Wei Yu said that he would defeat the Zhao State, but he was not fully sure about the rapid destruction of the Zhao State, which was due to the Zhao State itself, the Three Kingdoms Alliance, and the Qin State itself.

After more than a year of truce, the Qin army rarely used troops against any country, and was actually purging internally. Chang Yu and Lü Buwei died, and the people and officials who were attached to these two people earlier needed to be cleaned up, especially Lü Buwei, who had been in charge for more than ten years, and there were his henchmen in the central government and in all counties and counties, and these should be cut off as soon as possible.

In addition to the officials, the rectification of the Qin army is also a major event. The three-year defeat of Chu and three consecutive years is not a problem of the commander's command, but a problem of backward armor and tactics. For more than a year, Wei Yu made every effort to rectify the tactics of the Qin army, and strived to reorganize the flower team into a pure team, but because the performance of the entire Qin army was based on the military merit worship system, this change was very difficult.

The flower team is a halberd spear beryllium killing, a team of five, fighting in teams, and when they win the head, their long hair is scattered and tied around their waists. If the first rank of the whole army is less than the loss of the army, then the person who has won the first rank will not only be useless, but will also be punished together with the army.

The pure team is full of chiefs, and the whole tun soldiers are closely arranged during the war, and they retreat with the attack, and no one is allowed to leave the team to behead the level during the battle, and they can only be beheaded after the battle, but who can tell who killed who after the war? Therefore, the soldiers were resistant to the spear formation from the beginning, believing that the new tactics were cutting off their own path to promotion.

The low-level officers such as the tun commander, the hundred generals, and the five hundred masters did not support the pure team, and the cooperation of the flower team was the cooperation between pawns, and the pure team was the cooperation between teams. Since the whole army has a spear team and a crossbow team, who will command the spear team and who will command the crossbow team? Of course, there is no problem in commanding the spear team, but how can you command the crossbow team to win? How to get promoted regardless of winning?

In addition, it was difficult for the spear team, which was based on horizontal tactics rather than column tactics, to advance and retreat quickly, and the protection of the flanks was extremely weak, which is why the Macedonian phalanx could only become a chopping board, a cutting board that could not be broken. This was not the case with the previous array of the Qin army, which fought in formations as a unit, could advance and retreat quickly, could tolerate flank breakage, and it was unwise to abandon the flexible flower team and use a rigid and inflexible pure team.

The implementation of the new tactics suffered so much that Wei Yu could only reorganize a small number of elite soldiers into pure teams, similar to the previous sharp soldiers, but the number was expanded. Their role is the same as before, mainly to break through the enemy's battle formation, so that ordinary soldiers can rush through the gap and hook the enemy's flank, causing the enemy to collapse.

Then there is the 30,000-strong guard under Li Xin, who began to use the chief spear to fight before innovating tactics, and the spear formation combat method has become more proficient in a year. Wei Yu hoped that this force would be used on the tip of the sword, and as long as the Zhao army dared to fight the Qin army in the field, he believed that the sharp iron spear would be able to break the Zhao army.

Everything that should be said has been said, and everything that should be done has been done, Wei Yi can only wait quietly for Zhao Zheng's decision. It's just that Zhao Zheng didn't go to court for several days, and on the fifth day, the confessor finally summoned him to Qutai Palace, and when he went, Xiong Qi, the right prime minister, had been kneeling for a long time.

"The widow has made up his mind, and the army will attack Zhao." Zhao Zheng, who was dressed in a leather suit, did not look much more relaxed than that day, and after he finished speaking, his eyes turned to Wei Yi. "Wei Qing thinks that it will take a few years to destroy Zhao?"

"I think it has to be more than ten years." Wei Yu made a big calculation in his heart and gave a general answer.

"How many years is a dozen years?" Zhao Zheng's face sank again, he couldn't accept this generalization.

"Tell the king: The minister thinks that Zhao can be destroyed in twelve years." Wei Yu said.

"Why twelve?" Zhao Zheng asked again, "Although the Zhao State has died in the Yan State, it has not been regained strong, why should it take twelve years?" If it takes 12 years to destroy Zhao, how many years does it take to destroy Jing? ”

"Great King, the three kingdoms of Jing, Zhao and Qi are allies, and the destruction of Zhao is not an enemy country, but an enemy of three countries. Guan Zhong Youyun: 'The teacher of tithes, three years of incomprehension, unless there is surplus food, the people have a beard. Therefore, the teacher must rest for three years, otherwise the soldiers and the people will be tired, and they will not be able to fight again. One battle is three years, three times and Zhao died, during the period of three years as a soldier to rest, so it takes 12 years.

Zhao died, Jing Qi was weak, at this time, I was based on Zhao Yan's land, and I got the people of Zhao Yan, and then cut down Jing Qi, and got twice the result with half the effort. This can be done in 12 years. ”

"Twenty-four years?" Zhao Zheng pondered silently. This year is the thirteenth year of the reign of King Qin, and the twenty-fourth year is the thirty-seventh year of the reign of King Qin. If history had not changed, the reign of King Qin would have fallen in the thirty-seventh year of the reign of Zhao.

In fact, only two expeditions were used to attack Zhao: the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth years of Qin Wangzheng were the first expeditions, and three years were devoted to attacking Zhao; In the sixteenth and seventeenth years, the Qin army rested, and during the recuperation, they destroyed Han easily; During the second expedition (eighteen, nineteen, and twentieth years), Zhao was destroyed in the nineteenth year, Handan was broken, and Zhao Wang Qian was captured, and in the twenty years, Yan was defeated in Yishui and the allied army was borne.

Taking advantage of the remnants of the second expedition, even though most of the main forces were resting, the Qin army still pulled out Jicheng, the capital of the Yan State in the 21st year, and tentatively attacked Chu to warn the Chu State not to intervene in the battle to destroy Wei.

The third expedition began in the twenty-second year, and the Wei was destroyed that year, and in the same year, Li Xin led 200,000 troops to attack Chu and was defeated; In the twenty-third year, Wang Jian broke the Chu army, and Xiang Yan committed suicide by the sword; In the twenty-fourth year, the Qin army pulled out the capital of Chu Shouying, and captured the king of Chu.

Originally, it was the end of everything in the twelfth year of the three wars (Qi surrendered without a fight), but now because of the restoration of the Chu State, the destruction of Yan by the Zhao State, and the extension of the Three Kingdoms Alliance to the sixth and twenty-four years. Twenty-four years later, Zhao Zheng was fifty years old and already old. Thinking that he would not be able to live until he was fifty years old, Zhao Zheng couldn't help but feel a little worried, how long would he be able to live? Even if you can live to that day, how long will you live?

"Great King, there are few soldiers in Jing and Qi who can fight, and the two countries add up to Zhao and Zhao. If you can avoid the battle of Jing Guozhou, it is enough to destroy Jing Qi twice, so it will only take twenty years. Wei Yu also knew that twenty-four years was too long, so he reduced it by four years, so that Zhao Zheng was only forty-six years old. But no one saw it, his eyes flashed slightly when he spoke, and he didn't miss a word about some things that he couldn't say.

There is a huge and dangerous hidden danger in the strategic concept of destroying Zhao first and then Chu. There are not only six countries in the world, after Li Mu defeated the Di people, the Di people on the grassland are reshuffling, and the blood lesson makes them understand that it is impossible to disperse and resist the growing Chinese forces, and the Di people after the shuffle will be like Huaxia, and the grassland will be ruled by a king.

After Zhao destroyed Yan, from Gaoque in the west (now Huhe Wendur Town (Qingshan Town) in Inner Mongolia's Urad Houqi), to Liaodong in the east, all of them were Zhao people guarding the Di people in the north, and the Great Wall of Qin defended only Xirong, and the Yueshi Yu branch of Xirong had always been friendly with Qin. Destroying Zhao is equivalent to taking over the Zhao people to face the increasingly powerful Di people in the northern grasslands.

Twenty years later, if the grassland Di people were unified and then marched south, but the Qin army attacked Chu in the south, the Qin state fighting on two fronts would definitely suffer a crushing defeat, and the result of the fiasco would be the collapse of the entire Qin territory. Qin is not Zhou, the Qin office is a lone show, the country is supported by officials, once the military defeat suffers, the officials are either reduced or dispersed, and the head of the Qiantou is organized in other countries, there is no possibility of recovery.

The only survival of the Qin state was that it had to sweep the Kwantung kingdoms before the unification of the Di people in the grassland, but with the manpower and material resources of the whole world to resist the Di people to go south. Even if you are one step slower, it will be a catastrophe.

With the profound knowledge of the students of Guigu and the tens of thousands of spies in charge of the Governor's Mansion, even if he didn't send someone into the grassland to find out the news, Wei Yi could judge this, but he just didn't say this to Zhao Zheng. He and Zhao Zheng are only in a business relationship, and there is no question of loyalty. If the State of Chu is willing to ask him to be the governor of the Great Sima Mansion, he can go to the State of Chu immediately, of course, there can be no worries about his life in this process.

Zhao Zheng thought about his life twenty-four years later, and after reflecting in his heart, Wei Yu felt that he did not destroy the professional ethics of the scholars, not only did not destroy them, but they were extremely moral - as everyone knows, many travelers, doormen, and housekeepers took the lord's money and ate the lord's food, but the result was a traitor to seek glory. Xiong Qi, the right prime minister, has always hoped that Zhao Zheng would disperse as soon as possible, and he must quickly spread today's Wei Yi's words to the Chu State.

Three defeats killed Zhao, and six defeats destroyed Chu Qi. If this is the case, there is not much time left for the state of Chu. He must remind Xiong Jing to prepare early, and after the Triple Alliance must save Zhao, as long as Zhao does not die, Chu will not die.

*

"It turns out that the Indians also learned Alexander's tactics." The palace of Yingdu was confined to Xiong Jing, and when he saw the words written on the paper, he sighed heartily.

"Yes. When the Emperor was attacking India, a man named Sandroko Toast came to him and offered to assist the Emperor in his attack on India, saying that his mother kept a beautiful bird. At that time, he was being banished by the Nanda people and escaped from Magadha. At this time, another man named Janaga also came to see the Emperor.

The Emperor gave Sandroko Toast the lands along the Indus River and allowed him to learn cavalry tactics in the Mahatula army. After the death of the Great, he and Janagar returned to Magadha and called on the people there to expel the Mahadula people, after which, like the Great, he united the states on both sides of the Indus River to defeat the Nanda and proclaimed himself emperor in the city of Fahrenheit, unifying all of India. ”

Alexander the Great was a topic of conversation among the Greeks and Macedonians, and his unscrupulous teacher, Aristotle IV, sent people to India to investigate in order to find out what the emperor was fighting on the edge of the world. The results of the investigation were compiled in a book called The Conquest of India, which was stored in the library of the Kingdom of Bactria, along with another book called The Conquest of Sogdiana.

"It is known that every country in the world has been hit by the Emperor, and several great powers have been established entirely by the Emperor's associates or subordinates, and there is no one who does not marvel at the great conquest of the Emperor." Under the influence of his teacher Aristotle IV, he was already half Greek, and whenever Alexander was mentioned, his eyes lit up.

"Can the envoys of the Chu State go to India through the Kingdom of Bactria?" Xiong Jing thought about something else.

"India?" Needless to say. "India is full of spies, they are employed by the royal court, citizens, monks, merchants, servants, slaves, those people are spies."