Under the city of Shiyi, the Zhao army camped.

Zhao Yong slowly opened his eyes and saw the black dome of Zhao's military camp, he took a deep breath and turned his head to look at the side.

In the shadow of the bonfire, Bian Que, who was dressed in black and dark clothes, knelt beside him, just in time to pack up his silver needle, he turned his head, and just saw Zhao Yong's grateful expression. But this divine doctor, who was nominally respected, but was actually encircled, obviously had no gratitude for his gratitude, but turned his head indifferently and said, "Your Excellency is awake, don't say it for too long." Get plenty of rest. With that, the old man stood up and slowly walked to the door of the tent with the help of the medicine boy.

Just when Bian Que left, Zhao Yong had already seen that Le Yi and Wu Guang were kneeling there, and Zhao Guang was also kneeling behind him. Although I don't know how long I knelt down, it was obvious that at least during the period of time when Zhao Yong was in a coma, they had never been relaxed.

In fact, at that time, Zhao Yong was a little uncomfortable on top of the leather car, probably because it was the first time he saw such a bloody scene. When he reached the tent, the discomfort became more and more pronounced, so much so that he got out of the wagon, and before he could reach the tent, his eyes were black, and he fainted.

It doesn't matter if he faints, but it scares Le Yi and Wu Guang a lot. The two knew that the current reforms of Zhao State were all planned by Zhao Yong, and if he really collapsed like this, the future of Zhao State would be obscure. Wu Guang has just been set aside by Zhao Yong, and he has no rights, if Zhao Yong dies again, he will definitely be reduced to the point of being slaughtered by others; Le Yi is not much better, he has just arrived, and he has no particularly obvious achievements, and Zhao Yong died in his own army, so it would be too sad to say that it was a conspiracy to say it.

It was Wu Guang who hurriedly invited Bian Que, who was with the army, to ask him to wake up Zhao Yong no matter what. And the miracle doctor really lived up to expectations, he didn't even open the prescription, and directly took out a silver needle and stabbed it on several acupuncture points of Zhao Yong, and after a few more twists, Zhao Yong woke up.

Several people were overjoyed and hurriedly kowtowed in place to apologize. Zhao Yong no longer has the freshness he had when he first came to the Warring States, or rather, only from the time he decided that he wanted to throw history into the trash, all his worries and awe were disposed of as garbage.

What is History? What Lao Tzu did was history.

So when he saw a few people begging for mercy there, he returned to the shrewd mentality of being a manager, and did not let them stop, opened his mouth and said, "How is it?" ”

After hearing this, several people looked at each other, not knowing what Zhao Yong's brainless words meant. Wu Guang thought for a while and said cautiously: "Lao Chen counted this battle, our army lost more than 2,000 soldiers, more than 10,000 bows and crossbows, and more than 50 war horses, and the casualties were not too great. ”

After he finished speaking, he secretly glanced at Zhao Yong, but found that Zhao Yong's expression was faint, obviously not very interested in what he said, could it be that he said it wrong? But such casualties are really nothing, right?

As soon as he finished speaking, Le Yi saw that Zhao Yongshu was expressionless, and immediately felt a pang in his heart, and took over the conversation and said: "Your Excellency doesn't have to worry about the morale of the military camp, the ministers have already notified you to do a good job of appeasing you, only saying that your Excellency is a little cold, and it is no big deal, and there are no rumors in the army at this moment." ”

Leaning slightly, Zhao Yong sighed and said, "It's still the military advisor who understands Gu's mind." ”

Wu Guang's face tightened, his head lowered even deeper, and he secretly cursed himself in his heart, why couldn't he understand Zhao Yong's mind for the first time. In fact, if Zhao Yong wanted to know the casualties, why should he ask in the first place? It must have been the fear of being unfavorable to the siege, and the two things that combined with his own fall in front of the soldiers, affected the morale of the Zhao army.

"We can't do that anymore." Zhao Yong paused and said, "With such an endless attack, we obviously don't have an advantage, we have to find a way." He paused again and said, "Sima, what do you think?" ”

"The old minister thinks that the king's words are reasonable." Wu Guang knew that this was Zhao Yong giving himself a step, and hurriedly followed Zhao Yong's words and said, "The most important thing at the moment is to build siege equipment, wait for morale to recover, and then try to attack Shiyi City again." ”

"What do you think?" Zhao Yong did not respond to Wu Guang, and said directly to Le Yi.

"Your Majesty's trip is naturally desirable, but I still feel that we should continue to harass Shiyi City." Le Yi said bluntly.

"Why?" He turned around and didn't look at anyone, but stared at the top of the tent, listening and thinking about Le Yi's words.

"There are three reasons for this. First, the purpose of strengthening the uproar in Shiyi City is to exhaust the army. Our troops are numerically superior to the opponent, and they can use rotational sieges to put pressure on the enemy. The enemy's food and grass are limited, and a large-scale attack will consume the opponent's grain and baggage reserves in large quantities. Comparatively speaking, our army not only has a smooth supply route of grain and grass, but also has the surrounding villages to levy it, and we are inexhaustible in exchange for the enemy's poverty, and this is one of them. ”

"Well, go on." Zhao Yong said slowly.

"Second. Judging from the entire battlefield pattern, the opening battle of the attack on Zhongshan was in the north, but the key to determining the victory of the battle was in the south. And the decision of the southern campaign is in Shiyi. If our army can't capture Shiyi, then capturing Fenglong and Luancheng is not very meaningful. ”

"So what? Now it was Shiyi that was blocked, so he had to turn to the defensive, waiting for the opportunity to attack again. Wu Guang obviously didn't understand what Le Yi meant, and couldn't help but ask, in his eyes, what Le Yi said just now had no practical meaning. If Shiyi is not important, why should Zhao Yong come in person?

Le Yi smiled slightly, not caring about Wu Guang's implicit sarcasm, and continued, "It is precisely because of this that Zhongshan fights on two fronts, if it is fought on both fronts, it will definitely suffer heavy losses, but if you can find the key, then you can achieve twice the result with half the effort." Believe this, Zhongshan will not be unclear. ”

When everyone heard this, a trace of realization suddenly rose in their hearts, as if they knew what Le Yi meant.

"If our army can continue to attack Shiyi, causing a situation in which Shiyi is in danger, then Zhongshan will definitely send a large army to reinforcements." Le Yi said, walked to the sand table, pointed to the terrain near Shiyi City, and said. "To the west of Shiyi is the pass hills, and to the east is the Hutuo River, which is not easy to march and fight, so it can only be attacked from the east and northeast. This area is a typical plain area, which is particularly suitable for deploying cavalry and conducting a decisive battle with the main force. If I can deal a major blow to the Zhongshan army here, then the northern campaign can end early, and the Fenglong, Shiyi and Luancheng north of the Hutuo River will be all mine! Le Yi said, with a wave of his sleeves, he made a clear analysis of the entire situation.

"What does the military advisor mean is that as long as we continue to attack Shiyi City, the lowest possibility is to capture this city, and the more ambitious merit is to be able to hit the morale of Zhongshan, so that both the middle and left armies can capture the besieged city?" As a young Zhuang faction, Zhao Guang and Li Zhuo had almost no capital to speak at such a meeting, but Li Zhuo, out of his talent for war, quickly understood Le Yi's thoughts.

"Not bad." Le Yi nodded and said.

Everyone can fully understand Le Yi's thoughts at this moment, so there is no doubt about attacking Shiyi City. They all looked at Zhao Yong. But seeing that he still didn't look back, he still looked at the top of the tent, and then said slowly, "What about the third reason that the military said?" ”

"This third is actually at the mouth of the well." Le Yi saw that Zhao Yong was going to exhaust his reasons, so he no longer covered it up and continued. "Thousands of miles of Dabie Mountain, lying across the plain, if there are not eight trails, winding paths are connected, then the entire Zhongshan country will be surrounded by it, and it will be very difficult to attack each other."

As an important channel for the Hutuo River to penetrate the Taihang Mountain, it is precisely because of the natural geographical environment that it has become the only way for soldiers to pass. For Zhao State, if it can attack and conquer here, then it can send troops from the north and south from Daijun, go north to Fanwu, and go south to Hongshangsai, causing the oppression of Lingshou. That's why he's so important. ”

"Our army stormed Shiyi City, which can attract the defenders of Jingchengkou. If the other party does not support, the mouth of the well hangs alone, and it will definitely not be guaranteed, and if it is supported, it will be ambushed by our army. In this way, even if it is blocked by antennas, it will certainly not be able to pose a threat or resistance to our army, and it will definitely be able to fight in a battle. This is a strategy to kill two birds with one stone. ”

I have to say that Le Yi's judgment of the military situation is very forward-looking, after all, the entire plan is in his hands, Pang Cong and Zhao Yong have only improved some of the details, so Le Yi can calculate the situation of the entire battlefield and lay out the battlefield accordingly. And every step of Zhongshan's plan is almost calculated, and this feeling of playing with the opponent in applause is indeed very cool. The next thing to do is how to arrange the troops and achieve Le Yi's various strategic plans.

Zhao Yong glanced at the kneeling crowd, and everyone also saw from his eyes that Zhao Yong's trust in Le Yi's plan, and the next step was to see who was in charge. Among them, the two most important parts are the two tasks of going north to block reinforcements, and going west to ambush Jingchengkou.

Lingering on everyone's faces for a while, Zhao Yong said slowly: "Qiu Li, this task of going north to block the reinforcements from Zhongshan will be handed over to you." ”

"The last general commands." Qiu Ye said, almost jumping up with joy. To be honest, with his status, he was not qualified to lead the troops all the way, but Zhao Yong not only let him command the siege alone, but also gave him the task of blocking the enemy army, and never looked down on him because he was a Hu person, this kind of trust made him even more submissive to Zhao Yong.

"Li Zhuo, go to Baoqi Mountain to be responsible for the ambush, if someone comes east, as long as it is not an enemy army, he will be strangled from here."

"Yes."

"He and everyone set up camp, while storming Shiyi City, while repairing war preparations, building engineering equipment, and making sure to lay Shiyi City."

"Yes!" And they stood up and saluted.