Five days later, news reached Handan.

100,000 Chu troops under the leadership of Yin Chun Shenjun Huang Xie of Chu have entered the territory of Lu State, officially starting the Chu State War to destroy Lu.

Judging from the information obtained by Zhao Dan, the current Lu State is completely incomparable with the Lu State that smashed the Qi State several times in the past, and the current Lu State is just a small and struggling country.

Although the monarch of the Lu State sent out a distress messenger everywhere, anyone with a discerning eye knew that no country on the current Chinese continent would help the Lu State.

Everybody's busy.

And the state of Chu sent troops to the state of Lu, which also officially opened the prelude to this war.

With the dispatch of troops from the state of Chu, the soldiers and horses of the state of Zhao were also completely assembled, and began to cross the Pujindu under the leadership of Lian Po, and the troops were under a city called Wangcheng in the central and eastern part of the Qin state.

Once the royal city falls, then the Zhao army can take advantage of the situation to go south and go straight to Yin Jin City, the eastern gate of the Guanzhong region.

Yin Jin City is the hub connecting Guanzhong and Cuihan Passage, if Yin Jin City falls, then the connection between Hangu Pass and Qin Guoguan will be completely broken.

For Zhao's preemptive strike, Qin was obviously also prepared.

Qin Wangji ordered two generals, Wang Ji and Wang Ling, to lead 200,000 Qin troops to confront the Zhao army near Wangcheng.

Contrary to the Battle of Changping, this time Wang Di became the defensive side, while Lian Po became the attacking side.

The two armies had fought fiercely from the very beginning of contact, and the Zhao army, under the leadership of Lian Po, launched a fierce offensive against the Qin army, but the Qin army also held its ground under the command of Wang Di.

The two sides have fought countless fierce battles for several days, but the Zhao army has never broken through the defense line of the Qin army's royal city.

Not long after the news of the stalemate between the Qin and Zhao armies reached the Central Plains, Wei and Qi successively sent troops and began to attack Zhao with Qin and the east.

Under the order of Qi Wangjian, Kuang Liang, the general of the Qi army, led 150,000 Qi soldiers to attack from Gaotang City, crossed the two main streams of the Yellow River in succession, and pointed directly at the giant deer in the north of Handan.

On the other hand, Wei Wangyu appointed Wei Wuji, the prime minister of Wei, as the commander-in-chief, and also led 150,000 Wei troops to attack from Yecheng and storm the defense line of the Great Wall in the south of Zhao north of Zhangshui.

In less than half a month, the Central Plains, which had been calm for a year, had a resurgence of war, except for Han and Yan, the other five major powers were involved in the war.

Zhao Dan sat on the main hall of Longtai, his face was very calm.

"Han Fei, if it is calculated by the General Staff, can the two armies of Qi and Wei break through the defense line of Julu and the Southern Great Wall?"

Since Pang Xuan had already rushed to the Southern Great Wall to deal with Wei Wuji, and another general, Ji Xin, rushed to the north to defend Kuang Liang, the leadership of the staff once again returned to the hands of Han Fei, the founder.

After hearing Zhao Dan's inquiry, Han Fei bowed down and said: "Back to the king, according to the many calculations of the General Staff, if Kuang Liang and Wei Wuji don't make too many mistakes, then once either of the two lines of defense in the north and south is breached, the soldiers on the other line of defense must return to defend Handan." From this point of view, the siege of Handan will be a high probability of happening. ”

After hearing these words, Zhao Dan's pupils couldn't help but shrink slightly.

This answer is really not what Zhao Dan hoped for.

Han Fei saw that Zhao Dan was in a deep groan, so he couldn't help but persuade: "King, if you can't do anything, it's better to temporarily retreat to Shangdang or Jinyang, even if Handan is lost, as long as Guanzhong wins, then Zhao will definitely not lose any territory in this war." ”

Zhao Dan snorted heavily, and said: "The widow is the monarch of Zhao State, if there is an enemy attacking, the widow should sit in Handan City, how can he be a deserter?" No more need to mention it! ”

After a pause, Zhao Dan continued to ask: "If you look at the inference of the General Staff, how is the battle situation in Guanzhong?" ”

Han Fei said: "Today's Qin State has been defeated by Zhao State twice, if Qin State does not have reinforcements this time, then General Lian Po of Guanzhong will definitely be able to return triumphantly!" ”

Zhao Dan said: "What the widow wants is the time to win!" ”

Han Fei hesitated for a moment before he said, "At least three months." ”

"Three months ......" Zhao Dan's brows furrowed deeply.

Three months, in fact, is only a hundred days.

If you take the battle of a large army, only a hundred days is really not too much.

But Zhao Dan also knew very well in his heart that the answer given by Han Fei was actually calculated according to the fastest, if the war was not as optimistic as imagined, time would have to drag on for a long time.

Besides, although it is possible to estimate the winning rate and strength of both sides by relying on pre-war deduction, it is absolutely impossible to completely perfect it, and many times a small link may lead to the collapse of a large army, and even endanger the fate and future of a country.

But--there is no turning back when the bow is opened, in this world of great contention, even if it is the first power in the world like Zhao Guo, it is not impossible to overturn.

After all, before the Zhao State, the Wei State, the Chu State, the Qi State, and the Qin State, which was defeated by Zhao Dan, were all pulled down from the first throne.

Any war is a gamble!

If you win, you can succeed and get one step closer, and if you keep winning, you will keep getting closer to the ultimate goal.

Zhao Dan felt that the Zhao country he led actually had the conditions to unify the world in terms of potential.

Why?

If you open the map, you will find that in its heyday, the Jin State, which had beaten all the dissatisfied Spring and Autumn overlords, had fallen into the hands of the Zhao State.

Not only that, compared with the former Jin State, Zhao State has more five counties in the north, the hometown of Zhongshan State, and two counties of Hetao.

Therefore, the current Zhao State, whether it is the territory area, population, equipment of the army, the level of the generals, and the overall combat effectiveness, is much more than the original Jin State.

This is a Zhao State that split from the Jin Kingdom, but it is far more powerful than the Jin State back then!

But it must also be admitted that the wheel of history is rolling forward, and the times are constantly developing, although Zhao is stronger than Jin, but the opponent faced by Zhao is also much stronger than the opponent faced by Jin back then!

So the predicament that Zhao Dan is facing now is actually similar to the predicament faced by the Jin Kingdom back then, and it may even be worse.

After all, the Jin State still had such an ally as the Wu State to contain the Chu State behind its back, but now the Zhao State has no allies, and it has to face a group of attacks from the other three powerful neighbors.

And Zhao Dan has no doubt at all that once Zhao Guo shows his defeat, then Korea, Yan and even Chu, which are still wavering, will immediately change their positions and join Zhao Guo's enemies, and step on Zhao Guo's corpse to have a super grand carnival party, just like what the Warring States Heroes did to Qi Guo more than twenty years ago!

"Bang!" Zhao Dan's face sank like water, and he slammed his fist on the table.

"The widowed Zhao Kingdom will definitely not be able to become the second Qi Kingdom, and the widow will definitely not be the second Qi King!"