After a while, Gongsun Qi, the Marquis of Wuxin, led Qin Shaojun, Wang Lu and others up the mountain and looked into the distance. Sure enough, he saw a large group of people coming to Hangu under the banners of "Wei", "Shangshui", "Chuanluo" and so on.
The flat ground outside.
"Why did the Wei army come back so quickly?" Qin General Wang Lu couldn't help but muttered to himself.
After all, according to their estimates, Wei Gongzi Run would not be able to return to Hangu until at least seven or eight days later, or even more than seven or eight days later.
"Did something unexpected happen?" Qin Shaojun said something meaningless.
At this time, Wu Xinhou Gongsun Qi stared intently at the Wei army's formation in the distance. After a while, he said in a deep voice: "Wei General Sima An... an incredible general!"
"What?" After hearing Wu Xinhou Gongsun Qi's clueless words, Qin Shaojun, Wang Hao and others all looked confused.
Seeing this, Gongsun Qi frowned slightly and explained: "Gentlemen, please watch the Wei army at the foot of the mountain. They are cutting down trees, setting up camps, setting up military tents, and performing their respective duties. They are neat and orderly, calm and calm. This shows that Wei General Sima An is still
Alive. Otherwise, if Sima An had passed away, the momentum of the Wei army would not be so... peaceful."
"..."
Qin Shaojun couldn't help but glance at Gongsun Qi, and then turned his attention to the Wei army down the mountain again.
He did not see the "peaceful atmosphere" of the Wei army. He only knew that there were so many Wei troops at the foot of the mountain that there was an invisible pressure on his heart.
"Estimating the schedule, it cannot be Sima An who was saved by Wei Gongzi Run. The date does not match up. General Wang Jian is good at attacking and defending. Even if his military strength is far inferior to that of the Wei army, with thousands of iron eagle troops under his command, it is absolutely impossible to be defeated like this.
Easily... In other words, Wei Gongzi Run most likely missed the point and ran in vain. By the time he led his army to the Lu family, Sima An had already relieved the siege on his own."
Having said this, Wu Xinhou Gongsun Qi turned to look in the direction of the Luonan Basin Valley and continued to murmur: "If Wei general Sima An rescued the siege on his own, it means that the Jie tribe in the Luonan Basin Valley has been destroyed... Not good
,not good."
Shaking his head, he summoned a guard and said in a deep voice: "Quickly send someone to inform the country and ask the king to send troops to garrison in 'Lantian'... Sima An may cross the Qinling Mountains and attack our territory in Daqin."
"Yes!" The guard took the order and left.
On the sidelines, Qin Shaojun and Wang Lu were quite frightened when they heard this: Could this battle actually affect Qin itself?
A few days later, the Wei army rebuilt a military camp outside Hangu Mountain.
Because he wanted to end the war in Qinchuan as soon as possible, before all the military camps were completed, Zhao Hongrun ordered the Shang Shui Army to fight in front of Han Valley.
However, the Qin army on Hangu Mountain did not respond to this, and allowed the Wei army at the foot of the mountain to insult him.
Some Qin soldiers could not help but feel angry and strongly demanded to send troops to fight the Wei army, but they were forcibly suppressed by Wu Xinhou Gongsun Qi.
On the ninth day of October, when the Qin army was unable to retreat, the Wei army tried to attack Hangu.
But unfortunately, because the Qin army had enough time to build the entire Hangu military camp like an iron wall, the Shang Shui army did not achieve much in the attack on Hangu.
"Sure enough, Wu Xinhou Gongsun Qi has made up his mind and cannot retreat..."
Zhao Hongrun watched the Wei army scold the Qin army for two days from beginning to end. Seeing that the Qin army had no intention of sending troops, Zhao Hongrun was itching with hatred.
In his opinion, Wu Xinhou Gongsun Qi said "start from Hangu and end at Hangu" and put on a posture of wanting to fight to the death with his Wei army in Hangu. In the final analysis, he was just a "delay" as the focus.
Just tactics.
But having said that, if he wanted to attack Hanshan by force, Zhao Hongrun really didn't have much confidence.
After all, in his eyes, the Qin army had built a continuous line of camps for more than ten miles on the mountains on both sides of the narrow entrance of Han Valley. The ground built in this area was impregnable. Even if the elite Shang Shui army attacked by force, they might not be able to capture this area.
Qin Camp - at least, the casualties of the storm were unacceptable to Zhao Hongrun.
According to common sense, if a strong attack fails, then the only option is to use a sneak attack. However, Zhao Hongrun has no confidence in this.
Would a man as far-sighted as Wu Xinhou Gongsun Qi not be wary of the Wei army's attack on the camp?
Zhao Hongrun didn't believe it.
There is no point in trying your luck.
That night, Zhao Hongrun personally wrote a letter of war and ordered several cavalrymen from the Lun tribe to be sent to the Qin camp.
After Wu Xin Hou Gongsun Qi received it, he couldn't help laughing because Zhao Hongrun only drew a group of lifelike turtles with their heads shrinking in the war letter.
At the head is a big turtle, with the words "This is Wu Xinhou Gongsun Qi!" written next to it.
At that time, the Qin generals who saw this picture were all flushed with anger and furious. Even Qin Shaojun was a little angry and secretly muttered in his heart: Damn guy, did you scold me too?
Only the Marquis of Wuxin, Gongsun Qi, was calm and composed, with a pleasant smile. He smiled at the guards on the left and right and said: "There is only one copy of the picture drawn by Wei Gongzi Run himself throughout our Qin Dynasty!"
Immediately, he ordered people to reward the warriors of the Lun tribe with a small bag of rice each, and asked them to return to the Wei camp to send a message: Thank you Mr. Wei for the painting! I also gave some of the things that Mr. Wei lacked.
The soldiers of the Lun tribe didn't know the purpose, so they returned to the Wei camp with a few small bags of rice and told Zhao Hongrun exactly what happened.
After listening to the story of the soldiers from the Lun tribe, Zhao Hongrun was also filled with anger because Gongsun Qi, the Marquis of Wuxin, was clearly mocking him with food and the fact that the Wei army was short of food.
Is the Wei army short of food?
lack!
Very lacking!
Let’s not talk about the other battlefields for now, let’s talk about Zhao Hongrun’s side. Seventy percent of the soldiers under his command rely on killing sheep every day to satisfy their hunger, which is extremely luxurious.
But what's behind this luxury? How heavy the losses are.
Regardless of the fact that the Wei army plundered the sheep of all the tribes in Sanchuan that were unwilling to surrender to Wei, including the Wuxu tribe, Jie tribe, and Ling tribe, and plundered hundreds of thousands of sheep, but for the more than 200,000 troops under Zhao Hongrun,
In other words, even if all these hundreds of thousands of sheep are slaughtered, how many days can they last?
Ten days, no more.
After this, more than 200,000 Wei troops will fall into a dilemma of food shortage.
"Give me more people to build catapults!"
After listening to Wu Xinhou Gongsun Qi's reply, Zhao Hongrun was silent for a moment and then ordered as if gritting his teeth.
In fact, when he returned to Hangu Mountain, he had already ordered his soldiers to build catapults. After all, he had already guessed that "Wuxin Hou Gongsun Qi wanted to use delaying tactics" when he was in Luocheng.
At that time, Zhao Hongrun had a premonition that the Wei army's attack on Hangu would be a protracted and fierce battle. Therefore, he ordered people to send a letter back to China and asked the General Administration of Metallurgical Manufacturing to send people to escort oil barrel bombs to Sanchuan.
It is undeniable that due to various reasons, Zhao Hongrun tried his best to avoid using strategic-level weapons of destruction such as oil bills, but now that the Wei State was in a difficult situation, he could not care less.
Any pollution or leaks, please step aside!
If the country is destroyed, what does it matter if Hangu is polluted or not? What does it matter if the secret of oil is not leaked?
On October 12, the first batch of grain arrived at Wei Camp on the Sanchuan front line.
This batch of grain was not from the Wei court, but was purchased from the country and the Wei State by "Wang Yong Merchant Wen Shaobo" recruited by Zhao Hongrun. After all, the Ministry of Household Affairs of the imperial court was responsible for the "Hanoi Battlefield" and "Song County Battlefield".
The two lines of grain and grass transportation are already exhausted, so Zhao Hongrun will try his best to solve the grain and grass issue by himself.
In order to relieve the pressure on rice grains, he even let his soldiers eat mutton to satisfy their hunger.
This time, Wen Shaobo did not come in person. He just asked his confidant Jia Wei to urge the people to transport the grain to Luocheng and deliver it to his sworn brother, Zhao Hongrun's aide Jie Ziu.
After approving the grain, he was responsible for delivering grain to several bureaus such as Hangu, Lushi, Hengjian, and Fenyin in Hedong.
In the hands of the Wei army in the main battlefield, the meager grain reserves were used to maintain the supply of food and grass for many local battlefields in the entire "Western Wei Battlefield". Every time they were escorted, not one point more, not one point less, calculated clearly and carefully.
Being careful and walking on thin ice prevented all Wei armies on the "Western Wei Battlefield" from falling into the dilemma of lack of food.
Even Zhao Hongrun admired him.
In addition, delivered with the grain and grass, there was also a letter written by Mr. Wen Shaobo.
Wen Shaobo told Zhao Hongrun in the letter that there was a shortage of food in Wei and Wei, so he was preparing to go to Qilu to purchase grain from Qi.
This was Zhao Hongrun's idea.
After all, although the Qi State is still in civil strife, Zhao Hongrun's elder brother Zhao Hongzhao (Ji Zhao) assists the young master Bai, and has not yet completely defeated the latter's brothers. But in general, due to Tian Dan, Tian Tao, Tian Ao, Tian Wu, etc.
All the famous generals of Qi State obeyed the order of King Lu Xi of Qi and chose to support Ji Zhao and Gongzi Bai. Ji Zhao has now gained an advantage in the civil strife in Qi State, but there is still a long way to go to quell the civil strife.
In this case, although Ji Zhao could not send troops to help his mother country, he could provide some help with food.
The problem lies in "Liang Lu Canal".
In fact, 90% of the "Liang Lu Canal" jointly built by Wei and Lu has been completed. The biggest obstacle at present comes from the force of Song Yun, the leader of the orthodox rebels in Song Dynasty - this is a group that does not obey Wei.
They also fought against the local rebels in the Song Dynasty who surrendered to Wei and Song Dynasty general Nangong Yao.
For this canal, the soldiers of the State of Lu had several conflicts with Song Yun's rebel army last year. Unfortunately, the craftsmen of the State of Lu are famous all over the world, and the army of the State of Lu has temporarily lost the money and food of Qi.
Under the circumstances, to be honest, he was as weak as the soldiers of the Qi State who had taken off their armor, and was beaten to a pulp by Song Yun's rebels in the "Sishui-Weishan Lake" area.
What I didn't expect was that when Nangong Yao rebelled, Song Yun sided with the Wei State. To be more serious, Song Yun did not explicitly say that he sided with the Wei State, but he was controlled by Nangong Yao during a vigorous attack.
Counties in Song County.
Therefore, Wen Shaobo decided to talk to Song Yun personally. To this end, he specially asked his sworn brother Jie Ziyu to mention him.
As for what to mention, Zhao Hongrun could only guess. After all, Song Yun claimed to be a former general of the Song State and had been committed to restoring the Song State. This time, he took advantage of Nangong Yao and the Chu army to join forces to attack the Wei State, and led his army to attack the Song Commandery.
County. If Wei is defeated too quickly, how can the rebels under Song Yun stop Nangong Yao's Suiyang army and Chu's army?
Therefore, Song Yun absolutely does not want the Wei State to fall at this time. As long as he starts from this aspect, it is easy to persuade Song Yun to agree to the opening of the Lianglu Canal.
At least in Zhao Hongrun's view, Song Yun would never be willing to wait for the opportunity to regain his country, because the Wei State was defeated too quickly and was missed in vain. After the Song Dynasty once became the territory of the Wei State, it was occupied by the Chu State.
And more importantly, compared to the nobles of Wei, the nobles of Chu were more greedy.
On October 14, the first batch of oil barrel bombs arrived at Hangu Wei Camp, consisting of forty trucks, each with twelve barrels.
Although the number was not very large, it was enough to prove to the Qin army the Wei army's decision to "defeat Hangu".
So on that day, Zhao Hongrun led 50,000 merchant navy troops, 20,000 Sichuan and Luo coalition troops, and dozens of catapults, and set up a formation outside Han Valley.
"Burn this mountain for me!"
Following Zhao Hongrun's order, dozens of catapults endlessly threw oil barrel bombs at the Qin Camp in Hangu in the distance. In an instant, nearly 500 barrels of oil were used up.
At the same time, as Wuxin Hou Gongsun Qi had guessed, Wei general Sima An, who was stationed in the Luonan Basin Valley, was preparing to lead his army across the Qinling Mountains to counter-invade the Qin mainland.
In the Hedong area, the current South Korean Taiyuan garrison Lecheng also fought with the Wei general Wei Ji, the Lintao lord, at Fenyinjin. Fighting continued every day, and the blood of the soldiers on both sides dyed the river red.
It has to be said that as the cold winter approaches, the battle situation on all battlefields heats up rapidly, and everyone wants to gain an advantage before the cold winter comes.