Chapter 690: Invite King Qin to taste delicious food
"Is the Qin Army going to be a coward like this all the time?" Zhao Kuo looked at the Qin Army camp with some helplessness.
A month and a half has passed since he arrived at the front line. Except for the initial battle between the two armies, there has been no major battle since then.
Every time the Zhao army sends troops to attack, the Qin army will also send troops to fight, but the Qin army will never hesitate to fight. Once the Zhao army gains an advantage or increases its troops to support, the Qin army will immediately retreat.
If the Zhao army is defeated by the Qin army, the Qin army will never pursue it and will only watch the Zhao army leave.
Qin Jun always adhered to the principle that when you come, no matter how bad the storm is, I will pick you up, and when you leave, I will never send you away. This left Zhao Jun with nowhere to go.
At first, Le Yi arranged an ambush in the distance, hoping to fake defeat and attract the Qin army to come over. Later, when he saw that the Qin army would not be fooled, he had to give up this idea.
"If the defense can consume our army until it retreats, the Qin army will definitely continue to defend. However, King Qin knows that relying on the national power of Qin alone cannot consume more than the four countries of Zhao, Wei, Han and Qi. So he will definitely think of other ways, but he will not
You know how much it can play a role," Le Yi said.
At present, Zhao Jun has no good way to defeat the Qin Army before the beginning of spring. Even if he wants to attack by force, he will have to wait until after the beginning of spring.
"News came from the State of Wei and South Korea that the State of Qin had sent envoys to the two countries and wanted to form an alliance with the two countries to jointly fight against our country Zhao, but the King of Wei and the King of Han refused. According to the envoys, the State of Qin also sent envoys to the two countries.
Let's make Qi and Chu." Liu Ping said.
"Qin has now thought of the benefits of allies. Why didn't he think of it when he attacked Han and Wei and deceived Chu?" Gongsun Long sneered.
"If Chu dares to form an alliance with Qin, then he will be beaten too." Ben shook his fist and said disdainfully.
Others were not worried. It was unlikely that Chu and Qin would form an alliance. Even if the two countries did form an alliance, the four kingdoms of Zhao, Wei, Han and Qi could still suppress them and fight.
When the time comes, Qin can retreat to Guanzhong, but Chu will have no place to retreat.
"The Chinese New Year will be celebrated tomorrow..." Zhao Kuo suddenly said.
Le Yi and others were stunned, wondering why Zhao Kuo mentioned this.
They don't have any special feelings about the Chinese New Year. In this era, the Chinese New Year only had its prototype. At most, some people hung a peach charm on it. It was not until recent years that Zhao Kuo fixed it and named it a national statutory holiday.
If they were in Handan, they could still take a few days off for the New Year, and Zhao Kuo would personally give them rewards and feel some festive joy.
But on the front line, I have long forgotten that there is such a thing as the Chinese New Year.
"The soldiers are fighting for the country and cannot be reunited with their families. As the king of the country, I have to express my gratitude. I have brought five hundred carts of meat from the country, including chicken, duck, goose, pork, beef and mutton. In the few days of the New Year,
Everyone in the army, including the armies of Han, Wei and Qi, have meat to eat every day." Zhao Kuo said with a smile.
The official road from Wancheng to the military camp has been paved. Although it is not as spacious as the official road in China and can only accommodate two carriages running in parallel, it has also greatly reduced the difficulty of transporting grain from Zhao.
The relationship between South Korea and the State of Zhao has been very good in the past few years, and there has been basically no conflict. After seeing Zhao Kuo's letter, the King of Han without any delay convened the ministers to discuss and recruit the people of Nanyang to build roads.
The King of Han did not have the ambition to dominate the world like the King of Wei. He had a very clear understanding of himself and South Korea.
South Korea is weak and located in the center of the Central Plains. The only way to survive is to rely on powerful countries.
In the past, South Korea was afraid of being attacked by the Qin State, and ministers tended to rely on the Qin State. With the continuous rise of the Zhao State, the direction of Korea gradually blew to the Zhao State.
The thighs of Zhao State are thicker than those of Qin State. South Korea and Zhao State came from Jin State at the same time, so they have more incense. Moreover, Zhao State and South Korea are not bordering each other, so the threat to South Korea is lower.
In addition, Zhao State's attitude towards South Korea is very friendly, compared with Qin State, it is like heaven and earth.
Since King Zhao came to the throne today, he has never attacked South Korea. He also helped South Korea drive away the Qin army and regain its territory. When the Qin army breached the dike in Xingze, Zhao State immediately sent people to send supplies to rush to Xingze.
Go to Xingze to rescue Korean people.
Everyone in South Korea is grateful to Zhao Guo.
When Qin sent an envoy to South Korea to request an alliance, South Korea refused without any hesitation and expelled them. Then they sent someone to tell Zhao Kuo to express their loyalty.
The Korean monarchs and ministers are not cheap men. They have a kind ally who is not attached to them and insists on sticking their faces in front of Qin to be beaten.
"The soldiers will definitely be grateful to your Majesty." Le Yi felt a little emotional in his heart. When he was in Yan State, he did not have such conditions for fighting. He won a great victory. When the king rewarded the entire army, each person could get a reward.
With a bowl of wine and a bite of meat, it's good to have a full meal.
Even so, everyone is already very satisfied.
It's unthinkable to be like this now.
"There is a batch of meat behind, which is already on the way. It will arrive in a few days." Zhao Kuo said with a smile. The army must be rewarded after fighting for such a long time. He was just taking advantage of the Chinese New Year. If every day
If this is the case, even the State of Zhao will be brought down.
Jin Bi, Bao Yuan, and Wang Sunjia felt a little uncomfortable. Is the gap between the strength of Wei, Han, and Qi and Zhao already so big?
This is not the most terrifying thing. The most terrifying thing is that the soldiers know that the meat they eat is provided by Zhao Guo, and the injured are treated by Zhao Guo. If they encounter them on the battlefield in the future, will they still have the confidence to fight Zhao Jun?
Will someone defect and surrender?
They didn't dare to think about it at all.
"I'm just a general who leads troops to fight. It's better to leave these matters to the king to worry about." Bao Yuan sighed.
Zhao Kuo was using a conspiracy, and he simply could not refuse Zhao Kuo's kindness.
He was sure that if he refused the meat sent by Zhao Jun and refused Zhao Jun's medical treatment for their wounded soldiers, at least half of the Korean soldiers would stand up against him.
Zhao Jun added fuel to the flames. He was not even the head coach of the Korean army and was not a general. He would only end up being expelled in the end.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! He had no way to tell the soldiers that King Zhao was just trying to buy people's hearts, because the monarchs of Han, Wei and Qi didn't even bother to buy people's hearts.
If Bao Yuan were a soldier, he would be willing to be bribed.
No, even as a general, if he had not been loyal to South Korea for so many years, he would have been bribed by Zhao Kuo.
He all has this idea, let alone ordinary soldiers.
In a daze, Bao Yuan seemed to have seen the day when King Han was abandoned by the people of the country and became a lonely man.
After returning to the camp, Zhao Kuo ordered his people to deliver a letter to the King of Qin, requesting that the two armies cease fighting for seven days during the Chinese New Year to give the soldiers some rest time.
Qin Wangji hoped that Zhao Jun would not attack, so he naturally agreed, but he was a little strange and felt that things were not that simple.
"King Qin's injury has not healed yet and he is still lying on the hospital bed." Feng Quji said after returning.
"It seems that there was a recurrence in the middle, otherwise it would have been almost recovered after such a long time. We can continue to spread rumors to the Qin army, saying that Qin Wangji is dead." Le Yi said.
At noon the next day, a Qin soldier was patrolling when he suddenly smelled an alluring fragrance coming from a distance. He subconsciously swallowed and looked into the distance along the scent.
On the other side of the rushing water, on the open ground, rows of pots and stoves were neatly arranged. Zhao Jun took out the cooked meat from the steaming pot, sprinkled it with salt, and sat on the ground with rice.
What's even more disgusting is that several soldiers walked not far from the city with meat in their hands and ate it in front of them.
Bai Qi's formation could block the rain of arrows, but it could not block the smell of meat, let alone the greed of the Qin army.
Seeing Zhao Jun eating meat, Qin Jun couldn't help but show a bit of envy in his eyes, they wanted to eat it too.
"Zhao Jun did it on purpose." A centurion shouted, stretched his bow and shot an arrow at Zhao Jun, and landed not far away from Zhao Jun.
"Damn it!" the Centurion cursed.
These soldiers were standing just outside the Qin army's range. Unless they pulled the ultra-long-range attack army over or went out of the city to fight, the Qin army had nothing to do with these soldiers.
"Qin troops in the city, we don't have any ill intentions towards you. We just came to tell you that the king has an order. As long as you surrender, you will have meat to eat. The earlier you surrender, the earlier you will eat meat. Ordinary soldiers will also have meat to eat if they surrender."
Man shouted towards the city wall, then bit into a large piece of meat, chewed it twice and swallowed it into his stomach.
This feeling of eating meat was something I experienced when I was on the grassland. Later, when I became a prisoner and raised horses for Zhao State, I could only eat enough, but I had no chance to eat meat.
Touman made up his mind to earn enough military merit, eat meat every day, and never go back to raise horses.
When the soldiers of the Qin army heard this, they couldn't help but feel a little shaken in their hearts.
Not to mention ordinary soldiers, even low-level generals do not have meat to eat. Only high-level generals can eat meat occasionally.
People die for wealth and birds die for food. Why do they work so hard? Isn't it just to eat better?
"Don't be deceived. These are Zhao Jun's tricks." Seeing the soldiers start to waver, Qian Renjiang shouted quickly and ordered people to report to Lord Wu An immediately.
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"Where does the smell come from? Is meat cooked in the military camp today?" Qin Wangji moved his nose and asked strangely. Such a strong smell, the cooked meat is not a little bit! When did the Qin army become so rich? Why don't I?
Know?
"I haven't heard of it." Fan Ju looked at Lu Buwei, who also shook his head.
Seeing everyone shaking their heads, Qin Wangji immediately realized that something was wrong.
"Go and find out immediately where the smell of meat comes from." Qin Wangji said in a deep voice.
"Your Majesty, this is Zhao Jun. They are cooking meat outside the city." Bai Qi walked in from outside, his face a little cold.
He just went to the city wall to see, Zhao Jun unabashedly ate meat in front of him. After eating the meat, a group of people sang and danced around the fire, not treating this place as a battlefield at all.
Even though he knew it was Zhao Jun's provocation, Bai Qi's heart was still filled with anger.
He pulled the long-range attack corps over and wanted to send a wave of arrows to Zhao Jun to wash the ground, but was blocked by Zhao Jun's large formation.
"Zhao Jun cooked meat? Why is this?" Qin Wangji asked in confusion.
"Zhao Jun used meat to lure our soldiers to surrender. King Zhao said that as long as he surrendered, he would have meat to eat." Bai Qi said in a deep voice. In fact, this was not the first time that the smell of meat came from Zhao Jun, but it was not so strong before.
Zhao Jun was not so unscrupulous and buried pots and cooked meat directly by the river.
If this continues for a period of time, Bai Qi has no doubt that some soldiers will really be unable to help but flee to the Zhao army.
"When we were in Yuanyong, Zhao Jun cooked meat every day. It's been a few months. Can't Zhao Guo run out of meat?" Lu Buwei said angrily. He couldn't figure out where Zhao Guo came from.
So much meat.
There is so much food and grass to raise livestock, why not use it to recruit soldiers?
"Your Majesty, Lord Wu'an, King Zhao has sent an envoy." At this time, the guards came in to report.
"What is King Zhao doing again? Let him in." Qin Wangji locked his two white eyebrows together. As long as he has a relationship with King Zhao, nothing good will happen.
"Foreign Minister Feng Quji has met King Qin and Lord Wu An." Feng Quji came in with two guards.
"Yesterday there was a truce. Why did King Zhao send his envoy here today?" Qin Wangji asked.
"The king has said that today is New Year's Eve and tomorrow is the New Year. On this festive occasion, the King of Qin agreed to a truce between the two armies, allowing hundreds of thousands of soldiers to rest for a moment, which is admirable. It happened that Handan sent some meat, so the king cooked a pot.
Ask the foreign minister to bring two bowls for King Qin and Lord Wu An to taste." Feng Quji waved to the two guards.
Two guards came forward and handed the food box in their hands to Feng Quji.
Feng Quji took it and opened it, revealing sliced beef, exuding an alluring aroma.
Then, Feng Quji took off the first layer of the food box and placed it on the table in front of Qin Wangji, revealing the second layer of mutton, the third layer of pork, the fourth layer of goose, and the fifth layer of chicken.
The sixth layer of duck meat.
All of them are delicious, fresh and steaming.
The same goes for the second food box.
The camp was suddenly filled with fragrance, and everyone's eyes were focused on it.
It stands to reason that the people in the room are all nobles. Even ordinary guards are not from ordinary family backgrounds and would not be shocked by a little meat.
But for some reason, everyone always felt that the meat sent by King Zhao would be more delicious than what they had eaten before.
"Don't worry, King Qin, these foods are definitely not poisonous. If King Qin doesn't believe it, you can ask someone to test for poison." Feng Quji said calmly.
Zhao Kuo did not poison the food. This low-level method can be easily detected. Besides, even if Qin Wangji is allowed to live slowly, he probably doesn't have much life left. There is no need to taint his life for a dying old man.
reputation.
"I believe in King Zhao. Please ask the envoy to bring a message to King Zhao, saying that I would like to thank King Zhao for the meat. If there is a chance in the future, I will definitely let King Zhao taste the delicacies of our country of Qin." Qin Wangji's chest rose and fell, and his voice was extremely cold.
, the chopsticks lay motionless beside him.
"The foreign minister must be brought here." Feng Quji bowed and bowed, then turned and left with the guards.
"Young man Zhao Kuo, how dare you humiliate me!" As soon as Feng Quji left, Qin Wangji suddenly grabbed the food box and slammed it on the table. "This is too much!"