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I don’t know how long it took, but King Qin faintly woke up.

As soon as he opened his eyes, he heard someone calling "Your Majesty" from the side. He took a few glances and saw Zhao Ran, the chief concubine, Ying Hua, the king of Weiyang, and Gongsun Qi, the Marquis of Wuxin, surrounding his couch.

"I...what's wrong with me?" King Qin, who had just woken up, seemed a little confused.

After hearing this, Zhao Ran, the chief concubine, hesitated to speak. Weiyang Jun Ying Hua and Wu Xinhou Gongsun Qi also looked at each other, not knowing what to say.

After more than ten breaths passed, King Qin finally remembered it and sighed with a hint of enlightenment: "Ah, I have remembered it. It was the news... Wei General Lian's refutation of Yiqu's attack."

He turned to Zhao Ran and asked, "How long have you been unconscious?"

"Uh..." Zhao Ran, the chief concubine, hesitated for a while, and then said cautiously: "About two hours."

"Two hours...what time is it now?"

"It's three o'clock in the morning." Zhao Ran, the chief concubine, replied softly, looking at King Qin with worry in his eyes.

With the help of Zhao Ran, King Qin struggled to sit up on the bed. After taking a few breaths, he said in a deep voice: "Send someone to send an order to Ying, telling him to withdraw his troops from Hangu and return to the country to aid..."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

Zhao Ran, the chief concubine, immediately summoned a confidant and ordered the latter to rush to the Hangu area of ​​Sanchuan County to inform Yangquan Jun Ying to withdraw his troops and return to the country to resist Wei General Lian Pi's attack.

At this time, after being silent for a while, the King of Qin asked Wu Xinhou Gongsun Qi and Weiyang Lord Ying Hua: "According to what you two have seen, does our army still have hope of defeating the Wei army?"

Wu Xinhou Gongsun Qi and Weiyang Lord Ying Hua looked at each other and lowered their heads in unison.

Although the current Qin army is actually capable of a showdown with the Wei army, neither Wu Xinhou Gongsun Qi nor Weiyang Lord Ying Hua are very sure about whether they can win.

After all, this decisive battle has lasted until the ninth day. If the battle continues, the gap between the Qin and Wei armies will become more and more obvious. In the end, the training level and weapons and equipment of the Wei army will exceed that of the Qin army. As long as the Qin army is not at its highest morale.

If the Wei army is completely suppressed, it will inevitably be gradually suppressed by the Wei army.

In other words, the Qin army had almost no hope of victory in this battle.

Seeing that Wu Xinhou Gongsun Qi and Weiyang Jun Ying Hua were both silent, King Qin understood something clearly in his heart and nodded and said: "I understand, you two should step back and rest first. We will continue to fight with the Wei army tomorrow...

…”

Gongsun Qi and Ying Hua looked at each other, and after some hesitation, they clasped their fists and retreated.

After the two of them left, the King of Qin said to Zhao Ran, the chief concubine: "Zhao Ran, our army cannot defeat the Wei army, and Wei general Lian Pi attacked our Qin homeland again. What should we do?"

Zhao Ran, the chief concubine, smoothed his beard and said seriously: "Lian Pi's Wei army was on his way. I thought it would be better to send someone to show favor to King Yiqu and grant him benefits so that he could send troops to resist Lian Pi... Although Yiqu and I, the Qin Dynasty, have always been together.

No, but the entry of the Wei army will not be beneficial to Yiqu, not to mention that the Wei state is powerful, and only the weak can unite to resist the Wei state. I think King Yiqu also understands this... In addition, the king has already

I sent someone to order Lord Yangquan to mobilize his troops back home. In fact, Lian Pi’s journey is not a worry for the time being. The problem is..."

Speaking of this, he glanced at King Qin and stopped abruptly.

However, the King of Qin understood what he meant, nodded and said in agreement: "Yes, Lian Pi's Wei army is just a small trouble, but the Wei army under Zhao Run here is the big evil... Zhao Run's Zhuzi has been in battle for a long time. He has far-sighted vision and keen intuition. If I withdraw my troops here, he will definitely send his army westward to attack the mainland of our country, Qin. After that, the Wei army will continue to attack our country, and our country will not be able to resist it. We can only continue to send troops here..."

Having said this, he frowned, a few hesitations flashed across his face, and after thinking for dozens of breaths, he sighed: "Send someone to transfer Wang Jian to Hexi."

Hearing this, the chief concubine Zhao Ran was shocked and couldn't help but ask: "What do you mean, your Majesty... give up Shu County?"

You must know that the Qin State is still able to protect Shu County, all because Qin General Wang Jian fought hard in Langzhong to resist the attack of Wei Generals Shen and Wu Ji. If Wang Jian is transferred back to Hexi, Langzhong will definitely fall, and once Langzhong is lost, Shu County will definitely be captured by the Wei army. At that time, the Qin Army will lose Shu County, which is known as the land of abundance, and lose countless fertile farmland. The damage to Qin will be even more serious than the loss of 100,000 soldiers because once it is lost In Shu County, Qin's food supply is even more tense, which means that it will be difficult for Qin to continue the war with Wei.

"That's all."

King Qin sighed and closed his eyes tiredly.

In mid-July of the thirteenth year of Wei Zhaowu, the Qin King's capital Xianyang received the royal order from the King of Qin and sent envoy Gan He to Yiqu in the north in an attempt to resolve the previous war between the two countries with King Yiqu.

Of course King Yiqu understood the reason for Qin's sudden show of goodwill. It was simply that Wei general Lian Pi had already reached Yiqu, and he could directly attack Qin's homeland if he went further south, so Qin was panicked.

Yiqu is also a branch of the Western Qiang, but they are also different from the general Qiang people. The difference is that Yiqu does not exclude the culture of the Central Plains.

Just like the Shu people, Yiqu is also a nation that grazes and cultivates without authorization. It combines the advantages of nomadic people and farming people. They even established a country after imitating the Central Plains. The leader of the tribe calls himself "king" and continues to use the name "king". The official ranks of the Central Plains were established to confer titles and generals to the tribesmen. In short, Yiqu was not much different from the Central Plains people except that they still retained some customs of the Qiang people since ancient times, mainly in terms of clothing.

This is different from other grassland aliens such as Linhu, Donghu, Xiongnu, Chidi and so on.

Of course, it is precisely because Yiqu knows how to farm and build cities that this nation will become Qin's most formidable opponent. Perhaps Yiqu's overall strength is not as good as that of the Qiang in the western border of Qin, but it cannot be denied that it has learned from the Central Plains. As a cultural righteous channel, they were so tenacious that they became a serious thorn in the side of Qin for a long time.

When Qin envoys Gan He and Dao made their intentions clear, King Yiqu, who used to read books on the art of war in the Central Plains, immediately guessed Qin's purpose.

At that time, several generals in Yiqu suggested refusing to help Qin. After all, Yiqu and Qin had a history of fighting for more than a hundred years, and it would not be an exaggeration to call them feuds.

But in the end, King Yiqu accepted Qin's request for help.

Because in the view of King Yiqu, although it is a pleasant thing to use the Wei army to attack the Qin State, what happens after that? After the Wei State overthrows the Qin State, will the next one take the opportunity to solve the Yiqu State? canal?

King Yiqu, who likes to read books from the Central Plains, certainly knows what it means to have lips that are dead and teeth to be cold, and what it means to be vertical and horizontal.

It has to be said that although King Yiqu still retained a large part of the Western Qiang culture, he was indeed much wiser than the monarch of Ju State. He could see the pros and cons at a glance, unlike the monarch of Ju State who foolishly sought the skin of a tiger.

He helped the Qin State annex the Shu State, but in the end, even his Ju State was also annexed by the Qin State.

However, although he agreed to form an alliance with Qin, King Yiqu also put forward his conditions, that is, he asked Qin to return all the cities and lands in Yiqu that he had captured over the years.

In addition, Qin also had to give Yiqu a lot of food.

In the past, Xianyang would certainly not have agreed to such a request, but now that the situation was critical, Xianyang finally agreed.

In this way, under the threat of Wei, Qin and Yiqu turned their hostility into friendship and united to resist the Wei army.

Even King Yiqu personally led an army to fight against Wei General Lian Pi.

Being able to fight the Qin army for hundreds of years, Yiqu's soldiers are certainly not weak. In fact, because of the Qiang blood in their bodies, Yiqu's soldiers are stronger and braver than those from the Central Plains. More importantly, Yiqu's soldiers are

In a country where all the people are soldiers, no one is afraid of death. Even women and children can carry weapons and fight with the enemy. They are very brave.

Under the obstruction of Yiqu, Wei General Lian Pi's marching speed was greatly weakened.

At the same time, Qin general Yangquan Junying, who was stationed west of Hangu Pass in Sanchuan County, also received an order from the King of Qin and learned that Wei general Lian Pi was planning to attack Qin.

Following the order of the King of Qin, Yangquan Junying left five thousand troops to confuse the Wei army at Hangu Pass. He led the army back to the country quickly, and immediately sent his army north to join forces with King Yiqu to resist Wei General Lian Pi.

Under the resistance of King Yiqu and Jun Ying of Yangquan, Wei general Lian refuted and succeeded, and the troops of Han and Xu were blocked outside Qin's territory.

As for the Qin army on the battlefield in Hexi, they continued to confront the Wei army, and a decisive battle took place on the western outskirts of Linwei five miles away, which ended in a draw.

In fact, strictly speaking, although the Wei and Qin armies are still in a neck-and-neck situation on the battlefield in Hexi, anyone with a discerning eye can see that the Wei army has gradually begun to exert its strength. In fact, it cannot be said that the Wei army has begun to exert its strength. It should be said that the Wei army is tired of fighting.

The speed was faster than the fatigue of the army, so when comparing the two lines, it seemed that the Wei generals were gradually starting to exert their strength.

There is nothing we can do about this. After all, Qin is a country based on military merit. If the Qin army cannot win the battle and seize the war dividends, then there will be no actual benefits for the soldiers and generals below. In this case, just

Improving the title of Qin soldiers will sooner or later cause complaints from the soldiers.

Just like this war, the Qin army has paid nearly 200,000 casualties so far, but it has only captured six cities: Yueyang, Lianshao, Chongquan, Pinyang, Diaoyin, and Fushi, and even the Hexi County

The smallest actual county in the Wei Kingdom can be completely occupied, which will of course greatly affect the morale of the Qin soldiers.

In the blink of an eye, in September, the Qin general who was stationed in Langzhong of Bashu, Xinhou Wangjian, received the order from the King of Qin. After sighing, he led his troops to withdraw from Ba and retreat to Hanzhong.

This means that Qin's attack on the three kingdoms of Bashu, Shu and Ju has completely failed at this point. The countries of Shu and Ju that the Qin army spent all their energy to conquer before were purely used as wedding clothes for Wei.

After learning that Wang Jian led his army to withdraw from Bashu, the Wei army led by Wei generals Shen, Wu Ji and others took advantage of the situation and occupied Shu County. At this point, Bashu was owned by the Wei state.

After capturing Shu County, Shen said to Wu Ji: "Qin General Wang Jian's withdrawal from Bashu must be due to the defeat of the Qin army in Hexi. Now that you and I have occupied Bashu, we should take advantage of the situation and march into Hanzhong to continue to put pressure on Qin. In response to Hexi My ** team!”

Wu Ji deeply thought so.

So a few days later, Shen Ming's generals Baman, Doulian, Xiyingjun Xiong Tao and others guarded Bashu, while he and Wu Ji attacked Hanzhong.

However, because Wang Jian left behind the royal mausoleum when he withdrew his troops, Generals Wang Ben and Wang Ben defended themselves in Hanzhong, which made Shen and Wu Ji not optimistic about the progress of their attack on Hanzhong.

But no matter what, Qin State has at least lost Bashu.

But having said that, losing Bashu is not actually the biggest disaster for Qin State at present. The biggest disaster lies in the body of King Qin.

Ever since he fainted with shock at the bad news about Wei General Lian's refutation of the homeland two months ago, King Qin's physical condition had been deteriorating, and he fell ill within a few days.

After all, King Qin was an old man in his seventies, so he could not withstand such bad news. In addition, he was still unable to defeat his son-in-law, King Zhao Run of Wei, on the frontal battlefield, so King Qin's condition became more and more serious.

In mid-September, when Changxinhou Wang Jian led his army back to the country, Zhao Ran, the chief concubine, once again begged the King of Qin to return to Xianyang to recuperate, but was rejected by the latter again.

"I know my body well. I am afraid that my time is running out. Instead of having to drive and die on the road, it is better to stay here..."

Waving his hand and rejecting the entreaty of the concubine Zhao Ran, King Qin let out a long sigh and said bitterly: "I have lived for seventy years. There are few people in the world who live longer than me. I should be content. I can't let go now." This is the war in front of us..." As he spoke, he pursed his lips towards the east and said with a wry smile: "As soon as I die, my son-in-law will definitely send his army to the west, even though I have transferred Ying, Wang Jian and others. Returning home, but still unsure of how to resist the Wei army..."

After hearing this, the chief concubine Zhao Ran remained silent.

As the King of Qin said, if he dies, the throne of the monarch will be passed down to Prince Ying Sui. The question is, can Ying Sui, who is introverted and physically weak, really be able to lead Qin to resist the attack of the Wei army?

After a moment of silence, King Qin said seriously: "Bring a pen and paper."

Zhao Ran immediately ordered people to get paper and pen, and saw King Qin sitting on the bed, writing quickly, and wrote a letter. After drying the ink, he handed it to Zhao Ran and whispered: "If I, Da Qin, cannot be saved, When things become urgent, send someone to deliver this letter to Zhao Run or Shaojun."

The chief concubine, Zhao Ran, nodded silently and put the letter away.

Seeing this, King Qin lay on the couch for a while, and suddenly spoke again: "After my death, remember not to make any noise, otherwise the Wei army may take advantage of it and slowly retreat to the country to mourn again."

Zhao Ran looked shocked when he heard this. After he wanted to say something but stopped, he nodded silently with tears in his eyes.

"You should also step back first."

"……yes."
To be continued...