Zhao State, Song Zicheng

The sky was a little gloomy, and tens of thousands of Yan troops were coming out of Songzi City. It was the first time that Zhao Kuo had seen what a tens of thousands of troops meant. From the early morning, the city gate kept spitting out the Yan people, and it has not been completely spitting out. More than an hour has passed. The army that set out in the front can't be seen now. Looking at this, the road is slowly filled with Yan people.

Zhao Kuo and everyone were hiding in the dense forest north of Songzi City. The dense forest here seemed a little sparse near the road and was easily discovered. Zhao Kuo led a few knights and left the horses. Zhao Kuo still remembered that "goodie suit" he was so lucky that he simply disguised himself as he followed that way, and then he crawled into the forest near the road and quietly observed the Yan people on the road.

This matter is very dangerous because it is too close to the Yan people and it is difficult to escape without horses. Handan Zao and others were originally persuading Zhao Kuo not to take risks and ask them to come, but Zhao Kuo still rejected their kindness. As the main general, he must observe and understand the situation of the enemy. The information obtained from the mouths of others will inevitably have errors. The dense forest in the morning was very cold, and with the dew on the ground, Zhao Kuo crawled forward so much that his whole body was trembling and his teeth were trembling.

Fortunately, it is a little warmer now, but it is not easy to maintain a motionless posture. After waiting by the road for a long time, Zhao Kuo finally saw the first frame driving out of the distance. He was waiting for this. Zhao Kuo watched more seriously. The driver was not young, and there were several infantrymen around him. The equipment was simple and comparable to the Zhao army led by Zhao Kuo.

This is not a chariot unit, this is a grain transport unit! Sure enough, siege of Lifu would allow the baggage, grain and grass to follow the troops. Zhao Kuo narrowed his eyes and remembered carefully what he saw. There were a lot of grain trucks. Of course, there were also troops to escort it. However, these troops were not the elite of Yan State. These may be civilians recruited from Yan State, and they were not fully equipped with weapons. They were responsible for construction, escort, and cooking.

They followed slowly around the carriage, and there were even a few soldiers looking around. As long as there were no generals around, they would jump onto the carriage. The Yan people had enough food. Zhao Kuo had already counted more than 70 carriages. Yan State was like Zhao State, and there was no shortage of horses. What's more, a short horse like this could not fight as a war horse, so they could only transport food.

From the beginning, Zhao Kuo's target was the other party's food and grass. He wanted to cut off the other party's food and grass. Unfortunately, the other party did not transport food and grass through Yan State and could not cut off the food route. Then he could only attack their reserve food and grass. He first used the messenger to let the other party know his exact location and relax his vigilance. Then he led these cavalry quickly to the other party. He didn't know whether these hundreds of people could defeat the enemy, but now this is the best way.

Facing nearly 100,000 Yan people, his thousands of old and weak people could not be hundreds of opponents. There is no doubt that destroying the other party's food and grass and causing the Yan people's army to have serious shortages of food. Now he has mastered the position of the other party's food and grass and protected the number of troops that are in the food and grass. This is very important, and more importantly, he also has to know whether there are elite cavalry among the troops in front and behind the other party's food trucks.

Li Fu adopted a long formation, and no cavalry was arranged on both sides of the grain van to protect it, which was beneficial to Zhao Kuo. But the problem was that this long formation made the grain vans too far apart and scattered each other, making Zhao Kuo unable to attack all the grain vans at the same time, which was not good for Zhao Kuo. After waiting for a long time, Zhao Kuo finally discovered the cavalry of the Yan people. The cavalry of the Yan people were responsible for patrolling the flanks. They passed quickly, and there were thousands of them.

The road was dusty, and Zhao Kuo understood that he had to attack the other party at night so that he could succeed. Otherwise, the opponent's cavalry would be able to rescue quickly and he would not be able to defeat the enemy. At this time, Zhao Kuo's heart was much calmer. Before he arrived, he had already observed all the roads. Unfortunately, the other party's road was the only road in Zhao that was considered to be well maintained, and there were no dense forests or dangerous roads to set up ambush.

Zhao Kuo led everyone to slowly retreat and came to the depths of the dense forest. He just looked at the knights beside him and said, "Please go to the town quickly and convey my orders to let them abandon the city and return to Bairen. He said that the horse cousin was about to arrive at Bairen, and I will fight the enemy there and let them take away all the food and not leave it for the Yan people!" The knight quickly responded, and Zhao Kuo ordered again: "Then you go back to the army and let them stop practicing in Bairen and wait for my order."

"General...Zhangcheng is a very important city. If it is also taken down by the Yan people, Yan people can only kill directly at Handan. How can we abandon it?" Zhao Fu asked hurriedly. Zhao Kuo shook his head and said, "Zhangcheng is a dangerous place, but there is no place to ambush around. Please don't ask too much, I have my own way." After hearing Zhao Kuo's words, Zhao Fu could only accept the order and no longer speak.

At this moment, the general of Yan State, Li Fu, also encountered many difficulties. He had never encountered such a thing since he attacked Zhao State. The people of Zhao State were crazy, which was a big problem. Since the large-scale rebellion of the Zhao State last time, this situation has occurred in various places today. They shouted at the horse and frivolous men and killed the Yan people stationed. Even Jiumen City was once captured by the old and weak Zhao State, and they killed hundreds of Yan people stationed.

Li Fu was in a hurry. He never expected that he would encounter such a tenacious resistance on the land of Zhao, where no soldiers were stationed. The old and weak Zhao buried wells, deliberately burned food, destroyed city defense, and sneaked attacks on the soldiers of Yan. They did everything they could and tried everything they could not do. In just a few days, they caused great losses to the Yan army and the defense was in a hurry. Li Fu could only send elite cavalry to rescue and suppress the people from all over the country.

Li Fu, who has always been unwilling to kill the people, can only make up his mind and threaten the other Zhao people with cruel suppression, but this can't do much. With the Zhao people having a banner, they are no longer afraid of death.

After a day of marching, at night, before Li Fu even gave orders, many soldiers couldn't help camping and resting. Some of the troops behind Li Fu stopped to rest, and some were still marching, which made it particularly chaotic. Li Fu still issued a command of Xiu Jie, and then ordered: "Recently, many Zhao people attacked the Yan army, so that the scouts were alert and patrolled back and forth, beware of their guards!"

Li Fu sat in the tent and sighed. This Ma Fuzi was not an opponent that could be underestimated. It was just that his name had such power. So what was he sending this envoy to do? Was he deliberately showing weakness to himself? Let himself relax his guard? Li Fu frowned and thought seriously. As the prime minister of Yan State, he was not stupid. On the contrary, he was a very smart person.

But the first news he got from Handan, and the news from the envoy was the same. There was no doubt that Zhao Kuo was only a few thousand old and weak, of course, maybe tens of thousands, but it was true that it was not elite enough. Could it be that he wanted to neglect himself, and then the entire army quickly rushed to the city and was ready to face him? He stroked his beard with his beard and thought seriously. Alas, he was still old and his mind was not as clear as before.

What exactly did he want to do? Li Fu never figured it out, but he still felt that he should be more alert and asked to strengthen the defense of each battalion.

At this moment, Zhao Kuo rode his horse and looked at the sparks in the distance. The Yan people had already set up camps to rest. They surrounded the carriages and the soldiers were resting in the circle. At the same time, many cavalry were patrolling back and forth, and bonfires were lit everywhere. The Yan people's army was very scattered, and the distance between the front and back was completely beyond the regulations of the marching, but no generals blamed them.

Zhao Kuo was just waiting quietly.

Gradually, there was no noise in the Yan army camp, and the cavalry just pretended to patrol once and got off the horse to play. Yes, they were indeed playing. Even the soldiers gathered together, playing games such as throwing pots and throwing stones. The military discipline was quite scattered, and the orders of Li Fu would not be carried out by the soldiers at the bottom. The generals of Yan State lived in the camp, and the smell of wine was filled with inside and outside the camp, accompanied by the screams of the women of Zhao State.

Zhao Kuo slowly pulled out the short sword from his waist, and Zhao Fu handed him a torch from behind. He held the torch in one hand and the sword in the other, and asked calmly: "The second and third sons, have you taken all the wine bags given by King Zhao?"

"Take it!"

"Did the two and three sons remember what I ordered before?"

"Remember!"

"Okay, please follow me and burn all the food and grass of the Yan people!"

"only!!"
Chapter completed!