The establishment of the wounded barracks also immediately caused a strong reaction in the Zhao army's camp, because this is related to the vital interests of every soldier, and at this time, the high healing rate of the wounded barracks in the plateau camp has already had some fame in the Zhao army's camp, who dares to guarantee that they will not be injured on the battlefield, if there is a good wounded barracks, it is equivalent to giving themselves a little more protection, so the whole army is very supportive of Li Mu's decision. Of course, as the founder of the new wounded barracks, Gao Yuan's status in the whole army has also risen a lot.

The scale of the new wounded barracks was expanded, of course, simple tents could no longer be used, and the plateau decided to build barracks based on wooden foundations, and the two sides were facing each other these days, and there was no fighting, so a large number of soldiers could be dispatched to help build the barracks of the wounded system, and it was easy to work with many people, and as a result, it only took ten days to build ten barracks mainly wooden, and each barracks could accommodate at least 100 wounded soldiers. An ancient improvised field hospital has also begun to take shape.

At this time, the two armies had been fighting each other for almost two months, and according to the rotation system formulated by Li Mu when he sent out his troops, at this time, the first rotation should be carried out, and half of the soldiers in the Jingcheng battalion would be replaced. In the future, it will be rotated every three months, and half of the soldiers will be rotated each time.

Therefore, a total of 60,000 soldiers from Fanwu and Quyang also came to Jingcheng Dazhai as promised, and the soldiers were rotated, and at the same time, they also brought a new batch of grain, grass and materials.

At the same time, it also brought Li Mu the news of Handan.

It turned out that since Li Mu left Handan, in Handan City, there was a fierce open and secret battle, Zhao Jia replaced Guo Kai and served as the fake Xiangguo, which was originally pinned on by many people, hoping that Zhao Jia could become the new plain king of Zhao Wei and save Zhao Guo in danger.

But after Zhao Jia took over Xiangguo, although there was a lot of noise and momentum, it did not make any substantial changes in Zhao Guo, on the one hand, Zhao Jia really couldn't come up with any effective methods, on the other hand, it was also because Guo Kai secretly made a lot of stumbling blocks for Zhao Jia, and it did make it difficult for Zhao Jia to show his hands and feet, so after the New Year, many people who had high hopes for Zhao Jia found out what Zhao Guo was like before and what it is now, so some people began to feel disappointed in Zhao Jia.

And Guo Kai, who was recuperating at home, also thought that his opportunity had come, so he instructed his henchmen to attack Zhao Jia for being immoral and talentless, and in a high position, but he could not contribute to the country, and asked Zhao Wangqian to reactivate Guo Kai as the prime minister.

Although Zhao Jia has little ability in governing the country, after all, he is from a royal family, and he still has a few struggles in politics. And don't you just have a good target right in front of you? So Zhao Jia also immediately launched a counterattack, stating that although Guo Kai was recuperating at home, he had been secretly controlling the government, and since he became prime minister, although he wanted to do something, Guo Kai had been secretly hindering, which made it difficult for him to perform, so he must drive Guo Kai out of Zhao State so that he could show his talent for governing the country.

This trick is really effective, mainly because Guo Kai's usual character is too poor, so Zhao Jia's statement also caused many people to respond, and they wrote to ask for Guo Kai to be expelled.

Guo Kai couldn't help but be shocked and angry, fortunately, he still had a lot of henchmen in the court, and Zhao Wangqian still trusted him very much, so Zhao Jia couldn't move Guo Kai for the time being, but Guo Kai's original hope of driving away Zhao Jia and making a comeback was also difficult to achieve.

However, of course, Guo Kai would not be arrested, and immediately discussed with Zhao Cong, and asked Zhao Cong to come forward and pressure Zhao Jia. Because after Li Mu left, Zhao Cong re-became the big Sima, and also relied on Guo Kai's support, wantonly expanded his own power, and installed his cronies in the army, except for the palace guards who were the henchmen of Guo Kai, Yan Ju, he couldn't intervene, and the other armies were almost all pulled by Zhao Cong to his side, and now Zhao Cong's army has exceeded 100,000 people, and almost all the remaining troops of the Zhao army are controlled in his own hands, and he has also become another important force in Handan City.

But for Guo Kai's request, Zhao Cong pushed left and right, but he just didn't do it. Later, Guo Kaiyi inquired and found out that Zhao Jia was also secretly pulling Zhao Onion, and it seemed that Zhao Onion had also been a little tempted and wanted to fall to Zhao Jia's side.

It turns out that Zhao Cong still understands people, and he also knows that Guo Kai's reputation is too bad, and it is not a good thing that he is always wrapped up with him, and now that Li Musi has left Handan, no one can threaten him anymore, and he also has an army of 100,000, so he doesn't have to look at Guo Kai's victory. And more importantly, he and Zhao Jia are both members of the Zhao clan, "Brothers are on the wall, and the outside is obscure", Zhao Cong still understands, and compared to Guo Kai, Zhao Jia's reputation is much better.

And Zhao Jia also asked Zhao Cong to help get rid of Guo Kai, but Zhao Cong was the same, he didn't agree to live or die, this Zhao Cong also knew that only when Guo Kai and Zhao Jia fought openly and secretly, he could find the right and the right and profit from it, whether it was to help that side destroy the other, it was obviously not a good thing.

Guo Kai and Zhao Jia also had no way to take Zhao Cong, but they still had to provide for Zhao Cong, because no matter which side Zhao Cong fell to, it would become a decisive force.

At this time, the Qin army began to send troops to attack Zhao, and Li Mu was in Jingcheng, and at this point, Guo Kai and Zhao Jia's attitude towards this was strikingly similar, that is, sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight. Let Li Mu fight with the Qin army, it is best to fight and lose both, and turn a blind eye to the businessman's behavior of supporting Li Mu.

But at this moment, news came again, it turned out that this time the Qin State still divided its troops into two ways and attacked the Zhao State, Wang Jian contained Li Mu's army in Jingcheng, and the Qin general Yang Duanhe led an army of 200,000 troops from Shangdang to cross the Zhangshui River to attack Handan.

At this time, everyone in Handan City was surprised, and it was obviously impossible to expect Li Mu to return to help Handan. First, Li Mu fought against Wang Jian's 400,000 army in Jingcheng, and it was difficult to draw troops to support Handan, and Handan Guizai had no face to beg Li Mu again. Therefore, guarding the Zhangshui defense line and resisting the southern offensive of the Qin army could only fall on Zhao Cong's shoulders.

And Zhao Cong is also responsible, after all, he also knows that once the Zhao State is destroyed, he will not have a good result. In addition, it is good to leave Handan, otherwise it is sandwiched between Guo Kai and Zhao Jia, Zhao Cong sometimes feels that there is indeed a dilemma, so it is better to come out of sight and out of mind. Therefore, Zhao Cong also left Handan with an army of 100,000 and went to the north bank of Zhangshui to resist the Qin army.

Last year, the Qin State ceded back the twelve cities of Zhangnan to the Zhao State, so that the Zhanghe defense line of the Zhao State pushed a distance of nearly 100 miles to the south bank, and with the troops stationed in the Zhanghe defense line, the total number of Zhao Cong's troops reached more than 130,000 people, and the strength was indeed a lot, because the main goal of the Zhao army was defense, so even against the 200,000 Qin army, it was enough.

However, Zhao Cong did not dare to cross the Zhangshui and confront the Qin army, but ordered to abandon all the cities on the south bank of Zhangshui, and all the Zhao troops retreated to the north bank of Zhangshui to station, relying on the Great Wall on the north bank of Zhangshui. Zhao Cong knows very well that he has a few catties and taels, and it is okay to fight a dozen Yan countries, South Korea, and Wei at his own level, but compared with the Qin army, Zisi is still a little bit worse, and Yang Duanhe is also a famous general of the Qin State, and he is confronted head-on, Zhao Cong does not have the courage. Therefore, only across the Zhangshui River and relying on the Great Wall, can the Qin army be blocked. Of course, Zhao Cong also has plans to preserve his strength.

In fact, Yang Duan and the Qin army on this road were only suspicious of the army feints, the purpose was to contain Handan, so that Handan could not support Li Mu, and the whole army was only 50,000, but it was only falsely claimed that there were 200,000 troops. As a result, Zhao Cong was so frightened that he retreated without a fight, not only gave up all the twelve cities in Zhangnan that Qin returned to Zhao, but even Zhao State's own five cities on the south bank of Zhangshui were all ceded to the Qin army.

, Yang Duanhe captured seventeen cities south of Zhangshui without a single soldier and bloodshed, and then stationed on the south bank of Zhangshui, and confronted the Zhao army across Zhangshui.

After reading these news, Li Mu couldn't help but smile bitterly and asked Gao Yuandao: "Do you think that the Qin army has 200,000 troops on the southern front?" ”

Gao Yuan couldn't help laughing and said, "Is the general telling a joke?" Although the Qin State is strong, but if it wants to dispatch 600,000 horses, I'm afraid it is still a little difficult to avoid it, so Yang Duan and his troops can have 50,000 men and horses, which is already very good, and the 200,000 troops that came, if the Qin army really had 200,000 troops, I am afraid that they would have already fought through Zhangshui and taken Handan directly, and would they still confront Zhao Cong on the south bank of Zhangshui? ”

Although the Qin State claims to have a million armor, but that is just a general statement, the sum of the troops that the Qin State can collect in the whole country, maybe there are really one million, but it is impossible for the Qin State to send all the troops out to fight, the country needs to have an army to garrison, and the occupied places need the army to sit in the town, as well as the border with other countries, as well as the Xiongnu in the north, and the dog Rong in the west, they also need troops to be stationed, so the army that can really be used for conquest, that is, about 600,000, cannot be more.

In addition, it is not enough to send troops to fight a war, there is also logistics support, and a large number of civilian service is also needed, because the Qin army is attacking other countries, so the requisitioned civilian service will be three to four times that of the army, in order to ensure the logistics supply of the front line. In this way, the 600,000 army needs about 200 to 2.5 million civilian servants to support, these people are the main labor force of the Qin State, once they are transferred to the service, it will be a great damage to the social production of the Qin State, and from this point of view alone, the dispatch of 600,000 troops is indeed a limit number.

In another time and space, in the battle of the Qin State to destroy the Six Kingdoms, the Qin State generally only used two or three hundred thousand troops, and only in the battle to destroy Chu did it use six hundred thousand troops. But by that time, the Qin state had already destroyed the three kingdoms of Han, Zhao, and Wei, and the pressure on the border defense was greatly reduced. If at this time, the Qin State had just destroyed a South Korea, and immediately dispatched an army of 600,000 troops, it was indeed a bit of a strong force.

Li Mu also nodded and said, "Forget it, we didn't expect Handan anyway, so it's better to let Zhao Cong be stationed in Zhangshui." In this way, Handan can also be held. ”

At this time, Gao Yuan said: "General, I see that we have rested for more than a month, and the rotating army has also arrived, so it is time to attack." ”