Chapter 644: The Battle of Xingyang
"In other words...... Now my Zhao country is fighting on four fronts." Li Si's two eyebrows were twisted together, his right hand pinched his chin, and his eyes were a little gloomy and ruthless.
Fighting on four fronts, plus relocating the people, he already imagined what the court was busy with.
This also means that the country may no longer be able to send reinforcements, and the battle needs to be won on their own.
"Not bad." Le Yi nodded.
"If we win the other three battles, we lose. We're sure to be laughed at for years to come." Li Si raised his head and looked at everyone, and suddenly the corners of his mouth grinned.
was interrupted by Li Si like this, and the atmosphere in the camp was a lot more relaxed.
"Even if it's to avoid being ridiculed, we can't lose." Jia Yan said.
"General, the Qin army is driving the people in Xingyang out." At this moment, a herald pushed open the camp gate, walked in, and reported with a fist.
"I'll take a look." Le Yi got up and said, and the generals followed behind him and walked outside.
The camp of the Zhao army was not far from Xingyang, and after a while, Le Yi saw the civilians who had been expelled from the city by the Qin army, rushing here in groups.
Seeing Zhao Jun, the civilians wanted to step forward, but they were a little afraid in their hearts, and after thinking twice, they still bypassed Zhao Jun.
"This brother, was the Qin army driving you out of the city?" Le Yi stopped the group.
"This military master, today a large number of Qin troops suddenly entered the city, and then drove us out, and also robbed our house and food, and didn't leave us a single grain, our family doesn't know how many days we can live." The man sighed, the wrinkles on his face crumbling together.
"Qin Jun is deliberately giving us a problem." Gongsun Long already understood that the Qin army intended to use these civilians to contain the Zhao army.
"How many families are there in the city?" Le Yi asked.
"More than 10,000 households, I heard that they were all driven out by the Qin army." The man looked back, and the road was crowded with people, spreading from outside the city to inside the city, and there were cries everywhere.
Some are digging pits on the side of the road to bury their bodies. These were all those who had just stood up to resist and were killed by the Qin army. After the family carried it out, they could only be buried on the side of the road.
"Dad, when are we going home? I don't want to be outside." The five or six-year-old girl hugged the man's thigh, and tears fell down her face.
"We're going to visit relatives and we'll be home in a few days." The man rubbed his daughter's head, a little dazed in his eyes, where did they still have a home now.
"Let's go to Zhao Country, let's go to Zhao Country to eat big steamed buns." Le Yi picked up the little girl, wiped the ash off the girl's cheeks, and said softly.
The man saw Le Yi picking up his daughter, stretched out his hand to stop it, saw Le Yi wearing a stubborn soldier behind him, and thought that his daughter could only starve to death if he followed him, and finally hung his hands weakly.
"Where is Zhao Guo?" The little girl asked curiously.
"In the north, far from here. We need to take a car and then take a boat to get to Zhao." Le Yi said.
The little girl didn't speak, and after a while, she seemed to understand something, and looked at Le Yi with big eyes, "My father and my mother, as well as my uncle and aunt, can they also go to Zhao Kingdom?"
"Yes, my uncle will arrange a car and a boat to send you to Zhao Kingdom." Le Yi said.
"Then I'll go to Zhao Kingdom." The girl wiped tears from the corners of her eyes and looked at her parents.
Le Yi put the girl back into the man's arms and said to the man, "You guys come with us."
After saying that, he turned around and walked towards the barracks.
The man hurriedly thanked him, followed Le Yi with his daughter, and went to the gate of the barracks, but Le Yi did not let them in, but ordered someone to take them to the camp dedicated to the homeless.
Although the Zhao army collected the displaced people all the way, the displaced people were not allowed to enter the barracks, which was to prevent the female cadres of the Qin army from among the displaced people.
And the food that Zhao Jun gave to the homeless people was rationed, except for the children, everyone else could only eat sixty percent full, also to prevent people from making trouble.
"Li Si, you are responsible for collecting the civilians who were expelled from the city by the Qin army, and registering everyone's name, age, and occupation. See if any of these people are useful to us." Le Yi
Looking at Li Si, he understood that Li Si knew what kind of person he was looking for.
Xingyang is a big city, and there are many families living in the city, and in order to leave a way back for themselves, these families often leave a secret passage to the outside of the city at home in case of emergency.
Even if there is no secret passage, there will be some capable people and righteous people who are very familiar with Xingyang and its surrounding terrain, and these are all useful to Zhao Jun.
"My subordinates understand." Lees nodded.
"Yan Zhou, you use the eagle to send a letter to Xiangguo, tell the imperial court about the situation here, and let the imperial court prepare a place to settle these displaced people." Le Yi said to Yan Zhou.
"No." Yan Zhou said with his fists clenched.
"Report ~ General, General Storm Kite led the Korean army to ten miles away." Not long after Le Yi returned to the camp, another herald reported.
"Okay, the Han army has finally gone north." Le Yi was very happy, he was worried about how to attack Xingyang, the Zhao army only had 10,000 infantry, and the rest were cavalry, so he couldn't use cavalry to attack the city.
Originally, he planned to write a letter to Handan and ask Handan to increase his troops, but when he learned that Qin, Qi, and Yan were attacking Zhao in three ways, he could only give up this plan and find another way.
At this time, the storm kite came with the Korean army, which was great!
"Hahaha, brother Storm Kite, brother is looking forward to the stars and the moon, and finally I am looking forward to you, hurry up, go, my brother has prepared a banquet, just wait for my brother." Le Yi excitedly held the hands of the tyrant kite, and without saying anything, he pulled the tyre onto the chariot and drove the tyre himself.
The violent kite looked confused, and before he could react, he was pulled into the camp by Le Yi.
"Come, come, general, drink." Le Yi personally poured a large glass of wine for the tyrannical kite, and alcohol was not allowed in the army, but as the coach, it was still difficult for Le Yi.
The violent kite looked at Le Yi in confusion, isn't it, are the two of us so familiar?
However, Le Yi is the commander of the coalition army after all, and Zhao Guo helped South Korea defeat the Qin army, no matter from which point of view, this wine storm kite can only drink.
"How many soldiers did the general bring this time?" Le Yi stared at the storm kite and finished drinking, and then asked.
"Thirty thousand." The kite stretched out three fingers.
"30,000 is enough to capture Xingyang." Le Yi said confidently that the Zhao army still had 10,000 infantry, adding up to 40,000. The Qin army was defeated all the way, leaving only a few thousand troops, with low morale and low combat effectiveness.
Storm Kite suddenly had a bad premonition in his heart.
"By the way, what about Tiandan?" Le Yi suddenly thought, shouldn't Tian Dan be with the storm kite? It shouldn't be that the violent kite is coming, Tiandan hasn't come yet.
"Du Pingjun went to attack the Tiger Prison Pass, and he said that he would completely cut off the back route of the Qin army, so that we could capture Xingyang as soon as possible." Storm Kite said.
Tiger Prison Pass is the most important pass connecting the east in the Heluo Basin, as long as the Tiger Prison Pass is captured, whether the Qin State wants to send reinforcements, or the main force of the Qin army wants to return to China, they can only make a detour to the south, take Xuanyuan Pass, Yique Pass or Wuguan.
The premise is that there is enough food and there are no enemy troops.
If there is not enough food, or if the enemy army is besieging you, it is not certain whether you will be able to return alive.
It can be said that after capturing the Tiger Prison, Sanjin will win half of this battle.
But Tian Dan's action was a great risk, and it showed full trust in Le Yi.
Because at this time, Xingyang and Heluo Basin were in the hands of the Qin army, if Le Yi could not defeat the Qin army here and capture Xingyang. Even if Tian Dan can capture the Tiger Pass, he will face a two-sided attack from the Qin army.
Tiger Prison Pass is not a big city like Xingyang, it is just a pass, there are no people in the pass, and there is not much food and grass hoarded. If one side is attacked by the enemy, it can be said that it is easy to defend and difficult to attack, but if it is attacked on both sides, the tiger prison is dead.
"Is he crazy? Why don't you wait for Xingyang to be captured before attacking Tiger Prison Pass?" Le Yi said in shock.
Before Yan Ju told him that Tian Dan would soon go north, he always thought that Tian Dan's north was to attack Xingyang, who knew that it was to attack the Tiger Prison.
"Du Pingjun said that the fighter plane is fleeting, and when the Qin reinforcements arrive at the front line, or the main force of the Qin army is withdrawn from Daliang. When the time comes, if you attack the Tiger Prison again, the difficulty will increase tenfold and hundredfold. Only at this time was the strength of the Qin army empty, even if he knew that he was attacking the Tiger Prison Pass, he couldn't
It's the best time to come back." Storm Kite said.
If Zhao's goal was only to defeat the Qin army, in fact, there was no need to take this risk, so that the Qin State felt that there was no hope of victory, and the Qin State would naturally withdraw its troops.
But before the expedition, Zhao Kuo had already set the tone for this battle, so that the Qin State would never be able to go east again within ten years.
It is impossible to achieve such results without taking risks.
Not only to take risks, but also to give strength to your teammates.
If his teammates weren't Le Yi, he wouldn't have done this if he killed Tian Dan.
"When did Tiandan depart?" Le Yi asked.
"Three days earlier than me, it is half a day's journey from Huayang to Tiger Prison Pass than here, so it stands to reason that I should have arrived at Tiger Prison Pass long ago. If it's fast, the Tiger Prison may have been knocked down." Storm Kite said.
"Hey." Le Yi sighed and felt an extra pressure on his shoulders.
Regardless of whether Tian Dan defeated the Tiger Prison Pass, he could only deal with it as a defeat and capture Xingyang as soon as possible, and could not let Tian Dan be left alone and finally defeated by the Qin army.
"From now on, the whole army will be uniformly dispatched, and the ROK army will obey the command of the general. The general has no opinion, right?" After a while, Le Yi slowly raised his head, as if there was a flash of thunder in his eyes.
"The last general has no opinion." Storm Kite hurriedly clenched his fists and said.
"Okay. We're going to start the siege tomorrow." Le Yi said in a deep voice.
"By the way, there are still a batch of captives for you to receive." Storm Kite said that he handed over the captured Qin army to Le Yi according to Hetian Dan's agreement.
"Leave it to us." Le Yi nodded, the cavalry of the Zhao army did not need to attack the city, and there were enough manpower to guard and transport the prisoners.
The next day, Le Yi led the Zhao and Han coalition forces to Xingyang City, and according to the process, they first fought a scolding battle.
scolded Wang Yi first, and then scolded Lü Buwei. At this time, Zhao Jun already knew that the Qin army's military division was Lü Buwei.
After scolding, he scolded Bai Qi, scolded Qin Wangji after scolding, scolded Qin Wangji after scolding Qin Wangji, scolded Qin Wu Wang, Qin Huiwen Wang, and scolded from generation to generation.
These scolders are all the guys who are best at scolding selected by Le Yi from tens of thousands of troops, and the scolding is dirty and ugly.
But no matter how they scolded, the Qin army shrank in the city and couldn't survive, and even the Qin soldiers didn't even change much in their faces.
For such a long time, they had long been immune to Zhao Jun's scolding.
No matter how hard you scold, you can get used to listening to it every day.
The violent kite next to him was stunned, whether it was Zhao Jun's scolding skills or Qin Jun's ability to endure, they all refreshed his three views.
He has lived for decades, and when he heard Zhao Jun scolding him like this, he had an urge to rush up and cut people, and Qin Jun was stunned that there was no change.
Le Yi didn't expect the scolding war to provoke the Qin army out of the city, just to suppress the morale of the Qin army.
Soon, rows of catapults were pulled out.
The soldiers skillfully placed the boulder in the basket, and with the sound of breaking wind, the boulder smashed accurately on the city wall, leaving one big pit after another.
There was also an unlucky egg who was hit by a boulder, and the whole person was embedded in the city wall, and the rotten flesh was splashed all over the ground, which was extremely miserable.
After improvements, Zhao Jun's catapult is more accurate, and there is almost no deviation.
"Didn't you say delaying Zhao Jun? Why did the Zhao army attack the city the next day?" Zheng Anping said urgently.
"The Han Army is here." Lü Buwei sighed, and the Han army arrived at the battlefield at this critical time and dealt a heavy blow to the Qin army again.
"How long will it take for us to assemble the catapult?" Wang Yi asked anxiously.
Although the catapult was not very lethal, it was too heavy to deal with the momentum. The Qin army was originally defeated again and again, and its momentum was very low, and if it was hit again, it would be difficult to hold on.
"General, don't worry, it will take two or three hours, but our catapults are scarce, even if they are all assembled, I am afraid they are not the opponent of Zhao Jun." The craftsman said.
"Assemble it quickly, the rest is none of your business." Wang Di said.
"No." The craftsman did not dare to say much, so he could only bury his head in hard work.
"General, I'm worried that Zhao Jun will dig tunnels
。」 Lu Buwei said.
"I have ordered holes to be dug in all parts of the city, and dogs have been put in the holes. As long as Zhao Jun digs a tunnel, the dog will bark." Wang Di said.
Tunnel sieges have been around for a long time, and in the same way, there are ways to defend against them.
"Will Zhao Jun be attacked?" Huan Qi asked.
"Although Xingyang is close to Xingze, the terrain is relatively high. The Zhao army dared to break the embankment and flood Xingyang, and the first to be flooded was the Zhao army." Wang Yi waved his hand and said, signaling that there was no need to worry.
Only then did the generals of the Qin army relax their minds.
While the catapults were attacking the city, the storm kite also led the Korean army to attack the city.
Without temptation, Le Yi directly pressed all the 30,000 Han troops up.
If Xingyang is broken one day earlier, Tiandan will be less dangerous.
The Zhao army is basically cavalry, which is not suitable for siege, and this main force for siege can only be done by the Han army.
Storm Kite also knows this truth, and Tian Dan attacked the Tiger Prison Pass led by the Han army, if Tian Dan was defeated because he failed to capture Xingyang, Tian Dan may not die, but more than 50,000 Han troops will definitely be beheaded by the Qin army.
Therefore, the violent kite did not dare to slack off at all, and personally led the troops to charge.
Although the Zhao army did not send a large army, the generals such as Le Cheng, Jia Yan, Yan Xiong, and Ju Xin did not hide in the rear, but attacked the city with the Han army.
Le Yi waved his long sword, and a bright moon slowly rose from behind the army and hung above the army's head, and the morale of the whole army was suddenly great.
The Han army, led by the storm kite, rushed to the city like a tide.
For a moment, the shouts of killing shook the heavens and the earth, and the weapons in the hands of the soldiers shone coldly in the sun.
The rain of arrows covered the sky and the sun, and they came towards the Korean army under the city. The Han army held the shield above his head, carried the ladder, and quickly approached the city wall.
As the rain of arrows fell, the Qin army continued to fall to the ground with arrows, and the remaining Han troops didn't seem to see it, with only a cold look on their faces, and rushed forward desperately.
When they came to the city, they just wanted to lean the ladder against the city wall, rolling stones, wood, and gold juice kept pouring down from the city wall, and screams came out of the mouth of the Han army.
"Soldiers, rush with me!" The storm kite rushed to the front, wielding a long ge, blasting a boulder with a diameter of more than one meter into pieces, and quickly climbed towards it.
"I'm still rushing to the front when I'm old, let's die!"
Wang Ji stared at the storm kite that rushed to the front, took the bow and arrow from the lieutenant general, and shot an arrow towards the storm kite.
"Get out!" The storm kite roared, and Changge swept away, and the arrows were shattered.