Chapter 1701: If you know it's wrong, you will dare next time

Although Han Xin wanted to take down Qin Hao directly, after all, the opportunity had been missed, and no matter how much he regretted it, it would be useless, so he could only put Qin Hao aside first and carefully consider where the Yecheng defenders should go.

"The city guarding facilities in the east and west gates have been destroyed by Qin Hao for more than ninety percent."

Han Xin's eyes were full of pain, and he asked, "If you take out all the spare equipment in the treasury, I don't know how many vacancies can be filled?" ”

Although Yecheng was Korea's territory at the beginning, it was occupied by Yuan Shao after all, and now although Han Xin is the nominal commander of the coalition army, the ownership of Yecheng still belongs to Zhao State.

Hearing Han Xin's question about the treasury, Xun Kan, who was in charge of the treasury, stood up and replied: "The loss of the east and west gates this time is too great, even if all the spare equipment in the treasury is taken out, it is not enough to fill the defense loopholes of a city gate, not to mention that the east and west gates are in urgent need of city defense equipment." ”

Yuan Tan was immediately anxious when he heard this, and hurriedly said: "If the equipment that has been destroyed, if it is renovated, can it be used again?" ”

Han Xin replied with a wry smile: "Even if the head of the Gong family is in person, he can't repair it." ”

Yuan Tan was stunned for a moment and asked, "How come?" ”

"It's all burned to slag, how do you fix it?"

"This?"

Yuan Tan showed a look of surprise, and then said indignantly: "The Qin army is really too ruthless, this is not leaving us a way to live." ”

At night, although the defenders in the city repelled the attack of the Qin army, the defense equipment of the east and west gates was also destroyed.

At this thought, everyone present fell into silence, even a wise man like Tian Feng and Xun Kan couldn't think of a solution to the problem.

It's an unsolvable puzzle!

After Han Xin pondered for a long time, his eyes flashed with a fine light, and then he looked at Yuan Tan and pondered: "This king has a strategy, maybe he can save the whole army, but the price is too great, I don't know if King Zhao is willing to implement it?" ”

Yuan Tan's eyes suddenly lit up, and he hurriedly asked, "King Han, please speak." ”

"Abandon Yecheng." Han Xin said in a deep voice.

"What?"

As soon as these words came out, except for Tian Feng, everyone present exclaimed.

"Abandon Yecheng?"

Yuan Tan's eyes widened even more, and he subconsciously shook his head and said, "No, absolutely not." ”

With the defeat of Beihai and Julu, the land of Zhao in western Hebei and Qingbei has basically been swallowed up by the Qin army, and now Yecheng is the only remaining territory of Zhao State.

If it is lost in abandoning Yecheng, the third largest city in the world, then Zhao will have no more land in Hebei, and even if he keeps the army under his command, it is destined to not last long.

Yuan Tan is not a straw bag, and he can still see the pros and cons, so he decisively refused: "Yecheng is the last territory of my Zhao Kingdom, once it is abandoned, my Zhao Kingdom is equivalent to the death of the country, so it is absolutely not possible." ”

Not only Yuan Tan was against it, but also some of Zhao Guoda's civil and military forces, especially Yuan Hong, who glared at Han Xinlai angrily, only Tian Feng and Xun Kan frowned, looking thoughtful.

Regarding the reaction of the monarchs and ministers of Zhao State, Han Xin didn't seem to be surprised at all, shook his head and said: "Looking for the survival of the country, it is not to look at Yecheng, but to you.

Even if Yecheng is lost, as long as you are still alive, Zhao Guo will still be there.

But if you are gone, even if Yecheng is still there, Zhao Guo will still die. ”

Hearing Han Xin's words, Yuan Tan looked thoughtful, but a trace of firmness flashed in the eyes of Tian Feng and Xun Kan at the same time.

Tian Feng stood up and said, "Lord, what King Han said is right, give up Yecheng."

If these of us are in Yecheng and are served by the Qin army, then the Zhao State is truly dead. ”

Xun Kan also stood up and said: "In addition, there are not many materials for defending the city in Yecheng, even if the east and west city defense equipment are violated and destroyed, we can only hold on for a month at most." ”

Yuan Tan was still a little hesitant and asked, "Do you have to abandon Yecheng in order to survive?" ”

"King Zhao made a mistake, even if he abandoned Yecheng, he might not be able to survive."

Han Xin shook his head, and then continued: "But if you continue to trap and defend Yecheng, you will definitely be defeated sooner or later."

Regardless of the destruction of the city's defense equipment for the time being, it only takes half a month for Su Dingfang to sweep away western Hebei, and when the 100,000 Qin army elites return, we will face more than 300,000 Qin troops. ”

As soon as he said this, the generals of Zhao Guo, who were still making a fuss just now, stopped talking all of a sudden.

More than 300,000 Qin troops, what a huge number, how long can they hold out with only their nearly 110,000 defenders?

"Withdraw now, you can still leave, if you wait for Su Dingfang to come back, it will be too late for King Zhao to withdraw." Han Xin said in a deep voice.

Hearing this, Yuan Tan's face was even more entangled, and after hesitating for a long time, he said, "King Han, please let this king think about it." ”

Seeing that he couldn't convince Yuan Tan like this, Han Xin was also extremely helpless, and sighed: "King Zhao, please hurry up, time waits for no one, if you can't make up your mind within half a day, this king can only lead the army to leave Yecheng alone." ”

Of course, Han Xin said this to force Yuan Tan, after all, even if he led the army to break through, without the help of the Zhao army, it would be a matter of time before he was annexed by the Qin army by relying on the weak Han army.

Among the 120,000 defenders in Yecheng before, the Zhao army accounted for 80,000, and the Han army only had 40,000.

After the night attack of the Qin army, the defenders suffered more than 10,000 casualties, and now there are 75,000 left in the Zhao army and 35,000 in the Han army.

Although Han Xin still has 30,000 troops in northern Hebei, under the iron hooves of the Qin army's hundreds of thousands of troops, this amount of troops basically does not play a big role.

Han Xin had to persuade Yuan Tan to lead 80,000 Zhao troops to withdraw with him in order to continue to survive in northern Hebei.

Hearing Han Xin say this, Yuan Tan also realized the seriousness of the problem, and nodded heavily: "This king understands, and within half a day, I will give King Han an answer." ”

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Different from the gloom on the side of the coalition army, the Qin army, which won a big battle again, had a completely cheerful expression, and in the eyes of everyone, Yecheng was already in the bag.

"Wen Yuan, I heard that your performance after killing the city tower is very eye-catching, come and talk to the brothers." Xue Rengui said jokingly.

"yes, yes, talk to your brothers."

Xu Huang took the lead, and the generals coaxed one after another.

Zhang Liao rolled his eyes and said angrily: "Get out, one by one, let's come to see Lao Tzu's jokes."

Wait, next time I will laugh at you. ”

"Haha......"

When they heard this, the crowd burst into laughter.

"Humph......"

Seeing this, Zhang Liao snorted coldly, lowered his head and twisted his head directly, not caring about these heartless guys.

At the same time, Qin Hao was also blocked by Bai Qi, Zhang Liang, Guo Jia and others, and they all accused Qin Hao of not risking his life.

"Lord, you are no longer a teenager, how can you still be so impulsive?" Bai Qi said.

After being repeatedly accused for half an hour, Qin Hao really didn't want to continue, so he could only take the initiative to admit his mistake and said: "This time it is indeed the king's fault, this king knows that he is wrong, and he will definitely not be next time." ”

Seeing that Qin Hao took the initiative to admit his mistake, Bai Qi, Zhang Liang and the others looked at each other, after all, just looking at the appearance of the lord, they knew that he would definitely dare to do this next time.