Open the city.

Le was sitting next to the campfire, tearing the horse's legs in his hand with big mouthfuls, not feeling very good.

After a while, Le Cheng threw down his horse's legs, which had been gnawed, picked up the kettle and started drinking.

Next to Le Cheng, Zhao She held a big horse bone with a calm expression and ate it with relish. She did not forget to remind Le Cheng: "The king said that you should drink boiled water to hygiene."

Le Cheng: "..."

I have all the pots for you to cook horse meat, so where are there so many pots of boiling water?

Le Cheng looked at Zhao She with a calm face and couldn't help but say, "General, we have been here for three days."

These three days actually include the day when the breaking and opening the seal, so it is actually two days.

Zhao She took out a dagger, pierced the outer bone of the horse's big bone with force, aimed it at the gap and sucked it a few relish, and said vaguely: "Yes."

Le Cheng said, "If this continues, the soldiers will be killed all the horses!"

Zhao State has a huge advantage over other countries, that is, the number of war horses.

Zhao State itself has the Dai County, a large horse farm. In addition, in the past few years, nearly half of the land in the north can be raised in six counties, and more than 400,000 citizens live a semi-nova and semi-farming life.

According to statistics from the previous calculation last year, the number of horses of appropriate age available in Zhao State reached 470,000.

Such a number is undoubtedly the best in China, and it also allows the Zhao State Border Cavalry Legion to live a life of everyone riding on two horses.

These days, war horses have been slaughtered one after another due to insufficient military rations. Although only about a thousand horses were slaughtered, the number was not large, but the horses have developed feelings for the knights no matter what. Seeing the mounts who were together day and night being slaughtered in front of them, even if they knew that the military order was not done, it had some adverse effects on the morale of the Zhao cavalry.

Others dared not point fingers at the master Zhao She, but Le Cheng was the confidant of the king Zhao He after all. Seeing this situation, he naturally had the idea of ​​coming forward and saying a few words to his brothers.

Speaking of which, Zhao She seems to be not dissatisfied with anything. At least Le Cheng saw that Zhao She was eating her own horse preparation now and even sucking bones and marrow.

Zhao She stopped sucking, squinted her eyes in the flames, carefully observed the gaps of the horse bones, then sighed, threw the horse Dagu, who had completely lost its usefulness, and looked up at Le Cheng: "Why, General Le Cheng wants to fight?"

Le Cheng shook his head and said, "It is natural that the general has the final say whether to fight or not. The last general just wants to know how long we will stay outside the Qiwang City."

Zhao She laughed: "It is actually useless to ask me about this matter. If you want to ask, just ask when the Qin army in Qifeng City will retreat."

Le Cheng was stunned: "Retreat?"

Zhao She nodded seriously: "Yes, retreat. If you do it, it's almost time."

Le Cheng's face was full of inexplicable information: "Why did the Qin army retreat?"

Zhao She blinked: "Because we are here."

Le Cheng felt that he and Zhao She were not from the same world, so why was it so difficult to communicate?

Just when Le Cheng wanted to say something, he suddenly walked out of the darkness and came to the front of the two of them.

Le Cheng looked up and recognized the person, and couldn't help but exclaim.

This is Zhao She's personal guard captain, an officer Lin Hu, who is said to be the nephew of Lin Hu King within the five uniforms, a very famous hunter on the grassland, known as the "black wolf". I heard Zhao She say his real name once, but Le Cheng didn't remember it.

The black wolf looked dirty at this moment, as if it was rolling in the mud. After thinking about it carefully, Le Cheng found that it seemed that he had not seen this guy for several days.

Just as Le Cheng was thinking about these things, Zhao She had already spoken: "How is it?"

The black wolf bowed to Zhao She and said, "It has been confirmed that there are only three thousand Qin troops in Qifeng City at most."

"What?" Le Cheng was shocked and stood up suddenly: "How did you make sure?"

Zhao She did not look surprised at this. She first made a gesture to Lecheng without any restlessness, and then continued to say to Heilang: "When did the Qin army leave?"

Black Wolf replied: "It should be yesterday, but Qiwang City is on high alert and it wasted a lot of time to confirm the news."

"Leave yesterday?" Le Cheng was surprised again.

You should know that on the morning two days ago, the Qin army broke out from the mountains and almost killed Le Cheng when Qifeng City was about to die.

If the Black Wolf’s information is true, wouldn’t this mean that the Qin people had left after just one day?

What happened that made the Qin people so hurry?

Zhao She smiled and said, "It seems that the Qin general who led the army opposite is indeed a very courageous person. Okay, thank you for your hard work, please step back."

After the black wolf retreated, Zhao She turned her gaze to Le Cheng, and her face gradually became serious: "General Le Cheng, have you ever thought of anything?"

Le Cheng scratched his head and was about to ask, but his face suddenly changed: "Did the Qin people go to support Yuguan?"

Zhao She nodded and said softly: "It should be so. It seems that the king is not wrong. There are indeed wise men in the Qin army who can detect the information that our army divided into two groups to attack Yuguan in such a short time. It is not simple."

Le Cheng didn't have the heart to listen to what was simple or not, and he became excited: "General, do you think Yu Pass can be broken?"

What does it mean to take down Yu Pass? Le Cheng knows clearly.

If the Yu Pass cannot be won in the end, it will not only be the failure of Le Cheng's branch, but also the failure of Zhao's army in the entire battle situation.

Zhao She smiled, and a light flashed in her eyes: "It may be a bit hard to say about others, but General Lian Po... is certainly OK."

Le Cheng said in a deep voice: "But if the 30,000 Qin army returned to Yu Pass, even if General Lian Po could hold on for a while, it would probably be difficult to sustain!"

Zhao She nodded, reached out to wipe her pants, and then stood up: "You are right, so we shouldn't continue waiting here."

Zhao She turned her head and stared at Qifeng City several miles away, saying quietly: "It's time to take down this city."

Le Cheng was overjoyed and said, "When will we start siege?"

Zhao She looked at the starry sky above her head and said, "Now."

Le Cheng was stunned and then was overjoyed.

A quarter of an hour later, amid the dense sound of horse hooves, Le Cheng took the lead and appeared in the illumination of torches on the Qifeng City Wall.

In the night, the sound of killing sounds rose everywhere.

Half an hour later, a deafening explosion sounded and smoke came out of the city gate. The city gate of Qifeng City was split into pieces, and hundreds of Zhao cavalry rushed into the city like a red whirlwind.

This time, Zhao She issued an order that was extremely simple.

"If things go wrong, when our army retreats here, I will not want to see that even one person in this city blocks our army's retreat! The second and third sons just let it go, and the king will have this general to take responsibility!"

This night in Qiwang City was much more bloody than two days ago.

Blood flows into a river.

As the sky was bright, Bai Qi had already led the 27,000 Qin infantry under his command to march in front of the mountains.

The wheels are rolling, and bumps are the norm, and Bai Qi's figure on the chariot is also rising and falling with the bumps.

Looking back, the long team was easily blocked by the mountains. All Bai Qi could see was about two or three thousand people in front of him and behind him.

As a famous general, marching in such a terrain always makes Bai Qi feel very uneasy.

This place is really too suitable for ambush battles.

If it weren't for the urgent situation, Bai Qi would definitely have the scouts patrol and alert in front of him.

But doing that will waste too much time. The thing Bai Qi cannot do the most now is wasting time.

After a while, seeing the rising sun gradually rising, Bai Qi couldn't help but ask the guide beside him: "How long will it take to get to Yuguan?"

There was a clear urgency in his tone.

The guide replied respectfully: "Go back to the general, thirty miles away!"

Bai Qi breathed a sigh of relief and said in a deep voice: "Send the order and the soldiers will follow the general to rescue Yuguan first. The other three armies must speed up and be sure to arrive before sunset!"

After a while, with the sound of rolling wheels and horse hooves, hundreds of Qin army chariots ran up among the hills and headed towards Yuguan in the southwest.

On the chariot, Bai Qi looked stern.

In Bai Qi's view, if Wei Ran could adopt his best strategy earlier and take the lead in launching an invasion attack on the Zhao army, then today's Qin army would not have fallen to such a passive level.

According to Bai Qi's vision, if the Zhao army's defense can be cut off, the war will quickly decide the outcome. Then the Qifeng and Yuguan, which are far away from the main battlefield, are actually irrelevant.

But because of Wei Ran's gaze, the Qin army had completely missed the best opportunity to take the initiative, and it was too late to say anything.

Now, Bai Qi only has one idea in his mind, that is, he must guard Yu Pass!

"Hope, it's still time..." Bai Qi murmured in his heart.

Yuguan.

Lian Po held the horse and looked at the pass in front of him.

As a general with a rich war experience, Lian Po has seen many passes and attacked many of them. Yu Pass is definitely not at the forefront of it, and it is even difficult to rank in the middle, so it should be considered the last.

The reason is the terrain of Yuguan.

Unlike Qifeng City, Yuguan is not located at the corner of the mountain range, but is located in the center of two hills.

Although these two hills are long and extend far to both sides, their slopes are not too high, which leads to the walls of Yuguan not that high. It should be about ten feet apart from roughly looking.

Small outposts can be seen on the hills on both sides. They were built by beacon towers that imitated the Great Wall, but they were much worse than the Great Wall.

Lian Po muttered to himself: "It doesn't seem that the defense is very strict."

What Lian Po didn't know was that there was a reason why the defense line at Yuguan looked so unrigorous.

Yu Pass is near the border between Han and Wei, and the only thing that can threaten Yu Pass is the army from the direction of Wei.

However, since the decline of Wei, although some wars broke out between Han and Wei, most of the time, the two countries joined hands to fight against foreign enemies such as Chu or Qin.
To be continued...