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On April 12, 202 BC, the main force of the 130,000 Qin army under Zhang Jiashi launched an offensive against the main force of Tian Rong's army in the south of Jishui. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info (first published on the novel)

At this time, for Zhang Jiashi, it was already the best opportunity to easily solve the less than 100,000 people under Tian Rong's command, and the quality was quite poor.

Zang Di's battle during this period of time captured the area from Dangjun to Taishan, which was an opportunity for Zhang Jiashi to defeat Western Qi.

Because even if the State of Chu wanted to send troops under this situation, it would not be able to achieve the effect of a surprise attack.

Moreover, before this period of time, Zhang Jiashi had promised Han Xin in Yingchuan County, Huan Su in the north of Hengshan County, and Yingbu in the north of Minzhong County that he did not need to inform him and directly sent troops to Chudi.

Zhang Jiashi knew very well that he did not deliberately conceal this situation from Chu State, in order to let Xiang Yu throw himself into a trap.

This strategic layout is not something that Xiang Yu can easily resolve now.

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In the past few years of campaigning, the five tiger generals of Western Chu under Xiang Yu, Zhong Liwu, Long Ji, and Peng Yue, the three of them either died on the battlefield or surrendered to him.

There were only Ji Bu and Xiang Zhuang left Xiang Yu, the two Western Chu Five Tiger Generals, and he couldn't trust the other generals under his command.

Some of these generals are unquestionable about their loyalty to Xiang Yu, but there are also people who are deeply dissatisfied with Xiang Yu.

For Zhang Jiashi, this is the fundamental reason why Xiang Yu can't trust too many people now.

This also led to a lot fewer troops that Xiang Yu could deploy.

Especially after Long Ji and Peng Yue, who were able to take charge of the Chu army, died and fell, there were very few people in the Chu army who could really take the lead.

Xiang Yu couldn't trust other great families of the Chu Kingdom, such as the Qu family and the Jing family, and although the Zhao family had an in-law relationship with Xiang Yu, the headache for Xiang Yu was that the Zhao family really didn't have a few people who could reassure him.

This also led to the fact that after Fan Zeng's death, Xiang Yu was able to find someone to discuss a lot less.

Not to mention who Xiang Yu planned to let command the reinforcements.

Moreover, the news from the details in Pengcheng showed that Xiang Yu had given up reinforcements to the Western Qi and Eastern Qi countries.

This also made Zhang Jiashi a little puzzled. That is, he doesn't think that Xiang Yu can't see the truth that his lips are dead and his teeth are cold, what is the reason that affects Xiang Yu, and Zhang Jiashi wants to be able to understand this kind of judgment in detail.

But for Zhang Jiashi, he didn't know whether Xiang Yu deliberately made this kind of mistake, but he knew one thing very well, that is, even if Xiang Yu planned to intervene in the battle situation in Western Qi, I am afraid it would be too late.

If Xiang Yu really plans to do something, then it will have a little effect on Tian Heng's Eastern Qi.

Thinking of this, Zhang Jiashi sent messengers to Zifu and Wenle, who were stationed in the Jimo region, to strengthen the vigilance of the southeast region.

Because in this case, even if Xiang Yu really intends to intervene in the battle, I am afraid that this is also an option that the other party can do now.

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Tian Rong, in the world where Zhang Jiashi was originally located, also became a prince and king in the troubled times at the end of Qin.

If it weren't for Zhang Jiashi's appearance, the current Qi King Tian Rong would have died in Plains City.

There are also some records of Tian Rong in the Qingyu Spirit Book:

In 206 BC, Tian Rong sent troops to help Chen Yu and let him rebel against Xiang Yu in Zhao, and Tian Rong himself sent troops to fight against Tian Du, who fled to Chu. Tian Rong detained Qi Wangtian City and prevented him from going to the Jiaodong Governance Office.

Tian Shi's subordinates said: "Xiang Yu is strong and fierce, and you, as the king of Qi, should go to your own feudal country Jiaodong, if you don't go, there must be danger." ”

Tian Shi was very scared, so he ran away and went to Jiaodong. When Tian Rong learned about it, he was furious, and hurriedly led people to chase after Qi Wang Tianshi, and killed him in Jimo. When he returned, he attacked Tian An, the king of Jibei, and killed him. As a result, Tian Rong established himself as the king of Qi and occupied all the land of Sanqi.

When Xiang Yu heard the news, he was very angry, so he set up an army to attack the Qi country in the north. Tian Rong, the king of Qi, was defeated and fled to the plains, where he was killed in the second year of the Han Dynasty (205 BC).

And some historians' evaluation of Tian Rong is relatively positive, at least not too negative.

Bangu: "The Zhou room was bad, and by the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, the princes were exhausted, and the descendants of Yan, Huang, Tang, and Yu still had quite a few survivors. Qin annihilated the Six Kingdoms, and the ancient relics were swept away. On the occasion of Chu and Han, the king of Haoji, only Wei Bao, Han Xin, and Tian Dan brothers were the old country, but they were all extinct. Hengzhi Festival, guests Muyi, still can't stand on their own, isn't it heaven!"

Sima Zhen: "On the occasion of Qin Xiang, the world is fighting. The Six Nations Tree Party, self-imposed heroes. Tian Dan died, and the city was honored. Chu Feng Wang fake, Qi Po Lisheng. Brothers are kings, and the islands are sounding. ”

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But for Zhang Jiashi, in terms of the current comparison between strengths, even if Tian Rong is capable, he may not be able to resist his offensive with the 100,000 army under his command, which is mostly newly recruited.

Moreover, the ability of the generals of Western Qi is relatively unknown, and Hou Xu does not think that Tian Rong's command can really change the situation of the battle.

Therefore, after knowing the situation of the envoy of Qi in Pengcheng, Zhang Jiashi formulated the following battle plan against Tian Rongjun.

Zhang Jiashi intended to divide the army under his command into four troops, one of which was a reserve force of 40,000 led by him.

Wang Li became the first candidate for the general of the Chinese army.

Although Li Xin was still present in this battle, Li Xin believed that in this case, he hoped to discover more good generals who could fight for the Great Qin Empire, and politely declined Zhang Jiashi's order that he could sit in the Chinese army.

Regarding Li Xin's polite refusal, Zhang Jiashi didn't have too many thoughts in his heart.

Because although Li Xin's age is younger than that of Meng Wu and Yingzheng, Li Xin is also in his fifties at this time, and Zhang Jiashi agrees with Li Xin's idea that he does not want to continue to command operations in the army.

Could this be a signal that Li Xin deliberately faded out of the military, Zhang Jiashi didn't know, but what Zhang Jiashi knew was that Li Xin certainly experienced the fiasco of the conquest of Chu, but among the Qin army, Li Xin's prestige and trust were actually not much worse than Wang Ben.

After all, when Li Xin and Meng Wunan conquered the Chu State, it was Li Xin who suffered a crushing defeat, but this defeat was excusable. Otherwise, it would really be impossible to find Li Xin's name in the subsequent history books.

What was the reason for Li Xin's defeat of the Chu State?

There is a saying that in the twenty-second year of the reign of King Qin (225 BC), Li Xin attacked Chu and returned defeated, which was criticized by the world, thinking that he was young and vigorous, and acted recklessly against the enemy. In fact, there is another inside story. A closer look at its march route was to the south, first to Pingyu County, present-day Zhumadian City, Henan, then to the north to Yan (Yanling County, Xuchang, Henan), then to the southeast to Yingchen (Yingchen, in present-day Huaiyang County, Zhoukou City, Henan), and finally to Chengfu (Pingdingshan City, Henan Province) to the west. At this time, Yan, Ying, and Chengfu were all controlled by the Qin State and were not the territories of the Chu State.

Tian Yuqing, a historian who speculated on this point, finally concluded that just as the Qin army led by Li Xin and Meng Wu defeated the Chu army in the south and southeast of Yingchen and was preparing to take advantage of the victory to attack Shouchun, the capital of Chu, and destroy Chu in one fell swoop, Changpingjun, who was in Yingchen, raised an army against Qin, captured Yingchen, cut off the rear route of Li Xin's army, and made the Qin army attacking Chu fall into the suffering of enemies in front and behind. As a result, Li Xinjun had to stop attacking Chu and returned to attack Yingchen, but was attacked by the Chu army before and after, and returned defeated.

Zhang Jiashi knows better.

It is not so much that Li Xin was defeated by the Chu army, but that Li Xin's expedition was nothing more than a counterinsurgency operation against Chang Pingjun and Chang Wenjun.

It is not at all what historians speculate, and this is itself a war against the Chu State.

Because this can be seen from Li Xin's march route, that is, Li Xin himself was attacking the rebel forces of Chang Wenjun's brothers.

At the beginning, the southern attack on Pingyu did not mean that the Chu State still controlled this place at that time, but that this place was actually used to cut off the nearest road point where the Chu State was able to send reinforcements to support Chang Wenjun and others.

Whether it was Pingyu or Yingchen and other places, if it weren't for Chang Wenjun's rebellion at that time, they would have already become areas controlled by Great Qin.

This point can be compared in detail from the records of the Great Qin Empire's conquests.

And Wang Jian himself may have wanted to remind Li Xin to pay attention to the state of Chu in the south, rather than Chang Wenjun and others.

And Li Xin did this at the beginning, because Pingyu is a road hub.

But even Li Xin didn't expect that the Chu army reinforcements led by Xiang Yan would break through the border line so quickly and attack his flank and rear. 、

Under the attack of Chang Wenjun and Xiang Yan's superior forces, Li Xin experienced the heaviest defeat in his life.

In addition, according to the discovery of archaeological data, a very interesting inference is said: in 1975, the archaeological excavation of Sleeping Tiger in Yunmeng County, Hubei Province, two family letters and bamboo slips of Qin soldiers only proved that Changping Jun rebelled in that year, but there is no substantial evidence to prove Mr. Tian Yuqing's speculation. Judging from the text of the historical records, if the main responsibility did not lie with Li Xin, there was naturally no need for the King of Qin to change the commander, let alone personally invite Wang Qian, who had already returned to his hometown at that time. But no matter what, the glorious history of Li Xin, the ancestor of Li Guang, stopped, and he did not have a special biography in the "Historical Records", only a few concise notes in the "Biography of Bai Qi Wang Jian Lie", and there was no news behind him. In "The Biography of Bai Qi Wang Jian Lie", it is said that after Wang Jian went south to Ping Baiyue, he continued: And Wang Jian Zi Wang Ben, broke Dingyan and Qi land. Li Xin, under Wang Ben, made contributions to the pacification of Yan and Qi.

And Li Xin's ending is no more than three: Li Xin's ending is no more than three: one is to die of old age or illness, the second is to give death, and the third is to die in battle. But it is certain that Li Xin did not rebel, otherwise Li Xin's descendants would not have reproduced in Longxi safely.

Of course, the interesting part of this inference lies in the cause of Li Xin's death, because Li Xin most likely died of illness, after all, in terms of Li Xin's status, whether Li Xin died in battle or was given death by Qin Shi Huang, I am afraid that he will also leave a very heavy mark in the history books.

At the same time, there is a very interesting comparison, that is, judging from the corresponding experience of Changping Jun, in 238 BC, he and Lü Buwei and Chang Wenjun were ordered to pacify the rebellion, appointed Xiangguo, and moved Chen Ying to help the people of Chu. In the twenty-second year of the reign of King Qin (225 BC), he opposed Qin and Yingchen, and then fought unfavorably and retreated to the south of the Yangtze River.

According to the "Chronology of the Six Kingdoms", in the twenty-third year of the reign of King Qin, "Wang Jian Mengwu defeated the Chu army and killed his general Xiang Yan." "Twenty-four years," Wang Jian and Meng Wu broke Chu, and captured their kings. "There is no record of Xiang Yan Li Changping Jun as king. This is different from the "Historical Records of Qin Shi Huang Benji", but the same as "Historical Records: The Biography of Wang Jian Lie" and "The Family of Chu". "Xiang Yu Benji" also said: "(Xiang) Liang's father is the Chu general Xiang Yan, who was killed by the Qin general Wang Jian." "Visible:1. Xiang Yan was killed by the Qin army;2. The king of Chu was captured in the second year of Xiang Yan's death;3. There is someone else who is the monarch of Lichangping, or there is no such thing at all, Sima Qian is wrong. ）

And from Xiang Yan's relevant records, we can also find interesting points:

In 225 BC, the Qin general Li Xin led an army of 200,000 to attack the state of Chu, Li Xin attacked Pingyu, and Meng Tian attacked the bed, defeating the Chu army. Li Xin attacked Yan Ying again and conquered the city, so he led his army westward to join Meng Tian's team at the city father. Xiang Yan took the opportunity to follow behind, rested for three days and three nights, defeated Li Xin's army in the counterattack, attacked two camps of the Qin army, and killed seven captains. Li Xin led the remnants to flee back to Qin.

Obviously, after many comparisons, a more interesting place will be found, that is, the reason why Li Xin was defeated without suffering a cruel punishment is that Li Xin defeated the rebellion of Chang Wenjun and the Changping Jun brothers, and was then defeated by Xiang Yan, who responded to Chang Wenjun and Changping Jun's brothers and led the army to support. And it is very likely that Wang Jian himself also saw that Li Xin was likely to be defeated by the Chu army in this battle because of this matter.

And one thing that has to be said is that if it weren't for the rebellion in these areas, I'm afraid Li Xin would not have made a big move in the territory of his own country.

And before Li Xin was defeated and returned to Xianyang, there were two people who were more unlucky than him, these two people were naturally Changping Jun and Chang Wenjun's brothers, if it weren't for Li Xin's defeat of them, they would not have been defeated and retreated back to Jiangnan in 205 BC.

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After understanding these things, Zhang Jiashi knew very well that Li Xin's mind was not on the Qi State, but on the Chu State.

After all, it was because of Xiang Yan's near-sudden attack tactics that Li Xin was defeated in the battle of the city father, and if he had experienced this kind of thing, he would not have given up this opportunity for revenge so easily.

It was because of this that Zhang Jiashi finally decided that Wang Li was the front-line commander of this battle after thinking about it in detail.

.... Easy to see, small to say.