Chaotic Qin

Eat the king's salary, and worry about the king's worries.

Li Mu knew that from the perspective of King Qin and the prince, the decisions of Prince Qin Chu and Prince Zheng were correct, but as a native of Zhao, his conscience prevented Li Mu from watching his soldiers die.

It seems that these soldiers should take advantage of this good opportunity to accumulate enough kills in the First World War to increase their ranks.

Li Mu thought to himself: Although the prince and his son can't change their thoughts for a while, as long as my soldiers are alive and I often speak to the king, there is always hope of saving their lives.

Even if you take a step back, it would be too wasteful to dispose of such a good soldier casually.

With this in mind, Li Mu, who was as confident in defeating the Yan State army as facing the enemy head-on, decided to use tricks to take down Yan State more easily after thinking about it.

Not long after, the envoys sent by King Yan had already met Yao Jia.

Since Yao Jia and Li Mu had discussed it long ago, they naturally lived alone in the same postman, pretending to be ready to transfer to Qi at any time, and the disguise was very good.

This person is none other than Ju Xin who once helped King Yan Zhao to reform and become stronger.

Ju Xin was a sage when he was young, and he once wrote books. Unfortunately, as he got older, Ju Xin became more greedy and aggressive.

"Yao Qing is polite." Ju Xin smiled and bowed to Yao Jia, his fat face full of flesh looked very kind when he smiled.

Yao Jia returned the same gentle smile.

After returning the gift, he waved his hand to let the waiters around him go down. Then, he turned his head to look at Ju Xin, and said softly, "You must be here because Qin's army is preparing to attack Yan, right?"

Before Ju Xin could reply, Yao Jia frowned slightly, and said with a troubled expression, "Look, Yao Jia has done everything he can."

Yao Jia sighed forcefully, and said in a particularly aggrieved tone: "The Lord of Yan promised me that the assassination of the Lord was definitely not the mastermind of Crown Prince Dan of Yan, so Yao Jia risked his life to persuade the Lord to calm down and accept the governor. Kang’s map, don’t worry about the fact that Prince Dan believed in the wrong person for a while. But before I finished speaking, the minister in charge of torture and investigation of the matter has reported back, and the spies of Wei State have all confessed that Prince Dan of Yan Rejecting his request to return to the country and harboring a grudge, he deliberately used a lot of money with the help of Wei Guo's spies to bribe the servants around the lord. They must assassinate the lord, and they are the ones who capsized in the gutter. After hearing this, Yao Even if Jia is so courageous, he doesn't dare to persuade the lord anymore——Yan Dan wants the lord's life!"

Ju Xin was very impatient with Yao Jia's nonsense.

Before the trip, the Lord of Yan Kingdom had already nagged at him many times.

But Ju Xin didn't say much, and still kept a faint smile on his face, listening to Yao Jia's complaints as if he was very focused.

It was only now that Yao Jia stopped talking and kept sighing, before he said, "Yao Qing, please don't be afraid, the king definitely didn't mean to blame you for this matter - he fully understands your embarrassment."

Yao Jia instantly turned his sadness into a smiling face, and said shamelessly: "Yao Jia is absolutely benevolent in what he has done. The Lord of the Yan Kingdom has no place to criticize me, Yao Jia."

Ju Xin was oppressed by Yao Jia's words.

After staying with the smiling face for a long time, he said: "The Lord believes that with Yao Qing's ability, it will not be a problem to find a way to lure the Qin army to Wusui and Fangcheng, right?"

Yao Jia suddenly showed a look of embarrassment, and kept rejecting Ju Xin's request: "Oh, look at what you said! Yao Jia is so soft-spoken, how can he talk to General Li Mu? You don't know, my lord. I have a lot of trust in General Li Mu. Even before Zhao Wangqian sent people to spread the news of General Li Mu’s rebellion in Xianyang, the king did not believe it at all. Right now, the king has given his word first, and general Li Mu is fully responsible for everything in the army. What do you say Isn't this, this, this... embarrassing me?"

The breath that Ju Xin had just breathed out was stuck in his chest again, causing pain all over his body.

He took a few deep breaths before he remembered his plan and sent someone to carry boxes of jewelry into the room.

Then, Ju Xinqiang looked at Yao Jia with a smile, and said, "This is the sincerity of the lord, please Yao Qing accept it. The lord believes that Yao Qing can do it."

The embarrassment on Yao Jia's face faded away again, and his tone became much gentler: "Since this is the case, Yao Jia will try hard to persuade General Li Mu one or two—but let's say something first, Yao Jia has no idea whether this matter can be done." way to guarantee."

Yao Jia took the money, and they were grasshoppers tied to the same rope.

Of course, if things are successful, they must be successful, and if they are not, they must be successful.

Juxin heard Yao Jiasong, and he finally began to explain the second part of Yan Wangxi's plan: "Wusui and Fangcheng were originally cities in the Dukang area. They were lost because of a battle with Zhao Guo a few years ago. These two wealthy cities. Since Yao Qing dedicated the Dukang area to the lord, General Li Mu must have some understanding of these two places, Wusui and Fangfang. These two places are easy to defend and difficult to attack. It is a good place to line up troops. Yao Qing asked General Li Mu to stop his troops here, and General Li Mu would never think too much about it. After the matter was completed, Yao Qing continued eastward to Qi State. The victory or defeat is Li Mu. One person’s responsibility has nothing to do with Yao Qing—after all, didn’t the Lord of Qin say it? General Li Mu is solely responsible for major military affairs.”

Yao Jia laughed even more happily when he heard this.

He patted the table and said with a smile: "Okay, what a clever plan! Ju Xin is worthy of being a national scholar."

Nationalist?

Shit of Guo Shi!

Yao Jia couldn't stop laughing in his heart, and sarcastically said: Ju Xin is really old, and his brain is getting worse and worse!

Wusui and Fangcheng are indeed important military sites.

If it wasn't for the fact that Yan Guo was lucky from the top to the bottom of receiving Yao Jia's "tip", but honestly set up traps in these two cities according to what they thought, I am afraid that Li Mu would really be unable to do so for a while. Discovered, so suffer some losses.

Unfortunately, when Yan Guo contacted Yao Jia, there was no other chance!

Smiling and sending away Ju Xin who thought he had achieved his goal, Yao Jia didn't stop at all, and went directly to Li Mu's camp.

"General Li Mu, as you expected, Wang Xi of Yan really sent someone over quickly." Yao Jia was not polite, and directly explained to Li Mu what Ju Xin had said.

Then, he looked at General Li Mu and asked calmly, "What is the general going to do?"

Li Mu didn't answer Yao Jia's question right away, but studied the thoroughly perfected sand table with his lieutenants and carefully deduced the terrain.

Yao Jia waited patiently for the answer, his eyes couldn't stop peeking at Qin Chu's solemn face, which was different from the past.

He was enjoying himself, but this made the generals who were very sensitive to people's sight couldn't help but peek back and forth between Qin Chu and Yao Jia.

Li Mu cleared his throat loudly on purpose, then pointed to the sand table and said, "There is actually the Great Wall here, let the main force hide here at that time, once Wu Sui and Fangcheng catch fire, act like they are fleeing to the Great Wall, and lead them all into it .”

A U-shape was formed between Wu Sui and Fangcheng.

If you really walk into it, even if the Qin army is strong, it is not easy to deal with the well-arranged Yan army here, and it is easy to be dumped.

But if the Yan army is drawn out from the U and falls to the bottom of the U, then it is only a trivial matter to encircle and completely eliminate the Yan army.

With Ju Xin's orders, the entire Qin army has fewer things to do!

It's like personally handing over the handle to them, waiting to be completely wiped out by Qin.

Yao Jia smiled when he heard this, and said in a relaxed tone: "General Li Mu, please take care of the attack on the Yan Kingdom. Yao Jialing has a duty ordered by the lord of the country. He will leave for the Qi Kingdom tomorrow. My family, Qin Chu, has to ask General Li Mu to take care of him."

After finishing speaking, Yao Jia blinked at Qin Chu, turned around and left gracefully.

Seeing that Yao Jia was gone, Li Mu patted Qin Chu on the back, and laughed loudly: "Okay, follow Yao Shangqing out twice, and when he comes back, he will be yours!"

The lieutenants who were present immediately started laughing and making jokes with him.

Compared with the country of Yan, which obviously has the dangerous Yishui River, but has pulled the front line forward to die on the edge of the Great Wall that originally served as the border between Yan and Zhao, Wei Guoguo, who really has no ability, can only rely on Daliang City to resist the Qin army entering the palace. The Lord is the one who really wants to cry but has no tears.

"My ancestors, please bless my country of Wei forever! Bless Daliang City from being breached! Bless the soldiers to be brave and fearless to protect me!! I don't want to be the king of subjugation!!!" Wei Wang Ji Yu knelt in the ancestral temple and kept asking the past generations The portrait and rank kowtow of the Lord of Wei.

"The widow, the widow is filial to the mother, treats the courtiers well, and takes care of the brothers. At the beginning, it was obvious that Fan Sui colluded with the lord of Qi, but before Fan Sui fled, he deliberately instructed the king of Qin to humiliate the widow and even killed my important minister of the Wei state! It is obviously Wei Wuji who is shameless He kept begging for property from the widow, and even wanted to usurp the throne. After being left idle in the country by the widow, he deliberately pretended to spread rumors that the widow was jealous of his talents and could not tolerate his survival! The widow couldn't bear it and secretly bribed him His disciples poisoned him to make him die earlier! You are not wrong! Why did God want to kill me!" Wei Wang Jiyu said with a distorted face, and his words were full of hatred.

But even though his head was bleeding, he didn't stop for a moment.

Wei Wang Jiyu kept kowtowing to the memorial tablet, tears and snot mixed together on his face, and against the cold and crazy eyes, he looked hideous and terrifying.

"My lord, the Qin army's crossbow has already shot into the city!" An servant outside the ancestral temple howled in a hoarse and piercing voice.

The lord of the Kingdom of Wei still has a quiet ancestral temple where he can hide, but if these castrated palace people lose their country, they really have no place to hide anymore!

After a while, there was still no movement in the ancestral temple.

After the servant paused for a moment, he continued to shout at the top of his voice: "Master, Lord! Please come out and preside over the overall situation! The survival of Wei depends on you!"

"My lord, my lord, please come out! My lord!!!" The servant cried and knelt outside the door, kowtowing non-stop.

But even though he knew that there would be no "King of Wei" if the Kingdom of Wei perished, the servant didn't have the guts to rush in and take a look at Ji Yu, and he didn't dare to touch the authority of King Wei at all.

No matter how miserable the servants were crying, there was still no movement in the temple. Wei Wang Jiyu was unwilling to talk to these lowly servants.

He looked up at the majestic and solemn portraits of his ancestors in the temple, and his heart was full of despair.

What can he do to resist Qin's attack?

The original plan of the Qin army was to let Wang Jian attack Yan and Wei at the same time.

Wang Jian was ready to divide his troops into two groups. The weak Yan State would be attacked by his son Wang Ben, and he would deal with the more difficult Wei State by himself.

This is not because Wang Ben is more outstanding than other generals under him, but because Wang Jian knows that the one who understands his thoughts best is his own son who has been with him for many years.

The father and son will not hold each other back on the battlefield.

But the situation changed. Li Mu repelled the Huns ahead of schedule and returned to the battlefield.

The lord of the country entrusted the task of attacking Yan to Li Mu who had returned from victory, and Wang Jian was even happier.

With the stable, eager and talented Li Mu fighting on the battlefield of Yan State, Wang Jian can go all out on the battlefield of Wei State, without worrying about his son being young and ignorant, impulsive and aggressive, delaying the battle!

"Father, Daliang City is extremely strong. We have been trapped here for many days, but we can't take it down at all." Wang Ben frowned, staring angrily at the city wall standing in front of him.

After three full months of attack, except for the daily increase in the number of soldiers, the Qin army's attack did not gain anything.

This is the time when Wang Ben is at his most energetic. Although Wang Jian has also suffered defeats, Wang Ben, who grew up with his father, has never seen any other city as terrible as Daliang City.

It seems that it will never fall, and it keeps rejecting the Qin army's attack.

...It was as if he had the blessing of the ancestors of Wei!

But Wang Jian didn't believe this at all!

The fact that he couldn't attack Daliang City was just that he used the wrong method, not that Wei Guo's dead wood was in spring.

Wang Jian stood with Wang Ben, staring up at Daliang City.

Without saying a word, he turned and returned to the commander's tent, pointing his fingers on the map, frowning tightly, staring at the two wide rivers across the two sides of Daliang City.

Wang Jian suddenly laughed.

Wei Wang Jiyu has now reaped the evil fruit that was planted at the beginning.

Because he didn't want to fight head-on with the Qin State, he cut off five cities today and ten cities tomorrow, and lost a large area of ​​Wei State's land. Now only the capital Daliang City and some small cities near it are left, and these small cities have no guards at all. role.

Daliang City is now like a lonely boat adrift in the ocean, facing the stormy waves that are coming, its survival until now is entirely dependent on luck.

But being engulfed by the monstrous waves is already the doomed path for the future of Daliang City!

And the once glorious Wei State, like Daliang City, has become a weeping island in the wind, isolated and helpless.

But it was such an isolated island that stubbornly stood in front of the 20 Qin army, unwilling to let it go, and forcibly stopped the progress of the invincible Wang Jian and his son.

"There is no need to use more troops, and there is no need to set up ladders to attack. We can't overcome the girders, climb the towering city walls, and break through the bricks that are too hard to leave any marks. It is useless to invest more combat power Yes." Wang Jian immediately withdrew his troops.

Back in the camp, he seriously studied the map.

"Father, although the soldiers of the State of Wei resisted very fiercely, before the country was subjugated, there were always more people who rose up and resisted than were captured without a fight. If we continue to send more troops, the capture of Daliang is just around the corner." Wang Ben is still very young now, and there are inevitably some teenagers The blood and warrior-like impulse unique to human beings.

Wang Jian shook his head calmly, and said with a light smile, "Of course the people of Wei still want to continue to exist, but they are exhausted."

After saying that, Wang Jian's fingers landed on the two rivers surrounding the capital of Wei State on the map.

He showed a faint smile, looked at Wang Ben, and handed the map to him.

Wang Ben stared at the map hesitantly for a long time, finally understood what his father meant, and immediately showed a surprised smile on his face.

He said in disbelief: "This method is really great!"

Really good.

The walls of Daliang, the capital of the Wei State, are so strong that they are hopelessly strong, and can almost be described as indestructible.

But when the Yellow River and the Huaihe River flowed into Daliang City, they didn't know if the foundation of this famous and solid city could be so strong that even the hardest and softest water in the world could resist it?

"Pass down the order to let the soldiers who have participated in the construction of the Zhengguo Canal come out. I want to gather them together to repair the canal." Wang Jian suddenly ordered the messenger.

"General Wang Jian has an order, the soldiers who have participated in the construction of the Zhengguo Canal come out!" The voices of orders came loud and clear into the barracks one after another.

The hinterland of Guanzhong is the place where the dragon of Qin State flourished, and it is also the place where the common people live together.

Therefore, in addition to the people in the territory that was later collected, among the 20 troops brought by Wang Jian, more than 15 soldiers participated in the excavation and construction of the Zhengguo Canal.

Of course, the more people, the better!

Wang Jian looked at the bustling crowd below, and the solemn look on his face finally faded away.

He asked his young generals to lead the group of strong men, who had grown bigger and rounder after recuperation, to the bank of the Yellow River, and dug the embankment one after another.

Gradually, this channel with a width of more than ten meters directly pointed to Daliang City, and Wang Ben also led another team to the edge of the Huaihe River, and led his soldiers to dig towards the same target.

"General, you lead the soldiers to dig ditches every day. What are you doing?" the young general under his command asked in confusion.

Wang Jian couldn't help laughing, and said softly: "When the gentle river flows over the girder, I want to know whether the stones glued together after the clay has dried are really unmoved and as strong as ever."

The young general's eyes widened, and he said stutteringly, "You, you mean to destroy the walls of Daliang City? This is impossible! Daliang City is so high, how can it be possible..."

"As long as the solid foundation is destroyed, what's the use of the walls above being strong? They will also collapse." Wang Jian looked at the progress of digging the embankment and frowned in dissatisfaction.

Wang Jian stepped forward, even picked up the plow and shovel himself, and followed the soldiers present to dig this river ditch that could break the beam.

I hope that the gentle comfort of the river water like a mother can soften this stubborn capital.

It wouldn't be worth it to lose a large number of Qin's soldiers just to attack such a country where there are not many soldiers left.

Win or lose here!

Qin Zichu sat in front of the table, picking out the black and white pieces on the chessboard one by one.

Of course he doesn't know how to play such a high-end game of Go, so Qin Zichu shamelessly played Go as backgammon.

Ying Zheng pressed Qin Zichu's palm, and suddenly said, "Zichu, your heart is restless—are you worried about the war?"

Hearing Ying Zheng's question, Qin Zichu couldn't help sighing.

Afterwards, he said: "The military analysis I've read before said that two-front warfare is the easiest to fail. Yan and Wei are in the north of my Great Qin Dynasty and the other is in the east. Am I a little bit dazzled by the success of these days? , so you become greedy and aggressive?"

Hearing this, Ying Zheng smiled.

He patted the back of Qin Zichu's hand reassuringly: "My Great Qin once fought against Yan, Chu, and Wei at the same time and won, don't worry. Li Mu and Wang Jian are not vegetarians."

"But history cannot be copied, and so is victory. I can't help worrying about it." Qin Zichu frowned.

He looked at Ying Zheng with a little disappointment, and suddenly said: "Sometimes I regret that the relationship between us has developed like this, because you probably have no chance to be the first emperor who 'unified China'."

Ying Zheng laughed nonchalantly, and said coolly, "Actually, it's not bad to be the Second Emperor of Qin."