When Wang Ben of Shangdang County staged a Jedi counterattack, Xu Yan in Dangjun was also considering whether to send troops to respond.

The strength of the Central Plains Army is now close to 500,000, of which 130,000 are on Wang Ben's side, 300,000 are Xu Yan's headquarters in Dangjun, and about 70,000 are left behind in Sanchuan County.

The Central Plains Army, with a strength of 500,000, can see from the scale how ardent the Qin State is looking forward to this army, and how insistent the attitude of the Qin army is to reoccupy the Central Plains.

At some point, eagerness and attitude do not represent anything, for example, due to various reasons, the regiment that Zhang Han of Shaofu gave priority to supply was not the Central Plains Legion but the Great Wall Legion, but the huge strength of the Central Plains Legion in the current situation of lack of baggage materials, not only did not show the advantage of troops, but because of the lack of food, grass and equipment, the more the number of people seemed to be a drag.

Xu Yan calculated again and again, if he really sent troops to respond to Wang Ben, the materials he had on hand could only provide less than 70,000 people to brave the cold winter to go north.

70,000 Qin troops is not a small number, if you deal with the armies of other countries, 70,000 Qin troops can withstand at least 100,000 armies of other countries. The problem is that Xu Yan has been looking at the map for a long time, and under the current situation of only 70,000 troops that can move, he has a kind of confusion that he doesn't know where to start.

Dangjun wants to support Wang Ben, who has entered Shangdang County, and it is far from convenient to send troops from Sanchuan County. If Xu Yang wanted to deal with Wang Ben, he would either send troops from Dangjun to Sanchuan County by the same route, then cross Shaoshui, and then go north for a hundred miles to join Wang Ben, and the other plan could only be to go north directly and kill from Dongjun without follow-up troops.

The materials are insufficient, even if Xu Yan knows that Zhao Guo is in chaos. Dongjun may not have a resistance force, and he doesn't want to risk sending troops from Dongjun's route, after all, it would be more beneficial for Zhao to march into Japan in the coming days by letting Zhao Guo mess up for a while longer. Although sending troops now can take advantage of the past, if the people of Zhao are forced to stop the civil strife and unite to resist, it will be more than worth the loss.

From here, we can see the difference between Xu Yan and Wang Ben, one is to take advantage of it when he sees a bargain, and he doesn't want to take it, and the other is scheming and long-term.

Wang Ben's hasty dispatch of troops has already yielded results, and he lost nearly 30,000 troops and returned in vain, perhaps because of the plundering of the army or because of the weather. But defeat is defeat, and it can be seen from this, even if the country is in chaos, as long as the Qin army enters, the Zhao people will not willingly accept the rule of the Qin state.

Of course, because of the distance gap, Xu Yan didn't know the news that Wang Ben had gotten away by himself. When he was assembling his troops and planning to return to Sanchuan County and then go north from Sanchuan County to support Wang Ben, a piece of news about Lu Zhe reached Yongqiu from the south.

"What!? The marriage between Lu Zhe and Zhao Chu?! ”

Xu Yan's source is not complicated, there was a Qin caravan under Lu Zhe. And Li Zuoche, who regained his freedom and was about to return to Handan, also hyped it along the way. Han Wangcheng and Wei Wangjiao, who had obtained the exact news, were fueling the spread of the news that Lu Zhe was going to marry the royal families of Zhao Chu.

If it is only married to the Chu State, in fact, no one will take it too seriously, after all, the Chu State was defeated in the hands of Lu Zhe, and naturally the two sides need to use some means to stop the war, and the Chu State can also take advantage of the marriage of Lu Zhe to get a little respite, if it works properly, maybe it can also get Lu Zhe's help to remove the aggressive threat from the Qi State.

The marriage with Zhao is completely different, who in the world does not know what the Central Plains Army of Qin was established for, and Qin is already at war with Zhao. He even took the entire Taiyuan County and part of Dang County, and saw that it would be possible to destroy the newly restored Zhao State in the spring of the next year. To regain the passage to the east, the next step is to settle accounts with the nations one by one.

As long as there are sufficient supplies, even if Qi Yan gives up sitting back and joining the resistance, 500,000 Qin troops may hit Handan City in the autumn of the next year, but at this juncture, Lu Zhe actually married Zhao State, which has to make people suspicious and think.

Lu Zhe is a minister of Qin, even if he is now in a state of self-reliance, Lu Zhe has not publicly raised the anti-flag, and the five counties controlled by Lu Zhe, as long as there are counties with cities, which county still has the word "Qin" flag?

It is precisely because Lü Zhe is self-reliant and does not openly rebel, and the result of repeated discussions in the Xianyang Center is that unless Lü Zhe destroys the Chu State and removes the threat from Baiyue's side, the possibility of Lü Zhe sending troops to Qin is less than 30%, so after an unsuccessful dispatch of troops to exterminate him, the Qin State temporarily turned a blind eye to Lü Zhe's choice of self-reliance.

While the Qin State was preparing for half a year and waiting for the large-scale use of troops in the autumn of the next year, the news came that Lu Zhe was about to marry Zhao Guo, which was not only Xu Yan himself, but also the Xianyang Central Committee would be in a hurry for a while after receiving the confirmed news.

The marriage with Zhao is a statement issued from the perspective of politics, proving that Lu Zhe will never sit idly by and watch the destruction of the Zhao State, so the Qin State should think carefully about whether the rebel minister who stood on his own and did not rebel would change his previous strategy of only targeting the Chu State and Baiyue, and come to a move to increase troops in Ba County and send troops to Hanzhong County to directly threaten the security of Neishi County.

Xu Yan, who was assembling troops, was stunned for a long time and came back to his senses, and the first thing he said was to Xu Yang, who had just been transferred to the Central Plains Army as a captain, but the tone was very difficult to guess the actual mood.

"Look at your sworn little brother, who holds five counties in just one year, and can send hundreds of thousands of troops to fight on the battlefield, it is really unimaginable, and it is worth marveling!"

There is no scolding, there is a kind of envy and appreciation, Xu Yang said that he understands these.

Standing in the position of an important minister of the Qin State and the commander of a Qin army corps, Xu Yan should be scolded. But from the private position that his junior and Lu Zhe are close friends, his tone of admiration and appreciation is not out of line.

"No one could have thought that a Yang Zhou Tun Chang could come to this point, Meng Tian, Wang Ben, I, we all underestimated this Lu Shizhe, your third brother, only the CRRC Mansion Ling Zhao Gao is a wise man who bets early."

Xu Yan has enough status, and he knows much more than many people.

Let's be honest, although the First Emperor Yingzheng was annoyed that a Qin person was doing something to stand on his own feet in the south, he was in some ways happy to see the Qin people rise in the south rather than being taken away by the Chu state in the south.

What about the ministers of the court? There are quite a lot of people who don't hate Lu Zhe for standing on his own feet in the south, they can see clearly the situation that Great Qin is about to face, to put it mildly, even if he can extinguish the rebellion in the Central Plains, Great Qin will be greatly injured, and in the north, there are still nearly 300,000 grassland Hu people who are gathering, and they may pounce directly at any time, and when the time comes, whether Daqin can hold on to it Even the commander of the Great Wall Army, Meng Tian, is not sure.

Lü Zhe unexpectedly rose in the south, and after the restoration of the Chu State, Great Qin was unable to hold on to the five counties that were destined to be lost, which can already be regarded as the best result that the Qin State did not want to see, at least if the Chu State reoccupied the south, the result would definitely be worse than Lü Zhe's self-reliance in the south.

Under this situation, especially under the premise that Lü Zhe did not show too much aggression towards Great Qin, it is understandable that Qin had a complicated attitude towards Lü Zhe.

According to the grapevine, the first emperor, who is currently seriously ill, has convened important ministers more than once to discuss whether to send his son south, and the original plan to send the ninth prince Gao to the south seems to have changed slightly, and the first emperor wants to recall Fusu in the Great Wall Army to Xianyang instead, and then send someone to Nanling to communicate with Lu Zhe, and let Fusu go south. At the same time, the news that the First Emperor wanted to marry Lu Zhe under the princess selected by the royal family was also spread along with the previous rumor.

Maybe many people think about it too much, no matter how they look at it, they feel that the First Emperor, who was tormented by illness, is arranging something, at this time, he is no longer so serious about Lu Zhe, who is self-reliant in the south, it seems that he wants to leave a retreat for Daqin that does not look too bad at the same time.

Of course, the news about the son's southward departure and the selection of the princess to marry has not been confirmed, and not many people know these two news, Xu Yan will know it is because he is close to Zhao Gao.

It was time to know the reason for Xu Yan's strange attitude when he learned that Lu Zhe was going to marry Zhao Guo, and he could imagine why he seemed so indifferent to Lu Zhe's speculation that he might enter Qin.

"I heard that your other sworn brother, the man named Li Liang, is also in the south now. Your sworn little brother, he sent Li Liang out to perform military affairs many times, from Li Liang to the south in less than two months, from the military marquis to the captain in only two months. Xu Yan added a little meaningfully: "It seems that your little brother is very emotional." ”

Xu Yang blinked, he heard the hint of his family master, and said tentatively: "Are you asking me to go south?" ”

Xu Yan smiled with satisfaction, although all kinds of rumors could not be confirmed, but the crisis faced by Great Qin was in front of him, and judging from the fact that the First Emperor knew that Zhao Gao's daughter was going to marry Lu Zhedu, it would not be wrong to make arrangements now.

"What about sending troops to deal with General Wang?" Xu Yang was originally a member of the army captain, and if he went south, he would have no part in the matter of going north.

If Lu Zhe wants to marry Zhao Guo, it is likely that he will send troops to the north, and it is obviously not advisable to send troops to deal with Wang Ben at this time, after all, if Lu Zhe really goes north to the rear of the Central Plains Army, it will be dangerous. But Xu Yan didn't want to change his strategy, he still continued to gather troops to prepare for Wang Ben, but the speed of the assembly was a little slower.

The main force of the Central Plains Army of Dangjun slowly assembled to make preparations, and the troops were on the way to Sanchuan County, Wang Ben's side was defeated and then won, but the news of winning and returning to Jinyang, Taiyuan County finally reached Xu Yan's side.

The mourners were close to 30,000, annihilated 70,000 Zhao State, moved for a long time and finally retracted back to Jinyang, what is going on? After Xu Yan saw off Xu Yang, who was about to go south, he wrote a war report to Xianyang, along with a letter to Zhao Gao. (To be continued......)