Li Mu commanded the Zhao army to resist the attack of the Qin army in the camp, and on the other hand, he was constantly observing the situation of the Qin army's camp. Seeing the flames in the direction of the Qin army's camp, Li Mu also knew that it must be the success of the surprise attack on the plateau. Therefore, Li Mu also immediately ordered to play his banner. At the same time, he also ordered the Zhao army to launch a counterattack.

If it is at the beginning of the battle, even if Li Mu beats his banner out, it will not have much impact on the battle, Huan Qi is a little surprised at most, but he will not withdraw the army, maybe it will arouse Huan Qi's fighting spirit and make the Qin army attack more fiercely.

But at this time, it is very different, because at this time, many soldiers of the Qin army also found that their camp was on fire, so they were also a little uneasy in their hearts, after all, the soldiers and Huan Qi had different thinking angles, and when they saw something happening to their camp, they couldn't help but panic. And at this moment, Li Mu's banner was raised in the camp of the Zhao army, and at the same time, the Zhao army that was fighting with the Qin army also shouted loudly, "Your camp has been lost" and "Lao Ji has been occupied by us", etc., which also made the soldiers of the Qin army busy, and some of the nimble Qin soldiers were also vaguely aware that this time they were afraid that they had fallen for Li Mu's plan again, so their morale and morale also dropped greatly.

Seeing the fire in the direction of the Qin army's camp, the morale of the Zhao army was greatly increased, and at the same time, Li Mu's banner was raised in the camp, which greatly boosted the morale of the Zhao army, and this was also a signal for the Zhao army to launch a counterattack against the Qin army. Therefore, the soldiers of the Zhao army fought their way out of the defense line and launched an attack on the Qin army.

Although the strength of the Qin army was almost twice that of the Zhao army at this time, the mood of the two sides had changed greatly, the morale of the Qin army was low, and the momentum of the Zhao army was like a rainbow, so the Qin army could not resist the counterattack of the Zhao army, and was killed by the Zhao army and retreated again and again.

At this time, Huan Qi also knew that the current battle situation was that the Qin army was gone, and if he had to hold on, he would only lose even worse, and his heart was indeed uncertain, with Huan Qi's experience, of course, he would not only see a big banner, but he believed that Li Mu was in the camp of the Zhao army, but he was also disturbed, and he couldn't calm down and consider the battle situation, so he had to give an order and the whole army retreated.

Although the Qin army's military heart was greatly moved at this time, the Qin army was after all experienced and well-trained, and Huan Qi was not an ordinary mediocre general, so he quickly adjusted his own situation and tried his best to command the Qin army to retreat, so except for the initial time, the Qin army was a little flustered, but it quickly stabilized its position, and all the armies were also calm and orderly, and retreated in turn.

And the Zhao army chased out of the camp, and then covered up the distance of four or five miles, and there was no chance to take advantage of it, which also made Li Mu greatly admired, he was shocked but not panicked, although he was defeated but not chaotic, Huan Qi was really a difficult opponent to deal with, but after all, this battle was won by the Zhao army, so Li Mu also immediately ordered to stop the pursuit and collect the troops back to the camp.

After Li Mu collected the army and returned to the camp, Gao Yuan and Li Yinghong also led the cavalry and returned happily.

After seeing Li Mu, Li Yinghong also cheered and said: "Father, this time our cavalry has shown great might, and it will definitely scare you when you say it, and you will never think that our cavalry is amazing." ”

Li Mu smiled and said, "Okay, okay, looking at your happy appearance, I know that you must have played well this time." But the detailed situation, let's let Gao Yuan tell me, I'm afraid you can't tell clearly. ”

Li Yinghong stuck out his tongue before turning to Gao Yuan and said, "It's better for you." ”

Gao Yuan came over and reported to Li Mu in detail the attack on the Qin army's camp, and also reported the losses to Li Mu, and the 5,000 cavalry brought out only lost more than 200 people, while the new-style cavalry only lost 54 people. However, due to the rapid retreat, it was too late to count the results, but it is estimated that the losses of the Qin army will not be less than 5,000 people.

After listening to the report of the plateau, a look of surprise flashed on Li Mu's face, although Li Mu also realized that the combat effectiveness of the new-style cavalry army would indeed be greatly improved, but he did not expect that the result of this battle was still beyond his expectations, because Li Mu originally expected that the loss of the 5,000 cavalry brought by the plateau in this attack on the Qin army camp would never be less than 500 people, or even more than 1,000 people, and the loss was far lower than his own expectations. Therefore, Li Mu also had to re-evaluate the combat effectiveness of the new-style cavalry. Of course, it's best to be able to see it for yourself.

However, Li Mu is a very calm person after all, his look of surprise only flashed, and then he nodded, and said: "Gao Yuan, you are very good, this time you won, your cavalry is the first to take the lead, I will send someone to arrange a banquet, and I want to celebrate it well tonight." ”

At this moment, I saw a soldier hurriedly come to Li Mu and said, "General, General Chen has military information." As he spoke, he raised a bamboo slip with both hands above his head and presented it to Li Mu.

After Li Mu took it, he opened it and looked at it, nodded slightly, and said to Gao Yuan: "Gao Yuan, tonight's celebration banquet is going to be canceled, you should go back to the barracks immediately to rest, and set off after dinner, there is still a big battle to fight tonight." ”

Although the ―――――――― dividing line ――――――――― dividing line―――――――― although it was rescued urgently, after the fire was extinguished, the temporary camp of the Qin army was still only a ruin, the tent camp and vehicles were burned out, and the materials left by the Qin army in the camp were almost burned out, and the corpses of the Qin soldiers were almost everywhere.

There were about eight or nine thousand of the defeated troops left behind in the camp by Huan Qi, but almost all the wounded soldiers left in the camp were buried in the fire. And this time to attack the camp of the Zhao army, the losses of the Qin army also reached more than 7,000 people. Therefore, after this battle, the Qin army lost nearly 20,000 soldiers, and such a result can be said to be indeed a fiasco.

Although it was not yet dark at this time, Huan Qi ordered the soldiers to be left behind to guard the sentry, and the other soldiers rested on the spot, buried the pot to cook, and treated the wounded, etc., and then went into the tent himself and pondered.

At this time, Huan Qi's heart was also a little dazed, and he didn't know what to do next. Although the total strength of the Qin army is still about 120,000, after this defeat, the morale of the Qin army has plummeted, and after the victory of the Zhao army, the momentum has risen sharply.

In addition, whether Li Mu is really still in Zhao Jun's camp now also makes Huan Qi a little uncertain. Because he is convinced that Li Mu led the army to rescue Handan, after all, Handan is in danger now, and Zhao Wangqian has issued an urgent edict to transfer Li Mu back to the army, which is more important, Li Mu cannot be unclear, so it is reasonable, Li Mu should of course personally lead the army to help, there is no reason to send others to lead the army back to help, but he still stayed in the Fanwu camp. At least Huan Qi thinks that if he is in Li Mu's position, he will definitely lead the army back to Handan in person.

However, on today's battlefield, Zhao Jun's tenacious fighting spirit and tactics can't help but make Huan Qi suspicious, and Li Mu seems to be still in the Fanwu camp. Because only Li Mu was in charge of the camp, Zhao Jun's expression could be explained.

If Li Mu really stayed in the Fanwu camp, then what tricks did he have? Did he think that Zhao Jun could defend Handan without personally leading the army, and he stayed in Fanwu just to block himself so that Handan would not fall into a two-sided attack?

There is some truth in this explanation, but there are also places that don't make sense, when Huan Qi was thinking about it, he only heard a ** voice outside the tent: "General, there is an urgent report from the Jingcheng battalion." ”

Huan Qi was stunned, the Jingcheng camp is the real main camp of the Qin army, this time Huan Qi went to battle, most of the grain, grass and military supplies of the Qin army on the northern front were stationed in the Jingcheng camp, but the Qin army was stationed in the Jingcheng camp for more than three months, and also built strong fortifications here, which were tightly guarded, no worse than the Fanwu camp of the Zhao army, and the Zhao army could not use a few thousand cavalry to sneak attack the Jingjing camp of the Qin army. Therefore, Huan Qidao didn't think that there would be any accidents in the Jingcheng camp, but said, "Bring it in." ”

As soon as the curtain was lifted, a soldier walked into the tent and presented a bamboo slip to Huan Qi.

took the bamboo slip, Huan Qi opened it and looked at it, and suddenly felt like he had been hit hard, and the whole person was stunned. The original content of the bamboo abbreviation was: Zhao Jun attacked the Qin army's Jingjing Dazhai, and the Qin army lost the Jingjing, and now it has retreated to Qiuyou (Yuxian County, Hebei) to station.

This news is really amazing, and Huan Qi immediately understood Li Mu's real use of troops, it turned out that Li Mu did not return to the army to rescue Handan at all, and the men and horses sent out from the Fanwu camp actually went around in a big circle to attack the Qin army's Jingjing camp, but Li Mu himself still stayed in the Zhao army's camp, commanding the Zhao army to resist the Qin army's attack, and also to drag the Qin army. From this point of view, the Zhao army's abandonment of the outer defense line a few days ago, as well as today's surprise attack on the Qin army's camp, were actually the battle plans formulated by Li Mu himself.

Although the Qin army built strong fortifications in the Jingcheng camp, the defenders only had more than 30,000 people, but the scope of defense was extremely wide, and there was no general stationed there, and the Zhao army sent out to attack Jingcheng The strength of the attack on Jingcheng reached nearly 80,000, so it is reasonable that the Jingcheng camp was lost. And the Jingcheng camp is lost, the northern front of the Qin army will be defeated, and once the northern line is defeated, the Qin on the southern front will be lonely and can only withdraw the army, so that the military operation of the Qin State to attack Zhao this time was also resolved by Li Mu.

After figuring out the entire battle plan of the Zhao army, Huan Qi not only sincerely admired Li Mu's way of using troops, but also like divine help, originally the Qin State added troops to the southern front, which increased the pressure on the front line of Handan of the Zhao State, which was an extremely unfavorable situation for Li Mu, and Li Mu was able to find a fighter in this unfavorable situation and defeat the Qin army. It seems that with Li Mu in the first place, it is impossible for the Qin State to destroy the Zhao State.