Chapter 116: All the way north

During the War of Unification, except for the first destruction of Korea, Wang Jian did not participate, and the other five countries were either destroyed by Wang Jian and his troops, or conquered and died by his son Wang Ben.

King Yingzheng of Qin sent the general Wang Jian to lead troops to Tun Zhongshan and attack the Yan State.

The Qin State should destroy the Yan State next. Although Yan was the weakest of the Six Kingdoms, Yan was the greatest threat to King Yingzheng of Qin, as he sent a top-level assassin Jing Ke to assassinate King Yingzheng of Qin. It can be said that Jing Ke's assassination this time was the closest to death, but unfortunately, Jing Ke did not succeed, and in the end he was beheaded by King Yingzheng of Qin. As soon as Jing Ke died, the assassination of King Yingzheng of Qin by Yan State was revealed, and the army of Qin State arrived in Yan State, and Yan State perished. According to the "Historical Records: Biography of the Assassins", "Jing Ke has reached Yan, and the dog of Yan and the good builder Gao gradually left. Jing Ke is addicted to alcohol, and he gradually separates from the dog Tu and Gao to drink in Yan City". His name is not recorded in the history books, and his martial arts are extremely high, but he is a butcher who slaughters dogs in the downtown area. Friends with Gao and Jing Ke. After Jing Ke assassinated Qin, he was the one who was waiting for Yan Dan, the prince of Yan Yan Kingdom. However, due to the urging of Yan Dan, the crown prince of Yan Yan Kingdom, he had to take his dissatisfied deputy Qin Wuyang on the road, which led to the failure of the plan to assassinate Qin Wang Yingzheng.

In the early autumn period of Yan Guo, it was still a very weak and small country, to the time of King Yan Zhao, he made great efforts to govern the country, expanded his territory, and had strong national strength, once reached Liaodong in the north, went to the valley in the west, and bordered Qi and Zhao in the south. By the time of Yanxi, the king of Yan, not only did he reconcile with his close neighbors Zhao and Qi, but also often launched a scuffle, laboring the people and losing money, and the loss of national strength was huge, becoming a weak country slightly stronger than Han among the six countries.

Yan State, an old vassal state, has been one of the twelve princes since the time of King Wu of Zhou, an old vassal state for more than 800 years, in the Autumn Warring States, compared with the Qin State, the Three Jin Dynasty, the Chu State, the Qi State and other states of existence are not too strong, until the Yan State Le Yi attacked Qi and won the seventy-two cities of Qi in one fell swoop, it was truly brilliant.

Why did Le Yi Vaqi become a tiger and fail? The Qin State behind the scenes is the biggest winner!

The war of the Yan Kingdom, which intended to swallow the elephant with a snake and destroy the strong with the weak, ended in heavy losses and in vain. And although the Qi State has recovered, it is also greatly damaged. This feud can be regarded as a lose-lose situation. In the year of the restoration of the state of Qi, the Qin general Bai Qi broke through the Chu capital Ying, and the king of Chu Xiang fled east to Chen County. The Hubei region, where the Chu State originated, fell into the territory of the Qin State. Since then, the state of Qin has become the only strongest in the world and the biggest winner of this series of wars.

Many people may read the history of King Yan Zhao building the golden platform and Le Yi going east to more than 70 cities, and they will deeply regret the failure of the great plan of the monarch and ministers to destroy Qi.

However, it was absolutely impossible for Le Yi or Yan State to annex Qi State. No matter how hard Yan Zhao Wang and Le Yi planned, how extraordinary their abilities, and even God's perspective, they were useless. This is the common law of the Warring States period for hundreds of years, for any powerful country, you can hit it hard, try to weaken it, and keep encroaching on its territory, but you don't have to try to annex it, otherwise it will inevitably attract the intervention of the coalition forces of all countries, become the public enemy of the world, and then suffer tragic losses, so that the country will turn from prosperity to decline.

Previously, Qi defeated Wei in the battles of Guiling and Maling, and defeated Chu in the Battle of Chuisha, and took advantage of the fact that King Huai of Chu was imprisoned in Qin, and led the coalition forces of the Kwantung countries to enter Hangu Pass, forcing Qin to cede land and ask for peace, and became the strongest overlord in the world for a while.

However, when the Qi State annexed the Song State, a second-class power, the other countries were in danger and immediately formed an anti-Qi alliance. As an envoy of the Yan State, Zonghengjia Leyi actively instigated the Yan-Zhao alliance and admired the two countries. And Qi Xiang Meng tasted Jun Tianwen, but because of the contradiction with King Qi, he fled to Wei and became the internal response of the coalition army.

At the same time, Qin Zhaoxiang Wang Yingji and Qin Xiang Wei Ran defeated the biggest opponents of the Qin State for hegemony in one fell swoop, and also actively cooperated with the dispatch of troops. Su Qin, another famous columnist, won the trust of King Qi, but his true share was the death of Yan Guo. That is to say, the war of the alliance of Qin, Zhao, Yan, Han, and Wei that began in 285 BC was the power of most of the world, including Qiang Qin, including the contribution and strength of countless elite talents such as King Yan Zhao, King Qin Zhaoxiang, King Zhao Huiwen, Meng Weijun, Su Qin, Wei Ran, etc., to besiege Qi and one country, not just the strength of Le Yi, the commander of the coalition army. The only state of Chu that did not participate in the coalition army took advantage of the fire to loot in the name of aiding Qi and took the opportunity to plunder the Huaibei region on the southern border of Qi.

In 284 B.C., in the decisive battle of Jixi between the two sides, the commander of the Qi army, Touch, was already resentful of the king of Qi, and the soldiers of the Qi army were demoralized because they had been fighting for many years and were not allowed to recuperate. In order to force the soldiers to fight to the death, King Qi threatened to dig up ancestral graves and kill, which made the soldiers centrifuge and depressed. That's why the Qi army will be defeated in one battle.

After this war, the states arranged their own division of interests, and the coalition forces were essentially disbanded, with Zhao attacking the Hejian region, Wei attacking the territory of the former Song State, and Qin attacking Taoyi, the most plastered in the world, as the personal leader of Qin Prime Minister Wei Ran. Le Yi led the Yan army to drive straight in, all the way down the wind, and took more than 70 cities in Qidi, swallowing the territory of Qi and swallowing all the whales into the territory of Yan Kingdom.

However, the last remaining Ju and Jimo are not simply two cities, but two of the "five capitals" of Qi. In addition to Linzi, the national capital, the Qi affairs system also built high city walls and selected and trained standing armies in the four strategic places of Pinglu, A, Jimo and Ju as a backup when the national capital was lost. In other words, it seems that there are only two cities left in the Qi State, but in fact, two-fifths of the army is still resolutely resisting. And the attacker is only left with Yan Guoyi's first team.

The various countries of the Warring States Period were not warlord regimes such as Wang Shichong, Dou Jiande, Wu Yue of the Southern Tang Dynasty, Zhang Shicheng, and Chen Youliang, but each of them had a history of several hundred years, had its own ruling elite group, and almost formed its own independent national consciousness and national consciousness of the real "country", and it was a very long process to annex and digest such a country. Later, Qin destroyed the Six Kingdoms, and it lasted hundreds of years of repeated attacks.

The vast majority of Qi people may not care whether the monarch is a descendant of Lu Shang or a descendant of Tian Wan, and even if Le Yi wants to establish himself as the king of Qi and replace Tian like "Tian Dai Qi", they may not resist so fiercely, but Yan wants to include all the land of Qi into its territory, and even after seizing Linzi, the capital of Qi, they will burn down the palace and temple of Qi, they will defend the country and fight to the end.

If Yan Guo really revealed his family's intention and ambition to eat alone, then there were two fortified cities in front of him that were difficult to overcome, and there were other countries in the back, which could be said to be as dangerous as hanging eggs. Previously, with the strength of the Eastern Emperor of Qi State, the previous attempt to annex Yan State failed, which attracted ten years of grudges from Yan people, and then annexed Song State, which caused the siege of the Five Nations Alliance, and was on the verge of extinction, and the lesson was not tragic enough?

Therefore, as a genius with outstanding strategic insight, Le Yicai did not choose to rush to success, but put down the siege of these two cities without attacking, and has been constantly appeasing the people of Qidi, while actively responding to the unpredictable international situation.

In 283 BC, Qin Prime Minister Wei Ran personally led a large army to attack Wei and besieged the Wei capital Daliang. Le Yi, who was in contact with Yan and Zhao, commanded a coalition of 80,000 Yan troops and 100,000 Zhao troops to block and besiege the Qin army in the forest, which was the "siege of the forest", forcing the Qin State to withdraw its troops, and recognized the annexation of the land of Jixi by the Zhao State and the annexation of the Jiaodong land of the former Qi State by the Yan State. After the war, Wei Ran was once dismissed as prime minister and took responsibility for the defeat.

In 282 BC, Le Yi led Zhao's ** team to capture Boyang of Wei, forcing Wei to also acquiesce to the post-war distribution of Qi by him, of course, Qin also took the opportunity to retaliate and seize two cities of Zhao. After that, Le Yi finally concentrated his energy and completed his great cause of exterminating Qi, but from the beginning, he was a Zhao Guoren who accepted Yan Guo's courtesy, and he had been working part-time Zhao Xiang and Yan Xiang at the same time, Yan Guo's trust in him was completely based on Yan Zhao's personal trust in him. In addition, the other courtiers of the Yan Kingdom were all worried about him. Even except for Le Yi himself, the world is afraid that he doesn't know whether Le Yi is for Yan, for Zhao, or whether he is the king of Qidi.

Therefore, when Le Yi encountered Tian Dan's tenacious rival, it was when the chess opponent would meet Liangcai, in 279 BC, King Yan Zhao, who trusted him, died, and the successor King Yan Hui easily fell for Tian Dan's counter-plot, dismissed him, and replaced him with a horse robbery. After hearing the news, Le Yi fled back to Zhao alone, and was sealed in Guanjin by Zhao to deter Yan Qi. The cavalry robbery was defeated by Tiandan, creating the legend of "Fire Bull Array Breaking the Enemy and Restoring the Country".

The war of the Yan Kingdom, which intended to swallow the elephant with a snake and destroy the strong with the weak, ended in heavy losses and in vain. And although the Qi State has recovered, it is also greatly damaged. This feud can be regarded as a lose-lose situation.

It was also in this year that the Qin general Bai Qi attacked the Chu capital Ying, and the king of Chu Xiang fled east to Chen County. The Hubei region, where the Chu State originated, fell into the territory of the Qin State. Since then, the state of Qin has become the only strongest in the world and the biggest winner of this series of wars.

Since Le Yi commanded the Five Nations Alliance, it has changed the situation of the entire Warring States history in just five years, and Yan Guo and Le Yi in the foreground, what a beautiful scenery they seem, after all, they were busy in vain, and made a wedding dress for the Qin State who made a lot of money behind the scenes.

In 273 BC, Wei Ran and Qin general Hu Yang raised troops to attack the Three Jin, and the Battle of Huayang was a complete victory, and the Three Jin coalition forces were beheaded 100,000 and captured the volumes, Caiyang, and Changshe of Wei, and Guanjin of Zhao. Although there is no clear record of whether Le Yi participated in this battle, his fief was also seized by the Qin State, and since then he can only live in Handan, the capital of Zhao, as an idle guest, a generation of unparalleled national soldiers, and since then he has regretfully withdrawn from the stage of history.

Therefore, the evaluation of Le Yi by successive dynasties is more about him and Su Qin and Zhang Yi and other vertical and horizontal families, and more emphasis is on his horizontal and vertical combination with the weak Yan State, and with the help of strength, he almost achieved the miracle of annexing a big country with a small country and a weak country; It's not how miraculous his ability to lead troops is, and he has completed the great feat of "Seventy-two in Qi City in the East", which is comparable to military gods such as Bai Qi Han Xin.

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