Chapter 929: Prime Minister Qin With Flexible Bottom Line
Chapter 929: Prime Minister Qin With Flexible Bottom Line
Hearing what the prime minister said, the emperor nodded and said: "What the prime minister said is reasonable, let's do it this way, Xu Yizhongli, let him find a way to make Long Wu retreat."
Prime Minister Shezhao immediately cupped his hands and said, "Yes!"
It was easy for that old Qin Hui to persuade the emperor, but it was difficult to convey it to his ears.
The two armies fought, the caravan stopped, and the people were panicked and afraid of suffering. At this time, if they went against the direction of Zhao Guo, it was obvious that they were telling Zhenxi Army that he had a problem.
You have to find a way to send the messenger there!
After thinking about it for a while, Emperor Shezhao said: "Now I, Shezhao, are about to lose another city. Longwu only sieges the city but does not slaughter it. Why don't we let the messengers simply disguise themselves as ordinary people and wait in the city of Longwu General?" When we take down and lead the Zhenxi Army to continue moving forward, we will order messengers to go out of the city and send a message to Qin Hui."
When the civil and military officials heard the emperor's strategy, they immediately cupped their hands and said, "Your Majesty is wise!"
Although this is a chance to survive at the cost of losing a city, this strategy is not worthy of praise, but it is Shezhao's only chance.
Now the whole country in Shezhao also understands the terrible combat power of Chu State, and how powerful the firearms are to the enemy's morale and the enemy's lethality.
Chu State deserves to be the strongest country in the world.
Shezhao bordered Zhao State all the year round, and faced the Zhao State army who was transferred to the forbidden army after being a little elite. It can be said that Shezhao was fighting a group of recruits almost every time, so Shezhao's attack was very powerful. Can go anywhere.
Now they are fighting with the powerful Chu army, and they are equipped with firearms. The elite soldiers of Shezhao who he thought were scattered immediately, and suddenly become vulnerable.
Now Emperor Shezhao is deeply aware of the gap, and cannot slack off in training soldiers and weapons.
She Zhao must develop firearms!
And the fighting power of the army must be compared with that of Chu! Don't think that if you can beat Zhao Guo, you will be invincible in the world!
And the most important point, don't think about replacing Zhao Guo anymore, maybe one day Chu Guo will be greedy for the land in the south of the Yangtze River!
They are still developing.
When the weapons can catch up with Chu, then go to destroy Zhao. When the weapons are not as good as Chu, let Zhao be their natural barrier!
But these are all things to say later. If you want to realize everything you envisioned later, you must first ensure that the Shezhao is not dead, and the messenger can successfully deliver the letter.
And things went just as Emperor Shezhao had expected, the gate of the city was breached by General Long soon after, and the Zhenxi Army continued to break through the city after a little rectification.
General Long obviously didn't want to give up on the once-in-sixty-year opportunity, and none of the soldiers of the Zhenxi Army wanted to give up.
They have been suppressed by Shezhao for too long, how can they show mercy to Shezhao's subordinates at this time?
It is precisely because the Zhenxi Army can't wait to move forward that the messenger can take advantage of it.
The main reason is that even if the Zhenxi Army thought that there would be spies, as long as the capital of Shezhao was taken over, it would be useless to have more spies, but it was absolutely unexpected that there would be a messenger hidden.
To be precise, even if they thought that Shezhao's peace negotiation mission would hide in advance, they never thought that His Majesty would really agree to negotiate a peace with Shezhao.
Now anyone with a discerning eye can see the decline of Shezhao, as long as you work harder, maybe in another three months, the trouble of Shezhao will no longer exist.
Small movements in the city will naturally not have any impact on Zhao Guo's army. Isn't it normal to leave a few small workers in the city after the attack?
In this era of sparse population, who has nothing to do to slaughter the city all day long?
General Long also never expected that a certain person in the court who is less than one person and more than ten thousand people is the biggest masterpiece of Shezhao.
Just when General Long was trying his best to capture one city after another in Shezhao.
Qin Xiang also started to exert his strength.
In the royal study
Zhao Huang looked at Qin Xiang and asked, "Qin Xiang came here, what is the matter?"
Qin Xiang said: "Your Majesty, we can no longer allow the Zhenxi Army to attack Shezhao."
Zhao Huang said displeased: "Now our Zhao army is attacking smoothly, and the momentum along the way is like a broken bamboo. It is a great opportunity to wipe out Shezhao in one fell swoop. Why can't we continue to attack?"
Qin Xiang opened his mouth to remind: "Did your Majesty forget the admonition of Emperor Taizu back then? Generals and soldiers must respect themselves!"
After the elites of the Zhenxi Army had wiped out King Ming, Emperor Zhao ordered the elites of the Zhenxi Army to return to the army immediately, which would have been impossible in the past.
All the elite frontier troops should be included in the forbidden army, and they should guard the capital.
If the generals of the frontier army have mastered the elite, if there is a heart of disobedience, how should the emperor deal with himself?
This is also the admonition of the emperors of all dynasties to the latecomers.
At this time, Zhao Huang, who had been dazzled by the victory, naturally had no time to take into account the ancestor's precepts and only wanted to quickly destroy the Shezhao. In this way, Zhao Guo would be less troubled, and at the same time, he could still be famous throughout the ages.
If you put this in the past, you would never dare to think about it!
Now that the opportunity came, Zhao Huang obviously couldn't care less about it.
Now being reminded by Prime Minister Qin, Zhao Huang suddenly broke out in a cold sweat.
Now the Zhenxi Army has more troops than the Forbidden Army in the capital, and most of them have transformed into elite soldiers and strong generals after two years of fighting.
What if the Zhenxi army became Shezhao after destroying Shezhao?
Emperor Taizu used his personal experience to tell future generations that it is definitely a feasible way for generals to support soldiers and proclaim themselves emperors to overthrow the old government, so emperors of all dynasties must guard against this.
Compared with achieving immortality, Zhao Huang still prefers to die of old age comfortably on the throne.
Zhao Huang looked at Qin Xiang, a flash of fear flashed in his eyes and said: "Then I immediately ask the Zhenxi Army to withdraw, and let Long Wu return to Beijing to report on his duties!"
But Qin Xiang shook his head and said: "Your Majesty, you must not be so radical. The most important thing for a general is military power. If Your Majesty is too hasty, it may backfire!"
Qin Xiang naturally had his own considerations. The reason why he advocated surrender was because as long as the annual payment increased, he could reap benefits.
But as the biggest beneficiary of the annual tribute, he absolutely does not want Zhao Guo to perish.
Shezhao has his handle, he has no choice but to persuade the emperor to stop the Zhenxi army from attacking.
But if Long Wu is transferred back, what if Shezhao is only deliberately showing weakness to the enemy now, and once the frontier army has no leader, what if Shezhao immediately gathers an army to attack with lightning speed?
When the time comes to directly kill the capital, the first person to die is probably himself, a person with a very flexible bottom line.
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