Zhao Guo gave in to South Korea, whether South Korea should accept it or not, different people have different ideas. Steady people thought that at the beginning, Zhao only wanted to achieve two goals, one was to save Qin, and the other was to teach Zhao a lesson. Now, the state of Qin sent an envoy to inform the Korean army that the Qin army had been defeated, and the first purpose had been achieved. Zhao was willing to cede land in order to get the Korean army to retreat. At the very least, a large area of land south of Zhangshui would be in Korean possession, so this second purpose would also be achieved.

Since the goal has been achieved, it is natural to accept it when it is good. After all, the Zhao State was still too big, and Handan was too strong, and South Korea was not ready to destroy the Zhao State. If it continues to fight, South Korea will pay a lot of price if it wants to conquer the city.

The other faction believes that up to now, the 300,000 Korean troops have suffered no more than 50,000 casualties, and they have already arrived at the city of Handan. In Handan, there are famous generals such as Li Mu, Meng Fu, Wang Qian, and Bai Qi, and the morale of the Korean army is booming, so it is the time to pursue the victory. Lian Po's army is on the way back to Handan, and the elite of the Zhao army in Yanmen and Yunzhong should not be underestimated, but although their number is large, they are still inferior to the Korean army, and if they want to rescue Handan, they must fight with the Korean army in the field. As far as field warfare is concerned, who has the South Korean army been afraid of?! As for Handan City, fortification is fortification, but the Korean army can change from a strong attack to a siege. The longer the time drags on, the more anxious Zhao Guo becomes, and the Han army can completely surround the point and send reinforcements and eat Zhao Guo's living force hard!

Of course, if you want to destroy Zhao, it is not enough to rely on the more than 200,000 troops under Handan City. In order to complete the battle, South Korea must recruit more large troops, and only in this way can it drag down the Zhao state more quickly. South Korea can solve the big problem of Zhao Guo before all countries in the world react. Once the Zhao State is destroyed, among the countries, the most powerful Yan State will be close to Korea. And. Without good help, Yan Guo will be unable to support it alone. I have to say that this appetite is very big, but the premise is that South Korea finds that Zhao Guo is so strong in the middle.

Prime Minister Zhang Ping and Imperial Historian Fan Sui are both old and stable people, and they think that they can be satisfied with the hundreds of miles of land on the south bank of Zhangshui. If Zhao Guo is really forced to be in a hurry, Zhao Guo will most likely die and the net will be broken. But King Han disagreed. No one knows better than King Han the resilience of Zhao and Chu, and once the tiger does not die, it is very likely that the tiger will be harmed. Although Zhao Guo seems to have no power to parry, many times, victory or defeat is just a thought. The State of Qin and the State of Zhao are incompatible, the State of Qi is afraid of the State of Yan and strictly adheres to neutrality, the State of Chu has recently been ready to deal with the State of Yue again, and the State of Yan is the grass on the wall. Such a good time, King Han is absolutely unwilling to let go.

So, this time, King Han decided to go his own way. Even if none of the three dukes supported him to continue to attack Zhao, and among the nine Qings, there were only five people who supported continuing to attack Zhao, and it could not change King Han's decision in the slightest.

Powerful. The widow is the world. King Han's will is irrefutable, even if Zhang Ping, Fan Sui and others feel that the risk is too great. But after King Han made his statement clear, he could only try to improve King Han's thoughts.

In late June, King Zhao received a reply from King Han. Zhao wanted to ask for peace, but Zhao had to cede the land south of Handan to Korea, the king of Zhao had to go to Luoyang to take the blame, and Chang'an Jun had to be sent to Luoyang to act as a proton. Former. It will make Handan a border city, and the Korean army can come to Handan at any time; In the middle, it is tantamount to letting Zhao Guo claim to South Korea, and once Zhao Guo agrees, he will lose face; Latter. It's just dispensable, it doesn't matter.

Hearing about these conditions in South Korea, King Zhao was furious. Yan State has agreed to withdraw its troops, Qin State is also willing to strike with Zhao State, Lian Po's army is coming, and the elite border troops of Yanmen and Yunzhong are stationed in Xingxian County, a hundred miles north of Handan, which has regained Zhao State's confidence. Before, South Korea was caught off guard by Zhao Guo, but now Zhao Guo has gathered 200,000 elites, 100,000 old and weak, and has the courage to compete with South Korea. After all, although the South Korean army was numerous, it was also difficult to supply food and grass. The Zhao army fought on its own.

Therefore, King Zhao simply rejected King Han's conditions. In King Zhao's view, because of South Korea's large-scale attack on Zhao, the originally settled Chu State has become ready to move again, and it seems that he wants to destroy the Yue State in one fell swoop, which will distract Korea a lot. There is too much rain in Guanzhong this year, and the construction of Zhengguo Canal is imperative. No matter how you look at it, it is unlikely that South Korea will recruit more troops to attack Handan, because there is really no room for more troops near Handan!

Of course, Handan can't accommodate more troops, but Zhao is very big after all, and there are always other places that can accommodate it. Unbeknownst to King Zhao, King Han had secretly ordered to mobilize an army of 150,000 troops, led by Han Teng, the general of Zhengdong, to attack Zhao all the way.

On the third day of the seventh month, the army of Lian Po, who had been in the dust all the way, finally arrived in Xingxian County. With the Yan State taking the initiative to withdraw its troops, this war involving the five kingdoms of Qin, Zhao, Yan, Han, and Qi has become a wrestling between Han and Zhao. The difference is that Qi Guo has completely held the attitude that it is not his business. Yan and Qin still want to make a profit!

At this time, Xingxian County had become the storage of an important military town, and Lian Pogui was Xinpingjun and Shangqing, and he became the supreme commander without concession. Lian Po was born in the border army, and he is very familiar with the situation in Yanmen, plus after the defeat a few years ago, he was sent by King Zhao Huiwen to Yunzhong to guard the frontier, which is convenient for Lian Po to impress 50,000 Yanmen and Yunzhong border troops in a short period of time, counting the 100,000 elites brought by Lian Po, and the 100,000 old and weak recruited by Julu and Handan, Lian Po has gathered 150,000 elites and 100,000 old and weak troops!

You must know that the soldiers and horses of Handan and Wu'an combined are only 50,000 elites! For the current Zhao State, in addition to Daijun, there are 30,000 soldiers and horses to deter Yan State, Tushui (on the east bank of Fenshui, across the river from Jinyang) and 20,000 soldiers and horses to guard against Qin, Yanmen and Yunzhong still have 20,000 soldiers and horses to guard against the Xiongnu, and Zhao State has no extra troops at all! If Lian Po loses, Handan will really have no hope, and Zhao Guo really can't afford to lose!

In the face of such a heavy responsibility, Lian Po's pressure can be imagined. It is not impossible to directly lead the army to Handan, but it also means that Zhao State handed over the cities of Zhao State, which were empty of troops north of Handan, to the mercy of Zhao State. You must know that after the Korean army captured Ge Xin City, it attacked the giant deer seventy miles away in the north, and the giant deer is located in the east of Xing County. Zhao occupies Xingxian and Handan, and Korea occupies Julu and Ge Yin. As long as Lian Po dared to lead the main force of the Zhao army to the south, the Korean army could cut off the retreat of the Zhao army. In the same way, the existence of the Lian Po army is also an invisible deterrent to the South Korean army! If the Han army dared to go north, it would be divided into two by the Zhao army. Both sides are subject to each other's control, and neither dares to act rashly.

The South Korean army is also cautious. After all, it was Lian Po who led the troops on the other side, and the actual forces that the Zhao army could use exceeded the Korean army. The time and place are favorable, and South Korea can only be said to occupy the time. King Wuling of Zhao served as a cavalry and archer, rewarded military merits, and cultivated the country's blood. The more the military and civilians of Zhao State face heavy pressure, the more they will burst out with excellent will and courage. This is exactly what the South Korean army fears the most.

It's just fear, not fear. Isn't the bloody Qin State the same as defeated at the feet of South Korea?! In the face of absolute strength. Bloodiness will only make the sacrifice more tragic and save the last face of a country.

The monarchs and ministers of Zhao State, who were trapped in Handan City, were all relieved after knowing that Lian Po's army was stationed in Xingxian County. If the Han army launched a fierce attack when Lian Poyuan was in Taiyuan County, Handan would inevitably suffer heavy casualties, and there was even a danger of breaking the city. But South Korea chose to fight steadily and steadily, and spent half a month to take down Ge Xin and Julu, although this ensured the safety of its flanks, but it also delayed time. In the opinion of Zhao Guojunchen. Next, the Han army will definitely not be able to take advantage of it, facing the army of 250,000 Zhao State. and the 50,000 well-recharged Handan defenders, South Korea can no longer take advantage! Zhao Guo's danger is half of the contact! As long as Zhao Guo doesn't make mistakes, dragging it can also bring down the Korean army!

In terms of troops, the Zhao army has an advantage, but in the way of using troops, strength is only a factor that determines victory or defeat. Ages. Fewer are more, and the weak are more than the strong. Otherwise, if the two countries go to war, they only need to compete with each other to determine the number of both sides, and those with fewer numbers will directly admit defeat. It's also a hassle-free.

Before the two armies really fought, the Han army and the Zhao army sent a large number of scouts to spy on each other's reality and reality, and the grain route became the tacit concern of both sides.

The three armies did not move, and the grain and grass went first. In a place of more than 100 miles near Handan, more than 500,000 troops gathered, and the camps of both sides stretched for 20 miles, what kind of concept is this?! If only the light infantry is fine, the daily consumption of food and grass is limited. But the problem is that the Han army and the Zhao army have a lot of war horses, and the consumption of grain and grass is huge! The Zhao army is better, and the cavalry is not more than 10,000 people, so they can eat in the wild. But the Korean army is different, among the 20,000 cavalry, there are 10,000 Yulin cavalry - 3,000 heavy cavalry, 7,000 light cavalry, whether light cavalry, heavy cavalry selected war horses are one out of ten, in order to maintain combat effectiveness, need to fill the bean cake every day. The food and grass supply of the Korean army is far away, and it can only be raised from Hanoi, Dong County, and Taishan County!

If the South Korean army's grain route is cut off, the army's morale will be chaotic, and even if the South Korean army's advantage is obvious, it can only be defeated. The problems faced by the Zhao army were the same, however, Handan County and Julu County were the main grain producing areas of the Zhao State, and the Zhao army was fighting at home, so it was not difficult to raise grain and grass.

For ten consecutive days, Han and Zhao did not make any major moves except for sending scouts to find each other's flaws. This is like the calm before the storm, everyone knows that once the weakness of the other party is tested, no one side will choose to show mercy.

The news of the loss of Zhongmu, Linxian, Fangling, Boyang, and Yexian reached Handan under this circumstance, and the monarchs and ministers of Zhao suddenly realized at this time that Korea had been holding its troops still, and it turned out that it was to confuse itself, and in fact, it was privately dispatched to take the five cities south of Zhangshui!

These five places together have a radius of no more than 100 miles, and they have become enclaves after the Zhao State retreated to the north bank of Zhangshui. Zhao Guo did not have the luxury of keeping these five enclaves at all, but the Han army took these five cities in 20 days, which still made Zhao Guo feel a little regretful. Since then, the South Korean army has no worries. Hanoi's grain and grass can be continuously transported to Handan.

Zhao Guo ignored that with the change of ownership of Lin County, among the eight Taihang Mountains, South Korea already has Yiguan Clan, Taihang Clan, and Bai Clan, and the rest of the Fukou Clan, Han and Zhao each account for half. Further north, Jingcheng, Feihu, Puyin, and Jundu belong to the Zhao State.

Tong Guò Bai Chen, the army of the Korean Shangdang can enter Zhongmu and coerce Handan; Zhongmu's Han army can also pass through Guò Bai Cheng as quickly as possible to support Shangdang. This basically means that if Zhao wants to capture Zhongmu, it is basically impossible! Last time, in order to repair the relationship with Zhao State, South Korea took the initiative to return Zhongmu and Lin County to Zhao State, and it was lucky enough for such a good thing to happen once!

All the thoughts of Zhao Guo were placed in Wu'an, in Handan, in Ge Xin and Julu, as long as the Han army did not come to Wu'an and Handan City. It can't pose enough threat to Zhao Guo! As long as the South Korean army loses Ge Yin and Julu, South Korea will have no place on the north bank of Zhangshui.

On July 20, Lian Po decided to lead his army south, in addition to leaving 50,000 troops to garrison Xingxian, Bairen, Fang, and Songzi to block the way for the Korean army to advance north, Lian Po took away 150,000 elites and 50,000 old and weak! It is bound to be a protracted war with the South Korean army. Stationed near Handan, you can rely on Handan to supply grain and grass, and cut off the connection between the Korean army in Julu City and the Korean army in Gejin City. Lian Po has already made up his mind to first destroy the giant deer, and then surround Ge Sin, and dispel South Korea's ambition to plot Handan step by step.

It's just that when Lian Po led his troops to the city of Handan, a piece of news came and changed the situation of the battle.

On July 23, there was an urgent report from Lingshou. Tens of thousands of Korean troops broke through Jingcheng and surrounded Lingshou. Because the main forces of the Zhao army were all gathered near Handan, there were only two thousand old and weak soldiers in Lingshou City, and the main force of the Zhao army, which was closest to Lingshou, was two hundred miles away. And the sudden appearance of the Han army under Lingshou City basically means that Fanwu, who is close to the Jingcheng Fortress, has been taken by the Han army unconsciously, and the chaotic Lingshou is completely powerless to stop the strong attack of the Korean army. After barely holding out for three hours, Lingshou announced that he had lost his position, and there were 3,000 defenders under the county commander and county lieutenant. All of them died in battle, and none of them surrendered!

After the capture of Lingshou. The Han army did not stop, and successively captured the nearby Quanxian, Dongyuan, Yi'an, and Yuanshi, and the troops went straight to the house and Songzi.

The sudden extra 100,000 Han troops completely exceeded Zhao Guo's expectations, although the six cities occupied by the Han army only occupied less than a quarter of the size of Julu County, but the problem was that Julu County was not wide in the first place. The Yan army occupied the land east of Anping, and the South Korea occupied the land west of Yi'an, leaving Zhao to communicate with Handan County and Dai County, and only a road that was no more than a hundred miles wide. Whether it was the capture of Songzi, or Kucheng and Feixian, Korea could divide the Zhao State into two.

Zhao Guo didn't know. At the beginning, the communication channel between Yingchuan and Shangdang in South Korea was narrower than this, and there was only one city in Yewang, which was no more than thirty miles wide, which is why after the Qin army captured Yewang, Korea was divided into two, and was willing to dedicate Shangdang to Qin, because South Korea knew that Shangdang could not hold it. (At the beginning, South Korea dedicated Shangdang to Qin, but Jin Huang, the county guard of Shangdang at that time, disagreed, and King Han was angry and removed him from his post and changed to Feng Ting as the county guard, but Feng Ting was also unwilling to surrender to Qin, and in order to resist Qin, he even took it upon himself to dedicate the seventeen cities of Shangdang to Zhao, which led to the Battle of Changping, which changed Chinese history)

At this time, Lian Po was both worried and glad that if he hadn't left 50,000 troops to guard Song Zi and the front line of the house, the Han army was afraid that he would be able to fight all the way to Bairen and even Xingxian. Cooperate with the Han army of Julu, and the Han army will divide Zhao Guo into two when the time comes. All the elites of the Zhao Kingdom, including the King of Zhao and his ministers, will become the turtles in the urn. The current situation is slightly better, and Zhao Guo still has room to turn around. However, if Zhao Guo can't think of a way to break the game, it will still be a dead end.

Blessings are incomparable, and disasters are not singular. On the day when the news that the Han army broke through the Jingcheng fortress and penetrated deep into Julu County reached Handan, the Qin State treacherously sent 60,000 troops, forcibly crossed Fenshui, and surrounded Tushui City. Qin State also swore to Zhao State a month ago that South Korea is the common enemy of Qin and Zhao, and now Zhao State is in trouble, and Qin State wants to save it but is unable to do so, so it can only silently support. As long as Zhao can repel the Han army, Qin will definitely take Zhao as the leader in the future and work together to resist Korea! Unexpectedly, Qin Guo said that if he changed his face, he would change his face. Zhao State is not unprepared, and the 20,000 troops stationed in Tushui City are silent warnings, but unfortunately, Zhao State underestimated Qin State's ambitions. The Qin State would rather pay the sacrifice of tens of thousands of people than set foot on the east bank of the Fenshui.

However, compared to this thunderous blow from South Korea, the blow that Qin gave to Zhao was still much smaller. It's a big deal that Zhao State lost the land west of Taihang Mountain, anyway, the land is vast and sparsely populated, and the core of Zhao State is still Julu and Handan County, but now, there are more than 100,000 Korean troops in Julu, and more than 200,000 Korean troops have appeared in Handan, whether it is the quality or morale of the army, the Zhao army has fallen behind. How else can this battle be fought?!

Lian Po's army, which originally planned to set up a Chinese army camp in the northeast corner of Handan, had to change its mind. At this time, the Korean army appeared in the north, and it was very likely that they would be attacked from three sides when they camped in the northeast corner of Handan! It is more appropriate to camp in the southeast corner, on the one hand, close to Gexin City, which is where the main force of the Korean army is located, and the Chinese military tent is set up here to facilitate dealing with the Korean army; The two, close to Zhangshui, can confuse the Korean army and make a posture to cut off the retreat of the Korean army, so that the Korean army does not dare to divide its troops to attack Handan!

The 200,000 army stretched for twenty miles, encircling Handan on the inside and outside of the three layers, and if there was no news that the Han army broke through Jingcheng, King Zhao would feel very safe. But now, Handan City is full of troops, but King Zhao has no sense of security! (To be continued......)