Regarding Zhao Dan's order, Pang Xuan and Ju Xin, the two generals of Zhao State, of course, obeyed unconditionally.

On the third day of Zhao Dan's order, Pang Xuan led the army to fight and retreat, and came to the east gate of Handan City.

On the fifth day of Zhao Dan's order, Ju Xin led the troops in the direction of Julu to also fight and retreat, and came to the north gate of Handan City.

On the seventh day, all the Zhao armies retreated into the palace cities of Handan and Guocheng.

Long before the two armies retreated into the city, Zhao Dan's order spread throughout Handan City.

"Qin Wangji has always been arrogant and cruel, and the widow can't bear to see the people of Qin State under his tyranny and send troops to fight, but Qin Wangji insists on going his own way, not only resisting the righteous army of the widows, but also colluding with Wei and Qi to jointly commit ......"

Thousands of words were sprinkled, and in general, Qin Wangji, Qi Wangjian and Wei Wangyu were said to be extremely brutal villains, and then by the way, they boosted the morale of a wave of Zhao soldiers and civilians, and informed Guanzhong that General Lian Po had won the victory immediately, and he would be able to lead the army to turn back in a few days, and the siege of Handan would be broken if it was not attacked.

Due to the invasion of the alliance forces of Wei and Qi, a large number of merchants from various countries who originally did business in Handan City fled one after another, and Handan City became quite deserted for a while, and it was no longer lively in the past.

However, Zhao Dan is still very happy to see these people leave, after all, many times the spies of various countries are walking around in the name of merchants, since the merchants have left, then there will definitely be a lot fewer spies in Handan City.

At the same time, the guards also began to make a big move, uprooting many spies from various countries who had long been in sight, especially those from Qin, Qi, and Wei, or capturing or killing them.

Since Zhao Dan ordered the establishment of Mixian, although due to the limited time, the eyes and ears can only be in the major cities and counties of Zhao State, but Handan, as the capital of Zhao State, is naturally the top priority of the supervision and guard work.

Therefore, Zhao Dan's paper clearance order came down, and hundreds of people in Handan City were directly killed overnight, and most of the intelligence networks of various countries in Handan City were immediately eliminated, and occasionally some fish that slipped through the net could only hide underground, and did not dare to transmit any news to the outside world.

Now that he has made up his mind to defend Handan, the focus of Zhao Dan's work these days is all related to how to defend the city, and he doesn't bother to pay attention to any government affairs, anyway, after being surrounded, there will be no royal orders.

In addition, Zhao Dan also quietly did one thing, that is, he ordered several of his sons and daughters to be sent to Jinyang, the old capital of Zhao State, and only left the queen and Zhao Heng, the prince of Zhao State, by his side.

Jinyang is thousands of miles away, and it is separated from Handan by a whole Taihang Mountain Range, which will not be affected by the soldiers no matter what.

Although Zhao Dan is sure in his heart that this time the defense of Handan is just a thrill, but being a man always has to leave a way back for himself, in case the city of Handan is really broken, then Zhao Yan, who is far away in Jinyang, can become the last choice of Zhao Guo.

Not only Zhao Yan alone, but also a small number of important ministers of Zhao State, including Si Kou Zhao Bao and Lieutenant Li Bo, all went to Jinyang.

In this way, if something goes wrong, then Jinyang can also immediately set up a new power center of the Zhao State.

After everything was ready, Zhao Dan was full of confidence waiting for Wei Wuji's arrival.

Wei Wuji was not long in coming.

Just after the last army of Zhao State also completely retreated into Handan City, the Wei army began to appear in the east of Handan City.

Wei Wuji led more than 100,000 Wei troops like a black tide, countless dense footsteps converged into an earth-shattering sound, hundreds of thousands of people shouted horses neighing, so that everyone in Handan City saw the rolling smoke and dust, and countless flags flashed in the smoke and dust, the momentum was extremely amazing.

Zhao Dan was wearing a crown on his head, wearing a red robe that he usually wears only during the Great Dynasty Meeting, and when he saw this, he couldn't help but smile at Zhao Heng beside him: "Heng'er, you have to watch it well today, this time is a rare opportunity for you to see what a real war is!" ”

In fact, Zhao Dan is bragging, because Zhao Dan has never witnessed a real war in his two lives......

But of course Zhao Heng didn't know this, this eldest son of the king of Zhao was still just a young man who had not yet performed the crown salute, that is, he was not an adult yet, so his mind was naturally not mature enough, and he couldn't help but be taken away by the momentum of the Wei army led by Wei Wuji for a while, and his face was somewhat panicked.

However, Zhao Dan's composure obviously gave the prince of Zhao a lot of encouragement, and after a while, when Zhao Dan flashed his gaze from Zhao Heng intentionally or unintentionally, he found that Zhao Heng was already upright like a pine, and his face was completely calm.

By Zhao Dan's side, of course, Zhao Heng was not the only one, in fact, almost all the ministers of Zhao who were still in Handan City were present.

So Zhao Dan simply called Pang Xuan and Ji Xin over, and asked these two generals to give some guidance on the Wei army's marching array and other places on the spot, nominally to teach the prince's army formation strategy.

Pang Xuan and Ji Xin, two gray-haired old men, got a hint earlier, where do they not know what Zhao Dan means? At the moment, Wei Wuji and Wei Jun were belittled at the head of Handan City, and it was directly said that they were useless.

In this way, first with Zhao Dan and Zhao Heng, the father and son of the actor, leading by example, and with Pang Xuan and Ju Xin, two witty old foxes, dutifully acting as supporters on the side, most of the originally apprehensive ministers of Zhao State present have eliminated a lot of nervousness.

Since the kings are so calm and composed, then Zhao Guo will definitely win this battle!

Emotions are contagious, and as the supreme leader of Zhao State, Zhao Dan's words and deeds will exert huge influence on Handan and even the entire Zhao State.

And the two lives, especially Zhao Dan, who has witnessed the deception of officialdom in the office, wants to give full play to this role of leading by example through his own behavior today, so that the morale of the military and civilians in Handan City will be raised to a higher level.

As the so-called Wangshan ran a dead horse, although the Wei army had already appeared above the horizon in the sight of Zhao Dan and others, it took almost an hour for the Wei army to finally slowly come to a place a few miles outside Handan City.

Under the sound of several long horns and the shuttle back and forth of countless heralds, the Wei army began to slowly disperse, slowly surrounding the southeast and southeast sides of Handan City.

During this period, several generals of Zhao felt that the Wei army was flawed, and wanted to ask for orders to lead a cavalry out of the city to kill and frustrate the spirit of the Wei people, but Zhao Dan stopped them.

Zhao Dan really doesn't understand military affairs, but Zhao Dan knows people's hearts very well.

Since Wei Wuji has such a reputation and has been praised by countless historians of the past dynasties, Zhao Dan has also known Wei Wuji openly and secretly in the past few years, and knows that this guy is definitely not a straw bag that does not live up to his name.

Since this is the case, then it is absolutely impossible for Wei Wuji to do such a stupid thing as the soldiers are in the city but show their flaws, and the only explanation is that Wei Wuji actually deliberately exposed his flaws, wanting to lure Zhao Jun to attack.

Since this is the case, then Zhao Dan will naturally not attack easily, otherwise, Wei Wuji will win a battle as soon as he arrives, even if this victory is small, it is also very important for the morale of the two armies.

Zhao Dan's analysis was unanimously agreed by Pang Xuan and Ji Xin, and the two veterans also believed that it should be Wei Wuji's strategy to lure the enemy.

What followed, of course, was the endless sound of sycophants from the nearby ministers like a tide, so in the sycophancy of "the king really has no last resort, Wei Wuji is just a local chicken and a dog", the last trace of fear in the hearts of the ministers of Zhao State for Wei Wuji finally disappeared.

In fact, whether it is Zhao Dan or the ministers of Zhao State, after this victory in one big battle after another and a hard battle, their psychological quality has already been tempered to be extremely strong.

No matter how urgent the current situation is, can it be more urgent than the situation when the entire army was almost wiped out at the time of the Battle of Changping?

To put it bluntly, this time it's actually just because Handan City, the capital of Zhao State, is surrounded, so the ministers of Zhao State are panicking, once someone can stabilize it first, then the strong psychological quality of these ministers will quickly help them stabilize their mood.

Many people even thought: "My Zhao State, but the world's most powerful country, although Wei Wuji is strong, how can he be stronger than Zhao State?" ”

The title of the world's first power seems to be ethereal, but sometimes it is this kind of ethereal thing that can give people the most psychological comfort.

Sure enough, after a while, seeing that there seemed to be no sign of troops in Handan City, several horns sounded in the Wei army's array, and hundreds of thousands of Wei troops began to choose to set up camp.

Of course, it is inevitable to send many scouts to patrol back and forth near Handan City, so as not to suddenly kill the Zhao army in the city.

It was at this time that the spies came to report that the Qi troops led by Kuang Liang, the general of Qi, had also arrived, and the north and west of Handan City had also been surrounded by Qi troops.

When Zhao Dan heard this, he didn't have any panicked look on his face, but turned his head to look at Pang Xuan beside him.

Pang Xuan comprehended, and waved his hand directly, when even a sharpshooter stepped forward, bent his bow and arrows, and shot directly at the nearest Wei scout.

Although this Wei scout carefully wandered outside the range of the bow and arrow, the range of the marksman was naturally farther than that of ordinary archers.

Therefore, this arrow hit the scout with great accuracy, and the Wei scout was shot by the bow and arrow and fell directly over and fell off his horse.

But after the Wei scout fell off his horse, he found that he was safe and sound, and he was surprised to find that the arrow that hit him was actually wooden!

Not only that, but there was also a letter tied to this arrow, which was clearly written in Wei script: "Xinling Jun personally opened!" ”