Chapter 33 Six Expeditions
Wei Liao said that he would definitely defeat Zhao State, but he was not sure about the rapid destruction of Zhao State. This was because of Zhao State itself, the Three Kingdoms Alliance, and the Qin State itself.
After more than a year of truce, the Qin army rarely used troops to any country, but was actually purging the internal sanctions. Lao Ai and Lu Buwei died. The officials who had previously attached these two people needed to be cleaned up, especially Lu Buwei, who had been in charge of the prime minister for more than ten years. In the court, all counties and counties had their own followers, and these were all cut off as soon as possible.
In addition to officials, the rectification of the Qin army was also a major event. Three years of defeat in the three-year attack on Chu was not a problem of command by the generals, but a problem of backward tactics of soldiers and armor. For more than a year, Wei Liao made every effort to rectify the Qin army's tactics, striving to adapt the Hua team into a pure team, but because the performance of the entire Qin army was based on the system of military merits and titles, this change was very difficult.
The flower team is a spear, spear, beryllium, and a team of five people. They fight in a team. If the head level is won, their long hair will be dispersed and tied around their waists. One team still needs to support each other, because one team also needs to be considered to win. If the head level of the whole team wins less than the loss of the first team, then the person who wins the first team will not only fail, but will also be punished with the first team.
The pure team is full of chief spears. The soldiers in the entire town are closely arranged during the war and retreat together. When fighting, no one is allowed to leave the team to behead the heads. They can only be killed after the war. But after the war, who can tell who was killed who killed? Therefore, the soldiers were resistant to the pure team from the beginning, and believed that the new tactics cut off their own path to promotion.
The low-level officers, the commander of the garrison, the 500th general, and the 500th chiefs do not support the pure team. The cooperation of the flower team is the cooperation between the soldiers, and the pure team is the cooperation between the team. Since the entire army has a spear team and a crossbow team, who will command the spear team and who will command the crossbow team? Of course there is no problem in commanding the spear team, how can the crossbow team be determined to win? No matter how you win, how can you promote your title?
In addition, it is difficult for spear teams based on horizontal tactics rather than column tactics to advance and retreat quickly, and the protection of the flanks is also extremely weak. This is why the Macedonian phalanx can only become a cutting board, a cutting board that cannot be broken. This was not the case with the Qin army's previous array. Fighting in units of troops can advance and retreat quickly, and can tolerate flank breaks. Give up a flexible flower team and use a dull and unflexible pure team. In the eyes of most officers, it is unwise.
The implementation of the new tactics has received such great help that Wei Liao could only adapt a small number of elite soldiers into pure teams, similar to the previous Sergeants, but the number has been expanded. Their role is the same as before, mainly to break the enemy's battle formations so that ordinary soldiers can rush through the gap to attack the enemy's side and cause the enemy to collapse.
Next is the 30,000 guards under Li Xin. They started to use the chief spear to fight before innovating their tactics. After a year, the spear formation tactics were practiced more skillfully. Wei Liao hoped that this unit would be used on the tip of the knife. As long as the Zhao army dared to fight against the Qin army in the field, he believed that the sharp iron spear would be able to defeat the Zhao army.
Everything that should be said and everything that should be done was done. Wei Liao could only wait quietly for Zhao Zheng's decision. However, Zhao Zheng did not attend court for several consecutive days. On the fifth day, the messenger finally summoned him to Qutai Palace. When he went, the right prime minister Xiong Qi had been kneeling for a long time.
"I have decided to attack Zhao." Zhao Zheng, who was wearing leather suit, was not much easier than that day. After he finished speaking, his eyes turned to Wei Liao. "Wei Qing thinks, how many years will it take to destroy Zhao?"
"I think it's necessary for more than ten years." Wei Liao calculated silently in his heart and gave a general answer.
"How many years are there for more than ten years?" Zhao Zheng's face was darker, and he could not accept this generalization.
"Report to the king: I think Zhao can be destroyed in twelve years." Wei Liao said.
"Why is it twelve years?" Zhao Zheng asked again, "Although Zhao State destroyed Yan State, it has not been stronger again, so why does it take twelve years? If Zhao is destroyed, how many years will it take to destroy Jing?"
"The king, the three kingdoms of Jing, Zhao and Qi were allies, and the destruction of Zhao was not an enemy of one country, but an enemy of the three kingdoms. Guan Zhong said: "The army of Shiyi was not resolved for three years, and it was not a surplus of food, so the people would have to sell their children." Therefore, the army had to take a break for three years, otherwise the soldiers would be exhausted and they should not fight again. One attack was three years, and Zhao was destroyed after three years. During this period, three years were used as a temporary stop for soldiers, so it took twelve years.
When Zhao was destroyed, Jing Qi was weak. At this time, I occupied Zhao Yan's land, obtained Zhao Yan's people, and then attacked Jing Qi, which would achieve twice the result with half the effort. These twelve years will be achieved."
"Twenty-four years?" Zhao Zheng murmured. This year is the thirteenth year of King Zheng of Qin, and another twenty-four years is the thirty-seventh year of King Zheng of Qin. If history has not changed, Zhao Zheng will die in the thirty-seventh year of King Zheng of Qin.
In fact, the attack was only two attacks: the thirteenth year, the fourteenth year, and the fifteenth year was the first attack, and the threeth year was the full force of attack; the sixteenth year, the Qin army rested and destroyed Han during the rest period; the second attack (eighteenth year, nineteenth year, twenty years), Zhao was destroyed in the nineteenth year, Handan was defeated, and King Zhao was captured. In the twenty years, the defeat of Yan in Yishui, and the coalition forces were appointed.
Taking advantage of the remnant force of the second attack, even though most of the main forces were resting, the Qin army still captured the capital of Yan State Jicheng in the 21st year, and tentatively attacked Chu, warning the Chu State not to intervene in the battle to destroy Wei.
The third attack began in the 22nd year, and Wei was destroyed. In the same year, Li Xin led 200,000 troops to attack Chu and returned. In the 23rd year, Wang Jian defeated the Chu army, and Xiang Yan committed suicide by placing sword; in the 24th year, the Qin army captured the Chu capital Shouying and captured the Chu King Fu Chu.
Originally, everything was over in the twelve years of the Three Defences (Qi surrendered without fighting), but now because Chu State becomes stronger, Zhao State destroys Yan, and the Three Kingdoms Alliance is extended to the 24th year of the Six Defences. Twenty-four years later, Zhao Zheng was fifty years old and was already old. Thinking that it would take until he was fifty to be able to live a whole day, Zhao Zheng couldn't help but worry. Which day can he live? Even if he could survive until that day, how long could he live?
"King, there are few soldiers who can fight between Jing and Qi. The two countries join together and Zhao. If they can avoid Jing and fight against them, it will be enough to destroy Jing and Qi. It will take only twenty years." Wei Liao also knew that twenty-four years were too long, so it was reduced by four years, so Zhao Zheng was only forty-six years old. But no one saw that his eyes flashed slightly when he spoke, and he could not say anything he could not say.
The strategic concept of destroying Zhao first and then Chu has a huge and dangerous hidden danger. There are not only six countries in the world. After Li Mu defeated the Di people, the Di people on the grassland were reshuffled. The bloody lessons made them understand that it is impossible to disperse the increasingly large Chinese forces. After the reshuffle, the Di people will be like China, and the grassland will be ruled by a king.
After Zhao destroyed Yan, he started from Gaoque (now Huhe Wenduer Town (Qingshan Town) in Urathou Banner, Inner Mongolia) and ended in Liaodong in the east. They were all the people of the Zhao people defending the north. The Qin Great Wall defended only the Western Rong. The Yu Branch of the Western Rong had always had good friendships with the Qin State. Destroying Zhao was equivalent to replacing the Zhao people facing the increasingly powerful Di people in the northern grasslands.
If the Di people in the grassland were unified and then marched southward, and the Qin army attacked Chu in the south, the Qin State, which fought on both sides, suffered a crushing defeat. The result of the crushing defeat was that the entire Qin State collapsed. Qin was not Zhou, but the Qin Office was a single strong man, and the country was supported by officials. Once the military defeat was defeated, the officials surrendered or scattered, and the first household in Guizhou would be established in other countries, and there would be no possibility of recovery.
The only vitality of Qin State is that it must sweep away the countries in Guandong before the Di people are unified on the grassland, but with the human and material resources of the whole world, it will be doomed to fight against the Di people. Even if it is one step slower, it will be doomed.
With the fact that the students of Guigu were well-versed and were in charge of tens of thousands of spies from the National Wei Mansion, Wei Liao could judge this even if he did not send people to the grassland to find out the news, but he did not say this to Zhao Zheng. He and Zhao Zheng were only in a business relationship, and there was no question of whether they were loyal. If Chu State was willing to ask him to be the prefect of the Grand Sima Mansion, he could go to Chu State immediately. Of course, this process would not be a worry for life.
Zhao Zheng thought about his life twenty-four years later. After Wei Liao reflected in his heart, he felt that he had not destroyed the professional ethics of scholars. Not only did he not destroy them, but he was extremely moral. Little did he know that many wandering scholars, disciples, and servants took the money of the lord and ate the lord's meal, but he ended up selling the lord's favor. The right prime minister Xiong Qi had always hoped that Zhao Zheng would scatter the court as soon as possible, and he had to quickly spread Wei Liao's words to the State of Chu.
The three attacks were destroyed by Zhao, and the six attacks were destroyed by Chu Qi. If this was the case, there was not much time left for Chu. He must remind Xiong Jing to prepare early and save Zhao after the Three Kingdoms Alliance. As long as Zhao did not perish, Chu would not perish.
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"It turns out that Indians also learned Alexander's tactics." After seeing the words written on Wu Ji's paper, Xiong Jing sighed sincerely in his heart.
"Yes. When the Emperor attacked India, a man named Sandroko Tusi came to ask for a visit and expressed his willingness to assist the Emperor in attacking India. He said that his mother raised a beautiful bird. At that time, he was being driven away by the Nanda people and escaped from Mogata. At this time, another man named Janaga also came to visit the Emperor.
The Great Emperor gave the land along the Indus River to Sandroko Tusi, and allowed him to learn cavalry tactics in the Mahadol army. After the Emperor's death, he and Janaga returned to Mogadol and called on the people there to expel the Mahadol people. After that, he joined forces with the states on both sides of the Indus River like the Great Emperor to defeat the Nandol people, proclaimed himself emperor in Fahrenheit, and unified the entire India."
Alexander the Great was a Greek and Macedonian topic, and Wu Ji's teacher Aristotle IV sent people to India to investigate in order to find out the great battle that was already at the most edge of the world. The investigation was edited in a book called "Conquest of India" and stored in the library of the Kingdom of Baktria along with another book called "Conquest of Sogdiana".
"Any country in the world is known to be affected by the Emperor, and several great powers were completely established by the Emperor's friends or subordinates. No one would be amazed at the great conquest of the Emperor." Under the influence of his teacher Aristotle IV, Wu Ji was already half a Greek. Whenever he mentioned Alexander, his eyes shone with light.
"Can the envoys of Chu go to India through the Kingdom of Baktria?" Xiong Jing was thinking about another thing.
Chapter completed!