Qin Gong

Chapter 219 Go further to the well and travel twenty miles.

"Yingchuan?"

In Xianyang City, with the news from Yingchuan sent to the palace, Ying Zheng couldn't calm down after reading the bamboo slips.

Looking at the huge map in the study, Ying Zheng looked angry.

According to the plan, the two armies that originally attacked Zhao were trapped in Yingchuan!

"Why don't you know that there are such a large number of forces in Yingchuan?"

Looking at the location of Yingchuan on the map, Ying Zheng asked.

Inside the study.

Kui Zhuang, Lord Changping, Li Si, Wei Liao and other important officials of the Qin State fell silent when they heard Ying Zheng's words and looked at Ying Chuan's position.

This matter was obviously concealed deliberately.

Otherwise, there is such a big force in Yingchuan, and no one knows about it, let alone report it.

"Your Majesty, you can order someone to go to Yingchuan to investigate."

Wang Wan stood up, cupped her hands and said.

The governor of Yingchuan, the county lieutenant, and even the censor all have to investigate this matter, and investigate one by one until the truth of the matter is clarified.

"Let the widow find out, once it is true, the Yi tribe."

Ying Zheng nodded and said softly.

"promise!"

Listening to Ying Zheng's words, Wang Wan was in a state of mind, and quickly bowed her hands to accept the order.

"Li Si, since Li You is in Sanchuan County, immediately let him lead the troops to Yingchuan to investigate this matter together!"

Ying Zheng looked at Li Si.

Li Si looked at Ying Zheng, lowered his head, and quickly cupped his hands.

"promise!"

Li Si responded.

At this moment, Li Si's heart was full of helplessness. The Yingchuan incident obviously involved not just a simple gentry, but many officials must have participated in it, including many city guards and city lieutenants.

If one is handled improperly, the consequences are unpredictable.

"Kings!"

Just as Li Si took a step back, Kai Xiang stepped forward and looked at Ying Zheng.

"Now that Yingchuan is in turmoil, Yang Duan and General Yang Duan are trapped in Yingchuan, and only General Wang Jian is left in Qin State. Li Mu and Sima Shang are facing Li Mu and Sima Shang. General Wang Jian may not have a chance of winning. I suggest that you can First let General Wang Jian retreat back to the territory of Qin State."

Kai said.

Mr. Changping and the others looked at the map when they heard what Kai said.

According to the news from Wang Jian, counting the time, Wang Jian is sending a large army to attack Yanyu now, if he retreats, there is indeed still time.

But this also means that the move to attack Zhao is likely to be delayed, and there will be variables.

"Give more troops to Wang Jian!"

Ying Zheng opened his mouth and looked at the map: "The widow has ordered Qiang Li and Meng Tian to lead [-] troops to help Wang Jian."

"promise!"

Wei Liao clapped his hands in response.

Li Si, Lord Changping and others were not surprised when they heard Ying Zheng's words.

After an hour,

With Li Si and others leaving, Yao Jia was left alone.

Inside the study.

Ying Zheng looked at the map, and fixed his eyes on the location of Zhao Guo, or, in Zhao Guozhong, the place where the word Handan was written.

Destroy the country of Zhao!This is Ying Zheng's long-cherished wish since the beginning of his succession.

What happened in Handan when he was a child made Yingzheng succeed to the throne to quell the civil strife, and he thought about destroying Zhao all the time.

But he sent troops several times, but they all returned without success.

No matter how many Qin troops were dispatched, they were all defeated by Li Mu, which also led to the long-cherished wish of destroying Zhao, which has been delayed for a long time.

"Kings!"

An eunuch came to Ying Zheng holding a roll of bamboo slips in both hands.

Ying Zheng turned to look at the eunuch, then took the bamboo slips from the eunuch, and handed him to Yao Jia.

"This is the bamboo slip sent by Bai Yan!"

Ying Zheng said.

Seeing this, Yao Jia stepped forward and took the bamboo slips with both hands.

Then standing next to the map, Yao Jia held the bamboo slip and slowly opened it. When he saw it for the first time, he couldn't help being surprised, but when he saw the back, his eyes were full of surprise.

Divorce! ! !

That Bai Yan actually wanted to use a divorce plan to drive a wedge between Zhao Guochaotang.

"Yao Jia, do you think this method is feasible?"

Hearing the sound of putting away the bamboo slips, Ying Zheng turned his head and looked at Yao Jia.

This scroll of bamboo slips has been sent here for a long time, but Ying Zheng never took it out, because it is also not easy to do the opposite.

It's better to see if we can attack it with soldiers.

If possible, directly destroy the city of Zhao State and break through Handan along the way.

However, the news of Yingchuan just came.

Facing the current state of Zhao, there is only Wang Jian's army all the way. Facing Li Mu and Sima Shang, the possibility of destroying Zhao with a large army is getting smaller and smaller.

Ying Zheng couldn't help thinking of this scroll of bamboo slips again, or rather the method of dealing with Li Mu in this scroll of bamboo slips.

"Your Majesty, it's hard to say, maybe you can give it a try!"

Yao Jia replied.

Yao Jia is different from other ministers, Yao Jia has been traveling around the country all the year round, alienating other countries for Qin State, and Zhao State, Yao Jia knows best, because before coming to Qin, Yao Jia was an official in Zhao State.

Looking at the scroll of bamboo slips at this moment, Yao Jia was full of surprises and full of curiosity about Bai Yan.

Logically, if he, Yao Jia, knew about Young Master Jia's actions, it wouldn't be surprising to think of this matter, after all, Yao Jia knew Zhao Guo well.

But it was Bai Yan who proposed this move!

How could Bai Yan know Zhao Guochaotang so well?Someone must have told him.

"Your Majesty, since General Bai Yan has written a letter, maybe let him give it a try right now."

Yao Jia looked at Ying Zheng.

Although the bamboo slips say to use the young master Jia to separate Zhao Wangqian and Li Mu, but he is not too sure that he can successfully separate Zhao Wangqian, so it is better to let Bai Yan, who wrote the letter, go to Zhao Guo to try.

Perhaps Bai Yan who wrote the letter already knew how to persuade Young Master Jia.

Ying Zheng nodded when he heard Yao Jia's words.

Under the scorching sun.

In the middle of April in previous years, the flowers should be blooming in spring. I never thought that this year, the country of Zhao was in drought, and there was no rainfall all year round, which caused the temperature to be too high.

Traveling under the scorching sun, even the iron cavalry soldiers, felt uncomfortable.

You can't walk for a long time, you need to rest and recuperate, otherwise, if you suffer from heat stroke, the consequences will be very serious.

From Qicheng to Yanyu.

Fortunately, when Bai Yan led the cavalry army to Yanyu, he did not see Li Mu's Zhao army.

Wang Ben and Yang Yan still led an army of [-] to besiege Yanyu.

As the son of Wang Jian, when Wang Jian and Huan Jue attacked Yanyu, Wang Ben followed his father and participated in the attack.

Therefore, now Wang Ben personally leads the army to attack Yanyu, and he is more handy in attacking the city.

Similar to the method used by Wang Jian and Huan Yu to attack the city at the beginning, in addition to using siege machinery, Wang Ben also used the method of siege with soil to cooperate with the siege, intending to make the defenders in the city tired of coping.

When Bai Yan led the iron cavalry to the army formation.

Among the army, Wang Ben and Yang Yan, dressed in Qin armor, were talking to each other while looking at Yan Yu.

Suddenly seeing Bai Yan leading a mighty army of iron cavalry coming, both Wang Ben and Yang Yan were a little surprised. After ordering the lieutenant to guard the city gate and be alert to the defenders in the city, the two rode towards the direction of the iron cavalry army.

Accompanied by three people meeting.

"Deputy General!"

"Deputy General!!"

Yang Yan and Wang Ben came to Bai Yan on horseback, bowed their hands in salute, looked at the iron cavalry soldiers behind Bai Yan, full of doubts.

Bai Yan bowed his hands to the two of them in return.

"Two generals, the situation has changed. Yang Duan and the general's troops were trapped in Yingchuan by Yingchuan bandits. Due to the obstruction of food and supplies, they were unable to attack Zhao in a short time."

Bai Yan rode a horse and said to Wang Ben and Yang Yan.

As soon as Bai Yan finished speaking, Wang Ben and Yang Yan were shocked.

"Trapped in Yingchuan?"

When Wang Ben and Yang Yan heard Bai Yan's words, they were both generals, and almost immediately realized that if there was no restraint in the south, Li Mu and Sima Shang would attack the Qin army along their route with all their strength.

"Are you going to withdraw your troops?"

Yang Yan asked.

Since Yingchuan was not there, the Qin army led by his father could not reach Zhao State on time, so they had little chance of winning against Li Mu and Sima Shang alone.

"If you don't withdraw troops, General Wang Jian ordered me to come and join the two generals to prevent Li Mu's surprise attack!"

Bai Yan shook his head. If he could withdraw his troops, Wang Jian would have ordered him to lead an army of iron cavalry to escort the army to retreat.

From the corner of his eye, he looked at the city of Yanyu in the distance, countless Zhao soldiers were watching here vigilantly, and under the city, there were many corpses of Qin soldiers.

Hearing Bai Yan's words, Wang Ben frowned slightly,
Wang Ben knew his father's character as the leader of the army. If it was normal, he would have already issued an order to withdraw the troops.

"Deputy General, if we don't withdraw our troops, we will never be able to stay here right now!"

Wang Ben looked at Bai Yan and said.

Facing Zhao Guo's army led by Li Mu and Sima Shang alone is enough to make Ren tremble with fear. If he does not withdraw to Qiyang now, he must not stay here.

Wang Ben turned his head to look at Yan Yucheng. He knew that if the army of Qin State was guarding here, the defenders in Yanhe City would definitely cooperate with Li Mu when they saw Li Mu's arrival. When the time came, the situation of their army would be very dangerous. .

"It's true that you can't stay here!"

When Bai Yan heard Wang Ben's words, he nodded and said, frowning slightly.

Facing Li Mu, Bai Yan was actually very nervous. When Wang Jian gave him the order, he was already ready to fight Li Mu when he arrived here.

Unexpectedly, after arriving here, Zhao Bianqi, who found Li Mu, had not arrived.

In this way, there are many choices left for him.

And behind every choice, every order, he can decide the life and death of these tens of thousands of soldiers.

"General Wang Ben, General Yang Yan, I plan to leave a part of the army and continue to surround Yanyu. The rest of the army will follow me to the direction of Jingjing and march for twenty miles."

Bai Yan looked at Wang Ben and Yang Yan, and said.

Bai Yan knew in his heart that infantry marched thirty to fifty miles a day, which was within the normal marching range, and fifty miles was close to the limit. If they wanted to go any further, they would have to discard their equipment and equipment.

Li Mu and Sima Shang led the Zhao army in Daidi and Yanmen. Although there were a lot of cavalry, the infantry still accounted for the majority.

For twenty miles, Li Mu's cavalry could not be defended, but Li Mu's infantry could be effectively guarded against.

Under such a scorching sun, if Li Mu wanted to surprise the Qin army and break the siege between Yan and him, he would definitely calculate the distance, so as not to let the Zhao army just arrive and become a tired army.

In other words, the day before arriving at Yanyu, the distance from Li Mu's Zhao army to Yanyu must not be greater than twenty miles.

Back then, Hu Jin's grandfather, Hu Yang, did not calculate the distance accurately, so that the exhausted soldiers were defeated by Zhao She.

Facing Li Mu now, Bai Yan also planned to use the twenty miles to prevent Li Mu's surprise attack, and to prevent Yan and the defenders here from cooperating with Li Mu.

"Twenty miles!"

Listening to Bai Yan's words, Wang Ben looked thoughtful.

Wang Ben soon realized Bai Yan's intentions, and couldn't help sighing in his heart. He had to admit that Bai Yan's method was very bold, using offense as defense, and waiting for work with ease.

Even if there is danger, they can return to Yanyu, because the army surrounding Yanyu here has not traveled twenty miles, so they can relax and wait for work, and Li Mu will also be afraid at that time.

thought here.

Wang Ben nodded to Bai Yan.

"Wang Ben agrees with the deputy general!"

Wang Ben cupped his hands and said.

On the other side, Yang Yan frowned, obviously not as quick as Wang Ben.

But in the end Yang Yan also nodded.

Seeing this, Bai Yan gave an order to let Yang Yan be in charge of guarding Yan Yu, and Wang Ben led an army of [-] to follow him to the well diameter for [-] miles.

Yan and the city head.

The soldiers of Zhao State stood in the city road with bows and crossbows in their hands. When they saw another army of iron cavalry coming outside the city, the eyes of the soldiers of Zhao State were full of despair.

Facing the siege of Qin's army, they had little hope of defending the city, but now a large number of Qin's iron cavalry came, which almost made them see no way out.

However, when all the soldiers of Zhao State were in despair, all the soldiers of Zhao State suddenly saw that the iron cavalry army had all left suddenly, and with them, there were about [-] Qin State troops.

"How did they withdraw?"

"Yes, why did they withdraw?"

"Look, they stopped piling up dirt!"

Inside the city road, a soldier named Zhao Guo exclaimed.

After watching the cavalry army leave, the Qin soldiers in the mounds of dirt in the distance outside the city also stopped pushing the soil one after another.

What's happening here?
Stop attacking the city?

"Quickly report to your lord, the Qin army has rushed to the direction of the well!"

Yan and the city.

Zhao You, the guard who just learned that the cavalry army had arrived outside the city, and other guards were sitting in the mansion with despair on their faces, when suddenly a soldier ran in.

"General, all the cavalry of the Qin State outside the city have left and headed for Jingjing, and [-] Qin troops also went to Jingjing together."

After the soldier entered the study, he cupped his hands and said.

"what?"

Zhao You got up with a surprised face, unable to believe what he heard.

Yanyu is the big city of Zhao State, and as a general of Zhao State, how could Zhao You not know how important Yanyu is, so he couldn't believe that the Qin army would leave.

"At this time, why would the Qin army withdraw its troops?"

"That's right, the Qin army actually withdrew its troops! Maybe the Qin army won't fight?"

The other Zhao generals looked at each other with puzzled faces.

"No! It's not withdrawing troops, the Qin army is going to the direction of Jingjing, it must be Lord Wu An who is here!"

When Zhao You panicked, it suddenly occurred to him that it was not that the Qin army retreated, but that the Qin army had to leave.

The direction Qin Guo went to was the well diameter.

The only explanation is that only Wu Anjun led the soldiers and horses to feel that the Qin army had no choice but to give up attacking Yanyu.

"How many Qin troops are there outside the city?"

Zhao You asked hurriedly.

Now that Lord Wu An has arrived, he will naturally play by ear. Once he has the opportunity to cooperate with Lord Wu An, he will definitely inflict heavy damage on the Qin army.

"Back to the general, about [-]!"

Zhao Zu cupped his hands and said.

When Zhao You heard this number, he was obviously puzzled.

Twenty thousand!

Why are there so many more!
Isn't Mr. Wu An here?If Lord Wu An came, how could the Qin army dare to leave so many soldiers and horses outside the city.

Zhao You couldn't figure it out.

After thinking for a moment, Zhao You looked at the other generals who were also puzzled.

"Immediately send my order, the whole army is ready to break through at any time!"

Zhao You said.

Although he doesn't understand right now, Zhao You can't care too much, and can only wait for the opportunity right now.

"promise!"

"promise!!"

In the study room, although a famous Zhao general was puzzled, he also accepted orders one after another.

(End of this chapter)