56 Li Mu Temple
Guo Kai set Li Mu a charge of rebellion, the government's proclamation has not yet been sent to various places, and the news that Li Mu was forced by Guo Kai to commit suicide by swallowing a sword has been spread under the deliberate propaganda of the people of the Qin Kingdom!
In Uncle Le's army, only a few senior generals knew at the beginning, and in order to stabilize the morale of the army, Uncle Le ordered to strictly guard the news. But a few days later, the scouts who were first sent out heard rumors and rumors circulated among the army. A few days later, the Qin army on the opposite side shouted to them: "General Li Mu has been forced by King Zhao and Guo Kai to commit suicide by swallowing a sword, Li Zuoche fled north to Dai County, and Brother Zhao Jun surrendered to Qin!" Let Qin Jun avenge Wu Anjun! "At first, the soldiers thought that the Qin army had made a counter-plot, and the two armies scolded each other! Two or three days later, all the border troops were silent, and there was a dead silence. Hundreds of middle- and lower-ranking officers collectively went to Uncle Le's shogunate to petition and demand that Uncle Le's reveal the truth.
Uncle Le knew that he couldn't hide it anymore, and said with tears in his eyes: "What Qin Jun said is all the truth, I have followed Wu Anjun since I was a child, and I have fought more than 100 battles, my heart is as painful as yours!" After speaking, I couldn't cry!
More than 100 generals suddenly burst into tears, drew their swords one after another, and shouted that they wanted to kill Handan to avenge Wu Anjun!
Uncle Le stopped his sorrow! said: "Do you think I don't want to avenge Wu Anjun? It's time not to do it now! Guo Kai has already ordered all of us to take strict care of our families! As soon as we move, the Qin army in front of us will immediately kill, and the old and young in your family will be slaughtered by Guo Kai immediately! This is not what Wu Anjun wants to see! King Zhao cut off the pillars of the country, and his demise was only at hand. Let's first guard the camp, the whole army mourns for Wu Anjun, and then think of a two-pronged strategy, not only to avenge Wu Anjun, but also to protect everyone's family! ”
When everyone heard this, they all bowed their heads and said nothing! No matter how big the hatred is, he doesn't dare to joke with the lives of his family, and the surroundings immediately quieted down. I don't know who cried first, and the barracks immediately burst into mourning.
The mournful voice of the Zhao army camp shook the sky, and the mountains and rivers were discolored. There were already scouts who reported to General Wang Ben, and all the Qin generals asked for battle. Wang Ben denied: "Attacking at this time, although you can win completely, it is easy to lose the hearts of the people of Zhao State!" The king wants not only the city of Zhao State, but also the hearts of Zhao people! The generals listened before they gave up.
In October of the 19th year of the reign of King Qin, Yang Duanhe and the Han troops marched north from Yingchuan County to storm the defense line of Ye County (now Anyang), and captured five cities in a row. Zhao Guoyan's army failed in succession. Li Xin of Qin led a successful sneak attack with 70,000 cavalry, and attacked the hinterland of Zhao from the junction of Yanmen County and Dai County, as if entering a no-man's land. Guo Kai, the prime minister of Zhao State, sent people to Ye County to supervise the battle, and on the other hand, he mobilized soldiers and horses from various counties to encircle and intercept Li Xin's troops! Successive failures, Zhao State was in chaos. often finally gathered 30,000 soldiers to fight the battlefield, but halfway through the way, half of them had already escaped, and before they reached the front line, even the generals who led the team were missing!
Wang Ben demolished several empty houses, built a Li Mu Temple in fifteen days under Zhao Jun's nose, and held a grand public sacrifice on the day when Li Mu Temple was built. After the sacrifice, he immediately ordered the army to retreat fifteen miles! Only Montenegro and a few relatives remained in the ancestral hall!
Li Mu fought for Zhao all his life, but was forced to die by King Zhao, and his sworn enemy Qin Jun built a shrine for him! When Uncle Le saw this Li Mu Temple from afar, he sighed softly and said: "Those who have attained the Tao have much help, and those who have lost the Tao have little help." When Zhao is dead, Qin will dominate the world. ”
Several people from Montenegro, dressed in vegetarian clothes, sat quietly by the main hall of Li Mu's statue. At the beginning, the border people of Yanmen came in groups to cry and sacrifice. It didn't take long for more than a dozen border soldiers, dressed in plain clothes, to come to cry and sacrifice. As they were about to leave, Montenegro shouted, "Generals, please stay!" ”
"Huh" Zhao Jun immediately pulled out his scimitar and pointed it at a few people in Montenegro! More than a dozen pairs of crying red eyes stared at several people in Montenegro, and the atmosphere suddenly became tense.
Montenegro was not in a hurry, slowly stood up, gently untied the treasure knife given by Li Mu, handed it to the leading general with both hands, and said solemnly: "Can the general know this knife?" Trouble to transfer this knife to General Uncle Le, and say that there is an old man waiting for him in Li Mu Temple. ”
The man took the sword in one hand, looked at it carefully, and asked in surprise, "Who are you?" How could there be Wu Anjun's matching knife? ”
"This knife was given to me by Wu Anjun himself! Touman Da Danyu's head was cut off with this knife! The other Uncle Le generals will tell you! After saying this, Montenegro sat down on the ground again.
An hour later, General Uncle Le came to the main hall with dozens of generals, dressed in plain clothes and holding Li Mu's treasure knife in his hand.
After a long time, Montenegro waited for everyone to cry enough, and then he helped Uncle Le up and said, "General Le's Day is mourning!" Montenegro has something to say to you! ”
"Brother Montenegro, you really live up to Wu Anjun's trust, just say it! How does King Qin plan to treat us, the old Li Mu? As long as we can avenge General Li and keep the brothers' families, we are willing to follow the Qin army back to Handan! Uncle Le gritted his teeth and said.
Other generals also expressed their willingness to return to Handan to avenge Li Mu.
Montenegro slowly took out a silk book and read it aloud: "The Book of King Qin, Wu Anjun Li Mu, has fought against murderous slaves for China for thirty years. Thanks to the Chinese people, it is specially allowed to build Li Mu Temple in the northern counties to show his merits. Li Mu's old department also made great contributions to China, and those who were willing to join the Qin army were given the second rank of knighthood, and went to the Mengtian army to continue to defend the northern frontier for China. I hope that those who return to their hometowns will be given a knighthood, and they will be treated the same as those of retired soldiers of the Qin army. After reading it, he handed the book of King Qin to Uncle Le.
"Brothers, King Zhao has broken his backbone, and the destruction of Zhao is just around the corner, even if we repel the Qin army, we will not be able to escape Guo Kai's butcher's knife. Inform down, those who want to return to their hometowns will return to their hometowns, those who want to guard the border will stay, and those who are willing to avenge Wu Anjun will go south with the Qin army! Uncle Le's eyes were red, and he ordered fiercely.
"Kill back to Handan, scrape Guo Kai alive, and avenge Wu Anjun!" The Zhao generals roared angrily.
150,000 Zhao border troops, almost all of them from the northern counties, all of them were eager to return to their hometowns, 100,000 said they wanted to return to their hometowns, 30,000 joined Meng Tian's border army, and 20,000 people said they wanted to go south with the Qin army because their homes were in Handan County, Ye County and other places. Wang Ben ordered the troops to be incorporated into the Black Mountain Division, and together they went south first, attacking the Zhao Cong Department from behind.
In order to keep it secret, Uncle Le, as a staff member of Montenegro, went south with the army together. grabbed the city all the way, and ten days later, he suddenly appeared behind the army of Zhao Cong in Shangdang County and cut off its grain route! Zhao Cong was startled, but he quickly calmed down, and when he saw that there were not many Qin troops behind him, he immediately divided his troops into 40,000 troops and stormed the Black Mountain Department.
Montenegro captured the city all the way and divided the troops to stay, and when they arrived at Shangdang, there were only 30,000 people left, and they had to divide their troops to defend to prevent being surrounded by the Zhao army, and there were only more than 10,000 people who could face the enemy head-on! Seeing the overwhelming attack of the Zhao army, he hurriedly ordered: "The lieutenant army will follow me to meet the enemy, and the newly attached Zhao army will quickly build a defensive line to the west!" ”
With a wave of the Black Mountain sword, the lieutenant army immediately formed a defensive circle, with a shield nearly a man high in front, a spear chief in the back, and finally an archer.
The black and red teams immediately collided with each other. Li Mu only taught the county soldiers how to defend the city against danger, and almost never trained in battle formations. However, the Qin army was well-trained, with more than 10,000 people advancing and retreating freely, and cooperating skillfully. When Zhao Bing rushed to kill, he was blocked by a high shield wall, and the back was immediately squeezed into a ball, and the spearmen of the Qin army continued to poke out from between the gaps in the shields, mercilessly stabbing into the chest of Zhao Jun who rushed to the front! The archers at the back can always rain arrows in front of the shield accurately! After a while, more than 3,000 Zhao soldiers fell in a pool of blood.
Zhao Cong's face was expressionless, and he ordered to withdraw one after another! One of the generals said: "These county soldiers have not been trained in battle, so if they continue to fight like this, they will be sent to death in vain, and the number of Qin troops is not large, so let's send the Praetorian Guard!" ”
Zhao Cong didn't listen to his opinion, but said to the soldiers who had just retreated: "If you can't defeat the Qin army in front, everyone will starve to death here, and those who retreat will die, and the reward for rushing over first will be rewarded!" Rush me. ”
The Qin army just took a breath, and the Zhao army rushed over in the shouting of killing, obviously more fierce than the last time, Montenegro continued to command his subordinates to meet the enemy, and Uncle Le in the back quickly built a defense line with more than 10,000 people. Progress has been slow due to a lack of heavy equipment.
This defense, obviously more difficult than the last time, still repelled the attack of the Zhao army, this time the Zhao army lost more than 5,000 corpses!
Zhao Cong attacked twice with the county soldiers, and with more than 8,000 lives, he consumed part of the Qin army's rest strength! Immediately said to his subordinate generals: "Now that the Qin army is tired, the Praetorian Guards must crush them!" ”
Zhao's Praetorian Guards were the elite troops guarding Handan, well-trained, and immediately lined up in an offensive formation and stepped on the drum to kill!
"General, we don't have many bows and arrows!" The carpenter sent someone to tell Montenegro.
"Brethren! As long as we block the enemy's attack one more time, the defensive line behind can be built, and the enemy can be trapped in the mountains. Will you fight to the death with me? Montenegro shouted.
"Old Qin, go to the national disaster together!" The Qin army shouted the oath of the old Qin people in unison, and the Zhongwei Army and the Lang Weijun were almost all Guanzhong disciples. They responded with the ancient oath of their ancestors, which also represents their determination to fight to the death.
"Offensive formation! Rush forward and kill! "Montenegro has already seen that Zhao Jun on the other side is different from before! Without enough arrows to defend, it would be much more difficult, and Montenegro immediately ordered to attack and defend.
The military commander Sima immediately gave the order, and in the sound of the drums, more than 10,000 people immediately turned into countless three-person teams, and countless three-person teams formed a huge cone-shaped formation to kill head-on! Nobita was so excited that he immediately brandished a big iron rod and rushed to the front as a cone tip!
The counter-charge of the Qin army was a big surprise to the Zhao army, and they immediately dispersed and killed head-on!
The garrisons of the capitals of Qin and Zhao were immediately strangled together. The difference is that Xianyang of the Qin State has not fought for more than a hundred years, while Handan of the Zhao State has been besieged by Wei and Qin many times and fought hard many times.
The big male elephant is a tall iron tower, a big iron rod flies left and right, and is smashed to the point that all vomit blood and die, as if entering a no-man's land! But in a battlefield where tens of thousands of people are fighting, no matter how brave a person is, it is difficult to have much advantage! The two armies suddenly fell into a bitter battle!
The last thing Montenegro wants to fight is this war of attrition. Seeing the generals of the Praetorian Guards of Zhao State commanding under the banner of the generals in the back, he immediately said to the carpenters beside him: "How far, can you shoot this general?" ”
The carpenter replied, "100 steps are 100% sure!" ”
"Good! Come with me! We are a hundred paces away from the enemy! "Montenegro ordered to the thousand short soldiers around him! Ride on the dark clouds and step on the snow, and take the lead in killing the enemy!
Among the short soldiers of Montenegro, there are a hundred Iron Eagle Warriors, tightly guarding both sides of Montenegro to slash left and right, invincible. Soon, I saw that Nobita in front of me was killing happily, and the enemies in front of him avoided this killing god one after another. "Nobita, regardless of both sides, just rush forward and kill!" Montenegro commanded!
Nobita saw that it was the master who came, and immediately took the lead to kill the enemy general, and Montenegro followed closely behind with short soldiers to help him protect the left and right, and the advance speed was much faster, and after a quarter of an hour, he could finally see the goatee on the face of the enemy general! The carpenter took out a whistle arrow he had learned from the Huns, drew a stiff bow, and shot at the enemy general......
When the general of the Zhao army saw that someone was killing in front of him, he saw at a glance that the black horse Qin would be the main general of the Qin army, and immediately pointed his sword at the black mountain and ordered: "Short soldiers come forward and capture and kill this general!" As soon as he finished speaking, he heard a sharp whistle from far and near, and a long arrow accompanied by the sound of the flute, and the sound of a porphyry passed through his throat! Immediately planted the horse, and died of exhaustion.
As soon as the main general died, the Praetorian Guard of Zhao State was immediately in chaos. Backwards defeated! Montenegro led people to rush and kill for a while, and then ordered to take all the wounded, including the wounded soldiers of Zhao State, and retreat!
Uncle Le has built a simple wall with stones and trees. The army retreated into the camp, and Montenegro ordered that the wounded soldiers of Qin and Zhao should be treated together. Count the people! More than 2,000 were killed and 4,000 wounded.
With more fights and fewer fights, nearly 20,000 casualties were inflicted, and they did not break out of the Qin army's defensive line. Zhao Cong knows what it means! Immediately summoned a few henchmen brought by himself to discuss countermeasures! Everyone sank for a long time, and a doorman named Lu Jia said: "The victory or defeat of the battle here can't change the fate of the destruction of the Zhao Kingdom!" Let's protect the Plains and retreat by path! Live in seclusion and wait for the times to change! Everyone agreed!
Zhao Cong said: "I was forced to sentence Wu Anjun, I'm sorry for my friend, the army was defeated here, I'm sorry for Zhao Guo, if I abandon the army and flee again, I'm sorry for my father, I'm sorry for the blood of the Zhao royal family flowing in my body." Run for your life, each of you. I can't escape, I'm also a descendant of the Zhao family! ”
"Pingyuan Jun, the Qin army has come from afar, and after another day of fighting, it must be exhausted tonight! In the second half of the night, our two hundred young heroes secretly climbed over the Qin army's defense line and set fire to their camp. Lead the army to retreat to Handan and defend the city! Calculated after the figure. Lu Jia said again.
"That's what you do!" Zhao Cong said.
Montenegro returned to the camp, regardless of the lack of people and horses, and immediately summoned the generals to discuss, and said: "In the second half of the night, the Zhao army will definitely take advantage of the fatigue of our army to come and sneak attack!" Shi Fatzi, you and the carpenter, Nobita with all the 2,000 cavalry ambushed in the left front mountain, when the Zhao army comes to sneak attack, you have to stabilize, Zhao Cong will be in command behind the army, you find the main general Zhao Cong, directly sneak attack the main general, take his head and return to the camp immediately, don't love to fight! ”
"No!" The three of them went to prepare.
Montenegro also commanded Mi Long and Aheige: "Take five hundred men with you, go up to the two mountains on the right and left, and pile a large pile of dry wood on each top, pour it with fierce fire oil, and light it. Wait for Zhao Jun to steal the camp, and then kill down the mountain! Remember, the fire must be big enough to ensure that the army of General Wang Jian on the other side of the Zhao army can see clearly! ”
"No!" The two of them were ordered to do it separately.
"Half of the rest rest, half of the fortifications, and there will be a great battle at night!" Montenegro commanded.
"No!" The congregation will go and prepare.
Uncle Le stayed, and his heart was very heavy! Montenegro knew that he was worried about Handan's family again, and Montenegro Anwei said: "Uncle Le, you can rest assured, Guo Kai has always been in contact, and ensuring the safety of every general's family is the basic requirement for Guo Kai to surrender to Qin!" Guo Kai didn't dare to laugh at the lives of hundreds of his family members! ”
"That's what I said, but there are more than 2,000 people in the Le family in Handan, who can not worry!" Uncle Le said worriedly.
The two of them came to the wounded barracks together, and 500 accompanying medical personnel were skillfully treating the wounds of each wounded! Nearly 10,000 wounded, more than sixty percent of them are Zhao Jun!
At first, the wounded of the Zhao army thought that the Qin army would cut off their heads and put them on the side of the road to make a Jingguan! This is the tradition of the victors of all countries since the Spring and Autumn Period, to put the heads of the enemy into pyramids! People from all over the world scolded the Qin army for being cruel, but in the past hundred years, most of the wars were fought by the six countries against Qin, and the vast majority of them were won by the Qin army. Unexpectedly, the Qin people just collected their weapons and told them that they would be treated as carefully as the wounded of the Qin army, and that they could go home freely after their injuries were healed. They didn't believe it at first! In this era, it was difficult for ordinary soldiers in our country to be carefully treated for their injuries, let alone the enemy. But when they saw hundreds of female doctors wearing white clothes and white hats and white masks, the wounded soldiers of the Qin army all called them fairies in white, and they also quieted down when they skillfully helped them clean their wounds, stitch them up, and apply medicine, and endured the pain, for fear that their howls would anger the Qin people and cut off their heads! So they also behaved braver than the Qin army wounded next to them, because the Qin army wounded always deliberately exaggerated their pain when stitching, and every time they could get the soft comfort of the fairy in white. When eating, they were even more unexpected, regardless of the Qin people and Zhao people, in addition to the meat porridge that each wounded person could not drink, each person also had a corn cob, which cost as much as three gold in Handan City, and the nobles could only eat it once in a while! They are all speculating that the Qin State is already so rich that the corn cob can be eaten by the wounded soldiers of the enemy country!
The wounded soldiers of Zhao State gnawed on the incomparably sweet corn cobs! A wounded soldier said with emotion: "After eating this meal, the head was cut off and it was worth it to make a Jingguan!" ”
Montenegro and Uncle Le, who were on patrol, happened to hear it, and Montenegro said: "You don't have to worry at all, you can recuperate at ease, if you are injured, if you want to go home, everyone still has a hundred yuan for travel expenses!" ”
"General, the Qin army has always taken credit for cutting off the heads of prisoners, may I ask why you are so good to us?" A commander of the Zhao army asked.
"Because the King of Qin has already regarded the Zhao people as the Qin people! Can it be bad for its own people? I was also Korean a few years ago, whether you want to or not, soon, we will all be the same people of Qin! Montenegro replied.