How could Zhao Kuo run away to Tunliu?

This matter has to start with the battle to defend the old pass five days ago. Ｘ

said that after Zhao Kuo was saved by Le Cheng with an arrow under Sima Jin at that time, Zhao Kuo, who had been unlucky for several months, seemed to be transferred all of a sudden.

In the following day, Zhao Kuo took the lead, not only taking advantage of Sima Jin's defeat to successfully lead the Zhao army to recapture half of Sheep's Head Mountain, but also led the Zhao army on Sheep's Head Mountain to defeat the offensive of the 3,000-man follow-up troops of the Qin army led by Wang Ling one after another, ensuring the safety of the only retreat of the Zhao army.

Due to Zhao Kuo's excellent performance, after a day of fierce fighting, Le Cheng, who presided over the overall situation on the front line of Guguan, gave Zhao Kuo a new task to lead the 10,000 Zhao troops who had just arrived in Guguan to return to the Beishangdang Basin, and strive to delay the Qin army's attack on the Beishangdang Basin.

As a general, Zhao Kuo's rank is one level higher than that of a captain, and he is still qualified to command 10,000 people.

So Zhao Kuo led the 10,000 soldiers and horses to set off from the old pass and return to the Beishang Dang Basin.

In just one day, Zhao Kuo crossed the Qinghe River with these 10,000 troops and came to Qingheyi on the north bank of the Qinghe River.

It is worth mentioning that Zhao Kuo also met eight strong men who claimed to be Qinghe natives on the road, and brought four or five hundred people from Qinghe Yi to ask for shelter.

Zhao Kuo, who was puzzled, inquired, and learned that Qingheyi had been occupied by a Qin army with about 1,000 people.

Zhao Kuo, who learned of the situation, led his 10,000 Zhao troops to advance rapidly, arriving at Qingheyi an hour later, and defeated the Qin army that had just occupied this place for less than half a day.

Although Qingheyi is only a small city, it is located between Changzhi City and Guguan, and its geographical location is quite important, so Zhao Kuo left a thousand people here, and then led the main force of the army to continue north.

Two days later, Zhao Kuo arrived at Changzhi City, the seat of Shangdang County.

The news of the breakthrough of the Changping Pass defense line has reached here, and Changzhi City is at the moment when the people are panicking, and the Zhao army led by Zhao Kuo arrived in time, which greatly invigorates the people in Changzhi City.

But on the side of Changzhi City, Zhao Kuo didn't get any good news, on the contrary, he also learned bad news here, another important city in Shangdang County, the eldest son county seat, had fallen into the hands of the Qin army.

The county seat of Changzi is located in the southwest of the Beishangdang Basin, directly behind Changping Pass, so when Changping Pass was lost, this county seat was actually doomed to fall.

After the fall of the county seat of Changzi, the other strategic points in the entire Beishang Dang Basin, especially Tunliu and Changzhi, were completely exposed to the Qin army's forces and could be attacked by the Qin army at any time.

After some consideration, Zhao Kuo decisively decided to divide the troops.

Although there are only 1,000 Zhao troops in Qingheyi, it is close to the old pass, and once there are follow-up reinforcements from the old pass, they will definitely pass through Qingheyi, so Zhao Kuo did not plan to continue to increase the troops in Qinghe.

Zhao Kuo's plan was very simple, that is, according to the order of the great general Lian Po, he would defend Changzhi and Tunliu, two cities with more important status.

The two cities of Changzhi and Tunliu are the first and second largest cities in Shangdang County respectively, and they are both located on the road of Fukou, which connects Handan in the east and Jinyang in the west, respectively, and the location is extremely important.

Among them, Changzhi is the county seat of Shangdang County, and it is directly related to the safety of Zhao's army's grain road, so Zhao Kuo left most of his troops, a total of 7,000 infantry, in Changzhi City as a defense.

Then Zhao Kuo rushed to Tunliu City with the remaining 2,000 people, preparing to support Tunliu City.

Tunliu City is just a small county town, and the total population does not exceed 10,000, Zhao Kuo feels that his 2,000 people plus the original defenders in Tunliu City should not be a problem to hold on for ten days and half a month.

In Zhao Kuo's thoughts, after ten days and half a month, how could the reinforcements from the Changping direction also come, right?

Zhao Kuo led 2,000 troops to advance lightly and rushed to Tunliu in two days.

What made Zhao Kuo breathe a sigh of relief was that Tunliu had not fallen and was still in the hands of Zhao Guo.

However, the situation in the city is already quite bad.

The news of the fall of Changzi County reached Changzhi City and Tunliu County almost at the same time.

Since Changzhi City is the seat of Shangdang County, the county guard has issued several notices to appease many people, and the arrival of Zhao Kuo's 10,000-strong army has also played a big role, so the overall situation is quite stable.

However, Tunliu City did not have such a good fate, when the news of the fall of Changzi County came, the magistrate of Tunliu County, who felt that the catastrophe was imminent, took his wife, children and sister-in-law and so on to run away first......

The other people in Tunliu County saw that the county magistrate had run away, so this place really couldn't stay anymore, so they also ran away for most of it.

So when Zhao Kuo rushed to Tunliu with 2,000 men and horses, what he had to face was a tunliu that was almost empty.

Fortunately, although most of the people have run away, there are still two or three thousand people who are bloody and want to die in their hometowns.

So Zhao Kuo, with the assistance of the county Cheng who stayed behind, began to nervously organize the defense of Tunliu County.

The Qin people did not give Zhao Kuo much time, and the day after Zhao Kuo arrived in Tunliu County, a Qin army of more than 10,000 people arrived here and surrounded the county seat.

A fierce siege battle began.

The intensity of the battle was completely beyond Zhao Kuo's expectations.

According to the military books that Zhao Kuo usually reads and the notes left by his father Zhao Hao, the siege of the Qin people should be to besiege the city first, then go to the vicinity to cut down trees, build trebuchets, and then rely on trebuchets to bang and bang, smash the city wall, and then win a wave of white-knuckle battles directly.

Looking at the world, only the Qin State can do this, because the Qin people have the most complete artisan system and the largest number of craftsmen.

You must know that catapults are high-tech in this era, and hundreds of pounds of stones are thrown down from the sky, and the effect is not much different from cannonballs, after all, there is no such strong defense as reinforced concrete at this time.

However, to Zhao Kuo's great surprise, this vigorous Qin ** team did not follow the usual path at all.

Only one night later, the next day, under the cover of archers, tens of thousands of Qin troops launched an offensive towards Tunliu County with a cloud ladder.

This dozen is two whole days.

When the sun set on this day, the piercing sound of gold began to sound from outside the city, and the Qin ** team, which had been storming for a day, returned in vain after leaving hundreds of corpses, and slowly retreated towards the Qin army camp outside the city.

Zhao Kuo stood on the city wall in the west of Tunliu County, his whole armor was torn, his right hand was holding a sword, and his left hand was also holding a Qin army's head, and there were traces of blood in many places on his body, and he could vaguely see the wounds in the broken clothes.

Looking at the retreating Qin army, Zhao Kuo let out a long breath.

Lasted one more day.

It wasn't an easy day.

It was only at this time that Zhao Kuo suddenly found himself weak, as if he had lost the strength to walk.

Zhao Kuo's body bent slightly, and he sat down in an extremely unsightly posture.

But as soon as he sat down, Zhao Kuo suddenly bounced up.

It turned out that the place where he was sitting just now actually had a head, and Zhao Kuo was sitting on this head just now.

Zhao Kuo glanced at the head and found that it still had a bun on it.

This means that the head is not helmeted.

Zhao Kuo scolded angrily, kicked the head of the Qin soldier to the city, and then sat down again.

At this moment, a voice suddenly came from the side: "General, that's our merit."

Zhao Kuo turned his head when he heard the sound, but he saw a Zhao soldier of the same age as Zhao Kuo sitting a few feet away, looking at Zhao Kuo with a smile.

You must know that Zhao Jun's way of remembering merit is the same as Qin Jun's, and he uses his head to calculate credit......

The surrounding Zhao soldiers turned their eyes and let out a burst of laughter.

Zhao Kuo's face turned slightly red, and he threw the head he was originally carrying in his hand into the other party's arms, and said angrily: "You are indispensable!"

The soldier smiled, looked at the new head in his hand, carefully put the head on the ground beside him, and then changed the topic very wittily: "General, how many days can we keep it?"

Zhao Kuo replied, "General Ben doesn't know."

"I don't know?" The soldier's eyes widened in surprise.

Zhao Kuo turned his head and glared at the soldier angrily: "This general doesn't have the skill of unpredictable prophets, how can he know?" What are you laughing at, don't go back to camp quickly! ”

A moment later, the soldiers of the Zhao army walked down the city wall with their weapons, and in their place many people went up to the city to clean up the corpses and repair the gaps in the wall.

Night has fallen.

Zhao Kuo stood on the city wall, staring at the Qin army camp that had been lit up a few miles away.

Don't look at Zhao Kuo's pretending to be relaxed just now, but in fact, Zhao Kuo's heart is very clear that if it continues like this, the process will fall in two or three days at most.

Zhao Kuo couldn't help but think of his deceased father Zhao Hao.

If Zhao Hao is here, what should he do?

Zhao Kuo suddenly remembered a sentence he had seen in his father's notes.

"For a general, even if he dies, he must not give up his will to live."

Zhao Kuo gradually calmed down and began to think.

After a quarter of an hour, Zhao Kuo finally made up his mind and called his adjutant: "How many cavalry are there in the city?" ”

The adjutant replied, "Three hundred horsemen." ”

Zhao Kuo nodded, and a murderous light suddenly flashed in his eyes: "Pass the order, order the cavalry to get ready, feed the horses, and I want to give these Qin barbarians a good look tonight!" ”r