In 225 BC, The King of Qin, Yingzheng, issued a general offensive order to unify the world. Wang Ben, the son of Wang Qi, led a division of 100,000 troops to Wei, while Li Xin and Meng Tian, two newborn tigers, led an army of 200,000 and attacked Chu in a big way. Wang Qi, a veteran general who insisted on 600,000 troops to destroy Chu, fell ill and returned to his hometown of Pinyang to sit and watch how these young people performed.
Therefore, Li Xin and Meng Tian marched all the way, attacking the city and pulling out the village, and the soldiers came to the Chu capital Shouchun City.
At this point in the war, the balance of victory was still on the side of the Qin army, but from this moment on, the Chu state began to play with intrigue and trickery, and Li Xin, who was playing, was dizzy and almost lost his pants.
First, the State of Chu began to seek peace, and Chu Jun sent people to the camp of Ping and Li Xin, saying that he would hand over Qingyang (present-day Changsha, Hunan) in exchange for peace. Of course, Li Xin agreed, it seems that the Chu people were afraid, and they had no confidence to resist at all, so it was better to receive the benefits first to confuse them, and then suddenly attack Shouchun and beat him by surprise.
Li Xin was wrong again, this time it was not that he was confusing the State of Chu, but that the State of Chu was confusing him, and he had just signed an armistice agreement with the State of Chu, and when he turned around, the State of Chu broke the agreement and sent the qingyang troops to attack Nan Commandery (that is, the area around Yan Ying, which was originally attacked by Bai Qi), and he was a tuan tuan.
The backyard was on fire, and Li Xin had to go back to the division to save Nan County, otherwise his lone army would be caught between the front and back of the Chu State, and the situation would be dangerous. There is another reason, Li Xin can't say it, in fact, his military food has long been used up, the people of the Chu state are stingy, seeing the Qin army coming, they will pack up things and run away, and there is no grain left for him, the so-called "because of grain to the enemy" has long become a joke.
Li Xin hurried back, but he did not know that Xiang Yan's 200,000 troops had secretly set off, and unconsciously followed behind the Qin army, slowly followed, and did not want to shoot.
After some rapid marching, the main force of Li Xin's hundreds of thousands of Qin troops finally arrived at nanjun city and flattened Chu Qingyang's army. In fact, at this time, Li Xin had not yet lost, as long as he occupied the southern county city and attacked Xiang Yanjun with Meng Tian back and forth, he might be able to turn defeat into victory.
Unfortunately, Li Xin was not Li Mu, he hurried back to the division, and he did not know how to engage in reconnaissance, obviously there were 200,000 enemy troops behind, but he did not know anything, and he thought that the Chu people were just playing tricks to delay time when they attacked Nan County. To say that Xiang Yan is worthy of being the ancestor of Xiang Yu, the concealment work is really good.
In the end, Li Xin still missed the last opportunity to turn defeat into victory, and he took a short rest in Nan Commandery to replenish his grain, so he led his troops to continue eastward, hoping to join Meng Tian in Chengfu (城父, in present-day southeastern Bo County, Anhui) and join forces with Chu. Of course, Xiang Yan would not give him this opportunity, after three days and three nights of intense pursuit, the Chu army had also come to the vicinity of Nan County, and as soon as Li Xinfang left the city, the ambush troops came up.
As a result, needless to say, Li Xin was caught off guard, the Qin army was defeated like a mountain, 7 lieutenants were killed, and the general trend was gone, So Li Xin had to put away his ambitions and retreat with the remnants of the soldiers. Facts have proved that Jiang is still old and spicy, to deal with veterans you have to use veterans, Qin Army in the process of unifying the Six Kingdoms, several big losses were in Pang Nuan, Li Mu, Xiang Yan and other veteran generals, young people after all love impulse, impulse is the devil. At the critical moment, fortunately, there was Meng Tian, although he was young, he was slightly calmer than Li Xin, and the letter of defeat reached the father of the city, the qin army's heart was floating, and the generals were afraid. At this time, Meng Tian showed an extraordinary general's style, and he gathered Li Xin's defeated army all the way and calmly retreated to Zhao Jing. Xiang Yan chased after him, hit a wall, and had to turn around and attack Nan County. Yin Zheng was furious, kicked over the seat in front of the seat, and came out with a flick of his sleeve, the attendants quickly prepared a car to chase, Yin Zheng got into the car and went straight to Wang Qi's hometown of Pinyang and galloped away.
Yin Zheng came to apologize: "The widow does not need to plot with the general, and Li Xinguo insults the Qin army." Although the general is sick, he can't bear to abandon the widow! ”
It seems that Yingzheng, as an emperor of thousands of years, really has a broad heart, and as the king of all multiplications, he has the courage to admit mistakes, which is rare and valuable.
Wang Qi agreed with a smile, but put forward three conditions to The King of Qin:
1. Give him six hundred thousand soldiers.
2. Ask Meng Tian's father, the veteran general Meng Wu, to be his second-in-command.
3. Please xianyang tian house a few places.
King Yingzheng of Qin laughed and promised. Wang Qi was indeed a wise man, and Qin Kongguo was entrusted to him, and he invited Tian Zhao more, just to reassure the hearts of the widows!
The following year (224 BC), Wang Qimengwu led an army of 600,000 men to follow Li Xin's marching route and enter the line of Chen Yi and Pingyu, but he accepted the lesson of Li Xin's reckless attack and failed, and the army stopped going deep, and joined forces for more than ten miles, holding firmly. The king of Chu did not dare to take it lightly, and he also poured out the soldiers of the whole country to resist it. Xiang Yan came to challenge many times, and the Qin army should not fight in the end. Wang Qi ordered the soldiers to recuperate and recharge their strength, and to slaughter cattle and sheep every day, and eat with the soldiers. The two armies held each other for a year, and the Qin soldiers and soldiers were idle throwing stones every day, eager to rush to the battlefield at once to kill the enemy. The Chu army could not fight in the end, so it gradually relaxed its vigilance. Wang Qimengwu seized the opportunity to lead his army to a great advance, defeated the Chu army south of Yu Pu (蕲, in present-day Su County, Anhui), and then took advantage of the victory to pursue, losing consecutive defeats and beheading his commander Xiang Yan.
It seems that unless it is a genius god of war like Li Mu, "whoever fights with the enemy must be heavy and cautious not to be taken lightly" is the highest law that must be observed by the general. In this battle, the elder brothers of Wang Qimengwu gave Li Xinmengtian a good lesson.
And being able to defeat the two famous generals Li Xin and Meng Tian and still be able to hold out for a year with the 600,000 Qin Void State Soldiers led by Wang Qi, the first god of war of the Qin Kingdom, it seems that Xiang Yan's ability should not be below the four famous generals of the Warring States.
After this battle, the elite of the Chu army was lost, and in 223 BC, the Qin generals Wang Qi and Meng Wu invaded the Chu capital Shouchun, captured the Chu king Negative Jiao, and set up Chu County in Chu Land, and the Chu State, which had flourished for more than 800 years, declared its demise. In this year, Xiao Xiangyu, a gravedigger of the Great Qin Empire, was ten years old and was fleeing with his uncle Xiang Liang, and one day, he would avenge his grandfather Xiang Yan.
Immediately after, the Qin army destroyed Chu and Yu Wei, destroyed the land of the Yan Dynasty, and in 222 BC, Wang Ben attacked Liaodong, Yu Yan Wang Xi, and then attacked the Dai, Yu Dai Wang Jia. Wang Qi, on the other hand, decided to settle the southern part of the river, lowered the prince of Baiyue, and set up a county. Wang Qi's father and son made every effort.
At this point, the five kingdoms of Han, Zhao, Wei, Chu, and Yan were all destroyed, and only the State of Qi, which was the furthest away from Qin, survived. So in May of this year, the King of Qin celebrated in advance, gave him a drink, and allowed the world to gather for drinking. (According to the law of the Qin and Han Dynasties, more than three people are not allowed to drink together, and when there is a celebration in the imperial court, the subjects are allowed to gather and drink, which is called "giving".) Later dynasties were celebrated as a feast. ）
On this day of universal celebration, what is Monty doing? He reflected that the first battle of his debut was defeated, and his lessons cannot be described as profound, and all the successful people in history are good at summarizing lessons and lessons, and Meng Tian is no exception.