It took only four months for the Huai State to destroy Wei, and the losses of the army were very small. Next, the Huai army defended Wei and began to digest the results of this battle.

Those officials of Wei State have become obedient babies one by one, and they dare not go beyond the slightest.

Huai sent a large number of officials to arrive, quickly received Wei State, and then announced tax reduction, starting from this year to pay 30% of the tax, and together with the nobles, scholars and doctors all have to pay taxes, Huai State did not recognize the tax exemption to these Wei nobles. There will even be additional taxes on these nobles because of their vast land.

As for those nobles and gentlemen who dare not pay taxes, evade taxes, and evade taxes, Huai Guo will not get used to them.

Of course, Wang Luo didn't plan to let people do it now, but just let the officials collect it. If these nobles pay taxes, they will let them go, and if they don't pay taxes, they will not do anything, but write down these people and wait until the autumn to settle the accounts.

According to the Huai law, these nobles basically need to pay fifty to sixty percent of the tax, you must know that these nobles originally paid less or even no tax, and now they are suddenly told to pay fifty or sixty percent of the tax, basically all the nobles will be dissatisfied.

At all times, there were fewer nobles who were willing to pay taxes, and after discovering that Huai Guo did not punish them, there were more nobles who followed in the future. These people will be counted by Wang Luo, and after the unification of Huai, they will settle accounts for these nobles.

He has given these nobles so many opportunities, and when Huai Wang Luo makes a move, no one can say that Huai Wang Luo will be punished without teaching.

As for whether these nobles will be aware of Huai Wang Luo's plan, someone will definitely find out. There are many smart people among these pampered nobles who have been pampered for hundreds of years, but there are even more stupid people. After spending so much time in their comfort zone, these people have become stupid. Even if they knew, those nobles would not change.

After a large number of officials were stationed in various parts of the Wei state, these people quickly seized the power of each place. After the autumn harvest, the Huai State began to collect taxes, and the Huai State tax system was better for the common people, so the people everywhere quickly accepted the rule of the Huai State.

At a time when the concept of nationality and so on in this country is not so clear, as long as some preferential treatment is given to the people, they will soon be able to accept the rule.

Half a year after the destruction of Wei, the Huai army underwent simple repairs, and then began to send a large army to attack Zhao. At the same time that the army attacked Zhao, Huai also began to garrison a large number of troops in Hanzhong, Nanyang, and Hedong.

In order to destroy the Five Kingdoms, Huai mobilized more than a million troops, and if the Qin army dared to send troops to rescue Zhao, Huai would take advantage of the situation to attack Qin in three ways. Relying on the current strength of Huai, it is completely possible to attack Zhao and Qin at the same time, and only in order to reduce losses, will they attack Zhao first.

When Huai annexes Zhao, Qin will be completely separated from Yan and Qi, and then these three countries will be meat on the chopping block, and there will be no more power to resist.

The Huai army attacked Zhao, Handan was very close to Wei, and it had been surrounded by Wei soldiers several times before, but now it was replaced by the stronger Huai State, and Zhao State could not resist it at all.

Therefore, after the annexation of Wei by Huai, Zhao had to be forced to move its capital to Jinyang. As the earliest capital of Zhao State, Jinyang City was easier to defend and difficult to attack.

The 400,000 troops of the Huai State attacked the Zhao State, and the Zhao State fell into panic. King Zhao sent envoys to Qin and Yan for help. Qin originally wanted to send troops, but the Wei army was eyeing the side, and Qin did not dare to support, and in the end, only Yan sent a large army to rescue Zhao.

Because of the defeat in the Battle of Changping, the Zhao State suffered heavy losses and has not recovered until now. The entire Zhao State tried its best, but there were only 300,000 troops. Among them, there are at least 100,000 old and weak, and they are not Huai's opponents at all.

After the Battle of Changping, Lian Po was forced to flee to Qi because of the discord, so King Zhao ordered Zhao Kuo to lead the army to fight, but Zhao Kuo has only led the army for two years, and the Zhao army is not as good as the Huai army, how can it be the opponent of the Huai State.

Xu Chao put on a dignified posture of fighting, completely oppressing people with his troops, and did not give Zhao Kuo any chance at all. Zhao Kuo, who used to look at the map of Kanyu, had no good way to face this style of play.

Those so-called tricks and tricks were crushed by the Huai army and did not play any use.

Zhao Kuo built a defensive line with Handan as the center and built a defense line for the big and small cities. The Huai army left part of the Zhao army in Handan City to confront it, and the rest of the army attacked from all sides, cutting off all the passages between these cities, and finally these cities all became islands one after another.

Next, Huai's catapults, chariots and other siege equipment were prepared, and soon under the large-scale attack of the Huai army, the cities around Handan were broken one after another, and then the army closed and surrounded Handan in the middle.

Although Zhao Kuo had all kinds of schemes all night, Huai Guo did not give him a chance to grow and display at all, coupled with the successive defeats in the war, the soldiers of Zhao no longer trusted Zhao Kuo. The city of Handan is high and deep, well guarded, and there are 200,000 troops holding on, so it is difficult to break through.

So Xu Chao directly left the army to surround Handan, and then transferred half of the army to the north to continue the attack.

Zhao handed over most of the army to Zhao Kuo, and there were not many troops in other places at all, only 200,000 reinforcements from Yan State. However, after Yan Guo fought a battle with Huai State, he was defeated by Huai State in a battle, and he did not dare to fight again, and because Yan Wang wanted to preserve his strength, he actually withdrew his troops directly.

This led to the Huai army entering a no-man's land, and the Zhao State could not resist it at all. So the nobles of Zhao changed their strategy, chose to clear the wilderness, and could not hold out, wanting to rely on the city wall to resist the Huai army.

For a while, Xu Chao, who was victorious, was slowed down by Zhao Guo's tactics.

Zhao Guo wanted to continue to delay time, drag the time to winter, they felt that most of the Huai soldiers were southerners, not tolerant of cold, and after the snow in winter, the Huai army could not stand the bitter cold in the north, so they could only retreat and leave, and then Zhao Guo would be safe.

Xu Chao also knew Huaiguo's weakness, so he was naturally unwilling to delay, so he began to use the tactics commonly used by Huaiguo to buy traitors. The Huai State caravan passed the world, and the Zhao State naturally had many Huai State secret guards. So under the bribery of these secret guards, many people have become the internal response of Huaiguo.

This trick can be described as tried and tested, Huai Guo spent some gold, silver and jewelry, some official positions, and could get rich returns at a very small price. Even many people in Zhao Kingdom saw that Zhao Kingdom was about to perish, and they just wanted to take the opportunity to sell it for a good price.

The final result is that Huai State made a small profit, and the blood of all countries was lost, and a large number of cities in Zhao State were either opened by traitors to offer the city, or they directly opened the city and surrendered. The money official position opened the way, and Huai State soon opened the way to attack Jinyang.

(End of chapter)