The queen must start from the head

Chapter 126 Flanking from both sides
In Zhaoguo's capital, the soldiers and horses of Daqin suddenly turned eastward, and the news that they were going to the three cities in succession caused the entire court to explode.

Someone proposed to send troops immediately, and someone said to cede land for peace. The king of Zhao Kingdom, whose body was hollowed out by wine and lust, with dark circles under his eyes, opened his mouth and yawned as he watched the courtiers messing around.

Then he looked at his most important right-hand man, the Prime Minister Huan Wen.

"Master Prime Minister, do you have a good plan?"

Huan Wen came out and bowed to his monarch, "His Majesty, Daqin must have planned for a long time to attack our Zhao Kingdom this time. The strategy of seeking peace may not work. I am not talented, and I would like to lead my Zhao Kingdom." 30 troops set out to fight to the death with the Qin army!"

Listen, this is the courtier who will solve his problems for himself!

Looking at the monarch's satisfied face, the officials all knew that the Prime Minister's words had tickled each other's itch.

For a while, someone came out and agreed to the prime minister to lead the army.Some people also came forward to object, thinking that the prime minister is a civil servant and has no experience in leading troops to fight at all. If he is asked to lead an army of 30, he is going to die!

Not to mention, these words happened to hit Huan Wen's mind.If the monarch really asked him to lead the army, the 30 army would be his certificate of friendship with Qin.

Seeing that there was another chaos in the court hall, Huan Wen, who had muddied the pool of water, returned to his seat, and the old god stood still.

The monarch was annoyed that these people were arguing below, so he turned his head and got up and went back to the inner hall.

When a group of ministers who were still arguing endlessly saw that the monarch had left, the entire court fell silent instantly.

Then the prime minister took the lead to leave the hall, and after the others looked at each other, they also left one by one.

This country has long been rotten to the root. The monarch is licentious and innocent, and he favors treacherous people.Civil officials are greedy for money and corrupt, and soldiers at the bottom often live by tightening their belts.Once the Qin soldiers arrive, it will be an overturned ending.

Here, after the King of Zhao Kingdom entered the inner hall, he swept away the impatience on his face, and instead became serious.

He walked to a hidden compartment in the house, raised his hand and tapped it three times. After the compartment opened, a small iron box appeared.After the box was opened, a small roll of paper was revealed inside.

The small scroll was opened, and there was only one line written on it: Zhaoguo couldn't hold on anymore, the plan ended early, and we should withdraw first.

After the monarch read it, he tightened his palm holding the roll of paper, and a small fire was born in it, which burned the roll of paper cleanly without leaving any ashes.

Immediately afterwards, he went to Zhao Kingdom's treasury, and put all the gold and silver treasures in it into a kit bag on his waist. This bag is obviously a treasure that can hold things in vain.

After doing all this, there was a trace of regret on his face.Because he was about to withdraw now, there were so many beauties in the harem, and he couldn't take any of them away.

But before leaving, you can still visit the prime minister's house that he has fattened up for many years.

In the prime minister's mansion, Huan Wen, who heard that His Majesty came to visit suddenly, hurried out to receive him.

The monarch and his ministers talked and laughed along the way, and then entered a wing of the prime minister's mansion.

Once in the wing, the two smiled almost at the same time.

"Prime Minister, the widow came today to ask you to fetch some things."

Huan Wen narrowed his eyes and said, "That's really a coincidence, I also want to ask His Majesty for something today."

Seeing that his attitude was wrong, the monarch asked vigilantly, "What is it?"

"That is your majesty's head!"

Almost at the moment when Huan Wen said it, a group of men in black who had been hiding around jumped out with swords in their hands, clearly intending to strangle the monarch here!

"Bold Huan Wen, how dare you kill the king!"

The monarch pretended to grab the door and wanted to escape. Huan Wen had prepared for many days, how could he let people escape so easily?

Two fists are no match for four hands, and after some scuffle, the monarch was taken down by all kinds of hands.

Huan Wen reached out with a long knife, walked slowly in front of the opponent, and put the knife on the neck of the former monarch.

"Your Majesty, have you ever thought that you have today?"

"Bah!" The monarch spat on Huan Wen's face, and the latter dodged away.

"I advise Your Majesty not to struggle anymore. Now that you are a fish on the chopping board, how about we discuss it? If you are willing to lead the civil and military officials out of the city to welcome the Qin army into the city, then I will let you go. Maybe, Qin Once the king of the country is happy, he can even seal the land for you."

The monarch sneered and said, "Do you really think that you have already made up my mind?"

As he spoke, there was a faint flash of fire in the hands tied behind his back.

At this moment, a man in a black robe suddenly came out from the secret passage in the room.He went straight to the monarch, raised his hand and tore off a human skin mask from the latter's face.

Seeing this, Huan Wen and the others were also taken aback.It turns out that the monarch of their Zhao Kingdom was actually someone else pretending to be him? !

The black-robed man was the mysterious man Huan Wen had come into contact with before. Looking at the man whose human skin mask was torn off, his face was full of shock and incomprehension, and said, "The Great Qin is heading south to directly attack Zhao Kingdom. The forces should have issued a recall order for you, right? You are leaving anyway, how about doing us a favor before leaving?"

The "monarch" whose disguise was torn apart was shocked. The other party saw through his disguise as soon as he came up, and even knew that the forces behind him wanted to recall him. Could it be that the group behind the other party is also a group of people who can see through the sky?
The eyes of the "monarch" flickered, as if he was making a difficult judgment.

After a long time, he finally made a decision, "Yes."

Three days later, the king of Zhaoguo led all the officials of the court, Chinese and military, out of the capital, and announced his surrender to the Qin army who had arrived outside the city.

Feng Guang, the supreme commander of the Qin Army, immediately settled in the capital of Zhaoguo and began to fully take over everything in Zhaoguo.Because the monarch voluntarily surrendered, and the Qin army had strict military discipline, it took a peaceful takeover, so there was no civil riot in Zhaoguo.

The sage who guarded the country of Zhao just stayed behind closed doors all day long, as if he didn't care about everything that happened in the country of Zhao.

However, with the arrival of the Qin army one after another, many interested people discovered that the Qin army that attacked Zhao this time did not have a million people at all, at most only about [-] people.

If there were really millions of Qin troops, where did the remaining 70 troops go?

Time back to half a month ago.

That day, the commander of the Qin Army divided the army into two groups before Luoyan Pass after reading the kit left by Mr. An.

After the first team entered the customs, it attracted everyone's attention.And the team's rapid eastward movement to attack Zhaoguo didn't make the spies behind think too much, they only thought that it was Zhaoguo that the Qin army attacked first.

Then, after the spies had all left, the remaining 70 troops took advantage of the darkness and led another general to attack Song State directly.

If you open a topographic map of the distribution of the Three Kingdoms, you will find that this is a plan to divide the troops into two groups and defeat each one.

The Great Qin State first destroyed the alliance of the three countries, and then divided its troops to attack Zhao State and Song State. Once these two countries were destroyed, the Qin army would encircle and completely wipe out the Northern Qi State in the middle.

Soon, the news that the Qin army broke through the northern city and the news that the king of Zhao State led the people to surrender, spread to Song State at the same time.

At this time, the king of the Song Dynasty began to feel worried.

The envoys he sent to win Wei Guo and Nanyue all failed, but now the Qin army is unstoppable, and the Song army has suffered heavy losses. If this continues, it will only be a matter of time before the Qin army reaches the capital!
what to do?What should he do?Could it be that he should put down his dignity and take the initiative to seek an alliance with Bei Qi?

Song Zhiqing here is at his wit's end, and Li Tianming is having a hard time in the palace of the Northern Qi Kingdom next door.

What's going on with Da Qin's move?

Although the opponent did not go directly south to attack Northern Qi, the neighbor on the right, Zhao State, had already surrendered, and the Qin army could attack Northern Qi from the right at any time.

And Song Guo on the left, you said that when you were fighting with me, Beiqi, you never saw you counseling.Why have you been retreating steadily since the Qin army came and started the war?
If things go on like this, once the Song Dynasty is destroyed, won't we, the Northern Qi Dynasty, be attacked from both sides?

In fact, this is exactly the third strategy that An Yun mentioned in the tip he left to Feng Guang - "two sides attack"!
So, don't be afraid that the enemy will play tricks with you, but be afraid that the enemy who is already stronger than you will still play tricks with you!

At this moment, Li Tianming was sitting alone in the study, feeling that he was about to turn gray.

It wasn't until his eyes inadvertently scanned the stack of exam papers from the previous days that his eyes lit up again.

He quickly stood up, and from the stack of exam papers, he found Mu Lian's exam paper, on which he had corrected with a vermilion pen, leaving the word "中".

Now, he read the exam paper again from beginning to end.

Just as Bai Lao said that day, Mu Sheng pointed out a way of survival for Northern Qi in her examination paper, but this way of survival is too dangerous and should not be attempted unless it is absolutely necessary.

But Mu Sheng was able to come up with this strategy, which meant that she might have expected that Daqin would not directly attack Beiqi. Only in this way could this road become a way of life.

what to do?Should he choose to take this path?

Li Tianming fell into hesitation. He decided to take this examination paper and go to the Supreme Emperor who was still in retreat.

After reading the examination paper, the Supreme Emperor only gave him an extremely concise reply, "Just do as Mu Sheng said."

So Li Tianming returned to his study, and he decided to start implementing the plan that Mu Lian said.

Whether the Northern Qi Kingdom lives or dies, whether it succeeds or fails, depends on this plan!

(End of this chapter)