The king of Wei was on vacation for three years, in mid-spring and February, and the Wei capital was in Daliang City.

At the time of the morning meal, a group of Wei soldiers with their heads wrapped in cangcloth sat cross-legged on the inner side of the city wall, they surrounded the deserted earthen kang, looking at the thin porridge in the pottery bowl, silent, and their morale was very low.

The Qin army besieged the city for half a month, and although the granary in the city was quite sufficient, I don't know how long this war would last. Therefore, the king of Wei ordered that the city began to supply rations in limited quantities, and even the soldiers defending the city could only get one-third of the bucket of corn every day, and they were half starved, so everyone had a dish......

But what can they do? I had to drink the bland and tasteless gruel silently, hoping that the king could reach a peace agreement with the Qin State as soon as possible and end this hopeless war.

Since the death of Xinling Jun, in the war with Qin, Wei has not won a battle for twenty years......

The silence was broken by a slowly approaching carriage, the sound of the wheels stopped, and an old man with a white beard got out of the car by the tall beamed wall. He refused the support of his servants, and walked tremblingly towards the stairs of the city, with a jade ring around his waist......

Those who can afford to wear jade and silk are naturally nobles and doctors, but the head of the city is an important place for city defense, and not everyone can go up.

The captain in charge of the defense of this city wall immediately stepped forward to stop him, but after the old man's servant showed a bronze talisman, he changed color and bowed down to the old man in fear.

"I don't know it's Tang Gong here!"

Hearing the word "Tang Gong", the Wei soldiers under the city actually stood up one after another and looked at the old man solemnly.

In Daliang, there is only one Tang Gong, and that is Tang Ju (jū), who is already ninety years old!

He has no official position, he is not a feudal monarch, but up to the king of Wei and down to the puppet pawn, no one dares to disrespect Tang Ju.

Because this old man is the only legend left in the Wei Kingdom!

Tang Ju has a long life, he was born in the era of King Wei Xiang ninety years ago, he did nothing when he was young, and he was still just a small messenger when he was not confused, and his name was unknown.

Until the eleventh year of King Wei Anli (266 BC), Qi Chu attacked Wei, and the helpless King Wei Anjiao sent Tang Ju into Qin for help. Tang Ju relied on his three-inch incorruptible tongue to persuade King Qin Zhao to send troops and go to Wei day and night. Wei's restoration, Tang Juzhi's saying also. ”

After this meritorious service, Tang Ju, who should have been promoted, was dissatisfied with King Wei Anli's extravagance, favored Longyang, and resigned to become a guest of Xinling Jun.

In the twentieth year of King Anli (257 years ago), Xinling Jun stole talismans to save Zhao, and after the fact, he was complacent and self-conscious, or Tang Ju advised him, "The virtue of people is also in me, and I must not forget it; I am virtuous to others, and I must not forget it. Only then did Gongzi Wuji wake up violently and treat King Zhao and Pingyuan Jun with courtesy, and then he was respected by the princes and became the leader of the alliance.

During the time when Tang Ju assisted Xin Lingjun, it was the Wei State and the last hope of the Six Kingdoms of Shandong. Xinling Jun led the troops of the five countries to break the Qin army outside the river, and chased Meng Yu to Hangu Pass, so that the Qin people did not dare to go east. At that time, the son of Xinling was powerful in the world, and the guests were full of talents......

It's a pity that Xinling Jun didn't live long, and after he was suspicious of King Wei and died of depression, Tang Ju, who was nearly seventy years old, was still pursuing Xinling's will and running between the six countries.

In the second year of King Wei Jingyu (241 BC), Tang Ju went to Chu and persuaded Chun Shenjun, saying that he "was the Chu of all times, and he was the leader of the world", so he took King Chu Kaolie as the longitudinal commander and promoted a new and final joint attack on Qin.

It's a pity that Tang Ju still overestimated the six countries, and the six scattered chess pieces with their own minds were difficult to defeat the Qin State Lord, who had one out of three in the world, and after Pang Xuan's failure to attack Qin, the defeat of the Six Kingdoms was irretrievable......

But this is not to blame Tang Ju, except for the non-existent "Tang Ju does not disgrace his mission" is fake and has never happened, Tang Ju has never humiliated his mission every time he goes out. It's a pity that it is no longer the era of Su Qin and Zhang Yi, and the rolling trend of the Qin State to accumulate the sixth generation cannot be changed by the three-inch incorruptible tongue of the lobbyist.

Now, Tang Ju is ninety years old, he can no longer leave Daliang, but the years have not left too many traces on him, although the old man is old, he looks good, smiled and waved his hand, let everyone get up.

"The second and third sons are working hard to defend the city, so they don't need to be polite."

Then Tang Ju said to the captain: "Hou Sheng, can you take the old man to the city to have a look?" ”

The captain hesitated, and arched his hand: "Tang Gong, the wind is strong in the city, and the Qin army shoots arrows at the city from time to time, in case it ......"

In case Tang Gong made any mistakes, he would not be scolded to death by the people of the whole city?

Tang Ju laughed out loud: "For more than 100 years, the Qin army has besieged Daliang more than ten times, and the old man has been fortunate to experience most of it because he has lived for a long time. But the Qin State has attacked the Liang for more than ten times, but none of them have succeeded, and every time, the soldiers and civilians of the Wei State have worked together to defend the city! ”

These words lifted the low morale for a while! Wei Pawn even raised his weapon aloft and let out a long-lost cheer!

Seeing that everyone's spirit was back, Tang Ju bowed his head and said: "And lead me to the city, the old man just wants to see with his own eyes, how big the Qin army besieging the city this time is, how does it compare with Bai Qi's three entry into Liang Yuan?" ”

Although he did not get the military order, the captain did not dare to disobey Tang Ju's order, so he asked a few soldiers to hold shields to protect Tang Ju and help him climb to the top of Daliang City step by step......

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Liangcheng is ten zhang high, and the wind is really strong, blowing Tang Ju's pale beard.

He squinted into the distance, and after looking at the west, north, and east for a long time, a bitter smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "Is this still the suburbs of Daliang?" It's only been half a month, and it's completely unrecognizable. ”

On the northwest side of the Great Liang, there was once a royal palace encircled by King Wei Anli: Liang Yuan. The architecture is quite elegant, with lush flowers and trees, elk, pine cranes roosting under trees, and boating in ponds.

Today, Liang Yu has been unrecognizable, the trees have been cut down by the Qin, and the garden full of rare trees is only an ugly clearing full of tree stumps. In the past, the roe deer hunted by the King of Wei probably became the delicacy of the Qin army.

The entire field of vision was filled with the camp tents of the Qin army and the black-headed Qin soldiers, and the siege equipment was concentrated in the west, throwing stones and shooting smoke arrows towards the head of the city from time to time, making the city unsafe.

There is also the chasm that goes around the city from the northeast, and since the king of Wei Hui ordered Bai Gui to dig this canal, it has become the main artery of the Central Plains, connecting the Liang, Song, Chen, and Cai regions. Every day, countless ships depart from Daliang to transport the mulberry and linen cloth of Wei to the south; The fish salt leather, rhino horn, and cinnamon spices brought back to Chudi were sold at a high price in the Daliang market.

But now, the chasm is extinct, only the boats full of food and ordnance of the Qin army remain, thousands of shirtless slender men are pulling wooden boats, and even the trumpets they shout are unfamiliar Guanzhong accents.

What worries Tang Ju the most is the north, where a large turbid yellow river stretches across the surface and flows slowly eastward.

The river is unruly, in the Warring States Zhao Wei Qi three kingdoms are each other's enemies, after the beggar-thy-neighbor, natural disasters and man-made disasters, it is more and more flooded. Fortunately, Wei built an earthen wall by the river that was dozens of miles long, which prevented the flood from hitting the low-lying Liangdi. Over the past few decades, countless families have slowly gathered between the city and the river, opened up endless fertile farmland, and built a cluster of houses......

And now, those fertile fields that should be busy with spring plowing and planting millet and wheat seedlings are empty, and there is not even a sparrow. The people were scattered, but there were countless Qin Qian's first soldiers, armed with shovels and hoes, under the spur of the Qin officials, they lined up in a long line, along Qianmo, to the north of the beam.

Seeing this, Tang Ju held the battlement's hand and trembled slightly, he knew very well where those Qin people were going and what they were going to do!

They're going to Xingyang! （xíng）

Decades ago, it was Tang Ju's youth, and it was also the era when Zhang Yi, Gongsun Yan, and Su Qin were in a series of vertical and horizontal areas, and in order to force Wei to join Lianheng, Qin sent Zhang Yi to Daliang and said such a threat:

"Breaking the mouth, Wei has no beams; The mouth of the white horse, Wei Wuwaihuang, Jiyang; The mouth of the decisive Xu, Wei Wuxu, Dunqiu. A land attack will hit Hanoi, and a water attack will destroy the beams! ”

However, the Qin army attacked Wei more than ten times and besieged Daliang, but because the lone army was deep and could not fully occupy Wei, there was no chance to fulfill this threat.

Until today, is the nightmare of Wei finally coming?

In Tang Ju's view, this is all the evil result of the Wei State bribing Qin with land in the past 20 years, and the dangerous roads have been encroached upon.

It seems that this time, unlike the more than ten small fights before, King Qin is determined to capture Daliang and destroy the Wei State!

"Oh my God......"

Even if he is as calm and spicy as Tang Ju, after foreseeing the tragic future of this country, he can't be calm.

He looked up at the cloudless sky, and sighed in a low voice: "If the prince of Xinling is still here, if the prince of Xinling is still here, how can the Wei State fall into such a situation!?" ”

Tang Ju's gaze was too high and too far, so he didn't even notice that under the section of the city wall where he was, more than two hundred steps away, a Qin pawn with his hair in a bun to the right and dark skin was rudely relieving himself in the moat......

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After pouring urine into the moat of the girder, the black man tied the hemp rope around his waist, and looked up to see a white-haired old man sighing on the wall of the girder, and was amazed......

"Could it be that the girder has run out of ammunition and food, and it is so difficult that the old man has to defend the city? It's only been half a month, and there hasn't been a single fierce siege, so no. ”

After sighing, Heifu didn't stay long, turned around and walked along the path, and walked towards the camp.

In order to prevent the enemy in the city from attacking to the death, the huge camp was surrounded by wooden stakes, and a towering watchtower was set up, on which stood Qin soldiers with bows and arrows.

After entering the camp, Heifu looked at all low shacks, but fortunately they didn't look messy, he always felt that the Qin officials who were educated by "Qin Law" had a slight obsessive-compulsive disorder, and they liked to be neat and uniform, and when designing the camp, it was natural to make each shack look neater.

Occasionally, the soldiers passing through the camp passed by outside the gate, but more often, with their faces blackened, were gathered together and the convicts rushed to work under the whips of the officials.

There were also coarse linen clothes and unkempt soldiers, all of whom had different accents and came from different counties, and Heifu occasionally met familiar faces and nodded at them.

While walking in the camp mixed with various smells, Heifu also said in his stomach: "I never thought that the battle of Daliang would be like this. ”

It turned out that after setting out from Fangcheng County in early January, at the urging of the generals, Heifu and his 30,000 soldiers and prisoners from Hanzhong, Nanjun, and Nanyang arrived at Daliang City in only ten days.

After coming here, Heifu found that Daliang City had been surrounded by Qin troops from Chen Ying. In addition to the 50,000 armoured and spear-wielding combat troops, the conscripted soldiers were still coming.

In addition to the 30,000 people from Hanzhong, Nanjun, and Nanyang, the prisoners from Guanzhong, Sanchuan, Hedong, Shangdang, and Hanoi also came to Daliang, and when combined, the number may exceed 100,000.

It was a war in which there were far more auxiliaries than soldiers.

To Heifu's relief, the 100,000 prisoners were not asked by General Wang Ben to do dangerous things with extremely high mortality rates, such as siege and ditch filling. Instead, let them act as slender men and grain carriers, except for the hardships and tiredness, but they are very safe.

After entering February, half of the soldiers and prisoners were required to set off for Xingyang, dozens of miles away in the northwest, while the rest of the people had to dig a deep ditch between the chasm and the girder to go straight to the city!

Therefore, the suburbs of Daliang City are not like a battlefield for attacking the city and destroying the country, but like a large construction site for digging water conservancy projects.

This kind of physical work to kill time tests people's patience, and soon some people can't sit still.

Approaching the small shack where the Anlu County guards lived, and still ten steps away, Heifu heard the sound of the Dongmen leopard jumping like thunder......

"Naigong can't stand it, what kind of siege is this? That 'Little General Wang', will there be a war in the end!? ”