Wei Martingale is at a disadvantage.

It's not that his ability is not as good as Tian Ju, but that the situation is compelling.

Diplomacy needs the support of national strength, the national strength is strong enough, the situation is better than people, there are more hole cards than people, and second-rate people can also overwhelm first-class people.

Qin State now has no qualifications to negotiate with Qi State, nor does it have the bargaining chips to be able to slope Qi State.

The blame is that the monarchs and ministers of the Qin State were too vigilant and reacted too quickly to the rise of the Mo family, but they fell into passivity.

Now tens of thousands of Qin troops are stationed in commercial land, threatening Danyang, Danshui, and Hanshui, and capturing Danyang will open the way to the Nanyang Basin.

It's right to plan ahead.

But if you plan to do it too early, everything will leak out, and the negotiations with your allies will naturally be at a disadvantage.

It's the allies, not the enemies, that are really tough.

If you show your bottom too early in front of your allies, you will be passive.

The Qin army is not withdrawing now, nor is it fighting.

Withdraw the troops, in order to force South Korea, if South Korea does not support the Qin State, let the Mo family fight South Korea, this bargaining chip cannot be used.

Because Korea is not afraid, your Qin State has already taken the lead and leaked the bottom, and the troops are stationed in the commercial land, even if you withdraw the army, the Mo family must be worried that you are feint to retreat, and you may take advantage of the Chu army to enter Nanyang when the Funiu Mountain goes north, so you don't dare to move lightly.

Allies who might have drunk together that night may suddenly betray and exterminate the race, and the war will be in the midst of a national war.

Qin had no way to change Korea's mind, and even less could change Qi's mind.

The current national strength of the Qin State is still a long way from sweeping the Eight Desolations and Liuhe, and the first battle of Xihe defeated the Wei State, which had been drained by Mo, Chu, and Zhao for twenty years.

At this time, Wei Ying didn't know that in another time and space, he would be sealed in Shangdi, let alone that he would eventually raise troops and die in the fiefdom, nor did he know that the 600 miles of Shangyu Land would be a famous diplomatic scam long after.

But he knew that Tian Ju was talking nonsense.

Even if the Qi-Han coalition army wins, at most it will recover Jiaodong, and there is no spare strength to defeat Sishang, and it is impossible to send troops thousands of miles to fight Nanyang when the threat of Sishang is still there.

This nonsense completely angered Wei Ying, and he got up and shouted angrily: "The erector is not enough and conspiracy! In this way, the world will eventually be obtained by the Mo family, and the princes' temples will be ruined! ”

Tian Ju also got up and said: "The erector still knows that there is a home first, then a country, and then a world. If the home can't be guarded, the country can't be defended, how can we talk about the world? ”

"If Qin supports it, Qi will fight; Qin doesn't support it, and Qi still has to fight. The Qin people deal with it! ”

Wei Ying snorted coldly and left, and Tian Ju sighed after Wei Yan left.

He also knew that the battle was dangerous, but there was nothing he could do.

The idea of some ministers making peace with the Mo family and cutting off Wei Wei to make up for what they lost is simply stupid to the extreme.

Wei Weiqi are all old princes, and they all play within the framework of the old rules, but the Mo family wants to break the old rules, and there is no way to get along with them normally.

Moreover, most of the officers in the Qi Standing Army were sealed in Jiaodong, and if they did not attack the Mo family but attacked Wei, I was afraid that the army would have great opinions.

Besides, the Mo family's snowballing ability, the level of governing the country, amassing wealth and expanding the army, occupying one more city will have more than a thousand soldiers, so if you cut it down little by little, once the Mo family wants to fight, it can threaten the Qi country at any time.

Only by attacking the Song Land and fighting to the death can it be possible to reverse the offensive and defensive momentum.

Anyway, the role of the Qin State is to contain the Mo family army stationed in Chu in Nanyang, and whether they take the initiative to attack or not is of little significance.

The offense and defense are different, the main attack and containment are also different, and the previous performance and military strength of the Qin State are enough to contain it, and the security of the Western Front of South Korea can be guaranteed.

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Wei Gongzifu, who got the news, was inexplicably excited when he heard the news that the Mo family had invaded Jiaodong and that Qi was preparing to unite Wei, Wei, and Han to attack Song to save Linzi.

The Mo family has invisibly done him a great favor, at least Qi Guo's attitude is no longer so tough, under the Mo family's watchful eye, as long as Qi Guo chooses to go to war with the Mo family, it is impossible to force Wei Guo too much.

South Korea has already agreed to send troops from Qi State.

This immediately relieved the pressure that Wei had been under before.

Korea had previously advocated ceding the interests of Wei in order to allow Qin and Qi to send troops, because the Korean capital was already under the threat of the Mohists.

At that time, the attitude of various countries was still very unclear, because the Mo family seemed to be just fighting Chu, and there was still the possibility of peace.

Because there is the possibility of making peace with the Mohists, the attitudes of various countries are not clear, and they all use the separate peace and withdrawal alliance with the Mohists as blackmail and bargaining capital.

That's why South Korea is impatient: you have all withdrawn from the alliance, what should I do? Yang Zhai Ke is a hundred miles away from the Mo family's control line. If Korea is not destroyed, the capital of Wei will be very safe; If Korea is not destroyed, the Mo family will not dare to attack Qin easily.

Although countries may not be able to make peace with the Mo family, South Korea does not dare to bet that countries will not make peace, so they can only agree to the conditions of various countries and help cut the flesh of Wei, the former big brother, in order to beg all countries to send troops.

It's good now.

The Mo family has completely cut off the possibility of peace between the countries alone, and the princes of Jiaodong of Qi have seen it.

In the past, the Mo family had to have a passable reason for conquering and conquering, but now this reason is only a simple and crude one: benefiting the world. One day is for the benefit of the world, and the war is for non-attack.

Qi according to the old rules, not guilty.

But according to the new rules set by the Mo family, guilty.

And whether guilty or innocent under the new rules, the Mohists are the judges.

Countries may not have had illusions about the Mohists before, but they can use the Mohists to fight for their own interests and threaten South Korea with peace to gain support.

Now, South Korea doesn't need to plead with each other, because the Mo family did not attack South Korea first, but the Qi State first.

In this way, the attitude of the Qin State is no longer important: the Qin State cannot advance or retreat, and the Mo family will not believe in the Qin State, so the Mo family's army stationed in Chu is restrained by the Qin State.

Since the main direction of attack is in Sishang, the role and value of Wei are also reflected.

Grain, grass, people, and logistics must be supported by Wei.

Gongzi wiped away the tears he had previously lamented because of the lack of diplomacy in a weak country, and immediately began to wander among the princes and ministers.

He wants to take this opportunity to get rid of Gongzi, distribute a part of the benefits, gather the hearts of the soldiers, and prepare for the post-war reform and change.

Opportunities are always reserved for those who are prepared.

If this battle is lost, everyone will be finished.

But if the war is won, it is still possible for Wei to rise to prominence.

So he's going to take that opportunity.

On the one hand, the secret messenger sent the message to Pang Juan to prepare for the military coup; On the one hand, he mediated with Han, Qi and other countries, and with the help of the threat of the Mohists, Han, Qi and Wei reached an agreement.

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Qi Han Wei Wei hurriedly dispatched troops, without waiting for the cooperation of Zhao, Yan, and Qin, which was actually quite dangerous.

However, as the initiator of the war, Shi could not have known from the beginning that the Qi State would come to "encircle Wei and save Zhao".

He just wants to buy time, and at least another year to completely digest Jianghan, Nanyang, and Huaixi.

Therefore, without knowing the plans of the Qi State, it is natural to follow his own plan in order to mobilize the Qi army.

As long as we can buy time to spend this year in peace and do not make the princes attack within a year, then the danger of the Western Front will be lifted, and the Mo family can form a situation where the east and west are fighting each other against the northern princes.

What he wanted to mobilize was the Qi army, so that there would be a gap between Qi, Han, and Wei, and it would be difficult to twist into a rope.

But we also have to beware of Han Wei and Zhao Zhen attacking Sishang.

So in order to achieve the purpose of this transfer, the entire Mo family in Sishang began their performances and deception.

In mid-August, the overall situation of Jiaodong has been decided.

Jimo City, which invited gods and made up wives and concubines to enlist in the army, only defended for two days, and was broken before the third day was over.

A total of 2,000 old muskets and three small cannons were gathered, and the rest were not even equipped with bronze spears.

If the Mo family was still in the era of cold weapons, Tian Zhongshou's methods might be able to hold it, but after all, the times have changed.

Relying on that little means can't stop the Mo family's offensive.

After the city was broken, Tian Zhongshou committed suicide after slaughtering his wife and concubines.

There is a concubine who doesn't want to die and wants to survive, but Tian Zhongshou thinks that after the city is broken, everyone should die, and if he doesn't die, he will be disloyal to the king, and especially according to the Mo family's style of acting, his concubine will have to remarry someone else in the future if he doesn't die, so he blusted up and found the concubine who tried to escape and stabbed him to death in the chaos.

After this battle, the Mo family has completely occupied Zhucheng, Gaomi, and Jimo.

Subsequently, the main force of the Mo family near Shangqiu began to march eastward with great fanfare, but in fact, after reaching the vicinity of Peiyi, they were concealed and repaired in the village community where the Mo family had been completely controlled for thirty years, while a large number of soldiers of the second-line reserve pretended to advance in the direction of Laiwu.

Shi also personally led people to the direction of Laiwu, making the illusion that the army was moving slowly.

Some horses pulled fake cannons made of wood behind them, and slowly moved in the direction of Laiwu every day.

All this was to lure the Qi State back to the division, while also preventing the main force from exhausting from a long march, and to guard against the possible invasion of Sishang by Korea to save Qi.

In the Battle of Qimo that year, the Mo family fought a battle in Laiwu, and now they want to pretend to capture Laiwu to threaten Linzi from the east and south.

The Propaganda Department is also working at full speed, making a big deal of it in the official newspapers.

Articles such as "Shangqiu's Line is Solid" and "Smash the Dog's Head of Any Person Who Blocks the Great Cause of the World" are written and published all day long.

There is a great sense of defending the Song land and the main force is about to break through Linzi.

In addition, many places in the Song region also began to mobilize the people, repair the city, prepare for war, hold meetings, and mobilize.

For example, several cities near Korea and Shangqiu in the Song Kingdom were busy building city walls, and there was a great deal of intimidation for South Korea not to rashly attack Sishang.

Soon after, Shi made a public appearance near Qufu, and made a preaching in Lu Guoguo to carry out the great cause of benefiting the world to the end, Lu Hou didn't even dare to let out a fart, and the people cheered and boiled.

All this is trying to tell the princes that the Mo family is going to attack Linzi this time, and they are ready to defend in Shangqiu and other places, and if Han Wei dares to attack the Song land, there will be no return.

really captured Linzi, and there was no interest at this time.

Before the main field force of Qi was annihilated, Shi was not ready to move Linzi at all, Linzi was a big city after all, not to mention that it was not easy to capture, once the battle line of Linzi Mojia was captured, it would be too long and dangerous.