Chapter 51: The Last Snow Before Spring
The snow in the north is very dry, and it falls all over the sky, and it takes a few pillars of incense to make it snow-white. The plush was spread on the ground and could not be condensed, because the cold cedar was too soft to freeze.
It's been more than a month, and this is probably the last snow before the start of spring.
Gu Nan sat on the stone in the camp.
Brother Hei stood aside and craned his neck, and for some reason he snored, and Xu Feixue entered his nose. The hooves stomped twice on the snow, making several marks of different shades.
When the Qin army withdrew to the camp, it began to snow.
The snow came quickly and heavily, obscuring the sun and obscuring the air, leaving only the sky flying.
The morale of the Qin army can be said to have fallen to a valley, with such an advantage, but they were beaten back and back. Everyone's hearts were holding their breath, but in this final battle, they still retreated.
People are sleepy and tired.
The soldiers sat together, cleared the snow, lit a campfire, the warmth of the fire dispelled the warmth, and everyone hung their heads.
Many people have some injuries on their bodies, and it is good to tie them with tattered strips of cloth, and in this era, no one will consider the problem of wound infection at all.
The spear rested on Gu Nan's leg, holding his cloak, and Gu Nan gently wiped the blood stains on the spear.
The blood was frozen into ice ballast, red in blood, and as the cloak was wiped, debris fell one after another.
The white cloak was also stained with blood.
History is stronger than she imagined, Zhao Jun is not broken after all, so Zhao Kuo's ability, I'm afraid I don't want to be on paper as stated in the history books.
I can't say how deep and sophisticated he is, but he undoubtedly does a very good job in controlling the hearts of the army.
Unless there is an absolute superiority in force on the ancient battlefield, or a strategy to kill, otherwise, an army with high morale is a combat force with absolute deterrence.
"Miss Gu." A soldier walked over with a hot soup in his hand: "Eat something." ”
Gu Nan took the bowl: "Thank you." ”
The warm air is blown away by the cold wind and diffuses in the air.
"It's hard to break." Bai Qi held the military slip presented by Wang Di in his hand and nodded lightly.
Although it was a result that he didn't want to see, he had to say that this result was the most reasonable.
That Zhao Kuo, from the very beginning, planned to break the net, and did not leave himself a back hand at all.
If the Qin army wanted to retain its strength, this battle would not have ended so easily.
This kid can really be so resolute.
Bai Qi's eyes showed a bit of brilliance, and he sighed slightly: "How much did our army lose in battle?" ”
Wang Yi frowned: "The first battle took less than an hour, but the battle damage was tens of thousands, the scene was chaotic, and it was difficult to calculate." ”
This engagement was completely different from the previous skirmishes or the assault on the camp.
The two armies were in a full-scale confrontation, without the barrier of the towering camp wall and the restrictions of the terrain, so the largest area of confrontation was created.
In just one hour, the battle losses of both sides were as high as tens of thousands, almost paving the banks of the Danshui River.
Counting the seven days of fighting, although the strength of the Qin army is close to 60,000, this is already a very unacceptable number.
And the losses of the Zhao army were similar to those of the Qin army, maybe more, but not much.
The more than 300,000 sergeants under him are still a thorny problem.
"Lao Bai, what should I do after that?" Wang Di's face was grim, a battle had been fought for two years, and the national strength of the Qin State could not be dragged on like this.
And this battle must be won by a big victory.
"Besiege but not attack." Since he could think of this worst-case outcome, Bai Qi had naturally arranged his strategy.
"Zhao Jun's military rations can be eaten for three days at most, and no matter what they eat after three days, they will definitely not last long. When the Zhao army breaks through, we can be anti-guest-oriented, and at that time, the army's spirit will be solidified and shaken. ”
Bai Qi paused here and narrowed his eyes.
"We, deceit."
Bullying is not a very clever strategy, but it will definitely be very effective in such a situation.
In the case that the other party is completely out of food, deceive the other party to surrender, as long as one of the Zhao army surrenders, the final result is that the Zhao army is self-defeating.
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The Zhao army was besieged.
On the afternoon of the day after Zhao Kuo's soldiers returned to the camp, hundreds of thousands of Qin troops surrounded Zhao's camp, but they camped but did not attack.
The camps of the two armies were only separated by less than a mile at this time, and they could almost say hello to the other side when they went out.
Of course, no one does.
The two armies looked down and didn't look up, and they spent the night without incident.
Early the next morning, Zhao Kuo actually took Zhao Jun out of the nest.
One blow of strength, then decline, three and exhaustion.
Morale is often the most unstable, and now is the time when Zhao Jun is at the height of grief and indignation.
If it is a few days later, Zhao Jun can still retain a few percent of his combat strength, he doesn't know at all, he is not a person who resigns himself to fate, and he will not let go of this opportunity.
The Zhao army began an almost never-ending breakout.
The defense line of the Qin army was undoubtedly countless times more stable than theirs, and after getting used to the crazy offensive of the Zhao army, it was stabilized, and Zhao Kuo was allowed to fight day and night, and he did not break the solid defense.
The losses of the two armies are getting higher and higher in such a war of attrition.
On the third day of the siege of the Zhao army, the Zhao army was completely out of food.
Just when the Qin army thought that this battle would be won, the Zhao army did another shocking thing.
They began to collect the dead bodies of the battlefield.
The snow was falling all the time, and hundreds of thousands of people on the battlefield could see a half-buried corpse almost when the snow was cut away.
The corpse did not decompose quickly because of the weather.
Zhao Jun began to eat the corpse.
The Qin army was stunned by this group of beast-like troops.
Eating corpses to fight this battle, what are they for?
This reason may only be known to Zhao Jun himself.
Let them eat the corpses of their comrades and even brothers, and do what they have done in vain to fight the reason.