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The heavens and the earth were gloomy, and huge dark clouds rolled and undulated overhead, as if they could rain down. 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 power of the wind, which made people feel a little unpleasant. Under such circumstances, a large grain team drove from the direction of Handan, and hurried towards Fanwu!

Since the Qin army rangers began to attack the Zhao army's grain route a few days ago, the Zhao army's grain transportation team has increased its protection efforts and reduced the frequency of grain transportation. Try to concentrate the use of forces, and concentrate the protection of grain and grass, so that it is much more difficult for the Qin army to rob the grain, and it is not a particularly large force, and generally does not dare to invade the Zhao army's grain road at will. However, the harassment and sneak attacks of the Qin army from time to time at night also made the grain road of the Zhao army restless day and night, and they were panicked all day long!

This strange and interesting scene completely reversed the positions of Qin Jun and Zhao Jun not long ago!

However, what was strange was that this huge convoy of about 500 grain carts had only 1,000 guards and 1,000 cavalry guards, which was much less than the 2,000 to 3,000 guards of this size the day before yesterday. This favorable news was quickly discovered by the Qin army rangers who were haunting behind the Zhao army, and a fierce battle that broke out before the heavy rain was about to begin!

The wind continued to blow, and the hard sand and stone hit the faces of the soldiers of the Zhao army with some painful feelings, and even the solid armor made some sonorous and powerful sounds from time to time in the wind and sand. The wind and sand turned out to be so ferocious, but the faces of the Zhao soldiers who were protecting the grain did not have the slightest pain, but they all had rigid faces, and their steely and resolute cheeks revealed a strong fierce aura, and there was also a hint of stoicism in their cold eyes. The calmness and composure that appeared was shocking: this was really an ordinary grain delivery team!?

Suddenly, in the strong wind, in the dust, there was a rumbling thunder, and there were countless shouts in Guanzhong accents: The Qin army is coming!

The well-trained Zhao army quickly stopped, and formed a circular defensive formation with five hundred grain carts in a circle, and then a thousand soldiers all entered the formation, watching the direction of the Qin army's arrival.

In the western sky, a puff of billowing smoke and dust rose, and a large group of Qin army rangers appeared in the north, setting off a huge momentum like a flood of rage towards the Zhao army food team.

The black cavalry, the dark sky, the two seemed to be fused into one, and the whole heaven and earth were filled with a fiery and murderous aura for a while, which made the timid people shrink in the car formation and couldn't help but tremble a little!

The Zhao soldiers who were behind the car formation did not panic when they saw this, a cruel smile appeared on the steely cold danger, and a trace of murderous aura that had been hidden for a long time suddenly appeared in everyone's eyes! At the sound of a sharp sword of "Cangchang Chang ............", the Zhao soldiers drew their swords in their hands: "Squeak and quack" where the bowstring collapsed, countless cold arrows were aimed diagonally at the void, only in the blink of an eye, the Zhao soldiers who were protecting the grain were so quickly and calmly prepared for a fierce battle.

At this time, the murderous spirit and stability they showed did not look like an ordinary grain transport team at all, this was clearly a battle-hardened tiger and a strong division. And this grain transportation is clearly a trap!

However, the attacking Qin army did not perceive the extremely dangerous aura in the air, and this elite cavalry of about 500 people galloping over was not the most elite 'broken army' of the Qin army, but the new cavalry of Yingyue's department. During this period of time, although the cavalry of Ying Yue's department is also 'meritorious', compared with the 'broken army' and the 'wolf teeth' who killed a large number of elite Zhao troops, their merits are too little, and killing Zhao Min everywhere who has no power to fight back is not something that a real Qin soldier can be proud of, so once they saw the fat prey, the Qin soldiers under Ying Yue suddenly had red eyes, waved the long sword in their hands and pounced like a group of greedy wolves.

At this moment, the Qin soldiers, who were dazzled by the temptation of rich military exploits, did not pay attention to the cold air in the eyes of the Zhao soldiers behind the grain army, as if they were coming out of hell!

"Whoosh" There was a roar of flying arrows in mid-air, and the Zhao army and the Qin army began to shoot hard more than a hundred steps away. For a moment, the air became even darker, and everywhere there were arrows flying and screaming. Then, after all, the Qin army was skilled in horsemanship, and the speed of the horse was extremely fast, and in an instant, after paying the price of twenty or thirty people, he rushed to within fifty steps of the grain convoy.

Looking at the Zhao army's grain truck close at hand, the Qin soldiers showed ecstasy, as if they saw that the rich military rewards were already beckoning to them! The Qin army's eyes were red, and at the same time, they were also mentally slack!

Just when the Qin soldiers were cheering and excited, suddenly a strange change occurred: the grain and grass that had been piled up on the Zhao army's grain cart moved in the blink of an eye: after a chaotic sound, the grain and grass rolled to the ground, revealing five hundred carts with two thousand elite crossbowmen of the Zhao army hidden for a long time.

"Zheng Zheng Zheng ......" In the flash of lightning, after a loud and piercing roar, thousands of sharp arrows burst out of the string and swooped down on the rushing Qin cavalry. Plop plop plop pounce ......" A muffled sound after the sharp arrow broke through the armor came, and countless blood flowers suddenly burst out in the sky, and hundreds of Qin soldiers who were charging forward were immediately stabbed like thorns, and before they could scream, they crashed backwards like a flying kite, and fell heavily under the horse. In the air, only the rain of blood and the screams of grief and indignation remained!

The Qin army's fragile armor couldn't withstand the violent baptism of such a dense rain of arrows, and the astonishing accuracy of the Zhao crossbowmen couldn't help but make the Qin army shudder!

The Qin army was shocked, they knew that they had won the plan, but they were very confident in their combat power and did not choose to retreat, and in this case, retreating may not be a good idea, the most important thing is that the Qin army does not know how to write the word 'retreat' under normal circumstances. Therefore, the Qin army, which was stronger and stronger in the face of setbacks, had red eyes, gritted their teeth, and swung their swords to pounce one after another, and they were so vicious that they couldn't wait to cut the despicable Zhao Jun crossbowmen in front of them into two pieces with a sword!

Take the arrow, take the arrow, stretch the string, shoot sharply! The four movements were completed in one go, without any mud and water, and many of the follow-up Qin troops were accurately shot down by the rain of arrows again about fifty paces away from the Zhao army's crossbow detachment. For a while, the brave and powerful Qin army didn't even touch a few hairs of Zhao Jun, but they had already lost nearly forty percent of their troops! This Zhao army's crossbowmen are so fierce and accurate!

Although Xiao Liang, the lieutenant of the Qin army who led the army, gritted his teeth in anger at this time, and his eyes were dripping blood, he also knew clearly: the team of Zhao army crossbowmen on the opposite side must be the best in the Zhao army in terms of firing speed and accuracy, and the Zhao army food protection team that was waiting for a thousand behind him was definitely not a mediocre person, Xiao Liang couldn't help but feel pain for a while and quickly made a decision: "It's a plan, withdraw quickly!"

......Although the Qin army was unwilling, under the urging of the military order, they still quickly turned their horses' heads and fled away like a whirlwind, leaving only the corpses of the Qin army scattered all over the place and the pungent smell of blood in the air.

There were more than two hundred corpses left by the Qin army on the ground! Many of the seriously injured Qin soldiers were still struggling in pain in pools of blood. Behind the cart, the 1,000 Zhao army was about to pursue, but was stopped by Zhao Lei, the commander who led the team, and quickly said: "Quick, tie up the lightly injured Qin army and take it away, and bring the well-equipped Qin army war horses, and the army will rush to Gray Spring Mountain at full speed. The Qin army's counterattack is coming soon!" Whoa!" The Zhao army cheered, quickly cleaned up the battlefield, and then escorted twenty or thirty lightly wounded Qin army prisoners and drove an empty cart to the Gray Spring Mountain camp.

And when the retreating Xiao Liang's troops used fireworks to gather thousands of elite cavalry of the Qin army and prepare to retaliate, the Zhao army had already fled far away and could not catch up.

The first head-to-head confrontation between the new cavalry of the Qin State and the Zhao king's card 'Thorn Tiger', the 'Thorn Tiger' won a beautiful battle with its strong combat power and surprise!

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In the Zhao army camp, Li Mu and the generals of the Zhao army looked at the well-equipped Qin army war horses, and couldn't help but have an indescribable emotion for Fusu, the inventor of this new type of strange army. Li Mu stroked his beard and said with a smile: "The Qin army has built a new type of cavalry according to this method, can't the old man use it!?" Come on, pass the order, and order the craftsmen in the army to build it quickly according to the law, and there must be no mistakes! I want to see how the Qin army can confront our army again after our army has also trained new cavalry! "Wow!" The generals of the Zhao army rushed to receive the order, and the decadent color in their expressions was swept away, showing their confidence in victory......

For a time, the new cavalry of the Qin army not only failed to stab the Zhao army again, but was severely stabbed by Li Mu, losing the combat strength of more than 200 people and revealing valuable training and equipment secrets. This is definitely not a good thing for Qin Jun; And for the Zhao army, as long as they were given a little time, they could potentially train an elite cavalry that could rival the Qin army!

After the great loss of this ambush, the angry Qin army increased the sweep of the remaining soldiers and civilians in Zhao, and the attack on the Zhao army's food team was basically changed to night, refusing to fight with the Zhao army again. For a time, the Zhao army suffered a lot of losses in a row, losing a lot of grain, grass and troops.

The experienced and cunning Li Mu immediately ordered according to the grain and grass storage in the battalion: all the grain and grass of the Zhao army should be shipped once a month, and the soldiers who guarded the grain each time should not be less than 20,000, and there must be a large number of 'Thorn Tiger' warriors in the team to escort them. In this way, unless all the new cavalry of the Qin army in the border of Zhao State are gathered, it will be difficult to continue to block the grain route of the Zhao army! Even the repeated sneak attacks launched by the 'Wolf Tooth' and the 'Broken Army' at night were all sniped by the Zhao Army's 3,000 'Thorn Tiger' warriors. The 'Broken Army' had a slight upper hand in the fierce confrontation between the elites of the two armies, but it didn't take much of an actual advantage!

In this case, Fusu, who had nothing to do, also had to withdraw the new army rangers that were deep behind the enemy line to the main camp, after all, it was not cost-effective to use this very valuable new cavalry and special forces to fight hard with the well-guarded Zhao army food team!

After the Qin army's raids on its rear basically stopped, the Zhao army also died down, and no longer bothered to send a large number of rangers to attack the Qin army, but began to quickly train the Zhao army's new cavalry in large quantities. Although Li Mu didn't get any really useful training methods from the mouths of the Qin captives who regarded death as home, with his talent for cavalry warfare, Li Mu still began to quickly build a strong new cavalry!

During the period of Li Mu's training, the two armies of Qin and Zhao were basically stable, and the two sides only occasionally engaged in some small-scale wars, and the rest of the time they were quietly and quietly playing their own wishful thinking, and the battlefield fell silent for a while, showing a strange tranquility before the big war!

For the Qin army: one has destroyed the myth that the cavalry of the Zhao State is undefeated, which has greatly boosted the morale of the Qin army; Second, it completely destroyed the Beacon Fire joint defense system painstakingly operated by the Zhao Army, and dealt a severe blow to the elusive Zhao Army rangers, which has completely achieved the purpose of recovering the previous decline and stabilizing the battlefield. The Qin army, which had obtained a large amount of buffer time, began to quickly push forward a top-secret plan to completely eliminate Li Mu, so the Qin army was not in a hurry at all!

The Zhao army under the command of Li Mu and others began to train a new type of cavalry wholeheartedly, and in the opinion of the Zhao army: as long as they were given two or three months, they would definitely be able to train the most powerful elite cavalry in the world. At that time, the shame of the day before yesterday will definitely be washed away, the current balance of power will definitely be broken, and Zhao Guo will definitely be able to win the final victory!

'Praying mantis catches cicadas, yellow finches are behind'! Who will be the unlucky 'mantis' and who is the lucky 'yellow sparrow' in the current Qin and Zhao armies? This point, except for Fusu's current basic knowledge, it is estimated that no one in the world can really say clearly!