do you think you can bring to our Chu State?"
Zhang Yi pointed to the east:
"I can help the Chu State expand its territory for thousands of miles, all the way to the land of the East China Sea, and make the Chu State to a point where even all the other countries in the Central Plains combined are inferior!"
King Chu smiled:
"This kind of big talk, the widow has heard a lot, you Zhang Yi is just relying on the benefit of your tongue, but the Yue people in the East China Sea will not eat your set, especially the boundless child!"
Zhang Yi said:
"King Chu, I, Zhang Yi, relied on this mouth to gain trust and help the Qin State become stronger, and for Zhang Yi, I can also rely on this mouth to help you pacify Baiyue!"
After hesitating for a while, the king of Chu said:
"Okay, then the widow will believe you for once!"
Two days later, in a private house near the Yiling Palace, a pair of men and women dressed mysteriously entered.
As soon as the two entered the room, they hugged each other, and after being warm for a while, the woman asked:
"Mr. Zhang, why did you take so long to come to see people, they are about to kill you!"
Mr. Zhang replied:
"Sleeve, don't people miss you too? After seeing the King of Chu, I won't come to see you! ”
These two people are not others, they are Zhang Yi and Zheng Guifei Zheng Sleeve of the King of Chu.
Just listen to Zhang Yi continue:
"Sleeve, thank you so much this time, if you didn't help me speak, the King of Chu might not be able to forgive me Zhang Yi!"
Zheng Sleeve stroked Zhang Yi's face with his hand:
"Mr. Zhang, what do you have to do with other people, and what are you doing with these foreign words?"
Then suddenly he asked again:
"Sir, you should not have come to Chu State this time just to help the King of Chu, right?"
Zhang Yi smiled at Zheng Sleeve:
"yes, you can see that!"
Zheng Sleeve asked again:
"Then Mr. Fei, you came to Chu to make an internal response to the Qin State?"
Zhang Yi shook his head:
"What good is it for me Zhang Yi to do the internal response to the Qin State now? However, I did promise King Qin one thing, that is, I want the Chu State not to interfere in the Qin State's invasion of Han this time! ”
Zheng Sleeve sighed:
"You people, it's too annoying to always go back and forth all day long, but what you said about the Qin State's invasion of South Korea this time, the king seems to be intent on letting Jing Cui go all out to help South Korea's retreating Qin troops!"
Zhang Yi asked again:
"Then doesn't the King of Chu have the intention of attacking the Lantian of the Qin State again this time?"
Zheng Sleeve replied:
How do I know this? Since you have been reused by the King of Chu, why don't you ask yourself? ”
Zhang Yiqing was a little helpless:
"Sleeve, if I ask the King of Chu these things now, then the King of Chu must not think that I, Zhang Yichu, am suspected of making profits for Qin, and I must not kill myself!"
Zheng Sleeve glared at Zhang Yi:
"Okay, since you are back to accompany me now, sir, if you have anything inconvenient in the future, you can help you do it!"
Zhang Yi Yixi:
"Okay, this is my Zhang Yi's most well-behaved sleeve!"
After speaking, the two hugged each other again, and there was a storm.
Due to the arrival of Zhang Yi, there was Zheng Sleeve's words at the pillow of the King of Chu, and the King of Chu was very happy to hunt and play in the Yiling Palace this time, and he was reluctant to return to Yingdu for a while, so there was no order from the King of Chu to aid Han, and Jingcui's army had to be stationed in Shangyu, and did not dare to act rashly, and the matter of Qin's invasion of Han was less than the intervention of Chu.
The 70,000 Korean troops collected by Gongsun Yan arrived all the way to Xincheng, and saw that the east was full of Qin troops, and Yiyang was irretrievable, and heard that the King of Qin went to Zhou Wangji at this time, so Gongsun Yan hurriedly led his army to the north along the new city, hoping to capture the King of Qin in Zhou Wangji.
When Gongsun Yan's army arrived in Gaodu and repelled the garrison Qin army, he learned that the king of Qin only went to Zhou Wangji with his guard of honor, leaving grain and grass in nearby Yique, and there were 100,000 heavy soldiers to guard it.
After some planning, Gongsun Yan led his army to bypass Yishui and pointed north along Luoshui to Zhou Wangji, claiming to capture the king of Qin alive.
For the sake of the safety of King Qin, most of the Qin army approached Zhou Wangji, and after arriving at Jiekou, they prepared to block Gongsun Yan's troops, but Gongsun Yan commanded the army instead, and the troops went straight to Yique to the east.
When the Yique Qin army granary was on fire, the Qin army knew that it was irretrievable, and the Qin king, who was observing the Zhou royal artifacts in Zhou Wangji, received the news that the Yique granary was burned by the Han army, and he was also furious, and left Zhou Wangji directly, called the besieged Yiyang, and began to take revenge on Korea.
So the Qin army began to frantically burn and loot, and almost all the corpses in the Han land were left without grass.
Gongsun Yan saw that the new city could no longer be defended, so he had to give up, and was chased by the Qin army all the way to Yangzhai.
Due to the crazy attack of the Qin army, Yangzhai City was broken by the Qin army in less than ten days, and Gongsun Yan ** in Yangzhai City, which was once worthy of the famous minister Gongsun Yan, who was the seal of the Five Kingdoms, ended his glorious life.
After King Han received the news that Yang Zhai was broken by the Qin army and the Minister of State, Sun Yan**, he vomited blood and fainted in the Korean hall.
King Han fell ill, and state affairs began to be presided over by Gong Zhong extravagant, so Gong Zhong extravagant went to Yang Zhai to negotiate peace with King Qin, so King Qin put forward a few articles;
"First, South Korea must be a vassal of our Qin State in the future, and can only serve our Qin State and one country: Second, South Korea will only retain the two cities of Yiyang and Xincheng in the east of Yishui in the future, and the rest will all belong to Qin, and the two places shall not be stationed: Third, in the future, South Korea shall not intervene in the affairs of Zhou Wangji, and fourth, South Korea shall not have secret ties with any country of Chu, Wei, Zhao, and Qi, once discovered, the Qin army will immediately come to Xinzheng City!"
In desperation, Gong Zhong had no choice but to agree to the King of Qin one by one, and then returned to Xinzheng.
When the people of Xinzheng learned that Gong Zhong extravagant agreed to such humiliating conditions of the Qin State, they took to the streets to protest, provoking Gong Zhong extravagant to dare to step out of the house half a step.
As King Han fell ill, Sun Yan, the prince of Han Xianggong, was martyred, and the prince went to Qin as a hostage, and Korea, which had no one to manage for a while, instantly became chaotic.
The Wei army, which was stationed near Hangu Pass and wanted to block the Qin army, saw that the Qin army had returned victoriously at this time, and did not dare to stop it, so they had to retreat to the land of Shangluo.
After King Qin returned to Xianyang, he also held a feast to celebrate, and he only heard him say:
"Although our Qin State has lost a lot of grain and grass from Shu this time, the soldiers are even more combative, and they have almost annihilated the living forces of South Korea in one fell swoop, so that South Korea will completely surrender to our Qin State in the future, which is really a very happy thing!"
Sima Cuo also smiled and said:
"Yes, I didn't expect South Korea to dare to attack our grain and grass this time, but those Korean people are really rich in their homes, and what they take from them is not inferior to what they burned!"
King Qin smiled lightly:
"Yes, when will the people of our Qin State be as rich as the people of Korea, even if our Qin State is really strong!"
Zhu Liji sighed on the side:
"King, this is a matter of burning, killing and looting for the people, let's stop doing it in our Qin State in the future, this is not good for our Qin State and even your reputation as the King!"
King Qin replied:
"This is a war, either you die or I die, this time if our Qin army doesn't rob those Korean people, then our Qin army will have to starve to death, are you willing to watch your compatriots starve to death?"