Chapter 14: The Beginning of the Turmoil

For Yue Wang Xiong's deliberate flattery, Chen Xiao saw it all. If it were normal times, Chen Xiao wouldn't mind playing a good trick on Yue Wang Xiong and preparing for the next bargain.

But time was running out for South Korea, and the country was far more desperate for assistance than he had imagined, and King Xiong was as eager to restore the glory of the country as rumored. Therefore, Chen Xiao did not turn around this time, and directly expressed his intention to form an alliance.

Things are really as Chen Xiao expected, Yue Wang Xiong responded to the conditions in South Korea, for fear that Chen Xiao would be dissatisfied with him and walked away. Because Yue Wang Xiong knows very well that forming an alliance with Yue is a fortunate thing for South Korea and a matter of losing calm, and to put it bluntly, it is dispensable. But for Vietnam, an alliance with South Korea is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity! It is a rare opportunity to be able to join forces with powerful countries! If you miss it, it's hard to have it again!

Since it is determined that he wants an alliance, Yue Wang Xiong naturally has to show his strength and reflect his suffering! The former is because they don't want South Korea to see themselves as an ally that is not worthy of attention, and the latter is to strengthen themselves!

The story of Goujian, which can swallow Wu with 3,000 Yuejia, is naturally true, but it was in the Spring and Autumn Period, in the troubled era of the Warring States, and it was undoubtedly very difficult to balance and contain the Chu State with a mere army of 30,000 or 40,000. After all, not everyone is white, and they can create a great achievement of flooding Yingdu and burning down the tomb!

As Yue Wang Xiong said, there is no shortage of warriors in the Yue country! The soldiers of the Yue Kingdom will take off their battle clothes and stab their upper bodies naked, such as an elephant or a snake or a crocodile or a tiger, and fight for their lives with the enemy! What the country lacks is armor, it is weapons! In order to win the greatest support from South Korea, Yue Wang Xiong even bluntly said that nearly 10,000 of the elite of the Vietnamese army still use sharpened bamboo as spears!

Since South Korea wants to rely on Yue to harass and contain Chu, the reality is that Yue can only scrape together an army of forty or fifty thousand at most. And such a reality will not change decisively in the short term, in such a situation, South Korea must do something to enhance the strength of Vietnam! After all, the country of Vietnam is too weak, and a weak country of Vietnam will not be able to complete the task assigned by South Korea!

King Han had long expected such a request from the National Assembly of Vietnam, and he also explained it before Chen Zheng left. Chen Xiao immediately said to Yue Wang Xiong. The complete set of equipment enough to equip 3,000 people is already on its way to Huiji, and it will arrive in Huiji in two months at the latest! Not only that, in order to show the importance that South Korea attaches to the ally of Vietnam, there are three or four batches of such equipment in the future. In response to the relative scarcity of grain and grass in Vietnam, South Korea's caravans will expand the market to Vietnam! If you want to buy grain and grass, you can use salt to offset the related expenses!

Yue Wang Xiong was naturally grateful, although Chen Xiao hinted that maybe a year or two. Even in three or five months, South Korea will need to stand up with great fanfare to find trouble with Chu. But Yue Wang Xiong didn't care at all! There is a lot of stake! What's more, the main force of the army of Chu is in the Yingdu and Huaisi valleys, and even if the Yue State sends troops, it will be to the Jiangdong and Langya regions. Moreover, when the time comes, South Korea will definitely not sit idly by, and its role is more to make Chu State tired!

So. When Chen Xiao said goodbye, Yue Wang Xiong not only personally went out of the city to send twenty miles. He also vowed to reorganize the military and train non-commissioned officers from now on. As long as King Han gives an order, the 50,000 troops of the Yue Kingdom can be driven by King Han!

Compared with Chen Xiao's smooth affairs in the Yue Kingdom, Zong Zheng Han Ze, who went to the Yan Kingdom to lobby, had a stumbling life. It's not that Yan Guo didn't treat Han Ze politely, but that King Yan couldn't make up his mind to express his position, whether he was unswervingly on the side of South Korea or on the side of Qin, Zhao, Qi, and Chu, who seemed to be mighty!

Of course King Yan knows. It is difficult to send charcoal in the snow, but it is easy to add icing on the cake. Through a series of things, King Yan had vaguely guessed that the four kingdoms of Qin, Zhao, Qi, and Chu were already standing together. Although these four countries have not yet torn their faces with South Korea, there will be a war between the four countries and South Korea sooner or later!

South Korea is compared with the four kingdoms of Qin, Zhao, Qi, and Chu. is obviously at a disadvantage, if Yan Guo supports South Korea at this time, it will undoubtedly be a relief in the snow for South Korea, and this sentiment is by no means ordinary! But the risks are also great!

Although South Korea has won many battles before, it is because every time South Korea is fishing in troubled waters and concentrating on dealing with one country! First it was Qin, then Zhao, and finally Wei. Korea does not have the same geographical advantages as Qin, and King Yan is not sure whether South Korea can hold on under the siege of the four countries in turn! History has proven that two fists are no match for four. For the countries of the Central Plains, the biggest taboo is to be besieged from all sides! Even if the Wei State was so coaxing in the early Warring States period, it couldn't break this prophecy. If South Korea is like this, if you are tied to South Korea again, the city gate will be on fire and the fish in the pond will be affected! Of course, if South Korea blocks this siege, South Korea will be the hegemon of the Central Plains, no, the status of the hegemon of the world! It is conceivable that Yan Guo will inevitably earn the greatest benefits in this melee!

Compared with supporting South Korea, leaning towards the four kingdoms of Qin, Zhao, Qi, and Chu is undoubtedly the icing on the cake! Yan Guo is willing to participate in the siege of Korea, and the four countries are of course grateful, especially Zhao Guo and Qi Guo, who have less worries about themselves and can concentrate on passing through Korea! It is reasonable, no matter who replaces South Korea as the new hegemon, in order to win over Yan Guo, or to paralyze Yan Guo, Yan Guo can share a share of the benefits after the war! It's almost a sure-fire thing! Even if the four kingdoms of Qin, Zhao, Qi, and Chu were unfortunately defeated, it was the four kingdoms of Qin, Zhao, Qi, and Chu who bore the brunt of the defeat, and the impact on the Yan State was really small!

King Yan, who couldn't make up his mind, asked his confidants and ministers to discuss the matter, and the ministers were also arguing fiercely about whether to aid South Korea! Prime Minister Jiang Qu and Ju Xin thought that they should stand on the side of South Korea, the reason is that South Korea is there, and Qi and Zhao are naturally mainly wooing Yan State. If Qin, Zhao, Qi, and Chu are allowed to defeat Korea, or even carve up Korea, then Zhao and Qi will definitely turn the spearhead and take Yan as the next object of annexation! Of course, Yan State does not need to send a whole country to rescue South Korea, it only needs to attack the east and west when South Korea leaks fatigue, and contain Zhao and Qi, so that the five countries of Han, Qin, Zhao, Qi, and Chu can be balanced with each other at the lowest cost!

Zhongda Doctor Libei and Yaqing Rong Worm thought that it was better to unite the four kingdoms of Qin, Zhao, Qi and Chu and go south to attack Korea. First, it can avoid Zhao and Qi from passing through Yan in order to prevent the rear from restless, and second, they can earn a lot of benefits. As for the worries that the powerful Zhao State and the Qi State might turn the spearhead and take the Yan State as the next annexation target, the two of them thought that as long as they dealt with it properly, they could completely meet the two countries between Qi and Zhao!

It was precisely because the ministers were arguing and couldn't come to a unified conclusion that King Yan avoided Zongzheng Han Ze, saying that he was ill, and he went north to Liaodong to inspect the frontier. In a word, out of sight and out of mind. In the end, it was the queen of South Korea, the sister of King Yan, Ji Miao's letter came up with a solution for King Yan that was not a solution, that is, the two countries of Yan did not help each other. In order to show that Yan Guo had no original disputes, King Yan ordered to recruit young men into the army in May, preparing to attack Donghu! As for whether Yan Guo is bluffing or really out of the jam, all countries in the world no longer care! Xinlingjun was only a hundred miles out of Handan, and after hearing the news, he shook his head and broke off his plan to go north to Jicheng! Because Xin Lingjun knew that he would go to Yan Guo to lobby and coerce Yan Guo to make a statement! If he insists on going his own way, he may backfire and force Yan Guo to the side of South Korea!

With the strength of the four kingdoms of Qin, Zhao, Qi, and Chu, as long as there is nothing big about it, Xinlingjun believes that the restoration of Wei will be this year! Of course, in order to restore the country, the benefits promised by Xinling Jun are not too many! It's just that this qiē is worth it!

Xin Lingjun ordered the coachman to turn his horse's head around and drive in the direction of Taiyuan County, where he was to turn around and go to the Qin State! Because, the four kingdoms of Qin, Zhao, Qi, and Chu invaded Korea, and the most subtle attitude was the Qin State! The one who hates Korea the most is the Qin State! The most likely bad thing is also the Qin State! Xinlingjun will never allow himself to run around all winter and spring, and his big plan is stillborn!

Half a month later, Xianyang, time entered midsummer.

It has been more than a year since King Qin ascended the throne, and the nobles who originally thought that the young King Qin could bully found that with the help of Prime Minister Wei Ran and Wu Anjun Bai Qi, King Qin had already mastered the power of Qin! These people have no other way out than to accept King Qin's orders with peace of mind. Those who dared to disobey the orders of the King of Qin, disobeyed the orders of the King of Qin, and even perverted the law for bribes, all used their bloody heads to sue the world, and the authority of the King of Qin is unquestionable!

Of course, the nobles were unwilling, and even felt that King Qin was too cold-blooded and murderous, and they were more or less incomprehensible to Wei Ran and Bai Qi for King Qin! But if they don't understand, they quickly straightened out their roles well and began to do things in the period of King Qin Zhao step by step!

The past year has been a bit more difficult for the Qin State Committee, and the Qin State has desperately used troops in Luoyang, and used the country's men when the farm was busy, but the harvest was a fiasco! The land is the least deceiving, and there is as much effort as there is a harvest! In the summer and autumn of last year, the land that lacked green and strong food produced very little food. There are many families who have not survived the past winter, and there are many families who have barely survived, but the food reserves at home have bottomed out! Finally, in the summer, there are more wild vegetables and wild fruits! Many farmers are looking forward to recuperating for a year and taking a good breath, but at this time, a rumor stirred up the storm in Guanzhong! King Qin is going to use troops! (To be continued......)

PS: First update!