Chapter Thirty-Eight: The Grain Road Is Robbed
In the past, Korea agreed to send the wild king to Zhao in exchange for Zhao sending troops. It's just that South Korea changed its tune in the end, hoping that both South Korea and Zhao would be stationed at the same time. Zhao Yong also knew that South Korea did not have the courage to give it all to Zhao Guo, so he agreed to this plan. He arranged for Zhao Hao and Zhao Zheng to lead 35,000 troops, Zhao Hao was responsible for stationing in Yewang, and Zhao Zheng went to support Korea.
"However, how long can the wild king's food be able to support an army of 30,000?"
When Pang Cong dragged the three young men out and once again revealed Zhao Hao's plan and plate, everyone's eyes opened. That's right, to take down the wild king, there is no need to fight the party at all. First, Zhao Hao could subdue the Han army from the city in one fell swoop without much effort; Second, the cavalry traveled far away and did not need to bring heavy troops. In this way, the wild king can be taken without blood.
Zhao Hao pondered for a while, "The treasury of Yewang City is full, and the stored grain can be used for about two years. ”
As soon as this remark came out, everyone was shocked. Everyone knows that Yewang is an important land and water town in South Korea, with abundant grain storage, but they didn't expect that even if it was 30,000 troops, it could be used for two years, which means that even if there is no grain and grass supply from Zhao State, it can support the withdrawal of troops from South Korea.
In fact, Yewang City is located in the north of the Great River, connected to the mainland of Korea and the Wei State, and relying on him to control the Shangdang area, if there is no rich grain and grass reserves, it is impossible to achieve support for the Shangdang. What's more, this city is a big city, and the South Korean garrison here is 20,000 people, so it is normal to have such food reserves.
"But the most important thing is that the consumption of war horses is relatively large, I am afraid that the actual situation cannot support two years, at most one and a half years, with the scale of our war this time, it must be controlled within one and a half years."
Everyone nodded, this was indeed to be taken into account.
After listening to Le Yi's plans and plans for the people of the White Tiger Palace, Zhao Yong came back to his senses.
"Well, so the general candidate, do you have a plan?"
The two of them had returned to the side hall at this moment, and the palace people were all kicked out by Zhao Yi, and they were observing at the door, and the eunuch Ling Fu just went in to clean up and retreated.
"The main general, it must be General Pang." Le Yi said.
There is almost no doubt about this, Zhao Guo now has many generals, but the one who can lead his troops to fight abroad and have the highest victory rate is none other than Pang Cong. This person is different from other generals, and most of them are cavalry backgrounds. He still has a set of conquerors.
"Although Zhao Hao is the proposer of this plan, he must return to the Wild King and cooperate with Zhao Zhen to take the Wild King City. He is very familiar with the wild king, and he deserves to guard the wild king. ”
Zhao Yong did not object to this.
"As for the task of attacking the wild king, what everyone means is to let Li Zhuo be responsible. He lived in Daidi for a long time, and fought against the Xiongnu in the past two years, and his experience and ability are beyond doubt. ”
Zhao Yong pondered for a while, and said slowly, "Li Zhuo should go to be Pang Cong's lieutenant." Even if it is a siege, it still needs cavalry assistance. Afraid that it would make Le Yi suspicious, he continued, "Qiu Liquid is a Hu person, and for Koreans, they will definitely be able to receive the effect of a surprise soldier. What's more, running thousands of miles, Qiu Liquid has not done it before, and he is familiar with the road. ”
Le Yi nodded and said no more.
"Now that everything has been planned, you should negotiate a detailed charter, including soldiers and horses, grain and grass, baggage, etc., and it is best to be able to solve it quickly. Delay for a long time, I'm afraid that Gongzizhuang won't be able to hold on. ”
"No."
State of Qin.
The marching army wandered between the mountains and rivers, like a black candle dragon, burning the yellow earth, and the momentum was quite spectacular. Standing on top of a mound and looking at the marching troops, Gan Mao felt like the heavens and the earth were in my chest.
Isn't the husband born as a human being to take heaven and earth into his chest?
It took about half a year to lead the troops to the expedition, and for Gan Mao, this half a year was trembling and walking on thin ice. At first, the enemy army was unstable, but Bai Qi was brave and good at fighting, and soon wiped out the bandits near Xianyang. After all, Gongzi Zhuang has led the army for many years and has some talents. Knowing that it was impossible to defeat Gan Mao and the others by virtue of field battles, he fought and retreated, just stuck to the city, and never easily engaged the other party. Only then did he guard the basic plate and did not let Gan Mao be eliminated within half a year. Although Gan Mao and Bai Qi are extremely brave, the siege of the city has always been a time-consuming and laborious work, and they can only be fought steadily and slowly.
However, recently, Gan Mao always received reports from the rear that his grain route was targeted by a group of bandits, and the news that the grain route had been hijacked at both ends of the three days came in. At first, he didn't think about it, thinking that a small group of bandits took advantage of the fire to rob, and only sent a small team of scouts to solve it. After three or five days, news came that the scout's corpse was in a different place. Even so, he didn't take it too seriously.
It wasn't until three days ago that his grain was robbed again, and the officials who had returned with their last breath told him that they were not small bandits at all, but more like a well-trained cavalry unit or a Hu army.
"Hu people? Yiqu Rong? Only then did Gan Mao realize that the problem was a little strange, so he discussed with Bai Qi and was responsible for escorting the grain and grass to see what the origin of these people was.
"General, Xianyang urgent."
"Hmm." Gan Mao beckoned, took the urgent report, opened it, and his heart tightened.
This is an urgent report from Zhu Liji, in which he details the turmoil caused by Gan Mao's suggestion to send Wu Sui to Zhao State. In the words of Zhu Liji, "the crowd was agitated and deeply ashamed", and even asked Yingji to "put Gan Mao to death".
Gan Mao never expected that one of his suggestions would lead to death. In fact, that day was just before he left Xianyang, he resigned to Yingji and Mi Bazi, and put forward a proposal to unite Zhao and stabilize the situation in Qin, and said in passing, "If Zhao is willing to support Qin, even if Wusui is ceded to Zhao, it is not unacceptable." ”
After he finished speaking, the crowd waited until there was no objection, but for some reason, after he left for half a year, some people began to make trouble. The most interesting thing is that neither Yingji nor Mi Bazi have expressed their opinions on this matter, and they are surprisingly quiet. No remarks were made, which can be said to be both opposition and approval. It's just that which one it is, Gan Mao doesn't know which one he has.
At the same time, a new appointment was attached at the end: Xiang Shou was appointed as the Yiyang Guard.
Gan Mao put away the urgent report and was silent. With his resourcefulness, he was naturally able to smell the difference, and even some of the smell of conspiracy. He asked himself that he had promised Yingji in every possible way, and even how he said it, he also had some merits, why did King Qin not protect himself?
Just as Gan Mao was in deep thought, dust flew in the distance, and the sound of hurried horses' hooves gradually came, breaking through the painting-like scenery. I saw this group of men and horses shouting nonsense that Gan Mao couldn't understand, and galloping towards the grain and grass carts of the Qin State. The soldiers of the Qin State hurriedly drew their weapons to protect them.
The Hu people who rushed to hijack the grain route were obviously well-trained, in groups of three or five, with a division of labor and cooperation, some went to harass the soldiers, and some went directly to loot the grain and grass, they were divided into small teams, divided and surrounded the grain trucks, and then acted according to the division of labor, seeing that the Qin army was about to be unable to resist.
Gan Mao knew that this was the mysterious "robber", but it was obvious that the other party was not an ordinary robber, and with a well-trained division of labor, only a unit could meet this requirement.
"Form a formation and meet the enemy."
With a wave of Gan Maoling's flag, the original four rows of Qin army's grain and grass troops suddenly changed, except for the grain and grass carts on both sides did not change, the two cars in the middle burst out of the fully armored Qin army. Before the "robbers" could recover their senses, they were attacked by ambushes. The horse was frightened, and the person on the horse had no way to clamp the horse's belly, so he could only hug the horse's neck, which gave Qin Jun a chance to fight back. Soon, the "robbers" fell off their horses one after another and were beheaded by the Qin army.
Not far from the grain team, a man who seemed to be the leader looked at the changes in the distance, and realized that he was ambushed this time.
"Captain, the Qin army is prepared at this time, we must not fight more, our death is small, if our identity is exposed, I am afraid it will cause an uproar."
The leader nodded, "Gan Mao is worthy of being the tiger general of the Qin State, and he set a trap for us without making a sound." That's it, order everyone to scatter on the spot and run in all directions, not to flee to Liyang, but to flee in the direction of Yiqu. ”
"No."
"Remember to so-and-so, you can only die in battle, not be captured alive!"
Just when the people of Qin were about to annihilate this "robber", a sharp whistle came from not far away. When the "robbers" heard the whistle, they did not like to fight, but simply scattered and fled.
"It's not that easy to run." Gan Mao sneered, changing the order flag in his hand, the soldiers of the Qin army surrounded all the grain carts in groups, and the other part of the people pulled out the ropes, forming a small cart formation. The car formation is like a petal, layer upon layer of each other, a large circle is set over a small circle, and the outermost vehicles form the largest encirclement. Before the "robbers" could escape, they were trapped, and the people of the Qin State immediately took out their shields and prepared to surround the robbers who ventured to break through. Due to the rapid movement of the Qin army and the layers of car formations, many "robbers" were trapped before they could escape. Even outside the car formation, a team of archers was arranged.
"Catch it alive!"
The order drum behind him beat again, and the Qin army got the order, but he didn't dare to step forward, but kept shrinking the encirclement, and the surrounded cavalry obviously had no hope of escaping, so they could only keep retreating, and finally gathered together.
The people of Qin began to persuade him to surrender, and Chang Ge beat his shield, his momentum like a rainbow. The momentum of the surrounded "robbers" was stagnant, and even the war horses under the seats roared.
At this moment, the change was abrupt, and I don't know which "robber" started first, and suddenly took out a sharp blade from his arms, inserted it into his heart without thinking, and killed him immediately. Seeing this, the other robbers imitated one after another, and in an instant, the blood spurting out of their hearts stained the entire sky, and before Gan Mao could stop it, all the robbers had already died. The river of blood slowly gathered together and flowed to the stream not far away.
(End of chapter)