"The ancestors of the Qin State all had the ambition to unify the world, and the biggest obstacle to Qin's unification of the world is the Huai State. The Qin State has risen rapidly since Shang Jun's reform, but if it wants to defeat the Huai State, it still has a lot to do. Let me Qin State is going to deal with Huai State." Bai Qi said confidently.
When Qin Wangji heard this, he took a deep look at Bai Qi and said, "If you are really capable of this, I will reward you with whatever I can afford, whether it is gold, silver, jewels, fertile land, beautiful houses, or official titles!"
Bai Qi immediately said: "Then please give me your absolute trust, Your Majesty!"
Qin Wangji immediately nodded and said: "I understand!"
Although it was only their first meeting, Bai Qi seemed to have a magical power that easily made Qin Wangji trust him.
Bai Qi formulated a strategy for King Ji of Qin to unify the world. The Qin State must first annex the three Jin Dynasties to obtain more land and population. At the same time, by occupying the northern land, he can go south to attack the Huai Kingdom and seize the land of Hanzhong.
Since the Zhou Dynasty divided the world, one hundred and twenty princes have developed and merged over hundreds of years. Until now, there are less than ten countries left in the world. This era is like sailing against the current. If you don't advance, you will retreat. Every country must keep moving forward. Once it falls behind and is caught up by other countries, it risks being annexed.
If Qin wants to become strong, it must continue to annex other countries.
After Bai Qi was trusted by Qin Wangji, he quickly prepared the first target to attack - the State of Wei.
Although the Wei State lost the land west of Hexi, the land east of Hedong was also very rich. Anyi, the old capital of Wei State, was located here. Not only that, the land east of Hedong also had the benefit of salt and iron. The Qin State once captured the land of Anyi, but unfortunately it was not able to hold it due to various reasons. Now Bai Qi wants to launch another war out of the east to seize the land of Wei.
The Qin State's 200,000-strong army marched from Hexi to attack the Wei State. When the Wei State received the news, they were shocked and quickly asked the South Korean Zhao State for help.
South Korea was worried that it would be alone after Qin defeated Wei, so it agreed to Wei's help. On the other hand, Zhao, who was more powerful and attacked Zhongshan with Yan, fell into civil strife.
The King of Zhao, who rode in Hufu and shot, reformed the State of Zhao and made the State of Zhao strong and prosperous. He was originally a British lord. After undergoing reforms, King Wuling of Zhao experienced a series of political and military victories, including defeating the northern Yidi, seizing Shangjun, forcing Qin to sue for peace and sending protons, and attacking Zhongshan.
Later, he supported the protégé Ying Ji to become the King of Qin. Just one or two of these victories can enable a monarch to obtain a high-level posthumous title, which is worthy of special mention, let alone all in one person?
This also made King Zhao Wuling become arrogant. He passed the throne of king to his son Zhao Wanghe, and he claimed that his father wanted to live the addiction of the Supreme King.
When he wanted to let his son take charge, he was in charge of foreign conquests. Originally, if this system were to be maintained, it would be fine for King Zhao Wuling to take over the military and political power after the death of King Zhao Wuling, but King Zhao Wuling did not.
After Zhao Wanghe came to power for several years, the ministers in the court also recognized Zhao Wanghe. King Zhao Wuling suddenly felt that his eldest son Zhao Zhang was more like himself. So he wanted to entrust the land of Zhongshan Kingdom to Zhao Zhang and let Zhao Zhang also become king.
In fact, King Zhao Wuling has also realized that his previous operation of letting his son Zhao He succeed the king was a bad move. After several years of development, Zhao Wang He has controlled the vast majority of power with his own support.
King Zhao Wuling was unwilling to give up his power, so he wanted to use his eldest son Zhao Zhang to be the king to check and balance Zhao King He.
Originally, King Zhao Wuling thought that it would be easy for him to make his eldest son Zhang the king, but when he started to do it, even the minister he appointed was against him.
The state ministers and other ministers were very aware of the consequences of this matter. Originally, King Wuling of Zhao supported King Zhao He to rule, which had made those ministers regard King Zhao He as the next King Zhao and became the minister of King Zhao He.
Now you suddenly expressed your intention to establish Zhao Wangzhang. What are you doing? If Zhao Zhang succeeds to the throne, will they, the ministers of King Zhao He, still have good fruits to eat?
King Zhao Wuling's behavior was completely to let his former veteran die.
The Prime Minister rejected Zhao Zhang's request to be crowned king, which made King Zhao Wuling very dissatisfied, so he secretly instructed Zhao Zhang to fight with Zhao Wang He. He wanted to take this opportunity to regain power.
But this behavior also made the courtiers who were originally loyal to King Zhao Wuling make their own choices.
Zhao Zhang even wanted to kill Zhao Wang He directly and then become the king of Zhao himself, but was beheaded by Gong Zicheng. After a performance of fatherly kindness and sonly filial piety, brotherly friend and brotherly respect, King Zhao Wuling was trapped in the Sand Dune Palace, Zhao Zhang died, and King Zhao pretended to be nonchalant, acting like a big boy who didn't know anything.
Everyone did not dare to kill King Zhao Wuling, but they did not dare to let him out of the palace, so they sent people to besiege him in the Sand Dune Palace for three months and let him starve to death.
So the most accomplished king of the Zhao Kingdom finally starved to death in the Sand Dune Palace.
The civil strife in Zhao State caused chaos in Zhao State's internal affairs and military affairs. In particular, the deaths of the Prime Minister and King Wuling of Zhao successively caused Zhao State to suffer a serious blow from both its internal affairs and military affairs.
Although Zhao Wanghe put down the civil strife, the death of Zhao Wuling also dealt a huge blow to his prestige. After the news of Wei's request for help came, the political situation in Zhao was still somewhat turbulent, so he did not agree to send troops.
Qin's army marched eastward, and Bai Qi personally led an army of 200,000 to attack Hedong. South Korea and Wei each sent 100,000 troops to respond. The two countries were not familiar with Bai Qi, and even thought that this was King Qin's own fooling around.
He was not wary of Bai Qi, and the coalition forces of the two countries did not merge into one, but were stationed in various places. Bai Qi made a decisive decision after seeing this situation and sent the main army to attack Wei.
The strength of the State of Wei was not as good as that of the State of Qin. This became more obvious after the demise of the Wei soldiers. Bai Qi sent 30,000 people to contain the Korean army, and then led the main force of the Qin army to gather superior forces to besiege the Wei army.
The Wei state faced a disastrous defeat, and its 100,000-strong army suffered heavy losses. After defeating the Wei army, the Korean army had not yet received news.
After the Qin army defeated Wei, they immediately attacked the Korean army. As a result, South Korea was also defeated. Bai Qi wiped out the 200,000 troops of Han and Wei in a very short time with extremely small losses. South Korea and Wei had no time to ask for help from other vassal states.
The Qin army successfully captured several cities, including the old capital Anyi, and a large area of South Korea. After this war, South Korea was so weak that its national power completely collapsed and it became a second-rate country.
The King of Wei was also frightened out of his courage and quickly sent people to sue Qin for peace and expressed his willingness to offer several cities.
Qin won a great victory in the first battle, and Bai Qi's name spread throughout the world.
Huai State, Jinling.
Wang Xu looked at the news from the secret guard with a serious face. It was Bai Qi's tactical layout for the battle just now. After reading it, Wang Xu had to admit Bai Qi's power.
"Send people to focus on him. I feel that he will be another big enemy of our Huai Kingdom."
(End of chapter)
