As soon as Li Bo said this, all the monarchs and ministers of Zhao State present, including Zhao Dan, were stunned.

Attack the Qin State?

Take advantage of this time to attack the Qin State?

I have to say, if you think about it, this idea seems to be promising!

Zhao Dan suddenly came to his senses, and hurriedly said to Li Bo: "Li Qing, quickly tell me your opinion." ”

Several other ministers of Zhao also focused their attention on Li Bo.

Although Lieutenant Li Bo has been in office for half a year, he has always been relatively low-key among the six ministers.

And because Li Bo has not shown a relatively obvious tendency all along, whether it is the Gong faction or the cloth faction, they have adopted a friendly attitude towards Li Bo.

In such a situation, although Li Bo's sense of existence is there, it is not high because it does not involve the struggle between the two factions.

But today is different, this unexpected opinion put forward by Li Bo suddenly made Lieutenant Zhao Guo, who has rarely stood in the center of the stage for half a year, the focus of everyone's attention.

Li Bo seemed to be a little unaccustomed to such a situation, and straightened up a little before saying: "King, although the Qin State is about to send a large army to the south, the Chu State is not weak, and the two counties in the southeast of Qin are the former capital of Chu, and their status is extremely important, so there must be a fierce battle between Qin and Chu." If the king can send troops to attack the Hedong County of Qin at this time, he will definitely be able to break it in one fell swoop. In this way, the hegemony of Zhao can be achieved! ”

After Li Bo's words, the eyes of all the Zhao monarchs and ministers present instantly lit up.

Hedong County, also known as Hedong Land, is also known as Hedong Plain, but no matter what kind of title it is, one thing must be admitted is that it is a good place.

Yao Shunyu three ancient emperors, they all established their own capitals in the Hedong Plain.

This plain east of the Yellow River and west of the Taihang Mountains is not only one of the cradles of Chinese civilization, but also the base camp of the Jin Kingdom, the overlord of the Spring and Autumn Period. The capital city of the Jin Kingdom and Quwo are both here, the capital of the Wei State after the three divisions of the Jin Dynasty are also here, and the capital of South Korea, Pingyang, is also here.

It was from here that the Jin Kingdom made its fortune, occupied the entire Taihang Mountain step by step, and finally drank the Yellow River, the tiger stood in Taihang, and the Quartet was powerful, turning the entire Spring and Autumn Period into a history of Jin hegemony.

At the time of the division of the three families, most of the Hedong land was assigned to the Wei State, and only a small area such as Pingyang City was owned by Korea because it was the capital of Korea and the location of the Jongmyo Temple.

With the passage of time, the Wei State, which was invincible all over the world in the early years of the Warring States Period, gradually declined, and the Qin State, which was originally overwhelmed by the Wei State, increased in strength step by step after the Shang Dynasty changed the law, and began a counteroffensive against the Wei State.

From 366 BC to 329 BC, after 37 years and three generations of Qin monarchs, Qin recovered from Wei the Hexi land that was taken away by the Wei generals Wu Qi, and the troops approached the Hedong land across the river.

But even so, the Qin State did not seize Hedong immediately, but first took Bashu, and fought two great wars with the Chu State, and waited until Qin Wangji came to power before finally starting the attack on Hedong.

The Qin generals in charge of seizing Hedong were extremely young at the time, and they were supported by Wei Ran, then the prime minister of Qin.

This young general of the Qin State, his name is called Bai Qi.

In 293 BC, Bai Qi defeated and annihilated the 240,000 Wei and Han forces in the Battle of Yique with 150,000 Qin troops, completing a miraculous performance, defeating Wei and Korea in the first battle, and in the following three years, he pursued the victory and occupied the entire Hedong region in one fell swoop.

It took the Qin State a full thirty-seven years to recover Hexi, but it only took three years to occupy Hedong!

All of this is related to the fact that the Qin State is no longer what it used to be, but Bai Qi's breathtaking command art and military talent are the main factors.

The old nest of the Jin State, which had suppressed the Qin State for a whole Spring and Autumn Period, fell into the hands of the Qin people in this way.

The different fates of the Qin and Jin dynasties can really be described as 30 years in Hedong and 30 years in Hexi, which is emotional.

Since then, Hedong has become the Hedong County of Qin, and it has been thirty-one years now.

And the importance of Hedong is not only reflected in these historical significance.

Hedong is a plain, the land is fertile and the population is large, and it is listed as the three major grain producing areas of Qin along with Bashu and Guanzhong.

If Zhao can take the Hedong Land, then the population and food problems that have been plaguing Zhao can be greatly alleviated or even completely solved, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it will directly double Zhao's war potential.

In addition, once Zhao State takes Hedong Land, then the entire Kuihan Passage of Qin State will be under the deterrence of Zhao State's soldiers, and Zhao State can then easily attack Cuihan Passage from Hedong Land to the south by virtue of its geographical advantage, completely blocking Qin's route from Hangu Guandong.

That's right, the rich and handsome Jin State in the Spring and Autumn Period blocked the Qin State in Guanzhong for hundreds of years. What Jin Guo can do, Zhao Guo can certainly do.

The more Zhao Dan thought about it, the more excited he became, and the more he looked at Li Bo in front of him who made this suggestion, the more pleasing he became, and he couldn't wait to jump up and hug this Li Bo and kiss him a few times.

That's such a great idea!

Several other ministers of Zhao State were also excited, obviously thinking of going together with Zhao Dan.

Of course, it is not without those who sing the opposite, for example, Lou Chang was the first to raise a question: "Now that the Xiongnu are raging in the north, Handan also needs heavy troops to guard, and it seems inappropriate to rashly attack Hedong County of Qin State at this moment." ”

As soon as Lou Chang's voice fell, he suddenly had a bad feeling.

Why not? Because Lou Chang suddenly found that the people around him looked at him very unkindly.

The first person to refute was none other than Zhao Sheng, who was supposed to be Louchang's big brother.

I saw Zhao Sheng wave his hand and say to Lou Chang in a very unhappy tone: "Doctor's words, it's wrong!" We will send troops to wait for the fierce battle between Qin and Chu, at least in the spring of tomorrow, when the Xiongnu may have been defeated and retreated, so what are the concerns? ”

Don't look at the Han Dynasty in later generations, it was beaten by the Xiongnu at the beginning and couldn't find the north, and the three generations of Han Dynasty emperors had to endure humiliation, but in the Warring States Period, the fear of the northern nomads did not exist at all.

You can take stock of several nomads in the north during the Warring States period.

Yiqu? Yiqu had long been destroyed by the Qin State, and its territory was now called the Shangjun of the Qin State.

Lin Hu, Lou annoyance? Lin Hu is now a vassal to the Zhao State, and Lou Fu simply became a native of the Zhao State, and their territory is now called the Five Northern Counties of the Zhao State.

Donghu? That was the defeat of Yan Guo, the penultimate strong contender of the Seven Heroes of the Warring States, and almost half of Yan Guo's current territory was taken from Donghu.

Qin, Zhao, and Yan, the three countries bordering the northern nomads, without exception, all beat their northern horse-riding neighbors.

Nomad? That's a piece of!

Yes, please don't doubt it, we, the princes of the Warring States, are hanging like this!