Chapter 758: The Fall of the Zhongshan Kingdom
Lu Di's words were very indifferent. But it was extremely harsh, and when Shi Tuo heard it, his face was red with humiliation, and the onlookers laughed when they saw this.
"Lu Di Xiaoer, you insulted me too much, the old man fought for you" Shi Tuo seemed to have been hit by something, he was like a raging beast, struggling to fight with Lu Di.
It's just that where is the opponent of the carefully selected soldiers of the Qi army, he was escorted and couldn't move at all.
Lu Di didn't listen to Shi Tuo's scolding and roaring at all, he said indifferently: "Come on, take care of the old general, and send the old general back to Zhao State another day?" β
Ha ha......
The generals will burst into laughter again when they hear Lu Di's words.
Shi Tuo was completely stunned this time, he thought that he would be recruited by Lu Di like Pu Yuhou, but now? Let him bow his head, impossible! He is involved in order to survive, and he will not be so low.
Shi Tuo sat paralyzed on the ground and said nothing, and after a long time, he suddenly looked up to the sky and laughed miserably: "Shi Tuo, you are brave and fierce in vain, but you have done such an ugly thing when you are old."
"I despise you"
"Despise you!"
Haha, Shi Tuo didn't seem to be scolding himself, his eyes leaked with great remorse, and then his face turned sideways, his mouth stirred, and the corners of his mouth gurgled blood.
"It's not good, Shitou committed suicide," the sharp-eyed Wei Lang exclaimed with a shocked face.
Lu Di had just walked a short distance at this time, and when he heard Wei Lang's exclamation, he looked back and sighed: "Shi Tuo, Shi Tuo, you could have left a mark in the history books without flaws in your life, but unfortunately you underestimated your king and overestimated your position in the lonely heart." β
Lu Di remembered that before the battle of Linshan River Valley, his persuasion to surrender was rejected by Shi Tuo's righteous words, and he thought of Shi Tuo's embarrassment not long ago, and he sighed in his heart.
"Tell the guards to send Shi Tuo's body back to Zhao State, and declare it to the outside world, just say that Shi Tuo committed suicide in fear of crime," Lu Di said lightly.
The Battle of Qu Rebellion, the Battle of Linshan, and the end of two major battles in succession, the loss of the Qi army was nearly 60,000 people, which gave Lu Di a headache, and then faced Zhao Wuxian's army of more than 100,000 people, how did he deal with it?
Busy ordering Wei Lang to take his royal edict to go to the county guard merchant of Beiping County and tell him to raise 100,000 soldiers to come to the rescue.
Beiping County has been well restored over the years, one is that more than 200,000 servant troops settled in the local area, bringing great vitality and vitality to Yandi, which almost killed men.
More than 200,000 young men, in less than two years after marrying a local widow or young woman, the population has tripled. At the same time, it also encouraged those scholars who were new parents to strive to develop production, after all, their own king said that poverty is not what an ideal gentry pursues.
After serving as the county warden of Beiping County, Bu Shang vigorously promoted rewarded farming, not only buying cattle, slaves, and iron tools for cultivation from other counties...... And he came up with a lot of policies to introduce ronin, Hu people, and savages.
These efforts have prompted the population and GDP of Beiping County to soar like a roller coaster in recent years.
Therefore, it is not difficult to mobilize 100,000 young people from Beiping County.
It's just going to take a while.
Of course, LΓΌ Di also had other methods, such as transferring the Guofan army from Henan County, but recently Guofan reported that Wei, Song, and Korea seemed to have reached some kind of secret alliance to carve up Zheng.
Therefore, Guofan's army can't be transferred, in Lu Di's concept, there is such a good thing as carving up Zheng Guo, how can there be no Qi State?
As for the combat effectiveness of the newly recruited 100,000 young men in Beiping County, Lu Di is not worried, most of these people are slaves who followed him to kill Yan back then, and they have also fought and seen big scenes.
I'm most worried about weapons and armor.
After the servant army was unarmed, all their weapons and armor were confiscated except for some meritorious people, so the weapons and armor had to be reissued after the arrival of these people.
However, this is not a big problem, because the sergeants who died in battle, their armor and weapons are not used. Pick some that can still be used, plus the grain and grass camp was originally stocked just in case, and the calculation is not much worse.
Besides, there are also weapons and armor in the treasury of the county guard of Beiping County, and those weapons and armor are prepared for the three northern cities of Yanshan, after all, those cities will be invaded by the Hu people and the Gaorong people from time to time, and they need weapons and armor to defend themselves.
The news that Lu Di was going to recruit 100,000 young people in Beiping County soon spread in Beiping.
Countless gentry ran through the streets, took off their hats and shouted, some war maniacs, and even took the swords given to them by Lu Di back then, ran to the villages, or the high ground of the city, and gave speeches to the gentry who were watching and cheering.
After a while, the voice of long live came.
The ten-year-olds and the younger ones wondered when they saw their father shouting and cheering hysterically, but they also jumped up and down to cheer when they saw their father cheering excitedly.
Only the mothers of those children were extremely entangled and worried when they saw it.
They knew that their man was leaving them for a while.
Zhongren City, the capital of Zhongshan State, Zhao State finally captured this fortress after three days and three nights of fierce fighting.
Looking at the inside and outside of Zhongren City, corpses were everywhere, and Zhao Wuxian's mood was extremely throbbing.
Although the Zhongshan Kingdom has fallen!
But if Zhao expands outward in the future, or encounters a country like Zhongshan that would rather die than give in, is it still meaningful for him Zhao to expand again?
A dead city, a dead country, all Zhao Wuxian got was a "dead land".
Zhao Wuxian slammed his sword into the land of Zhongren City, and he looked at Ji Muhua, the monarch of Zhongshan Kingdom, who was shot into a hedgehog by random arrows, and was speechless for a while.
"Report" At this moment, a soldier Zhao ran over sweating profusely.
"My king, it's not good, Prince Zhou Zhan is dead"
What the?
Zhao Wuxian was immediately shocked when he heard this, and the generals of the Zhao State next to him were also furious when they heard this.
"Say one more thing to the widow, who died in battle?" Zhao Wuxian jumped in front of the soldier and asked as soon as he lifted his collar.
The soldier felt Zhao Wuxian's cold air, he trembled all over, and the corners of his mouth trembled: "My king, my king, is the general of the army, Prince Zhou, he, he died in battle."
Prince Week?
A bearded young man flashed in Zhao Wuxian's mind, his appearance was similar to his brother Boru, and he suddenly burst into a rage.
Zhao Zhou, who was his brother's eldest son, was his future heir to the Great Zhao world, and died in battle? Unexpectedly?
Zhao Wuxian didn't believe it at first, and of course he didn't want to believe it, because Zhao Zhou's death would definitely cause chaos within Zhao State. People will think that it was he Zhao Wuxian who deliberately killed Zhao Zhou. The purpose is to eliminate the possibility of the Beru lineage inheriting the Great Zhao.
"Impossible! Prince Zhou Zhiyong is both complete, and there are 40,000 of my big Zhao Jian'er under his command, how could he die in battle? β
"Besides, the widow has already sent 60,000 troops from the old general Shi Tuo's department to help."
"40,000 plus 60,000, that's 100,000 of my Great Zhao soldiers, Prince Zhou has these people to protect him, how can he die in battle?"
"You are talking nonsense and disturbing the hearts of our army, you really deserve to die!"
As soon as Zhao Wuxian pushed the soldiers away, he drew his sword and was about to slash the soldiers who collapsed on the bloody muddy ground.