"At this time, if you want to make your monarch regain the righteousness, there is no better than urging the Son of Heaven to return to Luoyang." In the summer, under the pavilion in Duan Ganjia's manor outside Linzi City, Luo Luo said to Duan Ganpeng.

Obviously, after instigating the Qi army to rescue Handan, Wuluo has been waiting for news in Linzi, and the king cannot be contacted in the Wei army, so Wuluo has to wait. Fortunately, a few months later, he finally waited for the king's letter of appreciation, but at the same time he got a new task, that is, to continue to encourage the Qi army to embarrass Wei, the king thought that this had a certain possibility, and it was conducive to letting Wei Hou let him go home, but he needed to push another fire, so he appeared in Duan Ganpeng's garden again.

After receiving a new important task, Luo Luo was naturally excited, and when he saw Duan Ganpeng's gloomy face and did not speak, he persuaded again, "This time the Qin people took the lead, but I never expected it, this is not your fault, if your monarch thinks that it is the disadvantage of the war, maybe he will blame you, therefore, it is better to send troops again, if you can force the Wei people not to dare to send troops to Hexi, it is where the righteousness lies." ”

This remark seemed to have just touched Duan Ganpeng's sore spot, and he only heard him speak, "This expedition is the benefit of war, or not the benefit of war, and a certain monarch has his own opinions." Whether to send troops to Wei again, a certain monarch also has his own opinions, and Mr. Lao does not bother. ”

This is a bit blunt, and he had to stop the next words, but fortunately, he has already said this meaning, and he can be regarded as planting a seed in Duan Ganpeng's heart, just look at what Duan Ganpeng thinks in the future. So Luo Luo quickly changed the topic, talking about the story of Linzi when Duan Ganpeng was absent, and talking about the paper business, which is the common interests of the two.

Duan Ganpeng was obviously not so resistant to the Zhou royal family anymore, so he stayed at Nuoluo for dinner, and Nuoluo said goodbye.

In fact, Duan Ganpeng is also deeply hesitating in his heart now, whether to help Zhou Room or not? I thought that I couldn't even keep myself in a small number of places, so what could I expect? The department saw the power of the catapult outside Handan City this time, and confirmed that this catapult was created by the Zhou Chamber, which couldn't help but make Duan Ganpeng's heart a little biased towards the Zhou Chamber, if the Zhou Chambers can really revive a little, Qi Guo or directly say that he can take this express train and get some benefits?

All of this needs Duan Ganpeng to ponder carefully, and at the same time watch and watch.

At this time, Zhou Bian of Anyi lived a comfortable life again, and all the maids, dancers, and courtesans were there, so they began to enjoy the sound and lust again. Wei doesn't seem to be in such a hurry, and he didn't immediately send troops to Hexi, but he was moving troops and horses everywhere, but when he thought about it, it would have taken his strength to attack Handan, not to mention that the defeated troops in Hexi would have to be reorganized for a while, but according to Wei Hou's temperament, maybe in the spring of next year, Qin and Wei will have a battle.

Just waited, pondering, two or three months passed, and Luo Luo was still trying to persuade Duan Ganpeng, and Duan Ganpeng also began to test Qi Hou, after all, in these years, everyone wants to make meritorious contributions, right? With the relationship between Gou Luo and Duan Ganpeng clear, the paper mill is also easy to do, and most of the business in Linzi is still owned by Duan Ganpeng, but outside the Qi country, first of all, Daliang and Handan also opened paper shops, and finally began to spread the paper business, and all places have bought off the local large households and nobles in the country, and the power of the royal family has also begun to infiltrate, it seems that Zhou Bian's net has gradually begun to spread to various countries with the business, and the situation is very good, but Zhou Bian knows that if he does not return to Luoyang one day, the situation will not really improve one day.

Soon another year has passed, this is the third New Year that Zhou Bian left Luoyang, and it is also the fourth year, the half-grown son who left Luoyang at the beginning has now grown more than Ning Yue, because of good food and hard exercise every day, Zhou Bian is already a strong young man, and Fan Yu is also very capable of fighting hundreds of times.

But he was still trapped in the hands of the Wei people, and as his height grew, Zhou Bian felt more and more sorrowful in his heart.

Things are always changing, after the New Year, the situation seems to be improving, Duan Ganpeng finally made up his mind, and spent twelve points of effort to persuade Qi Hou to send troops to persecute the Wei people, Qi Hou gradually began to liven up, after all, it was not good to beat the fist last year.

The Wei people also began to move more frequently of troops and horses, this time it seems that the Marquis of Wei wanted to conquer in person and recapture Hexi, but it is said that there was a lot of opposition in the court, after all, the Marquis of Wei several times in addition to regaining the Son of Heaven, the rest did not have much achievement, in the eyes of the domestic nobles, not only failed to recapture the land, but also lost the land of Hexi. Compared to the false name, the nobles seem to be real land. And in the Wei State, the nobles are also a great force, so the Marquis of Wei also has to think about how to appease these nobles, or in the eyes of the Marquis of Wei, perhaps it is because of his long-term personal conquest abroad, so that the deterrence of these nobles is much less.

The Qin State has never dared to relax, the army has been expanding, and it has been training, so that many recruits are temporarily pulled, and they don't even have battle robes, so they can only follow the army with simple farm tools and shout and cheer. It's just that the newly recaptured land, under the pressure of the domestic aristocracy, was mostly distributed to the nobles, and no piece of land was distributed to farmers or soldiers, Zhou Bian was very surprised to get this news, but think about it, Shang Yang has not yet entered Qin, and Qin has not yet completed the conversion from slavery to feudalism, so in this era, this is normal.

When the sowing season passed, the Wei State began to become nervous, and even the roadside vendors knew that the Wei army was about to be dispatched, and they were all discussing whether to cross the West River in the north and attack Daliang directly, or make a detour to Hangu Pass. Zhou Bian also began to get nervous, can Qi State stop Wei State's actions?

What I didn't expect was that good news came from Linzi in early April, and Qi began to build catapults.

This is clearly a sign that the Qi army is going to act, and it seems that Qi Hou is really going to do a big job. As for the drawings of the catapult, Zhou Bian had already authorized that it could be presented to the Qi people at an appropriate time, anyway, Wei had already forcibly wanted to go, and he was not afraid of leaking it again.

In mid-April, the first paper shop was officially opened in Anyi, which immediately caused a sensation in the city. Paper, is Anyi nobles and scholars have long seen, but they are all bought from Linzi at a high price, this time in Anyi directly sold, the price is much lower, the quantity is sufficient, it is really in short supply. But the order of buying and selling was very good, because the officials of the city had already been warned that this paper mill was Gongzi Ang's property, and no one could touch it.

By the end of April, the Wei army had finally assembled and was ready to be marched.

This is clearly another eventful year, and in fact, since Zhou Bian crossed over here, it seems that every year has been eventful.

On the last day of April, the Wei army swore an oath in the western suburbs of Anyi, with Gongsun Acne as the commander, and then marched westward.

At the same time, several fast horses came from the east, broke the horses' hooves, and also worn the knight's buttocks, but no one cared, because they had to bring the news of the Qi army's dispatch back to Anyi.

The Qi army was finally dispatched, still more than 100,000 troops, still with Chen Qi as the commander and Duan Ganpeng as the military advisor. After many times of defeat or stalemate in the face of the Wei army, the Marquis of Qi finally made up his mind to touch the ass of the big tiger of the Wei State, so when Linzi was out of the division, the Marquis of Qi shouted the slogan of attacking Daliang and supporting the royal family, claiming that 500,000 Qi-Zhao coalition troops went south to besiege Daliang, and the Wei people did not retreat if they did not let Zhou Tianzi go.

After years of hard work, Zhou Bian finally saw a glimmer of spring back to Luoyang.

Of course, the Marquis of Qi was not joking, the Qi army successfully joined forces with the southbound Zhao army in the territory of Weiguo, pointing directly at Daliang. Zhao Hou also seemed to be ruthless, let go of Lingshou, and began to take revenge on the Wei State.

So, the eyes of the princes of the world turned to the Wei people again, at this time, the Wei army had not yet crossed the West River, and the Qi and Zhao coalition forces had not approached the Great Liang, how would the Wei Hou respond? Will you continue to attack Hexi and let Daliang defend it, or will you return to Daliang and defeat the Qi-Zhao coalition army?

Zhou Bian was also very worried in his heart, it has come to this point, can it go well? It can be said that it is in the people who make things happen, and Zhou Bian can only talk about it with this.

However, the Qi-Zhao coalition army stopped by the big river, and only prepared the boat row every day, and did not cross the river immediately, obviously waiting. The Wei army did not even cross the West River, and it seemed that they were also waiting. When the messengers on both sides desperately sent the news to Zhou Bian, Zhou Bian's first feeling was that it was strange, after all, there were few spies in the royal family, and the armies on both sides might have been waiting for many days.

Are they all waiting for each other to make the first move? It seems that Qi Zhao's determination is not very strong, Zhou Bian couldn't help but sigh.

But this is an era when information transmission is basically driven by people, can they get timely news when they wait? Maybe both sides were just hesitating, so Zhou Bian's first feeling was an indescribable weirdness.

However, just when Zhou Bian was thinking about whether to pretend to be a messenger from Qi Zhao and give Qi Zhao a false news that the Wei army had crossed the West River, the latest news came, and the Qi and Zhao coalition forces brazenly crossed the river and went directly south to Daliang. In the blink of an eye, at the beginning of June, Qi Zhao's army of more than 200,000 troops finally arrived at Daliang City.

Daliang, the largest and most spectacular city of our time, the city that will shine several times in history, the city that is about to bear countless disasters, ushered in the first military disaster in the history of its own city when it was about to be built and the Wei family had not yet moved in.

Since the main force of the Wei army was in the west, the Qi-Zhao coalition army did not take much effort to break through several small cities north of Daliang, and soon more than 200,000 troops were directed at Daliang.

On June 10, when it was the summer heat, more than 200,000 Qi Zhao people appeared outside the west gate of Daliang City. Because the city will not move there, so the besieging side can freely choose the direction of the siege, Qi Zhao took the west gate as the main attack, obviously to avoid the noon and evening sun, if not to consider going around a big circle, I am afraid that the south gate will be chosen as the main attack.

The towering Liang City is indeed the largest city in the Warring States Period, as the new capital of the Wei State in the heyday, the city wall of the entire Daliang circle is as high as three zhang, there are two city gates on each side of the east, west and north, and three city gates in the south, which is not only in the Warring States, but also in the Han and Tang dynasties and even the Ming and Qing dynasties in later generations, it can be regarded as a huge strong city. Otherwise, it would not be more than a hundred years later, the invincible Qin army in the world would not be able to break the girder, and had to lead the ditch of the Yellow River to flood the girder.

On the first day, the two sides only had a symbolic scolding, the Wei army did not even go out of the city, and it would not come, the main force of Wei was to the west, and the strength of the Great Liang should not exceed 80,000.

Then the next day, the Qi-Zhao coalition army did not appear under Daliang City.

After a few more days, I saw that among the hundreds of thousands of Qi and Zhao coalition troops, hundreds of huge machines were slowly pushed, which were actually catapults. It's really a fast news of the world, Wei has just used a catapult under the city of Handan, and his new capital has been piled up with a catapult. It turned out that Zhou Bian had been authorized, not only presented the drawings of the catapult, but also transferred several craftsmen from Luoyang to Linzi to stand by, otherwise Qi Hou really did not dare to directly attack Daliang City, which was found to have catapults, and now that everyone has it, they are naturally not so afraid.

However, the catapult of the Qi and Zhao coalition forces is much simpler, and it looks very rough in all aspects, it turned out to be made by cutting down a big tree nearby after arriving at the Great Liang, and with the technical support of the Zhou royal family, Qi Zhao also has enough confidence to build a catapult nearby.

I saw that the Qi and Zhao coalition forces were unmanned and debugged the catapults under the Daliang City, and soon the catapults began to work, and the stones flew to the brand-new Daliang City.

Daliang Cheng also immediately started to fight back with catapults, but it was less than that of the Qi and Zhao coalition forces, and the distance seemed to be closer, obviously Qi Zhao's catapults were better adjusted.

The double anti-reverse attack was carried out in this way, the stones flew around in the sky, Qi Zhao had the advantage in number and range, and the girder had the advantage of the protection of the city wall, and the two sides were injured by each other, but they couldn't tell the difference for a while.

The day's attack soon ended, and the Wei people were even more angry, only to see that the Qi army did not retreat, but set up a camp next to the catapults, and a circle of wooden fences surrounded the catapults, and perhaps built an earthen wall, which was clearly a copy of the Wei army's siege of Handan! Wei Hou never thought that the offense and defense would be exchanged so quickly.

It's just that the Qi and Zhao coalition forces are not afraid of the Great Liang Army going out of the city to sneak attack?