"Before leaving, the king of Chu also said that the matter of attacking Qin was suspended in Chu State, but Zhao State was feasible." Lian Yu said the last paragraph when he met Xiong Jing, and he could only say this to Li Mu. "If Zhao Guo goes, Chu State can give 1,000 four-wheeled heavy vehicles and 500,000 stone wheat. Then there is the Yan Fortress, the Yan Fortress can be handed over to the Chu army to break it, and the Zhao army does not spend a single soldier to drive Xianyang. ”

When the fox baby was in the Yingdu Da Sima Mansion to discuss the attack on Qin, the Chu side swore that it was easy to break through the Yan clan, and he inquired with the great Sima Tianzong of the Qi State many times, but the Chu people were tight-lipped and couldn't ask anything. Now that the Yan Clan is still in charge of breaking through the pass, some of the assumptions that the fox baby thought of at the beginning are completely untrue.

"This matter ......" Li Mugang wanted to express his opinion, but Lian Yu interrupted him. The military affairs are important, and the public opinion does not dare to plan, if Li Bo has understood the intention of the king of Chu, the public opinion should retire. ”

There were so many things that the King of Chu said when he met, and Lian Yu had already finished it word for word, and if he wanted to ask again, that is, the expression of the King of Chu when he spoke. At that time, the king of Chu did not have any expression when he saw it, at most he was a little unbearable when he advised Zhao Guo to plant a variety of wheat and corn. This is also normal. In the three years of the Qin State's invasion of Zhao, every city broken, the capital was tens of thousands, but the Qin army did not kill as many people as the famine, and last year they starved to death or died of hunger or disease 300,000 or 400,000 people.

The state of Zhao is in danger, and the only hope is that the three kingdoms will send troops to rescue them. After Lian Yu retreated, looking at the empty shogunate, Li Mu thought so. The fox baby didn't know what he was thinking, and when he saw that he was silent, he coughed slightly, and asked, "Is the plan feasible?" ”

With the addition of the Yandi Knights, there may be 20,000 cavalry that can attack. Not according to the conservative logistics strategy formulated by the Great Sima Mansion of the Chu State, according to the customs of the grassland, one person and four horses can also be killed to Xianyang. It's just that the two horses carrying the essence are likely to die of exhaustion in the middle of the road, and the one carrying the armor is estimated not to return. With 20,000 men attacking, about 50,000 or 60,000 horses will not return.

In the past, Zhao would never be short of horses (this is also the reason why Zhao's agriculture was not as good as Wei and Korea), but now it is different from before. After three years of war, horses died countless times, and cattle and horses were killed for food during the famine last year, and now there are no more than 100,000 horses in Zhao, falling to a record low. Forty or fifty thousand horses were consumed in a single sortie, and there would definitely be a shortage of horses in the next war.

This is a material loss, and the most important thing is political: if it was just the Zhao army that attacked Qin, what would Handan think? Although the time of leaving the fortress was September, if the Qin army did not attack in September, it was the Zhao State that provoked the war first. There were many people in the court of Chu and Qi who opposed the rescue of Zhao, and if this matter was used by them, the three kingdoms might have to delay sending troops.

"This matter should be discussed with Xiangbang." Li Mu was silent for a long time, and the answer was not whether it would be okay or not, but to discuss the matter with Zhao Liang.

"Handan is more Qin Hou, if this matter is known to Qin Hou......" The fox baby shook his head again and again when he mentioned Qin Hou. Zhao State is not Chu State, Chu State has always been xenophobic, and his power has never been allowed to be touched by his surname Keqing, and Ling Yin, who has thousands of guests like Chun Shenjun, is completely an outlier.

There are bad things about xenophobia, and there are good things about it. As long as the Chu State does not dump each other internally, no one knows what kind of medicine the Yingdu Imperial Court is selling. On the contrary, in Zhao Qiwei and other countries, many doctors and scholars are not natives, and everyone is profitable, so they may sell the secrets of the court at any time. The fox baby's reminder made Li Mu hesitate, but in the end he decided to rush to Handan.

It is the first month, although there is no banquet and singing and dancing all day after the wax sacrifice, but there is always a banquet in Handan that cannot be eaten and drunk. When Li Mu saw Zhao Liang, Zhao Liang's face was flushed, his whole body smelled of alcohol, and he was still holding a beauty in his arms, and his face sank instantly.

"The people are hungry, the roads are freezing to death, the Qin army is about to attack, but I didn't expect Xiangbang to be so governed?"

"Stand down!" Li Mu was dusty, his face was full of wind and frost, and his questioning finally made Zhao Liang a little sober. He waved away the beauties and the left and right, and defended: "Handan nobles are like this, if I worry about national politics day and night, the common people should be afraid." ”

Zhao Liang's words may be reasonable, but Li Mu can't see that those nobles are poor and luxurious. Zhao Nu is famous all over the world, not for no reason. Therefore, he will be unhappy once he comes to Handan, and his face is still unhappy at this time.

"What is the matter with Ziyou coming to Handan?" Zhao Liang quickly sat down and asked about his intentions.

"I came to Handan, just to attack Qin." Li Mu said bluntly. The words 'out of the plug and attack Qin' surprised Zhao Liang.

"This is what the King of Chu discussed with you?" Zhao Liangjiu woke up immediately, he pointed at Li Mu and asked in disbelief.

"Yes." The state of Chu has already suspended the plan, and this matter can be told to Zhao Liang openly, Li Mu said a few more words.

"It's a dangerous plan!" Zhao Liang's mouth was open for a long time, and it took a long time to spit out a mouthful of turbidity. "If I break through Xianyang, the Qin State will attack me with the whole country, and I will not die."

"If I break through Xianyang and kill the King of Qin, the Qin State will continue to have civil strife in order to seize the throne, how can I be defeated?" Li Mudao.

After Zhao Zheng took power, Lü Buwei's forces were immediately swept away, and if Zhao Zheng died, it would be a years-long power reshuffle within Qin. are all relatives, who will take Zhao Zheng's death seriously? Revenge is nothing more than a name. When the new monarch takes power and retaliates, it will be more than ten years later.

"But if Xianyang is not broken, King Qin will not die?" Zhao Liang asked about another possibility.

"King Qin's heart to destroy Zhao has not changed from the beginning." Li Mudao. "I heard that when I was in Handan, King Qin was humiliated."

Li Mu's words made Zhao Liang discouraged, and King Qin's experiences in the Quarantine Palace had become Zhao Qin's inseparable hatred. It's good that King Qin is dead, but if he doesn't die, he will have to pull out Handan and kill all the people who humiliated him and Zhao Ji back then.

"Does Ziyou think he can kill King Qin?" Zhao Liang unconsciously moved, if the King of Qin insisted on destroying Zhao, it may not be impossible to kill him by surprise attack. "Ziyou is my general of Zhao Guoda, don't you want to enter Xianyang in person?"

"If I get out of the jam, the Qin people will be aware, so I ......" Li Mu paused. Originally, Xiang Yan was scheduled to lead the army, but now only the Zhao army is out of the fortress, and there are many generals in the Zhao army, but there are not many people who can really lead the troops out of the fortress to attack Qin, and he thought for a while before thinking of one person: "Brother is also a brother." ”

"Li Qi?" Li Mu has a younger brother who inherited his father's title and stayed in Bairenyi.

"Yes." Li Mu nodded, not blushing for recommending his loved ones. "The matter of attacking Qin is very secret, and parents and wives are not allowed to sue. Among the generals, only the younger brother is not famous, and he leads the army out of the fortress, and the Qin people don't realize it. ”

Li Qi was indeed reliable, but Li Qi had never commanded a major battle. Zhao Liang said: "Sima is not already? Yan Ju is also not possible? ”

"Sima Shang is the general of the southern front on behalf of Xinpingjun, how can he go to the country and go out of the country? The Qin people will feel it. "Li Mu has considered Sima Shang, but Sima Shang can't." Yan gatherers, Qi people also. Proficient in the art of war, dare to fight and be good at fighting, but he regards Zhao people as Qi people, and does not hesitate to be soldiers, there are many beatings and scolding, if the soldiers are angry and throw themselves into Qin to get a reward, what can I do? ”

Zhao Liang has never led the army, and he does not know Zhao Zhao's temperament. In fact, all the Zhao generals who have made a difference cherish their soldiers very much, and the fundamental reason is that the Zhao people have extreme self-esteem. Loving luxury is not about enjoying luxury, but about worrying about being slighted by others.

Is it 'death to a man who is a confidant'? No! It is 'the death of the man who values himself.'" Yan Ju doesn't know the psychology of Zhao people, and he can't bring Zhao Jun well.

"Yes." Zhao Liang did not object to Zhao Qi leading the army to attack Qin, he only demanded: "However, if the Qin army has not attacked me, you must not enter Qin." ”

"No, the army is not subject to the king's orders outside, how can it not enter Qin?" Li Mu immediately objected.

"It has to be so!" Zhao Liang insisted. "The Qin army has not attacked me and our army has entered the Qin ......, and the soldiers are still on fire, and they have self-immolated." Seeing that Li Mu still didn't agree, he said again: "The words of the Chu people are not credible!" If I decide to attack Qin, I must tell the Chu people that I will not attack Qin. It's still like the Chu people are through Qin, and they want to make the Qin State attack me again, but what? ”

Zhao Liang's thoughts were far more complex and terrifying than Li Mu's, and he didn't trust anyone, including Li Mu in front of him. Li Mu suddenly looked at him with a different look, shook his head and said, "Xiangbang actually looks at Chu people like this? ”

"The Chu people saved Zhao, obviously to help others, but in fact they were for themselves." Zhao Liang's views have not changed. "Otherwise, why did the State of Chu suspend its plan to attack Qin? Why do you want to attack Qin? This is all a plan to make the Qin State attack me again.

Another example is the marriage of Zhao Chu. My aunt was planning this matter a few years ago, but the king of Chu has not allowed it, and he suddenly agreed last month, why not? The king of Chu wants to make my Zhao country suffer from Qin again. Can you know? Hearing that the Qin people may cut down Zhao again, the nobles and common people of the Three Kingdoms are all happy. And I begged him to send troops to help, but the accumulation was not enough. ”

"I believe that the King of Chu is by no means a villain." Li Mu had seen Xiong Jing with his own eyes, and he didn't believe Zhao Liang's words at all. "If the king of Chu does not attack Qin, there must be a reason."

"What's the reason?" Zhao Liang asked. "Judging from today's situation, the world is not one in Qin, but in Chu. The Qin people are my great enemies, and the Chu people are my friends? Fallacy, this big fallacy!

The destruction of the kingdoms is unstoppable, and the survival of Zhao is not the defeat of the Qin people, nor the defeat of the Chu people, but the defeat of both Qin and Chu. If not, Zhao, Qi, Wei, Han, and the four kingdoms all perished. ”

The name is Xiangbang, but it is actually King Zhao. At this time, Zhao Liang, who was standing at the peak of Zhao State's power, was no different from what Zhao Zheng and Xiong Jing saw and felt, they were all in the same world. The world's demise is not only inevitable, but intensifying. With the current trend, it is either the Qin State, which is supported by more than a million officials, or the Chu State, which is becoming more and more closely united by nobles and honoraries.

Horizontal is the Qin Emperor, and vertical is the King of Chu. It has long been predicted that the world will eventually belong, but this sentence is often overlooked. Whether it is horizontal or vertical, the Zhao State will perish, but this is something that Zhao Liang will never accept. It's a pity that it's one thing not to accept it, it's another thing to be realistic, he can't find any way to make Qin Chu fight each other and lose both, so he can only sit back and watch Zhao Guo die out step by step.