Hundreds of men dispersed in the blink of an eye, and they were all gone in the blink of an eye. It's just that the monk can't run away from the temple. The inspection team came here to recruit soldiers. Seeing that those people were able to stop and line up in a queue, how could they let such a good source of soldiers go?
Soon the inspection team brought people to the homes of the village elders, and then asked the village elders to bring the good boys and girls from each home. Most of the village elders were appointed after Huai soldiers retired. Unlike the Qin State, the Huai State does not still need to serve at the age of sixty. The upper limit of the Huai State's service is forty years old. After reaching the age of forty, all soldiers who do not hold positions above 500 are required to retire.
After retiring, these soldiers will serve as village elders, patrol officers, patrol envoys, etc. according to their merits and positions. Use them to maintain Huai's rule at the grassroots level.
Since the establishment of the Huai Kingdom, it has attached great importance to the grassroots people. At that time, the Huai Kingdom was established with only 5,000 people. If the people were not valued, the Huai Kingdom would have perished long ago.
Unlike other countries now that treat their people as consumables, Huai State at least treats its people as people, not just a series of cold numbers.
After King Huai ordered the recruitment of soldiers, a large number of people who were proficient in spears and clubs and knew how to form formations soon came to apply. These common people only need one month of training to become qualified soldiers.
Since ancient times, the soldiers with strong combat effectiveness in the Xia Dynasty have been small landowners or farmers with land. As long as rewards and punishments are clearly defined, an army composed of good family members can burst into super combat effectiveness.
Just after Huai State began to recruit soldiers, Qin State was also preparing for war.
The various supplies accumulated in the last war had not been used up yet, so Bai Qi directly led his army north to prepare to attack Zhao. Taking advantage of the opportunity of the Five Kingdoms to attack Qin, Zhao State captured Shangjun and completely occupied the plateau. Not only did it block Qin's offensive route, it also gained a bridgehead to attack the Qin army.
This is a great threat to the Qin State. Originally, the Zhao State became stronger after riding and shooting in Hufu, but the Qin State also found a soft persimmon and beat up the Wei State and South Korea. He wanted to seize the momentum of a great victory and take advantage of the situation to capture Hangu Pass, but he was blocked back here in Huai State.
It happened that civil strife broke out in the State of Zhao, and the monarchs and ministers of the State of Qin all wanted to take the opportunity to recapture Shangjun.
As a result, Bai Qi soon took command again, and the Qin army did not disband immediately when it retreated from Shangyang. It only took half a month to rest, and after replenishing some soldiers, the army went out again.
In Zhao State, a few months ago, King Zhao Wuling of Zhao State was starved to death in the Sand Dune Palace. This caused a large number of wise ministers recruited by King Zhao Wuling to leave Zhao State. At the same time, the nobles and ministers who supported King Zhao Wuling were also purged. More importantly, due to the outbreak of the Sand Dune Palace Incident, a large part of the reforms of King Zhao Wuling and Hufu riding and shooting were abolished.
The departure of a large number of nobles and officials also vacated a large amount of power. The Zhao Wang Party, which was originally united, soon split and began to fight for power.
At this time, the Zhao court was in chaos, with officials and nobles vying for power. This chaos would continue for a while, and calm would return after the division of rights and interests was re-completed. Although it is not obvious yet, Zhao State's reform was interrupted and it has lost its capital to compete for the world.
But at this time, news came that Bai Qi's army was attacking Zhao. King Zhao quickly summoned his ministers and asked about how to deal with it. The ministers recommended the young master to become the chief general, Li Xin, as his deputy general, and led the army to rescue Shangjun.
After Zhao Guo's Hufu cavalry and shooting, chariots have basically been eliminated, and there are only a few chariots in Zhao Guo. Zhao State conquered many northern Yi Di tribes and recruited a large number of cavalry from these Yi Di tribes. Therefore, Zhao State's army recruitment was very fast.
Just after the Qin army attacked Shangjun, the Zhao army quickly rushed to support.
Bai Qi did not quickly send troops to capture Shangjun. He knew very well that the key to capturing Shangjun was to defeat Zhao's reinforcements, so he was in no rush to capture Shangjun.
The Qin army laid siege to the city, including Shangjun and Zhifushi County. They built siege equipment and prepared to attack the city with a large army. Li Xian, the governor of Shangjun, looked worried at the continuous Qin army camps outside the city.
The army has been besieging the city for several days, and the Qin army has attacked three times. The first time, he took advantage of the Qin army's attack and suddenly led a thousand cavalry out of the city. The cavalry countercharged and defeated the Qin army in one fell swoop. Then the fire burned the Qin army's engineering equipment, which greatly boosted the morale of the city. This time, the city could not stand for several days.
Next, Li Xian led his cavalry to protrude outside the city several times and launched counterattacks against the Qin army. Although the results of the next few battles were smaller each time, it was his counterattacks that slowed down the progress of the Qin army's siege.
However, as time went by, more and more Qin troops felt that Zhao Jun's movement space was constantly being reduced, and Fushi County's defense became increasingly difficult.
By now, the army had been besieging the city for more than a month, and the Qin army had already attacked the city. If Li Xian had not personally led a counterattack to repel the Qin army, Fushi County would have been defeated this time.
Seeing this situation, Li Xian decided to send people out of the city to ask for help. Before the Qin army besieged the city, Li Xian had already sent people to ask for help, but a month later, Zhao's reinforcements had not yet arrived. Now that Fushi County was in danger, he could only send people to ask for help again.
The night was hazy, and the moon in the sky was covered by clouds. Under the night, Fushi County looked like a giant beast. At this moment, a squeaking sound sounded. Although the sound was small, it could be heard far away in the night.
Soon the gate opened, and black shadows appeared from the city one after another. Li Xian once again led the cavalry to launch a night attack on the Qin army.
A thousand cavalry quietly approached the Qin army's camp in the darkness. After being about two miles away from the Qin army's camp, Li Xiansheng gave the order and the army immediately charged out. The distance of two miles was only a blink of an eye, and more than a thousand cavalry came straight. Chongyingzhai. The Qin army was sleeping, and they never expected that the Zhao army in the city would dare to attack at night.
As a result, the Zhao army's cavalry continued to set fire to the camp and killed the panicked Qin army as if they were in uninhabited territory. Li Xian knew very well that they only had a thousand people and the Qin army besieged the city with more than 100,000 people. If they stopped, they would soon be surrounded and killed by the Qin army. They could only set the camp on fire as soon as possible and create chaos.
Therefore, Li Xian led the cavalry not to entangle with the Qin army, but continued to create chaos in the camp, drove the Qin army away, and then rushed to the next camp. Each camp was set on fire, but Li Xian and others also felt that it was becoming more and more difficult. The Qin army gathered much faster than he imagined.
After seeing this situation, Li Xian immediately ordered his troops to break out of the camp and return to Fushi County. By the time the army returned to the city, only less than 700 of the thousand cavalry remained.
"General, people have taken advantage of the chaos to break out of the Qin army's camp." said the deputy general next to him.
Li Xian looked at the Qin army camp where the fire was gradually dimming and said: "I have done everything I can, and then just do my best to obey fate!"
(End of chapter)
