Not long after Lü Buwei left, Mi Xian, who had just left the palace, went and returned, with a bit of excitement and joy on his face, and sent a piece of military intelligence to Zhao Dan: "King, good news, the Chu army has captured Wancheng!" ”

"What?" Zhao Dan perked up, and hurriedly said: "Hurry up and show the widow!" ”

After receiving the information from Mi Xian, Zhao Dan became more and more happy the more he looked at it, and finally couldn't help laughing.

"Good! That's great! ”

On September 23, 260 BC, that is, three days ago, after half a month of siege, the 200,000 Chu State finally succeeded in capturing Wancheng, Nanyang County, Qin State, which had only a few thousand defenders, with the cooperation of the city's internal response!

After the loss of Wancheng, in addition to leaving a small number of troops to garrison Wancheng, the commander of the Chu State, Jingyang, most of the main forces of the Chu army have been under the leadership of Jingyang and have been heading south non-stop to Dengcheng, another important town in Daoyang County.

The three important towns of Nanyang County happen to present the word "Pin" on the map, Wancheng is the "mouth" at the top, and Dengcheng is the "mouth" in the lower left corner.

As long as the Chu State takes down Deng Cheng again, then two of the three mouths will be directly connected into an oblique straight line on the map, and the connection between the entire two counties in the southeast of the Qin State and the Qin State Guanzhong will be completely cut off by this straight line!

This backstab of the Chu State finally stabbed the Qin State in the abdomen, tearing out a wound in the Qin State, and this wound will inevitably expand as time continues to grow, and it will bleed, shed more blood, and shed the blood of the Qin people!

Not only that, Zhao Dan also got another good news from the intelligence.

Today, among Nanyang County and Nan County, there have begun to appear small-scale rebellions of the Chu people, and these rebellions are like sparks, and they have a tendency to spread in the two southeastern counties of Qin State.

You must know that the two southeastern counties of Qin were the homeland of Chu for a long time, and the Jianghan Plain, where the southern county is located, is the base camp of the two capitals of Yingdu and Yandu, which Chu relied on to make a fortune and operate for hundreds of years.

The Chu people of Nanjun are definitely the most authentic Chu people, there is no one!

The Qin people only occupied Nanyang County for 30 years and Nanjun for 18 years, although these times were enough to consolidate Qin's rule in these two counties, but they were not able to subdue the hearts of the people of Chu in these two counties.

Twenty-six years ago, when King Huai of Chu was killed by King Ji of Qin and died in a foreign land of Xianyang, Nangong, a famous scholar of Chu State, once said a famous sentence in history with resentment: "Although Chu has three households, the death of Qin will be Chu!" ”

First of all, we have to admit that this is essentially a sentence of "you wait and see, I will definitely kill you in the future!" "Such a scene...

But this does not affect the fact that all the people of the Chu State, especially the Chu people in the two southeastern counties, have a bitter hatred for the Qin State in their hearts!

You must know that since the Shang Dynasty changed the law, the Legalist-dominated Qin State has been known for its strict laws, and in the newly occupied territories such as Nanyang County and Nanjun, the Qin State has implemented a reign of terror that is even more severe than that of Guanzhong itself, so that the former citizens of Chu State dare to be angry but dare not speak.

But now, with the army of Chu entering Nanyang County, the former people of Chu in the two southeastern counties of Qin State have finally begun to awaken and finally start to resist!

They don't want to be Qin people anymore, they want to be a part of the Chu State again, to be a glorious Chu person!

Judging from this information, once the war continues in an unfavorable direction for the Qin State, then the scale of the rebellion in the two southeastern counties of the Qin State will definitely continue to expand in the future.

Zhao Dan put down the information in his hand, and it was a comfort in his heart.

With the fall of Wancheng, the battle situation of Qin in the southeast became more passive.

But at this moment, the 600,000 main force of the Qin State was still confronting the 450,000 army of the Zhao army in the Taihang Mountains hundreds of miles away, and there was no way to resist the attack of the Chu people!

If the people of the Qin State didn't want to watch the people of the Chu State cut off Nanyang County and Nanjun with a knife, the Qin State would have to take action in the direction of Changping.

Otherwise, drag on for another two months, and winter will come.

When winter comes, large-scale military mobilization is very difficult.

In the event that in the two months before winter, the Chu people had already knocked down Nanjun and Nanyang County (although this is almost impossible, but not completely impossible), then the Chu people would have a whole winter to digest the land of these two counties.

This is definitely not good news for the Qin State.

Once that happens, then what will appear in front of the people of the Qin State next spring will either be a Chu State that is constantly recovering blood, or it will simply be a Southern Heavenly Overlord Chu State that has been resurrected with full blood!

A Chu State that has been fighting with the rich and handsome Jin State in the Central Plains for two hundred years and dragged the Jin State to the top, and a super Chu State that can mobilize a full 500,000 army to fight the Qin State in a Lantian battle at its peak!

Zhao Dan didn't believe it, the people of Qin would be indifferent to such a situation!

The Battle of Changping, which has been stalemate for more than half a year, will soon usher in a major turning point! And Zhao Dan concluded that this turning point must be beneficial to Zhao Guo!

Now Zhao Dan just wants the people of Chu to continue to fight, the more painful the people of Qin are beaten, the better, as long as Chu State stabs Qin State in the back harder, then Zhao State on the frontal battlefield will have more chances!

Zhao Dan thought for a while, clicked a few times on this information with his hand, and suddenly said: "Miqing, quickly send someone to send this information to General Changping Lianpo, and at the same time tell him that before the order of the widow, it is strictly forbidden for Changping to attack without authorization!" ”

Mi Xian couldn't help but be stunned when he heard this, you must know that this is the first time in a few months that Zhao Dan has issued such clear and specific instructions to the front line.

Before this, Zhao Dan was free to play freely to the commander-in-chief of the front line.

In fact, in the Battle of Changping in history, the king of Zhao Xiaocheng, whether he used Lian Po in the early stage or appointed Zhao Kuo in the later stage, never interfered with the specific command of these two generals.

Don't use suspicious people, don't suspect people. At this point, Zhao Xiaocheng Wang did an impeccable job.

As the commander of the entire country, it is taboo to meddle in the frontline situation casually.

Hitler in World War II and the "Captain of the Transport Brigade" in the War of Nation-building were both negative examples of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief's blind command leading to complete defeat.

As a traverser, of course, it is impossible for Zhao Dan not to know this, so Zhao Dan's order is of course justified.

According to Zhao Dan's conjecture and the discussions of the high-level officials of Zhao State these days, under the condition that Wei and Yan did not participate in the war, after the Changping line continued to drag on, the Qin people had only two choices, that is, to attack or retreat.

If Qin Guo attacked in a big way, Zhao Dan was still very confident in Lian Po's defense.

Bai Qi is certainly the god of war, but Bai Qi is not a god!

Just to fight this kind of tug-of-war between the two sides, Zhao Dan felt that Lian Po was absolutely fine. Bai Qi had neither aircraft artillery nor tank machine guns, so what could he use to break through Zhao's impregnable Changping defensive line?

What Bai Qi is better at and likes is sports warfare and encirclement warfare, which can be seen from Bai Qi's previous examples, otherwise, Bai Qi would not have deliberately lured Zhao Kuo out in the historical Battle of Changping, and then came to a counter-encirclement.

Therefore, what Zhao Dan is afraid of is not that Bai Qi will attack Zhao Jun, but that Bai Qi will engage in a retreat as an advance, use retreat as a smoke bomb to trick Lian Po out, and repeat the Battle of Changping in history!

Once the battle of Changping in history is repeated, then Zhao Guoqing will die, no matter how much success the Chu side achieves, it will be Qin and Chu to fight for hegemony in the future, and there will be nothing to do with Zhao State.

From the beginning to the end, Zhao Dan never planned to have a battle to the death with the people of Qin in Changping, the reason was very simple, because the population of Zhao was not enough.

Today's Zhao State has a population of about three million, while Qin has at least five million, and possibly even six million, after owning the four plains of Bashu, Guanzhong, Hexi, and Hanyang!

What does this mean? This means that even if you fight with Qin at a ratio of 1 to 1.5, Zhao will not be able to consume Qin.

Moreover, today's land of China is not only Qin and Zhao, the other five countries wish that Qin and Zhao would lose both and take the opportunity to pick up the cheap.

Therefore, a big battle of killing a thousand enemies and losing eight hundred is absolutely impossible for Zhao Dan to accept.

From the time crossing to the present, Zhao Dan's goal has always been very clear, the bottom line is to at least keep the Beishang Party, if he can, force the Qin people back, and swallow the entire Shangdang County. As long as this goal is achieved, then for Zhao, this war can be over.

What's not to play to fight with Bai Qibi? Look for death!

Therefore, the Zhao army on the front line of Changping must not take the initiative to attack until Zhao can confirm that the Qin army has indeed withdrawn the main force.

As long as he takes Shangdang County safely and does not consume too many troops, this has already successfully achieved Zhao Dan's goal.

As for Bai Qi...

Historically speaking, did Lian Po lose to the Qin people on the battlefield? Not really. Did Li Mu lose to the Qin people on the battlefield? Nor did it.

Since the historical Qin people did not really defeat Lian Po and Li Mu on the battlefield, why did Zhao Dan have to defeat Bai Qi on the battlefield?

To be honest, as long as it wasn't on the battlefield, the methods that Zhao Dan could use to deal with this Qin State God of War were really too much.