The Six Arts of the Gentleman in the Bright Moon of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 597: The Zhao Army Scattered All Over the Mountain [Subscribe*Monthly Tickets]

Who can attend the central army meeting? They are all lieutenant generals of the army or commanders of a battalion.

It turns out that among these people, there were people from Bingzhou!
Wang Jian subconsciously looked at the officers around him.

Bingzhou can place people in Zhao State, so Qin State and Bingzhou are very close, so how can they be less popular?

"Don't worry, Bingzhou has not planted any military personnel in Qin!" Yan Yan knew what Wang Jian was thinking and said with a smile. As for whether Wang Jian believed it or not, he believed it anyway.

After Liaoyang is Shecheng, which is the edge of the Zhao capital and also a strategically placed city. If Wang Jian cannot intercept the army before it reaches Shecheng, he can only watch the Zhao army withdraw safely to Handan.

As for attacking Shecheng, that was inevitable, but it would no longer be possible to stop the retreat of the main army of Zhao.

Wang Jian also wanted to take a chance, so he sent troops to pursue the Zhao army. He only intercepted 3,000 Zhao troops who were left behind to guard the rear, and watched the Zhao army retreat into Shecheng.

"Let's take a gamble and see if Handan will allow this army to withdraw back to Handan!" Yan Yan learned from Wang Ben that the Zhao army had safely withdrawn into Shecheng.

"Okay, I bet Handan will not let the army withdraw to Handan!" Wang Ben spoke directly.

"..." Yan Yan was stunned. Why don't you play by the rules?

"I can't live with gambling and drugs!" Yan Yan said seriously.

Wang Ben also laughed.

They all knew what secret this army knew, and Handan would never dare to let this secret be brought back to Handan by the army.

"Ben is curious, what other tricks does Bing Jun have that he hasn't used yet!" Wang Ben didn't believe that Yan Yan would just watch Handan and let the matter go.

"There is no real solution. What if the army doesn't retreat together in an orderly manner?" Yan Yan asked with a smile.

Wang Ben narrowed his eyes, he probably understood.

Bingzhou has arranged people in the army!

This army will not retreat all together, but will retreat in batches, breaking up into small units.

As a result, even if an envoy came from Handan, he would not be able to take control of the entire army and order it to stop retreating.

This army will still return to Handan, but they will return to Handan in the form of dispersed troops into thousands of households.

Once the army disperses, the secrets that Handan wants to keep will spread throughout the surrounding areas of Handan, and even the entire State of Zhao, as the soldiers disperse.

By then, Handan would have been unable to suppress the news.

But Wang Ben didn't think that Yan Yan only had this trick up his sleeve. He must have other tricks up his sleeve.

With just these few tricks, the Zhao State could make a drastic move, pull out a few of the Nine Ministers, or even the Prime Minister to take the blame, and then shift all the blame away, and it would not shake the position of King Qian of Zhao at all.

But since Yan Yan didn't say anything, he didn't dare to ask.

"If I remember correctly, Bing Jun is also the leader of this generation of Confucianism!" Ying Zheng roughly guessed what Yan Yan would do next.

Yan Yan smiled and said nothing.

The Zhao army.

Without the main general and deputy general, the commanders of each camp would be unable to command others to obey their orders.

The Central Army Shogunate became a mere decoration, and no one was willing to submit to anyone else.

"None of us can make decisions or command others!" A lieutenant stated the current situation at the central army meeting.

"We can wait for Handan to send a new commander!" said a captain.

But as soon as he finished speaking, he was immediately met with a group of ridicule.

"Handan, can you still believe it?"

"Even if you don't know how the general and deputy general Yan died, can't you guess it?"

"Will Handan let us go back alive?" "Do you still want to die? To die with these broken weapons?"

Thus, the meaningless central military meeting ended in a bad mood.

When there are main generals and deputy generals, the lieutenant generals of the central army shogunate have status. But without the main generals and deputy generals, the lieutenant generals of the central army shogunate are just a group of advisers. If they don't command the troops, who will care about you?

Especially in the case of credit overdraft in Handan, no one would care about the Central Army Shogunate.

Unfortunately, one battalion of troops left the army without any orders, retreated to Wuan, and continued to retreat.

Then the whole army began to disintegrate, and all the officers and soldiers followed suit, each doing their own thing and retreating.

When the people from Handan arrived in Wu'an, they saw only a few battalions of soldiers and a group of idle shogunate councilors.

"Where are the people?" The Handan envoy was furious.

But no one paid any attention to him, and everyone was doing their own thing.

"They are everywhere in the mountains. If the messenger has the ability, go and bring them back yourself!"

The Shogunate Chief Secretary said calmly that he was Zhao Cong's confidant and knew a lot of things, so he was disappointed with the entire Zhao State.

"It's just right that the king's envoy has arrived, so the tiger talisman can be handed over to him!" The chief secretary handed the army's tiger talisman to the envoy from Handan.

"What do you mean?" The Handan envoy became even more furious.

"What do you mean? I quit!" The Chief Secretary said loudly, and then he left the tent with the shogunate advisors.

The envoy from Handan was stunned. He had never expected this to be the case.

Before coming out, he fantasized about becoming the top figure in Zhao State and the commander-in-chief of the army.

But no one told him that this would be the case.

He got the tiger talisman, but... the army was gone!
As for gathering the defeated troops, that requires the ability and prestige to do so.

Now that he can't even handle the Central Army Shogunate, how can he handle those captains who hold military power?
To gather a large army, only a veteran general with a certain prestige has the ability to do so.

But does Zhao State still have such veteran generals now?

Maybe, Sima Shang has the ability, but Sima Shang is the one who knows all the situations. Would Handan dare to send him?
The central military headquarters was empty, and soldiers were retreating all over the mountains.

Because there was no unified command from the central military shogunate, the captains of each battalion dispersed after grabbing the last supplies of food and fodder.

This time the disbandment was complete, and even the organization was gone.

All the soldiers stopped following the army march and went home.

"The State of Zhao is finished!" Wang Jian, who received the information, was stunned for a quarter of an hour before he came to his senses.

He thought that the Zhao army would be scattered and difficult to control, but he never thought that it would be disbanded on the spot.

It is not so easy to recall the disbanded army.

"Is this Bingjun's method?" Wang Jian looked at Yan Yan.

They thought that Bing Jun just wanted the army to disperse into Handan, but they didn't expect it to be dispersed in this way.

"I didn't expect that!" Yan Yan really didn't expect it. He just arranged people to make the Central Army Headquarters lose control of the various camps, and then withdraw them to Handan in batches to avoid being controlled by Handan.

But they didn't expect that the army would be defeated so completely.

However, this would make his next plan easier to implement.

"General Wang can continue to attack Shecheng and Wuan!" Yan Yan said congratulatoryly.

Without this army, Shecheng and Wuan would no longer be able to stop the Qin army, and the army would be able to march straight into the city of Handan.

(End of this chapter)