King Zhao was a little clever. Although he might not have expected that King Han would die so quickly, he took advantage of the opportunity when Gongsun Zhi had just occupied Korea to set off for the expedition, so the time was just right.
Moreover, the 200,000 troops did not gather in one place at all. Instead, they used 100,000 as the main formation to confront Gongsun Zhi across the river. The remaining 100,000 were dispersed to attack the Korean city that had been occupied by Gongsun Zhi.
However, those Korean cities were captured quickly and surrendered quickly when attacked by the Zhao army.
A small portion of the originally occupied South Korea defected in an instant, causing Gongsun Zhi to become distracted during the confrontation at the front.
What else can be done if the way back is cut off?
People around him also urged Gongsun Zhi to temporarily withdraw his troops and prioritize consolidating his retreat.
Otherwise, if their retreat to Gyeonggi is cut off, wouldn't their Eastern Expedition become a lonely army?
More importantly, their food route has been cut off. If this continues, there is no need for the 100,000 people on the opposite side to take action, and their own military morale will be lost!
Gongsun Zhi is very worried. He is very clear about his current situation. According to general understanding, it is already in danger, and it can even be said that his defeat is certain.
He wandered around the military camp where he was stationed that day. He had no idea what to do and seemed aimless.
Suddenly he saw the Confession Monument standing in the corner of the camp. He thought of his Yafu, and couldn't help but order someone to fetch incense and burn a stick of incense in front of the Condemnation Monument.
It's just that he didn't pray anything like ordinary believers when offering incense, and his thoughts were extremely confused.
At this moment, he was astonished to see the smoke from the lit incense stick suddenly gathering into a human shape, and Yafu's voice rang in his heart: "You are very confused, but are you having troubles?"
Gongsun Zhi had thousands of words in his mind, but he just felt that if he told all the situations he was facing now, would he look very incompetent?
Finally, he found an urgent reason and said: "Father, I am short of food."
The Jiji Spiritual Dew given to him earlier had been completely consumed in the past five years. If not, the Gyeonggi region would not have recovered its strength so quickly.
Therefore, in addition to leaving some reserves for this expedition, Gongsun Zhi's army still transported grain according to the previous routine and let the civilians transport it.
However, the transportation of grain by civilians, the maintenance of this grain road, and the cost on the road were a huge expense, so Gongsun Zhi was actually a little constrained in this battle.
Jiang Sibai, who was in the smoke of incense, said: "I understand, you have people build a high platform and a furnace in the military camp, and then invite people to worship the guilty monument. I will send you food later."
When Gongsun Zhi heard this, he was shocked at first, and then he was greatly surprised.
He quickly asked people to deal with the matter.
He personally presided over the ceremony on the high platform and led all the soldiers to worship the guilty monument.
Most of the soldiers here were descendants of Gyeonggi Province. They were very familiar with this routine, and many of them had worshiped the guilty monument at home, so there was no resistance to this action.
In this way, 20,000 people completed a ceremony with great fanfare.
The devout incense and wishing power curled up and merged into the head of Jiang Sibai who was far away in Luodu.
At this time, Jiang Sibai was in a granary in Luodu. He looked at the stacks of grain in front of him and said to the treasurer beside him: "Write it down, 20,000 stones of grain and grass will be sent to the king's army today."
Na Kusi was as if he was listening to a book from heaven. This good food is here, why was it sent to the king's army?
Then he saw Jiang Sibai's hands continuously changing spells, and several stacks of grain in front of him suddenly turned into flat shapes and fell to the ground.
Then these flat grain stacks broke into pieces and suddenly disappeared.
Jiang Sibai said: "It's done, you just need to write it down."
Ku Si was stunned, until Jiang Sibai suddenly disappeared, he suddenly knelt down on the ground and paid homage...
On the other side, Gongsun Zhijun also felt particularly surprised and relieved when he saw the grain pile suddenly appearing in the center of the camp.
King Yafu of Zhou was the God of Sheji who ordered the entire Gyeonggi region to believe in after King Zhou ascended the throne.
The appearance of the sin-confirming stele also made everyone quickly accept this belief. Over the years, the king of Zhou has not said that the weather has been smooth, but there have been no major disasters, and everyone still recognizes the ability of the Sheji God.
But this time, the food and grass appeared directly in front of them along with their festival, which was amazing!
They realized that this god of society could really bless a country!
But when the food and grass actually appeared in front of Gongsun Zhi, all the worries in his heart disappeared.
Only then did he realize that what he was really worried about had always been the issue of food and grass.
Everything else is just to ensure food and grass.
Now that his father can directly deliver food and grass from such a distance, what else does he need to worry about?
Those Korean cities?
unimportant.
There seems to be no recognition of his rule here.
So why bother to stalemate with the Zhao army here?
So after receiving the support of food and grass, Gongsun Zhi suddenly decided to withdraw his army!
Not only did he withdraw his troops, but he also ordered all his scattered garrison troops to withdraw and come to join him.
He seems to have stopped fighting?
Gongsun Zhi's retreat did not exceed King Zhao's expectations, but in order to prevent this brave overlord from attacking halfway across the river, King Zhao still decided to wait for a while before crossing the river cautiously.
King Zhao's caution was as expected by Gongsun Zhi, so he did not make a fool of himself and retreated cleanly.
Zhao Jun crossed the river and then naturally had to seize cities along the way.
Originally, the Korean cities also surrendered directly to the city, as if they were 'happy to welcome the king'.
But the problem is that they have forgotten that in the Central Plains War, the armies of various princes and kings would let their soldiers plunder for three days after breaking the city!
Even the surrendered cities were not spared.
This is the trend of this era. In contrast, Gongsun Zhi's Zhou army did not make any mistakes. This is simply the performance of a saint and a benevolent teacher.
Sometimes I'm afraid of comparison.
The gap between Zhou Jun and Zhao Jun is thus compared.
Moreover, due to the melee in the Central Plains, there has long been no place for the common people to establish themselves. There are very few real common people in various places. They were either kidnapped by the Huangling Army or became refugees. More often, they became tenant farmers in powerful families.
Therefore, what was robbed in this way was undoubtedly the property of the local wealthy family.
The local wealthy people never expected that when they resisted and the displeased King Zhou did not touch them, the Zhao army, which they welcomed happily, gave them a head-on blow.
First of all, the people's hearts in Korea have changed.
At this time, Gongsun Zhi had gathered all the troops he had dispersed, and then rushed towards Zhao's central army without hesitation!
At this time, Zhao Guozhong's army was busy occupying various places and only had 60,000 troops left.
Sixty thousand versus fifty thousand, this is no longer much of an advantage.
"What's going on? Didn't you say that the overlord must have withdrawn his troops and returned to Gyeonggi? Why did he appear in front of us?"
King Zhao was greatly frightened and furious. Without the absolute advantage of his troops, no matter how cautious he was, he would not dare to face the overlord charging into battle.
"Go and call for people quickly. Bring everyone back to me!"
However, it was of no use. Zhao's army was busy looting places. Where could they gather in a short while?
Gongsun Zhi's army easily surrounded King Zhao's 60,000-strong Chinese army camp with 50,000 men, and launched a charge overnight without hesitation.