Chapter 96 Section 8 Destruction of Wei

In the 22nd year of Yingzheng, the soldiers of Qin State divided into two groups, attacking Wei State and Chu State respectively. Their military purpose could not be clearer, which was to destroy the country. Let me talk about the battle to destroy Wei first. The commander of the Qin army was Wang Ben, who drove straight all the way, and immediately attacked the capital of Wei State, Daliang City.Reluctantly, the city of Daliang was strong, and there was sufficient food and grass in the city. The Qin army attacked several times, but all returned without success. However, Daliang City is inherently deficient in terrain.Daliang, today's Kaifeng in Henan Province, is located on the bank of the Yellow River. The torrent of the Yellow River rumbles just a few miles away from the city. The terrain of Daliang City is far lower than the height of the riverbed of the Yellow River. It really makes people have the illusion that "the water of the Yellow River comes from the sky".

Wang Ben then ordered the soldiers to open a canal in the northwest of Daliang City to divert water from the Yellow River and build embankments to block its downstream flow.It was early spring, which was the season of spring floods. The Qin army braved the rain to start construction. Wang Ben personally urged and supervised it.Following Wang Ben's order, the embankment burst and the flood flooded, and the city of Daliang suddenly became the country of Ze.The city wall was submerged in water for a long time, and it inevitably collapsed. Qin soldiers took advantage of the momentum and entered, and the girder was broken.Seeing that the situation was over, King Wei had no choice but to surrender.Wang Ben took all the land of Wei and made it Sanchuan County.The state of Wei perished, and three of the six states were gone.

When the city of Daliang was broken, all the royal family of Wei was lost, except for the fake young son of King Wei.Wang Ben passed down the order and said, "Whoever wins a son will be given a thousand catties of gold; whoever hides will be guilty of ten clans." Those who hide the son are really the nurses of the son.Someone persuaded the wet nurse: "Whoever wins a son is very rewarding. The wet nurse should know where the young master is." The wet nurse replied, "I don't know where it is. Even if I know it, I will die. I can't say it. As a raised son, you can't hide it. It means treason and fear of death. I have heard: Loyalty does not betray superiors, courage does not fear death. Whoever raises a son, lives them, and does not kill them. How can it be seen that profit is afraid of punishment? I can’t live, so the son will die alone.” So he secretly took the son and fled into the swamp.Later, the Qin army discovered it, surrounded it and shot it.The nurse knew that there was nowhere to escape, so Yi just hugged the young master tightly in her arms, and used her body to block the sharp arrow for the young master.The nurse was hit by twelve arrows and fell unconscious on the ground, she still did not forget to put the young master under her body to prevent him from being injured by the arrows.Seeing this situation, the archers felt miserable and couldn't bear to shoot again.When Yingzheng heard this, he was also very moved, so he pardoned the nurse's crime, put her in prison, and honored his brother as a doctor, which fulfilled an eternal story.

The destruction of Wei State took little effort.However, destroying Chu cannot be equally easy.Looking around at the remaining four kingdoms of Yan, Dai, Qi, and Chu at that time, Chu is the only big country that still has strong combat effectiveness.As long as Chu is conquered, it can almost be said that the unification of the world is a foregone conclusion.