Zhao Weiwang in the Warring States Period

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Lu Buwei replied very respectfully: "Your Majesty, the Allied Forces of the Four Nations and Zhao Jun are still in a confrontation. Zhao Jun seems to want to delay time and wait for the turning point."

Qin Wangchu was stunned for a moment, then a mocking smile flashed across his face, and he said, "With the current situation in Zhao State, what kind of turnaround can there be? It's ridiculous!"

For the current war situation, Qin Wangchu is still very confident. After all, it is absolutely impossible to compare with all other countries in the world by relying on the power of this mere Zhao country.

Back then, the Qin State under the rule of King Qin Zhaoxiang, the grandfather of King Qin Chu, was so powerful, couldn't it be the same that he could only take a defensive position in front of the Allied Forces of the Six Nations?

So Qin Wangchu asked another question: "Where is Li Mu? How is Li Mu doing now?"

Compared with the war in Suiyang City that Qin Wangchu didn't see much suspense, in fact, the Qin King was still more concerned about Li Mu's situation.

In the past few years, the name Li Mu has brought countless pains and sorrows to the dignified Daqin, and it is almost like a nightmare existence.

Now in the folklore of the Qin people, Li Mu has been described as a monster from the underworld, and the old Qin people always use words like "If you are naughty again, Li Mu will catch you to the underworld!" Naughty kids, and fairly easy to do.

Lu Buwei replied very respectfully: "According to the situation a few days ago, Li Mu has assembled the main force of the Zhao Kingdom's border cavalry regiment to join forces with the Yiqu people, and now he is leading 2 to [-] cavalry to go south with great fanfare. The target seems to be Shaoliang City or Yinjin City. It seems that Li Mu may want to conquer one of these two cities, so as to cut off the connection between Guanzhong and the main force on the front line."

Qin Wangchu frowned slightly, and then asked: "How is the strategy of fortifying the wall and clearing the wilderness formulated before?"

Lu Buwei replied: "It was very successful. Almost all the people have completely evacuated into the nearby cities, and I can assure the king that this time Li Mu's troops will definitely not be able to obtain enough military rations in Guanzhong."

In order to prevent Li Mu from going south this time, Qin State also paid a very heavy price, that is, the millet that has just grown half grown and is about to be harvested in four or five months, all of them have been snapped up by the people of Qin State. If it was too late to grab them, the government also ordered the people of Qin to burn them down before they left.

In this way, a bad harvest in Guanzhong this year is inevitable.But the advantage of doing this is that it is impossible for Li Mu to get much supplies in such a pass.

As long as Li Mu cannot get enough supplies, Li Mu has only two choices in front of him. The first is to face the fortified city of the Qin people, and the second is to retreat in despair. After all, cavalry is different from infantry, and it is impossible to carry a large number of supplies and rations.

According to the speculations of many Qin generals and the previous experience of fighting Li Mu, Li Mu, who had no food, had to retreat within ten days and half a month at most.

If Li Mu retreats quickly, then Guanzhong can rush to plant a wave of soybeans, which can barely be regarded as a little capital to survive.

Of course, just relying on this amount of soybeans is not enough to solve the problem of food shortage, but the monarchs and ministers of Qin have already figured out a way to deal with it.

Since the Qin army traveled thousands of miles east to fight this time, and Li Mu was harassing in the backyard Guanzhong, when the Six Nations Anti-Zhao Alliance was first established, it was determined that the food and grass of the Qin army would be jointly borne by the three countries of Han, Chu, and Wei.

As a result, the Qin State saved a large amount of military rations, and Qin Wangchu just used the saved military rations to start this winter to provide disaster relief to those Qin people who had no food.

In addition, in the past two years, with the continuous implementation of the water conservancy projects led by Li Bing in Central Shu, the grain output in Central Sichuan has also increased year after year, and this year it has approached [-]% of the level in Guanzhong, which is the highest value over the years.

Although the founding king of the enlightened dynasty, Kaiming Emperor Bieling, had also cured the water before this, it did not fundamentally solve the problem of waterlogging in the middle of Sichuan. In the memorial, the rhetoric of "Within ten years, the output of the land of Bashu can be used by the whole Daqin" was written.

It can be expected that Bashu will really become the big granary of the Qin State in the next few years. At that time, the people of the Qin State will really not have to worry about the problem of food shortage.

Cai Ze on the side has never had any sense of presence. This one also took the opportunity to cough and interjected: "Your Majesty, what I want to say is that you must not underestimate Zhao's strategists. In the past few years, What Zhao State is best at is relying on those strategists to turn black and white, and let other countries join Zhao Guo's camp. Now Zhao Guo intends to procrastinate on the battlefield, maybe it is to buy time for the strategists."

Qin Wangchu frowned, and said after a while, "So Mr. Gang Cheng means that I want you to find a way to start a war with Zhao Guo immediately?"

Cai Ze nodded, and said: "Your Majesty, you should urge the people of Qi to go south as soon as possible, and then let the coalition forces go to war against Zhao as soon as possible. As long as the main force of Zhao is defeated as soon as possible, the situation can be established as soon as possible, and Zhao can be defeated as soon as possible. Hedong County and Weihan The channel will return to Daqin as soon as possible!"

Qin Wangchu seemed a little hesitant, but after thinking for a while, he finally nodded and agreed with Cai Ze's opinion, and said, "If that's the case, then the widows will write a letter to King Qi to talk about this matter." .”

Seeing that Qin Wangchu agreed with his opinion, Cai Ze was also secretly proud, and couldn't help but look up at Lu Buwei provocatively.

But today's Lu Buwei seemed a little distracted, and his expression looked a little weird, which made Cai Ze secretly surprised.

After the discussion between the three monarchs and ministers, some palace people came to remind them that it was time to observe the filial piety in the afternoon, so the three monarchs and ministers got up one after another and prepared to go to the mourning hall.

But at this time, the chief guard of Qin State's palace suddenly rushed in like the wind, and shouted anxiously to King Qin Chu in front of him: "Your Majesty, Li Mu is here!"

Chapter 778 The West City Gate Guarded by General Wang (Third Change)

The matter started almost half an hour ago.

Just half an hour ago.A hundred generals of the Qin Army City Guard with a very gloomy face brought his 100-man squad to the west gate of Qin State and began the transfer of defense.

Perhaps it was because his attitude was so bad that after the handover was over, the guards of the Qin State City who had just left the city couldn't help but whispered to each other.

"What is the origin of that hundred general just now? It seems quite unfamiliar. Why is his expression so arrogant?"

"Hehe, don't you know? I heard that the hundred generals are members of the Wang clan. He was originally a partial general of the imperial guards in the palace, but because he offended Mr. Gang Cheng, he was dismissed not long ago and demoted to our Be a hundred generals in the city guard."

"Oh, it turned out to be a member of the Wang family. I wonder why this guy is so arrogant. Ganqing is still a down-and-out phoenix."

The hundred general of the Qin Army walking in the front obviously heard the voices of his subordinates discussing, turned around and spat heavily, and said, "What kind of shitty Phoenix, shut up if you don't know how to speak, talk nonsense What the hell! Don't run to deal with that person for a while, lest you get into trouble!"

The city guards immediately understood that the matter of feelings was not over yet, so they were naturally in a hurry, and immediately put the hapless general surnamed Wang behind him.

He also heard one of the city guards smiling at his generals in front of him, "Baijiang Chen, I heard that the second younger sister of your family recently married the housekeeper of Lord Wu Cheng as a concubine. Gao Zhi, don't forget the old brothers when you get rich in the future."

Chen Baijiang immediately became happy when he heard this, his dark face was full of smiles, he laughed and said: "That's natural, you don't know my brother-in-law, he is the special supervisor in Wu Chengjun's mansion. The housekeeper who disciplines the servants and concubines ranks eighth among all the housekeepers!"

The hundred generals of the Qin army became more and more proud as they talked, and many Qin army city guards around him also expressed their compliments one after another, with envious expressions on their faces.

For these big soldiers at the bottom of society, being able to climb up to such a great figure as Wu Chengjun Lu Buwei, even if it is just marrying his sister to a small butler in Lu Buwei's mansion as a concubine, that is enough to make these low-level The little people are proud of it, and there is even hope that by virtue of this incident, a salted fish will turn over.

The more Chen Baijiang talked, the happier he was, and he simply smiled at a few old subordinates who were familiar with him: "Come on, let's go to my house to prepare some dishes and have a good chat." So the cheers of the crowd were even higher, shoulders and backs 's gone.

What this group of generals and soldiers of the Qin Army who seemed a little happy because they had just finished their duty did not know that at this moment, in a small forest about seven or eight miles away from them, a group of soldiers was quietly ambushing Elite Zhao Jun cavalry.

After a night of sleep and another morning of rest, Li Mu was in good spirits. Standing on the edge of the grove, he silently watched the incomparably tall city wall of Xianyang several miles away, and then whispered to the few Zhao Guomen around him. "Are you ready?" said the officer.

It is worth mentioning that the Zhao cavalry officers beside Li Mu are all wearing the clothes and costumes of soldiers of the Qin army, and they look like cavalry soldiers of the Qin army through and through.

And it's not just these few people. Among the [-] Zhao cavalry in the entire grove, there are a total of [-] Zhao cavalry dressed like this.

These clothes were seized by Li Mu from the warehouse of Xianyang City when he captured Xianyang City two years ago. At that time, thousands of sets of clothes were seized, and Li Mu transported all of them back to Zhao Guozhong as spoils of war. One hundred sets were released and put in the warehouse in Hetao County.

The reason why it was brought out this time was originally to break the Qin people's policy of strengthening the wall and clearing the wilderness, and to deceive a certain city.

Looking at the [-] energetic "Qin Cavalry" in front of him, Li Mu nodded, got on his horse, turned his head and told the lieutenant behind him, "Remember, you must wait until I arrive at the city gate. Then lead the other brothers out to launch an attack on the city, understand?"

After the lieutenant answered in a low voice, Li Mu immediately clamped the horse's belly lightly, waved his hand, and shouted: "Let's go!"

Under the leadership of Li Mu, five hundred cavalry drove out of the small woods one after another, and came to the official road outside the woods.

After turning a corner along the road beside the forest, a straight official road is in front of you, and the end of the road is the west gate of Xianyang City in Qin State.

Although it was still several miles away, the momentum of the five hundred cavalry galloping together was no small matter, and the smoke and dust they created was billowing like a tide, which was immediately discovered by the guards of the Qin army on the top of the city.

In almost a short moment, all the city guards on the top of the city became tense, and one by one began to enter a state of vigilance.

"What's going on?" The hundred generals of the Qin Army Wang who had just finished changing defenses and patrolled this section of the city wall appeared.

The soldiers of the Qin army said in a panic: "The hundred generals look outside the city, is it the cavalry of the Zhao people who are calling?"

To be honest, due to Li Mu's frequent trips to the south in the past few years, most of the Qin people have almost equated the terms cavalry and Zhao people.

Following the fingers of his subordinates, Wang Baijiang glanced at the approaching smoke and dust in the distance, and couldn't help frowning, before he said after a while: "Impossible, wait for you to take a closer look." , Although the smoke and dust look quite spectacular, but in fact there are only a few hundred people, does Zhao Jun really dare to attack Xianyang City with a mere few hundred people, could it be that they are impatient?"