But the battlefield will not pity losers who cannot face it correctly, and it will not let you be undefeated just because you don't want to fail.
Fortunately, Prime Minister Fan Sui has experienced too many failures in his life!
Fan Juzhe was originally a retainer of Xu Jia, a senior official in Wei State. However, he was framed by Xu Jia for betraying Wei by betraying Qi. He was almost whipped to death by Wei Qi, the prime minister of Wei State at that time. Later, with the help of his friend Zheng Anping, he infiltrated the envoys of Qin State. Enter Qin.
It can be said that he had to survive from death and arrived in Qin State after a lot of hardships. After arriving in Qin, Fan Sui's life was still difficult. Although he was favored by Qin King Ying Ji, he could not deal with Ranghou. When he knew that Qin King was gradually taking over power, he gradually showed his talents. From then on, he dethroned Ranghou, chased Huayang, strengthened the public house, eliminated private households, cannibalized the princes, and started a magnificent life.
Fan Suitai knows what it means to go too far but not enough.
Immediately, Fan Sui bowed deeply to the King of Qin and said: "My king, with the strength of our great Qin, it is not a problem to fight against the three or two countries to the east. Even if the six countries come to attack, our army can calmly Deal with it. But now it’s impossible!”
"Three years of confrontation in Danshui has consumed too much of our country's national strength. If our army cannot support it, why bother to resort to stratagems to force King Zhao to change commanders?" Fan Sui continued: "If at this time, our army is still To turn defeat into victory, the only way is to increase the number of troops, and their number should be more than 100,000. The soldiers in Hedong, Hanoi, and Hexi have been sent out, and the people have been recruited. If we want to increase the number of troops, we must draw troops from Guanzhong, Bashu and Yanying. also."
With that said, Fan Sui also moved in front of the map, and pointed his finger directly on the map.
"With the transfer of the army from Yanying, the homeland of the Chu Kingdom, the Chu army will definitely take the opportunity to send troops to regain its old capital, and add hundreds of thousands of Qin soldiers' lives. It is really worth losing Yanying after gaining the upper party; the newly annexed land of Bashu, before The people's strength has been exhausted in the second expedition to Chu. If they continue to deplete the lake for fishing, there may be more rebellions from now on. Once the foundation of Qin is damaged in Guanzhong, the century-old foundation of Qin will be destroyed. What's more, there will be more rebellions on the side of Lord Wu'an. How long can you hold on?" Fan Sui withdrew his fingers, turned around and saluted King Qin again, and said, "Please think again, my king."
King Qin looked at the map in front of him. In fact, before Fan Sui arrived, he had been struggling with where to mobilize his troops.
The Chu State, a country thousands of miles away, has always been a strong enemy of the Qin State. In addition, the two countries have deep grievances and are very willing to fight to the death. Now that Yanying was finally captured, it was regarded as cutting off an arm of the Chu State. If the Chu State took it back and even restored the Chu State's strength, it would be really not worth it.
As for Bashu, although the people's support has gradually increased over the years, as Fan Sui said, when the army conquered Chu, most of the civilian food used by the army came from Bashu. It had just slowed down a few years ago, and encountered the Battle of Changping, countless The grain and fodder are transported from Bashu like running water. It is impossible to say that the Bashu people have no complaints. If more troops are recruited at this time, I am afraid that disaster is not far away.
In the last Guanzhong, the King of Qin knew that as long as he gave an order, Xianyang alone could form an army of no less than 50,000 soldiers. But autumn was about to come, and Guanzhong, as the most important grain-producing area in the Qin Dynasty, If a large number of people are mobilized at this time, it will inevitably affect the autumn harvest.
The Qin State, which had experienced three years of confrontation, was now extremely weak. If this year's autumn harvest was missing, the King of Qin simply could not imagine the future.
It’s not that King Qin doesn’t understand, it’s precisely because he is well aware of the difficulties that he hopes Fan Sui can come up with a solution that has both ends.
"What do you mean by Prime Minister Yiguo?" Prince Qin asked immediately.
"To my king, I think that for the present plan, we should no longer be greedy for the party to turn defeat into victory. Instead, we should put our focus down: rescue the hundreds of thousands of main forces under Wu'an Jun's command and end this battle with dignity." Fan Sui. As he spoke, he observed King Qin's face: "Even, if necessary, you can give up part of your troops or the city."
Sure enough, King Qin's face turned pale and red, red and white, and finally turned into a long sigh.
With this sigh, Fan Sui knew that his preparations were not in vain, and his plan was more than half successful.
That's right, I tried my best to express my dissatisfaction repeatedly before, just to tell the King of Qin: I, Fan Sui, the Prime Minister of the State of Qin, am dedicated to the State of Qin and have absolutely no selfish motives. At least in this decisive battle to determine the fate of Qin, everything I thought was for the good of Qin.
Only by firmly establishing the image of wholeheartedly serving Qin, King Qin would not be angry at Fan Sui's so-called "abandonment of soldiers and cities" at this time. If this persona was not well established, and hearing that Fan Sui actually wanted to give up his own elite soldiers and land, King Qin would not have doubted Fan Sui's intentions, or even gone mad? !
So having said that, does Fan Sui have any selfish motives?
It should be said that Fan Sui's advice was generally for the good of Qin.
However, although Fan Sui's words are reasonable and well-founded, they are not absolute.
Indeed, the deployment of troops from the Chu region is likely to be counterattacked by the Chu army, but is the Chu army still a match for the Qin army today? Even if the main force goes north and the remaining partial divisions are not enough to cover the entire city, it is still not a big problem to defend Yingdu. As long as the capital of Ying is still there, most of the land of Ying will be there. As long as the main force returns, the Chu people will most likely return without success.
As for the land of Bashu, no matter how many rebellions there are, are there still more rebellions than when we marched? The Qin State back then was not afraid, but as long as the Qin State of today has passed this level, it will not be afraid of the Bashu rebellion. Or just giving him more titles would appease him.
In the final Guanzhong, although the deployment of the people will indeed have an impact on the autumn harvest, as long as the front line can win quickly, the impact is still controllable.
Of course, there are huge risks in any of the above points. But correspondingly, the possible gains are also huge. The land of Shangdang is known as the backbone of the world, and its gains and losses will be enough to establish Qin's strategic advantage for the next hundred years.
So, it’s not impossible to give it a try! After all, Qin has been gambling for three years.
As the Prime Minister of the Qin State, Fan Sui, out of consideration for the stable development of the country, could not be regarded as selfish in preventing the continued gambling, but such giving up would not be suppressing the popular military warriors who were gradually rising above the court, especially Is it Wu'an Jun Bai Qi?
And does this count as the selfishness of Fan Sui, a civil servant?
King Qin stared at Fan Sui deeply, as if he wanted to see through Fan Sui in front of him. Apparently, the King of Qin, as the "initiator" of provoking civil and military infighting, also thought about the possibility of Fan Sui using this opportunity to suppress the martial arts group.
However, Fan Sui's foreshadowing was too wonderful, and at this time Fan Sui accepted the scrutiny of King Qin very calmly.
"If we just want to end this war with dignity, from the perspective of Prime Minister Yi, how should we deal with it?" King Qin continued to look at Fan Sui and asked slowly.
