Chapter 2 Prince Ran

The main hall of the Korean Royal Palace.

Since receiving the emergency report from Huayang, the Korean royal palace is gloomy. In the face of the current crisis, the doctors who came urgently have different opinions.

Everyone knows very well what Huayang means to South Korea, and Huayang is the northern barrier of the capital city of Xinzheng. If Huayang is lost, the combined forces of Zhao and Wei will arrive overnight. The sixty-mile plain from Huayang to Xinzheng would become a racecourse for the Zhao and Wei cavalry, and even if the road was closed by heavy snow, the slowest infantry in the coalition would be able to surround Xinzheng in two days at most.

The ministers were divided into two groups, one group was headed by Prime Minister Zhang Ping, and they strongly advocated asking for help from the Qin State. After all, at present, Qin has an alliance with South Korea, and it is reasonable that Qin will not refuse. Moreover, there are 150,000 troops in Wei and Zhao, and there are only 300,000 in the whole country of Korea, of which 100,000 are concentrated in Shangdang County, and there are only 100,000 soldiers around Xinzheng who can fight, which also includes the 20,000 besieged in Huayang City. Therefore, relying on the strength of South Korea was completely unable to resist the combined forces of Zhao and Wei.

Zhang Ping is the son of Zhang Kaidi, who served as the prime minister of Han Zhaohou, Han Xuanhui and Han Xiang during his lifetime. Now Zhang Pingzi inherits his father's business and serves the current king of Han with the respect of the prime minister, four generations of the country, and is famous in Korea. There is no doubt that Zhang Ping's influence among the doctors is huge.

The other small group advocated seeking peace with Zhao and Wei, after all, they both belonged to the Three Jin Dynasty, and even if there was some discord, it was also a contradiction among the people. What's more, the arms really can't twist the thighs, and the face of peace is passable. And the reputation of Qin's brutality spreads far and wide, and he is worried that asking Qin for help is to drive the tiger and devour the wolf, and it is easy to ask God to send God.

No matter which group of people, they all think that Huayang cannot be rescued, and at present, it should be mainly stable, that is, stick to Xinzheng.

King Han looked at the noisy ministers below, and he was also upset. South Korea's national strength is weak, only slightly stronger than Yan's. But in the land of four wars, he stood at the Han Valley Pass, blocking the road of Qin's eastward expansion. In the past two years, it has been difficult to reconcile with the Qin State and get a temporary peace. But he didn't expect that Wei Guo, a wolf-hearted grace, would take revenge and hit himself with his idea. Knowing this, he should not have sent troops to rescue Wei the year before last.

In the early years of his reign, he joined forces with Wei to attack Qin with 240,000 troops, how high-spirited he was. At that time, he took the previous king as an example, and wanted to force the Qin State to return the lost territory (referring to the fourteenth year of King Han Xiang, Korea attacked the Qin State together with Qi and Wei, and stationed troops there when they arrived at Hangu Pass. In the sixteenth year of King Xiang of Han, Qin returned the land beyond the river and Wusui to Korea).

Unexpectedly, in the battle of Yique, the 240,000 coalition troops were defeated by the 100,000 Qin army. It was also in this battle that the obscure Bai Qi became famous, and Korea was forced to cede most of the area east of An-eup.

From that time on, Korea under his own rule was defeated by the Qin state one after another. Anyway, the weakness of the South Korean army is well known to the world. The only thing that is praised in foreign wars is the destruction of Zheng, and in addition, it is almost inevitable to lose every battle.

Of course, South Korea is not without victories, but they are all following other countries to pick up cheap. Soon, King Han, who had failed one after another, was numb. As for the succession to the throne, King Han's vow to revitalize Korea has long been forgotten.

"It seems that the widow is really old, and he is actually starting to miss the past." King Han sighed silently in his heart.

King Han is indeed old, and his health is not as good as before.

The current King Han only thinks about stability, and he has long lost his enterprising spirit. In fact, King Han also knew in his heart that asking Qin for help was a helpless move, but it was not necessarily a good idea to give in to Wei and Zhao. Zhao and Wei wanted to push themselves to the forefront of blocking the eastward advance of the Qin army, while Qin wanted to win them over so that they could eat away at Wei step by step. In the final analysis, South Korea is surrounded by big countries and is pinched as a soft persimmon.

Just when King Han was outside the palace, the controversy in the palace gradually became clear, and the "pro-Qin faction" led by Zhang Ping had the upper hand.

King Han was about to announce his decision to ask for help from the Qin State, but suddenly found that the crown prince on the left hand side of the palace had not said a word, thinking thoughtfully about something.

"Ran'er, what do you think about this?" King Han looked at his beloved son with a concerned expression.

At this time, everyone suddenly found that the prince, who had just recovered from a serious illness, had a positive attitude and rarely said a word about the court.

"Maybe it's because I'm recovering from a serious illness and I'm restless." The loyal doctor speculated in his heart.

"Shouldn't you be stupid by Zhao Wei's army!" A small number of doctors are thinking that if the future King Han is so cowardly, they can use one or two to meet the source.

The crown prince is the only concubine of the current King of Han. Although there are many concubines of King Han, they are all young and not favored. Therefore, the one who can inherit the unification in the future is none other than the crown prince.

This is also a fortunate thing for South Korea, otherwise if there is a situation like the current situation where the king of Han competes for the throne with his brother Jiser before he succeeds to the throne, the already weak Korean state will be even more dangerous.

King Han's call finally pulled the prince back from his deep thoughts. Looking at King Han's loving eyes and the concerned or anxious eyes of the doctors, Prince Ran smiled helplessly in his heart.

The occurrence of Zhao and Wei Huahan was something that he expected, yes, it was expected. Because the crown prince is no longer the original prince ran, his soul is fused with a young man for more than 2,000 years in the future.

The process of integration is short but long, short because the time is really short, but long because of the pain, and the pain that has been experienced will never happen again.

He just stumbled and fell off the cliff, and in a trance, a bright light appeared in front of him, and then a soul insisted on burrowing into his head and competing with himself for control of the body. Fortunately, he has been stubborn since he was a child, his body is strong, and he is in his youth, so he can barely suppress this soul.

That soul was about to be dissipated by its own beating, and it actually gave up resistance and merged with its own soul. It was at this moment that a huge stream of information poured into his mind. I couldn't stand it for a while, and I was in a coma for three days and three nights.

It was in these three days and three nights that I understood the ins and outs of the matter. The era in which he lived was called the Warring States Period by later generations, and his own country, Korea, was bordered by Wei and Zhao in the north, Qi in the east, Chu in the south, and Qin in the west. In the eyes of later historians, it is completely a representative of tragedy.

And the fused soul also has a tragic story. Later, a military enthusiast used his identity as a researcher to secretly turn on the country's immature time machine, in a vain attempt to return to save his wife who died in an accident a month ago. Unexpectedly, the time machine qì inexplicably teleported him to the Warring States Period, and his body turned into powder, leaving only a wisp of soul.

Through the fusion of souls, the prince understood that it was now 273 BC, as later generations would call. His homeland would be destroyed by Qin 43 years later, becoming the first country to be destroyed among the Seven Heroes of the Warring States, after which Zhao, Wei, Chu, Yan, and Qi died in Qin one after another. The Qin State unified the world, and the temples of the Six Kingdoms were not guaranteed.

When he knew that his country would be destroyed by Qin, the prince was filled with grief and anger. When he knew that the tyrannical Qin Dynasty II died, the prince was happy again. Even after the death of Qin, Korea was briefly restored, but it was as short as a mayfly.

When he learned about the developed technology in later generations, Prince Ran was extremely shocked. The world is so big, and there are so many lands that can be cultivated beyond the Central Plains. It turned out that he lived on a small earth, and outside of it was the wider universe. Prince Ran suddenly discovered that fame and fortune are just an empty thing, and wealth is a dream after all. The only thing worth it is to protect your own country, your own people. Don't seek to leave a name in history, but seek to be worthy of your heart.

As the later generations said, the greater the ability, the greater the responsibility. According to the soul memory of fusion, the Battle of Huayang will break out this year. In the original history, Korea would ask for help from Qin, and Bai Qi led the army to travel hundreds of miles a day, arriving at Huayang after 8 days. The combined forces of Zhao and Wei were defenseless, and the Qin army annihilated 130,000 Wei troops and drowned 20,000 Zhao troops in a battle. After that, he took advantage of the victory to capture Juan County, Caiyang, Changshe of Wei and Guanjin of Zhao State. All of a sudden, the six countries were shocked, and the world was afraid of Qin.

It's just that the prince didn't expect the battle of Huayang to come so quickly, and he didn't have time to prepare.

Thinking of the scene of the collapse of the country and the collapse of the family decades later, the crown prince was heartbroken, and said in his mouth: "Father, the sons and daughters oppose asking for help from the Qin State, and they also oppose making peace with Zhao and Wei!" For a moment, the whole house was shocked.