Three days have passed since the Dai army occupied Daliang, and the Dai army stationed in Xingkou and the Wei army willing to take refuge in the plateau have been transferred to Daliang City, and the hundreds of thousands of troops stationed inside and outside the city of Daliang City have chosen to surrender to the Dai army under the persuasion of Wei Zheng, Lu Renjie, Su Hu and others, and although a small number are unwilling to surrender, they are also unwilling to be enemies of the Dai army, and are placed in the city by the plateau.

Because more than half a year has passed, the plateau and the Dai army have established a high prestige among the people of Daliang, and the clan of Wei has not been in power for a long time, and it was driven away by the Dai army in only one day, so after the Dai army entered the Daliang, the order of Daliang City was quickly restored, and basically nothing big happened.

But to Gao Yuan's disappointment, on the day of the raid on Daliang, he did not accuse the king of Wei, nor did he catch Wei Xing, the main members of the Wei clan led by Wei Heng, Wei Ping, and Wei Yan. And what made Gao Yuan even more unexpected was that they actually fled to Xingkou.

It turned out that after Wei Yan was defeated, Wei Xing, Wei Heng, Wei Ping, and the clans of Wei immediately launched an urgent consultation, and everyone agreed that now that the army had entered the city, and their own side had gone, leaving only a dead end in Daliang City, so they had to leave Daliang immediately, hide in other places, take refuge for a while, and save their lives first.

So these more than ten clan clans didn't even return home, but just sent someone back to inform them, asking their families to escape from Daliang and join them, but they didn't say that they were going to flee there. Because these clans themselves do not know where to take refuge. However, when he fled, Wei Xing had an extra heart, rushed to the palace with Wei Yan, and kidnapped Wei Wang Fake out of Daliang. As a result, when the army sent by Gao Yuan arrived at the mansion of these people, only their family members were basically arrested, but almost none of the most important people were captured.

The clans fled from Daliang with the king of Wei and 2,000 soldiers, and hid outside the service for the night. After the sky was high, Wei Xing, Wei Heng, Wei Ping, Wei Yan and others gathered together to discuss and go there to settle down. But now the territory of Wei is not large, and there are not many places for everyone to go, so everyone even thinks about several places, and they feel that it is inappropriate. Some people even proposed that it was better to surrender the Qin State and use the Qin army to recover Daliang.

However, Wei Xing and others are also worried that Qin Jun is not a good man and a woman, and when the time comes, it is not easy to invite the gods to send the gods, and they drove the Dai army away, but they left the Qin army behind, driving the wolf at the front door and entering the tiger at the back door, and it was too late to regret it at that time, so it was not until the last resort, and the Qin army must not be invited to help.

Just when everyone was hesitant and in a dilemma, there was an unexpected turnaround. It turned out that the Dai army left Xingkou and left the Wei army, which was unwilling to return to the plateau, to be stationed in Xingkou, with a total of more than 4,000 Wei soldiers, who were led by Wei Jiao. Wei Jiao was not worried about the situation on Daliang's side, so he sent someone to Daliang to inquire about the news, and happened to meet the group of clans who escaped from Daliang.

Knowing that there is also a Wei army stationed in Xingkou, the clans of Wei are no less than desperate survival, and Wei Jiao is Wei Yan's clan, he is the third generation of uncles and brothers, and he is also Wei Yan's henchman, so Wei Yan still believes in him very much. So the clans of the Wei State immediately rushed to Xingkou with the Wei king's leave, so that they could survive temporarily.

After learning the whereabouts of the clan of the Wei State, Gao Yuan also felt a little cocooned. However, there is no way to do this, he only has so many troops on hand, it is impossible to garrison Daliang and Xingkou at the same time, and for those Wei troops who are unwilling to submit to themselves, they can't kill them all.

Therefore, Gao Yuan immediately summoned his generals to discuss.

Zhang Liang first said: "My lord, since we know their whereabouts, then we will not hesitate, we will immediately send troops, attack Xingkou, kill all the clans of the Wei State, and kidnap the King of Wei. ”

Yuan Xuan also said: "Yes, my lord, Xingkou is only fifty miles away from Daliang, and the defensive positions in Xingkou are all established by us, so I know everything about it, I am willing to ask the lord for an order to lead the army to attack Xingkou." ”

They spoke, and everyone else also said that they should attack Xingkou.

Gao Yuan waved his hand and said, "I can understand your feelings, but there are a few questions that I don't know if you have thought about, the first is how many troops are needed to attack Xingkou." The defensive position of Xingkou was established by us, and we do know it well, but we know more that it will cost to break through the defensive position of Xingkou, and we now have a total strength of less than 20,000, except for the Fan Yong Army and the logistics army, there are only more than 10,000 troops that can be used to attack the fortifications. And now there are still more than 100,000 Wei troops in Daliang City, and there are quite half as many who have not surrendered to us, but they are unwilling to fight with our army, and even if the Wei army surrenders, how many of them are sincere, but if we use a large number of troops to attack Xingkou, who dares to guarantee that they will not repeat. ”

When the generals heard this, they all showed contemplative expressions, and what Gao Yuan said was indeed reasonable. In the final analysis, it is because the current strength of the Dai army is indeed too small, and it is not enough to control the situation in the Wei State.

Gao Yuan said: "Secondly, have you thought about it, even if there is no problem of troops, if we attack Xingkou, how will the clan of Wei deal with it, you will never think that they will sit and wait for death in Xingkou." "If I were the clan of the Wei State, I would ask the Qin State for help in the name of the fake King of Wei, and ask the Qin State to send troops to help them recapture the Great Liang, and the Qin State can just send troops to attack the Great Liang again at the request of the King of Wei, do you think we can still settle down in the Wei State in this case?"

There are many people's bodies shocked, this is indeed a very possible thing, in the case that the clan of the Wei State thinks that there is no hope of regaining the Great Liang, in line with the mentality of "I can't get it, I can't let you get it", asking the Qin State for help is definitely done. Now Wei Wang Fake is still the monarch of Wei State, occupying a big name, and the Dai Jun is an outsider after all, it used to be because Wei was ungrateful to drive away the Dai Army, and he occupied a moral advantage, but if the Dai Army wants to occupy the Great Liang, it is tantamount to invading Wei State, with the strong military strength of Qin State, coupled with the great name of Wei Wang Fake, it is indeed difficult for Dai Jun to gain a foothold in Wei State.

Zhang Liang couldn't help but smile bitterly and said, "Then what does the lord think should be done?" ”

Gao Yuan smiled: "To be a man in the world, we must remember to let go when we let go, we must not be insatiable, we are greedy for things that are beyond our own strength, now our strength cannot control the Wei State at all, so we should decisively let go, take a step back and open the sky, I only according to the original plan, withdraw from the Wei State, this Daliang City is still returned to the clan of the Wei State, we can not only obtain practical benefits, but also morally defensible." ”

The other generals did not know the strategic purpose of rescuing the Wei State, so they did not care too much about the plateau and giving up the Great Liang. Although Zhang Liang regretted giving up Daliang, the difficulties mentioned by Gao Yuan were indeed not something that the current Dai army could overcome, and Zhang Liang could only agree to the decision to give up Daliang.

As for the development of Daijun in the future, I can only think of other ways, after all, the city of Daliang will be returned to Wei, but Wei still exists, and Qin still needs to work hard to destroy Wei, so there are still many variables in the future, and no one can guarantee that Daijun will have no other chance. In addition, Zhang Liang also had to admire Gao Yuan's mind and decisive ability, and he would cut it off immediately, and never drag the mud and water, after all, at least at this stage, Gao Yuan had already controlled Daliang City, and took the initiative to give it up, but not everyone could do it lightly, how many people were reluctant to let go until the last moment.

In addition, what Gao Yuan said is morally defensible, and it seems to be pedantic, but in fact it is also very profound. Zhang Liang was born in South Korea and knows the way of power, but after all, he is a knowledgeable person, and he also knows that the way of power is only an aid, governing the country and the country, and still focusing on the right way.

Even though this is an era of bad manners, it is still a great intangible advantage to be able to have a reputation for magnanimity and benevolence. And from the perspective of the vast majority of scholars and common people, everyone hopes that their lord is a magnanimous and benevolent monarch. Just as many people look down on Confucianism and think that Confucianism's doctrine of benevolence, righteousness and morality is completely pedantic, another fact is that the younger sons of Confucianism are the most numerous among the hundreds of children, which cannot be explained by pedantic.

After the decision was discussed, Gao Yuan immediately issued an announcement, announcing to the people in Daliang City that he did not want to occupy Daliang and destroy Wei, this time attacking Daliang, just because the clan of Wei had gone too far, as soon as the Qin army retreated, it was necessary to drive the Dai army away, and also held the Dai Jun hostage, and he had to attack Daliang in order to rescue the trapped soldiers, and now that everyone has been rescued, the Dai Jun will never stay in Daliang for a long time, and within ten days, he will leave Daliang and return to Dai County. I hope that the people in Daliang City can keep order and not cause trouble.

After the announcement was issued, many people were surprised, because in their opinion, Gao Yuan had already occupied Daliang, and the next step was to attack Xingkou and kill the Wei Wang and Wei clans, so as to annex Wei. But no one expected that Gao Yuan would take the initiative to give up the girder and return it to Wei Wei. Of course, many people are skeptical of the announcement of the plateau, this piece of fat is in the mouth, will the plateau really spit it out? Therefore, there was a lot of discussion in Daliang City for a while, and they were all discussing whether the announcement issued by the plateau was true or false.

But then Gao Yuan summoned Wei Xing, Wei Hui, Wei Ping, Wei Yan and other family members, and asked them to bring a letter of their own, rushed to Xingkou to hand over to Wei Wangjiao, to Wei Wangjiao and the Wei clan, and hoped that they could send people to Daliang to take over the management of Daliang.