Chapter 78: Yecheng Bloodshed
"Zhao is undefeated! Kill ......" General Zhao roared wildly, waving a silver-white halberd, driving the white flying horse to roll towards the Qin army that swooped over like a huge wave! Behind him, the last 20,000 elite soldiers of the Zhao army shouted, and swooped up without hesitation in the direction pointed by the commander, fearlessly meeting the grim smile of death!
The youngest son of General Zhao Guo, the lieutenant of the Chinese Military Academy, dared to follow closely behind his father!
......Under the scorching sun, tragic blood flowers quickly bloomed, and the blood-colored sky became extremely strange and bloody for a while!
At this moment, the gates of Yecheng opened.
50,000 elite soldiers of the Zhao State, led by Hu Yong, the defender of Yecheng, attacked the rear of the Qin army from the rear.
The soldiers of Zhao State sang the war song "Cricket":
The crickets are in the hall, and the years are gone. I am not happy today, the sun and the moon are gone. There is no great health, and the job is homeless. There is no waste of happiness, and the good man Qu Qu.
The crickets are in the hall, and the years are gone. I'm not happy today, the sun and the moon are moving forward. There is no great health, and there is no need to think about it. There is no waste of happiness, and good people are trampled.
The crickets are in the hall, and the service cars are resting. I am not happy today, the sun and the moon are sad. There is no way to be well-off. Thinking about it. There is no famine, and the good man rests.
Zhao Guo advocates white, so all elite troops are silver and white as a whole, which looks hearty and neat. The northern Rongdi also admired white, and the king of Zhao Wuling, Hu Fu, defeated the northern nomads with cavalry, so the people of Zhao thought that they were more qualified to have white, which was as strong as the white clouds, rain and snow that covered the heavens and the earth.
The soldiers of the Qin State sang the war song "How can you say that there is no clothes":
How can you say that you have no clothes? with the Son. Wang Yuxingshi, repair my spear. Enmity with the Son!
How can you say that you have no clothes? With the Son. Wang Yuxingshi, repair my spear halberd. Work with the son!
How can you say that you have no clothes? with the Son. Wang Yuxingshi, repair my armor soldiers. Walk with the son!
The Qin State advocates black, so all elite troops are black as a whole, which looks solemn and mysterious.
When the two sides were fighting, the robe behind them was still singing to help the battle.
The strongest class of troops in the Qin State is the Ruishi! Among the millions of troops in the Qin State, it is said that there are only more than 3,000 Ruishi at most, but each of them is the elite of the elite! They have two major specialties, one is that they have a long pulse, they have to carry a hundred pounds of things on their backs every time they train, and then they can travel a hundred miles, and they can immediately put into the exercise after a pause. The second is to be proficient in weapons, only a small part of the 100 catties of Ruishi is food, and the others are weapons, such as two long swords, two daggers, a war crossbow, an iron gun, a pair of steel plate armor, an iron shield and a number of crossbow arrows! It is precisely because of these two specialties that the three thousand sharp soldiers are invincible, which is more than the tens of thousands of elite armies of the six countries in the East!
Although the soldiers of the Zhao State were brave, when they encountered the sharp soldiers of the Qin State, they were still like ice and snow in summer, and they quickly melted.
"Kill ......" The Qin army found that the number of soldiers of the Zhao State was getting smaller and smaller, and they cheered, and they drove a huge military formation, and in an instant, tens of thousands of Zhao State foot soldiers were divided and surrounded in the black steel torrent!
Looking high in the sky: in the huge black raging waves, the white waves struggled hard, stubbornly resisting the devouring of the black death, but the white waves were too few after all, and in front of the black that occupied a huge advantage, they finally couldn't resist it, and quickly collapsed, drowning in the angry waves of death!
However, these soldiers of the Zhao State wearing white armor were worthy of being the most courageous elite of the Zhao army, and these outstanding warriors were immediately angry and burned when they saw that they could no longer resist the rapid advance of the Qin State warriors. They roared and roared, abandoning their protective shields, forgetting about death, and flying towards the Qin army surging in all directions! At the same time that the cyan halberd of the soldiers of the Qin State pierced through their bodies, the soldiers of the Zhao State also gave death to the soldiers of the Qin State at the same time! Their short swords also pierced through the heart of the Qin army!
One life is worth one life, and the courage of the soldiers of Zhao State is so heroic! In order to protect their families and defend the country, they have completed the highest mission of a soldier: to fight to the end until death!
At this time, Hu Yong, the defender of Yecheng, concentrated his forces to kill from the weaker left side of the Qin army, and lost 20,000 horses before he successfully joined the remnants of the general of Zhao State.
"Father, get out of here. Yecheng has no food and can't hold it. Yecheng guard general Hu Yong hugged the thigh of Zhao Guo's general Hu and cried.
The general of Zhao Guo watched tens of thousands of elite soldiers of Zhao State die in battle, but he couldn't do anything, so he had to roar angrily: "Yong'er, after you come to the palace, let your younger brother return to Yi'an with the wounded soldiers first." ”
"Father, you and your brother should go together. The three armies must not be without commanders! Hu Yong, the defender of Yecheng, couldn't help but let his younger brother Hu dare to pull the reins of his father's war horse.
"Big brother, you will come back safely." The lieutenant of the Chinese military academy dared to know that the situation was critical, and if he did not pay attention, the whole army would be annihilated.
"Don't worry, I'll go back." Hu Yong, the defender of Yecheng, showed a bright smile, and when the father and son walked away, he muttered in a low voice: "I hope that the Qin army will send my ashes back to Yi'an." ”
Hu Yong, the defender of Yecheng, said to the remaining 30,000 elite soldiers behind him: "Brothers, are you afraid of death? ”
"Zhao Guonan has no seeds! Zhao Guonan has no ......" The remnants of the 30,000 elite soldiers shouted in unison, although almost all of them were bloody, but they still did not change their high morale.
"Okay, let's die on the battlefield together today, let Qin Gou see the backbone of our big Zhao boy! Kill ......" Yecheng defender Hu Yong understood that if he didn't fight to the death, the remnants of the Zhao army might not be able to return to Yi'an.
The Qin army is in a large array.
The Qin general Huan Qi was left with only the personal guards and rear soldiers.
"In order to reduce the casualties of our army, it is better to persuade the surrender to the top." Adjutant General Yang Duanhe suggested.
The general of the Qin State, Huan Qi, frowned slightly, thinking that Yecheng had not yet been captured, and finally sent an order to surrender the Zhao army.
"Does Zhao people descend or not? Does Zhao people descend or not? "The Qin soldiers either stomped on the ground with halberds or stomped on the ground with their feet, and according to the ancient practice, they called out to the soldiers of Zhao State!
"Zhao people don't descend! Zhao people don't fall! ......" The remnants of the defeated army of Zhao State shouted loudly, still determined to resist to the end.
"Don't dare to surrender! I really don't know whether to live or die! Qin State General Huan Qi frowned and roared angrily, "Beat the drum and march, and those who don't surrender will be killed!" ”
"Whoa!" The lieutenant of the military academy in the Qin army listened to the order.
A moment later, dozens of war drums on the nearby chariots resounded, and a huge wave of sound surged like a wave of rapid waves!
"Kill! Kill ......" Seeing that the last opportunity for meritorious service had come, the Qin army cheered and jumped for joy, crossed the robe in front of them, which looked a little staggering because of the several heads hanging on their bodies, and pounced on the remnants of the defeated generals of Zhao State!
In the eyes of the Qin army, the soldiers of the Zhao State in front of them were food, mansions or wives, so they did not hesitate at all, they raised the weapons in their hands, smiled fiercely, and rushed to kill!
The fierce Qin army walked with heroic steps, shouting and pounced on the remnants of the Zhao army who were fighting to the death!
The battle gradually came to an end, and the last remaining soldiers of the Zhao State were basically killed on the spot under the rapid attack of the Qin army, and even if there were those who were not breathless, they were still shining. The eldest son of the general of Zhao Guo, the defender of Yecheng, Hu Yong, died on the battlefield and his bones were gone.
According to historical records, in 234 BC, the new troops of the Qin general Huan Qi attacked the southern part of Zhao again. The Qin army attacked Ye, and the general of Zhao sent troops to refuse, and the two sides fought in Donggu Mountain, and the troops were defeated. The general of the Qin State, Huan Qi, took advantage of the victory to chase, and then pulled out Ye, breaking nine cities in a row, and the general of the Zhao State retreated to Yi'an, and complained to the king of Zhao and Zhao Qian.
After receiving the battle report from the front, Meng Yi understood what Dong An, the master of the Guigu Gate, meant by the so-called "internal response".
Lenin once said: the strongest fortresses are often easy to conquer from within!
Meng Yi never thought that Zhao Guoguo was short of food because of infighting! The traitor Guo Kai is simply a talisman given to Zhao by God! But he is also the great blessing of the Qin State!
During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, which lasted for more than 500 years, various vassal states waged endless wars for land and subjects. They call themselves "Warring States", "fight for land and kill people; Fighting for the city, killing people in the city, bringing great suffering to the people. Even "Lü's Spring and Autumn Period" said: "Today's world is very turbid, and the suffering of the head of the Qiantou cannot be added to and lost." Working people were forced to prepare their own armours to fight wars, and the result of each war was a streak of corpses. The countries that started the wars themselves suffered numerous casualties, and the countries they defeated shed rivers of blood. Taking Qin as an example, we can get a glimpse of the cruelty of the war at that time from the number of killings recorded in the historical records from the eighth year of Qin Xiaogong (354 BC) to the fifty-first year of King Zhaoxiang (256 BC): in these 100 years, the total number of Qin killings exceeded 1.3 million! Again, how many are not recorded? How much more in the whole 550 years? This is just a Qin country, how many people in China died in the war? Only God knows!
The war brought great damage to production. This is not only manifested in the fact that the peasants went out to march and caused a great reduction in the labor force and the barren countryside; The battlefield is vast, and the crops are ruined; It is also manifested in the fact that the ruling class often resorts to brutal means such as burning and bursting embankments to meet the needs of war, which greatly destroys the productive forces. For example, in 281 BC, when King Zhao Huiwen commanded the attack on Wei, he actually broke the embankment of the Yellow River and flooded Wei. The atrocities of breaking the embankment of the Yellow River were committed by Qi, Zhao, Wei, and Zhou. In addition, the melee between ethnic groups in agricultural areas weakened the ability to resist the harassment of the northern nomads, and created opportunities for them to enter the Central Plains to burn and plunder.
War educated the people, who hated war and longed for peace and unity. As a result, there was a scene of "eating pot pulp to welcome the king's division," supporting the unification war. In fact, the concept of "great unification" was an inevitable product of the emergence of a trend towards unification at the end of the Warring States period due to the class struggle. At that time, not only the people demanded the unification of the countries, but also the new landlord class in order to consolidate and develop the feudal relations of production that had been established and to protect their class interests. There was also an urgent desire for a unified feudal regime throughout the country. For example, the book "Lü's Spring and Autumn Period" strongly advocated that "everything must be done by judging the people's will first, and then it can be lifted", and loudly called for the establishment of a centralized unified state: "This week is destroyed, and the Son of Heaven is extinct, chaos is greater than no Son of Heaven, and without the Son of Heaven, the strong will prevail over the weak, and the many will be violent, and they will fight with soldiers without rest." "Lü's Spring and Autumn Period" directly marked the proposition of "no two" as the title, expressing the desire to eliminate the state of secession by means of war and establish a unified dynasty.