The easiest thing to persuade between Yan and Zhao was that now that they had joined the alliance, Han Fei was ready to win over Wei Chu in the south.
From near to far, from weak to strong, between Wei and Chu, Wei is the closest to Han Fei and is also the weakest. Naturally, the third target is Wei.
When Han Fei took the 300 cavalry presented by King Yan again, he drove towards Wei with great momentum.
Everyone in the world knows that the Yu Kingdom that just emerged in the north actually led the conquests of Qin one after another.
Moreover, South Korea, Zhao State, and Yan State, the weaker countries among the three six kingdoms, still agreed to join the alliance to resist the tyrannical Qin State.
And from the news coming out now, the four countries in the alliance, Yu State sent 300,000 troops, Zhao State sent 150,000 troops, Yan State and South Korea each sent 100,000 troops. Now this newly formed and relatively weak alliance actually has defeated his 650,000-strong army.
This quantity and news frightened the leaders of various forces in the world and shocked them.
Among them, including the current king of Wei State, he is mediocre and has no long-term vision and can only see short-term benefits.
This was also the case when he was fighting for the unification of the Qin State. Not only did he not unite with other countries, but in order to covet the interests of one or two cities in other countries, he actually sniped behind the scenes, regardless of the fact that if other countries were destroyed, his own Wei State would be destroyed. The overall situation cannot be spared.
It's the same with him now.
Ever since he heard about the gathering of 650,000 troops, the cowardly and incompetent King Wei could not sleep well all day long, for fear that this alliance would attack him and destroy his Wei State.
Today's Wei State can be said to be truly declining. With the killing of virtuous ministers like Lord Xinling, all the wise and wise people have left the Wei State.
Nowadays, the court of Wei State is full of greedy, ignorant and incompetent people. They are not as good as South Korea, so how can they have any foresight
So when the King of Wei heard that Han Fei's convoy was approaching Wei and was about to send him as an envoy, he felt overjoyed and relieved.
Since the Hezong Alliance to conquer Qin plans to invite me to join this alliance, then I don't have to worry about a 650,000-strong army attacking Wei. On the contrary, he was able to join in, fish in troubled waters, and gain some benefits in the war against Qin, King Wei thought happily.
So when Han Fei met the King of Wei, he didn't say anything at all. The King of Wei, who was only greedy for immediate interests, patted his chest and expressed his assurance in front of Han Fei.
Wei State also strongly supported this attack on Qin. The Qin Dynasty was ruthless and wantonly bullied the six countries in the world. Even the Wei Kingdom could not stand it for a long time.
It was just that I was alone before and no one came forward, so I tolerated it. This time, since the eldest brother Yu Guo takes the lead, Wei Guo will definitely support it.
Moreover, the Wei State will send 150,000 troops to join the alliance to defeat Qin.
An army of 150,000 is already quite a lot.
Since the Wei State was attacked and defeated repeatedly by the Qin State, the land was plundered, and now only one and a half counties have land.
Although he was standing in the sacred land of the Central Plains with a large population, the population of this half of the county was 1.5 million.
But with these 1.5 million people, Wei State could only support 200,000 soldiers. No matter how many, although it is not that they cannot recruit enough soldiers, Wei will not have enough money and food to support them.
After all, nearly half of the money in the Wei State was spent on the extravagant spending of the high-ranking officials and the King of Wei.
With the addition of Wei, the original alliance of four countries has become five countries, and the army has also increased from 650,000 to 800,000 now. This strength cannot be underestimated.
At least, it is difficult for Qin to send out this 800,000 army now.
Although the Qin State now occupies a vast territory, and nearly half of the world is in the hands of the Qin State, nearly half of the territory within the Qin State is newly acquired, and the Qin State needs to station heavy troops to guard it.
This also means that the Qin State can use very little of this nearly half of the land. Instead, it has to spend resources to consolidate it, which is holding back the Qin State.
The Qin State stationed its 300,000 troops just for these territories, and did not dare to leave, for fear that the remnants of the nobles from the six countries inside would use their prestige and appeal to gather a mob of tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people. Cholera came to Qin.
This has also caused Qin's current embarrassing situation. Although it has a population of 10 million, it can only use 5 million.
The remaining 5 million were just plundered and became Qin people. However, for a few years or even more than ten years, they did not truly identify themselves as Qin people in their hearts.
The Qin State himself did not trust the soldiers recruited from these places, so how could he dare to use them to resist the attacks of the other six countries? Aren't you afraid that they will defect in battle
Therefore, Qin's current soldiers are all recruited from among its 5 million people. The number is not large, only 800,000.
Of these 800,000, he was allocated 300,000 to suppress the newly occupied land, which could not be moved. He also wanted to leave 100,000 Neng to suppress Guanzhong and Bashu, and Xianyang, the capital of Qin, also wanted to leave 50,000 to defend the capital.
Moreover, the Qin State's borders, which were close to the borders of the Xiongnu and the Yuezhi people in the west, also needed to be stationed with large armies. Even if they did not take the initiative to attack, they would just guard the city walls and passes.
With Qin's long border, it would take a full 200,000 troops to barely defend it.
Calculated in this way, Qin's huge 800,000 army could actually be mobilized to the front line, but less than 150,000 were able to fight the enemy. This is really unbelievable.
This is also the Qin State in history. Before attacking the Chu State, it had already destroyed the four countries of the world, Han, Zhao, Wei, and Yan, and occupied most of the land in the world.
The population is nearly 20 million, but it would be difficult to send an army of 600,000 to attack Chu.
With the mobilization power of the Warring States Period, the long years of war had already made all the people accustomed to killing people.
Every adult man can be said to be a qualified soldier. Even if there are 20 million men who have lost some young men due to the war, they can still recruit an army of 1.5 million to 1.8 million men. How could they not be able to recruit 600,000 men? !
The real reason is that many soldiers of the Qin State are guarding the hometown of the Six Kingdoms to prevent the restoration of the nobles and royal families, which consumes a lot of power.
Therefore, Qin King Ying Zheng naturally knew the current embarrassment of the Qin State. When he heard the news, the anger and fear in his heart were indescribable.
Naturally, the Chu State, which had a big traitor in the Qin State, Lord Changping, also understood the current weakness of the Qin State, so before Han Fei arrived, he took the initiative to send people to contact Han Fei to express that he also wanted to participate. The alliance's willingness to conquer Qin.
Moreover, Chu State is willing to send 200,000 troops together.
This time, everyone in Chu State vowed in their hearts to regain the old capital that was taken away by Qin State and regain the lost territory.
(End of chapter)