Daqin: Prince Peerless, guarding Hangu for ten years!

Chapter 63 Fifty thousand Qin troops come out of Xiegu!
Zhao Guo, Changping.

After the first snowfall, the weather was freezing cold. In front of the continuous military tents, groups of soldiers walked tenaciously in armor, their steps stepping on the fallen snow on the ground, making a crunching sound.

At this moment, in the Chinese army tent, Huang Xie, Wei Wuji and Li Mu were sitting around the campfire. The flames were burning brightly, with crackling sparks exploding from time to time, but the atmosphere among them seemed solemn.

"It failed..." After a long time, Li Mu exhaled the turbid air in his chest, and while speaking in a deep voice, he picked up the warm wine cup on the side and drank it all in one gulp.

Huang Xie and Wei Wuji looked at each other, and both nodded silently.

Huang Xie sighed: "I didn't expect that even Mo Zhe couldn't kill Ying Jun, but this kid is lucky."

Wei Wuji also frowned and said: "This time we have alerted the snake. It will be even more difficult to find a suitable opportunity in the future. However, Yingjun must die!"

Wei Wuji said firmly, and the two people next to him also showed determined expressions.

If you beat a snake, you will not die but suffer from it.

All three of them knew this truth very well.

What's more, Ying Jun is such a brave man. If Ying Jun's cavalry had not traveled a long distance on the battlefield that day and was unable to catch up, coupled with the chaos of Wang Lu's army, there is no chance that some of the three of them would have stayed there forever.

And they knew better that after the failure of the assassination of Ying Jun this time, Qin's character of vengeance would definitely send Qin's Black Ice Terrace spies to assassinate them.

Now that this thing has been done, it can only be done to the end. Even if the assassin fails a thousand times, he only needs to succeed once.

Although the three of them were nervous about Hei Bingtai, they were not that worried.

First of all, they are all generals in the army, and they are always surrounded by a large number of personal guards. It is no less difficult for the assassins of Heibingtai to assassinate them than to take their heads among the tens of thousands of troops.

What's more, both Lord Xinling and Lord Chunshen have a large number of disciples around them. These people have different talents. When Hei Bingtai comes to assassinate them, it can't be said that they are like sheep in the tiger's mouth.

But compared to the assassins, what worries the three of them more is the current war. With the addition of Yingjun, although the Qin army retreated to Fencheng, it did not achieve the original results at all.

Is the confrontation going to continue?
Or retire and call a truce?
The three of them had a lot of thoughts at the moment, and there was no decisive idea at all.

Even their king did not convey any follow-up orders.

Therefore, at this moment, the nearly 12 troops of the Three Kingdoms Allied Forces can only wait in the Changping camp, consuming countless amounts of food and grass every day.

This is always a problem that needs to be faced. The three of them have been thinking about it for many days, but now they can't help it because of the topic.

However, it was Huang Xie, Lord Chunshen of Chu State, who spoke first. He looked at the two people in front of him and said in a deep voice: "When the heavy snow stops completely, I will lead the Chu army to retreat south."

As soon as these words came out, even though Li Mu and Wei Wuji were prepared in their hearts, they still couldn't help being surprised. The next moment they heard Huang Xie's words:

"The weather in Zhao State is getting colder and colder day by day. We Chu people are used to the humidity and heat in the south, but they can't stand this weather. In recent days, the sergeants of our battalion have fallen ill one after another. The number has been no less than a thousand. The morale of the army is low. The call to return to the Chu Kingdom is getting louder and louder, and even I can't suppress it anymore."

As Huang Xie spoke, he couldn't help but tighten the mink fur uniform he wore tightly. Even though he was wearing a thick coat, he still felt a bit of cold breath seeping into his bones from the outside, making him shiver with cold.

He is like this, and the other Chu soldiers can imagine.

The sudden heavy snow caused the coalition forces to suffer unprecedented non-combat attrition.

Since ancient times, non-combat attrition has been the biggest casualty in large-scale military campaigns.

Being able to bring 1 people to the battlefield intact and organized is already a famous general in the world.

However, in the face of the sudden heavy snow, even though the three of them were all famous generals, they were still unable to do anything.

Wei Wuji's expression instantly became gloomier, and the look of depression between his brows became even more intense, and his brows were almost bunched up.

"This heavy snowfall is so sudden that our Wei army has not prepared enough supplies for the winter. Now most of the soldiers can only make fire to resist. I am afraid that the Wei army will not be able to hold on for long."

After the heavy snow, the weather will inevitably get colder and colder. If there are not enough winter supplies, the army's attrition will reach a terrifying level. At that time, the Wei army will retreat no matter what.Although the Wei army at this moment, plus the fleeing troops who returned one after another, still only numbered more than 3 people, their effect on Zhao State at this moment was extremely huge.

Li Mu next to him heard a look of embarrassment on his face. He immediately stood up and clasped his fists in shame and said:

"This is all due to poor arrangements by me, Li Mu. I have already reported to the king, requesting him to immediately send additional supplies for the winter. I also ordered Sergeant Zhao to share more of the firewood cut down every day with the two generals under his command."

In fact, it is not just Chu people and Wei people.

In the past few days, even Zhao Jun, who was accustomed to the cold, had soldiers infected with the cold.

This situation was not as brutal as the fighting on the battlefield, but it was still thrilling. Many of the soldiers fell ill, and their morale dropped.

In addition, the original fight with the Qin army did not achieve suitable results, and the army's sergeants were already complaining.

If not, Li Mu's prestige is still there, and he can suppress all rumors. If not, the Zhao army at this moment will collapse, not to mention mutiny.

Huang Xie and Wei Wuji were well aware of the current situation, so they immediately stood up to persuade Li Mu and pulled Li Mu back to his seat.

"This is God's fault. How can it be the general's fault?"

"I didn't expect that the war would be delayed until winter. It was inevitable in the rush. Generals should not favor one over another, lest it affect the friendship between the three armies."

Since ancient times, we have not suffered from widowhood but from inequality.

Zhao Guodu has been fighting a war for three years. The country is short of supplies. What extra winter supplies are there? If there are any supplies that have been delivered long ago, then Li Mu should be used to buy them.

If they really accepted Li Mu's kindness, they were afraid that Sergeant Zhao would mutiny at night.

Li Mu sighed helplessly, then sat down again depressedly, picked up the wine glass on the side and drank it all, his heart still depressed.

Although Li Mu has become famous at this moment and has the title of a famous general, he is still not the God of War of Zhao who fought against Qin alone decades later.

But at this moment, Chunshenjun Huang Xie suddenly said: "It's not all bad when such a heavy snow falls. Even the people of Zhao can't bear such cold, and the people of Qin can't bear it even less. The Fencheng army will surely be here soon. Return to your place of origin. Zhao Guo can be completely worry-free."

At this moment, the reason why the coalition forces still insist on not retreating in Changping is because the Qin army in Fencheng never retreats.

Fencheng is still too close to Handan, and the Qin army is notoriously warlike.

At this moment, both sides seemed to be retreating, but in fact it was a confrontation.

The coalition forces were even more afraid that as soon as they retreated, the Qin army would come back to kill them.

The real thing is to be afraid of wolves in front and tigers in the back.

However, such a confrontation actually consumes national power.

But Zhao Guo has already been consumed. If it continues, Zhao Guo may be the first to fall.

The Battle of Handan has reached its current level. It has long been no longer about the gains and losses of one city or one place, but a pure competition of willpower.

On the surface, it is a tug-of-war between Zhao and Qin, but in fact it is already a tug-of-war between the seven countries.

Suddenly, there was a rush of horse hooves, and they stopped outside the tent.

The moment the three of them turned their heads to look, a Zhao Guo scout opened the thick curtain of the large tent and entered, wrapped in wind and snow. As the cold wind howled, he spoke something that shocked the three of them.

"Urgent report from the State of Qin! The Qin Army's [-] Shu troops came out of Xiegu!!!"

(End of this chapter)