Chapter 748: Zhao Jun's Expedition
Time passed day by day, and before I knew it, this winter was completely over.
Just when spring just arrived, a battle manifesto called "The Letter of King Zhao to the World" was issued from Handan, and it spread throughout the entire Chinese land in just a few days.
That's what it said above.
Duan Ganzi, as the prime minister of Wei, was highly valued by the king and was highly regarded by the king. He should have done his best to assist the King of Wei to fulfill his duties as his ministers. However, this man had always been ambitious and tried his best to take over the King of Wei and replace him. He was crazy and poisoned the King of Wei in public on New Year's Day night. He even held the prince and queen of Wei hostage, and usurped the power of Wei in the name of prime minister. He was indeed an unrebelieving minister and traitor in a century.
As the leader of the King of the Three Jins, I am the leader of the princes in the world. How can I bear to see Duan Ganzi doing such a reckless and unrestrained evil deeds? I must be eliminated and then I will be quick. I hereby call on all the people who know and just to fight Duan Ganzi together with me to fight Duan Ganzi, and return the Wei State and Huaxia as a man!
At the same time as this manifesto was released, the envoys sent to various countries had already begun to inform the monarchs of other countries, telling them that it was time to gather troops to Wei to attack Duan Ganzi, a traitor.
Let’s not talk about other countries for now, just talk about the fact that in Handan, a total of 100,000 central troops of Zhao State gathered outside the Beidaying. At first glance, it looked like a surging wave of black and red, magnificent and breathtaking, with extremely amazing power.
Zhao Dan, the king of Zhao, appeared surrounded by many ministers of Zhao and came to the high platform.
Zhao Dan was wearing a formal outfit today, wearing a crown on his head, which was extremely conspicuous under the sunlight. He stood on the platform and whispered to the many Zhao soldiers below the stage:
"Warriors of Zhao State! This time you are about to go out to fight and bring back another victory for me and Zhao State. When you return to Handan, I will hold a celebration banquet in Handan and celebrate this victory and contribution with everyone!"
The main general Le Cheng and the deputy general Ju Xin, who were fully armed, looked at each other, pulled out the long sword from their waists and raised it high towards the sky, and burst out from their mouths at the same time.
"Zhao State, Wan Sheng!"
"Thousands of victories! Thousands of victories! Thousands of victories!"
The shouts of 100,000 Zhao soldiers were deafening, and turned into a shocking sound wave that penetrated into the sky.
Under Zhao Dan's own witness, the 100,000 Zhao army set out in a mighty manner.
Zhao Sheng stood beside Zhao Dan and watched the army slowly moving south like a torrent of steel. He couldn't help but whisper to Zhao Dan in front of him: "King, isn't the number of these 100,000 troops a little short?"
Yes, the number of 100,000 is no longer a problem for Zhao State now.
Today, the State of Zhao can easily dispatch 200,000 Central Army. In addition, there are a total of 100,000 county soldiers in the local counties as the reserve team of the Central Army waiting for the recruitment at any time.
These are just the active and reserve soldiers of Zhao State. If we count the civilians and young men recruited for every war in Zhao State, it can be said that in the past few years, Zhao State had to dispatch at least eighty to one million people in almost every war.
If the number of people involved indirectly is included, then this number will even be several times more.
It is precisely because of such a huge war machine that can almost be said to be a war machine made by the power of the country that Zhao State was able to rise from a weak country that can be bullied by one person in just a few decades until it was able to challenge and defeat the overlord Qin State, and reach the top of the powerful Chinese country of this era.
During this war to attack Duan Ganzi, Zhao State has dispatched only 80,000 Central Army, 20,000 county soldiers, as well as corresponding young and middle-aged civilians.
This amount of this number simply felt like he was not exerting force for Zhao's huge war system, so Zhao Sheng asked this question.
Zhao Dan shook his head and said to Zhao Sheng: "Don't forget that if I dispatched too many troops, it would likely attract the suspicion of other princes. Besides, this time it was not only me who sent troops themselves. If I did not make any mistake, the combined forces of the six princes would exceed 200,000. So many troops were used to deal with the current Wei State."
Zhao Sheng nodded in agreement, but the Pingyuan Jun still looked a little worried. After a while, he couldn't help but say to Zhao Dan: "King, then Wei is one of the seven major warring countries after all. Can you really have the chance to completely annex it this time?"
What we want to say here is that the name "Warring States Period" appeared and became popular in this era in 254 BC.
However, at this time, the age of the word "Warring States Period" was not specifically used to refer to this era, but just means "strong country".
In this era, people often like to call the "Seven Warring States" that later generations often say "Seven Warring States". Although these two words are different, they actually have the same meaning.
If a powerful country like Wei, which is recognized by everyone, is really destroyed, then the impact on the entire land of China will definitely be unparalleled.
After all, more than two hundred years have passed since the two major events of the three families splitting the Jin and Tian family and releasing Qi.
In the past two hundred years, no country in the seven Warring States has ever been destroyed or annexed by other countries.
Before this, the closest one to being destroyed was undoubtedly Qi, which was attacked by the five countries.
However, even in such a desperate situation that the State of Qi was almost destroyed, it still relied on Tian Dan's Jedi counterattack.
Since then, people of this era have had this view in their minds, that is, powerful countries like the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period all have extremely strong foundations and have the "destiny" given by God, which is almost impossible to be eliminated.
Destiny is naturally a very unreliable thing to later generations, but in ancient times when the theory of ghosts and gods was popular, it was very marketable.
This is why Zhao Sheng still showed enough worries in such a situation where he would definitely win.
This time, Zhao Dan is preparing to destroy a country with destiny, one of the seven major warring countries, such as Wei!
Can it really be successful?
But for Zhao Dan, who came from later generations and had naturally unifying his mind, would naturally not be bothered by such boring thoughts.
Zhao Dan smiled, suddenly reached out and patted Zhao Sheng on the shoulder, and said to Zhao Sheng and several important officials from the Zhao State who were looking forward to waiting for Zhao Dan's answer: "Don't worry, all of you, I can guarantee you here that Wei State is the first country to be destroyed by me, but it will definitely not be the last!"
"What I do is not dominate. What I have to do is to end the separatist situation of the entire Chinese nation for thousands of years, so that all the Chinese people in the world gather under my banner. Let all the people speak the language of Zhao, write the words of Zhao in their hands, use the coins of Zhao when they travel, and use the funeral customs of Zhao when they die."
"My goal is not this mere Central Plains, nor is it just this Jiuzhou in the world.My goal is to conquer every inch of land and every inch of ocean in this world, and make this whole world a paradise for us Chinese people!"
Zhao Dan described this big cake. Even the ministers present at Zhao State were considered to have seen the world, and they were still excited and excited when they heard it.
How grand this goal is and how yearning it is! If we can really assist this king in doing this, then in the future history books, I and others will definitely be destined to be remembered forever!
Leading by Zhao Sheng and Lian Po, all the ministers of Zhao State bowed to Zhao Dan very neatly and said in unison: "I am willing to be the leader of the king and help the king complete this unprecedented foundation!"
Chapter completed!