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Chapter 131: Yinghou or Guohou

Zhao Kuo didn't understand why Wei Wuji had to drink with him all the time.

When the two were half drunk and half awake, Wei Wuji told him drunk: If you don’t do anything, you can’t swallow the wine.

According to Wei Wuji's proposal, Zhao Kuo issued an order that Bai Qi might cross the river and attack at any time, but Zhao Kuo had no other way. At present, the Zhao army was seriously short of food. If it weren't for the fact that there were still a lot of food and grass, the Zhao army would not know how many soldiers would starve to death. However, Wei Wuji's food and grass could not be provided to Zhao. Zhao Kuo could only leave his elite troops, and the rest went home to farm.

The soldiers of Zhao State who learned this news were a little unbelievable.

After being away from home for several years, they really didn't expect that they would have the chance to go back. They had only read the word "going home" in their dreams. Before Zhao Kuo arrived, the generals did not allow the soldiers to talk about their hometown. They were afraid that this would affect the morale of the army. However, Zhao Kuo didn't think so. They are fighting with the Qin people here now just to avoid destruction in their hometown? Why not let them mention it?

The soldiers trusted Ma Fujun very much. They felt that Ma Fujun would definitely take him home.

However, they did not expect that the seemingly out of reach would be realized in advance.

This day is definitely unforgettable for the soldiers of Zhao State. The soldiers cheered excitedly and were very happy. Even those who stayed were excitedly looking at their father, their brothers, saying goodbye to them, and reminding them that they were also very happy. They no longer had to worry about their mother, wife, and children being bullied. After all, with men in the family, everything would gradually get better.

The excitement and excitement of the Zhao people was difficult to curb. On this day, even when they scolded Qin on the side of Danshui, their voices were much higher than usual, which made the Qin people confused. Zhao Kuo did not delay the time. The soldiers had to go back to farm as soon as possible. This matter could not be delayed. He assigned all his disciples to investigate and verify, and said goodbye in order based on various parts of Zhao.

When the soldiers left, they looked at Ma Fujun who was coming to see him farewell, and they burst into tears. They bowed repeatedly in the direction of Ma Fujun and left one by one. The more they looked at Xinling, the more they were surprised. These soldiers of Zhao State regarded Zhao Kuo as gods, and only had fanatical worship in their eyes. Not only soldiers, but also generals, except Lian Po, they were also like this. Wei Wuji had no doubt that they would carry out any orders from Zhao Kuo.

Even if he doesn't have a tiger talisman in his hand, that's the same.

Wei Wuji felt incredible. He had a high reputation in Wei State, but without the tiger talisman, the soldiers would not obey his orders at all. The soldiers respected him enough, but there was absolutely no such fanaticism, let alone the generals. Now many generals of Wei State were urging themselves to return to Wei State earlier, and were very dissatisfied with him and received respect from others. Wei Wuji was very good at it, but he didn't understand why Zhao Kuo could do this!

This melancholy famous general stood in his chariot and bid farewell to every departing soldier.

He will bless them, will remind them, and will tell them to work hard.

When the soldiers left, they took two steps and looked back and looked at Ma Fujun, their eyes full of reluctance.

Some soldiers would come up and use their hands to clean up the stones around the chariot, muttering: "Stone, stone, please don't trip over our beloved horse servant."

Zhao Kuo smiled, and the sorrow in his eyebrows seemed to have dissipated a lot. When the soldiers left one by one, Zhao Kuo finally laughed. Wei Wuji had never seen him look so happy. Wei Wuji stood beside him, looking at the soldiers who disappeared from sight, and asked: "You were never so happy when you defeated Bai Qi. Now that you say goodbye to the soldiers, how could you be so happy?"

Zhao Kuo smiled and said, "It is my greatest wish when I go to war with these people."

"Most of my wish has come true."

Wei Wuji was stunned and looked at Zhao Kuo around him seriously. Wei Wuji seemed to understand the reason why the soldiers respected him so much.

Bai Qi soon realized the movements of the Zhao army. In front of him, Zhao Kuo disbanded most of his troops. Several generals persuaded Bai Qi to take the opportunity to launch an attack, but Bai Qi did not obey. Now is the time when the Zhao people are most excited and have a high fighting spirit. Crossing the river at this time is not a good idea. Moreover, the Chu army is attacking Nanyang and wants to set up a road directly into South Korea.

Although Bai Qi didn't want to admit it, he still lost this battle.

The purpose of Qin was to capture Shangdang at the beginning, but when Qin gathered a large number of troops on Shangdang and Bai Qi was the general, the purpose was not Shangdang. He wanted to destroy Zhao. However, now, Bai Qi's soldiers, after a huge defeat, could not regain their momentum and launch another attack in a short period of time, and Bai Qi's troops were not enough to destroy Zhao.

The strategic goal could not be achieved, Bai Qi failed. Even though the Zhao people paid a very heavy price, the entire Handan County was almost slaughtered, and he suffered a much heavier casualties than the Qin people. After the two sides fought, the one that could kill soldiers was not the battlefield, but the wounded soldiers after the battle. Qin State had supporting doctors who could treat the wounded soldiers, while Zhao State had almost no way to survive.

Even the slightest abrasion may kill them.

This is the crush brought by the system.

But this is the fact. No matter how many people Bai Qi killed, he could not destroy Zhao State. This was his miserable defeat.

A mere Shangdang cannot satisfy Bai Qi.

However, although Bai Qi did not put up a large amount of pressure, he still carried out several tentative attacks. Sure enough, as Bai Qi thought, the soldiers left by Zhao Kuo were no longer concerned, and had amazing combat power. They easily repelled the Qin people's attack and even wanted to counterattack. Bai Qi could not attack on a large scale, so he could only continue to confront Zhao Kuo, waiting for the Wang Ling from Xianyang.

Qin State, Xianyang.

There was a violent sound of water splashes in the courtyard. After a long time, Fan Ju walked out of the courtyard with a wet red body. He changed into clothes and got into a carriage and rushed to the palace. Sitting in the carriage, Fan Ju frowned and almost bit his teeth. Zhao Kuo's lord actually repelled Bai Qi's attack. How could this be possible? Is all this in Zhao Kuo's plan?

He deliberately pretended to be incompetent just to make himself foolishly praise a great enemy?

The more Fan Ju thought about it, the more uncontrollable the anger in his heart.

The King of Qin was very calm. The old King of Qin was kneeling and flipping through the letters sent by Bai Qi, without seeing any anger. Fan Ju walked up to him, immediately leaned over and bowed, lowered his head and said, "Please punish him severely."

"What are your sins?" The King of Qin looked at him in surprise.

"I shouldn't have let Zhao Kuo replace Lian Po."

"No, none of us can see that Zhao Kuo has such talent. I also agreed to your suggestion at the beginning. This is not your fault."

"My reinforcements didn't work."

"No, your arrangement in Zhao State made King Zhao very dissatisfied with Zhao Kuo's behavior of violating the king's order. Your arrangement in Wei State made King Wei determine that Wei Wuji had the intention to rebel, recruited soldiers in the name of support, and made plans to deal with Wei Wuji. Your arrangement in Chu State made the Chu army unable to obtain food and grass supplies now, and it was difficult to move forward. How can you say that your plan did not work?"

Fan Ju slowly raised her head and looked at the King of Qin, feeling a little unaware of what to say.

The King of Qin suddenly frowned and threw the bamboo slips in front of Fan Ju. He said angrily: "Your crime was made in a hurry after Zhao Kuo disrupted your plans several times. You made a decision in a hurry because of your anger! Your crime is that you still do not respect your enemies! Even if he defeated Bai Qi, you do not respect him! Your crime is that after the defeat, you did not come up with appropriate strategies, but instead came to ask me to punish you for your crime!"

Fan Ju gritted her teeth, and suddenly reached her hand to her waist and held the hilt of the sword.

He was the only minister who could meet the King of Qin with a sword. The King of Qin looked at his hand, sighed, shook his head and said, "Who would have thought that a mere child from Zhao could force my most beloved confidant minister to death..." Fan Ju slowly lowered his hand and raised his head, his eyes were covered with blood, which made him look extremely ferocious. He said, "King, I have a plan to defeat the countries for you!!"

The King of Qin looked at him without saying a word.

Fan Ju looked at King Qin like this. After a long time, Fan Ju slowed down, took a breath, looked at King Qin calmly, and said, "King, I have a plan." The King of Qin laughed, hurriedly stood up, walked to Fan Ju, grabbed his hand, pulled him enthusiastically to him, and asked him to sit down. After asking him for countermeasures, Fan Ju was full of confidence and no longer had the angry look he had just now.

He said seriously: "Now, South Korea is not worth worrying about. Small countries have few people. The king can destroy South Korea by sending an elite army. However, from the rescue of Zhao, if Qin insists on destroying South Korea, it will be jointly conquered by other princes. Therefore, please send envoys to South Korea and ask the king of Han to submit to Qin without destroying his country."

"When Qin is not afraid of the joint efforts of the countries, it will be able to quickly destroy South Korea."

The King of Qin nodded with a smile.

Fan Ju said again: "In the Wei Kingdom, the most important things to be concerned about are Long Yang Jun and Xinling Jun. However, now that Xin Ling Jun has violated the decision of King Wei, he dare not go back. As for Lord Long Yang, there is only someone who needs to constantly send people to promote his intimate relationship with Wei Wuji, and King Wei will definitely hate him."

"Zhao State is the great enemy of Qin State, with Yu Qing, Zhao Kuo, Lian Po and others. Yu Qing was not favored by the King of Zhao. Zhao Kuo made too great contributions and had too high reputation. Lian Po did not know politics..."

On this day, Fan Ju once again analyzed the current situation for the King of Qin in detail. He believed that the war with Zhao could end. Qin won Shangdang and severely damaged Zhao and Wei, especially Zhao. The national strength was very serious. The only general who could take action in Wei was also killed in battle. In fact, Qin still took a lot of advantages, and the happiest thing was that Bai Qi's title could be reduced.

It is OK to get over it with titles and fiefs.

Originally, two tigers fought each other, those who failed would die, and those who won would die.

But now, those who win will not die, and those who fail will not have to die again.

When the King of Qin heard Fan Ju's words, he couldn't help laughing. He was not a mediocre monarch. He was very reluctant to let him get rid of a general like Bai Qi. Now that he can keep him, he didn't expect that Zhao Kuo saved his life.

Fan Ju believes that the war should be ended now, but it cannot be ended just like that. He should negotiate with King Zhao to make King Zhao agree to Shangdang to Qin. As for why he did this, Fan Ju hopes to delay Zhao Kuo's soldiers for a while so that they cannot go back to farm immediately. In addition, even a strategy of attacking the heart, of course, there is also a strategy of alienation. Fan Ju must achieve more results when doing something.

The conspiracy between the two of them in the palace is unknown to others.

At this time, the two of them rode their horses and came to Xianyang. Surprisingly, there were no soldiers who entered Xianyang for investigation, because it took more than a dozen inspections to reach Xianyang, so there would be no strict inspections here. The exhausted Ying Yiren sat on the horse. His horse was also very tired at the moment, with his head hanging down, and Lu Buwei next to him was not much better.

The two of them finally arrived in Xianyang after traveling a long distance. If it weren't for the help of Qin people along the way, they would have been afraid that they would not be able to come to Xianyang alive.

Seeing the soldiers pushing the wheelbarrow and passing by, Ying Yiren smiled and said, "Sir, it seems that the wheelbarrow you reported has been made on a large scale." Lu Buwei nodded. They had visited Zhao Kuo's mother in the horse server. At that time, Lu Buwei saw such a strange car. At that time, there was a blind man who was unable to see anything, pushing the cart back and forth in the most uneven place outside the horse server.

Lu Buwei was very curious and went to ask. The blind man told Lu Buwei that this was done by Ma Fujun and could drive under various terrains for easy transportation.

So, Lu Buwei got everything he wanted from the unsuspecting blind man, and then, naturally, this report on the wheelbarrow came to Xianyang through the inner circle of the people everywhere.

Lu Buwei originally wanted to push the credit to Ying Yiren, but Ying Yiren did not ask for it, but instead reported it truthfully.

Ying Yiren rubbed his eyes, looked at Lu Buwei beside him, and said, "Sir, please go to the inn to rest. I want to visit my mother."

Of course, Lu Buwei knew who Ying Yiren said was. He hesitated for a moment before asking, "You might as well go to take a shower first and prepare to meet her before you meet her. I am afraid that she will think you don't respect her." Ying Yiren smiled and said, "If you don't know my mother, she will not only not be unhappy, but will also reward me." Lu Buwei couldn't say anything else, so he took one step forward and left.

However, Ying Yiren dragged his exhausted body to the palace and reported to the warrior that he wanted to see his mother, Mrs. Huayang.

The warrior could not recognize him, and after repeated investigations, he confirmed his identity, he looked respectful. Just because his identity was different from other young masters, a warrior hurried in to report, and Ying Yiren stood at the door and chatted with the warrior cordially. The warrior was flattered, and the person who went in to report quickly walked out and took Ying Yiren into the palace.

"Mother!" At the first glance of Mrs. Huayang, Ying Yiren respectfully lowered his head and paid homage. However, Mrs. Huayang was a little moved by his name. She hurriedly walked up and helped him up. Looking at his tired appearance, she said with some distress: "Are you just back? Why don't you rest for a few days and come to see me again?"

"I am in Zhao State and miss you and my father very much. I just returned to Xianyang and couldn't wait to come and pay my respects. Please don't blame me... ", Ying Yiren looked at his somewhat damaged clothes bitterly. Mrs. Huayang's eyes turned red and said, "Don't say that. I'm very happy to be able to pay respects to me as soon as possible. Come and sit down."

The two sat down, Ying Yiren greeted his mother respectfully, and said some interesting stories he saw along the way, neither humble nor arrogant, and his words were funny. Mrs. Huayang fell in love with her son immediately. She was indeed a handsome talent and was different from other young masters. As Ying Yiren said that, she took out her gift and gave it to Mrs. Huayang. His gift was still the clothes of Chu.

"You don't know, I'm in Zhao State because I claim to be the son of Chu people every day, and they all call me Zichu."

"Zi Chu... OK... Zi Chu."
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