While Meng Wu and Mao Sui were busy integrating the Western Regions, a big event happened in the Central Plains!
Prince Chu of Qin died of illness!
Cheng Jiao, who was only seven years old, ascended the throne.
Originally the most powerful country in the world, three kings died in a row within a few years, and the new king was only a seven-year-old child. It seemed that he was foreshadowing the future of Qin.
When the Zhao State received the news, everyone from top to bottom was in action. Originally, the ministers were still arguing about whether to attack Qi State or Qin State, but now they all unified their opinions, even Cai Ze, who had originally decided on the strategy of attacking from the south to the north. , and also fully supported the attack on Qin.
Only a few people disagreed with attacking Qin, and it was only because "propriety does not limit mourning."
It's a pity that times have changed. The so-called etiquette and mourning no longer have any binding force. What countries adhere to is to take advantage of your illness to kill you, add insult to injury, and take advantage of the situation...
In mid-May, Zhao State, with Li Mu as commander-in-chief and Pang Nuan as deputy commander-in-chief, raised 150,000 troops to attack Qin from Guanzhong and Longxi respectively, with the intention of completing their achievements in one battle.
By the time the Qin State received the news, the Zhao army's vanguard had already crossed the Jing River and was heading towards Yongcheng.
The whole court of Qin State was shocked, and the ministers felt as if they were mourning their heirs.
Anyone who can serve as an official in the court is not a fool. Everyone understands that with the current situation of the Qin State, it is impossible to stop the Zhao army.
Some people proposed to cede territory to Zhao for peace.
Some people proposed to move the capital to Chengdu, rely on the terrain of the Qinling Mountains to block the Zhao army, and wait until the world changes in the future, then go north to regain Guanzhong.
What's more, they thought it would be better to surrender directly to the State of Zhao. The Zhao family and the Qin family came from the same lineage. When the Zhao family was strong, the Qin family always regarded themselves as the Zhao family. It was not until Qin Feizi was granted the title of Qin that he became his own family. One lineage.
If the Qin family takes the Zhao family as their ancestral clan, the State of Zhao will not embarrass the State of Qin, and may even grant the Qin family a small fiefdom so that the Qin family can support the ancestral temple.
Moreover, the State of Zhao has never killed a captured king. The kings of Yan are now living very well in Handan. Many of those barbarian monarchs have joined the State of Zhao and made meritorious service in the army.
"Insolent! Our Qin State has been in existence for hundreds of years, how could we raise such arrogant people like you? Now the Zhao army has not attacked yet, but you are so humble and groveling, wishing you could surrender the city. If the Zhao army attacks the city, you will Are we going to tie up the king and dedicate him to the State of Zhao?"
Lu Buwei stood on the high platform, pointed at the ministers in the court, and said with great anger.
"If we can defeat the State of Zhao, who is willing to surrender? The elite troops of Zhao can be equal to ten. Our State of Qin has not recovered since the defeat of King Zhaoxiang. How can we stop the cavalry of the Zhao Army?" a minister sighed. One breath.
In that war six years ago, the Qin State lost miserably. Its famous generals, military soul legions, super elite legions, large armies, cities, and even the king and the country were all lost in that war.
Qin lost everything it could lose...
"I wonder if the Prime Minister can stop Zhao Jun?" Mr. Yang Quan leaned over and saluted.
"Your Majesty, please take General Wang Jian as the commander-in-chief and mobilize the troops across the country to defend the Zhao army. Then send envoys to ask for help from the four kingdoms of Qi, Chu, Han and Wei." Lu Buwei turned around and leaned towards the seven-year-old Cheng Jiao and said.
At this point, it is impossible for Qin alone to stop Zhao. Only the alliance of the five countries can hope.
His talent told him that the State of Zhao was the best ally. The four countries of Qi, Chu, Han and Wei combined could not compare with the State of Zhao, but now Zhao State was the enemy of Qin.
Cheng Jiao huddled on the chair, her young face a little panicked. When she saw Lu Buwei speaking, she tried to calm down and nodded: "Yes."
"How can we resist the Zhao army in Longxi?" Yang Quanjun asked.
"The Prime Minister personally led the troops to resist." Lu Buwei looked around the court and sighed deeply. King Qin Zhaoxiang's last battle destroyed all the Qin generals, and only Wang Jian escaped.
Nowadays, in the huge Qin State, apart from Wang Jian, there is not even a single general who can take charge of his own affairs!
Everyone Wen Yan looked at Lu Buwei in shock. Even Xiao Chengjiao raised her head and looked at him. Lu Buwei was a civil servant and had never led troops in a war.
"Father Zhong, what will I do after you leave?" Cheng Jiao ran down from the throne, grabbed Lu Buwei's sleeve, raised her little face, and looked at Lu Buwei eagerly.
After his father passed away, he entrusted him to Lu Buwei and asked him to recognize Lu Buwei as his second father. The only person in the entire court who could make him feel a little warm was Lu Buwei.
"Your Majesty, stay in the palace with peace of mind and study on time every day. Don't be lazy. After I defeat the Zhao army, I will bring you a pony from Longxi as a gift." Lu Buwei picked up Xiao Chengjiao and looked at him with some distress.
, these burdens originally had nothing to do with him, and he could grow up happily, but now they all fall on him, a seven-year-old child.
As the king of Qin, this is his obligation and has nothing to do with his age.
Lu Buwei walked to the throne with Xiao Chengjiao in his arms, slowly put Chengjiao down, bowed and bowed, then turned around and left resolutely.
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After the Zhao army crossed the Jing River, they encountered no decent resistance along the way. The people on the west bank of the Jing River either defected to Zhao or moved to other places under the organization of the Qin government.
After the Zhao army approached for dozens of miles, they gradually saw the presence of people. After more than a hundred miles, they finally encountered the first Qin army.
"Qin Cavalry!" Feng Wuze's eyes lit up when he saw the enemy, and he led the Zhao army to charge towards the enemy.
The State of Qin had been paying indemnities to Zhao and Qi before, but it was only in the past two years that it slowly accumulated some savings. Even if it sold iron, the number of cavalry would never exceed 10,000. Destroying this army in front of them would be equivalent to abolishing the State of Qin.
Half of the cavalry.
"Zhao Jun!" Young Li Xin looked at the Zhao Jun banner in the distance with some hatred in his eyes. His mother told him that his father died in the hands of Zhao Jun in the Battle of Changping fourteen years ago.
Yes, he was only four years old at the time.
Now, he has finally grown up!
"Charge the whole army!" Li Xin pointed his spear forward and led his Longxi cavalry to charge towards the Zhao army.
Although Longxi County has been occupied by Zhao, the number of the Longxi cavalry has not been changed.
This chapter is not finished yet. Please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Feng Wuze’s guess was correct. The Qin State only had nine thousand cavalry in total. This was Wang Jian’s wealth that took him six years to save. Among them
Four thousand four hundred and forty-four people have military souls.
The Longxi Cavalry has no ultimate ability. As long as it is in its strongest state, it can be maintained forever. Whether the legion is complete or not has no impact on combat effectiveness.
So Wang Jian divided the Longxi cavalry into two groups, one with 4,000 men as personal guards, and the other with 5,000 men, and gave them to Li Xin to lead.
Li Xin is a rising star in the Qin State. He became a powerful person in the extraordinary realm as early as three years ago, when he was fifteen years old.
It refreshed the record of King Wu of Qin.
Although it was much more difficult to break through to the extraordinary realm during King Qin Wu's time than it is now, it also shows that Li Xin's talent is astonishing.
Not only that, Li Xin also had extremely high talent in commanding troops in combat.
Everyone in the Qin State regarded Li Xin as Wang Jian's successor and trained him according to the next generation of military leaders.
Wang Jian was not jealous of the virtuous and capable, so he not only took him with him to teach him, but also gave Li Xin his hard-earned Longxi cavalry.
"Kill!" Li Xin shouted, and a golden-white light emerged from his body. A golden armor covering his whole body slowly emerged from his body. He clamped his legs tightly on the horse's belly and stabbed Feng Wuze with his gun.
Feng Wuze deflected Li Xin's gun with one shot, but he felt a terrifying force coming from the spear, and all his strength suddenly burst out, and all his inner energy rushed out of his body like it was burning.
"So strong!" Feng Wuze looked at Li Xin solemnly. This was definitely the strongest young man he had ever encountered. Even in Zhao Guo, there was no one stronger than Li Xin among his peers.
"I'll kill you first, then the Zhao army coach Li Mu, and finally kill the King of Zhao to avenge my father." Li Xinxin pointed his gun at Feng Wuze and said in a deep voice. He didn't know that his father died in the hands of Li Mu.
, most people don’t know, and a very small number of people know and won’t tell him.
They didn't want Li Xin to get into a grudge with Li Mu in order to avenge his father, and eventually die in Li Mu's hands.
Li Xin is strong, but Li Mu is stronger!
Moreover, standing behind Li Mu was the State of Zhao, which was getting stronger every day. All Li Xin could rely on was the dilapidated State of Qin.
"Kill me? You are so naive!" Feng Wuze laughed loudly, and the shadows of his spears enveloped Li Xin. At the same time, his horse bit the neck of Li Xin's mount.
Feng Wuze's war horse was at the pinnacle of the Gang Yuan Realm. Li Xin's war horse could not stop it. A large piece of fur was bitten off at once, blood flowed out, and the war horse howled in pain.
"Damn it!" Li Xiantian roared. He had raised this war horse since he was a child. He had such deep affection that even he was reluctant to beat or scold him, but it ended up being injured by an animal!
Break the military formation!
Li Xin no longer held any reservations and aroused the broken army formation to the extreme. The morale of the Longxi cavalry increased greatly, and the tips of the spears emitted a bloody red light.
"No one is the same!" Feng Wuze said coldly and activated the Xuanxiang Formation!
As his understanding of the Xuanxiang Formation continued to deepen, the condensed light and shadow became more and more real, almost indistinguishable from real people. He could even manipulate these lights and shadows to do different things, but his combat effectiveness was somewhat lowered.
"These are the only tricks left." Li Xin swiped his spear, and the spear light of more than ten meters flew out like a blood snake, sweeping all the Zhao troops in front of him to the ground.
The Longxi cavalry behind them, with 444 soldiers as their vanguard, charged at the Zhao army like tigers descending from the mountain. In an instant, nearly a hundred Zhao soldiers fell to the ground.
The phantoms of the Xuanxiang Formation were invisible to the Army Soul Legion. The Longxi Cavalry could easily tell which one was the main body and which one was the phantom. They could just ignore the weak phantom attack and attack the main body.
At the same time, Zhao Jun's attack also fell on the Longxi cavalry, taking away more than thirty soldiers.
Feng Wuze and Li Xin's pupils suddenly dilated, and their hearts were filled with shock!
Zhao Guo's cavalry was actually beaten by the enemy at a loss ratio of one to three. How is this possible? He has never encountered such a situation!
Li Xinxin was no less horrified than Feng Wuze. If Feng Wuze didn't know, how could he not know?
Those at the front were all Longxi cavalry with military spirit. Even so, one-third of them were replaced by Zhao Jun.
Zhao Guo deserves to be the strongest cavalry in the world!
"Death!" The comrades in front of them kept falling down. Zhao Jun's formation did not cause any chaos. All the soldiers looked solemn and kept waving their spears to strangle the enemies in front of them, or were strangled by the enemies.
Even if there is a mountain of swords and a sea of fire ahead, as long as the order does not change, they will rush forward without hesitation. Their cold eyes even made Li Xin feel chilled.
Click! Li Xin shot Zhao Jun's horse armor to pieces, splitting the horse and the soldiers on it into two halves. Suddenly, he felt the spear sink. When he looked down, he saw a soldier who had been stabbed in the chest and was holding on tightly.
Holding the spear, a pair of bloody eyes stared at him, trying to pull him off the horse, while other Zhao soldiers around him also stabbed fiercely. Although they did not cause any harm to him, they also left a few marks on the armor.
trace.
"Go to hell!" Li Xin kicked Zhao's soldiers to the ground and drowned them under the horses' hooves. He swiped his spear and sent all the surrounding soldiers flying away.
But soon, Zhao Jun rushed towards him again. Even though the gap in strength between the two sides was as big as a chasm, Zhao Jun still showed no fear, as if he was not facing a strong man in the extraordinary realm, but a cold enemy.
"Is the Zhao army so powerful?" Li Xin became more and more frightened as he fought. He finally understood why the ministers in the court had no confidence at all when they heard that Zhao was coming, and they all suggested surrendering and moving the capital.
I finally understood why Lu Buwei, as the prime minister of a country, wanted to lead the army in person.
I finally understood why Wang Jian was so worried.
"As long as I, Li Xin, am still here, the Qin army will not lose. Let's take care of the Zhao army's vanguard first." Li Xinxin thought, his eyes glowed with an extremely confident color, infecting the Qin army behind him, and he fought bravely towards the enemy.
Although there are only more than 400 soldiers with military souls in the legion, all the 5,000 soldiers are the best ones selected from the entire Qin State and undergo rigorous training. Each one of them meets the standard of military souls.
Whenever a soldier with a military spirit dies in battle, a soldier will immediately replace him, and the number of soldiers with a general spirit remains at 444.
Zhao Jun is fierce, they are even more fierce than Zhao Jun. Even if they fall from their horses, they will use their last bit of strength to catch Zhao Jun.
"This is the military spirit army!" Feng Wuze felt something was wrong the more he killed, the more he fought, the more he felt that something was wrong. Facing the Zhao army, he did not lose at all, and even vaguely suppressed the Zhao army. Is this still the weak Qin cavalry he knew?
Except for the Longxi cavalry, no cavalry regiment in the entire Qin State could suppress the Zhao army.
But when it comes to the Longxi Cavalry, it's not like that. He has never seen such a weak military spirit army. It has simply reached the lower limit.
He had seen the Longxi Cavalry led by Wang Jian. Although it was a breakthrough on the spot, it was definitely one of the strongest military spirit armies in the world, and it was not something that the army in front of him could achieve.
"Forget it, forget it, go back and report it to the general and see what he thinks." Feng Wuze put the question behind his mind, waved and shouted, "Brothers, withdraw! Let's fight again next time!"
"hateful!"
Li Xin cursed angrily, hesitated again and again, and finally decided to give up the pursuit.
The strength of the two sides is almost the same. Even if they pursue, Zhao Jun cannot be left behind. On the contrary, other Zhao Jun cavalry regiments may appear at any time.
"Clean the battlefield and send Zhao Jun's body back." Li Xin stroked the horse painfully and used his inner energy to help it heal its wounds.