66. Devastated (thanks NT you are beautiful when you smile and flattered)
Feng Ji, who escaped, still remembers how high-spirited he and Zhao Cong were with 400,000 horses when they crossed the river.
They and Zhao Kuo are both the same age, and at the beginning, they admired Zhao Kuo's achievements on the surface, but they were naturally unconvinced in their hearts, thinking that Zhao Kuo mainly relied on luck to fight.
Although the truth is not far from the truth.
Even for Bai Qi, it is a little contemptuous.
After occupying Light Wolf City, this idea was not only hidden in his heart, but completely expressed.
Then, the tails of the two of them were cocked for a few hours, and the day changed in an instant.
Those legends of the white rise. Far from enough to describe the horror of Bai Qi.
And Zhao Kuo, who defeated Bai Qi twice in a row, is so powerful.
Or how lucky.
Or rather, how hard it worked. He personally led troops to guard the back road, and personally led troops to raid behind enemy lines. If it weren't for Zhao Kuo's efforts, coupled with full luck, how could Bai Qi be defeated.
400,000 people crossed the river, but only 1120,000 were withdrawn. And these mainly relied on a decisive assault by the Soviet Union and Zhao Kuo's generals to gather the defeated soldiers.
Suffer heavy casualties in battle! Leave a stench for 10,000 years!
The reason why Feng Ji did not commit suicide was that he hoped to watch Zhao Kuo turn the tables against the wind again and defeat the Qin army. Then when he went to Huangquan, he could also tell Zhao Cong with a smile. The last wish was granted.
As soon as he arrived in Changping, he took the initiative to hand over all the military power, and the more than 100,000 troops were all handed over to Zhao Kuo.
Although, there is no royal mandate.
However, I can't take care of it. Outside Changping Pass, it was densely packed with Wei troops.
They have come to take advantage of the fire.
If it hadn't been for the previous break of the Changping camp, the harvest would have been great, and this part of the seizure was basically concealed by Zhao Kuo.
So much so that Feng Ji thought that Zhao Kuo had kindly handed over ninety percent of the grain and grass.
In fact, Zhao Kuo's current grain and grass is enough for more than 200,000 people to support another three months.
But it's only three months.
And if you fight, you will consume more grain and grass.
Zhao could no longer come up with more troops to support and drive away the Wei army outside Changping Pass.
to re-establish the late-game supply channel.
In other words, Zhao Kuohe and now the 200,000 people under his command have become a lone army with the enemy on their backs.
And more than half of them are still routed.
The logistics of the Qin army are also about to reach their limit.
In total, nearly 100,000 Zhao troops were killed in battle, and more than 200,000 Zhao troops surrendered.
That's a pretty high percentage of people killed in battle. It's already good that a unit is going through a surprise attack, the commander is killed, and the battle loss rate is 30% before surrendering.
In this land, the Zhao army is the only army that can compete with the Qin army.
How to deal with these surrenders is a headache for nothing.
It was also the first time he had faced so many prisoners of war.
At the same time, the battle is not over. Zhao Kuo was still opposite.
Farther away, Wei also made a move.
And on the side of the Qin army, will South Korea always be divided?
South Korea paid for the party, just to let Qin and Zhao fight each other.
It is absolutely impossible to put these captives back.
Wouldn't that be to supplement Zhao Jun's strength?
There is still a Zhao Kuo on the other side, and there is also a Lian Po.
Zhao Kuo points soldiers, the more the merrier.
These Zhao Jun can't exert great power in Zhao Cong's hands. In Zhao Kuo's hands, it's hard to say.
"Wu Anjun, it costs too much to raise these captives. Let's kill them all. He openly advises that he has never been in the habit of keeping prisoners.
If this is 20,000 or 30,000 prisoners, Bai Qi really directly ordered to kill them and exchange them for meritorious service to his subordinates.
Or take it to train the recruits, Qin Jun Tiger Wolf, not for fun.
But now, more than 200,000 captives.
How can you say kill and kill. It's just too much. Even if Bai Qi's heart was like iron and stone for a long time, he still frowned when he heard this suggestion from Gong Qi.
"Report, Zhao Kuo sent a letter, saying that he hoped that our army would release the prisoners. He was willing to buy it with silver and gold. In order to show his sincerity, he also released more than 1,000 people who had been captured by him in our army before. ”
"My old Qin people have no prisoners, and all the people who are released back are spies, and they will all be killed by me." Gong Qi said.
The kind-hearted Yang Duanhe saw that Bai Qi hadn't replied for a long time, and said boldly: "Why don't you let it go." We don't have food or grass, and Zhao Kuo doesn't have any there. No, their baggage is all in Light Wolf City, and we have burned it all. ”
This is indeed a good idea, Zhao Jun can't watch the robe put back starve to death.
If Zhao Kuo hadn't broken through the Changping camp before and captured countless there, it would indeed be a good choice.
Up and down the Qin army, no one knows how much food Zhao Kuo still has in his hands.
But certainly quite a few.
After the camp roared, the people who escaped were eager to run away, where would they go to get their baggage.
But the top of the Qin army knew that their food was less than ten days left.
Therefore, under the pretext of preventing the destruction of grain and grass, all the grain and grass were gathered at Gaopingguan at the rear and distributed in rations.
In fact, I was also ready to withdraw after this battle. The logistics just can't keep up.
Surrendered more than 200,000 people out of thin air, with so many more mouths, how could the grain and grass of the Qin army still last.
And Zhao Kuo took the initiative to come over and ask the Qin people to release the prisoners, because as a traverser, Zhao Kuo knew that according to history, these prisoners were very likely to be killed by all of them.
This is the last thing he wants to see.
More than 200,000 people, with more than 200,000 families behind them.
If it was really killed as it was in history. Then up and down the Zhao country, every family has filial piety, and everyone wears linen.
That's what Zhao Kuo, as a traverser, absolutely can't bear to see.
However, Zhao Kuo's behavior made Qin Jun feel that Zhao Kuo's logistics situation should be very good.
Otherwise, how could he take the initiative to ask for a prisoner after the baggage in front was burned.
"It is better to cut off their right arms. Put it back again. So they don't have any fighting power. Let them Zhao people exchange the city for it. Meng Wu said.
Wang Jian shook his head when he heard this: "Zhao Kuo does not have the right to cede the city, he is not the monarch." By the time the envoys of the two countries were done, we would have starved to death. In the end, it cheapened the Wei people outside Changping Pass. ”
Bai Qi remained silent.
In the palm of his hand, he held a silk cloth tightly.
Fan Ju wrote it by himself.
What did the general fight for? What is my king fighting for?
What is Bai Qi fighting for? For victory, of course, for military merit. It can even be said that Bai Qi fought for war
He was born to belong to the battlefield.
But what about King Qin?
What did the King of Qin fight for?
King Qin is a male lord, and of course he wants to dominate the world.
So he made great efforts to increase the country's strength and wage war.
The essence of war is to plunder and weaken.
Plunder the enemy's land, wealth, population.
Weaken the enemy.
Land? It looks like it can't be saved. The armies of Qin and Zhao were both at the end of the crossbow, and it seemed that Shangdang was about to be taken by Huang Que in the Wei State.
Wealth? Shangdang was ruthlessly poor, and Qin fought against the party, not for wealth, but to march into the Central Plains through Shangdang.
Population? The families of these captives were all in the Zhao State, how could they be willing to follow the Qin people back?
Even if most of the captives were willing, they were then scattered and put into the Qin army.
Got the weapon.
But as long as there are captives who rebel, will the other captives rebel together?
Even if they didn't have the heart to rebel, how dare Qin Jun rest assured that they would let these captives sleep beside them?
The Qin army only had more than 300,000, and the Zhao army had more than 200,000 prisoners.
Moreover, the Qin army now has to face Zhao Kuo's 200,000 Zhao army and the Wei army behind him.
There wasn't much time to digest the captives.
Moreover, there is not enough food and grass.
At present, for the King of Qin, the only purpose of this war is to weaken the Zhao State.
As much as possible, weaken the national strength of Zhao, so that the next king of Qin will not face so many obstacles on the road to unification.
Bai Qi understood that what Fan Ju meant, that is, what King Qin meant.
More than 200,000 Zhao Jun, that is, more than 200,000 men, are behind more than 200,000 families.
They can work, they can produce.
Even if their right arm is cut off, they can have children.
Reproduction.
Even when the offspring grew up, he told the child that my hand was cut off by the Qin people. You must avenge me and kill all the Qin people.
Bai Qi already knew what he was going to do.