Qin Shi Huang: Swordsmanship begins with picking up Xiao Meng

Chapter 27: The World Situation, the New Wu'an Jun

There were undercurrents in the Qin court, and the situation in other countries was not much better.

First, Wei State!

As soon as Wei Wuji died, the Qin general Meng Ao immediately led his troops to attack Wei, captured twenty cities in a row, and established Dongjun, adding another county to the Qin territory.

The idiom "destroying the Great Wall by oneself" was uttered by Jiang Yu and spread by Wei Wuji's followers. It had already appeared in China in advance, nailing the King of Wei to the pillar of shame forever.

The second is the war between Yan and Zhao!

This story has to start from the bloody battle of Changping between Qin and Zhao more than ten years ago.

The State of Zhao suffered a crushing defeat at Changping, losing 400,000 troops. It then experienced the brutal defense of Handan, in which a generation of young and strong men in the country were almost wiped out.

Even after more than ten years of rest, the State of Zhao was unable to recover.

Therefore, according to Yan's estimation, Zhao's total available military force could not exceed 200,000, while Yan's could only reach 600,000.

Six hundred thousand versus two hundred thousand, the advantage is on my side!

Therefore, under the instigation of Qin, Yan immediately decided to take advantage of the situation and launched an attack on Zhao.

As a result, Yan was defeated by the weakened Zhao. The invasion war turned into a defensive war, and Zhao got back the land that was occupied by Qin from Yan.

But the mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind!

Taking advantage of the fact that Zhao's main force was seizing Yan's land in the north and the country was empty, Qin sent Wang Jian and Huan Xi to lead troops to attack Zhao in two directions, under the pretext of rescuing Yan and taking in Cheng Jiao.

The war between Qin and Zhao broke out again!
And the result this time seems to be that Qin still won.

Because the battle report sent back contained a cold sentence:

The Qin army beheaded 100,000 Zhao soldiers!

The disastrous defeat at Changping and the shadow of national destruction once again loomed over the State of Zhao.

Chang'an Jun Mansion!

Looking at the information handed over by Changping Jun, Jiang Yu murmured:
"The Battle of Pingyang?"

Historically, Pingyang, an important city of Zhao State, was besieged by the Qin Army, and Zhao State sent troops to rescue it. Originally, the commander of the Zhao army should have been the famous and experienced general Lian Po, but due to the obstruction of the treacherous minister Guo Kai, he was eventually replaced by an unknown general.

This also gave rise to the allusion "Lian Po is old, can he still eat?"

The result is predictable. The Zhao army fell into the Qin army's trap of surrounding and attacking the reinforcements, and eventually 100,000 Zhao soldiers were beheaded by the Qin army.

But now, the timing of the outbreak of the Battle of Pingyang is somewhat inconsistent with history. Didn’t it happen after Lu Buwei’s death and Ying Zheng took power?
However, when he thought about the fact that this was a Qin Dynasty world where martial arts and other messy things came out, Jiang Yu stopped worrying about it.

Jiang Yu finally closed the battle report and sighed:
"It seems that the world is going to have another Wu'an Jun."

"Wu Anjun!"

When Changping Jun heard this title, his expression changed.

Wu'an Jun Bai Qi!
He led the army to kill millions of enemies throughout his life, and was known as the God of Death, which made the six kingdoms fearless. Who in the world would not be terrified when hearing his name?
"But you're right. Huan Xi's army has already captured Chili and Yi'an, and is heading straight for Feicheng!"

Changping Jun pointed to three places on the battle map in front of him and connected them into a line:

"As long as Feicheng is captured, Huan Xi's army will be able to cut the state of Zhao in half from north to south, thus making up for the regret that King Zhao failed to destroy the state of Zhao.

With this great achievement in destroying Zhao, Huan Xi might even become the second "Wu'an Jun."

After all, Bai Qi said that Zhao was difficult to destroy and he would rather disobey the king's order than lead his troops to attack Zhao.

Of course, Changping Jun naturally understood the principle that different times have different circumstances. The result of the Battle of Handan also proved that Bai Qi's judgment at the time was correct.

"Uncle, you misunderstood. The Wu'an Jun I was talking about was not Huan Xi." Jiang Yu hurriedly explained after hearing what Changping Jun said. As for the title of uncle, it was Changping Jun who forced him to call him that in a tough manner.

"Isn't it Huan Xi?"

Changping Jun was stunned when he heard this. If it wasn’t Huan Xi who had made such great contributions, then who else could it be?
"Could it be Wang Jian?"

Compared with Huan Xi's army's beheading of 100,000 people in Pingyang, and then successively occupying Chili and Yian, it was an astonishing performance that seemed to have the momentum to cut Zhao State in half and destroy it.

The other army led by Wang Jian performed mediocrely and even lost the first battle, because Wang Jian attacked the Shangdang area of ​​Zhao State, which was the battlefield of the Battle of Changping.

The blood feud at Changping was still fresh in people's minds, so one can imagine how motivated and tenacious the Zhao army in Shangdang was. In addition, Shangdang was easy to defend but difficult to attack, and Wang Jian was a rookie whose abilities had not yet reached their peak, so it was normal for him to be defeated.

After losing the first battle, Wang Jian learned about warfare and immediately readjusted his military strategy. He eventually defeated the Zhao army in Shangdang and captured several cities of Zhao. However, his achievements could not be compared with Huan Xuan's brilliant ones.

"Uncle, there's no need to guess. This time, the Wu'an Jun is not from the Qin State."

Jiang Yu shook his head and said directly:
"The second Wu'an Jun I'm talking about is the Wu'an Jun of Zhao!"

"Zhao's...Wu'an Jun?"

Changping Jun's pupils shrank sharply when he heard this.

Jiang Yu said that Zhao would produce a Wu'an Jun. Wouldn't that mean that the Qin army, which now has the upper hand, would be defeated?
Jiang Yu stretched out his hand and pointed to Daidi, the northern territory of Zhao State on the map:
"Uncle, do you still remember how the Zhao border troops annihilated over 100,000 Hu cavalrymen?"

Changping Jun naturally knew about such a great victory and the fact that Zhao was the main enemy of Qin.

"Show the enemy your weakness, lure them into the encirclement we've set up, and then annihilate them!"

There is a more appropriate idiom in later generations!
Please enter the urn!

Therefore, it is self-evident who the second Wu'an Jun mentioned by Jiang Yu is.

It was Li Mu, the famous general who led the Zhao border army to resist the Hu people!

In history, Huan Qi, who had performed brilliantly and was expected to become the next Bai Qi of Qin State, became a stepping stone for Li Mu. Due to this great achievement, Li Mu was named "Wu'an Jun". It was obvious that Zhao State was trying to disgust Qin State.

Changping Jun remained silent, but studied the battle map carefully. In the end, he found that the situation faced by the Qin army, which had now penetrated deep into the interior of Zhao, was exactly the same as that faced by the tens of thousands of Hu cavalry back then.

The mountains are high and the road is long. It is probably too late to remind Huan Xi now. Changping Jun can only hold on to the last glimmer of hope and say:

"But I haven't heard that Zhao has already transferred its border troops south."

Because Qin's intelligence and reconnaissance capabilities have always been very accurate, Huan He dared to fight so confidently and boldly.

But Jiang Yu bluntly shattered Changping Jun's last hope:

"When Qin sent Bai Qi to replace Wang He as commander of the Battle of Changping, Zhao didn't receive the news either."

According to the real historical timeline, the Battle of Pingyang would not have been fought so quickly, so Jiang Yu had no way of relying on foresight to remind Changping Jun.

However, when the battle report was sent back to Xianyang from the front line, and then from Xianyang to Changping Jun, and finally when Changping Jun showed it to Jiang Yu, it was too late.

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Some book lovers are confused about the timeline issue, so let me explain it again here.

If we strictly follow the historical timeline, it would take another nine years for Qin to destroy Han and launch a war of unification. It took Qin a total of ten years to destroy the six kingdoms, and finally it was the plot of Qin's Moon. The two together took about twenty years, which is too long. Moreover, the timeline confusion of Qin's Moon, Tian Xing Jiu Ge, and those extra stories themselves made it impossible for the plot to strictly follow the historical timeline.

Therefore, the author compressed the timeline, shortening the unification war from nine years to three or four years. These three or four years were used to complete Tian Xing Jiu Ge and the extra storylines, followed by a ten-year unification war. Because the protagonist's participation changed the situation, the time required for the unification war would be reduced accordingly. This is very reasonable, and finally the Qin Shi Ming Yue storyline will be continued.

In this way, the protagonist will not be too old. After all, there are several female protagonists in Qin's Moon. Those who understand will understand. I even wonder whether it would be more appropriate to change the protagonist's age when he appears to be sixteen.

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