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Chapter 59 Talking on Paper 8

Bai Qi was able to call more than 600,000 troops, which seemed quite a lot, but it was still not enough to surround and annihilate Zhao's more than 400,000 troops.

The army that was ambushed in front was almost 200,000, and the roundabout army, although less than 100,000, were all elite!

Bai Qi's army was only more than 300,000 head-on, but there was no more, because this number of Qin troops was defeated by Zhao Kuo's 400,000 troops, which seemed reasonable, and there was no need to worry that Zhao Kuo would not be deceived.

Who knew that Zhao Kuo seemed to have taken the wrong medicine! He didn't care about the Qin army's weakness or reality, and was not afraid of the Qin army's ambush. He seized the opportunity of the Qin army's defeat, pursued and fought hard, and directly destroyed the second line of defense of the Qin army.

Zhao Kuo's seemingly reckless behavior is a kind of ability to seize opportunities on the battlefield, no worse than the old fox Lian Po!

This is very different from his usual image as a wise general, and it is beyond Bai Qi's expectations! Therefore, in this first battle, Bai Qi lost tens of thousands of people and a lot of food and grass.

Because the detour of the flanking surprise troops had not yet been in place, Bai Qi did not dare to use all his skills to block the Zhao army. Due to the inexplicable failure, the morale of the Qin army was a bit sluggish.

The morale of the Zhao army was high, and Zhao Kuo seemed to have been fed with chicken blood because of the victory of this first battle. As long as the Qin army retreated a little, he designated to take the lead, lead by commanding the troops to bite the Qin army.

More than 400,000 troops from Zhao State flocked to the border, with clear levels and clear division of labor, just like locusts passing through the border.

This unreasonable attack on the defeated Qin army was fatal. Bai Qi, known as the ever-winning general, finally realized what defeat was like a mountain of defeat!

The intermediate generals of the Qin army all knew that this retreat was Bai Qi's plan. Although he felt a little distressed about the loss of troops and generals, he had no bad feelings.

But it is difficult to understand that those grassroots soldiers were defeated against the invincible Qin army, and this inexplicable defeat was a bit difficult! Many people complained, and their eyes at the god of war Bai Qi changed a little!

After losing two consecutive games, Bai Qi's face turned green because the Qin army suffered too much losses and nearly half of the casualties were already close to half.

More than 100,000 people were killed by Zhao Kuo's army in pursuit. If the Qin army had not been strict in its military discipline, they might have been defeated!

Looking at the casualties of Qin soldiers, Bai Qi's heart was bleeding. Because the encirclement had not yet been formed, Bai Qi did not dare to continue to be defeated. At first, he really couldn't stand it. Bai Qi's performance of pretending to be defeated was really perfect.

After three consecutive days of invitations were rejected by Bai Qi, Zhao Kuo did not challenge him again on the fourth day, but led thousands of people to check around the Qin army camp, as if he wanted to bypass the Qin army camp and continue to attack their rear.

A dozen miles behind Bai Qi, there were a large number of soldiers and civilians building barriers to the encirclement. Zhao Kuo could not rush over and find out that he would have to hold on for a few days.

Bai Qi remembered some information about Zhao Kuo. It seemed that Zhao Kuo's martial arts were average. If he could suddenly attack and kill Zhao Kuo, the main general, then the battle could be ended early.

The so-called heroes have similar views. Zhao She could think of using the method of "beheading" to defeat Zhao Kuo in the debate. Bai Qi could naturally think of this. He personally led his troops to attack Zhao Kuo.

Who knew that this time was Zhao Kuo's plan to lure the enemy. When Bai Qi led his elite troops out, he was immediately surrounded by the Zhao army, with heavy casualties.

In order to save the commander Bai Qi, the two armies once again had a big melee. Zhao Kuo made a fool of himself and fought less with more, which made the Qin army suffer another great loss. Zhao Kuo captured the camp and lost tens of thousands of troops and a lot of food and grass.

Zhao Kuo even saw the Qin State's arrangement. Fortunately, the tens of thousands of elite soldiers attacked from the rear finally cut off the Zhao army's way back to the camp and completed the interweaving encirclement. Even if Zhao Kuo discovered Bai Qi's intention, he would not be able to do anything!

Obviously, this is surrounded by the Qin army! Zhao Kuo should be panicked and retreated in panic!

But for some reason, Zhao Kuo was unmoved and continued to move forward bravely, attacking Bai Qi's camp, besides killing people and robbing food!

Although the Zhao army was divided and surrounded by the Qin army and the food route was cut off, this actually had no meaning to the Zhao army, which was already facing the food loss.

Because Zhao State had no military rations sent, all the military rations in the camp were brought by Zhao Kuo in the army, and they did not consider the way out at all. Perhaps Zhao Kuo also wanted to put it to death and survive!

The fish took the bait, but the fish in the Zhao army was a bit too big. It was very laborious to kill the four hundred thousand troops, even if they were sheep one by one.

Although Bai Qi's teeth were very good, he had to surround the 400,000 army with less than one and a half times of the troops and finally had to annihilate it. It was inevitable that he was a little stretched.

What puzzled Bai Qi was that Zhao Kuo and Zhao's army had obviously known that they were surrounded, but they were not panic and were not in a hurry to open up the retreat, leaving the tens of thousands of elite soldiers who were ambushing him behind, useless.

Zhao Kuo still tightly grasped Bai Qi's front army, leaving Bai Qi's interspersed surprise troops and surrounding troops without playing a role, but instead dispersed the military.

Fortunately, Bai Qi had already prepared. The defeated Qin army, with the ambushing army behind, stabilized its position again.

Although Bai Qi's several fraudulent defeats and pretended to lose, it turned into a real defeat, but because Bai Qi was extremely capable after all, he suffered a little great loss, but he still firmly controlled the situation.

Although the Zhao army's attack was fierce, its purpose was unknown. In addition to ruthless killing against the Qin army, it seemed to be to rob food and grass.

In order to reduce unnecessary casualties, Bai Qi led the Qin army to grit his teeth and hold on to the barriers, waiting for the Zhao army to run out of food before launching a counterattack!

But the waiting days are really hard! Half a month has passed, and Zhao Jun has no sign of food shortage at all. He rushed around in the encirclement and was at risk of breaking through the encirclement at any time!

Bai Qi spent a huge price to surround the Zhao army, but he didn't want them to run away casually, so he had to ask for help from the rear of Qin.

King Zhaoxiang of Qin was determined to win this war, and he actually couldn't afford to lose. After all, there were many opposition voices, whether it was civil officials or military officials or within the royal family, thinking that he was "worrying will perish!"

King Zhaoxiang of Qin did not dare to be careless and came to Hanoi in person to organize men over fifteen to recruit all the soldiers.

Although Wang Yan was demoted to deputy general, he did not evacuate the battlefield. He was still very proactive and led these temporary troops to occupy the areas north and east of Changping, cutting off the possible transportation of food and grass and reinforcements that the Zhao army had and the arrival of reinforcements.

The replaced new forces were all handed over to Bai Qi to replenish them on the main battlefield. This time, Qin was determined to use the whole country's strength to destroy Zhao!
Chapter completed!
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