In the early winter, Li Simi's book finally came from Wu'an, and Zhao Kuo issued an order to the whole army to raise troops and fight against them.

The 200,000 frontier troops were divided into two parts by Zhao Kuo, of which 100,000 were commanded by Sima Shang, who were still stationed in the camp in Yunzhong and blocked the various exit passes to prevent Guo Kai from holding Zhao Qian hostage and fleeing north to the Xiongnu; Zhao Kuo personally led 100,000 flying horses south to Dai County and went straight to Handan.

After learning the news of Zhao Kuo's troops, Pang Yuan's 200,000 troops also roared out of the Wu'an camp.

Wu'an Camp is the west gate of Handan, close to Handan, and the news came quickly. Frightened, Guo Kai hurriedly sent his henchmen and cronies to the Julu camp and urgently summoned the Julu general Zhao Guang to lead the troops back to help; Immediately afterwards, Guo Kai ordered the national lieutenant Le Cheng to cooperate with Handan General Feiyuan in the name of Zhao Qian, and closed the city gate to wait for help, while wantonly arresting the royal elders in the city, and only one night, all the royal ministers, including Chunpingjun, were arrested and secretly detained in the side hall of the royal city.

In the first heavy snow of winter, Pang Yuan's Wu'an army drove to the city of Handan. Soon, the 200,000 army surrounded the east, west, and south sides of Handan, but the north gate did not send troops. This is a gap deliberately left by Pang Yuan, and he hopes that Guo Kai can coerce Zhao Qian to break through from the north gate, so that the army can avoid attacking the city and go down to Handan without a fight.

After the army was settled, Pang Yuan took the Chinese army Sima to board the cloud cart outside the camp at the West Gate, the snowflakes hit his cheeks coldly, and as far as the eye could see, there was a vast snow mist everywhere. The city of Handan seemed to be unusually calm, and the military flag on the tower hung low weakly in the heavy snow.

Pang Yuanxin walked down the ladder and saw Li Si who was coming towards him at a glance: "General, how is the situation?" ”

"Handan can fight a battle." Pang Yuan's face was full of smiles.

Presumably, Zhao Kuo must have fought hard with Zhao Guang's Julu Army in Xindu at this time, as long as he can be the first to enter the city, then the credit for supporting the son Zhao Jia to ascend the throne will all belong to him.

Although Li Si is not familiar with military affairs, he can still see Pang Yuan's thoughts clearly: "General, Handan Jiancheng also!" Guo Kai was at the end of the road, and he would never be captured, thinking that it would be appropriate to attack the city after the army of Ma Fujun arrived. ”

Pang Yuan sneered and shook his head: "200,000 against 50,000, how much worry is Handan!" ”

Just as he was speaking, the horn of the alarm suddenly sounded over the camp, and before Pang Yuan could recover from his surprise, a group of cavalry had already rushed into the camp with a roar. The battle came suddenly, although the Wu'an army did not retreat, but it did not have time to organize an effective defense, and could only watch as this group of cavalry quickly turned around and turned back after killing and wounding hundreds of soldiers, and galloped away in the direction of Handan.

"How can it be!" Pang Yuan was enraged by this move of the defenders, "Pass my general order to attack the city immediately!" ”

"General, the army is camped, and the soldiers have not eaten...... "Sima of the Chinese army hurriedly persuaded.

"Attack Handan, and then march to eat!" Pang Yuan did not take the tens of thousands of defenders in his eyes, in his opinion, Handan was already in his pocket, as long as he gave an order, Handan was naturally at his fingertips.

The Chinese army Sima reluctantly took the order and left, but to Pang Yuan's surprise, the resistance in the city was extremely fierce, and the battle was still not the slightest progress after attacking for half a day.

Unexpectedly, as soon as the Wu'an army returned to the camp, the cavalry in the city attacked again, these cavalry came and went without a trace, never covering each other when rushing and killing, and did not rescue each other when retreating, like a sharp dagger stabbing Pang Yuan's army all over the body. In just three days, more than 20,000 soldiers fell under the city of Handan.

Under the constant harassment of the defenders day and night, the Wu'an army was exhausted, and Pang Yuan had no choice but to order the whole army to stop attacking the city, retreat ten miles and wait for the arrival of the army in the clouds......

At this time, after receiving Guo Kai's secret order to return to Handan, Zhao Guang hurriedly ordered the Julu Army, which had just arrived in Xindu, to quickly turn around and rush to Handan. Thanks to this convenience, the border army flying cavalry successfully passed the undefended Jingcheng Pass. Facing the Yunzhong border army that followed him all the way and clung to it, Zhao Guang was overwhelmed, so he had to order the whole army to turn back and fight to the death.

But what Zhao Guangwan didn't expect was that the officers and men in the army had already complained about what Guo Kai and Zhao Qian had done, and as soon as the two armies fought, the 200,000 Julu Army turned against each other under the impact of the division of the 100,000 border army flying horses, and Zhao Guang also died in the chaos.

At this point, there was not a single soldier or reinforcement outside Handan, and it was completely reduced to an isolated city.

In the camp north of the city where the army in the clouds was stationed, Pang Yuan met Zhao Kuo.

"Who will be the defender?" Because the two were at the same level, Zhao Kuo did not sit in charge of the case, he led Pang Yuan to a military case, and then turned around and sat opposite Pang Yuan.

"Wu Xiangjun Guowei Lecheng." Pang Yuan lowered his head and said with a depressed expression.

For the name Lecheng, Zhao Kuo is very familiar with it, it was because of Lecheng's insistence that the Three Kingdoms Alliance Army lost a good situation and was defeated at Hanguguan. Unexpectedly, more than 20 years have passed, and Lecheng is no longer what it used to be.

"Zhao Yan." Zhao Kuo summoned Ji Xue from outside the big tent, "Feishu entered the city, and asked Wu Xiangjun to go out of the city." ”

"No." Ji Xue left with her hands gone.

About half an hour later, Ji Xue returned to the big tent and reported to Zhao Kuoyu: "Lecheng has made an appointment and has left the north gate." ”

"Is General Pang going with you?" Zhao Kuo stood up as he spoke.

"No need, the military affairs are heavy, Pang Yuan will leave first." Pang Yuan refused without even thinking about it. The 200,000-strong army stormed for several days without taking Handan, which made Pang Yuan feel quite embarrassed.

Zhao Kuo was not reluctant, and after Pang Yuan left, he boarded a chariot parked outside the gate accompanied by Ji Xue. The fence in front of the camp was quickly moved away by the soldiers, and in the face of the snowstorm, Zhao Kuo personally drove the chapel through the human wall and road that thousands of soldiers dodged away.

Le Cheng had been waiting outside the camp for a long time, and when he saw Zhao Kuo leaving the camp, he immediately dismounted and stepped forward, arching his hand and saying, "Ma Fujun is not harmed?" ”

Zhao Kuo asked Ji Xue to stay in the car, then jumped out of the chariot, stopped at the place half an arrow away from Lecheng, and said straight to the point: "General Lecheng, now Zhao Kuo is difficult to enter the court with the edict of the former king, why do you obstruct it in vain, do you want to join the traitors?" ”

Le Cheng couldn't help laughing, and then retorted: "Ma Fujun was grateful for his life-saving grace in the past, but what he said today, Le Cheng definitely didn't agree!" The authenticity of the edict is still to be said, even if King Zhao is not in every way, how can he suddenly raise an army to attack him? Zhao Kuo, you have no king, do you want to be a rebellious minister and a thief? ”

"Handan is just a lonely city, with less than 50,000 soldiers, why should the general be obsessed?" Zhao Kuo also wanted to continue to persuade, "The young son born to Zhao Qian's Hu Nu is also stubborn, and he is really the king of the lost country......

Without waiting for Zhao Kuo to finish speaking, Le Cheng waved his hand and categorically refused: "Le Cheng is determined to live and die with the city, Ma Fujun doesn't need to say much." With that, Lecheng turned straight back to his horse and galloped away.

Looking at the distant back in the heavy snow, Ji Xue slowly raised the crossbow machine in her hand.

Zhao Kuokan looked back, and was shocked when he saw this scene, he hurriedly rushed to the chariot and pressed the crossbow machine with one palm. Under the interference of external forces, the short arrows fired by the crossbow machine deviated from their original trajectory and fell weakly on the snow one step away from Lecheng.

Zhao Kuo snatched the crossbow machine into his hand fiercely, then grabbed Ji Xue's right arm tightly, and scolded angrily: "What are you doing! ”

Ji Xue shook off Zhao Kuo, and shouted with red eyes: "What Le Cheng did, Guo Kai is also an accomplice!" Childe forgot Li Muhu? ”

"......" Zhao Kuo stood silently in the ice and snow speechlessly, and the cold wind coldly stung his bare cheeks in the air: "Let go of Lecheng, did Zhao Kuo do something wrong?" ”

As the army besieged the city again, the defenders of Handan resumed their previous tactics of harassment. For two consecutive days, Zhao Kuo gradually discovered the reason why the other party was able to succeed repeatedly: whenever they went out of the city to sneak attack, the defenders often only opened a gap in the city gate for a horse to pass through, and then the cavalry quickly assembled outside the city to attack. From a distance, it seemed that the gates were always closed, and by the time the other party noticed, the cavalry had already broken through the barracks and departed in triumph.

Zhao Kuo immediately responded: he set up a large number of ranger secret posts near the city gate, and whenever the defenders left the city, two elite thousand cavalry teams on standby day and night would quickly attack the enemy, so that the defenders who came to sneak attack did not return.

After several defeats, Lecheng finally stopped sending troops out of the city.

A few days later, the heavy snowfall, which had been falling for half a month, finally stopped. The next day, with the roar of 36 cowhide drums shaking the sky, the 500,000 Jingnan army launched the most fierce attack on Handan from the four city gates, and a phalanx of 1,000 people pushed all kinds of large siege equipment rumbling forward. In a few moments, Handan City was submerged in the white wave.

The four gates were opened, and the army roared into the city.