Rebirth of Wu Ba Spring and Autumn

Chapter 886 Battle of Hangu Pass

Xianyang Palace.

In the huge Zide Palace, Wu Wang Qingji was playing Go with Fan Li, the imperial historian.

Qingji's chess skills are superb, but he has never won a game of Go with Fan Li for many years.

When playing chess, Qingji thinks that he is an invincible player in the world.

After all, even Fan Li was willing to bow down. Ministers like Sun Wu, Wu Zixu, and Bo Tong would deliberately give way to Qingji when they played chess with Qingji.

To celebrate Ji, which is dull and tasteless, he often plays chess with Fan Li. This is a typical "seeking abuse"!
"Your Majesty, during the battle at Hangu Pass, more than [-] troops from the Nine Kingdoms attacked Xiaohan, so your Majesty is not worried about the battle at the front line?"

Fan Li asked with great interest.

"They can't get in, so why worry about the widow?"

Qingji just laughed it off.

Hangu Pass guards the throat of Xiaohan, borders Hengling Mountains in the west, Juejian in the east, Qinling Mountains in the south, and the Yellow River in the north. The terrain is dangerous and the roads are narrow.

This is a truly majestic pass, a place where one man guards the pass and ten thousand men cannot open it.

Coupled with the 15 troops commanded by Sun Wu, Tian Rangju and others stationed at Hangu Pass, even a coalition of princes with millions of people may not be able to break through the pass.

"Your Majesty, the battle of Hangu Pass, I wonder if Your Majesty has considered the matter of leaving the pass to unify the world?"

"Why does Shaobo teach the widow?"

Obviously, Qingji did have this kind of thought in his heart.

It can be said that it is Qingji's lifelong wish to unify China and become the real first emperor in his lifetime.

Fan Li thought for a while, and then said: "Your Majesty, I think that my great Wu can continue to follow the policy of making friends from far away and attacking closely.

"At close range, if you get an inch, it will be the king's inch; if you get a ruler, it will be the king's ruler."

"If the time is right, Your Majesty can formally send troops out of the customs to destroy the three Jins in one fell swoop. If the three Jins of Han, Zhao and Wei are destroyed, the remaining vassal states will just languish and have no strength to resist my army of great Wu Hulang."

"good."

Qingji's thoughts coincided with Fan Li's.

As early as the beginning of his accession to the throne, Qingji had already established a national policy of long-distance and short-term attack.

What is long distance and close attack?

The long-distance and short-range attack is a strategy under strict specific conditions.

Now, the state of Wu has a strong national strength, with population, territory, military power, economy, culture and other aspects, almost showing a crushing advantage over the nine kingdoms of the Kanto.

The only shortcoming is that Wu has a vast territory, many tribes, and slightly inferior military mobilization capabilities.

Qingji dropped a sunspot on the chessboard, squinted his eyes, and said meaningfully: "Shaobo, in your opinion, should I fight every now and then in order to wipe out the invading divisions from other countries outside Hangu Pass?" ?”

"Yes, no."

Fan Li gave an ambiguous answer, and said, "Your Majesty, if we let go of the allied forces of the princes this time, I am afraid it will cause endless harm. If there is a frequent war, I am afraid that our Great Wu's army will suffer too much damage, and it will take several years of training before we can do it." Go out again."

"The widow seeks to annihilate the enemy army, and does not need to care about the gains and losses of a city or a place."

Qing Ji said with a faint smile: "If you lose the land, you will lose all the land. If you lose the land, you will lose all the land."

"Uncle Shao, as you said, the allied forces of the vassals are just going through a formality outside Hangu Pass, and there is not much loss. What will Wu gain?"

"Nothing."

"..."

Fan Li was silent.

As a monarch and minister who has been with Qingji for more than 20 years, why doesn't Fan Li understand Qingji's thoughts?

Qingji wanted to fight a large-scale war of annihilation.

What is a war of annihilation?
This is a kind of combat that kills or captures all or most of the enemy's vital forces!

The annihilation battle can effectively eliminate the enemy's vital forces and change the balance of forces between the enemy and ourselves.

Obtain a large amount of human and material resources from the enemy country to supplement oneself, severely hit the morale of the enemy country, and boost the fighting spirit of one's own side.

For an army at a strategic disadvantage, fighting a war of annihilation in a campaign can quickly and effectively weaken the enemy's strategic advantage and initiative, and change one's own strategic passive position...

"Your Majesty, if we want to annihilate the division of the Nine Kingdoms instead of defeating them, I am afraid that our Great Wu will have to pour all the troops of the country in order to win."

"hold on."

Qing Ji said earnestly: "The army of the Nine Kingdoms has more than [-] troops, which is too many. In the fierce battle of Hangu Pass, the coalition forces cannot break through the pass, and their morale will be low. Countries such as Qi, Yan, and Zhongshan will see no profit. , will definitely retreat."

"At that time, it will be a favorable time for my great Wu army to go out and fight."

……

The time has entered the 29th year of Wu Wang Qingji, that is, 485 BC, at the end of the sixth month of the lunar calendar.

Just as Qingji expected, Qi, Yan, and Zhongshan, who were too far away from Hangu Pass, and even Song and Wei, saw that the coalition forces lost troops and were still unable to break through Hangu Pass.

The chief generals of Han, Zhao, and Wei were helpless, for fear that the Wu army in Hangu Pass would come out to make dumplings, so they retreated.

A massive war seems to be coming to an anticlimactic end.

Qingji looked at the right time and gave Sun Wu the order to attack.

At the same time, Qingji personally led the [-] Wu army soldiers who had been prepared long ago, and followed them out of Hangu Pass in a mighty manner.

Since Zhao State is in the north, it did not stay with the armies of Han and Wei.

But this time, the attack direction of the main force of the Wu army was the land of Hexi, as well as Luoyi and the vast area of ​​the Yiluo River Basin.

The state of Wu is recovering lost land, but the two countries cannot tolerate the Wu army robbing their own land, so the 24 troops of the Han-Wei coalition confronted the 15 Wu army in Yique.

The terrain of Yique is dangerous, located in the south of Luoyang, it is the only way for Wu Guodong to go out of the Central Plains.

Yishui (a tributary of Nanluoshui) flows northward into Yique. In the past, Dayu dredged this mountain to pass the water.

The two mountains face each other, looking like a gate from a distance, and Yishui flows through the middle and flows northward, so it is called "Yique".

The chief general of the Han army is Prince Geng, the eldest son of the monarch Han Buxin, and the chief general of the Wei army is Wei Man.

At this time, on Yique's side, inside the tent of the Wei army's central army, Wei Man called Prince Geng and a group of generals from the Han-Wei coalition army to discuss important matters.

"Prince, after the Battle of Anyi the year before last, my Wei army was taken away by the Wu people in Hexi, and the capital of the country was destroyed, so we had to move the capital to Daliang."

"Right now in Yique, the Wei army is even more alone, not as strong as your Han army."

Wei Man sighed and said, "Because the main force of the Wu army has not been fully assembled, we are outnumbered, and the Wei and Han coalition forces should attack quickly. It would be best if we can defeat the Wu army and capture King Qingji of Wu."

"If you take the initiative to attack, please ask your army to take the lead."

Upon hearing this, Prince Geng immediately showed displeasure, and said: "The general's words are wrong."

"Although your Wei army is small, there are still [-] people. Besides, the Wei army is not only strong in crossbows, but also has excellent armor, American shields, helmets, and iron curtains, so I hope that the Wei army will lead the vanguard..."

　The countries of this period are already equivalent to the Warring States period, and all the people are soldiers.Now the weakest states of Lu and Wei can also send out 10,000+ troops to fight. After all, there are at least one million people.Han, Zhao and Wei are also equivalent to the country of Wancheng, and a country with 30 million troops can also be used

　　
　
(End of this chapter)