"Five hundred lords, there is a military situation from the Xingjun in front, and the stove fire left by the Wei army has been discovered. The general said that the residual temperature in the depths of the stove is still there!"

Zhao Tuo raised his eyebrows, and the marching stove left by the Wei army still had residual warmth, which proved that they were not far from the Wei army.

After chasing for several days and nights, his thousand-strong pursuers finally hung behind the Wei army, and it was not in vain that they had been marching day and night in the past few days.

"Great, Wei Jun didn't know we were behind him. If we take the opportunity to raid and fight unprepared, we will definitely be able to break the Wei army, and when the time comes, Hugh will say that it is us, and even the five hundred lords will definitely be able to upgrade their titles!" Xi Qigu's eyes lit up and he saw the dawn of his promotion.

Compared with him, the other two hundred generals from the Hanoi army were even more excited.

"Five hundred lords, if our army comes forward to attack at this moment, we will definitely be able to defeat the Wei army! I ask to be a pioneer!"

"Please also ask the five hundred lords to order, our Hanoi army will definitely rush forward and kill!"

Seeing that these two hundred generals of the Hanoi army were blushing and thick-necked, they looked impatient.

Zhao Tuo smiled, although his current position is still called the Five Hundred Lord, but in fact, he is in charge of a thousand people, and this batch of reorganized Hanoi troops are under his control.

"Don't wait, although our army is about to catch up with the Wei army. But it has been a long time since the journey to-day, and the soldiers are tired, and they must not be forced to advance. Give your orders to slow down the march of the soldiers, and to camp and rest in advance today."

Hearing that Zhao Tuo not only did not immediately pursue the Wei army, but also reduced his speed and let the soldiers rest in advance, the two hundred generals of the Hanoi army suddenly became anxious.

One of them shouted with the title of Doctor, "Five hundred lords, that Wei army is going to raid the hinterland of our Qin State, if we don't intercept it, let them attack ......."

Looking at Zhao Tuo's cold eyes and stiff face, the voice of the hundred generals became smaller and smaller.

Zhao Tuo said coldly: "The military order has been issued, do you want to disobey the order?"

"No...... Don't dare."

The two hundred generals immediately sweated.

Although Zhao Tuo is not very old, he has an oppressive aura on his body. After all, he had even seen the King of Qin, and even the prince of Yan Kingdom had captured it with his own hands, how could he not be able to suppress these two little hundred generals.

Not to mention that Zhao Tuo has the title of duke, and there is a blessing from Qin Law behind him.

The method of war punishment allows him to kill all his subordinates who disobey orders.

From top to bottom, all the Qin army needs is the word "obedience".

Seeing that the two of them bowed their heads and confessed, Zhao Tuo opened his mouth to explain: "Our army has been rushing for several days in a row, and even I feel soreness when I ride on a horse, let alone ordinary soldiers, they must be exhausted, how can they have the strength to fight again."

"At the end of the so-called strong crossbow, you can't wear it. Today's our army is the crossbow that cannot be pierced, and if we ignore the risks and forcibly rush for profit, we may be in danger of overthrowing. This is what the art of war says: roll the armor and tend, day and night, double the road, a hundred miles and fight for profit, then capture three generals, fifty miles and fight for profit, then jump on the general. Do you understand?"

Xi Qigu suddenly realized, and hurriedly bowed his head and said, "Thank you for the teachings of the five hundred bishops, my subordinates understand. The five hundred masters are really talented, and we are only concerned about the immediate profits, how can we think that there are many risks behind this matter."

Hearing Xi Qigu say this, the two hundred generals also hurriedly followed: "We are stupid, thank you for the teachings of the five hundred bishops."

"Well, now that I understand. Go down first and tell me what I have just ordered. He also sent someone to send a message to the intermediary, so that he could also slow down, rest the energy of the soldiers, and be careful not to be discovered by the Wei army in front."

Speaking of this, Zhao Tuo reassured the two Hanoi generals again: "You can rest assured that we have come here day and night, and we naturally want to make a great achievement. It's just that we still need to wait for the right opportunity, and we can't rush it."

The two hundred generals nodded their heads like pounding garlic, and received the order in both worship and fear.

Zhao Tuo knew that his few words of the art of war from Li Xin's teachings were to scare them, after all, in the eyes of these low-level military officials, the art of war was very "high", and a few words made them "unconscious".

At the same time, Zhao Tuo explained relief after some intimidation, which made the hearts of these subordinates

also went up and down, and no longer dared to disobey Zhao Tuo's orders.

Envy and grace.

The Art of the Emperor.

This is what Zhao Tuo slowly learned in the process of leading the army alone for a few days.

If he wants to become a Qin general on the battlefield in the future, these things must be learned.

As a general, treat his subordinates, both grace and authority.

Seeing his subordinates taking the order, Zhao Tuo looked at the direction of the Wei army in the west, and a smile appeared on his face.

"This Wei Leopard doesn't know what to think in his head, not only is he going to raid, but he also carries so many burdens. If it weren't for the 1,000 servants of that village, I am afraid it would not be so easy for us to catch up."

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The road to Xingyang at this moment.

Zhou Shi rode on his horse and looked at the long line of Wei troops with a helpless face.

The Wei soldiers walking on the road looked tired, their legs as if they were filled with lead, and they moved forward numbly.

"If my subordinates were all soldiers who could fight well, they would have taken Xingyang by surprise attack and burned the Qin army's military rations. There is no need for a surprise attack, with the same strength, our Wei soldiers will definitely be able to defeat the Qin army head-on on the battlefield."

"Warrior, warrior......"

Zhou Shi shook his head and sighed, thinking of the elite soldiers of the Wei State who were invincible in the world.

When it was, Wei Wushu crisscrossed the country.

Under the leadership of General Wu Qi, Wei Wushu fought seventy-two, with all victories and sixty-four, and the rest were all evenly matched, and there was never a single defeat.

Don't look at the current Qin State swallowing the world and destroying the Three Kingdoms in a row, but in the golden age when Wei Wushu galloped on the battlefield, today's Qin of the tiger and wolf is just a small dog in the Guanxiao that has been beaten and howled.

Not only did the 500 miles west of Hexi return to Wei, but even Hangu Pass was broken by Wu Qi and fell into the hands of military soldiers.

Wei was the real big brother at the beginning of the Warring States period.

The reason why Wei Wushu was strong was because they were carefully selected from the entire Wei State to be good at fighting.

The selection criteria are very strict. Those who want to become warriors must put on triple armor, put on helmets, carry swords, carry crossbows and fifty arrows, and finally carry three days' rations, and then march a hundred miles in one day.

Only by fulfilling this requirement can one be qualified to become a military soldier.

To put it mildly, Wei Wushu is the elite of the elite.

If this army under Zhou Shi is composed of military pawns, and he sets out from Humu Township to attack Xingyang, at most five days, in five days, he can burn Xingyang to ashes!

Thinking of this, Zhou Shi sighed again, not to mention the martial arts, he didn't even have many ordinary soldiers, in addition to the three thousand Wei soldiers who had been on the battlefield, there were also a thousand young and strong servants from Humu Township.

These people are even more unbearable, they are not wearing an inch of armor, they are dressed in all kinds of linen clothes, they have wooden spears and sticks in their hands, and they have to breathe hard when they walk a distance.

Especially those servants of the Zhang family, as servants and slaves of rich families, they usually do some things to serve people or protect the family and the hospital, how can they bear the pain of this kind of rapid march for several days in a row, and there are many servants on the road who wail and want to escape.

Fortunately, the son-in-law of the Zhang family who followed the army to suppress the formation still had some prestige and helped to pacify, plus after Zhou Shi cut off the heads of several escapees, there was no escape.

But when Zhou Shi occasionally rode by, he saw the resentment of those household servants and young people, and he was still very helpless.

These Wei people did not have the heart to save the country's society at all.

Zhou Shi was worried.

He thought about throwing away this thousand burdens and only leading 3,000 Wei troops to the west, maybe he could reach Xingyang a little faster and complete the raid plan.

The sooner you arrive, the more hope you can make.

But Wei Bao disagreed.

"General Zhou, do you know that the current Wei State, except for a very few cities with Wei flags, most of them have fallen into the hands of the Qin people. Before we recaptured the cities occupied by the Qin army, we couldn't recruit soldiers at all, and every soldier in our hands died

That's one less! If you don't want this thousand people, where will you be able to recruit so many people in the future?"

Zhou Shi was silent, and Wei Bao was telling the truth.

If these thousand people are abandoned, maybe they will really be gone in the future, and one more person will give up more anti-Qin power.

Although Zhou Shi thought about leaving some men and horses to escort in the rear, he himself led his army to raid Xingyang in a hurry. But in that case, there will be fewer escorts, and a large number of people will run away. There are too many people to escort, and his strength to attack Xingyang is not enough.

Entangled and helpless, Zhou Shi could only listen to Wei Bao's words, slow down some of the marching speed, and bring the 4,000 people to Xingyang together.

Zhou Shi had previously released the fake news of attacking Waihuang and Chenliu, thinking that it should be able to paralyze the Qin army and make them focus on the east, even if the raid was a few days late, it should not be a big problem.

And Wei Bao did this, in addition to the fact that the strength of a thousand people was really difficult to give up, he also had his own calculations.

"These thousand people must be in my hands, or there is no guarantee that those mud-legged people will not mutiny like last time. That Chen Ping is also very smart and obedient, and he has these 1,000 people with him, which is the force I use to balance the Zhou market."

Wei Bao's eyes rolled, thinking that on the third night after he withdrew from Chenliu, he was surrounded by many of his soldiers with weapons and forced him to go north to rescue Jiyang.

The feeling of being held to the neck by a group of mud legs made Wei Bao, the son of Wei, unforgettable for life.

From that night on, Wei Bao understood that he had to have the power to protect himself in his hands.

Under such circumstances, when this Wei army, which was preparing to raid Xingyang, arrived at their destination, it was already the tenth day since they left Humu Township.

Xingyang.

There is a chasm in the east to connect Huaisi, the north is adjacent to the big river in the mountains, the south is adjacent to the Suohe River and the Song Mountain, and the west can enter Luoyang and Guanzhong, its terrain is dangerous, the transportation is convenient, it is the place where the soldiers must fight since ancient times.

In the Spring and Autumn Period, the Jin and Chu struggled for hegemony in this place, and then Xingyang was owned by the Zhi clan of the Jin State.

When the three families of Han, Zhao and Wei destroyed Zhibo and shared the land of the Zhi family.

Strategist Duan Gui persuaded Han Kangzi to snatch this beautiful land into his hands. Han Kangzi did as he said, and the land of Xingyang and Chenggao returned to South Korea.

It was not until two hundred years later that the Qin army invaded Han and Xingyang was occupied by the Qin general Mengfu, and it fell into the hands of the Qin people, which has been 14 years ago.

The dangerous city, which had been firmly occupied by the Qin people for fourteen years, sounded for the first time outside its city today.

"Xingyang! Ahead is Xingyang!"

Zhou Shi rode on his horse, pointed to the towering city in the distance, and shouted to his soldiers: "Second and third sons, today is the time for us to save Wei Guosheji!" As long as we invade Xingyang and burn the military rations of the Qin people, those Qin troops besieging our Daliang will have no food to eat, and they will ......definitely retreat."

Wei Bao didn't want to let Zhou Shi steal the limelight, so he stood in the car and shouted in a louder voice: "You all stepped forward bravely for this son, and today you made meritorious service to break Xingyang and burn the military rations of the Qin people. You can rob the money inside, and you can ...... the women inside."

"I have rewarded you all on behalf of the king, and when I force the Qin people back, my son will be rewarded!"

Those soldiers and young servants had been on the road for ten days in a row, and they were already exhausted and numb.

When Zhou Shi spoke, few people responded, but now when they heard the words "money, women" and the like in Wei Bao's words, these soldiers were rarely cheered up and chanted.

Seeing this scene, Wei Bao smiled happily on his face, and a touch of smugness flashed in his eyes.

Chen Ping's strategy of buying the hearts of the army is really good.

Use the property and women of the Qin people in the city to buy the hearts of the army, so that without spending a penny of his own loss, he Wei Bao can get the support of the soldiers, how cost-effective.

Listen, how happy these people are and how high their morale is!

On the side, the corners of Zhou Shi's mouth twitched when he heard this.

Wei Bao's speech looked very down-to-earth and could mobilize the emotions of the soldiers, which was far more useful than Zhou Shi's words.

But the purpose of their trip is to surprise and burn food

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This group of Wei troops was originally a rabble, and coupled with the long march, all kinds of discontent were breeding, and it was already difficult to control. Now coupled with Wei Bao's promise, after attacking the city, I am afraid that most people will run around to rob goods and women, how to fight, how to complete the task of burning grain?

It seems that the soldiers can step forward bravely, but in fact, it is chaotic in the hearts of the army!

But Zhou Shi, as a capable general, naturally would not say anything to refute at this time, so he could only grit his teeth and issue an order to attack the city with the excitement aroused by the soldiers!

Two hundred cavalry and ten chariots were the first to go out, galloping with all their might, and galloped towards the city.

In the rear, many Wei pawns also screamed and followed the charge.

Xingyang, as a central city connecting the east and west, will definitely open the city gate, and there will be many people in and out inside.

As long as the Wei army's chariot is fast enough, and when the Qin army defending the city is stunned, drive to the city gate and block the time when the gate is closed, the foot soldiers in the rear can rush up, enter the city to burn grain, and complete this shocking raid that gallops hundreds of miles.

If the Qin army defending the city reacted in time and closed the door first, it would not hurt, the Wei army had already built many light bamboo and wood siege ladders on the road, which were carried by foot soldiers in the rear.

When Xingyang City is attacked by a surprise attack, it must be panicked, and after a surprise attack, it will definitely be able to enter the city first.

"This battle is the battle that shocked the world by my Wei Bao!"

"Hundreds of miles rushed to Xingyang, burned down the Qin army's grain and grass, forced back the tens of thousands of troops besieged by Wang Ben, and saved my Wei Sheji when the whole country was at stake!"

"I, Wei Bao, will become a hero of the Wei Kingdom who surpasses Xinling Jun!"

"My name will be spread throughout the world!"

Wei Bao was full of spirit and high spirits.

It wasn't until the chariot he was riding galloped to the front and saw the appearance of Xingyang City that the smile on the corner of his mouth froze.

"Meaning!"

In the astonishment of the Wei army, Xingyang City stood tall.

There was no trace of people coming and going in front of the city, and the heavy city gate had long been tightly closed, leaving no flaws.

On the tall city wall, black flags fluttered and spears and halberds were everywhere.

One by one, the Qin soldiers in armor and armor were looking coldly at the stunned Wei soldiers under the city.

Tu Sui was dressed in delicate armor and wore a crown of cranes, standing on the city wall.

In his thirties, he touched the long beard fluttering in the wind under his chin, pointed at the chaotic Wei pawns in the city, and smiled left and right: "These Wei people are really his mother's slowness, it has been two days since Naigong received the information about their attack, and they have only arrived here."

"Wei Jun, are they all sloppy?"