Chapter 1196: Winter Run? (b)
"Report!"
An alarming report alarmed Wuxin Marquis Gongsun Qi, Qin Shaojun, and several Qin army generals who were roasting in the tent. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
"What happened?" Seeing a soldier break in, even if Wuxin Marquis Gongsun Qi knew that the other party must have an urgent military intelligence report, he was a little unhappy in his heart.
After all, he had just been assigning a task to the generals in the tent, and he didn't like it when someone interrupted him.
However, the Qin soldier didn't care whether the commander of Wuxin Hou Gongsun Qi liked it or not, and knocked on the ground with an anxious look on his face and said, "Lord Qiqi Gongsun, the Wei army has been dispatched on a large scale!" ”
Hearing this, the generals of the Qin army such as Wang Yi in the tent stood up one after another, putting on a posture of gearing up - although the general strategy of Wuxin Hou Gongsun Qi was to avoid fighting hard with the Wei army, but if the Wei army came over, their Qin army would have to resist anyway, and they couldn't kill or abandon this camp, right? And taking this opportunity to kill a few Wei soldiers to vent their anger, but they can also vent the frustration of the generals about the "successive defeats" of their own army.
No, Wang Yi couldn't help but ask: "How many Wei soldiers attacked our military camp?" ”
The soldier who came to report was stunned, then shook his head and said: "No, my lord, the Wei army did not attack our army camp, they rode a kind of chariot drawn by war horses, drove like a gallop on the snow, and swept past our army camp and headed west......"
Before the words fell, a figure flashed beside the soldier, and everyone looked at it, it turned out to be Wuxin Hou Gongsun Qi left the tent without saying a word.
Seeing this, Qin Shaojun and Wang Di and other generals of the Qin army hurriedly followed.
It's broken, it's broken, it's broken, it's broken, it's broken......
While muttering in his heart, the Marquis of Wuxin walked quickly to the camp gate through the snow.
It may be an anxious relationship in his heart, as the commander of the first army, he can't care about the other people running on the snow in the camp, which surprised the Qin soldiers who saw this scene: Lord Sun Qi, the Marquis of Wuxin, who has always been steady, actually has such an anxious time.
When the Marquis of Wuxin got up and arrived at the watchtower near the gate of the camp, most of the more than 10,000 horse-drawn sleigh chariots of the Wei army had already gone away, and only a few more than 1,000 horse-drawn sleigh chariots were passing under the noses of the Qin soldiers in the Taolin Qin camp and heading towards the west.
Seeing this, Wuxin Hou Gongsun Qi's eyes widened.
In all fairness, in fact, he had already guessed that the Wei army might have thousands of miles to attack and sneak attack their Qin homeland, but the cognition formed over the years made him subconsciously deny this judgment, because he couldn't imagine what way the Wei army could run long distances in the cold winter and on the vast snowfield.
You must know that the heavy snow in winter closes the road, and the carriages and horses cannot pass at all, and if the Wei army adopts the method of walking, Wuxin Hou Gongsun Qi has no doubt that this is a self-defeating behavior.
However, it turned out that Wei Gonggongrun slapped him hard and invented a strange chariot that had no wheels but could drive like a fly on the snow, carrying Wei soldiers, and disappeared from the eyes of Qin Jun in the blink of an eye.
So ...... What the hell is it?
Wuxin Hou Gongsun opened his mouth and watched in disbelief as the last stream of Wei soldiers disappeared in front of them.
He could not understand: why would a car without wheels travel so fast on snow? Faster than a normal flat wagon?
However, at this moment, he didn't care about this problem, because he realized that he was in a catastrophe - he let the nearly 100,000 Wei soldiers led by Wei Gongzirun personally slip away from under his nose.
What's even worse is that Wei Gongzirun's nearly 100,000 Wei troops are rushing towards the mainland of their Qin State at this moment.
After imagining the terrifying scene of the invasion of the 100,000 Wei troops into the territory of the Qin State in his mind, the Marquis of Wuxin, Gongsun Qi, was shocked, turned around and ordered: "Quick! The whole army retreated! ”
The Qin soldiers in the camp did not dare to disobey at all, quickly packed their bags, carried their bags and weights, and retreated westward on the thick snow.
However, the slippery road was so difficult to walk that the Qin soldiers walked on the slippery snow, and sometimes some fell to the ground, and the pace of the march was outrageously slow.
Looking at the speed of the movement of the army under his command, and recalling that the Wei army was driving on the snow in that strange carriage, Wuxin Hou Gongsun couldn't help but clench the reins of the horse, and his face was extremely ugly.
When he had clearly guessed that Wei Gongzi Run might attack the Qin State itself, he still let Wei Gongzi run succeed, just because he blindly believed that it was impossible for the Wei army to cross this plain more than 150 miles long on such an icy road unscathed.
Even, Wuxin Marquis Gongsun Qi once speculated: Did Wei Gongzirun know that the Wei State was doomed to fall when he knew that it was difficult to balance the two ends, so he gave up on himself, so he made the stupid decision to run in winter?
And now, it turns out that it is not Wei Gongzirun who is stupid, but he Wuxin Hou Gongsun Qi - he underestimated the other party.
From the side, the Qin general Wang Yi drove the war horse to the side of Wuxin Hou Gongsun Qi, looked back at the stumbling Qin soldiers under his command, and said with a wry smile: "With the speed of our army, I'm afraid I won't be able to return to ......the reinforcements in time."
"If you can't catch up, you have to hurry!" Wuxin Hou Gongsun Qi pinched the horsewhip and said in a deep voice.
At this moment, there was an inexplicable sense of frustration in his heart, because this was the second time he had been planted in the hands of Wei Gongrun.
The failure of Wang Jian, the Marquis of Changxin, to attack the Wei general Sima An was left aside for the time being, because it was a misjudgment made by his Gongsun Qi when he had not really paid attention to Wei Gongzirun's opponent, but on the narrow road on the west side of Changhui Mountain, Wei Gongzi Run calculated that he would pursue the Wei army twice, and used an inscription that Qin Wuxin Hou died here, and hurriedly retreated and fled in fright, which made him feel a little frustrated.
Because the clever plan he came up with to pursue the Wei army for the second time was precisely calculated by Wei Gongzirun, if Wei Gongzirun hadn't rushed to support Sima An at that time, and was reluctant to exchange one for one, in fact, Wei Gongzirun had the ability to let his Wuxin Hou Gongsun Qi and his 20,000 soldiers annihilate the entire army in the narrow road of Chang Hao Mountain.
And this time it was even more incredible, knowing that Wei Gongzirun was preparing to attack the Qin State itself, he was actually easily broken through the defense line, which made Wuxin Marquis Gongsun Qi feel a little dazed - it was clear that he was not much different from the other party's wisdom and military strategy, how could such a thing happen?
Just when the Marquis of Wuxin was secretly blaming himself, Zhao Hongrun, the king of Su, was standing on the horse-drawn sleigh and laughing.
At this moment, Zhao Hongrun's heart was very happy, because he had finally defeated Wuxin Hou Gongsun Qi - although it was not a victory in war.
I have to say that a while ago, he was really aggrieved by the tactics of Wuxin Hou Gongsun Qi, as if he had no strength, but there was no place for it.
And now, I finally got out of a bad breath.
After laughing for a while, Zhao Hongrun sat back in the carriage and thought about it wrapped in a sheepskin blanket.
In his opinion, at present, there are only two choices for Gongsun Qi, the Marquis of Wuxin, either to quickly march eastward and capture the city, or even further attack the Wei state itself; Either that, or choose to come back.
In fact, it was a very foolish decision to return to the army, because the Qin army could not move faster than the Wei army, so it was just a needless follow.
However, Zhao Hongrun believes that Wuxin Marquis Gongsun Qi does not have the courage not to withdraw troops to rescue his country, after all, nearly 100,000 Wei soldiers are enough to turn a Qin state upside down.
Of course, even if Gongsun Qi, Marquis of Wuxin, chooses to come back to help, I am afraid that he will not be able to catch up with the war on the Qin State - so there is no need to think about this Qin army for the time being.
About an hour later, the Wei army, which was marching fast, came across a Qin camp - that was originally the camp that Gongsun Qi, the Marquis of Wuxin, was preparing to retreat after abandoning the Taolin Qin camp.
Therefore, as the name suggests, there must be a lot of grain and grass left in this Qin army camp where the garrison is not large.
Thinking of this, Zhao Hongrun stood up, stood on the sleigh car, and pointed to the Qin camp in the distance.
Immediately, Nanmen Chi, the deputy general of the Shang Water Army, led three sleigh teams of 1,000 people, left the large team, and sailed towards the Qin camp.
And Zhao Hongrun's big team did not stop and continued to move forward.
On the way forward, Zhao Hongrun heard the sound of killing coming from the military camp, and he was not worried about the 3,000 people in the south gate, because he could judge that there would not be many Qin soldiers left behind in the Qin camp.
After about two or three hours, the large contingent of the Wei army encountered another Qin battalion.
Without Zhao Hongrun's order, Xu Jiong, the 3,000-man general of the Shangshui Army, who had already accepted the order, led three teams of 1,000 people to leave the large team and attack this Qin camp.
It is believed that in the future, Gongsun Qi, the Marquis of Wuxin, will vomit blood angrily after learning about this, and these Qin army camps that he originally used to delay the footsteps of the Wei army have actually become supply stations for the Wei army to obtain grain and grass.
Gradually, the Wei army's horse-drawn sleigh procession lengthened.
This is also something that cannot be helped, after all, since Zhao Hongrun decided to run thousands of miles to attack the Qin country, then he was bound to march in a hurry, and he could not care about the condition of the war horses, so that along the way, more and more Wei troops were forced to break away from the big team.
Some of the war horses were exhausted, rested for a while, fed some forage and could still continue to pull the cart, while some of the war horses simply died with all their strength - for these war horses that died along the way, Zhao Hongrun was ruthless and let them serve as food for the Wei army, after all, the army under his command was still very short of food.
Approaching dusk, Zhao Hongrun ordered the whole army to rest in place.
I saw that under the command of the generals of the Wei army, the Wei soldiers put a wooden board upright, so a chariot that resembled a Wugang chariot and could be used to shield from the cold wind was formed.
Immediately, the Wei soldiers arranged the sleigh carts in a circle in units of 100 carts to form a small improvised camp, and then dug up the snow in the open space in the middle, lit several bonfires, and wrapped themselves in sheepskin blankets to survive the cold night.
During this period, some Wei soldiers sighed and slaughtered batches of fallen war horses and made them into jerky.
And when it was dawn the next day, the Wei army set off again, driving the sleigh chariot and continuing westward.
With the incredible action of the horse-drawn sleigh on the snow, the Wei army under Zhao Hongrun arrived in Huayin from Taolin in only three days, leaving Wuxin Hou Gongsun Qi far behind.
On the fifth day, the Wei army arrived at Weinan, the city of Qin.
At this time, the Wei army was only one hundred and sixty miles away from Xianyang, the new capital of the Qin State!