After capturing the grain mountain, the Qin army did not launch an offensive that night. The Zhao army also fell into the huge shadow of losing the granary, and only grasped the reinforcement of the fortress and the reorganization of the battle and defense equipment to prevent the Qin army from attacking again. In particular, the hill where Zhao Kuo's big tent is located is the only foot of the hill where no position has fallen in all the camps of the Zhao army. It was expected that the next target of the Qin army might be it, so the Zhao army stationed here was even more nervous.

The more than 400,000 people of the Zhao army were gathered in a small area, and it was not easy to eliminate them, and it would hurt them to bite back. From the perspective of dividing the Zhao army, taking the foot of the mountain where the big tent is located is the general trend; And Bai Qi is particularly unhappy with the fortress group in the south, which is on the main road to attack everywhere, and if he can't take this place, other areas can't let go. He pushed his tent up to the hill on the bank of the Danshui, and it was against this group of fortresses that he came; In fact, the capture of the grain mountain also has the meaning of threatening the fortress group.

At yesterday's meeting, both Wang Yi and Wang Ling believed that after seizing Shicheng, seizing the commander-in-chief of the Zhao army as soon as possible would be conducive to the rapid defeat of the Zhao army. If the head of the rear is knocked out, a few fortresses here and there will not be enough damage. In terms of the general situation, the capture of the granary only compressed the Zhao army, but did not divide the Zhao army, and the situation of immediate annihilation of the Zhao army was not formed. If Zhao Jun resists stubbornly, there are still many battles to be fought in the future.

The biggest obstacle to the immediate attack on the main position of the Zhao army was the lack of troops in Shangjun. Due to the sparse population and location of the upper county, a large number of defensive forces had to be left in various places, so the upper county only sent more than 10,000 prisoners, and the rest was supplemented with livestock. The 10,000 cattle brought by Shangjun have played an important role in Anyi, Gaodu, and Duanshi. The Captain of Shangjun launched several tentative attacks, but failed to find the weakness of the Zhao army.

Judging by the course of the attack last night, the rational use of the swordsman is a key point. And at the foot of that mountain, how to use the swordsman was also a problem. There is almost no place to take advantage of that mountain, and you can only attack hard, but no one dares to fight with a swordsman. And the Shangjun army can't afford to fight for consumption. After the Beidi Army was subordinated to Bai Qi, the Shicheng Wangling only belonged to the two troops of the Central Army and the Shangjun Army, with 30,000 people. Even if 30,000 people were used to storm the main position of the Zhao army, it would not be enough. Therefore, although the idea of dividing the Zhao army is tempting, it is difficult to do without making a major adjustment in the number of troops.

Everyone agreed that the capture of the granary would immediately change the situation of the strength and weakness of the enemy and the enemy, and the enemy would be greatly shocked, so the final agreement was to attack the granary first, and then decide on the direction of the next attack. Bai Qi believed that there was no need to make further adjustments to the strength of the troops in the attack on the southern front fortresses, and that the troops could start attacking from the spot, so they put their minds on attacking the fortress groups. He wrote in his war report to the King of Qin: "The ministers have seized Zhao's food, and the generals will enter his court through the door, and Zhao will be broken in only a few days!" ”

After learning from Sima Jin that there was not much surplus grain in the granary, he was just used as a shield by Zhao Kuo, and Zhao Jun's military morale would probably not be drastically weakened because of this. This feeling of being taken advantage of by Xiao'er also subconsciously contributed to Bai Qi's determination to capture the fortress on the southern front, and taught Zhao Kuo a lesson, letting him know that his predecessors could not be used casually.

That night, Bai Qi led a dozen or so entourages and a public attendant from the Danshui camp to the Dongling camp secretly. After ordering the army the next day, Bai Qi went to Liangshan with the Qin army that changed guards. The two bus passengers from Dongling also followed up the mountain. Bai Qi and the three public servants inspected the guards of the camp.

The whole camp is vertical and horizontal, the northern part is stationed, and the southern part is the granary area, separated by a camp fence. When the Zhao army was stationed, a battalion was set up here, mainly in the north, and the part of the granary in the south was not allowed to enter without an order. To the south of the granary is the fortress area, and there are Zhao army camps on the east and west sides, so the Zhao army in the camp is actually equivalent to the security army, and generally there will be no combat mission. Moreover, it could not be stationed for a long time to avoid corruption, and it was usually a five- or ten-day rate, with battalions on rotation. The 20th battalion rotates for one round, and it is generally time to change the pawn. At that time, the veterans left, the recruits took their places, and the rotation began again. However, the loss of Shicheng exposed the east and north sides of the grain mountain. The defenders of Liangshan, who took loyalty, rather than good fighting, as the selection criterion, were not opponents in vain, and when faced with an emergency, they acted unexpectedly and made mistakes in a row, causing the Liangshan to be lost overnight. The continuous attacks were also illegal, and when they encountered the swordsman, they naturally suffered heavy losses and gained nothing.

But now that the grain mountain is occupied by the Qin army, the posture of defending the palace is completely different from that of the Zhao army. There are Zhao Jun on both sides of the mountain, only two or three miles apart, and every move of both sides is in the eyes of each other. And the whole camp had to be guarded. The camp is 300 paces longitudinal and horizontal, and according to the calculation of one person per 100 steps, 600 troops are required, so a battalion of 500 people is arranged; Plus a hundred archers stationed in the tower.

Bai Qi and others instructed the public doctor and the official doctor the focus of the defense. Everyone entered the granary area, and five large granaries stood majestically. Inside, it was empty, except for the fifth granary, where a large number of straw bags of dirt remained. Bai Qi looked over and said to the official doctor: "If the base is on the wall, is it solid?" ”

The official doctor said: "The minister is stupid, he can't do this!" ”

Bai Qi replied: "I look at this warehouse, each has a hundred people, and there will be a battalion." Half in the building, half in the warehouse, frequent patrols, can not be delayed. ”

The public passenger immediately asked the public doctor to give an order, and another battalion was also transferred to the warehouse and stationed in the warehouse.

Out of the granary, it is the back door of the barracks. Thirty lookouts were arranged here at a rate of ten paces. After Bai Qi and the others arrived, the lookout on the opposite side immediately sounded the bamboo tube warning. A hundred people will climb the lookout and take a look; Not long after, another 500 men came up to take a look. Bai Qi said to the doctor: "The Zhao people will attack, what can I do?" ”

Doctor Gong said: "Why attack it? ”

Bai Qi said: "When he sees us wandering, he will not be a pawn." If you attack it, you will get it! ”

The doctor said: "If it is, I wish the king to retreat, and the minister should refuse!" ”

Bai Qi said: "You don't reject it, I sit and watch you reject the enemy's ears!" ”

The 100 generals and 500 men on the other side went down. But the expected offensive did not happen. Bai Qi shook his head and sighed: "Straight slave also! ”

The news of Bai Qi's arrival to observe the southern camp was reported to Zhao Kuo, and Zhao Kuo simply said, "Know!" He didn't believe that Bai Qi would attack those solid systems, and Zhao Kuo himself would not attack. He still ordered the main position to be strengthened while ordering the armies to prepare for an attack on the enemy in front of them. Just when Bai Qi thought that the Zhao army was a "slave of self-defense", he found that the Zhao army had sent a large number of troops along the line of Nanshan.

Another battalion of 500 men went up the mountain. The public doctor and the official doctor urgently arranged the 500 people in the defensive area, and the soldiers were in place. And he arranged for men to carry out all the bags of dirt that were in the barn, and to build them on the inside of the barracks. Since the direction of the attack was not in the southern camp area that Bai Qi expected, but from the valley in the west, Bai Qi was a little surprised: what is the intention of this kind of attack?

The 10,000 generals who had lost their granaries recovered somewhat of their combat strength after being replenished by the five battalions around them. He combined these five battalions with his own five battalions to form a ten-battalion assault group. Immediately after breakfast, the first two battalions launched an attack on the granary positions. At the same time as the attack on Liangshan, the attack on the six battalions of Nanshan was also launched in turn. The three Zhao troops facing the six battalions were limited by the frontal attack, and each battalion could only send one battalion to attack.

The battle unfolded right under Bai Qi's nose.

There is no fancy formation change, it is a dense phalanx line advancement. After entering the distance of 100 paces, the two sides first start a bow and arrow battle, and after reaching 50 paces, the brawlers begin to charge. At this time, the strategy of the defending side is different, some use archers to fight back, and some release their own melee to countercharge.

The first wave of attacks was quickly repulsed, and the second wave followed, and the previous process was repeated again.

Bai Qi asked his entourage of about a dozen people to also participate in the battle, and he and his fellow passengers also picked up bows and arrows to shoot. The doctor did not allow them to stay on the front line, and forced them to fight on the arrow tower. Bai Qi shot a few arrows down from the arrow tower, and found that he could hit the Zhao army column about fifty or sixty paces away. This discovery made Bai Qi very happy, and he and the public passengers bet on who could shoot more Zhao Jun. Bai Qi's archery skills are also considered to be at a high level among the swordsmen, and those public passengers are even worse than the swordsmen, and they can only be regarded as a slight archery. Bai Qi usually gets two arrows when he shoots three arrows in a row, while the public passengers can only hit one arrow, or all of them miss.

At the beginning of the second wave of attacks, Bai Qi's entourage was also arranged by the Gong Doctor to go to the arrow tower. Their marksmanship is better than that of the passengers. When the Zhao army advanced to a distance of fifty paces and was ready to charge, the arrow tower was able to deliver a fatal blow at this moment: a dozen people were able to shoot down a dozen or so people at a distance of more than ten paces. The death that fell from the sky made the attackers lose no hope and retreated in embarrassment.

Five waves of attacks were launched, and it was already noon. All the armies of the Zhao army invariably stopped the offensive and returned to the camp: it was not easy for a bowl of gruel in the morning to support it until now; Each battalion ran dozens or hundreds of paces, and it was worthy of the bowl of porridge.

After repelling the attack of the Zhao army, Bai Qi asked the Qin army to place the lookout post on the arrow tower, and send more sentries on both sides of the enemy instead of arranging more sentries. Sentinels must be effective, and if they encounter enemy sentries, they must dare to expel them. Both the public doctor and the official doctor responded one by one. Bai Qi and the others left.

On this day, Bai Qi observed the fortress area from the south and deepened his understanding of the fortress area: the fortress group not only supports each other, but also has its own system; Every time a camp is attacked, it must be dealt with by the others; After capturing a fortification, the damage to the defense system is not great, and the other fortresses can still take on the task of defense. Bai Qi pondered the connections between the fortresses in his mind over and over again, trying to find the weakest link and strike at them. But there doesn't seem to be such a link. Every link is important, but the system can function normally without any link. It's really hard to attack here. This made Bai Qi feel troubled, and he also admired Qi Lian Po a little!