General Zhao, who was once a comrade, led more than 10,000 elite soldiers of the Zhao people who belonged to him and were also outcasts, and the cavalry and chariots were neatly arranged, and they had been waiting for a long time.

The two armies faced each other, showing the strong momentum of the regular armies of the two military powers, Qin and Zhao.

The city gate was closed, and the Qin army also showed the determination to fight to the death.

At the same time as Bo Fu waved, Zhao Jiang also waved at the same time.

The two sides beat the drums and trumpets in unison, charging forward almost at the same time.

Chariots rubbed shoulders with chariots, horses passed by warhorses, and infantry soldiers and foot soldiers passed by.

The change of position of the military formation was like two sharp meat grinders passing by, leaving a corpse in the middle of the two military formations.

The war drums sounded again, and the flag fluttered.

The armies of Qin and Zhao turned around neatly, and the cavalry and chariots circled to the front from both sides.

War drums again.

The two armies hedged again, gave up crossbow arrows and stone-throwing, and engaged in short-handed combat.

Over and over.

All fight to the death, and none retreat.

Chapter 237: Dismantling the Five Nations Army

After a day and a night of fierce battles, the battle was finally temporarily decided.

Although the Zhao army was brave, the Qin army was backed by the county town of Changping.

On the city wall, there are people who keep pouring up the tower;

Under the walls, the defenders, after taking control of the situation on the walls, opened the gates to support Böve;

And Zhao Jun had nothing but that life.

Most of the time, wars are not won by one person alone. Changping County took advantage of the geographical advantages, and the siege battle of the Zhao army was doomed to failure from the beginning.

But General Zhao, who was stained with blood, knew that the purpose of the Zhao court had been achieved.

Consuming the strength of the Qin State, as well as the hungry people who are sick, their purpose has been achieved.

General Zhao finally withdrew his troops.

Zhao Ren, who retreated from the city wall, looked at the pile of scorched corpses under the city wall, and the feelings of human beings gradually returned.

They finally felt fear and exhaustion.

Most of the courage of ordinary people for no reason will only be summoned once. After being discouraged, it is difficult to muster up courage.

There are also clouds in the art of war, "husband fights, courage also." One blow of strength, then decline, three and exhaustion. ”

The same is true for the offensive and defensive battles of the city.

At first, the siege pressure is the greatest, and then there is a tug-of-war in which the attackers besiege and harass, and the defenders hold on to help.

Now the Qin people are repairing the city walls and towers while burning the corpses.

General Zhao also set up camp and gathered the remnants of the army.

The two sides have temporarily rested and formulated their next strategies.

After bandaging the wounds on his body, Böve immediately urged the defenders to hurry up and dispose of the corpses, and to "disinfect" the lime and herbal water that had been prepared on the battlefield.

Some of Zhao Bing's corpses were black and pus-gushed, obviously suffering from the plague.

After being a guard for so many years, Bofu still has this eyesight, and he discovered one of the purposes of the Zhao army - they wanted to introduce the plague to Changping County.

Fortunately, Zhu Xianggong had already formulated epidemic prevention measures and made psychological precautions for the city's residents. The officials sent people to beat gongs and drums to inform the Zhao army of their intentions, so that they could strictly prevent the spread of the disease, and if they saw dead bodies thrown outside the city into the city, they immediately reported to the defenders to deal with them, and the people of the city were very cooperative.

But not all city dwellers have the conditions to drink boiling hot water every day. The officials could only teach the people of the city to add more water when cooking, eat porridge and paste as much as possible, and drink less often.

If you get a plague, you will be driven out of the city; If anyone shelters them, all the family members and neighbors sit together.

The strictness of Qin Law played a role, so that the people of the city did not dare to embrace the luck psychology of kissing and hiding each other.

Sure enough, as Bo Fu expected, on the second day, Zhao Jun began to throw corpses into the city, and threw corpses in the water source near Changping County, trying to pollute the water source of Changping County.

Fortunately, when Changping County was preparing to defend the city, many wells were drilled in the city early.

It is common for the defenders to start from the environment and water sources, and the defenders who do not underestimate the enemy will be prepared to deal with them.

After the first day of fierce fighting, the Zhao army did not organize a decent attack again.

Böve sensed something strange and quietly sent someone out to investigate at night.

It turned out that the Zhao army only sent elite soldiers to guard the city gate, and the other Zhao soldiers who had expanded their recruitment went to sweep the villages near Changping County.

The Five Nations Alliance went on this expedition, and they didn't think that they could capture many Qin cities.

They just wanted to cause chaos in Qin, weaken Qin's recovery, slow down Qin's eastward crusade, and consume hungry people and grab food by the way.

Although the Qin state moved most of the grain into the city, it was impossible for all the people in the villages to enter the city. They hid in cellars or in the mountains, waiting for the enemy's troops to pass.

If it is a normal siege, in order not to delay the fighters, the army will only sweep the villages along the road and loot some food supplies.

But now it's not a normal siege.

Not only the Zhao army that attacked Changping County, but also the other allied forces of the five countries also consumed the number of hungry people under the city, so they sent people to bypass the city and sweep the villages of Qin everywhere, killing people, looting grain, and burning fields.

In some places, spring ploughing has already begun, and even green seedlings have grown.

The hungry people not only ate the seedlings, but also gouged out and ate the seeds that had sprouted or rotted.

After surviving the plague of locusts, the grass and trees that have grown tender leaves have not escaped the mouths of the hungry people.

These are satisfying.

Except for most of the elite soldiers of the nobles' private soldiers, the allied forces of the Five Nations gave very little rations to the newly recruited soldiers. They brought the hungry people from the country to Qin to let them find food on the spot.

The vegetation on the land of the five countries is almost eaten up. Due to the timely prevention of locust plagues, the Qin State and the Southern Qin County gritted their teeth to provide food, and Zhu Xiang and Zichu went everywhere to calm the price of grain, so the Qin people have not yet fallen to the point of eating grass roots and bark.

Instead of eating grass roots and bark, the grass and trees turn new green in the spring.

Now, these have become food for the hungry soldiers of the Five Nations.

The guards, including Boff, were anxious, but helpless.

The allied forces of the Five Nations tried to find a dagger, and in order to maximize their interests, they could only hold the city and the communication pass, and could not rescue the village.

Because the villages are so scattered and it is difficult to contact them in time, even if they want to rescue, they don't know where to go to help.

The locust plague had just been experienced in the autumn and winter of last year, and the Qin people suffered a "locust plague" again this winter.

This locust plague is even more terrible than last year's locust plague. Last year's locust plague did not kill, did not gnaw away the bark of grass roots and seeds in the ground, did not burn down their houses.

What made these Qin people feel even more desperate and complicated was that they were not Qin people in the first place.

The borders between the Qin State and the Five Kingdoms were all newly built from King Zhaoxiang of Qin.

The people here are all immigrants from six countries, including the extinct South Korea, in the past ten years.

So compared to the Qin people, they are actually closer to the people of the Five Kingdoms.

Especially the former Yingchuan Korean homeland.

Korea was bordered by the four kingdoms, and now it was the main battlefield of the combined forces of Wei and Chu.

The old Korean nobles were originally planning to rebel when the five-nation alliance attacked their homeland in Korea.

Because the Qin people prevented locust plagues in Korea and transported grain to the Koreans to alleviate the famine, some low-level Korean scholars were divided into the side of the Qin State. The Qin army was stationed more, and King Han also backstabbed them, so the plan was blocked.

When Wei and Chu attacked Korea, even the old Korean nobles could not say anything to join the enemy.

They found that the Wei and Chu states did not want to conquer the Korean city at all, but wanted to destroy it.

Prince Chu of Qin did not forcibly collect the assets of the more docile Korean nobles, and now the most fertile land in Korea is still the old Korean nobles.

Therefore, when the Wei and Chu states cleaned up the villages and noble estates, they were the ones who suffered the most.

The states of Wei and Chu were also trying to bring the plague into the city.

The civilians in the city have become accustomed to listening to the words of the officials of the Qin State during the three-year disaster, and the precautionary measures have been relatively strict. But the old nobles of Korea would not listen to the orders of the officials of the Qin State.

The old Korean expensive people had good hygiene conditions, they ate cooked food and drank hot water, so it was difficult for them to be infected with the epidemic.

But their larger numbers of families have suffered.

Because of the rejection of the Qin officials by the old Korean nobles, the family members who were attached to them and the disciples who had not all dispersed had to follow the wishes of the main family, did not strictly implement them, and even deliberately did not carry out the orders of the Qin officials.

Epidemic disease treatment for all kinds of dissatisfaction.

All kinds of bacterial infections, that is, the plague that people generalized at this time, were the first to break out in the gathering place of the old nouveau riche in Korea.

The Qin army immediately cordoned off the neighborhood where the old Korean nobles were located.

If anyone wants to come out, they must stay in quarantine for a while and only leave after confirming that they are not sick, otherwise they will be put to death, regardless of their status.

The old Korean nobility panicked.

They began to hunt down and burn sick family members, enforcing a policy of quarantine even more harshly than the Qin.

The old Korean nouveau who did not get sick only had to quarantine for five days to reach a safe place. For their own safety, once they leave the epidemic area, they absolutely do not want the people in the epidemic area to come out.

They enthusiastically helped the Qin people manage the quarantine and epidemic areas, and increased the quarantine period for those who came after them to ten days.

Seeing this, the officials of the Qin State completely handed over the management of the epidemic area to this group of old Korean nobles and trusted them very much.

Then he strictly demanded that the citizens of each neighborhood not leave their area to prevent the spread of the disease. The area where the old Korean nouveau settled after coming out of the epidemic area is on the periphery of the epidemic area.

People are afraid of death. The officials of the Qin State believed that these old Korean nobles would let go of their reserve that they would not let go of during the three years of famine and actively do things for the Qin State.

The allied forces of the Five Nations and the Qin army went to war in an all-out way.

The battle of Changping County was the most tragic, but because there were no famous generals involved in the history books, there were only a few records.

Meng Wei and other old Qin generals fought against the veteran Pang Xuan of the Zhao State, and Xiang Yan, the newly promoted famous general of the Chu State, against the old famous general Lian Po, these two battles are the most recorded in the history books.

The battle between Meng Fu and Pang Xuan is the most typical battle between the Qin army and the Zhao army, which is very in line with what Zhao Guoma Fujun Zhao Hao said, "The brave wins when they meet on a narrow road".

Pang Xuan and Meng Fu were about the same age, and both of them personally put on armor and went into battle to fight, as if they were going to exhaust their lives on the battlefield.