That night, King Shui of Chu summoned the generals from all the countries to discuss matters in the commander's tent.
After a while, generals from various countries arrived one after another. Only Wei Yun and Wei Zhen from Wei were absent. Only Wei Shao came alone. This made Huan Hu couldn't help but look at Wei Shao a few more times.
There is no reason why Chu Shuijun cannot notice things that Huan Hu can notice. Therefore, he asked Wei Shao: "General Wei Shao, I summoned all the generals to discuss important matters. Why are the two generals Wei Yun and Wei Zhen so late?"
to?"
After hearing this, Wei Shao explained: "Wei Yun and Wei Zhen were unfortunately injured today. Wei asked them to rest in the tent."
Chu Shuijun frowned when he heard this, and said with a bit of dissatisfaction: "Your army did not fight with the Wei army today, so why were the two generals injured?"
Wei Shao replied in a neither humble nor arrogant manner: "During the retreat, he was injured by the crossbow of the foreign cavalry of the Wei army."
After hearing Wei Shao's words, Xiang Mo, Xiang Juan, and Tian Dan also turned to look at Wei Shao, with a few strange colors flashing in their eyes.
For some reason, the atmosphere in the tent suddenly became cold, which made Ji Wu, the general of the Lu State, a little surprised. He didn't know what was going on.
"Hey!"
Unlike Ji Wu who was confused and confused, Huan Hu scratched the corner of his mouth with his thumb, feeling secretly amused.
Just as Huan Hu guessed, Wei Shao's explanation was nothing more than an excuse. Juancheng Hou Weiyun and Tanyuan Hou Wei Zhen were not injured. They just took the opportunity to give Chu Shuijun a blow.
As for the reason, it is simply because Wei Wang Zhao Run led an army of 300,000 to Daliang, which gave Wei Shao, Wei Yun, and Wei Zhen some confidence again.
Of course, this does not mean that these three generals of the Wei State have decided to defect to the Wei State. Otherwise, even Wei Shao would not appear in Chu Shuijun's camp at this moment. The three of them would lead the Wei State army and defect to Daliang directly.
The real reason is that the advantage of the coalition forces of various countries was so great that the 60,000 troops of the Wei State seemed insignificant. Therefore, they were regarded as expendable cannon fodder by Chu Shuijun. At that time, although Wei Shao, Wei Yun, and Wei Zhen were thinking
He knew it well, but the situation was stronger than the others, so he had to submit obediently.
But today, Wei King Zhao Run led an army of 300,000 to defeat the coalition forces of various countries. Although the Chu army's losses were not serious, it undoubtedly made the outcome of this battle full of suspense again.
In this case, the role of Wei's 60,000 troops, no, there are more than 40,000 troops left at the moment, was suddenly magnified. Whether these 40,000 troops join the Wei State or the coalition camp, they are all
A force that cannot be ignored.
It is for this reason that Wei Shao, Wei Yun, and Wei Zhen all agreed that they should take this opportunity to teach Chu Shuijun a lesson, so that the latter would understand that he should be given the necessary respect for Wei Guo.
Therefore, after Wei Shao, Wei Yun, and Wei Zhen combined, Wei Yun and Wei Zhen deliberately missed the meeting, which gave Chu Shuijun a disincentive. As Chu Shuijun regarded the Wei army as cannon fodder a while ago,
revenge.
At this moment, Wei Yun and Wei Zhen, who were "unfortunately injured" in Wei Shao's words, were actually leading the Wei army in the camp to prepare for attack. If Lord Chu Shui could not give them a satisfactory response, even...
Chu Shuijun attempted to preemptively eradicate the Wei army. They would immediately fight back, even setting fire to the coalition camp, and then switch to the command of Wei King Zhao Run.
It is undeniable that the more than 40,000 guardsmen will definitely not be the opponent of the Chu army, and Wei Shao, Wei Yun, and Wei Zhen do not expect to defeat the Chu army. They just want to express an attitude: We defend the army.
The country is not the pawn of your Chu country!
"That's interesting."
Huan Hu licked his lips and watched the show with cold eyes.
Apparently, Chu Shuijun also understood, his face suddenly darkened, and he stared at Wei Shao intently.
However, Wei Shao, who had been submissive in front of Chu Shuijun a few days ago, now seemed to have a hard back, looking directly at Chu Shuijun without any fear, which made Chu Shuijun a little bit difficult to get off.
If it had been before this, let alone Wei Shao, he would have never dared to do this. Even if he dared to do it, Chu Shuijun would not care. Even if he killed Wei Shao in anger, would Wei Guo dare to withdraw from the coalition of nations?
?
But now the situation is different. The battle that was originally a sure win has become full of suspense again due to the victory of Wei King Zhao Run today. This not only gave Wei Shao, Wei Shao and Wei Yun the confidence to negotiate terms with Chu Shuijun,
It also made Chu Shuijun a little bit wary.
After a long while, Chu Shuijun suppressed his anger and said: "Since the two generals Wei Yun and Wei Zhen were unfortunately injured, it is a different matter..."
"Thank you Chu Shuijun for your understanding." Wei Shao hugged his fists after hearing this, and then said calmly: "In fact, Wei is also feeling a little unwell today, so I won't disturb everyone's discussion of important matters..."
Chu Shuijun was shocked and angry when he heard this, and asked with a steady expression: "General Wei Shao, what do you mean?"
I saw Wei Shao looking at Chu Shuijun, and said in a neither arrogant nor humble manner: "We, Wei State and Wei State, not only had no grievances before, but were even allies. However, Chu Shuijun forced our country to jointly attack Wei State... This
After a few days of attacking Daliang City, nearly 30% of our 60,000 soldiers were killed or wounded. This can be considered a contribution to the coalition. After that, please forgive our troops for withdrawing and no longer participating in the war between the princes and Wei..."
After hearing this, Chu Shuijun narrowed his eyes and his expression became gloomier.
If before that, if Wei Shao dared to say such a thing, he might have sent troops to destroy Wei State first, but under the current situation, he did not dare to divide his troops to attack Wei State. After all, there are 300,000 Wei troops under the command of Wei King Zhao Run today.
It made him understand a truth: Wei is not a country that can be defeated so easily.
If he dares to divide his troops to attack Weiguo at this time, Wei King Zhao Run may immediately use all his troops to attack the remaining coalition forces here. At that time, the situation of the coalition forces will become extremely unfavorable, and they may even be defeated by the Wei army.
Taking a breath secretly, Chu Shuijun sneered and said: "Could it be that General Wei Shao wants to defect to Wei? Hey! Wei Shao, don't forget that the hands of your soldiers are also stained with the blood of the soldiers and civilians of Daliang. Do you think Zhao Run will
I spare you Wei Guo? As the saying goes, if Wei Guo is defeated this time, you Wei Guo will be safe and sound; but if Wei Guo wins, you Wei Guo will probably be the first to bear Zhao Run's revenge...
Who in the world doesn’t know that King Zhao Run of Wei always takes revenge? It’s too late for you to think about getting out now!”
After hearing Chu Shuijun's words, Wei Shao smiled faintly. Suddenly, he turned around and asked General Tian Dan in the tent: "General Tian Dan, what do you think?"
"Huh?"
Seeing Wei Shao suddenly asking him, Tian Dan was also stunned for a moment.
After pondering for a moment, he smoothed things over and said: "Everything is easy to discuss... Tian thought that General Wei was not ignorant of what Chu Shuijun said, but that the guards had suffered too many casualties in the past few days, and General Wei was anxious.
...General Wei, why don't you sit down first and we can discuss it later to see if there is a better strategy."
To everyone's surprise, Wei Shao nodded and said after listening to Tian Dan's words: "Since even General Tian said so, Wei Shao will stay for a while."
After that, he sat down at the table under the surprised eyes of everyone else.
"What's going on?"
All the generals in the tent were a little confused.
Even Tian Dan was a little confused at first, until he thought about it carefully, he suddenly understood: Wei Shao was deliberately showing his kindness to him!
No, it should be said that he was showing goodwill to his country, Qi.
Tian Dan understood immediately and immediately expressed his kindness to Wei Shao.
Next to him, Huan Hu looked at Wei Shao, then at Tian Dan, and suddenly realized in his heart: It turns out that Wei Shao wanted to take the opportunity to join Qi State.
After thinking about it carefully, Huan Hu felt that Wei Shao's decision was indeed a wise one.
As Chu Shuijun said, it would indeed be a bit late for the Wei Kingdom to surrender to the Wei Kingdom at this time. After all, the hands of those Wei Kingdom soldiers were also stained with the blood of the Wei people in the Liang Dynasty. Considering the extremely protective character of Wei King Zhao Run, it was very difficult to
It's hard not to mention it.
Unless the Wei army assisted the Wei army in defeating the coalition forces of various countries and played a major role in this battle. Otherwise, when the Wei army defeated the coalition forces of various countries and then freed up its hands, Wei Guo would definitely be punished.
Presumably Wei Shao also took this into consideration. There are actually two other reasons why he gave up joining the Wei army. Firstly, because the Wei army won the battle today, if the Wei army switches to the Wei army at this time, it is inevitable that he will be looked down upon. After all, the icing on the cake is not as good as providing help in the snow.
Secondly, Wei Shao still felt that the coalition forces of various countries had a greater chance of winning. After all, the coalition's military strength was several times that of Wei.
For these reasons, Wei Shao considered that defecting to Wei at this time was not the best strategy, so he switched to Qi's camp, hoping to promote the "Three Kingdoms Alliance of Qi, Lu and Wei", which would not only assist Chu in conquering Wei, but also help Chu conquer Wei.
And they have to fight against the Chu State itself.
No, after Tian Dan understood this meaning, he immediately expressed his goodwill to Wei Shao.
"This is really interesting..."
Huan Hu secretly licked his lips.
Even he did not expect that the arrival of Wei Wang Zhao Run with 300,000 Wei troops in Daliang would actually cause such differences within the coalition forces of various countries.
"...And can this be used?"
He touched the beard on his chin, thoughtfully.
At this time, Chu Shuijun had suppressed the anger in his heart.
Although Wei Shao's outburst made him feel extremely annoyed, fortunately the situation was still within control, so that the Chu and Wei armies would not have to fight first and the Wei army would take advantage of it.
After taking a deep look at Wei Shao, he looked around the generals in the tent and said in a deep voice: "Today's defeat by the Wei army is my fault. General Tian Dan warned me earlier that the king of Wei, Zhao Run,
When he was strong, he chose to show weakness to lure the enemy into taking the bait; only when he was weak, he changed his attitude.
They became more and more aggressive, just like today, when they deployed hundreds of thousands of troops in one breath, vowing to fight our army to the death. Unfortunately, I did not listen to the advice at that time, and looked forward and backward, resulting in missing the opportunity to fight, causing our army of more than one million to be outnumbered.
The defeat of our army by the Wei army...this will truly be a lifelong shame!"
At this point, he took a deep breath and immediately said: "Although the first fault is mine, the rest of the fault belongs to you... General Tian Dan, I remember before the war you persuaded me to use all my troops to fight the Wei army, but today
During the battle, your army stood still and watched the soldiers under the two generals of Xiang Juan fight with the Wei army at the end of Xiang Dynasty in our country. They were indifferent and indifferent. I don’t know why?”
After hearing this, Tian Dan slowly suppressed the smile on his face.
To be fair, of course he was at fault for this matter. He deliberately stood still and asked the Chu army to fight the Wei army. Of course, the most fundamental reason was that he could not see the hope of the coalition forces winning at the time and believed that he was on the side of the coalition forces.
He would most likely be defeated by the Wei army who shared the same enemy. Therefore, he would naturally not ask his troops to die in vain.
But the reason was a mistake, and Chu Shuijun naturally couldn't let the words go, so Tian Dan said calmly: "Chu Shuijun, don't blame me. It's not that Tian deliberately stood still, but the Wei army was already strong at that time, and I expected to be unable to defeat it.
Just like Chu Shuijun said, before this battle, Tian Mou had advised the prince that if the prince had the courage to devote all his troops to a decisive battle with the Wei army, my Da Qi soldiers should follow, but..."
After hearing this, Chu general Xiang Kuan snorted coldly: "Is it expected that we will not be able to defeat you?"
It has to be said that today Xiang Juan lost a battle inexplicably, and he was simmering in his heart. When he first heard Tian Dan's words "It was expected that he would not be able to win," he felt harsh. He couldn't help but sarcastically said: "On the battlefield, things are changing rapidly.
Is there any way to say that we can't win? Is General Tian trying to excuse his own mistakes?"
When Tian Dan heard this, he glanced at Xiang Kuan and sneered: "I have always heard that the Zhaoguan Army under General Xiang Kuan is brave and good at fighting, but today it was almost defeated by a group of rabble from the Wei State. Come to think of it, it is difficult to live up to the reputation...
"
After hearing this, Xiang Kuan was furious. He slapped the table and said angrily: "Tian Dan, what do you mean by this?"
Tian Dan sneered and said, "Perhaps Tian saw the collapse of General Xiang Kuan's army and therefore predicted that he would not be able to win?"
"You guy!"
Xiang Kuan glared angrily, pointed at Tian Dan and cursed: "Don't think that I don't know what you are thinking. You may be nice to help me, Chu, in conquering Wei. In the end, you just hope that both Chu and Wei will suffer. You,
And that Ji Wu from Lu State..." At this point,
He turned his head and glared at Ji Wu, and cursed angrily: "Today, our army of Chu was at the rear, and your Qi and Lu armies escaped faster than anyone else. Ji Wu, if you hadn't been greedy for life and feared death, when the foreign cavalry from Wei State arrived,
Why did the soldiers of our great Chu suffer heavy losses when they led their troops to flee in a hurry?!"
After Xiang Kuan glared and scolded him, Ji Wu's face turned pale and he was afraid to speak.
However, at the side, Huan Hu patted his arm and said with a smile: "General Xiang Kuan, what you said is biased. Although our army of Lu has many war weapons, we can't wait for defeat there."
Under the overwhelming situation, who dares to boast that he can hold back Wei's cavalry? People like you
Aren't the fierce generals also defeated at the hands of the Wei army? How much less our generation?... To be honest, General Ji and Huan really didn't expect that the soldiers under General Xiang Kuan would be defeated by those Wei militiamen.
Haha, if I had known this, it would have been better for me to be the one to end the relationship."
Seeing Huan Hu speaking for him, Ji Wu glanced at Huan Hu gratefully, then straightened his back and looked at Xiang Kuan, sneering secretly in his heart: You Xiang Kuan pride yourself on being brave, but you were almost defeated by the Wei army.
What qualifications do you have to teach me a lesson?
"You guy"
Seeing Huan Hu mocking herself, Xiang Kuan became even more furious.
In the subsequent meeting, the generals of the various countries quarreled endlessly: the generals of Chu accused the Qi and Lu armies of not watching the fire from the other side, while the generals of Qi and Lu, including the new guard general Wei Shao who joined this small group, criticized Chu
The general's improper command resulted in a failed start to the battle that was difficult to reverse.
The two sides quarreled, quarreled, and quarreled endlessly. In desperation, Chu Shuijun had no choice but to terminate the meeting for the day and told the generals to go back to their camps to rest. After they calmed down tomorrow, they would gather in the commander's tent to discuss the war.
The next day, August 17, in Daliang City, Zhao Run got up early and took Zongwei Chu Heng to Jin Ju's house to pay his respects and visit the latter's widow and children.
Jin Ju's mansion is located on Linqu East Street in the east of the city. It is not far from Yongwang Mansion, the former residence of Yong Wang Zhao Yu. However, the house does not occupy a large area. To be honest, it does not fit in with Jin Ju's "presidential leadership of the Liang Imperial Guards".
"Position.
Because everything was kept simple during the war, the Jin Mansion did not do any big white things. They just hung some white silk and white paper lanterns in front of the mansion to suit the occasion. Other than that, there were not many changes.
After learning that King Zhao Run of Wei was coming, Jin Ju's wife, Jin Zhang, led two concubines and a group of servants from the house to greet him.
Through the conversation with Mr. Zhang, Zhao Run learned at this time that Jin Ju had two sons, the eldest son was called "Jin Xu" and the second son was called "Jin Xiang". In addition, he also had a daughter.
The daughter was born from a side wife and got married early. When Jin Ju was still serving as a captain in the Imperial Guard, he married Zhang Huan, the son of his friend "Zhang Xi" who was also a captain.
As for his two sons, Jin Ju decided to let his eldest son Jin Xu join the Imperial Guard after careful consideration in the early years, so that he could inherit his mantle in the future, while he sent his second son Jin Xiang to Wei Wujun and used his connections to get the second son a
The duties of five hundred generals.
Unexpectedly, the five kingdoms of Chu, Qi, Lu, Wei, and Yue attacked Wei, and the Battle of Daliang broke out. Jin Ju, his eldest son Jin Xu, as well as his close friends Zhang Xi and uncle Zhang Huan were all killed in the battle.
Of the Jin and Zhang families, only Jin Ju's youngest son Jin Xiang, who was far away in Wei Wujun, and a few of his grandchildren were left.
"..."
Looking at the two coffins of Jin Ju, Jin Xu and his son parked in the mourning hall, Zhao Run felt very uncomfortable.
Even Zhao Run, who is known as a wise man, will inevitably show favoritism between relatives and strangers. For example, when the President of the Imperial Guards of Daliang held the position, Jin Ju was actually not as capable as Hou Dan, but because Zhao Run and Jin Ju knew each other well,
After more than ten years, and Jin Ju had been secretly loyal to Zhao Run for a long time, Zhao Run finally chose Jin Ju.
His intention is nothing more than to be kind to the group of old people who first defected to him.
Unexpectedly, in the battle of Daliang, both Jin Ju and Jin Xu's father and son died in the battle at the top of the city.
This shouldn't have happened.
Logically speaking, Jin Ju is the president of the Daliang Imperial Guard, and his son Jin Xu is the captain. Zhang Xi and Zhang Huan, his in-laws, both serve as lieutenants of the Daliang Imperial Guard. The Jin and Zhang families are in the Daliang Imperial Guard.
In terms of military positions, these two families should have prospered.
But who would have thought that the Jin family would suffer such changes before they were prosperous.
A moment later, Jie Ziyu also arrived at Jin's Mansion, seemingly expecting that Zhao Run would definitely come to Jin's Mansion to pay his respects today.
At that time, Zhao Run was staring directly at Jie Zizi. If Jie Zizi dared to use this matter to persuade him about his so-called "unification" proposal, he would definitely give him a good look.
But it turns out that Jie Zizi is very smart and has never been disrespectful from beginning to end. This makes Zhao Run feel angry and has no place to vent his anger, which makes him really uncomfortable.
After leaving Jin's Mansion, Zhao Run went to visit the residences of Jin Ju's in-laws Zhang Xi and Zhang Huan and his son, and then visited other generals of the Daliang Imperial Guard.
In this battle, 14,861 Imperial Guards of Daliang died. In other words, almost all of the 15,000 Imperial Guards stationed in Daliang were killed, and only a few 139 were lucky.
Survived, but almost all the generals and generals in the army, except Zhou Ji, Li Lin and a few others, were killed, which is really tragic.
Throughout the recent decades of the Wei State, except for the first generation Wei Wujun who was completely annihilated in Shangdang County, Wei’s army has never suffered such heavy losses. What is worth mentioning is that the first generation Wei Wujun was defeated in the army.
On this occasion, there were actually some deserters, but the Imperial Guards of Daliang, even though the city wall was almost destroyed several times, no one escaped. They all fought to the death and eventually died on the city wall.
In the afternoon of that day, Zhao Run went to visit several households in the city.
After excluding the battle losses of the Imperial Guards, the number of casualties in Daliang was 61,595. Just as Zhao Run guessed yesterday, after losing nearly 61,600 young men
Later, almost every household in Daliang City lost the backbone of their family, leaving only a group of orphans and widows.
Just like Zhao Run randomly picked a family, all the men in the family who were over 13 years old and under 50 years old were killed in the battle, leaving only a group of women and young children.
At that time, Zhao Run smiled and comforted the women who had lost their sons, husbands, and fathers. He praised their sons, husbands, and fathers as heroes of his Wei Kingdom without hesitation, and promised that the country and the court would support them on their behalf.
A promise to raise their young children.
However, at this time, Zhao Run was filled with anger.
He had never hated other countries so strongly and wished to eradicate them all.
He couldn't help but glance at Jie Zizi beside him, and his mind immediately recalled what the latter said yesterday: If all the people in the world were Wei, how could there be any more disasters like the coalition forces of other countries attacking our great Wei?
Although Zhao Run felt inexplicably disgusted with Jie Zizi's untimely advice, but after thinking about it carefully, Zhao Run felt that Jie Ziu's words did make sense.
The main reason for the wars within the Central Plains today is that there are many countries. If there is only one Wei State left in the Central Plains, why are there frequent wars year after year?
Some people may say that even if there is only one Wei State left in the world, the possibility of people's rebellion cannot be ruled out. However, in Zhao Run's view, with the state system of Wei State, it is almost impossible to force the people to rise up.
Wei Guo can even absorb and accommodate the Sanchuan people, who are scornfully called Yinrong by the Central Plains people, and integrate them into the Wei people. How can he not tolerate other Central Plains people?
"Conquer the countries with troops and stop them with war..."
At dusk that day, Wei King Zhao Run returned to the palace muttering to himself.
When Zhao Run returned to the palace, Cen Chang, the general of the Imperial Guard, had been waiting in Ganlu Hall for a long time to report to Zhao Run about the situation in Yecheng.
It turned out that early this morning, Wei generals Lu Mu and Mu Qing led more than 20,000 cavalry to Yecheng to relieve the danger of Yecheng.
When they saw Wei's reinforcements arriving and surrounding Yecheng, the Chu general Xinyang Jun Xiang Pei and the Yue general Wu Qi, after weighing the pros and cons, finally chose to withdraw their troops and join up with Chu Shuijun.
There was nothing that could be done about it. After all, Yecheng had too many defensive methods. The "Fire Field" alone blocked the Chu army for several days.
On August 18, after learning that Xinyang Lord Xiang Pei and Yue General Wu Qi had both returned to the main army with their armies, Lord Chu Shui once again summoned the generals from other countries to the commander's tent to discuss the war.
On the Daliang side, Zhao Run also summoned his generals to plan a counterattack.
Obviously, Chu Shuijun was not willing to be frustrated by Daliang, and Wei King Zhao Run was not satisfied with being on the defensive. This meant that another war would break out between the Wei army and the coalition forces of other countries.