"What does the Qin army want to do without retreating or attacking? Is it just to disgust us?" Bao Luan stood at the top of Luoyi City, looking at the Qin army camp vaguely visible in the distance, and was very surprised. Said strangely.
It is actually not accurate to say that the Qin army did not attack, but the Qin army's attacks did not have any effect. Every time they sent out auxiliary troops, they were repulsed by the three Jin Dynasties without even touching the city wall.
"Wang Lu is a famous general in the Qin State, and he has to be given guidance by Bai Qi. He will not do useless things, let alone act out his temporary ambitions." Mang Mao shook his head.
Qin Wangji was not a fool. If Wang Lu was a reckless person, he would never be reused by Qin Wangji.
"Does he still want to capture the royal city with this defeated army?" Bao Luan supported the female wall with both hands, snorted and said disdainfully.
Luoyi is a great city in the world, with tall walls and a wide and deep moat. It is no exaggeration to say that it is impregnable.
On the other hand, the Qin army was a defeated army and its morale was severely depressed. It was undoubtedly a fantasy to use such a large army to capture Luoyi.
"Wang Lu is training his troops." Le Cheng said calmly, "Although he sends troops to attack the city every day, the legions he sends are different every time, and under Wang Lu's control, although these legions do not pose a threat to us, We didn’t even touch the city wall, but we didn’t suffer much damage.”
Le Cheng tried several times to keep these legions behind but failed. Wang Lu's ability to control the large legions was even greater than his own, unless he summoned all the elites to defeat them.
But this will trigger a decisive battle between the two armies.
When he came, Le Yi asked him to focus on preserving his strength. Even if he gave up the Western Zhou Kingdom, he could not leave all Zhao troops in Sanchuan.
Le Cheng had to give up this plan.
But he was right, Wang Lu was indeed training troops.
In addition to the most elite Guanzhong Army, the Qin Army also had 80,000 auxiliary troops and prisoner troops recruited from various places.
Of course, there are only about 50,000 left now.
Originally, these auxiliary armies and prisoner armies were all talented, but after each war, the State of Qin would disband these legions and send them home to farm.
Over time, the original talent disappears.
When the next war breaks out, these soldiers will be gathered again to train the required talents.
Although this is troublesome and will make the legion that might have become elite or even super-elite lose hope, Qin has nothing to do.
No country can afford hundreds of thousands of troops, not even Qin.
Before the reinforcements from the Three Jin Dynasties arrived, Wang Hao spent less than a month training the shared talents in order to improve the strength of the auxiliary army and the prisoner army as quickly as possible.
This talent can directly share most of the strength of friendly forces, and achieve a huge improvement in strength in a short period of time. Especially when facing the newly recruited men of the Western Zhou Dynasty who have not even unified their talents, it can create a crushing advantage.
Soon, the royal city was crumbling under Wang Lu's attack.
Until reinforcements from the Three Jin Dynasties arrived...
The Qin army suffered an unprecedented blow!
The biggest advantage of sharing this talent is that you can gain very powerful power in a short period of time, and this power has no side effects.
The biggest disadvantage is that no matter how powerful this power is, it is not yours.
When facing weak chickens, this shortcoming is not obvious yet.
Once you meet a real elite, this shortcoming will instantly become a weakness.
Even talents that simply add defense are better than sharing. At least it will take more time for the enemy to kill them.
After the defeat, Wang Hao realized the problem and began to work hard again to modify the talents of the Qin army while waiting for the arrival of reinforcements.
In order to shorten the time, Wang Hao could only choose to attack the royal city and rely on the training on the battlefield to improve the physical fitness and will of the soldiers.
Wang Hao was still very confident in his commanding ability. Under his superb control, the Qin army's losses were not large. After treatment by the medical team, they were almost negligible.
The military medical system that Qin copied from Zhao was only a semi-finished product, and it was completely impossible to equip each legion with fixed doctors like Zhao did. However, it was still possible to equip the frontline army with a certain number of doctors.
These doctors don't even need very professional medical skills, as long as they can disinfect, apply medicine, and bandage. Even so, they can reduce the army's casualty rate to 30% of the previous level.
Moreover, except for alcohol, which is very expensive, all the required medicines are very cheap. A piece of slightly better silk can be exchanged for half a cart of Panax notoginseng from Nanman.
"No wonder...General Lecheng didn't let us go to war before, but instead sent the Western Zhou army to fight. Could it be that General Lecheng was helping the Western Zhou Dynasty train its troops?" Mang Mao suddenly realized.
"Not bad." Le Cheng nodded.
If they don't help the Western Zhou Dynasty train their troops, will they let them take the lead whenever there is a war and let the Western Zhou Dynasty sit back and enjoy the results?
I am a reinforcement, not an grievance.
Anyway, no matter how powerful the Western Zhou Kingdom is with its small territory and population, it will not pose a threat to the Zhao Kingdom. Instead, it will make the Qin Kingdom even more disgusting.
Why not do it?
Moreover, this was a naked conspiracy. Even if the Western Zhou Dynasty knew his plan, it would be impossible for him to reject it.
No country will refuse a strong military.
In fact, when the Duke of Western Zhou learned that Le Cheng was helping him train troops, he not only did not refuse, but was very happy to reward Le Cheng with a fief.
It was this fiefdom that was occupied by the Qin State. It could only be obtained after the Qin army was defeated, which made Le Cheng a little unhappy.
The Duke of Western Zhou had a very clear plan. If Lecheng could defeat the Qin State, the Western Zhou State would recover all the lost territory and reward Lecheng with a city.
If Lecheng failed to defeat the Qin State, the Western Zhou State would have paid nothing and would not suffer any loss.
But having said that, even if the Duke of Western Zhou wanted to reward him, he wouldn't give him anything else.
The money, it seems, has been emptied. The money given to the soldiers before was borrowed, but now it has not been repaid. The creditors have come to the palace to press for debts.
Give him an official position, Le Cheng will look down upon him, and it will lead to bad relations with Zhao.
Reward the land, there is only one royal city left.
The current Duke of Western Zhou can be said to have a clean slate and nothing.
You can't award Jiuding to Lecheng.
"General, reinforcements from the State of Qin are coming." At this time, a figure rushed from a distance. Jia Yan got off his horse and quickly climbed up the city wall.
After demoting himself as a soldier, Jia Yan was arranged by Le Cheng to serve as a scout.
Scouting is the most dangerous position in the army, and it is also the easiest position to win military honors.
However, this danger is not a threat to Jia Yan. Now he has been promoted to a hundred-man general in the scout team by virtue of his military merit.
Although the two had some conflicts before, they were in the same Zhao country and in the same legion. They could not see each other when they raised their heads and looked down.
Moreover, the conflict between the two originated from the Qin army and was not irreconcilable.
With Jia Yan's strength, he would climb up sooner or later, and Le Cheng would not be able to offend Zhao's future army commander for the sake of the dead Qin army.
In addition, neither of them are stingy people. If they each take a step back, this matter will be over.
It's just that Jia Yan's official position is gone, and he can only climb up from the bottom.
"How many people came?" Le Cheng was not surprised.
If the Qin army does not retreat, it will inevitably continue to attack Luoyi.
With the current Qin army alone, it is impossible to capture Luoyi in a year. The only way is to reinforce.
"One hundred thousand." Jia Yan spit out a number.
Le Cheng's expression was stern, and he couldn't help but clenched his sword in his right hand. It would be fine if there were one hundred thousand auxiliary troops, but if there were one hundred thousand elites, this royal city would be in danger.
If it were other countries, the latter would be completely impossible, but it is really possible for Qin to spend 100,000 elites.
"What's the flag?" Mang Mao asked.
"open."
Mang Mao breathed a sigh of relief, it would be better if it wasn't Bai Qi. Although he wanted to take revenge on Bai Qi, he still knew how much he was worth.
Don't talk about him, even if he and Le Cheng, Bao Luan, and Jia Yan were tied together, they would be given away when they met Bai Qi.
"Who is the banner?" Le Cheng asked with some confusion. The generals in the world who are qualified to command an army of one or two hundred thousand are all named. In his impression, there is no one in Qin who can match the banner.
It is impossible for King Qin to send someone here casually.
"There are only two famous generals of the Zhang family in Qin who are qualified to command the army, Zhang Ruo and Zhang Tang. Zhang Tang is attacking Chu, so the one who leads the army should be Zhang Ruo. This man once followed Sima Cuo to pacify Bashu, and was The Qin State appointed him as the governor of Shu County, and then led troops to attack the Chu State and capture Wu County and Qianzhong County. He is a low-key man, so his reputation is not obvious, but his strength is definitely not inferior to Wang Hao." Mang Mao said solemnly.
Although Zhang Ruo took advantage of Bai Qi when he attacked Chu State, the main force of Chu State had basically been slaughtered by Bai Qi at that time, and the remaining shrimp soldiers and crabs would be vulnerable.
But if Zhang can successfully capture Wu County and Qianzhong County, his strength cannot be underestimated.
"What are the combat characteristics of this person? Does he have any weaknesses?" Le Cheng asked.
"I don't know." Mang Mao shook his head, "Zhang Ruo has never taken action in the Central Plains for so many years. We know almost nothing about him. This is most likely the reason why Qin State sent him here."
"Should we send troops to test it out tonight?" Bao Luan suggested.
"Forget it, neither Zhang Ruo nor Wang Lu will leave any loopholes. If there is any loophole, it is also a trap." Mang Mao shook his head.
The Korean army's combat power cannot be used during a night attack. Zhao Jun or Wei Jun can only be responsible for it. Zhao Jun is the leader of the alliance. This cheating task will probably fall on Wei Jun.
It would be fine if they succeeded, but if the night attack did not succeed, whether they could come back alive would be a question.
If you are fighting for the Wei State, there is nothing wrong with taking a risk, but for the Western Zhou State, you might as well forget it.
He had no intention of being loyal to the Western Zhou Kingdom.
If he hadn't known that Bao Luan was an upright person and would say anything, if it were his father Bao Yuan, Mang Mao would have thought that the other party was trying to trick him.
"What should we do?" Bao Luan asked.
"What should we do? Defend the city." Mang Mao patted the city wall and looked at Bao Luan like an idiot: If you don't defend such a tall and majestic city and insist on going out to fight the Qin army, is there something wrong with your brain?
Or did your last victory make you think you can really defeat the Qin army?
"Jia Yan, go and inform the Duke of Western Zhou that Qin's reinforcements are coming and ask him to issue an edict to recruit all the adult men in the city." Le Cheng said to Jia Yan.
"No." Jia Yan cupped his fists and said, turning around and walking towards the city.
