The capital of Zhao State.

King Zhao received news from the front the day after Li Muzhan died.

After King Zhao got the news, he sat on the throne for a while. For a while, I didn't know how to talk to the ministers of the DPRK and China.

The prime minister of Zhao almost knew the news at the same time as King Zhao got the news, but the stakes were very high, and Li Mu's prestige in the Zhao army may only be comparable to King Zhaowu, who had been dead for more than ten years.

Zhao Guoguo's name is Zhao Ji, and he belongs to the Yuan branch of the Great Zhao royal family, so he naturally knows the current situation of Zhao Guo.

Zhao Ji looked at the depressed King Zhao, and his heart was mixed.

"This king is too young, and he can't help but be a little impatient in his heart, and he has always wanted to become a generation of masters who surpass his ancestors, but he doesn't know what it means to be gradual, and this is the end of blindly rushing into a hurry."

And the news from Boyang is not only the death of Li Mu, the general of Zhao, but also the news that touches the monarchs and ministers of Zhao State:

Li Xin, a general of the Great Chu New Army, after capturing Boyang, slaughtered more than 2,000 surrendered soldiers in Mancheng......

Here's the thing, Li Xin originally couldn't have imagined doing such a thing, but the 2,000 soldiers in Boyang City are a burden to Li Xin's army, which doesn't have much food and grass, but the helpless thing is that these 2,000 people belong to the fighters after all, and they can't let the tiger return to the mountain, but if they are taken into custody, the problem of grain and grass will be highlighted, and in order to guard them, they have to divide their troops, which is an absolutely impossible choice for Li Xin's army of 6,000 people......

So Li Xin thought of a "best of both worlds" method, pit killing!

On the night when the defenders of Boyang City surrendered, Li Xin ordered the heavy armor army to secretly kill all the unarmed troops after the surrender army fell asleep, and buried them all, and the next day everything was as if nothing had happened, as calm as ever.

But no matter how you say it, it is more than 2,000 lives after all, Li Xin said that he will kill and kill, and there is no mercy in his heart, he did become famous in a battle, but it was more than 2,000 unarmed soldiers who achieved his prestige.

Later, Jing Ran was very angry after this incident, because in his heart he thought that the future first general of Great Chu and even the commander of the three armies of Great Chu would be such a murderous person, but what Li Xinxiang said made Jing Ran turn a blind eye to Li Xin's indiscriminate killing and surrendering of the army.

Li Xin said: "It has been hundreds of years of war in the land of Zhongzhou, how can the number of dead and wounded be counted in tens of thousands!" The people of all countries, the military circles, and the royal family have only seen that the hatred continues, and it will be passed down from generation to generation, and such a troubled era will never have a head! ”

"For today's plan, there is only an iron wrist, and the top is quickly flattened, although the process is bloody. But the minister believes that in his lifetime, the king and the minister will have the opportunity to see the unification of Zhongzhou! ”

"The minister wants to use iron-blooded means to fight a Haiqing River Yan and a sunny day for me and the world!"

Where has Jing Ran heard such words, although he is angry that Li Xin's methods are cruel, but if you think about it carefully, it is indeed so.

The attacks between the major powers in Zhongzhou are continuous, will there be fewer deaths?

Thinking of this, Jing Ran had no choice but to go with Li Xin.

In the great cause of unifying the world in the future, Li Xin led the army and was invincible.

For the city that surrendered on its own initiative, Li Xin's army did not commit any offense, only collected some grain and grass, and confiscated the armor in the city.

But for the recalcitrant city, once it is captured, it is a slaughter......

I don't know how many times this situation has been staged in the land of Zhongzhou, so that when the Qi State was finally flattened, the Great Chu army basically did not encounter resistance, and unified the Qi State in a joyful atmosphere welcoming the Wang Division.

But for the current Zhao State, this kind of thing can only arouse the resentment of Li Xin throughout the country.

Although Li Xin's army is cruel, for Zhao Ji, King Zhao is very responsible for Li Mu's death!

King Zhao naturally knew that if he hadn't sent Zhao Meng as the leading general, how could he only have more than 2,000 people around him as Li Mu! How could it be possible to die on the battlefield!

King Zhao's face is depressed now, probably because of his resentment towards himself.

Zhao Ji knew that things couldn't always be like this, although Li Mu died, the war was still going on, and now was not the time to be depressed.

Zhao Ji immediately said: "Great King, although the death of General Li Mu is a tragedy for our country, but in its current form, the army of Chu occupies Boyang, which has already strangled the grain route of our front-line army and rear. The Qin army has added 100,000 new troops, and their numbers have already surpassed ours! ”

Only then did King Zhao come to his senses, and he didn't even notice what Li Xin's victory meant to Zhao.

Li Xinjun is now holding Boyang, the Zhao army's grain route has been cut off, and although it is not difficult for Zhao Meng, who has an army of 200,000, to recapture Boyang again, but the Qin army on the front line is eyeing it, and there has been a large-scale Chu State Restoration Army around the Shangdang City that he occupies, with a small number of one or two thousand, and as many as five or six thousand, these people are a great threat to the deployment of the Zhao army, as well as grain and grass.

More importantly, after Zhao Jun learned that Li Mu died in battle, many people blamed Zhao Meng for Li Mu's death. , the fold gave Zhao Jun a tendency to split.

And the most powerful enemy, the Qin army, is like a vicious wolf, staring at the Zhao army, as long as the Zhao army is in chaos, the Qin army will immediately go out and eat the Shangdang Zhao army in one go.

The more King Zhao thought about it, the more depressed he became.

"I didn't expect a party to let an old general of the widow die in battle, and he dragged the widow's 200,000 army on the front line and couldn't move......"

Zhao Ji, as the prime minister, actually saw the outcome of Zhao's defeat at this time......

"O King......

King Zhao is now in turmoil: "Xiangguo, do you think it's too late for me to make peace with Qin Guo?" ”

When Zhao Ji heard this, he almost didn't cry: What does this king think......

"Your Majesty, now the total number of Qin and Zhao is nearly 500,000! This is a national war. In other words, my Zhao State is in an advantage, and the Qin State comes to negotiate peace, will the king agree! ”

"Ah...... Is there no other way? ”

At this time, King Zhao still took care of the courtesy of the monarch and the ministers, and directly stepped forward and grabbed the sleeve of Zhao Ji's clothes, looking at him with expectation.

Although Zhao Ji is a side branch of the royal family, but his family is poor, he studied all the way and obtained a high position, he is a gentle and elegant scholar, where has he seen the king like this, and he suddenly lost his heart:

"The king, for the sake of today, I can only order Zhao Meng to continue fighting."

King Zhao "can ......"

Zhao Ji interrupted King Zhao's words: "The king, now we are ready with both hands, on the one hand, let Zhao Meng continue to fight against the Qin army, and on the other hand, ......"

When King Zhao saw that he was halfway through his words, he was also anxious: "The minister of state should say it quickly!" ”

Zhao Ji looked around: "Immediately send the generals of his cronies to the front line, transfer back the armies from all walks of life, and let Zhao Meng lead the troops and horses of the headquarters to a stalemate with the Qin State!" ”

After hearing this, King Zhao couldn't shout, now during the national war, how can he dig the corner of the general's wall!

Zhao Ji was also anxious: "Hasn't the king understood yet!" My Zhao country is about to be destroyed! Now I can pick up one by one, otherwise when the army collapses, the 200,000 elites on the front line will all be trapped on the battlefield! ”

King Zhao woke up like a dream: Yes, if you lose, the 200,000 elites on the front line are all the soldiers who can fight in Great Zhao, and if you lose these elites, let alone the Qin State, you can let yourself drink a pot of Beinu!

"Hurry! Xiangguo is trapped, so go and prepare! It's up to you to go to the front line! ”

Zhao Ji was dumbfounded, how did he get it for a long time, how did this matter come to his head.

"Ah...... This ......, my lord?"

Where can King Zhao let him give advice at this time: "Aiqing, the future of my Zhao Kingdom will be handed over to you!" ”

Zhao Ji had no choice but to accept the order.

And at the front line at this time, Jing Ran had already arrived in the Gongsun Zhi camp.

Jing Ran was already in the camp when he saw Gongsun Zhi walking towards him, and he didn't dare to hold it up, so he dismounted and walked quickly to Gongsun Zhi.

Jing Ran: "Ah Weng, after a few months, your old man's body is still so strong." ’

Gongsun Zhi held Jing Ran's hand and pulled him towards the big tent.

Gongsun Zhi: "Haha." The king of Chu laughed. The old man has worked hard all his life, no, now he has become a busy man, and I don't know if my fishing rod and hat have been cleaned up by the housekeeper at home. ”

The two chatted with each other, and soon arrived at the big tent.

Gongsun stopped when he said stop, stopped gossiping, and directly analyzed the strength of the enemy and me.

After a long time, Jing Ran basically had a general context in his heart:

First, the Qin army outnumbered the Zhao army

Second, there were disagreements within Zhao Jun

Third, the rear of the Zhao army has been shaken because of the appearance of Li Xin.

Fourth, a large number of Chu people restored the country in the area occupied by the Zhao army.

For the last point, Jing Ran had no doubts, because he had already sent personnel to specifically absorb these restoration troops.

"Don't worry."

Gongsun Zhi smiled: "The old man is naturally relieved." ”

"By the way, when the war is over, the two of us will go fishing in the river."

Jing Ran: "That's nature. ”

After a while, Jing Ran took his leave and left, because from now on, his army would also join the battle.

Jing Ran in the New Army Tent:

"Generals, General Li Xin has already succeeded."

Immediately, there was a cheer from below:

"General Li Xin is moving fast."

"Sure enough, heroes!"

Just when the generals shouted together, Jing Ran released another blockbuster news: "Li Mu, defeated and Li Xin, died in battle!" ”

Now the whole big tent was quiet, what kind of character Li Mu is, he is actually dead......

"Hmm...... It's a pity."

A new army general said, but immediately felt speechless and stopped.

Jing Ran looked at him. Not angry:

"It's a pity."

All the generals looked at Jing Ran.

Jing Ran continued: "We are all soldiers, so we naturally have great respect for General Li Mu, but war is not a matter of who likes whom, and the death of the old general today is naturally a good thing for me Da Chu, this is the glory of General Li Xin, and it is also the glory of our wait." ”

After saying that, he stood up and raised his teacup facing the direction of Boyang:

"Replace wine with tea, and sacrifice the old general!"

Just drink it all.

Then put down the teacup and looked at the map. Everyone had already known Jing Ran's habits at this time.

As long as you look at the map, there is action.

"The people will listen to the command! Tomorrow we will go to Boyang! ”

The generals were puzzled, since they were here, why did they go to Boyang again......

Jing Ran saw that everyone was puzzled, and he didn't explain much: "The people will just listen to the order!" ”

"Yes!"

The generals hurriedly agreed.

Jing Ran put his hand on Boyang, and then looked at the place where the Chu Min Restoration Army was marked.

"Such a good opportunity, if you miss it, you will be gone!"