Chapter 874: Fight to the Death

However, just when the King of Zhao was mobilizing his troops, King Zhaoxiang of Qin made a big move that shook the world. King Zhaoxiang of Qin personally rushed to Henei and announced that all the people in Henei County would be granted a first-level title, and all males over the age of fifteen would be conscripted to the front line.

Conferring a first-level title is equivalent to giving each person a set of land and a hectare of land. King Zhaoxiang of Qin was well versed in the way of motivation. At this time, he made a huge investment and decided to share the fruits of victory with his soldiers.

Henei County, originally belonging to Han, was the county where Yewang City was located. Qin had been attacking the territory of Henei County in the past few years, but it did not recruit soldiers in Henei County.

Henei County was close to Shangdang, and King Zhaoxiang of Qin took local materials from here. It was also time-consuming. At this time, time was life. This was true for Zhao State, and even more so for Qin State.

Now there is a question. What did King Zhaoxiang of Qin do with this new army with no combat experience? Was it to charge into the Changping war zone, or to transport food and grass to the army? Neither. King Zhaoxiang of Qin wanted to use this army to cut off the food supply of the Zhao army. He wanted to use these new troops to block the 100,000 new troops of the King of Zhao to the east of Taihang Mountain. It would not take long. As long as the reinforcements of Zhao were blocked for another month, the Battle of Changping would be over.

After Zhao Kuo's army was besieged for more than a month, Zhao Kuo knew that he could not wait any longer, so he selected 40,000 of the most elite Zhao troops, divided them into four teams, and attacked the defense position of Wang Ling's troops in succession. The four teams of elite Zhao troops, each team attacked for one hour, and then rested for three hours.

This went back and forth, attacking Wang Ling's position continuously. In the end, Huangfu Chaobo had to let the Xianzhen Camp and the Iron Eagle Sharp Warriors take turns to defend. Even so, after a day, the Xianzhen Camp and the Iron Eagle Sharp Warriors still lost hundreds of people. The Yuanrong Crossbow Soldiers were also divided into two parts to ensure that they had enough physical strength to fire crossbows.

This was not only the case with Huangfu Chaobo's soldiers, but also with the soldiers of other people. After a few days, nearly half of the Baihua soldiers of Zongheng Tianxia had been lost, and the Wei Wu soldiers of Jianling had also lost 40%, while the halberd soldiers of the Tyrannical Royal Family had lost more than half, but more than 20,000 Zhao soldiers fell in front of them.

After losing nearly half of the soldiers, Huangfu Chaobo led the players' soldiers to retreat from the defense line and handed them over to the soldiers of Wang Ling's army who were resting for a while. However, after several days of continuous fighting, the soldiers of Wang Ling's army were exhausted. Less than half a day after taking over the defense, they were broken through several defense lines by the elite of Zhao's army.

Seeing the urgency of the situation, Huangfu Chaobo did not care that his players had just withdrawn to rest for less than half a day, and hurriedly ordered Dian Wei to gather all the soldiers and guards of the Iron Wall Camp, and use them as the vanguard to quickly rush to the defense line and quickly plug the gap of Wang Ling's army, while Huangfu Chaobo ordered the other generals to lead the remaining soldiers to fill the defense line.

Fortunately, Huangfu Chaobo reacted quickly enough to block the Zhao army's breakout. When everyone tried their best to drive the Zhao army off the defense line, even Huangfu Chaobo collapsed on the ground. Huangfu Chaobo hasn't fought in the battlefield in person for several years. This time he almost lost his strength.

After two days and one night of fighting, Huangfu Chaobo was covered with scars. After taking a big golden medicine from his bag, Huangfu Chaobo's blood volume recovered quickly. The blood volume can be restored as soon as possible, but the wounds and fatigue on his body will not be eliminated.

After a short rest, Huangfu Chaobo stood up with the help of Dian Wei, walked slowly to Wang Ling, and said: "General Wang, when will Wu'an Jun's reinforcements arrive? If they don't come, I estimate that we can hardly withstand another round of attack from the Zhao army."

Wang Ling also shook his head and said: "I have sent people to Wu'an Jun for help. As for when the reinforcements will arrive, I don't know. Now we can only fight to the death..."

As he was speaking, the soldier in charge of monitoring the Zhao army suddenly shouted: "Attention, the Zhao army has started to attack again, pay attention to defense!"

When Huangfu Chaobo looked up in the direction of the Zhao army, the Zhao army began to gather again. Although the troops attacking this time seemed to be less than the previous ones,

but it can be seen that the soldiers in this round of attack seemed to be stronger than the previous ones.

Seeing this, Huangfu Chaobo shouted loudly: "Dian Wei!"

"Wei Jiang is here!"

"Gather the soldiers and prepare for the battle!" Huangfu Chaobo turned his head and looked at Zongheng Tianxia, ​​saying: "Everyone, get ready. I guess this is the last desperate battle of the Zhao army."

Several people in Zongheng Tianxia also realized this, and called their generals to their side, ordering them to gather all the soldiers who could fight and prepare for a fierce battle.

When everyone gathered the remaining soldiers, Huangfu Chaobo found that there were less than 6,000 soldiers and horses left out of the 15,000 players under his command, and less than half of his 4,000 soldiers and horses. Among them, because the Yuanrong crossbow soldiers had not participated in the close combat, they only lost 200 people, and the remaining nearly 3,000 people were only 1,200.

The rest of the soldiers and horses were even worse, basically only 30% of the soldiers and horses were left, including those who were slightly injured and could continue to fight, and the seriously injured soldiers had no time to move and treat their wounds.

Wang Ling's 20,000 troops plus the 20,000 troops Bai Qi has added to him over the past month, so far only more than 4,000 people can continue to participate in the war. The reason for such a large loss is that, on the one hand, the player has used a lot of blood medicine on his soldiers, and on the other hand, these soldiers of the player are basically elite soldiers, while most of Wang Ling's soldiers are ordinary soldiers of the Qin army, and the real elites are only about 10,000.

Although there are more than 10,000 soldiers on the current defense line, they are all exhausted. If the Zhao army has another 5,000 elite soldiers, it is estimated that they can break through the Qin army's defense line.

Huangfu Chaobo was not wrong. This time it was indeed the last blow of the Zhao army. This time, the 3,000 guards around Zhao Kuo and the 3,000 elite soldiers of the Zhao army were dispatched, a total of 6,000 troops, and Zhao Kuo himself was also in the army. Because the Zhao army has been short of food for several days, if they don't break out, they can only wait for death.

Zhao Kuo personally went to the battlefield, indicating that the Zhao army has also reached the most difficult moment. Zhao Kuo came with the determination to either die in battle or break out.

After the Zhao army formed up in front of the Qin army's defense line, Zhao Kuo did not do the routine morale boosting. Instead, he quietly walked in front of the soldiers, drew the long sword from his waist, pointed it at the Qin army's formation, and shouted loudly: "Kill all the Qin dogs, break through the siege! Kill!!!"

Six thousand Zhao soldiers shouted in unison: "Kill! Kill! Kill!"