Chen Cheng.

The city has been under siege for almost a month now.

The rumbling drums echoed in everyone's ears, the fierce shouts of slaughter up and down the city, the creaking of trebuchets, and the cracking sound of each projectile, as if overwhelmed.

Countless arrows and boulders followed the principles of physics, constantly shuttling back and forth in the air, most of them didn't really do anything, but there were still a small number of mercilessly piercing the soldiers' bodies, reaping the lives of them wantonly.

Under the north wall of Chen City, the original moat had already been filled, and with the efforts of countless Zhao soldiers who were fighting on their shoulders, a large earthen bag was slowly increasing at a rate of about one or two feet a day.

And in the vicinity of this big dirt bag, it is also the place where the fighting is most fierce in the entire battlefield.

Everyone knew that when this big earthen bag grew to a height almost level with the city wall one day, Chen Cheng would be completely unable to hold it.

Lian Po, the commander of the Zhao army, looked at the city in front of him quietly, his gaze was the same as that of his young and moving concubine the night before the expedition.

And next to Lian Po, of course, it was Lian Po's old partner Lecheng, who saw this deputy general of Zhao Jun standing here, with a somewhat sad look.

"General, this Chu people are stubbornly defending Chencheng, our army can't attack it for a long time, and it has suffered heavy losses."

Regarding Lecheng's worries, Lian Po seemed very indifferent.

It has been almost forty days since the start of the war.

Since the Zhao army pressed the border, the people of Chu obviously knew that they could not confront Zhao head-on, so they simply took the initiative to give up the possibility of fighting with Zhao and directly chose to stick to the capital Chencheng.

Speaking of which, the geographical location of this Chen Cheng is not too good, the distance between Chen Cheng and Daliang City, the former capital of Wei State, is comparable to the distance between Daliang City and Handan.

And Chen Cheng is only a day's journey from the Chu-Wei border.

The reason why the Chu State chose this place as the national capital back then was that Chen Cheng was very close to Wei and Zhao, and once it was attacked by the Qin State, it would be very convenient to obtain reinforcements from Wei and Zhao.

But everything has always had advantages and disadvantages, so after enjoying the geographical dividends for several years, the retribution of the people of Chu also came.

This time, the close states of Wei and Zhao became the enemies of the state of Chu.

After the Zhao army attacked from Handan, it only took less than ten days to successfully surround Chen Cheng.

But even with the geographical advantage, Lecheng's face did not have much joy.

You must know that in the other three directions, the three allies of Zhao State are full of good news.

South Korea has sent troops since Xinzheng, and now it has surrounded Wancheng, and it seems that it is only a matter of time before Wancheng is conquered.

Wei sent troops from Taoyi, all the way to conquer the city father, Juyang, just came to the battle report is to besiege Suzhou, the entire vast land between Yingshui and Suishui fell into the hands of Wei.

Not to mention the Qi State, which is bent on recovering the Huaibei Land, has exploded with amazing strength in this war, and Lian Zhan Lianjie has directly recovered half of the Huaibei Land, and the remaining half of the Huaibei Land seems to be only a matter of time.

Only the Zhao State, as the leader and leader of the Four-Power Alliance, is still besieging Chencheng, the capital of the Chu State, after so many days of war, which is basically equivalent to not achieving any results.

Country by country, angry people.

So Lecheng is a little anxious.

In Le Cheng's opinion, the decision of his own king to attack Chen Cheng was fundamentally wrong.

Chen Cheng and Zhao are directly separated by a Wei State, even if this capital of Chu State is really defeated, it is impossible for Zhao State to take this place down as Zhao State's future territory.

In this way, in addition to costing the lives of the soldiers of the Zhao State in vain to attack the capital of the Chu State, and containing the main force of the Chu State here, the rest is completely for others to make wedding dresses.

A breeze blew, and a few strands of white hair fluttered on Lian Po's cheeks, and a smile appeared on his face.

"Lecheng, in your opinion, how long will it take for this Chen City to be captured?"

Lecheng thought for a while, and said with some uncertainty: "A month? ”

Lian Po nodded slowly and said, "One month, it should be enough to break through Chen Cheng." ”

If you calculate it this way, it will take more than two months to capture Chen Cheng.

That's not too much of a slow pace for this day and age.

As a soldier, Lian Po was actually the same as Le Cheng, and he was very dissatisfied with this decision to attack Chen Cheng first.

The hard bones were all gnawed by Zhao Jun, and the three families of Qi, Wei and Han happily ate meat and drank soup on the side, is this like words?

However, military and political affairs have never been separated, and wars between the two countries are mostly just political continuations.

As a soldier, you must obey the will of the king.

Chen Cheng must be breached.

As long as Chen Cheng can be breached, then the confidence of the military and people of Chu State will be dealt a fatal blow.

At that time, even if the overall situation of this war is completely decided, the state of Chu will not be able to turn over completely.

Then Lian Po can slowly lead the Zhao army to attack the city and plunder the land, and pocket the land that should have belonged to the Zhao State.

It is true that this style of play will have a greater loss than attacking other places (such as Qufu) at the beginning, but this is indeed what Zhao Dan must achieve.

So Lian Po could only pat Le Cheng's shoulder and said, "The king's order is hard to disobey!" ”

Le Cheng was stunned for a long time, and then said: "Why didn't the general order the king to send another partial division and take down Naqufu first?" ”

Lian Po snorted and said, "This matter is absolutely impossible." ”

After a pause, Lian Po continued: "Although the territory of my Zhao State is large now, it also needs many troops to guard, and there are only tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in Handan. ”

Le Cheng said: "But now that Han and Weiqi are allies, and the Qin State is far away in Guanzhong, they can't threaten Handan at all." ”

Lian Po shook his head and smiled: "Have you forgotten Yan Guo?" ”

Le Cheng was stunned: "Could it be ...... How dare Yan Guo betray the alliance? ”

Lian Po patted Lecheng's shoulder and said, "Yan Guo has no one to say about whether he has betrayed the alliance or not, but there are still necessary preparations." Therefore, it is not feasible to deviate from the teacher, so we should think carefully about how to break through this Chen City as soon as possible. ”

Looking at the figure of Le Cheng leaving, the old general shook his head gently.

Although this Lecheng is indeed brave and good at fighting, he still lacks some consciousness in terms of politics.

If another partial division is really sent out to attack Qufu, then the main general of this partial division will definitely be Pang Xuan.

Considering the current battlefield situation, if Pang Xuan really led the army to attack Qufu, it would be a waste of credit.

Considering that now Pang Xuan has made it clear that Che Ma is on the side of the Gong Clan faction and wants to challenge Lian Po's position as the first person in the military, how could Lian Po allow such a thing to happen?

Absolutely, yes, no, yes!