Chapter 39: It's sometimes better to indulge in lies than to look straight at the truth
By the time Zhao Kuo put down the pen, the bamboo slip in front of him had already written almost the same handwriting as the document sent by King Zhao to urge the war before.
Hundreds of thousands of lives were fought to the death just because of my simple paperwork.
After this battle, I, Zhao Kuo, am afraid that I will leave a reputation for eternity, and it is not a pity to die.
Zhao Kuo's face was blank, but slowly his eyes sharpened.
The state of Zhao cannot be broken, and this battle will definitely make the Qin army unable to go on the northern expedition. That is, General Zhao, who should be loyal to the king.
Zhao Kuo looked at the paperwork, took a deep breath, and shouted dullly, "Someone!" Call the crowd to deliberate. โ
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Zhao Jun's tent.
One after another, the generals lifted the curtains and walked in, sitting quietly on either side.
And Zhao Kuo, who was sitting in the main seat, waited quietly.
At the beginning, basically all the generals were dissatisfied with this junior general, but as this young man named Zhao Kuo led them to repel the offensive of the Qin army many times, they all recognized this commander in their hearts.
It's just that this time they all wondered why the coach would suddenly discuss it.
And for the first time, a manager who had always been kind looked so serious.
Until all the generals sit down.
Zhao Kuo slowly put a document on the table.
"Ladies and gentlemen, the great destruction of the Qin army is just around the corner."
In a word, the atmosphere in the tent was almost condensed.
All the generals looked at Zhao Kuo at the same time, waiting for Zhao Kuo to continue.
Everyone knows that the Qin army is 600,000, the Zhao army is only more than 400,000, and there are mountains nearby, which is not conducive to the cavalry of the Zhao army, and it is almost impossible to break the Qin army.
And they have been fighting with the Qin army for two years without food and no help, and no one wants to stay in this place where birds don't anymore, and no one doesn't want to kill the 600,000 Qin dogs.
Zhao Kuo looked at the generals and showed a confident smile on his face: "Kuo received a letter from King Zhao the day before yesterday, and at the end of the month, 300,000 new troops and tens of thousands of grain and grass came to support. โ
As he spoke, he glanced at the bamboo slips on the table; "If you don't believe it, you can read it for yourself."
As soon as Zhao Kuo's words fell, a veteran directly took the bamboo slip, hurriedly opened it, and swept it up.
After a few glances, he closed the bamboo slip: "Hahahaha!" โ
"Good! Good! "Two good sounds, the veteran's face is swollen red, his back is straight, but he seems to be a teenager younger.
"Mo Zai smiled there, quick, let me wait and see if there are really reinforcements!" The generals who sat around couldn't sit still.
They all wanted to take the bamboo slip and make sure that the reinforcements were really coming.
For a moment, there was a lot of chaos in the tent, but the laughter was everywhere, all revealing the joy of raising eyebrows.
"Good! Lao Tzu has long seen that those Qin dogs are not pleasing to the eye, if it weren't for Lao Tzu's lack of soldiers, who would be afraid of them!? Good! โ
"Rejoice! It's really exciting! โ
"No, no, I'm going to have a good meal at that time, damn, I haven't had a full meal in the past two years."
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The camp was very messy, and Zhao Kuo looked at the generals who were making a fuss in the tent with a smile, but no one saw the shame under his smile.
The noise slowly stopped, and the veteran sitting on Zhao Kuo's side arched his hand.
"Boss, you said what you want us to do, and I will do it! This time, it must be the Qin people who are going to be killed, and there is no piece of armor left. โ
After being pressed and beaten by the Qin army for more than two years, almost everyone had a sense of depression in their hearts.
This time, it must be repaid with interest.
Zhao Kuo sat on the main seat, his face was not as serious as before, but with a slight smile, as if the previous seriousness was just a joke made by the generals to reveal this secret.
glanced at the people sitting in a circle, all of them were ready to move.
Zhao Kuo nodded slightly, "Okay, then I'll talk about it." โ
"I have made a decision with the king and decided to defeat the Qin army in one fell swoop this time."
As he spoke, Zhao Kuo pointed to the sketched map hanging behind him.
"Two days later, when the Qin army came to call for battle again, we gathered 400,000 troops and rushed out in one fell swoop, leaving 50,000 people in the camp to defend it."
"At that time, we will wait for the commander army to attack head-on and attract the attention of the Qin army. Once the 300,000 Zhao troops arrived, they would bypass the positions of the Qin army, attack from the rear from top to bottom, and when they fell, our two armies would attack back and forth, annihilating the Qin army in one fell swoop. โ
The plan is very simple, but the feasibility is quite high, if that is the case, the Zhao army can definitely change the declining situation, turn to defense and attack, and catch the Qin army by surprise.
"Okay." The veteran nodded, but hesitated for a moment and asked, "It's just the boss, why don't you wait for the 300,000 reinforcements to arrive and act together." โ
Zhao Kuo shook his head: "300,000 reinforcements enter the camp, the Qin army must be aware of it, only if we are entangled with the Qin army, can we let those 300,000 reinforcements go around it." And we only need to support until the reinforcements arrive, and then we can attack and defend each other. โ
"So." The veteran nodded knowingly.
Zhao Kuo and the generals discussed for a long time, and it was not until the afternoon that the generals left unsatisfied.
Halfway through, a few generals were still hesitant, after all, Changping had no reinforcements for two years, and how could they come this time.
In the end, I thought that the coach couldn't joke with his life, so I didn't think much about it and believed the news.
Wait until the generals leave.
Only Zhao Kuo was still sitting in the tent, the smile on his face gradually subsided, sitting on the main seat, Zhao Kuo lowered his head, and his fists were slowly clenched.
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(Hawkers, you may say that the Zhao Kuo I wrote is not historical, obviously he should be a straw bag.) Because I want to write history, in order to respect and fit as much as possible, I have consulted a lot of information, in fact, Zhao Kuo in history is still quite wronged. He only fought two battles in one body, the first one, he took the Maiqiu of the Qi State in one month. The second game is Changping. said that his experience is definitely only a little bit, and he was pulled to Bai Qi, who is obviously a high-level match, or a situation where the economy and people are a big step behind, and it is strange to win.
Haha, moreover, after the war was over at that time, Zhao Jun could still be killed by hundreds of thousands of people in the Qin State pit, what does this mean? It represents that the battle losses of the Zhao State are very small, because the Zhao State originally only had about 400,000 to 500,000 troops. The most battle losses are one to one with the Qin State. Qin's losses were also significant, with more than 200,000 dead and wounded.
Zhao Kuo defended for 45 days under Bai Qi's offensive, and in the later stage, he ran out of food and even began to eat human flesh and corpses, so that the army's morale did not collapse, which shows that Zhao Kuo's ability to lead troops is still good. In the end, when there was no chance of winning at all, Zhao Kuo did not surrender, but still decided to lead the remnants to break through, roaring at Zhao Kuo, who was shot by random arrows.
I don't think this man is a very good general, but it's nowhere near the point of a straw bag on paper. Judging from the perspective that he did not surrender in the end and still chose to die on the battlefield, I think that even if he is not a qualified general, he is at least a qualified soldier. ๏ผ
(What's more, I think he fought quite beautifully in the Battle of Changping, and when there was no food and grass and the troops were weak, he fought with the god of war Bai Qi, and not everyone could do it.) ๏ผ
(Of course, I don't know if Zhao Kuo has such a deceptive method in history to stabilize the morale of the army, this is just a little adaptation of mine haha.) ๏ผ