According to common sense, a small two Sima had no power to gather the servants together, and the reason why he dared to do so was entirely because of Zhang Mancang's instructions. After the Battle of Handan, although the Qin State was defeated and retreated, a large number of Qin troops and "Xuan" people still remained in the territory of Zhao State, which stirred up the entire Zhao State to panic all day long. On the temple, after a discussion between King Zhao Xiaocheng and the ministers, Zhang Mancang immediately took up the post of being in charge of the defense of the capital.

Zhang Mancang worked tirelessly after taking office, and two years later, he inspected all the large and small cities in Zhao State. Through on-the-spot investigation, Zhang Mancang found that the existing command system could not effectively control the situation, and immediately creatively established an extremely efficient emergency handling system, which made Handan's urban defense command flat and efficient. Due to Zhang Mancang's delegation of power, the grassroots city defense officers had the arbitrary right to cut first and then play when dealing with emergencies, so in just one year, all the fine works lurking in Handan City were captured, and those who hid in Handan City in Handan City and wanted to concoct the same method to carry out the counter-plot again were even found out and beaten to death on the street.

Zhang Mancang's strategy across the era made the Qin State's latent power in the Zhao State completely lost, but fortunately, there was still Qin "Xuan" reluctantly dealing with the Zhao army, and everything seemed to be still under the control of the Qin people, but now "halfway to kill a trip to bite the gold", the Qin people's wishful thinking was inadvertently disintegrated by Zhao Zheng, a "stunned young man". Although the junior officers had the right to make arbitrary decisions, they still needed to report truthfully to their superiors in a timely manner, and when hundreds of soldiers were running back and forth on the city wall to gather labor, the young two horses immediately went to the commander to report the situation. When the laborers of the southern city wall stood "neatly" on the city wall, the gate that had been laid down was closed again, and the people who entered and exited the city were separated.

Except for a very small number of passers-by, the old Zhao people in Handan City have long been accustomed to this. There were even many middle-aged men in the crowd who were holding sticks, staring at the city wall with their heads up, and they were about to rush to the city at the slightest change.

At this time, on the southern city wall, thousands of laborers were lined up in groups of five wearing shackles and waiting for investigation. Since the laborers were divided into groups of five and had a soldier act as an overseer, and each labor force was chained together by a long iron chain, the whole scene was still under control. Just when more than a dozen soldiers carried out the heavy roster rolls and prepared to check them one by one, in the direction of Handanshan, a team of fiery red and mighty marched towards Handan City, and it seemed that there were hundreds of people.

"Captain, there is a team coming from the south, like General Zhang's army!" One of the two Sima knelt down and bowed.

"Oh?"

Hearing this, the chief frowned, then turned around and looked south, only to see the handsome flag fluttering in the wind, and the huge word "Zhang" loomed with the wind.

"You wait here to watch the labor and wait in line!"

After leaving these words, the commander hurriedly ran towards the city with a few of his own soldiers, and with a series of "creaking" heavy wooden grinding sounds, the city gate slowly opened. After a while, a team of fiery red armor wrapped in billowing dust and smoke crossed the Zhuhe River Bridge and walked straight towards the south city gate. When Zhang Mancang led his own army to the foot of Nancheng, the commander hurriedly ran a few steps and knelt on the ground and bowed loudly: "The last general is waiting for the veteran general!" ”

Zhang Mancang straightened the reins of his horse, and after the horse stopped, he raised his horsewhip and pointed to the wall and asked, "What is the matter in the city?" ”

The commander hurriedly replied: "Last night, the news spread in the east of the city that someone outside the city pretended to be a veteran commander and deceived you, let me wait to be more careful, at dawn, the south of the city found that there was a boy who looked like five or six years old sneaked into the city from the crack in the northeast corner of the city, and his subordinates sent people to arrest him without success, so he summoned the laborers to see if there were laborers in the city who escaped. ”

The ancient city wall, the low one can have two or three meters, and the high one is more than ten meters, and the height of the city wall of Handan, as the capital of Zhao State, is naturally around ten meters. When Zhang Mancang heard what the pawn chief said, the white old eyebrows couldn't help frowning and asked, "Can you see this person with your own eyes?" ”

"The general, the last general has never seen it, it was reported by the two subordinates! Look at the scene...... There should be no mistakes! ”

After replying, the chief couldn't help but feel a little weak, after all, in his opinion, it was a fantasy for a five or six-year-old child to sneak into the city unscathed from the crack in the city wall with his bare hands, but the truth of his subordinates' report made him have to believe it.

At this time, the pawn chief knelt on the ground and bowed his head silently, trembling and waiting for Zhang Mancang to scold, but to his surprise, Zhang Mancang did not scold, but squinted at the mouth of the city wall and kept muttering. Seeing this, the commander immediately peeked in Zhang Mancang's eyes, only to see that the "hulala" banner on the devastated city wall was no different from usual, except that there was no shortage of wheezing from hard labor and the sound of heavy rammed earth. The walls were full of wounds and cracks, as if the dead old Zhao people were silently accusing the Qin people of atrocities in the sky.

"Veteran, you ......"

The pawn commander turned around and was about to speak, but Zhang Mancang withdrew his gaze and sighed worriedly: "The war has not healed, if there is a strong enemy attacking at this time...... Alas......"

"The last will be damned!"

Zhang Mancang shook his head and said: "The war has not healed, and the city defense is full of loopholes, and some people sneak in the city at night and naturally can't prevent it, but this can't be blamed entirely on you, after all, there are some things that you can't control." ”

Zhang Mancang's words were very vague, which made the captain kneeling on the ground think that his boss was tolerant and loving, and when he was surprised, he couldn't help but feel warm in his heart, and his eyes were red and choked.

"The veteran is handsome, and the last general is ......"

Zhang Mancang is known for his strictness in governing the army on weekdays, and he can't tolerate the slightest mistake of his subordinates in wartime, at this time, the commander saw that Zhang Mancang did not blame himself for his abnormality, and he was surprised and delighted in his heart to show his loyalty, but as soon as he spoke, he was interrupted again by Zhang Mancang and said: "The city defense is related to the fate of the country, and the progress of the repair of this city wall should be accelerated!" In a few days, the old man will allocate 500 laborers to the city walls, these laborers are all Qin prisoners and slaves that we have raised, don't have any scruples, just use them to the fullest! ”

"Hey!"

Hearing this, the pawn commander responded, Zhang Mancang paused and continued: "As for the person who dived at night, you don't have to worry about it, this matter will be solved by the general himself!" Let's go, follow the general to the southeast corner tower and have a look! ”

After speaking, Zhang Mancang glanced behind him slightly, and one of the soldiers flipped off his horse and led the horse to the commander. Seeing this, the pawn commander didn't talk nonsense, and after bowing to Zhang Mancang again, he got up and turned over on the horse. As soon as his butt touched the saddle, Zhang Mancang drove his horse towards the southeast corner tower with a whistle, and behind him, a team of fiery red armor followed.

The width of Handan City from east to west is not very long, and as the big mouth like a knife and axe at the southeast corner tower is getting closer and closer to him, Zhang Mancang's vicissitudes of life old face is becoming more and more solemn.

Regarding the situation reported by the head of the pawn, Zhang Mancang naturally knew that the so-called "fraudster" naturally referred to himself, and for the person who looked like a six-year-old child, although he was very shocked after hearing it, he did not show it, because he knew that the recent series of incidents around Qin "Xuan" was too weird, and the fewer people who knew about it, the better.

The fiery red armor went all the way east along the city wall, and when he was more than a mile away from the corner tower, Zhang Mancang suddenly noticed that three or two people were rushing out of the crack, and then staggered towards the bank of the Zhu River. Zhang Mancang looked at it and found that these people were hard laborers in the city, and immediately shouted: "Catch those miscellaneous pieces for the old man, quickly!" ”

Before Zhang Mancang's words could be settled, five war horses rushed out like arrows.

Zhang Mancang then looked up at the city wall, only to see that the originally orderly labor team had been in chaos, followed by the shouts of killing, and after a while, with a series of dull crashing sounds, many soldiers who had been maintaining order on the city wall were thrown down by the almost crazy hard laborers.

Looking at a few half-dead soldiers not far away who were constantly vomiting blood and convulsions, Zhang Mancang grabbed the reins and turned his head at the commander who followed closely and scolded: "Damn, what's going on!" ”

The chief did not answer Zhang Mancang's question, because he did not know what was happening on the city wall, and it was not until afterwards that he realized that it was a premeditated but rather unexpected escape. A group of hard laborers at the east end of the south wall escaped from the city along a "scar" on the city wall while waiting for the investigation, while the overseer was relieved, and the so-called "scar" happened to be the gap that Zhao Zheng slipped out of the city while it was dark at night. The reason why they dared to escape from here was due to the "Yuecheng" action that they inadvertently saw Zhao Zheng and his party at night. And their escape was directly imitated by the nearby laborers, and the hard labor of the entire city wall was like dominoes, which instantly triggered a chain reaction.

The opportunity seemed to come a little too quickly, so fast that it was completely out of the five's plan. With the shackles on their feet, the sturdy hemp rope they were strung together, and the fact that they were not well prepared, everything was in a hurry. In order to seize this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, the five men jumped into the crevasse without thinking, and although the soil was still wet and soft in the crevice, when they reached the base of the city wall, two of the elders were still thrown to death.

The three of them landed safely, and they couldn't help but feel a burst of ecstasy in their hearts, and they didn't care about the life or death of the two elders who were crooked on the ground, and hurriedly untied the hemp rope on their bodies and ran towards the Zhu River. When the three of them saw that Zhao Jun was chasing after him, they didn't care about the pain around them, and ran frantically towards the riverside, and after a while, the three of them disappeared into the reeds......