In the second year of King Wei's leave, he went to Daliang.
"How dare he, Wei Jiu, station his troops but not advance!"
"You have no courage! You have no courage!"
In the palace, King Wei pretended to shout filial piety, and his long beard trembled with anger.
All the attendants in the palace kowtowed and bowed down, shivering and not daring to speak.
"Why is the king so angry? King Ben is surrounding Daliang with his troops and is waiting to annihilate our reinforcements from Wei. If Lord Ningling comes to help rashly, I am afraid he will be annihilated by the Qin army."
An old man with white hair and beard, leaning on a dove stick, walked into the hall.
Every time he took a step, he would cough slightly and his body would tremble, as if he might fall down at any time.
He is over ninety years old.
Hearing the old man speak, King Wei's fake anger lessened, and he said with a sad and angry face: "Mr. Tang, Daliang is in danger now!"
"Have you seen what Wang Ben is doing? He wants to dig the chasm, dig out the embankment of Xingkou, and flood our Daliang City with the water of the river!"
Tang Ju was silent.
When he was young in the past, he had seen with his own eyes that wise man from Qin.
The man stood in the main hall of the Wei State, with his head held high and his chest high. In front of the civil and military officials of the Wei State, he waved his sleeves, spattered, and said that terrible threat.
"If we defeat Yingkou, Wei will have no Daliang; if we defeat Baima's mouth, Wei will have no Waihuang and Jiyang; if we defeat Suxu's mouth, Wei will have nothing to lose and Dunqiu. If we attack by land, we will attack the river, and if we attack by water, we will destroy Daliang!"
"If Wei doesn't interfere with Qin, just wait until the water floods the beams!"
At that moment, all the ministers of the Wei State suddenly changed their expressions, and the King of Wei was so frightened that he almost fell off the couch.
Now that decades have passed, the Qin people have really arrived, and they are about to fulfill the cruel words they said decades ago.
King Wei was trapped in Daliang City.
Outside were Wang Ben's 50,000 Huaiyang soldiers and more than 100,000 Qin laborers working hard to dig ditches.
Further outside, there are the troops of King Qin of Wei who are stationed in Chenliu, Yongqiu and other places.
Among them, Wei Jiu, the king of Ningling, was the most important. He gathered ten thousand Wei soldiers to garrison Yongqiu, but he did not dare to advance to Daliang and sat back and watched the Qin people dig ditches and canals.
The reinforcements were outside but did not come forward to rescue him. This made King Wei feel frightened and angry.
He looked at the silent Tang Ju, a glimmer of hope appeared in his eyes, and he begged.
"Tang Gong, you are a famous person in the world. In the past, Qi and Chu attacked Wei. It was you who went to Qin to ask for help and persuaded the King of Qin to send troops to save Wei."
"Now my beam is in danger, and the fate of the country is hanging by a thread. Mr. Tang, can you still enter Qin again? I beg the King of Qin to let me go to Wei! Let me go!"
The King of Wei pretended to cry out and begged, pinning his hope on the ninety-year-old man in front of him.
Tang Ju smiled helplessly.
Is it still possible?
Not to mention that he is already old, half of his feet are on the road to death.
Looking at the situation at hand, how can it be solved by a strategist using his tongue?
If you don't see it, Han, Zhao, and Yan will all be destroyed.
There is no reason for the Wei State to survive.
"Your Majesty, please forgive me for my incompetence."
Tang Ju turned around and walked slowly outside the hall with his dove stick.
He came here just to see King Wei for the last time.
Behind Tang Ju, there was the false shrill cry of the King of Wei.
"Wei Jiu didn't dare to come to help. Did he want to wait until Daliang was conquered by the Qin people, and I and the princes were captured by the Qin army, so that he could become the new king of Wei?"
"Isn't it, isn't it?"
Daliang City is ten feet high. It is a majestic city in the Central Plains. It is towering and majestic.
Tang Ju stood on the city wall, with the strong wind roaring and blowing his beard and hair.
"Mr. Tang, it's windy here, please come down."
The city guarding captain looked worriedly at the old man in front of him. His thin and hunched body looked like he would be blown off the city wall by the strong wind at any time.
Tang Ju ignored him and stared blankly outside the city.
Everywhere he looked, there were flying black flags.
One after another, Qin army camps surrounded Daliang City, and everywhere was crowded and dark.
In the chasm to the north of Daliang, countless Qin people were waving hoes and shovels, shouting to dig the ground and open ditches.
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They wanted to dig a ditch to connect the canal that ran through the hinterland of Wei State with Daliang City.
Tang Ju knew that this was only the first step. After the ditch to divert the water was dug, these Qin people would go to the north.
They wanted to dig the Yingkou embankment there and let the water of the river rush down, along the chasm, and then along the big canal they dug, straight to the capital of Wei.
I wonder if King Hui of Wei in the past, when he dug the chasm, would have thought that the canal he dug would carry the fury of the river in the future and flood the capital city he built with his own hands.
"A new Qin army has arrived."
The captain guarding the city sighed softly.
Tang Ju followed the direction he pointed and looked to the west.
There, another long black snake snaked its way.
Judging from the number of people, there are tens of thousands.
"He's from Guanzhong, right."
Tang Judan said calmly, his eyes filled with despair.
At this time, a terrible whistling sound came from the air.
Tang Ju saw with his own eyes that a huge boulder flew up from the Qin army's formation below the city and hit the city wall not far away.
The entire city of Daliang trembled.
The Wei troops defending the city screamed.
"Big gun!"
The captain looked horrified and said to Tang Ju: "Mr. Tang, the Qin army has begun to attack the city with huge cannons again. I also ask Mr. Tang to follow me down to the city quickly."
Tang Ju stared blankly at the equipment that fired boulders in the Qin army's camp.
Giant cannon.
He had heard about the name of this weapon. It was said that the Qin army used it for the first time in the battle against Ji, and it frightened the King of Yan so much that he fled in a hurry and descended to Jicheng in a battle.
Daliang, the capital of Wei, is naturally much stronger than Jicheng. The city walls are very high and thick.
Although the huge boulder in front of you is extremely powerful, it is still very difficult to break through the city wall.
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How long can the Wei State last?
Tang Ju raised his head and looked at the sky.
The sun has been blocked by dark clouds.
Suddenly, he saw a high-spirited nobleman.
"If Mr. Xinling were still here, I, Wei Guoan, would have ended up like this!"
"This is the death of the Wei Kingdom!"
Tang Ju shouted loudly, threw away his dove stick, gathered all his strength, and jumped down amidst the exclamations of the Wei army at the top of the city.
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"Master Five Hundred, this is your cannon!"
Black Butt pointed at the trebuchets that fired boulders in the distance and shouted.
Zhao Tuo rolled his eyes.
In my heart, I sighed that the efficiency of the Qin State was really high. Even Wang Ben's army began to equip these new siege weapons.
However, the Wei State was the first hegemon during the Warring States Period, and its national power was far beyond that of the Yan State.
The Daliang City built by King Wei Hui was majestic and solid. In addition, the Wei State was located in a battleground with continuous battles. The successive Wei kings made this capital city so impregnable that it would be very difficult to capture it with just giant cannons.
A strong attack will surely result in heavy casualties.
That's why the officials of Qin State thought of using water to attack and destroy Daliang City.
In this way, the remnants of the Three Jin Dynasties can be destroyed without spending a single soldier.
When the Qin army was digging ditches, they would not let the Wei people in Daliang City live in peace. From time to time, they would throw huge rocks into the city, causing the Wei people to cry for their fathers and mothers, which fully demonstrated the ferocity of the Qin people.
"Oh my god, I finally know why the king ordered us to escort these prisoners and slaves here. It turns out that they are going to dig ditches. But if this is the case, how can we make meritorious service and get promoted? General Wang will never let us follow him.
Digging?"
Black Butt cooed and expressed everyone's worries.
They came here to achieve meritorious service and be promoted to nobility. If they used water to break through the beams, there would be no merit to be gained.
Unfortunately, Black Bottom's words came true.
After transferring the prisoners and slaves who were escorted here, they were handed over to the Qin officials who were specifically responsible for this place.
The Qin army in Guanzhong led by Junhou Huanzhao got its first mission.