When he learned that Duan Ganpeng had also made the decision to watch the battle of Zhao Wei and then prepare to save Zhao, he nodded, "After thinking about it carefully, it is true, there is no need for Qi Guo to intervene too early, otherwise it will fall into a quagmire." Compared to the Wei State www.biquge.info the Qi State is still a little weaker now, so it is not difficult to make this decision. ”

The eyes were a little red, yes, after I broke up with Zheng Guanxi last night, I thought about it for half the night after I went back, and Zheng Wuwei was recruited before dawn in the morning, and it was appropriate to teach face-to-face, so Zheng Wuwei was waiting for Duan Ganming in the breakfast shop, you must know that although Zheng Wuwei was also in contact with Duan Ganming from time to time, after all, he didn't guard it every day, so the encounter in the morning store just now was the plan.

"Now it seems that Duan Ganming has been convinced, according to Zheng Guanxi's strategy, the second strategy has begun to be implemented, and it looks good, don't worry, go to the breakfast shop in a day or two to guard, and then talk, firstly, not to let Duan Ganming feel that we are too attentive, and secondly, it is also to give me some time to think, Duan Ganpeng is a little wise after all, I think I can think of watching the battle of Zhao Wei and the possibility that Zhao Guo will be soft after defeat, these two things are already a fluke."

"The head of the family is highly talented, and there must be a countermeasure." Zheng Wuwei bowed respectfully.

"Nope. The king is a talent, and if the king was here, he would have seen through it a long time ago. Gloom said.

Wang, is that teenage hairy child? Zheng Wuwei was still a little unimpressed in his heart, but he wouldn't say anything more.

"In this world, except for the Wei people, it is estimated that no one wants to see the Wei Marquis defeat the Zhao State, the Wei State has been defeating the princes for decades, the world is afraid of Wei for a long time, so they don't want the Zhao State to fail, but some of the princes dare not fight with the Wei State, so they chose to wait and see, and some want to get more fame and fortune, so they chose to wait and see for the time being, whether it is for the king, or for the Zhou Dynasty, we must let the princes prevent the Wei State from winning again. There should be people in the Qi country, there should also be people in the Chu State and the Qin State, and the Zhao State may also have the king's subordinates to help, and the king's layout is very large. Gloomy continued.

"But this is also the time for our courtiers to serve the royal family and leave their names in the annals of history, isn't it?" Woo Lok smiled.

Looking at the tired but still very confident and hearty smile of the head of the family, Zheng Wuwei was a little stunned for a while, as if he saw the young man he saw for the first time, the young man who began to walk the world for the family when he was only a teenager, and when he first came to Linzi, he was also so confident in his smile, that is, that time, the old man of the Wu family chose to continue to serve the Wu family.

It is true that in this world, those who do not have the strength choose to watch, and those who have the strength choose to sit and wait, all in all, all the princes almost unanimously choose to watch, this Chinese have been the favorite way since ancient times.

So what will the Marquis of Wei show to all the princes of the world? When the Marquis of Wei swore to save the Zhongshan Kingdom, Zhou Bian was not too clear, and when the Marquis of Wei asked Zhou Tianzi to set off with the army, Zhou Bian was not very clear, but soon after the departure, Zhou Bian was clear.

Encountering Zhao, who is also a powerful country, Wei Hou naturally went to the expedition in person, and as before, Wei Hou naturally invited Zhou Tianzi to watch the battle very politely. As the country of the uncle, it is my duty to save the small country from destruction for the Son of Heaven, and it is natural to invite the Son of Heaven to watch the war, but the two sides of the battle are still a little funny, one is a small barbarian country that has not been canonized and recognized by Zhou Tianzi at all, and the other is an old minister of the Jin State who strongly coerced Zhou Tianzi to be a marquis, so it will be a little bad to let Zhou Tianzi watch it, but Zhou Bian still has to go happily, for no other reason, how can people not bow their heads under the eaves.

The more than 100,000 troops gathered from all over the country were surging, and under the leadership of the Wei banner, they surrounded the Marquis of Wei and Zhou Tianzi in the Chinese army and drove eastward.

Naturally, there are still 100 guards and more than 100 followers to follow the royal family, but most of them have been running around in the past few years, so Zhou Bian is also used to it. After processing all the information in Anyi and issuing new orders to various places, Zhou Bian began his life in the carriage again, chatting with Ning Yue and Fan Yu every day, reading books, and passing the time.

Zhongshan is in the northeast of Wei, if you want to save Zhongshan, the fastest way is to go east and then through Korea, and then turn north, you can reach Zhongshan abroad. This is a very obvious road, because north of Wei is Zhao, from Korea to Zhongshan, you can avoid crossing a large amount of Zhao border, otherwise if you go east along the border, you will have to consider being blocked by the Zhao army. Therefore, by means of Korea, this is a road to save Zhongshan, and all the princes in the world think that the Wei army will take.

But soon, Zhou Bian knew that the princes of the world were wrong, because the army went east from Anyi, and before it reached the Korean border two days later, it turned to the north, and the Wei army did not choose to borrow Korea, but fought straight to the north.

What was the northern part of the Wei state? Naturally, it is the Zhao State that is also the Three Jin Dynasty. Wei Jun didn't go to Zhongshan to save Zhongshan, but killed Zhao Guo, what is this for? Is it to save Zhongshan from Zhao?

"No, by no means." Looking at the simple map of the world in the carriage, Zhou Bian said to Ning Yue with certainty. It was definitely not to besiege Zhao to save Zhongshan, because the strength of Wei did not need to avoid the main force of the Zhao army, so there was no need to use other means to force the Zhao army to give up attacking Zhongshan.

"Wei Hou never thought about saving that small country of Zhongshan, but from the very beginning, he set his goal on Zhao State." Zhou Bian put his finger on the point called Handan on the map, yes, this Handan, the capital of Zhao State, is between the northern part of Wei and Zhongshan, and also on the current route of the Wei army.

It is not difficult to come to this conclusion, because Zhou Bian knows that in the history of later generations, this King Wei Hui has been knocking Handan many times, and even occupied Handan for a year, so looking at the actions of this Marquis of Wei today, it is not difficult to come to this conclusion.

"Wei Hou's goal is Handan, Wei Hou wants to occupy the land of the Warring States, or, directly, wants to destroy the Zhao State." Zhou Bian's tone was full of affirmation.

The carriage was extremely quiet, and Fan Yu's eyes widened, obviously unable to digest the king's judgment. And after staring at the map for a long time, Ning Yue finally spoke, "King Yingming, Marquis Wei really never thought of saving Zhongshan, from the very beginning, he wanted to attack the Zhao State, or occupy the land, or want to destroy the Zhao State. ”

Why is Ning Qing so sure? You must know that it is also possible that the Marquis of Wei pretended to attack Handan, so as to force the Zhao army that attacked Zhongshan to come to the rescue. Zhou Bian was a little curious, he judged it based on some unknown experience, so how did Ning Yue judge it?

"No, my lord. First, if Marquis Wei really wanted to save Zhongshan, he could lead the allied army north after forcing back the Chu army last year, the distance was close, the time was enough, and the most important thing was to be in front of the princes, which was conducive to enhancing the reputation of Marquis Wei, but Marquis Wei did not. Second, if you really want to save Zhongshan, you should not attack Handan to make the Zhao army come back to help, because Zhongshan is small and outnumbered, even if the Zhao army retreats, except for the national capital that has not been captured, the rest of the cities are unable to recover. Therefore, Wei Hou is going straight to Handan, and his heart is not small. Ning Yue's words were concise, but to the point, Zhou Bian had to nod.

"Maybe the Marquis of Wei dragged it from last year to this year in order to draw troops and prepare grain and grass, after all, the Wei army will go out for a few years, and it still needs to be prepared." After a pause, Ning Yue added.

"Then it's going to be a problem." Zhou Bian said, saving Zhongshan and defeating Zhao and directly attacking Zhao are two concepts, one is for fame and the other is for profit, obviously the latter is more unfavorable to the royal family, and the royal family is more unwilling to see a more powerful Wei State than anyone else.

As he spoke, Zhou Bian lifted the curtain of the carriage, and outside the window, through the royal guards guarding the carriage, in the distance were dense layers of Wei infantry, holding Changge halberds, with neat and firm steps, this male army was the number one Wei soldier in the world.

"Some of our actions must be accelerated, and we must not allow the Wei army to break through Handan." Lowering the curtain and retracting his gaze, Zhou Bian's gaze became anxious.

Ning Yue also frowned, this is a difficult thing to do.

But it's about the royal family, it's about the Son of Heaven, no matter how difficult it is, you have to do it, but the royal family's current means are still too few, and in the Wei camp, many tricks can't be used, so the monarch and the ministers are talking about it, it's just to build momentum in Qi, Qin, Chu and other countries and support Zhao in disguise.

"It seems that Qi is going to enter the war soon, and it seems that some things must be advanced." Ning Yue said that there were two monarchs and ministers, one based on the historical experience in his memory, and the other based on his judgment of the situation of the nations, and they both made this judgment.

"Yes, but first we have to get the news out." Zhou Bian said.

So the three of them immediately began to get busy, presided over by Zhou Bian, written by Ning Yue, and then encrypted by Fan Yu. By this time, the royal family's ciphertext had been upgraded again, and it was no longer Arabic numerals, because it would easily arouse suspicion once it was caught by the Wei people, so it became a black spot tattooed on the clothes, just like common clothing decorations, Fan Yu had already done this more than once, but fortunately, in this era of classical Chinese, there are not many words to express a lot of meaning.

The clothes were originally hidden at the bottom of the carriage, ordinary clothes, which would be sent out to an ordinary guard to put on, and then pretended to be sick and could not accompany the army. Pretending to be sick is to drink a specific potion, which looks like a severe wind chill, and being so careful is also for fear of arousing the suspicion of the Wei army, after all, all military operations will be kept secret.

But this time it was still very smooth, the Wei people only took a brief look, and left the unlucky looking royal guard, and did not search his body or anything at all.

However, soon, Zhou Bian knew that in the face of strong strength, the Wei people did not need to worry too much about anything.

Since turning to the north, the Wei army has significantly quickened its pace, marching more than 100 miles a day, before the mechanized army, this is already the standard of modern forced marching, perhaps even more than the standard of modern forced marching, walking on legs, perhaps the ancients are stronger than today.

After many days of forced marching, the walking speed of some of the royal family's entourage was somewhat unable to keep up. Fortunately, the Wei army was prepared, and there were many carriages pulling goods with them, although it was simple, but if there were really people who couldn't walk, they could still rest. But obviously, it was the royal entourage who rested, and the guards still followed.

The army left Anyi on March 20, turned north on the 22nd, crossed Fenshui at Xintian on the 25th, bypassed Pingyang-eup in Korea, and then continued northward, reaching Pingzhou-eup, which was a small town northeast of Wei, and crossed Fenshui to the east to reach Zhao.

The rapid march all the way to this point, that is, Zhou Bian had some back pain every day in the carriage, fortunately, maybe Wei Hou was to spare the troops, and the army rested here for a day, but Fan Yu's return in the evening let Zhou Bian know that the boats on the Fenshui were not ready on time, and the Wei army had to rest, Fan Yu saw an officer beaten in front of the barracks, and Wei Hou was really moving.

On 7 April, it took the army a full day to cross Fenshui, a small city of Zhao with walls only one and a half miles east of Fenshui, Wu County. Obviously, the Qi people got the news too late and did not have time to arrange too many defensive forces, so when the last Wei soldier set foot on the east bank of Fenshui, the vanguard of the Wei army was already cooking in the city of Wuxian.

On April 8, the Wei army continued eastward, and that night rested in Zhongduyi, which was only one or twenty miles away from Wu County, which was near the later Pingyao City, which may have been the predecessor of Pingyao.

These two small cities are next to the Wei State, but apparently the Zhao State did not expect that this place would become the direction of attack of the Wei army, so the total number of troops was only more than 1,000 people, and more troops were arranged near Zhongyang, Zhongyangyi is directly north of the Wei State, and it is also the place where Zhao and Wei fought many times, and tens of thousands of Zhao troops were stationed for a long time, but this time the Zhao people miscalculated.

It was also surprising that the rapid march of the Wei people would be placed in later generations, so Zhou Bian believed that when the Wei army appeared on the land of Zhao, the news that the direction of the Wei army's march had turned to the north should not have reached Handan. At this time, the Marquis of Wei had already stood in the capital of Zhao in an extremely strong way.

In the central capital, the Wei army did not rest, and continued to set off eastward, all the way to the east to face Handan.

In fact, there is a big city of Zhao two days away from the north of the central capital, Jinyang, but this is the capital of the founding of the Zhao state, the city is still a little tall, and the troops are more than the central capital, at the beginning, Zhou Bian also thought about whether the Marquis of Wei would attack the city and expand the land north of the Wei state Anyi, but thought that the political significance is not great, and the military is not so easy to break, so he thinks that the ultimate goal of the Wei state is Handan, and now it seems that this is the case.

After walking east for two days, the vanguard of the Wei army broke through the Malingyi of Zhao State, which was a small town, not the ancient road where Sun Bin killed Pang Juan. These small towns were all satellite cities around Jinyang, where the Zhao State started, but apparently the Wei army only walked through the periphery.

Then the Wei army continued to march eastward, a hundred miles a day, and five days later broke through Luyangyi. Luyang Yi is in the west of Taihang Mountain, first belonged to Shangdang County of South Korea, and then was occupied by Zhao State, many small cities in China have a history of thousands of years, Luyang is no exception, later this is the place where General Zuoquan sacrificed, so it was changed to Zuoquan County.

Further east is the Taihang Mountains, this road due to the Wei army's rapid march, the Zhao people have time to react in the future, so there is no obstruction, but taking the mountain road is a taboo for the march, Wei Hou also had to be cautious, so the army rested in Luyang Yi for a day, but Zhou Bian believed that there were already a large number of Wei scouts to the Taihang Mountains alone.

Two days later, the Wei army crossed the Zhangshui River and penetrated deep into the Taihang Mountains. However, the northern vein of this section of Taihang Mountain is not very tall, and there are a few roads, but it is not as majestic as the south. However, the mountain road was still difficult to walk, and the Wei army's marching speed had to be slowed down to forty or fifty miles a day, and in some places it was often not a road, but a pile of rocks, and the vehicles could not walk, so they had to rely on people to move. Zhou Bian naturally won't get out of the car, but he suffered from those royal guards, but this is also a good thing, the royal army may also embark on such a road in the future, and in the past two years, he has learned a lot of marching experience with the Wei army.

There were also a few times in the Taihang Mountains that Xiaobo Zhao Jun harassed, but it did not stop this strong army in the world, and even a few times Zhou Bian did not hear the sound at all in the Chinese army, and only later heard the news from Fan Yu.

When we crossed the Taihang Mountain, it was already ten days later.

The next mountain is Wu'anyi, a very ancient city, a city that is still called Wu'an after two thousand years, across the mountain, across the west of Handan City.

On April 28, more than 100,000 Wei troops ended their march of more than 30 days, and after breaking through several small towns of Zhao along the way, they finally stopped in front of a large city, and they had to break through this city, because behind this city was Handan.

At this time, in Handan City, in the main hall of Zhao Palace, a group of doctors and generals were still arguing.