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I still remember that when Zhao Hongrun attacked Chu State, the civilians of Chu State can be said to welcome the Wei army, and the main reason for this is that the cruel dumping and oppression of the common people by the ruling class and nobles of Chu State made the Chu people contradict each other and intensified the class contradictions, so that ordinary civilians were almost unwilling to be enemies of the Wei army for the sake of the nobles, and even later Zhao Hongrun effortlessly brought nearly two million Chu people to move to Wei.

But the Qin State is a rising country, compared with the twilight Chu State, the Qin State is more vibrant, but also more united, which is not difficult to see from the Qin soldiers and civilians in the four counties of Xiaqi, Lintong, Gaoling, and Fenghao who strongly rejected the invasion of the Wei army - in these four cities, the fiercest battle encountered by the Wei army was not a siege battle, but after the city was broken, the Qin people in the city spontaneously assisted the Qin army to resist the Wei army, and even tried to drive the Wei army out of the city.

The people of the Qin State did not welcome the Wei army, rejected the Wei army, and were hostile to the Wei army, which was a very dangerous signal!

This means that if the Qin army in the direction of Xianyang organizes a counteroffensive, the Wei army occupying the four counties of Xiaqi, Lintong, Gaoling, and Fenghao will not only have to fight the Qin army outside the city, but also be vigilant against threats from inside the city—no one can guarantee that the Qin people in the four counties who were temporarily suppressed by the Wei army will not stab the Wei army in the back when their Xianyang royal division attacks the city.

Therefore, the people of Qin in these four counties are like a time bomb, and Zhao Hongrun can't leave it.

It was also on this basis that Sima An, the general of the Dangshan Army, put forward a proposal to slaughter the Qin people in the four counties.

In Sima An's view, this move can not only solve the unstable factors in the four counties, but also can be used to deter the Qin people, which can be called a strategy of killing two birds with one stone.

However, Zhao Hongrun did not want to do this.

There are two reasons for this.

First of all, wantonly slaughtering and poking at Qin Min is morally unstable, which is different from Zhao Hongrun's acquiescence to Sima An's slaughter of the Wuxu tribe a while ago.

You must know that the Wuxu tribe, the Qian tribe, and the Ling tribe, although these three did not join the Sichuan Alliance a few years ago, they have an agreement with the Wei State, and the most fundamental one is: to jointly resist any foreign forces to set foot in the territory of Sanchuan.

On the basis that the Wusu tribe, the Qiang tribe, and the Antelope tribe all accepted this agreement at that time, Zhao Hongrun expressed his willingness to continue to recognize the oath of the Wuxu tribe and was willing to lease the land of Sanchuan to the Sichuan people free of charge, and then launched an improper slave trade with the Qiang tribe and the Antelope tribe.

To put it bluntly, the general environment in Sanchuan at that time was like this: as long as there was no foreign force involved, the Wei State did not force the Wuxu tribe, the Qian tribe, and the Ling tribe to submit to the Wei State, and they played their own games.

But later, because of their own selfish desires, the Wusu tribe, the Qian tribe, and the Ling tribe fell to the Qin State without being invaded by the Qin army, trying to pull the Qin State to the table of Sanchuan to wrestle with the Wei State, so that they could profit and obtain benefits from it, which violated the agreement formulated that year.

Therefore, Zhao Hongrun's decision to erase the Wusu tribe, the Qian tribe, and the Ling tribe from the territory of Sanchuan can also be interpreted as punishing the betrayers, at least with some justification.

But the Qin State is different, the Qin State and the Wei State have nothing to do with each other, in the case of a war between the two countries, no matter how many Qin troops the Wei army kills, it will not affect the reputation of the Wei army, but the slaughter of civilians, this can not be said, this will make the Wei army's reputation extremely bad, and then affect the image of the Wei State in the Central Plains.

This is one of them.

As for the second point, just like Zhao Hongrun said to Sima An, the Qin people are fierce, this is not a nation that can be subjugated by force of slaughter, I believe that if the Wei army kills hard, the Qin state will become more and more united, which will cause the Wei army to gradually fall into the ocean war with the people of Qin, and it will be difficult to extricate.

It is undeniable that in addition to the Yanling army and some Sichuan warriors, Zhao Hongrun has nearly 150,000 troops who have either set foot on the territory of the Qin State or are about to set foot on the territory of the Qin State, which is indeed a huge force, but the question is, how many Qin people live in the hinterland of the Qinling Mountains in these eight hundred miles? Million? Million? Or even like the Wei State, close to 10 million?

In the face of this million-dollar war of the Qin people, the 150,000 Wei army is likely to be like a pebble thrown into the stream, at most a blister, and then, there will be no more.

This kind of war method with Qin Guoyu to die and break the net, or even die together, is not what Zhao Hongrun wants.

Therefore, it is absolutely impossible to slaughter the Qin people in the four counties of Xiaqi, Lintong, Gaoling, and Fenghao, it will only make the Wei army fall into passivity, and it will only unite the whole country of Qin.

But it is not a way to keep the Qin people in these four counties, and the Wei army does not have the energy to deal with the resistance of these Qin people again and again.

Therefore, it is the best way to expel the Qin people of these four counties from the city and let them flee to Xianyang.

First of all, by driving these civilians out of the four counties, the Wei army would be able to get a lot of food - of course, these Qin people would basically not starve to death or freeze to death in the ice and snow, because Xiaqi, Lintong, Gaoling, and Fenghao were not far from Xianyang, so they would not starve to death halfway.

Of course, when these civilians flee to Xianyang, then these people will become completely hungry people, unless Xianyang allows his people to starve to death outside Xianyang City, otherwise, Xianyang can only release grain, which weakens the military rations of Xianyang in disguise.

The Wei army received a large amount of grain, while the Xianyang side lost a huge amount of grain.

“…… In the future, when our army captures the city of Qin again, the old trick will be repeated, and after a few times, the Xianyang side may not even be able to make up the military rations for sending troops to fight with our army, so how can we fight with our army? Speaking of this, Zhao Hongrun smiled and said, "Unless Xianyang is ruthless and allows his people to starve to death." …… However, in this way, it is absolutely impossible for the Qin State to fight with our army in one mind. ”

Sima listened quietly to Zhao Hongrun's narration, and he had to admit that His Royal Highness King Su's strategy was better than his, and he was also more ruthless.

In fact, when the slaughter suggestion he put forward was actually implemented, it would definitely be attacked by the crazy counterattack of those Qin people, which was very likely to cause casualties to their Wei army; And His Royal Highness King Su seems to have deliberately let these Qin people live, but in fact, he has retreated the Qin State to a fire pit of dilemma.

If the hungry people were relieved, there would not be enough military rations, and without enough military rations, there would be no way to send troops to repel the Wei army; If the hungry people are allowed to starve to death, the hungry people will definitely hate Xianyang because of this, so that the Qin king will lose the support of the people, and the Qin state will still not be able to pose a threat to the 150,000 Wei army.

The Xianyang side of the Hengzhu Qin State has lost the opportunity, and can only be led by the nose by His Royal Highness the King of Su.

As for letting go of the Qin people in these four counties, will these Qin people join the army on the Xianyang side and go back to attack the Wei army, Zhao Hongrun is not worried about this - in the ice and snow, starving and trekking for dozens of miles, these Qin people are exhausted even if they arrive in Xianyang, what threat is there?

Of course, if some Qin people really joined the Qin army, then Zhao Hongrun would never show mercy to his subordinates at that time.

In his opinion, if civilians take up arms, then it is like they have voluntarily given up their civilian status, in this case, Zhao Hongrun will naturally regard them as Qin soldiers, and there is no possibility of mercy for his subordinates.

After pondering to himself a few times, Sima An nodded convincingly: "Your Highness is far-sighted. ”

Speaking of this, he made a rare joke: "Your Highness is in a hurry to summon the last general, is it because you want the last general to be this wicked person, right?" ”

Obviously, the Qin people in the four counties would not be willing to leave the county seat where they lived, not to mention that they were not allowed to bring food and household property, so if the Wei army wanted to expel these Qin people, someone had to stand up and act as a villain to intimidate these Qin people.

It is very likely that in the process of intimidation, there will also be some bloody Qin people who will jump out to resist the Wei army, and at that time, the Wei army can only be suppressed by force.

And this kind of notoriety is naturally not suitable for Wei Gongzi Run, who is famous all over the world, to carry it, and the reputation of other people in the Wei army is not loud enough, and if you think about it, you can only slaughter Sima An of the Wuxu tribe and the Qian tribe.

However, Sima An didn't care about this, after all, when he slaughtered the Nanyan Xiao clan back then, he fell into the notoriety of being a tiger and a human slaughter, and he had already seen the reputation.

What's more, if it weren't for Zhao Hongrun, the king of Su, who stopped him and put forward a better suggestion, he Sima An had indeed thought of slaughtering the Qin people in the four counties to deter the Qin people, so it would not be a big deal for him to be a villain.

Facing Sima An's joke, Zhao Hongrun shook his head with a wry smile, although he also felt that the general in front of him was an excellent candidate to be a villain, but Sima An's joke still made him feel a little uncomfortable, as if he deliberately let Sima An carry the black pot.

With a cough, Zhao Hongrun diverted the topic: "In fact, this king's invitation to summon the general is for another matter. ”

Hearing this, Sima An immediately put away his joke and said, "Please also ask Your Highness to give orders." ”

I saw Zhao Hongrun glance at Sima An and Bosil, and said in a deep voice: "That's the case, I hope that the general will lead the cavalry to attack the entire territory of Qin, sneak attack the weakly defended city, and after the capture of the city, still expel the Qin people in the city, as for the captured grain, if it can be taken away, it will be taken away, and if it can't be taken away, it will be burned together with the empty city." …… In addition, the king also wants the general to destroy the farmland and canals along the way, and destroy all the farm tools he has captured......"

Listening to Zhao Hongrun's words, Sima An's eyes flashed with a strange look.

He was ruthless enough for himself, but it turned out that his so-called ruthlessness was nothing in front of His Royal Highness King Su in front of him.

His Royal Highness King Su in front of him is called ruthless, this is obviously a strategy to kill Qin!

The strategy of killing a country without killing!

“…… Only in this way will it be possible to bring the Qin state to its knees. Looking at Sima An, Zhao Hongrun said in a deep voice.

Sima An nodded.

He had no doubt that if the King of Qin was really unwilling to give in, he would definitely break the net with the Wei State.

Then, it is very likely that the Qin State will die before the Wei State!