Chapter 86: The Battle to Destroy Korea (2)
King Han saw that some ministers were honest, so he retracted his gaze and said, "What Han Xiangguo said is reasonable, as for sending envoys to the other five countries to ask for help, this king has already sent them. Now it is time to discuss the matter of arming and fighting. ”
"The king is wise. Several ministers chimed in.
Han Xi didn't bother to pay attention to a few people, and said: "Your Majesty, the 50,000 troops of the Qin State are all elites, and the 50,000 defenders of our Weishui are probably not as good as the Qin army. The first priority was to recruit new soldiers and send them to Weishui to increase the defense. ”
King Han asked, "Who is responsible for this matter?" ”
Han Xi thought for a moment and said, "How about handing over this matter to the Bloody Cloth Marquis?"
Bai Yifei is not able to fight well, he is calm and calm, wise and brave, and there are brave and good fighting hundred-armored troops under his command. Just in case, King Han wanted to keep him and command Xinzheng to defend.
Said: "This king decided to let him defend Xinzheng, and Han Xiangke still has a suitable candidate." ”
Han Xi sighed secretly, King Han is thinking about his own life, Bai Yifei is not strong in martial arts, and he has a strong army under his command, so he can naturally escort King Han to escape at a critical time.
Said: "How about General Zhao Li, let him organize the recruitment of new soldiers." ”
King Han agreed, "Yes." After speaking, he said: "When does the Bloody Marquis think the Qin State will attack the Weishui defense line?"
Bai Yifei hadn't said a word since he entered the palace, and when he saw King Han asking, he said: "It's about to be winter, and the Qin army is afraid that it will go the other way, thinking that the Weishui defense line will be unprepared in winter, so they will send troops to attack." It is better for our army to reinforce General Shenqiu as soon as possible. ”
King Han listened to it and exclaimed: "Sure enough, it is worthy of everyone who uses soldiers, and this king thinks the same way." Qin Guo will definitely be worried that the situation in the other five countries of Shandong will change, so he will want to destroy our South Korea as soon as possible. Although it is said that marching in winter is a taboo for soldiers, it is also the best opportunity for Qin. ”
Many ministers thought so, and King Han ordered: "Zhao Li, Bai Yifei, Han Xi listens to the order." ”
"The minister is here. The three of them came out of the ranks.
"Zhao Li was responsible for recruiting 50,000 troops and sent them to Weishui to help defend against Wang Qian's 50,000 Qin troops. Bai Yifei led an army of 30,000 to defend Xinzheng. Han Xi was in charge of the transportation of military rations for the 100,000-strong army in Weishui. ”
"No. The three of them replied.
Within a month, Korea gathered 50,000 soldiers and horses, a total of 100,000 troops, and the general Shen Qiu was appointed by the king of Han to be the commander, stationed on the south bank of the Weishui to resist Qin, which was not much different from Wang Qian's expectations.
Shen Qiu was very worried that the Qin army would come to attack before the defense of the existing barrier was built. He ordered his soldiers to build a wall overnight.
In January, the construction of the fortress defense on the riverbank was completed, but the Qin army still did not come to attack. Since many of the South Korean soldiers were new recruits, their defenses were gradually relaxed.
It was already after the beginning of winter, the snow was falling, the cold wind was cold, the soldiers of the Korean army all relied on the charcoal transported by Xinzheng for heating, the soldiers were still unbearable to the cold, and asked to return to Xinzheng to fight again in the spring, and Shen Qiu rejected the soldiers' request on the grounds that the Qin army would attack Xinzheng.
Xinzheng, Han Xiang Han Xi was seriously ill, and Yu Han was responsible for transporting grain.
Now it is snowing heavily, and it takes two days, one night and two days and one night to transport grain to the Weishui military camp.
Tonight, on the outskirts of Xinzheng, it is also late at night, and under the reflection of the snow, you can still see the white expanse.
The grain transport team set up tents on the back of a hill to rest, and the people were already exhausted after a day's work, and they were all crammed into hundreds of tents in order to keep warm from the cold.
Charcoal was burned inside the tent to give some warmth to the cold tent.
In the big tent, the squeak of charcoal burning sounded, and the people had fallen asleep.
This is the hinterland of South Korea, not far from Xinzheng. Because the weather was too cold, the army and the people who transported the grain had transported the rations many times before, and they had never seen any suspicious people, so they did not leave anyone to guard.
At the foot of the hill, dozens of black shadows flashed, only a mile away from the camp, and eighty figures stepped on the snow without a trace, flying towards the camp tent, which looked extremely strange in this dark night.
It didn't take long for them to reach the outside of the camp, and ten of them were the first to move, moving towards the hundred tents that were occupied.
I don't know what they did, the people in the tent slept to death, and I am afraid that the thunder will not wake up.
Seeing that ten people had finished a hundred tents, the leader ordered, "Action." ”
The remaining 70 people flew towards the tent where the grain and charcoal were piled up, and they took torches far away and threw them into the tent. After a while, all the military ration tents were on fire, sizzling and blazing, and the soldiers and people in the hundreds of tents were still unconscious, and they were asleep.
Seeing that the fire could not be extinguished, the leader said with a smile on his face: "Withdraw." ”
Eighty figures disappeared into the night, leaving no trace.
At noon on the second day, a thousand people in the hundred tents woke up, and when they came out to see it, they were all shocked, and all the grain and grass were in vain, and all the food and grass were in vain, and all the darkness was at a glance.
When the man in charge of transporting the rations saw this scene, he was paralyzed on the ground, speechless for a long time, and his eyes were blank.
I don't know how long it took to come back to my senses, and fled east with a hundred people, it seems that I am not ready to return to Xinzheng.
There are also many people who are people in Xinzheng City, and their families are still in Xinzheng, if they dare to escape, their families will not be able to escape their doom, so they can only return to Xinzheng hard.
Yu Han, who was in charge of military rations, learned of this and pressed it down, not daring to let King Han know, otherwise he might not be able to survive.
He sent a thousand men to carry rations, and these thousand men were prepared, and no longer rested at night behind the original hill, but chose a flat land, although the cold wind was stronger, it was better than losing their lives. The leader experienced what happened last time, and he was told by Yu Han that at night, he didn't dare to be careless and sent someone to guard it.
Unexpectedly, they woke up at noon the next day, all the rations were reduced to ashes, and the guards were frozen to death. For a time, there were rumors of haunting in the grain transportation team, and countless people were panicked and did not want to continue to stay in the grain transportation team.
When Yu Han received the news, his face turned pale, and in order to make up for his merits, he personally took a thousand people to escort the military rations for the third time. This time, he also invited some people with strong martial arts to escort him, and he didn't believe it if there were no footprints, and it was rumored that it was haunted.
It was evening again, and Yu Han personally took ten second-rate early stage masters to guard the military rations.
There was nothing to say all night, and at noon on the second day, those who had experienced this thing three times opened their eyes and understood what had happened, and ran out of the tent to see that it was the same familiar scene, a scorched earth.
Countless people's faces changed drastically, they were terrified, and they ran towards Xinzheng like crazy, and the unknown was the most terrifying.
As for Yu Han and the dozen or so masters, they became extremely hard corpses without accident.
Half a month has passed since this delay, and there has been no charcoal for eight days in the Weishui camp, and many soldiers have long been impatient, and they have asked to return to Xinzheng for the winter around the big tent of the main general's revenge, and there is a great tendency to mutiny.
Seeing this, Shen Qiu appeased the soldiers, and wrote to King Han overnight, requesting to return to Xinzheng.
Three times in a row, King Han was not allowed. There were deserters in the army, no matter how he tried to make an example, it didn't work, and there were more people who fled.
These recruits put on their armor with enthusiasm, picked up Changge, and enlisted to defend Xinzheng. But after nearly two months of arriving at the Weishui camp, the Qin army did not move, and the morale of South Korea plummeted, and because of the unbearable cold, what is the heart of resistance to Qin, if this continues, they will freeze to death here, who wants to stay.
It's only seven days, and there are only 60,000 left in the 100,000 army, and when Shen Qiu sees it, he can only agree to the soldiers' request to return to Xinzheng for the winter.