"Yingchuan?"

In Xianyang City, with the news from Yingchuan sent to the palace, Yingzheng could calm down after seeing the bamboo slips.

Looking at the huge map in the study, Ying Zheng looked angry.

According to the plan, the army that originally attacked Zhao on two ways was actually trapped in Yingchuan all the way!

"Why don't the widows know that there are such a huge number of forces in Yingchuan?"

Ying Zheng looked at the location of Yingchuan on the map and asked.

Inside the study.

Kui Zheng, Changping Jun, Li Si, Wei Yi and other important ministers of the Qin State heard Yingzheng's words and looked at Yingchuan's position, and they all fell silent.

It is clear that this matter was deliberately concealed.

Otherwise, there is such a big force in Yingchuan, and no one knows about it, let alone reports it.

"Your Majesty, you can order someone to go to Yingchuan to investigate."

Wang Juan stood up and arched his hand.

This matter must be investigated by the Yingchuan County Guard, the County Lieutenant, and even the Imperial Supervisor, and will be investigated one by one until the truth of the matter is clarified.

"Check it out for the widow, once it is done, the three tribes will be destroyed."

Ying Zheng nodded and said softly.

"No!"

Wang Juan listened to Yingzheng's words, and was so distracted that he hurriedly gave up the order.

"Li Si, since Li You is in Sanchuan County, immediately let him lead the troops to Yingchuan and investigate this matter together!"

Ying Zheng looked at Li Si.

Li Si looked at Ying Zheng's gaze, lowered his head, and hurriedly surrendered his hand.

"No!"

Li Si responded.

At this moment, Li Si's heart was full of helplessness, the matter of Yingchuan was obviously not as simple as a scholar's family, there must be many officials involved, including many city guards and city captains.

If one is not handled properly, the consequences are unpredictable.

"Your Majesty!"

Li Sifang took a step back, and Kui on the side stepped forward and looked at Ying Zheng.

"Now that Yingchuan is in turmoil, Yang Duan and General are trapped in Yingchuan, and my Qin State only has General Wang Jian all the way in the territory of Zhao State, opposite Li Mu and Sima Shang, General Wang Jian may not have a chance of winning, Weichen suggested, you can let General Wang Jian first, retreat back to the territory of Qin."

Kui said.

Changpingjun and the others heard Kui's words and looked at the map.

According to the news from Wang Qian, calculating the time, now Wang Jian is sending a large army to attack Yanhe, and if he retreats, it is indeed too late.

But this also means that the attack on Zhao is likely to be delayed and variables.

"Give Wang Jian more troops!"

Ying Zheng opened his mouth and said, looking at the map: "Pass the widow's order, let Qiang Qi and Meng Tian lead 30,000 horses to gallop to the aid of Wang Qian." ”

"No!"

Wei Yu replied.

Li Si, Changpingjun and others were not surprised when they heard Yingzheng's words.

An hour later,

With Li Si and the others leaving, Yao Jia was left alone.

Inside the study.

Ying Zheng looked at the map, and looked at the location of Zhao State, or rather, the place where the word Handan was written in Zhao State.

Destroy the Zhao Kingdom! This is Yingzheng's long-cherished wish at the beginning of his succession.

What happened in Handan since childhood, after letting Yingzheng succeed to the throne and quelling the civil strife, he didn't want to kill Zhao all the time.

But he sent troops several times, but they all returned in vain.

No matter how many Qin troops were sent, they were all defeated by a Li Mu, which also led to the long-cherished wish of destroying Zhao, which was delayed in being realized.

"Your Majesty!"

A eunuch came to Yingzheng's side with a roll of bamboo slips in both hands.

Ying Zheng turned his head to look at the eunuch, and then took the bamboo slip from the eunuch's hand and handed him to Yao Jia.

"This is a bamboo slip sent by Bai Yan's order!"

Ying Zheng said.

Seeing this, Yao Jia stepped forward and took the bamboo slip with both hands.

Then standing next to the map, Yao Jia took the bamboo slip and slowly opened it, at first when he saw it for the first time, he couldn't help but be surprised, and when he saw the back, his eyes were already full of surprise.

Discord!!

That Bai Yan actually wanted to use a discord strategy to divide the Zhao State court.

"Yao Jia, do you think this method is feasible?"

Hearing the sound of putting away the bamboo slips, Ying Zheng turned his head and looked at Yao Jia.

This bamboo slip has been sent here for a long time, but Yingzheng has not taken it out, because it is also not easy to do it.

It's better to see if you can use the military to defeat it.

If you can, you can directly level the city of Zhao and break through Handan all the way.

However, the news of Yingchuan came just now.

In the face of the current Zhao State, only Wang Jian has a large army, and in the face of Li Mu and Sima Shang, the possibility of destroying Zhao with a large army is getting smaller and smaller.

Ying Zheng couldn't help but think of this bamboo slip again, or the method of dealing with Li Mu in this bamboo slip.

"Your Majesty, it's hard to say, maybe you can give it a try!"

Yao Jia replied.

Yao Jia is different from other ministers, Yao Jia has traveled around the world all the year round, dividing other countries for Qin, and Zhao State, Yao Jia knows best, because before coming to Qin, Yao Jia was an official in Zhao State.

Looking at this bamboo slip at this moment, Yao Jia was full of surprise and curiosity about Bai Yan.

It stands to reason that if he Yao Jia learned about Gongzi Jia's actions and thought of this matter, it would not be surprising, after all, he Yao Jia knew Zhao Guo.

But it was Bai Yan who proposed this move!

How could Bai Yan know so much about Zhao Guo's court? Someone must have told him.

"Your Majesty, since General Bai Yan is in the book, you may want him to give it a try now."

Yao Jia looked at Ying Zheng.

Although Zhu Jianli said that he used Gongzi Jia to separate Zhao Wangqian and Li Mu, he was not too sure that he would be able to successfully separate, so it was better to let Bai Yan, who was in the book, go to Zhao to give it a try.

Maybe Bai Yan, who is in the book, already knows how to convince Gongzi Jia in his heart.

Ying Zheng nodded when he heard Yao Jia's words.

Under the scorching sun.

In the middle of April in previous years, it should be a spring flower, but I never thought that this year Zhao was in a drought, and there was no rain all year round, resulting in high temperatures.

Hurrying under the scorching sun, even the iron cavalry soldiers, is uncomfortable.

It won't take long to walk, and you need to rest, otherwise if you get heat stroke, the consequences will be serious.

From Qicheng all the way to Yanhe.

Fortunately, when Bai Yan led the Iron Cavalry Army to Yanhe, he did not see Li Mu's Zhao army.

Wang Ben and Yang Yan still led an army of 50,000 to besiege Yanhe.

As the son of Wang Qian, when Wang Jian and Huan Qi attacked Yan He, Wang Ben followed his father and participated in the attack on Yan He.

Therefore, now Wang Ben personally led the troops to attack Yanhe, and he was more handy in attacking the city.

In addition to using siege machinery, Wang Ben also used the method of siege to cooperate with the siege, intending to make the defenders in the city tired of coping.

Bai Yan led the iron cavalry to the time when the army was arrayed.

In the army, Wang Ben and Yang Yan, who were dressed in Qin armor, were talking to each other while looking at Yan He.

Suddenly seeing Bai Yan leading a mighty army of iron cavalry coming, Wang Ben and Yang Yan were both a little surprised, and told the deputy general to guard the city gate and be vigilant against the defenders in the city, and the two rode towards the direction of the iron cavalry and iron army.

Accompanied by the meeting of the trio.

"Adjutant General!"

"Adjutant General!!"

Yang Yan and Wang Ben rode to Bai Yan on horseback, bowed their hands, and looked at the iron cavalry soldiers behind Bai Yan, full of doubts.

Bai Yan bowed to the two of them in return.

"Two generals, the situation has changed, Yang Duan and the general's department were trapped in Yingchuan by the Yingchuan thieves, and they could not attack Zhao in a short time due to the obstruction of grain and grass."

Bai Yan rode his horse and said to Wang Ben and Yang Yan.

As soon as Bai Yan's words fell, he saw that Wang Ben and Yang Yan were both shocked.

"Trapped in Yingchuan?"

When Wang Ben and Yang Yan heard Bai Yan's words, both of them were generals, and almost immediately realized that if there was no containment in the south, Li Mu and Sima Shang would attack their Qin army with all their might.

"Do you want to withdraw your troops?"

Yang Yan asked.

Since Yingchuan was where the Qin army led by his father could not reach Zhao on time, they faced Li Mu and Sima Shang alone, and the chances of winning were basically nothing.

"If you don't withdraw your troops, General Wang Jian ordered me to come and join the two generals to prevent Li Mu from raiding!"

Bai Yan shook his head, if he could withdraw the troops, Wang Jian would have ordered him to lead the Iron Cavalry Army to escort this army to retreat.

Yu Guang looked at the city in the distance, countless Zhao soldiers were looking at this place vigilantly, and under the city, there were many corpses of Qin soldiers.

Hearing Bai Yan's words, Wang Ben frowned slightly,

Wang Ben knew his father's character of leading the troops, and if it was as usual, he would have already given the order to withdraw the troops.

"Deputy General, if we don't withdraw our troops, we must not be able to stay here now!"

Wang Ben looked at Bai Yan and spoke.

Just facing the army of Zhao led by Li Mu and Sima Shang was enough to make Ren tremble, and if he didn't withdraw to Qiyang now, he would definitely not be able to stay here.

Wang Ben turned his head to look at Yan and Cheng, he knew that if the army of Qin was guarding here, and the defenders in Yan and the city would definitely cooperate with Li Mu when they saw Li Mu coming, and the situation of their army would be very dangerous at that time.

"You really can't stay here!"

Bai Yan heard Wang Ben's words, nodded and said, frowning slightly.

Facing Li Mu, in fact, Bai Yan was also very nervous in his heart, when Wang Jian gave him the order, he was ready to arrive here and fight with Li Mu.

Now I didn't expect that after arriving here, I found that Li Mu's Zhao Bian rode and did not arrive.

In this way, he is left with many options.

And behind every choice, every order, he can decide the life and death of these tens of thousands of soldiers.

"General Wang Ben, General Yang Yan, I plan to leave a part of the army and continue to surround Yanhe, and the rest of the army will follow me in the direction of Jingjing and march for twenty miles."

Bai Yan looked at Wang Ben and Yang Yan and spoke.

Bai Yan knew in his heart that the foot soldiers traveled thirty to fifty miles a day, which was within the normal range of marching, and fifty miles was close to the limit.

Li Mu and Sima Shang led the Zhao army of Daidi and Yanmen, and although the number of cavalry was quite large, the number of foot soldiers still accounted for most of them.

Twenty miles, it can't guard against Li Mu's cavalry, but it can effectively guard against Li Mu's foot soldiers.

Under such a scorching sun, if Li Mu wanted to raid the Qin army and relieve the siege of it, he would definitely calculate the distance, and he would not let the Zhao army arrive, and he would become a tired army.

That is to say, the day before arriving at Yanhe, Li Mu's Zhao army must not be more than twenty miles away from Yanhe.

At the beginning, Hu Jin's grandfather, Hu Yang, did not calculate the distance accurately, so that he was tired and was defeated by Zhao Hao.

Now facing Li Mu, Bai Yan also plans to use these twenty miles to prevent Li Mu's surprise attack, as well as to prevent Yan and the defenders here from joining forces with Li Muli.

"Twenty miles!"

Wang Ben listened to Bai Yan's words and thought thoughtfully.

Wang Ben soon knew that he noticed Bai Yan's intentions, and he couldn't help but sigh in his heart, he had to admit that Bai Yan's method was very bold, taking offense as defense and waiting for work.

Even if there is danger, they can retreat to Yanhe, because the army surrounding Yanhe here has not traveled twenty miles, and they can completely wait for work, and Li Mu will also be afraid at that time.

Come to think of it.

Wang Ben nodded at Bai Yan.

"Wang Ben agrees with the deputy general!"

Wang Ben arched his hand and said.

On the other side, Yang Yan's brows were tightly locked, obviously not as quick as Wang Ben's reaction.

But in the end, Yang Yan also nodded.

Seeing this, Bai Yan issued an order to let Yang Yan be in charge of guarding Yanhe, and Wang Ben led an army of 30,000 to follow him in the direction of Jingjing and march for twenty miles.

and the head of the city.

Zhao Guojun stood in the middle of the city road with a bow and crossbow in his hand, and saw another iron cavalry army coming outside the city, and Zhao Guoshi's eyes were full of despair.

Originally, they were surrounded by the army of the Qin State, and they had little hope of holding the city, but now there was a large number of Qin Iron Cavalry, which almost made them unable to see the slightest way out.

However, when all the Zhao soldiers were desperate, all the Zhao soldiers suddenly saw that the iron cavalry army suddenly left, and with it, there were about 30,000 Qin troops.

"How did they withdraw?"

"yes, why did they withdraw?"

"Look, they've stopped piling dirt!"

In the city road, a soldier named Zhao Guo exclaimed.

After watching the iron cavalry army leave, the Qin soldiers in the distance outside the city also stopped bulldozing.

What's going on?

No more sieges?

"Hurry up and report to your lordship, Qin Jun is rushing in the direction of the well path!"

and the city.

Zhao You, the guard general who had just learned that the Iron Cavalry Army had arrived outside the city, and the other guards were sitting in the mansion with a desperate face, when suddenly a soldier ran in.

"General, all the Qin State Iron Cavalry outside the city have left and headed for the direction of Jingjing, and 30,000 Qin troops are also heading to Jingjing."

After the soldier entered the study, he arched his hand and said.

"What?"

Zhao You got up in surprise, unable to believe what his ears heard.

As the big city of Zhao State, as a general of Zhao State, how could Zhao You not know how important Yan He was, so he couldn't believe that the Qin army would actually leave.

"At this time, how could the Qin army withdraw its troops?"

"That's right, the Qin army actually withdrew! Qin Jun may not fight with? ”

The other generals of Zhao State all looked puzzled and glanced at each other.

"That's not right! It's not a withdrawal of troops, the Qin army is going to the direction of Jingjing, it must be Wu Anjun coming! ”

When Zhao You was panicking, it suddenly occurred to him that it was not the Qin army retreating, but the Qin army having to leave.

The direction in which Qin Guo went was Jingjing.

The only explanation was that only when Wu Anjun led the soldiers and horses felt that the Qin army had no choice but to give up attacking Yanhe.

"How many Qin troops are there outside the city?"

Zhao You hurriedly asked.

Now that Wu Anjun has arrived, he naturally has to take the opportunity to act, once he has the opportunity to cooperate with Wu Anjun, he will definitely be able to deal a heavy blow to the Qin army at that time.

"Back to the general, about 20,000!"

Zhao Shu arched his hand and said.

When Zhao You heard this number, he was obviously a little puzzled.

Twenty thousand!

How can there be so many!

Isn't Wu Anjun here? If Wu Anjun came, how could the Qin army dare to leave so many soldiers and horses outside the city.

Zhao You couldn't figure it out.

After thinking for a moment, Zhao You looked at the other generals who were also puzzled.

"Immediately send me an order, all the soldiers of the army, ready to break through at any time!"

Zhao You opened his mouth and said.

Although he doesn't understand it now, Zhao You can't care so much, so he can only wait for the opportunity now.

"No!"

"No!!"

In the study, although a general named Zhao was puzzled, he also received orders one after another.

(End of chapter)