Chu and Han contend for the throne

Chapter 534
Zang Tu, the King of Yan, ordered all males over 16 years old and under 60 years old in the country to gather, and the entire Youyan land was suddenly covered with war clouds, cars roaring and horses screaming, and there was a chilling air.

Since ancient times, Yanzhao has many generous and sad singers, once the whole country is mobilized, it will be really powerful.

However, Yan Tu was not overwhelmed by the anger. He knew that there was a considerable gap between Yan and Zhao in terms of national power and military power. Yan could never defeat Zhao with the power of Yan alone, and it was impossible to get revenge for killing his son. Therefore, the Yan State must lobby the other two members of the vertical alliance, Chu State and Bei Diao State, to attack Zhao together.

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Three days later, the flying cavalry of Yan State arrived at Bei Diao City in the starry night.

Beidiao City is the newly built capital after the founding of the Beidiao Kingdom. It is located in the middle of the Liaohe River, which is near Liaoyuan in later generations. The land here is fertile and lush. Increase, coupled with the full assistance of the Chu army, formed an absolute military advantage over Goguryeo and other Donghu tribes.

Up to now, all the Goguryeo men who are taller than the wheels of the carriage on the Liaohe River have been slaughtered, all the Goguryeo women and children have become slaves of the Bei Diao people, and the remaining 10,000+ Goguryeo people have all fled to the wild land on the peninsula land, and robbed the blood-drinking savages there for food.

As soon as the Yan State's flying report arrived at Bei Diao City, Bei Diao Wang Zhaoshe hurriedly summoned General Meng Qigao to discuss the strategy.

Because the Northern Diao Kingdom is located in the Hetao of the Liaohe River, it faces threats from nomadic peoples such as the Xiongnu, Wuhuan, Xianbei, Sushen, Goguryeo, etc., so there is no infantry, but only a Northern Diao light cavalry, this light cavalry Of course, it is impossible to be in the hands of Northern Diao Wang Zhaoshe, but in the hands of Bei Diao General Meng Chuan.

"General, the envoy of the King of Yan is here asking for help, shall we send troops or not?" Facing Meng Ji, Bei Diao Wang Zhaoshe's tail was completely in a negotiating tone. He didn't want to, but he didn't dare, because the Northern Diao cavalry only listened to Meng Ji at all, as long as Meng Ji gave an order, he, the king, would be finished immediately.

"Oh, the envoy of the King of Yan is here to ask for help?" Meng Yu's heart moved slightly when he heard the words. He was always paying attention to the situation in the Central Plains. When he arrived in Liaodong, Meng Ju knew that the king had long been secretly planning to unify the world.

It's just that Meng Xi didn't expect that it was King Yan who struck first.

After receiving King Yan's flying letter from King Bei Diao, Meng Ji hurriedly read it, sat up on his knees, bowed his hands and said, "Your Majesty, since I am the general of Bei Diao Kingdom, I must obey your wishes. If you attack Zhao, the minister will raise troops, if you don't want to, the minister will not raise troops."

The relationship between Northern Diao Wang Zhaoshe Huowei and Yan Wang Zangtu has always been very good. As early as when the Eighteenth Route Anti-Qin Army rebelled, Zhaoshe Huowei sent a cavalry to accompany Zangyan to fight. It was also half of the able-bodied men of the Bei Diao tribe that could be dispatched at that time. The reason why Meng Yu so generously gave up the decision-making power to Zhao She was because he believed that he would definitely choose to send troops.

Sure enough, Zhaoshe was very happy after listening to it, and immediately stood up and said loudly: "I have always had a good relationship with the King of Yan, and Prince Yan Zangyan was watched by me when I grew up. Now Zangyan died at the hands of Zhao Jun's assassins." , How can I sit idly by? General, you go back and gather the army, and send troops today."

"Here!" Meng Jin responded abruptly, and took the order to go.

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Of course, it is impossible for Yan State to hide such a big movement from Zhao State's detailed work, and the news quickly spread back to Handan.

Although Zhao Wang Zhang Ao is getting older, and even the prince is already in his teens, he is still as cowardly as ever. Hearing that King Yan Zang Tu has issued an edict to collect all the young men in the country, he panicked immediately, and he didn't care about it. It was already midnight, and the servant urgently summoned the general Bai Yan and the state minister Zhang Jing to the palace to discuss countermeasures.

"General, Prime Minister, what should I do?" Zhang Ao looked panic-stricken.

Zhang Jing sighed, and said: "My lord, this is also expected. Yan Tu's son Zang Yan is still considered a success, and the remaining sons are either fools or idiots. They can't inherit his great cause at all. Now But let General Bai Yan be killed in Anqiu, how can he let it go?"

"Guo Xiang, don't you need to say such strange things now?" Bai Xuan frowned displeased.

The clan nephew Bai Yan would actually set up an ambush in Anqiu, beheading Prince Yan Zang Yan and seriously injuring Prince Chu Xiangzheng in one fell swoop, which surprised Bai Xuan, but this clan nephew is still a little tender after all, since there is a definite source of information, But why did you only bring 800 people there?In the end, not only failed to capture Zang Yan and Xiang Zheng alive, but also put his own life in it.

What makes people sigh is that it has now brought about a disaster of swordsmen to Zhao Guo.

Zhang Jing sneered in his heart, but he didn't say anything more. He was really afraid of Bai Xuan.

Bai Xuan said to Zhang Ao: "Your Majesty, the Yan army is nothing to worry about. Even if all the young men in Tibet are over 16 years old and under 60 years old, there are only two to 10,000+ people, and such a mob has no fighting power at all. , You don’t have to wait for the Yan army to attack the door, the minister will mobilize a large army to attack the country of Yan, and destroy the country of Yan first!”

The Yan army wants to mobilize the army, mobilize the masses, and go to war, so naturally it will not be able to gather in a short time.

Over the past year, Bai Xuan has made great efforts to rectify the military equipment and stepped up the training of pawns. Zhao Jun's weather has long been different from what it used to be. Bai Xuan has trained an elite team. Of course, this is only an elite team on paper and has not been tested in actual combat.

Now that Yan State is going to fight, it just gives Bai Xuan the opportunity to train troops. I believe that after this battle, Zhao Jun will be able to transform into a true elite. After that, Zhao Jun will be able to fight against the Chu Army in the south. power.

"What, General, are you going to attack Yan?" Zhang Ao said in shock, "What if the Chu army takes advantage of the situation to attack?"

Bai Xuandao: "The Lianheng Alliance will help each other and help each other. If the Chu army takes advantage of the opportunity to attack Zhao, you only need to stick to Handan, and the Han and Han armies will naturally come to rescue."

Zhang Jingdao: "What if the Han army and the Han army don't come?"

"It's impossible." Bai Xuan said decisively, "It's impossible for the King of Han and the King of Han not to know the truth. If the State of Zhao is destroyed by the State of Chu, how can he, the State of Han, and the State of Han be spared?"

Zhang Jing said: "I think it's unwise to pin your hopes on others. It's better to send troops to strictly defend the counties and resist every day. The Yan army may be exhausted and unable to do anything before they reach Handan. After that, wouldn't it be better than a general who sent his troops to attack far away and put the empty city of Handan under the front of the Chu army?"

"Handan is empty?" Bai Xuan shook his head, disapprovingly said, "The prime minister's statement is absurd, otherwise, even if the Han army and the Han army don't come, my great Zhao has 50 strong men, and the king only needs a piece of paper to rule the whole country." In a bloody battle, if the Chu army really comes to attack, even if the Zhao country is finally destroyed, I am afraid that it will be seriously injured."

"A bloody battle across the country?!" Zhang Ao's face turned pale in an instant. Hearing these four words, he naturally thought of the tragic scene of corpses buried thousands of miles away and blood flowing. Imagining the scene of extreme tragedy, Zhang Ao Ao felt his liver and gallbladder tremble, and his legs kneeling on the mat trembled involuntarily.

"Yes, the bloody battle of the whole country will not stop until death!" Bai Xuan stood up with his sword, and said solemnly, "Da Zhao has many generous and tragic men, and the king only has one paper. All men in the whole country can fight with each other. They would rather die than surrender!" !"

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Luoyang, the palace.

"My lord, it's our boss' turn this time, right?" Gao Chu was gearing up, and before he entered the study, his voice had already reached the ears of Xiang Zhuang, Bi Shu and Bai Lixian.

Xiang Zhuang, Bi Shu and Bai Lixian looked at each other and laughed.

Gao Chu was confused by the laughter, and said in a dazed voice, "My lord, what are you laughing at?"

Xiang Zhuang waved his hand and said: "The military advisor said just now that you haven't won any big battles in the past few years, so you must have been exhausted. This time, you will definitely come to ask for a battle. Sure enough, the military advisor guessed right, haha."

Gao Chu scratched his head embarrassingly, and couldn't help but feel a little nervous, and said, "My lord, will it work?"

"Sure, of course!" Xiang Zhuang pointed at Gao Chu with a smile, and said, "You have already talked about this point. If the widow is not allowed, you will blame me to death behind my back?"

"Great!" Gao Chu punched hard, looking extremely excited.

Xiang Zhuang straightened his face, and said: "But at the beginning, the battle to defeat Zhao is not easy to fight. I will talk about the ugly first. If you can't fight the battle to defeat Zhao, I will not miss any old love."

Bai Lixian went on to say: "Zhao Di has many generous and tragic men, bloody and violent, and dare to fight. What we are most worried about is that King Zhao will order a bloody battle for the whole country. If this is the case, even if we can finally destroy Zhao Guo and our army, we will pay a heavy price. price."

"Our army's losses in battle are the second largest." Bi Shu waved his hand and said, "The key is that after the bloody battle across the country, the land of Zhao will become a sea of ​​corpses. Not only will the strong men die, but women and children will also die in large numbers. , but what Da Chu needs is not mountains of corpses and seas of blood, but Hebei, which is densely populated and rich in products!"

Xiang Zhuang said: "So, the key to the battle against Zhao is not to fight, but to divide and disintegrate!"

Gao Chu's face was full of bitterness, and he said with great resentment: "Well, then I'd better not join in the fun."

Xiang Zhuang smiled when he heard the words, Gao Chu's reaction was already in his expectation, and he said immediately: "Once the battle to defeat Zhao starts, Bai Mo will definitely not sit idly by. Although he is also a veteran in the battlefield, he lacks some courage after all, so you should go and sit in Hangu from the beginning."

"Here." Gao Chu responded abruptly, then got up and walked away.

After Gao Chu left, Xiang Zhuang said to Bi Shu and Bai Lixian: "There is a general in the middle of Shu who is going to sit in the town. Even if Bai Mo pours out all the soldiers in Guanzhong to attack, I will not worry about it. Is it really feasible for the prince to lead the army?"

Bi Shu and Bai Lixian looked at each other, at the same time they knelt up from the table and bowed to each other: "I think it is possible."

(End of this chapter)