What seemed like a reasonable distribution of interests and a balanced arrangement was not just that simple in the eyes of Qin Jun.

First of all, it must be the easiest situation to read out the fact that there are many factions. There are three main generals and three forces: the Young Strong Faction and the Qualified Faction originally under Lian Po, plus Zhao Kuo's faction, forming a three-legged situation.

Zhao Kuo couldn't hide such an obvious contradiction even if he wanted to. It would be better to show it to the Qin army openly. At least from a historical perspective, even in desperate situations, the armies did not abandon themselves. And the most important thing is

The position of the Qin army is firmly in the hands of its own people. Even if the Qin army wants to gain something from the factional struggle, it will be difficult.

More importantly, if you don't know that Sun Gu and Zhou Qi are already Zhao Kuo's people, from Zhao Kuo's arrangements for his confidant Xu Li, it is not difficult to see that Zhao Jun attaches great importance to the front line of Changping Pass, combined with the story of Tian Dan's location.

Given the location of the pass, it was not difficult for the Qin army to discover what Zhao Kuo wanted to express: if they were able to catch Zhao Kuo by surprise and the attack went smoothly, Zhao Jun would continue to advance; if there was any disagreement, they would immediately turn north to Changping Pass.

Can Lord Wu An of Qin make you happy?

Put yourself in Wu Anjun's shoes and think about it: The guy on the other side is planning to fight and then run away. How can that make you run away?

It took so much effort here to get Zhao to change generals. How could they just let you go back after a painless offensive and defensive battle?

Although it can continue to be wasted as far as the Changping-Guguan line, the final victory will belong to Qin.

But Zhao State is about to collapse. How can Qin State feel better? No matter how strong the country is, it cannot withstand the restrictions on food transportation channels!

Let’s not talk about the food from Bashu. Firstly, Bashu is not that rich now. Secondly, when food is transported from Bashu, more food is consumed than what is transported;

Even if the food in Guanzhong is transported by water, it will take more than ten days to arrive, and there will be a transfer in the middle, which is not only troublesome but also requires a lot of road consumption;

The only thing that is slightly better is the grain of Hanoi, which can be obtained by taking a boundary card and can be reached in a few days. This is one of the important reasons why the Qin State has been able to persist for so long. But the problem is that Hanoi County is just a county.

In such a large county, three years of confrontation had already depleted all the savings of Hanoi County.

Destroying Zhao to death would indeed save Qin a lot of military losses, but it would also consume a lot of Qin's food. In the end, maybe Zhao had not surrendered yet, so Qin had to take real gold and silver and buy it from Wei at a high price.

, South Korea and other countries have purchased grain.

The people of Qin are an important part of the national power, but in the eyes of the upper echelons of the Qin State, grain and fodder are not an important part of the national power.

Even the idea of ​​"if you have food, you are afraid of having no one" is also a popular saying among the upper echelons of the Qin State. After all, the Qin people use food as a lure and have attracted people from various countries in recent years.

Therefore, between the loss of Qin people and the loss of food and fodder, the upper echelons of Qin slightly favored the latter. This was the cunning plan to force Zhao to change generals.

Of course, it cannot be said that all the ideas of the upper echelons of the Qin State were wrong. Historically, the Qin State used human lives to achieve this Changping victory - all men over the age of fifteen from Hedong were sent to serve in the army.

The final effect was not bad. At least from now on, no one could stop the Qin army from marching eastward.

Such a decisive victory must be based on one foundation, that is: the Qin army won the final victory.

After the victory, the population was not enough, and it took three to five years to recover, and the food was not enough, so the autumn grain harvest would replenish it; but once the battle failed, losing food would not be a big problem, but once a large number of soldiers and people were lost, then

I am afraid that within a few years it will be difficult to move east again, and even Hedong, Hanoi and other places will be threatened by hostile forces from all directions.

Of course, failure was not within the Qin people's consideration.

It was precisely out of the consideration of minimizing losses that the Qin people came up with this plan to lure Zhao Jun into a decisive battle.

In other words, from the moment the Qin people encouraged Zhao to change generals, the Qin people's idea was to completely annihilate the main force of the Zhao army.

Now that Zhao Jun actually has the idea of ​​​​withdrawing after a battle, Qin Jun will definitely not allow such an idea to exist. To dispel Zhao's idea, the best way is of course to make Zhao Jun's attack smoother, so as to completely defeat Zhao Jun's attack.

The main force is firmly attracted to the west bank of Danshui.

The appearance of Tian Dan actually strengthened the Qin army's plan.

If we follow the original trajectory of history, it is obviously unrealistic to send troops to sneak attack the Changping Pass-Gu Pass line. After all, Tian Dan is guarding there, and he is a figure who is better at guarding than Lian Po. Even if Bai Qi comes personally

There is no guarantee that a small number of troops will be able to break through Tian Dan's defense in a short period of time.

Originally, the triangular area of ​​more than 50 kilometers from Yuushi-Changpingguan-Guguan-Xunshi was surrounded by a triangle. Because Guguan-Changpingguan had a single handle, it was obviously missing an edge and could no longer be used.

If the Qin army wants to continue to set up ambushes on the east bank, no matter what they do, they may be attacked by Tian Dan's troops at the old pass, and their success will easily fall short.

Therefore, from this perspective, Zhao Kuo's formation of troops almost forced the Qin army to set up an encirclement on the west bank of Danshui.

If the encirclement is to be set up on the west bank, the battle for the barrier will have to be vigorously released. Once the water is released, it will be difficult for the Qin army to see the extreme decline in the overall combat power of the Zhao army, thus completely covering up its own conspiracy of "stealing the sky to change the sun."

Laying out layers of plans, taking advantage of the Qin army's psychology of fighting a war of annihilation, and covering up his own side's real killing move, Zhao Kuo used the history he knew to its fullest effect.

Now that the layout is complete, the rest is no longer within my control.

"Everything that can be done has been done, and the rest can only be left to fate." Zhao Kuo thought secretly in his heart.

After looking around, Zhao Kuo immediately ordered: "The generals will go back and prepare themselves, and obey orders at any time."

"No!" all the generals responded in unison.

He waved his hand to sign for withdrawal, and the generals filed out immediately. Because they still needed to keep it secret, the generals did not dare to discuss anything about this. They all looked at each other to signal each other, and the meaning was obvious:

"Brother, if you accidentally fall into a tight siege, you are not allowed to have diarrhea."

"Okay! Brother, who among us brothers is following whom? The bow and arrow cover attack is just a matter of my brother's words."

"Covering attack, you want me to die! I didn't die in the hands of the Qin people, but in the hands of your kid, just wait."

…

Everyone tacitly hurried towards their respective campsites and left quickly. Some of them had doubts, some were excited, and some were even more confident...

Except for the fearful ones, the three-year battle not only deepened the hatred between Qin and Zhao, but also eliminated the Zhao army's fear of Qin. Counterattack is almost every Zhao army's dream.

And this dream is now about to be realized step by step under the leadership of Zhao Kuo.


Chapter completed!