When the words fell, Zhao Kuo immediately knew that he had lost his words.

Immediately raised his head and looked at Li Mu, and without waiting for Li Mu to speak, Zhao Kuo took the initiative to say: "This matter has nothing to do with Qing, and the matter of ordering Sun Gu's troops to go east is agreed to by the widow. The defection of the Chu State, no one can predict this."

Hearing this, Li Mu's heart was suddenly moved.

Although the defection of Chu State was indeed caught off guard, if it weren't for Li Mu spreading Zhao Jun's stall too big, Zhao Jun would not be so helpless at this time.

Originally, according to Zhao Kuo's arrangement, at least 80,000 troops under Sun Gu's department were going south to Xinzheng City.

This means that at least 80,000 troops can be transferred to Huaisi County to fight the enemy, although it is still not enough, but at least it can still be fought.

If you count the 30,000 or 40,000 troops left behind in Yicheng, Luocheng and Wei, that is 120,000 troops, and if you command it properly, you may not be able to repel the combined forces of Qi and Chu in Huaisi County. Xiu Shu

It's a pity that all of this was messed up by Li Mu's greed for a while.

In the face of such a situation, the monarch who changed the side inevitably reprimanded Li Mu for causing all this, and even directly seized his post and went to prison.

But on the contrary, Zhao Kuo not only did not ask Li Mu to blame, but took all the blame on himself, how could this not make Li Mu moved.

"There is no need to recall the past, the most important thing now is the next war." As if he was afraid that Li Mu would be immersed in self-blame and unable to extricate himself, Zhao Kuo hurriedly continued to feel relieved.

"Yes." Li Mu, who was quite moved, also nodded quickly.

Immediately, the two of them immersed themselves in the mountains and rivers of Yutu together.

Li Mu, who returned to the "battlefield", quickly found the key to the problem from the chaotic battle situation: "Now that it has been determined that the direction of the Chu army's sneak attack is most likely in Huaisi County. Then the first thing we have to determine is that this Huaisi County, is it saved or not?"

Zhao Kuo, who heard this, also nodded, and after thinking for a while, he replied: "This time is different from the attack of the Qi army, one is that the strength of the army has more than doubled, and the other is that the combat strength of the Chu army is a cut above the Qi army, so it is not advisable to continue to exchange space for time."

"An army of 320,000 can sweep the entire Huaisi County and Dong County in less than half a month, and after that, the two armies of Qi and Chu can go their separate ways, the Qi army will attack Hejian County in the north, and the Chu army will attack the Wei border in the west, which will be a devastating blow to our army." Zhao Kuo continued, "Even if our army withstands the attack of the Chu army in the territory of Wei, it will lose the four counties of Huaisi, Dongjun, Hejian and Jibei, and the price will be too great."

"Huaisi County, must be saved!" Li Mu also felt justified when he heard this, and then nodded.

"It must be saved." Zhao Kuo also repeated.

"In that case, it's just a matter of where to transfer troops." Li Mu then continued to peel back the cocoon.

"Hmm." Zhao Kuo also nodded.

"The most recent." Li Mu casually compared it on the map, and said, "Naturally, the army near Daliang, our army still has 20,000 people, and the Wei army that surrendered I don't know if it can be used."

"The day before yesterday, Lü Buwei sent a letter, the reorganization of the Wei army has been carried out more than halfway, and it will take shape in a few days." Zhao Kuo immediately replied, "It's just that now it seems that I can't wait for a few days. Whether it can be used or not, it has to be pulled up. It may not be possible to attack, but it is always possible to defend the city."

With a squint in his eyes, Zhao Kuo also gave a direct answer. Indeed, once the main force of the Zhao army withdrew from Daliang, but left the surrender of the Wei army in Daliang, who could rest assured?

Listening to Zhao Kuo's words, Li Mu was slightly pleased, this was the only good news he had heard in the past half a day.

As for what Lü Buwei said, it will take a few days to take shape, judging from the time of sending the letter, it should have been organized by this time.

With these tens of thousands of troops, Li Mu's heart finally had a little confidence.

"In this way, our army has its first support force—70,000 men." Li Mu then summed up slightly.

"It's still a drop in the bucket." Zhao Kuo shook his head slightly and said, "140,000 against 320,000, it's still difficult to keep."

"Yicheng

and Los Angeles and Quyang?" Li Mu immediately suggested again: "There are still nearly 20,000 troops stationed in these three places, maybe they can move east?"

"No." Zhao Kuo almost did not hesitate to refuse, "Not to mention that the 20,000 army is a drop in the bucket, and the three places are not allowed to continue to transfer out of the army. Among the three places, Yicheng and Los Angeles are related to the grain road, and there is no room for loss; Quyang is the only way for Sun Gu's army to withdraw, and 20,000 troops is already the limit. The loss of Yicheng cannot be repeated. This is not enough to cure headaches and foot pains."

"Hey." Li Mu nodded and promised, "Yes."

With a "yes", there was silence in the barracks again.

There are only a few places where the army is stationed, and after the army of Wei is sent, the rest of the places are the Xinzheng front line and Hedong County.

Even if Sun Gu of Hedong County flies, he still has to fly for more than a month, so the only thing left is Xinzheng City in front of him.

However, if you want to relieve the siege of Huaisi County, based on the combat strength of the Zhao army and the coalition army of 1.2 to 1, at least 120,000 troops will be needed, and once the 120,000 troops are transferred from Xinzheng, Xinzheng Ke will only have less than 200,000 troops left.

Will the 360,000 Qin troops in front of him let go of this opportunity?

Obviously, Zhao Kuo and Li Mu are both in a situation where it is difficult for a smart woman to cook without rice.

"Pure defense is absolutely impossible to hold."

After a long time, Zhao Kuo suddenly burst out with such a sentence.

Li Mu, who was staring at the map in an instant, raised his head, and in the dark, Li Mu seemed to have grasped something, but he couldn't grasp the point.

Zhao Kuo did not mean to sell Guanzi, and immediately pointed to the east of the map.

"Huaisi County is about to become the second battlefield." At this time, Zhao Kuo obviously had Zhizhu in his hands: "But now on this battlefield, there are only 140,000 troops, and there is a distance of nearly two days between east and west. Not to mention, the Chu army has just occupied Chendu, and I am afraid that it has not yet marched to Huaisi County. From Chendu to Huaisi County, it will take seven days at the earliest."

"In other words." Zhao Kuo stared at Huaisi County on the map, and said, "There are at least seven days left, and there are only two lone soldiers on this Huaisi battlefield."

"My king's will?" Li Mu finally understood Zhao Kuo's intentions, and then asked with a frown, "While the enemy's forces have not yet gathered, concentrate your forces and eat one of these two lone armies?"

"It's better to eat both!" Zhao Kuo said coldly, "Both of them are the best to eat, at least eat one of them and defeat the other."

"Sss Li Mu was obviously surprised by Zhao Kuo's layout: "However, our army only has 70,000 troops in Huaisi County, and it will take at least four or five days to transfer troops from Wei territory

The time of Xiu Shuxuan, coupled with the fact that 50,000 Wei troops may not be available, even if General Tian Dan concentrates 60,000 troops in advance and eats 70,000 Qi troops with 80,000 troops, he is not too sure!"

"Indeed." Zhao Kuo nodded and said, "Within two days, it is indeed difficult for 80,000 to eat 70,000, but what about 180,000?"

"180,000?" Li Mu looked at Yutu in some surprise, trying to find the remaining 100,000 troops between the mountains and rivers.

Zhao Kuo naturally understood Li Mu's surprise, and even gave the answer: "On the front line of Xinzheng, there are exactly 100,000 cavalry troops now."

As soon as the words "Xinzheng", "cavalry", and "100,000" came out, Li Mu immediately understood.

The king is going to give Qin Jun a time difference!

Taking advantage of the high mobility of the cavalry, he quickly dispatched troops from the Xinzheng front line to Huaisi County, and ate the two lone armies of the Qi army before the Chu army rushed to Huaisi County.

Indeed, if it is with 180,000 people, it can really eat the lone army of the Qi army in one go.

But the problem is that the Qin army is not a fool, not to mention the transfer of 100,000 troops, it is difficult to hide from the eyes of the Qin army, even if the departure and march are lucky to hide from the Qin army, once the battle of Huaisi County breaks out, the Qin army will immediately know the situation, and when the Qin army of 360,000 troops is launched, only 200,000 troops in the city and outside the city can hold out.

One day, two days, or three days or four days?

What if the Qin army divided another part of its forces to intercept the cavalry returning to the city?

Once the army can't return in time, Xinzheng City is bound to be broken, and Li Mu almost can't imagine the consequences.

It's a gamble!

But Li Mu had to admit that this was the only way at the moment.

Gritting his teeth, Li Mu clasped his hands into fists and replied, "My king can rest assured, but Ling Weichen still has a breath of air, and he will never allow the Qin army to cross the thunder pool."

"Hahaha." Zhao Kuo smiled when he heard this: "If you want to defend the city, there are few people to defend it."

Suddenly, Li Mu was a little panicked.

Zhao Kuo didn't give Li Mu a chance to defend at all, and said, "First, the widow is here, so as to attract the attention of the Qin army as much as possible, if the widow leaves, I am afraid that the Qin army will raise troops to find out where the widow is as soon as possible; Second, the battlefield rushes and kills, especially the cavalry formation, and the outnumbered people are not as good as the king.

Therefore defend the city, and the few come; Encircle and annihilate the Qi army, Aiqing goes."

"This?!" Li Mu was a little speechless for a while.

However, Li Mu's mind was still spinning quickly, and he immediately proposed: "Whether to let the reorganized Wei army go south to reinforce Xinzheng, so that the number of troops in Xinzheng City will not be too scarce."

Hearing this, Zhao Kuo still shook his head and said, "If this is the case, when your army returns, Huaisi County will still only have an army of 80,000 or 90,000, and it will still be subject to the 180,000 army of the Chu State. If you can't destroy the two armies, the situation will be even worse. Then there is no point in taking risks."

Listening to Zhao Kuo's explanation, although Li Mu was still unwilling, he could only nod silently.

Xu saw the worry in Li Mu's heart clearly, and Zhao Kuo also smiled and said with relief: "Actually, there is no need for this, as long as you can quickly deal with the Qi army, the news will be transmitted from Huaisi back to the Qi country, and then from the Qi country to the Qin army, and it will take some time. I'm actually safe here."

That being said, anyone who isn't a fool knows the dangers of this move.

But it's a pity that in order to keep this hard-won victory, Zhao Guo has already had to take risks.

After finally weighing it, Li Mu still nodded.

"But ......"