What seemed like a reasonable distribution of interests and a balanced arrangement was not just that simple in Qin Jun's eyes.
First of all, it must be the easiest situation to read out the fact that there are many factions. There are three main generals and three forces: the Young Leaders Faction and the Qualification Faction originally under Lian Po, plus Zhao Kuo's faction, creating a three-legged situation.
Even if Zhao Kuo wanted to hide such an obvious contradiction, he would not be able to hide it. It would be better to openly show it to the Qin army. At least historically speaking, even in desperate situations, the armies did not abandon themselves. The most critical positions are firmly in the hands of its own people. Even if the Qin army wants to gain something from the factional struggle, it will be difficult.
More importantly, if you don't know that Sun Gu and Zhou Qi are already Zhao Kuo's people, from Zhao Kuo's arrangements for his confidant Xu Li, it is not difficult to see that Zhao Jun attaches great importance to the front line of Changping Pass, combined with the story of Tian Dan's location. With the location of the pass, it would not be difficult for the Qin army to discover what Zhao Kuo wanted to express: if they were able to catch Zhao Kuo by surprise and the attack went smoothly, Zhao Jun would continue to advance; if there was any disagreement, they would immediately turn north towards Changping Pass.
Can Lord Wu An of Qin make you happy?
Put yourself in Wu Anjun's shoes and think about it: The kid opposite is planning to fight and then run away. How can that make you run away?
It took so much effort here to get Zhao to change generals. How could they just let you go back after a painless offensive and defensive battle?
Although it can continue to be wasted as far as the Changping-Guguan line, the final victory will belong to Qin.
But Zhao State is about to collapse. How can Qin State feel better? No matter how strong the country is, it cannot withstand the restrictions on food transportation channels!
Let’s not talk about the grain from Bashu. Firstly, Bashu is not that rich now. Secondly, when grain is transported from Bashu, more food is eaten and consumed than what is transported;
Even if the food in Guanzhong is transported by water, it will take more than ten days to arrive, and there will be a transfer in the middle, which is not only troublesome but also consumes a lot of travel;
The only thing that is slightly better is Hanoi's Food, which can be reached in a few days via boundary cards. This is one of the important reasons why Qin has been able to persist for so long. But the problem is that Hanoi County is just a county. It is not that big a county. Three years of confrontation has long depleted all the savings of Hanoi County.
Destroying Zhao to death will indeed save Qin a lot of military losses, but it will also consume a lot of Qin's food. In the end, perhaps Zhao has not yet surrendered, so Qin will have to take real gold and silver and buy it from Wei at a high price. , South Korea and other countries have purchased grain.
The people of Qin are an important part of the national power, but in the eyes of the upper echelons of the Qin State, grain and fodder are not an important part of the national power.
Even the idea of "if you have food, you are afraid of having no one" is also a popular saying among the upper echelons of the Qin State. After all, the Qin people use food as a lure and have attracted people from various countries in recent years.
Therefore, between the loss of Qin people and the loss of grain, the upper echelons of Qin slightly favored the latter. This was the plan to force Zhao to change generals.
Of course, it cannot be said that all the ideas of the upper echelons of the Qin State were wrong. Historically, the Qin State used human lives to achieve this Changping victory - all men over the age of 15 from Hedong were sent to serve in the army.
The final effect is not bad. At least from now on, no one can stop Qin Jun's march eastward.
Such a decisive victory must be based on one foundation, that is: the Qin army won the final victory.
After the victory, the population was not enough, and it took three to five years to recover, and the food was not enough, so the autumn grain harvest would replenish it; but once the battle failed, losing food would not be a big problem, but once a large number of soldiers and people were lost, then I am afraid that within a few years it will be difficult to move east again, and even Hedong, Hanoi and other places will be threatened by hostile forces from all directions.
Of course, failure was not within the Qin people's consideration.
It was precisely out of the consideration of minimizing losses that the Qin people came up with this plan to lure Zhao Jun into a decisive battle.
In other words, from the moment the Qin people encouraged Zhao to change generals, the Qin people's idea was to completely annihilate the main force of the Zhao army.
Now that the Zhao army actually has the idea of withdrawing after a battle, the Qin army will definitely not allow such an idea to exist. The best way to dispel Zhao's thoughts is to make Zhao's attack smoother, thus completely attracting the main force of Zhao's army to the west bank of Danshui.
The appearance of Tian Dan actually strengthened the Qin army's plan.
If we follow the original historical trajectory, it is obviously unrealistic to send troops to sneak attack the Changping Pass-Gu Pass line. After all, Tian Dan was guarding there, and he was a figure who was better at guarding than Lian Po. Even if Bai Qi came in person, he was not sure that he could break through Tian Dan's defense in a short time with a small number of troops.
The original triangle area of more than 50 kilometers in radius from Yuansi-Changpingguan-Guguan-Xunshi was obviously missing an edge because of the single handle of Guguan-Changpingguan and could no longer be used.
If the Qin army wants to continue to set up ambushes on the east bank, no matter what they do, they may be attacked by Tian Dan's troops at the old pass, and their success will easily fall short.
Therefore, from this perspective, Zhao Kuo's formation of troops almost forced the Qin army to set the encirclement to the west bank of Danshui.
If the encirclement is to be set up on the west bank, the battle for the barrier will have to be severely released. Once the water is released, it will be difficult for the Qin army to see the extreme decline in the overall combat power of the Zhao army, thus completely covering up its own conspiracy of "stealing the sky for the sun."
Laying out layers of plans, taking advantage of the Qin army's psychology of fighting a war of annihilation, and covering up his own true killing moves, Zhao Kuo used the history he knew to its fullest effect.
Now that the layout is complete, the rest is no longer within my control.
"Everything that can be done has been done, and the rest can only be left to fate." Zhao Kuo thought secretly in his heart.
After looking around, Zhao Kuo immediately ordered: "The generals will go back and prepare themselves, and obey orders at any time."
"No!" all the generals responded in unison.
He waved his hand to sign for withdrawal, and the generals filed out immediately. Because they still needed to keep it secret, the generals did not dare to discuss anything about this. They all looked at each other, and the meaning was obvious:
"Brother, if you accidentally fall into a tight siege, you are not allowed to have diarrhea."
"Okay! Brother, who among us brothers is following whom? The bow and arrow cover attack, it's just a matter of my brother's words."
"Covering attack, you want me to die! I didn't die in the hands of the Qin people, but in the hands of your kid, just wait."
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Everyone tacitly hurried towards their respective campsites and left quickly. Some of them had doubts, some were excited, and some were still very ambitious...
Except for the fearful one, the three years of fighting not only deepened the hatred between Qin and Zhao, but also eliminated the Zhao army's fear of Qin. Counterattack is almost every Zhao army’s dream.
And this dream is now about to be realized step by step under the leadership of Zhao Kuo.
