Lü Buwei was silent.

"The King of Qin invites the widow to meet tomorrow in front of the two armies." Zhao Kuo opened Qin Wangji's letter, glanced at it, and then said to the generals.

"King, you can't go, King Qin is cunning and doesn't pay attention to faithfulness, he deceived King Chu Huai to Qin last time, and only King Chu Huai's body was sent back in the end. Although it is now in front of the two armies, there is still no guarantee that King Qin will not do this." Wei Wuji hurriedly got up and said.

"Great King, the number of my coalition army is almost twice that of the Qin army, the famous generals are like clouds, the strategists are like rain, and the strength is crushing the Qin army, there is no need to take this risk at all." Lees said.

"Whether the king and the king of Qin meet or not, this war will be fought after all, and the king of Qin just said something that shook the morale of the army, and it seems that there is no need to listen." Gongsun Long shook the feather fan slightly, and then thought that it was winter, and it was a little inappropriate, so he put the feather fan into his sleeve again.

The rest of the generals also persuaded one after another, but none of them agreed to meet Zhao Kuo and King Qin.

"The Qin envoy also saw it, it's not that the widow doesn't want to meet with Qin Wangji, it's really that what King Qin did in the past was too bad for people to believe." Zhao Kuo tossed the letter aside.

In fact, he was still a little interested in meeting Qin Wangji, Qin Wangji had always been his biggest opponent, and compared to him, the monarchs of the other five countries were nothing at all.

The King of Han, the King of Wei, the King of Chu, and the King of Qi have all met and talked at close range, while the King of Yan is in Handan, and he can meet him whenever he wants.

Although Qin Wangji has also seen it, it was just a distant glimpse last time, and he didn't really see it.

If you can talk up close, you can make up for it.

However, what Wei Wuji and the others said was very right, Qin Wangji could do anything, and there was no need for him to take this risk.

Zhao Kuo is still very sorry for his life, some risks can be taken, and some risks are not necessary.

"The king has a saying, if King Zhao is not at ease, the location can be chosen on the east bank of the turbulent water, and the king and King Zhao each bring a hundred people. As long as I can meet King Zhao. The king said that he was old and had no years to live, and hoped to meet his greatest rival in his life before he died. That's all." Lu Buwei leaned over and said.

"Turbulent East Shore ......" Generals, you look at me, I look at you, I don't know what King Qin's plans are, is it really just to see Zhao Kuo?

Zhao Kuo frowned slightly, the east bank of the turbulent water was originally the location where the coalition forces were stationed, even if the King of Qin wanted to detain Zhao Kuo, he couldn't do it, but he might still be detained by him.

When Qin Jun said this, if he refused again, it would also be a blow to morale.

"The widow has just arrived at the front line, and some of them are not accustomed to the water and soil, and they need to recuperate. The envoy of Qin went back to report to the king of Qin, and set the time for three days later, and if the king of Qin agreed, the widow would meet with the king of Qin. If you don't agree, forget it." Zhao Kuo said.

King Qin wanted to use the meeting to suppress the morale of the coalition army, but Zhao Kuo kicked the ball back again.

The army rushed all the way from Handan to Yuxian, physically exhausted and demoralized. If the Qin army suddenly makes a mistake when they meet tomorrow, the coalition army will not be able to please even if there are many people.

Three days later, the Zhao army and the Qi army, who had just arrived in Yuxian County, all recovered their mental state, and with the number of troops close to twice that of the Qin army, even if Qin Wangji made a bad idea, Zhao Kuo was not afraid.

"Then the minister will go back and report to the king." Lu Buwei leaned over and said.

Zhao Kuo didn't get up to send him off, but just motioned for Liu Ping to send Lu Buwei out.

"I hope that the monarchs will tell the widow about the current situation of the Qin army." Zhao Kuo did not continue to dwell on this matter, but said to Le Yi.

"No." Le Yi stood up and said, "At present, the number of Qin troops is between 300,000 and 350,000, including 50,000 Qiang cavalry. The commander of the Qin army, Bai Qi, took Sui County as the center, and Zhong and Deng counties as the two wings, and built a defense line along the turbulent water. King Qin and Bai Qi personally sat in Sui County, the lord of Deng County would be Wang Di, with a force of about 30,000, and the lord of Yu Zhong would be Sima Cuo, with a force of about 50,000. The soldiers and horses under the direct command of Bai Qi were about 200,000. After the last general's attempt to attack was fruitless, he withdrew his forces and waited for the king's support, where he has remained until today."

"What's the terrain like here?" Is it suitable for cavalry?" Zhao Kuo asked.

Two branches of the Zhao State

The Army Soul Legion and the main elite are all cavalry, and the terrain is very important to the Zhao army, if the terrain is suitable for cavalry, it is not a problem for the Zhao army to have more than a dozen.

"In addition to the turbulent water, there is a flat river nearby, which is very suitable for cavalry, especially Zhao Fei's cavalry. But it's also suitable for Qiang riding. Some time ago, Le Cheng led the Youyun Iron Cavalry to test the Qiang Cavalry, although there was no Army Soul Legion, but the most elite part of it, even if the Youyun Iron Cavalry wanted to defeat, it was very difficult, and the strength of the rest of the Qiang Cavalry was only slightly weaker than my Zhao Army. However, the coverage rate of Qiang cavalry armor is extremely low, and only generals and a few soldiers are eligible to wear leather armor. Moreover, if the Qiang ride is advantageous, it will advance, and if it is unfavorable, it will retreat. It will not fight with our army, and it will not take the initiative to support other legions. If you encounter it on the battlefield, you only need to send a cavalry to block the Qiang cavalry." Le Yi quickly said the information he had summed up during this time.

"If you don't count the difference in equipment, in fact, the strength of the Qiang Cavalry is slightly higher than ours. However, if I really encountered it on the battlefield, the last general led the Zhao army to fight five Qiang horses." Lecheng stretched out five fingers, his face full of disdain for Qiang Qi.

In terms of skills, the cavalry of Zhao State will never be able to compare with the Qiang cavalry and the Hun cavalry as a whole, people have grown up on horses since childhood, and they still live on horses when they grow up, and those who are not good at riding have long become corpses, which is a congenital advantage.

The strength of the cavalry of Zhao lies in three points, one is equipment, all the cavalry of the Zhao army is fully armoured, all iron weapons, in addition to the main weapon, there are spare secondary weapons.

The second is the battle array, the unique battle formation in the Central Plains is not available to the surrounding tribes, which makes the Central Plains army congenitally more than the surrounding barbarian Rong Di with a layer of bonus power.

The third is strict military discipline. The habit of nomads is that of bandits, rushing to a place and robbing, and running away when they are finished. If you encounter a weak one, you will grab it, and if you encounter a strong one, you will run.

If you are profitable, you will advance, and if you are unfavorable, you will retreat.

Desperately? That's impossible.

Even if you are Shan Yu and the King of Qiang, don't want me to die.

But the military discipline of the Central Plains restricts everyone, from the commander to the ordinary soldiers, all must abide by military discipline, and some elite legions can even fight to the last man.

Technological superiority made it easy for nomads to win skirmishes.

However, the last three points made the Central Plains countries invincible in the real war with the nomads, and in a few hundred years, the living space of the nomads was compressed from the Yellow River Valley to the north of the Yinshan Mountains.

For the Zhao army, the threat of the Qiang cavalry is not as great as the same number of Longxi cavalry, although the strength of the Longxi cavalry is not strong, but it will really fight hard, even if it can't be beaten, it will fight with you.

Even if Qiang can fight, calculate the loss, turn around and run.

"So, the Longxi cavalry has nothing to worry about." Zhao Kuo said.

"That being said, there is one thing I would like to say to the king." Le Yi suddenly said with great seriousness.

"I hope you will speak." Zhao Kuo hurriedly got up and humbly asked for advice.

"Although the strength of our army is stronger than that of the Qin army, the Qin army still has more than 300,000 troops, including famous generals Bai Qi, Sima Cuo, Wang Yi, Wei Ran, and strategists Fan Ju and Lü Buwei. If our army wants to defeat the Qin army, we need to slowly find an opportunity, and the king must not seek a quick victory." Le Yi said solemnly.

He is not afraid that Zhao Kuo will command indiscriminately on the battlefield, he knows that Zhao Kuo's level is still online, even if he is not online, he is by his side.

What he is most afraid of is that Zhao Kuo is young and vigorous, thinking of a quick victory.

In his opinion, Zhao Kuo has gone too smoothly in the past few years, invincible, invincible, and young, it is easy to be proud and complacent, and he does not take the Qin army in his eyes.

But the Qin State is different from the Xiongnu fought by the Zhao State a few years ago, the Xiongnu tribes fought separately, and they were only united for a short time, and there were also Heigu, Lin Hu, these miscellaneous tribes, were forcibly fused together, the will to fight was extremely low, and the commander Shan Yu had no level.

As long as the Zhao army showed strong combat effectiveness, the enemy's military spirit would easily be shaken.

But Qin Jun is different.

Don't say that Qin Wangji's personal expedition is an incentive to the soldiers, and don't say that Bai Qi is such a Dinghai Shen Needle,

The quality and will of the Qin army itself alone are not comparable to those of the Xiongnu.

Such an army could never be defeated in a war.

"What do you mean...... Are we going to fight a protracted war with the Qin army?" Zhao Kuo asked.

"Not bad." Le Yi nodded solemnly.

This was the safest way he thought of to defeat the Qin army.

Even though Bai Qi had tried his best to create an advantage for the Qin army and lengthen the supply route of the Zhao army, the logistics capacity of the Zhao army was still not comparable to that of the Qin army.

In addition, Zhao and the allies of Han and Wei Qi are all constantly transporting grain to the front line.

As long as it continues to be consumed, it will be the coalition forces that will win in the end.

Even if the Qin army knew, there was no way, either to consume it with the coalition forces, or to take the initiative to attack, no matter which one it was, it was in the hands of the coalition forces.

"The widow understands." Zhao Kuo nodded, "When the widow came, there seemed to be no official way from Wancheng to Daying?"

"King Zhao, because there is no big city nearby, my Korean official road is only built to Wancheng." Storm Kite said.

"Since it is a protracted war, how can we transport grain and grass without building official roads? The widow wrote a letter to Lin Qing and asked him to send someone to transport a batch of cement over, and we Zhao Guo will send cement, and Korea will send labor, and build the official road all the way to Daying." Zhao Kuo said in a deep voice.

Le Yi breathed a sigh of relief, as long as Zhao Kuo didn't gamble for a while, he would be able to consume the Qin army little by little, no matter how strong Bai Qi's ability was, it would be useless for Fan Ju to scheming.

The biggest conspiracy on the battlefield is to bully the weak.

"The last general will write to the king." Storm Kite said happily, after this battle, the official road is still South Korean, no matter how South Korea earns it.

"Great King, the envoy of the Qin State is here again." At this time, the guard walked in again, and reported with his fists clenched.

"So soon, let him in." Zhao Kuo said.

Soon, Lü Buwei walked in from outside the tent and saluted with a smile: "King Zhao, the king has promised to adjust the meeting time to three days later, and the location will be on the east bank of the turbulent water, but the specific location will be determined by us, of course, after the location is set, we will tell the king, if the king has any objections, he can discuss again." When they met, both sides could only carry five retinues and a hundred escorts. The guards are to stand fifty meters away. The armies of both sides will be a mile away."

"The widow knows." Zhao Kuo nodded.

"Then the foreign minister will take his leave." Lu Buwei didn't stop long, and after finishing speaking, he turned around and left in a chic manner.

"Why does King Qin have to meet the king? I always think it's not a good thing." Ben stood behind Zhao Kuo and shouted with some displeasure.

"When the time comes, I will go with the king, and I will stab the king of Qin to death with a halberd, even if he has any conspiracy, he will not be able to use it." Yan Xiong said loudly.

"Maybe King Qin really feels that the time is not long, and he wants to fulfill his last long-cherished wish. In a sense, the king pulled the Qin State from the position of hegemon, and made the Qin king's life's efforts completely turned into powder. Before dying, you must always meet the biggest opponent in your life. Perhaps this is also the reason why King Qin insisted on driving the expedition in person. He knew that as long as he drove the expedition himself, the king would definitely come to the battlefield." Gongsun Long Dao.

"But be careful." Lees said he always felt that things were not so simple.

"Who wants to meet the King of Qin with the widow?" Zhao Kuo asked.

"The minister wants to go and see the King of Qin." Xunzi, who had not spoken, suddenly spoke.

A few years ago, Xunzi once entered Qin and met Qin Wangji. On that occasion, the thirsty King of Qin was full of contempt for Confucianism, and asked Xunzi directly: "Confucianism is not beneficial to the country of people?"

After that, although Xunzi answered, it could not satisfy King Qin.

Xunzi was not able to fulfill his ambitions in the Qin State, so he left the Qin State and went to the Jixia School Palace to serve as a sacrificial wine.

After many years, today's Xunzi is no longer the scholar who traveled around the world, and King Qin is not the King of Qin who looked at the world back then.

"I'll go with the teacher." Lees said.

"I will protect the King." Yan Xiong also shouted.

"In that case, then Xunzi, Yanxiong, Li Si, Ben, plus Xinlingjun." Zhao Kuo looked around and decided to give the last spot to Wei Wuji.

After that, even if someone wants to go, they can act as a guard.

However, it is obvious that not everyone is interested in the old man Qin Wangji.

Especially for Le Yi and Storm Kite, who is not an old man, what is so rare.

In the camp of the Qin army, except for Qin Wangji and Fan Ju, there was no one in the camp, not even a guard.

Fan Ju knelt on the ground, his face was extremely ugly, and said in a low voice, "King, our army can also defeat the Zhao army in other ways, there is no need for this."

"The State of Qi has formed an alliance with the State of Zhao to jointly send troops to attack our State of Qin, the State of Chu refuses to support, and the State of Yan has not had any news until now, since the King of Zhao was able to lead nearly 200,000 troops to support, the State of Yan is afraid that there will be more than one luck. Where else can I do it?" Qin Wangji said in a deep voice.

He didn't receive the news of the alliance between Qi and Zhao until the day before yesterday, and then realized that something was wrong, and immediately sent people to Yan to investigate, but he didn't receive any news until now.

By now, there was no way out for the Qin State.

Behind Wuguan is Guanzhong, once the coalition forces enter Guanzhong, the Qin State will inevitably be greatly damaged, and the only choice is to keep the enemy out of the country.

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