The Huai army surrounded Jinyang, the capital of Zhao State. Jinyang City is high and deep, but the troops are seriously insufficient.

The main forces of Zhao are now surrounded in Handan, and there are only 50,000 people in Jinyang City, and most of them are old and weak. The Huai army of 200,000 besieged the city, and King Zhao was frightened and sent someone to find Lin Xiangru, who was already seriously ill, and asked how to deal with it.

Lin Xiangru has been sick since Lian Po was forced to go away to Qi State, and he has been terminally ill over the years, and he was forcibly dragged to come by the edict of King Zhao.

"The king, Jinyang City is high and deep, as long as the king is calm and calm, inform the people to advance and retreat with Jinyang, and then take out the money and grain in the treasury, and reward the beauties in the palace to the soldiers in the city, the morale of the soldiers and civilians in the city will definitely be high, and when the weather is cold and snowfalls, Huaiguo will naturally retreat, and the danger of Jinyang can be solved at that time." Lin Xiangru advised.

King Zhao felt that it made sense when he heard it, and wanted to do it, but he was reluctant to make money and beauties, so he hesitated for a while.

At the same time, Huai's secret guards were also preparing for action. After hundreds of years of cultivation, the secret guards of the Huai State have spread all over the countries, and these secret guards have formed a large net to make friends with the noble officials of the countries and spy on the news of the countries.

Naturally, there are also in Jinyang City.

Jinyang City, Guo Kai's mansion.

A few merchants had just left, and in the living room of Guo Kai, a seven-foot-tall blood-red coral statue was placed in the center of the hall. Guo Kai looked at the treasure in front of him with a fascinated face, and admired it for a while, and then let the treasure be carried away.

Guo Kaizheng is dressed properly, and the figure in the bronze mirror is tall and handsome, which makes people feel good about it. It is not the first time that Guo Kai and Huaiguo have cooperated, the last time was that he cooperated with others to force Lian Po away, when Huaiguo's secret guard sent a bucket of pearls in the South China Sea, as well as various treasures.

He didn't have any psychological burden on forcing Lian Po away, and even felt that this was a victory for him, as for whether the Zhao State would perish or not, what did it have to do with him?

His current relationship with Huai State, even if Zhao State is destroyed, he can live very well. In fact, as a traitor, it is not that he is incapable, on the contrary, he sees very clearly that since the Huai State destroyed Zhou and swallowed Han, people of insight in the world have seen that the time for the Huai State to unify the world is not far away.

Guo Kai can naturally see it, he knows King Zhao's mediocrity, how can such a mediocre lord be able to block the attack of Huaiguo? It is better to take the opportunity to make friends with Huai State, even if Zhao State is destroyed in the future, he will not lose his wealth.

Guo Kai came to the palace of King Zhao, King Zhao was drinking with a sad face, and when he saw his favorite minister Guo Kai, he hurriedly greeted: "Guo Qing is also here, come and help the widow think about what to do?" ”

"If the king has any sorrows, his subordinates are willing to share the sorrows of the king." Guo Kai said respectfully.

King Zhao asked Guo Kai to sit down, and then said: "The Huai army is besieging the city, and the widow asked Lin Qing how to deal with it, and Lin Yan wants the widow to open the treasury to reward the money and grain to the soldiers, and the beauties in the palace to the warriors, and announce the coexistence and death with Jinyang City, so that they can hold Jinyang, and wait until the snow falls in winter, and the Huai State will retreat." ”

"The widow hesitated in his heart, he didn't know how to do it, I don't know what Guo Qing's plan is?"

Guo Kai listened to King Zhao's words, and his heart was speechless, and he had a clearer understanding of King Zhao's mediocrity, but this is okay, it's easier to fool a fool than to fool a smart person, isn't it? Immediately said to King Zhao:

"King, you are the king of Zhao Kingdom, and the soldiers should be fighting for you, how can the beauties in the palace reward money and food at will? And now that you have rewarded it, the soldiers will only feel that it is the credit of Lin Shangqing, and will not be grateful to you. You can edict the whole city, as long as you hold Jinyang, and when the Huai army retreats, you will reward the money and food beauties according to the level of merit. In this way, the rewards and punishments are clear, and the grace comes from the top. ”

"As for who to reward after the Huai army retreats, and how much the reward will be, isn't it up to you? Besides, General Zhao Kuo still has 200,000 troops in hand, you can order General Zhao Kuo to lead the army to Qinwang, and then the Huaiguo army will naturally retreat. ”

Good fellow, just put this picture cake aside.

When King Zhao heard this, he felt that this was indeed the truth, so according to Guo Kai's words, he ordered the whole army, and when the Huai army retreated, he would reward the money, food, and beauties according to their merits. At the same time, a messenger was sent to Zhao Kuo to give an order, so that Zhao Kuo could lead the army to come to the rescue.

After Zhao Kuo received the edict, the whole person was numb, but if Jinyang fell and King Zhao surrendered, it would be useless for Handan to hold it.

Zhao Kuo had no choice but to lead the army out of the city and wanted to withdraw the army, if he wanted to withdraw the army, he had to defeat the Huai army outside the city first, but the Huai army outside the city had already been prepared, and the Zhao army could not find a chance at all.

Zhao Kuo led the army to engage the Huai army several times, but was unable to repel the Huai army. Seeing this situation, Zhao Kuo wanted to lead the army back to Handan, but he couldn't do it at all under the entanglement of the Huai army. finally lured Zhao Kuo out, how could he continue to let him go back?

At the same time, under the entanglement of Zhao Kuo and the Huai army, the Huai army, which was besieging Jinyang, suddenly appeared on the battlefield, and 400,000 troops surrounded the Zhao army.

It turned out that from beginning to end, Xu Chao's goal was not Jinyang, but the main force of the 200,000 Zhao army in Zhao Kuo's hands.

Therefore, Xu Chao boldly divided his troops into two routes, one to encircle Handan, and the other to attack Jinyang. Next, through the siege of Jinyang, persecuted King Zhao, and then asked King Zhao to recall Zhao Kuo through Neiying.

At the same time, Xu Chao left 10,000 people in the camp outside the city, and asked these people to set up more banners during the day, and then walk back and forth in the camp, and at night to light more campfires to make the appearance of 200,000 troops, and he himself led the remaining 190,000 troops to immediately go south and besiege Zhao Kuo with the Huai army left behind in Handan.

The Zhao army was not the opponent of the Huai army, it had no geographical advantage, and it was besieged by the 400,000 troops of the Huai army, and its morale was low, how could it win?

Xu Chao led the army to launch a siege and annihilation battle against the Zhao army, even if Zhao Kuo led the army to resist and take the lead, he could not withstand the Huai army's pressing step by step. The Huai Army's crossbow array and the Tengjia Army cooperated with each other, and the Zhao Army was broken seven times in a row, the army almost collapsed, and even Zhao Kuo was killed by several arrows.

After the main general was killed, the army had no way to break through, and the water source was cut off, he had to lay down his arms and surrender. More than 100,000 Zhao troops surrendered, and the last field army in the Zhao State was destroyed.

Without Zhao Kuo's army, the Huai army no longer cared about it, and immediately Xu Chao led the army to attack Jinyang again, and the city of Jinyang learned that Zhao Kuo's soldiers were defeated and died, and the 200,000 Zhao army was annihilated, and the soldiers in the city had no morale to resist.

At this time, King Zhao was completely panicked and wanted to take out money, food, and beauties to reward the soldiers to boost morale, but unfortunately it was too late.

In the autumn of the seventh year of King Luo, Xu Chao broke through the Zhao capital Jinyang, captured the king of Zhao, and the state of Zhao perished.

(End of chapter)