Chapter 779: Father, Don't Cry, The Child Is Fine!
In the next two days, the Wei army's attack was getting stronger and stronger, and the pressure on the Qi army was getting heavier and heavier.
The reason why the Qi army is under great pressure is that in addition to the strength given by the Wei army, one is that the water battle has a large loss of equipment, and the other is that the war has been fought continuously for nearly a month, and the soldiers of the Qi State are already exhausted.
The Qi army has reached the end of the strong crossbow, and in fact, the Wei army is not much better. Since the Wei army fought the war, the Zheng War has been fought for nearly two years, and about 100,000 people have died, but it has not ended yet, in fact, the morale has already been discharged.
What's more, the news that the Wei army was robbed on the back road has come out, and the entire Wei army camp is panicking.
"Prime Minister, let the last general lead the troops to attack again" A Wei general just retreated from the battlefield covered in scars, but he was unwilling to retreat like this.
As soon as he said this, the generals who were also unwilling to retreat from the battlefield also shouted, but their shouts were particularly harsh in front of the silent soldiers who retreated.
Wang Xu looked at the generals who knelt down and asked for orders, and then looked at the soldiers who were bowing their heads in despair, and finally sighed and said: "The general is loyal and brave, and he knows each other!" However, in the current situation, it is better to withdraw troops. β
"Prime Minister?" When the kneeling general heard this, he was immediately anxious and asked for orders again. He didn't want victory to be just around the corner and just walk away from his hands.
"Say no more! Benxiang didn't want to quit the army, but there was no way. The 30,000 reinforcements of the Qi army have already captured the land and are about to attack our grain and grass hoarding place, the secret city. β
"We can lose the land, because we can take it back"
"The secret city cannot be lost!"
"The secret city is lost, what will my hundreds of thousands of troops eat? How to get home? β
Wang Xu almost roared at the end, and all the generals were silent when they heard the words, but the soldiers who had returned from the defeat in the battle were in high spirits when they heard Wang Xu's words. Yes, go home!
Home, one word, suddenly made them decadent, hopeless hearts, burn again.
Thinking of their parents and relatives, thinking of their children and wives, who were waiting at the door of their homes, these Wei sons and daughters couldn't help but clench the sharp weapons in their hands and go home!
Come home alive!
Definitely.
In the afternoon, an even more violent offensive began. violently let Lu Di personally go into battle, and none of the generals under the fierce Lu Di were injured without color.
The war lasted until dusk, when the Wei army retreated.
It was dark, Lu Di took the spirits and personally treated the wound on his arm to his son, Lu Heng.
This wound was left by a general surnamed Ren of the Wei State, Lu Di opened Lu Heng's clothes, gasped, and he almost saw Sen Ran's white bones: "My son, bear it."
Lu Di gritted his teeth, picked up the liquor and poured it into Lu Heng's wound. Lu Heng's aching gums bit out blood, but he didn't let out a scream, and the troops who watched this scene were in awe.
Lu Di looked at the blood stains flowing from the corners of his mouth, his nasal cavity was sour, and his eyes were full of tears because he was holding on, if he wasn't jealous of this war, if he hadn't been forced to be the commander of the march, if it weren't for his self-righteousness and self-esteem, there would be no "pain in the water of the ground", and his beloved son Lu Heng would not have been injured.
Picking up a white rag scalded with hot water to bandage Lu Heng's wound, Lu Heng turned pale and said to Lu Di with a grin: "Father, don't cry, the child is fine!" β
Lu Di couldn't hold back anymore, and hugged Lu Heng and cried.
All the generals were moved by the fatherly kindness and filial piety of the father and son, the third prince Lu Heng and the great king Lu Di.
Sun Wu looked at the pair of Lu father and son who were hugging each other and weeping, stroked their white beards, shook his head and sighed: "O king, for the monarch, it is not a blessing to show his love for his heirs, it is a curse!" β
In Sun Wu's concept, LΓΌ Di is the king, and Wang Ziqu is the crown prince, if LΓΌ Di shows too much love to other princes, it will not be a blessing but a curse for Prince Qu or the prince who is given more love.
Because injustice produces jealousy, and jealousy produces ambition, and ambition breeds chaos.
When the crown prince was not determined, there was already an undercurrent of princes seizing the heir, and it was not easy to determine the prince, just stabilized people's hearts, and stopped some careerists who wanted to take shortcuts, but Lu Di first pushed the second prince Lu Wen to come out, and now in front of all the generals, he showed extraordinary father-son love, doesn't this make those who have just suppressed their power ambitions burst out with power ambitions again?
Sun Wu seemed to have seen an undercurrent palace battle within the Qi State in which the new princes seized the heir.
"Well, the enemy on the outside is easy to defeat, but what about the enemy on the inside?" Sun Wu fell into deep thought, but his eyes were staring at the Miao Miao water outside the female wall, sparkling in the dim moonlight.
The next day, it was just dawning. Lu Di was woken up by the noise of the soldiers, and as if he was beaten by Wu Zexi's fart at the east gate, he ran in front of Lu Di and shouted: "King, Wang Xu's army has retreated."
After that, he said to himself: "It seems that the reinforcements have taken the land according to the king's plan and are attacking the secret city, well, it's not good, the secret city has now been taken by us, and after this king heard the news, he immediately withdrew his troops to rescue"
"Haha......"
"King, King" Dongmen Wuze was laughing proudly, and at this moment he found that Lu Di was in a daze, without a little joy, and couldn't help but call out urgently.
Lu Di was suspicious in his heart at the moment, he was indeed scared by this Guiguzi, he had to think more, whether this was a deliberate ploy by Wang Xu, the purpose of which was to lure him out of the city and escape, and then hit him halfway.
"Wuze, do you think this is intentional by Wang Xu?" Lu Di didn't dare to believe it.
Dongmen Wuze was stunned for a moment, and then frowned, uncertain: "It shouldn't be, right?" Although the hell is a little bit of a ghost, after all, our reinforcements are real."
"It's just, will reinforcements arrive at this time? Or is this really a coincidence, Wang Xu's trick to lure troops? β
Dongmen Wuze was originally quite excited to escape, but when he was reminded by Lu Di, he was suddenly inconsistent and suspicious.
After all, Wang Xu's reputation is too great.
Dongmen Wuze, who has always been bold and arrogant, does not dare to draw conclusions easily.
"King, why don't you let the Eagle Warrior go and investigate again?" Dongmen Wuze suggested.
Lu Di nodded. Dongmen Wuze got Lu Di's order, and immediately ran out to find the chief general of the Eagle Warrior.
"Finally ashore!" In a vast ocean, countless Wei army rafts, covering the sky and the sun, came to the water's edge, as the soldiers jumped off the raft one by one, lined up the echelon, Wang Xu also walked out of the commander's tent, supported by Xiang Lu, along the plank, to the shore.