Although this battle related to the strategy of the world was important, the process of the battle was not intense.

In the first battle of Weishui, Qi's 7,000 standing troops on the Eastern Front were completely wiped out, and a large number of temporarily conscripted peasants surrendered.

After the news reached Linzi, Prince Qi, who was in Linzi Prison, panicked.

The scouts of the Mo family even ran to the vicinity of Linzi, and Linzi City was shocked three times a day.

On the one hand, the prince had to immediately send people to Luoyi to report, and on the other hand, he intended to organize the defense of Linzi City, and he did not dare to send troops out easily, or he could not put together a mobile force that could fight in the field.

When the news reached Luoyi, the princes were also shocked, and the ambitions of the Jundao Mo family were no longer hidden, and they could not fight to the death.

That being said, it is difficult to negotiate a result on how to fight.

Qi Hou Yan wanted to return to the army, but a minister said: "Returning to the army at this time is the right plan for the middle of the army." ”

Many Qi Chen reached a consensus on this point.

However, there is a disagreement on what to do if there is no return of help.

Some Qi ministers believe that the Mo family snatched it from the Qi State, and the Qi State snatched it back from Wei Han and cut Wei Han to make up for the Mo family's attack.

It is better to make peace with the Mo family and cede the east of Weishui, while the Qi state takes the opportunity to start a war against Wei Han and cedes the land of Wei Han to compensate for the losses of the Qi state.

Or, directly join forces with the Qin State, do away with Wei Han, use Luoyi as the boundary, and dominate the east and west.

However, Qi Xiangtian Ju objected, he said: "The army is mostly in Pingyin and southwest of Mount Tai, and if you return to Linzi, it will take a lot of time." ”

"If you don't attack the enemy, you will be saved, the Mo family will attack Jiaodong, and the king can let the army go south to attack the Song Dynasty."

"Now the ambition of the Mo family is obvious, and the princes know the stakes well. The defense of the country is weak, and it is difficult to resist alone, but the king attacks the Song Dynasty, and the defense will follow. ”

"If the battle of Song Land is lost, then Han Wei will not be able to survive alone, and Han will follow it."

"In this way, the Han army can send tens of thousands, the Qi army can still move 40,000, and the army of Wei Wei and the Son of Heaven can send 30,000, numbering 300,000, to attack the Song Dynasty."

"If you go to Shangqiu, the Mo family will definitely come to help. Even if they don't come back to help, the main force doesn't dare to move lightly. The main force does not move, and it is difficult to break Linzi with the army of Jiaodong. ”

"Although Linzi is not as strong as Pengcheng, it has been repaired for several years, there are many copper cannons, there is enough food, and there are many skilled fighters in the city, as long as they are willing to spend money, they can be hired, and they can always be defended."

"If it is to come back to help, it is the plan of the Mo family. At that time, if the Mo family attacks Pingyin and Mount Tai again, the head and tail of the Qi country will not be able to care about each other, and it will be even more dangerous at that time. ”

"Besides, if the Jiaodong Mo family has the ability to break Linzi in a few days, when the army of the king returns, I am afraid that Linzi will be broken. If the Jiaodong Mo family can't break Linzi in a few days, what difference does it make if you go back or not? ”

"That's why I said, it's better to take this opportunity to attack it and save it, and drag Han, Wei, and Wei into the water to fight a decisive battle. If you win, you can survive; Negative, Qi Gu is dead, and Han Wei must not exist. ”

The biggest problem of the joint operation of the princes is not that the common enemy can fight more, but that the biggest problem is always the allies.

Sometimes, it's more important to guard against allies than against enemies.

Now that the princes are not ready, the Mo family suddenly came to such a hand, disrupting the deployment of the princes.

The minister of Qi who spoke very well knew that attacking the Song Dynasty was not the best choice at this time, and the countries could not come up with the most perfect lineup and tacit cooperation in a hurry.

Once the decisive battle is lost, the princes are finished.

But the advantage is that if it fails, it can drag Han Weiwei to die together, and it will not be said that the Qi State has been encroached and annexed and Han Wei is still alive.

Qi Hou Yan weighed the strategy of cutting Wei to make up for it and the strategy of fighting to the death to die together, and said: "The words are very close to my heart. ”

So he sent people to contact Han, Wei, Wei and other countries without mentioning it.

In the Qin people's pavilion, the opinions of the Qin people who learned that Qi State acted like this were almost unanimous, and Qi State was betraying the alliance.

Qi did this, where did the Qin people stop?

For the sake of the overall situation of anti-Moxi, the Qin army did not fight with such a big advantage in Xihe, and sat down to talk with Wei Han, because Qin knew that once the Mo family became bigger and stabilized Nanyang and Jianghan, the northern princes would have no good fruit to eat.

At this time, it should be the same as when the prince of Qi Huan treated the southern Chu State unanimous when he was the king, at least we must work together.

Working together is not just talking, but cooperating with each other.

The state of Qi wanted to pull Han and Wei alone to attack the Song, and the state of Qin was very embarrassed on the issue of the land of Shang and the West River.

If the Qi-Han coalition wins, what does the Qin State get?

All the pressure of the Nanyang Mo family's army stationed in Chu must be supported by the Qin State, otherwise Korea will not be able to attack the Song Dynasty.

The countries are not ready, the Qin State cannot advance or retreat in Nanyang, but Xihe is negotiating, and the Qin State is making wedding dresses for various countries in the end.

Although this time the princes want to meet the alliance, the righteousness is anti-Moxi, but the Qin State is unwilling to be a martyr, and he has no self-interest and benefits others.

If this battle is lost, it will be even more difficult for Qin to attack at Nanyang, and it will completely lose Korean support.

In addition, the relationship with the Mo family is bound to be very stiff, and even the offensive in Xihe may have to be stopped to avoid the Mo family's sneak attack.

According to what the monarchs and ministers of the Qin State thought, for the sake of the righteousness of anti-Moxi, the State of Qi should not return to Linzi, nor should it rush into the Song Land at this time, and the people who attack the Mo family must save and defend Qi.

Instead, we should abandon Linzi, retreat to the east, and stick to the line of Mount Tai and Pingyin.

The battle line of the Mo family was lengthened, making the Mo family unable to attack, and if the Mo family attacked Pingyin and other places, they had to worry that the Zhao family might cross the Yellow River to interfere.

Once the battle line of the Mo family is stretched, a stalemate may form.

In this way, the main force of Qi is still there, and it will not be broken by each one, so that an alliance can be reached and marching together to form a military advantage on two fronts.

In the big picture, it should be.

However, this is the world of the princes' disputes, the Marquis of Qi is the Marquis of Qi, not the high-ranking officials of the Zhou Dynasty and Qi Province, and under the great unification, you can give up part of the land to gain an advantage, but in the situation of the princes' dispute, it is difficult.

The Mo family had just destroyed the Chu State, and the Qi State had also revealed the idea of carving up the Wei State while the Wei State was ill, these two things were in front of each other, how could the Qi State believe that the countries would do their best to help the Qi State recover? In case the Mo family fails and retreats to Jianghan, maybe the countries will take advantage of the opportunity of Qi Guo's illness to kill Qi State first.

Although there are many knowledges in Sishang, such as the difference between the loss of land and the loss of land, the depth and grassroots rule of Qi are not enough to do this, because for Qi, saving people and losing land may mean that people are gone, and land is gone.

Knowing that the situation was difficult now, Qin Jun had no choice but to send someone to visit Qi Xiang to explain the stakes clearly.

In the end, he chose to be an envoy to be a young man Wei Ying, who was a concubine by Wu Qi's side after entering Qin a few years ago, and was recommended to the center of Qin when Wu Qi was seriously ill and dying.

Since the hundred schools met in Sishang that year, Wei Ying left the Song Dynasty and came to the Qin State with some of his fellow disciples.

The corpse and Wu Qi have an old relationship, and through the recommendation of the corpse, Wei Ying came out of Wu Qi's side after entering Qin.

He likes the study of criminal names, and he grew up under the influence of the criminal punishment system of the Three Jin Dynasty, and he followed the set of the Xihe School.

Wu Qi was similar to what he was doing in the west of the Qin State as he was in Xihe, and the two parties were extremely compatible, and Wei Ying was talented, so he soon stood out.

Wu Qi's policy in the western part of the Qin State was a copy of the Xihe military pawn system, because the western part of the Qin State was very suitable for the Xihe pawn system, and the fighters were all those backward nomadic tribes.

But there was a slight change in the system at the West River.

Wu Qi divided the experience of the Xihe military system into two, divided into two systems: government soldiers and conscription.

In Longxi, Yiqu, Wushi and other places, brave and brave people were selected, and land and horses were granted to them in the border areas, and they were exempted from tax and labor, forming a village community composed of strong and brave people.

The people of these villages do not need to pay taxes, their families do not need to do hard labor, and if there are no women, they go to the outside tribes to grab the land, if there is no one to cultivate the land, they go to the outside tribes to grab it, and if there is no land and horses, they go to the outside to rob them.

With the help of crops, farming techniques, gunpowder, etc., brought from Si, these people still maintain a farming life.

But there is a lot of land, there are many slaves at home, so there are also many horses, and these people are full-time military families, and they are government soldiers and nobles.

When they were in battle, they were generally cavalry and had to pay a blood tax in lieu of their taxes.

These cavalrymen were good at riding, but they were very poorly disciplined, but they were excellent in hand-to-hand combat, surprise attacks, sneak attacks, and cover-ups.

Moreover, because of the cooperation of firearms and chariot camps, often a village of 1,200 people can fight the surrounding nomadic tribes to flee, and even those who dare to do it want to make war exploits, there will be several townships and villages to unite and act together to destroy some big tribes snatching horses, cattle and sheep.

This military system greatly reduced the nomadic pressure in the western part of the Qin state, but the disadvantage was that these villages often robbed some caravans that went to the extreme west to trade, but because the Qin state was mainly public trade, the impact was not very large.

In addition to this military system, there is also a very strict conscription and conscription system under the household and military system.

In Inonozawa and other places, a conscription system was adopted under the household system, but whenever the age came, they had to serve in the army.

A group of Shiwu, sharing ploughing cattle, and sitting in the criminal law.

If you have made meritorious service in the army, you can be promoted to a government soldier, you can be allocated land, and you can be exempt from taxes.

The officers in the army were all composed of some aristocratic concubines, and received a new type of education under the guidance of those who rebelled against Mo.

This system of conscription was practiced in each city, and in remote areas, a military aristocracy similar to that of government soldiers was practiced.

Relying on the demographic advantage of the city and the discipline advantage of conscription, it was guaranteed to suppress the force of the nouveau riche of the prefecture, and at the same time to be able to pull out enough light cavalry during the war.

Wei Ying didn't like the kind of frontier military system, but he was very good at the Shiwu conscription system under the jurisdiction of the city, and the scholarship he learned from the corpse and the study of the punishment of Xihe was really like a fish in water here, and he quickly got room to use it.

People have to be capable, and they will stand out when the opportunity is in front of them. The relationship between Corpse Jiao and Wu Qi gave Wei Ying a chance, and he also seized this opportunity.

Wu Qi once said that if the affairs of the western region were only military, and the tactics of the stirrup firearms battalion would be crushed, it would only be the work of the five doctors, and it would not be regarded as an earth-shattering achievement.

And the most important thing is the rule after the defeat, which is the key to making the five doctors above the five doctors.

Under this kind of thinking, what Wei Ying has learned has been brought into play.

When Wu Qi was seriously ill and dying, he also recommended Wei Ying to Qin Jun.

Qin Jun knew about this person before, because the appointment and dismissal of officials were all ordered by the king, and he also had meritorious deeds before, although he was not rich under his rule, the people obeyed the law.

After recommending it, having an in-depth conversation, Qin Jun also recognized Wei Ying's talent.