Qin Shi: Beginning as the first emperor's younger brother

Li Tong rushed here, and Ying Yuan issued an order to him, "Tomorrow at noon, go and declare war with Li Mu. Remember, this battle can only be defeated, not won."

"Can only be defeated?" The other party was puzzled.

Ying Yuan said: "Just follow my orders."

After receiving the order, Li Tong went down to prepare.

Noon the next day.

Li Mu personally sent troops to fight.

The morale of the Zhao army is already low, so we must pay attention to the first battle.

If they lose, I'm afraid it will indirectly affect the final outcome of the entire army.

He thought that he would be able to see Ying Yuan in this battle, but it was his lieutenant general, Li Tong, who was sent here.

He had heard of this Li Tong. He had followed the former to fight in the north and south at a very early age.

But with Li Xin's generation, they are still slightly inferior.

This battle is more like a fight than a war.

The two sides set a time, place and a fixed number of people, and when they are brought to the battlefield, they will fight together.

In less than an hour, Li Mu's department had the upper hand.

In order to win the first battle, the generals he brought with him were all the elite troops of the Zhao army.

Therefore, he is bound to win this battle.

Soon, Qin's army was about to collapse. Seeing this, Li Tong hurriedly beat the drums and withdrew.

Li Mu was worried that the enemy was deceitful, so he did not take advantage of the victory to pursue, but let them go.

Back at the camp, he seemed to be in a much better mood.

This battle has brought back the low morale of Zhao Jun's soldiers.

Li Tong felt aggrieved and returned to the camp.

Ying Yuan greeted him personally, with a smile on his face, patted him on the shoulder, and said, "This battle is well done, and Zhao Jun has not become suspicious."

Unexpectedly, he shook his head and said: "Master Hou, in this battle, in fact... actually, we lost, not because the last general took the initiative to defeat. Today's Zhao army is different from the past. They have trained well. Su, the battle advances and retreats in an orderly manner, it is really difficult to break through, and in just over half an hour, our army has already shown a defeat."

Hearing the sound, Ying Yuan was slightly taken aback, and ordered: "It's okay, as long as I have fulfilled my entrustment, you wait, go to appease the wounded, Li Tong, follow me into account."

After the words fell, he turned around and walked towards the direction of the main tent.

Li Tong followed closely.

Ying Yuan frowned.

He still underestimated Li Mu.

In the first battle, I thought it was an active defeat, but after a long time of trouble, I didn't expect that it was defeated by Zhao Jun in an upright manner.

This is a disgrace to the Qin army, which is different from taking the initiative to defeat.

After returning to the camp, Ying Yuan took a deep breath and said with a heavy heart, "We still underestimated Li Mu. As Zhao's No.1 general, he really deserves his name. You don't have to worry about it. You can go to the battle tomorrow. Remember, it's still the same." If you want to lose, if you can't win, bring the cavalry with you tomorrow, even if you lose something, it doesn't matter, as long as Li Mu underestimates this Marquis."

Li Tong was completely dumbfounded this time.

Still want to continue to lose?

After coming and going, the morale of the Zhao army peaked, but our army showed a discouraged defeat.

But he still received the military order.

After working under Ying Yuan for so many years, he knows very well what to ask and what not to ask.

He believed in the champion Hou. After all, since Hou Ye led the army, it seemed that he had never lost a battle in the true sense.

Ying Yuan thought for a while, and continued to tell him: "Tomorrow's battle, there is no need to go to war, just go directly to Luezhen. It would be better if the enemy has an ambush, and it doesn't matter if some people die. It is necessary to create an idea in the enemy army that we are eager to avenge our shame."

Li Tong was helpless.

I don't understand what Lord Hou wants to do.

Over Hangu Pass, the war has already begun.

The person in charge of attacking Hangu Pass was Zhao Cong, a young general of Zhao State.

Strange to say.

This may be the fate of being a famous general.

In the original history, when Wang Jian and Huan Jue attacked Zhao, the latter had fought several battles with Zhao Cong.

In the end, Zhao Cong was defeated.

And the two of them, at that time, could be called famous generals.

The fate of each other was not disturbed by Ying Yuan's arrival.

On the contrary, even earlier.

The original history was that Huan Jue attacked Zhao, and Zhao Cong was in charge of defense.

This time, it was Zhao Cong who attacked Qin, but it was hard to say how the outcome would be.

In short, the battle on the Hangu Pass had just started for a day, and both sides had already suffered countless casualties.

It can be described as a bloody battle.

They both understand that there is no way out for each other.

The next day.

Li Tong led [-] light cavalry to raid Li Mu's camp.

Encountered an ambush and lost more than half.

When Li Tong was retreating, he was shot in the back by an arrow.

Li Mu smiled in front of all the soldiers: "This Ying Yuan seems to be a man of vain reputation, eager to get rid of the shame, but I don't know that the old man has already set up an ambush to kill pigs and sheep tonight to reward the three armies!"

"Marshal mighty!"