Although it was already late at night, the palace of King Zhao was still brightly lit, and the grand state feast was still going on.

Zhao Wang Zhang Ao has obviously drunk too much, and he needs the support of two female officials to stand firm, even so, he still insists on toasting the ministers one by one, this is the small character of Zhao Wang Zhang Ao, replaced by other princes and kings, only the ministers have always given them a toast, when will it be the turn of the monarch to toast the ministers one by one?

After a round of saluting, Zhang Ao suddenly remembered one thing, he hadn't gone to the camp to work in the army.

"Oops, the widow almost forgot." Zhang Ao slapped his forehead suddenly, and immediately looked back at General Zhao Wu and Second General Bai Xuan and said, "General, Second General, you will accompany the widow to the barracks." ”

Zhao Wu and Bai Xuan did not allow it, and accompanied Zhang Ao out of the hall at the moment and went straight to the palace gate.

However, before he left the palace gate, there was a cold sound of breaking the air under the night sky in front of him, Bai Xuan reacted very quickly, and a dodge blocked Zhang Ao, Zhao Wu was not slow to react, and suddenly drew his sword and shouted: "There are assassins, protect the king!" Hundreds of forbidden troops suddenly rushed up and protected Zhang Ao in the middle.

"Huh? Assassin?! Zhang Ao was so frightened that he fell to the ground, and the wine disappeared in an instant.

However, the expected rain of arrows did not arrive, and the Assassin seemed to have fired only one arrow, and the accuracy was ridiculously poor, and it all hit the lintel of the palace gate.

"There is a letter on the arrow!" A sharp-eyed janissary suddenly pointed at the arrow on the palace gate and shouted.

When Zhang Ao, Zhao Wu and Bai Xuan looked at it urgently, they saw a volume of letters inserted on the arrow, and immediately ordered someone to take the ladder to pull the arrow from the lintel, and then took down the letter, Bai Xuan took the letter from the hand of the forbidden army colonel and unfolded it, and at a glance he saw a striking mark at the lower left of the inscription, but it was a black cliff.

"Ebony Cliff?!" Bai Xuan's heart suddenly sank, this mark he had heard of.

There has never been an impermeable wall in this world, and Xiang Zhuang trained a large number of dead soldiers and spies in Ebony Cliff, and then sent them to various countries to hunt intelligence for the Chu State, which has long been known to the vassal states, but it is one thing to know about the existence of Ebony Cliff, and it is another thing to find out the details of the ebony cliff traitors lurking in the country.

"Ebony Bluff?" Zhang Ao said in a trembling voice, "Ebony Cliff wants to assassinate the widow? ”

Zhao Wu pointed at the secret letter in Bai Xuan's hand with the sword in his hand, frowned and asked, "Bai Xuan, what is written on it?" ”

Bai Xuan hurriedly read the secret letter, his face suddenly changed, and he said urgently: "King, this is a warning letter, Xiang Zhuang, the king of Chu, has informed us under the pretense of the hand of Ebony Cliff that he has personally mentioned 100,000 cavalry to attack the Qi country, saying that Han Xin will withdraw in a few days, but before retreating, he is likely to sing a trick to capture and indulge!" ”

"Want to get away with it?" Zhao Wu frowned and said, "Han Xin is trying to capture him?" ”

"What do you mean?" Zhang Ao was stunned and asked, "Is the retreat of the Qi army fake?" ”

"Want to get away with it? Want to get away with it! Want to get away with it?! Bai Xuan muttered a few times, and suddenly shouted, "It's not good, if Han Xin really wants to capture the old man, then the time for them to do it is likely to be tonight, the king, the matter is urgent, you must leave Handan immediately and go out of the small south gate to Yecheng!" ”

After that, Bai Xuan pleaded with Zhao Wu again: "General, please personally lead the Praetorian Guards cavalry to escort the king to Yecheng!" ”

Although Zhao Wu has not been very interested in seeing Bai Xuan, he still recognizes Bai Xuan's judgment, and he has some faith at the moment, but he still said: "Bai Xuan, even if Han Xin is a fake retirement, then it's nothing, let's beat the drum and gather troops, divide the troops to guard the four gates, if the Qi army wants to capture Handan City, I am afraid that it will be difficult, it seems that there is no need to go to Yecheng, right?" ”

Bai Xuan hurriedly said: "Han Xinbing has always been old and spicy, when did he leave room for others?" At this time, it is too late to beat the drum and gather troops and divide the troops to guard the four gates, and even if it is too late, these things will be handed over to the last general, for the safety of the king, the general, you should hurry up and lead the Praetorian Guards cavalry to escort the king to Yecheng! ..., Zhang Ao was also a little anxious, and said: "What about the widowed queens and princes? And what about the ministers of the DPRK and China? ”

"I can't take care of them, as long as the king is there, Zhao Guo is there." Bai Xuan said as he took the helmet from his own soldiers, buckled it heavily on his head, nodded to Zhao Wu again, turned over and galloped towards the barracks, Bai Xuan knew very well that there were very few soldiers guarding the four gates at this time, and he would have nothing to do even if he rushed there.

The top priority is to go to the camp and gather a large army to meet the Qi army that has returned from killing.

Zhang Ao's heart suddenly hung up, and he looked back at Zhao Wu and said: "General, the widow ......" "King, let's go to Yecheng!" Zhao Wu took a deep breath and said in a deep voice, "Let's go!" ”

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Under the dark night sky, the 30,000 Qi army was hurrying westward at the speed of a rapid march, and Han Xin's white horse and purple robe walked in the middle of the team under the escort of dozens of generals.

Suddenly, a fast horse galloped from the front: "Report ......"

Han Xin gently strangled the white horse under his crotch, waved his big hand and shouted, "Speak." ”

The scout cavalry turned over and dismounted, knelt on one knee and gasped: "Handan urgently, the night feast in the palace is still going on!" ”

As early as three days ago, when he withdrew his troops from Handan, Han Xin quietly left a large number of spies, and now these spies have been mixed into Handan City in large numbers, first, to spy on the news, and secondly, to do internal response at critical moments! What's more, Han Xin also left an ambush outside Handan City, this will, Cheng Hei's ambush soldiers should have taken the east gate of Handan, right?

However, for Han Xin, the capture of Handan was not the goal, his purpose was to capture Zhang Ao, the king of Zhao, and only by capturing Zhang Ao, the king of Zhao, would the Zhao state surrender, and this battle could be regarded as the final victory.

At that moment, Han Xin said loudly: "Zhao Xi, Lu Qing, and Xu Zhang listen to the order!" ”

General Zhao Xisan hurriedly stepped forward, and arched his hand on the horse's back: "The end will be!" ”

Han Xin raised his right hand, pointed to the front and said: "Each lead five thousand elite soldiers, and block the north, west, and south gates of Handan for the widows, even if it is a mouse, you are not allowed to escape from the city!" ”

"Whoa!" General Zhao Xisan responded with a bang and went to fight the horse.

Han Xin said again: "The rest of the generals, each with their own headquarters, will go with the widow to block the east gate!" ”

"Whoa!" More than a dozen generals responded violently, and turned around to fight their horses one after another.

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The east gate of Handan has indeed fallen.

When Cheng Hei took eight hundred elite soldiers out of the tunnel and strode into the city gate, the entire city gate had been completely controlled by the hundreds of fine works that had infiltrated Handan City in advance.

"General!"

"General!"

"General!"

Seeing Cheng Hei entering the city, the fine works guarding both sides of the city gate hit their chests one after another, and Cheng Hei also smashed a punch in the chest of these Qi soldiers from time to time, and said excitedly: "Good job, brothers!" Well done, when you take Handan and capture King Zhao, this general will definitely ask the king for credit for you, hahaha......"

"General, this is nothing, the garrison of the Zhao army is too lax."

"That is, the hundred and ten Zhao soldiers guarding the city gate have already been drunk, and we didn't have to make any effort to slaughter them all."

"I knew this earlier, what did you do with that effort a few days ago?"

These big-headed soldiers didn't know that if it hadn't been for the onslaught of those few days, if there had not been the sacrifice of thousands of people, how could the Zhao army have been negligent today? How could Han Xin stage such a good show of wanting to catch and indulge?

As he was talking, there was a sudden loud noise on the street ahead, and then a long line of torches poured out from several nearby streets and more than a dozen alleys at the same time. …,

The corners of Cheng Hei's mouth suddenly bloomed with a trace of incomparably hideous killing intent, and he slowly pulled out his long sword at the moment, and pointed at the surging Zhao Jun in front of him with the tip of the sword, and roared loudly: "Brothers, listen well, this Handan city gate is now the tiger's mouth, we are the fangs in the tiger's mouth, the rabbit cubs of Zhao Kingdom want to pull out our fangs, they still owe some ability!" ”

Eight hundred elite soldiers and one hundred or so fine workers are all iron-blooded veterans who have experienced a hundred battles, they didn't say any nonsense, one by one slowly drew out their long swords, raised their halberds, and slowly but firmly hugged behind Cheng Hei, if the Zhao army wanted to recapture the city gate, there was only one way, and that was to step over their corpses.

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Seeing the elite of the Qi army waiting in front of him, Bai Xuan knew that the loss of Handan was inevitable!

Han Xin, worthy of Han Xin, the use of soldiers is really unpredictable, until now, Bai Xuan can't figure out where the elite of the Qi army that seized the city gate came from? After the retreat of the Qi army, Bai Xuan once sent a large number of scouts to carefully search all the surrounding forest valleys that might be hiding troops, but found nothing.

If he was not convinced that the Qi army had all retreated, Bai Xuan would be desperately trying to offend Zhao Wu, or to offend the monarch, and he would have stopped this kind of extravagant labor behavior, even if he couldn't stop it, he would have managed to retain enough troops to guard the four gates! But now, it's too late to regret it, the east gate of Handan has been lost!

Tightening the long sword in his hand, Bai Xuan left all the distracting thoughts behind.

Since things have been like this, it is useless to regret it, and now it is better to fight back with all your strength and recapture the city gate as much as possible, even if you can't recapture the city gate, you can't change the ending of the loss of Handan, but you can also attract the attention of the Qi army and add some chances of success to the king's escape.

Slowly raising the long sword in his hand, Bai Xuan suddenly roared hoarsely: "The warriors of the Great Zhao Kingdom, for the sake of your wives and children, for your homeland, kill ......"

"Kill, kill, kill ......," the hundreds of soldiers who followed behind Bai Xuan roared in unison.

"Kill all the Qi dogs on the other side, and leave no one! Kill! Bai Xuan raised his sword to the sky, and looked up to the sky again and howled.

"Kill, kill, kill, kill ......" This time, almost all the soldiers of the Zhao army roared loudly, and the huge sound shattered the night sky in an instant, and it could be heard clearly for more than ten miles far and near. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to (.) to vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support is my biggest motivation. 【Provided by Sailing】