Back to the Warring States Period as Zhao Kuo

On the contrary, Jingyang also built two large camps outside the city, one on the left and one on the right, guarding Xiacai City in the middle.

Moreover, the two left and right large camps in the state of Chu also deliberately went to build some, so that the two large camps and the three places in Xiacai City became an upside-down word "pin".

If Zhao Jun directly attacked Xiacai City, then the Chu Army's left and right camps could easily outflank Zhao Jun's flanks and rear.

If the Zhao army goes to attack the left and right camps of Chu, then the Chu army can support the left and right camps through Xiacai City.

Since the two camps on the left and right of the Chu army are located in the wild, there is not much need to worry about explosives.

As for Xiacai City, which is most afraid of explosives, as I said just now, it happens to be the place where the Chu army is most heavily guarded.

In this way, the two camps and the city became horns of each other, forming a fairly tight defensive circle.

Moreover, this defensive circle can also weaken the destructive power of explosives to the greatest extent. It has to be said that a lot of thought has really been put into it.

Standing beside Zhao Kuo, Li Mu didn't take it seriously: "It looks good, but there are actually quite a few flaws."

Zhao Kuo smiled and said, "What flaws do you think are there?"

Li Mu chuckled, and said: "Their flaw is that although these two camps in the wild are not afraid of explosives, they are afraid of ordinary attacks.

So we only need to concentrate our forces first and take down the two big camps next to it. At that time, Xiacai City lost the protection of the two big camps, so we just smashed him casually. "

Zhao Kuo nodded with a smile: "That is indeed the truth."

As the saying goes, everything has two sides. Although Jingyang has avoided the destruction of Xiacai City by explosives as much as possible, the problem is that the two camps in the wild have become a new weakness for the Chu people.

The camp in the wild, no matter how much you build all kinds of fortifications and defenses in the wild, its defensive power will definitely not be comparable to the tall and strong city walls.

Therefore, the Han army only needs to adopt the tactics of breaking through the two camps in the field first, and then besieging Caicheng, and they can easily break through Jingyang's defense line.

Of course, if another coach were here, in fact, this big camp in the wild might not be so easy to conquer.

But for Zhao Kuo, this is obviously not a problem.

Zhao Kuo said to Li Mu: "Starting tomorrow, you will lead the attack.

Our focus is to attack the big camp on the west side of the city first, then the big camp on the east side, and finally Xiacai City! "

Full of confidence, Li Mu immediately agreed.

While Zhao Kuo and Li Mujun were discussing the plan to attack Xiacai City, on the city wall of Xiacai City, Jingyang was also watching the Han army camp with many generals of the Chu army.

From Jingyang down, the expressions on the faces of all the generals of the Chu army were actually quite dignified.

They all knew very well that there was no room for Chu to fail in this battle, as long as they lost, the country would be destroyed immediately!Compared with other countries in the Central Plains, Chu State is actually not that interested in the so-called "Huaxia".

Because the state of Chu itself was not from the formal Huaxia system, it belonged to that kind of barbarian origin, and was gradually assimilated by the more advanced Huaxia system.

Since the founding of the country, the Chu State has fully integrated into China on the one hand, and on the other hand has fought against the overlords of the Central Plains such as Qin, Qi, Jin, and Wei for hundreds of years. The kind of arrogance in their hearts is far from dissipating. .

Jing Jing said lightly: "Everyone should know the current situation, so I won't talk nonsense.

In short, if you don’t want your wives and concubines to become slaves of the Han people in the future, and if you don’t want your own and your sons’ heads to be hung on the flagpoles by the Han people, this time, follow the old man and take these damn Han people Call back! "

After Jingyang's words fell, everyone echoed for a while, expressing that they would fight to the death with the Han people, but it's hard to say how many of them are sincere and how many of them have other plans.

Later that day, Zhao Kuo, who had just returned to Wangzhang, received two letters from Shouchun City.

Judging from the signatures on the envelopes, the two letters are from Li Yuan, Ling Yin of Chu State, and Li Si, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of Han State who is currently active in Shouchun City.

"This Li Si seems to have some skills."

Zhao Kuo nodded slightly to express his appreciation.

Today's Zhao Kuo has actually established a system, that is, every prime minister and deputy can only hold the position for a maximum of five years, and then he has to change.

On the one hand, this is for the consideration of future generations. After all, the prime minister was definitely not a problem when Zhao Kuo was in power, but the prime minister may become a powerful minister in future generations.

Someone asked, if the prime minister really becomes a powerful minister, will future generations have a solution?

In fact, the answer is very simple. Everyone is here to be an official. Who doesn't want to be a prime minister?

So, once a certain prime minister is unwilling to serve a five-year term after taking power, he will become the biggest enemy in the hearts of all the important ministers of Zhao and Han who still want to continue to progress as prime minister.

A prime minister may be able to evade the emperor, but can he evade other officials who are also important ministers of the Han Dynasty?

Certainly not possible.

At that time, as long as Zhao Kuo's descendants are not too stupid, they can easily overthrow this powerful minister and prime minister by contacting these important ministers quietly.

Li Si is one of Zhao Kuo's candidates for the future prime minister of Han.

This person is still young, capable, and able to do things. He was also Qin Shihuang's prime minister in history. It is not wrong to let him be the prime minister once.

In history, Li Si partnered with Zhao Gao to support Qin Ershi because he wanted to continue to be the prime minister. But now, Li Si has already retired when the second generation of the Han Dynasty takes over. Even if he intervenes, he has no chance .

What's more, Zhao Kuo is not Qin Shihuang. When Qin Shihuang was in power, Qin State had no prince, so there was a dispute between Fusu and Hu Hai.

But now Zhao Kuo had established Zhao Qian as the prince long ago, and began to subconsciously cultivate some power for Zhao Qian. In the future, Zhao Qian's succession to the throne is expected by everyone, so where is there room for others to intervene?

Zhao Kuo withdrew his thoughts, and first opened the envelope in front of him from Yin Liyuan, the order of the state of Chu.

Looking at it, Zhao Kuo's mouth twitched slightly, revealing a smile.

This is an honest letter.

Li Yuan made it very clear in his heart that as long as Zhao Kuo could defeat Jingyang and lead his troops to Shouchun City, Li Yuan would immediately open the city and surrender.

As for why he didn't surrender now, Li Yuan also had an excuse. He said that now all the military power in Chu State was taken by Jingyang and the others, so he had to wait until Jingyang was defeated before he could find a solution.

"What a fool."

Zhao Kuo shook his head.

In fact, Zhao Kuo's psychology is very clear about what Li Yuan is like. To put it bluntly, he just wants to bet on both sides.

However, people who want to bet on both sides are often not happy!After regaining his composure, Zhao Kuo opened Li Si's letter again.

Looking at it, Zhao Kuo's frown that had just been frowned gradually relaxed again.

Li Si's letter was much longer than Li Yuan's. Li Si described what happened in Shouchun City in detail in his heart, and pointed out Li Yuan's stupid mentality very directly.

In addition, Li Si also proposed a solution, and said that as long as Zhao Kuo agrees, Li Si is at least [-]% sure.

Zhao Kuo smiled: "This Li Si is really bold."

Li Si's plan, even in the eyes of Zhao Kuo, who is good at winning by surprise, is very bold.

It can only be said that for credit, Li Si also went all out.

Zhao Kuo thought for a while, picked up his pen, and replied to Li Si.

"In principle, the widow agrees with your action.

However, your action cannot be launched too early, you must wait until the news that the widows have defeated Jingyang in Xiacai City, and the vanguard of the widows has arrived outside Shouchun City, can you start it! "

After putting down the pen, Zhao Kuo asked someone to send the letter away, and then rubbed his temples.

Time to sleep.

When we get up tomorrow, the prelude to the decisive battle in Xiacai City will officially begin!

Chapter 1104 Storming the West Camp of the Chu Army

The next day.

Zhao Kuo stood on the handsome car, watching the Chu army's defense line in the distance.

The Chu army had obviously made up their minds not to go out of the city to fight the Han army, but there were figures on both the city wall and the commanding heights of the camp, and it was obvious that they were extremely concerned about the movements of the Han army.

Zhao Kuo nodded slightly towards Li Mu beside him, and said, "Okay, let's launch an attack."

Li Mu, who had been eager to try for a long time, was overjoyed when he heard the words, and excitedly took the order and left.

A moment later, heavy drums sounded, and countless soldiers of the Han army roared out amidst the sound of the drums, heading towards the Chu army's defense line in the distance.

Jingyang was standing at the top of Xiacai City at this time, his eyes kept going back and forth among the various Han armies, trying to find the main direction of Zhao Kuo's attack.

Soon, Jingyang came to a conclusion: "This Zhao Kuo should want to attack from our west camp first!"

Why is it the camp on the west side?

Because Shouchun is located in the southwest of Xiacai City, the two cities are connected by the Huai River.

If the Han army occupied the camp on the west side, then the connection between Shouchun City and Xiacai City would be cut off, which is undoubtedly very bad news for the Chu army.

Jingyang snorted, and said in a deep voice: "The old man won't believe the order to strengthen the guards of the west camp. Could it be that Zhao Kuo is really so good that he can break through our west camp casually? "

Many generals of the Chu army standing beside Jingyang were also excited and took orders one after another.

Regardless of the mood of the people present at this moment, all of them have been involved in this war, and they must do their best to win!The first wave of offensive force of the Han army was not cavalry.

In the wild, the cavalry is of course an absolutely powerful force, but when attacking such a large camp with a camp wall, the cavalry becomes relatively weak again.

The state of Chu is not a fool either. They dug a large number of trenches and traps outside the camp wall, and placed a lot of things such as iron spikes and repelling horses against the cavalry.

Therefore, the first wave of appearances can only be infantry.

After the infantry of the Han army approached, the commanders of the Chu army immediately seized the opportunity and asked their archers to start shooting uninterruptedly.

During this period of time, the infantry of the Han army can only be beaten passively. This is the best opportunity for the Chu army to kill the strength of the Han army.

Accompanied by the shooting of the archers of the Chu army, some of the vanguard of the Han army also fell down.

However, the Han army was all the elites of all battles. They didn't panic at all. They used the wooden shields in their hands to block the arrows as much as possible along the way, and then rushed to the outside of the camp wall at the fastest speed.

Next, the vanguards of the Han army stopped and pulled away the horse-rejecting posts with force. If they were too heavy to pull, they were directly poured with kerosene and burned.

After the vanguard, there was a second wave of troops. This second wave of troops looked very shabby, covered in leather armor, and didn't even have weapons in their hands, just holding some shovels.

It turned out that they were prisoners from all over the Han Dynasty, who were conscripted to fight.

Zhao Kuo had made a promise before the war that as long as these prisoners can make contributions in the war, as long as they do not involve murder, insulting women and other really bad crimes, they can be pardoned after the war.

Therefore, each of these prisoners was full of enthusiasm and began to frantically fill in the trenches and traps, trying to help the Han army open up a road leading to the camp wall.

Tens of thousands of prisoners swarmed up, shovels flew around, and a lot of trenches and traps were filled in a short period of time.

Of course, the commanders of the Chu army could not allow the situation to become like this, so they also frantically issued orders to let the archers shoot the prisoners.

But it was at this time that a new change appeared.

The first batch of vanguards of the Han army who rushed up before also took out bows and arrows from their backs at this time, and began to suppress the archers of the Chu army on the camp wall.

Things like bows and arrows seem ordinary, but in fact not everyone can be an archer.

The simplest one is that it takes strength to draw a bow, and you need to have good eyesight if you want to shoot accurately. These two points alone can eliminate most soldiers of this era.

So something like an archer, he actually belongs to a branch that tests national strength.

Why do you say that?

Because once a country has a large population, it is of course easier to recruit more archers when recruiting soldiers. Conversely, even if a country with a small population tries to train and recruit, the number of archers is still very limited. .

The Han State now has more than [-]% of the population of the entire Huaxia. Compared with the Chu State, this military source is really much more than that of the Chu State. The number of archers is also several times that of the Chu Army.

Therefore, after some mutual shooting, although the archers at the west camp of the Chu army achieved more kills, in the face of the continuous number of archers of the Han army, the Chu army was still suppressed in the end and dared not fight again. Rising from above the camp walls.

After the Chu army's archers were suppressed, the speed at which various horse refusals and traps were cleared was greatly accelerated.

Moreover, the Han army does not need to completely remove all obstacles, they only need to clear a few roads enough to pass through the large troops.

The general in charge of this camp of the Chu army is none other than the patriarch of the Zhao family, this time Jingyang's deputy general Zhao Zhong.

After realizing the intention of the Han army, Zhao Zhong gritted his teeth and gave the order.

"Cavalry attack, push their archers back!"

Zhao Zhong also had no choice, if this continues, once the gunpowder of the Han army is brought up, the camp will be opened up in a matter of minutes.

Opening the gap does not mean that the camp is lost, but in this situation, of course, keeping the defense line as far as possible outside the camp wall is the best way to ensure the combat effectiveness of the Chu army.

With Zhao Zhong's order, the side door of the Chu army's camp suddenly opened, and a cavalry force of more than 2000 Chu troops drove out with billowing smoke and dust, and rushed towards the flank of the Han army's archer group.

This scene fell into Li Mu's eyes.

Although the Chu army that rushed out was only a light cavalry, the Han army archer group itself was light infantry with almost no protection. Once the light cavalry rushed in, it would be a one-sided massacre.

If things really go like this, then Zhaozhong's intention will be completely successful.

But, would Li Mu allow this kind of thing to happen?

Of course not.

Li Mu waved his flag and said calmly, "Where's Chi You's army?