Chapter 655 The Vulnerable Yan Kingdom
Just when Zhao Kuo was considering whether to put stability first, and wait for the Qin army to fight with the Chu army, and then send troops, Yu Linwei, who was given high hopes by Zhao Kuo, finally brought Zhao Kuo a news worth a thousand gold:
"The Qin army has gathered at least 120,000 troops in Shuzhong, and there is still a steady stream of troops in the Qin State Pass that are marching towards Shuzhong."
In other words, the main force of the Qin State has been assembled, and Zhao Kuo knows that even if the Zhao State starts to act now, the Qin people will not be able to react at all, and even if they react, they will redeploy troops from Shuzhong to Guanzhong, and then kill from Guanzhong to Zhoudi or Shangdang, to say the least, it will take several months, which is enough for Zhao to level the Yan State.
Even, if it was possible, Zhao Kuo would have wished that Qin Guo had moved troops so frequently.
It's just that that's not what he can do to intervene. As long as King Qin still has a little brain, he will not transfer troops thousands of miles to fight the Zhao army.
Immediately, with the help of Yu Linwei's news, Zhao Kuo finally made up his mind.
However, even Zhao Kuo, who already has a great advantage, still has no waves.
The first to act was not the 170,000 army that went to Yan State, but the 50,000 army that rushed to Shangdang.
Yes, Zhao Kuo ordered Li Mu to be a general, lead 50,000 troops, and go out to the party in front of everyone in the court.
This is already a clear card telling the Qin and Han people, you have to be careful, I am going to attack.
Of course, in fact, Zhao mobilized far more troops than 50,000 horses. But even so, it still didn't make King Qin have any suspicions, after all, what Zhao Kuo was best at was hiding soldiers.
From King Qin's point of view, Zhao Guo is obviously playing the trick of "reducing the stove and increasing the troops" this time.
And as Zhao prepared to attack in a big way, Qin's deployment speed became faster and faster, and 10,000 Qin troops took packages on their backs and embarked on a journey south.
At the same time, the entire Hedong and Hexi, including Hangu Pass, also entered a state of alert with the news of the Zhao army's assembly.
The entire Qin State, like a war machine, exploded with amazing power under the roar of Zhao State's accelerator!
Li Mu's 50,000 army here has not yet been assembled, and the east and west of the river are up, and the Qin people have begun to clear the wilderness.
In just a few days, the Qin army in Shu has skyrocketed to more than 180,000.
At this time, Zhao's 220,000 troops were finally quietly assembled.
Don't think that it will be more difficult for Zhao to gather 220,000 troops, you must know that it is not so easy for the Qin army to enter Shu, and it is difficult for Shu to go to the blue sky. However, the Zhao army was assembled, but it was scattered among the counties, and it had not yet gone to Huaisi and Hejian.
None of that matters, though.
With the completion of the assembly of troops in each county, Zhao Kuo waved his hand, and the troops from all over the country heard the order.
The external claims were naturally to follow General Li Mu to the south to join the party.
Good guy, if Qin Guo's meticulous work could be counted more carefully, maybe King Qin would be able to see some clues from this multi-fold increase in troops.
The Qin State was scattered all over the country and could not complete such a statistic at all, and it was even more difficult to derive the situation of the Zhao army's strength from the summary.
It's very simple, if the intelligence on the same day is fine, if it's a day or two, who knows if this unit is the unit that has been reported.
But even so, the Black Ice Platform of the Qin State was still a clue found from the large-scale mobilization of the Zhao army.
Without him, since he is going south, why are more and more troops appearing on the west side?!
Immediately, the high-level leaders of the Black Ice Terrace asked all localities to verify where the troops that appeared were going.
It's a pity that this back and forth has been delayed for too long. And by the time the high-level leaders of the Qin State finally realized that something was wrong, the entire 170,000 troops were already standing on the stage of the Zhaoyan border.
According to historical records, at the end of the summer of 253 B.C., King Zhao sent envoys to the army of Hejian and Huaisi, and ordered: Look at Shula
"There is no way in the country of Yan, first there is a feud against me and killing the king, and then there is a widow who does not care for the people
Morality.
Today's Zhao Ye, the armor is already in place, the grain is sufficient, the soldiers are sharpened, the generals are single-minded, and it is appropriate to reward the three armies, and punish the unscrupulous!
The special general, Lian Po, led 100,000 troops out of Hejian County to the east;
With Duping Juntian Dan as the main general, he led 70,000 troops and went north from the land of Huaisi;
With my dignified teacher, I swept the land of Yanbei.
Let it destroy its society, obtain its temple, and move its heavy weapons!"
Immediately, the army comforted the heavens and the earth with the gift of three sacrifices, and then the army of 170,000 appeared on the land of Yan State.
War will always come out of nowhere at the most casual time, in the most casual place.
Just like now, it is obviously the most important time for crops to tassel, once this time is missed, if you do not give enough water and fertilizer to the crops, it is almost inevitable that the yield will be reduced.
Everyone knows that this year's autumn harvest is very important for Zhao Guo, who is short of food, and everyone thinks that before the autumn harvest, Zhao Guo will not be able to send troops.
Even if they send troops, they will be tens of thousands of people at most, as a defensive form.
However, Zhao Guo blatantly sent troops like this, and as soon as it came out, it was completely suppressed, plus the soldiers of the Shangdang, Zhao Guo actually used a full 220,000 troops.
This is almost all the main force that Zhao Guo could use last year.
What's even more surprising is that the direction of Zhao Jun's march is not the country of Han that everyone thinks, but the country of Yan, which has been so low-key that people can't even remember.
Obviously, all the countries and all the kings were shocked by this hand of Zhao State. Among them, the most unexpected was none other than the monarchs and ministers of Yan Kingdom!
Lian Po and Tian Dan's two-way army progressed, not to mention how smooth it was.
On the first day of the expulsion, the two armies took the bridgehead in the territory of Yan Kingdom.
Even as the news of the Zhao army's attack spread, even the people of Yan began to look at the wind and descend.
Of course, this is not a surprise.
There's no way, the people of Yan Country are having a hard time!
In the first battle of Zhao that year, Yan Guo had already broken his muscles and bones, and the few elite soldiers and strong generals all confessed to the territory of Zhao State, and after Yan Wang escaped from Zhao State, he also completely extinguished the idea of revival, and drank and had fun all day long, not asking about court affairs.
The government of the Yan State has long been in ruins.
If it is just a waste of the government, then it is enough, the king who has lost his ambition is often accompanied by an extreme emptiness in his heart, and the empty heart cannot be filled with the pleasure of conquering other countries, so it can only be watered with beauty and wine.
Yang Guang, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, is a striking example.
Once upon a time, Yang Guang was also a handsome young man, and he also had the ambition to communicate between the north and the south and suppress the gate valve, and after some hardships in reality, Yang Guang, who had been defeated repeatedly, finally knew what kind of behemoth he was fighting against.
While losing confidence in fighting against the gate valve, Yang Guang also completely became a desolate and unscrupulous king.
Obviously, when King Yan was hopeless in the south, he also became empty, lonely and cold, and with the change of psychology, King Yan's life became "colorful".
It's just that these "colorful" lives are built on the suffering of hundreds of thousands of Yandi people.
What's even more incomprehensible is that if the top is good, the bottom will be effective.
The heart of one person may not be able to crush hundreds of thousands of people, but what about dozens of people? What about a few hundred? Thousands, if not tens of thousands!
On one side is the shrinking territory, on the other side is the growing needs of the Yan King and the civil and military ministers for a better life, in addition to collecting taxes, collecting heavy taxes, and constantly squeezing the people, the Yan court headed by Xiangguo Libei really can't think of a better way.
How can I take all the baht and use it like mud and sand!
However, the people have rods and scales in their hearts, they will see with their eyes, they will listen with their ears, especially because of the geographical relationship, many people of Yan Kingdom also have relatives in Hejian County and Dai County under the rule of Zhao State.
In addition, the Yulin guards who went deep into the various cities of Yan Kingdom were like brainwashing, telling the people of Yan Kingdom how good Zhao Guo was!
Even in modern times when people's wisdom has been opened, the lie of "taste exquisite cancer" has been repeated hundreds of times, and it has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, not to mention the Warring States where the news is closed and the people's wisdom has not yet been opened.
On the one hand, the new policy of the Zhao State kept their relatives well fed and clothed, and on the other hand, the endless oppression of the monarchs and ministers of the Yan State, even if they were patriotic, they could not help but be shaken.
In this way, it is not an accident to fall from the wind.
Before the army of Zhao State arrived, the people tied fish and meat and their officials of Yan State to the city gate to greet them! Even the flag of Yan State on the city tower was replaced with the red military flag of Zhao State!
Everywhere Zhao Guo went, he was filled with the vitality of all things.
Tiandan's prestige is great, but it is not as good as a bright red Zhaozi banner! And Tian Dan's detailed attack plan for each city and each fortress seemed to be almost a piece of waste paper.
Looking at the red banner hanging high above the city, Tian Dan couldn't help but sigh and said, "Go to the army to fight and plot, attack the heart, this word is honest and don't deceive me!"
"This battle is really the best battle in my life!" Sitting at the other end of the tent, Lian Po looked at the table in his hand and the prisoners of war under the stairs, and also sighed involuntarily.
It's no wonder that the two lords sighed so much, it was really too easy to win in the past few days, except for a few fortresses on the border, they had almost not encountered decent resistance in the past few days.
Even those forts that specialized in defending the Zhao army, Tian Dan and Lian Po ordered people to besiege them, smashed them with catapults for half the night, and then surrendered.
And as more and more Yan Kingdom cities "abandoned the darkness and turned to the light" under the leadership of Yulin's personal guards and secret guards, the soldiers finally discovered that inadvertently, the king had already paved the road.
I thought there would be a tough battle, after all, in the bitter cold land of Yan Zhao, there have been many generous and sad people since ancient times! Even if Yan Guo was going to die at his own hands after all, he didn't expect it to be so easy.
In fact, not only the soldiers of Zhao Jun were stunned, but Zhao Kuo, who was also in Handan City, was also confused.
Looking at the military report sent back by the flying pigeon in his hand, Zhao Kuo couldn't believe that Yan Guo, one of the dignified Seven Heroes of the Warring States, would be so vulnerable? !
I knew it was so simple, what did Lao Tzu do with so many moths? It is a deception and a deception, an exchange of food, and a gift of ordnance.
I knew that I could win so easily, why did Lao Tzu use an army of 170,000 and launch an attack before the autumn harvest.
Lao Tzu's grain, Lao Tzu's millet and rice!
Fortunately, the two armies finally encountered a hard bone in Yan Kingdom, and they stopped the pace of the two armies......