"Fan Li, you are too underestimating the Qin people."

Qingji shook his head and said: "The Qin people are generally bloody with my Wu people, and the blood is strong, and they are happy when they hear the battle, and they are extremely strong. ”

"Do you say you have no clothes? with the Son. Wang Yuxingshi, repair my spear. Enmity with the Son! ”

"This song "Song with or Without Clothes" shows the temperament of the Qin people."

"Just like the blue wisps of the Chu State in the past, the ancestors of the Qin people also gradually adapted to the harsh environment of the west after a hundred years of miserable management, frost and dew, and thorns, and their strength is increasing day by day."

"Such a Qin country, such a Qin people, how can it be easily conquered?"

After a pause, Qingji said slowly: "What the widow wants to do is not to destroy Qin in one go. Instead, it is to completely defeat the Qin State mentally and physically! ”

It stands to reason that when a country is in mourning, it is often when a country is prone to internal strife and is invaded by foreign enemies, and when a country is most vulnerable.

However, the state of Qin was different.

In the face of Wu's powerful offensive, the Qin people were bound to fight against foreign enemies from top to bottom.

This is something that Qingji can guess.

"King, the collapse of the barriers of a strong country often comes from within."

Fan Li smiled slightly: "The interior of the Qin State is not monolithic. ”

"The reason why this battle of Weishui was so difficult was because of the Qin people's will to resist, and under Zihu's decision, the Qin army maintained the tactics of constantly building camps and avoiding battles."

"If the Qin army can fight, all problems will be solved."

Hearing this, Qingji couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

Uncle Cheng, who was sitting at the bottom of the imperial history, sneered and said, "Doctor Yushi's words are wrong. ”

"If the Qin army dares to fight, I'm afraid that the army of my Wu State has already broken through Yongcheng, and the destruction of Qin is just around the corner, so why should we fall into such a dilemma?"

Fan Li ignored Bo Ji, but bowed towards Qingji and said, "King, the minister has a strategy, or he can make the Qin people fight." ”

"Say."

"Suo Qin."

"How do you lock it?"

Qingji was a little puzzled.

"Great King, since the start of the war against Qin, my Wu State has withdrawn from the merchants in Qin, which has caused the commerce of Qin State to suffer a serious blow, and the premium of grain and cloth is more than twice as high, and the price of grain has increased several times."

Fan Li said slowly: "If you want to fight a protracted war with the Qin people, the king must use the strategy of locking Qin. ”

"It's not enough to withdraw the merchants, the king should also block the checkpoint leading to Cuihan, and at the same time order the merchants of other countries not to enter the Qin merchants and subsidize the grain and straw of the Qin people."

“……”

Qingji frowned and said, "Can the merchants of the nations obey the orders of the widows?" ”

"If the royal road doesn't work, take the army!"

Fan Li lowered his hand and said: "The king can divide the army to capture the land of Cuihan and cut off the connection between the Qin people and the other countries. ”

"At the same time, on the side of the Western Regions, Gongzi Fan should also block the pass, strictly prohibit business travelers from entering Qin, and even send troops to harass Wushi and Yiqu, forcing the eight countries of Xirong to return to help."

"Good!"

Qingji bowed his head slightly and agreed.

It is not difficult for Wu to blockade Qin.

Qindi has the name of "Guanzhong" in history.

Guanzhong south leans on the Qinling Mountains, the Wei River passes through it, the material is rich and the treasure is good, and the people are outstanding.

There are natural terrain barriers on all sides, which are easy to defend and difficult to attack, and there is a saying of "the country of four stops" since the Warring States period.

Of course, there are not so many dangerous passes in Guanzhong now, but relatively speaking, it is difficult for external troops to penetrate them.

This is the advantage of the Qin State, and it is also a disadvantage.

Wu only needs to blockade the Western Regions and Cuihan now, and then he can trap the Qin people.

On the Qin side, there is a large amount of land that has not yet been cultivated, and the people of the country still live a half-agricultural and semi-nomadic life.

Especially after the opening of the Silk Road, many people of the Qin people have abandoned agriculture and business because of the geographical advantage, which has led to the abandonment of some cultivated land and the great reduction of grain production.

After being reminded by Fan Li, Qingji finally reacted.

Feelings: Wu Guo had already begun to plot to destroy Qin.

If a country and an army do not have enough food, it will inevitably collapse without a fight.

With the current productivity of the Qin State and the area of cultivated land, under the blockade, it is completely unable to meet the needs of the front-line war and the low-level Li Shu.

How could such a Qin state not collapse?

"Fan Li, as you said, the Qin people spared no effort to recruit soldiers and horses to resist our Wu army, and even adopted the tactics of avoiding but not fighting, which belongs to drinking water to quench thirst."

"Exactly."

Fan Li smiled and said, "King, in the case of lack of grain, the Qin people are bound to fight, otherwise what awaits them is a dead end." ”

"For the sake of prudence, the king should also increase grain and grass in Hanzhong, after the destruction of Qin, there are many captives who lack food and clothing, and the livelihood of the Qin people is withered, and there will inevitably be a scene of starvation everywhere......"

"Good."

Fan Li's analysis has already made Qingji stunned.

As the saying goes, people are iron, rice is steel, and if you don't eat a meal, you will be hungry.

No matter how tenacious the Qin people are, no matter how much they share the same hatred for the enemy, how can they continue to fight when they are hungry?

In order to avoid a situation similar to the Battle of Changping in history, where you had to kill and surrender your pawns, Qingji needs to prepare early.

……

The time entered the twenty-second year of King Qingji of Wu, that is, in 492 BC, in the middle of the fifth month of the lunar calendar.

After several months of preparation, the elderly Marquis of Qi, after summoning the princes of the Ling Conference, finally organized a coalition of princes to go south to attack Wu.

This time, the princes joined forces to attack Wu, and there were a total of sixteen vassal states, namely: Qi, Han, Zhao, Wei, Zhi, Fan, Zhongxing, Zhongshan, Yan, Song, Lu, Wei, Chen, Zheng, Cao, Xu, and a Zhou royal family.

Not to mention the Zhou royal family, the three vassal states behind were originally vassal states of Wu, but they did not submit to Wu for a few years, so the centripetal force was not enough.

The allied army of the princes of the sixteen countries has a total of more than 2,000 chariots and more than 350,000 troops!

Among them, the Qi country alone has 100,000 people at every turn.

Because this time the chief of the princes is for the pestle.

As the "overlord" who was given to him by the Son of Heaven, how could the pestle not be the greatest?

At this time, he didn't remember how many times he had allied with the princes.

Just like the former benevolent and righteous overlord Song Xianggong, his hegemony seems to be in name only.

However, Kijiu believes that this time he will succeed!

As long as the state of Wu is defeated and replaced, the state of Qi will be able to restore the hegemony of the Duke of Qi Huan, the princes of Jiuhe, and the world will be one!

This is exactly Kijiu's lifelong wish.

All the princes' allied forces gathered at Zhaoling, and Pestle gave orders and began to dispatch troops.

The 350,000 men and horses were divided into two routes, one army and horses attacked the central defense line of Wu State, Xiangling and Sha Dune, and the other army and horses attacked the eastern defense line of Wu State, the Huaishui area.

In order to ensure that the grain routes of the coalition army have no worries, and to ensure the interests of the various vassal states, the northern vassal states of Wu will also be divided by the coalition forces......