PS: Chapter 2 is around 12 o'clock

"What's the news outside the city?"

After receiving the blood-stained urgent letter, Wang Sunjia's already gloomy mood became worse when he read the dry and boring words on the slip that contained important information. For nearly half a month, bad news has been delivered every day......

In Wang Sunjia's view, it would have been unwise for Wei Hou to start this war in a desperate gamble, and when Fan and Bank of China were still there, Wei Guo could still go to recover the lost territory as much as he wanted, but in the blink of an eye, these two families were wiped out, and the Zhao family, who originally felt far away, crossed the river to attack! At this moment, Wei Guo was like a small fish trapped in the pu when the tide of the big river was low, and fell into Zhao Wuxian's fishing net, and the more he struggled, the tighter he became!

Originally, he thought that when things were impossible, he would persuade Wei Hou to make peace with the Zhao family, but what he didn't expect was that Zhao Wuxian blocked this possibility unreasonably.

The last letter came from the deposed prince Kuai, who claimed to be the king, and he claimed that Kong Yu had become his "ruler", and many princes of Wei Guo also pledged their allegiance to him, asking Wei Hou Yuan to abdicate and cede the city of Diqiu.

At that time, Wei Hou Yuan was like thunder, and threw the letter into the furnace and turned into ashes, but he could not burn the fact that the two monarchs of Wei Guo stood side by side, but the "please Ping" in Wang Sunjia's mouth could only be swallowed back, so there was nothing to talk about.

And this time the news made him feel even heavier, he slowly put down the slip and said to the people in the palace: "The Zhao family has taken the flawed hill. ”

Mi Zibian, who was waiting beside Wei Hou, suddenly looked like ashes, the flaw hill was a fief given to him by Wei Hou, located dozens of miles northeast of Emperor Qiu, theoretically it should be in the hinterland, but under the soldiers of the Zhao army. It's not safe there either.

"Now that the flawed hill has fallen, it seems that Zhao Bing has uprooted all the acropolises around the emperor hill one by one. Soon we will gather and prepare for the siege......"

Diqiu is not far from Hanoi, since Chaoge Yueyu was attacked. So how long can Diqiu last?

Wei Hou Yuan sat anxiously on the king's couch, since Zhao Wuxian's sneak attack on Zhenyi, the land of Weiguo has been declining in the past few years, first Jixi, then Punan, and now even Chuqiu has been lost, and his son is still fighting against him. In the past, there were six or seven hundred warrior forces to defend the country, but now only Diqiu and the northern corner are left.

Standing at the head of the Emperor Hill City and looking out, he could see patches of guards wanting to enter the city. But they were turned away by the timid defenders, and the guards beat their chests and said that since the Weijun of Diqiu didn't want them, then they would go to the Weijun of Chuqiu! This made Wei Houyuan dumb and dumb, and he couldn't say anything about his suffering, and in the end, it seemed that he was driving his people out.

In recent days, the scenery outside the city has changed, perhaps because the Zhao family has completely controlled the surrounding area. There were fewer people who fled and defected, but Wei Hou could see Zhao's rangers arrogantly running into the moat to drink horses, but the guards in the city did not dare to go out to expel them. This made Wei Hou feel not only humiliated, but also a kind of danger. A sense of crisis called the death of the country and the death of the society.

In the thirty years he has been a monarch, he has never been so embarrassed and passive, but there is nothing he can do. Now he had to look at Wang Sun Jia, and asked earnestly in despair: "Sima Ke has a way to break the siege?" ”

Wang Sunjia said helplessly: "The few thousand troops left to defend the country must stay in the Emperor Hill. Therefore, it is impossible to defend the surrounding small towns, and the northern ones are still under the orders of the king. Its forces were not enough to disperse the Zhao army. We are isolated and helpless, and we can only hurry up and strengthen the city's defenses and count on our allies to rescue ......"

Speaking of this Wei Hou, he was angry, and he patted the case and said angrily: "Allies? Emperor Qiu is about to be surrounded, but where are the allies of the widows? ”

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Among the allies of Wei Hou, it is impossible for the Jin people to come to the rescue, and the only hope is Zheng Guo and Qi State, but Zheng Guo does not know which tendon is wrong, seeing that Zhao Wuxian's attack is imminent, he transferred troops to the southwest to attack the Barbarian clan, and also clashed with Ye Gong of Chu for this.

As for the Qi State, it was the treacherous and cunning Chen who was authorized by the Marquis of Qi to defend against the Zhao army...... Chen Qi personally sat in the Gaotang Dynasty, and his son Chen Heng recruited more than 10,000 soldiers to gather by the river, but instead of going south to help the guard, he poured west into the Hejian land in the north of the Wei Kingdom - this was originally the territory of the Zhongxing clan, and after the fall of Handan, facing the attack of the Zhao clan, Chen Heng took control of this place under the pretext of assisting in the defense.

At the same time, he also heard that Zhao Wuxian abolished the crown prince Kuai as the king, occupied Chuqiu, and was ready to enter Puyang.

"This move is really ruthless, the Zhao family has been too eager to attack and defend in the past few years, and the doctors and scholars of the defense of the country were originally worried that Zhao Wuxian would die in the society of the guard, but now he has set up Kuai Shen as the king, and also recruited the Kong family and many doctors, this is to tell the people of the country in disguise that choosing to surrender will not let the country die, but just change to a monarch who can live in peace with the Zhao family, so that the desire of the people to resist is reduced......"

As soon as he was full of praise for Zhao Wuxian's strategy, Chen Heng did not belittle himself, he was no longer the teenager who was scared off by Zhao Wuxian's words at the Jiagu meeting a few years ago. After several years of training in the court and in the army, Chen Heng became gloomy and skillful, and he became more and more similar to his grandfather Chen Wuyu.

In the autumn and winter of last year, when the various forces temporarily truceed **** wounds, he sent envoys to carry gifts such as gold, silver and brocade into the river, and surrendered the local Rongdi tribe. So in the war for most of last year, Qi Hou and Guo and Gao gnawed stones on the front line of Mount Tai, but the Chen family took over the territory leisurely beside them, and after annexing the Hejian land, their territory nearly doubled!

When he learned that Zhao Bing had taken all the small towns around Diqiu and was about to enter the siege of Puyang, Chen Heng did not act rashly, but personally took a boat back to Gaotang to report to his father.

The river shipping is faster than the land route, and it only took one day and one night to take the light boat and express boat, and Chen Heng crossed a distance of more than 100 miles to reach Gaotang Wharf.

Gaotang was originally a remote town in the north of Qi State, only because it controlled the trade between Qi and Yan State, Bank of China, and Zhongshan State, so it developed rapidly, and after two generations of Chen's operation, it became more and more prosperous.

The Chen family has the ambition of stealing the country, so while gathering the hearts of the people, they built several acropolis around Gaotang to garrison soldiers, and there is no strange thing to see outside, only when they enter the city, they will find that this place is full of recruits who are training!

When the people of the world were attracted by the big fight of the six secretaries of the Jin Kingdom, they didn't realize that the power of the Chen clan was already a thousand times! This viper-like family has been hiding its fangs, just waiting for the giant beasts in the field to get tired of fighting, and then go down and bite hard!

Qi Qing Chen Qi, who was nearly fifty years old, was inspecting the arsenal in one of the acropolises, and he soon came out to meet his son, and after listening to his report, he said without thinking: "The country and Gao do not aid the guard, and the Chen family does not help!" ”

Chen Qi and Chen Heng's father and son were really not interested in the war for hegemony that the monarchs were looking forward to, and every decision they made was for the Chen family to preserve their strength in the war and how to sit big. In short, Chen Qi has made up his mind in this war, and he must bring the Marquis of Qi, the Gong Clan, and the Guo and Gao Erqing into the pit, so that their strength will be greatly damaged, and he can carry out the conspiracy of stealing Qi.

However, Chen Heng took a more long-term view than his father when considering things, and he calmly analyzed: "What my father said is very true, the Zhao army is powerful, and there are nearly 20,000 people in the army who can fight, so you can't be a frontal enemy. But it can't be left alone, if the Zhao family occupies the emperor's hill, abolish the Wei Hou Yuan, and establish the Kuai Yuan, then the Qi State will be surrounded by it, and go north from the Wei country, which is the territory of the Chen family, and sit back and watch Zhao Wuxian take the whole defense of the country, and it will be unprofitable for the Chen family. ”

"What's more, now the Chen family still has to look up to Qi Hou to snort, if he doesn't do anything, I'm afraid it will arouse Qi Hou's suspicion, and it will not be beautiful at that time."

Chen Qi thought for a moment and nodded: "What my son said is reasonable, so how do you say to deal with it?" ”

"The boy had already come up with an idea when he was on the boat."

Chen Heng is not only good at conspiracing, but also has some experience in temple calculations and military battles, they are Chen, but they are out of the two great soldiers of Sima Sui Tho and Sun Wu! This is inseparable from the strong family learning, the legendary Taigong Liutao, and Sima Sui Tho's suicide note "Sima Law" are hidden in their family's treasury.

Chen Heng said: "Back then, Jin Wen wanted to compete with Chu for the Central Plains. In order to save the Song who was besieged by the Chu people, the Jin army besieged Cao and induced the Chu State to advance northward. ”

"Tell me about it."

Chen Heng promised, "According to the news, the Zhao clan is fighting on the Western Front and the Eastern Front, and its hinterland is bound to be empty. If I take advantage of Zhao Wuxian's siege of Diqiu to cross the river and march westward, cooperate with the Zhongxing clan and the local Rongdi tribe, and incite the Handan people to rebel, maybe I can hit Handan in one go! ”

Chen Qi's eyes lit up, and he clapped his hands and praised: "This plan is very good, when the time comes, Zhao Wuxian will only have two choices, either give up attacking Emperor Qiu, or give up Handan, which he just captured!" If it is the former, when they return to their division, we can either retreat into the territory of the Zhongxing clan or cross the river to return to Qi. If it is the latter, then Hebei is not owned by the Zhao family! ”

"However, after the boy sends troops, his father can also ask the Marquis of Qi to take credit for the Chen family, and at the same time put pressure on the country and Gao, and then instigate the Marquis of Qi to take the main force of the Qi army to drag Zhao Wuxian when the boy crosses the river to attack Handan, so that he can't attack and defend, and he can't return to the division."

Chen Qi looked at Duozhi's son and was very pleased: "In this way, the long-awaited battle between Qi and Zhao between my father and son is about to start on Sangjian Pu......"

Chen Heng's ambition was greater than that of his father, and a sinister smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "Not only that, in that case, if Qi Zhao loses both in the defense of the country, the Chen family can not only weaken the office, but also take all the east of Taihang!" At that time, even if you can't steal Qi, like the Zhao family, will you become an independent state on both sides of the river? (To be continued.) )