The reason why Pinyang got its name is because of Pinshan; The reason why Pinshan is called Pinshan is because it welcomes the sunrise in the morning, sends the sunset in the evening, and the sunrise rises all day long, so it is called Pinshan. Wang Jian was born here.

The Qin army was defeated, and the king urgently summoned Wang Jian late at night. In order to keep it secret, Zhao Gao, who received the king's order, had no choice but to let his younger brother Zhao Cheng and son-in-law Yan Le rush to Pinyang with the summoning festival. However, when they arrived at the place where Wang Jian was, Wang Jian was sick.

"General Wang, Old General Wang's bedsickness?" Zhao Cheng didn't have his brother's seven tricks, so he didn't understand the meaning of the elder of the Wang clan.

"General Wang is sick, we should pay a visit, please ask the clan elder for permission." Yan Le's face is white and handsome, and he can speak well. His eyes turned around and his tone changed, and he never mentioned the urgent call, as if he and Zhao Cheng had made a special trip to see Wang Qian.

The only people who can stay in the rear and not go to war in the ...... are sixty or seventy years old. Many things are very transparent when you live at this age, and the person who sees it is bent on seeing Wang Qian, and the clan elder does not dare to stop it, so he only says: "The general has been sick for a long time, and I am worried that the nobles will be infected with the disease......"

Diseases are contagious, especially the Jinyang plague has only been controlled, and it has not been completely extinguished, Zhao Cheng's expression immediately changed when he heard this. Seeing this, Yan Le could only stubbornly say: "Evil people are not afraid, I would like to see General Wang." ”

A courtyard more than ten zhang long and wide, a dim inner room four steps square, and an old slave kneeling in the room. There is no high platform, no Ming Hall, and not even a curtain, this is the home of Wang Qian, the general of Great Qin. Yan Lelu didn't even need to take off and enter the small inner room, and he vaguely saw a person lying on his back on the bed, because he couldn't see Wang Qian's face clearly because of the darkness.

However, Wang Jian was picked up by the old servant, and he coughed violently for a while before he said: "The confessor came to ......, but the old man was sick and inconvenient...... Ahem, it's inconvenient to greet ......"

As Wang Jian spoke, Yan Le didn't care if he was really sick or fake, and said hurriedly: "The Qin army was defeated in Chencheng, and Meng Tian's army was defeated by the sword, the king quickly summoned the general to Hanoi, please leave immediately, the late Great Qin is in danger!" ”

"Meng Tian Fu Sword?!" Wang Qian's old body was shocked, he expected that the Qin army would be defeated, but he never expected Meng Tian to commit suicide with a sword.

"Yes, yes." These news were only learned by Zhao Gao when he sent people to the State Governor's Mansion to arrest him, and Yan Le was also surprised by this. "My Great Qin has no generals to fight, and half of the 300,000 troops have been killed or wounded. Great Qin is in danger, please send the general to Hanoi as soon as possible to resist the Jing people. ”

"Old man......" Wang Jian was no longer sick at this time, but Yan Le couldn't see the change in his expression clearly in the darkness. Wang Jian paused, and said: "The confessor is alarmist, I have many generals in Daqin, and there are national captains, if the national lieutenants are here, how can Daqin be in danger." ”

Wei Yi is inside, Wang Jian is outside, and the more officials rule the country, the more they need such a stable combination to win foreign wars. The king is always suspicious of every general, and the command at the strategic level relies more on the inside than on the outside.

Wang Jian asked tentatively, but Yan Le, who was a small official, didn't know what Wang Jian meant, and he said: "The national lieutenant once said that the king will regret, the king hates the national lieutenant deeply, and now that the Qin army has been defeated, he urgently needs a general to lead the army, not ......."

"Ahem, cough, cough......" Wang Jian coughed violently again, coughing and coughing and falling backwards, as if fainting. Seeing this, the old servant in the inner room hurriedly shouted to the healer, and the clan elder was also in a hurry, so he invited Yan Le to the hall next to the inner room, which was regarded as the Ming Hall of the Qianshou Residence.

Zhao Chengzheng was waiting here, and when he saw Yan Le, he asked, "How is General Wang?" ”

"I don't know." The inner room was dim, and Yan Le didn't see how Wang Jian was.

"I don't know?" Zhao Cheng was worried that Wang Jian was a big epidemic and didn't dare to enter the inner room, but Yan Le went in but said he didn't know. He hurriedly said: "The king urgently summoned the old general Wang on the third festival, if he is sick, how to get to Hanoi." If he does not come, who will the king command? ”

The elder brother Zhao Gao often served by the king's side, and Zhao Cheng knew better than Yan Le what was going on in the country. Wang Jian is the only hope of Great Qin, and if Wang Jian does not become a general, it may be impossible to destroy Jing.

"The matter of General Wang should be reported to the king as soon as possible, and then the imperial doctor in the palace should be asked to treat General Wang." This is the method that Yan Le can think of, and the method that Zhao Cheng can implement is also this. The two didn't expect that only two days after they sent the message, Zhao Zheng arrived in Pinyang.

Zhao Zheng's whereabouts this time were very secretive, and the car drove to the border of Pinyang, and the local county commander knew that it was the king. Pinyang is in the northeast of the Guanzhong Basin, and north of Pinyang is the Loess Plateau. Tens of millions of stone grain and straw in Bashu were transported into Guanzhong, and there were still a lot of starvation in Pinyang County, and the county order was worried that Zhao Zheng would ask for the crime, and he went out of the city to greet him in panic, but Zhao Zheng did not mention the starvation at all, as long as he saw Wang Jian in person.

The Wang family did not live in Pinyang County, but in Tongguanli, Dongxiang, in the southwest of the county. The county order and the county Wei rushed to Dongxiang to report the news, and accompanied Zhao Zheng to Dongxiang. The fast horse was naturally one step ahead of Zhao Zheng, and when Zhao Zheng arrived at the same official the next day, Wang Qian, who was sick, was already supported by his servants, and waited inside and outside with Zhao Cheng, Yan Le and others for a long time.

"The widow doesn't need the general's plan, Meng Tianguo humiliates the Qin army." As soon as Zhao Zheng got out of the car, he helped Wang Jian who was kneeling on the ground up, looked at Wang Qian's eyes and said sincerely. "King Jing has led his army north to Kaifeng, and he will attack the sand sea and enter Hanoi on the next day.

"I don't dare." Wang Jian didn't dare to talk to Zhao Zheng face-to-face like this, he took two steps back, coughing and bowing again: "The ministers are sick and disorderly, please... Ahem...... Please let the king choose the best generals. ”

"The state affairs have come to this point, don't say anything more!" Zhao Zheng was furious and waved his sleeves angrily.

The reason why he came in a hurry was to immediately invite Wang Jian to be a general in the army to calm the army's mind. The Chu army buried witch medicine in the place of battle to blow up the Qin army, and after the rout returned to the camp, the news of the defeat spread throughout the army, and the army was in chaos. If it weren't for the success of the counterattack, which made the Chu army taboo, I am afraid that the Chu army would have attacked the Shahai camp by now.

In a hurry, Zhao Zheng didn't care about the king's courtesy, and when he saw that Wang Jian still refused, he knelt down and bowed to Wang Qian. His actions surprised everyone, and when the historians, Zhao Gao, county commanders and others were surprised, Zhao Zheng said: "If the Jing Kingdom is not destroyed, Great Qin will perish." Although the general is sick and strong, he is a widow and will be defeated. Meritorious, the wish of the widow will be heavier than the general. For the sake of Daqin Sheji, the general must not shirk. ”

The dignified king actually bowed his head to an old man, and everyone looked at each other. But what surprised Wang Jian even more was the words that Zhao Zheng said, 'Although the general is sick and strong, he will be widowed. Meritorious, the wish of the widow will be heavier than the general', this is what King Qin Zhao said to Bai Qi before, but Zhao Zheng only said the first half of the sentence, not the second half of the sentence.

Wang Qian's heart trembled uncontrollably, and he paused three times and said, "The king has no choice but to use ministers, and it must be 600,000 people." And the extermination of the thorn must not be in a hurry......"

"The widow will listen to the general's plan." Zhao Zheng bowed to Wang Jian again when he heard this, Wang Jian didn't dare to accept the courtesy, and hurriedly avoided it, sighing secretly in his heart.

The half of Zhao Zhengwei's sentence was: 'If you don't obey, the widow hates you.'" At that time, Bai Qi knew that the battle of Handan would be lost, but 'loyal ministers loved his name', and he would rather be hated by King Qin Zhao than go to Handan to lead the army. This is not so much that 'loyal ministers love his name', but that the nobles love his name, and the officials who regard the king's destiny as the destiny of heaven have not had time to relieve the king's worries, so how can they love his name? Similarly, Bai Qi, who was born in the aristocracy, did not believe that King Qin Zhao would really give him a sword to judge himself, so he lamented 'What a sin I am against heaven'.

Bai Qi's self-determination was more than 30 years ago, and more than 30 years later, Wang Qian, like Bai Qi, also advised Zhao Zheng not to rush to a decisive battle and destroy the country, but Zhao Zheng had to fight. After the defeat of the Qin army, Zhao Zheng came to the door to ask for help, but Wang Jian didn't dare to say anything: 'Qin doesn't listen to the ministers, what will happen now!' I didn't dare to refuse again and again like Bai Qi. He knew very well that if he didn't agree to Zhao Zheng, it would be the end of Bai Qi, and his son Wang Ben and the Wang family in Tongli would also be guilty of this.

"I don't know the ...... of our army" Zhao Zheng did not stay in Dongxiang for a long time, and Wang Jian went to Kanto with Zhao Zheng in the same car that day.

"Our army was defeated." Zhao Zheng did not shy away from it. "Meng Tian died in battle, and the Qin army died 160,000."

"Why is our army defeated?" Wang Jian asked urgently. "King Jing's soldiers are only tens of thousands, and General Meng is a good general, how can he ......?"

"The Jing people used a trick to bury the witch medicine in the place of battle, our army was careless, the Jing people blew it up, and the front army was defeated!" Back then, Zhao Zheng saw the Chu army blow up the walls of Lantian City with witch medicine, and he could imagine the scene when the witch medicine blew up the Qin army.

"Ah......h He guessed that the Qin army would be defeated, but he didn't expect such a defeat.

He has also seen witch medicine blow up the city, and Linzi was pulled out by using witch medicine to blow up the city wall. The roar of the witch weapon had already frightened the Qin soldiers, and when they were buried in the ground with witch potions, they suddenly exploded, and no matter how many Qin soldiers there were, they would be frightened to the death. The front army is defeated, and the rout will inevitably affect the rear army. Once the rear army was affected, the Jing people slammed it with witchcraft and spears, how could the Qin army be undefeated.

Seeing that Wang Jian changed his complexion, Zhao Zheng was afraid that he was also afraid of the Chu army, and hurriedly said: "The cavalry general will fight hard to kill more Jing people." ”

"Fenfen?" Wang Jian remembered the name of this boy.

"Yu Fen lured Xiang Shi to ride north, set up an ambush to kill Xiang Chao, and personally led a group to attack the Jing people, killing more than 10,000 Jing people." Speaking of Yu Fen, Zhao Zheng's solemn face finally became a little angry. "Only then will our military reorganize its ranks and retreat to the sand sea."

"Jing people are afraid of my cavalry." Wang Jian came to this conclusion very early, which is also the reason why he collapsed in the Battle of Niushoushui. "Dare to ask the king, how much is the cavalry still there today? What does the Lieutenant have to say about this? ”

"Wei Qing's mansion accidentally caught fire, and Wei Qing died." Zhao Zheng did not say to Wang Jian that Wei Yi was killed, only that there was a fire.

Wang Jian was no less surprised when he heard the words than when he heard that the Chu army had buried the witch medicine in the ground, and his eyes widened: "The national captain... The captain of the country is here! ”

"It should be done by Jing Renhou's spy." Zhao Zheng tried his best to control his expression and not show anger. "Meng Tian wanted to use the cavalry to break the Jingren witch weapon, kill 4,000 horsemen, ambush Xiang Chao, attack the Jingren again, and kill more than 10,000 horsemen, now there are only 25,000 horsemen."

"Twenty-five thousand rides?!" There were obviously 40,000 cavalry, but after the first battle, there were only 25,000 cavalry left, and Wang Jian frowned.

"Don't worry, general." Zhao Zheng said busily. "The Jing people were defeated in a row, and they all returned to the world in the battle of Xizhou. Great Qin has been able to lose silk to the Rong people and Hu Shang, and they will give me a war horse. Northland, Shangjun, Jiuyuan, Yunzhong counties, both men and women can ride, and there can be more than 10,000 horses and battles in autumn and winter. ”

Chu was at odds with Seleucus and Egypt, and the two countries that controlled the trade routes between Asia and Europe no longer bought silk brocade from Chu, and Xiong Jing's painstakingly managed trade blockade against Qin failed. Qin and Zhao are both countries with cavalry, and the Qin army has always tried every means to replenish the cavalry, but it is subject to war horses. Since the beginning of this year, Hu Shang from the west and King Rong from outside Qin have sent people to Qin to buy silk brocade, which means that Daqin's military horses can be replenished.

"Forty thousand horses are enough." The more cavalry is not the better, the amount of war horses eats several times that of people, 40,000 war horses are equivalent to 200,000 or 300,000 soldiers, plus those 600,000 people, Wang Jian is worried that the country cannot afford so much military food.

Worried about military rations, worried about soldiers, worried about cavalry, worried about morale, worried about the ...... of the Chu army, purely in terms of military affairs, Wang Jian has a lot to worry about. Before he rushed to the Shahai camp, and even after he arrived at the Shahai camp, the situation of the Qin army was extremely dangerous. He was tempted to propose that the Qin army temporarily withdraw from Shahai, but he was also worried that Zhao would continue to besiege Daliang in case the remnants of Wei and Zhao's army converged with the Chu army. Then there is the State of Qi, if the State of Qi can't be treated gently, it is likely to fall to the State of Chu.

The sky was getting dark, and Wang Qian, who was in the same car with the king, still couldn't accept the fact that Wei Yi was killed by Hou Spy. With Wei Yu here, he can rest assured in the rear and concentrate on the battlefield; Without Wei Wei, he always felt bottomless in his heart.

It's not that he is worried that he won't be able to destroy the Chu State, the advantages of the Chu army are obvious, and the disadvantages are also obvious, and the biggest disadvantage of the Chu army is that it cannot be consumed. Since the Battle of Qingshui, the Chu State alone has not counted the Yue soldiers, and the Chu army has fought fewer and fewer. Although the Chu army occupied many cities, it was unable to recruit soldiers from these cities to replenish divisions and brigades, which is a clear proof that the Chu army could not withstand attrition.

Wang Jian didn't understand why this was the case, but it was the truth. The reason why he had to have an army of 600,000 was precisely to consume the Chu army. Furthermore, it can be quickly resolved - with the fierce and decisive temperament of the Chu people, once a large army is assembled to attack Chu, it will inevitably respond to the battle. In response to the battle, all the soldiers who can fight in Chu will be transferred, and as long as the decisive victory is won, the state of Chu will also die.

Such a way is a good thing for the common people of Chu. When the battle is decided, the kingdom is destroyed. Those who are willing to die in battle have all died on the battlefield; If you steal your life, you will not be able to defend the city by the Qin army. The Chu flag fell, and the Qin flag rose, preserving the Dingkou of Chu to the greatest extent, instead of being like Zhao Di, only women and children were left, full of devastation. This can be regarded as living up to the promise to Changpingjun.

Driving out of the township path, the car galloped on the straight Qin Road. Wang Jian, who became the general of the Qin army again, couldn't help but think of Changpingjun and Changwenjun; After talking to Wang Qian, Zhao Zheng, who had a stone in his heart, dealt with Jian Mu's official documents overnight, and he had too many things to deal with; And in Kaifeng, south of Daliang, Xiong Jing, who didn't know how many happy times it was, hugged his wife tightly and was silent, tomorrow, she would move to Xinying.