Chapter 817: Changping Wins Fiascoly
Handan, the state of Zhao, constantly had the news of Shangdang County, and hundreds of miles were rushed to the desks of King Zhao and Zhao Ting's important ministers.
Originally, King Zhao was still worried about using Zhao Kuo, but now that the war in Shangdang has improved, King Zhao slowly let go of the mustard in his heart, and sent an envoy to give Zhao Kuo a lot of rewards, and also wholeheartedly handed over the soldiers and horses of Zhao to the hands of this rising star.
After Lian Po returned to Handan, although he did not tear his face with King Zhao, he was abandoned by King Zhao after all, and he heard that Zhao Kuo actually did not stick to Changping according to his instructions, and he was also angry, and he saw Zhao Xiangping, the king of Pingyuan, Zhao Shengyu, who knew the stakes.
But Zhao Sheng originally had some recognition of Zhao Kuo's talent, and he was preconceived, seeing Lian Po so impatient to belittle Zhao Kuo, but Zhao Kuo's war against Qin in the Shangdang was indeed better than Lian Po, so even if Lian Po said the stakes, Zhao Sheng only couldn't save face when Lian Po couldn't hold his face, afraid that Zhao Kuo's rising sons and nephews would cover himself.
Therefore, it is also the first to respond to the Lian Po will be above the court to show King Zhao, after arriving at the Zhao court, the full house of civil and military are praising King Zhao's wisdom, how can Zhao Sheng be self-deprecating and boring to say this unfounded speech, so it is also to praise Zhao Wang Xianming with the trend.
Although Lian Po did not enter the court, he also had his own eyes and ears, and after two court discussions, he saw that Zhao Ting did not move, so he also understood what was going on, and scolded angrily, that is, he was not in the consulting Qin Zhao war, and he picked up the wine jar wholeheartedly, and drank all day long.
Zhao Kuo was also arrogant, and after taking advantage of the heavy winter snow and the fighting style that was not afraid of sacrifice to win some military achievements, he also wrote a letter to the king of Zhao, wanting to fight a decisive battle with the Qin army in March and not delay the spring grain sowing in Zhao.
This time he suddenly talked about King Zhao's heart, thinking that Zhao Kuo is not only a general, but also will not be able to enter the picture in the future.
It seems that the king of Zhao and other masters know the truth that suspicious people do not need to use people, so they also issued the king's order, and Zhao Kuo was in charge of the Qin and Zhao wars, and there was no need to ask the king of Handan for everything, so as not to delay the fighter.
Therefore, Zhao Kuo was convinced that [the monarch and the ministers can defeat the Qin army with one heart], and the complete decentralization of King Zhao made Zhao Kuo also high-spirited, and set up a large array of the art of war, which was to attack the Qin army with all his might.
Besides, on Lao Qin's side, Gongsun Qi has experienced a winter of forbearance, and he has already firmly held the overall situation in his hands, seeing that Zhao Jun's patience has been exhausted, and he only seeks a quick victory, Gongsun Qi is also actively arranging soldiers and horses to further confuse Zhao Jun.
The crown prince knew that the battle of Qin and Zhao was a test for his father, so he couldn't sit still in Xianyang, so he came to Hedong and Hanoi with the old Qin Wenwu Zhongqing, and actively recruited local young people to deliver grain and grass for the 400,000 Qin army of Shangdang, and expand the reserve soldiers.
In May, the Zhao army's offensive intensified, and it was actually a battle of exchanging human lives for human lives to attack the Qin army camp, and Gongsun saw that the time had come, so that the Lantian army commander Sima Terrier led 25,000 Lantian soldiers to raid the rear of the Zhao army's attack troops, cutting off the Zhao army's rear road.
He also ordered Wang Jian to lead 5,000 heavily armed cavalry to insert between the Zhao army and the camp, divide the main force of the Zhao army into two isolated armies, and cut off the grain route of the Zhao army.
Gongsun Qi's deliberate concealment, so that Zhao Jun did not realize that the Qin army at this time was actually as many as 400,000 people, almost equal to his own, this time the Qin army really showed its strength, but it made Zhao Kuo feel very frightened, after a short period of panic, Zhao Kuo was still able to organize troops and horses to attack the Qin army.
There are a lot of sharp weapons for the defense and attack of the Qin army, and some of them even know that Zhao Kuo, who is from a family of generals who knows the sharp weapons in the army, is unseen and unheard of, even if it is Zhao Kuo who can still move troops and horses, but he is horrified to find that even if it is with the invincible Yanmen army Hu Dao cavalry with the invincible Hu Fu cavalry of the former king's father, the brave pawn of the Qin army is actually falling downwind!
Zhao Kuo, who was nervous for a while, also didn't care about the overall situation, so he only ordered the soldiers of the Zhao army under his command to rush and kill the Qin army, in order to fight in a hand-to-hand battle.
So the blood infected the land of Changping, and the two sides added up to nearly a million soldiers and horses, and the momentum was terrifying, and the war lasted until this scene, which was already too much for Gongsun Qi and other generals to control the overall situation, not to mention Zhao Kuo, who was talking on paper!
After more than ten days of fierce fighting, the corpses of the soldiers killed on the battlefield of Changping were stacked like mountains, and it was the hot weather of June, which made this Changping and even the surrounding Shangdang smell disgusting with blood.
By a certain evening in mid-June, the blood-red sunset was gradually fading, and the armies of Qin and Zhao were facing each other to the death, both taking advantage of this gap to rest and recuperate as soon as possible in the fierce battle.
The fatigue brought about by the more than ten days of war has already made the soldiers on both sides enter the weakness of not wanting to raise their blades and fight fiercely.
Countless vultures hovered over the corpses that had not yet been completely buried by the sand, and the bows and arrows with broken strings, spears with broken heads, and swords with curled blades were still in the hands of the corpses......
But the veterans on both sides are warning the juniors around them, don't slack off, the battle has already reached this point, and Qin and Zhao are already endless!
As long as the enemy army on the opposite side does not surrender with the flag, even if the comrades around him are dead, and the last soldier is left, this battle will continue to be fought!
Gongsun Qi felt that the soldiers of Zhao were worthy of being the heroic army left over from the cavalry of Zhao Xianwang Hufu, but they did not have the slightest softness, and they wanted to force the Zhao army into a dead end step by step!
Prince Zheng's visit to the border between Hanoi and Shangdang not only boosted morale, but also sent the old and young women and children under his rule to participate in the transportation of baggage in the Battle of Changping, and the young and middle-aged people over the age of fifteen on the Lao Qin side gathered on the Changping battlefield to intercept the reinforcements and grain transportation of Zhao.
After all, in July, under the premise that Gongsun Qi sacrificed more than 100,000 soldiers and horses, he finally completed the encirclement of the soldiers and horses of Zhao State!
At this time, Zhao Jun had already killed and injured nearly 200,000 soldiers in the battle for the party!
When King Zhao, who was far away in Handan, received the news, it was already in August, and he was sure that Zhao Kuo's soldiers and horses were surrounded, and King Zhao was anxious.
Immediately, the king of Zhao intended to order Li Mu to rescue the party, but he did not expect Li Mu to return, Lao Qin sent an elite cavalry to infiltrate the northern desert of Saibei, and recruited the Xiongnu enemy who had been dormant and strong in the northern desert of Saibei in recent years, and now the Xiongnu Shan Yuzheng has gathered more than 100,000 people to invade the northern border of Zhao.
If so, King Zhao suddenly realized that the Shangdang was very likely to be a conspiracy planned by the Qin State!
However, it was already too late!
In September, the news came that the main force of the Zhao army had been without food for 46 days, and the soldiers were killing each other for food.
In desperation, the commander Zhao Kuo had no choice but to choose a Jedi counterattack, organizing the remaining Zhao army into four breakthrough troops, and after four or five times in turn, he still could not break through, and the original remaining morale was killed by the sharp soldiers of the Qin army.
Originally, the news was blocked by the young Zhuang requisitioned by the Qin State, but now, this news is like a flood that opens the floodgates, and it is all bad news......
Zhao Kuo personally led the elite soldiers of Zhao State to forcibly break through the siege, but was shot to death by the Qin army's strong bow and crossbow and ten thousand arrows.
The commander of the Zhao army was killed in battle, and the rest of the soldiers were discouraged, so they disarmed their armor and abandoned their troops and surrendered to the Qin army.
Above the court, King Zhao sat quietly, hiding his face in astonishment and crying: "Zhao Kuo, the wrong person is wrong Zhao Guo!" ”
I heard that Gongsun Qi, the commander of the Qin army, was leading a tiger wolf Qin army towards Handan, and the most important thing was that there was no strong army of Zhao on the way to the army, and the king of Zhao was also very different from his heart palpitations, and he fainted and fell unconscious.