Chapter 184: Retreat East into Hangu and Kill Han Xiu
Wei Si personally led the army and attacked the Qin State again, but at this time, the Qin State was east of Xianyang and south of the Wei River, and adopted the tactics of clearing the wilderness with strong walls, resulting in this section of a hundred miles uninhabited.
Wei Si did not dare to rashly lead the army deeper, so he had to turn north to cross Weishui, wanting to attack Liyang and Jingyang, cutting off the back road of the Qin army, but he did not expect that the Qin army actually ignored the lives of the people in these places, took advantage of the arrival of the autumn flood, dug up Jingshui, flooded and Jingyang and Gaoling, Wei Si could not occupy the two places, so he had to withdraw his army and retreat to Yin Jin, preparing to attack Lantian again, so as to force the Qin army to retreat from Hexi.
However, at this time, there was unfavorable news, that is, the Qin State had collected another 100,000 soldiers and horses in Bashu, and had crossed Hanzhong and was about to reach Lantian.
Due to these battles, the Wei army had no gain, and received news from Zhang Yi that the Wei army in Yewang had made an appointment with the Han army and wanted to jointly attack the Wei Buli rebels who had reached the vicinity of Yewang, but the Wei army attacked the rebels first, but the Han army did not cooperate, but instead stationed in place, resulting in the Wei army encountering the Qin army that rushed to support Wei Buli, and Wei Buli's siege, resulting in the Wei army losing more than 30,000 soldiers, and the Wei army lost the opportunity to counterattack, so it had to wait for help.
This news naturally hit Wei Si seriously, after all, Wei Si originally thought that the Han army and the current troops of the Wei State in the wild king could completely deal with the Qin, Yiqu and Wei Buli armies, but he didn't expect to suffer such losses.
At this time, Wei Si could only discuss countermeasures with Su Qin and the generals again.
I only heard Le Yi say first:
"Great King, after the defeat of this Yewang Battle, our army there lost the initiative to counterattack against the enemy, and we also saw that the Korean army was also unreliable, so the king, you might as well let me Le Yi take 50,000 troops through South Korea, cross the Yellow River, and attack Hedong!"
Wei Si gestured to Le Yi with his hand:
"Your risk is too great, our army to defend the Qin State west of this Hangu Pass is now only as much as 100,000, if we divide another 50,000 to attack Hedong, then let the Qin army know, and send troops to fight here, then we will be in danger here? And now that Qin's Bashu reinforcements are almost in Lantian, the Qin army may counterattack us at any time! β
Wei Ran also said:
"Yes, now the military affairs in Hedong may not be able to do anything, and this land in the west of the country will also face the danger of the Qin State Bashu reinforcements and the Qin army joining forces to counterattack, this situation is too critical, it is better for you to send someone to make peace with Wei Buli and the King of Qin!"
Wei Si looked at the generals one by one:
"Is there really no other solution? Is our Great Wei really going to give in in front of the Qin State, the Yiqu State and the rebels this time? β
Su Qin said at this time:
"The king is planning for the present, it seems that we want to turn the situation around, so we have to give up!"
Wei Si hurriedly asked:
"Jizi, do you have a good solution?"
Su Qin replied:
"If we continue to wear down the Qin army in this Guanxi, it will not be good for our army, and the east is seriously threatened by the enemy army, and there are no troops to deal with it, rather than this, it is better for us to temporarily abandon this Guanxi land, lead all the troops here, take advantage of Korea and Zhou Wangji, rush to Yewang to join the army over there, and find an opportunity to counterattack the enemy again, right?"
Wei Si then said:
"Well, it seems that we have to give up this Kansai land for the time being!"
Then it was ordered:
"Inform all the troops in this Guanxi and the people to evacuate here, if the people are not willing to retreat for a long time, they can temporarily go to Shangluo for temporary refuge, and all the others will return to Daliang with the widows."
So Wei Si had no choice but to take the Guanxi army and more than 200,000 people nearby, and began to march eastward.
Most of these 200,000 people were unbearable to the harsh punishment of the Qin State and took the initiative to take refuge in the Wei State.
Because in order to take care of these people, so the Wei army walked very slowly, and just arrived at Hangu Pass after three days, Han Xiu, the guard of the Han army at Hangu Pass, saw the sudden arrival of more than 300,000 soldiers and civilians of the Wei State, so he naturally did not dare to rashly open and close, causing the Wei army and the people to stay here.
The Qin general learned the news that the Wei army was leaving east with a large number of Qin people in Lantian, and he also hurriedly pursued the Qin army and the Bashu army that came to help.
Seeing that the Qin army had approached less than thirty miles away from the retreating troops of the Wei army, and Han Xiu, the general of Hangu Pass, did not let him go, Wei Si couldn't care so much, so he had to instruct Le Yi to lead the army to storm Hangu Pass.
Although the Korean defenders only had a few thousand, but after half a day, Hangu Pass still failed to break through, and the Qin army that was pursuing behind was already miles away at this time.
Seeing that the situation was very critical, Wei Si had to personally take Zi Lian and Wei Ran to the downstairs of Hangu Pass City at great risk, and also asked to meet Han Xiu, the guard of the Korean army, under the strict array of crossbowmen on the upper floor of the Korean City.
Because Han Jun knew that it was King Wei downstairs, he naturally didn't dare to offend.
I only listened to Han Xiu's persuasion on the city tower:
"King Wei, you better go back and wait, as long as the news of our king's release comes, we can immediately switch to King Wei and the soldiers and civilians of Great Wei!"
At this time, Zi Lian shouted loudly to Han Xiu on the city tower:
"Now that the Qin soldiers have pursued to the vicinity, if you don't open and let go, when the time comes, our King Wei will make a mistake, will you be responsible?"
Han Xiu replied:
"You are the beautiful queen of Wei, the young general I am also in the name of my king, my king's order has not arrived, if I rashly let you wait to enter the customs, then the young general I can't save my life!"
Wei Si also said loudly:
"Don't you know the relationship between our Wei State and your Korea? At this critical time, you are deliberately delaying, if you wait for the widow to return to Daliang, the widow will let you King Han execute you bastard! β
Han Xiu was naturally in a dilemma, and couldn't help but show a look of fear, and said:
"King Wei, why don't you and the queen of your country, and the general come up to us Hangu Pass to drink a glass of wine to suppress the shock, how about my apology ceremony when I am a young general?"
Wei Si deliberately ignored this Han Xiu.
Han Xiu knelt directly on the Guan Tower at this time:
"King Wei and Queen Niangniang, I Han Xiu can't switch and release, it's also a last resort, please spare me, spare me!"
Seeing this, Zi Lian replied:
"Then why don't you hurry up and open the door and ask me to wait inside, do you want to wait for Qin Jun to catch me after him?"
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"Then the King of Wei and your queen can enter the customs, and the general next to you please retreat!"
Wei Si shouted angrily:
"Bold, this is the widow's guard, you don't let him enter the customs, the widow is sitting in this place, when the widow has an accident, see how you Han Xiu explain in front of your king?"
After Wei Si finished speaking, he directly angrily pulled Zilian aside, and the two sat on the ground together.
At this time, there were countless fights and shouts of killing in the distance, and some people shouted:
"The King...... Queen, run for your life...... Run for your life, the Qin army is already here, and we can't resist it...... I can't resist it! β
"King, Queen, the Qin army is about to arrive at Hangu Pass, you should flee quickly...... Run! β
Wei Si sat on the ground with a wry smile at this time, and said loudly:
"The soldiers and people of the widow are all going to be captured by the Qin army, what is the point of the widow and the queen alive, the widow and the queen are waiting here for the Qin army to come and capture us!"
Wei Ran also hurried to pull Wei Si and Zilian, wanting to pull the two up and take them away, but the two were unwilling to stand up.
Han Xiu on the city tower was also anxious at the moment, so he had to rush down with someone, open the city gate, and personally come to welcome Wei Si and the three inside.
After some prevarication, Wei Si and Zilian still got up and entered the customs with Han Xiu.
When he walked to the gate, Wei Ran took advantage of Han Xiu's lack of attention, quickly pulled out the knife on his waist and put it on his neck, and then shouted outside the gate:
"All soldiers, enter the customs ...... immediately!"
At this time, countless Wei soldiers, led by Su Qin and Le Yi, flocked to Hangu Pass.
This strategy was devised by Su Qin, so Wei Si and Zi Lian also cooperated to perform before they passed the Hangu Pass.
In order to vent his anger on the soldiers, Wei Si also ordered someone to directly kill Han Xiu and all the Han soldiers in Hangu Pass.
Sinzheng, South Korea.
At this time, King Han was feasting Chu Xiang Zhaoyang in the palace.
I only heard King Han ask Zhaoyang:
"I don't know what Zhaogong thinks of this battle of Qin and Wei?"
Zhaoyang replied:
"This battle of Qin and Wei is related to the life and death of the two countries, and it also affects the general trend of the world in the future, if Qin defeats Wei, Qin will return to the position of the overlord of the world, and Wei defeats Qin, then Wei will become stronger and stronger, this is not what we Chu and Han want to see!"
King Han sighed:
"Yes, although we in Korea helped Wei to attack Qin, because the Qin invasion was fruitless and the loss was too great, so we stopped the army in South Korea, but because the widowed Korea and the Wei State are dependent on each other, the widow still sent troops to help the Wei State guard the Yewang, so as to ensure that my new Zheng and Daliang are not threatened by anything."
Zhaoyang said:
"But I heard that the Wei State asked your country to attack the rebels near the Yewang of its rebels together, but the defenders of your country agreed to the Wei army, but they did not cooperate with the Wei army to attack, why is this?"
King Han smiled lightly:
"This is an order from the widow, not to allow my Korean army to attack, if the Wei State recovers Hedong so quickly, it will not be beneficial to my Korea, and the widow wants to let the Wei State and the Qin State go down."
Zhaoyang smiled:
"I see, King Han, you are really wise!"
Zhaoyang asked again at this time:
"I don't know what you, King Han, think of the withdrawal of troops and people from the Wei State west of Hangu Pass?"
Han Wang replied:
"Wei's withdrawal of troops west of Hangu Pass is a good thing for my Korea, but the widow doesn't want the Wei army to withdraw so easily, so he has signaled the generals guarding the pass and asked him to wait for the Qin army to catch up, and let Qin and Wei fight west of Hangu Pass before letting them enter the pass, so that my South Korea will have the opportunity to send troops to occupy these Guanxi places after Wei leaves."
Zhaoyang sighed:
"But I heard that your country's defenders in Hangu Pass are only a few thousand now, what if the King of Wei gets angry and attacks Hangu Pass?"
Han Wang laughed:
"Zhaoxiang, you must have gone to Hangu Pass as well, right? At that time, the Qin State took advantage of the danger of Hangu Pass and withdrew the Five-Nation Alliance, but it only mobilized thousands of people, and the army led by King Wei now can still be compared with the Five-Nation Alliance back then? β