Xin Lingjun's "Art of War of The Prince of Wei", twenty-one articles, seven volumes of the array map. Before Qin Shi Huang ascended the throne, Xin Lingjun defeated the Qin army three times, and from the process of these three wars, we will see how the actual combat level of Xin Lingjun is.
First, steal the charm to save Zhao
After the Battle of Changping, Bai Qi quickly made a deployment, Sima Terrier went north to attack jinyang, the old capital of the Zhao state, and Wang Gongdong attacked and attacked the Zhao state fortress Wu'an and directly approached Handan, preparing to destroy the Zhao state in one fell swoop. Later, Zuo Gengwang, who was in Wu'an, replaced Wang Ling as a general and continued to attack Handan with additional troops.
The King of the Plains of the State of Zhao sent people to ask for help from the princes, and the King of Wei an knew very well that the State of Zhao and the State of Wei were cold in their lips and that the State of Zhao would be saved, so he sent the veteran general Jin Yi [bǐ] to command 100,000 troops to camp at Yincheng on the border of Wei and Zhao.
The Jin soldiers were in Yincheng, south of Zhangshui, and as long as they crossed the Zhangshui, they could reach Handan within a day. However, Jin despised the will of King Wei An and did not rush to battle at Yincheng.
Jin despised yincheng, sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight, in fact, it was also very dangerous, once the city of Handan was really destroyed, the rescue plan of the Wei state would completely fail. What Jin was waiting for was actually an opportunity, a time for the Qin army to reach the maximum casualties.
However, Wei Guoxin Lingjun did not think so, his lips were cold, in case Zhao Guo really died, the demise of Wei Guo would not be far away. After repeatedly unsuccessfully persuading King Wei An, Xin Lingjun decided to march in danger and steal a charm to save Zhao.
In the large camp of the Wei army in Yincheng, the general Jin Yi took out the other half of the tiger charm in his arms, which matched the tiger of Xin Lingjun and was seamless. Jin Yi also sent someone to Da Liang to verify, and Zhu Hai, a disciple of the Xinling Jun, took out a forty-pound hammer from his long sleeve and struck Jin Yi in the first blow, and the poor old general's brain plasma burst open and he was out of breath on the spot.
In 257 BC, the Wei state Xin Lingjun led 80,000 elite troops, and the Chu state ChunShenjun led 100,000 troops to rescue Handan. The Zhao army inside Handan City also attacked outside the city, and the coalition army had the numerical superiority.
The Qin army was defeated, Zheng Anping led 20,000 Qin troops to surrender, and Wang Gong led his army to retreat to the Taihang Mountains and retreated to Fencheng, Hedong County. Xin Lingjun pursued to Hedong County and killed 20,000 Qin troops, paying only 6,000 people.
In this war, three of the four sons of the Warring States appeared in the war, namely the Plain Jun of the Zhao Kingdom, the Chun Shen Jun of the Chu State, and the Xin Ling Jun of the Wei State, of which the Xin Ling Jun was the youngest and had the greatest military achievements.
Second, the combination of vertical and longitudinal breakthrough Qin
In 248 BC, Lü Buwei, the xiangguo of the State of Qin, sent his beloved general Meng Xiao (孟骜) to lead a large army to attack the State of Zhao. The Mongol army conquered Jinyang, which had been recaptured a few years earlier, and thirty-seven cities within the taiyuan county of Yuci (present-day southeast of Taiyuan, Shanxi), Xincheng (present-day southern Shuo County, Shanxi), and Wolf Meng (present-day northern Taiyuan, Shanxi).
In the face of the aggressive offensive of the Qin army, King Xiang of Zhao was determined to fight back. Zhao Guolian po and Le Cheng were gone, there were no generals in the army, and King Zhao remembered Xin Lingjun.
Since the Xinling Emperor Wei Wujie had been stealing a charm to save Zhao more than ten years ago, he had not dared to return to Wei in the Zhao Kingdom. At that time, King Xiaocheng of Zhao took the arm of Xin Lingjun and stepped into the main hall of the Zhao King's Palace together, and also sealed five cities to make food for Xin Lingjun.
Now, more than ten years later, the generals above the Zhao Mourning Xiang King sealed the credit lingjun, made the general Pang Yan deputy, and raised the Zhao army of 100,000 to resist Qin.
Ten years after the Battle of Handan, Xin Lingjun led the army for the second time, and he ordered his disciples to go to the various princely states to move reinforcements.
The King of Wei sent people to hold the Seal of the State of Wei and went to the State of Zhao to welcome Lingjun as a general. The army prepared by the King of Wei for Xin Lingjun was also 100,000 people, and Xin Lingjun received the Wei army on the banks of the Zhangshui River, and the two armies of Zhao and Wei merged, and 200,000 xiongshi were enough to resist the Mengxiao army.
Soon after Xinling Jun commanded the army, good news followed, and the three kingdoms of Yan, Han, and Chu all admired Xinling's use of troops like gods, heard that he was the commander-in-chief, and sent generals to lead troops to Wei to listen to his moderation.
The armies of the five countries totaled more than 400,000, with joint camps of more than 100 miles, the flags covered the sun, and the army was at its peak, stationed on the border of Zhao and Wei.
On the qin side, Lü Buwei had great trust in MengXiao, and he mobilized all the forces of the Qin state to reinforce Mengxiao, and the Mengxiao army also reached more than 300,000.
The Xinling Emperor ordered Wei Qing to command the Wei Division, and Jingyang to command the Chu Division, with nearly 200,000 people, to build a company of fortifications, falsely plant the banner of the Xinling Jun, and not to fight in order to resist the Mongol army.
Xin Lingjun himself, commanding more than 200,000 troops of the three kingdoms of Zhao, Han, and Yan, sped west along the southern foothills of the Taihang Mountains. The three kingdoms army commanded by Xin Lingjun did not attack through the king of the wilderness and Wu Sui, and reached Hedong County through the shortest passage of the Taihang Mountains, "2 Xuan Guanxing". Further west to the east bank of the Yellow River, then along the Yellow River south to reach the confluence of weishui and the Yellow River.
The main reason for circumventing such a long distance to cut off the grain and grass of the Qin army was to prevent the Mengxiao army from coming to the rescue, and at the same time bypassing the Hangu Pass, the soldiers cut off the supply of grain and grass for the Qin army without bloodshed.
Meng Xiao's rear road was cut off, and he selected tens of thousands of old and weak soldiers from the army, falsely built the banner of "Great General Meng", and continued to hold the Wei and Chu armies. Then drive the elite as far as possible, rush away, and reflexively come to fight with the Xin Lingjun.
The armies of the four countries fought on the south bank of the Yellow River, stirring up a ball from dawn to darkness.
In this battle, the Mengxiao army lost nearly 100,000 horses, Wang Gong's army lost more than 50,000 people, the grain ships were lost, and the Qin army suffered a major defeat.
King An of Wei heard that Lingjun had broken the Qin army, returned with great joy, and went out of the city thirty miles to greet him.
In this war, the whole Qin state once again saw how terrible Xin Lingjun's military talent was. In the next few years, before the death of Xin Lingjun, Lü Buwei did not dare to launch an offensive against the Three Jins.
3. Retake Tao County
After the combined column army broke the Qin army, all the princely states praised the process and results of the joint column. However, the credible Lingjun did not take this achievement to heart, and the focus of his heart was in another place: Tao County.
The Tao County, occupied by the State of Qin, almost split the State of Wei into two large pieces. If tao county could be taken advantage of, the geopolitical situation of the State of Wei would be greatly improved, and it would be possible to become the hegemon of the Central Plains again.
Xin Lingjun sent off the generals of shikoku, feasted on a feast, and rejoiced with the former doormen. Envoys from various countries also came to Wei with heavy gifts to see the Xinling Jun, who had already become the embodiment of the gods in the hearts of the people of the Six Kingdoms.
However, no one expected that Xin Lingjun was just acting in a play, and just when people thought that he had achieved fame and had no time to split up, Xin Lingjun suddenly led the newly victorious Wei army and entered Tao County.
Tao County had been incorporated into the Qin state for forty years, and in the early days, Tao County was a fief of Wei Ran, and as a grain tun place for troops to the east, and the Qin state had heavy troops stationed. Later, the Qin state attacked from afar, the strategic significance of Tao County declined, and the number of defenders also dropped significantly. Now Lü Buwei's fiefdom is in Luoyi, and the wealthy Tao County is more of economic significance to the Qin state.
But Tao County was too important for the State of Wei, a place that almost divided the State of Wei into two, so that the State of Wei could not take care of each other, and the land was divided into two large pieces, so that the Wei people were like fish in the throat.
When the Wei army marched into Tao County, the local Qin defenders could not stop this newly victorious division, and the cities of Tao County were gradually occupied by the Wei army.
A month later, the State of Wei annexed all the cities of Tao County, and the world exclaimed: The Heavenly Descending God will be Wei Wujie! Lü Buwei of the Qin State was already trembling when he heard of Mengxiao's defeat, and the news of the loss of Tao County was even more scattered, and the Qin State talked about the discoloration of the Xinling Jun, and even if anyone dared to send troops to the East.
After the State of Wei integrated Tao County, the two major blocks of east and west were connected, and the State of Wei became strong again, and there was a tendency to become the hegemon of the Central Plains again. Xin Lingjun returned to the Kingdom of Wei with a series of brilliant achievements, and the King of Wei was so thirsty that he was pulverized and watered by fire.
4. The Death of Xin Lingjun
However, Xin Lingjun was not as successful in the State of Wei, and the reason was still due to the suspicion of his brother King An of Wei. At that time, King Wei An was not in good health, and he could not control Xin Lingjun, so after his death, how could the crown prince Wei Zeng control his uncle?
The name of the Emperor of Xinling moved the world, and the princes were not obsessed. The princes will be disrespectful and fearful. Xin Lingjun was a general of Wei, and all the princes and soldiers served their orders, and the world only knew that there was Xin Lingjun, but did not know that there was a King of Wei.
At that time, the crown prince Wei Zeng was a hostage in the State of Qin, and Lü Buwei sent people to alienate Wei Zeng and Xin Lingjun, and at the same time sent people to the State of Wei to spread rumors and cause trouble, making King Wei Even more jealous of his brother.
How could Xin Lingjun not know the thoughts of his brother King Wei An, and in order to take care of the overall situation, gongzi was ill and did not go to the court, and handed over the Xiangyin soldier charm to the King of Wei An. After that, Xin Lingjun sought beauty and feasted and drank with the guests day and night, but he was afraid that he would not be able to do so.
In the past few years, the hero Xin Lingjun has spent in indulgence and wine. The hero is useless, and the wine is stained with residual spring.