The army of more than 200,000 people did not set off immediately. After all the armaments and food were ready, Le Yi, Tian Dan, and Lian Po were sent away. Three days had passed since the intelligence was received.
At this time, Zhao Kuo arranged everything properly and led the army to leave Handan and head north.
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"Report~General! The vanguard of the Yan army was found twenty miles ahead." The scout came running from a distance, dismounted, knelt on one knee, and said with cupped fists.
When Zhao Kuo was still arranging government affairs in Handan, he had already asked Yan Zhou to lead 10,000 cavalry, carrying only five days of food and grass, and gallop all the way to the front line.
"So fast!" Yan Zhou frowned. In front of him was Hu (hū) Pool, which was more than 200 miles away from the border of Yan and Zhao. The Yan army actually reached here, which meant that the Yan army encountered almost no resistance along the way. .
But it's normal to think about it. The able-bodied Zhao State is either on the Great Wall or on the front lines. There are only some old, weak, sick and disabled people left in various places. It is difficult to organize an effective defense against the Yan State army.
"What banner is Yan's army using?" Yan Zhou asked.
"Rong." The scout said, clasping his fists.
"Rong!" Yan Zhou's eyes lit up. "Then it looks like it's fén."
This name Yanzhou can be remembered for a lifetime!
Rong Xian was a native of the Song Dynasty. After the Song Dynasty was destroyed, he went north to seek refuge with the Yan Kingdom. He was named Gaoyang Lord by the King of Yan and led the army to attack the Zhao Kingdom.
It was at this time that Zhao State gave Gaotang and other cities that Yanzhou had captured to Qi State, and replaced Tiandan.
Yan Zhou's greatest achievement in his life was to capture Gaotang for Zhao State, which was one of the five capitals of Qi State. Not everyone could capture it, and it would make him boast for a lifetime, but in the end, he was returned to Qi State by King Zhao. , this incident has made him remember it until now, and he is a little dissatisfied with King Zhao in his heart.
Later, Ma Fujun Zhao She came to Zhao Sheng and said that Zhao State had many generals, so why should he go to Qi State to exchange for a field order? I used to be the guardian of the valley in Yan State. I know everything about Yan State. If you really can't do it, you can use me. Tian Dan is a general of Qi State. He will definitely find ways to consume the strength of Zhao State and Yan State, and he will not fight well.
Zhao She wanted to use Zhao Sheng to spread these words to King Zhao's ears, but King Zhao was guarding against him, so how could he make him a general.
In the end, as Zhao She expected, Tian Dan only captured three small cities, which together were not as good as one Gaotang!
Although there is more than one person named Rong in the Yan Kingdom, there is only one general named Rong who can take advantage of him.
Yan Zhou was almost certain that the vanguard of the Yan army was Rong Xian.
"I didn't have a chance to defeat you before, but now I finally have a chance." Yan Zhou said excitedly.
In Yanzhou's view, Rong Chen must bear at least half of the responsibility for Zhao's loss of Gaotang. If he had not attacked Zhao, Zhao would not have given Gaotang to Qi.
"Instruct the entire army to speed up their march and prepare to attack."
Yan Zhou said loudly, a blue light burst out from his body, and he became a little crazy. A strong wind enveloped the entire army, and they rushed forward quickly.
"I thought that even if I was not dismissed from my post after returning to Handan, I would have to wait a few years before I had the opportunity to lead the army. Now that the king has given me this opportunity, I will use your head as a gift to the king!"
For the cavalry, the distance of twenty miles was just a fleeting moment. A slight tremor came from the earth, from far to near, and then, a gray torrent appeared on the horizon, approaching the Yan army.
"Zhao Jun!"
Rong Chen narrowed his eyes slightly and subconsciously grasped the spear with both hands. The scouts had just returned and reported the traces of Zhao Jun. Zhao Jun appeared here on the back foot. This means that Zhao Jun's elite level has reached the level of Yan Jun's scouts!
Not one or two, but a whole ten thousand!
"Formation! Sword and shield soldiers in front, archers in the back."
With a move of both hands, Rong Chen formed a motionless mountain formation to cover the entire army. The war clouds in the sky continued to roll, suppressing the aura of heaven and earth.
Since General Sun Wu's battle formations spread all over the world, and after Sun Bin split them up, the four battle formations of Fenghuoshan Forest have become must-learn battle formations for generals from all over the world.
Looking at the gray torrent approaching from far away, the legs of many soldiers of the Yan army were trembling. As vanguards, they are different from the soldiers in the rear who have just put down their hoes and picked up their weapons and know nothing.
They have experienced many wars, and they know that all the wars between Yan and Zhao over the years have not been won once, and they have all ended in failure!
Zhao soldiers are brave and invincible! This is the consensus of all Yanjun.
"Don't be afraid, everyone! The Prime Minister is right behind and will be here soon." Rong Chen seemed to feel the declining momentum and immediately shouted.
"Load the bow and arrow!"
The corners of Yan Zhou's lips curled up, and he sneered in his heart. The mere infantry still wanted to form a formation to block the elite cavalry. Do they really think they were Qin's black armored army?
"Fire the arrow!"
When the distance between the two sides was only about a hundred steps, Yan Zhou roared, and a blue light enveloped the entire army, and an overwhelming rain of arrows rushed towards the Yan army.
At this time, the cavalry of various countries was still in its infancy, and it was already very difficult to be able to ride on a horse and run wildly without falling off. When had the Yan army ever seen cavalry who could play mounted archery?
With the help of the cavalry's super high movement speed, the arrows emitting blue light easily penetrated Yan Bing's armor, sank into the flesh and blood, and splashed a series of blood splashes.
Under the influence of Yan Zhou's talent, all the arrows hit the enemy, and not a single arrow fell on the ground, at least it landed on the Yan army's shield.
At the same time, Yan Jun also released his bowstring, and arrows shot out towards Zhao Jun. Zhao Jun relies on the saddle and stirrups, and his upper body can make any flexible movements. Coupled with his super high movement speed, he can easily deflect most of the arrows.
However, there were still some soldiers in the south who were weak or had bad luck and fell to the ground after being hit by arrows. However, compared with the Yan army's casualties, they were almost negligible.
The next moment, Yan Zhou led the Zhao army to insert themselves fiercely into the Yan army, tearing open the Yan army's defense line like a piece of rag. Blue light swirled around Yan Zhou, "Pfft!" The spear in his hand swept out. , a Yan army of thousands will be split into two halves in an instant.
Yan Zhou did not look back. Instead, he increased his speed and rushed towards Yan Jun's flag. He slashed with his spear and cut a bloody path. Even with Zhan Yun's suppression, none of these Yan generals could be Yan Zhou's opponent.
Zhao Jun's cavalry followed closely behind, like a group of ferocious tigers rushing into the sheep, opening their bloody mouths and tearing at the Yan Jun. The fierce offensive, magnificent momentum, and belief in victory instantly overwhelmed Yan Jun. Military suppression.
"Shrink the defense line." Rong Hao roared.
I have long known that Zhao Guo’s cavalry is powerful, but I never imagined that it would be so powerful! Just one charge defeated the Yan army, and even the rain of arrows had no effect.
Rong Chen looked at the two gadgets under the feet of Zhao Jun's cavalry and the gadget under his buttocks. Although he didn't understand cavalry, he just saw clearly that Zhao Jun's cavalry relied on those two gadgets to stand up.
"If our country, Yan, can get it, wouldn't it mean that we can also have cavalry as powerful as Zhao's!"
There is no shortage of horses in Yan State. In order to raise horses, other countries need to consume a lot of national finance every year, and they also need to arrange specialized personnel to be responsible for horse administration and management of horses.
The State of Yan only needs to defeat Donghu, and he will have as many horses as he wants.
The leaders of the Donghu tribes are the free horse officials of Yan State.
At this time, the screams that kept ringing out on the battlefield told Rong Xun that those were things for the future, and it was now a question of whether he could go back alive!
The war clouds of Zhao Jun in the sky set off huge waves, sweeping towards all directions like the raging waves of the angry sea, suppressing the war clouds of Yan Jun and disappearing.
The Yan army was divided into small pieces by the Zhao army, like lambs being slaughtered by the butcher.
Some Yan soldiers collapsed and fled around frantically. However, their two feet could not outrun the four-legged cavalry. What was waiting for them was just a sword falling from the sky.
"die!"
As Yan Zhou shouted loudly, he split the flag guard and the flag of the Yan army commander into two. The last war cloud in the sky representing the Yan army also disappeared, and the Yan army's momentum dropped to the extreme.
Rong Xun desperately ordered his soldiers to stop the Zhao army. However, except for the soldiers around him, the other soldiers no longer listened to orders. He tried to hold up Zhan Yun several times, but was crushed by Yan Zhou.
If they hadn't known that facing the running cavalry, even kneeling down and surrendering would be useless, the Yan army would have knelt down and surrendered long ago.
Yan Zhou rushed to Rong Chong, swung his spear, and a beam of light more than ten meters long swept out, knocking Rong Chong away and hitting the ground heavily, motionless.
"Tied!"
Yan Zhou glanced at Rong Chen. He had already withdrawn his strength just now. Whether he could survive or not depended on the fate of the other party.
"Surrender without killing!" Yan Zhou yelled at Yan Jun.
"Surrender without killing!" All Zhao troops shouted in unison.
When the Yan army saw this, they all knelt down and begged for mercy.
"We surrender!"
"We surrender!"
"Leave a thousand men to guard the prisoners, and the rest will follow me to continue the attack!" Yan Zhou swung the spear in his hand, pointed forward, and said excitedly.
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In the Yan army camp, Yan State Prime Minister Guo Lifu was talking with the Qin State envoy, and their faces were full of smiles.
"The Prime Minister is really willing to be civil and military. In just a few days, he conquered hundreds of miles of Zhao Kingdom's land. Even King Le Yi of Chang Kingdom probably couldn't do it." The Qin envoy complimented.
"Hahaha, it's just luck. Lord Chang Guo can't compare with Fu." Li Fu waved his hands quickly and said modestly, but the smile at the corner of his mouth could not be concealed at any cost.
Since the expedition, the Yan army went all the way south to Huchi without encountering any obstacles. The King of Yan continued to send letters of commendation from the rear, and even promised to make him king after destroying Zhao. Li Fu couldn't help but feel a little complacent.
Next to him, Lejian's face was as gloomy as water, his hands were clenched, and the joints were a little white. The title Chang Guojun belonged to his father Le Yi back then, but now it belongs to him. The two of them talked like this, not only did they not take him seriously at all, they could even be said to be insulting him and his father.
"Qiang!"
Lejian strode up to the envoy of Qin, cut the eucalyptus in front of him in half with a knife, pointed the tip of the knife at the envoy Qin's neck, and said viciously: "If I hear you say anything insulting to my father again, you will die." Be here."
If he hadn't been worried that killing the envoy of Qin would lead to bad relations between Qin and Yan, Lejian would have killed him with one sword. Even if King Yan knew about it, he wouldn't be able to say anything.
Killing someone for filial piety is perfectly justified!
Ambassador Qin felt the terrifying chill emanating from the tip of the knife, which might pierce his neck at any time, and he was so frightened that he did not dare to move.
He swore that he really did not mean to insult Le Yi, but there were not many capable generals in the Yan Kingdom for hundreds of years, so he just used Le Yi to praise Li Fu, and for a moment he forgot that Le Jian was actually here.
"General Lejian, what are you doing? Put down the sword quickly." Li Fu was shocked and quickly stood up to stop Lejian.
Le Jian glanced at Li Fu angrily, put away his sword, turned around and walked outside.
However, for the sake of the overall situation, Le Jian finally reminded Li Fu: "The main force of the Zhao army has not been dispatched yet. The Prime Minister had better be careful and not get carried away."
"I don't need to worry about the general, but since the general is so afraid of Zhao Jun, there will be no need to fight in the future." Li Fu said in a deep voice.
In his opinion, it is certain that the Five Kingdoms will attack Zhao and the Zhao Kingdom will be destroyed. No matter how powerful Zhao Kuoleyi and his group are, they will not be able to defeat the Five Kingdoms Allied Forces.
The fact that we have not encountered any resistance along the way proves that if Zhao Guo really had the power, he would have sent it out long ago!
Now Lejian is still stubborn and even threatens the Qin envoy in front of him. No matter how good his temper, Li Fu can no longer tolerate it.
"Prime Minister, something bad has happened. Something bad has happened." At this moment, a scout rushed in in a panic.
Le Jian suddenly stopped.
"How unbecoming is it to be so panicked?" Li Fu scolded.
"Prime Minister, the front line has been defeated!" the scout said loudly, regardless of excuses.
"What! How could the front line be defeated!" Li Fu was shocked, with a look of disbelief on his face, "Where is Rong Xiao!"
"General Rong Chen has been captured, the soldiers...the soldiers have all surrendered, and the Zhao army's vanguard has crossed Huchi," the scout said.
"How is this possible?" Li Fu sat slumped in his seat, suddenly feeling that Feng Jun seemed to be far away from him.
After a while, Li Fu suddenly stood up and said loudly: "I am sending an order to the whole army to follow me to fight against Zhao Jun."
"We must not attack at this time. The Zhao army is elite. We should secure the camp and weaken the morale of the Zhao army." Le Jian quickly stopped him.
The quality of Yan's army and Zhao's army are not at the same level at all. There is still some hope for the Yan State to gradually train its troops in defensive battles, but the attack will undoubtedly lose.
"Are you the coach or am I the coach?" Li Fu asked in a deep voice.
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"He is worthy of being the most famous general in our Zhao Kingdom, second only to General Lian Po. Not only did he win the first battle, but he also captured the vanguard of the Yan army, Rong Han!"
During the march, Zhao Kuo grabbed the battle report and said happily.
"Congratulations, Your Majesty." Liu Ping said.
"Is there any news from Daijun?" Zhao Kuo asked.
It wasn't until Li Bo, the governor of the county, asked for help a few days ago that Zhao Kuo knew that Yan State's troops were divided into two groups this time. Li Fu was the main general along the way, and Le Jian and Rong Xian were deputy generals. He led an army of 150,000 people and went south to invade the hinterland of Zhao State. .
Along the way, with Qing Qin as the main general and Ju Xin as the deputy general, he led an army of 100,000 to attack Dai County of Zhao State.
Daijun was far away from Handan, and when the infantry arrived, the day lilies were cold. Zhao Kuo could only send Yan Ju to lead Zhao Feiqi to support, and at the same time let Li Mu lead the Great Wall Guards south to resist the Yan army.
The Great Wall originally had an army of 50,000, and with the 50,000 army led by Li Mu, half of the army was divided to go south. It was not a problem to resist the Yan army.
"Not yet." Liu Ping shook his head.
"Instruct the whole army to speed up and arrive at Huchi within three days." Zhao Kuo ordered.
