Chapter 129: The Qin Army Defeated
"General, we must retreat, otherwise our army will really be wiped out!" At the fiercest place on the battlefield, the deputy general of the Qin army beheaded several people in a row, rushed to Gongzihua, and persuaded him. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
"I'm not leaving, it's all my fault that our army has fallen to such a point! What face do I have to say goodbye to the elders of the Qin Kingdom? Gongzihua said sadly while resisting the surrounding Qi army.
"General, stay in the green mountains, don't worry about running out of firewood! As long as you endure humiliation, there will always be a day to start over! Didn't Meng Mingshi, who was on my country's expedition to Zheng State, also have the same defeat? In the end, he was not finally disgraced with the support of Mu Gong! The general is the son, the half-brother of the king, although the defeat failed this time, there will be a time to start again in the future! The lieutenant general used his shield to block the attack of the Qi army and comforted Gongzihua.
Hearing this, Gongzihua no longer continued to attack the Qi army, but retreated with the rest of the soldiers who followed him.
The Qin army was defeated all the way, and by the time they returned to Kang's father, the banner of Qi had been re-erected in the city. Gongzihua summoned the Qin soldiers who escaped from the city to ask, and learned that the fall of this city was caused by the common people in the city and the Qi army outside the city. If he knew that the Qi people were so untrustworthy, he shouldn't have trusted them like he did at the beginning!
Then he led the remnants of the army to flee all the way to Juye, and the result was the same, the whole city was destroyed by the Qi army like Kang's father.
Gongzihua had to regroup his army near Juye. Of the 20,000 Qin troops who went out at the beginning, there are now less than 4,000 left! Of course, this is not to say that all the other Qin troops were killed by the Qi army, most of the Qin army should flee in this foreign land! Even so, the Qin army suffered heavy casualties this time!
The entire Qin army was scattered, and the remaining army had little combat effectiveness. The Qin army's operation to attack Qi this time has been a complete failure.
When Gongzihua continued to flee west with the Qin army, passing through the Taoqiu of the Song Kingdom, he saw that the city was loosely defended and rich and abnormal, and the brothers he accepted were a little moved, and he wanted to indulge the Qin army to directly sack the city!
However, when the major merchants of Taoqiu came forward and gathered a large group of guards for defense, plus the Song officials who managed the city sent some grain and grass to the Qin army, and Kuang Zhang's army had already pursued to the vicinity of Juye, Gongzihua had to give up this idea, honestly brought grain and grass, and began to withdraw troops to the territory of Wei.
This made Song Guoda, who had been watching the battle of Qin and Qi, breathe a sigh of relief.
After hearing that the Qin army was defeated on the front line, Hui Shi urgently asked to meet the king of Wei to discuss national policy.
"Huixiang, now that the Qin army has completely failed to attack Qi, it is not a matter for those defeated Qin troops to wander within our country, so let's send an army to exterminate them." As soon as the King of Wei heard the news of the defeat of the Qin army, he said so.
"King, how can you have such crazy ideas? Although the Qin army is currently suffering a small defeat, those defeated armies do not have much combat power, but the Qin State has not suffered a big loss! If we do this, we will inevitably anger the Qin State and provoke the Qin State to retaliate! As soon as Hui Shi heard King Wei's thoughts, he immediately admonished.
"Why should Hui Xiang grow the ambition of others and destroy his own prestige? In the past, everyone said that the army of tigers and wolves of the Qin State was invincible in the world! Isn't it defeated at the hands of this Qi country now? I don't think there's anything remarkable about Qin Jun! In the battle of Hexi in the year of Qin, 80,000 troops of our country were killed, and this hatred has never been forgotten! King Wei gritted his teeth and said, and at the end, there was a hint of cruelty in his eyes.
"Don't do that, my lord! If this is the case, our country will completely offend the Qin State! Now our country is no longer the Wei State that used to dominate the world, and now our country's national strength is weak, and the surrounding strong enemies are looking around, and we must be cautious in dealing with the outside world! Even if the king really wants to seek revenge on the Qin State, he needs to slowly accumulate national strength, and it is not too late to take revenge when the national strength of my Wei State recovers! Hui Shi persuaded hard.
King Wei replied dissatisfiedly: "But the widow can't wait any longer!" The biggest defeat that Wei ate at the hands of the widows was the battle of Hexi with Qin! If you can't avenge the 80,000 good men of the Wei Kingdom, you can't even turn a blind eye to the death of the widow! In the end, King Wei's voice was faintly filled with a hint of crying, which was extremely miserable.
Hui Shi saw this scene and was silent for a long time. Then he admonished King Wei and said: "King, even if you want to take revenge again, you can't adopt such a drastic method!" If you really intercept and kill the defeated army of the Qin State, it will definitely bring a catastrophe to the Wei State, so your subordinates cannot agree to you directly intercepting and killing the returning Qin army. But if the king wants to breathe a sigh of relief, his subordinates can do it! Although our country can't strangle those Qin troops, it is still possible to unarm the Qin army and ask for some benefits from the Qin army. What does the king think? ”
King Wei was silent for a long time, knowing that what his trusted subordinate said was a real plan for the country, and national affairs really could not be as he thought. So he said to Hui Shi: "That's it, the matter of the defeat of the Qin State will be handled by Hui Xiang, and the widow will not participate." ”
Qi capital Linzi, after the news of the victory of the Qi army in the Battle of Sanqiu came back, the entire Linzi was boiling!
The invincible Qin army, which defeated Wei and Zhao one after another, was defeated by the Qi army! In the eyes of Linzi people, Kuang Zhang is the hero of Qi State!
With this big victory, the Qi people even held an unusually enthusiastic celebration! And the ministers praised the king of Qi one after another, and under the leadership of the king of Qi, the country of Qi became so prosperous and powerful!
And behind all this frenzy, there are still many calm eyes. Outside Linzi City, a pair of masters and apprentices in a manor are like this!
"What do you think of the Battle of Sancho?" Dai Yan asked Zhao Yong beside him while sipping tea.
"The Qi army is invincible!" Zhao Yong said without thinking about it.
Hearing this answer, Dai Yan laughed out loud, unimpressed by Zhao Yong's answer.
"Master, when two armies are fighting, they should lay out their chariots and horses, fight head-on, and win with strength! Qi people use such means to achieve victory, it is indeed a victory! Zhao Yong said angrily.
Hearing Zhao Yong's answer, Dai Yan had to ask him: "You see that now that the Qi army has won, have the Qi people accused Kuang Zhang of doing it?" Everyone praised Kuang Zhang as a hero of Qi people! Think about it again, if Kuang Zhang's army fails to go on the expedition and the Qin army comes to the city, what will the Qi people say? ”
Zhao Yong heard Dai Yan's question, thought about it carefully, and was silent.
"Don't be unconvinced! Soldiers, treacherous! War is a matter of national survival, and as long as it can be won, what is the point of a little conspiracy? In today's world, the slightest illusion in the center of war will bring a huge crisis to the country! Dai Yan said unceremoniously.
"But even more important than the use of trickery in war is the attitude towards war! Now the Qin State has failed this, although it has the influence of the fanatical war atmosphere in the Qin State and the belligerence of everyone. However, for the failure of this war, it is still King Qin who should bear the greatest responsibility! If it weren't for King Qin's rash move, the Qin army would not have had such a fiasco!
In my opinion, war is a continuation of politics! Every time a war is fought, there must be benefits. If a war is waged without purpose and without profit, it is nothing more than a war of waves! Every wave battle is a drain on the strength of the country, and this is the case with the Battle of Sancho today. The greatest defeat of the Qin State was not on the battlefield, but on the temple.
For this defeat, someone in the Qin State will inevitably stand up and pay the price. I think that the top management of the Qin State will inevitably change because of this matter! Dai Yan first taught Zhao Yong, and then made a very positive prediction.
Zhao Yong did not object to such a prediction, but strongly agreed with it after thinking about it! At the same time, it also corrected his view of war, and he could think rationally about war.