Chapter 7 Repaying the Favor
Xiong Qi's breath was all in the Ming Hall, and he wanted to yell a few times, but this was the Wei Palace, and his every move would be known by the Wei people. He could only gasp for breath to express his anger and dissatisfaction.
Zhao State and Qi State cannot say that Chu State has no selfish intentions, but Chu State has indeed been honest with these two countries, except for some technical restrictions, what should be given has been given, how can the two countries have a virtue. One wants to let himself die in the Qin State, so that the two countries of Chu and Qin will die; Another possibility may be that the Chu state, which was worried about the defeat of the Qin people, was too strong, or that the Zhao state was regaining strength, and deliberately defeated the Qin people to the advantage.
After experiencing this, Xiong Jing's thoughts that floated because of King Qi's promise to meet the alliance gradually precipitated. The Qin State was able to become bigger, and it was able to sweep away the countries and dominate the world in the more than ten years after Qin Shi Huang came to power, most of which was because the Kwantung princes were afraid of Qin. Afraid of Qin and bribing Qin, after bribing Qin, Qin was more greedy, and eventually had the idea of dominating the world.
"What does Cheng Ao think of Zhao Ren?" The big river was just outside the car, and the river was rushing eastward, Xiong Jing couldn't help but think of Zhao Ren.
"The Qin State invaded Zhao, the Zhao people were credible, the Qin State did not attack Zhao, and the Zhao people were not credible." Seisuke's answer made Xiong Jing couldn't help but laugh.
When he begged Zhao Guo to send troops the year before last, Zhao Guo only went out of the ship. Is it because Zhao Guo attacked Yan and lacked armor? No. The main force attacking Yan was Li Mu's Daijun army, and the Zhao army in Handan had at least 100,000 troops to mobilize, but the Zhao people just didn't send troops.
The Zhao people were also worried about offending the Qin State, so they hoped that the Qin State would always attack Chu and never attack Zhao. However, the characteristics of the Qin people are that they bully the weak and are afraid of the hard, and if they can't fight, they will curry favor, meet the alliance, and turn against each other, and if they can fight, they will have to make inches and their desires will be difficult to fill, and the Qin army, which was restrained by the Chu Guozhou Division, finally turned to attack Zhao.
"From now on, the affairs of diplomatic relations will be handled by Zhu Ao." Xiong Jing only felt that he was tired, and he felt even more lonely. Because the world is so big, Chu has no half friends. A big country like Qi is not as good as a tribe like Xiou.
Didn't Zhu Yue know the strength of the Qin State? Even if you didn't know it before, you should know it after joining the war the year before last. But what does it have to do with the enemy's strength and one's own resistance? Don't resist because the enemy is strong, and resist because the enemy is weak?
The Chu people have the dignity of the Chu people, and the more people have the pride of the more people; The Chu people live according to the traditions of the Chu people, and the Yue people naturally abide by their own customs. If it is not willing, no one can force the Chu people to change for any reason, and if they want, it is war.
As long as the river is not frozen, the Chu State Boat Division can run rampant on the river unimpeded. Seeing Xiong Jing's royal flag fluttering on the war boat, even if the big river was already the inland river of the Qin State, the Qin State boats along the way also avoided it. At night, they anchored on the river beach, and the county magistrate of the county also sent corn, pigs and sheep. Of course, this is an ancient gift, and the county commander of Qinguo who gave the gift was respectful and respectful, and he left after sending it.
On the third day, when he arrived at the mouth of the chasm, the boatmaster led by Hongzhu was already waiting there, and when he entered the chasm to the garden, the boatmaster's vigilance was a little lax. But the bad news also came at this time, and Li and Don't tell me, who came from Yingdu: In the past few days, the Qin army besieging Wucheng and Pingyang broke the Zhao army under Pingyang City, killed Zhao generals, and beheaded 60,000.
"Qin attacked Zhao with the whole country's troops in three ways, and Zhao is in danger! Please send troops to rescue Zhao as soon as possible. "Daliang Beicheng, Lian Po worshiped Xiong Jing when he saw him, and Xiong Jing hurriedly helped him up.
Lian Po is getting older and older, thinking of the past when he taught him with all his heart and deeds, Xiong Jing didn't know how to deal with it.
"Xinping-kun, please be at ease." Xiong Jing lost his mind, and Narusuke spoke on the side. "The State of Qi does not want to be allied with the State of Zhao, so the king ......"
"Qi people, weak." Lian Po's perception of alignment has never been better. "Good scheming, good personal fighting, cowardly public war......"
"Teacher......" Xiong Jing smiled bitterly. More than one person said that Qi people were not good at fighting, but he just didn't believe it, ran over to Qi people and broke their promises, and came back disgraced.
"Teacher, please listen to the student," Xiong Jing reassured Lian Po who was anxious. "Qin and Zhao are not to seize land, but to destroy the country."
At the mention of destroying the country, Lian Po couldn't sit still again, Xiong Jing pulled him again, and then said: "Teacher, please listen to the student, please listen to the student!" Since it is the destruction of the country, it is not necessary to calculate the loss of one city and one place, but to calculate the national strength and strategy of Qin and Zhao, and even the overall situation of the world. The death of Zhao is the death of Wei, and the death of Wei is either the death of Qi or the death of Chu. The world has been overturned in the past ten years. If you can't think about it in the long term and think carefully, all the countries in the world will die in Qin. ”
The survival of Zhao is not only the survival of Zhao, but also the survival of all countries in the world. Lian Po doesn't understand this truth very well because he is a military general, but South Korea, who is like a monkey spirit, and Wei Guo, who is two-faced and three-sworded, have already seen that this attack on Zhao is not trivial.
Different from what Yao Jia said, who had cold bones, Qin Guohua and Zhao were divided into three routes: the first route was led by Li Xin, and the target was Handan, and the Qin army was only about 200,000 instead of 300,000 as Yao Jia said. He said that the 300,000 may be to deter the Qi State;
The second route is led by Meng Wu, and the target is Jingcheng. There were about 250,000 men, one of which was led by Wang Jian, with the aim of seizing Que and Luyang west of the Taihang Mountains (similar to the Sui and Tang second lines west of Dabie Mountain in the Chu State). Historically, the two places should have been pulled out by the Qin army two years ago, but because of the invasion of Chu, the Qin army only pulled out the nine cities south of Handan, and did not pull out Que and Luyang.
The third road was led by Qiang, the number of whom is unknown, and it attacked the two counties of Yunmen and Yunzhong.
The three-way Qin army was no less than 500,000, and according to intelligence, the Qin State also recruited hundreds of thousands of people, and these hundreds of thousands of troops were not held on the front line, but in Hanoi County, north of the Great River. Once the Chu army moves north, these hundreds of thousands of troops will converge with Li Xin's army.
In this way, preparations are also made for the transportation of grain. Most of the grain and grass used by Li Xin's 200,000 people were the grain and grass accumulated in Dong County and Hanoi County, and of course, there was also transportation during the war, and the transportation was not only water transportation, but also land transportation in addition to water transportation - to support the 200,000 army, four-wheeled carriages were enough. As for the other two roads, they naturally rely on Fenshui. The Fenshui runs through Taiyuan County and Hedong County, and joins the Yellow River at Fenyin (now Wanrong). This section of the Yellow River is part of the Hetao, and it has not yet turned 90 degrees to the east at the boat, and after the turn, it is the range of activities of the Chu army's boat division after crossing the Sanmenxia.
After the Chu army captured Aocang the year before last, the Qin army abandoned Hanoi Road and used Hedong Road. The east road of the river is from Xianyang to the east of the Weishui, to the boat Sikong is not along the Yellow River to the east, but against the Yellow River to the north. Zhouji goes against the water to Fenyin and enters Fenshui, along Fenshui to the east is Xintian (now Houmaxi), after arriving in Xintian, the grain and straw are all changed to land transportation, and enters the Qinshui basin through Huangfu (northwest of Qinxian County).
The Qinshui basin could go south down the river to Hucheng north of the Yellow River in the Aocang section, but it is more likely to continue eastward into Shangdang, from Taihang Baicheng to Gongyi (present-day Hui County), and then from Gongyi to the south of Handan via Chaoge (present-day Qi County).
The threat of Chu's Zhou division was so great that the Qin army did not dare to transport grain along the Yellow River, and could only rely on the Zhongtiao Mountain Range, which connects Huashan and Taihang Mountains in the south of Shanxi, to transport grain to the north of the mountain range. After drilling out of Taihang Mountain from Baicheng, he had to gather heavy troops in the area of Gongyi and Chaoge, first, to prevent the Chu army from attacking with the Zhao army, and second, to prevent the Chu army from cutting off the grain route.
The land road from San Tin to Binh Duong is estimated to be about 550 miles long. And the white is still very difficult to walk, and the canyon is about three miles long. But the Qin people can't help it, Taihang Bashan, the organ in the west, Taihang is too close to the Yellow River, too far away from Handan, the Fukou in the north of Baicheng (Fukou is out of Taihang and its east is Handan) is too dangerous, and the west of Shexian is still under the control of the Zhao army, Fukou is further north of Jingcheng, and the exit of Jingcheng is hundreds of miles north of Handan, so it can only come out of Taihang from Baicheng.
Daliang Beicheng was sleeping, and as soon as he saw the grain transportation line of the Qin army, Xiang Yan's eyes couldn't be taken off. The Chu army, which had the advantage of Zhouji, could not attack the grain road of the Qin army north of Zhongtiao Mountain, but it was easy to attack the grain road from Gongyi and Chaoge to Pingyang. As soon as the boat master landed on the shore, fifty or sixty miles north was the grain road, maybe Gongyi, Chaoge and the Qin army granary.
"The king, the general, the number of the Qin army in Gongyi is unknown, and not all the grain and straw of the Qin army were transported from Xintian, and there are also a lot of grain and straw accumulated in Dong County and Hanoi County." Don't talk to me.
"Where is the Qin people?" Xiang Yan didn't care about the number of Qin troops, he just wanted to burn the grain and grass of the Qin army.
"Dongjun is in Puyang, Hanoi is in Zhongmou and Anyang." Don't let me point to the map. "It's not easy to capture."
A group of people in the north city of Daliang kept pondering and arguing about the map, and in the south of the city, Han Fei and Xinling Jun Wei chatted and talked about it.
The Qin State attacked Zhao on a large scale, and the Koreans had both joys and sorrows. The good thing is that Qin Guo is not fighting himself, and the worry is that once Zhao Guo does not resist it, the next thing will definitely be himself. Korea is to the west of Wei, and if Korea is finished, Wei will definitely be finished.
At this time, Wei Jian's value of risking his life to let the Chu army enter the city was reflected. If the Qin State destroys Wei in a big way, the Chu State on the other side of the chasm will definitely not sit idly by. Daliang is the capital of Wei, as long as Daliang is still there, Wei is still there.
"If the king doesn't let the king of Qin go out ......of the city that year, hey!" After many years of mission, Han Fei's stuttering has improved greatly, of course, he can't be excited and frightened, if he is excited and frightened, he will stutter like before.
"Hey!" When he mentioned this, Wei Jian smiled bitterly, fortunately he had already thought about it. "The sky is endless, what can I do? I don't know what happened to Han Feizi to the Mansion today? ”
"I have a plan to keep Wei Han immortal. However, I heard that the king of Chu only used the surname Mi and did not see others, if the king could recommend him......" Han Fei looked at Wei Jian's worried look carefully, and there was some flattery in his eyes.
The state of Chu didn't use outsiders much before, and now it drives foreign visitors out of the country, which is a special case. Han Fei knew that Xiong Jing was in Beicheng, he didn't dare to ask for a meeting rashly, so he came to ask Wei Jianwei, if Wei Jianwu could ask for a meeting on his behalf, then he would definitely be able to see Xiong Jing.
"Dare to ask Han Feizi what he does?" Wei Jianwei looked at Han Fei again, this Korean envoy is nearly fifty years old, and he does have the style of a Shangqing under Xuanduan's clothes, but his eyes are always squinted, and the nasolabial folds on his face are extremely deep, even if he laughs, it is difficult to see cheerfulness.