Li Mu, the general of Zhao State, took the opportunity to attack and occupy the camp of the Qin army in one fell swoop, broke the Qin army left behind, and captured all the grain, grass and baggage of the Qin army.

However, Li Mu was not only satisfied with this, and ordered: Draw out a part of the army to disguise itself as the Qin army left behind, and pretend to be fighting with our army for the camp.

"Dashuai, why is it arranged like this?" Adjutant General Zhao Cong rushed over to ask. Zhao Qian, the king of Zhao, naturally did not worry about handing over all the military power to Li Mu alone, and deliberately split Li Mu and Sima Shang, so that Zhao Cong replaced Sima Shang as Li Mu's deputy general, and Sima Shang became one of the remaining generals in Handan.

Li Mu, the general of the Zhao State, explained with a smile: "The general of the Qin State, Huan Qi, heard that the camp was besieged, and he must come back to help. Because the big camp is not only related to the grain and grass of the 300,000 Qin army, but also guards the retreat of the Qin army. If the Qin general Huan Qi learned that the camp had been captured, he would inevitably lead him there. How can we be able to survive our small and exhausted army? ”

The deputy general Zhao Cong thought about it, and instantly understood Li Mu's old plan, and said ecstatically: "The last general understands that the general wants to lure the Qin army to rush back to help, and then take the opportunity to ambush the Qin army. ”

Li Mu, the general of Zhao State, was full of pride in his heart, and finally it was his turn to show his strength, and he replied very happily: "Yes, the Qin army is in a hurry, and it must be negligent and exhausted. Our army is just waiting for work and taking the opportunity to ambush! ”

The heavens and the earth were gloomy, and huge dark clouds rolled and undulated overhead, as if they might rain at any moment. The cold autumn wind blows the banner and makes the sound of hunting; The sand and gravel on the ground also scurried around in the sky under the force of the strong wind, which made people feel a little unpleasant.

At the three-way intersection thirty miles outside Feicheng, 50,000 Zhao troops blocked the way through which the Qin army had to pass. Of course, in the nearby mountains and forests, the 120,000 Zhao army had already been ambushed.

After a while, on the distant horizon, there was a rumbling sound of war drums, and a huge and stretching black line appeared in front of everyone's eyes. Immediately afterward, the black line began to rapidly expand into a vast expanse of endless black. In the bleak autumn wind, this poignant black is even more solemn and desolate, and at the same time exudes a grand murderous aura.

Li Mu, the general of Zhao State, shouted: "Crossbow machines and trebuchets attack with all their might, and use more fire arrows and fire oil balls!"

There was a sound of landslides and ground cracks in the sky above the Qin army, and hundreds of huge arrows and countless debris rose from the sky above the camp, flying over a distance of nearly three hundred steps, and pounced on the Qin army's large array.

The general of the Qin State, Huan Qi, was furious, although he had seen such a thing as a trebuchet in Yecheng. But the craftsmen of the Qin army were not familiar with it and could not make it

In fact, this is not to blame the incompetence of the craftsmen of the Qin army, because trebuchets have existed since the Western Zhou Dynasty, but due to incomplete mechanical parts or immature craftsmanship, they have not shone brightly. However, Zhao Guo received strong support from Momen this time, and the Mo family was the best at making instruments, so an improved version of the trebuchet came into being.

Li Mu, the general of Zhao State, was naturally very satisfied with this, vigorously developed the trebuchet troops, and at the same time thanked Momen for his help.

However, there is no shortage of heavy ground crossbow machines.

As a result, the Qin general Huan Qi immediately ordered the crossbow soldiers behind the formation to hurry up at full speed and start shooting at the new Qin army.

The offensive of the Zhao army came in waves.

It turned out that the soldiers of the former army of the Zhao Army put a special fire oil bomb into the machine spoon and pulled the machine spring after igniting it. Hundreds of huge fireballs flew into the air and fell into the Qin army's formation, and the huge scene was as spectacular and brilliant as a meteor shower that invaded the earth from the distant universe. In an instant, the fireball reached the ground, and countless fire oils suddenly burst out, and these fire oils ignited when they saw the fire, and immediately burned the front of the Qin army into a sea of fire. Countless soldiers of the Qin army were drowned in the sea of fire, and there was a miserable howl.

The angry Qin State general Huan Qi roared: "Shield cover, crossbowmen assault with all their might!"

Thousands of Qin troops took the improvised shields to build a shield, desperately blocking the sky and shooting a curtain of arrows to protect the crossbowmen behind them. The crossbowmen of the Qin army, who were in a hurry, finally had a chance to breathe, and they all stretched their strings and arrows and fought back.

For a time, hundreds of thousands of arrows flew over the battlefield, and the sun obscured them, and the sky and the earth were dark. Even because the arrows fired at each other in the air were so dense that at least one-tenth of the arrows did not reach their destination, and they crashed into each other and fell down over the battlefield.

What a horrible scene!

But Zhao Jun was more prepared, and had already prepared countless thick and heavy shields. Moreover, the Zhao army had already dug a large number of trenches in the front, and set up a large number of antlers and pits.

In this way, the Qin army could not be attacked for a long time, suffered heavy casualties, and coupled with the fatigue of the road, the morale suddenly plummeted.

The sky was overcast, and the cold wind kept whistling and circling between the heavens and the earth, rolling up the yellow grass clippings and fallen leaves all over the sky; In the sky, the dark clouds were also constantly gathering, accumulating more and more, accumulating thicker and thicker, slowly forming a huge black dome, but it was so low that it seemed to fall from the head at any moment, which was very oppressive.

Seeing this, the general of the Qin State, Huan Qi, wanted to temporarily retreat, set up camp, and then look for fighters.

At this moment, the surrounding mountains and forests suddenly sounded an earth-shattering shout.

I saw tens of thousands of Zhao iron cavalry attacking the rear of the Qin army from both flanks regardless of casualties, and the Qin army's crossbow archers had not had a chance to fire three rounds of crossbow arrows before they were rushed into the formation by the Zhao army's iron cavalry. Fortunately, the defense of the Qin army's large array was quite tight, and the Qin army's crossbow archers quickly retreated, and the Qin soldiers behind who held long weapons such as halberd spears immediately filled the vacant positions.

The fierce hand-to-hand fight began, and in the bloody sky, the stumps flew and the howl was deafening! A man named Zhao Guotie fell in front of the huge gun forest that was as immobile as a mountain, but the robe behind him came one after another without fear and continued to launch a fierce attack on the Qin army's main formation; The spearmen of the Qin army also suffered heavy casualties before the skillful and effective attack of the Zhao State Iron Cavalry, but when each spearman fell, the Qin spearmen behind him would step on the corpses of their brothers to make up for them, stubbornly maintaining the integrity of the formation.

"What's the situation? Didn't the scouts scout already snoop out? Where did Zhao Jun come from? The general of the Qin State, Huan Qi, was very puzzled, but no matter how unbelievable he was, he couldn't change the cruel reality that he was ambushed by the Zhao army.

Li Mu, the general of Zhao State, found that the rear of the Qin army was almost about to collapse, so he naturally refused to let go of such an important opportunity.

"Zheng!" Li Mu, the general of Zhao State, pulled out his long sword and roared, "Sons, killing the enemy and making meritorious service is today, kill!" ”

"Kill! Kill! Kill ......" Zhao Guo's iron horsemen responded loudly and let out a strange cry. They burned like a pack of angry wolves, rushing into the boiling battle array with rumbling thunder and smoke and dust.

Suddenly, the galloping cavalry array drew a beautiful circle like a right hook, bypassing the charging Zhao army's foot soldiers, and hitting the Qin army's rear formation fiercely.

The soldiers of the Qin army, who had been struggling to support them, immediately lost their morale, and they couldn't take care of it at the moment, and after barely coping with it a few times, they immediately broke up and fled like a tide, and they couldn't care about maintaining the Qin army's large array anymore.

The cavalry of Zhao naturally beat the water dogs and chased them frantically all the way!

At this point, the Qin army was surrounded on three sides and fled in defeat. Seeing this, Huan Qi, the general of the Qin State, naturally knew that the army was defeated, and hurriedly fled back to the Qin State with his personal guards.

In general, Li Mu, the general of Zhao State, judged that Huan Qi would definitely come to his rescue, so he deployed a force to block the enemy from the front and deployed the main force on both flanks. When the frontal Zhao army came into contact with the retreating Qin army, he immediately commanded the Zhao army on both flanks to carry out a pincer attack. After fierce fighting, the Qin army was defeated.

In this battle, the Qin State suffered more than 100,000 casualties, except for a few remnants of the soldiers who were wandering in the mountains and forests, and basically lost the possibility of temporarily attacking the Zhao State.

In the Battle of Feicheng, the Qin army came with the power of a great victory, and Li Mu was entrusted with the defeat of the army, and was ordered to be in danger. In the face of the Qin army, which was known as invincible in the field world, Li Mu strategically adopted the strategy of avoiding its elite and attacking its lazy return. When the enemy army recognized its intentions and tried to encircle the point to help him, Li Mu would plan and use the strategy of encircling Wei to save Zhao, and attacking him would be saved. During the engagement, the tactics of blocking the enemy head-on and outflanking the two flanks were adopted to completely annihilate the Qin army. In the course of the war, Li Mu firmly grasped the initiative on the battlefield, made use of his strengths and avoided his weaknesses, and finally won a complete victory. This is a typical battle to encircle Wei and save Zhao. With this battle, Li Mu was awarded the title of Wu Anjun.

The siege of Wei and the rescue of Zhao is about the battle of Guiling between Qi and Wei during the Warring States Period. The time dates back to 354 B.C., when the Wei army besieged Handan, the capital of Zhao, and the two sides fought for more than a year. In the midst of the urgency of the king of Zhao, he had no choice but to ask for help from the state of Qi, and promised to give him Zhongshan after the siege was lifted. King Qi Wei agreed, sent Tian Ji as a general, Sun Bin as a military advisor, and led 80,000 troops to rescue Zhao. Sun Bin was a classmate with Pang Juan and was proficient in the art of using soldiers. The king of Wei hired him with a lot of money, and Pang Juan was also serving the Wei state at that time. Pang Juan felt that his ability was inferior to Sun Bin, and he was afraid that he would be virtuous to himself, so he maimed Sun Bin by poisoning, cut off Sun's feet and tattooed words on his face, trying to make Sun unable to walk, and he was ashamed to see people. Later, Sun Bin pretended to be crazy, but fortunately was rescued by the envoy of Qi and fled to the country of Qi. This is an old story about Pang Juan and Sun Bin.

So where did the Zhao army choose the direction of attack? At first, Tian Ji was ready to go straight to Handan. Sun Bin believes that in order to untie the chaotic silk thread, you can't pull it with your hands, and you can't directly participate in the fight if you want to solve other people's fights. To send troops to break the siege, it is necessary to avoid the real and hit the key points. He suggested to Tian Ji: "At this time, the elite troops of Wei are concentrated in Handan, and the interior is empty, if we lead our troops to storm the capital of Wei, occupy its main communication routes, attack its empty places, and march to the national capital of Wei, it will inevitably let go of Zhao and return to the division to save itself." “

As a result, the Qi army took advantage of the exhaustion of the Wei army and met the enemy on the way home in Guiling, a pre-selected combat area, and the Wei army was defeated and the siege of Handan was resolved. Pang Juan reluctantly cleaned up the remnants, retreated to the beam, and the Qi division won a great victory, and the siege of Zhao was lifted. This is the famous story of "encircling Wei to save Zhao" in history. Thirteen years later, the armies of Qi and Wei met again on the battlefield. In the Battle of Maling, Pang Juanfu fell into Sun Bin's ambush again, and knew that his army was defeated, so he killed himself. Sun Bin is famous in the world and has passed down his art of war.

Sun Bin used the method of besieging Wei to relieve the distress of Zhao, which is a very famous example in Chinese history, and was listed as an important plan among the 36 strategies by later military strategists. The tactics of encircling Wei and rescuing Zhao have been appreciated by military strategists of all dynasties, and it still has its vitality today.