There was a noise in his ears, and Zhao Hou felt that his head was too big, and he couldn't help but lean down and lean on the low table. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 Info Looking at the red-faced ministers of His Royal Highness, Zhao Hou felt a sense of confusion, the Wei soldiers are almost over Taihang Mountain, and the nobles in the court are still fighting for whether to withdraw from Lingshou, aren't they afraid that the Wei army will surround Handan?

Zhao Hou suddenly thought that in Anyi, which was hundreds of miles away, whenever Wei Hou wanted to do something, such as this time before taking the oath to the north, would he also be opposed by some ministers like this, and would there be a quarrel in the court like this. Maybe when he knew Wei Hou's arbitrariness, he would also envy Wei Hou's power, and maybe he would also think of Wei Hou's courage. If he investigates again, he will also find that he is by no means the saddest prince, such as the king of Chu, who is known as the king, almost has no right to speak, and the major events in the country are the result of the wrestling of the nobles, and for example, the Marquis of Qin, who is about to die in the country, every major event is almost the opposition of a bunch of old nobles. If you do more in-depth research, Zhao Hou may be able to write a paper on the advantages and disadvantages of centralization and republicanism, but this is too profound, and Zhao Hou has no energy at all and will not think about these at all, because Wei Bing is about to appear under Handan City.

It is naturally good to take Lingshou City, Zhongshan will lose the country, but the key is whether the tens of thousands of soldiers left near Handan can hold the national capital, and the optimistic minister will think that it is enough to hold 10,000 soldiers in Handan, and then wait until the army that attacked Zhongshan returns to the dynasty, which is the time to defeat the Wei army, but there are also pessimistic views that the Wei army, which is the first in the field world, has the same sharp siege ability.

So Zhao Hou was also hesitating in his heart, so he didn't notice that the ministers who were arguing in this hall were not a true portrayal of the collision of several ideas in his heart.

It has been ten days since receiving the news of the Wei army's attack, and this quarrel has also lasted for more than ten days, but Zhao is also a big country after all, except for the army that has not yet quarreled and is still attacking Lingshou, the military forces of Zhao around Handan have been concentrated, and they have been concentrated in Wu'an and Handan.

The total strength of Zhao is 400,000, the army attacking Zhongshan is 200,000, the northern line is 100,000 to guard against the Hu people, the west is 40,000 to guard against Wei, the east is 20,000 to defend against Qi and Song and other countries, and the south is 40,000 to guard against Korea and Wei, so since the invasion of Zhongshan, Handan City has been empty, but after getting the news of the Wei Hou oath, Zhao immediately transferred troops and concentrated on the southern front, and then after getting the news that Wei Hou went north, the Zhao people, who also guessed Wei Hou's intentions, put these forces near Handan, There were 60,000 soldiers in Handan and its surroundings.

The defense of the city is still very sufficient, and seeing that Zhongshan has saved the remaining capital Lingshou, so the monarchs and ministers of Zhao State are still very entangled.

The quarrel in the hall continued, and suddenly a herald broke in, "Report, the 150,000 Wei soldiers have passed Taihang, and they are expected to camp in the west of Wu'an City tonight." ”

The hall suddenly fell silent, it seemed that yesterday I heard that the Wei soldiers were struggling to climb the mountain, how did they arrive at the city of Wu'an today, and some people immediately remembered that this was a strong army in the world, an army that Zhao had never won in the past sixty years, and even an army that had almost never suffered defeat in sixty years.

"It's time to talk about how to defend the city." Zhao Hou's voice rang out, and his body sat up straight, which marked that this great power had officially entered a state of all-out war.

The court meeting finally got to the point, and the army in Zhongshan was temporarily left behind.

When the Wei soldiers crossed the Taihang Mountains and appeared outside the city of Wu'an, it was destined to be a sleepless night.

In the camp of more than 100,000 Wei soldiers, all kinds of sounds were tinkling, and this was the miscellaneous servants rushing to repair the wall, cut down trees and nail wooden stakes overnight. However, although this sound stretched for several miles, it would not have much impact on the Wei soldiers who had worked for hundreds of miles, so there was a snoring in the hurriedly formed Wei camp.

Wu'an City is naturally even more tense, the soldiers and some civilians outside the city have been withdrawn to the city, which makes the not very spacious Wu'an City slightly crowded and noisy, but this is not the most important thing, on this night, it is the general's mansion in the city that has not turned off the lights.

Since moving the capital to Handan, Wu'an City has always been one of the barriers of Handan, with a large army stationed all year round, and naturally there is also a general's mansion. As you can tell from the name of the city, this is actually a military fortress. It's just that at this time, there was some noise in the general's mansion, and a group of generals were arguing, even if it was just a dim oil lamp, it couldn't stop the passion of the argument.

Sitting on the main seat is a veteran, Zhao An. Zhao An was already in his sixties and was no longer on the front line of the army, but the general Le Zuo attacked Lingshou in Zhongshan at this time, and Zhao Hou had to use Zhao An to defend Wu'an.

The following is a group of young generals and captains, the main point of the argument is very simple, is to do not attack the Wei army tonight, everyone is very reasonable, no one can convince anyone, in fact, since the Wei army began to step into the Taihang Mountains, the debate on whether to sneak attack the Wei army is among the generals on the Wu'an side, the debate has begun. And the top management has been hesitating, so there is no approval.

Tonight's argument is naturally tonight's business, but it is late at night, and there is no result yet. It was a good tradition to let the generals express their opinions before the war, and Zhou Bian was happy to do so, while Wei Hou preferred to be independent and arbitrary. In fact, pre-war discussions are necessary, but endless will not work, and the final decision must be made by the main general at the critical moment.

Where is the Lord of Wu'an tonight? At the darkest of the day, the generals finally thought of this question.

"What does General An mean?" When the generals looked at the main seat, they found that the old general had fallen asleep on the low couch, and after calming down, a slight snoring sounded.

The night passed quickly, and it was still very quiet inside and outside Wu'an City, except for the sound of arguments and the sound of the Wei people entrenching the wall, there was no imaginary night attack on the Wei camp. Early in the morning, Zhou Bian walked out of the tent, took a deep breath, and said that the people in the land of Yan Zhao were fierce, and they didn't even grasp the best time to attack at night. You must know that Wei Hou was also worried that he would not be defeated if he was too far away from the country, so he specially planted the wall, and in one night, a simple wall made of wooden stakes into the soil had been done, and the Zhao people were afraid that there was no chance of a night attack.

Wu'an City is naturally a nervous, the night is not a good sleep General Zhao An stood on the city tower, looking at the Wei camp in the distance, for the sake of today, only try to defend, as long as Wu'an is not lost, Handan will be as stable as a mountain.

After breakfast, the Wei army left the camp, causing the Zhao people to panic for a while, but the Wei army did not attack the city, but carried out simple drills under the city, and did not even call the door.

However, there were several squads of 1,000 people near Wu'an, and their mission was to capture as many small villages as possible and plunder some materials.

The day passed quickly, the Wei army returned to the camp, and the team of several thousand people also returned to the city, and the news brought back was not good for the Wei people, because the Zhao people also cleared the wilderness, and emptied all the nearby villages, leaving no one and a grain for the Wei people.

The next few days were still quiet, tens of thousands of people went to practice outside Wu'an City every day, and the thousand-man squad went further, it is said that they all bypassed Handan City, and there were some small-scale contact battles, but there were mutual victories and defeats, and the Zhao army did not leave even one Wei army of thousands of people intact.

It seems to be calm, but Zhou Bian knows that everyone is waiting, Zhao Hou must be waiting for the army that attacked Lingshou to come back, but I don't know whether to wait for Lingshou to come back or come back immediately, Wei Hou is also waiting, waiting for his siege equipment, although the army of more than 100,000 can bring a lot of baggage, but the large siege equipment still has to be made, at this time, Wei Ying has been ringing all day long, the sound of logging and building, I think it is the craftsmen are busy. In fact, Zhou Bian was also waiting, waiting for the flag he spilled, Zhou Bian didn't want to see Wei Hou take Handan, so there were also some people secretly operating in other countries, but they didn't know how much they could play.

Finally, fifteen days later, as soon as the sky dawned, Zhou Bian knew that today would be different, because today's trumpet sounded a little earlier than before, and it was a little more urgent.

Sure enough, after breakfast, a large set of equipment was pushed out of the camp, although they were all packed and not fully assembled, but Zhou Bian could still recognize that there were cloud ladders, cloud cars, lemon cars and punch cars, and they were quite prepared in such a short time, and it seemed that the craftsmen of the Wei State were of high quality.

100,000 Wei troops went out of the camp in turn, and Zhou Bian and others were also invited by Wei Hou to watch the battle with Wei Hou's Chinese army.

More than 10 square teams surrounded more than 100 large equipment to the east, five miles away from Wu'an began to beat drums and cheer, Zhou Bian looked around, only to see stepping on the drums, the surrounding Wei soldiers all held their heads high, although they came by trekking through mountains and rivers, but obviously the Wei army was still high, and it was really a strong force.

The sound of drums had already alarmed Wu'an City, and the old general Zhao An also climbed the city tower, surrounded by the generals, and the old general also had a worried face, "Sons, are you ready?" ”

"General Hui'an, bows, spears, golden soup, and stones are all ready." A youngster replied.

"General Hui'an, 10,000 elite soldiers have been put in place on the western city wall, another 6,000 elite soldiers are defending in other directions, and the remaining 5,000 elite soldiers are ready under the city wall, and the other 10,000 people are ready to get it." Another young general arched his hand and said.

"Good!" The old general shouted loudly, "Ladies and gentlemen, work hard today, so that these thieves can see how powerful my Zhao people are." ”

Looking around, I saw that some of the young generals around him were high-spirited, some were afraid, some frowned, and some gritted their teeth, Zhao An took a deep breath, tried to make his voice look more encouraging, and shouted, "Everyone, stand up to your own seats, and kill the Wei thief with me!" ”

"Kill the Wei thief!"

"Kill the Wei thief!"

The morale of the Zhao army was finally successfully boosted, and the sound passed the drumbeat of the Wei army and rushed towards the Wei army.

Wei Hou looked at Zhou Bian and smiled, "Zhou Jun, these Zhao people are just shouting in the city, if you really have the courage to kill me, why don't you dare to go out of the city to fight?" After that, Wei Hou just laughed a few times.

The pace of the Wei army is still like a mountain, and the morale has not only not been affected, but seems to have improved a little.

Soon the Wei army set up a formation outside the west gate, and then it was a routine scolding, the first siege of the city, the greeting still had to be called, nothing more than to say that Zhongshan was not guilty, Zhao was unrighteous and the like, after scolding for a while, Wei will return to the camp, and the siege battle will officially begin.

Although Wu'an is a small city, but as the angle of Handan, the city wall is still two zhang high, the city gate is three zhang, together with the city tower is actually more than four zhang, which is quite good.

The siege methods of the Wei army are still the same as the old three, the cloud ladder cloud car, the chong car and the lemon car, the cloud ladder cloud car is used to climb the city wall, the rushing car is used to hit the city gate, and the lemon car is used as a cover for the archers to protect the archers to return fire on the city wall.

The battle was fierce, and the Wei soldiers were very brave and good at fighting, but after all, it was difficult to break the city with one blow, so after a day of storming, losing hundreds of people and wounding thousands, the Wei army retreated. Wu'an City was naturally a cheer.

It wasn't until there was no trace of the Wei army that General Zhao An, who insisted on staying at the city gate for a day, slowly walked towards the city gate, "The Wei army is nothing more than that." The old general said to the people around him.

But in the next few days, the Wei army's offensive became more and more fierce, and even Zhou Bian could see that compared with the original attack on Xinzheng, the capital of South Korea, this time was the real siege strength of the Wei army.

Wei Hou divided the Wei soldiers into 20,000 groups, a total of six groups, one group every day, and Zhao An divided the soldiers into 10,000 groups and took turns to defend the city, but obviously Zhao An only had two groups, and the soldiers were more likely to be tired, but the losses of the besieging side would be greater, and they were also quite equal.

However, with the Wei army's more and more siege equipment, Wu'an City became more and more tight, ten days later, Zhao An sent a distress letter to Handan, the twelfth day, apparently after a day of discussion, a Zhao army of more than 20,000 people rushed to the rescue, wanting to disperse the attack of the Wei army, but Wei Hou quickly mobilized two groups of 40,000 people, resolutely fought back, and even almost defeated these 20,000 Zhao soldiers, you must know that the Wei soldiers are known as invincible in the field, and the Zhao soldiers can block it with the help of the city. Not to mention the disadvantage of the wild.

From this day on, Wei Hou attacked Wu'an with 80,000 men every day, 20,000 people camped between Wu'an and Handan, and the rest rested.

After that, the siege battle against Wu'an also entered a white heat, and the Wei soldiers attacked the wall several times. And Zhou Bian also saw the highest siege art of this era for the first time, compared to the original Han army attack Luoyang, obviously the Wei army is stronger, not afraid of death, good armor, strong attack power, strong organization and coordination, Zhou Bian even suspected that the casualties of the Zhao soldiers in the city would be as many as the Wei soldiers outside the city. This also made Zhou Bian secretly glad in his heart, fortunately it was the Han army and not the Wei army, otherwise most of the 100,000 Wei troops would still be able to break Luoyang City, even if there were catapults.

In addition to the three siege equipment, the Wei army also began to pile up soil and dig the wall, the pile of soil is each charge, each soldier with a bag of soil, first fill in a few passages on the moat, and then continue to pile under the city wall, so as to continue to close the distance with the city wall, digging the wall is to use nails and sledgehammers to smash the city wall, for the rammed earth city wall, knock off a little below, it is easy to collapse above, the city wall of Wu'an has been dug in a few places, and even killed a few Wei soldiers, but the Wei army is still desperate, and the city is just around the corner.

This made Zhou Bian also begin to secretly think about the countermeasures of these two siege methods in his heart.

At this time, in Handan City, the monarchs and ministers of Zhao State quarreled again, Zhongshan Kingdom seemed to know the actions of the Wei army, and the defense of the city was more resolute and brave, and there was only one Lingshou City left in the entire Zhongshan Kingdom, but it was still not broken by the Zhao army, so whether to give up Lingshou or not, whether it could take care of both sides, and the monarchs and ministers of Zhao were also confused.

Of course, as a big country, it is not all counting on Lingshou's army, Zhao Guo also began to urgently recruit troops, as well as mobilize domestic slaves, Handan's Zhao army increased by 50,000, so that the total strength of guarding Handan reached 80,000, which is also the confidence of Zhao State not to urgently recall Lingshou's army.

Since the Wei army began to attack the city for 20 days, 20,000 Zhao troops began to leave Handan every day, cautiously trying to rescue Wu'an, but each time they were driven back by the 20,000 Wei troops between Wu'an and Handan. However, at night, taking advantage of the night, Handan added a lot of troops to Wu'an, and successively reached 10,000, although they were all new soldiers, but they brought a lot of hope to Wu'an City, and General Zhao An also had sufficient manpower to repair the city wall and clean up the mound under the city wall every night.

However, the Wei army's offensive became more and more fierce day by day, and when the mound of earth was piled up as high as the city wall that had been stepped on, the fate of the city was decided.

More and more Wei soldiers poured into the city, although the fighting for more than 30 days made both sides very tired, but at this moment, it was the most fatal time, even Handan City panicked, and actually sent 40,000 troops to rescue Wu'an, wanting to prevent the Wei army from breaking the city.

However, nearly half of the more than 40,000 troops were recruits, and in the face of the Wei army, which was the first in the field, it was good that they were not defeated, and they were not able to break through the defense line of the 20,000 Wei army at all, and they did not even touch the gate of Wu'an. However, they did not return to Handan, but stuck with Wei Jiang between Handan and Wu'an.

As more and more Wei soldiers poured into the city, the west gate of Wu'an finally opened with a bang, and groups of Wei troops rushed into the city with spears, and it didn't take long for street fighting to begin.

The moment before the city gate opened, Zhao An was helped back by the general, and then concentrated in the general's mansion, which was a group of defeated generals with panicked faces, "General, withdraw, Wu'an can't hold it, now the important thing is to bring the soldiers back to Handan, if they all stay here, it is not conducive to Handan to defend the city." ”

"Yes, general, give the order, guarding Handan is the most important thing, no matter how late it is, I'm afraid that the Wei army will come here."

After half a ring, the pale and bloodstained veteran sighed, "Reasonable, Zhao Guang, you take the soldiers out of the east gate and return to Handan." ”

"What about General An?"

"My Highness!" The old general shouted, but then he cried, "The king handed over the Handan barrier Wu'an City to me, and it was lost in just a month, what face do I have to go back to Handan to meet the king!" ”

"General An!" The generals shouted.

But Zhao An waved his hand, "I have made up my mind, let's leave quickly." ”

After that, the old general put on his clothes, took a long sword and took a few house slaves and walked towards the door of the general's mansion without looking back.

"General Guang?" The generals looked at the middle-aged general again.

"Let's go, why are you staying here?" Zhao Guang roared, tearfully took the lead towards the back door of the General's Mansion, and rushed to the east gate.

The sun in May is already a little hot, especially at noon, walking in Wu'an City, you can already feel a little hot. Looking at the Wei soldiers on the side of the road cleaning up the battlefield, and there were corpses moving around, Zhou Bian also felt that it was not a good taste in his stomach.

Zhou Bian entered the city with the Marquis of Wei and attacked a military important place in a month, which was still relatively common in the era of cold weapons, but it was obviously seen from the expression of the Marquis of Wei that this was not enough for the Marquis of Wei. Yes, Zhou Bian also thought that Wei Hou's goal must be Handan, what did he do by surprise, isn't it just to take Handan suddenly? As a result, it took only a month in Wu'an, and Zhou Bian believed that Wei Hou must have been angry from time to time recently.

In the afternoon, he had settled in Wu'an City, but he did not live in the highest general's mansion, for no other reason, I heard that General Zhao An himself guarded the general's mansion and then burned the entire general's mansion, and now you can still see thick smoke billowing out, and Wei soldiers are rushing to extinguish the fire.

In the evening, Ning Yue inquired about the news again, and the Zhao soldiers guarding Wu'an fled nearly 10,000, which is said to be difficult to escape, but there were 40,000 Zhao soldiers desperately connecting between Handan and Wu'an, so in the end they escaped 10,000, but the 40,000 Zhao soldiers also left thousands of corpses, which shows the cruelty of today's war.

After dinner, while the city had not yet returned to calm, Zhou Bian sent several guards to deliver the news. But after calming down, Zhou Bian himself began to doubt, it took a month to take Wu'an, will Wei Hou continue to attack Handan? You must know that perhaps the main force of the Zhao army will return to the dynasty from Zhongshan, and the Marquis of Wei will only have more than 100,000 people this time.