In the second wave of attacks, Zhao Jun sent out two formations, one after another. When the first formation was driven off the battlefield due to an irregular formation, the second formation fought together with the attacking Qin army and actually dispersed the Qin army. But they were unable to break through the barriers and took the initiative to retreat.
The third wave was still two formations. This time, the Qin army crouched under the wall because they wore too many winter clothes, had poor heat dissipation, increased body temperature, and sweated profusely. They even suffered from fainting and convulsions and were unable to rush out. , and the Qin army that rushed out was also exhausted and collapsed at the first contact with the Zhao army. The Zhao army quickly approached the barrier. Below the barrier is a trench nearly a person high. Although there is no water, it is very difficult to pass. The halberdier threw the dirt bag in his hand from behind and turned around to retreat.
Wang Hao ordered to take advantage of the gap between the Zhao army's attacks to quickly bring all the Qin troops outside the wall back to the wall for treatment.
The Zhao army overcame the interference of the Qin army outside the wall, and the next step was to fill the trenches. Wave after wave of Zhao troops came forward bravely, threw the bags of dirt in their hands, and then withdrew. The Qin army also understood their intentions and treated them with arrows along the way. Zhao Jun started from a hundred steps and continued to twenty steps. There was a distance of 80 steps and he was always under the threat of Qin Jun's arrows. Every time, many people were injured and dragged back by their companions. But more than half of the trench was filled up by bags of earth again and again.
Perhaps due to the influence of the dust on the battlefield, at sunset, the sky suddenly became covered with dark clouds, and an autumn rain came. After the rain, the Qin people's bows and arrows were no longer useful because the bowstrings became loose due to moisture. The Qin army had no choice but to send spearmen out of the camp to stop the Zhao army. The two sides fought in the rain for a while. The rain became heavier and heavier, and even the drums could no longer be beaten. Both sides had to withdraw their troops.
In the next few days, the autumn rain came and went intermittently, and there was never a whole sunny day. The bow string was always damp, and the drum surface was also damp. Zhao Kuo continued to send small groups of Zhao troops out to fill in the soil, but the Qin army also sent out troops to stop them. Zhao Kuo wanted to take advantage of his own strength to consume the Qin army's physical strength in a round-robin battle, but the armies were so crowded that it was very difficult to move the camp, which seemed more strenuous than fighting. It seems more effective to let the injured soldiers leave and replenish strong soldiers from the nearby camp to maintain the combat effectiveness of the troops.
The autumn rain made Zhao Kuo worried. He was eager to know the movements of the Qin army, but since a few days ago, the spies in Hedong could not send back information, and the sentries sent to Hedong could not enter Hedong: Hedong cut off both Zhi Road and Yuban Road: Spy You can only reach Zhiguan from the south; if you go north, you have to detour through Taiyuan, and the information you get can only be ten days ago.
The sudden strict control was a reminder that a major military operation was about to begin; with Bai Qi's character, being passively beaten was definitely not what he wanted. Zhao Kuo was sure that Bai Qi must be plotting some plan and would definitely give him a fatal blow. He didn't have the confidence to guess Bai Qi's plan - Lian Po couldn't do this, how could he, Zhao Kuo, be so virtuous? He could only rely on his strong military strength and bet that Bai Qi could not kill him with one blow. As long as he is still alive after suffering a blow, he is confident that he will look good to Bai Qi!
Since Wang Ji and Li Bing came to power, the Qin army immediately established a strict security system: King Qin is in Anyi. As long as this news is revealed, countless heroes will flock over like bloodthirsty wolves. According to the law of Shiwu Lianzuo, he strictly enforced the household registration of every household in Hedong and strictly checked the outsiders. All immigrants were registered and handed over to Shiwu's custody; but if anyone ran away, all his fellow members would be killed and Tongshi would be punished! If the fugitive is reported or captured, he is exempted from guilt. If Shiwu thinks this person is unreliable and unwilling to guarantee, he will arrest him directly, shave his hair and beard, put on brown clothes, and go to work on the construction site! Zhi Road and Yuban Road only allow people with special festival charms to pass, and other business travelers are not allowed to pass. The guards guarding the pass were led by swordsmen and local garrison soldiers. For this purpose, the King of Qin specially mobilized a thousand swordsmen to Hedong.
The most difficult place is the counties in Fenshang, which are theoretically Korean lands, but in fact there are no Korean troops and are controlled by the Qin army; however, Qin laws are not implemented there, and the main officials are still Korean. people. After Pi Wan came back, he sternly warned Yang Chengjun that outsiders must not be allowed in Han. Yang Chengjun naturally responded repeatedly, and then ignored him: If you have the ability, take care of it yourself, if you want me to take care of it, no way!
Although this backdoor was left, there were still problems with the intelligence transmission by Zhao's spies. Firstly, the intelligence network has been destroyed or stopped, and there is a problem with the source of intelligence; secondly, the intelligence personnel themselves have to hide in Tibet and have no time to search for intelligence. Therefore, when the intelligence personnel who slipped through the network finally passed the intelligence to Zhao Kuo through Taiyuan, not only was it out of time, but the quality was also low. And even this kind of information is difficult to continuously send out.
On the contrary, Chen Si's intelligence work is still effective, and the traffic between Shangdang and Hanoi is very smooth. Chen Si was personally in charge of Zhi City, and his liaison officers jointly received information from informants from all over the world, and then passed it on to Chen Si. Chen Si even knew that merchants in Hanoi had a hidden path that led directly to the shops behind the mountains.
Zhao Jun's ferocious attack made Bai Qi frown. He said nothing and silently watched the confrontation between the two sides. He thought in his heart that they could not just fight on a narrow battlefield; if they met on a narrow road, Zhao Jun would undoubtedly risk his life. opportunity to succeed. For example, in the fight in front of them, the Qin army fought very hard. If there was enough space, the Qin army would not hesitate to stab the Zhao army diagonally, but it is a pity that there is not!
The heavy rain stopped everything. Zhao Jun should not launch a desperate attack, but he has the opportunity to build roads and attack the party. He immediately informed Sima Jin to start building the road immediately.
Sima Jin and the craftsmen surveyed the terrain a few days ago and decided on the project plan. As soon as it rains, work starts immediately. Taking advantage of the soft soil on rainy days, we dug out the blocking stones along the road and leveled the slope. Since there is no need for tamping, the amount of work is much smaller, and more than 20 miles can be leveled in one day. In just three days, the road to Shangdang Valley was opened! Bai Qi immediately ordered all the troops who arrived at Duanshi. After receiving the month's fried millet, they immediately followed this road to Shangdang and hid in the valley.
It rained intermittently for five days, and all 20,000 prisoners from Guanzhong entered Shangdang. Because the bows and arrows were damp, all the archers turned into spearmen.
Twenty thousand prisoners from Shangjun were controlled in the valley behind the mountain, ready to support Shangdang and Changping. Twenty thousand prisoners from the North entered Gaodu and joined the prisoners from Nanjun. There is Bai Qi's personal camp in Gaodu, and the public chariot from the personal camp temporarily commands the 40,000 troops. After the road was built, Sima Jin returned to Gaodu with the migrant workers recruited from Nandu, and at the same time took over the command of the Gaodu army.
In the same five days, 20,000 Xianyang swordsmen also arrived in Anyi and completely took over the security work around Anyi.
On this day, the sky finally cleared up. After the autumn rain, the weather is slightly cooler. Both sides seemed to be dissatisfied with the fact that they had not been able to fight to their fullest due to rain these days, so as soon as the weather cleared, each ministry sent out troops to attack. Since the bow string is still out of use for the time being, this day is just about simple impact and hand-to-hand combat.
Without the support of bows and arrows, hand-to-hand combat seemed weak and weak. Although many people were injured, they were not serious. However, the loss of equipment was very serious, and the biggest loss was the shield. Under repeated impacts, many shields broke into two pieces and could no longer be used.
Both warring parties were unexpected: large-scale shield fragmentation had never occurred on the battlefield in the past, and the occasional individual fragmentation did not actually affect the battle. Also, how could a battle last more than half a year in the past?
Zhao Kuo believed that this change was beneficial to his side: if both sides lost shields one by one, the Zhao army could eventually overwhelm the Qin army with the advantage of the total number of shields. Therefore, the next day he ordered to increase the intensity of the impact and strive to smash a few more shields. He asked the rear troops to gather all their shields in front for use in frontline operations. At the end of the day, there are always hundreds of shields out of action.
Zhao Kuo felt depressed. Although he fought hard, he couldn't seem to find the Qin army's weakness. He could only rely on head-on confrontation with the opponent every day to consume them. He decided to strengthen his troops in the south and strive to open up the situation there. But the south side is too small for the army to concentrate on. The maximum limit is to use two armies.
Zhao Kuo thought of a way to expand the number of three formations and nine battalions in each attack to four formations and twelve battalions. Strengthen frontal pressure by adding three battalions of regular soldiers.
The Zhao army deployed twelve battalions and was immediately discovered by the Qin army. The Qin army cautiously stopped the attack and waited for the Zhao army to come.
In this day's battle, Zhao Jun launched the first attack. After a half-day battle, the nine battalions of the Qin Army and the twelve battalions of the Zhao Army were equally killed. Zhao Kuo saw that the four formations could not succeed, so he ordered his troops to attack again. Those halberdiers with less training and weaker combat effectiveness swarmed out and interfered with the Qin army's formation.
But this time, after the Zhao army's surprise troops came out, the sound of drums also sounded in the Qin army camp, and another 5,000 men came out of the camp. The first one with 5,000 men resisted for two or three more times and then retreated. The Gongcheng led the troops in formation and pressed forward neatly. Zhao Jun immediately panicked. Although the main soldiers speeded up their formation, the formation was rarely strict and collapsed at the first touch. And those strange soldiers are even more vulnerable in front of the regular soldiers in strict formation! Their thrusts were blocked by the shields, and the spears protruding from the middle of the shields knocked them over one by one. Soon, Zhao Jun ignored the urging of the drums and ran back, and the attack turned into a collapse.
Zhao Kuo had no choice but to send another 5,000 regular soldiers out of the city to form a formation. At the same time, he lined up the war supervisors in front of the gate tower and killed anyone who entered the gate tower. After killing several people from each gate, the retreat was finally stopped, and the defeated soldiers began to form an array in front of the city.
Zhao Jun, who had hurriedly left the city, attacked first, stopping Qin Jun's pursuit and giving Zhao Jun a chance to break up his troops. However, this Zhao army was sent out temporarily and was poorly prepared, so it was quickly dispersed. But the Zhao army, which had already organized its troops, quickly made up the troops and fought against the Qin army. With two strikes and one strike, they were barely able to draw a tie with the Qin army.
Just when the battle in the south was getting tough, the general guarding the northernmost Danzhu Ridge sent an envoy to report that Qin troops appeared behind the mountain!
