Chapter 92: Life Depends
After Wang Ling and the others came in, they were also asked by Bai Qi to choose a place to sit at will. This is a mountain peak, and the terrain is undulating, and it is difficult to find a flat place. There is no cushion, and kneeling on the ground is really the knee. Bai got up and went to the front of the case, wiped it with his hand in front of his knee at will, and knelt down without any waves; Wang Ji and Sima Jin sat on his left and right, and followed his example, leveling the ground slightly with their hands, and knelt down. The people brought by Wang Yu had already sat down inside, and the people brought by Wang Ling found a place with a lot of weeds and sat down.
Bai Qi said: "King Qin has a decree, please listen to it yourself!" ”
Sima Jin knelt up, took out a piece of bamboo slip from his sleeve, and showed everyone that it was indeed a special order slip for King Qin. They saluted together, "Teach me!" ”
Sima Jin recited aloud: "Qin accepted the party, and Zhao blocked me from Changping." With Wu Anjun as the general, Zuo Shu Changqi as the captain, and the governor's army to overcome it! It's reluctant! ”
Bai Qi and Wang Yi both bowed down and said, "I would like to worship and teach!" ”
Sima Jin said again: "Wang Yu: Wu Anjun is in the army and must not be leaked; In response to military orders, they are all in accordance with the left chief. ”
The people bowed down again and said, "I respectfully obey you! ”
Bai Qi said: "It's also fortunate to have the help of Wang En and Zhu Qing!" ”
Everyone saluted and said, "By the king's order!" ”
Sima Jin said: "Wang Jiao was sent ten days ago. So far, it is the one who has exposed the cloth, and the general trend is undecided, so don't let it go. Fortunately, the generals will use force, and the soldiers will work hard, and now it is slightly decided, and it will be announced! Then he waved his voice and asked him to speak.
Bai Qi asked his retainers to spread a large white cloth on the ground, drawing the situation of Changping mountains and rivers, and the distribution of various military camps, and said: "The Zhao army has more than 400,000 troops, and it has been surrounded in the valley for me. I am willing to fight it together with all the generals! Would you like to hear it? ”
Wang Yi and Sima Jin both sat on the side of the case, and the one who sat under the case was the highest status of Wang Ling. He spoke: "Under the order of Wu Anjun, the minister is willing to be the front!" ”
Bai Qi glanced at Wang Ling with some disdain, ignored him, and looked at the others.
Captain Shangjun is considered Bai Qi's old subordinate, he has a better grasp of Bai Qi's mind, and his status here is also high, he knows that Bai Qi looks down on people who talk big the most, and there must be specific measures. So he knelt down and said: "Although the Zhao army was defeated and was in a corner, there were many soldiers and soldiers, and everyone was fighting. The minister thought that when the wall was defended, and when it was exhausted three times, it was necessary to advance. ”
Speaking of yesterday's battle, Bai Qi also saw it in his camp, but due to the angle, he couldn't see the whole picture of the entire battlefield. Seeing that the captain mentioned yesterday's battle, Bai Qi suddenly became interested, and said: "Yesterday, the Northland Army fought hard for the day, blocking the people of the four battalions with one battalion of soldiers, and killing one of its ten thousand generals, I am very commended. May the Captain of the Northland elaborate on it. ”
Li Bing knelt up and said: "The minister is in the camp, but he is preparing reinforcements, and the matters of the battle are all led by the commander-in-chief of the army." May I hear it! ”
Bai Qi motioned with his eyes to speak. Meng Wei knelt up from behind Li Bing and said, "The minister dares to be the enemy of the four battalions with one battalion of people." The battle of the ministers is also true, and there are really three battalions of people. A battalion on the top of the mountain, when it is also the brunt of it; In the five adjacent battalions, they shall hold 100 shields, 100 bows, and 150 halberds; and a battalion in reserve for support. The three battalions fought together, and they were victorious! ”
Li Bing said: "Joining the army in the first battle of Nanshan and North Camp, you have to kill the Zhao army at the level of 300. The Zhao army was frightened and did not dare to re-advance, but had to reduce the number of shields, bows, and halberds in each battalion to aid the southern battalion. ”
Bai Qi said: "What do you plan to kill Zhao Shou 300 in one battle? ”
Meng Fu said: "The enemies of the northern camp are all patrolling and cowering, and they are ordered to attack, but they really have no combat power. The ministers lured him into the camp, came out of the back with a halberd, and strangled him with a bow and spear, and his anger was frustrated, and he was in chaos, and he was incapable of fighting! Therefore, it is all ink. ”
Bai Qi asked Meng Fu to recount the whole story in detail, and Meng Wei recounted in detail the situation of luring the enemy into the first battalion and encircling and annihilating them. This experience is vividly spoken. Bai Qi applauded when he heard this: "Good! Although the Zhao army is afraid of war without a plan, it is difficult to gather and annihilate it! He asked his retainers to scoop a bowl of water for Meng Fu and continued to talk about the war in Nanying.
The battle in Nanying was more complicated, and it went through many stages, each with different characteristics. Meng Fu recounted the whole process in an organized and focused manner. Speaking of instructing the archers to fire a salvo with arrows, Bai Qijie praised: "Very good! But there was disbelief and said, "How can you shoot like this?" ”
Li Bing explained: "When Meng Qing first arrived, Hedong Wei Wan personally tried it, and he was excellent in shooting, royalty, and strength, and there was no emptiness! ”
Bai became interested, and asked his retainers to take their bows. Bai Qili is strong and strong, and ordinary people can't pull it away at all. The retainers took it and handed it over to Meng Fu. Bai Qi said: "And shoot for fun." ”
A few days ago, when Meng Fu first arrived, Bai Qi asked him to wrestle with him, but Meng Fu did not agree. Now that Bai Qi asked him to test firing again, Meng Fu felt the need to show his hand. He hung up the strings, tried to pull them, and praised: "Good bow!" ”
Seeing that Meng Fu easily pulled out his strong bow, he was even more happy, and said, "But if you get it, I am willing to give it away!" ”
Meng Fu said: "An dares to hope for the king's gift!" ”
Bai Qi said: "If you don't give it, you can shoot it!" ”
Meng Fu looked up and saw a line of wild geese flying in the air, and shot an arrow with his bow, one wild goose fell down one by one, and the rest of the wild geese scattered in shock. The tent cheered! It's just that the wild goose that came down with this arrow was very strong, and it flew with the arrow for a while, and I don't know where it finally landed, and there was nowhere to find it.
Zhao Kuo had already been informed by the lookout post, and Zhao Kuo personally came up to observe, and recognized at a glance that this was Wang Di's officer, and that there was Wang Ling's officer. The characters worthy of Wang Ji and Wang Ling's personal audience are almost ready to come out: Wu Anjun is white! Obviously, Bai Qi's big tent was set up on a hill under his nose - he had always thought that this was just a member of the Qin army: only five thousand people, and so close to the Zhao camp! How could Bai Qi be stationed here?
Zhao Kuo immediately thought that as long as he could mobilize 20,000 soldiers and storm this camp, he would definitely be able to capture Bai Qi alive and defeat the Qin army. But yesterday the picture of Zhao Meng's strong attack appeared in front of his eyes again: in order to take a mountain garrisoned by 500 people, Zhao Meng mobilized 2,000 people, and also added his own pro-battalion, and the final result was a fiasco. Zhao Kuo looked at the open space in front of the southern camp again, where there was almost no room for 20,000 people to assemble and array! Moreover, where will the 20,000 men be mobilized? Although there are 450,000 people, more than 100,000 are old, weak, women and children, and the real combat force is only 250,000, and the rest can only be regarded as auxiliary labor. Of the 250,000 combat troops, the elite units had been exhausted in the previous few days' operations, and almost all of them had gone into the wounded barracks; The remaining soldiers who can still fight must serve as the backbone in future operations, and there can be no more attrition. If another 20,000 capable warriors are concentrated, in case of failure, the whole army may immediately collapse. Zhao Kuo didn't dare to take this risk again, after all, he still had more than a month to insist on, and he couldn't make any more desperate bets. - After some time of fighting, he already understood that it was an impossible task to completely eliminate the Qin army. Coexisting with the Qin army became the only option.
Zhao Kuo was looking at Qin Ying in the distance on the surface, but his thoughts were flashing rapidly. The dullness in the tent, as well as the foul air brought about by the large number of people, made it difficult for him to immerse himself in thinking, and the wide view and crisp air in front of him were very suitable for him.
How can we get through this month? With only one bowl of gruel a day, and the weather getting cooler every day, can the troops still maintain discipline and act in unison? Can it still have combat effectiveness? Can morale still be maintained? He has no other choice but to choose "can" for all problems, and as for how to do it, it depends on his efforts!
His gaze returned to the hill where Bai Qi was. He himself had set up a command platform there, watching the thousands of Zhao troops rush to the Qin army camp fence, rush to the Qin army that came out to fight in the field, fill in trenches, pile up soil, cover with bows and arrows, and shield shields, and the soldiers went forward one after another, stepping on blood and corpses, advancing; But the Qin army was like a wall in front of it, and no matter how much it hit, it could not be shaken; There were several times when Zhao Kuo felt that he was about to succeed, but the Qin army could always find new reinforcements and fight back. Disappointment, frustration, frustration...... Negative emotions filled his chest, almost making him cry bitterly; But he couldn't, he had to put on a look of what he had anticipated, and face it all coldly and emotionlessly.
King Zhao's pleading look flashed in front of his eyes again: "Qing wants to hold on to the food of less than one month for two months." When the autumn harvest is over, Lone will send an army to rescue him! King Zhao's words were clear and cruel. Zhao Kuo knew that there would be no rescue army, and only death awaited him. It's just that he has to live until after the autumn harvest before he can die......
It is painful to be deprived of the right to live, and what is more painful than to die is to be deprived of the right to die.
Now Zhao Kuo has no right to die, and his early death means that Handan will enter the war in a state of lack of autumn grain harvest, which almost means defeat, as well as the ruin of the country and the fall of the temple.
must live firmly, and if you live one more day, Zhao Guo will have one more chance to survive.
His mother's figure flashed in front of his eyes again. The mother's troubles in the royal court are actually a tacit understanding between King Zhao and Zhao Kuo, the purpose is that when Zhao Kuo is defeated and killed, the disaster will not affect the family. Zhao Kuo will definitely be defeated and killed, and according to the law, he will be defeated outside, and the whole family will be implicated. At that time, King Zhao couldn't come forward and say that I agreed to Zhao Kuo's defeat......
Mother, wife, and children, you're all right!
Thinking of them, Zhao Kuo shook the short sword on his waist hard, and he must hold on until October. He didn't believe it, he was so difficult, Qin Jun would feel better! And he has to do everything he can to make Qin Jun uncomfortable!
Zhao Kuo turned around and got off the lookout post and walked resolutely in the direction of the big tent.