【0676】Shadow of Death

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Seeing that the Zhao army was all besieged in the valley, Bai Qi couldn't help but be overjoyed, and thanked the old immortal very much, the old immortal pretended to brush his beard and was modest, and disappeared, but the ten giant thunder chariots were still there.

Bai Qi ordered the three armies to surround the camp from Changbi to Danzhuling, and more than 300,000 Qin troops plus ten giant thunder chariots surrounded the Zhao army so much that not even a fly could fly.

Bai Qi sent people to send the news of the siege of the Zhao army to Xianyang, hoping that the king of Qin could send reinforcements and grain and grass, so as to ensure the complete annihilation of the Zhao army.

After the news reached Xianyang, the government and the opposition of the Qin State were jubilant, and the Battle of Changping lasted two and a half years, consuming most of the manpower and material resources of the Qin State, and now there is finally a gratifying result.

King Qin's heart was very happy, and he decided to drive the expedition again, and went to Changbi to reward Bai Qi and the soldiers of the three armies, but he couldn't go empty-handed, just when the king of Qin was depressed, Yiren sent a million taels of silver, saying that he had saved money in Handan's business, and was willing to give it all to solve the urgent needs of the Qin State.

King Qin was greatly moved, and felt that Yiren was really his good grandson, and he had a very good impression of him, but how did King Qin know that this million taels of silver was given by Lü Buwei to Yiren and asked him to dedicate it to King Qin, so that Yiren could add points in front of King Qin, so as to plot greater political capital.

The king of Qin used one million taels of silver to buy a lot of grain and grass, for the 300,000 army, although it is still a little little, but at least the face is passable, the treasury of Qin is only less than 200,000 taels of silver, the court officials' salaries are all halved, and the palace expenses can be saved, and those who can be exempted are exempted, and the king of Qin has two birthdays, and they have lived very simply.

Early the next morning, the king of Qin drove his own expedition, this time the old book was staked, and the king of Qin took 50,000 horses, plus 300,000 taels of silver and 500,000 stone grains, and drove to the long wall.

After the Zhao army was besieged by the Qin army, it tried to charge several times, but each time it was blocked back by the Qin army and the giant thunder chariot, and the 400,000 horses of the Zhao army really became a turtle in the urn.

Three days later, the king of Qin came to the long wall, and when he saw that the king of Qin came in person, he hurriedly went out to greet him and led the soldiers to kneel on the ground.

King Qin got out of the king's carriage, hurriedly helped Bai Qi up, comforted him, and said, "General Bai has worked hard, and King Gu knows that you will be able to live up to expectations." ”

Bai Qi hurriedly said modestly, "I'm ashamed, I'm ashamed, I commanded improperly, causing our army to lose troops and lose generals, and the grain and grass were robbed, the king can not blame, and trust me, Bai Qi is really moved inexplicably." ”

King Qin and Bai Qi exchanged pleasantries for a while, and with Bai Qi's hand, they entered the big tent of the Chinese army, and King Qin ordered people to hand over grain, grass and silver to Bai Qi.

Bai Qi ordered the people to hurry down to each battalion, the cooking has been almost out of the past few days, and each person has only two bowls of gruel a day, barely surviving and not starving to death, many soldiers are dizzy with hunger.

When the Qin army heard that the king of Qin had come to labor again, and brought a large amount of silver and grain and grass, everyone was overjoyed, and when the white flowers and silver arrived in their hands and the fragrant rice was brought to them, the morale of the Qin army rose greatly, and they praised the kindness of the king of Qin and the white general.

Just when the Qin army was jubilant, the Zhao army was almost exhausted, and when the Zhao army set out on the expedition, they all advanced lightly, only bringing three days of dry food and water.

After the Zhao army was surrounded, Zhao Kuo ordered all soldiers to hand over dry food and water for unified rationing.

Many soldiers objected, unwilling to hand over their dry rations and water, for fear that after handing them over, the officials would blacken their share.

Seeing that the situation was getting worse, Zhao Kuo sent people to arrest a few leaders who were making trouble, and it was calmed down.

Three days later, due to the unified rationing system implemented by the Zhao army, dry food and water were consumed very slowly, and the soldiers were really hungry and unbearable, and when they were thirsty and couldn't stand it, the officers would put some dry food and water on the soldiers.

Neither can provoke a mutiny, nor can it be too wasteful, and by now, there is still more than half of the dry food and water left, and there should be no problem in supporting it for another three or five days.

Zhao Kuo sent people to release carrier pigeons, hoping that Handan could receive the news and send troops to the rescue.

However, how did Zhao Kuo know that the Zhao army had been surrounded by the Qin legions, and it was impossible for any pigeon to fly out alive, so how could the news reach Handan.

After another three days, the Zhao army was on the verge of collapse, the soldiers were like vegetables, some soldiers were weak, they were already dehydrated and swollen, and they were lying on the ground dying.

Suddenly, there was a cry from one place.

A soldier hugged the corpse of another person, fell to the ground and cried bitterly, "Fourth, wake up, what's wrong with you, wake up,,。 ”

One of the people next to him said, "Wang Laosan, don't howl, your brother is dead." ”

The soldier roared hoarsely, "Ma Jing, you bastard, my brother is weak, let you give him more, but you refuse, that is, you killed my brother and returned my brother's life." ”

Ma Jing said with a pale face, "What kind of nerves do you have, everyone's amount is fixed, when have I ever deducted your dry food and water." ”

Wang Laosan sobbed and said, "You, you haven't deducted, my brother is about to die, you don't have a little humanity, can't you give him a little more, if you give him a little more food and water, he can't starve to death." ”

Ma Jing said angrily, "Wang Laosan, what you said is light, if I give your brother a little more, then you have to deduct it from other people's rations and water, and your brother is a person, and others are not people." ”

"Ma Jing, don't give me nonsense, my brother is dead, I want you to be buried with me, I will hack you to death,. ”

Wang Laosan took out his waist knife and slashed at Ma Jing, Ma Jing was caught off guard, and his arm was cut at once, and the situation here quickly alarmed Zhao Kuo.

Zhao Kuo hurriedly took people to see what happened, and when he got there, the people around him had already stopped Wang Laosan, besides, Wang Laosan had also been hungry for four or five days, where was there still so much strength, Ma Jing was only slightly injured.

When Wang Laosan saw Zhao Kuo coming, he fell to his knees with a thud, and said bitterly, "General, my brother, he, he was starved to death, if it weren't for Ma Jing, my brother wouldn't have starved to death." ”

Ma Jing said in an angry manner, "Ma Laosan, don't spew blood, I am just carrying out the general's orders, what is wrong with me, your brother's daily rations and love letters are also delivered on time, what is wrong with me." ”

Zhao Kuo sighed and said, "Don't quarrel with the two of you, blame me for this matter, blame me for my improper command, so that the Qin army is surrounded, Wang Laosan, if you want to blame, blame me." ”

Wang Laosan snorted, "General, it's no wonder you, we're going to win, I don't know where so many big monsters came out, we can't beat it at all, and it's no wonder that you're not going to blame for this." ”