After Hou Sheng left, Yu Xin and Li Bo walked out of the cubicle at the back of the hall.

Li Bo's face still had some obvious doubt: "Why did the king hand over this matter to the Qi State?" ”

According to the original plan, the matter of helping Empress Yan and Gongzi Ke to seize the throne of Yan should have been completed by Pang Xuan leading the border troops of the five northern counties.

Zhao Dan smiled and said, "It is beneficial to hand it over to the Qi State, so that the soldiers of the widow will not shed blood and die in vain because of this war in which the Zhao State will not gain any land, and the widow will not pay a large amount of money and land to reward the soldiers for a war that has almost no benefits." ”

Li Bo seemed to agree with this answer, but immediately questioned again: "But the people of Qi may not be able to defeat Gongzi An and Rong Yan's troops......"

Zhao Dan waved his hand disappreciatively: "If the people of Qi can't do it, then the widow will order Pang Xuan to send troops." ”

Li Bo said: "But that's three hundred miles of land, the king......"

Zhao Dan didn't seem to care: "It's just three hundred miles of land, one day, the widow will rule over the thousands of miles of rivers and mountains in this Chinese land!" Li Qing, take a long-term view. ”

Li Bodao: "But the Qi State will definitely be the enemy of the Zhao State in the future, if the Qi State is allowed to get these three hundred miles of land out of thin air, wouldn't it make the Qi State stronger again?" ”

"No, you are wrong Li Qing." Zhao Dan Zhengse said: "If the people of Qi want these three hundred miles of land, in addition to paying for the casualties of the soldiers, they will also pay for another thing. ”

Li Bo asked, "Dare to ask what the king is?" ”

Zhao Dan replied: "The relationship between the Qi State and the Yan State will definitely be grudge for decades because of this!" ”

“……”

Looking at Li Bo, who was standing in front of him speechless, Zhao Dan couldn't help but laugh again.

He suddenly discovered that the lieutenant may have enough experience in how to test the merits of school officials and how to govern the people, but he does not seem to know so much about these twists and turns in diplomacy.

That's pretty good.

So Zhao Dan turned his gaze to Yu Xin on the side.

Yu Xin said to Li Bo, who was still a little unclear beside him: "If there is a grudge between Yan and Qi, then they will definitely attack each other in the future, so that Zhao Guo can dispatch in the middle and even add fuel to the fire, which is a good thing for Zhao Guo!" ”

Li Bodao: "Yu Qing's words are wrong, if the Qi State sends troops to support Gongzi Ke, Empress Yan and Gongzi Ke should be grateful to the Qi State, how can they grudge against the Qi State because of this?" ”

Yu Xin said: "If you want Empress Yan and Gongzi Ke to be grateful to the Qi State, the premise is that the Yan State will not cede land to the Qi State." Since the land has been ceded, then the two sides are clear, what is the gratitude? And after all, the matter of cutting the land and seeking the throne is very unpleasant, so once Empress Yan sits firmly on the throne of the queen mother, she will definitely find a way to recover the three hundred miles of land! ”

Li Bodao: "So Yu Qing thinks that sooner or later, a war will break out between Yan and Qi over these three hundred miles of land?" ”

"Exactly!"

Li Bo shook his head: "I still think that instead of letting the people of Qi get these three hundred miles of land, it is better for me to take it from Zhao State, anyway, I don't dare to do anything to Zhao State." ”

Zhao Dan looked at Li Bo with an unhappy face, but he could actually understand why this lieutenant was unhappy.

The land between the Yan and Qi states is the last plain basin where the Yellow River flows into the Bohai Sea, and it is also a piece of land that has been coveted by the Zhao State since the beginning of the Zhao State.

If you look at the geographical concept of future generations, this is simply an excellent outlet to the sea.

Seeing such a land being given away to the people of Qi is obviously very difficult for Li Bo to accept.

Zhao Dan said to Li Bozheng: "Li Qing, you need to understand that the center of gravity of Zhao State is now in the west rather than the east, which is why the widow wants the grudge between Yan and Qi to be more profound. Only in this way will they contain each other when the widows send troops to the west, so that they will not unite to attack the widows' Handan! ”

Lieber was finally convinced.

Compared with the mere 300 miles, Handan's safety is undoubtedly more important.

Besides, these three hundred miles of land were not ceded to Qi by Zhao State, but ceded by Yan State to Qi State.

Being able to use the three hundred miles of land of the Yan State to put Empress Yan and Gongzi Ke on the throne, and to make the Yan State and the Qi State not have any possibility of union at least for the next twenty years, Zhao Dan felt that he had earned too much.

After all, in this era, hegemon-level countries are always the easiest to become the object of everyone's fire.

The wood is beautiful in the forest, and the wind will destroy it.

In order to prevent Zhao from suffering such a thing as "Six Kingdoms Attacking Qin" or "Five Kingdoms Attacking Qi", in addition to giving Zhao a few more allies, it is of course more important to let any other country indulge in fighting each other, rather than uniting together against Zhao, a towering giant tree that is beginning to grow stronger and stronger and overlooks the entire forest.

Zhao Dan suddenly found that when he first started to cross, he didn't seem to be so black-bellied.

What changed you?

Zhao Dan thinks it's the environment.

The environment forces people to grow.

In this world where either you die or I live, if you don't want to become a dry bone under the enemy's throne, then you can only be more calculating, more scheming, and bury more foreshadowing and dark lines than the enemy.

In this era, there will always be only one end for Wei Guangzheng, and that is to die without a corpse.

After figuring this out, Zhao Dan can use two words to describe himself during this time - growth.

It is not only Zhao Dan who has grown, but also Zhao Guo under Zhao Dan.

For Zhao Dan or Zhao Guo, the most important target at the moment is, of course, the hometown of the Jin State, which is now Hedong County of the Qin State.

And for Zhao Kuo, who was fighting bravely on the Pujin Pass on the front line of Hedong County, the most important goal at the moment was, of course, to kill the two or five hundred masters of the Qin army in front of him.

"Qin thief, suffer death!" Zhao Kuo exhaled, raised the sword in his hand fiercely and slashed at Wang Qian's neck.

Wang Jian sneered, and the bronze long sword in his hand swept up without hesitation, heading towards Zhao Kuo.

"Dang!" The two weapons intersected in the air, emitting an incomparably crisp sound of gold and iron.

Both of them retreated at the same time.

Zhao Kuo's body slammed into the heavy walled battlements, causing his body to surge with qi and blood, and he was a little dizzy for a while.

A gust of wind sounded in his ears, Zhao Kuo was horrified, and hurriedly flashed out with a side step.

"Dang!" The bronze long sword in Wang Qian's hand fell heavily on the place where Zhao Kuo was standing just now with a posture of splitting mountains and seas, and the tip of the sword stirred up a series of sparks on the heavy wall.

Zhao Kuo, who escaped the catastrophe, snorted: "Despicable! ”

Wang Jian retorted disapprecitatively: "Stupid! ”

The two looked at each other, and they both saw a completely undisguised murderous intent in each other's eyes.

Beside the two of them, hundreds of soldiers from both Qin and Zhao were fighting fiercely.

They are like red-eyed beasts, frantically sending their blades into the enemy's body in various postures such as stabbing, slashing, slashing, and slashing, and then starting to search for the next enemy after ending the enemy's life.

As time passed, the number of Zhao soldiers on the wall began to increase, and the Qin army's defense line began to be compressed step by step.

In front of the entire 30,000 elite soldiers of the Zhao State, even if Wang Jian used the 1,000 people in his hands to the extreme, he could only delay for eight days.

In fact, in the past few days, the people of Zhao had nothing to do about the dangerous terrain of Pujin Pass.

It wasn't until a large number of siege equipment such as chariots and trebuchets were manufactured by the craftsmen of the Zhao army that everything was completely different.

Dozens or hundreds of catties of stone bullets may be difficult to shake the city defense of a big city like Xianyang, but it is more than enough to deal with a small Pujin Pass.

So soon, Wang Jian found that helpers began to appear around Zhao Kuo.

One, two, three......

When Zhao Kuo led five Zhao soldiers to completely surround Wang Qian, Wang Jian finally felt that he could not continue like this.

"Zhao thief, yes and you are fighting!" Wang Jian roared angrily and rushed towards Zhao Kuo.

Zhao Kuo took a deep breath, kicked a few steps and retreated directly to the rear.

Zhao Kuo was not afraid of death, but was delaying time for the Zhao soldiers around him.

It only takes Wang Jian to catch up for another second or two, and at least two long swords will pierce Wang Qian's armpits, shoulders, and/or back, and his life will be easily lost.

However, in the next moment, Zhao Kuo suddenly sensed a trace of cunning from Wang Qian's eyes that originally looked at death as home.

"Oh no, he wants to escape!"

When Zhao Kuo came back to his senses, it was too late.

Wang Jian suddenly turned sharply, and the bronze sword in his hand swept diagonally over the shoulder of an unsuspecting Zhao soldier, cutting off an arm and bringing a large rain of blood.

Immediately afterwards, Wang Jian took advantage of the momentum and rolled out of the encirclement through the gap exposed by the Zhao soldier.

Of course, even so, Wang Jian had to pay for the injuries of being stabbed twice in the shoulder and armpit.

But these two wounds did not slow down Wang Qian's pace, he rushed directly to the edge of the wall without any hesitation, and jumped from the top of the wall several feet high towards the city, and let out a sharp cry in mid-air as he jumped.

"Zhao thief is powerful, retreat!"

Wang Qian's body slammed into the ground, causing a burst of snowflakes.

"Damn it!" Zhao Kuo almost subconsciously wanted to jump down with Wang Qian, but stopped when he ran to the battlements.

Almost at the same time as Wang Jian got up from the ground while coughing up blood, Zhao Kuo had already taken the longbow behind him in his hand.

The bow was like a full moon, and the sharp arrows were pointed directly at Wang Qian's back.

Wang Jian ran rapidly, his steps were as sensitive as a leopard, and he ran farther and farther in Zhao Kuo's sight.

"Die!" Zhao Kuo gritted his teeth and said a sentence silently in his heart.

Then he decisively released the bowstring.

The arrows swept through the air and came towards the back of Wang Qian's head with a sharp sound.

Seeing that it was about to be completed, Wang Jian suddenly leaned over and threw himself fiercely towards the ground next to him.

But Wang Qian's movements had obviously slowed down a lot due to the injury, and the arrow shot by Zhao Kuo flashed above Wang Qian's head.

"Bang!" Wang Qian's body smashed to the ground again, and the snow splashed everywhere.

He's dead? Zhao Kuo's heart beat violently.

After only a few breaths, Wang Jian stood up again and quickly disappeared from Zhao Kuo's sight.

A dirty turban was firmly nailed to the snow by an arrow, which was the spoils of Zhao Kuo's arrow.

"Qin thief! The next time we meet, I will take your head! ”

Zhao Kuo's roar echoed above the wall.