Throwing the hot corpse of "Sima Cuo" to Lord Pingyuan was obviously Zhao Kuo's best choice.
Even for Zhao Kuo, this corpse was a hot potato, but for Pingyuan, it was an extremely rare sweet potato. Of course, letting Zhao Ping go back with the body would also mean showing his martial arts skills to the people of Zhao State again.
The identity of Sima Cuo has been sorted out here, and the remaining Qin army, needless to say Zhao Kuo, can probably know that they are definitely not Yi Yu's generation. But when his subordinates came to report that the six hundred Qin troops were all sharp men, Zhao Kuo was stunned.
Otherwise, it’s so shocking!
I was once again shocked by the generosity of King Qin, the great gains from this accidental battle, and even more shocked by the power of technology!
Qin Ruishi! That's Qin Ruishi! It is said that the Qin army of 600,000 people selected a thousand warriors! Even in the Battle of Changping, a rough estimate was that it only suffered a loss of three hundred. Now, in a battle that was not that large in scale, it was possible to gain such a gain.
This harvest is even greater than that of "Sima Cuo".
Although Sima Cuo is also a famous general, he is already old. Although he enjoys a high status in Qin, he is actually not irreplaceable. At least Wang Lu can replace him, let alone the star-studded generals in the future. Qin State. Of course, the premise is that Qin can survive this period of drought.
Therefore, in Zhao Kuo's eyes, killing Sima Cuo was more of another severe blow to the Qin army on a spiritual level, and the actual weakening of its combat power could actually be said to be minimal.
However, these six hundred Ruisi are different.
On the battlefield, facing these 600 elite soldiers, I would need at least 6,000 elite troops to barely defend myself. I would need at least 10,000 elite troops to be able to fight them with confidence. I would have to pay at least 3,000 to 4,000 troops to defeat them. Even if you exchange the money, you still have to sigh and say you are lucky.
If so, these six hundred warriors appear where they should appear, it is very likely to change the direction of a battle! The Battle of Yique is a typical example. Hundreds of warriors ran for hundreds of miles and suddenly launched an attack from the side of the Wei army. This completely disrupted the Wei army's deployment. The main force of the army took the opportunity to cover up the attack and defeated the main force of the Wei army in one fell swoop.
But it happened that such a powerful army with repeated military exploits was so easily wiped out by him in the Zhao Kingdom. How could this not be exciting? The death of six hundred warriors not only dealt a serious blow to the Qin army mentally, but also weakened it in terms of absolute strength!
It should be said that such a battle is accidental. If the Qin army hadn't insisted on killing Zhao Kuo, if the Qin army hadn't underestimated Zhao Jun's combat power again and again, the six hundred warriors would definitely not have been wiped out here.
Of course, this does not mean that there was anything wrong with Sima Cuo's command. From the perspective of him and the soldiers of the Qin army, strangling Zhao Kuo was their first priority. As for their own lives, they had already ignored them.
Facing 600 sharp soldiers, although their own soldiers had the help of heavy-armored swords and stirrups, the combat power of the opponent was already considered the ceiling of this era. At the cost of less than 60 men, he exchanged 600 warriors and the life of a veteran. Based on this calculation, it seems that his own soldiers did a pretty good job?
It seemed that he had wronged his own soldiers. However, Zhao Kuo would not tell his own soldiers such an idea. It is not that Zhao Kuo is not willing to admit his mistakes like King Zhao, but it is because Zhao Kuo knows that such a misunderstanding can be solved. Keep your own soldiers sober and humble at all times, and this is the most important thing for Zhao Kuo.
Zhao Kuo did not want or need to test the principle that arrogant soldiers will be defeated.
Subsequently, the discovery of the identity of the Qin Army's elite soldiers was not completely without benefits for them. At least it was originally a hasty burial with a white cloth, but with a stroke of Zhao Kuo's pen, it turned into a coffin burial. It just took a lot of hard work from the coffin shop in the city, and had to work overtime to build coffins for the Qin army.
Fortunately, after what happened to Zhao Kuo's father, he was familiar with the coffin laying in the city. In just two days, the coffins needed by the Qin army were completed. Naturally, Zhao Kuo's victory was the first to spread in Yanyucheng. With a victory of five hundred against six hundred, it once again shocked Yanyucheng. And "God's clever plan"
The words immediately became popular.
Of course, Zhao Kuo didn't take these common names to heart. His reputation had already been completely established in the Changping Battle, and this "small victory" was just the icing on the cake. If you want to go one step further, become truly superior to all the generals of the Warring States Period, and even enter the martial arts temple of later generations, leaving a strong mark in the history of China, the next war is the key.
Judging from the history of China, only those who have achieved great victory in foreign wars are truly recognized as "famous generals". Don't you think that no matter how powerful Bai Qi is, he can only get the title of "human massacre"! This is obviously not a good name. Although it is domineering enough, what if you replace the 400,000 Zhao people with Hu people?
After gathering their spirits, the army spent another day repairing outside Yanyu City.
Immediately after the burial, Zhao Ping also took Sima Cuo's body on the journey back to Handan, and Zhao Kuo finally continued on his way north. At this time, there were only 400 soldiers following Zhao Kuo.
After an autumn rain, the outskirts of Yanyucheng have taken on a new look. The sweet smell in the air has been replaced by the freshness of vegetation. The gurgling blood has already seeped into the deep soil, and the white bones and corpses and the icy swords and weapons have been replaced. , had already been cleared away by Zhao Jun's soldiers, and the ruts passed through them, and the soft land was compacted one by one.
Everything returned to its original appearance, as if that thrilling battle had never happened. Perhaps only the birds in the forest and the cicada frogs on the roadside are left, using their chirping voices to tell the story of that moment of determination, that moment of helpless sighs, and that moment of swords and swords...
Not to mention Zhao Kuo's rather boring march, here in Handan City, as King Zhao delayed for a whole day before delivering the letter, Lord Pingyuan looked at King Zhao more and more wrongly.
The team of envoys from the State of Qin had arrived in Handan for several days. They were immediately put under control by Lord Pingyuan after asking for orders from the king. The people of Qin cooperated and hid obediently in the inn, waiting for the final call. result.
As the Qin envoy was trapped, news of the general's assassination leaked out from nowhere, which made Lord Pingyuan, who was already feeling troublesome, even more uneasy.
