Chapter 361 A Great Scholar Will Argue for Me
The war was started by Huang Zhong's troops.
Huang Zhong's troops went out from the front line of Surabaya and surrounded the important town of Pengcheng.
Pengcheng has been an important place for military strategists since ancient times. Historically, it was once used as the capital of Western Chu by Xiang Yu.
Dayu's sudden attack shocked the Qi army. Some of the large number of Qi army strongholds along the Surabaya line were abandoned, and some were quickly captured. Only a few important towns in Pengcheng were still under Qi's control.
The monarchs and ministers of Qi State were horrified after receiving the news. They knew very well that now was the time when Qi State was at its weakest and it was impossible to deal with Dayu's army.
The monarchs and ministers of the Qi State, who did not want to be destroyed again, were as anxious as ants on a hot pot. They thought about it and found that the only one who might support them at this time was the Qin State.
Therefore, the State of Qi sent people to ask for help from the State of Qin on the one hand, and asked Dayu for peace on the other. Prime Minister Hou Shenglian hurriedly went to Fang Shan's residence in person to inquire about the situation.
"What does Dayu mean? We are a country of brothers!"
Hou Sheng was anxious.
Nowadays, the situation of Qi State is unprecedentedly severe. In recent years, it has just barely recovered from the tragic situation of nearly annihilating the country. As a result, it first lost 100,000 martial arts soldiers when it destroyed Chu, and then the battles of conquering Yan, conquering Wei, and In the battle of Zhao, there were no small losses.
In particular, Tian Sheng's defeat not long ago not only caused Qi to completely lose the land north of the Yellow River, but also nearly wiped out the last established elite field army.
The huge Qi State can't even muster 50,000 martial arts warriors at this time. However, there are still 700,000 to 800,000 ordinary elite troops, but most of them are stationed in various places, especially in key border areas. How can it be so easy and quick to mobilize them? ah.
So Hou Sheng couldn't wait to have a truce.
However, this time Fang Shan's attitude was very ambiguous.
"Your Excellency, Prime Minister, now in the world, Chu, Wei, and Yan have perished, and the elites of Qi and Zhao have suffered heavy losses. The conflict between Yu and Qin in the world has become a foregone conclusion. Prime Minister must make plans early."
Fang Shan's tone was meaningful.
"W-what do you mean?"
After the victory, there was chaos.
Hou Sheng, who was too smart, vaguely sensed Fang Shan's intention, but he couldn't believe it.
Countries competing for hegemony and coexisting have been the pattern of Kyushu for hundreds of years.
"Your Excellency, Prime Minister, Yu now has millions of warriors who have conquered the peaks, and tens of millions of warriors who dare to fight. They will win every battle with the Qin State with tiger and wolf armies. They will seize Bashu and Nanjun, and kill Qin General Qin Gong in battle, forcing him to death." The general of Qin State, Wang Lu, is invincible in every battle. How can Qi State resist such an elite force?"
Fang Shan threatened.
After winning silently.
This is not a question of whether Qi State can resist, but a question of whether Qi State has soldiers and horses to resist.
"Huang Han was promoted to General Dayu. He has 500,000 soldiers and horses. He is invincible in all battles. No one in the Huaisi area can stop him. After breaking Pengcheng, he can march straight into it. Who can stop him then?"
"Besides, Yu's elite soldiers are like clouds and fierce generals are like rain. How can Huang Hansheng be the only one to send out all his troops?"
Fang Shan continued to threaten.
This really frightened Hou Sheng.
He knew that Dayu had many soldiers and horses, and at least he knew that Dayu had an elite army that was originally deployed in Huaiyin but its movements were unknown.
What are you afraid of?
The movement of Dayu's Huaiyin Army was soon reported, and the Huaiyin Army crossed the sea to make a surprise attack on Langya.
This is similar to the history of Wu and Yue going north to fight for hegemony across the sea and conquer Qi. The people of Langya calmly watched the Yu army defeat the sparsely defended defenders, calmly watched the Langya defenders surrender, and calmly watched Lu Xun's army enter Langya. City, calmly watching the Yu army advance to other areas.
The whole process highlights an emotional stability.
There was no fuss or fierce resistance.
When Lu Xun asked, he learned that there were thousands of soldiers in Langya who had been favored by Dayu and were among the prisoners who had been released by Dayu before. These people widely publicized Dayu's benevolence and righteousness, allowing Dayu to leave a good legacy in these places. word of mouth.
Later, these people were mobilized by Tian Sheng to attack Zhao State, and the entire army was almost wiped out.
On the one hand, there is the Yu State with a good reputation, on the other hand, the Qi State, which caused the annihilation of their entire army; on the one hand, there is the overwhelming invader, and on the other hand, their mother country...
Under various factors, it is understandable that Qi Ren’s attitude is ambiguous.
After getting this news, Hou Sheng almost jumped up.
Huang Zhong's journey was actually not bad. At most, he captured the land of Lu and could not harm the foundation of Qi. If he wanted to attack the hinterland of Qi, there were only two ways to go. One was to turn southeast and go to Jucheng. , these places are easy to defend and difficult to attack; the second is to go north to Puyang and Licheng, but the back of this road is the Qin State, and the retreat may be cut off by the Qin State. The defeat of Pang Nuan's troops is the most important The reason is that he was cut off.
But Lu Xun directly bypassed Ju County along the way.
However, Ju County did not dare to send troops because once they did, they might be cut off by Huang Zhong's troops.
Such a situation forced Qi to send troops to fight in the field, at least to repel Lu Xun first.
"Why do you do this? Why do you do this!"
Hou Sheng stamped his feet, his face turning blue and white.
"Your Majesty, Prime Minister, we have to make preparations early."
Fang Shan reminded kindly.
"How should I prepare? Sir, you want to persuade me to surrender?"
Hou Sheng looked unhappy.
He is greedy, but he is not stupid. He knows very well that everything he has comes from Qi State. Without Qi State, he is nothing.
"The relationship between the Prime Minister and Dayu is nothing more than whether to achieve greater merits. However, it is still too early to talk about this now, but I once heard a saying, 'War is followed by peace, and peace is followed by peace.' What will happen after all? I have to fight for it. With the Qi State and the Prime Minister, I have the status I have today. If I go back, I will just be an ordinary shopkeeper..."
Fang Shan said "with all his heart and lungs".
"I'm already upset, so I'm going to leave first. I also ask you, sir, not to move around casually these days."
Hou Sheng said goodbye and put Fang Shan under house arrest.
This is also the right thing to do. It is known to the whole world that Fang Shan is a spy of Dayu. Putting him under house arrest at this time is both a kind of surveillance and a kind of protection.
Fang Shan accepted Hou Sheng's "kindness" with a smile.
After Hou Sheng left Fang Shan, he went directly to Qi Palace. He found Fang Shan's words "war followed by peace, peace followed by peace" very interesting.
Hou Sheng didn't even know that he had long since become a complete capitulator, but if people don't do it for themselves, Heaven and Earth will destroy them. Hou Sheng has to think about himself and his family, right?
He couldn't figure out why Daqi had acquired a much wider territory in just a few years than at its peak, and why it quickly fell apart after having such a vast territory, and was on the verge of annihilation.
Hou Sheng couldn't figure it out, but as the prime minister of Da Qi, his interests were not consistent with those of the King of Qi and the State of Qi.
Hou Sheng decided to persuade the King of Qi. If he could defeat Lu Xun's troops, then Qi would naturally be tougher. If he couldn't defeat him, it wouldn't be too late to cede territory and seek peace!
King Jian of Qi believed in his uncle's theory of Hou Sheng's evil. With Tian Zhang's son Tian Dan as the general, he sent the last elite troops from Linzi to attack Lu Xun's troops.
What King Qi Jian didn't know was that as soon as Tian Dan's army moved, information spread.
In the end, Tian Dan's troops who rushed out to fight met the brave and diligent Lu Xun's troops in Weishui, and the two sides lined up in Weishui.
Lu Xun sent people overnight to make more than 10,000 bags, filled them with sand and soil, and blocked the upper reaches of the Wei River. The next day, he ordered Yu Jinjun's army to wade through the water and attack Tiandan's army.
As a general, Yu Jin has a stigma in history, but his ability to train troops and command on the battlefield is outstanding. His overall ability is at least in the middle among the five good generals, but his ability to command large armies and strategic layout is relatively weak.
In other words, his most suitable role should be a role like "the instructor of the 800,000 forbidden troops in Tokyo". Of course, if he just leads his troops to fight, his ability is very good, at least compared to Li Tong, Yan Xing, and others. Zhu Ling and other departments are even more elite.
Knowing that the situation was critical, Tian Dan sent troops to meet him, hoping to "attack him halfway across the border".
Yu Jinsuo pretended to be defeated and retreated.
This allowed Tian Dan to see an opportunity to defeat the enemy.
Tian Dan felt that the unknown Lu Xun might just be a dandy who only knew how to fight on water and didn't understand land warfare at all. He was definitely an elite soldier because he refused to break up after being defeated at the Forbidden Station.
As soon as the two were combined, Tian Dan deduced the truth of the matter: the dude who didn't understand land warfare forced the veteran on the battlefield to risk an attack. The veteran on the battlefield was defeated and could only gather the elite to escape. However, because this group of soldiers was elite enough, they fled. There was no collapse yet.
Therefore, someone else must seize this opportunity to defeat the elite of Dayu Army in one fell swoop and seal the victory.
Tian Dan personally led the martial arts warriors and other elite warriors across the Weishui River to pursue Yu Jin, but unexpectedly his decision would push him into a situation of eternal disaster.
Lu Xun, who had been waiting for this moment, saw the right opportunity and ordered his men to break open the sandbags blocking the Weishui River. The rushing river immediately cut Tian Dan's troops into two sections. Tian Dan's main force failed to cross the Weishui River. There are only 30,000 people in the water.
Lu Xun took advantage of the situation and commanded the army to launch a fierce attack on Tian Dan's headquarters. Yu Jin, Li Tong, Yan Xing, Zhu Ling and others attacked bravely. Half of the Qi army, which was already weak in fighting will, chose to surrender, and the other half died generously with Tian Dan.
At this point, the Battle of Weishui is no longer in suspense.
As the main force in this battle, although Yu Jin's troops suffered relatively large losses, they were the first to achieve success. Overall, Dayu's army also took an absolute advantage.
The army took advantage of the situation and crossed the river to attack. Seeing that Tian Dan's troops were annihilated, the Qi army on the west bank had already become panicked. Facing the fierce attack of the Yu army, some surrendered and others fled in all directions.
The Battle of Weishui was definitely a very important battle for the Qi-Yu War, but this battle seemed like a small event in front of another battle.
His Majesty Dong Huang, the Emperor of Dayu, personally led tens of thousands of warships and appeared in the Bohai Sea. Part of the army marched along the Jishui River and land, and part of the army landed and attacked Linzi.
Wherever they passed, they encountered almost no resistance that could bring the army to a halt.
In fact, there is no coastal defense at all in the coastal area north of Linzi in Qi State.
Seeing that the Yu State army was still three days away from Linzi, he sent people to ask Tian Dan to return for reinforcements, but only received the news that Tian Dan had been defeated and died in the battle. King Jian and Hou Sheng of Qi looked at each other in shock.
Hou Sheng finally remembered Fang Shan's "good words of persuasion". He understood that there was still a way to survive by persuading Qi Wangjian to surrender at this time. If he had other delusions, he would definitely die.
"Your Majesty, Dayu has always been famous for its benevolence and righteousness. Those who surrender to Dayu, whether they are the King of Chu or Lord Chun Shen and his son, will have food and wealth, and enjoy endless wealth."
Hou Sheng couldn't help but persuade.
"Isn't it because King Chu's mother couldn't enjoy it enough?"
Qi Wangjian couldn't help but snorted angrily.
The last king of Chu was King Chu You, Xiong Han, the son of King Chu Kaolie, and his mother was Li Yuan's sister Li Yan.
Dong Huang's public humiliation of Li Yan and wanton humiliation of the harem of King Kao Lie of Chu in the court of Chu was well-known and used as a topic of conversation by many people. Of course, Dong Huang was not so licentious, but he did enjoy Li Yan, the charming Queen Mother of Chu.
Qi Wangjian's words made Hou Sheng sneer in his heart.
Hou Sheng, who knew Qi Wangjian very well, understood that Qi Wangjian's words just showed his fear and intention to surrender, but he was just worried about life after surrender.
"The Queen Mother of the King is my sister. If she were still alive, she would be willing to give everything for the King. I am also worried that there is no beautiful daughter that the King can be favored by the Emperor of Dayu!"
Hou Sheng gave Qi Wangjian a reassurance: "Dayu is kind and righteous, but there has never been any news of humiliating the king. Of course, if the King's daughter can marry His Majesty the Emperor of Dayu..."
However, Hou Sheng's words did not completely convince Qi Wangjian.
How can we just give up the foundation of the Tian family that has lasted for hundreds of years?
"Prime Minister, is Da Qi really hopeless?"
King Jian of Qi held Hou Sheng's hand and burst into tears.
If there is any possibility, he does not want to be the king of a fallen country.
"Your Majesty!"
Hou Sheng was also a little impatient, but he still patiently explained: "To the west and north, there are all the troops of His Majesty the Emperor of Dayu, and the Dayu navy has even blocked the Jishui River; to the west, Tian Dan has already buried the last elite of Da Qi, and the enemy has already passed the Weishui River and is sharpening their knives! To the south, there are mountains. I wonder if Your Majesty is willing to flee alone in the mountains with me, and imitate the deeds of Boyi and Shuqi? Or escape to Lu by chance, and then be caught and humiliated?"
"This...this..."
King Jian of Qi suddenly fell to the ground and burst into tears.
He hesitated again and again, and when Dong Huang's army was one day away from Linzi, he chose to surrender to Dayu.
The King of Qi surrendered, and most of the remaining land of Qi was taken by proclamation.
The people of Qi complained that the King of Qi listened to the slander of Hou Sheng and his guests, which led to the defeat of Qi, so they composed a ballad: "Sad, sad, the one who destroyed Jian is Sheng!"
So far, in terms of territory alone, Dayu has already occupied six out of ten of the traditional nine states.
Because Dayu's advance was steady, accurate and ruthless, and Dayqin had Zhao Ji and Lady Huayang dragging their feet, after Dayu destroyed Qi, Qin had not yet decided whether to send troops to rescue.
After the demise of Qi, Dong Huang, who no longer wanted to pretend, ordered Han Wang An and Wei Wu, the son of Wei Anxi Wang of Wei, to offer their country to Dayu respectively.
At this time, the Confucian scholars of Lu proposed to carve a stone to praise Yu's virtue and discuss the matter of Fengshan Wangshan.
Dong Huang heard it, Fengshan Taishan? Carve a stone to record the merits?
Good, good!
So Dong Huang went to Mount Tai to offer sacrifices to the gods, accompanied by 70 Confucian scholars and doctors from Qi and Lu.
This made Chen Lin feel a huge pressure - you outsiders dared to compete with me in flattery, humph, wait and see!
So, a battle of flattery with flowers and flowers officially began.
In the first round, Chen Lin used his flattery skills after following Dong Huang for more than 30 years to make these Confucian scholars lose their weapons.
So, these Confucian scholars invited the ancestors of Yanshenggong...
Chen Lin, who had been the best in Dayu for many years and had never been defeated, tasted the bitter fruit of defeat for the first time...
The illiterate Dong Huang happily ate melons and went to Mount Tai to offer sacrifices to the gods.
During the period, the Confucian scholars who felt that they had done well wanted Dong Huang to abide by their ancient rituals, but they were beaten up.
Afterwards, Dong Huang, who was in a happier mood, formally accepted the surrender of Xiong Han, the captured and captive King You of Chu, Wei Wu, the almost exiled King Jingmin of Wei, the surrendered King An of Han, the surrendered King Jian of Qi, and the surrendered King Xi of Yan sent by Lian Po at Mount Tai.
During the Fengshan ceremony, Dong Huang was so blessed that he canonized Jia Xu as the Emperor of Dongyue.
Mount Tai, Dongyue, is the destination of the dead in traditional mythology.
Dong Huang felt that Jia Xu's ability was somewhat similar to this position.
However, what everyone did not expect was that after the canonization, the original soul master position of Jia Xu's Nine Songs system was automatically changed to the Emperor of Dongyue.
Destroying Qi and completely digesting Qi, Han and part of Wei occupied most of Dayu's energy this year.
The fourth year of Qin Wangzheng passed quickly, and the plague in Qin finally ended, which meant that Dayu's attack was about to begin again.
In the fifth year of Qin Wangzheng, as soon as the river was unsealed and the flood season was over, Dayu launched an attack with ulterior motives.
Zhou Tai, the admiral of the navy who was named He Bo, led the navy upstream to seek an opportunity to fight a decisive battle with the Qin navy.
In this era, the river specifically refers to the Yellow River, and He Bo is the water god of the Yellow River.
In ancient times, the river, the Yangtze River, the Ji River, and the Huai River were collectively called the Four Rivers, and they were as important as the Five Mountains.
When He Bo entered the Yellow River, he was like a fish in water. Anyway, there was no He Bo in this world, or the original He Bo had long been gone like some gods.
This gave Zhou Tai an opportunity.
Under the influence of the deification, the entire river showed extraordinary docility to Zhou Tai. Zhou Tai's troops, who were not familiar with the hydrology of the Yellow River, felt like they were back home on the Yellow River. On the contrary, the Qin navy, which had been operating in the Yellow River for a long time, began to encounter various problems.
For example, a wave came over, and the one that hit the Yu army was as gentle as a dog that had to ask for advice before holding hands; the one that hit the Qin army was as fierce as a gym student who stood up and kicked.
Qin Jun was beaten and cried and groaned in pain. The creaking sound of the bed boards in the "520" hotel was just like the creaking sound of the bed boards.
The Dayu navy won seven battles and seven victories, just like a man who had sex seven times a night on drugs, and kept pressing the weak Qin army into the water.
However, the Qin army's tower ship troops were still very resilient.
The Yellow River Navy was the water force that Qin had been managing since the loss of Yingdu. Over the years, it had fought many battles with the navies of Zhao, Wei and other countries, and its strength was very outstanding.
At this moment, the Qin navy was like a battle-hardened commercial K girl. In every battle, it seemed so weak that it was about to collapse, but it could continue to fight fiercely in the next battle.
Zhou Tai reached the vicinity of Xingyang from the mouth of the Yellow River, but he failed to defeat the Qin navy.
It was not until this time that Zhou Tai knew that the Qin navy was actually commanded by Wang Jian, and Zhou Tai vaguely realized that something was wrong.
Huang Zhong and Pang Tong noticed the situation earlier.
After Huang Zhong's army destroyed Qi, they actively prepared for war and launched an attack on Wei as the vanguard of Dong Huang's army.
His Majesty, the emperor of Dayu, who was so annoying, led the army in person again.
However, this time Dong Huang's personal expedition was still a must-win battle.
This time Dayu mobilized more than three million troops, of which the number of the Zhenguo Corps and the Quasi Zhenguo Corps exceeded one million.
It has been eight years since I came to this mission world. From the initial arduous and cautious, not even daring to fight head-on, to now, Dayu's army has finally grown up and dared to challenge any army of any country in the world.
That feeling is like a rabbit that has gone from "putting aside disputes and jointly developing" to "you really dare to develop", holding a brick in his hand, and hitting whoever shows up.
This time, Dayu is not only determined to win the old land south of the Han and Wei Rivers, but also to capture Nanyang in one fell swoop and drive the Qin army back to the interior of the country.
Considering that Qin had gone through two years of famine and epidemic, the new grain was not yet mature, which was actually the best time.
In Bashu, Gao Shun's Bashu Corps tried to attack Hanzhong and Qin Jiameng Pass again. Although Qin General Qiang Wei gave up most of the Bazhong defense line, he never gave up Jiange, so it was actually difficult to fight this way, and it could only play a diversionary role.
In Nanjun, Zhuge Liang, Zhao Yun, Yue Fei and other troops once again went northward. Yue Fei was still the vanguard in this battle, and the troops pointed directly at Wancheng. At the same time, Jiang Qin's troops and Zhang He's troops were divided into two routes, and troops were sent out from Shangyong and Hanshui, threatening Xunguan and Hanzhong again, further restraining Hanzhong's troops, and ensuring that Zhuge Liang's Corps was foolproof.
In Han, Dian Wei's Corps marched into Xingyang again, Le Jin's troops surrounded Ye County again, and Taishi Ci's Corps coordinated between the two corps; in addition, Guo Jia's Corps and Wei Liao's Corps, which had recovered 80% of their combat effectiveness, went out of Chendu to support the actions of Huang Zhong's Corps.
Behind Huang Zhong's army is Dong Huang's headquarters, which is very powerful.
Dong Huang's army headquarters has 300,000 Tiger and Leopard soldiers, and this is when a large number of Tiger and Leopard soldiers have been integrated into the legions of various generals to serve as middle and high-level generals.
It can only be said that Dong Huang's army has grown very fast over the years. The first batch of natural people, with their loyalty and qualifications, once they have enough time to grow up, it is not a big problem for them to join the Tiger and Leopard Army.
If Dong Huang wants to expand wantonly, the Tiger and Leopard Army can even expand to a million people very quickly. For example, many descendants of famous generals and middle-level generals, and a large number of southern barbarians who have followed Dong Huang for several worlds, there are too many people who are eligible to join the Tiger and Leopard Army.
Of course, such an expansion in a short period of time will have a significant impact on the combat effectiveness and finances of the army.
The Tiger and Leopard Army is positioned as the elite among the elite, not the imperial army of the Song Dynasty.
In addition to the Tiger and Leopard Army, there are also millions of other troops.
With such an army, with sufficient logistics and high morale, Dong Huang didn't know how to lose.
As the vanguard, Huang Zhong wanted to show the momentum of Dayu's first general.
He even wanted to kill Wang Jian in battle.
However, when Huang Zhong's army launched an attack on Qin's occupied Wei, they found that the Qin army had left.
Wang Jian actually gave up Wei.
Huang Zhong could only lead his troops to pursue, but the more he pursued, the more he felt something was wrong. He always felt that Wang Jian must have some conspiracy.
Pang Tong, who was impatient, also felt that something was wrong.
Excluding the possibility of ambushes, if Wang Jian wanted to use a trick, then it seemed that there was only...
"Water attack!"
Pang Tong's originally ugly face suddenly became uglier: "Wang Jian wants to dig the Yellow River embankment!"
The generals of this era were not as soft-hearted as Dong Huang, and they had no psychological burden to use water attacks.
Once Wang Jian succeeded in breaking the embankment, not to mention Huang Zhong's army, even Dong Huang's army would likely be affected.
And by then, the land of Han and Wei will become a swamp, and the Dayu army may not be able to launch an attack from this direction within five or six years.
"What is Zhou Youping doing? Why hasn't he defeated the Qin navy yet!"
Huang Zhong remembered gritting his teeth.
"Don't worry, don't worry..."
Pang Tong pulled out two beards fiercely, pacing and sorting out his thoughts: "It's not the flood season yet, so it doesn't make much sense to break the dike, but I still have to report to His Majesty and inform all friendly forces...
As for the location of the Qin army's dike breach..."
Pang Tong looked at the map and stared at the direction of the Qin army camp for a long time: "Xingyang, it should be here! Of course, it is not ruled out that the death-defying soldiers will be sent to the middle and lower reaches. We must check again near the Yellow River in Han and Wei to ensure that there are no Qin soldiers left! Otherwise, once the rainy season comes, the consequences will be disastrous!"
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I wish my brothers to flood the seven armies tonight!