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Xianyang, the new capital of the Qin State, is a capital city built by the Qin State about 40 miles northwest of "Feng Hao", because it is located in the hinterland of the Qinchuan River of 800 miles, the Weishui passes through the south, the mountains and rivers are in the north, and the mountains and rivers are yang, so it is called Xianyang. "Note: The word salty means all, all."

On the ninth day of November, Zhang Jiao, the city guard of Weinan to Taicheng, abandoned the road from Lintong to Fenghao, and took a remote path along the bank of the Weishui River to go straight to Xianyang, hoping to spread the urgent news of "Wei Gongzirun led the army to invade the border" to Xianyang.

Before the time came, Zhang Yao came to the bank of the Weishui River in the Xianyang area.

Weishui in the Xianyang section, there is a stone bridge built to connect Xianyang and Fenghao, the name is "Gaoqiao", and the Baqiao in the northeast of Fenghao City is the same, there is also a pavilion of soldiers stationed here, about 100 people, responsible for maintaining the order of the bridge, and play a certain early warning role.

When Zhang Jiao approached Gaoqiao, the Qin soldiers near Gaoqiao also noticed the general riding a war horse and wearing armor, and they were greatly surprised.

Immediately, the 100 generals of the pavilion Qin soldiers came up.

However, at this time, Zhang Yao had no leisure to entangle with these soldiers, shouting while urging the horses under his crotch to quickly cross the bridge: "Get out of the way!" I am guarding Zhang Jiao in Xiatai City, and I have an urgent military situation in Xianyang! ”

The Qin soldiers guarding the bridge were shocked and retreated one after another, it was not difficult to stop them, and they let Zhang Yao rush by.

Since the news of the fall of the two cities of Xiaqi and Lintong had not yet reached here, the Qin soldiers near the river bridge and the Qin people who came and went did not know what was going on, but they faintly felt a little uneasy: something big might happen.

After crossing the high bridge, you will arrive at the outskirts of Xianyang.

The difference between the two is that Xianyang is the newly built capital of the Qin State, and there are very few civilians who have moved here, even if there are indeed some civilians living in the city, it is also for the nobles in the city to serve the civilians.

It is no exaggeration to say that almost all of the Qin people who are qualified to live in Xianyang are either rich or noble Qin nobles and dignitaries.

The existence of the capital in this form basically eliminates the possibility of infiltrating the city with a false identity.

No, Zhang Jiao, who rode a horse and galloped to the vicinity of the Xianyang City Gate, was stopped by the Qin soldiers guarding the city gate and carefully investigated.

At the same time, in the palace of the king of Qin in Xianyang, the king of Qin was summoning Zuo Shu Changwei Ying in the palace, and the two monarchs and ministers were discussing some issues.

It turned out that in recent times, more and more nobles of the Qin State have disagreed with the Marquis of Wuxin, believing that the Marquis of Wuxin Gongsun Qi is too cowardly, and he has been defeated in front of the Wei soldiers led by Wei Gongzirun, and this way of war is not in the interests of the Qin State.

In fact, in all fairness, although Wuxin Hou Gongsun Qi was nominally defeated and retreated a few battles, in fact, the army was almost not affected, but it is clear that the nobles in Qin will not care about this, they only know that Wuxin Hou Gongsun Qi did not bring them any war benefits, but was consuming food every day.

Therefore, in the past two days, a group of nobles in Xianyang City have jointly marched to Qin Wangxuan, hoping that Qin Wangxuan will order to restrain Wuxin Hou Gongsun Qi, who is leading troops on the front line, to put it bluntly, he hopes that Wuxin Hou Gongsun Qi will defeat Wei Gongzi Run as soon as possible, so that they can seize rich war benefits from Sanchuan and Wei State.

This gave Qin Wang a headache.

If it were an ordinary opponent, I believe that even Qin Wangyan would be dissatisfied with the "passive" tactics of Wuxin Hou Gongsun Qi, but the question is, is Wei Gongzirun an ordinary opponent?

Therefore, intellectually speaking, neither Qin Wangyi nor Zuo Shu Changwei Ying thought that Wuxin Hou Gongsun Qi's strategy was wrong - since Wei Gongzirun was destined to withdraw his troops when Wei lost the war on his own, then why did the soldiers of Great Qin still fight with the Wei army and sacrifice in vain? Wouldn't it be better to honestly wait for the Wei State to collapse by itself, and wait for Wei Gongzi to retreat on his own?

But it is clear that the patience of the nobles in the Qin State has been worn out, and they can no longer bear the stalemate between the Marquis of Wuxin and the Duke of Wei, believing that it is a waste of Qin's precious grain.

What's more, some nobles began to accuse the Marquis of Wuxin of betraying the trust of the Qin prince.

In fact, there is no way to do it, after all, since the Marquis of Wuxin sent out his troops, he really hasn't made any achievements.

I remember that although Qin Shaojun was defeated, he finally won over the three big forces on the Sanchuan grassland, namely the Wuxu tribe, the Qian tribe, and the Lingshan tribe, but what about the grandson of Wuxin Hou? It was simply as Hangu watched as the three Sanchuan forces that might become vassals of the Qin State were annihilated by the Wei army—in the eyes of some nobles in Xianyang, the Qin State, it was a major mistake by the Marquis of Wuxin.

As a result, some Qin nobles who were above the top made a lot of nonsense in the rear, and they felt that if Wuxin Marquis Gongsun Qi had united the Wuxu tribe, the Qian tribe, and the Ling tribe to confront the Wei army under Wei Gongzi Run, the fastest situation would have been like this, but the Qin army would not have "retreated without a fight".

is the so-called three people become tigers, because of this kind of remarks, so that even Qin Wangyun began to waver a little: Could it be that Wuxin Hou Gongsun really made a mistake in judgment?

However, in this regard, Zuo Shu Changwei Ying's attitude was very firm, and he firmly believed that the decision of Wuxin Hou Gongsun Qi was correct.

The reason is very simple, the warriors of the Wusu tribe, the Qian tribe, and the Ling tribe, they have not received orthodox combat training, and the way to fight is basically to rush up, victory or defeat depends on the will of heaven, this kind of friendly army, who dares to take them to fight head-on with the Wei army?

What the? Cavalry?

Didn't the Wei army have cavalry? On the side of the Wei army, the Qiangjiao Army of the Northern Sichuan Alliance, and the Sichuan Cavalry of the Sichuan Alliance, the two add up to almost seventy or eighty thousand people!

The strength of the troops is inferior to that of the Wei army, the combat quality of the non-commissioned officers is not as good, and the equipment is not as good, in this situation where there is almost no advantage at all, how can there be any chance of victory in a head-on battle with the Wei army?

Rather than this, it is better to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, watch the Wei army and the Wuxu, Xia, Ling, and other forces kill you to the death, and see if you can take the opportunity to defeat the Wei army during the period, anyway, the Wuxu tribe, the Qian tribe, and the Lingling tribe are not good birds.

It's just that no one thought that Sima An, the vanguard of Wei Gongrun, would be so powerful that he wiped out the entire Wuxu tribe with 500 sheep, which greatly boosted the morale of the Wei army.

Therefore, personally, Wei Ying could accept the achievement of Wuxin Hou Gongsun Qi, after all, the Wei army he faced was by no means ordinary, so he did not want Qin Wangxuan to put pressure on the front line, because this would affect the judgment of Wuxin Hou Gongsun Qi.

Since ancient times, generals who urge the front line with the king's orders often end up losing, and the "Shangdang Battle Fiasco" of the Wei State is an excellent example.

Just when the king of Qin and Wei Ying were discussing whether they should urge the Marquis of Wuxin to rise with the king's order, the court lieutenant hurriedly walked in and said: "The king, Lord Zhang Jiao, the guard of Xia Tai City, is waiting outside the palace at the moment, saying that he has something important to do. ”

"Zhang Jin?" King Qin was stunned, and couldn't figure out what Zhang Jin was doing when he came to Xianyang if he didn't stay in Xiadi.

Under the throne steps in the palace, Zuo Shu Changwei Ying also looked puzzled - due to the poor delivery of information, even Wei Ying never expected that the Wei army, which was five or six hundred miles away, had actually killed Qin itself at this moment and captured two cities.

"Summoned." King Qin commanded.

"Whoa!"

Tingwei bowed and retreated, and after a while, he led Zhang Yao to return again.

When they saw Zhang Jin, Qin Wangyan and Wei Ying were stunned for a moment, because they found that Zhang Jin was covered in dust and dust, and there were traces of frostbite on his face, as if he had come from Xia Di for days and nights.

What kind of important thing would make this general so anxious?

"The King."

Before Qin Wang Yan could ask, Qin General Zhang Jiao bowed to the ground and said, "Please retreat from the king." ”

This sentence alone is enough to prove the seriousness of the matter.

"Stand down."

King Qin waved his hand and asked the attendants in the hall to retreat one after another, and after these people had all withdrawn from the palace, he frowned and asked, "What is Zhang Qing's important business?" ”

I saw Zhang Yao glance back, and saw that the waiters closed the door of the hall after exiting the main hall, so he turned his head, and after thinking about his tone, he said cautiously: "King, 100,000 Wei troops have entered the territory of my Great Qin, and the ministers have neglected to supervise, so that Xia Tai has fallen......"

Speaking of this, he saw that Qin Wangnan didn't respond, so he secretly raised his head to take a look, only to find that Qin Wangnan's eyes widened in horror.

looked at the Zuo Shu Changwei Martingale next to him, but saw that this adult also had a daylight expression.

After more than a dozen breaths, King Qin swallowed his saliva and asked in a trembling tone, "Zhang Qing, what did you just say?" Wei Jun...... What's wrong? ”

Zhang Yao lowered his head and said truthfully: "King, four days ago, Wei Gongzirun led nearly 100,000 troops to capture my Xiaqi with trickery, and then divided his troops to attack Lintong...... Three days ago, at dawn, when I passed Lintong, I found that Lintong had been captured by the Wei army, and the city was full of Wei army's banners......"

Hearing what Zhang Jin said, Qin Wangyun was convinced that he had not heard it wrong, and he subconsciously sat up straight, only to feel a chill surging from his spine to the top of his head.

"Zhang Qing, aren't you joking with the widow?" King Qin asked with a forced smile.

Hearing this, Zhang Yao saluted with both hands, touched the ground with his head, and said with difficulty: "Minister...... Even if you die, you don't dare to laugh about national affairs. ”

Hearing this, the strong smile on Qin Wang's face suddenly collapsed, and he held the desk with one hand, as if the whole person was trembling - I don't know if it was because of anger or fear.

"Wei Jun...... Attacked the territory of my Great Qin? also broke through the two cities of Xiaqi and Lintong one after another? Are you kidding? Isn't Wei Jun in Taolin? The peach forest is nearly 500 miles away from Xiadi! In this icy and snowy land, how did the Wei army quietly invade the territory of our Great Qin?"

"What about Wu Xinhou? Have you ever seen the soldiers and horses of Marquis Wuxin? Qin Wang asked with patience.

Zhang Jia didn't dare to raise his head, and said in a low voice: "I haven't seen the soldiers and horses of Marquis Wuxin, or they may be thrown away by the Wei army, or they may be ......."

He didn't dare to say any more.

But Qin Wangyun had already understood what he meant, and his face became even more ugly.

After half a ring, he asked with a blue face, "Where is the Wei army now?" ”

"If nothing else, Wei Gongzirun is waving his army to attack Feng Ho at this moment......" Zhang Jin said stubbornly.

Hearing this, Qin Wangyan's complexion was hard to see.

Why?

Because Xianyang is only more than 40 miles away from Fenghao, if the Wei army really captures that city, it is equivalent to soldiers coming to Xianyang City.

However, what made Qin Wangyun feel most unacceptable was that his Qin State was attacked by the Wei army to a place only dozens of miles away from the royal capital, but so far, he has not received any early warning news.

Just when Qin Wang was about to get angry, he suddenly heard the pre-sound of "bell bell bell" in the city, faintly accompanied by noisy human voices.

"Is it ......?"

Qin Wangyan and Wei Ying glanced at each other, and they both saw the shock in each other's eyes.