Chapter 509: Zhao State retreated

On May 20, the 24th year of Qianyuan, the Qin general Chen Zhi led 20,000 elite troops to assist the Xuanshi City and told Wang Feng the words of the King of Qin. After hearing this, Wang Feng looked bitter. He knew that he had disappointed the King of Qin. After Meng died in the war, the Qin Dynasty fought openly and secretly for the ownership of military power. Wang Feng received strong support from the King of Qin and Prime Minister Li You. However, due to Bai Qi's strength and the temptation of the land of Bashu, he finally forced himself down. After Bai Qi was defeated and left Bashu, the King of Qin also took the opportunity to take Bai Qi's military power and handed him over to Wang Feng.

However, Wang Feng had just become a general and had taken charge of military power for a few days, Li Rubing brought the Zhao army to fight, and broke through several cities along the way. Wang Feng was ordered to lead a hundred thousand elite troops to fight against the Zhao army. At the beginning, Wang Feng did not take it lightly because he had the advantage of military strength (80,000 Zhao army and 100,000 Qin army). He carefully guarded the city, so that the Zhao army could not advance in a hurry. However, when he was in the advantage of numbers, Wang Feng adopted this defensive posture, which made the middle and lower-level soldiers of the Qin army very dissatisfied. There were many rumors that Wang Feng was not as good as Bai Qi, which made Wang Feng very angry.

Indeed, in terms of performance, Wang Feng is indeed not as good as Bai Qi. Wang Feng himself admitted this, but this does not mean that Wang Feng admitted that he is not as good as Bai Qi. This time the fight with Li Rubing was the first touchstone after Wang Feng ascended the throne of the general. Wang Feng urgently needed a big victory to prove that he deserved the throne of the general. Therefore, in order to prove himself, when Zhao army pretended to retreat, he ignored the dissuasion of Sima Gong and other generals and sent troops to pursue him alone, but it was messed up. The 100,000 army was ambushed by the Zhao army in Changping Pavilion, which lost 70,000 yuan. General Sima Gong also died in Changping Pavilion, which made Wang Feng's already low prestige fall again.

Chen Zhi, who came to support, was also a person who knew how to observe his words and expressions. When he saw Wang Feng's strangeness, he comforted him: "General, don't blame the king. After the Battle of Changpingting, the king was under great pressure in the court, and Wu'anjun's voice was rampant again. If it weren't for the suppression of the king and Li Xiang, I'm afraid the general would not have been the last general, but the decree to sue him."

"Oh..." Wang Feng sighed and said, "It was all my general's incompetence, which caused tens of thousands of sons to die in Changpingting. Even General Sima Gong was unfortunately killed. My Qin suffered a great humiliation. No matter how the king treated me, I would not have any complaints. Now the king chose to continue to believe me under pressure. If I could no longer defend the Xuanshi City, I would not have the face to return to Chang'an."

"The general doesn't have to do this. There are already 30,000 elite troops in the Xuan family city. Now the last general has brought another 20,000 elite troops, a total of 50,000 troops. As long as you can hold on, unless Zhao can send half of the elite troops to the Xuan family city, otherwise with the troops in Li Rubing's hands, you can't shake the Xuan family city with half of the troops." Chen Zhi said that there are 50,000 Qin troops and a large amount of food and supplies in the Xuan family city. Chen Zhi is confident. With the combat power of the Qin army, Zhao will not be able to succeed if he does not send out a forceful attack without sending 400,000 to 500,000 troops.

But what dares Zhao State to do this? The answer is definitely not. If Zhao State dares to do this, the Hu people and Deng State in the Grassland will not be indifferent. Both Zhao State will be attacked from all sides. If you are not careful, it will not be as simple as defeat. Even if you are immortal, you will have to lose a large area of ​​territory. How many people are there in the Zhao army outside the city? When Li Rubing went south, he led an army of 80,000, and the continuous battle would definitely be consumed. In addition, in the battle of Changpingting, although the Zhao army annihilated 70,000 Qin troops, his own losses are not small. In this case, unless Li Rubing's mind is in trouble, he will not choose to attack Xuanshi City.

Wang Feng deeply agreed. He was confident about this. He could not defeat Li Rubing head-on, and he could still defend the city. However, Wang Feng was unwilling to accept that after becoming a general, he suffered such a crushing defeat in the first battle. Now he can only retreat to defend. Even if he can defend, Wang Feng could still imagine what kind of criticism he would be when he returned to Chang'an.

Bai Qi lost 100,000 troops in Bashu, but strictly speaking, Bai Qi was not defeated. At best, it was because he suffered too much loss and voluntarily retreated. What about himself? Changpingting was a real disastrous defeat, which was the biggest disastrous defeat of Qin since he returned to Guanzhong. None of them. After the Battle of Bashu, white banners were everywhere in Chang'an City, causing Bai Qi to step down. After the battle of Changpingting, the grand occasion of Chang'an City was probably not worse than that of Bai Qi who returned to Chang'an, and he would also become a sinner of Qin.

At the same time, Li Rubing outside the city thought of retreating when he saw that the Qin army reinforcements had arrived. This time he went south to say that he had gained a lot, so he did not recover the entire Nan Shangdang. However, after regaining Changzicheng, there was no threat in the south of Jinyang, which was considered to have achieved his goal. Moreover, Changpingting fought beautifully in the battle, which was the most beautiful victory in Zhao in recent years, and the target was Qin State, which had seized two and a half counties in the hands of Zhao State a few years ago, which made the people of Zhao State completely proud.

However, although the battle of Changpingting was beautiful, the Zhao army suffered a lot of losses. The Qin army's final counterattack was too powerful, resulting in less than 50,000 troops left in the Zhao army's 80,000 troops, which was less than the Qin army in the Xuan family. If the Qin army came out again at this time, Li Rubing would not have the confidence to win another battle like Changpingting, so Li Rubing planned to stop when he was about to get it. Besides, if he really defeated Wang Feng completely, Bai Qi would probably be here. Li Rubing had confidence in fighting Wang Feng, but Li Rubing would be in a loss of confidence in fighting Bai Qi. After all, he was beaten by Bai Qi at the time and could not raise his head. Such a shadow was no less than the prestige of the famous generals in the world that year.

"General, you are ready, and the army can return to the court at any time." At this time, Zhao army general Kou Fei came to Li Rubing and said.

Li Rubing nodded, looked at Xuanshi City from afar, and smiled and said, "Okay, send the orders, the army will set off, and the troops will return to the court."

"General, is it really going back like this? Don't you attack the Xuanshi City? As long as you break the Xuanshi City, the entire Nan Shangdang will return to my Great Zhao, and my Great Zhao can also wash away the shame of the past." Kou Fei said to Li Rubing with some reluctance.

When the Qin army raided Shangdang County and seized half of Shangdang County, including the eldest son city of Shangdang County. Even if Zhao Xin personally led his troops south, he could not get it back. This was regarded as a great humiliation by the people of Zhao. Now the Zhao army has finally fought back, but just gave up like this. The generals of Zhao army led by Kou Fei felt that this was a bit too regretful.

Li Rubing knew what Kou Fei and others thought, smiled at this, and said, "I know what you are thinking, why don't I want to completely cleanse the shame of the past? But now is not the time. The reinforcements of the Qin army have arrived. With the current strength of our army, it is impossible to capture the Xuan family city. Unless we increase troops, the Nanshangdang will fight to the Qin army for a small Xuan family city. Is this worth it? Although it can capture the Xuan family city, the shame of our Great Zhao that year is more than one Nanshangdang? There are also Hanoi County, Henan County, Chen County, Chenliu County, and Liang County. If we fight to the death like this every time, how many million elite troops in our Great Zhao will be left in the end?"

Since the loss of Nanshangdang, in just a few years, the Zhao army has lost five counties, and they are all rich places. If Li Rubing had not destroyed the Chu State and captured the three counties of Xia Pi County, Pengcheng County and Pei County, I don’t know when the wounds of Zhao State would have recovered.

"Besides, Qin's opponent is not my Da Zhao next. Let's be a bystander. Let's take advantage of the fisherman's benefits." Li Rubing paused and said.

"General, do you mean?" Kou Fei asked in confusion.

Li Rubing said: "The Qin army raided Bashu, and although he finally returned in vain and lost nearly 100,000 soldiers, the Deng army also lost tens of thousands of elite troops. Even the Jiameng Pass was burned by Bai Qi. Can you swallow this tone, the Deng Kingdom, King Deng and the arrogant soldiers and generals in the Deng army?"

"The general means that Deng State will definitely come back?" Kou Fei said with some clarity.

Li Rubing nodded and said, "The vengeful character of Deng's country has been proven. When the Han Dynasty bullied Deng several times, Deng finally defeated Han with several major battles. Then Qin took advantage of the opportunity to enter Guanzhong. Wu deposed the position of queen of Deng's princess. Deng defeated half of the elite Wu's elite in one battle. Hunan sent troops to help Wu, and later destroyed by Deng. This shows that Deng's country is not a country that swallows its anger. Wait. The revenge of Deng's people will come soon. What we have to do next is to watch Deng's bloody battle. I have to say that the Qin King attacked Bashu this time is a bad game. Under the revenge of Deng's people, Qin will have to be skinned even if he dies."

After saying that, Li Rubing looked around and said to Kou Fei: "Let's go. You are all heroes of Da Zhao in this battle. Enjoy the cheers of the people."

"Here!"

Shortly after the Zhao army retreated, Wang Feng received news. At this moment, Wang Feng was so depressed that he was so depressed. He wanted to fight the Zhao army well, but the Zhao army retreated less than a day after his reinforcements arrived. This made Wang Feng feel like a heroic useless place. However, Wang Feng also breathed a sigh of relief. Zhao army finally left and he also defended the Xuan City. Despite some flaws, he still completed the task assigned to him by the King of Qin.

After the Zhao army retreated, Wang Feng left behind General Geng Yue, leading 20,000 troops to guard the Xuanshi City. He led his troops back to Chang'an.

On the 1st of June in the 24th year of Qianyuan, Wang Feng led his troops back to the court. As expected, Wang Feng was criticized like never before, far more than when he was defeated by Bashu. However, with the help of the King of Qin, Wang Feng still retained the military power in his hands. However, his general could not be regarded as the general and was directly beaten. However, he was still appointed as the General of the Cavalry by the King of Qin and was in charge of military power. His position changed, but he had no less power in his hands, which also made many people in the court dissatisfied.
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