Chapter 359: The Battle of Lantian (Part I)

In the battle of Danyang, the Chu army was defeated, and the Qin general Gan Mao entered Hanzhong from the land of Guanzhong and directly took this land, making the prestige of the Qin State even more prominent!

Since the reform of the law of filial piety, the state of Qin has become more and more powerful. In the hands of today's Qin King Yingsi, the Qin State is out of the world, first defeated the Wei State, and pulled the Wei State from the position of the overlord of the world; Later, they defeated the Three Jin Coalition forces one after another, breaking the encirclement and suppression of the Qin State by the Hezong Alliance; Later, he successively suppressed the rebellion of Xirong, destroyed Bashu, and expanded its territory vigorously; Now, even the State of Chu, which has a place of 5,000 miles and a million armor, has suffered the biggest fiasco since the Battle of Baiju at the hands of the Qin State!

This series of victories not only made the territory of the Qin State expand several times one after another, but also made the current Qin King Yingsi become one of the few heroes in the world!

Even the five hegemons of the Spring and Autumn Period, or the male lord Wei Wenhou in the early Warring States period, it seems that they can't be compared with the current King of Qin! King Qin has reached today's achievements, and he can't help but feel a little fluttering!

Compared with the leisurely and complacent King of Qin after the Battle of Danyang, there was a sound of celebration from top to bottom of the Qin State, but the scene of the entire Chu State was completely different! The battle of Danyang reminded the Chu people of the scene of the rise of the Wu State that year, and also reminded the clans of the Chu State of the scene after the Battle of Baiju!

The Jing family, who is now in charge of the Chu State, has personally experienced the pain of destroying the country in the Battle of Baiju. And the Zhao clan also developed in the Chu State after that war.

And once this crisis of the death of the country is awakened, the entire Chu country will begin to become extremely crazy! They know very well that now that the land of Hanzhong has been taken away by the Qin State, plus the land of Shangyu is in the hands of the Qin State, the core areas of the Chu State, the land of Yanying and the land of Nanyang, will be directly threatened by the Qin State!

Moreover, the anger brought about by the repeated tricks of the King of Chu by the Qin State, as well as the results of the Qin army's killing of 80,000 Chu troops, also made the entire Chu State full of hatred for the Qin State!

Driven by this threat of the Qin State to the Chu State, and the hatred of the Chu people towards the Qin people, the King of Chu made an extremely crazy move: raise the army of the country and crusade against the Qin State! And such a move was unexpectedly supported by the major families of the Chu State!

The state of Chu is such a vast country, once it breaks out in full force, its potential is almost unlimited! Under normal circumstances, the state of Chu could not really mobilize the army of the entire country to fight. However, this time, Chu State did it!

Once a big country with a million armor starts to attack other countries with all its might, the destructive power it brings is absolutely huge!

Just when the State of Chu was about to mobilize the entire country's army to take revenge on the State of Qin, all countries in the world also received such news. Except for Dai Yan, all countries in the world did not believe that the State of Chu was willing to make such a desperate gamble and make such a risky move!

And the most confident among them is none other than Qin Wang Yingsi. In this monarch's opinion, the Qin State had just killed 80,000 Chu troops in the Battle of Danyang, and if the Chu State did not recover well, it would be impossible for the Qin State to come to the Qin State for revenge!

And Dai Yan, who is familiar with the general trend of history, knows very well that at such a critical juncture, the entire Chu State will definitely seek revenge from the Qin State! And at this time, it is time for Song Guo, who has been accumulating strength, to make a move!

When the Chu State was accumulating strength and preparing to crusade against the Qin State, the situation in the Northern Yan State also began to change!

At this time, it has been more than a year since Su Qin led Ji Zhi back to Yan Kingdom. In the past year or so, Ji Zhi first took advantage of the withdrawal of the Song army and handed over the capital of Yan to the Qi army, and quickly infiltrated his forces around Yidu!

Although Yidu was occupied by the Song army for a short time, it was during this time that the Song army handed over many advanced agricultural technologies to the Yan people, which made the area around Yidu an important grain-producing area of the Yan Kingdom. And after the Song army withdrew, Ji Zhi learned about the advanced Song State from the mouths of the nobles around Yidu, and began to ask Su Qin to ask the Song State to send peasant children to continue to help Yan State!

With the assistance and support of the Song Kingdom, Ji Zhi began to master the most important grain-producing area in Yan State, which greatly enhanced the power in Ji Zhi's hands! And with such power, Ji Zhi began to move the generals and nobles from all over the Yan Kingdom, and soon began to actually grasp the power of the Yan Kingdom!

Ji Zhi has become the de facto monarch of Yan Kingdom! And after the Yan State has a core, the resistance of the entire Yan Land to the Qi State has also begun to have a real backbone! Qi and even Zhongshan will soon be unable to gain a foothold in Yan State, except for a few big cities, the entire Yan country, the Qi army and the Zhongshan army have been completely unable to gain a foothold!

And the situation of Yan Land is not the beginning of the bad luck of the Qi country. In these two years, first Zhong Wuyan, the queen of Qi, died of illness, and then the Qi army suffered a great defeat in cooking dates in Wei, and then even the health of the king of Qi began to deteriorate and became sick.

The occurrence of such accidents made King Deqi dare not carry out radical policies anymore. And after receiving more and more bad news from Yan State, he also began to lose confidence in annexing Yan State, and then had the idea of withdrawing troops from Yan State!

And what really prompted the State of Qi to withdraw its troops from the State of Yan was the voice of the State of Qin!

When Ji Zhi had a foothold in Yan State, Su Qin began to contact Zhao Yong, asking Zhao State to support Ji Zhi to restore the country and inherit the throne of Yan from the surface. And after Zhao Yong's statement, the Qin State, which had been friendly with Zhao in the past few years, also immediately expressed support for Zhao and supported Ji Zhi to become the King of Yan!

Qin's statement affected Wei and South Korea one after another. In this way, in the whole world, there is the position of King Yan who is recognized by the four countries. If you add the Song Kingdom hidden behind the scenes, then the support that Ji Zhi has received will be even greater!

Such a powerful force is the Qi State, and it must be dealt with carefully! Subsequently, when the king of Qi began to tell Mencius about the situation of the Qi army in Yan and asked Mencius about Qi's disposition of Yan, Mencius suggested that Qi should immediately withdraw its army to the country!

In Mencius's view, the Qi army that crusaded against Yan at the beginning had great righteousness in their hands, and the crusade against rebellion was naturally invincible! And now that the Qi State has lost the hearts of the people in the Yan Land, and has lost its morality in the whole world, if the Qi State continues to occupy the Yan State, it will suffer an extremely painful defeat!

The king of Qi followed Mencius's advice and withdrew the Qi army. At the same time, in order to take into account the emotions of his ally Zhongshan State, Qi State did not completely withdraw its troops to the country, and several cities in the southern part of Yan State and Qi State and Zhongshan State bordered Qi State and Zhongshan State were forced to force Ji Zhi to cede this land to the two countries by virtue of this withdrawal and willingness to recognize the position of King Yan of Ji Zhi as a price!

In order to stabilize the overall situation as soon as possible, plus Zhao and Song tried their best to promote this matter behind their backs, the newly enthroned Yan Wang Ji also had to agree to the proposal of Qi and Zhongshan to cede the cities on the southern border to the two countries!

Although the Yan Kingdom, which has now become ruined because of the looting of the Qi army, is the best catalyst for the Yan people's hatred of the Qi people. However, in Dai Yan's view, the conflict between countries is far from enough to rely on the hatred of the people at the bottom! The only thing that can really promote conflicts between countries and cause wars is interests!

Obviously, the several cities ceded by the Yan State are the best conflict of interest! Let the Qi State cede the cities of the Yan State, in fact, it is also a nail that the Song State and the Zhao State have driven between Yan and Qi!

With such a nail, it is completely possible to ensure the hatred of the Yan State against the Qi State! In this way, the Zhao State has gained a strong ally in the north, and the Song State will also greatly reduce the pressure because the Qi State must watch the Yan State!

And when the chaos in the Yan State was about to stabilize, the Chu State in the south finally gathered all its forces to crusade against the Qin State with the whole country's army!

As a large country with a million armor, the desperate move of the Chu State this time, in addition to leaving a small number of local noble troops as defense in the land of Huaishui, it has gathered a total of nearly 600,000 troops to crusade against the Qin State!

With such a huge army, it is definitely the most powerful army in the history of China! And such an elite effort to crusade against a country is not a common thing in the world at this time. This time the actions of the Chu army, even the Qin State was unable to react, and began to suffer big losses one after another!

First of all, the elite of the Chu army went north along the Han River, attacked Danyang, and quickly recaptured this important town of Chu State! Subsequently, the Chu army held a grand sacrificial ceremony here to mourn the general Qu Qi, as well as all the souls who died in the Battle of Danyang!

Such a move made the morale of the Chu army even stronger! Subsequently, with such morale, the Chu army began to go north directly along the Danshui and attack Wuguan! After a great war, this important town, which had been ceded to the Qin State for nearly two hundred years, was thus returned to the hands of the Qin people!

After taking Wuguan, the footsteps of the Chu army still did not stop, and continued to advance towards the land of Shangyu, and soon, Shangzhou was occupied, and the Chu army began to enter Guanzhong!

A series of actions of the State of Chu made the whole State of Qin fearful, and also made the King of Qin wake up violently from the dream that surpassed the overlords of the previous dynasties!

The Chu army that entered Guanzhong still did not stop, and they began to advance towards the Lantian camp, the base camp of the Qin army!

The Lantian camp was personally established by Shang Ying, who presided over the reform of the Qin State. It is located between Shangzhou, the fiefdom of Shang Ying, and Xianyang, the capital of Qin, and it can be said that it is the last protective lock of Xianyang, the capital of Qin! Once the Lantian camp is lost, the capital of the Qin State will be directly exposed to the peak of the Chu army!

King Qin never imagined that a superpower like the State of Chu would face such serious retaliation after angering him! However, at this time, if you make peace with the Chu State, the Chu State will definitely not listen, and the only thing the Qin State can do is to also devote the country's strength to a decisive battle with the Chu army!

With such a national war, the Qin State also began to be ruthless! The king of Qin personally went into battle and began to call on all the Qin people to come and fight the Chu army. The King of Qin even invited a rare sacrifice from Qin and ordered them to curse Chu Wen to curse the Chu army!