Zhao Dan soon learned the news of Han Wangran's submission.

For this, Zhao Dan was not much surprised.

"Han Wangran only has power in his eyes, but he doesn't know what the king needs, not only power and strategy. Narrow-minded, too narrow-minded! ”

Zhao Dan shook his head, belittled his eldest brother, and then said to the ministers of Zhao State in front of him with a smile: "Is there any news that makes the widow happy enough?" ”

There is actually a lot of good news.

In addition to the official stab of South Korea in the back of Wei, the Yan people also brought surprises.

Since this joint attack on Qi was a plan made by Le Jian and Zhao Dan in person as early as last year, Le Jian, as the coach of the Yan Army, naturally had already prepared for this.

After besieging the city for several days, a group of elites of the Yan Kingdom, who numbered hundreds and entered Rao'an City in various capacities half a month in advance, launched a surprise attack at night and took a city gate, and then it was the drama of breaking the city with the inside and outside.

Of course, there must be a lot of prior planning and planning, as well as life and death fights when the plan is implemented, exciting city-breaking ceremonies or doomsday lamentations such as mourning, etc., but those are not what Zhao Dan needs to care about today.

The city is broken, and that's good.

Zhao Dan moved his gaze to the map in front of him, since the start of the war, Zhao Dan always had such a map on his desk.

Judging from this map, basically after the fall of Rao'an, there was no city in the Qi State north of Jishui that could continue to block the southward pace of the Yan army.

This represents one thing, that is, in the most smooth case, it only takes three days for the Yan army to cross the water and come to the city of Linzi, the capital of Qi State.

Of course, considering that the Qi State will definitely set up some defensive lines on the road, three days is definitely far from enough, but in view of the fact that the main forces of the Qi State are now on the front line of Gaotang City, it seems that the Yan army's encirclement of Linzi should also be a sure thing.

Everything seemed to be very smooth, so smooth that Zhao Dan was a little unexpected.

But when you think about it, there doesn't seem to be anything surprising.

The system of Qi is actually very distinctive, and even unique among the seven heroes of the entire Warring States, which is the so-called "five capital system".

In the Qi State, the regular army is known as the "soldiers of the five capitals", and is also commonly known as the "skilled fighters", which is the main force of the Qi State when fighting abroad.

Judging from the map, the radiation range of these five capitals includes most of the Qi country, with the exception of Rao'an.

This area of Rao'an is called "Northland" in the Qi Kingdom, so the army in this area is also called "the people of the Northland", simply put, it belongs to that kind of frontier area, and grandpa doesn't love grandma or grandma.

This place is nominally governed by Gao Tang in the five capitals, but in fact, there is a Maiqiu of Zhao State separated from Gao Tang, and the original contact is very difficult, and now Gao Tang has been surrounded by Zhao State, this reinforcement is naturally impossible to talk about.

Under such circumstances, Rao'an's fall is actually inevitable, but it just depends on the time sooner or later.

But I have to admit that with the fall of Rao'an, the situation that could not be opened because of the lack of progress in the direction of Gaotang has now been tilted towards the Zhao Yan coalition army.

Next, Zhao Sheng told a piece of news that might sound a little disappointing: "King, according to intelligence, Naqi Wang Jian has recruited 100,000 new horses in the country, preparing to meet the Yan army. ”

Zhao Danleng paused for a moment and asked, "Where did these 100,000 soldiers and horses come from?" ”

Zhao Sheng said with a smile: "It's nothing more than something like the soldiers of my Zhao State, the combat effectiveness may be some, but it must not be comparable to the Yan army, if the Yan army can break through Linzi again, then the Qi country should take the initiative to sue for peace." ”

Zhao Dan shook his head and said: "This is not easy to say, as the so-called arrogant soldiers will be defeated, if Lejian is really too light on the enemy, it is not impossible to be counterattacked by the Qi people." ”

Saying that, Zhao Dan couldn't help but laugh himself: "But the possibility of this is too small." ”

Of course, there will be miracles in which the weak defeat the strong, but if miracles happen every day, then they cannot be called miracles.

At least in the current Zhao Dan's view, the possibility of a miracle staged by the people of Qi is very small.

All in all, it was indeed a very happy day for the monarchs and ministers of Zhao in Handan City.

But for both sides inside and outside Gaotang City, this is a more serious day.

Wei Wuji arrived.

The coalition army composed of 100,000 Wei troops and 30,000 Qi troops drove to the foot of Gaotang City under the leadership of Wei Wuji.

Coupled with the 120,000 Qi troops in the city, the Wei Qi coalition army has reached a full 250,000 people, even more than the Zhao army that is now besieging the city.

So Lian Po, the leading general of Zhao State, made a decision to take the initiative to remove the siege of Gaotang City and let the Qi and Wei coalition forces unite together.

For this point, Zhao Guo's leading lieutenant general, Le Cheng, is obviously a little incomprehensible.

"General, why don't you break the enemy individually, but let the enemy join forces in one place?"

Considering that Lecheng's question must also be the question of many generals and soldiers, Lian Po made his own explanation.

"Wei Wuji has always been wise, and he will definitely be wary of me breaking them all, so he must be cautious along the way and will not give me a chance to take advantage of them. It's better to let him join forces with the Qi army, and then defeat them together. ”

Le Cheng was quite worried: "But the total number of Qi and Wei coalition troops is 250,000, but it is more than our army. ”

In this regard, Lian Po gave a long laugh: "It's just 250,000 people, how about the 600,000 people led by Bai Qi back then?" Still can't bargain in my hands. Moreover, the quality of the two armies of Qi and Wei is uneven, and the orders cannot be unified when using troops, but they will each pull their own legs, how can they be the opponents of our army? Although you will break this Qi-Wei coalition with me, it is. ”

Le Cheng said: "But now that the Qi and Wei coalition forces are defending the city, unless they capture Gaotang, how can they win?" ”

"Not really." Lian Po laughed, took out a secret letter in his hand, and shook it in Le Cheng's hand with a bit of the cunning expression of an old naughty boy, as if he was showing off: "Wei Wuji and Kuang Liang will definitely attack in five days and half a month." ”

Since Lian Po is so full of confidence, then Lecheng's persuasion can only end here.

So outside Gaotang City, the 250,000 Qi and Wei coalition troops and the 200,000 Zhao army confronted each other, and countless banners were scattered in the camps on both sides, and a big war was about to break out.

There is no doubt that this decisive battle outside Gaotang City will definitely determine which country will become the ultimate winner in this war.

Except for Zhao and Yan, no other country actually hoped that the Zhao army would win this battle.

But all those who follow this battle have to admit that even if the number seems to be smaller, Zhao Guo's chances of victory are actually greater.

If this war can end in the defeat of Zhao, and thus become the prelude to the decline of Zhao's hegemony, most people in the world must be happy to see it.

This is undoubtedly a decisive battle to look forward to.

And this time the Armageddon didn't make people wait too long.