After Wang Ji finished handling the military affairs, he entered Zichu's room and asked, "Is Gongzi An?" ”

Zi Chu half-lay on the seat, and said reluctantly: "There is no him, but he is weak!" ”

Wang Yi said: "Thin porridge is nourished, but it is light!" ”

Zi Chu said: "I am here-for-ordered!" ”

Wang Yi said: "The son is out of Handan alone, and his servant is He'an? ”

Zi Chu said: "The minister has no king's order, but he goes out of Handan to report to the king, so as to obey the order." Bao Lu Buwei, his wife Zhao Ji and Zizheng all stayed in Handan to wait for the king's order, although they did not dare to resign! ”

Wang Yi said: "The meaning of the prince should be reported to the king." There will be a king's ordination also. ”

Zi Chu said: "Xianyang and Handan, mountains and rivers are thousands of miles; Handan's situation is ever-changing, and it is not just a matter of words. Lu Bao's life will also go to Xianyang in person to repay the king, and he will not dare to have him. ”

Wang Yi said: "The son is in the army, when can he return to Xianyang!" ”

Zi Chu said: "The short is a few days, the long is a month, and the king will order the general to return!" ”

Wang Yi said: "How can you say that? ”

Zi Chu said: "Handan has been broken, the princes have come out, and Qin Li is still finished, and this time to use force." The general leads the essence of Qin, the king will use it, and the merit can be expected! ”

Wang Ji said: "The ministers are exhausted, what is the husband's recovery!" But to protect the head, return to Xianyang, sincerely wish! ”

Zi Chu said: "Chu and Wei are all broken, Jia Yuyong and 100,000 troops have entered Handan, and his country will be empty!" Handan, the capital of Zhao, was also crippled by the general, and the famine would last for years, and the dead looked at each other. There is nothing that can be done. The general returned to the south of the division, and Da Liang and Chen Bi moved, and this time of meritorious service. The general's plan! ”

Wang Yi pondered for a moment and said: "The words of the son, sincere gold and jade, dare not forget!" Then he seemed to think of something, and said: "Gongzi is honest and can do it, and the minister is willing to protect the party and go to Xianyang." ”

Zi Chu said: "At the time of this war, the military strength should not be lost because of the ministers. Generals, don't think of ministers. ”

At this moment, there was a sound of footsteps outside the door, and a doctor came to the door with a military envoy and said, "General Zheng has a military envoy coming!" ”

Wang Ji hurriedly went out and asked the military envoy, "Who is the general?" ”

The military envoy said: "There is an envoy to Xianyang, and I met the Wei army on the way. Xianyang broke out of the siege and galloped into the camp, dying. It is a brief description of the matter. The general then ordered the concubine to wait to report to the chief of the left! He took out a slip from his bosom. Wang Ji checked the slip and sealed the name of Qin Xiang. Remove the sealing mud, open the bag, take out the slip, and it is very simple to write: "Zuo Shu Chang Yi will lead the army to Tao County." Zi Chu with the army! ”

Wang Ji took Jian Mu indoors and showed it to Zi Chu, who said, "I obey the order!" ”

Wang Yi immediately ordered the whole army, and after the army was ordered on the next day, all the officials above the public seat would discuss the big tent. Then, Wang Di spread out a map of Handan's topography on the ground and carefully studied how to exit the battle.

At present, in addition to the Zhao army, there are also Wei troops reinforced by the Qin army. The Wei army did not attack the Qin army from the front as expected, but prepared to go around behind the Qin army, and had the posture of eating all the Qin army in one bite. In the current situation, the safest strategy is to quickly retreat to Shangdang and block and kill the enemy troops in Jianzicheng, Licheng and other places one by one. The disadvantage is that in the process of retreating, it will be attacked by the tail attack and flank attack of the Zhao army and the Wei army, and the losses will be large; The Wei and Zhao armies, on the other hand, had little to lose.

The other way is to concentrate your forces, strike at one of the forces first, and then attack the other after you succeed. But in the current situation it is almost impossible. Although the Qin army has the advantage of the inner line, it is not very mobile, the communication line is narrow, and with the current combat strength of the Qin army, there is no certainty that the Wei army and the Zhao army will be killed.

Wang's current strategy is to consolidate the current line of defense and break the enemy's attempts. Although this strategy is relatively stable in the short term, it is the most unpromising strategy in the long run. It is unable to pose a threat to the enemy and puts the initiative in the hands of the enemy; The only hope is that if we hold on for a long time, the enemy army will collapse before us.

In contrast, Xianyang's strategy is a more proactive, but risky action. It requires that under the ring of a strong enemy, take the initiative to attack the weak points of the enemy's army, which must be planned very carefully and vigorously executed; If you are not careful, you will not be able to impact the enemy, but will be taken advantage of by the enemy!

First of all, transferring Wu'an's army out of Wu'an is a difficult job. Wu'an is currently divided into three parts, each of which has a strong enemy to deal with: Wu Ji has to deal with 100,000 Wei troops; Wu'an had to deal with nearly 20,000 Wu'an defenders; The defense line of the water has to deal with the Yiyang Zhao army, which does not know the truth and the truth. After nearly a year of building and running-in, a relatively complete system has been formed, and once it is broken, chaos will inevitably occur, and the enemy will be given an opportunity to take advantage of. How to mobilize the troops and plunge them into the battle outside Handan is hard work.

The next day, the high-ranking officers arrived at Wang Di's tent on time, and Wang Di announced to everyone that the whole army would march to Taojun on the orders of the king of Qin. Hearing this, there was a silence in the audience, and then a burst of cheers! The five doctors and the public passengers all said: "King Qin is wise!" "Our army enters Tao County, the dragon enters the sea, and the tiger enters the forest!" "The princes are at your fingertips!"

In everyone's jubilation, only Zheng Anping was a little depressed and said: "The ministers have 20,000 people, from the party to Wu'an, from Wu'an to Wu'an, and then from the skin prison to Wu'an, wading back and forth, the army is uneasy!" And the skin is firmly narrow, how can I get out? ”

The five doctors and the public passengers said one by one: "The husband fights, with the detour as the straight, and the distance as the near." In vain, the war is common, so what's the point? ”

Wang Yi said: "Handan, a strong enemy; Wu'an, divided into two. Wu'an's army, when will it be out of Handan? ”

The five doctors and the public passengers silently calculated for a moment, and most of them called it ten days, and some called it three or five days. Zheng Anping said resolutely: "The army of the leather prison is not easy to retreat, and it will be ten days later!" ”

Wang Yi said: "The Wei army is in a hurry to attack me, and the Zhao army will also move." If it is delayed for a long time, it will change. On the same day, my general personally led the front to attack Ye, and the rear army advanced one after another, and the period was on the third day of Bike Yeye. The army of Wu'an, if it leaves Wu'an within three days, there will be the army of Handan to rely on each other, and it will be alone in the future! ”

Zheng Anping said: "It's really hard to return to the people in the prison! ”

Wang Yi said: "If it takes ten days, the Wei army enters from Zhangshui and fights with me, although it wants to retreat, how can it be obtained?" It will be three days! ”

A five-year doctor under Zheng Anping said: "The army of the prison retreats from the party, what can it be? ”

Wang Yi said: "The king's order is to enter the Tao, and it is not the party!" ”

The public attendant who defended the mouth said: "When the army goes out of the mouth, you can go straight out of the Great Wall to Ye." What about not being out of Handan? ”

Wang Yi thought for a while and said, "If you get to Ye, you don't have to go to Handan!" ”

After the opinions of the people were expressed, Wang Di issued the action instructions of the various ministries. The 50,000 men outside the city of Handan were divided into three divisions: 10,000 men in the front, preparing to march south a day later to open the way for the army and capture Yecheng; The Chinese army of 20,000 marched south one day after the departure of the front army, and the rear army stayed for another day to cover the Wu'an army after leaving the valley and moving south. Outside the city of Wu'an, including the 25,000 Qin troops who were monitoring Yiyang, they drove out of the valley and out of the outskirts of Handan within three days; Occupy the positions left by the Handan army in turn, rest for a day, and then move south. In the afternoon, the Qin army inside and outside the city, one part of the Wu'an army left Handan, and the other part could break through the mouth of Fukou and reach Yecheng from there.

After the deployment was completed, the generals left and returned to the army to prepare for the march.

The 50,000 people outside Handan City are currently gathered outside the Wu'an Pass, and their troops are relatively concentrated. Wang Yi took the troops of a fifth doctor as the core, and after eliminating the sick and weak, he strengthened 2,000 people from other troops to form a reinforced front unit, which was personally led by himself, and prepared to attack tomorrow. The rest of the troops also reorganized their baggage, gathered their forces, and prepared to set off.

The Qin army was located about thirty or fifty miles away from Handan, and Lian Po did not send a large army to this side, and the movement of Wang Di's army was not interfered with by the Zhao army.

In the early morning of the next day, after the army, the front army of 5,000 set off first and advanced south along the side of Wu'an Mountain. At noon, the march of the front was smooth and unhindered by the Zhao army, so Wang Yu and the five doctors led the rear army of about 7,000 people to set off. After the departure of the 10,000-strong army, the void in the defensive line was filled by other troops.

After a day of rapid marching, the Qin army reached a small town forty miles outside the Great Wall. The two armies were camped ten miles apart, each released a vigilance, and controlled the people of the city not to leave. Wang Yi personally took the five doctors and two public passengers to take advantage of the moonlight to check the road of tomorrow's attack. I returned to the camp, arranged my itinerary for tomorrow, slept only for an hour, got up immediately, and continued to hurry forward while the moonlight was shining. At dawn, the Qin army appeared on the side of the Great Wall of Zhao.

The war in Handan was urgent, and the troops that could fight on the side of the Great Wall were all transferred to Handan to participate in the war, although there were many soldiers here, but they were all old and weak, and they lacked food and nutrition for a long time. Moreover, the direction of the Great Wall's defense was to the south, and there was no means of resistance to attacks from the north. The Qin army suddenly attacked from the north, and the Zhao army guarding the Great Wall was taken by surprise, but in half a day, Wang Yi controlled the entire line of the Great Wall.

When Wang Yi attacked the Great Wall, the 20,000 Chinese troops outside Handan began to set out. These 20,000 men were laden with baggage, supplies, and many of them were sick and weak, and they did not move as quickly as the front. The 5,000 troops in the front are considered to be the combat troops that opened the way, and they are still relatively elite, while the combat effectiveness of the 10,000 people in the middle is much worse, and some even fall behind in the march. Fortunately, the guard 5,000 is also quite capable, and it is contained along the way. On the first day, I walked fifty miles from morning to night.

After the departure of the Chinese army, the Wu'an troops also came out of the front and made contact with the 10,000 men in the rear of the Qin army on the outskirts of Handan and occupied defensive positions. But the movement of this day was too great, and the Zhao army under Handan City noticed the abnormal movement of the Qin army and began to move this way.

After the Wu'an army, which had gone out of the valley to occupy a defensive position, discovered the movement of the Zhao army, they hurriedly reported to the rear: Most of the Zhao army was coming, as if they wanted to cut off the valley pass and ask for reinforcements. After hearing the report, the 20,000-strong Wu'an army, all of whom were supervised by five doctors without injury, ordered the whole army to give up unnecessary materials and transfer the troops that could be mobilized out of the valley first.

The five thousand Qin troops who were monitoring Yiyang retreated from a mountain depression without any losses. The injuries also let them assist in the defense of Taniguchi.