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

Of the [-] cavalry, more than half were lost.

After Li Mu found out about this, he murmured with a smile: "Today's defeat is due to the Qin army's best efforts, but this Ying Yuan actually attacked our camp at night at such a time, I really don't know what to say! It seems that, It's the old man who thinks highly of him."

"After this defeat, I'm afraid this Ying Yuan can be honest for a while." Some generals echoed.

Li Mu nodded, "You're right."

But he made a mistake. In the remaining few days, Ying Yuan attacked Zhao Jun's camp at night several times, but each time he was defeated and fled.

This made Zhao Jun panic, for fear that they would attack at night.

Can't even rest well.

Unexpectedly, after achieving this effect, Ying Yuan would not attack the enemy camp at night.

Instead, it was quiet for several days.

A general said to Li Mu: "It seems that the Qin army is also tired these few days."

The latter said with a smile: "We have attacked our army several times at night, and each time we were defeated and fled. Why not talk about it? This Ying Yuan is just too impatient, and I am afraid that there will be any problems at Hangu Pass."

While they were discussing, they received a letter of challenge from Ying Yuan.

He planned to have a decisive battle with them three days later.

When Li Mu saw this gauntlet, his face was solemn.

A general of the Zhao army asked, "Have you accepted their letter of challenge?"

Li Mu shook his head, "We just want to stay here now, there is absolutely no need to pay attention to their gauntlet. However, in the past few days, we can have a good rest. We have been mentally tense for several nights. The soldiers are already extremely tired."

"Marshal is right. Since the Qin army wants to fight in three days, they must also want to take advantage of these few days to take a good rest and recover some vitality."

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It was originally planned to fight the enemy three days later, but in the middle of the next night, Ying Yuan assembled all the troops.

He ordered every soldier to bring a handful of thatch.

Before setting off, he solemnly said to all the soldiers: "The battle tonight is a decisive battle between us and the enemy. There is no room for loss. The enemy is camping in the mountains and forests. It is summer and the sky is dry. Once the water is released, the enemy will die." The army will be in chaos. As long as there is a big fire, no matter how powerful the enemy army is, they can only be slaughtered by us!"

In fact, that was his plan from the beginning.

If the defeat at the beginning was just to make Zhao Jun arrogant, then the victory in the middle was to make Zhao Jun feel insecure and completely destroy their arrogance.

For the rest of the day, the constant night raids made them physically and mentally exhausted.

Now, if he handed in the letter of war by himself, the enemy army would definitely take advantage of these few days to recuperate physically and mentally.

At this time, it is really time to decide the outcome.

Although they were backed by the river, the bodies of soldiers killed by the Qin army during the recent battles were basically collected by Ying Yuan and piled up at the source of the river.

As for the soldiers who died in Zhao Jun's camp, he couldn't collect them back.

His purpose in doing that was to pollute the water source of the river through countless stinking and rotting corpses.

As long as this is achieved, that small river is basically useless.

When there is a big fire, there will definitely be countless soldiers of the Zhao army rushing to the small river. As long as they drink the river water or stand in the river to avoid the fire, there is definitely a risk of disaster.

As for using the small river to fight the fire, it was too late to come and go.

At the price of losing so many battles, Ying Yuan wanted to control the enemy's psychology in his hands.

As long as they relax their vigilance, the soldiers of the Qin army are sure to put all the flammable substances in the enemy camp.

When the fire comes together, the entire mountain forest will be burned to ashes.

As for the bodies of those dead and wounded soldiers, Ying Yuan thought he had done nothing wrong.

It is the honor of those soldiers to be able to serve the country after death.

Ying Yuan understood at a very early age the principle that one general will be successful and his bones will dry up, and that kindness does not control soldiers.

The delay for such a long time is to let those stinking and rotting corpses gradually produce toxins and bacteria, indirectly polluting the entire river.

The only advantage that allowed the enemy to camp in the mountains and forests also disappeared.

This is why, when Ying Yuan asked them to take the initiative to defeat the battle, he once said the purpose of the sentence 'It doesn't matter if some people die'.

In fact, in the past few days, some of Zhao Jun's soldiers have experienced various physical discomforts, but no one has thought about the plague.

It is difficult for military doctors to find out. After all, it takes a certain amount of time for the plague to erupt completely in the latent person.

The time difference between them has been firmly controlled by Ying Yuan.

Li Mu also thought it was because the soldiers hadn't slept soundly for a long time, that's why there was something wrong with their health, so he planned to take advantage of the moment when Ying Yuan handed over the letter of war, and ordered the whole army to sleep well and recuperate .

He really didn't expect that such a big move would happen the day after Qin Jun handed over the letter of war.

After all, after several days of night raids, the enemy army has suffered heavy losses and is exhausted, right?

How could it still be attacking at night?

Therefore, this created such a god-sent opportunity for Ying Yuan.

[Chapter 136.133: The army is defeated like a mountain]

late at night.

The earth fell into a deep sleep, and the breeze blew gently. In the forest, except for the occasional chirping of summer insects, there were only countless and dense footsteps telling the restlessness of the night.

All the Qin troops were dispatched, and slowly approached Zhao Jun's camp in a siege situation.

When it was approaching, Ying Yuan's side would launch a fierce attack first.

Of course, the so-called onslaught was nothing more than countless arrows laced with heavy fuel oil shooting at the enemy camp.

In an instant, the originally dark and silent world became brighter like daylight because of countless ignited arrows.

As for the thatch brought by the soldiers, they were all thrown into the enemy camp by trebuchets.

Or pile them up next to the trees where the night wind blows towards Zhao Jun and light them, so that the fire will gradually spread.

Most of that thatch was watered with kerosene.

These days, besides preparing for the battle, Ying Yuan specially ordered people to secretly prepare a large amount of fire oil and various flammable substances.

It is summer, and the vegetation in the forest is flammable. Once the fire is set on fire, it will be an irresistible trend.