The next day, after the battle was over, the generals arranged the defense of the city, and they all came to the city guard.

In the hall of the city guard's mansion, Zhao Ju said with a heavy face when he saw that he was in the future: "Ladies and gentlemen, the king has just sent a bad news, because the peace agreement given by the Qin State is too high, and the two countries of Wei and Han jointly bought the Qin State, so the Qin State has officially rejected our request for peace talks not long ago. ”

"Refused!"

"The peace talks failed."

"Sure enough."

In fact, everyone had already guessed as early as when Qin State attacked Chen Cheng, and at this moment, when they heard the exact news from Zhao Ju's mouth, they immediately discussed with each other.

"What should we do if the peace fails?"

"Now that the five countries are attacking Chencheng, the enemy is strong and I am weak, and Chencheng may be difficult to hold for a long time..."

At this time, Zhao Ju saw that after everyone heard the news, some of their faces were stiff, some of them were panicked, and some of their eyes were wandering, and most of their words were pessimistic.

Seeing this, Zhao Ju said in a deep voice: "Everyone, although the peace negotiation failed, everyone should not be pessimistic, because the general already has a strategy to retreat from the enemy. ”

Everyone was in high spirits when they heard this, and Xiang Jun, who was in the forefront of everyone, looked happy, and hurriedly asked, "I don't know what Ling Yin's plan is?" ”

Zhao Ju's gaze swept over everyone's faces, and he said with a smile: "You have been guarding the city for a long time, and you don't know anything about the situation of the coalition forces outside the city. The reason why South Korea attacked Chencheng before was because of the lack of food in South Korea, and Wei used military rations as a threat to force South Korea to attack the city. Therefore, although Korea was reluctant to attack the city, it had to do so under the persecution of Wei.

It was precisely because the king sensed the embarrassment of Korea that he took advantage of the discord between the five countries and waited for the opportunity to negotiate peace with Qin. Although the peace talks failed, the contradictions between the five countries were unavoidable.

Therefore, the general's strategy of retreating from the enemy also fell here. ”

Saying that, Zhao Ju paused, and after seeing everyone's expectation, he continued: "Among the five countries, Han and Song are the weakest, and among them, South Korea also had a food shortage crisis not long ago. If the five countries continue to fight with our Chu State, the first one who can't bear it will inevitably be South Korea.

It's just that South Korea has been passively avoiding war before, and our Chu army is also happy to see the South Korean army like this, so South Korea's casualties are extremely light, which gives South Korea a fluke to continue fighting.

Therefore, the general's strategy is that when defending the city next, our Chu army will concentrate its main force on Qin and South Korea, to be precise, South Korea, and cause great casualties to South Korea by attacking South Korea, until South Korea can no longer bear it, and let South Korea take the initiative to retreat in the situation of lack of food, too high casualties, and no hope of breaking the city. Even, it is only necessary to let South Korea retreat a little and stop its troops to recuperate, so as to achieve the goal of all countries withdrawing their troops.

The five countries are full of contradictions, let them all storm the city, maybe they can still be consistent, but if South Korea, one of the biggest beneficiaries of this war, avoids the war and defends itself, then the other countries don't know what to do, but Ben will know that the Qin State, which has very little benefit and has already obtained seven cities from Korea, will definitely passively avoid the war.

The husband fights, one drum, then declines, and three is exhausted. In the past, Qin and South Korea passively avoided the war, which had already weakened the morale of the five-nation coalition once, and now it is the second drum of the coalition army, as long as we repel this wave of attack by the coalition army, the coalition army will no longer have the possibility of victory. ”

After speaking, Zhao Ju looked at everyone with confidence and asked, "Everyone, I don't know what you think. ”

When everyone heard this, you look at me, I look at you, and they all showed thoughtful expressions.

Although Zhaoju's method can not be effective in a short period of time, it is also a practical method.

At this time, everyone was in the forefront, and the Yin Jun, who was closest to Zhaoju, took the lead in praising it: "Ling Yin Yingming, I think this strategy is feasible, and in a few months, South Korea will retreat in a difficult way." ”

When everyone heard this, they chimed in: "Ling Yin Yingming." ”

Zhao Ju nodded with a smile and said, "Since all of you are meaningless, then next, we will follow this plan." ”

Saying that, Zhao Ju looked at Yin Jun and said, "In order to inflict casualties on the Han army as much as possible, Ben decided to personally go to the west to supervise the battle. Yin Jun, the next defense of the north of the city will be entrusted to you, you must be careful and vigilant, and you must not give Qi and Wei a chance. ”

"No."

Then, Zhao Ju looked at Huang Jun again and ordered: "Huang Jun, the next defense in the west will be personally taken over by the general, as for Huang Jun, you will be the general's deputy to assist the general in breaking the enemy." ”

"No."

Then, Zhao Ju looked at everyone and ordered: "Since we have a strategy to break the enemy, next, after you return to your respective defense areas, you can appease the soldiers below, don't let the soldiers be suspicious, and tell them that the final victory will definitely belong to us." ”

When everyone heard this, they responded in unison: "No." ”

After the generals left, Zhao Ju left Huang Jun, who was previously in charge of guarding the west, alone.

"Huang Jun, how is the state of the defense in the west now? How was the offensive of the Qin-Han coalition forces? ”

"Returning to Ling Yin, although the Qin-Han coalition army launched a strong attack on the west, our army has always been on guard, so it can withstand it at present. The offensive of the Qin-Han coalition army is currently indistinguishable. Moreover, in order to avoid mutual trouble and inconvenient command, the Qin-Han coalition army attacked the lion, and still attacked the city while the other side rested every time. ”

Zhao Ju nodded, and asked again: "Is there enough guarding weapons in the west, and can you carry out a strong counterattack against the besieging army?" ”

Huang Jun was stunned for a moment, then shook his head and said: "Back to Ling Yin, the direction of the enemy's main attack was the north before, and the Qin-Han coalition army has always been passively avoiding the battle, so the equipment in the west is only enough, but it is not sufficient. Crossbows, bows and arrows, catapults, timber, stones, etc., are all just enough and cannot be squandered at will. ”

Zhao Ju smiled and nodded: "This matter is simple, all the missing materials in the west will be transferred immediately." Ben General's request, no matter which country's army attacks tomorrow, tonight, must deploy the city defense equipment overnight, Ben will want this west city wall, every five zhang There must be a strong crossbow, is it feasible? ”

"Yes." Huang Jun nodded,

Then, after seeing that Huang Jun had taken the matter, Zhao Ju continued: "Also, tomorrow you will start repairing the land behind the city wall, and tear down all the houses behind you, remove the equipment in the rear, and then fill the land behind with trebuchets, as long as the stones can be thrown outside the city, all the trebuchets will be deployed, so as to strike at the Korean army as much as possible."

If there is not enough trebuchet, it will be transferred from the city, and if there is not enough in the city, it will be transferred from the other three sides, in short, all the equipment will be supplied to the west first.

As for the removed equipment, it would have doubled the convoy to the west to provide reinforcements to the walls in a timely manner. ”

"No." Huang Jun nodded vigorously.