When the news of the capture of Longmen Ferry by Zhao Cavalry had not yet reached Hedong, the last army of the Zhao clan also arrived in Jiangdi from Tongjiao, and Zhao Wuxian's Qing Qi was among them. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

After quelling the turmoil caused by the Tongluo Palace Rebellion, Zhao Wuxian decided to go to the Hedong battlefield in person, and the Zhao family's retainers and bureaucrats were surprisingly unanimous in this regard, and fully supported Zhao Wuxian's visit to the front line.

In the pre-Qin era, especially in the Spring and Autumn Period, the Chinese nobles were extremely martial, and it was common for the royal family to march in person, and there would not be a group of Confucian scholars who kowtowed their heads to stop them, saying that the son of a daughter would not stand under the dangerous wall. Especially in a classical aristocratic militaristic country like Jin and Chu, even if the monarch basically did not personally command it later, he had to go into battle to let the soldiers see themselves and see their lord with them. And if a ruling person can't be a general, then he can't get into the picture, and if he wins a battle, he can win cheers, and if he is cowardly, he will even be brought down by the boos of the countrymen.

And no one thinks that the Zhao clan will lose this war, whether it is strength or strategy, they have completely occupied the advantage, and the glory of this victory will naturally be taken by the lord himself.

On March 25, Zhao Wuxian arrived in Gujiang, and the 3,000 "Yulin Orphan Army" by his side did not leave an inch. This unit was specifically responsible for Zhao Wuxian's guards, which means that in the past ten years, at least the same number of Zhao veterans have died on the battlefield, and the orphans they left behind have been raised by Zhao at Zhao's expense, taught them to read and count, made almost everyone literate and arithmetic, and trained them in military discipline, and practiced archery, horsemanship, and martial arts on weekdays. By the time they were seventeen or eighteen years old, they were already a group of heroic teenagers who could inherit their father's duties and fight for the Zhao clan with their blades.

Zhao Wuxian invested heavily in these orphans, in his eyes, this is the future officer corps of the Zhao army, not only has excellent quality, but also is loyal to Zhao Wuxian, it can be seen from the change in Tongyi Palace, Yulin is unconditionally loyal to the Zhao family.

However, the ruler between the eyebrows is no longer by Wuxian's side, after all, it involves the killing of the prince, Zhao Wuxian wants him to stay away from the center of the whirlpool, so the ruler between the eyebrows took the initiative to ask Ying to go outside the river. As for Shi Qi, the mastermind of that incident, Zhao Wuxian asked him to go to Chaoge to do another thing.

The guards beside him were replaced by Wu Jing's son Wu Lin, although the boy was only fourteen years old, he was no less than his deceased father in martial arts, in order to show his love, Zhao Wuxian accepted him and the ruler between his eyebrows as his only two sons.

In short, through the Tongluo Palace Incident, Zhao Wuxian thought that the Yulin Army could be of great use, and he thought that the only thing these children lacked was the experience on the battlefield.

Although Gujiang is still dozens of miles away from the front line, the young people of the Yulin Army have already felt the atmosphere of the coming big war.

In the small area, the army is now densely stationed. In addition to the standing army soldiers, the Zhao clan would also recruit soldiers from various counties in wartime. In this war, almost none of the seven counties of the Zhao clan were exempt from conscription, of which 25,000 Taiyuan soldiers were mainly concentrated in Xinjiang, and 15,000 eldest son soldiers were concentrated in Yingting, each with 5,000 soldiers to cooperate with it. The soldiers of Dongyang County and Hanoi County transferred from the east were located in Gujiang, plus more than 10,000 soldiers, a total of 45,000 people.

Nearly 100,000 troops gathered, all over the mountains, fortunately, the people of Xinjiang and Gujiang were either divided and moved away by Zhao Wei and Han, or fled to escape natural disasters and wars, and the city was empty, and there were a lot of houses for soldiers to live in. But Sun Tzu has a good saying, "the more soldiers are better", the more the army, the better, which means that the logistics pressure increases, and the biggest problem now is the transportation of military food, so that the first thing Zhao Wuxian did when he first arrived in Gujiang was to inspect the warehouse to see how much surplus grain there was.

Due to natural disasters, the Hedong region has been unable to collect grain, and the Zhao family also suffered a disaster last year, but the damage was not as serious as the Wei family. There is still some grain available for military use in Changping, but it is very troublesome to transport it through Taihang, and it is not even as convenient as the Qin people to transport grain ships through Weishui, which is one of the reasons why the Qin people dare to take risks to fight this battle.

"How much grain is there to fight for how long the battle, within two months, the battle in Hedong must be decided."

After inspecting the grain and straw, Zhao Wuxian had a bottom in his heart, but he still set a deadline for his subordinates, after all, the longer the time dragged on, the more unfavorable it would be for his situation in the country.

In fact, there is no need for Zhao Wuxian to say, the Zhao army, which has been on the defensive and has been confronting Qin and Wei for more than a month, has long been impatient.

However, what is surprising is that the first to ask for battle was a guest army, from the Yanghu Department of Handan, Dongyang.

Yang Hu made many miraculous achievements in the Liuqing Civil War, but after the war, it seemed to be hidden in the snow, and he served as a general in the Handan area under Zhao Wuxian's nose, although he was slowly promoted to the county commander, but the prison army and the black clothes had a lot of constraints, after all, he had a life-and-death conflict with Zhao Wuxian in the Lu State, and then the reputation of being disloyal to the old lord was outside, and it would be strange if Zhao Wuxian was not wary at all.

In doing so, Yang Hu immediately stimulated the other armies, especially Taiyuan and the Second Army of the Eldest Son. Since Zhao Wuxian demarcated the county system, with Taihang Mountain as the boundary, the county soldiers in the west are often called the Western Army, and the east is often called the Eastern Army, and the commanders of the Western Army are mostly the old retainers of the Zhao family, and the commanders of the Eastern Army are mostly Zhao Wuxian's new ministers, and they secretly compete with each other, which is becoming more and more obvious in this war.

First of all, the Handan army is a guest army, and it has only been here for half a month, and they are obviously scolding Taiyuan and the eldest son of the second army for being cowardly and not daring to fight with Qin Wei. For the conceited elite generals of the Western Army, is it tolerable, but is it unbearable?

So the Taiyuan Army and the Eldest Son Army followed closely behind, and jointly asked for battle, saying that they had high morale, asked to be the vanguard, and vowed to fight to the death with Qin Wei.

Tian Ben, who independently led a division, also came to join in the fun: "The Dongyang soldiers have only been here for half a month, the journey is tiring, the water and soil are not adapted, although Taiyuan and the eldest son of the second army came early, but they did not stay in my Lao Tian for a long time, this matter is still left to my Lao Tian!" ”

However, the soldiers commanded by Mu Xia and the Hanoi soldiers commanded by Qi Wan were as stable as Mount Tai, and they had a posture of obeying Zhao Wuxian's orders.

Zhao Wuxian ignored it for the time being, but first analyzed the enemy's deployment with his staff.

On the map, the Qin army is black, the Wei army is green, and the Zhao army is marked by white.

"The battle situation of the Qin and Wei coalition forces in Hedong was like this, at first they tried to send troops north to capture Xinjiang, and then recapture the dangerous pass of Lingshikou, but they were repelled by the ballista cannons arranged at the head of Xinjiang City. After the attempt to go north to no avail, Qin Wei turned south to attack the Han clan, but in two months, he had already seized many Han territories in Hedong and outside the river, and Han Yi, Yu, and Maojin fell one after another. Qin Wei was afraid of being attacked from inside and outside, so he withdrew all the troops outside the river, 10,000 Qin troops retreated to Taolinsai, and 10,000 Wei troops and the remnants of Zheng troops retreated to Hedong, so far, the enemy army has 80,000 troops in Hedong......"

"Of these 80,000 people, 20,000 people who withdrew from outside the river are still in the Anyi area, and there are only 60,000 in front of us, and the enemy army is also smart, and it is not scattered, but the main force of 40,000 is concentrated in Quwo, and 10,000 on each flank are in Dongshan Gaoluo, Xuncheng, and Hancheng."

In the past two months, Zhao Wuxian asked the Zhao army to refrain from attacking, and allowed the enemy army to occupy the Han city, on the one hand, to gain time to transfer the eastern army, and on the other hand, he also wanted to let the enemy divide his troops to garrison the city and weaken the strength of the frontal battlefield.

So Qin Wei fell into the embarrassing situation of not defending the city after breaking the city, Wei Ju was not stupid, and decisively chose to give up, except for Hancheng, Xuncheng and other necessary strongholds, all of them were evacuated.

After observing the map for a while, Zhao Wuxian pointed to Xun and Han and said, "The original battle plan remains unchanged, first break the enemy's left flank." ”

His hand made an arc.

"After gaining the advantage on the left flank, cooperate with the cavalry in Hexi to drive the enemy away from the east bank of the river, cut off their contact with the Qin State and the grain route, and finally compress them to the narrow strip south of Shuchuan and north of Zhongtiao Mountain, forcing the enemy to fight a decisive battle!"

(To be continued.) )