Hundreds of men scattered in the blink of an eye, and ran away in the blink of an eye. It's just that the monk can't run to the temple. The patrol came to recruit soldiers this time, and seeing that those people were able to make the line stand still and line up in a line, how could such a good source of soldiers be let go.

Soon, the inspection took people to the village elder's house, and then asked the village elder to bring the good sons and daughters of each family over. Most of the township elders served after the retirement of Huaiguo soldiers. Huai Guo did not need to serve at the age of sixty like Qin State, and the upper limit of Huai Guo's service was forty years old. After the age of forty, soldiers who did not hold more than 500 positions were required to retire.

After these soldiers retire, they will serve as village elders, patrol arrests, patrol envoys, and so on according to their merits and positions. Use them to maintain the rule of the Huai State over the grassroots.

Since the establishment of the Huai State, it has attached great importance to the grassroots people. At that time, the people of Huai State were only 5,000, and if they did not pay attention to the people, Huai State would have died a long time ago.

Unlike other countries that now treat the people as consumables, Huai Guo at least treats the people as people, rather than a string of cold numbers.

After King Huai's edict called up soldiers, a large number of people who were proficient in guns and clubs and knew how to line up soon came to enlist. These civilians only need a month of training before they can become qualified soldiers.

Since ancient times, in the summer, the soldiers with strong combat effectiveness are small landlords or yeoman farmers with land, as long as the rewards and punishments are clear, this kind of army composed of good families can burst out with super combat effectiveness.

Just after the Huai State began to recruit soldiers, the Qin State was also preparing for war.

The various materials accumulated in the last war had not been used up, and Bai Qi directly led his army north to prepare to attack Zhao. Zhao took advantage of the opportunity of the Five Kingdoms to attack Qin, seized Shangjun and completely occupied the plateau. Not only blocked the route of Qin's attack, but also obtained a bridgehead to attack the Qin army.

This is a great threat to the Qin State, originally after the Zhao State Hu Fu cavalry shooting, the national strength was strong, and the Qin State also found a soft persimmon to pinch it, and beat Wei and South Korea violently. wanted to take advantage of the momentum of a big victory and take advantage of the situation to capture Hangu Pass, but was blocked back here in Huaiguo.

It happened that there was civil strife in the Zhao State, and the monarchs and ministers of the Qin State wanted to take the opportunity to recapture Shangjun.

So, soon Bai Qi was in command again, and the Qin army retreated from Shangyangyi and was not disbanded immediately, only resting for half a month, replenishing a part of the soldiers, and the army went out again.

Zhao State, a few months ago, King Zhao Wuling of Zhao State was starved to death in the Dune Palace, which made a large number of virtuous ministers who were recruited by King Zhao Wuling leave Zhao State one after another. At the same time, the nobles and ministers who supported King Zhao Wuling were also purged. More importantly, because of the outbreak of the Dune Palace Rebellion, a large part of the reform of Zhao Wuling King Hufu cavalry and archery was abolished.

The departure of a large number of nobles and officials also vacated a lot of power, and the Zhao Wang Party, which was originally able to be united, soon split and began to compete for power.

At this time, the Zhao court can be described as a chaos, officials and nobles compete for power and profit, this chaos will continue for a period of time, and after the division of rights and interests is re-completed, peace will be restored. Although it is still impossible to see it, Zhao Guo's reform of the law has been interrupted, and he has lost the capital to compete for the world.

But at this time, the news of Bai Qi's army attacking Zhao came out. King Zhao hurriedly summoned his ministers and asked for countermeasures. The ministers recommended Gongzi to become the main general Li Xin as the deputy general and led the army to rescue Shangjun.

After Zhao Guohu cavalry shooting, the chariots were basically eliminated, and there were only a few chariots in the Zhao Kingdom. Zhao conquered many northern Yidi and recruited a large number of cavalry from these Yidi tribes, which is why Zhao's army was recruited quickly.

Just after the Qin army attacked Shangjun, the Zhao army quickly rushed to support.

Bai Qi did not quickly send troops to capture Shangjun, he knew very well that the key to occupying Shangjun was to defeat the Zhao reinforcements, so he was not in a hurry to capture Shangjun.

The army of the Qin State besieged the city, surrounded the Shangjun County Zhifu Shi County, and built siege equipment, preparing the army to attack the city. Li Xian, the county guard of Shangjun, looked at the endless Qin army camps outside the city with a worried expression.

The army besieged the city for several days, and the Qin army had already attacked three times. The first time, when he took advantage of the Qin army's attack, he suddenly led a thousand cavalry to rush out of the city, and the cavalry counterattacked, crushing the Qin army in one fell swoop. Then the fire burned the Qin army's engineering equipment, which greatly boosted the morale of the city, and this time the city could not stand it for a few days.

Next, Li Xian led the cavalry to break out of the city several times and counterattacked the Qin army. Although the results of the next few battles were smaller and smaller each time, it was his counterattacks that made the Qin army's siege progress slow.

However, with the passage of time, more and more Qin troops felt that the space for Zhao Jun's activities was constantly compressed, and the defense of Fushi County became more and more difficult.

By now, the army has besieged the city for more than a month, and the Qin army has already attacked the city.

Seeing this situation, Li Xian decided to send someone out of the city to ask for help. Before the Qin army besieged the city, Li Xian had already sent people to ask for help, but after a month, the reinforcements of Zhao State had not yet come, and now Fushi County was in danger, so he could only send people to ask for help again.

The night was hazy, and the moon in the sky was also obscured by clouds, and under the night, Fushi County was like a giant beast. At this moment, a creaking sound sounded, small but far away in the night.

Soon the gate opened, and one after another black shadows appeared from the city, and Li Xian once again led the cavalry to launch a night attack on the Qin army.

A thousand cavalry quietly approached the Qin army camp in the night, and after about two miles away from the Qin army camp, Li Xiansheng ordered, the army immediately charged out, and the distance of two miles was only in a blink of an eye, and more than a thousand cavalry rushed straight to the camp. The Qin army was asleep, and he didn't expect that the Zhao army in the city would dare to attack at night.

As a result, the cavalry of the Zhao army was like entering a no-man's land, constantly igniting the camp and killing the panicked Qin army. Li Xian knew very well that there were only 1,000 of them, and the Qin army besieged the city by more than 100,000, and if they stopped, they would soon be besieged and killed by the Qin army, so they could only ignite the camp tent as soon as possible and create chaos.

Therefore, Li Xian led the cavalry not to entangle with the Qin army, but only constantly created chaos in the camp, drove the Qin army, and then rushed to the next camp. The camps were set on fire, but Li Xian and others also felt more and more difficult. The Qin army gathered much faster than he had imagined.

After seeing this situation, Li Xian immediately ordered to lead the army to break out of the camp and return to Fushi County. By the time the army returned to the city, there were less than seven hundred of the 1,000 cavalry left.

"General, people have taken advantage of the chaos to highlight the Qin army camp." The adjutant next to him said.

Li Xian looked at the Qin army camp where the fire gradually dimmed and said: "Everything that can be done has been done, and then we will do our best to obey the destiny of heaven!" ”

(End of chapter)