Chapter 341: The Impact of the Battle of Hangu Pass
In the battle of Hangu Pass, the Qin army defeated the Sanjin coalition army! And after the end of the field battle outside the city, the Qin army took advantage of the situation and occupied the important place of repairing fish in Korea!
Subsequently, the specific results of the Battle of Hangu Pass came out: the Qin army defeated the Sanjin coalition army, beheaded 82,000 people, and captured the Korean general Shencha! Such a result, let alone the Three Jins, even the Qin army that achieved this result was unbelievable!
After all, such a war, but the results achieved by the Qin State with one country against three countries! If you count the initial Yan Chu army, then it was the Qin State that fought against the five countries alone with the strength of one country, and won a complete victory!
Such a result directly means that Qin is now the number one power in the world! For the Qin people, the stronger the Qin State, the more fruitful they can achieve when they fight for Qin, and the brighter their future will be!
And for countries other than the Qin State, such a powerful country is really not something that can be easily provoked!
The Qin army, which had achieved such results, wanted to continue to expand the results. Just when they wanted to continue to lead the troops into battle, they were immediately stopped by Zhang Yi and Yingji. At this time, the war was won, and the soldiers of the Qin army knew that the Qin mainland had been attacked by Xirong. And some of the soldiers who dealt with the west and north immediately asked Ying Ji to fight, asking to return to his hometown and drive Xirong out of Qin!
Ying Ji immediately agreed to the request of these soldiers, and after the battle with the Sanjin was dealt with and the battlefield was cleared, he immediately returned to Xianyang with the main force of the Qin army!
As soon as the Qin army entered Guanzhong, the Xirong army, which had originally surrounded Xianyang and swept the hinterland of Qin, immediately withdrew. Although the Xirong army had not been in Guanzhong for a long time, the damage they had caused to the Qin State was enormous! Not to mention the rest, it will take at least years for the western and northern countryside that they burned down to rebuild!
And the greatest impact on the Qin State is that the Xirong territory that was originally conquered was lost in one day! Xirong's invasion brought a great shock to the entire Qin State, which also prompted the King of Qin and even the courtiers of Qin to make up their minds to completely deal with the problem of Xirong!
As a result, the Qin state began to fall into a continuous war with Xirong that lasted for several years. And the whole world was also shocked by the strength of the Qin State, which also brought extremely huge changes in diplomacy!
First of all, it was the State of Chu and the State of Qi that began to approach each other and conclude an alliance to become allies!
In the battle of the Five Kingdoms against Qin, Yan and Chu took the lead in withdrawing, and at the beginning, the main battle faction in Chu was still there blindly blaming the king of Chu. However, when the results of the battle of Hangu Pass came, the whole state of Chu immediately lost its voice! Everyone was surprised that the strength of the Qin State was so strong, and it was still able to achieve such a crushing victory with one enemy and three enemies!
Subsequently, the king of Chu began to rejoice that Chu was the first to withdraw his troops, and he favored his youngest son Zilan who made him make this decision. In his mind, although this time in the battle of the joint attack on Qin, the Chu State took the lead in withdrawing its troops, which had some impact on the international prestige of the Chu State, but after all, the Chu State did not lose its teachers and humiliate the country outside the Hangu Pass like the Three Jin Dynasty, and the strength of the Chu State was not affected!
And under the upward and downward effects of the King of Chu, the whole country of Chu began to be filled with this kind of voice! Everyone began to rejoice, but Qu Yuan was extremely angry at everyone's psychology!
In his opinion, in this battle of attacking Qin, if the Chu army does not withdraw its troops first, the Chu army and the Three Jin Coalition forces may not have the strength to fight with the Qin State! And this time the dishonesty means that in the future, once the Qin State invades the Chu State, then the Chu State will not have any allies! And judging from the fact that the State of Chu betrayed the Three Jins, maybe in the future, the State of Chu will be in danger, and the Three Jin Dynasty will take advantage of the fire to rob the State of Chu!
This made Qu Yuan feel a great crisis, so he personally persuaded the king of Chu to make the king of Chu aware of the danger that the state of Chu was facing now. This time, the King of Chu listened to Qu Yuan's opinion, also adopted his suggestion, and immediately sent people to the State of Qi to form an alliance with him!
And seeing such a powerful strength of the Qin State, the Qi State was also extremely uneasy! Although Qi and Qin were far apart, it was impossible for Qin to send a large army to attack Qi after suffering defeat in the Battle of Guanze. However, King Qi knows very well that now the Warring States is a whole, and once the Qin State gains the status of the world's most powerful country, it will inevitably have an extremely strong influence on the entire world, and ultimately affect the interests of the Qi State!
Putting aside the rest for the time being, just talking about the expansion of the Qi State to the east and the conquest of the Three Jins, I'm afraid it won't be so easy!
In such a situation, the Qi State also recognized the threat of the Qin State. Even if the State of Qi fought in Xuzhou with the State of Chu more than ten years ago, and the relationship between the two countries was not harmonious, the two countries of Qi and Chu also approached rapidly, and then hugged each other to keep warm!
Second, the victory of Qin also brought great changes to the diplomacy of Zhao and Song.
Before the Five Kingdoms invaded Qin, Dai Yan personally wrote a letter to persuade Zhao Yong, asking him not to invest too many troops in the Five Kingdoms to attack Qin, but Zhao Yong did not listen to his persuasion, and now he has really received the bitter fruit! For Dai Yan's strategic vision of "knowing things like a god", Zhao Yong also had to convince him!
Therefore, even if Zhao Yong had been wronged by Dai Yan's marriage to Qi Guo before, and had a dislike with Zhao Guo, he had to tolerate it! After all, he is not only Zhao Xue's younger brother, he is also the monarch of Zhao State, and when considering problems, the interests of the country should be far above family affection!
Under Dai Yan's persuasion, Zhao Yong began to get rid of the idea of competing with the Qin State and then intervening in the situation in the Three Jin Dynasty and even the world. He began to reconcile with the surrounding states of Qin, Wei, Han, Zhao, and Yan, and began to focus the entire country's attention on the conquest of Rongdi in the north!
Dai Yan gave Zhao guidance on how to build a strong empire, one of which is that if a country wants to become a big country, it must have a vast territory and a sufficient population! And in order to make Zhao a great power, it must continue to expand outward!
If Zhao Guo targets the countries of the Central Plains, then it will inevitably affect the whole body, so such a thing must not be done!
Then the only way is to target Rong Di outside the Central Plains! And Zhao Guo's first target is the building trouble in the north!
In the previous years of war, Zhao Yong had already dealt with Lin Hu, a powerful enemy in the north of Zhao State. Now, another grassland tribe that poses a threat to the Zhao State is Lou Annoying!
With the military reforms carried out by Zhao in the previous years, and even the results achieved by Zhao in conquering Lin Hu, Zhao trained a large number of cavalry! When these cavalry were fighting against the nomads in the northern grasslands, the nomads' tactics of coming and going like the wind could no longer work against the Zhao State! Zhao Guo began to be annoyed by Lou and established a crushing advantage!
When Zhao Yong began to try to launch a war of conquest to the north, he had to admit that Dai Yan's words were indeed extremely correct! In just a few months, Zhao's territory expanded more than a hundred miles to the north, acquiring a large area of grassland! And if such a thing happened in the Central Plains, it would not be possible to completely incorporate it into the territory of Zhao State in a few years. However, in the north, Zhao didn't need to think about international influence at all, he could deal with Lou Nuren according to his own heart, and establish a solid rule in this place!
And the impact of the Battle of Hangu Pass on the Song State was not brought by the Qin State itself, but by the alliance between the Chu State and the Qi State!
As a small country sandwiched between Qi and Chu, "between Qi and Chu", when a war broke out between Chu and Qi, the Song State would become a battlefield, which would certainly be unfavorable to the Song State. However, in Dai Yan's view, what is more disadvantageous than facing war is the union of Qi and Chu!
After all, when a war broke out between Qi and Chu, the Song State still had a choice and could reap the benefits from it! However, once the two sides began to make peace and form an alliance, then the Song State between Qi and Chu would be like an eyesore nail for the two countries, and there was no choice at all!
And when a country has no choice, it can only endure the exploitation of other countries! This situation is something that Dai Yan can't tolerate but has to bear!
Even if the Song State has undergone Dai Yan's reform and has begun to gradually become stronger, if it is said that the Song State can fight against the two major powers like Qi Chu at the same time, which are among the top three in the world, Dai Yan himself does not believe it! Before you don't have enough strength to resist the power, in the face of the pressure of the power, the only thing you can do is to bear it silently!
Fortunately, Dai Yan is not scared after all, he has two lifetimes of experience to deal with this kind of crisis! When he received the news of the alliance between Qi and Chu, he immediately began to respond!
First of all, for the infiltration of the southern Wu land, he began to strictly order the nobles of the East China Sea to slow down this pace. Tell them that now that the Song State is facing an extremely dangerous situation, they must not anger the Chu State! In these years, if you encounter a provocation from the Chu State, you must be patient and don't make trouble at will!
Subsequently, he began to send envoys to the Qi State, bribed the pro-Song faction in the Qi State, and launched a propaganda war against the Qi State!
In order to launch this propaganda war, Dai Yan spared no money and money, and set up a secret organization directly managed by himself: the Strategic Fool Bureau!
In the country of Qi, except for people like Tian Ying, who are extremely hateful of the Song Dynasty, the war situation has almost bribed all the important ministers of the Qi State with a lot of money! Under this kind of heavy bribe, a voice began to gradually form in the court of the Qi State: Now because of the strength of the Qin State, all the Qi States need to join forces with the Chu State to keep warm; However, the Chu people have no faith, and our Qi country must take certain precautions against it. And in the case that my Qi State is far away from the Chu State, it is best to have a country close to the Qi State to monitor the Chu State, and such a country is none other than the Song State!
The Song State and the Qi State are the countries of in-laws, and at the same time, the Song State had an enmity with the Chu State before, and the Song State itself also has the strength to confront the Jianghuai region of the Chu State! As long as the Jianghuai region of Chu State is monitored, at least the Qi State itself will no longer be threatened by Chu State like the previous Battle of Xuzhou!
In short, Dai Yan hopes that Song Guo will give Qi Guo the impression that he is an honest little brother of Song Guo, a loyal thug and watchdog of Qi State!
For such a voice, Dai Yan himself actually doesn't have much expectations! After all, there are also clear-sighted people in the Qi State, and they know very well how much of a threat a powerful Song State will pose to the Qi State! Song Guo's loyalty does not come from his words and impressions, but from his actions!
And for the Song State, now the Qi State is the country that decides its own destiny, and any trace of distrust from the Qi State will have a great impact on the Song State!
I have to say that Song Guo's luck is still very good! When Dai Yan began to proclaim to Qi Guo that Song Guo was Qi's most loyal thug, Qi State immediately gave Song Guo a chance to prove it!
And this opportunity is also the follow-up wave of the War of the Five Kingdoms against Qin, this is the rebellion that broke out in Yan after Prince Yan withdrew his troops privately and returned to Yan State!