Chapter 303: Famous General Bai Qi

The sun rose, and the first batch of 30,000 of the 100,000 infantry army began to flood the wilderness north of Fushi like a tide, carrying a ladder and standing behind the Poxi army in full gear, preparing to attack Fushi to the death.

He received an order from the King of Qin to hold out for at least two months to gain opportunities for the army advancing northward, and then attack from inside and outside, destroying Zhao Xing, at least inflicting heavy losses on Zhao Xing.

This is a perfect plan, according to normal reasoning, with 30,000 tiger wolf Qin troops, with the help of Jiancheng, this goal can be achieved.

In this era, in principle, if the soldiers defending the city did not surrender, there were only two reasons for the defeat of the defenders, one was death in battle, and the other was starvation, and the city could fall.

The premise of dying in battle is that the enemy must fight at least ten times the cost. Starvation was a long siege, and there were no reinforcements outside the defenders.

But these two types did not exist in front of the Fushi Qin army, one was the Tang army attacking outside, only three times as much as himself. Second, the reserves of grain and grass in his city can last at least one year. Outside, the king's army of 200,000 is heading north in the starry night, so Fu Shi can't be lost.

For this reason, the guard also wrote a letter to the king of Qin, asking him not to march too fast, so that the soldiers would be tired, and he would definitely defend the support and inflict great damage on the enemy.

Looking at the head of Fushi City, which was strictly treating the enemy, Zhao Xing asked: "Have you found it out?" Who is the Qin general guarding Fushi? ”

After Wei Yong flipped through some information, he replied: "The junior general of the Qin State, the captain is white." ”

Zhao Xing pinched his chin, squinted his eyes and repeated casually: "It's white." Then he almost jumped up from his warhorse: "Who is it?" ”

"It is reported that the Bai clan of the Qin State is named and is a native of Yiyi. It is the widow of Shang Ying and Bai Xue. ”

Bai Qi is the son of Shang Ying, which is unanimously agreed by the party in later generations, Shang Ying was split by the car and wiped out the three clans, but the Empress Dowager Qin Xuan couldn't bear to see Shang Yang who she valued, and lost the sacrifice, so she put it into the palace and gave her mother's surname Bai, so it was called Bai Qi. This is consistent with the fact that the history books say that he befriended the Empress Dowager Xuan.

And according to the party, he is a folk genius, which is simply impossible. Talents, in fact, only occupy a small part by nature, and they mainly need to be cultivated.

In this era, knowledge and education are actually firmly in the hands of the aristocracy and scholars, and the children of ordinary families will never get such education, because they do not have that qualification.

And military education is even more feared by the country, and it is absolutely not passed on, otherwise there will always be a family of generals in history.

Of course, Confucius also accepts the education of commoners, but have you ever seen Confucius with seventy-two sages and three thousand disciples? Not to mention military strategists, there is not even an outstanding military talent, and this is the reason for this.

Bai Qi can receive systematic military training, which can only be done by a prince or a general.

Looking at his rapid promotion from a military commander all the way, when he arrived at King Qin Zhao, that is, six years later, he achieved the position of the leader of Qin's army, the commander of the left army, and the speed of promotion is also incomparable to ordinary people. Ability is one thing, if no one is promoted by the collar, it is absolutely impossible to receive knighthood with the strict military merit system of the Qin army.

As for some of the disagreements in the controversy, let it be left alone. Because history, especially pre-Qin history, many things are originally plausible, damn ancient texts, damn Spring and Autumn penmanship.

Looking at the high-spirited figure of a young general at the head of the city, Zhao Xing felt a lot of pressure. It was not this fortified city that he felt the pressure on, not the 30,000 Qin army tigers and wolves, but the young figure.

God of War, although it's not yet, sooner or later it will be, and the ability is definitely not small.

Facing Jun Shang, who suddenly became depressed, others couldn't feel Zhao Xing's subtle emotional changes, but the careful Wei Yong could clearly feel it.

So he whispered to his monarch: "He is just a young man in his teens and less than twenty years old, what is there to worry about in front of the wise and martial arts who is also a divine stick?" ”

Zhao Xing suddenly remembered, yes, he is a traverser, and the traverser is to beat the world's famous generals, what's wrong with the god of war, what are you afraid of him doing, hanging, especially this kind of famous general who is a little kid, he must fight.

As a result, Wei Yong felt that Zhao Xing, the king's bursting confidence, returned to his chest.

"Lin Hu."

Lin Hu immediately ran in front of Zhao Xing: "Is the Poxi Army ready?" ”

"Everything is ready, just wait for the king's order."

"Okay, now I give the order, the Poxi Army, immediately launch a covering strike against the enemy in the city." Zhao Xing gave a decisive order, and then looked at the young general in the city: "Bai Qi, I don't care whose son you are, I don't care how the examination party and the-stirring stick party argue, I really started to beat you." Then he called the historian: "Now, don't use the Spring and Autumn penmanship, just give the widow a real record, in the summer of 309 BC, Tang Hou Zhao Xing, hanging and beating Baiqi." ”

As a result, such a detailed record, but because of a few words in 309 BC, it was resolutely rejected by later historians - a fake book, an absolute fake book. The reason for this affirmation is that true historians do not admit that there is such a thing as a crossing.

The blow of Lin Hu's Poxi army began, and the Qin army, which was so powerful that it was invincible in the world, understood the blow of this Tang Dynasty, an emerging power, for the first time.

Under the skillful operation of the 7,000 Poxi troops, the whirlwind running in the middle of the camel hump, with the density of a stone flying out between every breath, like the heavy machine guns of later generations, threw stones like locusts on the city. In particular, the three thousand sealed camels, after being reformed by Zhao Xing's formation, were launched in the form of three-stage shooting, which really lasted like a raging storm, and the Qin army in the city couldn't raise its head at all.

And the bronze shields in their hands, under such a continuous blow, broke one after another in the blink of an eye, and a miserable scream followed.

The fist-sized stone did not kill much, but killed and injured countless people, and before they could see the real siege Tang army, the 10,000 soldiers guarding the city wall who were rarely equipped with helmets were already half wounded.

Even Bai Qi was beaten, if he hadn't been protected by a helmet, it was estimated that his head would have broken and bleeding.

Seeing that the soldiers who had almost no helmet protection were beaten so badly, Bai Qi calmly ordered: "Go to the big shield." ”

The shields of the Qin army are divided into two types, one is a light fighting shield with a bronze shield, and the other is a one-person-high shield that hits the enemy and blocks the enemy's swords, guns, bows and arrows when the phalanx pushes forward. The shield is made of wood covered with cowhide, and it is extremely tough.

With an order, Cheng Xia immediately sent this kind of big shield in a steady stream, so in the blink of an eye, a heavy lid was added to the entire city. The stones of the Poxi army immediately lost their effect against the enemy, and in exchange for a dense sound on the head of the city, like hail falling on the roofs of houses.

The corners of his young mouth turned white, revealing a confident smile.

When Lin Hu saw this situation, he immediately fell up 500 camels carrying catapults, and with his order, five hundred precious fire oil bombs flew up to the city, and the clay pots containing fire oil smashed on the giant shield, shattering one after another, and the fire oil containing honey as a binder covered the cowhide shield.

And those giant crossbows shot a row of rockets at the head of the city again.

When the oil meets the fire, it burns violently,

The cowhide can resist the sword, but it is the best fuel for fire, and the fire oil attached to the cowhide of the big shield will burn the cowhide shield in a blink of an eye, so that the entire city head has become a sea of fire, and it seems that the entire city wall is burning.

Zhao Xing looked at the burning city and couldn't help but regret: "The technology of refining edible oil into fierce fire oil is already difficult for those Mo family children. And the honey that the nobles are reluctant to eat makes me unable to equip these fire oil bombs too much, otherwise, I don't have to launch a sea of people to attack at all, as long as I keep burning like this, this city will be burned and melted. ”

At this point, Wei Yong deeply agrees. As a scholar, he controls the entire military of the Tang Dynasty, including the direction of military spending.

He knew that the entire price of this seemingly simple fire oil bomb was 500 yuan each, which was more than a hundred.

So he couldn't help but sigh: "War really burns money." Then the head of the city, who looked at the sea of fire, suggested: "Let our ladder infantry attack the city." ”

In the eyes of Wei Yong, an ancient person, human life is still much cheaper than a piece of grain.