Before the Eastern Han Dynasty was conquered, the Daxia Dynasty was about to take action against its allies.
If such a reputation spreads, how can people in the world believe in the promise of the Daxia Dynasty in the future?
No matter how they behave in private, many people in China and those outstanding figures, princes and generals who have left their names in history, on the surface, pay attention to promises, and their moral integrity has been deeply rooted in the blood of countless people.
China is not like those barbarians who are not ashamed but proud of theft, robbery, murder and arson. They also claim that these are the foundation of their country.
After being taught by countless sages, China will only respect those honest people who believe in their promises and do what they say. There will be subconscious resistance in their hearts towards those who are deceitful and go back on their word.
This is true for a person, and so is a country.
If a dynasty is dishonest and its reputation is ruined, then the foundation for governing its ministers and governing the people will naturally be lacking.
In the history of the original world, the Qin State unified the world. Why did the people of the six countries never stop resisting after the unification?
One of the reasons is that the Qin State has too many dark histories and is cunning and often goes back on its word. For example, Zhang Yi went on a mission to the State of Chu and deceived the King of Chu with his sharp tongue. He even deceived the King of Chu into being imprisoned in the State of Qin...
Such humiliation, such deceitful techniques, as long as a Chu country person knows about it, he will not be angry and aggrieved, and his chest will seem to be filled with flames, filled with disobedient anger.
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This kind of behavior that repeatedly broke through the moral bottom line of the world at that time was used too much by the Qin State, so it was difficult to convince people to overthrow the six kingdoms. When the First Emperor was alive, he could suppress the world. When the First Emperor died, the whole world was in chaos and the world was in chaos.
Of course, this was only one of the reasons why the Six Kingdoms rebelled against Qin, and was not the fundamental reason for Qin's downfall.
There is also the Western Jin Dynasty, which is known as the shame of the dynasty. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, Liu Xiuneng swore on Luoshui and bypassed the enemy general who killed his own eldest brother. Later, he did not settle the accounts with Qiu Hou, while Sima Yi swore on Luoshui and killed the Cao Shuang clan in turn.
This bad reputation of going back on one's word led to the founding of the Western Jin Dynasty being unfair, and the clan had to guard the four directions, which then caused the Eight Kings Rebellion...
Xie An was born in the Xie family of Chen County, at the turn of the Jin Dynasty.
He has a very sensitive feeling about the role of a dynasty's reputation, so when he heard that Wang Jingximo killed the donkey, he subconsciously objected.
"Mr. Anshi misunderstood!"
Wang Jing's expression remained unchanged, and he said calmly: "What I mean is to first mobilize the generals and elites to prepare, and wait until Cao Cao takes the initiative to leave the coalition camp and return to Qingqi, abandoning the alliance, and then our army will take action!"
"This is a post-attack attack. The person who broke the covenant is Cao Cao. Our army took action later. How can we say that the teacher is nameless and unfaithful?"
Xie An is also a smart man. Hearing this, he immediately understood the meaning of Wang Jing's words.
Cao Cao was a tycoon of his generation, and he was surrounded by many wise men such as Xun You and Zhang Bin. He could definitely see the situation after the Xia army defeated Xingyang and Li Tang's troops left Taihang.
The situation was that the two top dynasties, Li Tang and Da Xia, tacitly carve up Hebei and the Central Plains.
Cao Wei, Ran Wei, and the Eastern Han Dynasty, which had suffered repeated defeats and seemed to be in danger of overthrowing, became the prey of the two dynasties.
Now that he sees this, Cao Cao must return to Qingzhou as soon as possible to prepare for war, otherwise, he will lose this little opportunity.
Cao Cao left the coalition and returned to Qingzhou to prepare for war. It was Cao Wei who broke the alliance.
The Daxia Dynasty took advantage of the situation to send troops, and there was no problem in either reason or faith.
As for whether Cao Cao could see these consequences, what if he didn't do what Wang Jing and Liu Bowen thought in their minds? No one in the civil and military circles asked this question.
Because they also followed Xie An and figured it out. If Cao Cao stayed still among the coalition forces, it would be a bad idea. If he stayed still even though he knew that the next target of the Great Xia Dynasty was him, wouldn't he be waiting for death?
If you move, you still have life. If you don't move, you will kill your life.
"I am ashamed that I did not understand His Majesty's intention... If it is to strike later and make a famous move, I have no objection at all!"
Xie An held up his hands and apologized.
Wang Jing smiled, glanced at the others, and asked, "Do you have any other opinions?"
Bu Zhao cautiously took a step forward and asked softly: "May I ask, Your Majesty, if you deploy elite troops to attack Cao Cao, which general will you choose to lead?"
Wang Jing did not reply to this question immediately, but fell into deep thought.
Nowadays, most of Daxia's elite soldiers and generals have been transferred to the east and west camps. Wang Jing is planning to draw generals from the two camps, but he can only draw two or three from each. Especially the west camp cannot draw generals from the heaven realm. .
With the temporary deployment of generals and soldiers, Cao Cao, who was facing a disadvantage and was able to activate all his abilities... It was really difficult for the general to be weak.
"After much thought, I decided it would be better for me to be the main general who conquered Cao Wei myself!"
Wang Jing thought for a moment and suddenly laughed.
"Your Majesty personally leads the troops?"
Chen Yi, Liu Bowen, Bu Zhi, Xie An and others were shocked, and their expressions changed slightly.
It is not that Wang Jing has never been to the front line, and he just returned from Bianliang not long ago, but these so-called personal expeditions by the imperial commanders only went to the front line cities and camps to supervise the troops for a period of time.
Instead of personally serving as the commander-in-chief of an army, commanding the troops and horses, and commanding on the battlefield.
The properties of these two are different.
"Liu Xiu of the Han army is personally stationed in Xingyang, and Cao Cao is personally commanding the troops... I am personally leading the troops, why not?"
Wang Jing smiled.
Speaking of which, after being tempered on countless battlefields, his ability to command troops cannot be compared with that of Yue Fei and Han Xin, but he has also reached the top level.
Only Wang Jing, the emperor with the highest prestige in the army, personally commanded the troops, could he unite the temporarily mobilized generals and soldiers.
Xie An, Liu Bowen and others looked at each other and could only obey Wang Jing's order.
Because they all understood that what Wang Jing said was right.
"Let's prepare first, allocate another batch of grain and grass baggage to Xuzhou, and wait for the opportunity!"
Wang Jing ordered.
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In the Hanoi camp, the main force of the Tang army and Cao Wei's troops were stationed next to each other.
In the continuous camp, a military flag with the word "Cao" whistled in the wind. In the Chinese army tent, a man with a black beard who was not tall but not angry or self-proud was looking at the map of Kun in front of him.
He was Cao Cao, the monarch of Cao Wei who personally led his elite troops to join forces with the Tang army to fight against Liu Xiu.
His fingers kept crossing the map, sometimes looking at the land of Hebei, sometimes focusing on Xingyang and the Daxia soldiers and horses east of Xingyang.
I don’t know how long it took, but Xun You, Guo Jia, and Zhang Bin came together.
Cao Cao only brought a part of the elite with him on this trip, and the main force was still stationed in Dingtao, so he did not bring many counselors with him. For example, Jia Xu and Xi Zhicai assisted Cao Pi and Cao Ren in Qingzhou and Dingtao respectively.
"Ming Gong!"
The three of them bowed and bowed after entering.
Cao Cao raised his head, waved his hand for them to stand up, and said: "You are here just in time. You have been paying attention to the movements of the Tang and Xia armies these days. Have you ever seen any movements by the two armies? Did Li Jing send elite troops to force the crossing? The movement of the Yellow River southward?"
His voice sounded very calm, but Xun You and Guo Jia, two counselors who knew Cao Cao very well, could already hear the anxiety in Duke Ming's heart.
Xun You cupped his hands and replied: "The Tang army has made no move, and there are no signs of crossing the river and heading south!"
As soon as he said this, Cao Cao frowned even more.
"The Tang army and the Xia army want to join forces to destroy the Han army. Han Xin's army is about to attack Xingyang, but Li Jing doesn't make any big moves? Could it be that the Tang army is hiding some news, or has they changed their strategy?"
Cao Cao murmured.
Before he knew the news that Li Tang and Daxia secretly colluded to carve up the Central Plains of Hebei, Cao Cao was very confused about the current situation, and at the same time he instinctively felt a little uneasy in his heart.
