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Chapter 39: Returning to China

『PS: Thank you for the reward of 10,000 yuan for "2973903740"! ~ In addition, I was heatstroke today, I lay down for a day, and I updated it again later."

On that day, facing the full-scale attack launched by the Qin army, the entire Luoshui Great Wall defense line quickly fell, and the Qin army's troops who broke through the defense line pointed straight to the North City Pass.

But only by capturing the Northern City Pass, the Qin army could not worry about Linjin, the capital of the Rong Kingdom, which attacked Hexi.

Around the afternoon, the commander of the Qin army, Ying Qian, sent envoys to persuade the Northern City Pass to surrender. However, the Northern City Pass guard Busha refused to surrender and expelled the envoys to express his attitude, which made Ying Qian quite angry.

During this period, there may be generals reporting: "General, the army attacking the northern section of the Luoshui Great Wall reported that they found traces of the 'ghost' in the local area..."

"Oh."

Ying Qian sneered: "What kind of ghost? He's just pretending to be a ghost... Who is the other party?"

The general reported: "As far as you know, the unit where everyone holds a sword is the scout sent by Shao Liang to inquire about the truth of our army..."

"Scout? Shaoliang's scout?"

Ying Qian's face showed a little incredible look.

He originally thought that the "ghost soldiers" were elite soldiers sent by the Wei Kingdom, but he didn't expect that they were Shaoliang's scouts... When did Shaoliang have such a powerful army?

Even though he was surprised, Ying Qian didn't care too much. After all, after stripping off the absurd cloak of the "Herong Ghost Soldier", the so-called ghost soldiers were just a unit of more than 200 people. How could they pose any threat to him?

"First destroy Herong, then take Shaoliang!"

On that day, Ying Qian issued an order to the Qin generals under his command in the temporary tent.

At the same time, Li He and his strange soldiers had protected Mo Jian and other Mo people from the northern section of the Luoshui Great Wall to the handover between the Rong Kingdom of Hexi and Heyang Kingdom of Wei, and were preparing to return to Shaoliang.

Although Li He also wanted to watch the Qin army's attack on the northern city gates and even the attack on Lin Jin, it would be meaningless to think about it carefully: without the reinforcements of Wei, the Rong Kingdom of Hexi was destined to be unable to resist the Qin army's attack. Instead of wasting time here, it would be better to return to Shaoliang early and discuss with Zhai Hu.

However, before this, Li He had to persuade Mo Jian to retreat to Shaoliang with them.

That night, while everyone was resting in a nearby forest, Li He raised this matter to Mo Jian.

Originally, Li He thought he would have to spend some energy to persuade Mo Jian, but he did not expect Mo Jian to agree readily, which surprised Li He a little.

In fact, for Mo Jian and other Mo people, they helped the Hexi Rong Kingdom to resist the Qin Kingdom's invasion this time, but they just wanted to curb the Qin Kingdom's ambition to expand eastward, hoping to make Qin Kingdom suffer a crushing defeat to warn those big countries that wantonly attack small countries. Therefore, whether in Herong or Shaoliang, it actually doesn't matter to them.

Given Li He's goodwill to them, Mo Jian and other Mo people naturally would not refuse the invitation of Li Baijiang.

With a little excited mood, Li He and everyone set out on the road back to Shaoliang the next day.

On the way, Mo Jian and other Momen inevitably noticed the unusualness of the surprise troops.

To be honest, Mo family disciples are actually good at hiking, especially in terms of hard work and hard work. The general army is even worse than Mo people. However, during this journey, Mo family disciples were vaguely unable to keep up with the surprise troops, which made Mo people and other Mo people secretly amazed.

Li He did not hide this, and told Mo Jian all the way to the positioning of the surprise soldiers, which made Mo Jian and others feel novel. After all, there has never been a military force like the surprise soldiers in the world.

After two days of rapid march, Li He and his party returned to Shaoliang from Heyangyi, Wei State, and returned to Weiying.

When Li He and the surprise troops returned to Wei Camp, the entire Wei Camp became excited. Not only did Wei Zhu personally come out to greet him, but even the soldiers in the camp spontaneously came out to greet him.

When he learned that none of the 205 men in the surprise troops had been damaged, and even killed more than a thousand Qin troops on the battlefield, Wei Zhu, who had always been serious, could not hide his excitement and joy, and he also valued Li He more and more.

During this period, Li He also introduced Mo Jian and other Mo people to Wei Zhu: "Battle General, this is Mo Jian, the Mo family's Ju Zi, who we met in Herong, and this is the battalion general of my Wei Ying."

Although the Mohist school is now declining, it is the former exaggeration of the scholarship. Wei Zhu attached great importance to Mo Jian and treated the latter solemnly: "Wei Zhu met a master."

Mo Jian also learned that the camp general in front of him was Li He's boss, and he also gave Wei Zhu high respect: "Mo Jian has met the camp general... If it weren't for the advice of Li Baizong, I'm afraid we would have died in the Luoshui Great Wall."

Wei Zhurao looked at Li He meaningfully, and then smiled and invited Mo Jian and others to enter the camp, and ordered Qiu Hong to prepare meat and entertain the mo people.

During this period, Wei Zhuze called Li He alone to the central army room and asked about the situation of the Qin army.

“Not optimistic.”

Li He replied in a deep voice: "Although our surprise troops have received some training this time, the size of the Qin army is too large, and the losses of a few more than a thousand people are not painful at all... That day, the Qin army launched an offensive against the Luoshui Great Wall, and the number of Qin troops dispatched was like a river and sea, with at least 100,000 people, and even more..."

Wei Zhu felt heavy when he heard this and asked again: "How long do you think Herong can last?"

Li He shook his head and said, "Maybe as Sima Zhai said that day, I'm afraid it won't last a month."

"A month..."

Wei Zhu paced back and forth in the house with his hands behind his back, frowned for a while and said, "You go to Zhiyang with me and tell Lord Zhai Hu what you saw with your own eyes."

"yes!"

On that day, Li He ordered Li Ying to entertain Mo Jian and others, and he followed Wei Zhu to Zhiyang and met Zhai Hu.

From Wei Zhu's mouth, he learned about Li He and the strange soldiers' performance on the battlefield. Zhai Hu also admired it very much and said with a smile: "Kill more than a thousand enemies, but he will not lose one of them. This is a very impressive achievement. Wei Zhu, a mere hundred generals, buried Li He too much."

"What Lord Zhai Hu said."

Wei Zhu nodded with a smile.

Previously, he tended to suppress Li He's military position, and did not want the latter to be promoted too quickly. In fact, he hoped that Li He would get more tempering. But now, the performance of the surprise troops on the battlefield is enough to prove that Li He is capable of leading troops alone. Moreover, the surprise troops are increasingly supporting Li He. In this case, Wei Zhuna is also happy to promote Li He's military position, after all, Li He is also his favorite general.

After thinking for a while, Wei Zhu turned to Li He and said, "Since that's the case, I will mention you as a five hundred general..."

"Only five hundred generals?" Zhai Hu said unfairly for Li He.

Li He was not dissatisfied with this, because he also felt that the position of 500 generals of the surprise troops was just right, and if he was promoted to 1,000 generals at once, it might make people gossip.

To be honest, with the respect and care of Zhai Hu and Wei Zhu, the military position is actually not that important to Li He.

Before that, he was just a hundred general, so he still commanded more than 200 surprise soldiers?

Not to mention that after the Qin army conquered the Rong Kingdom of Hexi, the next target was definitely Shaoliang. Li He had the opportunity to make meritorious service and promotion, so why do you leave an impatient impression?

Immediately, the three of them talked about the Qin army again. When Li He told Zhai Hu about what he saw and heard in the Luoshui Great Wall, Zhai Hu remained silent for a long time.

Everyone understands that if Wei State did not send troops, his Shaoliang would soon face the current situation of Rong State in Hexi.

The problem is...

"Have you made any statement on the Wei State yet?" Li He asked tentatively.

Zhai Hu shook his head with a serious expression and said in a strange tone: "Wei State...the war with Zhao State is not optimistic. Although he has gained the upper hand, the people of Zhao have been caught in something evil, but they just refuse to send envoys to beg for peace. It is expected that the battle between Wei and Zhao may not be able to stop in the short term..."

"Then..." Li He's expression changed slightly.

As if he had guessed Li He's thoughts, Zhai Hu said in a heavy tone: "Well, Wei may not send reinforcements to support Hexi..."

Hearing this, Wei Zhu's expression changed slightly and said in horror: "Is Wei State ready to give up Hexi?"

"I can't say..." Zhai Hu shook his head with a complicated expression.

Seeing this, Wei Zhu asked again: "What about Heyangyi of Wei? What about Yuanli? What about these two places?"

Heyang City is a city of Wei located between Shaoliang and Hexi Rong Kingdom, which separates the connection between Shaoliang and Hexi Rong Kingdom to a certain extent; while Yuanli is located on a high hill on the west side of Zhiyang. You can look down at Shaoliang to the east, Herong Kingdom to the south, and Qin Kingdom to the west. It is a city of great strategic significance.

As long as it is not a special situation, the Wei Kingdom will definitely not give up on Heyang and Yuanli cities.

Hearing Wei Zhu's question, Zhai Hu stroked his beard and said, "I don't know the plan of Wei yet, but... if Wei is preparing to give up Hexi, Herong and I, Shaoliang, then Heyang and Yuanli may not be able to give up Wei..."

"How could it be?" Wei Zhushi said, "It's just a Zhao State..."

He could not imagine that the Wei Kingdom, the overlord of the world, would be dragged down by a mere Zhao Kingdom.

Although Zhao State is also a great country, Wei State is the most powerful country in the world. Not to mention one Zhao State, even two Zhao State, Wei State has the strength to defeat it.

But the problem is that now more than one Zhao State is trying to pull Wei State out of the position of overlord.

After a while of silence, Zhai Hu said in a deep voice: "According to the news sent by the State of Wei, the three countries of Zhao, Qin and Qi seem to have joined forces in private..."

"Qi?" Wei Zhu's expression suddenly changed and he said in horror: "Why is even the State of Qi..."

"It's not clear yet." Zhai Hu shook his head, and after a glance at Li He, he explained: "Qi is a great country in the east, with its strength comparable to that of Qin, and not as good as that of Wei. A while ago, Wei received news that Qi was preparing to send troops to support Zhao... Even the allies of Han, the state of Wei, had rumors that the envoys of Qin, Zhao, and Qi had conducted persuasion... Wei had contacted the envoys in South Korea and asked him to persuade the King of Han to attack Zhao together, but no news has been obtained yet."

"Has Wei been targeted?" Li He asked frowned.

"It should be..." Zhai Hu nodded melancholy: "Wei State has been sitting in the overlord for too long, I want to come to all countries..."

As he said that, he sneered, with a little self-deprecating laughter: "Maybe this time, I, Shaoliang, will face Qin alone..."

Li He probably understood Zhai Hu's mood.

At first glance, Wei State was targeted by a great power, but the Rong State in Hexi and Shaoliang were affected.

Without the support of Wei, can Shaoliang block the Qin army?
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