July, Liangcheng.

The sun is setting and the dusk is getting late.

"Kill!"

The remnants of the bonfire lit black smoke, and countless soldiers screamed, fighting desperately under the sunset.

Blood splattered, gold and iron rang out, war drums thundered, and flags rolled upside down.

One of the most tragic scenes of human beings in the world is constantly being played out on this battlefield at this time.

Countless lives quickly disappeared and disappeared as they killed each other.

Bang Bang Bang!

A rapid gong sounded.

The soldiers on both sides of the battlefield who were fighting heard this voice, and their tense spirits suddenly relaxed.

Then they glanced at each other, and regardless of whether the other party was still an enemy a moment ago, they were all pardoned.

Alert to each other, they retreat and wait.

After a distance, he and his comrades ran briskly towards the rear camp.

Today, it's been a day of killing.

From the beginning of the dawn and the beginning of the morning, Chu and Zhao sides set up a formation, and in the field between the two camps, they continued to pull out soldiers and horses to fight.

This killing, from morning to night.

The corpses of both sides were strewn all over the field, blood flowed and pestles, and everyone was exhausted.

At this moment, whether it is the Chu people, the Zhao people, or the Wei people, they don't want to kill anymore.

If it weren't for the military order, who would want to go to that battlefield?

On the high city tower, Huang Lin looked at the retreating soldiers, looking at the tired and sparse array, and the team that was no longer full, his expression was calm.

Thus watched as the soldiers counted and then returned to the city under the guidance of the commander, or went to the camp near the city and began to eat.

The aroma of food wafted inside and outside the city at this time.

After killing the soldiers for a day, the physical exertion is serious and the mental attrition is also large, and the best way at this time is to let them have a full meal, and the oil and water pipes are enough.

The feeling of being full and holding on is the most primitive instinctive desire of human beings.

When this desire is satisfied, it is enough to cover most of the negative emotions and provide new energy and good mood.

Therefore, even if a large amount of meat is provided to the soldiers, it is extremely stressful on logistics, but on both sides of Chu and Zhao, they still do it.

Anyway, these soldiers who have eaten will be consumed on this cruel battlefield in a few days, and it is the limit that they can eat for ten days and a half months.

People have sold their lives to you, so let them eat better before they die, and they should be.

With such a calculation, the pressure on logistics is actually not so great.

"Back to the manager, today's battle damage has been calculated."

While pondering, the adjutant general came over, saluted Huang Lin, and said: "Today, there are 58 battalions of people who will go into battle immediately, and there are both the battalion and the headquarters battalion, with an average of about 200 to 300 casualties per battalion, and nearly half of them are killed or wounded.

According to statistics, there were about 8,000 casualties among the soldiers, and about 3,000 casualties among our Chu army, with a total loss of about 11,000 people.

As for the Zhao people, there is no detailed number, but the number of dead and wounded should be more than 8,000. ”

When Huang Lin heard this number, he nodded slightly, then waved his hand and said, "Got it, go down." ”

"Yes."

The lieutenant stepped back.

After he left, Huang Lin said to himself: "Eight thousand people, I have been killed for a month, and the soldiers and horses used by the Zhao people every day have not decreased.

It seems that it is true, as he said, that two million troops were mobilized this time. ”

Ever since he occupied Liangcheng and took the lifeblood of the Zhao people.

In an instant, the Western Route Army was like stabbing a hornet's nest, provoking the Zhao people to take revenge with all their might.

The Chu army was at the end of May and occupied Liangcheng.

However, at the beginning of June, Huang Lin had just repelled the Zhao army in Baima County, and within a few days, the main force of the Zhao army from Diqiu came in a mighty way.

The Zhao people claimed that they had two million soldiers, which was the strength of the whole country, and vowed to recapture Liangcheng.

At the beginning, Huang Lin didn't take Zhao Guo's claim to heart.

After all, with the intensity of the war now, the soldiers and horses used by various countries are also becoming more and more large.

When they set out on the expedition, they would exaggerate the number in order to achieve the purpose of intimidating the enemy.

For example, the Chu army's first northern expedition raised 30 million troops to intimidate the Jiangbei heroes.

This is almost sixty percent more than the original number of the Chu army.

However, it is difficult to say whether this intimidation effect has been achieved or not.

If you want to say it, the countries of Kyushu in Jiangbei were indeed frightened by the Chu army, and they were all terrified.

But if you want to say that it didn't work out, those countries were obviously frightened, but in the end they still tried their best to oppose the Chu army.

Even the Xu State and the Jin State, which couldn't fight with the Chu State, all came to mix in and stood on the opposite side of the Chu State.

Therefore, it is difficult to estimate whether this publicity effect is good or bad, and it is difficult for Lu Yuan to estimate.

Pushing others by himself, the Chu army's side must be exaggerated, and the Zhao army's side should not be bad if you think about it.

What two million people, it is estimated that there are one million people in the sky.

After all, whether it is a million people or two million people, it is a vast and mighty army that covers the sky and the sun, and the advance of the army can stretch for hundreds of miles.

With such a large army, even if you send scouts to investigate, the final amount you get is a very vague quantifier.

What a crowd of endless, flags like a forest.

What dozens of miles are Zhao soldiers, and the surrounding prefectures and counties are all Zhao camps and so on.

You have to say, how many people exactly?

I'm sorry.

There are tens of millions of people, and no matter how powerful the scout is, he will be exhausted to death, and there will be countless of them.

Therefore, it is difficult to accurately guess the specific number of troops and horses that exceed one million, and at most make a rough estimate.

It's really hard to tell the difference between two million and a million people.

This also gives countries the basis for a certain degree of artistic processing when carrying out propaganda.

Those who are bold dare to multiply the soldiers and horses they use.

The timid also dare to double it by half, or double.

Anyway, now, as long as countries fight national wars, there are no less than one million soldiers and horses.

With this foundation, no matter how much they want to publicize, they are not afraid of being exposed.

Only by meeting head-on and weighing each other's bottom can we know how much moisture the other party has.

At this time, he and Zhao Ren have been fighting in Liangcheng for a month, estimating the losses of both sides every day, and Huang Lin has almost calculated the strength of the other party.

Zhao Jun's two million people should be without water.

The two armies fought for a month, and the average number of casualties per day in Zhao was about eight or nine thousand.

That's a total of 250,000 or 60,000 people a month.

On the Chu army's side, because of the fact that there are more soldiers in the army, the morale of the army is low, and those soldiers are not very willing to fight for the Chu State.

So after going to the battlefield, they were either grinding foreign workers, or looking for opportunities to escape back to Zhao State, and even many of them rebelled on the spot.

All kinds of factors have caused a large number of temporarily recruited people even in Zhao State.

But on the Chu army's side, the number of daily casualties is still so much higher than that of the Zhao army.

In a month, the Chu army has already lost, about 250,000 soldiers, and about 80,000 soldiers and horses of the headquarters.

The total losses have already exceeded three hundred thousand.

It can be said that both sides suffered heavy casualties because of this war.

The only difference is that Chu Jun died a pawn who was not very distressing.

And Zhao Jun died of their own people.

Both sides lost two or three hundred thousand people, which if one side only had a million troops, it was almost equivalent to more than two or three percent of the battle losses.

For an army, this has long been broken, and the soldiers and horses are unbearable to fight again.

The Chu army was able to hold out because there were a large number of prisoners, the filling was consumed, and the casualties of the main force of the headquarters were not serious, so it was not affected too much.

And Zhao Jun didn't have this convenience.

So the only reasonable explanation is that the other party really has two million.

In this case, 250,000 or 60,000 dead people are only equivalent to the opponent's strength, almost more than 10% of the troops.

Dead and wounded an adult, for a large army, although it is not a lot.

However, the soldiers and horses of all countries that have undergone formal training can often accept the loss of three or four percent of the troops, and in the end they will not be able to hold on and be defeated.

Although Zhao Jun has a large number of recruits and civilian husbands, now the martial arts of various countries are fierce, and the folk men and women practice fist and foot archery, which has a certain foundation.

Coupled with Zhao Guo's hegemonic mentality, as well as the support of the belief in defending the country, supplemented by a certain number of veterans as the foundation, it really can't be said that the other party's strength is poor.

After stacking so many states, it is not uncommon for Zhao Jun in front of him to be able to hold up to two or three percent of the mortality rate.

However, in this way, the situation is a little bad for Huang Lin.

Although he now occupies Liangcheng, because he is alone, he has only captured such a big city.

In the vicinity of Liangcheng, before they had time to establish a solid defensive line, the Zhao army killed them back and forth.

The Zhao army on both sides of Baima and Diqiu, almost like a relay, completed the containment of the Chu army.

Since arriving in Liangcheng, the soldiers and horses of Huanglin's department have hardly gone without fighting for a day.

The daily war involved too much energy, so that he had no time to build barracks and dig defense lines.

Therefore, although there are hundreds of thousands of troops under him, except for a part of the soldiers and horses who can hide in the city and can defend with the city defense.

Most of the remaining soldiers and horses could only be scattered outside the city, relying on a thin layer of camps to confront the Zhao army.

But a camp like this, which is simply built, basically does not provide any effective protection.

This is not those defense lines that have been built for a few months and a half, built high in the village, and even city walls, with all kinds of city defense facilities, and the barracks have been carefully planned, and they are like copper walls and iron walls, which are difficult to break.

This kind of defense line is to be filled with human lives.

The White Horse Defense Line, which the Chu State was attacking, and the Liang Defense Line of Liang County, were like this.

A line of defense like this, even if it is a small barracks, will cost two or three times as many lives, or even more, as a price.

On the Liangcheng side, most of the Chu army's strongholds were just to build a low fence and dig a few trenches to make a simple warning.

This kind of small protection, Zhao Ren can pass through with a light step, and it can't play any role in blocking it at all.

If you want to rely on this simple camp to defend against the attack of Zhao State, you obviously have thought too much.

That's why.

Although he has Liangcheng as a stronghold on his side, no matter how big this heavy city is, it can't accommodate hundreds of thousands of Chu troops.

Just as the Great Liang only placed 300,000 people in the city, leaving an army of 400,000 and scattered all over the city.

In Liangcheng, Huang Lin was only in the city, leaving 150,000 people.

The remaining 1.6 million soldiers and horses were transferred from the city, which he shared to the periphery outside the city, and even from Liangcheng to the line of Wating County, in the cities of various transportation points.

It is impossible for nearly two million soldiers and horses to gather together, and they are bound to disperse.

And these armies assigned to the outside of the city, without protection, in the face of the surging Zhao army, naturally they can't defend the city.

I can only bite the bullet, open the formation, and fight them the battlefield.

And after doing it for a month, the results are clear.

The two armies were not up or down, or rather, the Zhao army had a slight upper hand, and the Chu army had some disadvantages.

However, this disadvantage is not big, and the foundation of the Chu army is also very thick.

At this time, even if 330,000 soldiers and horses were lost, on the front line of Liangcheng, the remaining soldiers and horses of the Chu army were still more than 1.4 million, which was enough to continue to consume with Zhao State.

"It's just that in this way, war becomes a pure exchange of human lives. Originally, I raided Liangcheng, and the results I achieved were not so important. ”

Huang Lin pondered the current situation and couldn't help frowning.

Although he pinched Zhao Guo's lifeline, before this lifeline was cut off by himself, Zhao Guo's counterattack was not so easy to bear.

The two million Zhao troops who came from Diqiu's side will not be mentioned.

Although the other party was outnumbered, after occupying Liangcheng, he also continued to mobilize troops and horses from the rear to support.

Although there is a slight gap between the two sides here, they are still the same level of military strength on the whole, so as not to show any flaws.

Over there on the front line of Hakuba.

The original main force of the Chu army was transferred to Liangcheng, and the number of the Chu army there dropped to less than one million.

Completely changed from the main force to a partial army.

Fortunately, the Zhao army on the White Horse front, after Zhao Cheng's previous strong attack on Liangcheng, has greatly reduced its troops, and there are less than one million men and horses left.

Therefore, after such a loss on both sides, the strength is still almost equal.

But after Zhao Cheng went back, he also knew that with his own situation, in the case of a shortage of food and grass, he would not be able to hold the army for a long time.

If you want the army to survive, you must either lead the troops and horses to break through the blockade, or you must constantly reduce the number of the army to reduce the consumption of grain and grass, so as to maintain it for a longer time.

Therefore, after judging his situation, Zhao Cheng returned to the White Horse front line, and immediately mobilized troops and horses to attack the Chu army in front of him.

He didn't think about coming to Liangcheng again, with the strength of the city, as well as the number of the Chu army, he was afraid that if the white horse defenders were killed, they would not be able to defeat this city.

On the contrary, it was the defense line of the Chu army in front of the white horse, because the Chu army had always occupied the advantage of active attack before, and the camp was not repaired according to the standards of the fortress, but only a general degree of defense.

A breakthrough from this direction is a little more likely.

Especially after the Chu army continued to draw troops and horses from the White Horse front, this possibility was even greater, so big that it had become the only hope for the White Horse Zhao army to live.

Therefore, after understanding their own situation, the Zhao army led by Zhao Cheng became more and more crazy about the impact of the Chu army camp there.

In just over a month, the White Horse Zhao Army has launched hundreds of breakthrough attacks.

More than 500,000 soldiers and horses have been killed or wounded as a result, and more than half of them have been lost.

The oncoming Chu army, although it had the advantage of defense, but the camp was not as good as the city after all, and the number of losses was more than 300,000, and the casualties were also not light.

By now, on the front line of Baima, the Chu army has about 600,000 troops left, and the Zhao army has only about 400,000 left, and the balance of forces between the two sides has formed a certain gap.

However, it was precisely thanks to the previous crazy attack that the Zhao army consumed a large number of soldiers and horses, and there were many fewer people in the camp to eat food.

Therefore, at this time, the grain stock of their large camp can last for another half a month, which is much longer than the original time when the grain is exhausted.

At the same time, because of the decrease in soldiers and horses, the demand for grain and grass logistics has also become much less.

In addition, Jizhou in the north, after learning about the recent situation of the Zhao army on the front line of Baima, he also began an emergency rescue.

A lot of ships were recruited from the north, and they began to use the small ferry port in Baima County to transport all kinds of materials, grain and grass to this side, and at the same time, they also began to evacuate the Zhao army here on a small scale.

Although there is very little grain and grass for these transportations, even if the daily arrangements are full, they can basically only meet the needs of 50,000 or 60,000 people a month.

But no matter how small the mosquito is, it is also meat, not to mention that this is already a chicken leg.

Moreover, the Zhao army is also constantly withdrawing troops, and every time the ship that transports grain is empty, when it returns, it can take three or five thousand Zhao troops with it.

In this way, while constantly transporting supplies, and on the other hand, constantly withdrawing the consumed men and horses, between an increase and a decrease, the White Horse Zhao Army maintained like this.

And after Zhao Cheng discovered this, he confirmed that the number of Zhao troops had reached an equilibrium state, so he also stopped continuing to attack the Chu army's defense line, which can be regarded as completely giving up the idea of breaking through.

If they don't break through, the only way for the Zhao people to retreat is to cross the river and retreat north.

Therefore, after stopping the breakthrough, Zhao Chengcheng led the remnants and continued to defend the White Horse defense line.

This white horse defense line, but Zhao Guo has built a defense area for more than a year, on which there are all kinds of strong fortresses, and a large number of city defense facilities are not lacking.

Defending in such a place, the advantage of the defenders' battle situation is too great.

The Chu army on the opposite side tried to attack one or two fortresses, but soon stopped this kind of action because of huge losses.

No way.

The previous batch of Wei prisoners had long been exhausted in the previous war.

Without these cheap cannon fodder, the Chu army was reluctant to risk their precious lives to fill in those deep ditches and high bases.

So the situation here is once again at a stalemate.

Unless a new batch of captives arrives, it can be used as a sharp edge to storm the city, bringing new momentum.

Otherwise, Chu Jun could only look at Zhao Jun, and slowly took the boat away, escaping from this dead land.

Although after the Zhao army left, the Chu army could also smoothly take over the White Horse defense line and rushed to aid the main force of Liangcheng.

In this battle for Dongjun, the current situation is still that the Chu army still has the upper hand.

And there is a great possibility in the future to take over the entire East County.

can't overcome the full effort, after all, people are a little unwilling.

And if the Zhao army can escape back to the 400,000 main force, with this as the core, after returning to Jizhou, it can reorganize a powerful army of soldiers and horses.

At that time, even if the Chu State occupies the Eastern County, I am afraid that it will be harassed by it, and it will be difficult to have peace all day long.

"Therefore, if you can, you still have to leave the White Horse Zhao Jun as much as possible. Also, I heard that in Jizhou itself, Emperor Zhao is forming a large army again, preparing to personally march south to support the front line.

If this new force arrives, the situation in Dongjun will be a little ugly. Huang Lin frowned.

Dongjun is the lifeblood of Zhao State, and without Dongjun, Zhao Kingdom will have no future.

In order to keep this territory, Zhao Guo almost did his best, like a madman.

Not only in the land of East County, desperately conscripted.

Even in Hebei, the army is expanding frantically, ready to make a desperate bet.

And with the population of Hebei in Zhao State, it is almost 8 million, and if you work hard, you can get more than 1.5 million soldiers and horses.

If this new force reaches Dongjun and joins the Zhao army and horses in Dongjun here, then the Zhao army will have almost 3.5 million people.

This has already exceeded the number of Chu troops.

In the face of this country that has gone crazy, even if it has only occupied the advantage, Huang Lin still has palpitations and is extremely afraid.

"So for the sake of today, I can only say hello to the body and continue to shake people."

In case of indecision, summon the body.

As a doppelganger, Huang Lin did not die in the face of difficulties.

Instead, I will contact the main body immediately and call for support.

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