Chapter 873: Zhao Jun Breaks Out

Tuberose's series of questions left Zhao Ze speechless, and he couldn't answer his questions for a long time. After a long time, he slumped down on the couch and muttered to himself: "Is this how I will just sit back and do nothing? "

"No, it's not that the general doesn't care, but that the general doesn't have enough troops to take care of it. The general's responsibility is to guard the food and grass for the hundreds of thousands of troops in Changping for the general. As for opening up a retreat, I believe the general will have a way. "At this time, Xi Zhicai on the side also started to persuade;

"If the general is good at dispatching his troops, it will be good if he can recapture the Xu family. If the general loses his troops and loses his generals, but is still unable to recapture the Xu family, and instead causes the rear camp to lose supplies, then the general will die and will never be forgiven for his crime."

When Zhao Ze heard this, he immediately came over and quickly stepped forward, grabbed Xi Zhicai's hand and asked, "Sir, if you have any good ideas, please let me know."

"I don't dare to take good advice, but Zhicai has some ideas, and the general can take a look at them." Xi Zhicai said slowly;

"Sir, please tell me, Zhao Ze will definitely obey!"

Regarding the victory or defeat of Zhao Jun, Ye Laixiang and Xi Zhicai have discussed it many times. Now it has reached the worst situation where Zhao Jun's army is surrounded. At this time, it is not that there is no way out. Xi Zhicai has one last solution. , although it could not save most of the Zhao army, it could at least save tens of thousands of Zhao soldiers.

"For the current plan, one thing the general has to do is to hold on to the rear camp and keep the food, grass and baggage for the general. If the general can successfully break out of the Qin army's encirclement, then at least the rear camp will have enough food and grass to support the army. If the worst happens If the result occurs, that is, the general's hundreds of thousands of troops cannot escape, then the general must lead the tens of thousands of troops in the rear camp to retreat to the northern part of Shangdang, save the last elite troops for Zhao, and at the same time, find ways to recapture The Baili Stone Great Wall and Changping Pass were built to resist the Qin army's northward advance."

What Xi Zhicai said left Zhao Ze stunned. It took him a long time to react, and then he murmured: "How is it possible? How is it possible that the general's hundreds of thousands of troops cannot escape?"

"General, that was just the worst result that Zhicai expected. Although Zhicai didn't want that result to happen, the general must still be prepared." Xi Zhicai continued;

Zhao Ze composed himself and said: "Sir, please tell me clearly, how should Zhao Ze act specifically?"

"The general should send troops quickly and firmly control this place in the hands of the general's army. In this way, our army's retreat will be safe. When the boundary is established, we can attack when we advance and defend when we retreat. This can avoid the danger of the entire army being destroyed." After saying that, Xi Zhicai pointed to the location of the old pass on the map.

Zhao Ze was heartbroken and looked towards where Xi Zhicai was pointing. He quickly understood what Xi Zhicai meant and immediately ordered: "Chen Jian, listen to the order!"

"We will be here!" a middle-aged general in the tent responded;

"I will order you to lead an army of 10,000 people and rush to the old pass quickly. No matter how many Qin troops come to attack, you must be nailed there by me and not to retreat even half a step. If you lose the old pass, you will have to come back." See you!" Zhao Zheling said;

"General, please don't worry before I receive the order. If you are in prison, you will be killed if you are in prison!" As he said that, Chen Jian immediately took the order arrows and went out of the tent. He ordered ten thousand Zhao troops and headed towards the old pass dozens of miles away in the northwest. .

Fortunately, Zhao Ze reacted quickly enough. One day later, when Chen Jian's 10,000-strong army arrived at Gu Pass, less than an hour later, Sima Geng's 10,000 Qin troops arrived to the west of Gu Pass and were defeated by Chen Jian's 10,000-strong army. It is firmly blocking the Baili Stone Great Wall to the west of Guguan.

Defending the escape route of the old pass is the last resort for clearing the dungeon designed by Xi Zhicai for Ye Laixiang. For players in the Qin camp, how to eliminate as many Zhao troops as possible is their task, and for players in the Zhao camp In other words, how to protect more Sergeant Zhao soldiers is their goal.

After receiving the news that the old pass was finally defended, Xi Zhicai and Ye Laixiang finally breathed a long sigh of relief. They knew that at least nearly 10,000 of Zhao's soldiers had been saved. The next thing to do was to As much as possible, the 70,000 troops and horses in the rear camp were withdrawn to Shangdang.

Just when Tuberose was racking her brains to rescue more soldiers from Zhao,

Zhao Kuo, the coach of Zhao Jun, also began to arrange for the army to break out.

Zhao Kuo ordered a part of the Zhao army to break out in the direction of the Bailishi Great Wall and the Danhe River, hoping to attract the attention of the Qin army. At the same time, he sent a group of elite troops to forcefully transport grain and grass to Daliang Mountain.

But the commander of the Qin army is Bai Qi. How can he be so easy to fool? Bai Qi is sure that the Zhao army is short of food and will definitely send troops towards the Daliang Mountain. Therefore, the place where he increases the most troops is the valley area defended by the Wang Ling Department, but the river valley The area of ​​​​the lot is too small, and the number of soldiers and horses that can be deployed at one time is not large, so the number added each time is not very large.

The Zhao army rushed to transport food, and the Qin army desperately blocked it. The two armies fought fiercely in the Xiaodongcang River Valley. There were shouts and killings in the river and on the bank.

In the Xiaodongcang River Valley, corpses piled up in the rivers and blood flowed into channels. A very small number of Zhao soldiers, whose robes and armor were full of blood, could only carry a few bags of grain and grass to the Changping camp.

But at this time, Zhao Jun still had about 300,000 soldiers and horses beside Zhao Kuo, and there were more than 300 captains alone. This amount of food was only a meal's ration for the captains, and even Zhao Jun's Even the urgent needs cannot be solved.

On one side, they desperately tried to break through the siege and transport food into the camp, while on the other side, they desperately tried to block Zhao Jun from transporting food into the camp. During this period, Wang Ling also considered sending troops to attack the food and fodder camp in the rear camp of the Zhao army, but they were repelled by 70,000 Zhao soldiers. Bai Qi only had enough soldiers and horses to besiege Zhao Kuo's army, and there was no extra force to come. Attacking Zhao Jun's rear camp had to give up in the end.

The two sides finally had to continue to send heavy troops to fight for this place. Wang Ling's 20,000 troops only lasted for five days, and basically lost everything. In desperation, Wang Ling had to transfer Huangfu Chaobo's troops to the front for defense, and at the same time, he asked Bai Qi for support again.

At this time, Zhao Kuo's messenger for help had arrived in Handan, and the King of Zhao began to consider sending reinforcements to Changping again. As for the reinforcements of Zhao State, only Li Mu's border troops were relatively strong, and the other troops were only the imperial guards in Handan, but these elite troops could not leave the royal city.

At the moment of life and death, it only took more than ten days to transfer Li Mu's garrison troops in Daijun, Yunzhong, Yanmen and other places. But Li Mu was not famous at that time, and it would take more than ten years for him to defeat the Xiongnu. If Li Mu's army went south, it could change the situation, but the Xiongnu might also take the opportunity to go south.

After weighing the pros and cons, King Xiaocheng of Zhao still did not dare to mobilize Li Mu's border troops. Finally, King Zhao had to recruit another 100,000 new soldiers and transport some food to Changping, preparing to join forces with the army in the rear camp and launch an attack on the Qin army from both sides.