Chapter 6 Sixty-One The mysterious commander of the Qin army
In the early morning of the next day, 100,000 Zhao Wei infantry soldiers quietly gathered from all directions to the Qin Palace. For a time, the drums and trumpets sounded in unison, the flags were erected, and the soldiers of the coalition army raised their shields and carried cloud ladders to launch a fierce attack on the royal city. The Qin army on the city tower was also prepared, and a brutal battle broke out in an instant. At the end of the day, the city walls were littered with the corpses of fallen soldiers, but the royal city remained unmoved.
"Zhao Cong, are you guilty?" Li Muduan sat in the shogunate hall that had been converted from the Great Qin Prime Minister's Mansion, and stared sharply at the middle-aged general standing under the hall.
Zhao Cong is a prince of the royal family who is over forty years old, serving as the general of Julu, and Pang Yuan each commanded the hinterland army of 200,000 in Zhao State, so this time, he has rightly become the deputy general second only to Pang Yuan in the Zhao army.
"The army is rushing, not carrying heavy siege equipment, and the walls of the Qin Palace are strong, the last general has done his best, I don't know what the crime is?" Zhao Cong held his head high and argued impassionedly.
What Zhao Cong said is also the truth, with the current combat strength of the coalition army, it is indeed too demanding for him to capture Jiancheng in two days. But the army of the Qin State is rushing towards this non-stop, if it is impossible to enter the Qin Palace tomorrow, these hundreds of thousands of lonely hanging troops will be in danger.
Li Mu's eyes darkened, and he waved his hand: "Let the soldiers rectify a little, and then attack the city!" Be sure to take the royal city by noon tomorrow! ”
"No." Li Mu has always been at odds with the elders of the Zhao royal family, Zhao Cong originally thought that his attitude would inevitably lead to a storm of Li Mu, but he didn't expect him to be so calm, Zhao Cong responded, turned around and was about to exit the hall.
"Wait!" Wei Cong, the chief general of the Wei army, suddenly shouted to Zhao Cong, turned his head to look at Prince Dan beside him, and then stepped forward and said, "The two armies of Zhao and Wei have been fighting fiercely for two days, and they are all exhausted, and the last general thinks that the Yan army can take over the siege!" "This time, Wei sent nearly half of the elite main force in the country, but the successive battles in the past few days have caused heavy casualties to the Wei army, and Wei is worried that if this continues, even if he wins the Qin State in the future, he will not be able to explain to the King of Wei.
"However, the Yan army is all cavalry, and it is ...... to attack the city" Li Mu was quite embarrassed by Wei Ministry's suggestion.
"The soldiers of the Yan army are willing to serve their lives!" Ji Dan saw through Wei Feng's thoughts at a glance, but this battle is related to the life and death of all countries, and they can't help but work together, "Liaodong Tie is also a strong force when he dismounts!" Please Wu Anjun give the order! ”
Seeing that Prince Dan opened his mouth to ask for battle, Li Mu nodded with relief: "There will be Prince Lao!" ”
"If you don't break the royal city, you won't quit!" Ji Dan swore an oath to Li Mu, and then walked out of the hall......
There was a tense atmosphere in the Great Qin King City at night, and I thought that the coalition army would stop attacking as soon as it was night, but who knew that it had just stopped for a long time, and another round of fierce offensive began, and at this time, there were less than a thousand Qin troops left in the city.
"The city is about to be destroyed! Please make a quick decision! Ying Teng looked at Ying Zheng who was standing silently in front of the main hall of Xianyang Palace.
Originally, before the coalition forces launched an offensive in the early morning, the king of Qin should have broken through the siege and left the city. Unexpectedly, when Ying Teng rushed to Ying Zheng with the carefully selected five hundred dead soldiers, Ying Zheng turned his back, waved his big hand, and refused word by word: "This king is determined to live and die with Xianyang!" ”
At that time, Ying Tengshang had a glimmer of hope for the arrival of reinforcements, so he did not insist anymore. But now, the royal city has no soldiers to defend, and when the enemy army enters the city, it will really be burned.
"Needless to say, go down!" Ying Zheng's tone was unusually cold, and he was already determined to die.
But how is this good? Anxious, Ying Teng slammed his heart sideways: "Lift up the King of Qin!" Break out now! ”
"No!" More than a dozen Qin army armor soldiers behind Ying Teng hugged him almost at the same time.
"Bold!" Ying Zheng angrily pulled out the sword of King Qin, bent his arm, and put the long sword across his neck, "Take another step forward, this king will break it by himself!" ”
This ...... "Everyone, you look at me, I look at you, and I have no claim for a while."
"The king is in the kingdom! The kingdom of Wang Xue is destroyed! Please think twice! Ying Teng knelt in front of Ying Zheng with tears. Immediately afterwards, those Qin army armorers who followed Yingteng also fell to the ground one after another, "Think twice, the king!" ”
Ying Zheng was just about to speak, when suddenly an attendant stumbled over from outside the palace gate: "Big ...... King! Reinforcements! Reinforcements have arrived! ”
Ying Zheng's long sword suddenly fell to the ground, and he walked down a few steps and grabbed the waiter: "Is Wang Jian here?" ”
"The night is too dark to see whose banner it is! But it ...... Reinforcements indeed! The chamberlain replied breathlessly.
"Yingteng! Follow me to the city to see what is going on! After all, seeing is believing, and without seeing the reinforcements with his own eyes, Ying Zheng always felt unsteady in his heart, or maybe this was just a trap set by Li Mu.
"No!" Ying Teng hurriedly got up and picked up King Qin's sword, and held it in front of Ying Zheng with both hands.
Ying Zheng took the long sword, and under the support of all the armor soldiers, he climbed the city tower. I saw that the fire under the city was soaring, and a Qin army iron cavalry was engaged in a fierce battle with the Yan army besieging the city. Although the Yan army was numerous, all of them were knights who were not good at foot combat, and after an hour, they still couldn't support it, and gradually began to retreat.
"King, please go out of the city to help in the war!" Seeing that the Yan army had retreated, Ying Teng breathed a long sigh of relief and solemnly asked for his life.
"Not busy!" Ying Zheng raised his hand and stopped Ying Teng, "I don't know the details yet, I'm afraid it's Li Mu's trick." ”
It didn't take long for the remnants of the Yan State army to be dispersed, and the Qin army returned to the royal city, and an old voice suddenly sounded: "Where is the King of Qin?" ”
"This king is here." Ying Zheng leaned against the battlements of the city wall and answered loudly.
"The king beware of the Dark Arrow!" After saying it just now, Ying Teng also became alert, but Ying Zheng didn't pay attention to it.
When the old man who spoke heard King Qin's reply, he immediately jumped off his horse, raised his head and shouted towards the city tower: "The old minister is white, see King Qin." ”
"White ...... White? Hearing this name, Ying Zheng was stunned.
"The king, it is indeed Wu Anjun!" Ying Teng was in the Changping Army in his early years, although it has been more than 20 years, but by the fire, he still recognized Bai Qi at a glance.
"Back then, the king mistakenly judged, you are not ......" Ying Zheng's face was full of incredulity.
"This matter is a long story, please let Rong Chen pay attention to it later!" Bai Qi's reaction to King Qin had long been expected.
It turned out that the sword that Bai Qi stabbed into his lower abdomen was an inch off, and it did not hurt the vital point. Seeing this situation, he let go of the entourage and asked his cronies to secretly hide Bai Qi, and found Lang Zhong to treat him carefully.
But without the corpse, the old chamberlain would not be able to give an account to King Qin Zhao, and in desperation, the old chamberlain had to find the old manager of the mansion to discuss countermeasures. The old manager didn't say a word, and walked back into the house. After a long time, the old chamberlain, who had not seen any movement, pushed the door in, only to find that the old manager had already committed suicide.
After a few months, although Bai Qi had recovered from his injuries, he was already disheartened. So he left Xianyang and went north alone, and settled incognito in the Mengshi merchant horse team in Yinshan, a matter that only the Mengshi clan knew about for decades.
Just when Yingzheng was hesitating, suddenly another horse galloped over: "The minister Xianyang Ling and the Xianyang general Meng Tian see the King of Qin!" "It turned out that after Meng Tian broke through and left Xianyang that day, he thought of Bai Qi and the elite Yinshan horse team. But he didn't expect that the old general Bai Qi had already understood Li Mu's battle plan and went south with the horse team early.
"Meng Tian?" Seeing Meng Tian, the doubts in Ying Zheng's heart suddenly disappeared, and he immediately ordered someone to open the city gate.
Bai Qi and Meng Tian walked up to the city tower hand in hand and came to Yingzheng: "King! ”
Looking at Wu Anjun, who was nearly ninety years old but still old and strong, Ying Zheng couldn't help but burst into tears: "Qin has a negative Wu Anjun, but Wu Anjun does not live up to Qin!" ”
"The old minister is ashamed!" Bai Qi trembled and straightened up, looking at the young King Qin in front of him, his face full of relief......
"General! Bai Qi and Meng Tian led reinforcements into Xianyang! The Commander-in-Chief of the Scouts hurried into the shogunate hall.
Without waiting for Li Mu to react, Ji Dan, the prince of Yan Kingdom, also arrived: "Wu Anjun...... I...... Our army is about to break the city...... White...... White ...... Sudden Kill...... More than half of the army was lost ......"
White? How can it be? Li Mu angrily pushed down the handsome case: "Nonsense! How can the dead be raised? ”
The general leader of the scout looked at Li Mu in fear, and then continued to report: "The main general of the Wei army, Wei Feng, has been defeated and has withdrawn without authorization!" ”
"General, in today's situation, it doesn't matter if it's true or not! Retire! Pang Yuan, the commander of the Zhao army, sighed. As long as there is a defeat in a war, all countries will withdraw their troops in order to preserve their strength, and there has never been a whole army to fight again.
"That's it, that's all!" The plan fell short, and Li Mu's face was full of unwillingness.
"Yan Jun is willing to fight to the death with Wu Anjun!" Prince Dan said.
Li Mu nodded helplessly, and then walked out of the hall without saying a word. That night, the Yan-Zhao coalition slowly withdrew from Xianyang.