Chapter 207: The Dilemma of the Han Army

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On September 20, under the command of commander Bai Qi, the Qin army first attacked Chencang and then surrounded Yong County, and finally cut off the Han army's food supply route and besieged more than 200,000 Han soldiers with crossbow formations in Yong County.

In Yong County County, the King of Han looked at Cao Tian with a depressed look in front of him, and was very angry, but he was helpless. He knew that Cao Tian had tried his best, but the Qin army was too cunning, and coupled with the huge lethal star-destroying crossbow, it was understandable that the Han army was defeated.

"General Cao, can there be other ways to break through the Qin army now? You have to know that although Yongxian has

Some food can only be used by more than 200,000 troops in three months, and winter is about to begin. Yong County lacks winter clothes. If the road to Mei County cannot be opened, we will either starve to death or freeze to death." The King of Han asked Cao Tian with a calm face. Although the Han army has not had a food crisis at present, it is now the end of September and the middle of winter is approaching. How can the Han army lacking winter clothes hold on?

Cao Tian shook his head bitterly and said, "Go back to the king, I have no good idea. The Qin army is in front of the crossbow formation. As long as our army launches a breakthrough, it will be immediately fired by the Qin army. In the past few days, I have also tried to send a small group of troops to break through, but before I could reach the Qin army's position, all of them died under the Star Destroyer Crossbow."

"But we can't wait to die. General Cao, you are the most capable general in the Han Dynasty who is currently the one who commands troops and fights. I beg you to find a way to break through the siege." In order to get rid of this predicament, the King of Han even said something begged. At this time, the King of Han was already a little regretful. Why did he come to Yong County? Isn't it good to stay in Chang'an? Now, I'm surrounded by others. Whether he can leave safely is still a mystery.

"King, the only way to do this is to gather all the supplies in Yong County and make a batch of winter clothes. You can do as much as you can." Cao Tian said with a wry smile.

The weather is getting colder and colder. According to previous years, heavy snow will soon fall in Guanzhong. If it were previous years, auspicious snow would be the expectation of the Han King of the next year. But now, he is becoming more and more afraid of the arrival of this snow, because he knows that if they still failed to leave Yong County before his first snow appeared, then more than 200,000 Han troops would probably have many people frozen to death in Yong County.

On September 26, 15th year of Qianyuan, tens of thousands of Han troops left Xigu in Hanzhong and attacked the Qin army in Chencang area, trying to tear a hole to meet the King of Han to break through. However, things went against their wishes. Tens of thousands of Han troops entered the trap prepared by Bai Qi and almost wiped out the entire army.

On the high ground of the Qin army's position, Bai Qi was wrapped in a leather jacket, followed by four Qin generals, Shelitu, Ma Sheng, Ying Huai and Wang Feng.

"What's the news about General Meng? It's probably snowing soon. Now our army's food and grass are about to bottom out. If the food and grass have not been delivered yet, and the Han army has not yet died, we will die first." Bai Qi asked several people. The current situation seems to be very beneficial to the Qin army, but Bai Qi knew that the Qin army is also struggling now. Unlike the Han army's local operations, the food and grass military resources needed by the Qin army must be transported from Xiliang. Not to mention the long journey, if there is any accident, it may lead to a major defeat on the front line.

"General Bai, don't worry, General Meng has sent someone to report this morning. The next batch of food and grass has begun to set off. It will be delivered to our army within ten days." Wang Feng, who has been in charge of contacting Meng Zhan, replied.

When Bai Qi heard that the food and grass were delivered quickly, he breathed a sigh of relief and said, "It's good over there, but this batch of food and grass is crucial. General Wang, thank you for your hard work, you can bring people to the reception yourself, and you must not make any mistakes."

"Here!" Wang Feng replied.

At this time, due to the cold weather and lack of winter clothes, many soldiers had already started to tremble and began to complain. Even the negative mentality appeared in the army, which made the entire Han army look like it was drifting.

Cao Tian was patrolling the military camp, but along the way, what he saw was lifeless. Three or five soldiers formed a circle and roasted fire beside the brazier. Without winter clothes, the Han army could only keep warm through this. As for daily training, I am afraid there was no intention to do it.

Looking at this scene, Cao Tian sighed helplessly. He wanted to go up and scold him, but in the end he still held back. He knew that if the soldiers were not allowed to do this, it would probably cause a mutiny in the army. With a brazier there, he would not be so sad this winter.

"General Cao!" Just as Cao Tian finished inspecting the military camp and was about to return to the central army's tent, Xiahou Wuji came to find him.

Cao Tian looked at Xiahou Wuji in front of him and said, "General Xiahou, don't know what's wrong?"

"Oh..." Xiahou Wuji sighed and said, "What else can it be? Isn't it a matter of winter clothes? There are too few winter clothes sent by Yong County. Many soldiers in the army fought for a winter clothes. The last general stopped it and even used military laws, but it still could not be curbed. So I want to ask General Cao what he meant."

"Let's go, take me to see." After hearing this, Cao Tian immediately asked Xiahou Wuji to take him to see, and Xiahou Wuji hurriedly led the way.

When the two arrived at a military camp, two gangs of people had already started fighting, and several winter clothes were even pulled out of the pull. Cao Tian was very annoyed when he saw it and asked his personal guards to take them down and deal with it with the military law.

After solving these small episodes, Cao Tian returned to the central army's tent, and now in front of the map, looking for a way to break through. In this situation, he could only break through. As long as he retreated to Mei County, all the crises would be solved. However, the problem is that to break through, one must face the Qin army's star-destroying crossbow formation head-on, which means that the casualties of breaking through will be very large. Fortunately, the Qin army only has 100,000 crossbow soldiers. In order to form a crossbow formation encirclement, the number of crossbow machines at each place is not very large. As long as the Han army gathers in one place and rushes out regardless of casualties, they can still break through.

What Cao Tian is looking for now is the best breakout location, but the biggest problem now is that Bai Qi, the commander of the Qin army, was on the main road to Mei County. Cao Tian was very afraid of Bai Qi and even feared him after this period of battle. This person was unpredictable to use wars and was always able to predict the enemy's initiative. It was too difficult to break through under his nose.

But at this time, good news came. Bai Qi was not adapted to the climate of Guanzhong and was dissatisfied with the environment and returned to Yumi. At this time, he was already ill and could not be in charge of the director. Meng Zhan had taken over the power of the Qin army again and appointed Wang Feng to command the Qin army in the direction of Mei County.

This is nothing more than a great news. Without Bai Qi's Qin army, Cao Tian was not afraid. Not to mention a mere Wang Feng, even Meng Zhan stood here, Cao Tian was not afraid of him. However, Cao Tian was afraid that this was Bai Qi's conspiracy, so he sent a large number of scouts to investigate in the direction of Mei County and Yu Mi. The final result was that Wang Feng officially took over the Qin army in the direction of Mei County, and Bai Qi also returned to Yu Mi. Someone saw a team of cars under the banner of "Bai" and left Yu Mi and headed west. It was suspected that Bai Qi was seriously ill and returned to Xiliang.

When Cao Tian found out, he was overjoyed, so he immediately went to see the King of Han and reported his breakthrough plan to the King of Han. This made the King of Han very happy. As for what Cao Tian said, the casualties might be very serious, the King of Han said that it was not a problem, and there was no one who could not die in war. Besides, whether to break through or die, stay in Yong County or die, why not fight? So the King of Han nodded and agreed to Cao Tian’s breakthrough plan.
Chapter completed!