Chapter Seventy-Two: Han Le was killed, and the Song Kingdom rose
After Han Le returned from Yangjialing, he was full of confidence in this battle. The net is just a little more aware of its situation.
Pang Juan ordered Gao Ziliang to attack Handan with stones and arrows every day, and Han Le also ordered the soldiers to hide under the city wall, and when the Wei army stopped attacking, collect all the bows and arrows on the city wall, and return them when the Wei army attacked.
Ten days later, there were not many stones and bows and arrows for the siege, and Pang Juan ordered Gao Ziliang to lead the army to attack the city.
When Gao Ziliang received this order, he was disheartened. He knew that Pang Juan had made up his mind about himself, and these enslavements led by him would become cannon fodder. But he can't disobey his orders, otherwise it will bring disaster to the Qi country. He knew that now the Qi State was ready to use troops against the Zhao State. This is an opportunity for the rise of the Qi State, and he can't become a sinner of the Qi State because of a small loss.
On this day, Gao Ziliang led 30,000 servants to rush towards Handan City, he not only took the lead himself, but also let his own soldiers as the supervising team, whoever dared to retreat would be killed directly. The bows and arrows on Handan City flew towards the enlistment team like meteors. By the time they reached the bottom of the walls, the whole team was less than half of them.
Gao Ziliang rushed to the city, took advantage of the situation, came to the dead corner under the city gate, and watched all this quietly. The servants struggled to climb the ladder to the city. Logs, stones, and hot oil fell from the city, and the servants died one after another, but none of them retreated, and they knew that this would be their fate, and if they could get to the city, they might have a chance to live.
The war lasted all afternoon until the sun went down. The entire city wall was covered with corpses, some of which had even been cremated to ashes, and some had been stoned into meat sauce. Seeing all this, Gao Ziliang had a feeling of disgust with war for the first time, began to wonder if he was wrong for the first time, and was full of confusion about the future for the first time.
Over the years, several countries have fought wars, and what have they finally gained. Maybe the Seven Kingdoms can be unified, and there will be no wars in the future. For the first time, Gao Ziliang hoped that there would be no war. You must know that for a general, being able to fight and make meritorious service is the greatest honor. But he still hopes for peace, which shows the blow to Gao Ziliang this time. In peacetime wars, Gao Ziliang led the army to kill. It was the first time he had seen everyone die from his side up close and with his own eyes, and he had seen the expressions on everyone's faces.
The setting sun has put a layer of sadness on this war.
Pang Juan watched everyone die, and he didn't react at all. Seeing that the time was not early, he withdrew his troops.
On the second day, Pang Juan began to attack the city again, this time sending elite soldiers, and a sawtooth battle was opened on both sides. After a while, the Wei army attacked the city, and then it was driven down by the Zhao army.
As time passed, more and more reinforcements supported Handan, making Handan's strength less and less different from the Wei army, and slowly surpassing the Wei army. Pang Juan saw that the siege was hopeless, so he could only stop temporarily, facing each other in the two cities of Shangba and Handan, and at the same time sent an envoy to report the situation to the King of Wei, ready to fight a long war.
At the moment when Handan's side could not hold each other, Yan took advantage of the gap between the soldiers and generals of Zhao State to support Handan, and led the troops by Le Yi to attack LΓΌ Shun and Zecheng in two ways, because the soldiers of Zhao State thought that the Yan army and the Qi army had concentrated their forces in Handan, and only left less than a thousand defenders in these cities, and in the face of dozens of times the enemy army with their own, the city was quickly breached, and Le Yi took advantage of the high momentum of the Yan army to capture Gancheng, Xingcheng and Shangling in one fell swoop, and then there was no action. On the one hand, the soldiers were a little tired of attacking the city continuously, on the other hand, the lost territory of Yan State was recovered, and Yan State did not want to provoke Zhao State too much. After all, Zhao Guo's strength is there. They were able to go so smoothly this time, because they took advantage of loopholes, and at the same time, they were also the result of Zhao Jun's carelessness. Therefore, Le Yi ordered all the sergeants to prepare to guard against death to prevent the Zhao army from coming.
And when Yan Guo made a move on his side, the Qi army also began to counterattack, and also began to attack Dancheng, Wocheng and other places, under the command of Sun Bin, after two days of fighting, finally won the victory and recaptured the lost territory. So far, except for some lands in the Qi State that were occupied by the Chu State, the other lost lands were recovered by Sun Bin. After the Qi army regained the lost territory, it also stopped and continued to advance. After all, they didn't want to drive Zhao Jun crazy. Sun Bin was a little shocked by the number and combat power of the Zhao army. You must know that the defenders of Dancheng were only less than 10,000 people, and they resisted the 150,000 army of the Qi army for two days.
After breaking Dancheng, Sun Bin did not rest, and directly waved his army to continue to advance, and successively took Wocheng and other lost grounds, before stopping to rest the whole army. In order to prevent the Zhao State from counterattacking, on the one hand, to prevent the attack of the Yan State.
The news of Yan and Qi's attack on the city reached Handan a few days later. After Zhao Suhou heard the news, his already unbearable body was angry. You know, the results of your hard work for half a lifetime are gone.
As soon as Zhao Suhou died, Zhao Hui was established as the new monarch with the help of Zhao Hui.
After Zhao Hui ascended to the throne, under the persuasion of Zhao Hui, Han Le was arrested, and then the blame for the loss of the city was placed on Han Le's head. Han Le was wrongfully beheaded like this.
When Yang Feng heard the news, he couldn't help but feel that the general had been fighting for Zhao Guorong all his life, and he was conscientious, but he ended up in this fate.
The news that Yan and Qi sent troops to regain the lost territory also reached Pang Juan's ears, and Pang Juan was so angry that he wanted to kill Fan Zhuo directly. But he was stopped by the lieutenant general Childe. After all, now that he is an enemy of Zhao, if he is an enemy of Yan and Qi, then Wei's situation will not be good.
After Pang Juan's mood calmed down, the son had to give Pang Juan advice
"General, since the main forces of Zhao are in Handan, then we can camp in Bacheng on the one hand and make it look like we are going to attack Zhao, and on the other hand, we can divide tens of thousands of soldiers and horses to directly attack Xinyuan, Quyang, Duyang and other places of Zhao State.
Pang Juan listened to Gongzi's strategy. He was stationed in Shangba to confront the Zhao army, and ordered Gongzi to lead an army of 50,000 to attack Xinyuan, Quyang, Duyang and other places.
When Gongzi had to send troops, Fan Zhuo took advantage of the dark night to lead the soldiers and horses he brought to sneak out of Shangba and run back to Yan Kingdom, and when Pang Juan learned the news, he couldn't catch up. This time made Pang Juan hate Yan Guo.
Because Zhao's troops were concentrated in Handan, and Zhao lost several cities, coupled with the death of Zhao Suhou, the entire Zhao army had no fighting spirit. It didn't take much effort for Childe to capture the three castles of Aragaki, Quyang, and Duyang. And passed the news to Pang Juan, and then ordered the army to rest, and he himself moved out the grain, grass, and treasures in the three cities to prepare to move back to Wei. Some of them were given to King Wei Hui as military merits, and most of the others were ready to move back to their mansions.
But he said that when Yan, Qi, Wei, and Zhao were in full swing.
But something happened in the Song Kingdom: the bird gave birth to a harrier eagle on the edge of the Song Kingdom.
When King Song Kang heard this, he ordered Taishi to make a hexagram. And Tai Shi Bu calculated that it was an auspicious hexagram after Zhou Yi, so he said to King Song Kang: "Auspicious." Small and big, will dominate the world. β
King Song Kang was overjoyed, raised troops to destroy Teng State, captured Xue Di, the feeling of victory made King Song Kang ruin his head, believed in the auspicious hexagram, and continued to attack to the east, taking advantage of the Qi army in the attack on Dancheng, captured five cities of Qi in a row.
At the same time, he defeated the state of Chu to the south and captured more than 100 miles of land. Due to the small number of people in the Song Kingdom, no one expected that they would send troops to Qi and Chu, which was a temporary benefit.
And the Song State was also valued by other countries, and all the information of the Song State also appeared in front of the kings of various countries