Chapter Seventy-Nine: The Great Beam
The martial knight of the Qin army who was stabbed by himself was really dead, and he was found back by Concubine Jing, Xiong Jing felt incredible after laughing. When the generals cheered, he suddenly looked back at Xiang Yan and Peng Zong, Xiang Yan didn't react, but Peng Zong dodged his gaze, and suddenly made him understand that this was a trick they used to fool themselves, so that he would never take risks again.
It was indeed unwise to kill an ordinary Qin army cavalry with the king of a country regardless of life and death. But the free gallop on the battlefield, the iron-blooded pleasure between life and death, attracted him like a poppy and made him want to stop. He became more and more dissatisfied with his age, because of his physical limitations, he could not fight, he could not, and he was not a normal man at all.
"The king killed the Qin army and the military cavalry at the age of the young, and the kings of the world are not as good as him." The sycophants continued, but Xiong Jing was already in a state of flux, and had no interest in their compliments. When he returned to the tea room, he suddenly felt that he had drunk something in his mouth, and when he spit it out, he saw that it was actually a tooth.
"The Great King." Under the lamp, Chang Jiang looked carefully, and hurriedly raised the teeth in Xiong Jing's hand.
"The Great King?" The generals stared at the tooth raised by Chang Jiang, and shouted for a while: "The king is also a minister, and the minister is the king." ”
Xiong Jing has long reached the age of changing his teeth, but unfortunately his teeth have not been lost, and Concubine Zhao asked the doctor Yin Taibu to see it a few times, but he couldn't see any problems. Xiong Jing's own understanding may be that he eats tofu every day to supplement calcium, and his teeth grow with people, so he has never changed his teeth. Now it's finally dropped, a little happy and a little unhappy.
The generals of the Chu army on the east bank of the chasm celebrated Xiong Jing's teeth, and the Yan Dynasty, the royal palace in Daliang City, had just received the news of defeat. Wei Zeng, the king of Wei, was suddenly dumbfounded, and Zhao Zheng was furious. The 50,000 army was defeated in the place of death between the chasm and the water (ancient water), and if it did not escape, it was equivalent to the whole army being wiped out. Of the 150,000 troops in Jiyi, 50,000 were the defenders of Nanjun, because the Huimeng was temporarily transferred to Jiyi, and now they have lost another 50,000, and only 350,000 of the 500,000 Jing army remained.
For the Qin State, which ruled half of the world's household registration, the loss of 200,000 troops was just a number, and the key was that the majesty of the overlord could not be offended. In the past three years, the Qin army has been defeated again and again, and the Kwantung countries are no longer afraid of the Qin generals, which is the most terrifying.
"Quickly pass on the order Xianyang," Zhao Zheng's anger did not subside, and his tone was extremely sonorous. "Summoning all the soldiers of Fu Ji and fighting with the Jing people."
The 500,000 army is the selected pawn, and the pawn of the Fu nationality is based on the current household registration and mobilization strength of the Qin State, and there are 3 million people per household and one ding, minus those who have been conscripted, who are slaves in the government, and who work in the debt, it is not impossible to summon hundreds of thousands of troops. When Wei Chen, the king of Wei, was frightened, the national lieutenant Huan Qi, who entered the Great Liang with Zhao Zheng, said: "Jing people are in the state of Yuer, and the ministers think that it is enough to summon 500,000 Fu soldiers. And ......"
Huan Qi wanted to speak and stopped, and when he saw Zhao Zhengzheng glaring at him, he had to say: "The minister thinks that Xiang Yan's attack on the Qin army on the east bank of the chasm is to cut off the grain of the Jing army. Now that he has won, if he hears that the king is here, he will attack the beam, and the minister asks the king to leave the beam quickly. ”
"Xiang Yan used his troops very quickly, and the Jing people had a large-winged war boat, and the minister also asked the king to leave Daliang quickly." Except for Huan Qi, the rest of the Qin generals all turned to Zhao Zheng and asked him to leave Daliang quickly.
"Do they think that the widow is not as good as King Jing?" Zhao Zheng was even more displeased. Even if it is an enemy, there are enemies that are admirable. When Zhao Zheng was Xiong Jing's age, he was still bullied by the Zhao people in the Handan Quality Palace, and now King Jing is frequently bullied by the Qin State. Standing in the position of the King of Qin, he did not want the Chu army to win, and he could sympathize with the delicate position of those who were sick, and vaguely, he hoped that the Chu army would win. Otherwise, he would not be able to defeat King Jing openly, and without that, his victory would be worthless.
'It's not as good as King Jing' appeared more and more in Zhao Zheng's words, and the generals were helpless about it. Only some old ministers understood this kind of psychology of the king: some noble sons were most afraid of others mentioning their illustrious family affairs, and they would rather get rewards and food on their own than the help of their clans. In the end, it's because they're too young.
"The minister thought," when the generals were speechless, Zhao Gao bowed and spoke. "There are only 100,000 Wei troops in Daliang, and more than 200,000 troops in Xiang Yanzhi, which is not enough to defend it.
"Sanchuan County and Dongjun are the closest to Daliang, so they should quickly adjust the divisions of these two counties." A general suggested.
"There are tens of thousands of troops in Rongyang, Chenggao, and Luoyang, and they should be dispatched quickly." Since the king didn't want to leave Daliang, he had to transfer troops to Daliang to defend it. Zhao Gao made an idea, and the generals began to echo.
Only Huan Qi shook his head vigorously when he heard such an idea. The Wei army is simply unreliable, once the king surrounds Daliang, regardless of whether the city is broken or not, the situation in the world will change rapidly - Zhao and Qi may be out of Daliang and join forces with Chu.
In addition, there is Okura. After the end of the Daliang Water Battle last year, someone in the Guowei Mansion reminded that the Chu Guozhou Division might come out of the garden Tian Ze to attack Aocang. Now it is the envoy of the harvest of millet, in order to support the army to fight, the corn from all over the country is urgently transported to Aocang, once Aocang is taken away or burned by the Chu army, what is the use of having more soldiers without food? If the Chu army besieges Daliang for half a year, the population of Daliang will be as easy to eat, dissect and plann as Handan in the past, and then the Chu army can break the city without the help of Zhao and Qi.
Such a change in the situation is beneficial to the six countries of the Kwantung region, as well as to South Korea. Huan Qi shook his head and said: "The minister thinks that the nearest one is the 40,000 defenders of Rongyang, and he should quickly transfer 30,000 people into the city to prevent Xiang Yan." ”
"Exactly." Xiang Yan has more than 200,000 yuan, if he really wants him to surround Daliang, it is not enough to rely on 100,000 Wei troops, Zhao Zheng immediately agreed.
"The minister asked the king of Wei to quickly order the Wei army to enter the city, in case Xiang Yan was divided and annihilated." Huan Qi said again.
In the morning, Zhao Zheng personally entered the Liang, Wei Zeng was still overjoyed, but now it is different, Zhao Zhengren is in the Liang, Xiang Yan must attack the Liang, the Liang is the capital of Wei, how can Xiang Yan be allowed to attack, isn't this to the death of Wei? And if Xiang Yan doesn't want to attack Daliang, he wants Zhao Zheng to leave, Zhao Zheng just doesn't leave, and he has to die in Daliang and the Qin army.
"What does King Wei mean by this?" Wei Zeng didn't answer for a long time, and Zhao Zheng was displeased, looking at him and asking.
"How can the body of the king be in a dangerous city?" Wei Zeng said bitterly: "The minister asks the king to leave the Liang quickly......"
"How can a widow flee without a fight?" Zhao Zheng naturally knew the danger of staying in Daliang, but he was not afraid of such danger.
"If the king is unexpected, the ministers ......" Wei Zeng's mind immediately thought to the conspiracy theory, could it be that the king of Qin deliberately wanted to stay in Daliang?
"If the outnumbered people have accidents, they have nothing to do with the Wei State." Zhao Zheng flicked his sleeves and brushed back Wei Zeng's words.
"King Qin is brave!" Wei Jianwu praised loudly, but he was secretly happy in his heart. In the morning, when he greeted Zhao Zheng in the suburbs, he sent someone to the state of Chu to report a letter, asking Xiang Yan to surround the beam, and now the king of Qin insists on not leaving, so wait for the countries to join forces.
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When the sun first came out, the weeds, which were half green and half yellow, were white and white, and before they could melt, the weeds rolled out of the soil and rolled down on both sides of the old road. Although the Qin army was completely annihilated, in fact, there were still a small number of people who survived, and now these people are digging hard under the spear of Chu soldiers.
Most of the Chu army was still resting, enjoying the joy of victory. They also had to dig up the earth – in order to prevent it from running aground, the old water-soaked road, which was more than 20 miles long, had to be dug deeper so that the grain could be transported. It's just that they can't do this during the day, and once the Wei people find out that the Chu army intends to open the river embankment, they will sink ships and block it on the river, so it is better to make a gesture of feint attacking the girder thirty miles away during the day, as the enemy thinks, and then dig the earth at night to penetrate the chasm and the water.
As the night passed, the blood on the grass had congealed, the corpses had stiffened, and the isolation of the water system had stopped the wild dogs, but not the birds. Some crows fell on the corpses before dawn and quacked, and once someone stepped forward, they flew vigilantly, and the overwhelming posture was like locusts in summer and autumn.
"What is the king looking for...... Chang Jiang panted and ran with Xiong Jing's horse, this is a docile old horse, if it weren't for Xiong Jing's drive, it wouldn't be too fast.
"Take a look." The crows flew overhead, and Xiong Jing examined the corpses of the Qin army on the ground one by one. He was trying to find the man he had stabbed yesterday. The martial knights were all wearing leather boots, and there were not many martial knights in the 50,000 Qin army, and he thought he could find them.
It's just that the farther north you go, the denser the corpses of the Qin army become, and some of them are stacked on top of each other, and it is impossible to tell which ones are martial knights and which ones are foot soldiers. In the end, he gave up by himself, the Qin army died more than 40,000 people, and he couldn't go through all the corpses.
"Let's go back." Xiong Jing, who had already reached the confluence of the chasm and the water, said loudly, the smell of blood here had not yet dissipated, and some corpses were floating in the water, swelling and swelling.
"Yui." Chang Jiang agreed, and he and the temple people behind him followed Xiong Jing's horse around.
"You asked Yu Jing to carry the Qin people into the big tent?" Outside the shogunate, Xiang Yan saw Xiong Jing in Lu Lijing.
"Yes." Peng Zong nodded, this was indeed what he asked Fei Jing to do.
"The king will not be pleased." Xiang Yan also understands Xiong Jing's temper.
"It's better to be displeased than to be unhappy." Peng Zong was not ashamed, "Now that the new policy of my Chu State has been established, the situation will be turbulent again." For the sake of my Chu country, what if the king is displeased? ”
Xiang Yan, the new policy of the Chu State, has heard of it, to be specific, it is to implement the Ao system hundreds of years ago. What about the Ao system and what about the royal system, Xiang Yan didn't have any idea, all he wanted was victory.
"Do you think our army is ......" Xiang Yan, who put down Lu Lijing, mentioned the current situation, King Qin was actually in Daliang, which he didn't expect.
"Take Aocang first, then surround the beam, and then join forces with the Qi, Zhaoyan, and other countries." Peng Zong didn't think twice.
"And then?" Xiang Yan asked again. "To pull out the city or not to pull out the city?"
"I want to capture the King of Qin and return. The king of Qin has no heirs, whether he is captured or killed, the Qin country will be in chaos. Once there is chaos, there is no time to attack me. "Peng Zong already sees hope of victory.