"The Qin army has already sent troops?" Li Mu held the handsome case in his hand and stood up, his expression was quite excited. For Li Mu, who has always been calm, such a gaffe is also extremely rare.

The captain who reported to Li Mu said: "Returning to the general, the Qin army did send troops to return to Qiuyou, and the main leaders of the army will be Mengwu and Xin Sheng, and the number of troops is about 50,000. ”

At this time, Li Mu had regained his composure, sat back on the big chair, waved his hand to the captain, and said, "Go down." ”

As soon as the lieutenant retired, another military academy came in and reported: "General Yu, General Sima has led the army and is listening to General Hou outside Dazhai." ”

Li Mu let out a long laugh and said, "He came so quickly, but it was also at the right time, everyone, the battle to break Qin is today." ”

Sima Shang has always been stationed in the Panwu camp, and now it is not time to rotate, but he led the army stationed in Fanwu to Jingcheng, of course, it means that Li Mu has decided to fight a decisive battle with the Qin army. Of course, at this time, the generals also guessed seven or eight points about Li Mu's plan.

After the previous months of harassment and attacks, and the Qin army had been working hard all summer, the Qin army was already very tired and morale was not high at this time. After learning that Qiu Yong was attacked by the Zhao army, the whole army must have panicked, and now the Qin army is still stationed in more than 100,000 troops on the relief line, and 50,000 horses have been mobilized to rescue Qiu You, and the strength in Dazhai is only about 150,000 or 60,000 at most, which can be said to be the weakest time for the Qin army.

After Sima Shang led the army to arrive, the total strength of the Zhao army in Jingcheng had reached more than 174,000 people, and the strength had surpassed the Qin army, and after a summer of rest, the morale of the Zhao army was high and energetic, and now was a good time to have a decisive battle with the Qin army.

However, Wang Jian thought that Li Mu had been eyeing Qiu Yu from the beginning, so he really overestimated Li Mu, in fact, Li Mu had already thought about today's plan before the war. But it was really inspired by the plateau.

Since the success of the tactics of attacking the Qin army's reinforcement line on the plateau, Li Mu realized that since the Zhao army could attack the Qin army's reinforcement line, it would also be able to attack the Qin army's logistics base. However, Qiu Yong has a city wall to defend, and the cavalry cannot be attacked, so a large number of infantry must be dispatched, but if the infantry army is mobilized from the Jingcheng camp, it will definitely be discovered by the Qin army. And sending troops from Quyang, it was different.

Quyang is located about one hundred and twenty miles north of Jingcheng and is completely independent of the entire battlefield. If troops are dispatched from Quyang and evade the attention of the Qin army, the effect of surprise can be achieved. The Zhao army happened to have 60,000 troops stationed in Quyang, and it was completely capable of completing the task of attacking Qiu You. And once the Zhao army attacks Qiu You, whether it is successful or not, the Qin army cannot sit idly by, and will definitely draw troops from the camp to rescue Qiu You, and they can also concentrate their forces and attack the Qin army's camp, which is the best chance for the Zhao army to defeat the Qin army.

Although the situation of the Zhao army has been good since the start of the war, and it has always had the upper hand in the confrontation with the Qin army, Li Mu knows very well in his heart that the Zhao army has always had the biggest crisis, that is, the lack of logistics supply. Although the Zhao army had fewer troops and its consumption was much lower than that of the Qin army, the Zhao army almost had no source of income, and only relied on the wealth obtained from Guo Kai's mansion, as well as the plateau and his own savings to support the present.

At this time, the war has been more than seven months, and the Zhao army has also consumed a large amount of military supplies, and the gold reserves have almost been exhausted, and the remaining materials are less than two percent, and they can only hold out for two months at most.

Therefore, although Li Mu looks calm on the surface, his inner anxiety can be imagined. And at this time, when the time finally came for a decisive battle with the Qin army, even Li Mu, who had always been stable and moody, couldn't help but lose his temper after learning that the Qin army had gone to rescue Qiu Yong.

At this moment, I saw Sima Shang striding into the big tent and laughing: "General, I'm not late." ”

Li Mu also smiled and said: "Sima Shang, you came at the right time, this decisive battle with the Qin army will depend on you." ”

――――――――Dividing Line――――――――― Dividing Line―――――――― "Reporting to the general, revenge on the head of the city, is still the banner of the Qin army, and there is no trace of the Zhao army nearby, or the traces of battle. ”

Meng Wu nodded and said, "Okay, let's go down." ”

After the soldiers who had the accident left, Meng Wu and Xin Sheng's chariots were parallel, the two glanced at each other, and Xin Sheng said: "It seems that the Zhao army has not captured Qiu Yu, and we are still at an extremely good time." ”

Meng Wu was a little puzzled, and said, "Since the Zhao army is here to attack Qiu You, why is there no trace of the Zhao army near Qiu Yong?" It's weird. ”

Xin Sheng said: "Probably the Qin army didn't expect that we would come too quickly, so the Zhao army took the lead in withdrawing before the enemy could be captured." It's only been three days, and we rushed back, and it is difficult for Zhao Jun to break the enemy in such a short time. ”

In order to rush back to rescue Qiu You as much as possible, Qin Jun had already rushed a day and a night away, and there were still more than 30 miles away from Qiu Yong, after learning that Qiu Yong was safe and sound, although Meng Wu and Xin Sheng felt a little strange, they were also relieved a lot.

Xin Sheng continued: "General Meng, even if the Zhao army has withdrawn, Qiu You is fine, so we don't have to rush to Qiu You to garrison immediately, immediately send scouts to find out the whereabouts of the Zhao army, now the Zhao army must not have run far, and when we find this Zhao army, we must destroy them." ”

Meng Wu looked back and forth on the chariot and said, "It is feasible to send someone to inquire about the whereabouts of the Zhao army first, but we should not immediately pursue the Zhao army, because we have already driven away for a day and a night, and we should also rest." And we have to reorganize the team, the team is too chaotic now, if we pursue the Zhao army like this, I'm afraid it will be difficult to eliminate the Zhao army. ”

After a day and a night of hurrying, the soldiers of the Qin army were indeed very tired, and when the two of them came out of the Qin army camp, they only brought 50,000 troops, but they were stationed in more than a dozen fortifications along the road, and the Qin army patrolling along the road, the total strength had exceeded more than 80,000 people, there were eight or nine hundred chariots, and nearly 10,000 cavalry. However, because they were in a hurry, the Qin army pulled up from the road didn't have time to reorganize, anyway, they had to pull on the road first. As a result, now the whole army is sparse and scattered. Now that Qiu Yong is not in danger, then the Qin army does not need to be in a hurry, he can take a rest first and simply reorganize the army, so that he can pursue the Zhao army.

Xin Sheng nodded and said, "It's still General Meng's thoughtfulness, we ......"

Before he could finish his words, he saw a sudden dust rise in the direction of the side in front of him, which gradually rose, obscuring the sun in the sky. And then, listening only to the sound of footsteps and horseshoe wheels, I remembered, and I could faintly see a heavy figure.

At this moment, I saw another scout flying horse rush to the car of the two, jumped off the war horse, and said, "Report to the two generals, the Zhao army has killed us." ”

In fact, there is no need for him to say it, Meng Wu and Xin Sheng also saw it very clearly, and at the same time, they also understood that the Zhao army did not withdraw from Qiu Yong, but attacked his own support army first. Now although he has an army of eighty or ninety thousand, he is sleepy and lacking, and he is not an army, so how can he fight against the Zhao army? But the current situation does not allow Qin Jun to choose. Therefore, Meng Wu also gritted his teeth and said, "Pass the order and prepare to fight." ”

The Zhao army that came to attack the Qin army was the army of the Zhao army stationed in Quyang. After receiving Li Mu's general order, Yuan Xuan, the chief general stationed in Quyang, also immediately sent troops, leaving only 10,000 troops to defend Quyang City, and led 50,000 troops himself, including 500 chariots and 8,000 cavalry, to kill Qiu Yong.

In fact, although Qiu You is a small city, after all, there are city walls to defend, and there are two generals of the Qin army, Wang Ben and Meng Tian, who are in charge, and the Zhao army came from afar, and it is impossible to bring many siege equipment, at most it is to bring hundreds of siege ladders, so it is not easy to capture Qiu You City. However, Li Mu had calculated correctly, once he knew that the Zhao army was attacking Qiu Ling, the Qin army would definitely not ignore it, and would definitely send a large army to help, and the Zhao army could attack the Qin army's reinforcements halfway and achieve a victory.

In fact, as soon as the reinforcements of the Qin army came out of the camp, Yuan Xuan received the news, so he withdrew from Qiu You, waited halfway, waited for the Qin army to arrive from a distance, and then killed halfway and launched an attack on the Qin army.

At this time, the Qin army had no time to form a formation, so they could only face it head-on, so the two sides started a fierce battle in the field.

However, although the Qin army was in a hurry to meet the battle, Meng Wu was a person who was proficient in the art of war after all, and he still tried his best to make some arrangements for the Qin army, and he asked Xin Sheng to lead the 30,000 Qin troops brought out of Dazhai as the vanguard force, and first engage the Zhao army. Because this group of Qin troops had a complete establishment and unified command, this point was very important in large-scale battles. If there is no unified command, it is useless to have more troops.

Meng Wu hoped to use this Qin army to withstand the first attack of the Zhao army, and then divide the rest of the army into two armies, the left and right, and launch a flanking attack on the Zhao army, taking advantage of the Qin army's numerical advantage to deal with the Zhao army. Meng Wu did not have any hope of defeating the Zhao army, but he also tried not to lose too ugly.

Xin Sheng led 30,000 Qin troops to kill, and the Zhao army had already rushed to the front of the Qin army, so the two sides met in close quarters and immediately began to fight.