Volume 1 The Broken Mountains and Rivers of the Country in Chapter 94 Rooted in Shuofang
Listening to Lin San's confession when he was dying, those Qin soldiers who had not yet been killed instantly burst into a howling cry, mixed with the remorse of crying like Lin San.
The rain in the sky was getting heavier and heavier, and after a while, the river was muddy.
But even so, tens of thousands of Qin troops still stood in place and did not dare to move, while the 200,000 people behind them also stood in the muddy water and watched the shocked scene in front of them, but none of them left.
The blood from the severed bodies washed away by the rain and flowed down the bank slope like a red stream into the yellow water, and the south bank of the yellow water gradually changed color.
Crying dad and calling mother, the voice of calling the heavens and the earth gradually became quieter, until the last person who was stunned and kneeling in a daze was cut off his head, and the rain in the sky suddenly stopped.
This rain is like the tears of the slaughtered people, beginning and ending as Zhao Zhihai avenges them.
The sun poured down from the dark clouds that were about to dissipate, and within a few moments, a colorful rainbow bridge over the yellow water fell into the eyes of hundreds of thousands of people on the shore.
Everyone looked at Zhao Zhihai who had stood on the torture platform for an hour in amazement, and the figure stood on the high platform like a god of death.
His voice reprimanded the heavenly thunder to build momentum for him, and the tears of the dead that his edict led to the killing of the dead fell from the sky.
"Are you done?"
Zhao Zhihai asked loudly.
Then, he looked at the 40,000 Qin troops in front of him, including the thousands who had fled south.
Listening to Zhao Zhihai's question, they stood in the team and involuntarily shook like chaff.
Seeing the four thousand headless soldiers still crawling on the ground in front of them, these people suddenly felt that there might be themselves who were about to crawl there.
"It's not done."
As Zhao Zhihai asked and answered himself, these people who had killed the people instantly went blank in their minds and felt desperate.
They didn't know how the four thousand people were found out, so they were still lucky that they didn't appear among the four thousand, and they were a little lucky, but they were afraid again with Zhao Zhihai's self-questioning and self-answering.
However, I heard Zhao Zhihai say again:
"I'm not going to kill anymore. For it is better to give you another chance than to die like this under the spitting of the people and the torture of your own robes. ”
Hearing this, not only did the Qin soldiers who had participated in the massacre have a look of renewed hope in their eyes, but even the other Qin soldiers and ordinary people were stunned and looked at Zhao Zhihai on the torture platform.
"In the future, if a soldier in our army dares to take a grain or a meter from the people, he will die.
Whoever dares to oppress the good and slaughter the people shall die.
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If you dare to fear the enemy when the two armies are facing each other, you will die.
If you dare to flee without permission, you will die. ”
Every time Zhao Zhihai said a word of death, it shook the forty thousand Qin troops like thunder, and they listened to what Zhao Zhihai said, and involuntarily went to peek at the four thousand headless corpses again.
After speaking these instructions, Zhao Zhihai suddenly burst into a loud shout:
"Great Qin soldiers, are you willing to follow my Zhao Zhihai north to kill the enemy?"
"Yes!"
"Are you willing to kill back Qin Lan, kill back to Lingzhou, kill back Shuofang, kill back Hexi, rescue your family, and rescue your parents, wives and children?"
"Yes!"
"Are you willing to lose your lives to protect the people behind you, in exchange for the land on which we live, to repay the country with death, and to wash away the shame from us with death?"
"Yes!"
"Soldiers, if you die, I will be like General Zuo, and I will be killed.
If the Rong people want to enslave the people of Great Qin and slaughter our relatives again, then let's step on your corpses and mine. ”
With that, Zhao Zhihai turned around and left the torture platform, rode a war horse and whipped towards Wenshui City.
When Fang was just finished saying something in Zhao Zhihai, a shout of "Great Qin Might" suddenly sounded in the Qin army.
Subsequently, tens of thousands of Qin troops simultaneously issued an earth-shattering cry.
"Great Qin Might"
"Great Qin Might"
"Great Qin Might"
Even the 200,000 people shouted.
Zhao Zhihai disappeared into the sky in the chorus of "Great Qin Might".
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After Zhao Zhihai left in Yuanzhou, Wang Min transferred the Wu Mengbu of Qingyang and Qingshui back to Yuanzhou in accordance with the arrangements made by Zhao Zhihai when he left, dropped nearly 30,000 soldiers and horses from Yinyangou back to Wushi County, and transferred the soldiers and horses of Yuxiao and Mishenguan to Longde County to fill the empty defense of each county after Zhao Zhihai and Zhao Zhiliang left.
Zhao Zhihai, Wang Min and others had discussed that without the containment of Qinlan County, the Rong army would move south from Lingzhou at any time, so Yinyangou would no longer be the same as usual, just hold the side from the west.
When the Rong people went south from Lingzhou, they could easily surround the army of Yinyangou if they marched west along Qingshui.
And Yinyangou is too far away from Yuanzhou and Wushi, and it is quite inconvenient to retreat or rush to help, so it is better to return to Wushi and garrison the city.
The only regret is that the land of Qingshui and Qingyang, which were given to the meritorious soldiers of the Qin army, was not harvested yet, so they were given to the Rong people again.
As Zhao Zhihai expected, as soon as Wang Min's army withdrew from Yinyangou, the direction of Xiaoguan immediately reacted, Mo Nanhu left 10,000 Rong people, nearly 20,000 Qin people, a total of 30,000 horses guarded Xiao Pass by Qiuzi and Lu Chang, and the remaining 30,000 horses and horses under their own leadership went out of Yinyangou, and Chen Bing Wushi County was in the north.
Among them, there are 20,000 soldiers and horses of Monanhu and Minglu, and 10,000 soldiers and horses of Wang Jia.
And in the direction of Lingzhou, it was also discovered that the Rong people had 30,000 soldiers and horses heading south.
After Wu Meng withdrew from Qingshui and Qingyang, the two cities were reoccupied.
Almost the same as Zhao Zhihai guessed, Xiao Jinxing planned to go south from Lingzhou and annihilate the enemy of Yuanzhou in one fell swoop.
For this reason, he gave up the plan to occupy Hexi first, and transferred half of the soldiers and horses after the Qin Lan War to Lingzhou.
In fact, Xiao Jinxing originally thought that Zhao Zhihai was going to give up Yuanzhou and transfer the soldiers and horses to Xiazhong County or Shubei County, but to his surprise, Zhao Zhihai didn't seem to do this, but left half of the soldiers and horses to garrison Yuanzhou, and he rushed to Xiazhong County with the rest of the soldiers.
Although Xiao Jinxing felt that the battle with Fang Yuanheng had just ended, it was important to rest and recuperate, and it was not appropriate to use troops again immediately, so it was the right way to go to Hexi to pick up those county towns occupied by the rebels.
But he thought in a blink of an eye that the garrison of Yuanzhou was already very empty, and if he didn't kill those Qin soldiers and horses at this time, it would definitely not be so easy to get such a good opportunity with more strategy.
Because in Xiao Jinxing's eyes, killing the elite of Qin soldiers is far more important than occupying the land of Qin.
After Zhao Zhihai's Qin Lan soldiers and Fang Yuanheng's Shuofang and Hexi soldiers have become historical dust, as long as Zhao Zhihai's elite soldiers and horses in Yuanzhou are defeated, no matter how many soldiers and horses Qin recruits, it will not become an obstacle to his own destruction of Great Qin.
In his eyes, the motley local soldiers and horses who could not be called soldiers were just a group of civilians with weapons.
Just as Xiao Jinxing was transferring the soldiers and horses of Qinlan County to Lingzhou, Jieyuan and Lihua of Hanhai City had just learned of Fang Yuanheng's death.
At this time, nearly a month had passed since the end of the Zichuan War.
With the news of Fang Yuanheng's death, there was also a royal order to transfer Mandarin Yuan to the center to serve as Sima of the military department.
In fact, it took a lot of effort for this monarch order to reach Hanhai City smoothly.
After the envoy arrived at Yuanyou, as soon as he saw that Quwo, Baishui, Pucheng, and Fengtong counties were all in the hands of the rebels, he did not believe that Jieyuan and others could pass through the rebel war zone and be stationed in Hanhai, and they were about to turn around and return to Beijing at that time.
It's just that the defenders of Yuanyou tried their best to affirm to the envoy that Jieyuan and Lihua were indeed in Hanhai City, but the envoy still refused to believe it.
In the end, it was the defenders of Yuanyou who proposed to send someone to Hanhai to deliver the royal order, and the envoy waited for Jieyuan to come in Yuanyou, so he said that the envoy did not turn around and return to Beijing.
Yuanyou's guards sent a hundred cavalry, day and night, all the way to the thrill, only to arrive in Hanhai City ten days later, and passed the news of the battle between Jun Ming and Qin Lan to the hands of Jieyuan and Zhu Lihua.
Like Zhao Zhihai and all the soldiers of the Qin army, the two of them were also shocked when they heard of Fang Yuanheng's fall, and in addition to lamenting the death of the God of War, they became infinitely pessimistic about the bad situation.
The two realized that it was very likely that the Rong people would advance east to occupy Hexi County, after all, most of this was a county occupied by the rebels, and the Rong people would have no trouble seizing the counties.
Compared to the regular army of Great Qin, these rebels had no resistance to the attacks of the Rong people at all.
Both of them had the same opinion, but they couldn't give up Hanhai privately, so they had to smile relatively bitterly.
But when they heard from the sergeant who sent the letter that Zhao Zhihai had divided his troops to garrison Xiazhong County, the two of them were keenly aware at the same time that perhaps the resourceful Rong Ren Shan Yu would not be in a hurry to pick peaches.
Perhaps, they will attack the defenders of Yuanzhou with all their might, in the hope of being able to completely annihilate the few elite divisions of Great Qin.
Thinking of this, the two couldn't help but be deeply worried about the situation in Wonju again.
Because there are all the worries of the two of them.
Before leaving, Jie Yuan assured Lihua that he would persuade the monarch to send reinforcements to Lihua's lone army or let the Lihua Wood Lihua army withdraw as soon as possible.
Subsequently, he hurriedly left Hanhai with Yuanyou's cavalry, because Jieyuan wanted to take office as soon as possible, so that he could help Lihua as soon as possible.
During the period when Jieyuan and Zhu Lihua occupied Hanhai City, in addition to sending scouts to continuously investigate the enemy situation in Shuofang counties and Hexi counties, they also distributed the land in Hanhai County to the only remaining 10,000 people.
In the past two months, although they have already missed the agricultural season, and wheat and corn can no longer be planted, they have also planted some other crops in time.
Especially because of the abundant snow in winter, the soil moisture is quite good, and because of the rain since the beginning of summer, some foods such as grain beans, melons and fruits are jointed quite quickly every day, and the growth is gratifying.
The soldiers of the people of Hanhai looked at the green fertile fields every day, and they already knew in their hearts that if there was no military disaster, in another month or two, these crops would be harvested.
Once the harvest is completed, it will not only meet the food needs of the people of Hanhai County, but also store a large amount of food left.
In other words, none of them will starve to death this winter.