"The local guide said that this high ridge is called Kongcang Ridge, and it is said that during the Battle of Changping, Wu Anjun Bai Qi had pretended to put grain here, hence the name."

After entering Xianyang, Han Xin went to the Imperial History Mansion to come to the historical records of the Battle of Changping, and deduced it countless times on the map, but it was not as good as standing on the Kongcang Ridge at this moment, and the situation of the decisive battle decades ago was clear at a glance.

He pointed to the small city on the other side of the mountain road in the west, and said to Zhao Yan, who had been his right-hand man since Hanzhong:

"The Qin army is stationed in Duanshi City, and between the mountains, this is the only mountain road suitable for the army to pass to kill the Zhao army, and at the end of this road, the dangerous empty warehouse ridge lies in front."

To the east of Kongcang Ridge is the Danshui River Valley, the eldest son of the north is Zhao Shangdang, and the south reaches Gaodu, which is the seventeen cities of Han Shangdang. The Qin general Wang Ji has taken Han Shangdang, and the people of Shangdang have gone to Zhao, and Zhao Jun has placed him in the eldest son, and he guards Changping Pass with Lian Po.

It is said that Lian Po first set up a defensive line in Kongcang Ridge, but because Gaodu had been lost, and the support of the Qin army could be continuously transported from Hanoi County through Taihang Mountain, if he stubbornly defended Kong Cangling, it was easy to be copied by others.

Therefore, Lian Po gave up Kongcangling, retreated to the east of Danshui, rebuilt the Great Wall of Bailishi, took Changping Pass as a stopper, and began a repeated tug of war with the Qin army, and finally the two sides continued to increase their troops, and finally fought the largest battle known to Han Xin.

But this time, because Hanoi and Taihang were still in the hands of the Zhao general Sima Mao, the Zhao-Wei coalition army, under the leadership of the general Lu Goujian, was confidently and boldly stationed in Kongcangling.

Zhao Yan said: "But they never expected that the general's strength was not the same as when he first broke through Hedong, and he took advantage of the change in Hengshan to come, and the Zhao people's army was unstable and knew the future, and broke through the Gaodu with strange soldiers, blocked the Danshui River Valley, and trapped the Zhao people on the empty warehouse ridge." ”

In the past, Bai Qi's tactics were that the Qin army was defeated and left, luring the Zhao army to win, and then using 25,000 strange soldiers to destroy the Zhao army, and another army of 5,000 cavalry to defeat the Zhao wall, dividing it into two.

Han Xin's method has the same effect.

The Zhao army naturally chose to break through to the east, but after a big battle, they were still a little worse than the division of a hundred battles on the Northern Expedition. In the end, Lu Goujian died in battle, the Zhao army was divided into several parts, the dragons were leaderless, this time there was no need to wait for the food to run out, after a series of jaw-dropping "daytime thunder", the demoralized Zhao army was controlled, was ordered to lay down their weapons, to the east of the Danshui between the two walls, waiting to fall.

As a special force specially set up by Heifu, Xu Fu's magicians relied on a thing called "firecrackers", although they could not kill or injure the enemy, but they were full marks in the deterrence after the battle, and after Wuguan, they made great contributions.

But there are also those who resist to the end, because these Zhao people firmly believe that the Qin army will kill them, and the white bones exposed by the water under their feet after being washed by the Dan water are the evidence!

And in the past two days, the revolts of the Zhao people after relieving themselves have also risen one after another, after all, it is the old battlefield, and there are many remnants of the army here, and they have suppressed one after another. The Qin troops guarding them were very nervous, holding crossbow machines in their hands, and they would not hesitate to make a move if there was any abnormality!

Therefore, while admiring the handwriting of his predecessors, Han Xin also faced the same problem as Bai Qi back then:

This group of Zhao prisoners, is it to kill or stay?

"Zhao pawn repeatedly, if you don't kill them all, I'm afraid it will be chaos."

Zhao Yan agreed to kill the killer, in the past two days, Zhao Shu reacted from the shock of being frightened by firecrackers, and the resistance launched has caused hundreds of casualties among Qin soldiers, if it drags on any longer, a bigger riot may be close at hand!

After all, this is Changping, stepping on the bones of the predecessors, you make Zhao people believe that they can survive? It's a joke.

So just don't do it and kill it! Anyway, since the Great Army's crusade to the east, at least 20,000 Wei prisoners have been killed in Hedong - although it was mainly done by the resentful Xihe Army, they were sent by Han Xin to the Mouse Bird Valley to attract Li Zuoche's main force.

"Naturally, you want to stay."

As a prisoner, Hedong Shou had another opinion, he said:

"Previously, the Xihe army indiscriminately killed Wei prisoners to build a view of Beijing, and the regent issued a decree that from December onwards, all armies did not obey the general's order and executed the captives privately, which would be regarded as a private fight! I heard that when the Six Kingdoms broke the West River, Zhao was bound by Li Zuoche and rarely slaughtered the city, I sent people to interrogate, the Zhao soldiers captured here were mostly farmers recruited from Handan and Julu recently, and they had never even been to the West River, and they had surrendered, so why should they be killed? ”

"And the revised "Military Lord Law" has a saying that the soldiers capture prisoners and behead and other merits, for officers, capturing ten prisoners is equivalent to beheading one more person, and General Han captures 40,000 soldiers, which can be counted as 5,000 more beheadings, so that the captains in the army can also make a statement, which does not hurt the peace of the heavens, and can also get more military merits, why not do it?"

I have heard a saying that Bai Qi ordered the killing of prisoners back then, in addition to worrying that Zhao Shu would repeat it, but also because of the military lord's first merit, if he was not beheaded enough, the battle of hundreds of thousands of soldiers under his command would be in vain.

Although he is the invincible Wu Anjun, there are countless hands behind him.

Therefore, when Bai Qi ordered the killing of prisoners, the Qin soldiers did not have any moral condemnation, but happily carried it out, for them, the Danshui River Valley was a large melon field, and each melon meant a hundred acres of land......

But now that the regency has made it easier to reform the law, the soldiers don't have to kill prisoners to get more rewards, and they don't have to make those difficult choices.

"Although the regent revised the law, he did not condemn him to death, but still gave the general the right to make decisions according to local conditions!"

Zhao Yan thought that it was unrealistic to think that this was unrealistic: "Our army broke into the party with strange soldiers, and won the battle with five days of food, and the Zhao army did not have much food, and it was all transported from the eldest son all the way, now Zhao grain has been broken, and our army food is about to run out, if there are 40,000 prisoners, it is 40,000 more mouths, and the daily cost is thousands of stones." ”

I came up with an idea: "You can escort them back to Hedong, Anyi Salt Farm is short of manpower......

"Who's going to escort you? How many people? ”

Zhao Yan shook his head and said: "Our army is only 60,000 in the party, and at least half of them need to be escorted to feel at ease." If so, will the eldest son still attack? If it is any longer, Zhang Er and his son may have to flee again. ：”

"And although Lu Goujian is dead, but Taiyuan Li Zuoche and Hanoi Sima Mao are still in full strength, in case they join forces to attack the party and save Zhang Er, our army will fall behind and turn victory into defeat, who can bear the responsibility?"

"In addition, the captured Zhao pawn was escorted to Hedong, and when he saw that he was going west, he would be irritable, if he rioted because of homesickness, let alone 40,000 people, even if there were 40,000 heads of people running around the mountains, he would have to be arrested for many days, and the Xinjun Shou would not be afraid that the situation in Hedong, which had finally settled down, would be chaotic again? Who can bear this responsibility? ”

This is indeed a difficult problem that must be faced, and he understands a little bit how difficult Wu Anjun's choice was back then, but he still insists on killing or not killing the way:

"Changping killed 400,000 prisoners, has made three generations of Zhao people still hate the Qin people, we are not the Qin people in Guanzhong, but from Chu, from Nanjun, from Hanzhong, and the regent is also easier to order, if you want to take the king's army to the world, if you still take the way of military domineering, this knot, the more you fight, the more you die!"

The two disagreed, even if this question was thrown to the staff officers of the "Feather Wing Battalion", their thoughts were no different from those of Qu Ji and Zhao Yan.

When there are different opinions, it is time to test the emergency decision-making of a commander-in-chief.

Han Xin took a few shots and stopped everyone's controversy.

"Ben had a solution."

He looked at the disease: "It doesn't hurt Tianhe, it makes Zhao and Qin's resentment deeper." ”

looked at Zhao Yan again: "You don't have to consume food, bring hidden dangers, and even pave the way for our army to capture Shangdang, and even Taiyuan, Hanoi, and Handan!" ”

Everyone looked at each other, and for a while they couldn't think of any way to achieve the best of both worlds: "Dare to ask the general, what is the strategy?" ”

"Obey the regent's orders and stop killing prisoners indiscriminately."

He said: "But not all of them stayed, only the generals above the commander of the army were picked out and taken to Hedong as subordinates, as for the rest of the ordinary Zhao soldiers......"

Han Xin said with a smile: "Let them all go, let them return to Zhao Land with the news of 'the Qin army will no longer kill prisoners'!" ”