Text: The Chronicles of Bamboo Cultivation
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Le Yi was one of the famous generals during the Warring States Period and one of the two people Zhuge Liang admired the most.
In 284, Le Yi commanded the alliance of five countries such as Yan, Qin, and Wei to launch an attack on Qi State, and fought a famous battle in history, attacking more than dozens of cities in Qi State, and bringing Qi State to the status of a powerful country.
However, although Le Yi made such achievements, he was still driven away by the new monarch of Yan State and died in another country.
So how big is Le Yi's ability?
Le Yi
Le Yi was a famous military strategist and strategist in the late Warring States period, whose name is Yongba, and was born in Lingshou, Zhongshan.
Le Yi's ancestor is called Le Yang, he is a general under Wei Wenhou, the founding monarch of Wei, and the fief is located in Lingshou, so in a strict sense, Le Yi is a native of Wei, but after Zhongshan was destroyed, Le Yi became a member of Zhao again.
After Zhongshan regained the country, Zhongshan began to be the enemy of Zhao State, originally fought well, Zhao State could not help Zhongshan State, but Zhao State gave birth to a Zhao Wuling King, and implemented the "Hufu Cavalry Shooting", Zhao State's strength increased greatly, and the Zhongshan State was destroyed with a backhand.
However, although he is a loser, he has no choice but to have a high talent, and he is deeply valued by King Zhao Wuling.
But the good times did not last long, although King Zhao Wuling was heroic, but he couldn't stand the bad enough of his descendants, and soon, Zhao State ushered in an internal fight, Zhao Wuling King was imprisoned and starved to death, and the power of Zhao State was displaced.
This made Le Yi see clearly the chaos and unbearable of Zhao State, in order to prevent himself from being liquidated as an old minister, Le Yi said goodbye to Zhao State without saying a word, and went to other countries to play his talents.
In line with the fact that as a native of Wei, he should carry forward in Wei, so the first country Le Yi went to after bidding farewell to Zhao was Wei, and the King of Wei was really interesting, especially looking down on Le Yi, and arranged a position for him to live less and earn more money to win people's hearts.
If ordinary people can have such treatment, the big teeth will laugh off, but Le Yi is different, he is a man with ideals and goals, he feels that this position can't give full play to his talents at all, and he can't achieve his revenge, Wei Guo can only become one of his own experiences, and he can't become the object of his life!
With this idea, Le Yi could only look for other countries, and in this way, a few years later, by chance, Le Yi finally met his "dream country".
Le Yi Benyan
Yan Country is the country that Le Yi wants to follow!
The strength of Yan is not strong, among the countries of the Warring States, its strength can be ranked to the end, but on the contrary, he has a blood feud with Qi State, one of the overlords of the Warring States, and the two countries often fight.
Shortly before Le Yi arrived in Yan State, Yan State was beaten by Qi State because of the instability of the throne change, and after a battle, 100,000 soldiers were lost, and ten years of hard work were in vain, and once returned to the pre-liberation period.
King Yan Zhao, the new monarch of Yan State, was very angry, and he decided to recruit wise men and wait until one day to take revenge on Qi State, and Le Yi appeared in front of King Yan Zhao at this time.
King Yan Zhao was very optimistic about Le Yi, and he was courteous and virtuous, plus the situation of Yan Guo was indeed in line with Le Yi's blueprint template for showing his ambitions, so Le Yi immediately decided to serve Yan Guo.
Le Yi agreed very much with King Yan Zhao's desire to take revenge, but he knew that this matter was not in a hurry, and if he wanted to defeat the Qi State, then there was only one way, and he would be in a row.
Therefore, at that time, Le Yi's first advice to King Yan Zhao was to endure, endure until he became strong, and then turn his face with the Qi State, and then win over several countries and destroy the Qi State together.
This suggestion made King Yan Zhao very moved, and he also decided that Le Yi was a talent and must be rooted.
After that, Yan Guo apologized to Qi Guo, ceded land and paid compensation, and sent money, beauties and protons, which made Qi Guo's defense against Yan Guo decrease.
At the same time, Le Yi also reformed the military capabilities of Yan State, and the goal of the reform was "Hufu Cavalry Shooting", after all, Le Yi did not enjoy the scenery of Zhao in vain in the past few years.
Because of the political problems of the Yan State, the implementation of the "Hufu Cavalry Shooting" in the Yan State was particularly rapid, and in just a few years, the Yan State had a tiger and wolf army that could fight to the death with the Wei State and the Qi State.
In the next time, Yan Guo was left to wait, waiting for a perfect opportunity, a chance to reach Qi Guo's ribs!
Le Yi is fighting and running to his hometown
Time flew by in a blink of an eye, and the State of Qi soon gave the Kingdom of Yan a chance that was enough to kill it.
In the late Warring States period, Qi fought frequently, and its ambitions were gradually exposed, and under its offensive, the Song State perished, but in fact, behind the strength of Qi State, it was the fierce internal contradictions, and the dissatisfaction of the vassal states against it.
Le Yi was clearly aware of this, and was ready to start the warping plan.
At that time, it was not easy for Yan to compete with Qi, so Le Yi's plan was to join forces with Qi, and under his persuasion, Zhao, Han, and Wei all responded positively, and even Qin joined in the excitement.
This time, the retribution of Qi has arrived.
At the behest of King Yan Zhao, in 284 BC, Le Yi led the allied forces of the Five Kingdoms to launch a fierce attack on Qi in 284 BC.
Under the forced offensive, the Qi State suffered heavy defeats one after another, and a "Battle of Jishui" annihilated the main force of the Qi State, the former overlord, just because of a battle that collapsed in an instant.
After that, the Five Nations Alliance was dissolved, but Le Yi did not give up, but continued to attack the State of Qi, in half a year, Le Yi successively broke through more than 70 cities of the State of Qi, the Kingdom of Qi fell, King Min of Qi was tortured to death by the Naoya of the State of Chu on the way to escape, the State of Qi almost perished, and the name of Le Yi carried out throughout the late Warring States period.
However, just when Le Yi was planning to completely destroy the Qi State without doing anything, the backyard caught fire, and King Yan Zhao died and the Son of Heaven succeeded to the throne, but the prince and Le Yi did not deal with it.
What's even more excessive is that under the discord of the Qi State, the newly ascended monarch of the Yan State, King Yan Hui, actually removed Le Yi's official position and asked him to return to Beijing.
This discerning person can see that whoever goes back suffers, Le Yi felt that he was walking on thin ice all his life, but in the end, it was too sad to get such a bleak end, so he didn't even go back to Chu Guoguo, and ran directly to Zhao Guo.
Tian Dan, the general of Qi State, took this opportunity to beat back the Yan army all the way and regained the more than 70 cities, and the battle finally ended with a joke, Yan did not catch any of the cities, and also pulled the hatred value of Qi to the maximum.
After this battle, the national strength of Qi State plummeted, and there was no chance to compete for hegemony, and Yan Guo was afraid that Le Yi would take Zhao Guo to settle accounts for him afterwards, so he directly wrote a letter of apology to Le Yi.
Although it is said to be an apology, every word has an invisible connotation, Le Yi lived up to the trust of the first emperor and so on.
In the face of King Yan Hui's ungrateful behavior, Le Yi didn't care, but wrote a letter to King Yan Hui, which was full of expectations for King Yan Hui, as well as the policies that King Yan Hui should implement in the future, as well as comfort.
Epilogue:
This letter was called "Le Yi Bao Yan Wang Shu" by later generations, and its fame was as famous as Zhuge Liang's "Teacher Table", which showed the noble character of loyal ministers.
Since then, Le Yi has become a role model in the hearts of all loyal ministers.
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