275 A Star Will Rise (1/2)

_Lang Mountain, Qin Army Tent_

Baiqi gathered all his generals to plan for the next stage of their mission.

Based on their original plan, the next stage would be to attack Wang Ling camp.

”Once we manage to conquer the camp, Zhao army will be trapped in Gu Pass, and it will once again be us surrounding them. Hence, we have to win the battle tomorrow.” Baiqi rallied.

”We await your orders!” The generals replied.

”In the siege tomorrow, Meng Ao's forces will be the main while Huan He and Ying Bao will back him up by blocking the Zhao Zhuang troops at the bottom of Gu Pass. Wang He's troops will stay in the camp and wait for my orders!”

”Yes, general!”

Ouyang Shuo sat at one side, a sense of worry and doubt flashed across his face. Since they were trying to take over the camp, why wouldn't Wang He's troops be sent out? He looked at Wang He's expression and didn't see any unhappiness. Maybe Baiqi still has other plans.

Destroying the Wei Army not only destroyed the alliance that was forming. The Qin troops also gained a lot of grain and resources.

The Qin had sent almost all their grain toward the Yewang Stronghold. The fire set by Zhao Zhuang had destroyed the years worth of grain accumulated by the Qin. Hence, although they had regained the transport routes, the amount of grain that Fanju could gather within the country was limited.

As they kept trying to acquire grain, the commoners were grumbling. To support the troops on the frontline, even grain from their houses were asked to be contributed. Of course, they wouldn't be happy.

Hence, Zhao Kuo felt that if the two armies continued, that the Zhao army was stronger.

Fortunately, the destruction of the Wei who brought massive amounts of grain had really benefited the Qin.

The Qin king had already contacted commoners to help transport this batch of grain to Guanglang City.

The plains where the Wei and Qin armies fought was in Henei prefecture and really close to Changping. In a few days, they had managed to reach Guanglang City. Hence, the lack of grain was solved and the Qin problem wasn't as bad as Zhao Kuo expected.

The morning the next day, the sun rose; it was good weather.

Early in the morning, the Zhao Army started to get busy, moving all the chariots and usable things out to prepare the chariot circle formation.

Just as they began to get busy, the Qin army set out.

The black flood under the coordination of the drums, formed up into neat rows and walked out of the camp.

Baiqi stood on the tower and looked on as usual, looking down and commanding the troops.

The first one to leave was the 120 thousand infantry and cavalry led by Meng Ao. This army had been attacking Wang Ling camp for several days and had gotten familiar with the route. The only difference was the order to fight to the death given yesterday.

In the Qin army, the moment they decided to fight to the death, if anyone tried to escape, they would be killed mercilessly. If one was scared, he might be a burden to the others. Hence, for these battles to the death, the soldiers would all fight like their backs were against the wall.

In the rolling dirt and dust, Huan He and Ying Bao made use of the cover to follow closely behind. During the battle with the Wei, Huan He lost few troops and had 90 thousand men left who could fight.

Seeing Meng Ao's troops attack Wang Ling camp once again, the guards didn't panic. After several days, they were sure that the enemy was just faking.

The news of the Wei army losing was only known to generals of the Zhao army to not affect morale. Zhao Kuo ordered this to prevent its spread. If not, whoever disobeys it would be killed.

Hence, out of those defending, apart from the few generals, most of them didn't know a thing.

What they didn't know was that the Qin army today was very different from the last few days. The generals knew that and ordered for the soldiers to be on guard. Unfortunately, it didn't work.

During the few days of attacks, although Meng Ao didn't achieve much, at least they had filled up all the moats.

The huge army stepped over the moats and held the scaling ladders, starting a relentless assault against the camp that was originally theirs. The soldiers weren't afraid of dying and gave their all.

Such a fierce army was something the Zhao army didn't expect. Only then did they realize that the Qin army was attacking for real this time. However when they realized this, it was too late as they had already suffered heavy casualties.

Luckily, the Zhao army wasn't so average like the Wei army. Although they had a bad start, they reacted quickly and using the advantage of the wall, started to slaughter the Qin troops.