Since ancient times, disagreement between the monarch and the ministers or distrust each other will be a bad thing.
For example, King Zhao believed the rumors and replaced Lian Po, and King Zhao destroyed the Great Wall and killed Li Mu.
There are also Yue Fei, Yang family generals, etc., who seem to be harmed by treacherous ministers, but are actually afraid of the king.
Yang Duanhe was far stronger in terms of military strength, supply, or momentum than the sinking soldiers with only tens of thousands of cavalry.
But Chen Bing has one Yang Duan and has no advantage:
Fusu absolutely trusts Chen Bing and can let Shen Bing fight without interfering.
However, Yang Duanhe's relationship with Xianyang is more because his family is coerced and he has to fight.
If the Qin Shihuang Ying Zheng was the one who coordinated the overall situation in Xianyang, it might give Yang Duanhe enough freedom... This is Ying Zheng's advantage. He only sets a strategy in every battle and does not interfere with what the general does, as long as he achieves the strategy he wants Just the goal.
The problem is that it is not Qin Shihuang who commands behind the scenes but Zhao Gao.
Although Zhao Gao is good at internal fighting, he is definitely not a general with a broad mind and long-term vision, nor is Li Si.
On the contrary, the more scheming the person who is good at fighting in the inside, the more worried they think that others will harm him, fight him, and kill him. So they have to use all kinds of means to restrain, monitor, interfere, and even command.
The same is true for Zhao Gao to Yang Duanhe.
He could not feel at ease to let Yang Duanhe take an army of 200,000 to the Western Regions to fight against Shen Bing. Moreover, Zhao Gao had long known that the relationship between Yang Duanhe and Shen Bing was both a teacher and a friend.
Therefore, Zhao Gao sent his most trusted eunuch Xing Chi to the military supervisor and Yang Duanhe, and added stations along the way to leave behind pigeons so that news from the front line could be delivered to Xianyang as soon as possible, and at the same time, the orders from Xianyang could also be delivered to Xianyang as soon as possible. front.
Although Chen Bing didn't know this, Chen Bing knew that Zhao Gao would definitely not trust Yang Duanhe.
So I deliberately talked nonsense with Yang Duanhe when I met.
Of course, Yang Duanhe didn't know this was a plan, and only thought that Chen Bing wanted to make it clear before the war... In fact, Chen Bing did have this intention, but he was just talking about the past and putting a trap.
No one else heard this nonsense, because Chen Bing and Yang Duanhe made an appointment with each other and only two met alone, without a soldier.
This is normal. If you lead troops in this situation, you will seem insincere.
Therefore, these "nonsense" are not "nonsense" in the eyes of the military supervisor. Moreover, the eunuch always likes to spread rumors while having nothing to do. Now that this is happening again, Xing Chi doesn't beat Yang Duan and the report. It's a strange thing.
Xingchi said to Zhao Gao like this: "Yang Duanhe will not move his troops, and he will secretly meet the soldiers. His intentions are ulterior motives. Please make a decision quickly!"
Zhao Gao couldn't help but get furious when he saw it.
This is so great? He knew that Shen Bing was a rebel but he dared to meet him in secret?
At this moment, he wanted to take Yang Duan and his family to jail, but then he thought that Yang Duanhe was just secretly acquainted with Shen Bing. If he took his family, Yang Duanhe would have no worries, how could he openly raise troops and Shen Bing. The soldiers rebelled together?
So he did not dare to take action, but simply used a letter from Fei Ge to supervise Yang Duanhe to immediately send troops to attack Kucha and capture Fusu.
Zhao Gao's approach is actually profound:
If Yang Duanhe is unwilling to send troops to attack Kucha, it will prove that Yang Duanhe has a different intention. Then Zhao Gao must consider letting Xingchi seize his military power with an imperial edict and allow others to lead the army.
If Yang Duanhe sent troops to attack Kucha, Zhao Gao could sit in the mountains and watch the tiger fight.
The scheming Zhao Gao would never have thought that he was actually a trap of Shen Bing.
When Yang Duanhe received this order, he also fought with Xingchi:
"Then Kucha is more than 200 miles away from Gushi. We are on an expedition without water. How can we conquer it?"
Xingchi took it for granted:
"We have an army of 200,000. What's the difficulty of transporting the water to 200 miles away?"
Yang Duanhe just said "ah" and how could these eunuchs know that the people who transport water also need to drink water, so it is not possible to do it with too many people.
However, how Ren Yang Duanhe explained, Xingchi only said one sentence: "This is the emperor's holy will, how dare you not obey?"
There is a reason why Zhao Gao was so anxious to attack Kucha.
Many people in Xianyang have become suspicious of Ying Zheng's recent abnormal behavior, especially Fusu's death.
Even if the rumors were true, Fusu wanted to kill Ying Zheng, but only after Ying Zheng discovered it was sent to death.
Ying Zheng should go to court and explain to the masses.
Having not been to court for so long, is it because the poison from Fusu is too powerful that the dragon's body is in ill?
Some people even doubt whether Ying Zheng will be alive for a while!
This made the temple panic and rumors spread everywhere.
Zhao Gao was worried that it would not be possible to hide it for long. If the ministers knew that Ying Zheng was dead, Zhao Gao would no longer be able to pass on the imperial edict.
The plan for the present is to kill Fusu as soon as possible to prepare for Hu Hai to rise to power.
So Zhao Gao was so anxious to attack Kucha.
Yang Duanhe was forced to send troops to attack Kucha.
However, Yang Duanhe took a few days to make some preparations... The Western Regions desert lacked wood, so Yang Duanhe needed to collect enough wood to build cities along the road and make siege equipment.
Then Yang Duanhe collected a large number of camels for carrying water, and then sent an army of 50,000 to Kucha.
This made Xingchi very dissatisfied, because Yang Duanhe had 200,000 troops but only sent 50,000 troops to attack Kucha, while Shen Bing had at least 6,700 troops...including Kucha Army.
Xingchi even thought Yang Duanhe was perfunctory to him.
However, because Yang Duanhe made an excuse to refuse to see Xingchi, Xingchi had to give up.
Shen Bing on the other side was overjoyed when he heard that Yang Duanhe was sending troops and his target was Kucha.
Of course, Shen Bing knew Yang Duanhe’s thoughts:
Since you have to send troops, you will send an army that can protect yourself.
There are no more than 50,000 soldiers. They can attack and retreat or defend. Once they are besieged, they can send troops to rescue them.
However, Yang Duanhe would never have thought that the 50,000 army would soon become a bait for Shen Bing, a bait that Yang Duanhe would constantly send troops to help but could not rescue him.
The Qin infantrymen marched unfastly and walked for more than ten days before they arrived at Kucha. As soon as they arrived at their destination, they launched an offensive against Kucha.
This army was led by Li Yan. In order to prevent the army from being lost, Li Yan followed Yang Duanhe's instructions and set up a city wall to guard it with 3,000 elite troops along the way.
So when Li Yan and his group arrived in Kucha, only 40,000 remained.
Although 40,000 people attacked Kucha was a little short of it, this battle was just like Yang Duanhe said, just to deal with Xing Chi and protect himself, and not to really take Kucha.
What Li Yan didn't know was that if he had attacked the city with all his might, he might be able to take down Kucha.
Because Shen Bing and Fusu had already left the city with their army in advance and hid outside the city, only the frightened King of Kucha and ten thousand Kucha soldiers were left in the city to defend the city with all their might.