Chapter Twenty-Eight: Han Zhao Suffers a Fiasco
The Han and Zhao coalition forces really fell for the plan of the disease, and because they were exhausted by the Jishui near Xiuyu, they were killed by the Qin army more than 80,000 people, and the remaining 50,000 troops fled to the Wei army in Xiuyu City.
After the Qin army killed Han Zhao's army, they naturally pursued it and approached Xiuyu City.
And Gongsun Yan, who was stationed in the city, had long expected that Han Zhao's army would suffer heavy losses, so he quickly organized the Wei army to rescue the remnants of Han Zhao's army, and then held on to Xiuyu City.
On the upper floor of Xiuyu City, Sun Yan, the Duke of Wei, and Sun Xizheng, the general Gonggong, sat together with Shen Cha and Zhao Zhuang who had fled and discussed urgently.
I only heard Shen Cha clenching his fists and saying angrily:
"This time, the Qin army didn't talk about morality at all, and suddenly took advantage of the fact that our Han and Zhao armies had just arrived in Yandi, and sent 50,000 troops to pretend to be all their military strength to sneak attack and intimidate our two armies, resulting in us having to come to Xiuyu's side and want to join your Wei army, but I didn't expect that the Qin army actually used three indiscriminate means to ambush the main force on the Jishui side, and attacked us while we crossed the river, which led to our fiasco!"
Gongsun Yan hurriedly comforted Shen Cha and Zhao Zhuang:
"The prime minister also knows the situation of the two, so I hurriedly led our Wei army to rescue the two generals, but I didn't expect it to be a step too late, and the two generals suffered such heavy losses!"
Zhao Zhuang was a little depressed at this time:
"Gongsun Xiangbang, you don't need to explain so much, we understand the help of your Wei army to our two countries this time, and after we return home, we will definitely report this time to our two kings!"
Gongsun Yan naturally heard the words in Zhao Zhuang's words, obviously blaming the Wei army for not supporting the Han and Zhao armies in time, so he had to change the topic first and said:
"We don't have to say that anymore, we should work together now to find a way to resist the Qin army's siege of our Xiuyu City this time!"
Shen Cha also responded to Gongsun Yan with some negative anger:
"Hmph...... our Han Zhao soldiers and horses are almost dead, what's the point of guarding this fish cultivation?"
Gongsun Yan was not angry, but patiently explained:
"General Shencha and General Zhaozhuang, if Xiuyu is captured by the Qin army, it will be like a nail embedded in our Xinzheng, Daliang, and Handan, and then our three kingdoms may be in danger of dying!"
Shen Cha couldn't listen to these words anymore, and he didn't pay attention to Gongsun Yan, got up and went down to the city tower, and Zhao Zhuang also went with him.
At this time, Gongsun Xi came over and asked Gongsun Yan:
"Gongsun Xiangguo, this ...... This...... How can this be? ”
Gongsun Yan had to sigh:
"What else, let them go, our Wei army can defend the city by itself!"
After Shencha and Zhaozhuang left the city, they collected the remnants of their two armies and rushed back to their own countries.
Unexpectedly, the Zhao army returned to China very smoothly, and the Han army was not so lucky, when they arrived at a swamp at the junction of Xiuyu and Zhongyang, they met the Qin army led by Wei Zhang, who had been waiting here for a long time, and as a result, Shen Cha and the rest of the Korean army were all surrounded by the Qin army and taken prisoner.
Han Wangkang, who was in Xinzheng, the capital of South Korea, naturally soon received the news that Shen Cha, the chief general of his Korean army, was captured by the Qin army and the entire army was annihilated. was furious, and directly accused the Xiangguo Gongzhong who was standing aside:
"You...... You...... This is all good news that you got in the Chu State, you know? It's not that you said that the Chu army would help us deal with the Qin army, and our 100,000 elites in South Korea would not end up like this! ”
Han Xianggong Zhong was also so frightened that he knelt directly on the ground at this time:
"My king, spare your life, spare your life, you have to blame that Zheng Sleeve for this, it's all her, it's all her who caused us South Korea to suffer such a heavy loss!"
Han Wang directly picked up the wine glass on the table and threw it on the ground:
"In the future, don't mention Zheng Sleeve to the widow, it is not worthy of being us Koreans!"
So a few days later, the angry King Han decided to raise the strength of the whole country to retaliate against the Qin army, so he ordered people to start recruiting troops everywhere and went to Yiyang to increase troops.
Wei Si naturally also received the news of the crushing defeat of the armies of Han and Zhao, which was also as he expected, there was no big move, and he simply ordered the counties and counties of the western Wei State to surrender behind closed doors to prevent the plundering of the Qin army when it retreated.
Zhao Jun Zhao Yong also received the news that his Zhao army and Han army had suffered heavy losses in front of the Qin army in Handan, and naturally he couldn't control his emotions like King Han, after all, since he succeeded to the throne, he has always held an ambition to be a strong Zhao State, and now the Zhao army was not only defeated by the Qi army in Guanze, but now it was defeated by the Qin army in Xiuyu.
However, Zhao Yong still has a gratifying thing, that is, the Wei Guo, which Zhao has been thinking about conquering for generations, was finally willing to take refuge in Zhao a few days ago, and also offered countless treasures to be his vassal.
Wei Jun's move was naturally a last resort, after all, he had already offended the King of Wei, and without the protection of a great power, there was no choice for Wei Guo, who was surrounded by strong enemies at this time.
Wei Si naturally received the matter of Wei Guo's defection to Zhao in the palace, and at this time, his queen Wei Ji had also returned to the palace to take care of the old queen mother.
However, Wei Si also understood that this was not the time to clean up Wei Jun, because he had to stabilize the country first, and take advantage of the power of the old queen mother who was still alive to directly dispose of Dr. Chen and Uncle Yan first.
One day in the court, Wei Si finally waited for this opportunity.
On this day, Wei Shuang, the old capital of Anyi, suddenly wrote a letter, accusing Dr. Chen of privately accepting his property and not transferring him to do the matter of the Liang Order.
Wei Si took the opportunity to gather all the ministers and generals in the main hall and began to discuss the matter.
Doctor Chen naturally pointed at Wei Shuang and shouted angrily:
"Wei Shuang, as a relative of our Wei State, you actually want to exchange your property for our Wei State official position, and you dare to report such bad deeds to my king, have you eaten leopard gall?"
Wei Shuang must not have looked afraid, and directly accused Dr. Chen:
"Doctor Chen, then let me ask you, did you accept my Wei Shuang's promise to transfer me to Daliang last year?"
Dr. Chen replied:
"What's the matter, I promise you because I want to punish people like you who are opportunistic and want to exchange their wealth for high-ranking officials!"
Wei Shuang asked again:
"Then Doctor Chen, since you accepted my money and silk, and you didn't hand it over to the king into the treasury, how can you be worthy of the position of the secretary of our Great Wei State in such a behavior?"
Naturally, Dr. Chen didn't know how to quibble, so he changed the topic:
"Wei Shuang, you have an Anyi order, you don't want to govern Anyi well, and the people's livelihood in Anyi has been resentful in the past few years, and the people have gradually become poor, you still dare to slander me here, don't you know your guilt?"
Wei Shuang explained:
"It has been nearly forty years since the Wei State moved its capital to Daliang in Anyi, and all the rich people in Anyi have already come to Daliang, and our Anyi is naturally not as good as a year, and now Anyi is still threatened by the Qin army in the west all the time, and the people are panicking, it is already good to be able to hold on, and how can I govern this Anyi order?"
Doctor Chen showed a mocking expression at Wei Shuang:
"Now that you realize your incompetence, you still have the face to slander the old man and me!"
Then he said to Wei Si:
"I beg the king to bring down such people who slander my important ministers of the Wei State and punish them severely!"
Wei Si didn't speak, he was secretly happy in his heart, you two people are making trouble, let's make trouble desperately, this king just wants to wait for you to make more trouble.
Seeing that Wei Si was silent, Doctor Chen turned his head angrily and walked out of the hall.
Wei Shuang took the opportunity to come over again and sue Dr. Chen again in front of Wei Si.
Wei Si had no choice but to comfort Wei Shuang to calm down for the time being, after all, now was not the best time to clean up Doctor Chen, because his henchmen were still very powerful in the Wei court.