Chapter 249: Carrots and Sticks
[Luminous Bao Hai] - platinum ware, wearing effect: charm I didn't expect this little hairpin to be a white gold ware, in addition to the basic surname, but also add a little charm.
Holding this hairpin, Qin Wu immediately thought of Zhao Ji in Yecheng, and there was no doubt that King Zhao gave him this treasure, and he must have thought of Zhao Ji.
Give yourself a gift, and finally benefit Zhao Ji, such a gift, Qin Wu has to bear more than one favor here, and it will not enhance Qin Wu's strength. King Zhao gave this gift, obviously he also considered it.
"Lord Qin Wu, I don't know what you think of the current battle situation in the party?"
After Qin Wu's subordinates gave the gift, the envoy smiled lightly, and then asked the topic.
"Opinion...... Qin and Zhao, if they pull an army out at will, they will be overwhelming hundreds of thousands of people, and Qin's entire family is only tens of thousands of people, so this is still borrowed, and it must be returned to Qin with interest in the future. Qin and Zhao are in the battle between the Shangdang, what can I think of a small person? ”
Qin Wu laughed and said.
The envoy's face changed, as Qin Wu said, now he is indeed just a small person who takes advantage of the situation in front of various countries, but Qin Wu's tens of thousands of people are stationed in Shangdang, a land that is very critical to Qin and Zhao. Moreover, the armies of Qin and Zhao are almost the same, and Zhao is still at a slight disadvantage, so the benefits of Qin Wu's tens of thousands of people will be revealed.
If the Qin State won Qin Wu, then the advantage was undoubtedly greater, and the Zhao State won Qin Wu, which saved the current disadvantage.
It stands to reason that Qin Wu betrayed the Qin State with the army, which should be unforgivable, and was chased and killed by the Qin State in the cold reception, and it was easy to be won over by the Zhao State. But he didn't expect that Qin Wu overturned the case in just a few days, and changed from a thief to a grandiose borrower.
Many civil and military officials of the Qin State despised Qin Wu's behavior, but Qin Wu made people feel that he maintained a little relationship with the Qin army. This is the problem that causes Zhao Jun to be in the party.
"Hehe, Lord Qin said with a smile, you created a force on your own at a young age, you can be a general under your account, you can be a military advisor, and you have tens of thousands of elite soldiers, you will definitely show your strength and become famous in the world in the future, if you are a small person, then there will be no big man in this world."
The envoy of Zhao State said with a smile.
"I wonder what Lord Qin's plans are for the future?"
Seeing that Qin Wu was just smiling, he didn't mean to take the topic at all, and the envoy of Zhao had to bite the bullet and continue to ask.
"To live, of course."
Qin Wudao.
The envoy of Zhao State rolled his eyes, isn't this nonsense, everyone wants to live, is it difficult that your future plan is just to live, so what are you doing betraying the Qin State, wouldn't it be better to take a dip under the big tree!?
"I know what you mean, go back and tell the people who sent you, don't beat my idea, let me live safely, I won't fight their idea."
With a faint smile, he looked at the embarrassed envoy of the Zhao State, Qin Wudao.
Seeing that the task was completed, the envoy of Zhao State said a few more polite words to Qin Wu, and then said goodbye to Qin Wu.
It didn't take long for the envoy of the Qin State to also run over and give Qin Wu a set of platinum armor. The envoy of the State of Qin did not ask about Qin Wu's position as tactfully as the envoy of the State of Zhao, but bluntly asked to reach an alliance with Qin Wu and attack the Zhao army of the Shangdang together.
The reward was that as long as the Zhao army of Shangdang was defeated, the Qin State would not require Qin Wu to repay the 25,000 Qin soldiers he had borrowed, and at the same time reward Qin Wu as the lord of Yecheng. If he refused, Qin would immediately send a large army to recover the 25,000 troops borrowed by Qin Wu, and at the same time capture the wild city occupied by Qin Wu.
If Zhao Guo, who is not very familiar with the situation, is only testing Qin Wu in Huairou at present, then Qin Guo has sacrificed a tried-and-true carrot and stick policy.
Standing back on the big ship of Qin, Qin will choose to forget Qin Wu's "borrowing" of soldiers, and at the same time make Qin Wu the lord of Yecheng, the purpose is to limit Qin Wu's ambitions, and at the same time let Qin Wu resist the attacks of various princes in the east for Qin.
In this way, on the surface, it seems that Qin Guo generously tolerated Qin Wu, and at the same time named Qin Wu a noble city lord, but in fact, Qin Wu became the gatekeeper invited by Qin State, and if the vassal states in the east want to unite to attack Qin State, they must first kill Qin Wu who is blocking the road that must be passed.
And if Qin Wu does not agree to the alliance, then Qin can justifiably send troops to destroy Qin Wu, a potential threat. With the matter of "borrowing troops", the whole Qin State has seen the ambition of the most powerful person in this god-given person, whether it is to wash away the shame or to remove a possible hostile force, the Qin State will choose to attack Yecheng when Qin Wu has not yet developed.
"I'm sorry, you go back and reply to King Qin, saying that Qin doesn't have the strength to form an alliance with Qin."
For the envoy of the Qin State, Qin Wu shook his head and refused.
"General Qin, you'd better think about the consequences of rejecting the alliance."
Exempt from responsibility and reward the city lord I don t know why such a good condition qin wu didn t agree to it a trace of anger flashed in the eyes of the envoy of the qin state and threatened.
"I've thought about it very clearly, sending off guests."
With a wave of his hand, without even looking at the envoy of the Qin State, Qin Wu left.
"My lord, you rejected the proposal of the Qin Alliance this time, and we may soon face a big war."
After the envoy of the Qin State left in a bad mood, Feng Zheng approached.
"Choosing this path, I'm ready to fight non-stop. Qin Guo, if you want to capture Yecheng and take back the 25,000 Qin soldiers from me, you also want to see if he can show so much strength. ”
Looking at the back of the envoy of the Qin State in the distance, Qin Wu couldn't help but show a smile on his face.
Let the storm come harder!
A few days later, the army of Qin who came to recover the Qin soldiers really came, and its main general was not anyone else, but a person who was in the same era as Qin Wusheng, who made him very jealous - Meng Tian, and Meng Tian's brother, Meng Yi, a B-level historical general, accompanied by the army.
Meng Tian was born in a family of famous generals for generations, deeply influenced by the family environment, and has great ambitions since childhood, determined to charge into battle and serve the country. He was gifted and intelligent, familiar with military books, and gradually cultivated a high military literacy.
He once captured Linzi, the capital of Qi, and served as the supreme governor of Xianyang, and in the battle of Qin's annihilation of the Six Kingdoms, he had attacked Han, captured Zhao, and took the city of Wei, and made great achievements for the unification of Qin. After Qin unified the Six Kingdoms, Meng Tian led Qin's 300,000 troops to attack the Xiongnu in the north and recovered a large amount of lost territory.
Later, it built the Lintao of Longxi in the west, and the Great Wall of Liaodong in the east, connecting the Great Wall of Yuanyan, Zhao and Qin as a whole, using the terrain and taking advantage of the natural danger to set up fortresses, which effectively curbed the southward advance of the Xiongnu.
Meng Tian can fight well, his younger brother Meng Yi is good at strategy, in Xianyang, Qin State, Meng Tian and Meng Yi are known as "faithful", and other generals dare not compete with them for favor, which shows the strength of this pair of brothers.
However, Qin Wu also has a pair of brothers, that is Feng Quji, who is good at government affairs, and Feng Zheng, who is good at fighting, plus the existence of Zhao Ji, Qin Wu may not be afraid of Meng Tian.
"General Qin, Meng Mou was ordered by Duke Mu to come and recover the 25,000 Qin soldiers that General Qin borrowed some time ago."
The black army marched to the outside of Yecheng City, and Meng Tian rushed close on his own and shouted at Qin Wu at the head of the city.
"The loan period is one year, and now it's only a month, how can there be a reason to come and collect troops at this time."
At the head of the city, Qin Wu replied with a cold smile.
"No matter what the reason, Meng is only responsible for collecting troops, if General Qin is unwilling to hand it over, don't blame Zaixia for offending."
Meng Tian replied with no weakness.
Qin Wu was too lazy to reply to Meng Tian, the soldiers came to block, and the water came to cover the earth, he Qin Wu had never been afraid of fighting, not to mention that he was now fighting a defensive battle, and he could exchange a large number of casualties from the enemy with extremely low losses.
At the sound of an order, Meng Tian began to lead the army to attack the city, because this time he brought 60,000 people, so Meng Tian set up a large attack base outside the west gate of the wild city, and then ordered the Qin soldiers to push the ladder to rush up to attack the city.
The advantage of a large stronghold is that everyone can see it, and in order to make up a large-scale attack base, Qin Wu also considered that the large-scale expansion of the army that had to be stopped would reduce the morale of his own army, and forcibly expanded the number of Wu troops to 55,000 people.
Meng Tianru couldn't have imagined that just ten days ago, there were only more than 30,000 people under Qin Wu's command, and now the number is as high as 55,000.
After paying thousands of casualties, Qin soldiers finally landed at the top of the city, but the Qin soldiers who climbed to the top of the city could not stand on it at all, and were soon either killed at the head of the city or thrown off the city.
After a series of arrows rained down, Meng Tian was surprised to find that there was also a large stronghold in Yecheng, and it was also a large defensive stronghold, otherwise the enemy casualties on the city would not be so low.
"The army has been expanded to more than 50,000 people in such a short period of time, and I guess I want to make up the share of a large stronghold by numbers. But then most of your men are new recruits, and it's up to you who wins the battle! ”
There were more than 50,000 defenders in Yecheng, Meng Tian was not only not frightened, but his eyes flashed with a cold light, and he ordered to strengthen the attack.
"Big brother, most of the people in Yecheng are new recruits, as long as these people have experienced the battlefield and survived, their combat effectiveness will be greatly improved. At present, it is best for us to keep attacking, not to let the enemy in the city have time to rest, and not to let Qin Wu have a chance to continue recruiting troops. Reducing the enemy to less than 50,000 men, we will win half the battle! ”
Meng Yi said.
Meng Tian and Meng Yi reached an agreement and strengthened the attack, only to see the dense Qin soldiers outside the city ascending the ladders to the top of the city, and then engaged in a fierce battle with the soldiers on the head of the city.
Although the military took advantage of defending the city, and also enjoyed the benefits of the large defensive strongholds in the city and the small strongholds that were found everywhere in the city, the weakness of the newly trained army, which was inferior to the fierce Qin soldiers, was exposed.
Even with all the advantages, the warriors killed and wounded a large number of enemies at the same time paid a considerable price themselves.
(To be continued)