Wang Peng sent people to carefully observe Wang Qian's strategic movements and the deployment of troops and horses, just to prevent him from attacking Handan ahead of himself and winning the first prize. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

At this time, the king of Qin, who was in Xianyang, also paid close attention to the soldiers and horses from all walks of life, and saw that there was only one lonely city left in the Zhao State, Handan, and knew that the war against the Zhao State would end soon.

In order to encourage the generals of the unified army from all walks of life, and in order to end the war as soon as possible, the king of Qin issued a decree that those who entered Handan first were named Zhao Hou, and the sixteen cities of Zhao Land were used as food towns.

After learning of this edict, all Qin generals wanted to win this honor, and Qian Fei, Cao Cheng and others who followed Wang Jian also planned to lead the troops alone again, but after Yan Feng's lesson, Wang Jian never agreed that they would lead the troops to fight alone.

Wang Jian summoned his generals and said: "Yan Feng led the troops to fight against Zhao alone, resulting in the defeat and death, and therefore lost 50,000 elites of my Great Qin, although the old man did not agree with you to lead the troops to attack Zhao alone, but the edict issued by the king I will never monopolize this merit and accept the reward alone, and when our army advances to the city of Handan, you can lead the troops to charge alone, and any general who takes the lead in attacking the city of King Zhao of Handan can get the same reward, and then I will explain the situation to the king."

After hearing this, all the generals thanked him, and Wang Jian continued: "Although Zhao is still resisting stubbornly, it is like the end of a strong crossbow, and our army's morale is in full swing before it can attack Handan in less than a week.

After receiving the order, the generals each walked out of the big tent of the Chinese army, and Qian Fei walked to Cao Cheng's side and said: "Brother Cao, I heard that Wang Peng's army and the east of Handan near the East Acropolis, he is likely to be the first to attack Handan and win the first merit before our army."

"Who doesn't know, the biggest competitor of this reward is either General Wang or him Wang Peng, although General Wang just said so, but the credit reward will not be left to you and me."

After listening to what Cao Cheng said, Qian Fei said: "That's right, now the only people in our army who can get the reward are Wang Ben and Ji Wu, Wang Ben is the son of General Wang, General Wang will definitely leave the credit to him, and Ji Wu is one of the nine kings in the court, Lang Zhongling is a close member of the king, and the king will definitely leave the reward to him."

After a few more words, the two went their separate ways, and the edict of the King of Qin had already reached Wang Peng's ears.

Wang Peng sat in the tent of the Chinese army, and thought in his heart while wiping his sword: "Wang Qian, you have been named a general and have thousands of households, and you still want to compete with me for this reward, you must know that my Wang Peng has been born and died no less than you, but in addition to being named a general, I can't get any other deaths, and I can't let you snatch it from me this time no matter what."

Just after thinking about it, a person walked up to Wang Peng's ear from outside and said a few words, Wang Peng nodded and waved his hand to signal him to go out, and then sneered and said: "Wang Qian, if you want your men and horses to rest for two days, then I will lead the army to Handan this afternoon."

After speaking, Wang Peng immediately convened the generals to discuss the march plan, and soon the entire march plan was deployed, and the generals returned to the barracks to arrange the pre-battle preparations for the soldiers.

Handan Wangcheng East Station

Wang Ao had just stood up and was about to go to Ling Chuan to discuss things, but he didn't expect Ling Chuan to take the initiative to come and sit down in front of him.

Seeing Ling Chuan coming, Wang Ao sat down and didn't speak, Ling Chuan spoke first: "Lord Wang, I didn't expect Guo Kai to treat us so kindly, this place is in the royal city and less than three hundred meters away from the palace of Zhao Guo, he actually let us live in the post station here, and the envoys of various countries may not be able to enjoy such treatment."

"I have long seen Guo Kai's thoughts, he has given up the mess of Zhao State, and is planning for his own step by step back road, my Great Qin army is about to come to Handan City, it is estimated that many Zhao State civil and military officials are thinking like this at this moment."

After Wang Ao finished speaking, Ling Chuan said: "The King of Qin has already said that Guo Kai has contributed to the destruction of the Zhao State, and after the destruction of Handan City, let us be sure to treat Guo Kai well, and also said that he will be moved to Xianyang to give him an official position, what is the use of such traitors seeking glory and framing loyal people, if I will definitely kill him."

Hearing this, Wang Ao smiled and said: "We don't need to consider King Guo Kai's own proposition, let's not talk about this, do you know that the edict issued by the king 'The one who entered Handan first will be awarded Zhao Hou and Zhao Cheng sixteen', such a rich reward Whoever sees it is greedy, do you want to get this reward."

"Those who enter Handan first can get these, so what, the two of us are sitting in the Handan King City now, can we go to the king to ask for a reward immediately, this reward is left to others, I don't have much interest in the official career, and besides, isn't such a big fief also managed for the king, and it is not easy to lead troops to fight at all."

After Ling Chuan finished speaking, Wang Ao said to him: "Don't worry, we will see it in less than half a week, but I think there is a great possibility, and it is up to you and me and Guo Kai to attack Handan and destroy Zhao State."

After listening to this, Ling Chuan walked out of Wang Ao's room without saying anything, Wang Ao put his hands on the desk and dragged his chin to think.

Inside the palace of the royal city of Zhao

Zhao Lun, the cavalry captain, and Zhao Hu, the general of the city guard, ran up to the hall quickly, and just walked to the front of Zhao Wanglong's chair, and the two knelt on the ground, Zhao Lun said: "The big thing is not good, Wu'an was broken by the Qin army, and the 30,000 defenders in the city were all wiped out."

When the civil and military officials of Zhao State in the palace heard the news of the destruction of Wu'an City, they were all taken aback, and the ensuing uproar was heard, and King Zhao also suddenly stood up from the dragon chair and asked: "What use does the widow want you, do you know that Wu'an is close to Handan, and the loss of Wu'an will inevitably make the people of the whole city panic."

Acting Marquis Zhao Jia came out and asked: "At present, Liu Xiang's army is being defeated by the Qin army and is retreating south, and Yan Ju's army is surrounded by the Qin army in the East Acropolis, and the Qin general Wang Peng's soldiers and horses have reached the west of Handan, he will soon launch an attack on Handan, and we must use all the strength in our hands to hold Handan."

"I have to do this, if you can hold it for a while, it's a while, pass the order, Zhao Lun and Zhao Hu are the highest-ranking generals in my capital now, and I ordered you two to mobilize the forbidden army of the whole city plus the mobilized people to go to the city tower to defend the city, and after defeating the Qin army, the widow will definitely be rewarded."

Zhao Lun and Zhao Hu withdrew from the main hall after receiving the order, and King Zhao said to Zhao Jia: "I also ask Brother Wang to calm the hearts of the people and actively mobilize the Chinese army to resist Qin, and the five thousand forbidden troops in the north of the city will be handed over to you with full authority, and you can use them to protect your safety if necessary."

"Brother Wang rest assured, he will defend Zhao to the death."

After speaking, Zhao Jia also withdrew from the main hall and went to the barracks of the forbidden army in the north of the city, King Zhao waved and announced his retreat, and walked back to the inner palace.

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