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The 20th year of the Marquis of Jin was a year of chaos, the nominal "Jin State" had conflicts with Qi and Zheng, the Zhao family recaptured the river, and the Wei family avoided all the disputes. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The Han clan crossed the river and occupied Chenggao. At the same time, Wang Sunsheng, who set off with Lu Ban, also won the first battle, and he led the Han soldiers to fight a beautiful battle east of Chenggao, ambushing the Zheng army who came to the rescue, beheading three hundred and capturing seven hundred, so that the Zheng people had to retreat.

The war between Han and Zheng Guo came to an end, but the sporadic conflicts never stopped, Zheng Guo Qimu is a generation that grew up in the son of Yansheng, quite a bit of hard backbone, they do not accept the fact that Cheng Gao has fallen, and have been trying to fight back, Han can only see the moves, and consume with them. In order to ensure that the Tiger Prison will not be lost again, Han Hu instigated by Lu Ban and planned to build an unprecedented fortress pass here, a city that will never fall!

In order to ensure the quality and speed of the project, they adopted Lu Ban's suggestion: each layer of ramming is good, ordering the soldiers to use a large cone to cone it, if the cone is inch, it means that the ramming is not strong, and the people who ram it will be killed. This method was so cruel that some of the old retainers of the Han family said indignantly that if Han Xianzi was alive and saw his children and grandchildren so crippled, he would definitely be angry and bring disaster.

Han Hu and Duan Gui were helpless, a monarch and a minister rashly started a war with Zheng Guo under the condition of insufficient preparation for difficulties, and almost took a big heel, and now although they got Cheng Gao with the help of the Zhao family, they have been unable to ride a tiger, so they can only grit their teeth and stick to the end. If Cheng Gao can't hold on, then the hard work of the past few years will be in vain, Han Hu's prestige will be hit hard, and Duan Gui will also end his career as a retainer, and there is no way out except to apologize for his crimes.

From summer to autumn, in the midst of a lot of complaints, the prototype of the new tiger prison is slowly being built. Meanwhile, in the far south, an ancient state is in danger of losing its land......

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Crying and crying, Cai Guoren looked back at their capital in three steps.

This is the second time that the Cai State has moved away from the capital, the first time was when the King of Chu Ling destroyed the country, they lost Sheji, and three years later they were restored by the King of Chu Ping, who came to power with the support of Chen and Cai people, but the national capital moved from the original "Shang Cai" to Lu Ting in the upper reaches of the Huai River, called "New Cai".

Xin Cai did not bring a new life to the Cai people, they were still played by the big countries in applause, suddenly belonged to Chu, suddenly surrendered to Jin, and suddenly because of the king's own anger, led the people of Wu to break Chu into Ying. With the revival of Chu, two years ago, Cai was jointly attacked by Chu, Chen and Sui, and was forced to obey the orders of the king of Chu again, cede the land and pay compensation, and the tribute was as usual, and the Marquis of Cai also presented his daughter Cai Ji to the king of Chu.

But in this way, Wu Guo stopped doing it, they attempted to attack Chen State the year before last, how could they lose Cai Guo again? The husband who had just completed his revenge couldn't swallow this breath.

In the autumn of this year, Wu sent an envoy to send gifts to Cai Guo, but who expected that there were army armor soldiers hidden in the envoy group, they occupied the city gate of Cai State, leading the Wu army to invade, Cai Hou did not dare to be an enemy of it, plus he himself had an old grudge with Chu, so he killed a prince who was close to Chu to please Wu. At the same time, under the compulsion of the Wu people, they moved to the new capital that Wu found for them: the state in the lower reaches of the Huai River, also known as "Xia Cai".

The Marquis of Cai wept and moved the tomb of the ancestors, and the nobles also left first in boats carrying treasures and horses, leaving only some civilians who had left their homeland, sobbing and tearing goodbye to their homeland, and took another step to the east. It was a great migration and a journey of unprecedented suffering. Cai Guo was originally a large county of Chu that could give thousands of times, but after the restoration of the country, the population was halved, but there were still as many as 25,000 households, and when they completely moved to the state in the spring and autumn of the following year, there were only more than 10,000 households left, less than 100,000 people......

Some died on the way, but more often, they were unwilling to leave their homeland, preferring to stay, abandon the name of the Cai people, and become a native of Chu instead!

After hearing the details of this matter, Zhao Wuxian immediately asked the Yecheng Academy Palace to hold a policy discussion to compare the two migrations and hype it up in Yecheng......

At this point, Wu Chu each occupied Cai and Chen, and formed a balance of power in the Huaishang competition.

Although Wu Zixu once brushed his sleeves away after King Wu broke the Yue, he immediately returned to the center and was in charge of Wu's diplomacy. He still adheres to his previous proposition: "The land people live on the land, the water people live on the water, the country of the Central Plains is dry, you can't grow rice, you can't sail, even if the Wu State is attacked and won, the Wu people can't occupy its land for a long time, but like the Yue State, as well as the Chu State Huaishang, Jiangnan and other places, the customs are similar to the Wu State, the language is the same, but you can take it for yourself." ”

He tried his best to dissuade Fucha from going north to compete with the Zhao family, but to form a Qi state in the north, and also sent people to communicate with the Song, Zheng, and Qin states that had not yet had obvious conflicts, and the main energy was to compete with the Chu state for Huaishang and Qunshu, trying to enter the hinterland of Jianghan again.

Chu was trying to revive on the one hand, while carefully defending, Chu originally formed an alliance with Qin and Zheng during the partition of the barbarian clan, like the leader of the Three Kingdoms, but their energy was too much restrained by Wu, so that they were indifferent when the three secretaries of Jin attacked Zheng State, even if at the end of the year, when the news came that the three secretaries of Jin were going to plot against Qin, they also expressed helplessness.

Taking advantage of the new defeat of the Qi State and did not dare to move, the Han clan dragged the Zheng State, and the Chu State was also tired of dealing with the Wu State and did not dare to go north to support the allies, in the summer and March of the 21st year of the Marquis of Jin (491 BC), after hoarding grain for another year, the Jin State's attack on the Qin State began......

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"Beautiful, solid rivers and mountains!"

Walking to the shore of Longmen, even the well-informed Zhao Wuxian couldn't help but sigh with such a sigh.

The Yellow River, in the Spring and Autumn Period, only gradually became turbid in the territory of Qi State, called "Turbid River", and in the rest of the position, only "big river" or a "river" word was used as an exclusive noun to highlight her weight in Chinese geography and culture. In the cognition of the Central Plains people in this era, the source of the Yellow River is in the west of the Hetao, it flows down from the majestic snow-capped mountains, and rushes and stirs on the vast Loess Plateau with a majestic and heroic momentum, and the Longmen Canyon located at the junction of Qin and Jin is the most majestic and colorful part.

Longmen, also known as Yukou, according to legend, is made by Yu with a giant axe when controlling the water, Zhao Wuxian immediately looked at it, only to see that its north is the Yellow River Gorge of the mountains and the road, and the south is the plain of Tantan and Swinging, the contrast is huge.

At first, the river was confined between the cliffs on both sides, and the white waves were like thousands of galloping horses, and the thunder was thundering, breaking through the mountains and flowing eastward, and the water waves were undulating, like mountains and boiling.

Gu Cheng, an official of the Zhao family who was in charge of the water transportation of the big river, saw that Zhao Wuxian was in a good mood, so he said: "The two sides of the dragon gate stand, the river comes out of it, the upper is a hundred steps wide, and the lower is thousands of miles, relatively like a door, only the divine dragon can jump, so it is called the dragon gate." The dragon gate is sealed by ice at the beginning of December every year, and the ice disappears when it stings in March of the following year, whenever this happens, there are thousands of yellow carp from the downstream to swim to the dragon gate, compete to jump, climb the dragon gate, the clouds and rain follow, the sky fire burns its tail, turns into a dragon, the one who can't climb, the forehead is exposed to the ......"

It was March, and there were many carp swimming in the water of Longmen, but after seeing this scene, Zhao Wuxian was hesitant, how could it be so evil, in fact, the breeding season of the Yellow River carp had arrived, and they were competing to swim back to their birthplace upstream to mate and spawn, which was a good place to catch fish roe. Indeed, if you can jump on the dragon gate, you can leave offspring, and if you can't jump, you can only be alone.

As soon as he told everyone about this, the officials of the Zhao clan, who were still looking up for the "Divine Dragon", laughed one after another, and Gu Cheng also blushed. As a fisherman, he has been sent to Longmen by Zhao Wuxian for nearly a year, so he naturally knows this, and he originally thought that it was a strange thing to say it, but he didn't think that Zhao Wuxian, who should have been ignorant, was so clear......

"The second and third sons know, do I think of something from this?"

"I don't know."

Looking at everyone, Zhao Wuxian accentuated his tone: "That is natural selection, survival of the fittest!" ”

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"All things in heaven and earth coexist with us human beings, but they are of different kinds. There is no distinction between high and low types, but because of different sizes and intelligence, they restrict each other and become food for each other, so that the weak eat the strong and the fittest survive! ”

"This is true of carp, of beasts and plants, of people, clans, nations, and races!"

Everyone present was shocked, and after peeling off the warmth of "heaven nourishes all things to support the people", the bloody and truthful concealment of the traditional ritual and music conquest was revealed.

After raising the primitive idea of evolution to the level of social Darwinism in one breath, Zhao Wuxian's horsewhip pointed to the black banner of Qin on the other side of the Dragon Gate to incite everyone: "The carp needs to jump over the Dragon Gate in order to pass on the bloodline, and we are the same, the Zhao family won the victory in the Jin Civil War, and is the fittest within the Jin State, but this is not enough, the foreign enemy is still eyeing the tiger, and the world has the heart of the dead Zhao, and we still have to sit on the fittest in Kyushu!" The first one to bear the burden is the Qin State! ”

"A big river separates Qin and Jin, the two countries have been competing with each other for two hundred years, Qin and Jin must have a hegemon, either one or the other, but the premise is to slaughter each other! What's more, the Qin State has occupied the land west of the river and must be recaptured, which is the reason why I cooperated with Wei and Han to attack Qin! Even if Qin and Zhao have the same surname, when they come to this dragon gate, they can only see each other with their arms crossed, and the swords and soldiers face each other! ”

The competition between Qin and Jin is determined by geography, just like Wu and Chu in the upper and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. In the early years, the Qin and Jin dynasties competed for the Lirong, Hurong, Liang, Yu, and Yu between the two countries, all of which were naked tigers and wolves to grab food, for fear that they would be one step slower and let the other party succeed. And after the hegemony of the Jin State flourished, he didn't think anything about the Qin and Jin dynasties, and blocked the eastward expansion of the Qin State for 150 years.

Now the two countries still want to kill each other, and the three families attacking Qin is a matter that was discussed the year before last, after all, the remnants of the Zhi clan are the common mortal enemies of the three Qings, and the acceptance of the Zhi clan by the Qin State is equivalent to being an enemy of the three families. Even if the Han clan deliberately fought with Zheng Guo, it did not interrupt this process, and the Wei clan had been preparing for a year, and the Zhao clan could also send Taiyuan troops to fight, and the work of dispatching troops and formulating the attack route had been gradually implemented since the autumn of last year.

The Zhao family did not have a border with the Qin State, and if they crossed the river from Lou County, or Lishi County, which was just established last year, they had to first borrow the "Shangdi" where the rest of the Daobai Di lived, that is, Yulin, Yan'an and other places in later generations. So the Zhao clan reached an agreement with the Han clan, and since the Zhao clan had given the Han clan too much help last year, they lent the Zhao clan a small euppy west of Han City as the location of their garrison as a token of gratitude.

Hancheng is just east of Longmen, and you can step into the river by walking more than ten miles to the west. Although Longmen is dangerous, it is an ancient ferry, located in the traffic pass, and is a place where soldiers must fight. For example, in 645 BC, in the battle of Qin-Jin Hancheng, Qin Mugong crossed from Longmen East to attack Jin and captured Jin Huigong.

Although Wei Manduo and Wei Ju's father and son were very jealous of Zhao's return to Hedong and appearing on the edge of their hinterland, there were more urgent matters that needed Zhao's assistance this year. Because the Han clan had to deal with Zheng Guo's sporadic counteroffensives, they complained bitterly at the meeting between the three secretaries, and could only give half of the soldiers and grain and grass as promised, so in addition to the Wei clan picking the main beam themselves, they could only count on the Zhao clan to help them defeat the Qin state.

But Zhao Wuxian made up his mind not to fight in this battle, and he brought more than 10,000 people from the army promised in the covenant into Gengdi, with no more soldiers and no less soldiers. And the Wei clan is going to dispatch three armies! It is equivalent to three-quarters of all their conscripted soldiers, and the Han clan only made up less than 10,000, most of them are old soldiers and young soldiers, which is already the result of tightening their belts.

The same is true when discussing the direction of the three main attacks, because there are only three main ferries from the Jin State to the Qin State: Pubandu, Fenglingdu, and Longmendu. So the two armies of the Wei clan were led by Wei Ju, and they would go out of Puban and attack Dali of Qin, and the first army led by Lü Xing went south from Fenglingdu to attack the fortress of Taolin, which was Tongguan in later generations. The Han clan marched west from outside the river, opened up the Cuihan Ancient Road, and joined the Wei family.

As for the task of the Zhao family, it is natural to go out of Longmen and attack Shaoliang......

"It's an uphill battle." After coming here, some ministers complained to Zhao Wuxian like this, because Shaoliang is the Hexi base camp of the Zhi clan, and it is also the place where the Qin State focused on operating after controlling here, not to mention that although the Longmen is not wide, and the opposite bank is also a flat river, there are at least thousands of enemy defenders, and they have been waiting for it again, just waiting for the Zhao clan to cross the river, and they will attack head-on.

Zhao Wuxian knocked them and said: "Treat the people of Qin, you can put away your thoughts about dealing with Qi and Dai in the past, although Qin is poor, it is not easy to succumb, this time Sanqing attacked Qin, it is like holding a torch to poke a hornet's nest, the Qin people who regard Hexi as their own backyard will definitely try their best to stop us, even if they fail, they will go forward and kill back, just like they have done in the past two hundred years." ”

The reason why he agreed to attack Shaoliang naturally had his plans and purposes, and Zhao Wuxian's real mind was: to stab the hornet's nest together, and when the hornet's nest flew back to retaliate, let Wei carry it himself. Now that Yan and Zhongshan have been allowed to fight, slaughter the Qi State, and tired Han and Zheng, they only need to completely tear apart Qin and Wei, and Zhao Wuxian's layout and differentiation of the surrounding neighbors of the Zhao family will be completed......

But then again, there are a lot of Qin people on the other side of the strait who look nervous, and the Xuanniao flags make it impossible to distinguish between the enemy and the enemy on both sides of the strait, and it is impossible to take a pontoon bridge smoothly, what should I do?

Zhao Wuxian was not in a hurry, so he asked the soldiers to unload their armor and take off their armor, take a cool time in the woods by the river, and let the ancient riders pretend to set up a pontoon bridge.

Seeing that the pontoon bridge was getting closer and closer to the river bank, the Qin people and the remnants of the Zhi clan on the opposite side became more and more nervous, but they didn't know that at the foot of Liangshan Mountain, thirty miles north of Longmen, the flow of the big river here was more rapid and turbulent, no less than the Jinsha River Gorge in later generations, and a force of 2,000 people had quietly sneaked here......

Perhaps because this place was dangerous and the large army could not cross, there was no one on the other side, so this quietly arrived surprise army, like the yellow carp in the river, became the winner who successfully jumped over the dragon gate.

The yellow carp are very cheerful, both male and female, are releasing the essence of life to the fullest, making the water turbid for a while......

And by the river, Zhao Wuxian's fierce general Tian Ben was holding a leather utensil, blowing so much that his face was red, but the object did not bulge for half a minute.

"Mother and maid too! This thing obviously can't be used!? "I almost blew up my lungs, the red-faced Tian Ben stopped drying, threw the pipe in his hand, scolded the sky and the earth loudly, and grabbed the boatman whose face was molted and blackened, and he was about to have a seizure.

"Fools disturb themselves...... Shi Qi, a native of Chu, is at ease with this commonly used river crossing tool in the north, and the sheepskin in his hand is soon blown into a bulging leather bag, and behind him, hundreds of leather bags have been blown up! (To be continued.) )