It's the season of spring again, and Lu Zhe, who is holding the child in his hand, walks in the sea of flowers in the palace, and behind him is Yan Bi, who is constantly talking something.

It has been two years since Lü Zhe called Wang Jianguo, and in two years, Lü Zhe's side has completely occupied the Lingnan region, and the war with the Ouluo State has been going on.

The child in Lu Zhe's hand was the daughter born to Zhao Wan, and the boy and girl who were already running around when Yan Bi reported were naturally the children born to Wei Wen and Lu Pheasant.

The matter reported by Yan Bi has nothing to do with the Ou Yu State, but is about the latest military situation of the Qin State and the movements of other countries.

As Lu Zhe and Kuaitong guessed together, Touman led his army south for the first time to no avail, and in the autumn of the second year when the Huns spent the cold winter south of Yinshan, nearly 300,000 Hu people really chose to invade from the relatively empty northern border of Zhao Land.

The invasion of the grassland Hu people from the north of Zhao was expected by Meng Tian, Meng Tian reported his speculation to the Xianyang center and wrote a letter to Wang Ben personally, according to the reason, Wang Ben's partial division should be in advance in the north of Zhao to arrange defenses, so as long as Wang Ben borrowed from Meng Tian to build a martial city in the Heshuo area, the Xiongnu should not be so easy.

Wang Ben received a letter from Meng Tian and an order from the Xianyang center to prevent the Xiongnu from the northern border of Zhaodi, but under what circumstances did Wang Ben receive the order? It was after the partial division led by Wang Ben finally broke through the Huguan held by the troops led by the military ministers.

Huguan is an important pass for Handan of Zhao to resist the invasion of the Western Qin State, Huguan means that the Qin army will be blocked and cannot threaten Handan, and the loss of Huguan means that Handan has no barrier except for the mountain range sixty miles away.

Wang Ben paid a great price to capture Huguan, he captured Huguan and stared excitedly in the direction of Handan, for them King Zhao was trapped in Chen County, Handan can be described as a group of dragons without a leader and not many defenders, not to mention that there are 80,000 Qin troops under his hands, even if there are only 350,000 soldiers, as long as the army can reach Handan City. At the same time as King Zhao was not there, the elite soldiers of Zhao were all in the south, and King Zhao did not appoint a crown prince, so Handan should be easy to take.

Under the great temptation to take Handan, Wang Ben believed that as long as he could capture Handan, it would mean that the Zhao State would no longer exist, and as soon as the Zhao State disappeared, only Qi Yan remained, and the threat of the coalition forces would be minimized. Moreover, even if Handan cannot be captured, as long as a siege is formed, it will inevitably force Zhao Wangxi to lead the army to come to the rescue, which is equivalent to helping Fusu remove a great threat. Under two considerations, Wang Ben went to Xianyang. Under the vague instruction of the Xianyang Center to "act cheaply", despite Meng Tian's repeated requests, he led 80,000 Qin troops to Handan.

There is a mountain range in the west of Handan, in later generations this mountain range is called "Taihang Mountain", Wang Ben's mind to capture Handan is too eager, and he also thinks that the Zhao army will not be fortified after a big defeat, the result is that when he led the army into the mountain range, he encountered an ambush by Wuchen, lost more than 3,000 people and withdrew from the mountain range, but when he reorganized the attack, he found that the Zhao army led by Wuchen ran away.

It's been a toss. Wang Ben had recovered some of his senses, but it was impossible for him to give up his intention to approach Handan.

"The Huguan defended by 100,000 people has been conquered, does the military minister want to use less than 20,000 remnants of the army to defeat the generals and rely on just a mountain range with complex terrain to stop me?" Wang Ben's expression is not indispensable, he is just telling a fact.

Although only two thousand years apart. But the current Taihang Mountain and the future generations will definitely not be the same, just like the two thousand years of the Yellow River constantly diverted, although the mountain range will not move, but the appearance can not be the same.

Today's Taihang Mountain is within less than sixty miles of the capital of Zhao, and the Zhao royal family has been trying their best to develop their territory for so many years. Taihang Mountain's efforts in development are not small. There are many county towns around this mountain range, and there are not many villages in the mountain because there are too many people moving around. It's impossible to be desolate, as long as it's not desolate, it's definitely not a dangerous situation, so if you open the map, at least you can't see the sign about Taihang Mountain between the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Wang Ben was cautious, and the military ministers had no chance to ambush, after all, the Qin army was nearly 80,000 people, and in this era when it was not relying on firearms, ambush warfare was not about shooting at each other from afar, but on hand-to-hand combat.

In the same way, because it is a hand-to-hand combat and its own morale is not very good, what "the enemy retreats and I advance, and the enemy enters and disturbs me" cannot be played, and the remnants of the defeated army of less than 20,000 Wuchen can only retreat after losing their suddenness.

Simply when the Qin army attacked Huguan, the surrounding Zhao State Qianshou had fled to Handan, and the military ministers could only assist Chang'er to consolidate the city defense after retreating to Handan, Wang Ben finally approached the city of Handan, but in the face of the insistence that resistance had been organized, relying on the 80,000 Qin army would never be able to attack.

When Wang Ben was entangled with the Zhao army with his partial division, the grassland Hu people who came in autumn went south again, and they broke into the north of Zhao as if they were in a no-man's land, and turned to Qin without the slightest hesitation.

After all, what Meng Tian least wanted happened, although he urgently recruited people to build Wucheng, but the labor force of the Qin State had long been exhausted, even if the Qin army acted as an engineering team to step up construction, it was impossible to build a defense line like the Heshuo area in a hurry.

In order to establish at least one defensive line in the rear, even if he knew that it was very dangerous to fight with 300,000 Hu people, Meng Tian could only lead the assembled 80,000 Qin troops to the old Great Wall of Zhao to garrison.

The so-called old Great Wall of Zhao is naturally to resist the southern invasion of the grassland Hu people Zhao State built the Great Wall in the past dynasties, these Great Walls are actually some very long rammed earth walls, the highest is only about two zhang, and because most of the Great Wall is not built in a dangerous area, its defensive nature......

Because of the relationship of disrepair, when Meng Tian led the army to the old Zhao Great Wall, what he saw was a ruined wall, and this time he wanted to rely on the old Great Wall, which had no defensive nature, and there was nothing to rely on to lead the army, so he could only hurry up and build a camp.

Fortunately, Meng Tian guessed in advance that the Hu people would invade from the north of Zhaodi, and chose the main road to build a camp in advance, and just when Meng Tian's camp had an outline, nearly 300,000 grassland Hu people came.

It will take at least two months for the rear to build the first line of defense, which means that Meng Tian will need less than 70,000 men to hold out for at least two months, and he will still defend under an almost field shape, which is a bit hanging no matter how you look at it.

Who is Meng Tian? He is known as the "No. 1 Warrior in China", and the warrior here does not mean how brave he is, but his ability to lead troops is quite strong. A commander with a strong ability to lead troops is destined to do enough to prepare the matters before the start of the war, and the 70,000 Qin army carried a lot of various crossbow machines, and the arrows carried were also terrifying, and it was under such a premise that the 70,000 Qin army relied on the imperfect camp to firmly block the nearly 300,000 Hu people near Mayi.

Under the leadership of Meng Tian, the Great Wall Legion, which was short of troops, managed to block Huma's southward movement, but Wang Ben still took his partial division to nail under Handan City without moving. One has to wonder if the contradiction between Montessori and Wang has been so strict that it ignores the interests of the country?

As Zhao Wangxie of Chenjun knew that the Qin army had attacked Handan City and retreated with his troops, Meng Tian also temporarily blocked the grassland Hu people, and the criticism against Wang Ben disappeared.

Zhao Wang Xie was deeply afraid that Handan would lose and lead the army back to defense, before the combined forces of Qi, Yan, and Zhao had been fighting fiercely with Qin's Central Plains Army for nearly a year, and the total number of troop losses on both sides had reached nearly 600,000, but the impact on other aspects was difficult to estimate.

Under the huge casualties brought by more than eight months of fierce fighting, the Qin army was still high because it was the superior side and the morale of the prince Fu Su supervised the army, but the situation of the coalition forces of Qi, Yan and Zhao was due to successive defeats.

Fusu did not vigorously pursue the collapsed coalition army, he adopted a relatively conservative approach, allowing Xu Yan to lead the army to re-defend Sanchuan County, and also digest the Dangjun County occupied in the early stage, and personally led 200,000 Qin troops back to the north to aid northern Xinjiang.

It's over, and the war of more than two million people is shouting "pause" in this way, which makes Lu Zhe's side simply unwilling.

It was almost a year of war that brought unimaginable benefits to Lu Zhe's side, they had been hoping that this war could go on endlessly, how could it end so early!

The prediction was wrong, not only Lu Zhe, but many people made the wrong prediction, and the result was that the war in Chen County ended too quickly, but they were not ready to send troops to the north, and the pre-prepared plan was not deployed well because the war between Qin and Qi, Yan, and Zhao ended too suddenly, and they could only watch the coalition army retreat and the Qin army retreat.

What puzzled Lu Zhe's side the most? It's the Qin State that runs away in arrears! The materials that were going to be transported to Qi Yanzhao could not be delivered because the coalition forces fled too quickly!

It's a breach of the business contract! Lu Zhe was stunned for a while and had nothing to say, some counties and counties that are fully engaged in production capacity can only be purchased by the center, and the treasury is full of purchases, otherwise the accelerated development of people's livelihood will inevitably be frustrated, and the consequences will be miserable.

Because of the lack of corresponding preparations, it is impossible to raise troops to the north at this stage, so the plan must be changed. At the same time, because Qin, Qi, Yan, and Zhao did not shed enough blood in that battle, they made a good plan to easily sweep the Central Plains and Qin.

While sending people to Qin to collect debts, Lu Zhe's side could only think of how to make the great war continue to break out among the nations...... (To be continued......)