No way, over the years, the Qin State has indeed been a little negligent in the defense system of the land of Yanying.

It's no wonder that the Qin State is up and down, in the face of the Chu army, the Qin State has almost always been in an advantageous position, and has been thinking about how to fight out of Yan Ying, so naturally he has not thought about how to defend Yan Ying.

And the Qin army, which was hurriedly withdrawn from Yingchuan County, was busy returning to Hangu Pass, of course, even if it was not for the Zhao army of Sun Gu's department close in front of Hangu, Wang Di would not have had time to reorganize the defense of the Yanying region.

There was no way, Zhao Jun came too fast and too urgently.

In the face of tens of thousands of Zhao troops, the Qin army can still resist with Yingdu as the core, but in the face of hundreds of thousands of Zhao troops, the Qin army has no way at all.

The Zhao army didn't even need to attack Yingdu, as long as the city was surrounded, it wouldn't be long before the Qin army would collapse by itself.

There is no way, the evacuation of Yingchuan, the troops were safely withdrawn, a large number of ordnance, especially grain and grass, could not be withdrawn, and Chendu, as a transit station, the Qin army did not even enter, let alone replenish the grain.

If it weren't for the fact that Yingdu still had some grain that had just been transferred, I am afraid that Wang Di's army of more than 300,000 would have been hungry when they arrived in Yingdu.

More than 300,000 soldiers ate horses and chewed, although it was only a few days, but it had already consumed most of the granary in Yingdu.

Now that the main army has withdrawn, the remaining food is only enough for the hundreds of thousands of troops to last for ten months.

Therefore, as long as Zhao Jun cut off the grain road in Shuzhong, it would be a month before Yingdu would run out of grain.

It can be said that when the 500,000 troops of the Zhao army pressed towards the Qin army, the Qin army was already on the road to defeat.

At the end of the day, war is like that, and opportunities are equal for anyone and any country.

If you fail to kill your opponent with one punch, the opponent's punch when he comes back to his senses will probably kill you.

Just like now, Qin Guo gathered almost all the forces in the world and smashed Zhao Guo with a fierce punch, but Zhao Guo found out in advance and dodged it.

Looking back, in order to attack this punch, the door was wide open, and he immediately became the opponent's opportunity hand.

It is inevitable to suffer losses, and if you want to be tough, it is a stupid thing that only stupid people do. The best way is to dodge the opponent's circle as much as possible, even if it is at a certain cost, and never let the opponent's iron fist hit his own vital point.

What is the key point of the Qin State today?

There is no doubt that it is of course Hangu Pass, as long as Hangu is lost, the iron cavalry of the Zhao army can rush into the Guanzhong Plain in an instant, and at that time, even if Wang Ji transfers all the 300,000 troops back, he will not be the opponent of the Zhao army.

And to hold Hangu Pass, it is impossible for Wang Di's troops to come back to help.

In other words, the land of Yan Ying has become a place that the Qin State is bound to abandon.

And Wang Di, who knew the urgency of the front line, also immediately suggested that Chu, the grandson of the king of Qin, immediately abandon the land of Yan Ying and save his troops.

In fact, there is no need for Wang Di to remind him, Zichu also knows the danger of the southern front.

Without hesitation, Wang Sun Zichu had already ordered Meng Fu in the land of Yan Ying to immediately abandon Yingdu and turn to Shu.

Wang Di's reminder was very timely, and Wang Sun Zichu's order was also very decisive, but unfortunately, Li Mu's speed was faster than the reaction of the two.

To be precise, because of the confusion of Tiandan's troops going north, the Qin army has fallen into a lag in information.

As early as when Tian Dan led the army north to detour to Hangu, Li Mu, who was stationed in Chendu, was not idle.

The 100,000 army, under the leadership of Zhou Qi, did bypass Yingdu, but from the north and south sides, it went around between Shuzhong and Yingdu.

And with the appearance of General Tiandan's 200,000 troops at Hangu Pass, Zhou Qi's troops also quickly began to move - north and south.

When Zichu's order finally arrived in Yingdu, when Meng Fu wanted to withdraw to Shuzhong with the 150,000 Qin troops in Yingdu, Zhou Qi's 100,000 army had already cut off the connection between Shuzhong and Yingdu.

Meng Fu led the army to attack several times, but he still couldn't break through Zhou Qi's blockade.

Subsequently, Li Mu also led the remaining 200,000 troops to the south quickly, approaching Yingdu.

Seeing that the back road was about to be copied, Meng Fu had no choice but to lead the army back to Yingdu.

As a result, Meng Fu and the 150,000 Qin troops were immediately blocked in the Yingdu City and could not move.

This is really asking for Qin's own life.

It doesn't matter if there is a large area of land in the Yanying region, but these 150,000 Qin troops are something that the current Qin State cannot afford to lose.

You must know that almost exhausted the men in Guanzhong and Shuzhong, Qin State squeezed out nearly 400,000 troops with all its might, and lost tens of thousands in the battle with the Zhao army, once these 150,000 troops were wiped out by the Zhao army, the main battle strength of Qin State would drop to about 200,000.

This is almost an unimaginable number.

Correspondingly, the number of Zhao Jun on the opposite side will easily exceed 500,000.

200,000 against 500,000, or a growing 500,000 and a shrinking 200,000, how can this be fought?!

What's more, among the 150,000 troops who were besieged, there was also the successor of the next general selected and trained by Wang Yi for Daqin.

Oh, maybe not a dozen years from now.

But even if it is not more than ten years later, the situation of the Zhao army's two-front offensive is very clear, and no matter how strong Wang Ji is, he can only take care of one side! On the other hand, it still needs to be in charge.

The only good news may be that the grain and grass in Yingdu are enough to hold on to the Ministry for more than a month.

However, the Zhao army did not seem to be ready to take Yingdu in one fell swoop, but after besieging Yingdu with a large army, the rest of the troops began to sweep the land of Yanying, with the intention of waiting for Yingdu to run out of food.

And this also gave Qin Jun the time and opportunity to find a way to rescue.

Well, how can I say it, Zhao Jun is afraid that you won't come to the rescue!

Fortunately, Zi Chu did not rush to die, and after getting the news that Yingdu was besieged and Mengfu failed to break through, Zi Chu also immediately reported to Wang Di, who had arrived at the Hangu battlefield.

The meaning is obvious, if you want Wang Di to make up your mind, whether to save it or not, how to save it?

However, what can Wang Di, who is far away in Hangu Pass, do?

To tell the truth, Wang Yi really regretted it, since he had decided to divide his troops to go north to rescue Hangu, why should he still covet the land of Yan Ying and withdraw all his troops to Shuzhong?

With the natural danger in Shuzhong, even if it is only 350,000 troops, it is enough to contain the attack of hundreds of thousands of troops of the Zhao army.

It's a pity that I was so greedy for a thought, and I finally caused disaster.

To put it bluntly, empiricism kills people, and Wang Yi is still careless after all. How difficult it is to fight Yingdu City, Wang Di, who followed Bai Qi to take down Yingdu together, is naturally clear.

It's just that Wang Yi obviously forgot a problem: the reason why Yingdu was difficult to fight back then was not only because the city wall itself was strong and the geography itself was excellent enough, but more importantly, the land of Yanying was originally the territory of the Chu State, and the people in the city all supported the Chu army, and the grain storage in Yingdu was enough for the Chu army to fight for three and five years.

But now the Yingdu in the hands of the Qin army does not have the complete defense system that it had back then, and the people in the city are far from the point of full support, and Meng Fu's hands do not have as much food as they did back then.

The city is still the same city, but it is not as strong as it is.

If you are wrong, you will have to pay a price.

Now that the encirclement against Yingdu has been formed, even if Wang Ji disregards the danger of Hangu Pass and the safety of Guanzhong, personally leads his troops and goes south day and night to save him, I am afraid it will be too late and will not be able to save him at all.

said a thousand ways and ten thousand, for today's plan, only rely on Meng Fu himself.

Looking at the silk book in his hand, Wang Yi also sighed helplessly again. He knew that with his sigh, the comrades-in-arms beside him would leave one by one, and the national fortune of the Qin State would gradually pass in this sigh.

For a moment, Wang Yi didn't know why he was still persevering, obviously there was no hope.

Yes, even Wang Yi was a little discouraged, not to mention the generals and soldiers below.

Facing the Zhao State, which had already occupied most of the way, anyone understood that the Qin State had no hope.

Now that there is no hope, what is the point of persevering?

Perhaps only the slogan of "Defend the old Qin, go to the national disaster together" is left, so that the soldiers of the Qin army continue to persevere.

Just when the whole Qin State was in a daze, and even the words of "surrender" were about to come to his lips, the man stood up again.

Yes, the old King Qin, who had not been concerned for a long time, stood up again.

In a court meeting, the old King Qin did three things with lightning speed, but it temporarily stabilized the turbulent court situation and people's hearts.

"First, go to the king's name, proclaim himself a vassal to the Zhao State, and exchange the land of Yan Ying and a large amount of goods for the return of the 150,000 troops including Meng Fu;

second, to open the inner treasury, to take all the goods for the purpose of paying tribute to the Zhao State, and the rest was all used for the pension of the fallen soldiers of the Qin army, as well as the supply of the families of the soldiers;

Third, bear his own guilt, remove the respect of the Duke of Qin, self-imprison the temple for introspection, set up his grandson Chu as the Duke of Qin, and summon the generals Wang Ji and Xiangguo Tu Jia to assist the government.".z.

The first one, whether the so-called going to the king's name or calling the minister a tribute, seems to be clearly delaying time.

Of course, Zhao Guo could not agree, let alone talk about the 150,000 army returning to the mountain.

It's just that the hand of the old King Qin is the third layer. Of course, he knew that it was impossible for Zhao Jun to agree, but this seemingly meaningless move was to tell all the soldiers of the Qin army - I had done my best.

When it was impossible to mobilize troops to rescue, but he had to give an explanation to the Qin army, this was already the best way that King Qin could come up with.

Of course, it is not enough to just explain, which leads to the second article, wealth.

Since Zhao refused to return the "hostages", then Qin would naturally not pay tribute, at least not give all the goods to Zhao.

In other words, almost all of the goods in the inner treasury were for the Qin army.

With the hundreds of years of accumulation of the Ying family, it is still enough to stabilize the common people at the bottom, and of course it can be done.

And after stabilizing the bottom, the next thing to stabilize is the middle and high-level of the Qin State.

Apart from power, King Qin had no other bargaining chips.

Self-imprisonment Zongmiao is to release the power of the clan, and the above generals Wang Yi and Xiangguo Tu Jia are to put the civil and military powers to the nobles of the family.

As a result, the new power structure with the Qin king-clan-family as the triangle will replace the previous Qin king's dominance of the composition of the civil and military families, and become the ruler of the power of the Qin state.

To put it bluntly, it is to transfer the power of King Qin and the wealth of the royal family to more people, so as to stabilize people's hearts.

In this way, whether it is for themselves or for their families, whether it is for the middle and high-level nobles or the low-level soldiers and ordinary people, they are firmly tied to the chariot of the Qin State.

The crumbling chariot seemed to have a new lease of life in the blink of an eye, but unfortunately, the road ahead of this chariot had been blocked by Zhao Guo.

Rao is like this, I have to admit that the old King of Qin is the old King of Qin, who has been in charge of the Qin State for decades, and it is not comparable to Zichu in the end.

It's just that this is probably the last contribution of the old King Qin.

As for how long and how far this new Qin chariot can drive, the old Qin King, who is bound to the Zongmiao, is no longer visible......