Chapter 52: Descend like a tiger army, return like a triumphant
The sun was shining, but the air was unusually cold.
The Qin army besieged the main force of the Zhao army for forty-five days.
A snowfall that has been falling until the beginning of spring.
For more than a month, no one knew how many corpses were covered under the beautiful and moving white snowflakes.
More than forty days of confrontation.
The Qin army lost more than 200,000 troops, and there were still 400,000 main forces, and the Zhao army lost more than 200,000 troops, and there were more than 100,000 remnants left.
Five-five.
An army that has run out of food and no help, is besieged deep in the mountains by several times its own army, and is in unfavorable terrain can theoretically be broken in less than five days.
However, Zhao Junsheng stayed for forty days.
They began to eat the corpses of the dead on the battlefield, and finally even began to eat their own horses, and some people began to eat each other.
is such a team, but the military spirit has not yet collapsed, and what is even more terrifying is that they have dragged more than 200,000 Qin troops to death, and they are still guarding.
Such a battle situation made Bai Qi feel a little chilled, and Zhao Jun's strength far exceeded his estimate.
Bai Qi stood in his tent and sighed weakly, and his old hand picked up the pen on the table.
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Early in the morning, a light horse drove out of the Qin army's camp and ran towards the position of the Zhao army.
The tent was still warm, and Zhao Kuo sat on the main seat and coughed weakly.
He couldn't see it at all, he described it as withered, he looked like he had lost a lot of weight, and two of them were sunken. His dull hair was coiled together with blood stains, and the general's armor on his body was full of sword marks and holes, which was unsightly.
The soldier slowly walked in with a bowl of steaming broth: "General, it's time to eat." ”
As he spoke, he put the bowl in front of Zhao Kuo, hesitated for a moment and said, "It's horse meat." ”
In the current Zhao military camp, only Zhao Kuo can still eat horse meat, and the rest of the people eat dead corpses picked up on the battlefield.
"Report!" A thin-faced soldier stood at the door holding a piece of wood in his hand: "General, the Qin army sent someone to send a message. ”
Qin Jun···
Zhao Kuo frowned and said weakly, "Take it." ”
The soldier stepped forward and handed the wooden stick in his hand to Zhao Kuo's table.
It is said to be news, but in fact it is just a piece of bark with four big characters written on it.
Those who descend do not kill.
Stunned, he looked at the four words on the cracked bark.
For a long, long time.
Zhao Kuo closed his eyes, his fists clenched and gurgling.
But in the end, it turned into a deep powerlessness.
After a long time, the fist was loosened, and he let out a long sigh, as if to sigh everything.
For a moment, it was like a teenager old.
He tiredly asked the soldiers beside him, "How many days have I waited?" ”
The eyes of the soldiers darkened: "Forty-five, today is the forty-sixth." ”
"How many kills?"
“··· More than 200,000. ”
"That's it." Zhao Kuo nodded, like a pile of dead wood looking at the flying snow outside the account.
"It's okay if you don't kill those who descend..."
Zhao Kuo relented after all, he really didn't dare to take the last 200,000 people to die together.
He has personally filled 200,000 people into this bottomless battlefield, and he really can't fight anymore.
Loyal to the country······
Hehe···
Zhao Kuo's eyes glistened with tears.
"Order, whole army, surrender!"
The soldiers looked at Zhao Kuo in a daze.
saw that Zhao Kuo had already stood up.
The lifeless body returned to the light, and he stood straight again and walked out of the tent with his riding spear.
Snow was dancing in the sky, and he patted the horses standing in the snow.
"I'm going into battle, are you going with me?"
"Hmph." The black horse snorted and rubbed Zhao Kuo's robe.
"Hahaha, good!"
Turn over and get on the horse.
"General."
"General······
Along the way, countless people looked at Zhao Kuo.
I saw Zhao Kuo alone and a horse before, and slowly walked out of the camp.
The spear of Zhangba emitted a fierce cold light, and the horse's hooves lightly trampled on the snow.
The blood-stained general walked into the snow and walked towards the Qin army camp.
The spear was erected, and the cold light was sharp.
Zhao Kuoyun had the greatest strength in his life and roared.
"All the soldiers obey the order!"
"The covenant of the day, in the hope of breaking the enemy, the Qin army should not be able to go north. We have lived up to Zhao Guo, our wives and children. ”
"General Enoch of Bai Qi, those who surrender will not be killed, and after I die, I will surrender and save my own life.
"Zhao Kuo owes you a life, and I will pay it back in the next life. This is my last military order, and there must be no loss. ”
"The military order is like a mountain!"
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"Our Zhao family boys, since we are horizontal swords, we will fight the world, be loyal to the monarch and serve the country, so why die!"
The high voice seemed to pierce the sky with a sky-high battle intent.
Makes a mess of flying snow.
One by one, one after another, echoed in the mountains and forests of Changping.
"I am Zhao Kuo, the general of Zhao State! Who's going to fight me! ”
rode alone, and killed thousands of troops and horses of the Qin army.
Bai Qi stood in the distance, watching Zhao Kuo rushing over, his expression was indifferent, after he asked people to send the letter, he could guess Zhao Kuo's choice.
This is also his last persuasion, if Zhao Kuo still does not surrender, Bai Qi will choose to bully the entire Zhao army.
Behind him, Gu Nan stood aside in black armor, and there was also a column of crossbowmen who had assembled early, opening their bows and opening their crossbows, and the arrows were freezing cold in the cold winter.
Bai Qi's hand raised slightly, and then fell gently: "Release the arrow." ”
Like a rain of flying locusts, arrows are shot out indiscriminately.
A few breaths.
Drowning that solo ride in the snow.
The horse stopped, rushed forward a few more steps, and finally fell to its knees in the snow, which was stained red.
Zhao Kuo sat on the horse and was hit by several arrows, his eyes full of blood-red silk threads.
Looking up at the snow, my pupils became dilated, and my vision gradually blurred.
The day is long, the army is dead, and the bones are not good when the ashes are broken.
"Bump!"
A man and a horse fell to the ground, and the snow was stained red with blood, and there was no more sound.
In the Zhao military camp, a voice trembled and shouted: "Take the general's life"
The soldiers rode through the camp on horseback, and the snow flew everywhere.
The sound of orders shouted over and over again, echoing over the barracks.
"Drop!"
The soldiers in the battalion listened to this order, but their faces turned red and they could not say a word.
His hands were pinched until they turned white, and he looked at the camp of the Qin army, with a look in his eyes as if he was about to devour people and eat bones.
For a long time, it was as if he had exhausted all his strength, and he trembled and put down the blade in his hand.
With the first voice remembered.
One voice after another drowned out.
The earth-shattering momentum is like an army of tigers and wolves about to charge and kill the enemy.
"On the orders of the general, surrender!"