Chapter 289: Zhao Kuo's Setback (First Update)
Zhao Kuo in front of Le Cheng looked quite embarrassed at the moment, not only his clothes and armor were shabby and he looked like a monkey, but also his body was covered in blood, and there was an extremely narrow wound on his left arm, which was quite shocking at a glance.
After hearing Le Cheng's inquiry, Zhao Kuo couldn't help but smile bitterly and said the situation at that time.
It turned out that after Zhao Kuo announced the seizure of power and surrendered to Zhao on the same day, many Qin generals who were in the big tent at that time seemed to have been completely convinced, and the 50,000 Qin troops seemed to have really fallen into Zhao Kuo's hands.
But when there was a sudden mutiny in the barracks, the situation began to change.
When the mutiny first began to take place, Zhao Kuo chose to use the forces under the command of the generals who had been secretly recruited by Wang Ji in the previous days to quell the rebellion.
In Zhao Kuo's opinion, since these guys have agreed to take refuge in Zhao Guo, they should be more reliable.
However, what Zhao Kuo didn't expect was that the scale of the mutiny was expanding too quickly, even if tens of thousands of troops had been invested in a short period of time, Zhao Kuo found that the situation was still developing in an uncontrollable direction.
What made Zhao Kuo even more shocked was that the generals of the Qin State who had decided to defect to Zhao State and worked hard to suppress the mutiny were assassinated one after another.
Several generals were assassinated on the spot, and the originally stalemate of the battle situation suddenly began to become unfavorable to Zhao Kuo.
Under such circumstances, in order to save the overall situation, Zhao Kuo had to risk releasing all the other generals in the big tent and ordering them to control his subordinates, so as to suppress the mutiny.
When Le Cheng heard this, he couldn't help but shake his head and said, "No wonder you lost this battle. ”
Zhao Kuo paused for a moment, and looked at Le Cheng with some puzzlement: "Why did the general say this?" ”
Le Cheng said: "You are still young, and you don't know people's hearts. Those generals of the Qin army are just grass on the wall, and when they see the strong, they bow their heads and worship them. If the situation was still under your control, they would have been willing to surrender to Zhao, but at that time your situation was unfavorable, so they naturally came to Qin's aid. ”
Zhao Kuo still didn't seem to understand: "But everyone in the world knows that Zhao Guo has a great chance of winning this battle." ”
Since Zhao Guo has a big chance of winning, then these guys have no reason to follow Qin Guo.
Le Cheng laughed and patted Zhao Kuo's shoulder: "You are wrong. These wall-to-wall plants are all short-sighted, and what they see is always the situation in front of them, how can they still take into account the situation in the future? But thou shalt not be angry, for the day of the siege of Anyi shall be the time for his men to be beheaded. ”
After a pause, Le Cheng said again: "Hedong County Taishou Wang Jike is still alive?" ”
Zhao Kuo nodded and said, "The person who was hit by an arrow in the hip can't walk, so I ordered someone to carry it in the rear." ”
Saying that, Zhao Kuo waved to the back, and soon two soldiers came carrying Wang Ji who was lying on the straw mat.
Wang Ji's face looked a little pale, and his spirit was not very good, obviously the fugitive life in the past few days was quite difficult for this pampered Hedong County Taishou.
However, after Zhao Kuo introduced Le Cheng to Wang Ji, the depression on Wang Ji's face was instantly swept away, and he grabbed Le Cheng's hand tightly and did not let go.
"General, please tell the king, it's not that I'm doing things badly, it's really someone who is making trouble in the dark!"
Wang Ji gritted his teeth, not to mention how angry he looked: "Wait, it must be Hou who is making trouble behind his back!" ”
Le Chengleng paused, then reached out and patted Wang Ji's shoulder: "The county guard takes care of his own life and rest, and the rest is left to me." ”
As he spoke, Le Cheng waved his hand and let the two soldiers carry Wang Ji away.
To be honest, Lecheng looks down on people like Wang Ji in his heart.
Although it is indeed commonplace for scholars to change their roles in the country in recent years, Wang Ji is different.
From the perspective of later generations, it is said that when others worked hard while working for Company A, no one would say anything if they moved to Company B.
However, Wang Ji directly stole the trade secrets of Company A when he was working for Company A, and then took them to apply for jobs from Company A's competitors, which was obviously a serious violation of professional ethics and was therefore despised by others.
But although he said that he couldn't get used to Wang Ji, Le Cheng knew very well in his heart that Zhao Dan had personally given an order to let Lian Po save Wang Ji's life under any circumstances.
As the so-called king's life is greater than everything, as Zhao Dan's loyal courtier and Lian Po's right-hand man, even if he is no longer used to Wang Ji, Lecheng will do his best to save Wang Ji's life.
After watching Wang Ji being carried away, Le Cheng turned his gaze to Zhao Kuo in front of him: "You have been running around for days, and you must be extremely tired, so let's go and rest first." ”
The relationship between Lecheng and Zhao Kuo's father Zhao Hao is actually very good, so even if Zhao Kuo loses the battle, Lecheng's attitude towards Zhao Kuo is still quite gentle.
Zhao Kuo scratched his head, his expression seemed a little embarrassed, and after a while, he said, "I wonder when the general will march into Anyi?" ”
As soon as Le Cheng saw Zhao Kuo's appearance, he immediately understood: "Are you still thinking about revenge?" ”
"Exactly!" Zhao Kuo said with a face full of unhappiness: "This failure, including remembering the five, if you don't take revenge, how will you face the king!" ”
No one can be indifferent to such a failure, especially a young man like Zhao Kuo, who is full of achievements and follows in the footsteps of his father.
Seeing this, Le Cheng couldn't help laughing, and then patted Zhao Kuo's shoulder heavily, and said, "Zhao Kuo listens to the order!" ”
Zhao Kuo subconsciously straightened his body and said loudly: "Zhao Kuo is here!" ”
Le Chengban raised his face and said in a very serious tone: "General Ben ordered you to immediately lead his soldiers to camp and rest, and then wait for General Ben's order!" ”
Zhao Kuo was anxious when he heard this, and was about to say something, but was glared back by Le Cheng's stern gaze.
"Zhao Kuo, do you still want to disobey?"
Zhao Kuo shook his head reluctantly, and his tone of voice was extremely reluctant: "Don't dare you." ”
"Good." Le Cheng said: "In that case, why don't you go quickly?" ”
Zhao Kuo stood stunned for a long time, and finally turned around helplessly and walked towards the bottom of the hill.
Le Cheng looked at Zhao Kuo's departing figure, couldn't help but shook his head gently, and said in his heart: "The young man really can't hold his breath, even if it is revenge, why rush for a while?" ”
Due to Zhao Kuo's failure, Lecheng did not plan to move on.
After all, the Qin army on the side of the Anyi camp is several times larger than Lecheng, and Lecheng doesn't know if the Qin State will send reinforcements from Guanzhong again, and it is a taboo for soldiers to go deep alone without eyeline and intelligence.
Therefore, after some weighing, Le Cheng simply camped directly outside Quwo City, waiting for the arrival of the main force of the Sanjin coalition army behind him.