Chapter 148: After the Great War
Failing to defeat the Qin army in a battle has become Jingcui's biggest regret, Yongshi City is surrounded by a flat river, there is no danger to defend, and it is absolutely impossible to find another opportunity to fight with Qin. Since he was a famous general of the Qin State, he might have been caught off guard by the cavalry of the Chu State for the first time, and he would not have such good luck for the second time.
Coupled with the Malay report, the reinforcements from Korea and Wei suddenly moved again, and they were rushing towards Yongshi City with all their might, if Jing Cui had six layers of cavalry in his hand, he would dare to fight for a while, but the reality was very cruel, so the Chu army could only continue to camp on both sides of Yingshui for the time being, neither retreating nor attacking, and seemed to be making a final struggle.
Through Jing Cui's layout of gains and losses, he saw the contradiction of this person's mood, since this is the case, he no longer hesitated, and personally led the troops to attack the Chu army camp, the Chu army suffered countless casualties, Jing Cui was in a hurry, he could only choose to retreat and camp on the south bank of Yingshui to prevent the Qin army from entering.
Jingcui's failure made the hesitant Wei Zhang see an opportunity. Because of the pressure from the Zhu Li disease, he concluded that Qu Kuo would not easily leave Xiyi and go south, so he led a large army, bypassing the heavily guarded Xishui, and directly attacked Danyang. This made Qu Kuo, who was already preparing in Xiyi, frightened, and hurriedly dispatched troops to launch an attack on Danyang, and on the other hand, he had to divide his troops to do a good job in the defense of Xishui.
At this time, the north road sent a message that he was willing to work with Wei Zhang to defeat the two armies of Jingcui and Qu Kuo at the same time, and Wei Zhang readily agreed.
After the army retreated to Yongshi City, the Qin army was divided into two routes, and the whole way pretended to cross the river from the camp of the Jingcui garrison, creating the illusion that the army was moving south to support Wei Zhang, and attracting the attention of the Jingcui army to this force. The Jingcui army, which was defeated one after another, really hit the plan, trying to eliminate the Qin army that secretly crossed the river, but did not think that the main force of the river crossed the river from the downstream of Yingshui, and so that the Jingcui army thought it was successful, the real main force of the Qin army had attacked the gate of the Jingcui camp, the Chu army was defeated, Jingcui escaped from death, and fled with a small number of troops.
On the other hand, after receiving the news from Jingcui that the main force of the "Qin Army" had been "eliminated" by Jingcui, Qu Kuo had no worries and began to lead the army to attack Danyang.
The appearance of the Qin army frightened the Chu army, but the large army was crossing the river, and it was not easy to retreat. Qu Kuo and his lieutenant general Feng Yingchou and others had to immediately organize troops to counterattack. Originally, the Chu army, which was neat and brave in combat, fought against the Qin army, and the victory or defeat was five or five. It's just that Wei Zhang's Qin army has taken the lead in investigating the geographical prosperity, and launched an attack when the enemy army is halfway crossing. In the end, not only did the 80,000 Chu army lose their lives in this battle, but the generals Qu Kuo and Feng Yingchou were also captured by the Qin army. The Chu army, which had not yet crossed the river, also took the opportunity to withdraw to Xiyi and continued to camp troops here, posing a direct threat to the Qin army occupying Danyang, and deterring the Zhuli disease stationed in Yingshui and possibly heading south at any time.
In the Battle of Danyang, the first confrontation between Qin and Chu, the Chu State paid 80,000 soldiers and the loss of more than 70 generals, which not only made the world look sideways, but also made everyone have a more intuitive feeling of the strength of the Qin State. As for the state of Chu, not only did they not receive defeat, but they became even more disgusted with the state of Qin. Because not long after Wei Zhang occupied Danyang, news came from Hanzhong that Xicheng had been lost.
Xicheng is the Hanzhong County of Chu State. Bashu is very important to Qin and Chu, but the people of Chu are located in the lower reaches of Bashu, and there are many mountains and mountains here, and the chariots and horses cannot be parallel, only sporadic basins are located in the middle, the terrain is too treacherous, and it is not easy to march, and the Chu army is not interested in occupying Bashu, so that the Qin army finally occupied Bashu first, and directly faced the Hanzhong County of Chu.
At this time, Hanzhong and Qin and Chu are the best buffer zone. If the Chu State occupies this place, it can rely on the terrain to deal with the Qin army; The occupation of this place by the Qin army further consolidated the land of Bashu that had just been occupied and protected it from the threat of the Chu army.
Seeing that the two sides were fighting fiercely, and the Chu army was defeated in Danyang, Qin Wangsi immediately ordered Gan Mao to lead the Qin army from Bashu and attack Hanzhong County of Chu along the Han River south, the Chu army was defeated, and the Xicheng, which had been operated for many years, fell into the hands of the Qin people, and completely lost control of the upper reaches of the Han River. And the Qin State completed the last piece of the puzzle for the occupation of Bashu and created a solid barrier for Bashu.
The victory of the Qin State was really a huge blow to the King of Chu, who insisted on attacking the Qin State at the beginning, and finally got the result of defeat. However, this ending, instead of making him regret it, made him angry and lost his mind, and once again ordered to recruit about 200,000 soldiers from the Chu State, and personally led the troops to attack the Qin State in the near future.
At the same time, Kuang Zhang, the general who returned from Yan, led the Qi army from Zhenyi, the border city of Qi and Wei, to capture the two cities of Jiami and Xiangqiu of Wei State one after another, and marched towards Zaojiao. The Song State also sent troops, starting from Taoyi, to attack Zaojiao. The purpose of the Qi and Song coalition forces was the same: to take advantage of the Wei army's southward march to solve the siege of Yongshi City in Korea, occupy the upper reaches of Pushui, and control Jiyang, so as to achieve the goal of threatening the capital of Wei.
Seeing this, the Wei army hurriedly asked the Qin army for help. Although he felt that such a long-distance march was very inappropriate, and he might even be counterattacked by the Chu State, he had to personally lead the troops, pass through Korea and Wei, and march towards Zaozhuo to drive away the Qi and Song coalition forces. For a time, except for the Zhao State and the Yan State, the other princes were caught in this huge war, and no matter who killed the deer, the result would be extremely painful.
It was also at this time that a convoy from Qi came to the foot of Handan City, and was at the city gate, waiting to enter the city.
Wen Ji lifted the curtain and looked at the tall city wall of Handan, which was no longer the same as the last time she was here, not only the height had increased a lot, but even the city defense facilities had increased a lot. After the reconstruction and expansion, the city gate of Handan is more dense than before, listening to the accent, there are not only Zhao people, but also Qi people, Yan people, Chu people. Looking at the costumes again, although Zhao Guoren also began to gradually like wearing Hu clothes, there are still many differences with Hu people, which can be seen at a glance.
"I didn't expect that this Handan is prosperous, no less than Linzi." Lu Zhonglian couldn't help but admire. Although he was only thirteen years old, he had just finished the best debater in the Jixia Academy last year. This time when I came to Handan, in addition to playing, the most important thing was to go to the Abandonment Zhixue Palace and visit the world-famous Mencius. Unexpectedly, Wen Ji heard that he was coming to Handan, so she went with him. Wen Ji has often been in close contact with the gentlemen of the Jixia School Palace, and there is no pressure to communicate with Lu Zhonglian, and along the way, the two of them ask and debate each other, but they are also happy.
"Now the strength of Zhao is no less than that of Qin, Qi, and Chu, plus its king is forbearant and low-key, and he does things quite in a disciplined way, although Zhao has also used troops one after another in recent years, but looking at the flow of people coming and going, it seems that Zhao has almost not been affected, which is really interesting." Wen Ji smiled and lifted the curtain completely. Suddenly, passers-by stopped at him, but he didn't expect that there was such a beauty inside the car curtain.
"Wen Ji is stunning, even in this Linzi City, I'm afraid it is very charming, and the crown is beautiful."
Wen Ji covered her mouth and smiled, a little angry: "Is Mr. making fun of the woman Lao Zhuhuang?" ”
"How dare you." Lu Zhonglian hurriedly smiled and waved his hand, "Since we can enter the city now, let's find a place to thank our feet first." ”
The convoy had just entered the city at the moment, and Wen Ji was just about to agree, but she heard a sound of horses' hooves coming quickly not far away, and two voices followed the voice, only to see that not far away, a person was riding a horse, followed by several generals, and the formation was not small. Seeing that he saw Wen Ji and the others, they came straight up, Lu Zhonglian hurriedly stepped forward, thinking that if some kind of bully wanted to forcibly kidnap Wen Ji, he would definitely not agree. What's more, although he is not very old, but with swordsmanship, ordinary people can hardly beat him.
When the man on horseback arrived in front of the two of them, he suddenly stopped, and looked at Lu Zhonglian for a while, and Wen Ji for a while. Wen Ji looked at the person who came, and always felt that this person was familiar, but she couldn't remember who the person was, and was about to ask, but the person took the lead and said.
"Dare to ask if this is Mr. Wenji?"
"Don't dare, it's the concubine. I don't know if Mr. ......"
"When I followed the master, I once went to Linzi to do business, and I met Mr. Lu. Sir may have forgotten. ”
Wen Ji was stunned for a moment, and then seemed to think of something, the name came to her lips, and just as she was about to blurt it out, she heard someone say: "In Xia Zhao Guang, it was on the order of my Zhao Wei Zhao Gongzi who came to greet Mr. ”
Wen Ji quickly came back to her senses, yes, isn't Zhao Wei back then Zhao Yong today?