Chapter 60: The Visitor Yan Kingdom
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The shape of the Warring States is either the west wind overpowering the east wind, or the east wind overpowering the west wind. The so-called west wind generally refers to the Qin State. Since the Shang Dynasty changed the law, this country has defeated countless ambitious countries with its great military exploits. Countless countries succumbed to the obscenity of the Qin State, but whenever the Qin State sent troops to Hanguguan, it would not make all the countries in the world tremble! The battles of beheading tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, at every turn, gave all countries the illusion that it was difficult to match the Qin State!
The state of Chu is powerful enough, an army of one million destroyed more than a dozen countries, but it was annihilated by the 50,000 army of the Qin State and 350,000 people, Yingdu was flooded, Yiling was burned, and the state of Chu was terrified!
The State of Qi is powerful enough, when it is strong, it is listed as the emperor along with the State of Qin. As a result, Qi was not greedy enough to swallow elephants, Qin and Yan entangled the three kingdoms of Zhao, Han and Wei, and the five kingdoms attacked Qi, defeating the main force of Qi in Jishui, and the army of Yan then drove straight into and conquered Linzi. The hegemony of Qi will be ruined!
Zhao Guo is powerful enough, Wen Youping Jun, Lin Xiang, Wu Youlian Po and other highly respected generals, but they were also beaten by Qin and begged for mercy, King Zhao personally went to the border to meet the alliance, and even prepared to die to pass on the crown prince! How could such a country be comparable to the Qin State?!
As for the Wei State, there are no Ming monarchs like Wenhou and Wuhou, famous generals like Wu Qi and Le Yang, and virtuous ministers like Zhai Huang and Li Kui, so it is no longer a matter of worry. There is only one city left in the Wei Kingdom, and the King of Wei even reduced the throne by himself, which is proof.
Among the seven kingdoms in the world, the Qin State sits on the solid land of Cuihan, the land of Yongzhou, with thousands of miles of fertile fields and the best geographical location. Qi is close to the sea on three sides, and it can be attacked and defended. Sitting on the benefits of fishing and salt, the products are abundant, and the economic strength is the strongest. The country of Chu is rich in land and resources, such as the behemoth entrenched in the south, the most worry-free, but where there are wise monarchs and virtuous ministers. Who in the world dares to underestimate it?
Compared with these three kingdoms, the geographical location of Han, Zhao, Wei, and Yan is too poor, Han and Wei are trapped in the Central Plains, and Yan and Zhao are trapped in the Saiwai Hu tribe.
Perhaps realizing this, the monarchs and ministers of the Yan Kingdom have been carefully managing their own territory, and have never shown half of the wild king of the Central Plains territory! Even the most famous King Yan Zhao in the history of Yan Kingdom. The original ideal was nothing more than to avenge the previous king! If the Qi State hadn't deceived people too much and almost destroyed the Yan Kingdom, maybe King Yan Zhao would have been conservative and ignore the disputes in the Central Plains.
Yan Guo is too aware of the sinister nature of intervening in the Central Plains, and he is also more aware of his own strength! With only 300,000 troops on his side, it is naturally easy to resist Donghu in the north, but it may be careless to be distracted from entering the Central Plains, where there are 200,000 or 300,000 troops participating in every battle. will die and the country will be destroyed!
Therefore, when the four states of Qin, Zhao, Qi, and Chu decided to jointly crusade against Korea. When Yan Guo was invited to join, Yan Guo refused with his actions. When South Korea tried to win over Yan Guo, South Korea also refused! The verbal refusal obviously could not satisfy all the countries in the world, so the young King Yan personally led the elite army of 200,000 to the border. Take advantage of this to avoid suspicion!
Yan Guo knows very well that today's South Korea has a greater momentum than the original Qin State! The four countries gathered a million troops to attack South Korea, and South Korea could also make up a million troops as long as they gathered the soldiers and horses of the whole country. -for-tat, of course, this is the next policy. The middle strategy is to win over and divide the four countries of Qin, Zhao, Qi, and Chu, as long as any country can be turned from an enemy into an ally, South Korea will face the remaining two countries alone, and the chances of winning are very high. As for the best policy, Yan Guo thought that instead of expecting one country to renegade the alliance of the four countries, it was better to resolutely defeat one country, no matter which country was conquered, the other three were enough to be so frightened that they hesitated to retreat!
Yan is hundreds of miles away from the Central Plains, meddling in the war in the Central Plains, and forming an alliance with the four countries of Qin, Zhao, Qi, and Chu, all they get is an enclave! It is gratifying to form an alliance with South Korea and succeed, but it is more likely that Yan was beaten miserably by Qi and Zhao before the start of the war.
Therefore, Yan Guo will show such a complicated mind, the two will not help each other, and when the victory and defeat of the two sides are about to be divided, he will press his own chips! This is not only a huge profit, but also without any risk.
Who can say who will win and who will lose this time? Just like ten years ago, no one would have thought that ten years later, South Korea would destroy the Wei State, so strong that the world would be afraid of it, and then attack it en masse!
Emotionally speaking, King Yan hopes that both sides will lose and lose, so that Yan will have the opportunity to try to enter the Central Plains. If you have to split a winner or loser, Yanwang prefers to win South Korea. This is not to say that compared with the queen who was born as a princess of Zhao Kingdom, King Yan prefers the sister-in-law who is now the queen of Korea, but simply from the perspective of geopolitics.
Yan is adjacent to Zhao and Qi, but has no border with South Korea. In addition to Donghu in the north, which is a big trouble since the Yan State, whether it is the strong Qi State or the Zhao State is strong, the Yan State is worried about the attack from the north and the south, and has to look at the eyes of the neighboring countries. South Korea is different, separated by thousands of miles, no matter how strong South Korea is, for Yan State, there are also Zhao State and Qi State in the way, right? !
Another point is the credibility of the country. At least since Han Ran ascended the throne, South Korea is known for its faithfulness, and South Korea has never taken the initiative to tear up the alliance! When the Three Jin Dynasty formed an alliance to attack Qin, Korea was the most active. South Korea destroyed Wei only because Wei privately colluded with Qin, and Zhao also agreed to this. South Korea's attack on Zhao is also because Zhao Guo even Qin turned his back on South Korea, and every time South Korea uses troops, it is famous and moral!
It's just that, because of the relationship between geographical location and national strength, Yan can only stand by for the time being, and let the five countries fall apart in the Central Plains! But this does not mean that Yan Guo does not care about the war in the Central Plains, no matter who wins, it means that the world is facing a new reshuffle, if Yan Guo wants to be alone, if he wants to get a piece of the pie, he needs to follow the footsteps of the winner.
Zhao sent troops to Hanoi, Qi sent troops to Dangjun, Chu used troops to Runan, and Qin tried to Hedong, these things were all expected by Yan, after all, Qin, Zhao, Qi, and Chu invaded South Korea this time, and the banner was to recover Wei, although the "King of Wei" who was far away in Anling had not squeaked, but obviously, Qin, Zhao, Qi, and Chu were favored by Xinling Jun.
The places where the four countries used their troops can all point to the heartland of South Korea, the new capital Luoyang. If Zhao Guo takes Hanoi, Zhao Guotieqi is only separated from Luoyang by a distance between a little water and a river. If the state of Chu takes Runan, the old capital of Xinzheng will be under the front of the army of the state of Chu. Compared with these two, the Qi State attacked Dangjun, and it seems that it was the one who wholeheartedly helped the Wei State to restore the country. The Qin State attacked Hedong, and then plotted against Sanchuan, which is more like taking advantage and then selling it!
In this good drama of the million-strong army of the four countries attacking South Korea, Yan Guo guessed the beginning correctly, but did not guess the process correctly. First of all, the 200,000 army of Zhao State was actually trapped in a small Chaoge, Qi State's lack of effort made Yan Guo feel funny, and Chu State's heart was more than enough and insufficient strength made Yan State very sarcastic, only Qin State, Bai Qi once again composed his own myth, and used a little trick to cross the river defense line that was relied on by the Han army as a moat, and captured most of Hedong County.
Yan Guo, like a person watching a play, carefully observed the performances of the five kingdoms of Qin, Zhao, Qi, Chu, and Han. In the first section of the play, Qin Guo is undoubtedly the most brilliant. No one knows better than Yan Guo, a bystander, what the loss of half of Hedong means to South Korea, which means that as long as Qin State works harder, whether it is Hangu Pass or Sanchuan County, they are all under the front of Qin's army, if Zhao, Qi, and Chu Danfan play normally and cause a lot of pressure on South Korea, perhaps, after the end of this festival, South Korea will stage a drama of negotiation and separation.
South Korea's best defensive general, Meng Wei, led an army of 100,000 to defend the song and block the 200,000 Zhao army led by Lian Po, although it was a bit unexpected (more because South Korea knew so well about the strength of the Zhao army, 100,000 is no more and no less, just enough to make the defending side at ease), but it can also be accepted.
Although the state of Chu was blocked by Yingshui, it also tried its best, and it must take a while for Jingyang, the main general of the state of Chu, to find out the flaws of the Han army and attack Runan.
The only thing that surprised Yan Guo was Qi Guo's appearance, it was obvious that if Qi Guo had this attitude, South Korea would completely put the Qi army aside. Of course, this is a joke, who knows if Qi is waiting for South Korea to draw troops, and after South Korea is empty in Dangjun, it will suddenly attack! Yan Guo thought that if he was Korea, the best way was to take a rigid defense in Hedong and delay the offensive of the Qin army. The Qi State is co-opted, and the Chu State is a head-on attack. As for the Zhao State, it is enough to continue to consume the strength of the Zhao army.
This drama has been going on for enough time, and South Korea has judged the attitude of various countries, that is, Qi is the most selfish and the least proactive; Qin, Zhao, Qi, and the Three Kingdoms are very attentive. For South Korea, the only variable is afraid that it is in Hedong, which is the speculation of the monarchs and ministers of Yan State.
It's just that in the next second play, South Korea, as the starring role, broke the speculation of Yan Guojunchen in another way and played the role.
The Yue State, which had disappeared for decades, suddenly sent troops to Jiujiang County, cutting off the connection between the Yingdu of Chu and the Huaisi Valley, and the Chu State was forced to divide its troops to rescue Jiujiang! Zhao Guo divided 100,000 troops to attack the party, but was blocked by the expected Korean army! South Korea added a large army to Hedong, making it clear that it would not give up Hedong.
The monarchs and ministers of the Yan State had to admire the thoughtfulness of South Korea, there is no doubt that the 50,000 troops of the Yue State were instigated by the South Korea at this moment, and the 50,000 brave Yue troops alone were enough for the Chu State to be busy for a while! Although Zhao Guo's strategy of attacking the east and the west is clever, it is obvious that South Korea's control of intelligence or the situation is unparalleled in the world! (To be continued......)