Chapter 737: Wei State Surrenders Zhao Army and Divides Troops
Does King Wei still have a choice?
Obviously, no
From the moment Xinlingjun's coffin was carried into Daliang City, both the military and the people's hearts were already scattered.
Even if King Wei wanted to fight to the death like King Zhou, it would be impossible.
In the face of the Qin State, the King of Zhou and the people of Zhou had hatred and fear of the Qin State;
But in the face of the Zhao army, the king of Wei had nothing, and even with the cut off of foreign aid, even if the king of Wei wanted to fight for his country, his clan, his courtiers, his people and even the soldiers would not allow him to do so.
Surrender is almost the common appeal of the subjects up and down the beam.
Especially after seeing the corpse of Xinlingjun and the boundless military array of the Zhao army.
Standing on top of the city tower, looking at the red "Zhao" banner and the black Zhao army in the distance, King Wei also fell into a drowsy.
Fortunately, although the Wei courtiers on the side couldn't wait to surrender to the Zhao army, they still left their king with the last dignity, and no one urged the decision of the king of Wei.
Of course, this decency is only seen in the case of the overall situation.
After all, no matter how the King of Wei decides, surrender is already inevitable, and the only difference is who will present the Yellow Book of Land and Population.
King Wei was obviously aware of the restlessness around him, but he didn't care.
Perhaps, this is also the last time he will stand on top of his own capital.
"The three families were divided, and they finally returned to the Zhao State." King Wei smiled helplessly.
The laughter grew louder and louder under the blowing of the wind, but it became more and more poignant......
After a long time, King Wei seemed to be tired of seeing the scenery of the city, and finally closed his eyes slightly, and said, "Order: Descend!"
"Historical Records" says:
"In the autumn of 253 B.C., the Emperor of Wei Zhixin Lingjun was defeated by Zhao Kuo, and his army of 100,000 lost the price and killed himself outside the city of Daliang.
Emperor Zhao Shi Huang felt his loyalty, collected his corpse, packed it with a coffin of Nanmu, and sent it back to the Wei capital Liang.
The subjects in the city wept bitterly when they saw the corpse of Xinling Jun. The king of Wei went to Fu Ling, ordered to bury the temple, and said that he was strong.
Then the Zhao army of 140,000 besieged the city.
At that time, the main force of the Qin army confronted the Zhao army and Yingchuan, Yan and Han had been destroyed, Qi and Chu could not defend themselves, and there were no soldiers to fight in Daliang City.
For the people, the temple plan, the king of Wei was bound by himself, dedicated the population, the yellow book of the acres of land, and descended to Zhao at the city gate of Daliang.
Then he said: The three families are divided into Jin, and they will eventually return to Zhao.
At this point, Zhao Yong Sanjin land, and including the birthplace of Yan and Zhou, half of the world has entered the bag of the first emperor.
Or say, the trend of Zhao's unification is no longer anyone's and no country's."
Of course, Zhao Kuo, who won the Wei State, was also quite happy at this time, and even a little complacent.
Zhao Kuo understands very well that after he won the Wei State, the entire Huaxia Zhao State has occupied nearly half of the territory, as long as he survives the battle in front of him, in the coming year, even if the three kingdoms of Qin, Qi, and Chu will attack the Zhao State, he can deal with it calmly.
The blueprint for world domination can be said to have been completely unfolded in front of you, and the only question is how much time it will take.
However, after the excitement, Zhao Guo quickly calmed down.
Those who travel a hundred miles are half ninety, even if the balance of victory in the war has gradually tilted towards Zhao State, Zhao Kuo still can't take it lightly.
Once upon a time, the Qin State almost had the strength to resist the Six Kingdoms, but it was not from the Battle of Changping, and it was weakened by itself step by step.
Not to mention, the battle continues.
Immediately, Zhao Kuo once again made arrangements for his team:
"First, Tian Dan led his headquarters with 50,000 troops, plus 20,000 cavalry, to quickly return to Huaisi County to guard against a possible attack from the Qi State;
second, he personally led an army of 50,000 to carry the grain and grass in Daliang City to the south to deliver grain and grass to the front-line Li Musuo's department;
Third, with ten thousand
The army garrisoned Daliang City and guarded the soldiers, and the 10,000-strong army held the seal of the King of Wei to collect other cities in the Wei realm."
At the same time, Zhao Kuo also sent an order to Handan:
"First, transfer Lü Buwei to Daliang City, and be responsible for the task of the collection and reorganization of Wei Di and the Wei army;
Second, General Tiaolejian accompanied Lü Buwei to assist Lü Buwei in reorganizing the Wei army and taking over the defense of Wei and Daliang City;
Third, send a note to the state of Chu and invite it to attack the state of Qin together, and the Zhao army will help it recover the capital of Chen."
Obviously, the focus of Zhao Kuo's arrangement is not in Yingchuan County in the battle between Qin and Zhao, but in the Wei State that has just been obtained.
It is clear that Zhao Kuo still has to eat the big cake of Wei first, and then fight to the death with Qin.
For Yingchuan's troops, except for transporting supplies, Zhao Kuo did not make any adjustments.
The 50,000 troops in Yewang City, the troops in Luocheng and the main force in Xinzheng City on the front line, Zhao Kuo did not move a single soldier, and even turned the 50,000 troops that were finally vacated after the destruction of Wei into a transport team.
It's not that Zhao Kuo doesn't want to fight a decisive battle with the Qin army, obviously after solving the worries of the Wei State, compared with the Qin army that is mired in the quagmire, the Zhao army obviously has a considerable advantage.
But it is not easy to turn this advantage into a victory.
From Zhao Kuo's point of view, the Qin army on the Yingchuan battlefield was at least 3560,000, and even if he added the 50,000 troops from Wei, it was only worth 400,000 troops.
In such a large-scale battle, the difference between 40,000 and 50,000 troops may not necessarily have an absolute advantage.
In particular, the entire Yingchuan battlefield still presents a tangled situation of you and me, and I have you, and it is not an ordinary difficulty to annihilate the main force of the Qin army in one fell swoop.
The biggest possibility is just a lose-lose situation.
This is of course acceptable to Zhao Kuo. But there is no doubt that the best outcome is, of course, for Zhao to continue the decisive battle with the Qin army after eating the dividends of Wei.
Especially the tens of thousands of Wei troops, although their combat power is worse than the Zhao army on the first line, but it is not inferior to the Tuntian army, if they can absorb these tens of thousands of Wei troops for their own use, then their advantage over the Qin army is really great.
This is also the reason why Zhao Kuo transferred Lü Buwei, the second assistant of the cabinet, to Daliang.
Of course, the Qin State will definitely not wait in vain for itself to eat the dividends of the Wei State.
Either fight or withdraw, the Qin army will definitely not sit still.
Fight, the Qin State will definitely pull the Qi State;
withdraw, and the Qin State will start to win over the Chu State.
Therefore, on the basis of the overall structure remaining unchanged, Zhao Kuo also arranged two back-hand moves.
First, on the Qi side, Zhao Kuo's intention to increase Tian Dan's troops is obvious, in a word: if Qi dares to fight, Zhao will fight back, even if Qi State is not destroyed, Qi State must be beaten down;
The second is to draw a cake for the state of Chu again, as long as the state of Chu can send troops to attack and disturb the back road of the Qin army, Zhao Kuo will lead a large army and choke the Qin army to death in the territory of the state of Chu.
In a word, although Zhao Kuo wanted to eat the dividends of Wei, he didn't want Qin to bring Qi and Chu together.
Especially the State of Chu, although the current State of Chu has suffered a great loss in strength, the vast territory is the largest war resource, and Zhao Kuo does not want to have a situation where the Three Kingdoms are in power.
It should be said that with the fall of the Wei State, the entire chessboard of the Zhao State has been revitalized, and Zhao Kuo's re-choice of "conservative treatment" is indeed a safe way.
Even, this is the most suitable way for today's Zhao State.
Of course, conservative treatment does not mean that Zhao Jun has to give up the initiative on the frontal battlefield.
On the contrary, after taking off the burden of Wei, the Zhao army could go into battle lightly.
Although the Zhao army only had 50,000 troops entering the battlefield, the confidence that Zhao Kuo brought to the Zhao soldiers was far greater than the 50,000 army itself.
Even, before the 50,000 army joined the battlefield, Li Mu and Zhou Qi's troops on the Yingchuan battlefield had already launched a counterattack against the enemies in front of them, Wang Ji and Meng Qi's troops.
Overnight, the offensive and defensive momentum is different!
And the Qin army's Wang Ji and Meng Fu had obviously been notified by the Qin army generals in Yicheng, and they were struggling with the key point of whether to fight or retreat, and the situation of the Zhao army's counterattack occurred.
Obviously, the possibility of Zhao's bluff is not great, and it is more likely that the development of the war in Wei has exceeded everyone's expectations, and the results have already been achieved in a few days.
As for the results, they already speak for themselves.
So, another multiple-choice question was placed in front of Wang Di.
War? Or retreat?
War?
Once the Zhao army ended the war in Wei, not only would the grain routes be unblocked again, but the Zhao army in front of him would have at least tens of thousands more, and Wang Di had no confidence that he would win this battle.
Withdraw?
Not to mention how to retreat in front of the Zhao army, which has entered the offensive state and has many cavalry.
What's worse is that once this battle is retreated, I am afraid that there will be no chance to come back.
Wang Yi knew very well that, just as in the words left by Xinling Jun, the only variable now was not in Yingchuan, but in Qi State.
As long as the Qi State can send troops, then the Qin army will still have a chance.
But it is so difficult to persuade Qi to send troops.
For a while, Wang Yi couldn't make up his mind at all, so he could only ask Xianyang for a flying pigeon.
Of course, with the advent of the Qin-Wei coalition army, the suspicious soldiers in Mengfu near Los Angeles became meaningless.
At the same time, since the Wei realm has been taken by the Zhao State, it is meaningless to hold on to Yicheng.
Inevitably, they were broken by the Zhao army, but Wang Di still decisively ordered the troops to join forces. The specific plan was: the troops of Yicheng immediately moved closer to the headquarters of Mengfu, and after the two armies converged, they moved together in the direction of Xinzheng.
From Wang Di's decision to join forces, it is actually not difficult to see that Wang Di's heart wants to withdraw the army.
There is no way, if you really want to break the net, in fact, let the army of Yicheng fight to the northwest, the army of Mengfu to attack to the east, and Wang Yu's department to fight due north, which may be a better way to attack.
And with the action of the Qin army, the Zhao army also quickly got the news.
Immediately, all the departments of the Zhao army also began to act.
The Sun Gu division of Yewang City began to tentatively regain Yicheng;
In the direction of Los Angeles, Zhou Qi also sent Zhao Wei to lead light cavalry to harass the Qin army moving south from Yicheng;
As for Li Mu, who had been guarding for more than ten days, he uncharacteristically began to attack Wang Di.
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