"What's going on in Duwei City!" Bai Qi's face turned pale, and he asked.

The soldier who had fled came to his knees, numb, and spoke:

"The Zhao people set up a big mustache outside our city, and killed a few sheep in front of us, and all the blood and internal organs were thrown to the ground, and only the mutton was thrown in. Then add the soup cake in the cooking.

Those of us who defended the city had no horse meat to eat before the battle, we hadn't eaten for several days, and we ate grass roots and bark every day, and we couldn't stand it anymore. Zhao Kuo also used a simple catapult to throw some rotten vegetables, unwashed sheep intestines, and even a bag of sand mixed with corn.

For these things, we ourselves are fighting. The guard wanted to swallow the bag of sand mixed with corn alone, and used military law to scare the brothers who wanted to rob him. As a result, the brothers were so hungry that their eyes were green, and they stabbed him to death with their swords.

Now, the city could not be defended, and the hearts of the people were scattered. Zhao Jun shouted under the city again to come out and surrender and have food, and soon some brothers cut off their thumbs and ran out to eat.

Zhao Jun was still singing the song of our hometown outside the city, and I couldn't stand it when I heard it, and several brothers cried.

Then Zhao Jun suddenly rushed in. Some of the brothers tried to resist, but they were so hungry that they couldn't stand on their feet, so they were killed.

When Zhao Jun came in, he also brought in the big mustache. The smell was really hooking, and many brothers couldn't beat it, and their stomachs were really hungry, so they also cut off their thumbs. “

The soldier knelt on the ground, numb, and fainted as he spoke.

Obviously, he hadn't eaten for a long time, and finally he couldn't bear it anymore.

"Wu Anjun, the fire in Han Wangshan has been extinguished. From a distance, we can see the banner of the Wei army, they have arrived at the Dan River, and they can cooperate with us to attack the Zhao army at any time. Yang Duanhe said anxiously.

Wang Jian glanced at him and was silent.

Bai Qi opened his mouth and said: "Before Zhao and I divide the victory and defeat, the Wei army will not cross the river." ”

"Why, does he want to sit back and watch the Zhao army defeat us, and then turn back to attack them."

"If the Zhao army does not cross the river to fight a decisive battle with us, the Wei army will flank the Zhao army with us, the purpose is to take Changping, include the Zhao State under their own troops, and continue to consume our army.

But now the Zhao army crossed the river to fight a decisive battle with our army, and the Wei state directly occupied the entire Changping. Huge benefits have been obtained. Now, they will only watch us and Zhao Jun lose, and even Zhao Jun wins, which they are willing to accept.

Because even if the Zhao army can win, the back road of the Zhao army is in their hands, and whether the only army in the whole Zhao country that can only fight depends on the will of the Wei army. And Handan, there is nothing that can be done about it.

They wished that the Zhao army would crush us, and then cede land to them in exchange for the army to go back. We and the Wei army have been biting in Hexi for more than a hundred years, and the Wei army hates us no less than the Zhao army.

Moreover, surrendering Zhao Kuo can allow the surrender troops to consume his grain and grass. His back road has been cut off, and if he absorbs so many of our troops at once, he will always run out of food and grass, and he will not be able to continue westward, threatening my old Qin's Duanshi City. ”

Bai Qi lowered his head, coughed heavily, and continued: "Besides, even if the Wei army attacks the Zhao army, what good will it do us? We have no military rations, will the Wei army be kind enough to provide us with military rations? Wang Qian, you are the most important, I want to explain one thing to you. ”

"Wu Anjun, please command."

"You, take Yang Duanhe, Meng Wu, Xin Teng and other young people, with bows and arrows, and the rest of the horse meat, follow the few personal soldiers around me who can walk the mountain road, drill into Kongcang Ridge, and go in the direction of Duanshi City. There is no Zhao Jun there, remember, don't look back. ”

Wang Jian immediately wanted to agree in his heart, but his face showed sadness: "No, Wu Anjun is still here, how can I go." ”

Meng Wu and Yang Duanhe also looked sad and angry, Yang Duanhe even pulled out a short sword, and he wanted to die.

"That's enough." Bai Qi shouted sharply: "You are all the leaders of the younger generation of my old Qin people, how can you be lost in this place, if you don't go back, who else can bring my old Qin people's army in the future." Zhao Kuo is younger than you! Go back and learn from King Yue Goujian, lie down and taste the guts, I will go out of the east of Qin, and I can only hand it over to you! ”

After speaking, a few Bai Qi soldiers who had been prepared a long time ago pulled Wang Jian and others and were about to leave, these soldiers were actually ready, and as soon as they arrived at Duan's, they committed suicide and followed Bai Qi.

"Why doesn't Wu Anjun go with us?" Yang Duanhe asked.

Bai Qi laughed miserably: "Zhao Kuo said, our army will be above the generals, no one will be left, and the generals will be below, and the fingers will be cut off for life." In other words, if I am above the generals, or even if I, the main envoy of the Zhao army, did not leave his life, Zhao Kuo may not let go of the soldiers of our army.

Even if Zhao Kuo is really unwilling to kill the surrendered army, those soldiers under his command who didn't see my head, will they have nowhere to vent and kill prisoners to vent their anger? What's more, as the commander of the first army, he deserved to die if he was defeated. Depart quickly. ”

After speaking, Bai Qi looked at the only few generals: "Wang Di, Zhang Tang, why don't you guys leave?" ”

"On the Huangquan Road, be a companion with Wu Anjun."

"I, Zhang Tang, no matter life or death, I am willing to follow Wu Anjun."

Bai Qi let out a long sigh, such a loyal partner, but he had to accompany himself in the face of impending death.

In fact, he can also choose to fight to the death, using his prestige, using the strict Qin law, and using the previous experience of killing prisoners to intimidate and threaten, to force these soldiers under his command to fight to the death.

Let these soldiers bite the roots and bark of the grass, and forcibly use their limbs, which are already weak and weak, and the mental state that can no longer concentrate, to meet the enemy and die on the way to the charge.

He even let his soldiers use the last of their dead companions' energy to turn into beasts and attack.

To be tragic, to sacrifice, let the Zhao people pay a heavy price.

What's the use?

It's nothing more than cheap Wei people.

After surrendering, these Qin troops would only have their thumbs cut off and could not hold weapons.

But you can hold farm tools, you can farm, you can transport goods.

You can even go home and tell your mother-in-law that you finally escaped death, and then you will have a long drought.

In the future, I will tell my children that the Zhao people are fierce, and they must fight desperately.

Twenty years later, the new old Qin people will definitely stand on this land again.

The premise of all this is that he needs himself, Bai Qi, who personally ordered the killing of 200,000 Zhao troops, to sacrifice his own head to appease the anger of the Zhao army, in exchange for the safety of his soldiers.

Wang Yi and Zhang Tang also understood this truth, so they also chose to stay.

As a sacrifice.

"Pass on my general's order, the whole army abandoned their weapons, cut off the thumbs of both hands, and surrendered to the Zhao army. Those who do not want to descend should take bows and arrows and leave through the mountains on their own. ”

This is the last military order in this life.

The mountains are all over the wilderness, all of which are the happiness of the rest of their lives after the catastrophe, and the feeling of fullness that they have not had for a long time, and the deep expectation.