Chapter 557 557.The decisive battle of Qin and Chu

The Qin army and the Chu army launched a final decisive battle in Xiangdi.

Both sides amassed hundreds of thousands of armies to fight a decisive battle in this complex terrain of plains, valleys, swamps, and quagmires.

The two sides began to fight evenly matched, which was also expected by both sides, the single fighting force, the Chu army and the Qin army were not much different, one was the hegemon in the western part of the empire, and the other was the hegemon in the southern part of the empire.

There is no huge gap between the two sides in terms of strength, but the two sides do not intend to fight for national strength, the battle of national strength, the Qin State cannot consume the Chu State, and for the Chu State, the war of fighting for national strength is to push back the time of the rise for a long time, and they are not willing.

Therefore, neither side intends to fight a war of attrition, a decisive victory, whoever wins, will get the land, and of course will not enter the belly of the countries to pursue the victory, and whoever loses will withdraw his troops.

Wu Qi sat in the center of the Chu State and looked at Shaohua on the side: "Has the Zhao army made any moves?" ”

"Your Majesty, don't worry, the cavalry of the Zhao State is ready to attack at any time, and it will give the other party a deep trauma!" Shaohua reported to Wu Qi.

There are a total of three countries participating in this war, Qin, Chu, Zhao, Three Kingdoms, and Zhao This is an alliance gift to Chu.

Of course, in the war with Wei Han, Zhao also made a hindrance, disrupted the joint operation of Wei and Han, and made it fail, and after the end of the Wei-Han War, the Zhao army should have left.

However, the Zhao army received an order from Handan to support the Chu state in fighting this decisive battle with the Qin state before evacuating.

Li Mu was ordered to stay in the Chu State with 100,000 Hufu cavalry and wait for this decisive battle between Qin and Chu.

For Li Mu, he only needs to lead 100,000 cavalry to break through the flank defense line of the Qin army, of course, if he can go deep, it is the best, if he can't go deep, Li Mu will not continue to fight in depth.

In order to help the Chu State win this war, there was no need to sacrifice the 100,000 elite light cavalry of the Zhao State.

Wu Qi nodded: "Zhao Guo is ready?" Then let them appear! ”

I saw a group of Zhao cavalry dressed in the costumes of the northern nomads rushing up on the battlefield, carrying bows and arrows on their backs, attacking the Qin army on the flank.

At this time, where Li Xin, who was in the position of the commander of the Qin army, sat down, and said calmly: "Don't panic, I have already guessed that Zhao Jun, the second and fifth boy, will definitely attack us!" ”

I saw that the Qin troops in front of the flank troops of the Qin army all retreated backwards, and rushed from the rear, a group of Qin troops wearing black Qin armor and holding steel shields, they formed a shield array, tightly sealing the road ahead.

And the arrows shot by the Hufu cavalry were all on the steel plate, and after seeing this scene, Li Mu frowned: "Stop advancing!" ”

The moment Li Mu gave the order, the 100,000 cavalry stopped their horses, they looked ahead, Li Mu looked at everyone and said: "The Qin army has already prepared, if we attack rashly, even if we break through, it will be a heavy loss!" ”

"But general, the king has given us an order, let us be sure to help the Chu State win this war, if we stop the attack, the Chu State will fail because of this matter, the king will be held accountable!" The soldier looked at Li Mu and said.

Li Mu was silent and said: "I know this, I have to bear all these responsibilities, I can't take your blood in vain to achieve my prestige!" ”

"And you are all the elite of my Zhao country, the national pillar, in the war, you have lost everything, it is meaningless!" Li Mu said to the soldiers beside him.

"General......" Everyone was very moved when they heard it, because Li Mu disobeyed the king's order to protect their lives.

If the matter of disobeying the king's order is investigated, it will be a matter of death, although Li Mu is one of the top generals in Zhao State, but if you do not obey the king's order, even if you are talented, what is the use of you?

"Needless to say, I can't let you bleed in vain, then, let's watch this war, if we can still appear, we will appear, if we don't need to appear, we will just watch!" Li Mu said to the soldiers beside him.

Later, after Li Xin received the news that Li Mu had stopped attacking, he smiled at the corner of his mouth: "I'll just say that this Li Mu is not afraid, I will swing this iron shield array, and they can only watch it with their eyes open!" ”

"It's just a general, this Zhao Jun has always been a threat here!" Li Xin's lieutenant looked at Li Xin and said.

"Don't worry, for the Zhao army, they are also weighing some things, if the Chu army wins, they can say that if the Chu army loses, they will negotiate with us, so they don't dare to attack rashly, because they want to negotiate with us in the rear!" Li Xin said confidently.

He already felt that he had won this war, so he felt that Zhao Guo also judged it this way, and Jue's Zhao State just wanted to wait for the defeat of Chu State so that he could negotiate with them Qin State to protect himself.

However, what Li Mu was thinking about at this time was not like this, but wanted to fight in the tiger and the mountain, and wait for both sides, after both sides were defeated, they were in the impact, if the Chu State was defeated, he would also support the Chu State more or less, after all, the Chu State and the Zhao State would form an alliance in the future.

Although he was not attacking the flank of the Qin army, he had no intention of leaving this war, the reason was that Chu and Zhao were going to form an alliance, if he rashly abandoned his allies and left, this King Zhao would be held accountable, and he would only die.

But he did not attack the flank, but he still stayed on the battlefield to support the Chu State when there was a need on the battlefield, and even if the King of Zhao was held accountable later, he would not kill him, because he was thinking about the soldiers of the Zhao State, and if he didn't want to participate in the war, he could completely evacuate.

As for Li Mu seeing that the Qin army was victorious, he didn't attack, in order to negotiate a good evacuation later, he Li Mu didn't think so, because even if the Qin army won, it would be difficult to attack forward, because the Qin State did not plan to fight a protracted war, but only planned to keep Xiangdi.

If Li Xin rashly attacked and entered the hinterland of Chu, it would be tantamount to ceding the fruits of victory to Chu.

The national strength of Chu is strong, although it has experienced the evil four countries to attack Chu, although the national strength is damaged, but Chu is the crown of the vassal states, even if it is damaged, it is not easy to defeat, and you attack in the hinterland, it is an away battle.

The Qin army had some difficulty transporting supplies, and you were entering the hinterland of Chu to fight with Chu, which was no different from suicide.

Therefore, regardless of whether the Qin army won or lost, Li Mu was not worried about his situation, the Qin army was defeated, and the water dogs were beaten, and the Qin army was victorious, showing the strength and reliability of his allies, sniping at the Qin army's symbolic progress several times, and then following the Chu army to withdraw here.

As for negotiating with Qin Jun, he Li Mu didn't think about it, if he wanted to negotiate with Qin Jun, he was told to Zhao Yong by someone with a heart, I am afraid that he Li Mu has a hundred heads, which are not enough for Zhao Yong to cut off.