Chaotic Qin

Hearing Meng Wu's answer, the joy that Wang Jian had just completely destroyed the Chu army disappeared.

Wu Anjun Bai Qi and Meng Ao are both very old.

It is common sense for them to die at this age, but the survival of the older generation of generals itself represents a strong cohesion.

Wu An Jun Bai Qi is even more outstanding among them.

As long as Bai Qi is alive, the entire Qin army is full of belief in victory, and once Bai Qi passes away, Qin's deterrence against other countries will definitely drop significantly.

This will be a huge blow to the Qin army that is using troops, and it will seriously affect the combat mood of the soldiers during the attack.

After Wang Jian pondered for a long time in silence, he finally rejected Meng Wu's proposal to return home as soon as possible.

He explained earnestly: "If Lord Wu An unfortunately passed away, we should completely capture Daliang and wipe out the State of Wei in one fell swoop. It has been proved that the power of the Qin army itself will never be diminished because of Lord Wu An's death."

Meng Wu said hesitantly: "But, if Lord Wu An leaves and we haven't finished this war yet, will the soldiers not want to fight?"

Wang Jian shook his head and directly denied this possibility, saying: "Wei State is different from Zhao State, they can't move it anymore. Otherwise, they wouldn't have been relying on the strong gates of Daliang and staying behind closed doors. As long as Daliang City collapses, the whole Wei Guo is ready to capture, and Wei Wang Jiyu doesn't want to throw off his hair and kneel to welcome us."

"Then why is the general so frowning?" Meng Wu couldn't help asking after seeing Wang Jian's serious expression.

Wang Jian smiled wryly, and suddenly said: "General Li Mu is not young anymore, and although the soldiers and generals of the Yan Kingdom are incompetent, the 50 army is not a joke. I am not only worried about the affairs of Lord Wu An, but also for the soldiers. In addition to the impact on morale, there is also some fear that General Li Mu will feel sad about the death of a rabbit and a fox, and that things will hurt others, which will affect his judgment."

Of course, Li Mu will not miss the news that Wang Jian can receive. It is impossible to say that this matter has no impact on Li Mu.

Meng Wu fell silent after hearing this, completely unsure of what to say.

He simply fell silent without saying a word, and said after a long time: "The river is calm, and I will take someone to check it out."

Wang Jian nodded, but did not stop Meng Wu's actions.

For ten consecutive days, the Qin army, who was rated as greedy and shameless, was divided into countless waves, and batch after batch were searching for colleagues who had joined in their death ambitions and were swallowed by the river.

Some of the corpses washed ashore by the flood were easy to distinguish, and the rest had obviously been entangled in mud and turf and fell to the bottom of the river without a trace.

"General Mengwu, there are still 130 and nine brothers left, let's go into the water and look for them! Our hundred or so people are all good at swimming, and nothing will happen." Meng Wu was young, and his hands were full of filth from digging through corpses.

But his eyes were red, and his eyes revealed innocent hope.

Meng Wu raised his lips, but he couldn't say anything, a sour emotion choked in his roar.

Meng Wu's eyes were red again, he had been used to seeing dead people since he was a child fighting with his father.

As the saying goes, "Compassion does not lead soldiers", Meng Wu thinks that he is definitely not a kind and soft person.

But since the past few days, after personally selecting a batch of soldiers to die in battle, he has been unable to calm down.

Meng Wu stretched out his hand and patted the strong man's shoulder, and his voice was broken: "Wait another five days, and their bodies will definitely float up from the bottom of the river. Don't go down, everyone is in agitated mood now, and accidents are prone to happen." ... They, they are all heroes of my Great Qin!"

The man still wanted to say something, so he couldn't help kneeling on the ground.

But Meng Wu pulled him up from the ground and shouted angrily: "Soldiers deserve to die on the battlefield! Whoever dares to venture into the water will be dealt with by military law!"

It's just spring, and the river is still terribly cold, so going into the water is a life-threatening act!

What Meng Wu said was true, and after a few days, the newly excavated river gradually floated white corpses.

The corpses were piled on top of each other, making people feel disgusted.

But none of Qin Jun who was in charge of salvage showed any impatient expression. Even though almost all the salvaged ones were salvaged were Chu Jun who came to disrupt the situation, they still kept their faces tense, and kept throwing the corpses to the other side, and then identified them through their military uniforms. , Continue to search for the dead bodies of Qin soldiers.

Unfortunately, even though they had worked so hard, the bodies of seven people were never found again.

Such a result is frustrating. Even if the Qin army has achieved great success in defeating the [-] Chu army at this time, it still cannot make up for the regret.

Time passed day by day, and three months later, there was a loud bang, and the walls of Daliang City, which could not be subdued by the Qin army, finally collapsed.

The entire wall smashed into the river with a "boom—boom—!!", causing layers of water splashes, which turned up the sediment at the bottom of the river for a while, making the river turbid, and the formation on the top of the city wall After the pieces collapsed, the lower the city wall, the more it shattered into huge boulders, which were smashed into the river one after another.

Daliang City was destroyed.

This island-like but extremely arrogant Daliang City finally could no longer stand in front of the Qin army to show off its might.

Originally thinking that the Qin army could do nothing to them, the Wei people who could only dig the soil and vent their anger looked at Daliang City, which was completely unprotected, and they all waited dejectedly for the Qin army to enter this city that had honored them for countless generations.

Wei Guo has been unable to return to heaven.

"Close the gate and stop the entrance of the river." Wang Jian looked at the collapsed Daliang City, and a satisfied look finally appeared on his face that had not seen a smile for many days.

Seeing the smile on Wang Jian's face, Meng Wu immediately said, "The whole army is ready to go."

When the river water gradually receded, Daliang City had already changed.

The streets that used to be smooth were muddy, and the river that poured into the city seemed to carry the remains of the dead Qin soldiers, completely destroying the houses that the residents of the city lived in.

Even if the State of Qin didn't try to embarrass the residents living in Daliang City, the completely softened foundation made the houses they lived in full of danger.

The houses all over the city may collapse at any time, and they have the same danger as Daliang City.

The face of Wei Wang Ji Yu was completely devoid of color. The originally very burly man had become thin and dry in just a few months, and the face that had been treated favorably by the years due to his pampering had also left a series of criss-crossing and criss-crossing grooves.

Now, he finally looks like an old man of his age.

"My lord, the walls of Daliang City have fallen." The servant knelt in front of King Wei and trembled, his voice was so trembling that it was hard to distinguish the meaning of his words.

Wei Wang Ji Yu did not respond for a long time.

After a long time, he raised his head with a pair of cloudy eyes, and said blankly: "...the city, the city wall fell?"

The servant took a peek at the lord of Wei, and lowered his voice, fearing that he would anger Ji Yu: "Yes, lord, the walls of Daliang City have collapsed."

Wei Wang Jiyu stood up, shook her whole body, and finally focused her eyes.

He stumbled to the center of the hall, and said in a low voice: "Change clothes for the widow, the widow is going out of the city, to..." to surrender to the Qin army, begging them not to slaughter the people in Daliang City.

Ji Yu suddenly fell to his knees, covering his face and weeping bitterly.

He enjoyed the glory and wealth all his life, but he did not expect to become the king of subjugation in his later years.

The prince who had gone to the ancestral temple to persuade Wei Wang Ji Yu to come out and organize an army to resist, stepped forward, helped his father up, and let Wei Wang Ji Yu sit down.

He said calmly: "Father, my son will go with you."

The Lord of the Kingdom of Wei stared at the prince's fake face for a while, then suddenly smiled and said, "Okay, okay, okay!"

Before the words were finished, Wei Wang Ji Yu actually fell down in the prince's fake arms and died.

The expression on the prince's fake face was instantly emptied.

He stiffly maintained the posture of supporting Wei Wang Jiyu, completely unable to understand what happened in a short while.

The prince pretended to raise his head to look at the servant who had received the news.

The servant was so frightened that he couldn't see his face, he suddenly screamed: "The lord is dead!"

Only then did the prince show a terrified expression on his false face, he threw away the corpse in his arms in a panic, took two steps back, then stopped suddenly, turned around with a "boom!" Wei Wang Jiyu, who was so excited to death, cried loudly in front of the corpse.

A moment later, the palace was filled with crying and howling.

But Wei Wang Ji Yu, who had just died at this time, no longer had the opportunity to enjoy the treatment of a dead king of a country. His body could only be hastily put into the coffin and parked in the palace at will.

"My lord, General Wang Jian has already led his troops into the city. You, should you..." The servant knelt on the ground and said with difficulty.

He is afraid of death!

The servant did not want to urge the new ruler of Wei, who had to be the king of subjugation and suffered humiliation at this time, to surrender.

But the Qin army has a bad reputation. If the new king of the Wei state appeared in front of the Qin army kneeling in white clothes and disheveled hair, would the people of the entire Daliang City be buried with the Wei state?

The crown prince is still young, and he has been looking forward to the day when he will ascend to the throne of the country and enjoy the right to call the wind and rain.

But no matter how imaginative, the prince never thought about it. He has not yet ushered in the enthronement ceremony, and he already needs to be the king of subjugation.

He wiped away the tears on his face, changed into the clothes he had to wear when he surrendered, knelt on the ground with his hair loose, and moved out of the city little by little.

But even though the crown prince was full of unwillingness and regret in his heart, he still appeared in front of the Qin army led by Wang Jian with this face, and accepted the reality that the Wei state was gone.

Wei State is destroyed!

Sending troops to collect the letter of surrender and the map of Wei Guo that the new leader of the Wei Kingdom pretended to bring, Wang Jian pointed to a soldier and said indifferently: "Take the king of Wei who has been destroyed, and go back and present it to the king."

King Wei closed his eyes in desperation, and let himself be dragged away by the strong Qin army like a dead pig.

Compared to Wang Jian, who was going well, Li Mu always seemed a bit unlucky.

In order to prevent the soldiers from fighting each other, neither Qin Zichu nor Ying Zheng would send troops into Li Mu's hands when he still had [-] Zhao soldiers.

But this battle between Zhao State and Yan State is not like Daliang City at all. There are no natural dangers to rely on, and no redundant personnel to mobilize.

Li Mu wanted to defeat Yan State, even if he used tricks, in the process of capturing the land of Yan State, he could only hold his nose and accept his fate to fight the Yan army.

In the beginning, everything went well.

Ju Xin brought back the news of Yao Jia, and the Yan Army indeed deployed a large number of Yan Army on standby outside Wusui and Fangcheng.

Just waiting for an order, they will burn the city and burn all the troops under Li Mu to death.

Li Mu used all his tricks and tricked the Yan army severely, and wiped out 25 Yan troops in one go.

But after this point, the Yan army refused to be fooled no matter what, and no longer divided the remaining 25 Yan soldiers into several groups for surprise attacks, but completely entered the frontal battlefield, intending to crush Li Mu with a strong number of people, and the casualties were less than [-] Qin Jun.

All strategies and tactics have no room to play under the actual attack.

After the Yan army changed its offensive strategy, Li Mu instantly felt the pressure of the frontal battlefield, while the Yan army looked at the Qin army, which was far less than one-third of his number, and his morale was high.

For a while, the Yan army was evenly matched with the Qin army, which was several times stronger than their individual strength, and there was even a vague tendency to dominate.

According to Li Mu's order, Li Xin led his troops back to the main force from the flanks.

He casually tucked his messy hair back into the bun, and said anxiously: "General Li Mu, the final general sees that the Yan army's momentum is astonishing at this time, and it is difficult to seize the edge."

Li Mu nodded solemnly. Seeing Qin Chu rushing back to the camp with another group of soldiers, he said decisively, "Qin Chu, your riding skills are better. Take five hundred cavalry to charge into the Yan army. Disrupt their formation and hurry back."

Qin Chu said directly without asking, "Yes."

As soon as the voice fell, he took the cavalry and turned around to leave.

Li Xin looked at Qin Chu's back and couldn't help but said, "General Li Mu, how can you let Qin Chu go to die at this time..."

Li Mu raised his hand to stop what Li Xin was about to say, and couldn't help laughing: "Li Xin, you are young and energetic, and you are arrogant, but there is one thing that is good. You dare to admit and correct any mistakes. However, in front of you I misunderstood the old man. Is the Yan army itself strong? No! The soldiers of the Yan army don’t need to talk about the one-on-one under the old man, even five-on-one on weekdays. The momentum overwhelmed us. Now we lead the army to retreat to the Great Wall, and guard it for a few months, completely destroying the morale of the Yan army, and then we can take down the remaining 25 Yan army in one go."

Li Xin blushed with shame, cupped his hands and said, "The last general is going to order the troops to retreat now."

Li Mu stretched out his hand and patted Li Xin on the shoulder again, and said seriously: "Qin Chu was kind to you a few days ago, so you should be worried about him. But it's okay, with Qin Chu's riding skills, this time he took Leading five hundred cavalry to disturb the Yan army, I am afraid that not only will they not be injured and lose their lives, but they will also bring back a considerable amount of military exploits."

After the two chatted quickly, they immediately retreated with well-trained soldiers.

The [-] army was not in the slightest confusion, and quickly moved to the back of the Great Wall and re-established fortifications.

Li Xin didn't expect Li Mu's words to be completely correct. They waited in the Great Wall for a long time but they still didn't see the Yan army attacking.

Suddenly, a group of cavalry in black armor came over the rolling yellow sand, and the horses neighed and brought them back.

Qin Chu pulled the reins suddenly, stopped firmly in the camp, jumped off the horse and knelt in front of Li Mu, saying: "The last general is lucky to live up to his fate."

Li Mu patted Qin Chu on the back a few times in relief, and then took them back to the handsome tent to discuss future tactics.

Li Xin never had the chance to lead the cavalry. Seeing that Qin Chu came back unscathed, he couldn't help but enviously said, "General Qin Chu's skills are really good. Not one of the [-] cavalry under his command was injured."

Qin Chu was taken aback for a moment, and then realized that Li Xin, who was just 20 years old and had been in the army for no more than five years, did not understand the gap between the current cavalry and the army using chariots.

The cavalry of other countries in the Warring States Period still used chariots, but the army of Qin State had changed to one rider per man due to the improvement of horse gear.

Since making such a change, the cavalry of the Qin army has greatly enhanced their mobility. As long as the horizontal knife gallops past the enemy army, harvesting the enemy's life is as easy as cutting vegetables.

The height difference of the horses also made it extremely difficult for the enemy army to hurt them, and the enemy cavalry couldn't catch up at all because of the heavy load on the carriage.

Qin Chu hurriedly explained the problem to Li Xin.

When Qin Chu finished speaking, Li Mu, Li Xin and Qin Chu suddenly fell silent.

After a while, Li Mu slammed the table hard, and said loudly: "Of course, the old man has been trusted by the lord to train cavalry, why did he forget their role!"

Li Mu was very annoyed at himself: Since I know that the cavalry is capable and powerful, why would I still consider the cavalry to be a messenger team?

What a waste!

Looking at Li Mu's expression, Qin Chu whispered, "General, shall we still rely on the Great Wall to wait for the morale of the Yan army to drop?"

After thinking for a moment, Li Mu nodded, "We still need to wait. Since the cavalry is easy to use, these days, you can take people to attack the enemy camp at night. When the Yan army is overwhelmed and morale is low, the army will be successful in one fell swoop." Capture them, completely defeat them, rush directly into Jicheng, and destroy Yan Kingdom!"

With the plan formulated by Li Mu, everything went smoothly.

Qin Chu is good at kung fu.

He led the cavalry to trample through their camp every day when the Yan army was most exhausted at night, and harvested some heads on the way back, making the Yan army suspicious and unable to sleep at night.

Within a month, the Yan army's original rushing momentum had quietly disappeared.

The soldiers of Yan State were all sluggish, yawning during the day, and dodging nervously at night.

"The time has come, the decisive battle tomorrow!" Li Mu finally made a decision after seeing the news reported by the spies.

Qin Zichu and Ying Zheng quietly brought a team of guards to Baiqi's mansion, and accompanied by several of Baiqi's sons, they entered Baiqi's room.

A sleeping old man was lying quietly in the quilt, with a full head of gorgeous hair, and the supposedly mighty and strong Northwest man was already in good shape.

"...Wu Anjun, how is your health these few days?" Qin Zichu couldn't help frowning when he saw Bai Qi's old age.

Bai Qi's son looked a little uneasy when he heard the question.

He didn't inherit his father's talent, and he never thought that he would have the opportunity to meet the king in his lifetime. Therefore, facing Qin Zichu's cold face—even if he knew that the king was worried about his father—was really frightening.

He stuttered and said: "Hui, Hui Guo, the imperial doctor said that my father will be at the end of this month."

Qin Zichu and Ying Zheng looked at each other with more mournful expressions.

He lowered his voice and said: "Let Mr. Wu An take a good rest, and I will come to see him tomorrow."

After saying that, Qin Zichu and Ying Zheng turned around and left together.

After boarding the carriage, Qin Zichu said, "Ah Zheng, have you made up your mind?"

Ying Zheng nodded thoughtfully, paused for a while, and said, "A month ago, both Li Mu and Wang Jian sent back the victory report. If Mr. Wu An can survive until the end of the month, then there may be something to do."

When Qin Zichu heard Ying Zheng's words, he was suddenly not sure whether his actions were right or wrong, so he couldn't help hesitantly saying, "Ah Zheng, do you really think my ideas are good?"

Ying Zheng did not answer this question. Instead, he put his palm into the hem of the crown robe, held onto a place where his head had not yet been raised, put his head next to Qin Zichu's ear, bit his earlobe and said, "Except for not letting me go for ten days." It's all right to be greedy and happy."