Chapter 267: Seeing the Dragon Unloading the Armor (2)

Xiang Yu didn't guess wrong, Han Xin didn't plan to surprise Pengcheng. On the one hand, because of the continuous month of war, the consumption of grain, grass and strategic materials in the Qin State was extremely serious, and it was on the verge of exhaustion; On the other hand, and the main reason, Han Xin did not want to take any more dangerous moves, but switched to a more prudent strategy.

Most of the tactics used are used when the troops are at a disadvantage. When your own power is inferior to the other party, you can only rely on the strategy of the generals to narrow the gap between each other and increase your own chances of victory.

But all schemes are based on chance, betting that the opposing commander will not be able to guess your mind, appear from the most unlikely place, attack from the most unlikely opponent, and take the opponent by surprise.

Therefore, the achievement of a famous player's brilliant record generally depends on two factors, either he is too clever, or the opponent is too stupid, Yang may have both.

The real celebrity duel, on the contrary, will be cautious, step by step, block any opportunity to drill the vacancy for the other party, and there are very few tricks. For example, the battle of Qin and Zhao Changping lasted for half a year, and Lian Po and Bai Qi attacked and defended each other, but neither of them achieved a decisive victory. When Fan Sui used a counter-strategy to induce King Zhao Xiaocheng to replace Lian Po with Zhao Kuo, Bai Qicai fought with all his might, and the surprise soldiers cut off the Zhao army, thus annihilating him in one fell swoop.

If you talk about the two most dazzling generals in the world today, they are undoubtedly Han Xin and Xiang Yu, and the others are much worse than them. Both of them make good use of strange soldiers and are easy to control the hearts of the army. The difference is that Xiang Yu became famous more by attacking fiercely, and suddenly launched a decisive offensive when the opponent suddenly had to do so. Zhang Han in the Battle of Julu and Liu Bang in the Battle of Pengcheng were both broken by Xiang Yu in one fell swoop under the condition of absolute superiority. Han Xin relied more on conspiracy, falsehood, truth and falsehood, so that the opponent could only really launch an attack when he misjudged his intentions.

The two have different styles, but they are both famous generals. Now Han Xin has swept Hebei and Qidi, and has won five out of seven points in the world, occupying Qin, Zhao, Qi, Yan and Han Wei, and has achieved an absolute advantage in the general trend. On the other hand, Xiang Yu, although the Central Plains war had the upper hand, it did not achieve a decisive victory, and now it is under the enemy's back, and its momentum is not as good as before.

The more he had the advantage, the more cautious Han Xin became. Like him, Xiang Yu is also a person who is good at creating miracles, and if he is not careful, he will grasp the fighter, and all those who despise him have already paid a heavy price for it. Now that the Qin State is already in an advantageous position, it is not in a hurry to achieve it overnight, and it is the best strategy to be more prudent to suppress people with momentum.

It was based on Han Xin's mind that Xiang Yu's main army was able to calmly withdraw from the Central Plains, and the 260,000 elite Chu troops retreated to the east of Yingshui one after another, abandoning Hanoi County and Yingchuan County, which had been caught in a two-sided attack, and the main force retreated into Nanyang, Chen County, and Dang County, with their backs to Pengcheng for self-protection. Wang Jing led the army out of the city and followed, gradually taking over the two counties.

Good news came one after another, Xianyang has been filled with the cheers of the Qin people in the past few months, and every day there will be countless Qin people waiting outside the east city gate, waiting for the heralds who come to report the victory.

Whenever a great victory came, Ying Ke would order the curfew to be lifted, and the city gates would not be closed, allowing the Qin people to revel. After taking over the twenty-two counties of the Central Plains of Hebei, the trend of Qin to reunify the world became more and more obvious. In order to commend Han Xin's merits, King Yingyi of Qin specially issued an edict, repeated the Zhou system, crowned Han Xin as the prince of the country, and took Sanchuan County and one county as his fief, and the honor guards were all the same as the Son of Heaven.

The Zhou Dynasty had a five-class knighthood system, that is, duke, marquis, uncle, son, male, and the descendants followed each other, and most of them used "duke" as the highest title below "king". The title of the duke is above the marquis, and there is no difference between the princes, you must know that the famous Spring and Autumn Five tyrants such as the Duke of Qi Huan and the Duke of Wen of Jin are just the titles of the dukes, and the monarchs of the three kingdoms of Han, Wei and Zhao in the earliest Warring States period are only marquises. In order to reward Han Xin, the Qin State did not hesitate to break the 24th-class military merit title system that had been established by Shang Ying for more than 16 years, and imitated the ancient system to crown him as the Duke of the Kingdom.

At this time, the discerning people in the world have already seen that this is just to build momentum before Han Xin ascends the throne.

Sure enough. In March of the second year of the first peace, the comet was seen three times, and the pale gas from the northwest of Xianyang was three ways, twenty zhang long, and tended to disperse to the east. On the morning of the second day, there was a doctor Zheng Lun on the table said that the natural vision, is a sign of the old for the new, the Ying family has been established for more than 700 years, to Huhai slaughtered the clan, fratricidal, and now the number of qi has been exhausted, and the king is just a side branch bloodline. It is better to follow Yao Shun, respond to the mandate of heaven, and Zen is located in General Han Xin, in order to calm the world.

As soon as these words came out, the court was in an uproar, and all the ministers speculated whether this was done at the behest of Han Xin. Only Win Ke knew that the old man was taking the opportunity to use it to invite merit, so he returned his recital and ordered Yu Lin to arrest him and put him in prison.

But Ying Ke's actions were misinterpreted by the ministers as her deliberately making a gesture of concession by Han Xin. So on the second day, more than 200 officials of more than 500 stone wrote to the Son of Heaven to follow Yao Shun and give up the throne to Han Xin.

Although less than half of the officials participated in the letter, they occupied the positions of directors of various core and important departments of the Qin State, but the old clans such as Meng Xibai, led by Prime Minister Sun Hong and Imperial Historian Bai Pang, remained silent, neither supporting nor opposing, which was equivalent to acquiescing to Han Xin's usurpation of the monarchy.

What's more, if almost all the main forces of the Qin State were established by the army, and more than eighty percent of the generals were in the border areas, and only obeyed the orders of Han Xin, if the imperial court in Xianyang wanted to mobilize these border troops, it would only need to be approved by the generals before issuing orders. Although the old clans of the Qin State were slightly dissatisfied with Han Xin's replacement of the Ying clan, they also knew that this was the trend of the times, and it was not something they could stop it, so fortunately they did not say a word.

Winning can see the surging emotions of the crowd, fearing that the resignation will hurt the hearts of the ministers who support Han Xin, so he issued an edict to recall Han Xin and discuss it after returning to Xianyang.

After receiving the edict, Han Xin, who was in Linzi, was afraid that Xianyang would change, so he made Meng Shi the commander, and temporarily took the position of general to lead the soldiers and horses of Qidi, supplemented by Zhang Er and Xiao He. He himself took 3,000 light horsemen all the way to the west, and returned to Guanzhong by the Central Plains.

After Wang Jing, who was stationed in Xingyang, heard the news, he immediately joined Zhao Wuji and more than 40 other generals and lieutenants in the army to write to Xianyang to seconded the matter of Chan concession, and he himself entrusted the army to Zhao Wuji and Zhang Liang, and personally led hundreds of light cavalry to make peace with Han Xin, and returned to Xianyang together to calm the situation.

At the same time, more than 100 generals and lieutenants from Hebei and Beidi, including Qidi and Bashu, wrote letters one after another to show their support. The unanimous attitude of the Qin army did not surprise most people, and this army, which had been loyal to the Win clan for more than 700 years, finally chose to abandon their former masters.

The reason why Wang Jing insisted on accompanying Han Xin back to Xianyang was because in addition to his military position, he was also the head of the Wang family of the Guanzhong clan. The Wang family is different from the short-lived Meng family, who entered Qin as an official during the reign of King Zhaoxiang of Qin, and has taken root in Guanzhong for more than a hundred years, and has long been integrated into the blood of the old Qin people. The Wang family has produced four generals and generals, protégés and former officials all over the government and the opposition and the army, and now most of the patriarchs and elders of various ethnic groups have been promoted by Wang Jian and Wang Ben.

On March 18 of the second year of Chuping, General Han Xin, who had been on the expedition for nearly half a year, finally returned to Xianyang. After getting the news, the princess of the prison country Yingke cooperated with the young Qin Wang Yingyi, and led nearly 1,000 officials of all sizes led by Prime Minister Sun Hong out of the city for fifty miles to greet Han Xin on the ba. The Qin people of Xianyang spontaneously followed, and gathered more than 300,000 people, Gongsun Hong had no choice but to ask for Winke, and asked her to order the Xianyang City Guards to maintain order and prevent someone from crashing into the frame of the King of Qin.

When the banner of Yulin appeared on the horizon, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians all bowed down in unison, chanting long live, and the cry spread through the sky. Yingyi, who was drowsy in the carriage, was so frightened by this sudden loud noise that he woke up and cried on the spot.

Han Xin saw that the scene was chaotic and fearing that something would happen, so he just hurriedly smiled and waved to the Qin people who supported him, and after seeing King Qin Yingyi again, he hurried back to the city with Ying Ke and others.

In the next three days, Han Xin convened a group of ministers to discuss, and visited the old Qin families separately. The voices of support from the DPRK and China are still coming and going, and the seconding documents of the border generals are endless, and they are constantly being sent to the court and piled up.

The strong support of the military and the unanimous support of the courtiers, coupled with the huge support of the people at the same time, Han Xin thought twice and finally agreed to accept the concession.

On March 25, King Yingyi of Qin issued an edict of Zen Rang, which said: The year of the widow is weak, that is, the throne of the king of Qin, and he reigns for two years. Before the rebels rose up, the world responded, and the nine summers were boiling, and the lives were devastated. The world was overturned, but fortunately, thanks to the spirit of the ancestors, it was resurrected. However, looking up at astronomy and looking down on the hearts of the people, the number of Yan Jing is over, and the luck depends on the Han family. General Han Xin, Rui Shengzitian, Yinghua is the only show, criminal law and etiquette are the same, and Wende and martial arts are far away. Love all things as yourself, Ren Zhaoshu is worried. Hand luck Ji Heng, bow to the soldiers, Yi Yi treacherous palace, brush the atmosphere Kun, turn through the crown belt, and shock the secluded. Yu Shun's great achievements are twenty, which is not enough, and Ji Fa's combination is three or five, how can it be sufficient. It is the achievements of the previous king who has established a martial arts, and now the king is bright and bright to respond to his period, which is a clear number of times, and the letter can be known. The trip to Fu Avenue is for the public, and the selection of talents and abilities is selected, so Tang Yao is not selfish, but famous in infinity. The widow is envious and admired, and now it is chasing Yaodian, and Zen is located in Han Gong.

Because the Qin State had unified most of the world at this time, and the territory was far from being comparable to the Qin State, Han Xin listened to the opinions of the ministers, and instead of being the king, he ascended the throne and became the emperor. Yingyi was retained as the king, relocated to King Yong, with Yongcheng as the capital, and enshrined in the Ying Temple.

Feng Ying can be the queen, and the prince Han Che is the crown prince, and the son is the crown prince. All civil and military officials were knighted, Wang Jingbai was a general, Li Zuoche was moved to a national lieutenant, and Zhao Wuji, Meng Shi, and Wang Qi were all awarded the title of general.

At this point, the Han clan replaced the Ying clan and officially ascended to the supreme position of the Qin State.