On the vast Jizhong Plain, with the arrival of the new army of the Qin State, the peace and tranquility have been completely shattered, and the black beacon smoke rises over the plain every day, and the ancient Jizhong Plain once again fell into a miserable situation full of beacon fire!

In the past half month, just half a month, the violent and ferocious Qin New Army has exerted bloodthirstiness and brutality beyond the imagination of Fusu, and created a perfect 'record' in the back of the Zhao army: the vast plains are full of broken beacon towers, burned villages and the corpses of Zhao people stuffed with ravines...... This bloody hellish scene made the sun dim and gloomy.

A slightly chilly autumn wind blew across the land, and the air was filled with a bloody smell!

Iron hooves trample through the dust, all things are sparse and ghosts sing---- this is the true portrayal of the Jizhong Plain!

The Zhao people, who were known for their bravery, made their choice under such ferocious slaughter by the Qin army: the unyielding men fought hard, and finally they were all killed because they were outnumbered and weak; In order to survive, the rest of the people had no choice but to give in, abandoned their dreaming homeland, and began to flee to Handan with their families.

For a time, the originally vast Jizhong Plain was bleak and ghostly, and all the villages and towns were almost empty, without any breath of life. And on all the roads leading to Handan City, they are crowded with border people who have fled to Handan: Zhao people help the old and the young, drag their families and mouths, crying and crying, hungry and tired! Along the way, tens of thousands of Zhao died of injuries and starvation, on the roadside, by the river, and at the bottom of the ditch...... There is a corpse of the Zhao people everywhere!

During this period, although the Zhao army of Gray Spring Mountain and Fanwu City repeatedly wanted to send large armies to reinforce the rear, Wang Jian and others launched fierce attacks again and again like a sticky piece of kraft candy, so that Li Mu and others could not get out to deal with the terrifying new army of Qin behind them.

In the fierce offensive and defensive battles on the front line for almost half a month, although the main attacking Qin army paid a huge price of more than 20,000 casualties, it also successfully involved the support of the Zhao army in the southern rear! Half a month later, the Qin army's offensive gradually thinned out, and when the Zhao army finally freed up its hands, the Zhao army's joint defense system in the rear, which was originally like an impregnable wall, also seemed to be like a sieve full of loopholes with the destruction of beacon towers, rangers, and villages, and could no longer play its due role.

Cutting off the intelligence source of the Zhao army and isolating Li Mu's front-line army, which Fusu did quietly and neatly. Without an accurate source of information, although the Zhao army is fighting on the mainland, it has also become a group of toothless tigers! Li Mu has wings to the sky, and it is impossible to defeat the Qin army led by Wang Jian and Fusu at this moment!

The frustrating and sad news continued to flow into the Zhao army camps in Gray Spring and Fanwu as the Zhao army reprimanded again and again. The Zhao army, who was frantically destroyed by the Qin army, was angry, frightened, and confused, and they fought bloody battles on the front line, but their hometown and relatives were suffering from the cruel and merciless slaughter and plunder of the Qin army! What is the point of their battles?

For a time, the morale of the military camp of Zhao became more and more depressed, and there was a trend of getting worse day by day, although Li Mu's prestige was noble, but driven by the affection of his family, the Zhao army under the command of Li Mu also rarely appeared a small number of deserters!

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In the Zhao army marshal tent in Gray Spring Mountain, dozens of senior generals of the Zhao army gathered together and stuffed the marshal tent to the brim. But what is surprising is that although there are many people in the tent, there is not much sound in it, and it is full of an air of depression, grief and helplessness!

Sima Shang looked at the thick bamboo slips and silk silk in his hand, and said helplessly: "I didn't expect it, I didn't expect it!" The Qin army will actually use the main army to contain the main force of our Gray Spring and Fanwu line, and then send a new army to sweep away the back of our army. According to the report, the Qin army not only dispatched a large number of new cavalry, but also had a terrifying and mysterious army. According to some sporadic intelligence and the brief information transmitted by the 'secrets' hidden inside the Qin army, it has been concluded through analysis that this should be adapted from the Qin army's original 'trapped camp's dead soldiers, nicknamed 'wolf teeth'! Its combat methods are extremely strange, including disguise, night attacks, poisoning, assassination, and so on, which are very ruthless and weird, and our army's original impregnable beacon joint defense system was destroyed by this strange soldier! Qin Jun's recent series of actions are obviously inconsistent with Wang Qian's previous leadership style and ability, I don't know what the generals think about this!"

Captain Zhao Lei frowned and said: "Wang Jian mostly breaks the enemy with regular soldiers, I think that the recent series of actions of the Qin army should not be from Wang Qian's handwriting. It is likely that it was planned by Fusu, the prince of Qin. Since he can train such a strong army, he should have a unique set of ideas for using these two new armies, so I think our opponent recently is not Wang Jian but Fusu!"

Although the generals of Zhao Guo basically agreed with this intention, not many people agreed, obviously everyone felt unbearable for the humiliating fact that Zhao Jun's huge passive situation in recent days was caused by a twelve-faced half-grown child! If Wang Jian did it, you Zhao generals might feel better, after all, Wang Jian is a first-class general who is famous in the Seven Kingdoms; But now he was beaten by a half-old child and was almost all over the ground looking for teeth, which made the arrogant Zhao Jun unspeakable!

Li Mu's elegant face was also covered with a layer of clouds at this time, obviously he had never encountered such a strange and vicious tactic in his thirty years of battlefield experience, Li Mu gently knocked the table in front of him with his fingers, and said calmly: "What General Zhao said is good, this should indeed not be Wang Qian's handiwork, it must be the plan of the prince of Qin to help Su. Although we don't want to admit it, we have to admit that in the recent past, our Zhao army has been beaten twice by Fusu: it first broke the morale of our army, and then broke our army's intelligence system, and strangled our army's hope of victory. It can be said that in the past 30 years that I, Li Mu, have been on the battlefield, Fusu is the most terrible and ruthless opponent I have ever encountered, and his combat methods are strange and erratic, and his military strength and courage are more than those of the Qin army general Wang Qian. If time goes by, Fusu will definitely be the most formidable opponent of my Zhao Kingdom!" The generals of Zhao Guozhu saw that Li Mu admired Fusu so much, and they couldn't help but lose their color for a while.

Li Mu's face had always been very calm, and suddenly a confident smile appeared on his face: "However, if the Qin army thinks that they have beaten me Li Mu and defeated him and has no hope of turning over, then they are wrong!" Although Fusu is good at cavalry, he lacks battlefield experience after all! After the destruction of our army's intelligence system, the Qin army began to carry out a fierce attack on our army's grain route, vainly trying to cut off our army's grain route while cutting off our army's intelligence system. One is to deal a severe blow to the arrogance of the Qin army's rangers, and the other is to capture some Qin cavalry alive to find out the secrets of the Qin army's new cavalry. Once successful, as long as I am given two months, my Zhao State cavalry will no longer be afraid of the new cavalry of the Qin State, and the passive situation of our army can be brought back at that time! It is not known who will kill the deer!"

Sima Shang stroked his beard slightly when he heard this, and said: "The general's intention is: to use grain transportation as bait, hide ambush soldiers, and seek an opportunity to annihilate the Qin army's rangers?" Li Mu smiled and said: "That's right, the Qin army is currently at the time of complacency, and Fusu has a noble status, and it is impossible to penetrate into the rear of our army, so as long as this plan is done covertly, it will definitely succeed!" As long as our army can defeat a Qin army of rangers, break the myth of the invincibility of the Qin army's rangers, and then obtain the training methods and equipment secrets of the Qin army's rangers, then as long as our army holds out for about two more months, our army will still have hope of victory, and at least it will be an undefeated situation."

Hearing this, Sima Shang nodded and said: "Even if it is a stalemate, our army is fighting on the mainland, and the supply of grain is very short, while the Qin army has a long logistics line, and the Qin army will inevitably retreat after a long time!" The general's plan is really good! However, the new cavalry of the Qin army is extremely mobile and fierce, and it is not easy to succeed in the ambush! ”

Li Mu's phoenix eyes, which were originally slightly closed, suddenly opened, and the slender lying silkworm eyebrows also stood up sharply, and a fierce cold light emitted from his eyes, and the murderous aura revealed couldn't help but make everyone shudder from their hearts. Li Mu sneered and said, "Originally, I didn't plan to use this strange army, but now it seems that it is difficult to reverse the decline if I don't use it!" ”

Sima Shang was shocked when he heard this: "Does the general want to use the 'Thorn Tiger'!?" When the generals heard this, they were at a loss: "'Thorn Tiger'? What is it? Why have you never heard of it? ”

Looking at the puzzled eyes of the generals, Li Mu smiled proudly and said, "The generals may not know what the 'Thorn Tiger' is all about, right?" That's it, I was going to keep it a secret, but now it seems that I have to let them show up early!

Here's the thing, after defeating the Qin army in the Battle of Fanwu three years ago, I was transferred to the right minister. Because he deeply felt that the Qin army was too strong, in order for the Zhao State to have the power to protect itself in the future, he secretly trained a group of professional warriors on the order of the former king to become the basic officers of our Zhao army in the future.

This group of professional warriors was highly secretive, and only the three of them, the first king, the old man, and General Sima, knew about it. This army was trained by the old man himself, not only the combat power is extremely strong, but everyone is proficient in the way of commanding the battle. Originally, it was planned that it would be officially formed in a year, and at that time, the army of my Zhao State, with this group of professional warriors as the backbone, would be able to defeat any opponent in the world without fear, and it would not be impossible to completely defeat the Qin State, but now it is not too late for them to put it into use in advance. ”

After that, Li Mu smiled slightly and said: "With the 'Thorn Tiger' in battle, although it may not be able to defeat the Qin army in one fell swoop in the short term, it is still a matter of effort to quickly recover the current decline!" The generals just need to rest assured, they only need to seriously appease the morale of the army after returning to the camp and wait for the good news! ”

When the Zhao generals heard this, their spirits were greatly lifted: as long as Li Mu's ambition is still there, Zhao Jun still has hope of winning! The generals are convinced of this. After all, how many sinister battles Li Mu has broken through, and General Zhao has always worshiped Li Mu as an 'undefeated god of war'!