Chapter 306: Retreat
Qin Wu swept the world with his military army, suddenly occupied the entire territory of Korea, and had a stable territory, but he was not very used to it.
In order not to cause contradictions between the military and the people, Qin Wu once again emphasized the constraints on the relationship between the military and the people in the martial arts. With the supervision system led by the former Korean general, the problem should not be very big.
After everything stabilized, Qin Wu began to analyze the current situation.
The land of present-day Korea is bordered by Wei to the north, Chu to the south, Qin to the west, and Zheng to the east.
Since the Qin State in the west fought with the anti-Qin alliance, it began to recuperate and restrict the dispatch of troops on the grounds that the damage was too great.
However, Qin Wu knew that these were all coaxing, in that big battle, the loss of troops by the Qin State was not large, and at the critical moment, the countries of the anti-Qin alliance all transferred their troops back to guard against Qin Wu's martial army, Qin Mugong now just wants to sit and watch the melee between several vassal states, and wait until the dust settles, and then jump out to pick up the bargain.
Qin State, need to be vigilant.
In the southern state of Chu, Qin Wu captured its marshals and generals, killed nearly 300,000 Chu soldiers, and occupied the land of Korea, one of the vassal states of Chu.
Zheng State to the east, a vassal state of Chu, enemy.
Wei in the north, once a member of the anti-Qin alliance, he once repelled the Wei army that invaded Korea, in the middle of the war between Qin and the anti-Qin alliance, Qin Wu led the Wu army to wreak havoc in the territory of Wei, the relationship between Qin Wu and Wei can be said to be in addition to hostility, there is no friendly point, at the critical moment, Wei will definitely not rescue, maybe it will fall into the ground.
Surrounded by enemies on all sides!
After analyzing it like this for a while, Qin Wu found that coming to South Korea might be a wrong choice.
In the Spring and Autumn Period, if the State of Chu decided to give up the land of Korea and divide it equally among the four countries that successively Korea, then Qin Wu would definitely be invincible with two fists and four hands.
With just such a move, the State of Chu was able to defeat Qin Wu.
And the best option is to ally with the Qin State and fight against the other vassal states together. It stands to reason that Qin Wu is a native of the Qin State and should be inclined to ally with the Qin State. But it is precisely because Qin Wu is a native of Qin that he knows the surname of Qin people very well.
The state of Qin was a country with very strong aggressive and expansionist surnames and exclusive surnames. This exclusive surname does not mean the exclusion of talents from other countries, but the exclusion of other vassal states, which is why so many vassal states participate in the anti-Qin alliance.
Qin is a country of tigers and wolves, and it is okay to cooperate for a while, but if you want to cooperate for a long time, it will not work. What's more, the Qin State is full of talents, once the fight here is almost the same, let the Qin State come out to pick up the cheap, then the situation will be dangerous.
Therefore, Korea is not suitable for the establishment of Qin Wu.
After understanding this, Qin Wu began to think about where it was suitable for him to establish a country.
After a little thought, the answer becomes clear.
Avoiding the wolf Qin State in the northwest, the Tiger Chu State in the south, and the Eagle Zhao State in the north, there is only the Sea Snake Qi State in the east, which is suitable for Qin Wu to establish a country.
At this time, the historical plot of Yan's attack on Qi was encountered, Qi's national strength was unprecedentedly weak, and Zhao needed to deal with Zhongshan's attack, Chu, Wei, and Qin needed to recuperate, and no one came to interfere with Qin Wu's actions at all, which was indeed a good time.
After clarifying the goal, Qin Wu began to act.
The first is to collect battle intelligence between Zhao and Zhongshan, Yan and Qi.
The second is to step up the search for Korea's talents and resources and other wealth, and concentrate them, and when the time for preparation comes, they will rush to the battlefield of Qi with the army.
It took Qin Wu a total of five days to do this.
Five days later, the latest news reached Hancheng, all talents, resources and wealth were ready, and Qin Wu took the military army, which had been expanded to 220,000 people, and moved towards the east.
Qin Wu's abnormal movements naturally can't be hidden from the countries.
When the state of Chu discovered Qin Wu's intentions, he did not send troops to pursue him in line with the idea of not fighting hard with the Wu army and causing trouble. At the same time, he sent someone to inform his younger brother Zheng Guo, instructing them to hold on to the cities and not intercept them, and they must also reward the Wu army along the way, so that they can pass through Zheng Guo in the shortest possible time and not cause more trouble, and at the same time send envoys to negotiate with Qin Wu, hoping to redeem the Chu generals led by Xiong Fang and Xiang Yan who were captured by Qin Wu.
Rejecting Zheng's reward, and at the same time rejecting the conditions of the Chu envoy's request for the redemption of the captives, Qin Wu continued the march with his Wu army, and after spending two days passing through Zheng, he came to the territory of Song, one of the vassal states of Qi.
For the vassal state of the Chu State, Qin Wu could not attack, but for the target - the vassal state of the Qi State, Qin Wu had to fight.
This Song State is not a Song State of Yue Fei who has produced a generation of loyal service to the country, but just a small vassal state in the Warring States, with few soldiers and will not be strong.
Song Xianggong was one of the five hegemons of the Spring and Autumn Period, but unlike the other four hegemons, the other four hegemons (Qi, Chu, Qin, and Jin) all had strong strength when they were hegemonic, and it was more effective to convene alliances of various countries. Song Xianggong only helped the prince of Qi to restore the country when Qi was in civil strife, and wanted to represent Qi as the leader of the alliance, but he had no military strength and was finally defeated by Chu.
The Song State does not have many soldiers and will not be strong, which does not mean that Qin Wu can despise this small country. As soon as the battle began, Qin Wu realized that this battle might be a little difficult when he discovered the strange city defense weapons on the city's head.
"Where did these city defense weapons come from?"
Before the battle began, Qin Wu sent 50,000 vanguard troops, assumed an attack posture under the city, and then asked Zhao Ji, who was in charge of intelligence.
"Report to the lord, there is Mozi in this city, and the five thousand people from Momen will help defend it, and those city defense weapons are all defensive weapons invented by Mozi."
Zhao Ji said.
Mozi...... Interesting. ”
As soon as Zhao Ji said this, Qin Wu remembered it.
"Mr. Mo Zhai, can you go out of the city for a while?"
Without moving, Qin Wu rode alone to the city and shouted at the city tower.
"General Qin, I advise you to withdraw your troops, this city, you can't take it, even if you capture it, you will pay a pretty heavy price."
After a while, a gray-clothed middle-aged man suddenly stood up on the city tower and said to Qin Wu.
"Retreat, there is no problem. If you don't take this city, you won't have any problems. But, Mr. Mo Zhai, you can keep this city, but can you keep this country? ”
The expression on Qin Wu's face was not angry or happy, and he replied loudly.
"This doesn't bother the general, the general only needs to retreat."
Mozi replied lukewarmly.
"Alright, get out of the army."
With a slight smile, Qin Wu didn't say more, turned his horse's head and returned to the martial army's big array, leaving only a group of people at the head of the city looking at each other, their eyes uncertain.
This, where is Qin Wu playing?
(To be continued)