"Whoosh!"

A series of sharp sounds sounded through the air, and several cavalry of the Qin army fell from their horses. When the other knights saw it, they immediately shouted: "There is an ambush here, retreat, retreat." Then they turned their horses' heads and galloped swiftly to the rear.

Although the Zhao army pursued a round of bows and arrows and shot down two more Qin soldiers, four Qin soldiers still escaped from the range of the bows and arrows and could not catch up.

Li Yinghong held a crossbow that shot in the air, jumped out of the bushes, stomped on the ground a few times, and said angrily: "It's really angry, this time they let them run away again, this is the third time." Although she has been married to Gao Yuan, Li Yinghong is still just a girl under the age of seventeen, and if she is in modern society, she can only be regarded as a high school student, so she still has a somewhat childish look in many cases.

Behind her, Wu Hongyan also shook her head and said, "No way, our ambush has been discovered by the Qin army, let's withdraw quickly, it won't be long before the Qin army's army will come." ”

Li Yinghong also nodded helplessly and said, "The order goes down, and we will withdraw." ”

The two led the ambushed Zhao army to evacuate the ambush site, walked about five or six miles to the east, and in a mountain recess, the temporary camp of the Zhao army was stationed, but only a dozen tents were built.

Seeing that the tent was picked, Li Yinghong walked in, hung his head and said, "We were discovered by the Qin army's scouts again, so we had to retreat." Zhong Sun Qi and Wu Zhanpeng, how did they go all the way. ”

Gao Yuan raised his head from the map, shook his head, and said, "Their battle against the Qin army also went badly, and more than a hundred soldiers were killed, and they had already retreated just now. ”

Li Yinghong sat on the mat and said, "What can I do, it's the seventh day, and we haven't won a single battle, and if we retreat, we will soon retreat to the Jingcheng camp." ”

Gao Yuan also smiled bitterly. Since the raid on the camp of the Qin army was successful, and a cavalry battle with the Qin army was fought halfway, and after a big victory, Gao Yuan led the cavalry back to the camp of Jingcheng, and was also rewarded by Li Mu, and this victory did greatly improve the morale of the Zhao army.

Then Gao Yuan also immediately proposed another construction to Li Mu, Jingcheng is more than 150 miles away from Qiu You, the Zhao army can make full use of this distance, send a small number of soldiers, on the way of the Qin army, use ambush raids and harassment and other means, to carry out layers of strikes on the Qin army, not only can drag along the Qin army's march speed, but also can continue to hit the Qin army, so that the Qin army is exhausted, demoralized, and lay a solid foundation for defeating the Qin army in the future.

Li Mu also agreed to the construction of the plateau, and still gave him 3,000 cavalry, 7,000 infantry, a total of 10,000 troops, and asked him to ambush and raid the Qin army along the way, but only sent Chen Shi to coerce the plateau.

After receiving Li Mu's order, it was at this time that the Qin army also divided its troops and began to march from Qiuyou to Jingcheng, and Gao Yuan immediately began to implement his plan. At the beginning of the army, Gao Yuan was full of confidence in his plan, believing that under the harassment tactics of the Zhao army, he could continue to achieve victories, although these victories were not large, but they made the Qin army exhausted.

However, the course of the situation greatly exceeded Gao Yuan's expectations, and Gao Yuan first chose to set up an ambush at a location about fifty miles away from Qiu You, only waiting for the Qin army to enter his preset position. But Gao Yuan did not expect that the Qin army on the way to the army, sent a large number of scouts and horses, along the way to reconnoiter the movements of the Zhao army, as a result, the ambush of the Zhao army was discovered by the Qin army's scouts, so they had to show up, although they shot more than ten Qin army scouts, but still let a few scouts run away, but after the Qin army learned, they were outflanked from the two wings of the Zhao army, trying to surround this ambush army in one fell swoop.

Fortunately, the plateau also sent a lot of spies, and the movements of the Qin army were basically under the control of the plateau, so the retreat at the extreme time did not let the Qin army succeed, and of course the Zhao army's ambush plan also failed.

In the following days, the plateau attacked again and again, launching night attacks on the Qin army, halfway assaults, luring the enemy into depth, etc., but the Qin army strengthened its vigilance every night camp, making the Zhao army invulnerable; On the way to the march, he encountered the surprise attack of the Zhao army, and he did not mess up at all, but immediately discharged a strict defensive formation, and used a strong bow and a hard crossbow to fight back against the Zhao army, which also made the Zhao army unable to find any loopholes, on the contrary, because the range of the infantry's bow and crossbow was stronger than that of the cavalry, the Zhao army also lost some cavalry and had to retreat. At the same time, he also notified other Qin troops nearby to encircle the Zhao army, forcing the Zhao army to retreat.

So Gao Yuan wanted to lure the Qin army into pursuit and lead the Qin army into the ambush location he had set up, but the Qin army was not moved at all, and did not pursue lightly, but first sent a large number of reconnaissance cavalry to make sure that there was no Zhao army to set up an ambush before marching forward. As a result, all the arrangements of the Zhao army had no effect, on the contrary, when luring the enemy and raiding, they also lost nearly 200 cavalry, of course, the Zhao army also hunted and killed a lot of Qin army's scout cavalry, and in general, the losses of both sides were equal.

Of course, the layout of the plateau is not completely fruitless, under the interference of the Zhao army, the Qin army does have some grass and trees, the speed of progress is not fast, a day can only advance thirty or forty miles, sometimes even can only travel more than twenty miles, but the plateau's most hopeful success to fight the Qin army a few ambushes, to achieve a few victories, but has not been realized.

And the two sides are in such repeated entanglement, although the Qin army's forward speed is slow, but it is still steadily advancing, and has gone through more than half of the distance, the nearest Qin army from Jingcheng, has been less than 30 miles, and their current location is basically parallel, and this Qin army has stopped in the same place, is camping and setting up a village, digging earth for trenches, building stones into walls, cutting wood to make fences, and establishing a stable station.

This result, of course, is very different from the original vision of the plateau, and it also greatly disappointed the plateau. At the same time, he is also reflecting on himself, it seems that he still imagines the war too simply, thinking that he can be regarded as a famous general if he has won a few battles, although he has more than 2,000 years of knowledge than the people of this era, knows the general trend of historical development, and may have a more profound theory and understanding of war, but when it comes to the actual way of using troops, compared with Li Mu, it is still far behind. Even compared to Wang Jian, the main general of the Qin army, it is also greatly inferior.

Judging from the process of the Qin army's march this time, Wang Jian completely saw through his own intentions, and made targeted arrangements, so that the Qin army was invulnerable in the entire process of marching, leaving no opportunity for himself to take advantage of. Indeed, he is worthy of being a famous general who can be ranked with Li Mu in the early Warring States period. If he is the chief general of Zhao Jun this time, it is estimated that he will not be Wang Jian's opponent at all. It seems that only Li Mu can fight against Wang Jian.

At this time, Chen Shi said: "Plateau, now that the Qin army has begun to set up camp and garrison the village, the other Qin troops will immediately follow, if we stay here, it is impossible to ambush the Qin army, and once it is discovered by the Qin army, it may be surrounded by the Qin army, it is too dangerous, so we should quickly withdraw to the camp of Jingcheng and listen to General Hou's arrangement." ”

After Gao Yuan and Li Yinghong got married, that is, Li Mu's son-in-law, the attitude of the generals towards Gao Yuan was much more intimate, Chen Zhi was also an old qualification among the generals of the Zhao army, and he followed Li Mu for nearly 20 years, and Li Mu participated in almost all the battles, Li Yinghong respected them very much, and they were treated with the courtesy of elders. Therefore, Chen Zhi can also call the plateau by his first name to show his closeness.

Gao Yuan nodded and said, "General Chen, you are right, we should indeed retreat immediately." So he immediately called the guards and said, "You immediately give an order, and after an hour, we will evacuate from here, and inform the other people and horses that they do not have to come here to gather, and they will immediately return to the camp of Jingcheng, and they are not allowed to entangle with the Qin army again." ”

After the guards left, Li Yinghong pouted again and said, "It's been a busy few days, and I haven't fought a decent battle." ”

Gao Yuan also smiled bitterly and said, "It's me who underestimated the Qin army too much. ”

At this time, Chen Shi smiled and said: "Gao Yuan, you don't have to blame yourself, in fact, before sending troops, the general told me that it is difficult to gain anything from sending troops this time, because Wang Jian is a famous general of Qin State, and he is cautious in using troops, and it is not easy to find his loopholes." ”

Gao Yuan was stunned for a moment, and said, "The general has long expected such a result?" ”

Li Yinghong frowned and said, "Father is really, since he knows that there will be such a result, why should he let us bring troops out, and waste a few days of hard work." ”

Chen Shi smiled and said: "Yinghong, of course, the general has his reasons for doing this. He looked at the plateau again and said: "First, I don't want to fight the plateau, only by letting the plateau personally experience such a battlefield, will he know what the war is like, and it will be of great help to him in the future; Second, I also want to see what the ability of the plateau's independent army to lead the army will do when he misjudges the situation, whether he will forcibly fight a decisive battle with the Qin army regardless of his own situation, or withdraw his troops and then look for other fighters. If Gao Yuan really wants to forcibly fight a decisive battle with the Qin army, it will be up to me to dissuade him, but it seems that the general's worry is too much. ”

Then he patted Gao Yuan's shoulder again and said, "Gao Yuan, the general values you very much. I hope you will inherit his business, and you don't want to disappoint him. ”

When Gao Yuan heard this, he couldn't help but be very grateful to Li Mu, and at the same time a little ashamed, and said: "I can't imagine that the general has such good intentions for me, General Chen, I ......"

Chen Shi smiled and said: "Needless to say, you are originally a family, the general even gave it to you, he doesn't cultivate imitation, who cultivates it, okay, don't delay any longer, let's withdraw the army immediately." ”