December 29, 260 B.C., Changzhi.

A few days ago, Zhao Dan led his army of 100,000 militiamen and rushed to Changzhi.

In addition, 30,000 militiamen from Jinyang had also arrived in Tunliu, repelled the besieging Qin army in time, and built a new and stronger defense line under the command of General Zhao Kuo.

Not only that, but in a few days, 20,000 militiamen from Lingshou in the north will also arrive in Changzhi.

In this way, Zhao Dan is equivalent to bringing 150,000 new people to the Changping front!

Of course, the combat effectiveness of these 150,000 people cannot be compared with the regular army at all.

But fortunately, Zhao Dan did not think of using these armies to fight the Qin army, but used them to defend key cities such as Tunliu and Changzhi.

Defending the city, the requirements for discipline are not too high.

Although during this period of time, the Qin army was also continuously increasing troops in the Shangdang Basin, and the Qin army in the Shangdang Basin has now exceeded 100,000, but in front of the full 150,000 defenders of the Zhao State, the Qin army is somewhat helpless.

Moreover, as the Qin army continued to enter the Beishang Party, the pressure on Lian Po on the frontal battlefield also began to be reduced, and he began to increase troops in the rear.

Now in the defense line of the old pass, Lecheng also has 50,000 soldiers and horses, which echoes the 150,000 people of Zhao Dan in the north.

But in fact, these are not too important, the important thing is that with the arrival of the winter solstice, snow finally began to fall in the Shangdang Basin.

It wasn't 2002, but the first snow came later than usual.

Snowflakes fell from the sky, and the earth was covered in silver.

Zhao Dan pushed away the bamboo slip in front of him, stood up from behind the desk, stretched hard, walked to the window and pushed open the window, looking at the snow-white world outside, and sighed.

He's been waiting for this snowfall for too long, too long.

As a traveler in later generations, Zhao Dan knew that the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period were one of several warm periods in Chinese history, in which winter always came later and the temperature was always higher than the cold period.

In addition, there is another advantage of the warm period, that is, the frequency and scale of the southward movement of the northern nomads will always be relatively moderate.

And when the cold period comes, the nomads who can't survive on the Mobei Plateau will go south one after another, which will cause the Central Plains Dynasty to suffer a lot of trouble, or cause super chaos such as Wuhu Chaohua, and may even allow some Tartars to take the opportunity to enter the customs and steal the ruling power of this Chinese land.

Of course, Zhao Dan didn't need to pay attention to the future nomads going south, and at this moment, all his thoughts were focused on the great battle in front of him.

Even in the so-called warm period, the power of Lord Winter is still not to be underestimated for this era.

Since the snowfall, the Qin army in the Shangdang Basin has stopped its tentative offensive, and even the Qin army's offensive strength on the Changping front line has been invisibly much smaller.

But Zhao Dan did not take this lightly, because as early as two days ago, Zhao Dan had already received information that the sixty-five-year-old Qin Wang Ji personally led more than 100,000 people in Hanoi County had begun to assemble, and he was about to go to the front line in the next two days.

Zhao Dan stretched out his palm and dragged a snowflake, and then watched the snowflake gradually melt in his palm, but what he was thinking of was something else.

"Qin Wangji... Sure enough, it's the same as in history. ”

That's right, it was around this time in history that more than 100,000 people in Hanoi County, led by Qin Wangji himself, rushed to Zhongmu, completely cut off the eastern entrance of Zhao Guo's sheep intestines, and effectively helped Bai Qi on the Changping front line to encircle and annihilate Zhao Kuo's department.

Unlike in history, although the current Zhao State is also at a disadvantage, it is much better than the situation in history.

After all, at this time, the Zhao army of Changping on the front line still maintained a safe way to retreat, and also retained the hope of victory.

In fact, Zhao Dan felt that his hope of victory might not be small.

Under Zhao Dan's single-handed planning, it is now Zhao, Chu, Wei, and Han who are facing Qin and Yan, and Zhao Guo has such a nurse as Qi Guo to support him, which can almost be regarded as five to two.

The strength of the Qin State was not much stronger than in history, but the strength of the Zhao State was already twice as much as in history, and it might even be stronger.

In history, the Zhao State resisted the Qin Dynasty alone, and still let the Qin State reap a nearly lose-lose ending in the case of successive schemes.

Today's Zhao State is so much stronger than in history, Zhao Dan feels that the probability of failure is actually really small.

So although it seems that Zhao Dan's behavior of sending the whole country's troops to fight for his life seems to be a fight for his life, Zhao Dan thinks that it is basically impossible to put Zhao Dan's own life into it.

Just then, there was a knock on the door.

"Come in."

The door opened, and it was Miao Xian who walked in.

To be honest, according to normal practice, it should be Lou Chang, the imperial history, who appeared next to Zhao Dan at this time.

But Zhao Dan obviously didn't like Lou Chang, so he threw Lou Chang in Handan and brought Miao Xian over.

Zhao Dan, who was standing by the window, glanced back at Miao Xian, and found that Miao Xian was full of spring breeze, and couldn't help laughing: "It seems that Miao Qing brought good news to the widow." ”

Miao Xian smiled: "The king is really clever, in a word." ”

Zhao Dan laughed: "Come less, what's the matter, don't come quickly." ”

Miao Xian didn't talk nonsense, and went straight to the point: "King, I just received an urgent report from Hu Yiwei, three days ago, Wei Wuji led 100,000 Wei troops to break Sima Terrier outside Yewang City, Qin General Sima Terrier was killed in battle, and there was not one in 50,000 Qin troops. ”

Zhao Dan was stunned for a moment when he heard this, then came back to his senses, couldn't help clapping his hands heavily, and laughed loudly.

"Good, great good!"

Although he had already estimated the victory outside Yewang City, when the news of the victory really came, Zhao Dan still breathed a sigh of relief and let go of the burden in his heart.

Speaking of which, the victory outside Yewang City is actually inseparable from Zhao Dan, after all, the most important reason why the Han army defected was that Feng Ting, the envoy sent by Zhao Dan to Xinzheng, persuaded Han Wangran.

Of course, if you want the Korean army to fight back like this, in addition to lobbyists, chips are also essential.

According to the prior agreement between the two countries, once Zhao won and completely expelled Qin from Shangdang, then Yewang, Shancheng and other southern exits of Dongshangdang, which were originally occupied by the Qin army, as well as Duanshi City of Xishangdang, would be returned to Korea.

Zhao Dan didn't mind this, because for Zhao Dan and Zhao Guo, the Beishang Dang Basin was the most important.

What's more, even according to this division, Zhao still occupies nearly three-quarters of Shangdang County, which is enough.

Is it a loss to exchange a quarter of Shangdang County for the final victory in the Battle of Changping? It's a lot of money.

Miao Xian was also full of smiles, and waited until Zhao Dan's laughter gradually stopped before reporting the next news to Zhao Dan.

"King, according to the report from the north, a few days ago, heavy snow fell on the battlefield in the north, and the Yan army's offensive has been greatly delayed."

This news can be regarded as a joy for Zhao Dan.

Although it is said that a general like Pang Xuan, who has beaten Yan in history, is allowed to go to the north, Zhao Dan has never been at ease in his heart.

That's 50,000 Zhao troops against 200,000 Yan troops.

Now after hearing the news, Zhao Dan's worries about the northern battlefield are much lighter.

Even if Zhao Dan traveled through the previous and later generations, winter and heavy snow would bring great restrictions to human activities, not to mention the Zhao era two thousand years ago.

After the pressure on the northern battlefield was reduced, Zhao Dan could focus more on the main battlefield of Shangdang County in the south.

As he was talking, a snowflake drifted in from the window and slowly fell on Zhao Dan's face, which was very cold and comfortable.

Zhao Dan looked at the snow outside the window and slowly showed a relieved smile.

For a long time, although Zhao Dan's methods have been one after another, the balance of victory and defeat has not always been on Zhao Guo's side, but has been swaying from side to side.

As these good news came one after another, the tilt of the scales finally began, and Zhao Dan also had the feeling that victory was just around the corner for the first time.

Yes, although there are still hundreds of thousands of Qin troops in the entire Shangdang County, Zhao Dan really feels that victory is close at hand.

Zhao Dan, who was standing by the window, looked at the countless fluttering snowflakes in front of him, and thought very happily: "Maybe the envoy sent by Qin Wangji to negotiate peace is already on the way, right?" ”