Zhao Weiwang in the Warring States Period

What Li Mu, who was focusing on observing the armored cavalry, didn't notice was that when everyone behind him looked at him, there was a bit of awe in their eyes.

"This is simply not a power that human beings can grasp!" These are the words that Tu Xie, who has grown old, is still full of awe when he brags to his descendants 40 years later.

Until this time, Lao Tu Xie still looked as if he had lingering fears.

This battle of Yiqu City was also the first war in which gunpowder appeared and participated in this world.

If Zhentianlei was just full of shock to the soldiers of Zhao Guo who were watching from a distance, then it was an out-and-out super disaster for the soldiers of Yiqu who were holding on to the top of the city.

To be honest, the power of this explosion is not too great, and the number of people killed and injured is not too many, but the problem is that the way of this explosion is completely out of the understanding of the Yiqu soldiers present. scope.

Until Li Mu led the army slowly into the city, he could still see that among the many prisoners kneeling on both sides of the street, many of them looked dumbfounded and even drooled from the corners of their mouths. It was frightened, even frightened.

Even Yiqulie, the "King of Yiqu" who chose to stick to Yiqu City, started to yell wildly after being tied up in front of Li Mu: "What are you despicable Zhao people using?" What kind of means, let the evil gods do it for you? You will not be allowed by the gods for such behavior, Zhao people, you will be punished by the gods!!!”

Yes, Yi Qulie attributed the sudden collapse of the city wall to the evil god's curse.

Li Mu waved his hand very calmly to Yi Qulie's howling of a defeated dog, "Drag it on and see if you can get something meaningful out of his mouth."

Today, Li Mu is one of the important ministers of the Dragon Terrace of the Zhao Kingdom. He is accompanied by a squad of monitoring guards. Bad tasks, such as the harsh punishment that Yi Qulie is about to face.

"Okay, this palace is yours again!" After finishing all this, Li Mu turned around and smiled at Yiqu Sheng.

Yi Qusheng looked at the palace in front of him, staring at the familiar utensils and furnishings in the palace, with a very emotional expression on his face.

After a long while, Yi Qusheng shook his head, and said to Li Mu seriously: "Don't be joking, the governor, since I, Yi Qusheng, is now a subject of Zhao State, then this city will naturally belong to me. It doesn't matter anymore. From today, this is the territory of Zhao State!"

If it is said that before this war, there was still a little bit of luck in Yiqu Sheng's heart that he might be able to revive the Yiqu country, then at this moment, Yiqu Sheng has completely dispelled it. this mentality.

After seeing the "Zhentianlei" weapon that can be called divine punishment for Yiqusheng, Yiqusheng really didn't dare to give birth to even the slightest rebellious heart.

Li Mu smiled slightly, and was very satisfied with Yiqu Sheng's performance of understanding current affairs.

After all, in Li Mu's heart, he also regards Yiqu Sheng as his rare friend and beloved general. If Yi Qusheng's mind twitches after seeing this palace and thinks of the sweet dream of King Yiqu, then Li Mu is really not very good dealt with.

After finishing Yiqu victory, Li Mu turned his attention to the Hungarian leader duo Xian Shan and Tu Xie: "How about it, now you should know why I asked you to wait for the Huns to fight against the Huns a few days ago. Are you constantly attacking the city? Speaking of which, I would also like to thank you, if not for the hard work of the Hun soldiers, Zhentianlei would not have been buried in such a timely manner, and Yiqu City would not have been buried so quickly. will be breached."

Tu Xie took a deep breath, and suddenly lowered his body and made a big salute: "Governor, the general made a mistake, and the general confessed to the governor here, please punish him!"

Li Mu smiled slightly and helped Tu Xie up: "The governor hopes that you can remember one truth through this matter, that is, I will never do meaningless things on the battlefield, let alone sacrifice my attributes at will." Your Majesty, no matter whether these subordinates are Lin Hu, Lou Fan, Yi Qu, or Xiongnu, in my heart, they are all Zhao people!"

"General, urgent military situation!" A fast horse galloped up suddenly, and delivered an urgent report to Li Mu.

Li Mu opened it and immediately frowned.

"Wang Jian"

Chapter 838 Li Mu's Decision (First Change)

The arrival of Wang Jian is undoubtedly a big trouble for Li Mu.

Wang Jian himself is actually not a big trouble. The real trouble lies in the [-] Qin troops brought by Wang Jian.

Regarding this information, Yi Qusheng expressed his opinion almost immediately: "Isn't it just a hundred thousand Qin people? Let us wait here for the arrival of these Qin people, and then defeat them!"

"Nonsense!" Li Mu shook his head, directly rejecting Yi Qu Sheng's reckless suggestion.

Fighting depends on brains. If you are as reckless as Yiqu Sheng every time, then you will fail sooner or later.

After scolding Yiqu Sheng, Li Mu looked around at the generals present, and found that they were not afraid because of the large number of enemies, on the contrary, they all had fiery fighting intent on their faces.

Tu Xie was very excited and said to Li Mu: "The governor is a person with the protection of the gods. As long as the gods can bring disasters to the people of Qin, then no matter how many people of Qin, we will definitely be able to defeat them!"

Li Mu was dumbfounded, and only then did he understand where the confidence of his subordinates came from.

They don't believe in themselves, but in Zhen Tianlei!

Li Mu was suddenly a little unhappy.

But soon Li Mu suppressed this strange emotion in his heart, shook his head and said in a deep voice: "First of all, I want to reiterate with you that the Thunderbolt is not a punishment from heaven, but a weapon. A kind of armor, bows and arrows, long spears and even the eight-ox crossbow of the infantry that we often use are a kind of weapon, a kind of weapon that can deal with Zhao Guo and help us defeat powerful enemies ,do you understand?"

As soon as Li Mu said these words, the generals still had some disbelief on their faces, but seeing Li Mu's very serious expression, the feeling of disbelief gradually faded away.

Having been with Li Mu for so many years, everyone knows that Li Mu may occasionally joke, but when he says something so seriously, it must be very reliable and true.

Li Mu continued: "Since Zhentianlei is a weapon, it must be consumed. I don't want to hide it from you, but this Yiqu City alone has already consumed the existing Zhentianlei in the army very seriously. , So if there is another [-] Qin army, then these Zhentianlei can't support such consumption at all, so it is impossible to rely on the power of Zhentianlei to fight the Qin army this time, understand? "

Li Mu talked about this point, how could the generals of the Zhao Kingdom not understand the truth?So one or two nodded.

This kind of news was obviously not what they wanted to hear for these Zhao generals, so the atmosphere suddenly became a little dull.

Yi Qusheng had the most straightforward personality among the people present, so he frowned immediately after learning that Zhen Tianlei could not completely rely on Zhen Tianlei to defeat Qin, but immediately relaxed again: "But the governor Even if we can't defeat Qin's army with Thunderbolt, we can definitely defeat Qin's people with armored cavalry!"

Yi Qusheng's words were immediately approved by the generals present.

To be honest, before this, who knew what thunder was like, what made these Zhao generals most confident was actually the armored cavalry from the Zhao army, or the side cavalry regiment that the Zhao army was invincible.

But for Yi Qusheng's words, Li Mu was silent for a while and still chose to refuse: "No, it's too risky."

If at this moment in Li Mu's hand is a cavalry corps consisting of [-] soldiers composed entirely of the most elite cavalry troops in the border cavalry corps of Zhao State, then Li Mu really wants to try Wang Jian, the young general of Qin State. weight.

But the problem is that among the 2 people in Li Mu's hands at the moment, there are a total of [-] Hun cavalry, which undoubtedly reduces the combat effectiveness of the entire army a lot.

This is not to say that these Huns were not brave enough to fight well, or that their performance on horseback was not good enough. The real problem was that these Huns cavalry did not meet Li Mu's requirements.

The Hungarian cavalry never had any concept of an army in their minds, and they have always been in a mess when fighting. They rushed back and forth with their own generals, shot blindly and then rushed blindly. The battle was fought, and there was no discipline at all.

Discipline is a very important thing. In history, the pioneer of the great Huns empire, Moton Shanyu, used Mingdi to train and strengthen the discipline of the Huns cavalry, so the Huns were able to rise rapidly in a short period of time. And eventually became a super empire capable of confronting the Han Empire.

But the current Xiongnu are not the Huns of Maodun in history, and the Huns in Li Mu's hands are not organized Hun cavalry under Maodun's hands. It is actually quite difficult to train such a messy army. , at least for now Li Mu has not seen the hope of success.

Under such circumstances, Li Mu didn't think he could rely on the remaining [-] cavalry troops to fight against the [-] Qin army led by Wang Jian.

What's more, Wang Jian must have known to fight against Li Mu when he sent troops this time, so as long as Wang Jian is not stupid, he will definitely target Li Mu's cavalry.

The bad thing is, because Li Mu has never had the experience of confronting Wang Jian, and there is no example of Wang Jian leading an army alone against cavalry for reference, so Li Mu has no idea what kind of tactics Wang Jian might use.

In such a situation where "knowing the enemy" cannot be achieved, rashly fighting a war where the enemy is outnumbered will definitely not have any other results except failure.

Li Mu made a decision very calmly: "Qin's troops still have at least six days to arrive here, so I ask you to complete the rest within four days, and try to save all the troops in this city. Everything, including wealth, supplies, and population, will be taken away. On the fifth day, the Qin people and we will directly retreat north and return to Shuofang, and leave the empty shell of Yiqu City to the Qin people."

As soon as Li Mu said these words, all the Zhao generals present were stunned.

Yi Qusheng's eyes widened, and he couldn't help but say, "Governor, I heard right just now, right? Are we going to retreat?"

Li Mu took a look at Yi Qusheng, and said: "That's right, now that Qin is powerful, we must retreat first. After returning to Shuofang County to replenish our troops, horses, food and grass, we will play by ear."

After a pause, Li Mu glanced at the several generals present with incomparably sharp eyes, and said in a deep voice, "Why, does anyone have any objections to the decision made by the governor?"