When Chen couldn't go back to the county government Mingtang, everyone had already left, and Chen Jian had also returned to the mansion to rest. Grabbing the book in his hand, he reported that he was summoned in by Chen Jian soon after, and Chen Jian, who was dressed in a deep coat, did not look at the book after browsing it hastily.

"If you get away again......" Chen Jian glared at Chen Bu, not angry and arrogant.

"If you get away again, please show my head to the public." Chen Bu said loudly. In this battle, he was really a two-sided enemy: inside the city, he had to guard against those honorable people, as well as the backers and palace armor of the honored soldiers, and outside the city, he had to guard against the 400,000 troops of Qin and Wei.

"Good!" Chen Jian nodded, his stern expression relaxed, and said, "Yingdu is here, today the king has left Yingdu for Chen." ”

"The king is going to the city?" Chen Bei was shocked, "Yingdu is the outer dynasty, how can the king ignore the outer dynasty?" ”

"A king is a king, so what?" Chen Jian raised his eyelids and looked at Chen Bu, his face was mostly helpless. This king is not like the previous one, the former one does not take care of political affairs, but this one does it himself. "Yingdu is only more than 600 miles away, and it can be reached in five days. Within five days, you have to ......" Chen Jian whispered, his voice inaudible.

"Respectfully." Chen Wu glanced at Chen Jian and nodded after all.

*

"The teacher has been guarding Handan for three years, and there are only five feet of old and weak soldiers in his hands, I don't know how to hold it?" The big wing warboat is driving at high speed on the Yingshui, the scenery on both sides of the strait is receding one by one, and Xiong Jing, who is sitting on the seat, is asking Lian Po for advice to defend the city.

After Changping, Zhao lost more than 400,000 yuan, and Bai Qi wanted to destroy Zhao, but the king of Qin did not allow it, and accepted Zhao's request for peace, but asked to cut the city. Who thought that King Zhao would give the cut city to the Qi State, and asked the Qi State to send troops to rescue him, so the Battle of Handan began. Although Zhao Guo is not only a five-foot (115cm) pawn as Xiong Jing said, there are indeed few elite Zhao troops left.

Relying on these old and weak people to hold Handan for three years is quite a proud thing, and Xiong Jing laughed as soon as he opened his mouth. It was all field battles before, and he didn't have the opportunity to teach Xiong Jing the art of defending the city, but this time in the face of an army of 400,000 to defend Chen Ying, he was able to show what he had learned in his chest.

"How does the king think he should defend the city? Please say a word or two. Lian Po likes rhetorical questions, and in rhetorical questions, Xiong Jing gradually understands.

"How to defend the city?" Xiong Jing thought for a while and said, "First, to defend the city, you must first discipline yourself, since you are in the depths of death, when all of you are united, you will share weal and woe, and you must not be different from top to bottom." ”

Xiong Jing said the first one, and Lian Po nodded in approval.

"Second, all the materials in the city should be controlled, especially the grain, if the enemy besieges the city, the ration should be concentrated on the rationing, the soldiers should eat more, and the non-war people eat less." Xiong Jing said the second one again, and Lian Po nodded again.

"Third, the general should be the first, not behind." Xiong Jing said the third one. "Fourthly, if there is leisure, let the walls be heightened, and the cities should be widened, so that the enemy may not come near us. Trebuchets and crossbows should be able to prevent the enemy from attacking the city......

In addition, the boat division must constantly go out of the city and attack the enemy's logistics along the chasm. The siege of the city is not as good as the field battle, the grain and straw brought are limited, and the local food cannot be eaten, so it is all dependent on the rear to transport grain. The chasm and waterway are occupied by us, and if the land route is also disturbed by us, the enemy army will retreat due to lack of food. ”

The fifth Xiong Jing can be regarded as the essence of the problem, the southeast of Chen Ying is the lake, the waterways in the city are endless, and he can send boat divisions to attack and harass the enemy's rear road, which is also the reason why Xiong Jing thinks that the 400,000 enemy troops are not terrible.

"Indeed, the king knows very little about defending the city." Lian Po is not ashamed to say this, but he has been guarding Handan for three years, and he is fully qualified to say this. "However, in order to make the mistake of 'defending' eight or nine times out of ten, the king still knows that it is indeed commendable to use the boat division to attack and disturb the enemy's rear road."

Lian Po dipped his fingers in the tea and wrote a big word on the low table. This is the character Zhao, which is tall and sharp, with little bending. Shou was supposed to be a leather jacket with a hand in the leather jacket, but when Zhao Zi wrote, the round leather sleeve became a bottomless trapezoid, square on three sides, and inside was a hand holding this trapezoid, and there was an erection sword with a wide sword grid under his hand.

After Lian Po finished writing the word Shou, he wrote another battle word, and the war word was written with momentum and murderous spirit. After writing, he said: "In order to accept the mistake of 'keeping' nine times out of ten." Defend, dig the city and build a high wall, so that the enemy will not approach us, and the enemy will not enter the city. Sit idly by and let the enemy do whatever it does outside the city. This is a big fallacy! Defending the city is not only defending, not only defending, not defending! Let me fight against the enemy, not against the enemy, but let them do as they please, and the city will be destroyed. ”

Lian Po's argument is a bit contrary to common sense, if he weren't for Lian Po, Xiong Jing would probably be suspicious. seemed to feel Xiong Jing's doubts, Lian Po asked rhetorically: "All cities in the world have moats, does the king know that Handan does not have a moat?" ”

"There is no moat in Handan?!" Xiong Jing was really surprised this time.

"Yes, yes." Lian Po nodded heavily. "The moat can keep the enemy out of the city, but Handan has no moat, the king knows why?"

"I don't know. Please teacher teach me. "Xiong Jing is very natural to salute, please Lian Po to solve your doubts.

"There is a difference between defending the city and fighting in the city." Lian Po replied, his eyes were like streamers, and his voice was three points higher. "He who guards the city, the pool will be deep and the city will be high, but I hope that the enemy will never come near me; Those who fight in the city will have many gates and pools, and they only hope that they can go to the enemy's camp in an instant, and attack and disturb them day and night, so that the enemy will not be at peace. or they may lead the enemy into the city, gather them together and destroy them, so that they will not dare to enter even though they see that the gates of our city are wide open.

In the past, the minister guarded Handan, at the beginning he only knew how to defend and did not know how to attack, let the enemy do it, Qin Renqi (pile of soil) I, the city was broken overnight, so he led the troops out of the city and fought with the enemy. The Qin people were caught off guard, defeated, and burned their camp for dozens of miles. After that, the old man knew that the city could not be defended, so he should fight. If you are fighting with the enemy, you must not dig the city, for the city is cut off from the enemy and is not conducive to war; It is not necessary to build high walls, low walls are sufficient. There is only one high wall, and if there are several low walls, the enemy will be killed. ”

Lian Po talked about his skills in defending the city, from noon to noon, from noon to afternoon. He said it quickly, and there were some things that Xiong Jing didn't understand for a while, but fortunately, the historian copied everything he said.

When the sun set, Lian Po went back to the cabin and fell asleep, and the words "guard" and "war" written on the low table had already disappeared, but every time Xiong Jing looked at this low table, these two words seemed to be still there, and it felt engraved on the wood.

'Defending' and 'fighting' are the keys to comprehending Lian Po's art of defending the city. He does not see the guard as the guard, but the guard as the war. The city is only a field fortification that can be used, and the slightest negligence of the enemy army will rush out of the city and kill the enemy camp; If the battle is unfavorable, they immediately retreat to the city. If the enemy comes along, it would be best to lure them into the city and annihilate them all by the earlier arrangements in the city; If the enemy doesn't follow, then take a good rest and fight again tomorrow.

After understanding Lian Po's tactics of defending the city, Xiong Jing couldn't help but think of Chen Ying. If this is the case, then Chen Ying's 30,000 people may not be enough, and he should add 10,000 or 20,000 people, and then wait for the opportunity to move; The city gates are also not enough, and more city gates should be opened, so that the Chu army can quickly leave the city and enter the city quickly; Since the moat is already there, let's wait for the Qin army to fill it in......

In the hand of the warboat, Xiong Jing thought about what Chen Ying had to adjust according to Lian Po's tactics of defending the city; In the Qin army shogunate outside Chen Ying, the generals were saluting the commander Xin Wu, and they rushed to the headquarters to gather the generals in order to convey the commander's military orders. When the lieutenant was ordered and it was already dark, they also hurried back to the camp and read the order to the subordinate officers. It was not until late at night that the military order was fully conveyed, and by this time, Li Xin's right army had already left the camp.

Last night, dark clouds covered the moon, dark and dark. Tonight was different, a shower fell in the evening, the sky suddenly cleared, and the moon was embedded in the sky like a jade hook, and the stars were dotted. Three hundred and fifty paces below the city, tens of thousands of soldiers stood on stakes marked by the day, holding long beryllium, or holding bows and crossbows, or leaning ladders, or shouldering wooden boats...... all waiting for the sound of drums. With the sound of drums, the teams will rush to the city in order and rush to the city.

"What do you see?" Chai Fan under the gate of the North City, when the county guard was inspecting, suddenly raised his head and looked out over Chai Fan.

"Yesterday, the Qin army arrived at the city, I don't know if it will be ...... tonight" The voice was very small, perhaps because he didn't want others to hear it.

"Right Sima told the county prince this morning that the Qin people might attack the city at night, but who knew that he was reprimanded by Sima." Outside the chai fan is the moat, the water of the pond is white in the moonlight, the four long and wide city pools are like a gray belt, the screen protects the city wall, and the other bank is black, there is nothing. "It's so dark, what can you see?"

"Wait a minute." The watchman kept his feet on his feet, when someone in the city shouted: 'Release' several rockets have been fired. The rocket was pierced with sackcloth and stained with grease, but because of the sackcloth, the arrow flew crookedly, and when it landed, it was less than 100 steps away from the city.

"It would be nice to have firebombs." The person who looked at the other side of the city looked closely, and the rockets burned smaller and smaller in the dark, and all of them were extinguished in a short time, which made him miss the fire bomb, and the fire 'boom' when the fire bomb landed on the ground could splash out a few feet, which was extremely powerful.

"If the fire bomb is used to patrol the night, it is not a violent thing......" The night watchman walked farther and farther, and his voice became quieter and quieter, until he was gone.

"Xiangbang, the time has come." The camp of the Wei army in Xicheng was a shogunate, and the generals of the Qin and Wei armies were all dressed in armor and ready to attack the city. A small official of the Qin army rushed over and told the Wei people that the time had come.

"Yes, yes." Ziji, who was wearing a leather jacket, let out a loud shout and shook the drum in his hand. The military camp was extremely quiet, as soon as the drum was beaten, the drum people outside heard it, and the drum suddenly sounded, and the drum sound shook the military camp, and the county officials at the head of the city also frequently looked to the west, not knowing why the Wei army beat the drum late at night.

"It's coming, it's coming, the Qin people are coming." Upstairs in Beicheng, the somewhat confused Right Sima Chen Bu suddenly jumped up and called out to the Qin people.

"Yu Sima, it's the Wei army beating the drum, not the Qin people." The military officer who ran in said.

"Fei Ye, Fei Ye, it must be Qin people, it must be Qin people." Chen Bu hurriedly put on his shirt and hurried to the corner tower where he was watching the enemy.