The tenth year of the Emperor Yuan Dynasty, early March.
The Qin State, which had solved its own future worries, once again sent a large army of 300,000 people to attack Zhao. Zhao State was frightened and asked Wei State for support. The State of Zhao itself also organized an army of 200,000 men and deployed defenses along the Taihang Mountains to resist the Qin army.
Early April.
The Wei State, which had already formed an alliance with the Zhao State, also tasted the sweetness of the cooperation between the two countries after the last cooperation to attack the Qi State. After that time, the two sides forged a deep friendship.
As a result, the King of Wei assembled an army of 100,000 people, led by General Wei Bao, and went to the front line of the Taihang Mountains to support the Zhao army. The two countries jointly resisted the attack from the sworn enemy Qin in the west.
After the Qin State received support from the Wei State from the Zhao State, the battlefield that had a slight advantage suddenly became stalemate. The two sides fought one after another, and it was difficult to determine the winner. They were facing each other on the front line of the Taihang Mountains.
In mid-April of the same month, the Chu State once again sent 200,000 troops to attack the Yue State. The Yue State was defeated, and only three cities in Wu County were completely lost. The 50,000 Yue army lost 30,000, and the remaining 20,000 troops retreated to the city of Shanyin, the capital of the Yue Kingdom, and relied on the strong city to resist.
In late April, envoys from the State of Yue appeared in the court of the State of Qi to request help from the King of Qi and state their interests.
Because the north of the Chu State is the Wei State. The Wei State is powerful and has formed an offensive and defensive alliance with the Zhao State. The two sides have a close relationship. Dealing with the Wei State is equivalent to dealing with the Zhao State at the same time. With the current strength of Chu State, it is definitely no match for the two countries combined, so it is impossible for Chu State to go north to attack Wei State.
At that time, South Korea was the in-law of Yuguo, the most powerful country in the world, and had this big backer. Even though the Yu Kingdom is located thousands of miles away from the northern border and has been out of sight of the Central Plains for several years, the Chu State does not dare to spy on South Korea easily to avoid incurring the wrath of the Yu Kingdom.
Then to the west of the Chu State is the powerful Qin State. This is a country of tigers and wolves. Only Qin State has always invaded other countries. I have never heard of any country that dared to tease Qin's tiger beard. There were two idiots, Yunzhong and Liang Guo, who dared to touch this taboo before, but then they stopped. Chu State did not dare to touch Qin State.
After thinking about it, after the Chu State destroyed the Yue State, the only country that could be attacked and provoked seemed to be the Qi State.
Therefore, Qi State was afraid that after the Chu State was destroyed and Yue State had no worries, it would send troops north to attack Qi State. Therefore, Qi State quickly passed a meeting to rescue Yue State and sent 100,000 troops south to attack Chu.
100,000 Qi troops went south to attack Donghai County of Chu State, and quickly broke through Tancheng, the weakly defended county, and swept half of Donghai County.
After that, the Qi army did not split up its forces and stop in an attempt to occupy Donghai County. Instead, it was frozen and went south quickly to Guoji County of Yue.
Within half a month, when the Chu State had just reacted and was preparing to mobilize its army to stop the Qi army, the Qi State's reinforcements had already arrived on the north bank of the Yangtze River, only a river block away from Kuaiji County.
The more than 100,000 Chu troops who were originally attacking Jiangyin City, the capital of the Yue Kingdom, suddenly fell into the dilemma of being attacked from both sides. They had no choice but to stop the attack and prepare carefully for the arrival of the Qi army.
The Yan State in the north of Qi State faced the great opportunity of Qi State's army going out and the internal emptiness. But he didn't make any move, just sitting back and watching the fighter jets pass by.
At this time, the Yan State was immersed in the prosperity of the two occupied counties of Qi State, as well as the vanity of expanding its territory and spreading martial arts.
In the eyes of the Yan State, although the world is in turmoil, it does not affect the Yan State, which is located in the northern Xinjiang and a cold land.
In the north of Yan State, the barbarians who used to harass him every year were completely swept into the garbage heap of history because of the emergence of Yu State.
So now the entire Yan Kingdom can be said to have completely entered a false peaceful age. The people of Yan State also enjoyed rare peace compared to other countries in the world.
Because of these peace affairs, although the rule of Yan State was very exploitative, the people in the country did not have any major complaints. On the contrary, they supported King Yan's rule more.
They had no choice but to let them see how miserable they were at being able to let go of Qi and Zhao. With lingering fear in their hearts, they couldn't help but feel even more grateful.
How can you think of rebelling and bring endless pain to yourself!
In June, as Qi State joined the battlefield between Chu State and Yue State, Chu State's originally prosperous situation suddenly declined.
In August, the Qi army broke through the various interceptions of the Chu State. Several battles occurred on the way, and finally reached the Shanyin City of the Yue State.
In September, the Qi army united with the remaining Vietnamese army. The two sides formed an army of about 70,000 people and launched a decisive battle with the 100,000 Chu army on the opposite side.
In October, because the Chu army was exhausted and had experienced a long war, and because it was in the territory of Yue and had no geographical advantage, it lost support again. Therefore, the Qi and Yue armies worked together, and with the advantage of favorable geographical location and people, they defeated the Chu army in one fell swoop and won the decisive battle.
The Chu army was defeated, and the 40,000 remnant troops withdrew from Kuaiji County, spitting out the Wu County they had previously invaded. Only when they arrived at Lujiang County did they manage to regain their footing and regain their strength.
However, the 70,000-strong coalition forces of the two countries also suffered heavy losses. In the end, only more than 30,000 people survived. Their strength was greatly damaged and they were no longer able to pursue the Chu army and expand the results.
At the same time, the Yue State, which had already recovered Kuaiji County and Wu County, went north to attack Chu State's Donghai County with the help of Qi State. Because many cities in Donghai County were controlled by Qi State, Donghai County was quickly captured by Yue State. middle.
With this, the State of Yue returned to its previous glory of 50,000 troops. However, there are too few elites among them, only 5,000. The rest are all new recruits, and their combat effectiveness is worrying.
At this point, Qi and Vietnam finally bordered each other, and the two sides communicated with each other and formed a military alliance. It has become another alliance that cannot be ignored after Zhao and Wei.
As for the Chu State, its vitality was severely damaged after this battle. Not only did they lose troops and generals, they also lost Wu County and Donghai County, and their power declined.
In addition, the Chu State also lost a large number of troops and horses. The Chu army, which originally numbered 300,000, now only has 150,000 left. It is no longer able to attack other countries and can only barely protect itself.
Now that they have gone through a long war, all the strong men in each country have been recruited, and it is already extremely difficult to restore the strength of the troops.
Even if the King of Chu tried his best to collect, he could only barely recover 50,000 people, bringing the military strength to about 200,000 again, but the quality has declined seriously.
In mid-October, the Qin and Zhao armies in the north continued to attack the Zhao army's defense line on the battlefield, regardless of losses. Daijun, an important town in the north of Zhao State with a long history, finally broke away from Zhao State's territory and fell into the hands of Qin State.
And because Qin State obtained Daijun, it had a geographical advantage over Zhao State.
(End of chapter)