Chapter 85 The benevolent is invincible
The most elite soldiers in Zhao State were not in Changping, but in the palace.
Because Qin often had the habit of directly besieging the enemy's capital, when fighting against Qin, the princes did not dare to leave their capital empty, just for fear of being directly destroyed by the tyrannical Qin. The army guarding the capital, all the officers of the nobles were summoned from all over the place, and the soldiers were all strong men selected from one hundred. When the Wei State was fighting, Zhao State also learned a rough idea of how to select soldiers, but he did not dare to learn them all.
Running with heavy loads, fighting and fighting, the final winner formed this powerful army. King Zhao treated them with meat, and ordinary soldiers could wear armor and shields. It was the most elite army of Zhao. King Zhao was reluctant to let them leave the palace on weekdays. Only when occasionally encountering small-scale wars would they send them to practice and practice as practical exercises. Perhaps this time, he also thought so.
The Yan State has no chief general, just like a loose sand. It is very good to send an elite group of knights to kill a few more Yan people and practice their skills.
After obtaining the tiger talisman, Lou Chang summoned two thousand elite knights. Xu Li had already prepared to go to the war. After summoning the soldiers, Lou Chang sent someone to mobilize the food and supplies used to go to the war. Xu Li waited for two days, but Lou Chang had no intention of going to go to the war. Xu Li was furious and came to the door directly. Fortunately, Lou Chang's servants did not stop him and took him to see Lou Chang directly.
Lou Chang was sitting indoors, looking at the books calmly. When he saw Xu Li coming, he was very happy and hurriedly stood up, "Xu Jun, you are here, sit down quickly, I am about to ask you for advice on war!" Xu Li snorted coldly and said angrily: "Shangjun trusts you, so that you led your army to fight. But two days have passed, and you are still studying indoors. It is a serious crime for you to be so neglected in war!"
Lou Chang was stunned and said helplessly: "I did not neglect, but the food and grass have not been collected yet. Now the food and grass are in short supply. We can't let the soldiers go to the battlefield on an empty stomach. The cavalry consumes more food than the infantry. You have to give me some preparation time."
Xu Li said angrily: "The army you lead is valued by Shangjun. They have stockpiled a lot of food and grass. How could it take so long to prepare?"
"Do I just need to bring the food I need? In the past, the horse-fused boy brought not much food and grass, but now it must be exhausted and needs support. How can you just think about yourself? Can't you think about the horse-fused boy? I collected the food and grass to send it to the horse-fused boy." Lou Chang said dissatisfiedly.
Xu Li couldn't speak for a moment and said viciously: "If you deliberately delay your time, I will come to Shangjun and ask for your crime!" After that, he turned around and left the mansion without caring about Lou Chang's attempt. Lou Chang looked at him leaving calmly and smiled. He was just a reckless man of a humble origin. Lou Chang sat down again and looked at Zhao's map seriously.
The Yan people were burned out of food and grass. It was impossible for them to attack Bai Ren. They were hungry and they always needed to find some food. When they were so hungry that they could not bear it, they went out to plunder the people and officially became cruel thieves. Thinking about the sudden appearance of nearly 10,000 thieves in the Zhao State, robbed everywhere, spread across half of the Zhao State. Oh, this harm is no smaller than that of the Yan people besieging Handan. In this way, the contributions of Ma Fuzi will become sins.
There were less than a thousand people around Ma Fuzi, and he could not defeat the other defeated soldiers at all. Without his reinforcements, he could only watch the Yan people fleeing everywhere as thieves. There were few young and strong people in various parts of Zhao, and there was no way to resist these thieves. Once they disperse, even if their reinforcements arrived, it would take several years for Ma Fuzi to lead them to capture them all. Lou Chang smiled gloomyly, or said to himself:
"What are you anxious about? I'm not a villain who strives for me... I can't steal the great achievements of the horse cousin..."
In the following days, Lou Chang was calmly waiting for the food and grass to be collected. During this period, Xu Li met King Zhao several times, and King Zhao also urged Lou Chang several times. Lou Chang then set off to go to Bai Ren. Lou Chang was sitting in the chariot, and the knights surrounded him and left Handan. However, he did not let the knights rush to Bai Ren at full speed, but also sent knights to guard the surroundings and report at any time, resulting in the marching speed being even worse than that of the chariot troops!
It was a little dark just now, and Lou Chang would ask the soldiers to stop and camp and stop marching. In the early morning, he was unwilling to march earlier. Instead, he asked the soldiers to have a good meal first and prepare enough energy. Lou Chang came to question him several times, and Lou Chang said, "The Yan people have many defeated soldiers. What if they encounter a sneak attack by the Yan people?", "If we march in a hurry and have become exhausted troops when we arrive at Bai Ren, how can we fight?"
Finally, when Lou Chang said that the weather was too cold and he should have rested, Xu Li couldn't bear it anymore.
Lou Chang and two personal soldiers were sitting on the left side of the chariot. He was wearing thick fur. The personal soldiers beside him were making fire for him. Another person was preparing to burn some water for him. Lou Chang sat here comfortably, squinted his eyes, and the soldiers were piled up blocks. "Bang~~", suddenly someone kicked his firewood over. The personal soldiers were furious and stood up suddenly, but they saw the angry Xu Li.
The personal soldiers did not dare to have an attack, and looked at him aggrievedly. Xu Li pushed him away and stood in front of Lou Chang.
Lou Chang slowly opened his eyes, raised his head, looked at Xu Li in front of him, and asked with a smile, "General Xu Li, what's wrong with you?" Xu Li suddenly stretched out his hand, grabbed Lou Chang's neck, and pulled him up, touching his forehead, like an angry bull. He gasped and said, "Please give an order immediately and rush to Bai Ren at full speed!!!"
Lou Chang was startled and then scolded, "Do you want to rebel? I am the main general!" He leaned back, stretched out his fingers to point Xu Li's chest heavily, and said viciously: "You are just a deputy general, you are not qualified to go...ah~~", but at that moment, Xu Li grabbed his finger and broke it suddenly, "Crack~", Lou Chang's finger was broken directly, and Lou Chang screamed in pain, "He wants to rebel!! He wants to rebel!!"
The soldiers around looked at them in surprise, but were indifferent.
Xu Li looked at Lou Chang coldly, grabbed his neck with one hand, and slowly pulled out the short sword from his waist with the other. Lou Chang widened his eyes and hurriedly whispered: "Please spare me. If you kill me, the soldiers will not obey your orders. Even if you forcefully lead the soldiers to Bai Ren, the soldiers will not dare to fight. The war will definitely fail!" Xu Li looked at the frightened soldiers around him.
He put the short sword on Lou Chang's abdomen and said, "Please get on the chariot!" Lou Chang got on the chariot tremblingly. Xu Li stood beside him and said, "Please give orders to go to Bai Ren at full speed!!"
"Go to Bai Ren at full speed!!!", Lou Chang shouted, and the soldiers jumped up and quickly got on the horse. The knights rushed towards Bai Ren frantically. Lou Chang's face was pale, and sweat was constantly dripping from his forehead. He looked at Xu Li, smiled foolishly, his face was filled with smiles, but his eyes were filled with unforgettable hatred. Damn man, even if you march to Bai Ren now, it would be too late. When you return to Handan, I will break every finger of your finger!
At this moment, the Yan people and soldiers were almost crazy because they had no food for a long time.
The entire city, almost even the insects in the soil were dug out and eaten by them, and the soldiers' horses had already become the generals' meals. The Yan soldiers' eyes were full of blood. When they looked at their comrades, they would be slightly ecstatic and swallowed their saliva. The faint eyes were particularly creepy. Several turmoils occurred, and the soldiers could not control these soldiers. The bodies that died in the turmoil had mysteriously disappeared after being buried.
"Ma Fuzi killed all the captured generals?" Standing on the city wall, Yang Ji grabbed the neck of the soldiers who fled from Bai Ren and asked coldly. The soldier was afraid and anxious, nodded and said, "Ma Fuzi said that the soldiers did not know the principles of benevolence and righteousness, and could only obey the orders of the generals. Although he killed the enemy soldiers on the battlefield, he could not blame him, but the generals knew these principles, but did not dissuade the king from launching an unjust war and let the soldiers harm innocent people."
"This is something he cannot forgive. He also said that as long as I follow the river and return to Yan State and do not harm the people along the road, he will not chase me, and the knights will not stop me, but if I hurt the people of Zhao State, he will kill me even if he chases Yan State..." The soldiers said tremblingly.
"Shut up! Don't say anything more!" Yang Ji said angrily. He looked at the generals around him and said, "Chun Zhao Kuo, this is trying to kill us all... Since he is not kind and righteous, we will let him know that the Yan people cannot be underestimated." Then he raised his head and faced the many soldiers surrounding the steps of the city walls and shouted, "What he said is a lie. Zhao Kuo will kill all the Yan people!"
"We killed his friends, his comrades, how could he forgive us?"
"The road to return has been cut off by the cavalry of Zhao State! I will take you with you to kill all areas of Zhao State, and within Zhao State, some are food and grass! Some are beauties! Even if they are to die, they cannot starve to death here!!" Yang Ji shouted. As soon as he finished speaking, the soldier he caught shouted in panic: "No, Ma Fuzi does not allow us to harm the people. He is a kind and righteous gentleman, he will...well..."
Yang Ji's short sword had already stabbed into his chest. He kicked the soldier down the city wall. Then he looked at everyone and said, "He has been bribed by Zhao Kuo! He is the inner responder arranged by Zhao Kuo!!"
However, the soldiers of Yan State did not say anything, but just looked at him coldly.
"The soldiers who were forgiven by the horse cousin actually died in the hands of our own generals." A soldier with a thick beard looked at the twitching corpse on the ground and gritted his teeth. As soon as he said this, the Yan soldiers around him hurriedly looked at him. Yang Ji was furious and pointed at him and said, "Catch him up! He is also an insider!" The soldier laughed and looked at Yang Ji angrily, and shouted:
"Comrade! I heard that Confucius said that the monarch treats his subordinates as his own brothers and sisters, and the ministers treat the monarch as his own confidant. The monarch treats his subordinates as his dog and horse, and the ministers treat the monarch as passers-by. The monarch treats his subordinates as mud, and the ministers treat the monarch as robbers and enemies! Now, these meat-eating people do not even regard us as mud, and they treat us as slaves!!"
"The Ma Fuzi of Zhao released the guilty soldiers, forgive their sins, even healed them, and gave them a little food and grass... Even the guilty ones can be treated as their own brothers and feet!! In this case, I would like to regard Ma Fuzi as my confidant and to treat these stupid carnivores as their enemies! What does the Ersanzi think?!"
"Okay! They killed my horse, but left us no bite!"
"I saw with my own eyes that they brought all the food and grass brought by the soldiers transporting the grain into their mansion!!"
"Ministers will treat the monarch like robbers and enemies!!"
The Yan soldiers shouted, raised the weapons in their hands and pointed at their respective generals. Yang Ji looked at them blankly and kept murmuring:
"Wrong...you're all wrong...wrong...that's what Mencius said..."
"What do you... want to do?! Your family is still in Yan State! You..."
"Wrong..."
Chapter completed!