The sunset is like blood.

Wei Wuji stood quietly in place, looking at the arrow tower in front of him, which had completely turned into a ruin.

Wei Wuji was surrounded by a group of Wei generals and a large number of guards, although there were many people, but none of them dared to speak.

Wei Wuji crouched down, carefully observing the corpse in front of him.

Of course, this is not the corpse of a Wei soldier, and in fact, no Wei soldier can have the qualifications to be so cherished by Wei Wuji.

What Wei Wuji was observing was the corpse of an armored cavalryman of Zhao Guogu.

The corpse of this Zhao Guogu's armored cavalry was very tall, although it had been lying on the ground for a long time, and it had already been cold, but it still gave people a murderous and awe-inspiring feeling.

Wei Wuji's hand lightly touched the armor of the armored cavalryman, and there seemed to be a strange light flashing in his eyes.

Those who knew Wei Wuji well knew that this kind of light usually only showed up when this Xinling monarch saw something that he felt was very important.

"It's better to see than to hear...... Xinlingjun let out a soft sigh from his mouth.

Although there was a corpse in front of him, Wei Wuji observed it extremely carefully, as if he was appreciating a priceless treasure.

After a long time, Wei Wuji let out a long breath and stood up.

"Zhong Cheng."

"In!"

"How many of these armored cavalry were killed by our army?"

"Less than a hundred!"

Wei Wuji's brows furrowed visibly, and after a while, he said, "So little? ”

Wei Wuji's tone was extremely dissatisfied.

You have to know the situation of the armored cavalry charging into battle, but Wei Wuji can see it clearly.

In order to completely annihilate this cavalry, Wei Wuji temporarily mobilized many nearby troops to surround and intercept him, but in the end, this cavalry escaped, and successfully destroyed one of Wei Wuji's arrow towers.

And then, less than a hundred people died?

Zhong Cheng explained: "The armor of these Zhao Guogu armored cavalry is very strong, ordinary arrows are completely useless, and swords are also difficult to break through. Moreover, their horses are also heavily armoured, and they are also invulnerable. ”

Wei Wuji's brows furrowed even deeper, and he said after a while, "In that case, how did you capture and kill these armored cavalry?" ”

Zhong Cheng replied: "Part of it is because of the lack of horsepower and being surrounded alone, and the other part is due to various reasons, such as falling from the horse, being shot in the horse's leg, shooting in the horse's eye, and so on. ”

Wei Wuji pondered for a moment and said, "There hasn't been a single case of a cavalryman who fell off his horse because he was injured?" ”

"In one case, the arrow hit the eye socket."

Wei Wuji let out a long breath before he said after a moment, "How long will it take for this arrow tower to be repaired?" ”

Someone on the side replied, "At least three days." ”

Wei Wuji shook his head and said, "Order the craftsmen to speed up the progress, I want to see the new arrow tower appear within two days." Also, from today onwards, a new arrow tower will need to appear every four days! ”

No one questioned Wei Wuji's decision, in fact, it was not the number or level of craftsmen that constrained the Arrow Tower, but only the material.

Wei Wuji stood up, glanced at the Wei generals beside him, and said in a deep voice: "You don't need to panic, there are not many of these armored cavalry Zhao Guo, there should only be these five hundred people in Handan City, they have already lost a hundred people in one attack, so they will not attack easily next time." ”

After a pause, Wei Wuji continued: "If you see this armored cavalry again in the future, then you don't need to use bows and arrows and infantry to meet the enemy, it will only cost the lives of the soldiers. ”

Zhong Cheng, who was standing behind Wei Wuji, was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help but speak: "If that's the case, then how should you resist this armored cavalry?" ”

Wei Wuji smiled slightly, revealing a calm and murderous smile: "If you see this armored cavalry in the future, then you can directly bombard it with a bed crossbow." ”

As soon as Wei Wuji's words came out, the Wei generals who were standing around him gasped.

You must know that the bed crossbow is already a big killer in this era, and some small cities will be directly blasted open by the bed crossbow without even needing a trebuchet.

Now it's time to use such a heavy weapon against a mere cavalry?

Wei Wuji glanced around at the Wei generals around him: "What, have an opinion?" If the second and third sons feel that my opinion is inappropriate, then they can come up with a more effective solution. ”

No one dared to speak, partly because of Wei Wuji's prestige in the army, and partly because they really didn't have a better way.

Wei Wuji stretched out his hand and pointed at the corpses in front of him, and said, "The armor on all the corpses and the armor on the war horses have all been stripped off, properly preserved and sent back to Daliang City, so that the craftsmen can see if they can be manufactured." ”

After seeing the power of this armored cavalry with his own eyes, Wei Wuji already had a plan in his heart to get an armored cavalry for Wei Guoye.

After doing all this, Wei Wuji quickly returned to the big tent.

As soon as he removed his armor, Wei Wuji turned around and found a white-haired man dressed in the costume of a Wei State guard appearing in front of him.

But there was no surprise on Wei Wuji's face at all.

The visitor bent down and saluted respectfully towards Wei Wuji.

"Tang has seen the king."

Wei Wuji nodded slightly, and said, "How is the battle situation on the Qi army's side?" ”

Tang He said in a deep voice: "The strength of the Qi army's siege of the city in the past few days is obviously not as good as before, and the minister suspects that the people of Qi may have any dealings with Zhao in secret. ”

Wei Wuji let out a long breath, and after thinking about it for a long time, he slowly shook his head and said: "What can affect Kuang Liang is nothing more than Qi Xiang Housheng, but although Housheng is extremely greedy for money, since Qi Wangjian has already made a decision, then Housheng should not secretly drag his feet...... In this way, when you go to the camp of Qi as a messenger, you will say that I want to have a meeting with General Kuang Liang tomorrow. ”

This is where the trouble of the coalition conquest lies.

After all, Qi and Wei are two different countries, although nominally this attack on Handan is mainly supported by the Wei army, but Wei Wuji does not feel that he can directly skip Kuang Liang and issue specific combat orders to the Qi troops.

Tang He answered, and then took out a silk book from his arms.

"Your Majesty, Daliang City is in a hurry."

Wei Wuji was stunned for a moment, and then took the urgent report from Tang Ji's hand.

To be honest, Wei Wuji was a little worried at this moment, could it be that Duan Ganzi was quietly doing something behind his back?

Ever since that pre-battle meeting with Zhao Dan, Wei Wuji had already begun to send people to spy on Duan Ganzi.

It's just that Duan Ganzi looked very cautious for a while, and he didn't find any handle for Wei Wuji.

But Wei Wuji also knew very well in his heart that as long as he continued to insist on monitoring, Duan Ganzi would show his feet sooner or later.

To tell the truth, if this kind of behavior of sending his subordinates to secretly spy on political enemies was known to Wei Wangyu, then Wei Wangyu would definitely have great jealousy of Wei Wuji in his heart.

But since Wei Wuji already knew that Duan Ganzi might be the traitor who secretly befriended Zhao Guo, Wei Wuji couldn't care so much.

With some apprehension, Wei Wuji opened this urgent report from Daliang City.

The content of this urgent report is very short.

But it was this short content that made Wei Wuji watch it back and forth several times before putting it down.

When he put down the urgent report in his hand, Wei Wuji's face was already full of solemnity.

"The Qin State was defeated in the Battle of Wangcheng, and Korea has sent 100,000 troops, and together with 20,000 Zhao cavalry, they have invaded the territory of Wei from the west!"

……

Every word on it made Wei Wuji feel terrified.

For some reason, an idiom suddenly popped into Wei Wuji's mind at this moment.

Siege Wei to save Zhao.

Wei Wuji suddenly discovered that his judgment of the Qin State had been wrong all along.

The defeat of the Qin State was short, and the speed was far faster than Wei Wuji had expected.

And in this urgent report, Wei Wangyu also asked Wei Wuji to immediately send troops back to help, otherwise now that Wei is empty, Daliang City is likely to be surrounded.

But...... At present, the siege of Handan City has reached the most intense time, and if troops are drawn back from the front line at this time, then it will be almost impossible to conquer Handan City.

In this way, isn't all the efforts made by Wei in this battle all useless?

But if he didn't send troops back to help, then once Daliang City was surrounded, how should Wei Wuji face the reproach from Wei Wangyu that was bound to come?

It's a dilemma.

Wei Wuji suddenly found that the situation he was facing at the moment was very similar to the predicament faced by Pang Juan, the general of Wei back then!

Once upon a time, Wei Wuji also used to laugh at Pang Juan's hesitation and despise Pang Juan's stupidity.

But it was only at this moment when he was really faced with such an environment that Wei Wuji realized that it was really a very difficult thing to make choices and decisions under such a dilemma.

In history, when Pang Juan was faced with the siege of Wei to save Zhao, the choice she made was to first attack Handan City of Zhao State, and then return to the aid of Daliang City.

The result of this is actually both good and bad.

The good thing is that after the defeat of Handan, Zhao's original rising momentum was dealt a heavy blow, and it took at least ten years to recover, and it did not pose a major threat to Wei in the following decades.

The disadvantage is that Pang Juan was defeated by his army in the subsequent reinforcements, and the elite of Wei suffered heavy losses, which directly led to the trend of the fall of the overlord Wei becoming irreversible.

If you look at it this way, in fact...... As long as you break through Handan and don't make any mistakes on the way back, you shouldn't be able to follow Pang Juan's old path, right?

After a long period of silence and struggle, Wei Wuji finally made a decision.

"Immediately convene all the generals to come to a meeting, and increase the intensity of the offensive from tomorrow, so as to break through Handan as soon as possible!"