In this city guard, Zhao Kuo saw Di.

General Lian Po's doorman opened the door of the house on the right, Di was like a frightened rabbit, he sat on the bed, looked at the door in fear, saw Zhao Kuo walk in the door, he jumped up excitedly, almost hugged Zhao Kuo and cried, he said: "Shaojun, you are finally here, Lian Po is unreasonable!" Zhao Kuo sighed helplessly, and said helplessly: "General Lian Po guards Changping, what he needs most is the support of the soldiers, how can you slander him?" ”

"I'm not slandering him, I'm just telling the soldiers that you can do better than him!"

"What am I capable of being compared to a battle-hardened general?" , Zhao Kuo shook his head, took him out of the house, and then ordered: "Fortunately, Ge and they are all here, a lieutenant named Sima Shang has settled them, you go to their side for the time being, I still have important matters to discuss with General Lian Po in detail, Sima Shang seems to be in charge of the city gate, you should find him at the east city gate", Di Cai wiped his tears and said: "Sima Shang is in charge of the west city gate, Shaojun, then I will go to find him." ”

"I'll talk to Shaojun later."

After sending Di away, Zhao Kuo returned to the house, Lian Po was chatting with Li Mu about something, Zhao Kuo sat on the side, and said seriously: "General, how long will the food I sent this time last?" Lian Po frowned and said seriously: "You sent 424,600 stone millet, as well as 20,000 stone rice, 17,000 stone hemp, 2,000 stone mushrooms... I've heard that there are still some livestock that have not been delivered, and if I can save some food, it will be enough for me to stay here for a year. ”

Zhao Kuo thought for a moment, and then said: "There is almost no youth in the territory of Zhao State, some cities are like dead land, and there is a shortage of food in many places, we must find a way to end the war, and then drag it on, I am afraid that Changping can hold on, and the people will not be able to hold on." Lian Po sighed, stood up, walked to the wall, and looked at Yutu.

He said: "Now, I am stationed in the Danshui area, where the Qin people are stationed... You see, there are mountains and hills all around, there are only a few small roads connecting the inside and outside, they are stationed in the highlands, if you want to pass through these small roads, it is a fool's dream, even if you take it, you will have to pay an extremely painful price...", Lian Po told about the current situation, Zhao Kuo looked at it very seriously.

He originally thought that the so-called Battle of Changping was that he took hundreds of thousands of people to defend the city and the other party attacked the city, but now it seems that this is not the case, hundreds of thousands of soldiers of Zhao were stationed in various places above and below Danshui, and the defense line included more than 20 cities and villages, and the Qin people surrounded Danshui from three sides.

A partial division of the Qin people set out from Fencheng and broke through Anze, the eldest son, besieged the Zhao army from the north, the main force of the Qin people started from Gaoping, broke through Qinyang, and went straight to Changping from the south, on the south side of Changping, confronted the main force of Zhao State, and the second partial division was attacking the city of Wushi, if it was breached, perhaps this partial division would directly bypass the Danshui defense line and directly attack Handan.

Lian Po was still telling, he said: "If you want to end the war early, this is a very difficult thing, now we occupy a high place to resist the enemy's attack, and we can still get some advantages, if we give up these geographical advantages, attack the camp of the Qin people, not only can not get the advantage, but will cause a lot of casualties, when the time comes, the troops stationed in various places are not enough, and the enemy will storm my Zhuling and Tangshan, then my rear is in danger, at that time, the grain road will be cut off, hundreds of thousands of soldiers will fight on an empty stomach, and there will be no defeat!" ”

"But if you continue to defend here... When all the grain and grass are exhausted, and the cultivated land of Zhao is overgrown with wild grass, it will definitely be defeated, right? Zhao Kuo suddenly asked, Lian Po frowned and did not answer.

"If you want to end war, you don't have to just use the means of war. If it can be said that all countries can be mobilized to send troops to help each other, form an alliance, and crusade against the Qin State, the Qin people will definitely retreat. Zhao Kuo said seriously.

"It's useless, all the countries are waiting for Qin and Zhao to lose both, they can benefit from it, how can they send troops to help Zhao? Unless the Zhao State is on the verge of extinction and the Qin people are unstoppable, they will not be able to sit still. Lian Po shook his head and said.

"If you don't try, how can you know it's useless?"

"It didn't work if I tried."

"As long as there is a glimmer of hope, I am willing to try!" , Zhao Kuo stood up, stared at Lian Po, and said seriously: "Millions of Zhao people are waiting for me to bring them a way to live, I will not give up, never." ”

"What do you want to do?"

"I want to go to see Shangjun and ask him to send Pingyuan Jun to various countries to ask for help, if there is one person who can bring assistance to Zhao State, it must be Pingyuan Jun, I will also mobilize the nobles of Handan, lead the old and weak women and children who stayed in Zhao State, cultivate farmland, their retainers have many customers, and they can help. I heard that Fan Ju and Bai Qi had a bad relationship, and I wanted to see if I could cause a discord between them. Zhao Kuo said what he thought in his heart one by one, and his expression became more and more firm.

Lian Po shook his head and said nothing.

When Shangjun first became the king, his relationship with his middle father was still very good.

Until the later incident: Fan Ju's family was poor in his early years, and he wanted to establish a career in the Wei State, and he joined the door of the middle doctor Xu Jia, and when he followed him to the Qin State, Fan Ju spoke up and showed his talent and courage, so he was valued by the King of Qi, but Xu Jia was ignored by the Qi people, which made him very angry, so after returning to China, he slandered Fan Ju, saying that he had fornicated with Qi State.

The innocent Fan Ju was almost beaten to death by the state minister Wei Qi, pretended to be dead and fled from the Wei state, rushed to the Qin state, and became the prime minister again, which made Wei Qi very frightened, fled to the Zhao state, and hid in the house of Pingyuan Jun. The king of Qin wanted to avenge Fan Ju, so he wrote a book to Zhao Sheng, and the book said, "The widow heard about your high righteousness, and was willing to be a friend of cloth, and hoped that you would come to the widow and be willing to drink with you for ten days", Zhao Sheng rushed to Qin, and at the banquet, the king of Qin said his true purpose.

He said: "In the past, King Wen of Zhou had Lu Shang thought he was the prince, Duke Qi Huan had to manage Yiwu as the middle father, and Mr. Fan was also the middle father of the widow, Mr. Fan's enemy was in your house, I hope you will make someone take his head, otherwise the widow will not let you out of the customs." Zhao Sheng was not afraid, and said angrily: "Wei Qi is my friend, he is in my home, and I will not hand him over." So, King Qin wrote a letter to King Zhao, still saying the same thing, hand over Wei Qi, otherwise kill Pingyuan Jun and attack Zhao again.

So, the king of Zhao immediately besieged the mansion of Pingyuan Jun, wanting to besiege it, Wei Qi escaped at night, saw Zhao Xiang Yu Qing, Yu Qing Xie Xiangyin and Wei Qi fled to Daliang, wanting to go to Chu through Xinling Jun, but Xinling Jun was afraid that this move would cause trouble to Wei, so he refused to meet, Wei Qi was furious, so he committed suicide. King Zhao cut off Wei Qi's head and gave it to the King of Qin, and the King of Qin let Zhao Sheng go back to Zhao.

Since this incident, the relationship between Pingyuan Jun and King Zhao has become very poor, and King Zhao no longer allows Zhao Sheng to go out, and King Zhao said that he is worried that Zhao Sheng will be detained in another country again and become a hostage. And Pingyuan-kun also began to drink and have fun every day, gathering all kinds of doormen, and became extremely keen on fame, as if he didn't care about anything but fame. King Zhao would not allow Zhao Sheng to go out to ask for help, especially those who were relatives of him, and whose orders would these reinforcements follow after they arrived in Zhao?

But these words, Lian Po is not good to say to Zhao Kuo, he sighed, and said: "Then I hope you can succeed, then you still want to go back to Handan?" ”

"When I've done these things, I'll take my sword and come back here, and at that time, please allow me to be a soldier, and I'll die here." Zhao Kuo said, and looked at Li Mu on the side, he said: "Please don't sacrifice your life to fight with the Qin people, you are the future Great Wall of Zhao State, it is precisely because of you that we can die here without worrying about the future." ”

Li Mu smiled, he shook his head.

"Big brother, if you lead the army to charge into battle, I will personally drive you to kill the enemy, if you break the Qin people and achieve victory, I will stick a wooden stick into the white head, ride a fast horse to praise your achievements, if you are defeated and die, I will definitely die in front of you. It is my greatest honor and the best place to be able to die on the battlefield with someone like you. ”