Although Gan Mao tried his best, he did not conquer Yiyang City in the winter. In this way, the grass grows and the warbler flies, and when spring comes, the war between Qin and Korea finally starts again.

After nearly four months of training, the army recruited by South Korea finally has the appearance of soldiers, but compared with the soldiers of Zhao who are also stationed in Xinzheng, it is still a little worse. But it's better than nothing. And the battle situation on the Yiyang side is no longer allowed to be delayed, with 50,000 Han troops and 30,000 Zhao troops, they will come over with a mighty killing. The destination is naturally Yiyang.

Gan Mao attached great importance to the invading Han and Zhao coalition forces, first ordered the troops to wait for work, first set up a position, and then used his left flank Wusui garrison to stand by at any time and prepare to attack. Gan Mao's strategy was to focus on Yiyang and attack the city with all his might first, while the attacking troops were mainly to delay and delay the attack of the coalition forces, in other words, Yiyang was the main attack, and the attacking troops were mainly defending. In this way, nothing is lost.

But he never expected that his strategy was good, but he looked away when he chose people.

Bai Qi understood what Gan Mao meant, but he was obviously not prepared to listen to Gan Mao's arrangement. In his eyes, offense is the best defense, and instead of blocking and delaying the enemy, it is better to directly defeat the enemy. He knew that his 40,000 troops had to adjust if they wanted to defeat the other side.

Although it is said that it is a coalition army, it is naturally impossible to unify the command, after the storm kite and Zhao Yuan discussed, the main force is naturally South Korea, and in order to prevent the Qin army from being attacked by Wu Sui's right wing, the Zhao army was arranged on the right, hoping to protect his main force with the help of the cavalry of the Zhao army.

Bai Qi saw through the shrewdness of the Storm Kite's arrangement at a glance, and knew that although the Han and Zhao coalition forces had an advantage in numbers, the Zhao army's actual combat effectiveness was worthy of vigilance, and more importantly, these Korean troops had been defeated once before, and there was a shadow against the Qin army. Therefore, he sent 10,000 cavalry troops to deal with the Zhao army, isolated the Zhao army from the Korean army, and personally led the remaining 30,000 Qin troops to attack the Korean army.

As soon as the two armies fought, Bai Qi gave the storm kite a dismount, and before the Han army could set up the formation, the Qin army directly launched an attack, which startled the storm kite. Sure enough, the newborn calf is not afraid of tigers, and the courage of the Qin army impacted the military formation of the Han army, plus it had been defeated once before, which made the Korean army always cower and dare not face the enemy head-on. This is something that the storm kite can't control, confidence is not something that can be built up through training, but through continuous victory over the enemy, and it is clear that the Korean army is doing a very poor job in this regard.

Contrary to the weakness shown by the Koreans, Zhao Yuan is also a new calf and led the troops to fight for the first time, but he has not been idle in recent years, and has been tempered in Northern Xinjiang and Yanguo, although he can't perform so well with Li Zhuo, Zhao Hao, Pang Xuan and others, but the victory is in the middle of the rules, which is why Zhao Yong chose him: not to seek a big victory, but to seek stability.

Even so, the gap between the cavalry of the Qin State and the cavalry of the Zhao State is enough to show it vividly in this strong dialogue. Even if this Zhao cavalry is not a special unit like the Baijin Battalion, but a Hu cavalry trained by Daijun, when facing the Qin cavalry, its combat effectiveness is also a step ahead. This is not to say that the people of Zhao are much more heroic than those of Qin, but for the standard troops of the formation, when facing the unformed troops, many advantages are undoubtedly revealed.

Even if Zhao Guo's side fights vigorously, it can't hide the weakness of the Koreans. The attack launched by Bai Qi crushed the South Korean army that the Tyrant had worked so hard to train and was defeated. Storm Kite could only sigh that the heavens would not help me, let the shaft become famous, and then fled towards Xinzheng with the rest of the troops.

Zhao Yuan saw that the Koreans had run away, and it was useless for him to insist, and after breaking the cavalry of the Qin State, he led the army to rush towards Yewang. The Qin cavalry behind wanted to pursue, but because they had lost their combat power, they had to watch the Zhao people calmly leave the battlefield.

In this battle, the Qin army of 40,000 won more with less, defeated 80,000 of the Han and Zhao coalition forces, and the main force of 30,000 South Korea was all defeated. What's more, compared to Gan Mao's seizure of Yiyang City, this small-scale sniper battle is insignificant.

When the news of the defeat of the Han and Zhao coalition came, Yiyang City was full of mourning. The reason why he was able to breathe a sigh of relief before was because the Han army still had the capital to compete with the Qin army, but now it has been defeated by the Qin army twice, and the blow to morale can be imagined. It is precisely because of this that the defenders of Yiyang, who had still a breath left, finally could not withstand the pressure of the Qin army's continuous attack, and finally fell after holding Yiyang for eight months.

The fall of Yiyang means that Yiyang, as a strategic hub of South Korea, has become the bridgehead of the Qin army's eastward advance, since then the Qin army has entered the sea like a dragon, and can freely enter and exit Hangu Pass as if entering no one's land, the wide and flat Sanchuan County has been unable to stop the footsteps of the Qin army, and the Korean land west of the Tiger Pass has fallen into the hands of the Qin State, and the two countries of Han and Wei can only rely on the Tiger Pass and Yique Tianwei to compete with the Qin army.

At the same time, South Korea also lost most of the materials from Nanyang and Shangdang gathered in Yiyang, Wusui and other places, because the speed of Qin's attack was too fast, so that South Korea did not have time to transfer these materials out, but let Qin obtain them after the war, and accelerated their repair speed.

Gan Mao was finally able to straighten his waist and breathe a sigh of relief, he led the generals to the gate of Yiyang, looking at the city that had brought huge casualties to both Qin and Korea, and the corpses of soldiers from the two countries were floating on Luoshui, and the river was also red. There were countless corpses piled up under the city walls, and the soldiers who took care of them began to burn them or throw them into the river to prevent epidemics, which were common in an era of limited medical care. Therefore, it is very important work for the disposal of corpses. Of course, the repair of the city walls is also essential.

"Pass my military orders." Gan Mao turned to look at the generals behind him, everyone was stunned, looking at the main general's face full of eagerness, knowing that after this battle, Gan Mao's prestige will definitely reach a new peak, and if he and others want to pull him off the horse, it will be impossible in a short time. So he began to slap him up first. "Immediately send the war report back to Xianyang!"

"No!"

"Sure enough, it's rotten wood, and it can't be carved." Zhao Yong smiled bitterly and read the front-line battle report, and said to everyone: "I didn't expect the Koreans to be so weak, they have been defending for more than eight months, and finally fell short, it's really ... It's really..."

"Is it really 'people without honor, what is it to not die'?" , the lieutenant said resentfully. He was direct, directly saying that Koreans are really damned.

Le Yi was not as obvious as the two of them, he put down the battle report, and said lightly: "We also supported it." Gan Mao is both civil and military, he is a first-class talent, coupled with the courage of the Qin army, even the veteran of the violent kite will inevitably fall into the way. The Koreans were not unjustly defeated. ”

"This widow knows it." Zhao Yong said that he didn't value Gan Mao much, but he was too jealous of Bai Qi, even if he didn't care about history in his previous life, he knew the Battle of Changping, and he also knew the prestige of Bai Qi, the god of killing. It is to smile bitterly at the defeat of South Korea. The old and strong storm kite, when it meets the white rise in the limelight, it is obvious that the back waves of the Yangtze River push the front waves. Even in Zhao State, the generals who can fight with Bai Qi may not have appeared yet.

"In this way, the plan that has been prepared a long time ago may have to be shelved first." Le Yi said, "The Qin State does not have the constraints of South Korea, and Wu Sui is also in its control, so if it attacks rashly, it seems that it will be counterattacked." ”

"Yes, then stop for a moment and see the situation." Zhao Yong said simply, "There is also the South Korean side, it seems that it should also be appeased, the widow is worried that this ally of ours may fall to the Qin State." ”

"Not just South Korea, but also Wei." Le Yi took over the conversation, "I was unclear with the Qin State before, but now that the Qin army has won a big victory, the Wei State is too busy to take care of itself, and it is inevitable that the King will surrender to the Qin State again, and the king needs to arrange a right-hand man to lobby the King of Wei and the King of Han to ensure the stability of the two of them, so as to plan for the future." ”

Zhao Yong nodded.

"In addition, on the Yewang's side, you still need to inform Zhao Hao. Be cautious and careful. Le Yi said, "As a last resort, you must not be an enemy of South Korea." ”

Zhao Yong nodded, this is also what it should mean. It's just that at this moment, there is a great sense of powerlessness in my heart, and sure enough, the plan can't catch up with the changes. I wanted to use such a war to divert the increasingly prominent contradictions in Zhao State because of the reform, and it seems that I have to find another way.

Yes, no matter who initiated this reform, even if it was Zhao Yong, the monarch of Zhao Guo, the reform led by Zhao Guojun, it also exposed a lot of problems ten years later, which brought a lot of trouble to Zhao Yong and made Zhao's domestic opposition to reform more and more loud. Although Zhao Yong is now in China, both his prestige and power have reached their peak, and he can't suppress this wave of opposition.

Zhao Yong is not a qualified politician after all, or rather, he is transforming into a qualified politician. He first defined himself as a time-traveler with a historical responsibility, and then considered himself the monarch of the Zhao state. This is actually not true, on the contrary, he must first realize that he is a monarch and then position himself as a time-traveler. The interests of the monarch are not equal to the interests of the state, at least not in this era, and the purpose of changing the law is to make the country strong, and the redistribution of interests will always touch the cake of vested interests, which is also not conducive to the rule of the state. A mature monarch must first satisfy his own rule and then talk about national interests. Whether Zhao Yong relied on the city government or relied on the insight beyond this era, he did first obtain military power and was in a favorable position in the situation, but he was facing the family power that had been accumulated for hundreds of years, and this behemoth was difficult for anyone to shake, which just shows that without a thorough, large-scale reform, any tinkering is useless, and sometimes it is like fighting a fire, and it is becoming more and more out of control.

It's just that at this time, does Zhao Guo still have a chance to break through?

(End of chapter)