Chapter 109: Battle of Taoyi IX
The night is surging, and the sky is slightly cool.
"Tonight we surrender the city." Kuang Yi's hands trembled a little, his lips were chapped white, and for three whole days, he continued day and night, and his fine armor was covered with scars, which were left by his fighting with the enemy.
"General, why did we surrender, we... Hold on. A lieutenant general of the Qi army retorted.
Kuang Yi set his eyes on this deputy general, his name is Tian Fen, he is the prince of Qi State, anyone who says surrender, he will not agree, because his surname is Tian, and he is the queen of the Gong family.
In this Warring States era of the bloodline, the glory of the ancestors is what they protect all their lives, even if it is death! So for this adjutant general of the Qi army, surrendering is humiliating himself.
"I... I don't want to surrender, but we defend... No, His Royal Highness and An Pingjun did not have reinforcements. Kuang Yi pursed his lips, and his tone was a little stiff.
He could not explain the reasons to his men, and although he, like them, could not tolerate such a reluctance as surrender, the words of the letter made him have to consider it.
"What? No reinforcements? The crowd began to talk about it, and there was no lack of resentment in their tones.
"Even if there are no reinforcements, I think we can hold on." Adjutant General Qi retorted.
Kuang Yi took a deep look at him and said, "What you can't keep, what you can't keep..."
Now that the five thousand Qi troops in the city are all wounded, how can they hold the Zuo clan, saying that they can hold it, it is just the spirit in their hearts!
.......
Qin and Wei camps outside the city.
The black tent and the red tent were orderly distributed in this lonely wilderness, and there were scouts constantly searching back and forth around it.
They had honed the latest news and movements in Zuo's city countless times, extracting useful information and reporting it to the main generals, and now that Zuo's city had been attacked for almost three days, they knew that this was the last struggle at dawn.
The Qi army in Zuo's City is now just a beast trapped in the fish of the square inch pond, perhaps they can't be called beasts, because they have lost their claws.
The wind gradually became cold, and began to sweep wantonly outside the Zuo Clan.
"General, until tomorrow, we will definitely break this Zuo city." The general of the Qin army said coldly.
Bai Qi nodded, was silent for a while, and said: "The Zuo Clan's city is broken in these few days, it doesn't matter if it's early or late, but there is one more thing that must be done now." ”
"What's wrong with the general?" The face of the general of the Qin army was full of doubts, he had never seen the Great Qin Wu Anjun put on such a heavy face, even in the battle of Yique, in the face of the difficult moment of Han Wei's 240,000 enemy troops, Bai Qi had never paid so much attention.
"The Qi army has withdrawn, and the Qi army in the north and south of Tao County is gone." Bai Qi said in a deep voice.
"Why do you want to go, could it be that Qi State...."The Qin army general's heart was full of questions.
"No, it's not...."Bai Qi shook his head, he clenched the sword hanging from his waist tightly, and said, "I underestimated Anping Jun Tiandan, he... I really have the ability to deserve my attention. ”
"Wu An Jun Tian Dan." The generals of the Qin army savored this name, and in the past twenty years, Tian Dan's reputation was not as eye-catching as Zhao Hao and Lian Po of Zhao State.
But when it comes to this Linzi little official, he can successfully save the dying Qi State with just the two cities of Jimo and Jucheng, which is something that no one in history can do.
If you want to say that there is, only Zhang Meng talked about it in the Spring and Autumn Period.
In the Jin State of that year, there were six kings, this is the six families that were slowly established when the Jin Wen Gong was heavy, and today's South Korea, Wei and Zhao were all one of the six secretaries at that time, and the six secretaries had Zhi's, Fan's, Zhongxing's, Han's, Wei's, Zhao's, the strength of the six kings at that time was extremely strong, and the combined efforts of the three kings could be equivalent to the two overlords of Qi and Chu at that time, and no one could stop the six kings.
This is also the Jin Wen Gong Chong'er, although the hegemony is later than Qi Huan Gong Jiang Xiaobai and Qin Mu Gongying, but the hegemony of the Jin State has lasted the longest, basically from the heavy ear to the destruction of the Jin State.
At that time, in the late Jin Dynasty, only the Zhi family, the Han family, the Wei family, and the Zhao family were left, and the Zhi family was the most powerful at that time, and the Han family and the Wei family attacked the Zhao family, and the Zhao family was retracted to the old family Jinyang City.
Zhi Boyao used Zhao Xiangzi's refusal to cede territory to the Zhi clan, so he united the Han and Wei families to attack the Zhao clan. Zhi Boyao agreed with Han and Wei in advance that after the Zhao family was defeated, the Zhi, Han, and Wei families would divide the territory of the Zhao family equally. In desperation, Zhao Xiangzi adopted Zhang Mengtan's suggestion and rushed to Jinyang (now Taiyuan, Shanxi). In this way, it effectively resisted the attack launched by the three coalition forces of Zhi, Han and Wei, so that it could not attack Jinyang City for a long time. At this time, with the approval of Zhao Xiangzi, Zhang Mengtan went deep into the Han and Wei camps alone, and secretly lobbied the Han and Wei families to join forces with Zhao to oppose intelligence. Because Zhang Mengtan was witty and eloquent, he was able to accurately grasp the objective contradictions between the Han and Wei families and Zhibo, so he quickly persuaded the Han and Wei families. So the three families of Han, Wei and Zhao joined forces to kill Zhi Boyao and defeat the Zhi family. Thus consolidating the power of the Zhao clan.
And what about Anping Juntiandan? not only defended Jimo and Jucheng, but also led the Qi army to counterattack Yan and recovered the seventy-two cities of Qi's homeland, which Zhang Mengtan could not compare.
"Anping Jun Tiandan?" The generals of the Qin army did not know what they meant.
"Tian Dan understood that the 200,000 troops of my Qin State and Wei State were difficult to stop, so he abandoned the cities south and north of Tao County, and only concentrated on holding Taoyi, which ordinary people could not do." Bai Qi sighed.
He also admired such a decision.
It is indeed impossible for ordinary people to abandon the city, because the first point of abandonment is that the monarch does not agree!
He thought that Qin Wang Yingji could not trust him to this extent, and he would give it up when he said it.
I'm afraid that this kind of mind was only possessed by Qin Xiaogong Yingquliang back then.
At that time, the Wei State united the five countries with the intention of carving up the Qin State, and the Qin State experienced four generations of chaos and the death of Qin Jinggong, and the national strength was not as good as before, and it was not the same as the Xirong overlord of Qin Mugong's 12th year.
Shang Ying made a suggestion to Qin Xiaogong, that is, to give up the land of Kanto and give it to the Wei State, that is, the land of Hexi in the mouth of King Wei Hui, in exchange for a buffer opportunity, the fiefdoms of the old clan at that time were all in the Kanto, it can be said that the Qin State dared to fight because the old clan wanted to hold their fiefdom.
If you abandon the Kanto, it will undoubtedly chill the hearts of the old clan, but if you don't give up, the Qin State and the Wei State will not have the strength to fight.
In the end, out of trust in Shang Ying, Qin Xiaogong made a painful decision to abandon Kanto.
However, Shang Ying's law of strengthening the country abolished the hereditary duke system, which was also the reason why no one revived the Qin state after the fall of the Qin Dynasty.
Think about the original Qin State, which was poor and white, but could still fight to the death with the Wei State, but when it came to the Qin Dynasty, no Qin people said the reason for fighting for the Qin State again.
The root of it is the difference between Baili Xi's government and Shang Ying's government.
One uses people's hearts to educate the people, and the other uses utilitarianism to induce the people. There are so many similarities with today's society that people shudder to think about it.
The current land of Taoyi is a place of ointment in the world, and even Guanzhong is a rich place that cannot be compared, and the Qi State actually said that it would be abandoned, which is another place that Bai Qi is surprised by.
Tian Dan was able to persuade the King of Qi to abandon Taojun, this kind of courage is not something ordinary people can have.
But what Bai Qi didn't know was that Tian Dan persuaded not Tian Fazhang, but his son Tian Jian, who came from later generations Tian Jian had a keen sense of observation, and he clearly knew what the root of the war was.
It is not the gain or loss of one city or one place, but the loss of the enemy's living force.
Yes, this is the core idea of the White Rising War of Annihilation.
As long as the Qin army of Bai Qi is destroyed in Tao County, it will be easy for Qi to suppress Wei with the power of great victory and force Wei to spit out the land of Tao County that he had previously captured.
With a gun in hand, everything is easy to talk about!
"Isn't that a good thing?" The general of the Qin army said.
"A good thing?" Bai Qi sneered, pulled out the sword in the scabbard in an instant, pointed to the map next to him and said: "Once the Qi State abandons the northern and southern cities, then our Qin State will not be able to divide troops to occupy it, and it is impossible for the Korean army to fight for the Wei State, these cities are prepared for the Wei State."
If the King of Wei gets these anointed lands, will he still compete with my Qin State? “
The generals of the Qin army were dumbfounded.
Without spending a single soldier to get such a big advantage, Wei Wangyu can be said to have taken advantage of it.
But no matter whether Wei Wangyu satisfies his appetite or not, Wei will definitely not send troops hard.
On the one hand, Taoyi is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the painstaking effort to capture Taoyi will not only lose the troops, but also what if it can't be attacked at that time? It's better to live your life in peace with these cities.
The two, although they have greatly offended the Qi State by crusading against the Qi State now, but if they retreat now, they will not make the Qi State hateful, and when the time comes, they will join forces with the Qin State to clean up the Wei State.
After all, this kind of thing has happened more than once or twice, when King Qi Xuan almost destroyed the Yan Kingdom, the six countries at that time basically participated in the war, but the Yan Kingdom only hated the Qi State.
The five kingdoms are in Qi, and the Qi country only hates the Yan country.
Both Qi and Yan have united with other countries to die on opposite sides, and no one is at peace anyway.
If the State of Qi cannot be destroyed again, then the State of Wei will have the strength to suffer.
The geographical location of Wei is in the middle of Qi and Qin, once the two countries meet to attack Wei, Wei will be attacked on the back, can it resist?
"This is a conspiracy, an unstoppable conspiracy. Wu Qi once said: Qi Zheng is compatible, and it can control the world. But only Yang Mou is an unguardable existence. Bai Qi sighed.
In the world, there are many schemes, conspiracy and conspiracy, conspiracy can be avoided as long as you are vigilant, but you can't hide if you want to.
For example, if the Qin State wants to block the Wei army from stationing, this will undoubtedly offend the Wei State, but if it is not blocked, the Wei State will lose its fighting spirit, and the Qin-Wei coalition army will be useless.
"General, what now?" The general of the Qin army said worriedly. If this is really the case, with the 80,000 troops of the Qin State, it is simply a fool's dream to break through the Taoyi where the 150,000 troops of the Qi State are stationed.
A war in which a commander wins more with less is never something that a commander-in-chief should consider, and he can only do so when he is cornered, otherwise he will not be an excellent and qualified commander-in-chief.
The real commander thinks about using the general momentum, like the tide of Qiantang, to destroy the enemy army with unstoppable power.
"Returning to the king, I ordered to send troops to increase troops on the border of Wei to create an atmosphere that my Qin State intends to attack Wei State." Bai Qi's eyes gradually narrowed, and the two sword eyebrows were slightly drawn downward.
"This?" The generals of the Qin army felt a little incredible.
Adding troops to the border of Wei, what kind of fighting is this?
"Yes, add troops to the border of Wei." A sneer gradually appeared at the corner of Bai Qi's mouth, and he gently stroked the blade of the sword in his hand with his hand, the cold touch made him more sober, and he knew very well what he was talking about.
Increasing troops on the border of Wei may force the Wei State to oppose it, but it has great meaning.
The current Wei State has long been afraid of the Qin State, and they can only bear the coercion of the Qin State.
Moreover, the Qin State only increased troops on the Qin-Wei border to show its dissatisfaction with the behavior of the Wei State, which was different from directly sending troops to attack the Wei State, and the silent coercion was more frightening than the real war.
Because the weaker side always thinks about itself, what to do if it loses?
Wei's power was far behind Qin's, and Wei Wangyu was not a wise monarch, so he would be afraid of what Wei would do if he lost to Qin!
"General, I'm afraid... will force the anti-Wei State, and when the time comes, the Wei State and the Qi State will join forces, and we will wait...."The generals of the Qin army were a little stumbling, and their faces were extremely nervous.
Although he believes in Bai Qi's judgment, who can be blameless if he is not a sage? Although General Bai Qi is a well-deserved wise man, but when smart people are confused, it may be now.
"No!" Bai Qi shook his head, and a smile rose at the corner of his mouth, "I'm afraid you forgot last year's Wei Qi!" ”
"Wei Qi, the former prime minister of Wei?" The general of the Qin army replied.
Wei Qi was the prime minister of Wei during the Warring States Period, and Fan Ju, a guest of Wei, followed Wei Zhong's doctor Xu Jia to make Qi get the appreciation of Qi Xiang Wang Tian Fazhang, Xu Jia suspected that Fan Ju was having an affair with Qi and told Wei Xiang Wei Qi about this situation. Wei Qi was furious and indiscriminately made the housekeeper whip Fan Ju, threw him in the latrine, and let the guests urinate on his head, Fan Ju was dying, and finally absconded into Qin with the help of the defender and Zheng Anping of Wei. Wei Wangyu learned that Wei Qi and Fan Ju had a feud and wanted to send Wei Qi to Qin, and Wei Qi learned the news and fled from Wei. King Qin Zhao asked Zhao for Wei Qi's head, and Wei Qi was desperate and killed himself in anger. By the time Xinlingjun finally arrived by car under the persuasion of the doorman, it was too late to regret it.
"Yes, it was Wei Qi, the dignified prime minister of Wei, who was killed by King Wei because he offended Fan Ju." Bai Qi said indifferently. What ability does a Wei Wangyu, who can't even keep the prime minister, have to resist the pressure brought by the Qin State?
However, the general of the Qin army noticed Bai Qi's slightly trembling fingers, and his heart was not calm now.
Oh, yes! Not to mention that everyone knows about this Fan Ju and General Bai Qi, but as Bai Qi's personal general, he also knows a thing or two.
It was because of his enmity with Fan Ju that General Wei Ran was driven to Tao County.