PS: There was a mistake before, the road of Mengmen Pass is Baicheng, and the west of Handan is the Pukou Cheng, which will be corrected later. Busy thesis went, the second chapter in the evening, begging for a monthly pass and a recommendation ticket.

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"In the entire Han County, there are only more than a thousand soldiers?"

At the big tent of Zhao Jun a few miles south of Handan City, Zhao Wuxian looked at the table in his hand that looked like the above plan, and then looked at the Han clan who was bowing to the ground, and frowned and asked.

"Gift...... Yu Shizi, the Han family is only the acropolis of Handan, which is not big originally, with a population of only two or three thousand households, and can barely produce a division. Head of House...... No, it was the rebel Zhao Ji who withdrew the Han clan Sima and more than a thousand soldiers when he went south, and was defeated by the prince in Muye, the soldiers either died or surrendered, and Sima was also trapped in the army, and now the Han clan is almost an empty city......"

Han Shizai had a hard time, if it weren't for that, he wouldn't have chosen to surrender so quickly under the persuasion of the Buddha.

Since Handan was defeated at Muye in April and May, and after Handan Ji died, the entire Handan area became panicked. Although Zhongxingyin once sent troops to settle in to stabilize his position, after the defeat of Chaoge, the Zhongxing clan itself could not be protected, and those Zhongxing soldiers shrank Handan and Bairen one after another.

The Han family was originally the western gateway of Handan, but under the fear, the enemy did not defend it, which shows how much the loss of the head of the family has dealt a big blow to the Bank of China and Handan, which is also the reason why Zhao Wuxian has been determined to go north for more than a month and is invincible.

Han Shizai continued: "After the Zhongxing troops withdrew, the Zhi clan in the west also sent a brigade of soldiers from the Pukou Dao, but the servant thought that he was originally a minister of the Handan family, and above he was the junior minister of the Zhao family, and in addition to the courtier of the Marquis of Jin. It has nothing to do with the Zhi family, so it is closed. waited until the prince sent someone to accept the Han clan. ”

"You did a good job, and in the future, Hanshi County will rely on you to guard the town. The soldiers of the Han clan who lost their news after going south. In fact, most of them are still alive, Yu Muye was attached to our army after his defection, and contributed a lot in the battle of Chaoge, you can go back to inform the Han family's fathers and elders of this news, so that they can rest assured that they will guard the city for the Zhao family, and the children of the family can return after the war. ”

Han Zai showed such loyalty, Zhao Wuxian praised him a few words, and at the same time quietly transferred the remaining soldiers of the Han clan. Replaced by a division of the Zhao army, stationed and stared at the Pukou Road controlled by the Zhi clan to defend the flank of the army. And those soldiers from the Han clan in the army became perfect hostages.

After the Han clan left overjoyed, Zhao Wuxian convened a military meeting again.

"What I was most worried about before was that the Zhi clan and the Zhongxing clan sent people to guard the Han clan and use Handan as horns, and when our army attacked Handan for a long time, the Zhi clan and the army of the office attacked from the flank. It turned out to be too much to worry about! ”

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As soon as these words came out, the expressions of the ministers in the tent were relaxed, and it seemed that the enemy was also very cautious, and they chose a decent strategy.

The Zhao clan was a guest army in the Hebei region. Crossing Qishui, Huanshui, and Zhangshui to attack northward, it penetrated into the enemy's territory for more than 300 miles, and many places along the way were not as well developed as Hebei in later generations. Therefore, the pressure of the baggage is still large. At this time, if the Zhi clan and the Bank of China deliberately let the Zhao army go deeper, they would finally attack the grain road. When the Zhao army is tired, it will fight a decisive battle here with twice the superior force, and there may be hope that the trapped beast will still fight.

But now. Zhao Wuxian found that he had overestimated Zhi's courage and wisdom.

Yang Hu said: "The Zhi clan controlled the Pukou Dao, so that the news of Jinyang could not pass through Shandong, as far as it is known, it was a month ago that the Zhi clan united with the rest of the Zhongxing Party, and sent more than 10,000 troops to attack Dayuan from the enemy, and Dong Zi, the doctor of Jinyang, could not defend it. Judging from the fact that the Zhi clan can only send one division of people to seek the Han clan, their army must have been dragged by Jinyang and Pingyang! ”

Xiang Lu also said excitedly: "Yes, now the Zhi clan can't withdraw from the west, and the Zhongxing black hume is timid to avoid the battle, and even the Acropolis Han clan between the elbows and armpits does not defend, and directly shrinks the troops to Handan, how can this kind of gutless rat be able to block the power of the prince's blow?" ”

Zhao Wuxian waved his hand, telling him not to be arrogant: "Having said that, judging from the information provided by Zhongmu and the Han Clan's Erzai, there are still 3,000 Handan soldiers in Handan City, 3,000 soldiers on the march, plus young and strong women, the defenders of the city are much more than the siege troops, and it is not easy to capture." ”

It's been a few days since the siege was made, and there hasn't been much progress due to the focus on building siege engines. Zhao Wuxian took the public loss class and circled Handan City a few times, and after coming back, the public loss class concisely commented on the defense of this city: "It's harder to fight than Chaoge!" ”

Zhao Wuxian agreed with his idea.

Handan envelops Zhang, Fu, relying on Taihang, Zhao State in the Warring States Period took this as the capital, since then this land has been called "Zhao", later generations praised that Handan "embraces the rivers and mountains, controls the male victory, is really the heart of Hebei, and the shoulder ridge of Henan!" ”

This sentence is reasonable, the soil of Handan is quite fertile compared to the saline-alkali land that can be seen everywhere in Hebei, and there is the Zhanghe River passing through it, and the water source is sufficient, which is suitable for the development of agricultural production, so there are a lot of savings in the city. In addition, it is located at the intersection of the north and south meridian roads in the east of Fukou Mountain, one of the eight mountains of Taihang Mountain, Yan and Zhuo in the north, Zheng and Wei in the south, and Dongyang and Qi in the east. Farmers and merchants are rich, and it is the foundation for the Handan clan to become the largest force under the six secretaries of the Jin State.

Handan's convenient transportation made it easy to expand to the surrounding Rongdi area, but this also provided convenience for outsiders to attack Handan. In order to protect itself, Handan established a defensive system based on tall rammed earth walls.

The whole Handan city is not as majestic and vast as the Zhao capital of later generations, the city is bigger than Zhongmu, but smaller than Chaoge, the outer Guo is seven or eight zhang high, and there are three small cities in the east, west and north that are horns of each other, helping to defend against foreign enemies. And there are many palaces in the three small cities, which can be used to defend against the enemy in a critical time.

After Deng Zishan looked at the deployment in Handan City, even in the eyes of the public loss squad who had achieved the feat of breaking the song of the moon in October, this was also a difficult battle for the city's attack and defense.

But Zhao Wuxian asked the public transport team to continue to supervise the construction of equipment, and he would figure out the rest.

Today in the big tent, when everyone was thinking hard about the strategy of breaking Handan, Zhao Wuxian said: "I have a plan to shake the hearts of the people in Handan and minimize the difficulty of breaking the city......

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A few months ago, in the name of avenging his father, Handan Ji took 5,000 Handan soldiers to the south.

Most of these 5,000 people are simple people from Handan, Han, Qianhou, and Xiyang. On weekdays, he never leaves his farmhouse, even if it is thirty miles. Until one day, the recruitment of the Handan clan came.

The common people's daily task is to "take the other fox." For Gongzi Qiu", he will serve in wartime. So they wore tattered shoes and tattered brown clothes, and set off under the banner of Handan's gorgeous Phnom Penh Xuanniao, and Kun's father, brothers, and the township party embarked on the journey together.

Everyone was in a hurry when they left home, for the people in Handan, the war was an adventure, and there was not much oil and water in the past to conquer Rong Di, at most grab a few Di women to come back to warm the bed, and let the Rong people be hooligans and farm. But if you go to loot and defend the country, you can earn wealth that cannot be obtained by farming!

Their weapons were rudimentary and messy. But it was replenished in the library of the Asagafu, and the clothes on his body were replaced.

On that day, outside the city of Chaoge, there were black ink scarves on the top of the Handan soldiers and white scarves on their foreheads.

They had heard the ballad, and it was said that King Wu of Zhou also led such an army to ravage the great merchants and win a decisive victory in Muye.

The head of the house and Sima told them that the mourning soldiers would win!

But it wasn't until they actually met the enemy in Makino that they got a real taste of war.

It wasn't a fight, it was a massacre. When encountering the enemy temporarily, the head of the family and the military officials were very panicked, and they only knew that they should line up and pick up spears and bows and arrows. Hold one's ground. But he left in a hurry, and then the knights attacked. Those Zhao Clan's assault riders who were covered in leather armor and could not see their faces were frozen in the air as they charged. The roar of iron filled the world......

Their fragile front collapsed in an instant, and the younger brother watched as the elder brother was trampled under the horse's hooves. The father lost his son, the belly of the village party was cut open by the ring knife, and he also tried to plug his intestines......

In the end, they saw that the head of the Handan family who led them to the battlefield was shot down by an arrow, and the Chaoge Fan soldiers of the alliance also fell in pieces under the orderly harvest of the Zhao soldiers, like the corn wheat in autumn.

For the Zhao army, Makino was a glorious victory worthy of being written down in history, but for the Handan soldiers, it was an inexplicable defeat, and their backbone for daring to resist the Zhao clan was broken at once.

Since then, the surviving Handan soldiers have become the most honest group of people in the new attached soldiers of the Zhao army, and after the defeat of Chaoge and Zhongmu, compared with the latter, they have risen to the top, and many people have regarded themselves as Zhao soldiers.

"Anyway, Handan is a small sect of the Zhao family, and we are actually all courtiers of the Zhao family...... "In fact, it wasn't until they were captured that they knew this fact, and they only recognized the people who collected taxes on weekdays, so they didn't know how many layers of feudalism there were on Handan's head.

In short, in the past few months, the Handan soldiers have lived a good life, and they have not been treated too harshly, although some dangerous tasks will be allowed to be done, but if they perform well, they will also have the opportunity to be promoted, and the rewards and punishments of the Zhao family are clear, which is much fairer than in the Handan army earlier.

After entering the Handan area, these soldiers were personally promised by the prince of the Zhao family.

"All those who served in the Zhao army Handan, Hanshi, Xiyang, and Qianhou origins, if they have small merits, they will be given to those who have no land houses after the war, and those who have land houses will be doubled, and those who have great merits will be rewarded as officials!"

Everyone is boiling, and the military merit award is also applicable to them! This means that they who originally had a low status in this area are likely to turn over overnight!

The old aristocracy was about to perish, and a new class of small peasant landlords was about to be formed......

In the country of Lu, all this is going very slowly, because the doctors have not yet been completely overthrown, but in Handan, Zhao Wuxian has the intention to uproot the Handan family!

In this way, the more than 3,000 Handan soldiers completely forgot where they belonged in the past and began to be loyal to the Zhao family.

Whoever gives us land and food will be loyal to whomever we are, and for those at the bottom, this is the simplest truth!

But all this also has a price, first of all, the prince of the Zhao family wants the Handan soldiers to do one thing.

Is it to fill the gully? Or take the risk of climbing the ladder to attack the city? Or infiltrate the city as a deserter? They were worried in their hearts, and the last thing Zhao Jun had not done before, but the guards in the city were too timid and cautious, and since half a month ago, they have not accepted outsiders.

In the end, it was not, the prince only asked them to gather together, and when it was approaching the end of the night, more than 4,000 people sat on the outskirts of the city, together with the local fathers and elders who came one after another...... Sing?

Sing? Everyone was stunned.

"Dare to ask the superiors, what do you want us to sing?"

The military official sent by Zhao Wuxian smiled: "The prince said, as long as it is a folk song that the locals of Handan know, you can sing anything, but the voice must be loud." ”

After the Handan soldiers looked at each other, they nodded in unison. They began to sing a folk song that everyone in Handan City knew and knew about the city of Handan, facing the shadows of the city in the dark night......

"Please become a prime minister, the world is in trouble, and the war is endless."

"Handan has no owner, if there is no appearance, how can he ......"

The song was striking, the tune was pathetic, and thousands of people sang together, and the sound shook all over the world. For a time, outside Handan City, there was the song of "Becoming Phase" on all sides! (To be continued.) )