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Chapter 47 Rejection

The reason why Pinyang is named is because of the Fenshan; the reason why Pinshan is called Fenshan is because here we welcome the morning glow early and the sunset late, and the sun is setting all day long, so it is called Fenshan. Wang Jian was born here.

The Qin army was defeated, and the king urgently summoned Wang Jian late at night. In order to keep the secret, Zhao Gao, who had received the king's order, had to let his younger brother Zhao Cheng and son-in-law Yan Le take Zhao Jie to Pinyang urgently. However, when they arrived at the Lilu where Wang Jian was, Wang Jian became ill.

"General Wang, General Wang is sleeping?" Zhao Cheng did not have the seven orifices of his elder brother, and did not understand the meaning of the elder of the Wang clan.

"As General Wang is sick, we should visit him. Please allow him to agree." Yan Le's face was pale and handsome, and he was able to speak well. His eyes turned around and his mouth changed. He never mentioned the urgent call, as if he and Zhao Cheng had made a special trip to see Wang Jian.

"This..." Only the clan elders who could stay in the rear and not go to the battlefield were in their sixties or seventies. They lived to this age and had a lot of things very clear. When they saw the messenger, they were determined to see Wang Jian, but the clan elders dared not stop him. They said, "The general has been sleeping for a long time. I am worried that the noble man will suffer from illness..."

The disease is contagious, especially the Jinyang plague was only controlled and has not been completely extinguished. Zhao Cheng's expression changed immediately when he heard this. Seeing this, Yan Le could only bite the bullet and said, "I am not afraid of the evil, I hope to see the elder General Wang."

A yard that is more than ten feet long and wide, a dark inner room with four steps square, kneeling on an old slave. There is no high platform, no bright hall, or even a curtain. This is the home of the Qin general Wang Jian. Yan Lelu didn't have to take off and entered the narrow inner room. He vaguely saw a man lying on his back on his back, because he couldn't see Wang Jian's face clearly because he was dim.

However, Wang Jian was helped half of his body by the old servant. He coughed violently for a while before saying, "The envoy is here... but I am sick and inconvenient... I cough and inconvenient to greet him..."

Wang Jian said, and Yan Le said anxiously, "The Qin army was defeated in Chencheng, Meng Tian was defeated in Fu Jian. The king quickly summoned the general to Hanoi and asked the general to set off immediately. It will be in danger in the late Qin Dynasty!"

"Meng Tian Fu Jian?!" Wang Jian's old body shook. He expected that the Qin army would be defeated, but he never expected Meng Tian Fu Jian to commit suicide.

"Yes." These news were learned by Zhao Gao sent someone to the Guowei Mansion to arrest people, and Yan Le was also surprised. "My Great Qin has no general to fight, and the 300,000 army was killed and injured. The Great Qin was in danger. Please go to Henoi quickly to defend the people of Jing."

"I..." Wang Jian was no longer sick at this time, but Yan Le couldn't see the change in his expression in the darkness. Wang Jian paused and said, "I have many generals from the Great Qin Dynasty, and there are national lieutenants. If the National lieutenants are here, why would the Great Qin Dynasty die?"

Wei Liao inside and Wang Jian outside. The more officials govern the country, the more they need such a solid combination to win foreign wars. The king always doubts every general, and the command at the strategic level depends more on the inside rather than the outside.

Wang Jian asked a tentative question, but Yan Le, who was a minor official, did not know what Wang Jian meant. He said: "The National Escort once said that the King would regret it. The King hated the National Escort deeply. Now that the Qin army is defeated, we urgently need a general who leads the army, not..."

"Cough cough cough..." Wang Jian started coughing violently again, and as he coughed, he fell backwards and seemed to faint. The old servant in the inner room hurriedly called the doctor when he saw this, and the clan elder was also in a hurry. He invited Yan Le to the hall next to the inner room, which was considered the Mingtang of the Qianshou folk house.

Zhao Chengzheng was waiting here, and when he saw Yan Le, he asked, "How about General Wang?"

"I don't know." The inner room was dark, and Yan Le didn't see clearly how Wang Jian was.

"I don't know?" Zhao Cheng was worried that Wang Jian was a big epidemic and did not dare to enter the inner room. Yan Le went in but said he didn't know. He hurriedly said, "The King urgently summoned the old general Wang in the third juncture. If he was sick, how could he go to Hanoi? If he didn't, who would the king be the general?"

The elder brother Zhao Gao often serves the king. Zhao Cheng knows better what the situation in China than Yan Le. Wang Jian is the only hope of the Qin Dynasty. If Wang Jian does not serve as the general, it is probably impossible to destroy Jing.

"You should report to the king quickly about the affairs of General Wang, and then ask the imperial physician in the palace to treat General Wang." This is the solution that Yan Le could think of, and this is the method that Zhao Chengneng implemented. The two did not expect that Zhao Zheng arrived in Pinyang just two days after they sent the message.

Zhao Zheng's whereabouts this time were very secret. When the car arrived at the border of Pinyang, the local county magistrate learned that the king was coming. Pinyang is in the northeast of the Guanzhong Basin, and the Loess Plateau is north of Pinyang. Tens of millions of stones of grain and fodder are transported into Guanzhong, and there are still many hunger in Pinyang County. The county magistrate is worried that Zhao Zheng will be punished and goes out of the city to greet him in a panic. However, Zhao Zheng did not mention hunger at all, just see Wang Jian in person.

The Wang family did not live in Pinyang County, but in Tongguanli, Dongxiang, southwest of the county town. The county magistrate, Wei, went to Dongxiang to report the news while accompanying Zhao Zheng to Dongxiang. The fast horse was naturally one step ahead of Zhao Zheng. When Zhao Zheng arrived at the same office the next day, Wang Jian, who was sleeping, had been waiting inside and outside with Zhao Cheng, Yan Le and others for a long time, with the help of his servants.

"I don't need the general's plan, Meng Tian insulted the Qin army." Zhao Zheng got out of the car and helped Wang Jian up on the ground, looked at Wang Jian's eyes and said sincerely. "The King of Jing has led his army north to open the seal, and he will attack the sea of ​​sand and enter Hanoi on the day. Although the general is sick, he will only endure it to abandon me!"

"I dare not." Wang Jian did not dare to talk to Zhao Zheng face to face. He took two steps back and coughed and bowed again: "I will stop the illness and rebellion, please... cough cough... please choose a virtuous general and take it."

"The state affairs have come to this point, so please don't say anything again!" Zhao Zheng was angry and waved his sleeves angrily.

The reason why he rushed over was to immediately invite Wang Jian to become a general in the army to stabilize the morale. The Chu army buried witch medicine in a battleground to bomb the Qin army. After the defeated soldiers returned to the camp, the news of the defeated army was spread all over the army, and the morale of the army was in chaos. If it weren't for the success of the fight back and attack, the Chu army was afraid that the Chu army would have already attacked the Shahai camp now.

When Zhao Zheng was anxious, he ignored the rituals of the king. Seeing that Wang Jian still refused, he knelt down and bowed to Wang Jian. His actions shocked everyone. When the historian, Zhao Gao, county magistrate and others were surprised, Zhao Zheng said: "If the Jing Kingdom is not destroyed, the Qin Dynasty will be destroyed. Although the general is ill, he will lie down and beside him. If he has made contributions, his wish will be aggravated to the general. For the Qin Dynasty, the general must not refuse."

The dignified king actually bowed to an old man and everyone looked at each other. But what surprised Wang Jian even more was the words Zhao Zheng said, "Although the general was so ill that he was lying down and was lying down. If he had made merits, my wish would be aggravated to the general." This was what King Zhao of Qin said before, but Zhao Zheng only said the first half of the sentence, but not the second half.

Wang Jian's heart trembled uncontrollably. He paused his head three times and said, "The king had to use his ministers, and he must have 600,000 people. And the destruction of Jing must not be in a hurry..."

"I must listen to the general's plan." Zhao Zheng bowed to Wang Jian again when he heard this. Wang Jian did not dare to accept the courtesy, so he hurriedly avoided the other side and sighed in his heart.

The half sentence that Zhao Zheng did not say was, "If the king does not follow, I hate the king." Bai Qi knew that the battle in Handan would be defeated, but "loyal ministers love their name", he would rather be hated by King Zhao of Qin than go to Handan to lead the army. This is not so much that "loyal ministers love their name", but it is better to say that the nobles love their name. The officials who regard the king's destiny as heaven's destiny to relieve the king's worries, so how could they love their name? Similarly, Bai Qi, who was born in a noble family, did not believe that King Zhao of Qin would really give him a sword and asked him to commit suicide, so he lamented, "Why did I blame the heaven?"

Bai Qi's suicide was more than 30 years ago. Wang Jian, like Bai Qi, more than 30 years later, also advised Zhao Zheng not to rush to fight and destroy the country, but Zhao Zheng insisted on fighting. After the Qin army was defeated, Zhao Zheng came to ask for help. Wang Jian did not dare to say, "Qin did not listen to his plan, what's going on now!", and did not dare to say that he was sick and refused again and again like Bai Qi. He knew very well that if he did not agree to Zhao Zheng, it would be Bai Qi's fate, and his son Wang Ben and Wang family in the same place would also be punished.

"I don't know our army..." Zhao Zheng had not stayed in Dongxiang for a long time, and Wang Jian followed Zhao Zheng to Guandong on the same day.

"Our army was defeated." Zhao Zheng did not shy away. "Meng Tian died in battle, and Qin army died 160,000 people."

"Why are our army defeated?" Wang Jian asked anxiously. "There are only tens of thousands of soldiers in Jing. General Meng is a general who is good at fighting. How can he..."

"The Jing people used a trick to bury the witch medicine in a place of war. If our army was not careful, the Jing people would blow it up and the front army would collapse!" At that time, Zhao Zheng saw the Chu army use witch medicine to blow up the walls of Lantian City with his own eyes. He could imagine the scene when the witch medicine exploded the Qin army.

"Ah..." Wang Jian opened his mouth wide and spit out a series of "Ah" from his mouth. He guessed that the Qin army would be defeated, but he didn't expect that it would be such a defeat.

He has also seen the witch medicine bombing city. Linzi used witch medicine to blow up the city wall and pulled it out. The roar of the witch weapon had already made the Qin soldiers frightened. When witch medicine was buried underground and the war suddenly exploded. No matter how many Qin soldiers were, they would be scared to death. The front army formation was defeated, and the defeated soldiers would inevitably harm the rear army. Once the Jing people attacked the witch weapon and the barbarian spear, how could the Qin army not be defeated?

Seeing that Wang Jian's expression changed, Zhao Zheng was afraid that he was afraid of the Chu army and hurriedly said, "The cavalry general is eager to kill more people in Jing."

"Great Strive?" Wang Jian thought of the name of this child.

"Hua Fen lured Xiang's soldiers to run north, set up an ambush to kill Xiang Chao, and personally led a unit to attack Jing people, killing more than 10,000 Jing people." Speaking of Hua Fen, Zhao Zheng finally felt a little angry on his solemn face. "So our army has rectified the army and retreated to the sea of ​​sand."

"The people of Jing are afraid of my cavalry." Wang Jian came to this conclusion very early, which is also the reason why his Niu Shoushui Battle was defeated. "I dare to ask the king, how much does the cavalry still have? What does the National Guard say about this?"

"Wei Qing's mansion accidentally caught fire, and Wei Qing's soldier." Zhao Zheng did not tell Wang Jian that Wei Liao was killed in the bombing, but only said that there was a fire.

Wang Jian was surprised after hearing this as much as hearing the Chu army buried witch medicine underground. He widened his eyes: "The National Guard...the National Guard is soldier!"

"It should be done by the Marquis of the Jing people." Zhao Zheng tried his best to control his expression without showing anger. "Meng Tian wanted to use his cavalry to break the Jing people's witchcraft, kill four thousand cavalry, ambush Xiang Chao, and return to Jing people, kill more than ten thousand cavalry, and now only 25,000 cavalry."

"Twenty-five thousand cavalry?" There were obviously 40,000 cavalrymen, but only 25,000 cavalry were left after the battle, and Wang Jian frowned.

"General, don't worry." Zhao Zheng hurriedly said. "The Jing people were defeated in a row, and they all returned to the world in the battleships of Xizhou. The Qin Dynasty could already lose silk and carves from the Rong people Hu Shang, and they gave me war horses. The northern land, Shangjun, Jiuyuan, Yunzhong counties and counties, both men and women could ride, and there could be more than 10,000 cavalry to fight in autumn and winter."

The State of Chu and Seleugu were in conflict with Egypt, and these two countries that controlled the trade routes of Asia and Europe no longer bought silk brocade from Chu, and the trade blockade against Qin that Xiong Jing worked hard to fail. Qin and Zhao were both countries with cavalrymen, and the Qin army had always tried every means to supplement the cavalry, but they were controlled by war horses. Since this year, Hu Shang from the west and Rong Wang outside the Qin territory have sent people to Qin to buy silk brocade, which means that the Qin army and horses can be supplemented.

"Forty thousand cavalry is enough." The more cavalry, the better. The more horses are, the more food they eat, the more than that of people. Forty thousand war horses are equivalent to two or three hundred thousand soldiers. In addition to the six hundred thousand people, Wang Jian was worried that the country could not afford so much military ration.

Worried about military rations, soldiers, cavalry, morale, and Chu army... Just in terms of military matters, Wang Jian had to worry a lot. Before he arrived at the Shahai Camp, and even after he arrived at the Shahai Camp, the Qin army's situation was extremely dangerous. He wanted to propose that the Qin army temporarily withdraw from the Shahai Camp, and was worried that Zhao Zheng would continue to siege Daliang to prevent the remnants of Wei and Zhao from joining the Chu army. In addition, Qi State, if Qi State cannot be treated with gentleness, it is likely that it will turn to Chu State.

It was getting darker, and Wang Jian, who was riding in the same car with the king, still could not accept the fact that Wei Liao was killed by the spy. With Wei Liao, he could rest assured in the rear and concentrate on the battlefield; without Wei Liao, he always felt unsure in his heart.

This is not because he was worried that he could not conquer the Chu State. The Chu Army had obvious advantages and disadvantages. The biggest disadvantage of the Chu Army was that it could not be consumed. Since the Battle of Qingshui, Chu State alone was not counting the soldiers of Yue, and the Chu Army was fighting less and less. Although the Chu army occupied many cities, it was impossible to recruit soldiers from these cities and supplement the troops. This is a clear proof that the Chu army could not withstand the consumption.

Wang Jian didn't understand why this happened, but it was the fact that he had to have an army of 600,000 was to consume the Chu army. In addition, he could fight quickly. With the fierce and resolute nature of the Chu people, once they gathered a large army to attack Chu, they would inevitably face the battle. If they face the battle, they would draw all the warable soldiers in Chu. As long as they defeated the decisive battle, the State of Chu would be destroyed.

This method is a good thing for the common people of Chu. After a battle, the country will be destroyed. Those who are willing to die in battle will all die on the battlefield; those who live in vain will not defend the city. The Chu flag falls and the Qin flag rises, which preserves the Dingkou of Chu to the greatest extent, rather than being like Zhao, leaving only women and children, and is full of devastation. This can be regarded as fulfilling the promise to Changpingjun.
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