Chapter 591: The Appearance of Bai Qi
There is enough food, grass and armaments in the city, and the people are united, and they are very determined to resist the Qin army, and there are three Jin elites, which can not be taken in a day or two.
Zhao Jun's soldiers don't say that they can all be ten with one, but they can still do it with one as three, or even as five, and some of them have been strengthened by the power of faith, even in the face of the Qin army, they can still have more than one enemy.
The Qin army was strong, but except for a few elite regiments, the combat effectiveness of the other soldiers and prisoner troops recruited from all over the country was far from the combat effectiveness of the regular army of Zhao State.
If you train every day and provide the best equipment, you can't open up the gap with those ordinary legions, then the Zhao army can be disbanded directly on the spot.
Before coming, Le Yi and Wei Wuji told him that in order to save themselves, they could retreat at any time, but as generals, who didn't want to earn more merits.
This time he was ahead of everyone and took the lead in leading the troops to fight, and if there was such an opportunity later, it would definitely be someone else's, and he didn't know when it would be his turn next time.
"The dark line reported that after King Zhou was vomited blood today, he has been unconscious, and it seems that he will not live long. Once the king of Zhou died, the royal city would be destroyed. Li Si whispered.
Since learning that King Zhou was seriously ill that day, Li Si took the opportunity to arrange for a military physician to treat King Zhou, and spent money to buy an attendant next to King Zhou.
Not for anything else, just to be able to receive the news of King Zhou's death in time, so as to make arrangements as soon as possible.
"King Zhou was angry and vomited blood? What's going on? Lecheng asked.
"The King of Zhou and the Duke of Western Zhou owe a lot of money over the years in order to raise military expenses, including the money given to the soldiers this time, all of which were borrowed from the rich people in the city. This is not counting the Western Zhou Principality's own soldiers. The wealthy people of the Western Zhou Principality were worried that after the city was broken, the money they lent to the Western Zhou Duke and the King of Zhou would be lost, so they took advantage of the fact that the Western Zhou Kingdom had not yet fallen and collectively went to the Western Zhou Duke to collect debts. The Duke of Western Zhou couldn't come up with the money, so this group of people went to find the king of Zhou. King Zhou happened to be awake, and after learning the situation, he vomited blood and fell into a coma. The rich men returned. Lees said.
"A group of traitors, the national disaster is at the head, they don't know how to serve the country, but they fall into the well. Do they really think that they will have a good life when they arrive in the Qin State? Le Cheng scolded angrily.
If this group of people usually came to collect debts, he wouldn't say anything, after all, it was natural to repay debts, and King Zhou was the same.
But now that the Qin army is attacking the city outside, they are collecting debts inside, helping the Qin army in disguise, they should be killed!
"And with a royal city, we have consumed tens of thousands of troops of the Qin State, which is already very good." Lees said.
He had already discovered that the Qin army had a military doctor to treat the wounded, otherwise the number of casualties in the Qin army would increase.
"Wait, consume some more strength of the Qin State, and we will retreat at that time." Lecheng thought for a moment and spoke.
"Then the subordinate will go back first." Lees didn't insist.
It is not too late to retreat when the Qin army quickly breaks through the royal city, and the three Jin Dynasty add up to more than 20,000 people, and it is impossible for the Qin army to leave them behind.
The Duke of Western Zhou also failed to sleep, although he had expected this day, but when he learned that the Qin army had climbed the city wall, it was still difficult to accept.
"Hehe, the so-called Three Jin Combination is invincible in the world, and that's it. Even a small Qin State can't be defeated, and it seems that the previous victory was just an accident. The Duke of the West Zhou sat on the steps outside the hall, looking at the bright moon and treetops in the sky, and sneered.
is about to become the king of the dead country, and it seems that he can only find some ground in words.
After a while, the Duke of Western Zhou glanced back at the palace, and it was the seriously ill King Zhou lying in the palace.
"You don't have to care about anything now when you're lying on the sickbed, you don't even have to pay off your debts. But what about the inheritance left by the ancestors! Do you just give it to others? A group of waste, a group of wastes who can't even keep the foundation of their ancestors......" Xizhou Gong stood up, pointed to the palace and scolded angrily.
I don't know how long it took, and the tired Xi Zhou Gong sat on the ground.
In a trance, he seemed to see the scene of the Qin army breaking through the royal city and destroying the Zhou state.
That's it! That's it!
Since the king of Zhou doesn't care about these things, I, the monarch of a principality, the land is only tens of miles away, and the people are only tens of thousands, what can I change.
Let him go!
The war continued, and the Qin army began to attack the city before dawn every day, and did not begin to collect troops until it was almost dark, and then cleaned up the corpses on the battlefield.
At this time, the defenders would also send some soldiers in baskets to clean up the battlefield.
This was the most tacit time in the whole war, and although the eyes of both sides were full of hatred, no one attacked the other.
It's not that both sides talk about martial virtues, but the sun shines high during the day, the temperature rises, and the plague is easy to breed after the corpse decomposes, so for the lives of the soldiers and the people of the world, cleaning the battlefield and cleaning up the corpse is a must.
These are the lessons of blood.
The Qin army's attack became more and more fierce day by day, and they vowed not to give up until they took the royal city, and the Zhao army and the Wei army also continued to send troops to support.
The entire southern part of the city has been turned into a huge meat grinder, soldiers fall every moment, the city wall is still potholed even after many repairs, the bricks are stained red with blood, no matter how they are washed, they cannot return to their original color, and even the air is filled with a strong smell of blood, which cannot be dispersed for a long time.
After more than ten days, Jia Yan once again helped the Han army repel the Qin army, dragging him back to the city exhausted.
A soldier stepped forward to help Jia Yan untie his armor and fetch clean water, "General, clean it." ”
"Good work." Jia Yan picked up the towel cloth and was about to wipe his face, when his face suddenly changed greatly, the whole person was motionless, and the water on the towel fell to the ground, and soon a large piece of wet dripping.
"General!" The soldier looked at Jia Yan worriedly and frightened.
Jia Yan came back to his senses, threw the towel back into the basin, and strode outside without caring about the dirt.
"General!" The soldiers hurriedly chased after them.
"Where's General Lecheng?" Jia Yan rushed to the barracks where Lecheng lived next to him and shouted loudly.
Although the Duke of Western Zhou prepared a house for the generals of the Three Jin Dynasty in the city and arranged servants, Le Cheng and the others still chose to live in the military camp.
"General Yu Jia Yan, the general is patrolling the city wall and will be back soon." The guards outside the camp clenched their fists and said.
Jia Yan hurriedly turned around and walked outside, and then thought of the people on the city wall, pointed to the guards and said, "Go and report to General Le immediately, let him come back, and say that I have something urgent to find him." ”
"No." Without any hesitation, the guards immediately rushed to the city wall.
Although Jia Yan is not a deputy general, he is by no means comparable to ordinary soldiers.
Although the killing of the Qin army had some impact on the reputation, it won the respect of all the soldiers of the Three Jin Dynasty, and everyone still regarded Jia Yan as a deputy general in their hearts.
"What's wrong?" Soon, Lecheng hurried back from outside.
"It's white." Jia Yan pulled Le Cheng into the camp tent and said in a deep voice.
"What!" Le Cheng's face suddenly changed greatly, isn't Bai Qi in the Qin State? How could it be possible to be here? But he soon realized the problem, "How do you know?" ”
"General Lecheng should know that first-class famous generals have talent." Jia Yan said.
There is a saying in the world that those who are talented are not necessarily famous generals, but those who are not talented must not be famous generals.
Over time, whether you have talent or not has become the criterion for dividing famous generals, and personal force is secondary, unless you have the strength to break the army alone.
But if you really have this strength, unless you are a fool, you would have been born with talent a long time ago.
"Not bad." Le Cheng nodded, saying that he didn't know what Jia Yan's talent was.
"I don't have talent. But I have a very ...... Abnormal ability, as long as Bai Qi appears nearby, I will immediately sense it. Jia Yan said bitterly.
When he was young, he was also a famous general in Zhao State, and he was pinned on by King Zhao, and he was about to be born with talent, but he was beaten by Bai Qi.
After the Battle of Changping, this ability appeared even more inexplicably.
The ability to be born in order to guard against someone is a great honor for Bai Qi, but for Jia Yan, it is a shame.
So he never mentioned it to anyone else.
At this moment, I can't talk about it.
Bai Qi has already gone outside the city.
I just don't know what this guy is doing right now?
It stands to reason that Zhang Ruo has almost knocked down Wang Cheng, and Bai Qi will not speed up the progress when he comes over at this time, and the act of picking peaches will only disgust the Qin State.
No matter how low Bai Qi's emotional intelligence is, it is impossible, or disdainful, to do such a thing.
And Qin Wangji shouldn't have sent Bai Qi over, he couldn't wait to cut off all of Bai Qi's military exploits and let Bai Qi climb from scratch. Unless there is a problem with the brain, he will give military merit to Bai Qibai.
"Are you sure? This is no small matter. Le Cheng stared at Jia Yan and asked in a deep voice.
The shadow of the famous tree, although he has not fought with Bai Qi, but Lecheng knows that Bai Qi is terrible.
To put it mildly, if it is really white outside the city, the Three Jin Coalition will have to explain it here.
"The last general dares to vouch for the head of the item." Jia Yan said solemnly.
"Go and call Li Si and Feng to rush in." Lecheng pushed open the tent and instructed the guards next to him.
Soon, Li Si and Feng Qujian rushed over.
"General, General Jia Yan." The two clasped their fists and saluted.
"Sit down." Lecheng pointed to the bench and said.
Now Zhao Guojun is almost all benches or chairs, and there are few mats.
After the two of them were seated, Lecheng recounted the incident, and then asked, "What do you two think?" ”
"The subordinates are a little incredulous." Feng Qu swallowed a mouthful of saliva, his face was full of shock, how could there be such a strange talent in the world!
If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he would never have believed it.
"I do believe General Jia Yan's words a little. The king often said that the world is so big that there are no surprises. It's normal to have some abnormal talents. Lees said.
"And what do you two think our army should do?" Lecheng asked.
"I don't know if there is a fourth person besides the three of us who knows General Jia Yan's talent?" Li Si pondered for a moment and looked at Jia Yan.
"Nobody. To tell you nothing, I've always felt that this ability is too embarrassing, so I didn't tell anyone, not even the king and the insiders. Jia Yan shook his head and said with a bitter face.
"That's easy, and my subordinates suggest that the news of Bai Xing's coming out be spread." Li Si looked at Lecheng.
"In this way, won't it make the people in the city panic." Lecheng frowned and said.
"First, the royal city has not been able to hold on for long, even if the news is released, the impact is not great, and it may also inspire the determination of the soldiers to defend the city. Second, test Qin Jun to see if Bai Qi is really here. ”
"Third, to provoke the internal strife of the Qin army, the Qin army did not erect the banner of Bai Qi, indicating that only a very small number of Qin army generals learned the news of Bai Qi's arrival, and at this time, our army released the news, and Bai Qi must suspect that there is an internal response of our army in the Qin army." Lees said.
"Okay, just do what you say when you join the army." Le Cheng patted his thigh, "By the way, what did you mean when you joined the army and said that Western Zhou Jun was not very stable?" ”
"He wants to surrender." Lees said.
"What! We worked hard to help him defend the city, but he wanted to surrender? Lecheng said in disbelief.
"Are you sure?" Jia Yan is not calm anymore.
"The Western Zhou Jun is not a fool, he has long seen that we just want to weaken the Qin State with the help of the Western Zhou State, but there is no other choice. In addition, Western Zhou Jun still had some hope in his heart, in case the Qin army retreated. Now that the royal city is about to be broken, hope is completely shattered, and it is normal to want to surrender the city and fight for wealth. I just don't know if this wealth can be obtained, and the Qin State does not have a tradition of preferential treatment of captured monarchs. Li Si sneered.
The Qin army originally gave preferential treatment to the captured monarch, but unfortunately it was destroyed by the Marquis of Shu.
After the Qin State destroyed Shu, in order to appease the local people, the descendants of the Shu King were named the Marquis of Shu, and as a result, three successive generations of Shu Marquis launched a rebellion, which made the Qin State extremely cold.
After that, it will be difficult to want the Qin State to give preferential treatment to the captured monarch.
"In that case, there is no need for this royal city to continue to be defended. I intend to inform the Han and Wei armies that they are ready to retreat. What do you think? Lecheng asked.
"Don't inform them just yet, wait until we talk." Lees shook his head.
"Didn't you say that the Duke of Western Zhou was ready to surrender? What are you waiting for? Lecheng asked strangely.
Half a month ago, Li Si said that he had retreated, and now that he agreed, Li Si said to wait.
"If Bai Qi really comes, I'm afraid it won't be so easy for us to retreat, so we have to wait for the opportunity." Li Si said calmly.
"Okay, then let's wait a little longer." Lecheng nodded.
Outside the city, the Qin army camped.
Zhang Ruo and Wang Yi welcomed Bai Qi into the camp one after the other.
"It's a bad luck for the old man to come." Bai Qi pulled out a little smile, but because he didn't smile for a long time, his smile at this time was inevitably a little infiltrating.
He had already seen that Wang Cheng was already crumbling, and it could be captured at any time, and if he came at this time, he would only rob Zhang Ruo and Wang Yi of the credit.
"What did the general say?" Zhang Ruo hurriedly said.
"I won't come forward in the next few days, and I will come forward after the general captures the royal city." Bai Qi glanced at the main seat, and instead of sitting on it, he sat on the side seat next to him.
"Thank you, General." Zhang Ruo was overjoyed, leaned over, and said convincingly.
Who dares to say that Bai Qi has low EQ, obviously EQ is very high, but there are some things that he is unwilling to do.
"By the way, the general's business is done?" Zhang Ruo asked.
"Hmm." Bai Qi said lightly, as if he had just done a trivial matter.