80. Surrounded on one side
Not only did he not even enter the Light Wolf City, which was already an empty city, but Zhao Kuo even withdrew his entire right wing and integrated it into the left wing.
His troops were now divided into two parts, one part marching along Nanchen Mountain, Gaomiao Mountain, and Huanghualing, preparing to support Gaopingguan.
Part of it was to stay on the west bank of the Dan River and defend along Gaomiao Mountain to attack Duwei Castle.
In fact, it was to protect the baggage and prevent the Qin army from attacking.
Zhao Kuo still has less than a month's worth of grain and grass.
The fire in Hanwang Mountain is obviously smaller.
Even sometimes you can see some small black spots on the mountain, which should be the sentry cavalry of the Wei army.
The armies of Qin and Zhao were in a race against time.
To the north of the city of Guangwolf City, above the ancient valley city, is the empty warehouse ridge with steep terrain.
In the past, the west base built by Lian Po, and the long base that was later occupied by the Qin army, there was not a single Zhao army there.
Zhao Kuo's meaning is obvious, in the north, whatever you Qin Jun runs.
Anyway, either take advantage of the present to cross the Dan River, and then go to the Hanwang Mountain, which is about to be burned to the ground, to beg the Wei people for mercy. Or plunge headlong into the deep mountains and old forests on the empty warehouse ridge, in addition to the beasts and snakes, there must be mice and wild deer, and the bark and weeds are enough.
I just don't know if it's enough for 400,000 Qin troops to eat for a few days, and I don't know if those weeds and mushrooms are poisonous.
And there, there is no road at all, otherwise Wang Yi still needs to storm Gaoping Pass to enter Changping.
200,000 Zhao troops surrounded 400,000 Qin troops.
Naturally, it is impossible to be exhaustive.
But without the Zhao army on one side is the Dan River and the frantically burning Hanwang Mountain in the rear, and on the other side is the rugged mountain road and the inaccessible lofty mountains.
Zhao Kuo actually chose one side to surround him, and left the rest to Tianxian.
If you want to run, you can run, and hundreds of thousands of troops without food will drill into the groves, so let's eat each other.
Night and day, the two armies of Qin and Zhao were constantly harassing and attacking each other.
But at night, when Zhao Jun, who was resting in turn, found that Zhao Kuo had put his clothes on a stone at the entrance of the temporary camp in Huanghualing, holding his armor and pillowing his sword scabbard, and fell asleep.
Those soldiers of the Zhao Army, who were already extremely exhausted mentally and physically, but were still worried about the night attack of the Qin army and did not dare to sleep, fell to the ground in their hearts.
Sleep peacefully.
Around Huanghualing, torches are everywhere, like daylight. Sima Yue and Cheng Zhao took turns keeping vigil. Gai Nie originally wanted to personally stay by Zhao Kuo's side, but was called out by Zhao Kuo in the middle of the night, brought a few clever soldiers, and became a mobile secret sentinel.
Farther away, the soldiers of the Zhao army, who had rested during the day, held torches and launched a frenzied harassment against the Qin army in front of Duweicheng and Gaoping Pass.
No one knows when they will launch a real attack.
In terms of numbers, the Qin army will not lose to the Zhao army.
But one side has food and grass, and the other side is hungry, even if the Qin army wants to harass, it is powerless.
Moreover, there is a big gap between the soldiers who go to war and those who do not, and the grain and grass consumed.
The logistics of the Qin army could not even afford another large-scale operation.
"The Qin army can't hold it anymore." After Lian Po led his army to repel a small-scale attack by the Qin army, he personally disemboweled the corpse of the Qin army.
Most of them have only a little undigested horse meat, and weeds.
No corn, no black beans.
Gaoping was closed, and after Li Mu saw the cavalry of the Zhao army, he hurried back to the warehouse, wanting to extinguish the fire.
But it was still too late, and only a little surplus food was grabbed in the flames, which was only enough for half a meal.
Li Mu untied the deerskin fur that was close to him.
That was when he came out of the surprise attack, Zhao Kuo took it off his body and put it on him with his own hands.
Wash and cut into small pieces and sprinkle into the soup.
"Here, this is the deerskin soup that Ma Fuzi sent us, let's try it."
Zhao Jun's morale was unexpectedly boosted.
Li Mu drank the completely tasteless soup and stared at the torches of Zhao Jun on the mountain in the distance.
He would rather starve to death than Zhao Kuo to send someone to bring him grain and grass.
The probability of being intercepted by the Qin army on the road is too great.
However, he has not sent a messenger for help until now, presumably Zhao Kuo will not know that he is short of food.
In the distance, the Qin army killed all the war horses, and the smell of meat wafted.
Theoretically, when there is meat to eat, it is the time when the morale of the army is at its highest.
But Qin Jun already understood that there was no next meal.
When attacking Gaoping Pass during the day, as long as the Qin army approached the city wall, the Zhao army on the nearby mountain would rush down, regardless of whether there was an ambush of the Qin army in front of them.
It doesn't matter how many corpses you want to leave behind.
Their purpose was to prevent the Qin army from attacking the city.
Unless you surrender, don't think about going back.
The Zhao army left many corpses on this road, and even the corpses of many war horses.
But then, the Qin army, which cooked and ate these Zhao army war horses, generally had diarrhea and completely lost their combat effectiveness. Bai Qi understood that Zhao Kuo had poisoned all these war horses before setting off.
It is no wonder that those Zhao troops dismounted directly after arriving at the front line, and did not ride horses to attack at all.
Even so, there were still Qin troops rushing to eat those poisonous war horses.
"Kill all the horses of our generals!" Bai Qi held on and gave orders: "Pass the order, put the tripod at the gate of the camp, and put all the horse meat into the big tripod to cook." The brothers who go to war, one eats a piece. ”
These war horses are only enough for forty or fifty thousand people to eat.
And only half-filled.
The rest of the Qin army, if they didn't eat grass roots and bark, could only starve.
Bai Qi can only hope that his elite can create miracles.
Gaoping Pass is already dilapidated, and it should be able to capture it if you don't want to die again.
In order to prevent the rescue of the Zhao army, half of the Qin army in the battle lined up in an ambush on his left flank.
This is the final winner.
Li Mu touched his shriveled stomach and clenched his long sword.
After a day of hunger, he felt that he couldn't stand it anymore.
Eyes with Venus and dizziness.
Although the Qin army was short of food, the troops besieging the city were much better than the satiety of the troops under Li Mu's command.
The Zhao army, which came to support from the side, was ambushed by the Qin army and blocked it to the death.
The last battle is over.
Either the Qin army broke through the Gaoping Pass and went home, and then the Zhao army, which was in a dilemma, was destroyed by the Wei army, which had already occupied Hanwang Mountain.
Either the Zhao army, trample the Qin army to death, and then turn their heads to deal with the Wei army.
The ladder for the siege of the city was erected on the Gaoping Pass.
Zhao Jun struggled to smash the stone down, pulling the bowstring hard to shoot the arrow.
But after all, I didn't eat for a day, my hands and feet were weak, and my movement frequency was much slower. Li Mu saw Qin Jun smiling, jumped up the ladder to Gaoping Pass, and cut off Zhao Jun's head.
The banner of the Qin army was even already on the Gaoping Pass, fluttering in the wind.
I will definitely not, give the general's flag, shame! Li Mu grasped the hilt of the sword and stood under the bracket that was temporarily made of the pole in the gate.
The last few thousand Zhao Jun held Changge.
After defending for seven days, more than half of the soldiers were killed in the battle, and the wounded brothers stayed on the wall, holding the Qin army who came up and jumped down.
Without the slightest hesitation.
At the back of the checkpoint, many Zhao soldiers, following Su Shu's example, held ropes and tied themselves to makeshift fortifications.
Including Li Mu.
He planned to use street fighting to hold back the Qin army as much as possible, even if the city wall had been smashed open by the Qin army, almost half the size of a city gate.
The main force of the Qin army is entering the city.
It's just that when Li Mu was preparing to be martyred, the rear of the Qin army suddenly burst into murder.
Those Qin troops who had not yet had time to enter Gaoping Pass, those Qin troops who had been hungry for several days, were beaten to pieces in an instant, and they fled to Gugu Pass one after another.
In the city, it turned out to be Zhao Jun who kept cheering.
And more Zhao troops, along Duwei City, galloped towards the rear of the Qin army.
Rushed towards Gaoping Pass.
The Lianpo cavalry, which had been recuperating for a long time and felt that they had been wasting grain and grass, rolled up countless smoke and dust.