Chapter 821: Cutting Zhao is unfavorable
It was when Cai Ze was waiting for the momentum of the Qin army attacking Zhao on the side of Yan State Yishui, but he did not expect that the first defeat of the Qin army after the Battle of Changping would be repeated on the land of Zhao State.
The one who single-handedly created this miracle was the Yanmen guard of Zhao State, Li Mu!
Zhao Xianwang Hufu cavalry to create more than 200,000 elite soldiers and strong generals originated in the hometown of Jinyang, rose in the Yanmen area, Rao is Zhao Wang He moved the capital to Handan, took away Hufu cavalry archers a total of only 50,000.
In the past, Li Mu was in control of 200,000 soldiers and horses, so that many Hulu tribes in the northern desert did not dare to invade south.
Even in the Battle of Changping, Li Mu was ordered by King Zhao to let out half of the soldiers and horses, and with only 100,000 people, he defeated and scattered the hundreds of thousands of Xiongnu soldiers lured by Lao Qin.
Sure enough, when the Qin army feinted to attack Zhao to crusade against Wei, Li Mu also defeated the invading Xiongnu tribes, and immediately on the orders of King Zhao, he supported Handan non-stop and shared the pressure of the Qin army's attack on Zhao.
And said that the king of Zhao heard that the Yan country was actually going back on his head and raising troops to attack, and he was immediately shocked and angry, and before the fifth watch was dawn, he was cut off in the palace of Zhao Wang, at this time, Lian Po and Pang Xuan, the two major Zhao generals, each led the only remaining soldiers and horses of Zhao State into two roads, and defeated the invading Yan army, and it was Lian Po who had surrounded the Yan capital Jicheng.
In addition to Yan Guo assigned the ancient county to Zhao State, Lian Po also plundered a group of young people of Yan State, and made them go to Zhao Land with their families, and then joined the army with young people, women and children, old and weak.
The high-ranking King Zhao is also soft-eared, and Shao Junzheng and Zhang Lu are just a little counter-tactical, that is, to let King Zhao and Lian Po deviate from morality.
Lian Po has a narrow temperament, and he also thinks very highly of himself, thinking that he was ordered to rescue Zhao Guo from fire and water, so he is inevitably a little arrogant, and he uses [the general will not be affected by the life of the foreign monarch] as an excuse, which made King Zhao extremely unhappy for a while.
This King Zhao also has no power to scheming, too immature, the enemy is currently thinking of infighting, deposing Lian Po's military power, and making Le Cheng take over Lian Po's military power.
Lian Po was angry because he was excluded and attacked Le Cheng, Le Cheng had to flee alone due to insufficient troops, and then the new Zhao Wangqian also recruited some more troops, and ordered Hu Yu and Le Cheng to lead the troops to attack Lian Po, and Lian Po left Zhao in anger and defected to the territory of Wei, which had been attacked by Qin.
I thought that Zhao Wangqian's self-destruction of the Great Wall had already decided the overall situation of Yan Guo, and sure enough, Huan Qi, who was originally entrenched in Zhao, led 100,000 soldiers and horses in Zhao Pingyang, killing Zhao generals and beheading 100,000.
Who could have expected that Li Mu led the elite of the Yanmen Army to come out of nowhere, running hundreds of miles, fighting in all directions, using troops like a god, and actually defeated the Qin soldiers of the originally invincible Huan Qi Department in Zhao State in Yi'an and Feixia, and the entire army of Huan Qi was wiped out, and even the general Huan Qi was seriously wounded, and fled and left on the battlefield, without a trace.
Although Zhao Wangqian was mediocre, after all, he watched the Qin army menacing, and the original several hegemons in the Central Plains were all destroyed by the Qin State, leaving only a half-dead Qi State, which could not be afraid of the tiger and wolf army of the Qin State.
Lian Po has already belonged to the Qin State, and a group of cronies supported by the place where King Zhao moved to the throne died in the war, and now he sees that Li Mu is actually a big victory, when he even ordered Li Mu to be named Wu Anjun, lead the position of general, and take charge of the military affairs of Zhao State.
After the Battle of Changping, Zhao Guo's vitality was greatly injured, but it was more injured by the five counties around Handan, the capital of Zhao, and the three counties of Jiuyuan, Yanmen and Yunzhong that supported the Yanmen army were just the general Yanmen army.
Li Mu defeated the southward invasion of tens of thousands of Xiongnu control strings, and it was expected that the Xiongnu would not make any changes in a short period of time, so only more than 10,000 people were left in Yanmen to garrison, and they planted banners and bluffed, and he led 100,000 Yanmen troops to retreat south to Qin to rescue Zhao.
But when Li Mu defeated the Qin army led by Huan Qi, the Qin side accepted the surrender of the old Wei king, so that although the situation in Zhao was led by Gongsun Qi and Wang Di, because the main attack was not Zhao, it gave Zhao and Li Mu a chance to breathe.
Li Mu knew the stakes, so he returned to Handan to receive the title of Wu Anjun and take the position of general, and did not delay, and asked Zhao Wangqian to send him to Yunzhong, Yanmen and Jiuyuan, which were less affected by the Battle of Changping, to recruit troops and horses.
Although it was the Battle of Changping that emptied the savings of Zhao State, it was also in the battle of Zhao State's counterattack on Yan State, in the hands of Yan State, a lot of the former Qi State was seized.
So Zhao got another 100,000 soldiers and horses, many of which were Hu people, and Li Mu handed over this army to Sima Shang for training.
The land of Yan Zhao is located in the north of the Central Plains, and it has always snowed heavily in October, and Li Mu is also waiting for this heavy snow to stop the offensive of the Qin army.
It's just that this Li Mu and Gongsun Qi can really become the soldiers of the Central Plains today, and they are both rare generals in a century.
There were more than 200,000 soldiers and horses of the Zhao State under the command of Li Mu and Sima Shang, and there were more than 200,000 soldiers and horses of the Qin army now stationed in the territory of the Zhao State by Gongsun Qi and Wang Ji.
It's just that Zhao is fighting on its own, and the people of Zhao are also very resentful of the Qin people because of the Battle of Changping, so Li Mu, who is familiar with the terrain in Zhao State, steadily suppressed the Qin army.
Seeing that the Qin army's offensive in Zhao was blocked, Qin Shaojunzheng also went to the Zhao-Wei border, wanting to persuade Lian Po, who was attached to Qin and was familiar with the terrain of Zhao, to lead the army to attack Zhao.
It's just that although Lian Po is also attached to the Qin State, he is extremely resistant to leading the troops to attack Zhao, so he did not agree, and the young monarch was helpless, and he was not too persecuted, so he had to order Wang Jian to lead his troops and horses to aid the Zhao State again, and he personally rushed to the territory of Zhao State to organize the overall situation of Zhao State.
So the Qin army attacked Zhao in two ways, so that Gongsun Qisuo, who was stationed in Yecheng, went north, preparing to cross the Zhangshui River to Handan, and attack the Zhao capital Handan.
And Shaojunzheng led the main force of Wang Jian's department from the Shangdang out of the well, trying to pull Handan's back and cut off Zhao's waist.
It's just that he didn't expect Wang Jian to lead the army into Fanwu, but Li Mu sent Zhao Guogongzi Jia to lead the army to resist, and the south of Handan was supported by Zhangshui and the Great Wall of Zhao, and it was difficult for the Qin army to break through quickly.
Li Musui was determined to adopt the strategy of defending the south and attacking the north, and concentrating his forces to break through each one!
He deployed Sima Shang to defend the line of the Great Wall in the south of Handan, and led the main force to the north to counterattack the Qin Shaojunzheng and Wang Jian's troops who were attacking from a distance.
The two armies met near Pango. Li Mu supervised the onslaught of the army, the Qin army was blocked and defeated, and the Qin Shaojun government knew about Li Mu's talent, so he saw that his army was seriously damaged, so he had to withdraw his troops.
Upon hearing of the withdrawal of the Qin army, Li Mu immediately returned to Handan and joined forces with Sima Shang to attack the Qin army on the southern route that offended Handan.
Gongsun Qi also soon learned that the Northern Route Army led by Qin Shaojunzheng and Wang Jian was defeated by Li Mu, and it was difficult to win.
This time, Shao Junzheng personally led the army to attack Zhao, and the soldiers and horses used were 400,000, thinking that Li Mu only had 200,000 troops, but he could resist the attack of Qin.
That Li Mu is also a man of integrity, and when he saw that the Qin State sent someone to recruit him, he actually beheaded the envoy to clarify his intentions.
Shao Junzheng was surprised and sighed at this Li Mu, surprised that this Li Mu's general was indeed talented, and sighed that such a peerless general could not be used for himself in the end.
All of a sudden, there was a grain transport officer to report that the 200,000 Zhao soldiers obtained from the Battle of Changping had little grain left in exchange for the inner government, and it was difficult to maintain.
Otherwise, it would not be like today, and the army will not be able to lose an inch of land.
Thinking like this, Shaojunzheng inevitably let people attract Zhang Lu, and after a while, this Zhang Lu also entered the tent of Shaojunzheng with a happy face: "His Royal Highness Shaojun, great victory!" It's also a great event! ”
Now that Shao Junzheng personally led the troops, and there was Gongsun Qi on the side to assist the formation, but he was never able to break through the defense line of General Zhao Guoda, he was happy, so he also locked his eyebrows slightly, and asked with a hint of displeasure in his eyes: "What's the joy!" ”
When Zhang Lu saw Shao Junzheng's face, he didn't dare to delay in the slightest, and immediately said: "Cai Ze's plan to assassinate Yan, there is just news today, the warrior Qing Ke who was sought that day really killed the tyrannical Yan King above the Yan Court, and he kidnapped the Prince Yan and retreated, thinking that the Great Qin Yixia who had infiltrated the Yan Kingdom in the past few days would definitely assassinate those princes and magnates of the Yan Kingdom. ”
Saying that, Zhang Lu also smiled and said: "In this way, the Yan Kingdom has no leader, and the young monarch only needs to send a good general to lead a strong army, and he can contain the territory of the Yan Kingdom that is two thousand miles long!" ”
Shaojunzheng really doesn't pay much attention to the Yan Kingdom that steals chickens and rice, but now he heard Zhang Lu say this, although he felt a little happy, but because Li Mu's iron wall of Zhao was painted in front of Zhao, it also made Shaojunzheng's face not good.
Because the Qin State captured the Wei State, and Zhang Lu still had some old grievances of the Wei State to deal with, so he was not in front of the young monarch during this time, so although he knew some unfavorable news about the Qin army during this time, he also didn't understand what happened in it, so he also asked.
For Zhang Lu, although Shaojunzheng experienced the incident of Gongsun Qi, he did not trust him as wholeheartedly as before, but he also relied on it very much, so he also fully expressed his sorrows in recent days.
After Zhang Lu found out, Fang Cai felt that although Shao Junzheng didn't say anything, he must have been extremely concerned about dissuading Gongsun Qi from attacking Handan that day, so if he wanted to break the gap between the monarch and the minister, he had to come up with a proper solution.
After a little weighing, Zhang Lu persuaded: "Shaojun, why don't you withdraw the army." ”
Shaojun Zheng expected that Zhang Lu was not untargeted, so he asked: "What is your plan, tell me quickly." ”
Zhang Lu's two beards were raised, and he said from his heart: "Didn't the young gentleman forget the old things of Lian Po?" That Zhao Wang Qian is a mediocre and very suspicious monarch, and there are some dissidents around him who are interested in forgetting their righteousness, so they can be used a little, so why is it difficult to get rid of this Li Mu? ”
As soon as he said this, Shao Junzheng was happy in his heart, but then he seemed to think of something, but he fell on Zhang Lu with a look of other meaning, which frightened the latter and trembled, and he didn't say anything else.
As a result, Shaojunzheng also issued a general order to withdraw the army, leaving Gongsun Qi to retreat to Yecheng, confronting Zhao general Li Mu, and the rest of the troops led the army back to Guanzhong. I want to talk about "The Rise of Xiongqin" with more like-minded people, pay attention to "excellent reading literature" on WeChat, talk about life, and find confidants~