Chapter 1016: East Becomes West (9)

There has just been a heavy rain on the grassland, the rain will be stained with blood stains of grass washed clean, re-exposed the green color, the rich bloody gas was swept away by the spring breeze, with a slightly sweet breath once again lingered in people's noses, after the rain at the beginning of the sun, all kinds of small insects crawled out of the ground, active in the grass from the bottom or the leaf tops, a fluffy dragonfly flew around in the sun, from time to time to stay at the tip of the leaf, trembling with the leaf tips up and down.

A spring rain has brought infinite vitality to the grassland.

It's just that Wang Xiao's face was extremely defeated, Shang Kexi not only ran away, but the five thousand cavalry pursued by Wang Jian were almost eaten clean by He Lanxiong, and before Wang Xiao's army arrived, He Lanxiong had already gone without a trace.

Rows of corpses of the Qin army were placed on the grass, and thousands of corpses were magnificent.

The sound of hooves rumbled in the distance, and the banner of Li Zi appeared in Wang Xiao's field of vision, he sighed and stepped forward, although he was also a general, Li Xin's status was obviously not comparable to Wang Xiao.

"I've seen General Li!" Wang Xiao clasped his fists and saluted Li Xin.

Li Xin nodded, turned over and dismounted, and looked at the corpse of Qin Jun on the grassland with no end in sight, his face was sad. Have you heard the whereabouts of Helanxiong's main force?"

"The scouts have reported that Helanxiong's main force has retreated in the direction of Jishi City." WANG Xiaodao.

"What about his cavalry?" Li Xin then asked.=

Wang Xiao was stunned, "It should be with his main force, right?"

Li Xin glanced at Wang Xiao, shook his head and said, "Definitely not. If I'm right, Helanxiong should have withdrawn his foot soldiers to Jishi City, and his cavalry troops would be hiding like wolves in some corner watching over us, ready to pounce and bite us."

"But within a radius of dozens of miles, I have sent out scouts, and I have not found any trace of them." Wang Xiao argued.

"Helan Xiong was born in the grassland, grew up in the grassland, and is familiar with this land much better than us!" Li Xin said: "I just speculate on his actions based on this person's temperament, he will never be willing to retreat to Jishi City to defend the city, the grassland is home to him, but for us, it is very dangerous, not blocking him in Daijun, it is our big mistake, the sky is high and the birds fly, the sea is wide and the fish swim, this time let him slip away, and then I don't know how much effort it will take to catch him again."

"This is a dereliction of duty!" Wang Xiao said with some shame: "After taking Feng Fayong, I originally thought that Shannan County could go down in one go, who would have expected that the Han army would be so fierce, and our army would pay a huge price to take Shannan County, but time is not waiting, Helanxiong is as cunning as a fox, and he actually saw that the situation was not good, so he fled."

"Now is not the time to discuss responsibility." Li Xin shook his head and said: "Since He Lanxiong has not been blocked, the next step will naturally be a bitter battle, Jishi City is the most important military town in the Han Kingdom, and most of his military industry is distributed in Jishi City, so we must win this goal. The Hetao region is his grain producing area, and if he takes these two places, the Han State will lose its powerful wings and can only fall back to the level of the previous Yan State, which is not to be feared. General Wang, you go to Hetao, I will attack Jishi City, this time, there can be no more losses."

"Wang Xiao understands!" Wang Xiao nodded heavily, "It's just that this time the road is far away, and the tens of thousands of people I have levied in Jiuyuan are not enough, I don't know if General Li can send a document back to China and ask the king to levy the people again, so as to transport grain and grass for you and my army."

"No need!" Li Xin smiled faintly, "Gao Yuan has been focusing on the management of Jishi City and the Hetao area over the years, this Gao Yuan does not say anything else, in addition to attaching importance to the people's livelihood, there is indeed a set, the Hetao area has a bumper harvest every year, I heard that the grain there can't even be piled up in the warehouse, and the caravan can't be transported. There is grain in these places, and we feed our army with war, and we feed our army with the enemy's grain."

"Rob?" Wang Xiao said in amazement.

"Requisition!" Li Xin corrected. In the future, they will all be the people of Great Qin, and it is their blessing to make some contributions to Great Qin now."

"That's right!" Wang Xiao laughed.

"Tens of thousands of people, it is enough to ensure that we have a certain amount of food, and we will raise the rest by ourselves in Han." Li Xin looked at the vast grassland, "And no matter how many people are requisitioned, on this grassland, the cavalry is coming and going like the wind, how many troops can we send to protect the grain road?" Helanxiong is afraid that what he is staring at now is our grain channel!"

"You can also force the Zhao people to raise food for us!" WANG Xiaodao.

"That's nature, let the Zhao people raise food for us, let them protect the food for us." Li Xin smiled: "Zhao Qi is now frightened, as long as we don't march to Handan, he will agree to anything. Hahaha, I have an army of 100,000 here, and Meng Tian and Lu Chao are also 100,000 troops, if he dares to raise his teeth, the two armies will turn around, and in an instant, he will be able to destroy his Zhao Kingdom."

"It's just a matter of time!" WANG Xiaodao.

"I'm afraid Zhao Guo is still looking forward to us fighting with Han Guo now, right?" Li Xin smiled confidently: "But their hope is doomed to fail."

Wei Guo, Da Liang. Zhou Changshou overturned the big case, his beard was all open, he sat on the ground with his ass, covered his face with his hands, and cried, although speaking of which, he had betrayed Zhao Guo and taken refuge in the Han, but in his heart, he always thought that it was Zhao Qi who forced him to take this step, and his heart has always been thinking about Da Zhao. The 100,000 soldiers of the Hedong battalion were wiped out, making him feel like he was dead, that army was the foundation that General Zhao Mu and Zhao took him, Wu Zeng and others had worked hard for many years, and it was precisely because of the existence of this 100,000 army that Zhao State had fought against Qin State for so many years.

"Bastard, I know that Jing Rufeng is not a good thing, otherwise why would General Zhao have been holding him down for so many years and not allowing him to have a chance to stand out in our army, the 100,000 army is just gone." A big man from Angzang, crying in the house, in the camp in Hedong, the senior generals of Zhao Mu's family were almost not cleaned, but the countless grassroots officers could not be cleaned, many of them were his old departments of Zhou Changshou, and now they are all gone, and they are dead in a daze, and they are not clear.

A pair of big hands pressed on Zhou Changshou's shoulder, "Brother Zhou, let's mourn by the way!"

Zhou Changshou raised his head and saw the haggard faces of the infantrymen, "The deceased is gone, now we have to cheer up to deal with the strong enemy in front of us, we just received the news, Meng Tian and Lu Chao are two armies in one, under the unified command of Meng Tian, more than 100,000 troops have rushed towards our defense line."

Zhou Changshou jumped up, "I'm going to fight them to the death. If I don't avenge the 100,000 soldiers of the Hedong battalion, I swear not to be a man."

The infantry nodded: "The Qin people are our common enemy, I just received the news, Zhao Qi opened Shanggu County, Li Xin led 100,000 troops out of Shanggu, has captured Dai County, Wang Xiao led another army to capture our Shannan County, General Feng Fayong died in battle, General He Lanxiong had to withdraw from Dai County, retreat to Jishi City, now, it has reached the most critical time, no matter which side of Commander Helanxiong or our side, if there is a problem on either side, the Qin army can drive straight into the hinterland of our Han Dynasty."

"They have an army of 100,000, but the number of troops in our hands is not much less than theirs, and the King of Han will definitely send reinforcements." Zhou Changshou said loudly.

"That's nature." The infantry nodded, "But it happened suddenly, this time, it was King Han, I'm afraid I couldn't have expected it in advance, it always takes time for reinforcements to be pulled, and before that, I have to sue us to resist it, Brother Zhou, you now have 20,000 people in your hands, I have 10,000 people in my hands, and the new Wei army has 30,000 people, this is all our strength. In terms of strength, we are not as good as the other party, and in terms of combat effectiveness, I am afraid that we are not comparable to the other party, the main force of the 100,000 Qin army comes from Meng Tian's troops. Even under Lu Chao's command, it is also an elite division that has defeated the entire Han Land and most of the Wei Kingdom, and the balance of strength between the two sides is still very large."

"Since ancient times, there have been countless examples of the weak defeating the strong." Zhou Changshoudao.

The infantry laughed, "General Zhou is right, if you really want to talk about it, over the years, our Han army has really been fighting under the condition of being at a disadvantage, but it has never lost, even if there is a small setback in front, but in the end, it is always us who wins, but Brother Zhou, there is one thing I want to say in the front, our three armies, now we need to unify the power, there can only be one voice."

"This is naturally no problem, my subordinates under Zhou, obey your orders from General Bu, and only you will be the first to watch."

"Thank you, Brother Zhou!" Infantry Road.

"I don't ask for anything else, I just want to be able to hit Xianyang one day earlier, catch Li Xin, Meng Tian, Wang Xiao, Lu Chao, pump their tendons, and pick their skin!" Zhou Changshou is evil to the side of the gall.

"General Zhou, there is a high-ranking official from the Supervision Yuan on our side, and he wants to talk to you alone." The infantry suddenly changed his words and said.

"Senior officials of the Supervisory Yuan, who, Niu Ben, right?" A senior official of the Han Supervision Yuan, Zhou Changshou only knew one Niu Ben.

"No, the level is much higher than Niu Ben, he is the vice president of the Supervision Yuan, Yi Bin, in charge of foreign affairs." The infantry laughed.

Under the dim oil lamp, Yi Bin, who was dressed in black, was like a ghost, and the position he was sitting in was exactly in the corner of the oil lamp, and the whole person seemed to be integrated into the darkness. And the position where Zhou Changshou was sitting happened to be in the brightest place of the oil lamp, which made Zhou Changshou a little uncomfortable.

"General Zhou, the matter of Zhao Guo, you must already know very well." Yi Bin is quiet and authentic.

"Of course." Zhou Changshou gritted his teeth and said. Zhao Qi, the only husband, a traitor, if Zhao Guo dies, he will definitely die at his hands."

"Zhao Qi is now covering the sky in the country, and the failure of the Hedong camp on the Guanzhong Plain has made Zhao Qi tighten his control over the country, because he knows very well that this defeat of the Zhao army has put his position in jeopardy. Now in Zhao State, an undercurrent of opposition to him is surging, but they are now lacking a leader." Yi Bindao.

Zhou Changshou's eyes shrank slightly, "You mean ......?"

"Yes, I'm talking about General Zhou, you are General Zhao Mu's deputy, and you also have high prestige in the army, although Zhao Qi has been purging General Zhao's forces all these years, but he can't always purge the grassroots officers, our Supervision Yuan hopes that General Zhou can return to Handan, of course, it is a secret return, and you will come forward to gather the forces of Handan's Weiwu troops against Zhao Qi, so as to overthrow Zhao Qi's rule." Yi Bindao.

Zhou Changshou swallowed a mouthful of saliva, "If I go to Handan, then here?"

"Here are infantry generals." Yi Bin said: "General Zhou, Handan needs you more now." (To be continued......) R1292