Chapter 24: Encounters

Peng Yue and the others had been watching the road to the south on the hill, so as soon as the army of Meng Tian's 10,000 foot soldiers appeared, Peng Yue and Bang Tuo saw it.

Under the newborn morning sun, the black-background flags with two poles and three zhang high, and the two words "Qin" and "Meng" fluttered high, and after the two flags, more than 10,000 foot soldiers took powerful steps to drive over, and the clear black armor exuded a black and golden light, which made Peng Yue and several people involuntarily squint their eyes.

Followed by more than 10,000 foot soldiers were at least 10,000 elite black-armored cavalrymen, and the sturdy tall war horses under their crotches paced leisurely.

Peng Yue and the others knew that the Qin army on the avenue had already discovered themselves and the others, and the big war was coming, and now they could still be so leisurely, obviously both the knight on the horse and the war horse under the knight were battle-hardened warriors.

Or maybe these Qin troops didn't take their 50,000 army in their eyes at all.

Behind the elite cavalry, the first thing that appeared was a five-zhang high tooth flag, with a black satin base more than one foot wide and five feet long, and a foot-sized "Meng" character shining in the sunlight.

Tooth Banner, "Tooth Banner, General Essence". In ancient times, the tooth flag was the symbol of the whole army.

The tooth flag is the main symbol of an army, so in a war, where the tooth flag is, it means that the command center is there and the main general is there. If the flag does not fall, the main general is there, and the whole army will exist, and as soon as the flag falls, it means that the main general does not exist, and the whole army has collapsed.

When Peng Yue and the others saw this huge tooth flag, they knew that behind this tooth flag should be Meng Tian's Chinese army.

At this time, Peng Yue, Bang Tuo and others were already cool in their hearts.

Let's not talk about Meng Tian, the elite of the Jiuyuan Army and the sophistication of the weapons. The front army alone has almost 20,000 people under the eyes of Peng Yue and others, and the front army is generally only a part of the whole army, and there are even larger middle and rear armies.

Peng Yue and Bang Tuo went down the lonely mountain, and Peng Yue said in a sullen voice: "Could it be that the Qin people have transferred all the 300,000 Jiuyuan troops into the Guanbei to go to the giant deer?" Surrender Jiuyuan and other places to the Huns? ”

Hearing Peng Yue's words, Bang Tuo and the others were silent. If it is really as Peng Yue said, let alone the newly established Zhao State, even if it returns to the Six Kingdoms and rises again, it may not be able to resist the most elite 300,000 Jiuyuan army of Great Qin.

"Don't stop there. Tuo thought that the second must have sent part of the 300,000 Jiuyuan army into the north of the pass. Jiuyuan and other places spent a lot of effort to build the Qin Emperor Yingzheng during his reign, and the second should not dare to abandon the cause of Yingzheng. Hamato said slowly after a while.

"Even if some of the soldiers are only 100,000 Yuan Army, it is not something that my Zhao State can resist now." Peng Yue was well aware of Xin Zhao's situation.

Although on the surface, Xinzhao now has nearly 300,000 soldiers, not to mention how many of these 300,000 soldiers have been trained and on the battlefield, there are still nearly 100,000 people with sticks and the like in weapons alone, not to mention armor and other armor.

Even if such an army of 300,000 is doubled, it may not be able to resist the 100,000 army heading north. Of course, maybe it's more than 100,000.

"General, while the Qin army has not yet arrived, immediately order someone to fly to report to Lord Xiangguo again, and inform Lord Xiangguo of the situation in detail. Let Xiangguo-sama decide everything, and I'll wait for death and life here. Hama Taku let out a long sigh.

…… Li Zuoche, who was in Julu, had received a message from Peng Yue yesterday night about what happened to Julu when Meng Tian led the army north. Although Li Zuoche was anxious, he did not tell anyone that the Qin army was less than a hundred miles away from Julu when it went north.

From this new Zhao Fuli, the remnants of the original Zhao State who defected to the original Zhao State were all given to the high positions, and those who should be sealed were also sealed, but this Xiao Zhao court has been in chaos for three days because of the unresolved position of the right minister.

Li Zuoche has not appeared in the court for the past three days, but everything that happened in the court naturally cannot escape his ears and eyes. Today, Li Zuoche was the first to arrive at the main hall of the early dynasty.

The court of the new Zhao is the official office of the original Julu County Guard, and the mansion behind the official office has naturally become the palace of Zhao Wang Xie.

As soon as the hour arrived, the officials of Xinzhao came to the court one after another. After resting all night, these people, who had just quarreled for a day yesterday, are now in good spirits again, and they are ready to debate with their opponents again today.

When these people came in and found that Li Zuoche, who had never seen Xiangguo (left Xiang) all this time, was already in the main hall, they couldn't help but be stunned, and then hurriedly bowed and saluted. Li Zuoche greeted these people lightly, lowered his eyebrows and pretended to sleep, and said no more.

Everyone knows who the real ruler of the new Zhao State is now, so seeing Li Zuoche pretending to sleep, the various officials who were originally arguing as soon as they came suddenly died down one by one.

Zhao Wang Xie ascended the throne, and in the past three days, he has been quarreled with by these large and small remnants of the old Zhao family, but what he said is useless, every day is like a puppet, from the upper dynasty to watch them quarrel, until the next dynasty, so repeatedly.

But today, when he finally mustered up the courage to enter the main hall, he suddenly found that the small hall that should have been noisy was extremely quiet today. What's going on?

"The king has arrived!"

"Greetings to the king!"

Walking into the main hall, Zhao Wangxi found that Li Zuoche was sitting on the top, and immediately knew why these people were not noisy. I couldn't help but feel a little lost in my heart, my nominal King Zhao was not as deterrent as a courtier.

This thought was suppressed by Zhao Wangxi in an instant, and said with a smile: "Flat!" The Prime Minister is here today? ”

"Back to the king, the ministers have to report it." Li Zuoche bowed and saluted.

"Oh? Please tell me if you have something to do! Zhao Wangxie heard that Li Zuoche had something to report, his expression was solemn, and he hurriedly said.

"Your Great King, the great general of Qin, Jiuyuan Hou Meng Tian led the army yesterday and said yesterday that it had arrived in Handan, which is less than a hundred miles away from the giant deer." Li Zuoche's words are not shocking, and he is endless. As soon as these words came out, there was a dead silence in the main hall at first, and then there was chaos.

Originally, all the dignified officials, big and small, suddenly exploded.

Who Meng Tian is, no one knows. The most important thing is that Meng Tian is less than a hundred miles away from the giant deer, which is fatal.

"King, let's run!"

"Yes! Escape, my lord! ”

"Lord Sangkoku, what should I do?"

"Surrender to Qin!"

…… Li Zuoche looked at the chaotic hall, and there was a trace of coldness in his eyes.

Zhao Wangxi was also shocked when he heard Li Zuoche's words, but he immediately found that Li Zuoche was still calm, and he immediately knew that it was obvious that this Xiangguo Lord had already become a bamboo in his chest.

"Lord Xiangguo, but there is a way to deal with it?"

The officials, who were originally in a mess in the hall, suddenly came back to their senses when they heard Zhao Wangxie's words. By the way, isn't there still Sangkoku-sama?

"Please save me Zhao Guo!"

These officials are all old fritters, and they immediately saw some clues from Li Zuoche's expression, and said in unison.

"Your Excellency doesn't have to be like that. This is the prime minister of Zhao Guo, how can he abandon it? Li Zuoche said lightly, and then saluted King Zhao in the main hall and said: "The subordinate will lead the army to meet Meng Tian's army today, and ask the king to seal Situ Pang Xin as the right minister to assist the king in governing the government!" ”

Pang Xin, the son of Pang Xuan, a famous general of Zhao State. And Pang Xuan is the apprentice of the hermit Crane Guanzi. Crane Guanzi, a Chu person, but he is a deaf person, a master of the channel, a soldier, once a celebrity under the account of King Zhao Wuling, and legend has it that the first emperor studied under the Crane Guanzi.

"Good! This king is approved. "Zhao Wangxie, how dare he bargain with Li Zuoche at this time. The officials of the Zhao family who had been fighting for three days because of this right also claimed to be at this time.

"Thank you, King! The subordinate will retire and immediately send the army to the battle! Li Zuoche bowed and said. Zhao's military power was in Li Zuo's hands, so he didn't need to ask Zhao Wangxi to get any tiger talismans and other troop transfer letters.

"That king is waiting for Lord Hou Xiangguo to return victorious!" King Zhao got up and said.

"I'm waiting for Xiangguo-sama to have a successful start!"

…… The Great Qin scouts had already informed Meng Tian of the information that the Zhao army had moved north to camp in the mountains, but to be honest, Meng Tian did not take these 50,000 chaotic soldiers with all armor and weapons in his eyes, what he really cared about was Li Zuoche.

After Hu Hai decided to let Meng Tian lead the army north to Julu, Meng Tian searched for all the information about Li Mu and Li Zuoche. In particular, I studied Li Mu's way of using soldiers.

Li Mu is good at hiding flying and riding, and is good at open decisive battles. This was Li Mu's unique tactics when he defeated the Xiongnu and even defeated the Qin army twice.

The grasslands are full of plains, and there are no poor mountains and bad waters to block them, and there are no fortresses. And the Huns gathered and scattered, coming and going like flying, and there was no way to pursue and annihilate. However, Li Mu explored a unique set of tactics in the long-term battle with the Huns.

First paralyzed the Huns, the stragglers hid on the grassland, and when the Hun cavalry gathered together and the soldiers went south, they surrounded and annihilated the flying cavalry army. Being able to hide a large army in the endless grassland without the Huns being aware of it, and being able to encircle and annihilate the Huns in the open grassland and the place that is most unsuitable for the battle of encirclement, this is Li Mu's most unique tactic.

Meng Tian already regarded the 50,000 Zhao troops camped in front of him as dead people. Li Zuoche's actions are what he cares about.

"Order Zhang Wu to lead the front army to surround the camp of the thief army, not to attack it, if the thief army is out, you can shoot it with a strong crossbow. The two armies continued to move north, and ordered the scouts of each army to go forward fifty miles to carefully probe whether there were ambushes around our army. Meng Tian looked at the lonely Peng Yue camp next to the hill and ordered.

"Whoa!"

With Meng Tian's military order, the 10,000 foot soldiers of Zhang Wuqian's army set up camp on the left and right sides less than 500 steps away from Peng Yue's camp, while the 10,000 cavalry were camped in front of Peng Yue's camp, blocking the way out of Peng Yue's camp.

Meng Tian did not care about Zhang Wu's front army, although Zhang Wu's front army was only 20,000 people, but Meng Tian believed that the tens of thousands of Zhao troops camped in the mountains were definitely not the opponents of the 20,000 Jiuyuan elites.

Seeing Zhang Wu set up camp, Meng Tianya waved his banner, and led the Chinese army and the rear army to continue north along the gallop road, heading straight for Julu.

Meng Tian's army had just walked out less than ten miles, and the scouts who came out flew to report that a large number of soldiers with the banners of "Zhao" and "Li" appeared less than fifty miles ahead, and an army of no less than 100,000 people was coming south from Julu.

"Li Zuoche!"

(To be continued)