But after two days of continuous discussion, no result was discussed, because the battle situation in the past few days was too weird, the defenders had been exhausted, and somehow they suddenly became excited, as if they had been beaten with chicken blood, and their combat effectiveness exploded, completely disrupting Wang Ben's plan. According to Wang Ben's plan, it should be like Handan has launched a formal attack in the next few days.

In fact, during this period of war, the Three Kingdoms Alliance not only lost more than 100,000 troops, but also very tired, just because of the large number of soldiers, soldiers can take turns to fight, and the Three Kingdoms Alliance is the attacking side after all, in this kind of siege warfare, it has the initiative advantage, so it is better not to be vigilant like the defenders all the time. To put it bluntly, the two sides are fighting to see who can consume whom, and in this regard, the Three Kingdoms Alliance obviously has an advantage over the Han and Qin Alliance, and if it takes a long time, the Three Kingdoms Alliance has a much greater chance of winning.

But now the defenders somehow, suddenly their spirits were lifted, and the progress of the war greatly surprised Wang Ben, although Wang Ben also knew that this kind of explosive morale could not last long, but he could not calculate accurately, how long was this "not long"? Is it two or three days or five or six days? Or is it more than ten days? It's all possible. And in the meantime, what can the Triple Alliance do? Will you continue the offensive, or will you stand still for the time being?

If you continue to attack, of course, you can speed up the morale of the defenders, but your own military morale is also depleting. Although standing still can reduce their losses and give them time to rest and recover, the defenders can also get a chance to breathe, and in a sense, the defenders actually need more time than the Triple Alliance.

Therefore, Wang Ben only felt that it was a dilemma, and it was not possible to continue to fight, nor was it to not fight.

Today, after another day of deliberation, but there was no result, Wang Ben had no choice but to order the meeting to be dismissed, and the countermeasures would be discussed again tomorrow.

Coming out of Wang Ben's big tent of the Chinese army, Lu Xiuhong also felt very depressed, and had a feeling of having nowhere to bear, but he did not go back to his tent to rest, but came to Sang Qingti's big tent and informed Sang Qingti of the content of today's meeting.

Although Sang Qingti is the actual commander of the Jiuli army, she is a woman after all, and the army of the Jiuli tribe is subordinate to the Qi army in name, so Sang Qingti does not attend a military meeting of this kind of coalition army, but after Lu Xiuhong participates, he will tell her.

After listening to Lu Xiuhong's speech, Sang Qingyuan frowned slightly and said: "Although I don't know much about military affairs, if the morale of an army is suddenly greatly improved, it should be basically due to two factors, one is the arrival of reinforcements; Second, we have received the news of victory on another front, and although we do not say that we are encircling Handan, our troops are guarding all roads leading to Handan, and it is impossible for the brigade to go through Guò without detection, so the possibility of reinforcements can basically be ruled out. ”

Lu Xiuhong was stunned for a moment, and said: "You mean that the plateau raid on Xianyang has been won, and the news has reached Handan, so the morale of the defenders has been boosted." ”

Sang Qingti said: "This is not necessarily, maybe the defenders deliberately spread the news in order to improve their military morale, it is also possible, but the battle on the Xianyang side is the key to this battle, and I always have a bad premonition, when was the last time we received news from Xianyang." ”

Lu Xiuhong silently calculated in his heart before he said, "It was twelve days ago." ”

Sang Qingti frowned slightly, and said: "I remember the news from Xianyang before, the interval was only about five or seven days, even if it was a little later, it would not be more than ten days, this time it was more than twelve days, I'm afraid something happened." ”

Lu Xiuhong said: "Even if the letter is a few days late, it is normal, maybe it was delayed on the road, and the interval of twelve days is not the most, I remember the most one with an interval of sixteen days, and another time with an interval of thirteen days, so this time the interval of twelve days is not an accident." ”

Sang Qingti said disdainfully: "I remember that the second time, the thirteen-day one was at the beginning of the war, and the military situation at that time was not urgent, so it was reasonable to take a longer time, and the sixteenth day was because of an accident in the middle of the transmission, which caused the death of the person who paid the burden to transmit the military information, and the military information was lost, and the result was one less in the middle, it was purely an accident, and now whether it is Xianyang or Handan, it is an emergency time of war, and the military situation should be very urgent, and there can not be so many accidents. For such a long time, there has been no military intelligence from Xianyang, which is naturally due to another reason. ”

After a pause, Sang Qingti said again: "And this time I didn't guess, what was the content of the Xianyang military information we received last time, you should know very well." ”

When Lu Xiuhong heard this, he couldn't help but lower his head, smiled bitterly, and said: "I didn't expect that Plateau and Hehua would have such a big boldness, obviously they raided Xianyang, but they made a big splash on the road, made a big noise, and did not hide their whereabouts at all, and they actually recruited nearly 100,000 Qin troops. ”

Sang Qingti said lightly: "What's so strange about this, if you want to blame it, you can only blame Han Teng for going too far, not only killing all the children of Qin Wangzheng who stayed in Xianyang, but even the Ying clan will not let go, you must know that the Qin State has been deeply rooted for more than 500 years, and it has won the hearts of the people, how can it be shaken lightly, if Han Teng occupies Xianyang, find a son of Qin Wangzheng to be the puppet King of Qin, and then take the opportunity to appease the people's hearts and control all parts of the Qin State, even if it is a detour from the north to attack Xianyang, The chance of success will not be greater than thirty percent, and Han Teng's approach is not clearly difficult to get along with the Qin people? As a result, Hehua just recruited Qin people in the name of the princess of Qin, and received the response and support of 100,000 Qin troops, and the two great elders were in Xianyang, and they didn't stop it, and let Han Teng come to Hu, I really don't know what they all think. ”

Although Sang Qingyuan's accusatory words included Feng Bo and Yushi, Lu Xiuhong was speechless, because it turned out that Sang Qingyuan was not wrong, but everyone in the Jiuli clan was too optimistic at that time, including Lu Xiuhong, they didn't take Han Teng's wanton massacre of Qin Wangzheng's children and the behavior of the Ying clan seriously, and now they finally paid for the consequences.

However, the matter has already happened, of course Lu Xiuhong can't argue with Sang Qingyuan about the rights and wrongs of Han Teng's behavior, but he just said: "Even if Plateau and Hehua have collected more than 100,000 Qin troops, but the elite of the Qin army is in Handan, so they are only the second- and third-rate troops of the Qin State, with limited combat effectiveness, and the high walls of Xianyang City are thick, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and Plateau and Hehua may not be able to win." ”

Sang Qingyuan nodded and said: "Yes, I thought so at the beginning, so I didn't care too much, but from now on, there has been no military information from Xianyang for twelve days, I'm afraid something really happened, you must know that underestimating the ability of the plateau, but you will have to suffer a lot." ”

After listening to Sang Qingyuan's words, Lu Xiuhong couldn't help but pay attention to it, and said, "According to what you said, something must have happened in Xianyang?" ”

Sang Qingyuan said: "I'm not sure how big something happened, but the war is unfavorable is obvious, so it's best for us here to take precautions and prepare for the withdrawal of troops?" ”

Lu Xiuhong said: "Withdraw the army? ”

Sang Qingyuan said: "Yes, once Xianyang is lost, unless we can conquer Handan immediately, maybe there is capital to compete with the plateau, if we fail to conquer Handan, it means that we have completely lost this battle, so we should immediately withdraw the army, retreat to Daliang, preserve strength, and then use Daliang as a base, concentrate the strength of Qi and Chu, and compete with the plateau, in this way, our Jiuli clan still has a chance of thirty percent, if we continue to attack Handan, even one percent is not." ”

Lu Xiuhong said: "It won't be so little, we still have Qi and Chu now, and hundreds of thousands of elite troops of Qin, and even if the plateau captures Xianyang, it is not equivalent to controlling the entire Qin State, and now that the elite troops of Qin are here, the plateau cannot use the power of Qin at all, so we can continue to attack Handan, as long as we can capture Handan, even if the war in Xianyang is unfavorable, the situation will not fall to such an unbearable point." ”

Sang Qingyuan shook her head and said: "Gao Yuan is not Han Teng, he will not mess around like Han Teng, this time in Qin, he played the banner of avenging Qin Wangzheng, and has recovered the hearts of some Qin people, and Han Teng killed Qin Wangzheng's children and the clan of Qin State, not only buried himself, but also helped Gao Yuan, because the current Qin State has not been able to find a person who is expected to succeed the King of Qin, so as long as Gao Yuan is married to Hehua, he can be an in-law. You can completely control the Qin State in a short period of time, although the elite troops of the Qin State are here, but their families are all in the territory of the Qin State, as long as the plateau controls the Qin State, our Qin army here will inevitably surrender to the plateau in large numbers, but become the help of the plateau, and then the plateau can gather the strength of the Qin and the two countries to compete with us, the national strength of the two countries of Qi and Chu may not be inferior to the two countries of the Qin Dynasty, but in terms of military strength, it is far inferior, not to mention that there is such a plateau as a soldier to unify the army, In this way, do you think that our Jiuli clan can still get the opportunity of the world, and can exceed thirty percent? ”

When Lu Xiuhong heard this, he couldn't help but be speechless, so he had to say: "Okay, but the matter of withdrawing the army is related to the heavy dà, and it will affect the whole body, we must not act rashly at this time, and this qiē is just speculation, after all, we don't know the detailed news from Xianyang yet, so let's wait for the news from Xianyang to come." ”

Sang Qingyuan was about to speak again, only to see Sang Zaichi open the tent curtain, don't do not walk in, and said: "The spies have just reported and found that an army has come from the west, all cavalry, and is camped forty miles northwest of us. ”