General Qin

"Based on Zhao Jia's speed going north, he may be in Anyang Town ahead, or he may have just left."

Meng Tian held the chariot, stood on the chariot, and looked at a city far away.

Zhao Jia thought that Daicheng's fortification and dead men in the city would be enough to withstand the siege of the Qin army for several days, and it would take some time for the Qin army to repair the city after it broke through.

Therefore, instead of rushing northward, they forcibly recruited the generation and collected food along the way, slowing down the speed of escape. After all, there are few people in Daidi. If he is not recruiting men here, he will have no people and no food when he arrives in the north.

But this also gave Meng Tian a chance to catch up with them.

It's just that Meng Tian was a little worried.

"Anyang was formerly the fiefdom of Prince Zhao, with a large population. It is a big city north of Dai City. If the people in the city cooperate with Zhao Jia's stubborn resistance and want to wipe it out, it will be a little troublesome. Be careful when you go. superior."

Half an hour later, Meng Tian's worry disappeared, and his face was full of astonishment.

Because it was different from what he had imagined, where the gates of Anyang City were closed tightly, and the people in the city held weapons for generations to guard against.

Before they got close, they could hear faint cries coming from Anyang Town.

As for the gate of the city, it was even more wide open. After seeing the arrival of the Qin army's chariots, the rich and wealthy in the city did not avoid danger, and knelt and kowtowed outside the city gate, expressing their willingness to surrender to the Qin army.

"Where is Zhao Jia?"

Meng Tian strode over, his tall body cast a shadow in front of the city gate.

A rich man in Anyang cried out in elegant words: "Zhaojia's traitors, disregarding the feelings of the monarch and his ministers, even colluded with those Hu people to plunder the country. My son was killed on the spot. Zhao Jia and I will never be at odds!"

Others turned to Meng Tian and said: "General, we only hope that the general can lead the king to capture and kill Zhao Jia and expel the barbarians. If we can spare the death of the conscripted men in our city, we will sincerely return to Qin. Never repeat."

"Yes, General, please capture Zhao Jia and drive out the barbarians!"

"Then Zhao Jia and the Huns had just walked for less than half an hour. If the general pursued immediately, he would be able to catch up!"

Outside the city gate, the rich and nobles of Anyang all cried and worshiped each other.

They were wealthy people in Anyang City, with a lot of wealth and a lot of food. Under the joint plunder of Zhao Jia and the Huns, they also suffered the greatest loss, so everyone hated the acting king deeply.

After these wealthy people, the common people in the city who had been looted by the Dai army and the Huns also came out and kowtowed to the Qin army one after another, begging Meng Tian to lead the army to chase and kill Zhao Jia.

Seeing this scene, Meng Tian was overjoyed and said righteously: "Don't worry, Zhao Jia will not let him go if he does such a treacherous thing. Su Jiao!"

"The end is here!"

When Su Jiao heard the call, he immediately walked over and promised.

"Send a quick horse to report the general's military situation here, and leave 200 people stationed in Anyang to protect my rear and meet the general's army. The rest of the chariots and riders will immediately go after the food and drink. This time, it will be decided. We must capture that Zhao Jia!"

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To the north of Anyang, the water is flowing slowly.

The water is as muddy as a yellow soup, and the river bed is uncertain, so it was also called the Yellow River in later generations.

Because the water control in this section is not wide and rapid, the local people built a wooden bridge on the river for the north-south travel, but this wooden bridge is not wide enough for two horses to walk in parallel at a time, or one cart to pass slowly.

At this moment, on the banks of the water-controlled river, an army composed of Dai people and Hu people is crossing the river through a wooden bridge.

The Huns cavalry walked ahead and had already crossed the bridge first.

The remaining 2,000 generations of soldiers still have to transport the food they ate along the way, and they are slower, lagging behind, and are slowly crossing the river.

Several high-ranking members of the army had already reached the north bank first. They climbed up a dirt slope and occupied a good view, looking at the army slowly crossing the bridge.

"Dai Wang is still too benevolent. Anyang is a big city with a population of nearly 10,000. As long as we burn all the food and fodder in the city and leave nearly 10,000 hungry people for the Qin army, it will be a great benefit."

On the slope, Yan Wangxi shook his head regretfully thinking of his rejected proposal.

On the side, Chen Yu nodded and said: "King Yan's strategy is really good. Now the grain in the ground is not yet ripe, and the grain in Anyang is burned, and the people of Anyang will have no food to eat."

"In this way, not only will the Qin army not be able to collect food on the spot when it arrives, but the Qin army will have to use its own army rations to feed back the people of Anyang if it wants to stabilize the people of Daidi, so that the Qin army will not be able to continue to eat. "

"If Zhao Tuo was stingy with food and was unwilling to give food to the people, the people's hearts would definitely not return to Qin. Even if the Qin army went north to chase us, the rear would be difficult to stabilize. This is really a strategy that kills two birds with one arrow."

"Although Anyang has passed, there are still a few cities to the north of the flood control. In my opinion, it is better to burn all the food and fodder in the cities that cannot be defended, and leave it to the Qin army. If the king is afraid of tarnishing his reputation, he can take the lead Let the army go first, and hand over the burning of food to the Huns, so that the Qin army can be continuously weakened..."

Hearing this, Dai Wang Jia said with a pale face: "I am a descendant of the Zhao family. I can't defend the land as a country. Instead, I want to go to the Hu people. I have lost the face of my ancestors. An Neng will burn the food of the people by himself. , Doing so, how can I be called Dai Wang. King Yan and Lord Chen don’t want to say this again.”

Chen Yu shrugged and closed his mouth.

He is from Wei, and Wei has no border with the Xiongnu, let alone any hatred, so Chen Yu has no aversion to forming an alliance with the Xiongnu.

As for burning the food for the generation, it doesn't matter to him, a Wei man, as long as it can cause trouble for the Qin army, he is willing to do it.

Yan Wangxi looked at Dai Wang Jia and frowned, showing dissatisfaction in his eyes.

This kid still can't let go of the moral code and can't recognize the situation clearly.

Dai Wang Jia didn't care about the eyes of the two of them, and just stared into the distance in a daze.

There, a ten-year-old boy who had just been conscripted from Anyang, when he was crossing the bridge, seemed to think that he was about to leave his hometown and join the barbarians, so he couldn't help crying, and wanted to turn around and go back.

The soldiers beside him scolded, and the young man attacked in anger, turning into a fight.

After a while, the boy's body was thrown into the river under the bridge, and flowed to the distance with the turbid yellow water.

"Leaving the homeland and fleeing to the north, and falling to the point of relying on the barbarians... My Dai State... my Zhao family... how did it fall to such a point?"

"If the previous kings had not abolished my position as prince and let me take over as King Zhao, how could this happen today."

Dai Wang Jia saw the scene in the distance, and thought of the magnificent scene of Zhao Guo in the past, he couldn't help feeling sad from his heart, and he looked up to the sky and shouted.

"Whoa, the demise of the State of Zhao was actually due to the fact that the former king had no eyes, and the elders were abolished and the young were replaced! The former kings misled the country, and Zhao Qian misunderstood the country!"

Just when Dai Wang Jia was beating his chest and stamping his feet, weeping sadly.

The army crossing the river on Zhishui suddenly became confused, and all kinds of screams came and went.

"Qin Jun!"

"It's Qin Jun who is here!"

Shouts of fear resounded through the fields.

Dai Wang Jia immediately wiped away his tears and turned his head to look.

Sure enough, when I saw the direction of Anyang, there was smoke and dust billowing all over the sky, and a knight in black armor loomed in the flying dust.

"Qin Jun? How did Qin Jun come so fast!"

Dai Wang Jia turned pale with shock.

"Destroy the wooden bridge!"

Chen Yu shouted.

Dai Wang Jia also reacted, and immediately ordered the short soldiers beside him: "Quickly send someone to destroy the wooden bridge to prevent the Qin army from crossing the river."

The command is correct.

If the wooden bridge is destroyed, the Qin army will not be able to cross the river.

But at this moment, the soldiers of the generation army were slowly pushing the carts loaded with food across the bridge. Seeing the smoke and dust billowing behind, the Qin army's chariots were approaching. All of them rushed to the bridge, everyone wanted to cross the bridge and escape to the north, and the traffic jam and horse jumping caused the scene to be very chaotic.

No one listened to Dai Wang Jia's order to destroy the wooden bridge. Not to mention that when everyone is fighting for their lives to cross the bridge, if they want to destroy the bridge, the first person to cross the bridge will be hacked to death.

At this time, the Qin army's chariots on the south bank of the water control were about to rush to the bridge.

On the north bank, the Xiongnu cavalry has always claimed that they will advance when they see benefits, and retreat when they are unfavorable, and flee without shame.

They saw that the Qin army on the south bank had a large number of chariots and were well equipped, so they had no fighting spirit, so they fled straight away after Qianchang shouted.

As for the more than 2,000 generation soldiers, some of them were willing to fight to the death with the Qin army, but more were only concerned about running for their lives.

Not to mention that there are hundreds of generations of people who have just gathered from Anyang and several villages and forcibly recruited. They didn't intend to go all out at all, so they seized the opportunity one by one and took advantage of the chaos to escape, making the scene even more chaotic.

"Run!"

Seeing that the situation was not right, King Yan let out a cry of joy, and immediately ran down the slope regardless of Dai Wang Jia and Chen Yu who were standing beside him.

Dai Wang Jia and Chen Yu also reacted, and immediately followed behind Yan Wangxi, and went downhill to find a horse and escape.

But at this time, because of the appearance of the Qin army, the scene was too chaotic. Whether it was the Huns or the Dai people, they were all running around.

Chen Yu was young and fast. When he saw the short soldiers fleeing, there was still a horse spinning around in place, so he rushed over to get on the horse and galloped away.

Dai Wang Jia fell behind and went down the slope, but there was no horse to ride.

"Where are the horses?"

"Where's my horse!"

"I am acting king, let me mount the horse!"

Dai Wang Jia was shocked, and wanted to make those fleeing on horseback give him their horses to escape for their lives.

The fleeing Huns didn't bother him at all. As for Dai Ren, after Anyang and the previous looting of villages, Dai Wang Jia had lost the morale of the army among the Dai soldiers under his command.

In addition, now that the Qin army has reached the south bank, everyone wants to run for their lives, and even his short soldiers on behalf of Wang Jia ran away first, so how can there be any loyal people who are willing to give up their horses to the king.

Fortunately, at this moment, a carriage drove away the chaotic rout and stopped in front of Yan Wangxi and Dai Wangjia.

Yan Guo Tai Fu Ju Wu emerged from the car and shouted: "Your Majesty, get in the car!"

"The Grand Tutor is truly a lonely and loyal man."

Yan Wangxi, who was also panicked, was immediately overjoyed and hurriedly climbed into the carriage.

Seeing this scene, Dai Wang Jia quickly followed behind Yan Wangxi and got into the car without thinking too much.

The driver drove the horses, and the wheels rolled forward.

In the narrow car space.

Yan Wangxi stared at Dai Wangjia who had just followed him into the car.

Dai Wang Jia showed an ugly smile.

"The widow has no horse, and he rides with the king of Yan."