"The General's brilliant plan!" Sima Shang also looked happy when he heard this, but then he was still a little worried, "But even if the Qin army only has 50,000 soldiers, it will be a hard nut to crack if it is stationed in such a strong camp."
Li Mu waved his hand and analyzed: "The 100,000-strong army that attacked the Qin army's camp killed more than 14,000 people and injured 20,000 people. Excluding the seriously wounded, the 100,000-strong army still had about 70,000 fighting soldiers. Then send out the 50,000 heavy armored regiments in the rear camp, so there are nearly 120,000 people."
"These 120,000 soldiers were divided into four armies, each with 30,000 people. They took turns attacking the Qin army's camp day and night. Although the Qin army was powerful, if their flesh and blood bodies did not get enough rest, how could they survive? How much combat power does it have?"
"I see. If this happens, the Qin army will be defeated sooner or later!"
Seeing Li Mu and Sima Shang talking endlessly about attacking the camp of Wang Jian, Wang Ben and his son, but did not mention Danhandan City and Zhao Wangyan as well as the ministers and clan of Zhao State at all, Zhao Cong said: "The fifty thousand What if we attack Danhan City? No one can guarantee the safety of the king, hundreds of officials and the clan, so what's the use of winning?"
Li Mu's eyes were very different, and he did not avoid Zhao Cong's gaze. Instead, he looked at Zhao Cong with some surprise, as if he was surprised that Zhao Cong would ask such a question.
"General Zhao Cong, don't let your thoughts be led away by the enemy. A general should find a way to make the enemy follow his own thoughts."
"Wang Jian wanted to imitate Sun Bin's strategy of besieging Wei and rescuing Zhao in the past, but the 50,000-strong army went deep without supplies. What would happen even if they reached the gates of Danhan City?"
"If Wang Jian and Wang Ben both die, the morale of the Qin army will definitely be in chaos. When Wei and Chu see that the Qin army is in chaos, and there is a profit to be made, they will naturally not stand idly by."
Zhao Cong looked at Li Mu and said nothing.
From a military perspective, he was speechless.
Because what Li Mu said is right. If Wang Jian and Wang Ben can be successfully attacked, the situation may indeed be reversed. But can the Zhao army successfully attack Wang Jian, Wang Ben and his son?
And no matter what, exposing your king to the front of the Qin army, even if such a front is not something to worry about, how can a minister do this?
What would Zhao Wangyan think?
The same was true for Li Mu in history. He successively bet on Fanwu, the gateway to Zhao, and Feicheng, an important town, which caused the Qin army to point directly at Danhan.
It is true that the final result was that the Qin army was repeatedly hit hard by Li Mu, but how many kings could tolerate someone deliberately exposing him to the Qin army's front?
Zhao Cong is arrogant and hostile to generations, but after all, he is the general of the Zhao family. He cares about this country in his heart, and he cares more about Zhao Wangyan, the head of the Zhao family.
In the final analysis, the State of Zhao can be destroyed, but the Zhao family cannot be destroyed.
As long as the Zhao family is alive, the Zhao country is not really dead, but if the Zhao family is dead, everything is over.
Li Mu said it lightly. The 50,000-strong Qin army alone had nothing to do with Danhan City. But who knows whether the Qin army would really have the means to capture Danhan City?
There are spies all over the world. What if someone cooperates with others and opens the city gate?
And now Zhao Wangyan's body... can no longer withstand any shock.
If the King of Zhao dies during the war, it will be a major blow to the morale of the Zhao army. The successive natural disasters have caused Zhao to have insufficient food reserves.
Zhao Cong touched a piece of tiger talisman and a roll of silk on his chest. It was a tiger talisman that was enough to command all the soldiers and horses of Zhao State and an edict to remove Li Mu from military power.
And the only one who could give Zhao Cong these two things was the seriously ill and dying Zhao King Yan.
Yes, he has never truly trusted others, even when facing the danger of national subjugation.
Therefore, Zhao Wangyan gave Zhao Cong the tiger talisman and the edict. At the critical moment, he could rely on these two things to check and balance Li Mu, who had the support of 150,000 generations of border troops.
But now, without the support of the Daidi border army, these two things are enough to seize all Li Mu's military power and depose or even execute him.
"General, I will lead the 50,000 heavy armored regiments of the State of Zhao and leave on my own. General, please take care of me."
Zhao Cong, who was caught in the middle, did not take out the tiger talisman and the edict, but only exposed a corner of the tiger talisman.
At this moment, even if Li Mu lacked political IQ and experience, he understood what Zhao Cong meant.
Originally, under this situation, Zhao Cong should have seized Li Mu's military power, but Zhao Cong did not do so. He chose a compromise method - leading his troops back to defend Danhan.
The difference between Li Mu and him is that Li Mu may love the State of Zhao more than the King of Zhao.
Zhao Cong is different. He loves King Zhao more, not the country of Zhao.
But Zhao Cong can understand Li Mu, and Zhao State does need people like Li Mu, so he is unwilling to conflict with Li Mu.
Li Mu looked at the departing Zhao army. The 50,000 Zhao heavy armored regiment left the original battlefield again.
As Li Mu's deputy general, Sima Shang looked at Li Mu's increasingly vicissitudes of face and sighed secretly in his heart.
He is different from Li Mu. Li Mu lacks political sensitivity, but he subconsciously ignored this just because he saw the hope of defeating the Qin army.
But there's nothing we can do about it. This is because of the difference in Li Mu's growing environment.
Although Li Mu is not from Dai, he grew up in Dai since he was a child.
Zhao people's customs are tough, that's the average folk customs, but the toughest ones are actually the ones bordering the grasslands. Those are places where the folk customs will die if they are not tough, so it is more difficult to govern.
Before Li Mu took control of Yanmen County, the Dai area was divided. Yanmen County, Yunzhong County and Dai County were all autonomous counties. Therefore, King Wuling of Zhao divided his two sons for the purpose of King Dai and King Zhao. It is just to integrate the power of Dai Di and use it to fight for hegemony in the Central Plains, and not be so afraid of Dai Di.
But with the emergence of Lian Po, a general from Dai, the three counties of Dai began to gradually cooperate, and there was a trend of merger, and they really began to be feared by the Zhao court.
It wasn't until Li Mu came to take charge of Dai, and relied on Yanmen County's impressive record of repeatedly repelling the Hu people and even launching counterattacks, and by demonstrating his own force, he conquered the hearts of the people of Yunzhong County and Dai County, that he had the ability to train nearly twenty The omnipotent Daidi border troops counterattacked the grassland barbarians.
And Li Mu's method of governing the three counties of Dai was more biased towards military methods because of the strong customs of the people in Dai and their admiration for force. It was like running an army to govern the people. There was no need to pay attention to human relations and sophistication. It was efficient but also Ignore the thoughts of many common people.
Because of their special customs and the constant intrusion by barbarians on the grassland, the people of Dai were able to accept and well implement Li Mu's management methods, which can be called military management, but it does not mean that others can accept it. At least King Zhao and Qun This is unacceptable to the ministers and the people of Zhao.
To be honest, when he watched Li Mu and Zhao Cong confront each other, he really had the idea of persuading Li Mu to go into seclusion.
He had a hunch that if Li Mu continued like this, even if he defeated the Qin army this time, Li Mu might not be able to end well...
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