Inner nave

"Nan'er." Bai Qi looked at Gu Nan, who was sitting there drinking water.

After thinking for a while, he walked slowly to Gu Nan's side and took out a somewhat old bamboo slip from his arms.

"You read this book first, read it carefully, and if you don't know it, you can come and ask me when the time comes."

Then he turned his head to look at Wei Lan.

"Madam, the king called me to the palace in the afternoon today, saying that he had something to talk to me about. I'll go over first. ”

"Go ahead, come back early." Wei Lan waved his hand.

Bai Qi said goodbye, then turned around and walked out of the inner hall.

Before leaving, he glanced at Gu Nan uneasily, he didn't know if it was too early to teach this kind of book to this child. But that's all he can do, his time is really running out.

Gu Nan took the bamboo slip in his hand and looked at Bai Qi in the distance suspiciously, when Bai Qi handed over the military book to him just now, he was inexplicably a little solemn. It doesn't look like the simple stuff of the previous books.

Frowning, he rolled up the bamboo slip, and there were a few big characters written on it.

"The Book of Sun Wubing" - the beginning of the plan.

what the fuck？

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In the empty hall, an old eunuch stood respectfully on one side, and above the main hall, there was a roll of bamboo curtains, and it was clear through the light and shadow that this person was inside. The man sat on a futon with a table in front of him. There was a small stove lit in the palace, on which a pot of tea was boiled, and a faint green smoke drifted over it.

In the scorching summer, it was still cool in this palace.

"Pedal pedal pedal blah."

There was a sound of footsteps, and a soldier in light armor walked and bent in, leaning over and whispering a few words in the old eunuch's ear.

The old eunuch nodded knowingly, and waved the soldier back.

"What's wrong?" The old man remembered behind the curtain in a deep voice: "The widow is here to escape the summer and don't want to talk about political affairs." ”

"King, it's Wu Anjun here." The old eunuch bowed down and spoke, paused, and added: "You summoned him before." ”

"So..." The person in the curtain said lightly, as if thinking for a while: "Then, let him in." ”

The old eunuch didn't say anything more, he had been by King Qin's side for so long, he knew when to speak and when not to speak. I also know when I should disappear for a while.

Just like now, he should disappear for a while, King Qin's attitude is obvious, and he doesn't want anyone to hear what he said with Wu Anjun.

The old eunuch left, and the palace became quiet again, without a sound. After a while, the sound of armor rubbing sounded from the doorway, and a veteran wearing black armor walked in with a helmet in one hand. With a battle-hardened momentum, he walked into the palace, and there seemed to be gusts of wind in the hall.

Looking up at the bamboo curtain, Bai Qi knelt down: "Your Majesty." ”

"Well, Wu Anjun, you're here." King Qin's voice in the inner room did not fluctuate at all, and he stretched out his finger and pointed to a soft collapse outside the bamboo curtain: "Sit." ”

"Thank you, the king."

Bai got up, walked to the bamboo curtain, and respectfully knelt on the soft collapse with his head bowed.

There was silence in the hall for a long time, until the tea boiled on the small stove, making a boiling sound.

King Qin took a cloth teapot and took it from the small stove on the side: "Do you know what I summoned you for?" ”

Bai Qi didn't rush to reply, and muttered for a while: "Go to the party? ”

Since the ninth year of King Zhou (306 BC), King Wuling of Zhao carried out the military reform of "Hufu Cavalry Shooting", the country has been relatively prosperous and the military strength is stronger, and it has faintly become a powerful country that can wrestle with Qin in terms of military strength.

This made the King of Qin feel threatened all along, and if he wanted to eliminate this threat, he had to weaken the national power of the Zhao State, or at least seize their life.

And the party is this lifeline. If the Qin army took possession of Zhao Shangdang, they would have taken full control of the strategic location of Hedong. To the north, the old capital of Zhao can be taken Jinyang (southwest of present-day Taiyuan, Shanxi), and to the west, it can cross the Taihang Mountain to directly threaten Handan, the capital of Zhao.

As long as this fate is grasped, the threat of Zhao State will be much smaller, and if possible, it may be possible to destroy Zhao in one fell swoop.

"Haha." King Qin laughed loudly: "It's still Wu Anjun, you know widows." I really don't know, if it weren't for you, who else would I have to serve as a general in Daqin. ”

The king laughed.

"It's not a joke." The laughter stopped abruptly, and King Qin's voice became serious: "Wu Anjun, the widow got some news, and Zhao Guo's side was very dissatisfied with Lian Po's performance in the party and wanted to replace him." ”

Two years earlier, the Qin state had attacked and occupied Yewang (present-day Qinyang, Henan) in Korea, completely cutting off the connection between the Korean Shangdang county and the mainland.

As a result, King Han, the king of Korea, asked Feng Ting, the county guard of Shangdang County, to dedicate Shangdang County to Qin, so that Qin would rest its army.

Who knew that Feng Ting was unwilling to surrender to Qin, and after plotting with the people of Shangdang County, he decided to use the power of Zhao to resist Qin, and dedicated the seventeen cities of Shangdang County to Zhao State.

This made the Shangdang, who had already arrived, run away in vain.

Now that the Qin State is attacking the Shangdang, the Zhao State has sent Lian Po to hold on to it, dragging out time.

Cheap Deal? If Lian Po is replaced, who will defend the city in the Zhao Kingdom? Bai Qi thought in his heart, but his face was expressionless.

"They seem to want to get the son of Ma Fujun out of the station." Speaking of this, the corners of King Qin's mouth curled slightly.

Ma Fujun's son is Zhao Kuo, a young general who is a little smart, but has no experience.

Lian Po led an army of 450,000 in Shangdang for a long time, and no matter how the Qin army provoked, he didn't hear it. It's really a headache for him, and if this continues, it will be difficult to have a result in attacking the party.

Although the Qin army opened a waterway to transport grain, it had an advantage in grain and grass. But it is not a way to fight a protracted war all the time.

At that time, even if Shangdang is really captured, Handan is driven for a long time, and Zhao is destroyed, the national strength of Qin will be greatly damaged. In this Warring States, there are not only Qin and Zhao, but the other tigers and wolves are all staring here.

In fact, Zhao Guo would not have replaced Lian Po, but he saw that the monarch of Zhao State was eager to win. So I sent spies to find and spread rumors that Lian Po was old, and only Zhao Kuo in Zhao might be able to fight with Qin.

Thinking about it, King Zhao had already been annoyed that Lian Po's army had been defeated several times, and he was disgusted that Lian Po was strong and did not dare to fight, so he was so stupid to believe it, and he was really ready to replace Lian Po.

Replace Lian Po, everything will be much easier.

"Ma Fujun's son, Zhao Kuo?" Bai Qi looked at the ground in the hall.

"Yes, Wu Anjun, if King Zhao really asks Zhao Kuo to replace Lian Po, the widow wants you to be the general, and Wang Yi is the auxiliary, what do you think."