Chapter 682: I, the State of Zhao, will support you
Under the threat of beheading the entire family and reducing the three clans to slaves, the shaken Qin army had no choice but to give up their plans to surrender, fight their way out of the siege, and escape toward the rear.
A small number of Qin troops shouted the slogan "Old Qin, we will fight against the national calamity together" and turned around to attack the coalition forces.
For a time, casualties surged again.
Every minute and every second, soldiers fell down and could no longer stand up. The body parts and corpses spread from the east bank of the rushing water to the foot of Rangcheng. The blood gathered into a stream, filling the broken rushing water, and the earth was a mess.
Red color.
"Ming Jin, withdraw your troops." Zhao Kuo killed the last Qin soldier in front of him, looked at the devastated battlefield, sighed, and ordered.
Under the protection of the Qin army, Bai Qi had already fled into Rangcheng and continued to fight, but it would only increase more casualties.
when!
when!
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As the gong sounded, groups of cavalry rushed out and rushed to various battlefields to deliver orders. After receiving the order, each legion began to retreat slowly.
"His grandma, King Qin and Bai Qi didn't catch any of them. This battle will be a big loss." Yan Xiong came over from a short distance away and cursed.
"Bai Qi's current strength is too terrifying. I used to think that if I were to catch him by surprise, I would have a chance to assassinate him. But now it seems that it is just a fantasy." Gai Nie said with a grin on his face. Bai Qi shot him in the arm.
If he hadn't escaped quickly, his entire arm would have been gone.
"This battle is not without some gains. The Qin army lost tens of thousands of troops and lost all morale. More importantly, King Qin and Fan Ju were both seriously injured." Le Yi said with a smile.
"Next, we just need to spread the news of Qin Wangji's death among the army and shake the morale of the Qin army..." Tian Dan said what Le Yi did not say.
"Isn't King Qin not dead yet?" Yan Xiong scratched his head and asked in confusion.
"The King of Qin and the people around him knew that he was not dead, but hundreds of thousands of Qin troops did not know. King Qin was injured in full view of the public. Do you think the Qin army would suspect that he was dead if they did not see King Qin for a long time? King Qin
If you want to break the rumors, you can only appear in front of the Qin army frequently. In this way, you will not be able to rest safely, and there are enemies outside, so the possibility of the injury worsening will greatly increase. Even if the injury does not worsen, the recovery time will
Greatly extended." Tian Dan said with a smile.
"We should also publish a proclamation to the world to expose King Qin's shameless crimes, so that King Qin Ji's reputation will be ruined from now on." Xunzi came over from a distance and said angrily.
After living for so many years, whether in books or in real life, this was the first time he saw someone so shameless.
Hundreds of thousands of soldiers from both armies, in full public view, as the king of one country, dared to attack and kill the king of another country.
No one has ever done such a thing!
No one has ever dared to do such a thing!
Even before Qin Wangji detained King Chu Huai without authorization, he was not so blatant.
There was barely half a fig leaf left to detain King Huai of Chu. Although it was shaped like a T, now even the last half of the fig leaf has been torn off.
This is absolutely unacceptable to Xunzi. Although he is regarded as a heretic by Confucianism, he does not care about etiquette. He must make Qin Wangji notorious.
Given his status among scholars, it was not difficult to do this.
"I'm afraid Qin Wangji doesn't care about his reputation at all..." Li Si said silently. It should be said that Qin Wangji never cared about his reputation from the beginning to the end.
The Qin State is located in the western border and has been fighting with the Rong Di all the year round. While it affects the Rong Di, it is also influenced by the Rong Di. They only look at the interests and not the reputation. For them, reputation is just a dispensable thing.
For the sake of the Qin State, Queen Mother Xuan could give herself to King Yiqu to play with for a few years. After giving birth to two children, she deceived King Yiqu and killed him.
King Ji of Qin also deceived King Huai of Chu to come to Qin, threatened King Huai of Chu, and asked Chu to cede territory.
This is simply impossible to happen in other countries.
Reputation is very useful when it is useful, but useless when it is not.
Even if Qin Wangji has a bad reputation, it will not affect Fan Ju and others to defect to Qin. What real top talents need is a platform that can display their talents. In contrast, whether the monarch's reputation is good or not is not the key.
"He doesn't care about reputation. He always has something he cares about, such as the throne, such as the Kingdom of Qin." Han Fei walked over and looked around. He didn't see Zhao Kuo and asked strangely, "Where is the king?"
"Your Majesty... you were here just now." Le Yi said.
"Your Majesty and Lord Xinling are treating the wounded soldiers." Ge Nie pointed to two busy figures not far away.
"Don't move, I'll help you clean the wound. It hurts a little, so you must endure it." Zhao Kuo said to an injured Zhao soldier.
When the wounded soldier saw Zhao Kuo, he was shocked. He quickly stood up and saluted, but Zhao Kuo pushed him to the ground and said, "Don't move. If you move again, the wound will burst even more."
When Zhao Bing heard this, he immediately did not dare to move, but his face was still full of excitement. He did not expect that King Zhao would personally treat his injuries.
Zhao Kuo dipped cotton into a little alcohol and gently wiped it on the wound. In order to relieve the soldier's pain and tension, Zhao Kuo asked, "What's your name? Where are you from?"
"...Your Majesty, my name is Xiu, and I am a Julu man." The soldier answered while holding back the pain.
"How many people are there in the family? Are their parents still alive?" Zhao Kuo asked.
"There are six people in the family. My father... my father is gone, but my mother is still alive. I have three children."
"Boy or girl? How old are you?"
"The eldest is a boy and is twelve years old this year, the second is a girl and is four years old, and the third is also a girl and is two years old this year," the soldier said.
"Many children are many blessings. When this battle is over, go back and have a few more." Zhao Kuo applied the medicine prepared by the doctor to the wound, and then bandaged the wound.
"Okay." Zhao Kuo smiled and patted the soldier's shoulder, and then said to the soldier next to him, "You two will carry Xiu back to the army to nurse his wounds."
Then, Zhao Kuo came to the next wounded soldier. Without saying a word, he immediately squatted on the ground and began to help the wounded soldier clean his wounds.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "I...I am from Wei..." the wounded soldier glanced at Zhao Kuo and whispered.
When he saw Zhao Kuo rescuing Zhao Bing, he was very envious. If King Wei was willing to treat him like this, he would immediately die for King Wei without blinking an eye, but he knew that King Wei would never do such a thing.
What he didn't expect was that King Zhao would treat his injuries.
"No matter which country you are from, if you follow me to fight, you will be my soldier. I cannot guarantee that I will bring all of you back alive, but I can guarantee that I will bring everyone back as much as possible, as long as you still have breath.
, I will not give up, and you should not give up either." Zhao Kuo was stunned for a moment, then said seriously.
"My hand is gone, what's the use of going back alive." A Korean soldier next to him said desperately.
He is just an ordinary civilian. Whether he is working or farming, he has to rely on his hands. But when he was fighting the Qin army just now, the palm of his right hand was cut off by the enemy. For him, having no right hand means that
If you can't make a living, even if you can be cured, what's the difference between being dead and dying.
"My right foot is gone. I can't even go home. It's better to die." Another Qi soldier cried bitterly. He walked thousands of miles from Rang County to Qi State. How could he walk back with one foot?
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The sadness quickly spread to all the wounded soldiers, and many soldiers from Han, Wei and Qi burst into tears. The three countries of Han, Wei and Qi did not have a perfect military merit system. When they were intact, they fought for the country, but once they became disabled, they would be ruthlessly abandoned by the court.
"I can't walk back with one leg. I will take you back. No matter which country you are from, as long as you are still alive, even if both legs are gone, I, Zhao Kuo, will carry you home even if I have to carry you. In addition, I will carry you back home."
, when this battle is over, I will write to the king of Wei, Han, and Qi. All the soldiers who were disabled in this war can move their families to Zhao. I, Zhao Kuo, will be responsible for feeding you. As long as I have something to eat.
, I will never let you go hungry." When Zhao Kuo heard the wounded soldiers talking around him, he immediately stood up and said loudly.
"Is what King Zhao said true?" Han Bing asked in disbelief, not even noticing that the wound collapsed again due to the violent activity.
"Your Majesty, think twice." Liu Ping said in a low voice.
In this battle alone, there were more than a thousand disabled soldiers in the coalition forces. By the time this war is over, there may be more than 10,000 disabled soldiers.
In this era, most disabled people cannot support themselves, and these people are a huge burden to any country.
For these soldiers, all countries left them to fend for themselves.
Zhao State is no exception.
It wasn't until Zhao Kuo became the King of Zhao that all this changed. Not only did he provide money and medicine for treatment, but he also arranged work within his ability, such as caring for orchards, chicken farms, duck farms, factory gates, etc. Even if he couldn't do anything, Zhao Kuo
The country will also provide a certain amount of food every month.
In this battle, many soldiers of the Zhao army lost their arms, eyes, legs, etc. These soldiers were already a great burden to Zhao State, and now Zhao Kuo had to shoulder the burdens of other countries on Zhao State.
"You can ask Zhao Jun, when did I, Zhao Kuo, ever lie about what I said?" Zhao Kuo ignored Liu Ping and continued to talk to everyone.
Earth-shaking cheers suddenly broke out among the wounded soldiers.
Liu Ping sighed deeply and stopped persuading.
"Okay, everyone, please rest assured and cooperate with the healing. Don't worry about other things. If you have anything, you can tell your general directly. If you see me, you can also tell me. You only need to know one thing, I will never lose it.
You don't care." Zhao Kuo said loudly, and then continued to bend down to apply medicine to the wounded soldier.
After treating the wounded soldiers in front of him, Zhao Kuo had no time to rest and immediately began to treat the next wounded soldier. As for whether it was the Zhao army or the Wei, Han and Qi armies, he didn't care at all. Which wounded soldier was closest to him, he treated which one first, and did not care about the others.
so many.
Le Yi, Tian Dan and others were still summarizing the battle and discussing the next tactics. Seeing that Zhao Kuo had been treating the wounded soldiers, they felt embarrassed to stand nearby.
Zhao Kuo would not leave, and they could not leave either, so they had no choice but to join the army that was treating the wounded soldiers.
Although Zhao Junzhong is equipped with military doctors, the number is seriously insufficient, not to mention the armies of Han, Wei and Qi. Every doctor is very busy.
Under the leadership of Zhao Kuo, generals at all levels put down their bodies one after another to treat soldiers they usually looked down upon, even the generals of Han, Wei and Qi were no exception.
Although they pride themselves on being noble, they do not feel that they are nobler than King Zhao.
Even the dignified King Zhao can clean the wounds and apply medicine for ordinary soldiers, so what reason do they have to refuse?
With everyone's help, the pressure on military doctors has been greatly reduced. They only need to treat the soldiers with more serious injuries, and the rest with less serious injuries can be left to others.
The medicines are prepared and all are used to treat trauma. Just apply them to the wound. There is no technical difficulty.
Those with minor injuries returned to the military camp on their own or with the help of their companions after applying medicine, while some with more serious injuries were waiting for rescue at the same place.
Pang Nuan, Le Cheng and others led their legions to monitor the Qin army outside the Qin army's camp to prevent the Qin army from suddenly rushing out.
However, the Qin army did not do this. They only sent people to negotiate and asked to send some people to collect the bodies of the dead Qin soldiers.
After all the wounded soldiers were treated and returned to the military camp, both sides began to collect the bodies of the dead soldiers.
Zhao State cremated all the corpses and put them in jars. After the war, they brought them back to Zhao State and placed them in the Hall of Heroes for sacrifice.
After returning to the military camp, Zhao Kuo did not rest, but immediately went to the wounded barracks to check the layout of the camp, safety and hygiene, and the food situation.
It's winter now, there are no mosquitoes and flies, so sanitation is relatively easy to deal with, but in a military camp with hundreds of thousands of people, sanitation issues cannot be underestimated at all.
The logistics department cooked broth and rice porridge for the wounded soldiers. There was no official road from Wancheng to the military camp, which made it difficult to transport food and grass. However, Zhao Jun still prepared a bowl of broth for all the wounded soldiers. As for the rice porridge, it was
Enough.
Zhao Kuo chatted with the soldiers for a while, and told several seriously injured soldiers not to eat too much at one time, but to eat a few more meals. The logistics department would have food at any time, and then left.
"There is good news. According to statistics, in this battle, nearly one-fifth of the soldiers of our four-nation coalition gained internal energy. Among them, the Zhao army accounted for the largest proportion, more than one-quarter, followed by the Wei army and the Korean army, and the Qi army.
The proportion of soldiers receiving internal energy is the smallest, just over one-tenth. The general thinks it is because the Zhao army is closest to the location where the emperor's ooze appears, while the Qi army is the farthest from the location where the emperor's ooze appears."
"However, after some soldiers returned to the military camp, the internal energy produced in their bodies gradually disappeared. General Mo estimates that this phenomenon will continue for a while. It should be caused by the physical fitness of some soldiers not meeting the requirements, or their talents being too poor. However,
Fortunately, judging from the current trend, as long as the internal energy is generated in most soldiers, it will not disappear." Wei Wuji said.
"So, the Qin army has more soldiers with internal energy than our Zhao army?" Zhao Kuo said in a deep voice.
Most of the main forces of the Qin Army are in the center of the battlefield like the Zhao Army, and the Qin Army is more numerous than the Zhao Army. In other words, the Qin Army may benefit the most.