In Jinling City, Wang Kan sat under a tree and played against people, and not long ago, the dark guard sent back the news of the battle of the Central Plains, and the result surprised everyone.

At that time, everyone felt that the result was nothing more than the defeat of Wei and Qi, and the victory of Wei or Qi. But when the news of Qi's great victory and the almost complete annihilation of Wei came out, the entire Huai State was also shocked.

Wei is not weak, if the 200,000 Wei soldiers in the country compete with Huai, Huai will need to pay tens of thousands of casualties to win. This time, the State of Qi was able to encircle and annihilate 100,000 Wei soldiers of the Wei State with such a small casualty.

This made Wang Kan, who originally wanted to take advantage of the turmoil in the countries and go north to reap the benefits, also became hesitant. For a long time, the countries of Bangzhou have been very wary of Huai, once Huai's national strength goes north, it can not resist it at all by relying on only one country, and only an alliance of multiple countries can do.

Originally, Wang Kan planned to take advantage of the heavy losses of the Central Plains countries to go north, but the victory of Qi made him hesitate a little.

So Wang Kan sighed softly and said: "The living beings in this world are just like the chess pieces on this chessboard, and those who can leave their names in history are some larger chess pieces, and even some princes are just chess pieces. ”

"Who can really control themselves? The vast majority of people are just fish in the middle of the river. Why should the king be worried, the world is so big, Huai Guo is also one of the chess players. "The person who played against him was none other than Zhuangzi.

Zhuangzi was reluctant to become an official, so Wang Kan asked him to serve as a scholar in the school palace, let him read the classics in the school palace and the storage room, and at the same time recorded the articles he wrote, and added Zhuangzi to the hundred schools of thought.

During this time, Zhuangzi debated with scholars of other schools in the palace and left many wonderful articles.

The news of Qi's victory over Wei stunned everyone. After receiving the news of Wei's defeat, Qin immediately dispatched a large army and once again invaded the land west of the river.

This time, the Qin State can be said to be full of confidence, and after leaving heavy troops to defend Shu and Yixian, the 200,000 Qin troops went east again. In fact, after receiving the news of the annihilation of the entire Wei State, the Qin State was also surprised.

Wei fell into an ambush and was surrounded and annihilated by Qi, whose casualties were far lower than Wei's. This incident made Qin Guo a little uncomfortable.

Originally, the Qin State wanted both the Qi State and the Wei State to lose, and he would benefit again, but the current situation is that the Qi State won a big victory, and because of the previous sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight, the relationship between the Qin State and the Qi State was not very good.

Korea was excited to harvest and lose ground, and Wei was defeated all the way, while gathering a large army to rely on mountains and rivers to block Qi, and on the other hand, sending envoys to Qi to sue for peace.

Zhao Guo and Yan Guo were also frightened. Envoys were sent to the country of Qi to congratulate.

Taking advantage of Wei's defeat, Qin attacked in a big way, and this time, no other country came to save Wei. In the war with the Qi State, the 100,000 Wei army was annihilated, and at this time, there were only more than 50,000 Wei warriors left in the entire Wei State.

How could more than 50,000 Wei warriors stop the 200,000 troops of Qin. In addition, Pang Juan also died in the valley, and Wei no longer had a general to command the army.

The 200,000 troops of the Qin State invaded the land west of the river like a tide, and the cities were breached, and the Wei Wushu was also defeated.

The successive defeats demoralized the Wei state, and the Qin state soon occupied a large amount of land and recaptured Anyi. Seeing this, the king of Wei had to send envoys to sue for peace with the Marquis of Qin, agreeing to cede most of the land west of Hexi.

Gongsun Martingale helped Qin recapture a large area of the West River, and the Marquis of Qin was very happy, so he rewarded Gongsun Martingale with Shang land, so Gongsun Martingale was also known as Shang Marting.

After seizing most of Hexi, Qin gained a large amount of arable land and population, while Wei lost most of Hexi's land, and its national power was greatly reduced. Coupled with successive defeats, Wei's strength has fallen to the bottom.

At the same time, Gongsun Yan, who was originally a minister in the Wei State, also resigned directly and left for the Qin State. Gongsun Yan was rewarded for his mission to the Western Chu Kingdom, but since then, he has offered several strategies, but he has not been recognized by the King of Wei and cannot be reused, plus he thinks that the reward of the King of Wei was unfair.

Therefore, after seeing the defeat of Wei, the loss of the land west of Hexi, and almost no hope of rising, he directly resigned from his official position and went to Qin.

The Marquis of Qin attached great importance to Gongsun Yan's performance, and after examining him, he appointed him as a general.

After the Qin State seized most of the land west of the river, it began to eyeing Hangu Pass. At this time, Wei had no strength to stop Qin, and the same was true for Korea. At this time, it can be said that Qin has the best chance to seize Hangu Pass.

Since the establishment of Hangu Pass during the reign of King Xuan of the Western Zhou Dynasty, it was originally to block Rong Di, and after the fall of Rong Di and the rise of the Qin State, it became an important place to block the eastward exit of the Qin State.

For more than 300 years, the Qin and Jin kingdoms fought for Hangu Pass dozens of times without success, and this time, the Qin people finally wanted to master this Xiongguan.

After experiencing the rebellion of the two kings, South Korea's national strength weakened, and he did not dare to confront Qin at all, and even Han Wang Zhao had already declared himself a vassal to Huai in order to obtain the support of Huai, but after he sat firmly on the throne of Han Wang, he wanted to get rid of the influence of Huai, or balance the influence of Huai, so he did not ask Huai for help, but asked Qi for help.

In fact, Korea has been reduced to a small state in the struggle for hegemony among the princes, and now the influence of Huai and Qi in Korea is basically equal, maintaining a fragile balance.

However, this fragile balance was soon broken by Qin Guodong.

Unable to reach Qin, Korea had no choice but to give the land near Hangu Pass to Huai, and at the same time Xu Land to Huai. Ask the Huai State to help fend off the Qin State.

After Wang Kan discussed with the minister, he felt that he could agree, and the Qin State would compete with the Western Chu State west of Hangu Pass, and as for the Central Plains, Wang Kan had already regarded it as the forbidden state of Huai. Naturally, Qin Guo was not allowed to take a bite.

Immediately, a large army was sent north from Nanyang to receive the land around Hangu Pass and Xu State.

After obtaining the land of Hangu Pass and Xu, the Huai State at this time had already surrounded the Bangzhou Wangji in it. Luoyi is now left with less than 200 li of land, and then it is surrounded by Huai and Korea.

After Huai Guo got Hangu Pass, he quickly fought with Qin in Hangu Pass, with the rattan armor army and catapults in hand, coupled with the terrain of Hangu Pass, Huai Guo only used only 5,000 people, so that Qin Guo hit his head in front of Hangu Pass, suffered heavy losses, and wanted to go east out of Hangu Pass, which was interrupted by Huai Guo.

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