After the armistice between the two sides, the second phase of the Zhao-Qin war came to an end. At this time, the two sides had been fighting each other for more than four months, and the time had also entered the midsummer season of July, because the weather was hot at this time, coupled with the previous stage of fighting, the losses of both sides were not small, and they needed a period of time to rest, so the battlefield returned to the state of confrontation.

It's just that the Zhao army can stop and rest in the Jingcheng camp, but the Qin army can't stop, because the Qin army's relief line has always been the biggest weakness of the Qin army, and after the Zhao army has finished recuperating and recovering its combat effectiveness, it may launch another attack on the Qin army's relief line at any time, and it is not a way to put hundreds of thousands of Qin troops on their own relief line for a long time like this, so the Qin army must come up with a plan to deal with it.

However, after the armistice, Wang Jian really came up with a way to temporarily alleviate the predicament of the Qin army, that is, along both sides of the largest mountain road from Qiu Yong to Jingcheng, build a defense line composed of dense simple fortresses, between each fortress, no more than ten miles apart, in each fortress stationed in each fortress 3,000 soldiers, including 1,000 cavalry, usually the cavalry is responsible for patrolling nearby, searching for and driving away the Zhao army's attacking army, while the infantry guards the fortress and protects the transportation team along the way. And as soon as a transport team was attacked, it immediately lit wolf smoke and called for help, but the Qin army of several nearby fortresses could immediately rush to the rescue. In fact, it was to take advantage of the Qin army's numerical superiority and concentrate its forces to completely protect this road and abandon other roads.

According to Wang Jian's calculations, in order to completely protect this road, it is necessary to build twenty fortresses, and the number of garrisons is more than 70,000 people. Compared with the current number of troops guarding the reinforcement line, about half of the troops can be saved, and absolute safety can basically be guaranteed on this road. In this way, the Qin army still has about 300,000 troops on the front line, and it can still maintain a certain advantage over the Zhao army, which is an acceptable party for the Qin army.

Of course, there are a lot of troubles in doing this, one is that the transport team of the Qin army can only take this road in the future, and cannot go hand in hand with multiple roads, which will cause the transportation volume to be reduced a lot, and can only be solved by issuing more transportation times, but this Long needs to do a good job in the transfer of various transport teams, and the other trouble is greater, to build these fortresses, it also requires a lot of manpower and material resources.

Although the scale of these fortresses is not large, but there are many of them, and they are used to protect the transportation line, they cannot be built too simply, at least the two-zhang high walled wall is absolutely necessary, and in order to prevent the Zhao army from burning, the walled wall must be a mixed civil structure, which increases the difficulty of construction. In addition, the Qin army really can't draw many soldiers now, and can only recruit civilian service, so if you want to build all these fortresses, it will take at least two or three months, and you need to invest at least about 50,000 or 60,000 civilian servants.

But this is also the best choice for the Qin army at present, although there are these troubles, but they can only bite the bullet, otherwise they will put hundreds of thousands of troops on the relief line for a long time, and the Qin army will not fight, so Wang Jian immediately ordered the requisition of civilian service, and the Qin army began to build a large number of buildings and build fortresses along the mountain road.

Of course, the movements of the Qin army could not evade the spies of the Zhao army, so the news that the Qin army was building on the transportation line soon spread to the camp of the Zhao army.

Li Mu also immediately gathered the generals of the Zhao army to discuss the way to deal with the Qin army, and after knowing the response of the Qin army, the generals of the Zhao army also felt that there was some trickiness.

Originally, after several strikes on the Qin army's replenishment line on the plateau, the Zhao army was full of optimism, thinking that the Qin army was already vulnerable under the repeated blows of the Zhao army, although after a full-scale fierce battle with the Qin army, the Zhao army sobered up and down, it turned out that the Qin army still maintained a fairly strong combat effectiveness, and it was not easy to completely defeat the Qin army. However, the tactical idea of attacking the Qin army's replenishment line is still not wrong. Because the biggest advantage of the Zhao army now is the mobility of the cavalry, constantly using small cavalry to attack the Qin army's supply line, and slowly consume the strength of the Qin army. After the Qin army is almost exhausted, a decisive battle with the Qin army will be held.

However, the Qin army used this fortress tactic, and it could definitely protect this reinforcement line, once the Qin army really built these fortresses, it would be difficult for the Zhao army to attack the Qin army's reinforcement line. After all, the Qin army has a greater advantage than the Zhao army in terms of strength and national strength, so whether it is a decisive battle with the Qin army or a continuous confrontation with the Qin army, the Zhao army's chances of victory are not great.

The response method adopted by the Qin army was indeed somewhat unexpected by the plateau, but he also had to admit that the Qin army's method was indeed very effective, because this fortress tactic was the best way to counter the mobility of the cavalry. Therefore, Gao Yuan first said: "General, we must not let the Qin army build their forts, otherwise it will be too unfavorable to our Zhao army, so I think that in the future, we should mainly attack the fortress under construction by the Qin army and prevent the Qin army from building the fortress." ”

Chen Shi also nodded and said, "General, I think Gao Yuan is right, we must not let the Qin army build these fortresses, we must stop the Qin army." ”

Because in the previous stage of the battle, it was mainly the cavalry army and infantry army trained by the plateau to fight the main force, all of which showed strong combat effectiveness and made a lot of military exploits, and every time they attacked the Qin army's reinforcement line, the plateau personally led the army to battle, so now the status of the plateau in the Zhao army camp is also constantly improving, becoming an important figure second only to Yuan Xuan, Chen Shi, Ji Sunfeng and other army commanders.

Li Mu pondered for a while before he said, "But how can we stop the Qin army?" Now that the Qin army has deployed 150,000 troops to garrison between Qiu You and Jingcheng, it is very difficult for us to attack their transport teams, so how can we prevent the Qin army from building a fortress? And this is different from attacking the transport team, even if one or two attacks are successful, as long as we withdraw our troops, the Qin army can be rebuilt immediately, and we can only let the Qin army build a fortress for a longer time at most, but it is impossible to completely prevent the Qin army from building a fortress. ”

Hearing Li Mu say this, Gao Yuan thought about it and felt that it was indeed right, and he had no choice, because it was only a matter of time before the Qin army established these fortresses, and it was difficult for the Zhao army to completely stop it, so the Zhao army could only defeat the Qin army before the fortress was built, otherwise when these fortresses were built, the defeat of the Zhao army would be a matter of time. But after a full-scale battle, Gao Yuan knew very well that the current Qin army still had considerable combat effectiveness, and it was simply impossible to defeat the Qin army before the Qin army built a fortress.

And at this time, the other generals also looked at each other, no one had a good way, everyone was thinking in their hearts, it was so difficult that there was really no way.

Seeing that everyone had nothing to say, Li Mu couldn't help but laugh and said, "Everyone, do you all think that the day the Qin army's fortress is built will also be the time of the defeat of our Zhao army?" ”

The others looked at Li Mu and nodded, even Gao Yuan.

But Li Mu shook his head and said, "I don't think so, because I see the hope of victory in the scriptures, I can tell you that on the day when the fortress of the Qin army is built, it will also be when our Zhao army will break the Qin army." Believe it or not. ”

But after hearing this, the generals were also a little surprised, if someone else said this, I am afraid that he would have been drowned by the spittle of everyone, but from Li Mu's mouth, it is very different, because Li Mu has never said suspense, since he said that the Zhao army can defeat the Qin army, it means that he has absolute certainty, so in the hearts of many people, it has rekindled hope. Of course, this kind of hope was completely out of confidence in Li Mu, not anything else, so everyone's eyes looked at Li Mu and listened to him explain further.

Li Mu said again: "Plateau." ”

Gao Yuan hurriedly said: "Yes." ”

Li Mudao: "From tomorrow, you will still lead the cavalry army and attack the Qin army, but I don't ask you to stop the Qin army from building a fortress, as long as the progress of the Qin army's project is delayed, if you can delay until September, so that the Qin army still cannot be completed, I can guarantee that in September, we can break the Qin army, can you do it?"

Gao Yuan was also stunned, it was not that Li Mu's request was too difficult, but that it was too simple and easy. Because it was already the beginning of July, and there were only less than two months to September, even if the Zhao army did nothing, it was impossible for the Qin army to complete the construction of all the fortresses during this time.

Of course, Li Mu's meaning is not to let Zhao Jun do nothing and let Qin Jun build, but to cause some trouble to Qin Jun and let Qin Jun's construction period drag on for a while, but this is not a difficult thing, Zhao Jun only needs to make a little move, and let Qin Jun drag the construction period for about a month, which is not difficult, so that by September, Qin Jun can only complete about half of the project. Just does it really work? If it drags on until September, will the Zhao army be able to defeat the Qin army? The plateau is uncertain.

However, Gao Yuan couldn't ask Li Mu about these words now, so he could only wait for the account to be dispersed, and then ask Li Mu privately to find out what kind of medicine was in his gourd, so he said: "Return to the general, the last general will definitely be able to do it." ”

Li Mu nodded and said, "Very good, I'll look up to you, as long as you do it, then you will be the first to break the Qin army in the end." ”

Then Li Mu said to the other generals: "It's July now, the climate is hot, and Quyang sent a batch of summer medicine the day before yesterday, so after you return to the camp, immediately send someone to the military camp to collect it, and arrange soldiers to do a good job of preventing heat retreat, but don't let down your vigilance." When it comes to September, I will follow me to break the Qin army, and there will be no mistakes. ”

When the generals heard this, they all said in unison: "Hey." ”

Li Mu waved his hand and said, "Scatter." ”