Chapter 22: The Plains
After Jianxinjun finished speaking, he presented a letter from Zhao Ji, the empress dowager of Qin, and then retreated. After reading the letter, Lingyuan looked at Guo Kai again, and didn't speak for a while. Instead, Guo Kai said: "Queen Mother, the Qin people are not credible. Although Zhao Qin is a state of brothers, he has fought to this day, and his grudges are deep......"
Guo Kai instinctively didn't believe in the Qin State, let alone repaying virtue with virtue. The Qin people are no longer the Qin people who repay virtue with virtue and grievances with straightforwardness, they have become fearful of power but not virtuous. If you are good to him, he will think that you are weak and can be bullied, and change your previous politeness, arrogance and unreasonableness; If you treat him badly, kill him so much that his blood flows, and even burn the whole Xianyang, he will instinctively fear you and gradually be polite to you. This is the current Qin people.
Zhao Guo's helplessness was that he no longer had the ability to treat Qin Guo badly, so he had to gradually be good to Qin State. There is nothing more painful in life than knowing everything and not being able to do anything. Guo Kai's smile was full of this helpless pain.
"What about the state of Chu?" Ling's face is also painful, but she is different from Guo Kai, what she wants is very simple: the first is that Zhao Guo does not stop worshipping, which is an explanation to her husband; The second is naturally her and her son's life, food and clothing.
"Empress Dowager, there is no news from Chu State, but as early as this month, or later next month, there will be news from Yingdu." Guo Kaiyi said.
"Yingdu does have information," Lian Yu did not inform Handan of Xiong Jing's brain disease, but he spread other news to Handan. "The state of Chu is restored, and it wants to move the capital. The king of Chu had arrived at Jiuying more than ten days ago. The Chu army has also attacked Nanzheng, wanting to compete with the Qin people for the land of Bashu in Hanzhong and save Zhao......"
The Chu army counterattacked again and again, recapturing the land and cities lost fifty years ago, but the Zhao state was about to die. There was a hint of sadism on the calm face of the Ling, and she instinctively did not trust men, even though she became queen because of men. Thinking of what Zhao Ji said in the letter, she asked: "Taifu thinks that my Zhao State is more important than Qin and Chu?" ”
"Now the Qin people are weak, and they are eager to make peace with me and fight in Chu. However, "Guo Kai is very clear about the current situation. 300,000 Qin troops were dragged in Handan, and more than 100,000 Qin troops were assisting Qin officials to take over the uprooted counties of Zhao State, as long as Handan surrendered, the Qin army could immediately free up 400,000 or 500,000 troops to fight against Chu State, which is the value of Zhao State.
"What about Yu Chu?" Lingyuan interrupted Guo Kai's statement and asked about the state of Chu.
"The state of Chu should make me hold on and not surrender, so that I can get Hanzhong Bashu." Guo Kai replied again.
"In this way, neither country is good." Lingyuan said. "If Chu doesn't save me, it's better to surrender to him than to be captured by Qin."
"Queen Mother, the Qin people are attacking the city unremittingly, but Handan must not be able to defend it." Guo Kai saw that Lingyuan easily made such a conclusion, and immediately couldn't sit still. "And the Queen Mother wants to surrender, but the Plains King doesn't surrender, what can I do?"
The affairs of the Qin State are decided by the King of Qin alone, and the affairs of the Chu State are not counted by the King of Chu, and the Zhao State is in between, especially Zhao Qian is still young, and the spirit is from a humble background. Although the general defending the city is Zhao Cong, there are thousands of people in the Zhao camp of Pingyuan Jun, and once the news of surrender spreads, those Sheren people of Pingyuan Jun will definitely rebel.
"You can't, you can't ......" Zhao Ying, the king of the plains, made the spirit robe taboo. At that time, his father, Zhao Sheng, the king of Pingyuan, was a figure who guarded Handan, and Zhao Ying inherited the title, and his family background did not decline, but was even better. If you want to surrender, you must pass the level of Zhao Ying.
"The minister thought that it was too early to say this, and he could only say it when Handan cooked the bones and used the wood as a spear. Or maybe the state of Chu will send troops to save me again, it is not known. Guo Kaiyi said. He saw that he was persuaded by himself, and withdrew.
The Qin army attacked the city every day, and after Jianxinjun entered the city, he stopped for an unprecedented day, which was regarded as giving Zhao Guojun and his ministers a day to consider whether to surrender or not. The royal city of Handan is outside the big city of Handan, and relying on the concrete of the Chu State, the royal city and the big city have been connected. After Jianxinjun withdrew from the palace, the next person to visit was Pingyuan Jun Zhao Ying.
'Plains Junjialou is near the people's house', and the Plains Jun's Mansion is in the big city rather than the royal city.
The walls of the city were obviously one section shorter than the royal city, and the low place was only three feet and six feet, but the walls of the city were full of openings, and the walls were not obstacles to the enemy, but fortifications that could be used. The Qin army besieged the city and the troops were weak, and the defenders would attack it, kill its soldiers, and burn its chariot ladders; The Qin army is fighting in formation, so there is no time to attack the city.
Jian Xinjun saw that outside the city of Dacheng were all burned ladders and cars, and then there were the bones of the Qin people and the Qin people who drove them forward to annihilate the earth. This is true outside the city, and the inside of the city is devastated. In order to provide enough artillery ammunition for the trebuchets that lined up behind the walls, all the houses several miles from the walls were demolished. As a result, the ground was potholed after the carriage entered the city, and the air was filled with the smell of corpses. Only when it was close to the Plains Monarch's Mansion did the road surface become flat again, and the air not only did not smell of corpses, but there was a smell of wine.
"Jianxin-kun asks to see Pingyuan-kun." The carriage arrived at Pingyuan Jun's mansion, and Jian Xinjun did not need to get off the car, and his own servants went to tell him. But the strange thing is that when he learned that he was visiting, Pingyuanjun was indifferent and only sent the head of the family to greet him.
"The lord ......" Pingyuan Jun was rude, and the servant's face was already displeased.
Even the queen mother has to wait for herself, but Pingyuanjun does not greet him in person, and Jianxinjun is also unhappy in his heart, but there are two forces in Handan at the moment, and if you want to say that you must meet with Pingyuanjun. Jian Xinjun smiled on his face and said, "What's the matter." With that, he got out of the carriage and walked to the mansion Mingtang in the laughter of the plain monarch. When he ascended to the hall, he found that Pingyuan Jun Zhao Ying was not in the Ming Hall.
“…… That's what the widow means. "In the dimly lit West Room, Mu Ling, the eldest disciple of the Crane Guanzi, has finished interpreting the information on the secret message. Pingyuan Jun Zhao Ying is the backbone of the Zhao clan, which is very clear to the Bisi and Yingdu Zhengchao. From a certain point of view, Yingdu preferred to deal with Pingyuanjun rather than with the Handan court.
"But Handan is the capital of my Zhao people, so abandon it ......" The plan of the Great Sima Mansion is to withdraw all the 400,000 or 500,000 Zhao people in Handan City as the force to restore Zhao in the future. People can be transported away, but the Taimiao, Taishe, and palace rooms can't be transported away, which is what Zhao Ying is worried about. "And the Zhao people in each county saw me go to the country and leave the capital, and the Zhao country died."
"The Wei army of 100,000 armor soldiers is exhausted, the Qi people are very untrustworthy, the Chu army is only 200,000, and Li Xin, Meng Tian 600,000 or 700,000 people are facing each other in Fangcheng, once Zhao is saved, the Chu country will be taken by the Qin people. Wang Jian is still fighting with the Chu army, if he doesn't fight with the Chu army, ......"
The number of troops is insufficient, this is the status quo of the four countries, especially after the Wei army is exhausted, the army that can really fight in the field of the four countries is the 200,000 Chu army. However, this army could only defend one place, more than a thousand miles from Hangu Pass to Zhaodi, and it couldn't take care of it at all.
"Alas!" Of course, Zhao Ying also understands this reality. "You can't attack Guanzhong again?"
"The King of Qin is full of Chu language, pretending to be my army and fleeing, do you think that the Chu army can win the King of Qin by attacking Guanzhong?" Mu Ling asked rhetorically.
"King Qin......" Zhao Ying's eyes widened when he heard the first half of the sentence, and finally he laughed irrepressibly. Hahahaha, hahahaha......, the king of a country is full of Chu language, pretending to be a Chu army soldier?! "Zhao Ying is fat, holding his stomach and laughing, he looks like a tumbler.
Seeing him like this, Mu Ling couldn't help but laugh. "This matter is known to the whole world, but you have not heard of it?"
"Haha. I didn't ...... Hahaha, I haven't... Sniff. Zhao Ying's mind made up the picture of King Qin's escape, and this laugh released all his grievances in the past few months. When the king of Qin was hostage in Handan Palace, I often chased and humiliated him with the erector, and today he is the king of a country, and he still does not change the nature of running around the pillar in the past. ”
Zhao Ying's memories were only for a moment, and he turned to say: "The king of Qin died regardless of the respect of the king, and it is useless for the Chu army to enter the pass again. If you can only ...... like this, when will the boat arrive? ”
"When the north wind blows." In the entire Zhao State, Zhao Ying, the Plain Monarch, was the most credible person in the Chu State, and Mu Ling did not hide the truth from him. Seeing that Zhao Ying was puzzled, he said: "There are 40,000 or 500,000 people in Handan, and there is not enough boats in Handan, so the sea boat should take the north wind against the river to go up to Lierenyi, which needs to be when the north wind is strong." ”
The climate of the East Asian continent has always been dominated by the winter monsoon from the north and the summer monsoon from the south. Where the two meet, it's the rainy season. The summer monsoon begins to move northward in May, so South China enters the rainy season in May. The summer monsoon advances into the Yangtze River in June and July, so the Yangtze River begins to rain; The summer monsoon arrives in North China in August, and it starts to rain in North China.
It takes several months for the summer monsoon to enter North China and even Northeast China, but it retreats very quickly. In August and September, when the rain continues in North China, it will become cloudless and crisp in autumn for more than ten days or a few days, but the weather is also cool at this time, and the winter monsoon begins to dominate the northern sky.
Mu Ling, who had not taken an aviation school course, couldn't explain such a reason, he could only say that the north wind was blowing.
"So, in a month, the boat will be there?" Zhao Ying knew that the days of the north wind every year were in these ten days. And when the north wind is strong, it will be fine next month.
"When it is. The sea boat has arrived at Zhongyi Port, and the rest of the boats are subject to the time when the sea boat sails back to the Lirenyi. The widow only hopes that Zhao will not surrender to Qin. Mu Ling emphasized that this was the only requirement for Zhao Guo.
"Zhao Qin's blood feud, how can I, Zhao, surrender to Qin?" Zhao Ying said hatefully, "However, if someone wants to surrender to Qin, Zhao Ying will kill him and then quickly!" ”
"The lord of the lord, the king of Jianxin is the best." As soon as Zhao Ying said that he was killed, the servants told Jian Xinjun that he had arrived.
"Jianxin-kun? Is he not in the Qin State? Zhao Ying was very surprised.
"I don't know." Jia Zai couldn't tell the origin of Jianxinjun, and he was not sure of Jianxinjun's intention this time.
"Such a villain who betrays the alliance and treason, I should be bound and killed." Chunpinghou has already sold Jianxinjun, and everyone in Handan knows what he has done. Zhao Ying faintly guessed why Jianxinjun was here, so as he spoke, the others had already stood up, drew his sword and rushed towards Mingtang angrily, and the family slaughter followed closely behind him.