"The enemy is stronger than expected, but this should be his main force. These soldiers were originally soldiers of our Qin State, but I didn't expect that now they would kill each other. ”

Looking at the fierce battle on the city, Meng Yi shook his head and sighed.

"Well, but there is no way to do it, Qin Wu is unwilling to submit, so he can only get rid of it with the power of thunder, otherwise things like this may happen again and again in the future."

Meng Tian nodded and said in a deep voice.

With Baili Shi's explanation and Prime Minister Baili Xi's maneuvers in the government and the opposition, on the surface, Qin Mugong exonerated Qin Wu from the charge, but in fact, he hated Qin Wu to death.

As a generation of heroic kings, he is most disgusted by the existence of such a person who abducts the army under his command without permission, if Qin Wu still lives very nourishingly and continues to develop and expand with those 15,000 Qin soldiers, then will there be many people who will follow Qin Wu's example?

So there was the order of the radish and the stick before, and if Qin Wu refused the alliance, the Montessori brothers, who were extremely loyal to Qin, would bring a large army to wipe out the infant forces from this land.

In the expectation of the two brothers, Qin Wu was so anxious to expand the army to more than 50,000 people, just to make up a large stronghold so that he would not be at a disadvantage in the defense of the city, then about half of the soldiers of the Wu army were new recruits.

The recruits are completely synonymous with low morale, weak will to fight, and weak combat effectiveness, so Meng Tian and Meng Yi are confident that they will have an advantage in siege warfare. Now the reason why the two sides are fighting on a par in the city is because Qin Wu sent elite troops, that is, the original Qin soldiers to hold on to the city.

Obviously, Meng Tian and Meng Yi, who were lagging behind in intelligence, were wrong in their guesses.

Qin Wu's 55,000 martial army, although most of them were recruits as they thought, the number of recruits was far less than they thought.

Among the armed forces, there were more than 10,000 Korean troops and 3,000 Zhao troops, and in addition to low morale, these soldiers all had strong combat effectiveness. Moreover, Qin Wu reintegrated the army, and did not set up a separate recruit corps, but let the recruits integrate into the veterans, let the veterans teach by word and deed, plus strict training, in order to quickly improve the strength of this group of recruits.

Meng Tian and Meng Yi thought that the main force under Qin Wu was fighting at the head of the city, but in fact it was just a very ordinary army, Qin Wu's foundation was too shallow, in order to strengthen the combat power of the recruits, these newly recruited soldiers were integrated into the old army with strong combat effectiveness.

Although this reduced the morale and combat effectiveness of the old legion, it improved the overall strength of the Wu army, so the Wu army under Qin Wu still has no main force and non-main force.

Meng Tian was bent on using a strong army to defeat the Wu army that he considered to be "strong from the outside and capable in the middle" in one fell swoop, so he spared no effort in the attack, and in the first day, the Qin army suffered 5,000 casualties, and the Wu army also suffered 3,000 casualties because there were various small and medium-sized strongholds such as attack, defense, supply and soldiers on the head of the city.

Seeing that the number of the Wu army was about to fall below 50,000, Qin Wu directly ordered Zhao Ji, Feng Quji, Feng Zai and Xi Qishu to move together, and forcibly recruited civilians into the army in the city, and recruited 6,000 civilian legions with low morale and low combat effectiveness overnight, expanding the number of the Wu army to 58,000, 3,000 more than before the war.

The militia was low in combat effectiveness and was ready to collapse in front of the regular Qin army, but they could carry and manufacture city defense materials.

In order to avoid Meng Tian's forced conscription of civilians into the army like him, Qin Wu moved all the civilians from the two counties near Yecheng into Yecheng. Meng Tian already knew the news when he came, but he didn't mind, and early the next morning, there were two teams of 1,000 Qin troops in the distance, pressing 8,000 slave troops, rushing over and joining Meng Tian's team.

With different positions and different situations, Qin Wu and Meng Tian did the same thing, that is, they kept strengthening their own strength.

The Wu army killed 3,000 people, and Qin Wu not only filled in this pit, but also recruited 3,000 more people.

The Qin army killed 5,000 people, and Meng Tian also chose to fill in this pit, and his army also had 5,000 more people.

The next day, the battle continued, Meng Tian did not sympathize with the casualties of his soldiers, and launched a fierce attack desperately, and after a fierce battle, the Qin army lost 5,000 Qin troops and 2,000 slave troops, while Qin Wu lost 4,000 soldiers.

In just two days, the armed forces lost nearly 10,000 troops, nearly one-fifth of the total strength. Yecheng is an emerging force, with no strategic depth and no alliance reinforcements, the future looks bleak, and the morale and combat effectiveness of the army have dropped slightly.

Qin Wu saw it in his eyes and was anxious in his heart, but he didn't have any way at all. Meng Tian's onslaught, regardless of casualties, made it clear that Qin Wu would be killed no matter what the price was, although Qin Wu could be resurrected after death, but the soldiers under Qin Wu would not be resurrected.

And as long as Qin Wu loses the tens of thousands of soldiers under him, then he has no threat to the Qin generals.

At the end of the battle the next day, Meng Tian Mingjin withdrew his troops, and the black-clothed and black-armored Qin soldiers retreated like a tide and returned to the camp of the Qin army.

"Is there really only one way to abandon the city and escape?"

Looking at the Qin soldiers who were gradually retreating, Qin Wu sighed softly.

If there are too many casualties, then Qin Wu's next plan will not be realized, and he can only withdraw from Yecheng with the remnants of the army and wander around the other vassal states.

Taking advantage of the retreat of the Qin army, Qin Wu hurriedly sent a civilian army to clean up the battlefield. Looking at the current situation, in order to capture the wild city of Meng Tian at all costs, it is very likely that he will launch an attack at night, and Qin Wu has to defend.

In the middle of the night, the Qin army buried the pot to cook, and after a full meal, it soon launched an attack at night. Qin Wu had already prepared for this, repelled Meng Tian and thousands of Qin soldiers who attacked the city at night, and after losing hundreds of soldiers, Qin Wu finally saved Yecheng for two days under Meng Tian's onslaught at any cost.

Shangdang had a total of 200,000 Qin soldiers, and felt that the Qin soldiers attacking Yecheng were endless, and there was a tendency to destroy themselves first, Qin Wu couldn't help frowning, and on the one hand, he arranged for his generals to recruit the young and middle-aged people in Yecheng into the military army by coercive means, and on the other hand, he began to gather the baggage and food in Yecheng, and was ready to withdraw from Yecheng at any time.

If Qin Mugong is really desperate and wants to destroy himself on the battlefield of Shangdang, then Yecheng can only become a dead city if he continues to defend it, it is better to choose wisely to take everything away, and then leave, intending to rise again.

However, when Qin Wu was doing all this, he ushered in an unexpected surprise. Taking advantage of the pause in the siege battle, an envoy from Zhao suddenly rushed to the city and brought Qin Wu the information that Zhao had sent troops and was ready to rescue him.

"General Qin, in order to eliminate the brutal Qin State, General Lian Po of our army is willing to help you regardless of previous suspicions and attack the rear of Meng Tian's army.

The envoy of Zhao State, who was wearing cyan armor, said.

"Well, don't worry, please go back and tell General Lian Po that Qin will fight against the tyrannical Qin with Zhao Jun."

Qin Wu nodded.

He didn't ask why Lian Po sent troops to rescue him, the enemy's enemy was a friend, Zhao Jun was at a slight disadvantage in Shangdang, Lian Po was naturally willing to send troops to win over Qin Wu, a possible friend, to fight against the Qin army together.

Although Qin Wu had defeated Zhao Hao's army of 80,000 together with Bailishi, King Zhao Wuling had sent an envoy to present the Yeming Baochai to Qin Wu and test Qin Wu's position. Now that the relationship between Qin Wu and Qin Guo is understood, the temptation is over, Lian Po naturally extended an olive branch to Qin Wu and sent troops to the rescue.

On the third day, Meng Tian continued to launch an onslaught, and instead of the expected reinforcements, he received a piece of news that made him frown.

The reinforcements rushing to Yecheng were intercepted by the Zhao army who was lying in ambush halfway, and the whole army was annihilated, while a large number of Zhao troops were moving towards Yecheng.

"We have been attacking the city for too long, and the Zhao army will not sit back and watch us destroy Qin Wu, and then concentrate on fighting them. It's just that I didn't expect them to come so quickly. ”

After getting the information, Meng Yi sighed.

"Without reinforcements, we can't be flanked by the enemy on both sides, so Mingjin withdraws his troops."

Shaking his head, Meng Tian ordered.

Seeing that Yecheng was about to be captured, Zhao Jun rushed out at the critical moment, which was really disappointing.

"Lord, the Qin army outside the city has retreated!"

At the head of the city, he killed the Qin soldiers around him, and looking at the Qin army that retreated like a tide under the city, Feng Zheng looked at Qin Wudao excitedly.

"Open the city gate, and the chariot troops will go out of the city to pursue!"

Nodding, with a hint of a smile on his face, Qin Wu shouted loudly.

Syllable!

Qin Wu gave an order, the gate of Yecheng suddenly opened, and he had been prepared for a long time, and the chariot troops who were waiting under the city suddenly rushed towards the Qin army that was receding like a tide in the distance.

The Qin army under the command of Meng Tian suddenly changed, and the remaining more than 4,000 slave troops were coerced by 2,000 Qin soldiers to block the avenue of chariot troops, cutting off the retreat of the Qin army's large army. Qin Wu's chariot troops easily crushed a group of slave soldiers who had no intention of fighting, and then they broke the neat battle formation of two thousand Qin troops behind the slave army.

The chariot troops, or the Wu troops mounted on the chariots, rushed up and began to attack the Qin soldiers who were scattered around the chariots.

"Lay down your arms, and those who surrender on their knees will not be killed!"

Qin Wu rushed out of the city, followed by an endless array of soldiers, looking at the slave army in front of him, shouting loudly.

Clang! Clang! Clang! …… Qin Wu roared, and the sound resounded throughout the battlefield, and suddenly all the slave troops dropped their weapons at once, kneeling on the ground and begging for mercy according to Qin Wu's words. And a group of Qin soldiers who were armed with sharp blades to supervise the battle were either killed by the slaves who rose up to resist, or were routed by the warriors on the chariot and the warriors who came with the chariot.

Soon, most of the slave army left behind surrendered on their knees, and the two thousand Qin soldiers were slaughtered by the Wu army.

(To be continued)