Chapter 150: The Battle of Taoyi X

The current Wei Wangyu is not as bold as his great-grandfather Wei Huiwang, just offending Fan Ju will hand over Wei Qi, if he offends the Qin State, I don't know what this king will think in his heart.

"General, this plan is too risky. If you succeed, you are just one more commendable thing for the general, if you fail, the king may not be spared, and the prime minister's side is unpredictable, so it is more prudent for us to see the opportunity. The general of the Qin army hesitated for half a minute, and turned to Bai Qi to persuade him.

Bai Qi's honor is enough, now this dangerous move, once the defeat is irreparable, this is a more terrible thing than defeat, the defeat is excusable, but if it is defeated because of this, Bai Qi has a hundred mouths, and there is no argument!

"This?" Bai Qi also had a trace of hesitation in his heart.

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The early spring breeze gently floats on the earth, the new sprouts of weeds are quietly popping up, and the dawn sun is beginning to sprinkle on the earth, everything is harmonious.

Zuo's city walls had begun to crumble, the pale gray cement city wall wrapped in green bricks shattered into several petals, revealing the yellow clay inside, some of which were full of crossbow arrows, some of which were stained with maroon blood, and unknown internal organ fragments were abandoned in the corners, and the stench permeated the entire city.

Qin Ruishi, who was wearing armor, stepped on the ladder under his feet, and they held their swords tightly in their hands, today was the most relaxing day.

The city has run out of ammunition and food!

But today, just as he was looking forward to climbing the city wall, he climbed the city wall without any hindrance, and he gradually had a bad feeling in his heart.

What's going on? What the hell is going on?

His heart was full of confusion, and the Qin army who had climbed the city wall was also full of confusion.

There was not a single person on the city walls!

What about the death war? Yesterday was so hot, and it looked like it would not die or return, but today is different.

I saw that the flag fluttering on the city wall had already landed, and the banner embroidered with the seal 'Qi' was nowhere to be seen.

"We surrender!" Kuang Yi looked at Qi Jun in front of him with a heavy face, these words came out of his mouth, he didn't know how difficult it was, he didn't know that he would have to go through this scene in his life, it was an idea that he had never had as Kuang Zhang's grandson.

As Kuang Zhang, the god of war of the Great Qi, he once led the Qi army to destroy the Yan State, solved the Zizhi Rebellion, and also destroyed the Song State together with the Wei State, and even once attacked the Hangu Pass to make the Qin State surrender.

But as Kuang Zhang's grandson, Kuang Yi did not have such a brilliant record, but had to bear the greatest humiliation of a soldier here - surrender!

Kuang Zhang, a famous general of Qi during the Warring States Period. Also known as Tian Zhang, Chen Zhang, Zhangzi, Kuangzi. In 334 BC, the king of Xuzhou, Kuang Zhang, personally experienced this event as a close minister of King Qi Wei. In the last years of King Qi Wei, Zhang Yi was both Qin and Wei, and the Qin army took advantage of Han Wei to attack Qi. Kuang Zhang was ordered to meet the Qin army, during which some people slandered Kuang Zhang for wanting to surrender to Qin, but due to the unsuspecting use of people by King Qi Wei, Kuang Zhang finally successfully defeated the Qin army at Sanqiu (present-day Yanzhou, Shandong), which led to the bankruptcy of Zhang Yi's Lianheng policy in Wei and provided good conditions for Gongsun Yan's alliance.

In 314 BC (the fifth year of King Xuan of Qi), taking advantage of the civil strife in Yan, he led the standing army of Qi "Soldiers of the Five Capitals" and the "Northland People" bordering Yan, and attacked Yan on the 50th. However, many Qi people, including Kuang Zhang, regarded Yan as a barbarian state, so the Qi army ravaged Yan wantonly, triggering a fierce resistance from the Yan people.

Two years later, Zhang Yi once again implemented the Lianheng policy, and Wei fell to Qin. After defeating the Chu army, the Three Kingdoms alliance defeated the Qi army led by Kuang Zhang and Shengzi in the Battle of Pushui. Qin and Wei took the opportunity to attack Yandi, and the Qi army was forced to retreat. After the accession of King Qi to the throne, Meng Weijun was the prime minister, united Han and Wei to attack Chu, Kuang Zhang led the army to defeat the Chu army in Chuisha (now southwest of Tangsa, Henan) and killed the Chu general Tang Wu. The allied forces took advantage of the victory to capture large areas of land north of Chuiqiu (present-day Qinyangbei, Henan), Wan (present-day Nanyang, Henan), and Ye (present-day Yexian, Henan). The state of Chu was forced to take the crown prince Heng as a hostage and sued for peace with Qi. In 298 BC, Qi Wei and Han invaded Qin, and in 296 BC, Qin was forced to cede land and sue for peace, and the commander of the Qi army in this battle was still Kuang Zhang.

According to "Warring States Policy, Qi Ceyi, Qin Fake Dao Han, Wei to Attack Qi Zhang": During the Warring States Period, Qin attacked Qi State, and King Qi Wei ordered Kuang Zhang to lead troops to resist Qin as a general. Kuang Zhang used a trick to get the Qi army to change into Qin uniforms, and skillfully mixed in with the Qin army in order to disintegrate the enemy from within. At this time, King Qi Wei's detectives reported that Kuang Zhang led his troops to surrender to the Qin army, and King Qi Wei listened to it and did not believe it. After a while, someone reported that Kuang Zhang led his troops to surrender to the Qin army, but King Wei still didn't believe it. This has been done many times, but King Wei has never believed it.

A close minister said to King Wei: "Many people say that Kuang Zhang has surrendered to Qin, why don't you believe it? ”

King Wei said: "Kuang Zhang will definitely not betray me!" ”

After a while, news came that Kuang Zhang had defeated the Qin army, and even the king of Qin apologized to the king of Qi. At this time, the close minister asked King Wei why he knew that Kuang Zhang would not betray?

King Qi Wei replied, "Kuang Zhang's mother offended his father and was killed by his father and buried in the stable. When I sent him to lead the army, I promised: "You fought bravely, and when you return victorious, I will bury your mother in a good place." Kuang Zhang said, 'It's not that I can't rebury my mother, but she offended my father, but my father died without leaving a word, and I reburied my mother without my father's order, which is to deceive my dead father, so I don't dare.' 'Kuang Zhang is the son of a man, and even his dead father does not dare to deceive, can he, as a subordinate, deceive the monarch? "King Qi Wei is not confused by rumors because of his deep understanding of Kuang Zhang.

In 334 BC, Kuang Zhang participated in the reign of King Xiang of Xuzhou and debated with Wei Xianghuishi. In 320 BC, Zhang Yi joined Qin and Wei, and the Qin army crossed the Central Plains to attack Qi. The Qin army passed through Sanqiu at the junction of Yangjin and Kangfu to Qilu, and Kuang Zhang was appointed as a general. Kuang Zhang sent troops to infiltrate the Qin army camp, and on the other hand, the Qin army was afraid that Han and Wei would threaten their rear, so when Kuang Zhang suddenly launched an offensive, the Qin army was defeated and retreated.

In 317 BC, Qin defeated the Sanjin coalition. Qi and Song took advantage of the situation to defeat Zhao and Wei and Guanze.

Taking advantage of the melee of the princes, King Qi Xuan ordered Kuang Zhang to lead the army to attack Yan, and he went down on the 50th. Zhao Yi was east of Qi, and King Huai of Chu was furious and wanted to organize an anti-Qi alliance. Qi and Chu joined forces to attack Qin Quwo. The state of Chu recognized the annexation of Yan by the state of Qi, and the state of Qi helped the state of Chu defend itself against the state of Qin.

King Huai of Chu eventually turned his back on the Qi-Chu Alliance. The Jingcui Department of the Chu army was stationed on the border of Qi and Chu. Kuang Zhang led the Qi and Song armies to attack Wei, and Wei asked Qin for help. Qin Shengchu was in Danyang, so he sent troops to rescue Wei Fayandi. King Kang of Song and Qin Lianheng, the Song army retreated, and the Qin army's Yuli disease department quickly entered the Song army's position, and the side of the Qi army's defense line was empty, resulting in the defeat of the Qi army in the Battle of Pushui. Kuang Zhang was defeated and fled. Yan Fuguo. In 305 BC, the Chu army was defeated in the two battles of Danyang and Lantian one after another, and exhausted its elite soldiers in the war against Vietnam, and Qi, Wei, and Han took the opportunity to attack the weak Chu state. In 303 BC, the Chu army could not support it, so it asked Qin for help, the Qin army came to the aid of Chu, and the alliance army of the Three Kingdoms temporarily retreated, but the coalition army still attacked the Chu state in the border area, and occupied part of the northern territory of the Chu state around this year.

In 301 BC, relations between Qin and Chu deteriorated, and Meng Weijun of Qi picked them up again, isolating Chu. Qi increased its troops to 200,000 on the front line and ordered Kuang Zhang to be a general. The Han and Wei armies are estimated to be less than 200,000, while the number of Chu armies is comparable to that of the coalition forces, which means that at this time, there are about 800,000 troops on both sides of the river. The Qi Chu army confronted each other for half a year, and King Qi Xuan died without seeing the victory, and his son Tian Di inherited the throne. Tian Di was anxious to win, so Zhou Zhi went to the front to urge Kuang Zhang to march quickly, otherwise it would be detrimental to Kuang Zhang's family. Kuang Zhang ignored King Qi Min's threat. The Qi army finally broke the Chu army, and the Chu state was almost divided by Qin, Wei, Han, Song, and Yue overnight.

In 298 BC, Kuang Zhang led the armies of Qi, Wei, and Han to attack Qin.

In 296 BC, Hangu Pass was breached, and King Qin Zhao urgently tried to cut the land to save himself. Qi Xiang Meng Weijun listened to Han Qing's words and negotiated peace with Qin, and gave up the opportunity to destroy the Qin State. Yan remnants of Zhongshan, the Qi army returned to attack Yan, and fought in power. The Yan army was defeated. After this battle, Qi broke Chu in the south, conquered Qin in the west, and defeated Yan in the north, which shocked the world, and Kuang Zhang's contribution was indispensable.

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"What, Zuo's descended?" The two sword eyebrows raised fiercely, and a deep ditch was erected in the center of the eyebrows.

The Zuo clan can be captured in a few days, Bai Qi has no doubts, but if Kuang Yi surrenders with the Qi army, Bai Qi's mind can't help but be entangled, leave Kuang Yi and the Qi army or kill them?

It's an unsolvable puzzle.

"Kill it!" Bai Qi glanced at Jin Cong, "There is not much food and herbs brought by my Qin army, and the supply to the soldiers is insufficient, and it can support it for a month at most." ”

"Kill a prisoner?" Jin bit his lip, he couldn't accept this absurd statement, unlike Qin Guosheng in Xirong, Wei Guosu thought that it was the orthodoxy of the Jin State, except for Zhou Tianzi, it belonged to the Wei State is the crown of etiquette.

Although the Hexi School of the Wei State failed to compete with the Jixia School Palace, in the eyes of the Wei people, they were Chinese orthodoxy, and killing prisoners was unacceptable to them.

Once the prisoner is killed, he will be spurned by the soldiers.

Qin State is not afraid of biting people because there are many lice, even Qin Mugong, who has always been known as a loyal elder, will die three hundred people after his death, and the six states of Shandong at that time, including Jing Chu, who thought it was barbarian, also abolished the practice of martyrdom by living people, but Qin did not.

Not to mention that since Shang Ying's reform, Qin's label in the countries has changed from a kind-hearted person to a tiger and wolf country that eats people without blinking, so Qin doesn't care about other people's opinions, only looks at whether it is beneficial to him, if it is beneficial, then it will be done, if it is not profitable, it will be difficult for the enemy.

"This matter is not good, the killing of prisoners has always been unknown, if you kill the soldiers of the Qi State today, then the Qi State may also kill the soldiers of the Wei State in the future." Jin Wei refused.

In the Spring and Autumn Period, after the defeated side was captured by the victorious side, according to the regulations, the defeated country had to give money and grain in exchange for them, which was the Old Testament of the Spring and Autumn Period, and during the Warring States Period, the collapse of etiquette and music was even more serious.

But this agreement has hardly changed, and they cannot be killed unless they are immortal nations, or even alien races.

At that time, Zigong rescued the people of Lu who were captured because of the war in other countries, and at that time, the law of Lu was that the merchants who were walking outside once they found the Lu people left outside, they were ransomed, and when they arrived in Lu, the state paid for these people.

But Zigong did not do this, because Zigong was very rich, and Confucius's travels to the world were funded by him.

Confucius criticized Zigong when he met: "If you don't collect money, then the merchants walking outside see the lost Lu people, do you save them or not?"

If you are saved and return to the country of Lu, others will despise him because of their praise for your behavior, and in this way, the displaced people of the country of Lu will not be rescued, which is harmful. “

In fact, sometimes the greedy behavior that others abandon is the positive energy of this society.

It's like picking up a wallet, whether to give it to the owner without taking a penny, or to ask the owner for payment?

If you don't take a penny, some people think that it is better to pick up a wallet than to have more and less things, if there is less money, you can take it yourself, if there is more money, you don't dare to take it, for fear of getting into trouble!

Jin Cong's words are not so much the protection of the soldiers of the Qi State as the protection of the soldiers of the Wei State, if one day he is defeated and captured, what should he do when the time comes?

In the modern state, the soldiers of the East and the soldiers of the West are two completely different personalities, the former advocates dying for the country, and even if defeated, they are proud of suicide, and the latter focuses on the individual and surrenders when the situation is not good.

It is not good or bad, because Westerners do not pay attention to the existence of the state, and the state is no more important to them than the life of the individual, just as the constitution promulgated after the French Revolution states: "The sanctity of personal property is inviolable." "After the American Revolution, he also learned the spirit of the French Constitution, and raised personal property to an unprecedented level.

And in the countries of the East, your life, everything you have, belongs to the state, and the state can dictate your existence at will, because in the opinion of the two bearded men of Germany, the victory of the red is shared with everything, and the master who determines the common is the state.

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, this point in time was the node that changed China from the original Western aristocratic style to the Eastern commoner style.

Killing and surrendering seems to be a simple matter, but it is actually a dividing point.

"If you don't kill Qi Jun, what do you say?" Bai Qi asked.

"This?" Jin Wei was also dumbfounded for a while, it was difficult for him to arrange five thousand Qi troops for a while, and Wei was close to Tao County, and it was okay to press the Qi army to Wei.

It's just that it's not as simple as it seems.

"General Ben knows that the Qi army has evacuated the northern and southern cities of Tao County, so Wei must have divided his troops to garrison these cities! Therefore, there is no power to deal with the 5,000 Qi army. Bai Qi said coldly.

The State of Qi evacuated Tao County, and the State of Wei will definitely not leave those cities for Korea to take the lead, so it will definitely divide troops to garrison, I am afraid that when it comes, there will be 100,000 troops, and it would be good to have 30,000 troops left.

"Yes, can I, the Wei State, just watch these cities be taken away by the Qi State again? Wu Anjun, this is all for the overall situation! Jin explained bitterly.