"Forty-five thousand seven hundred and twenty-three soldiers were killed, twenty-seven thousand two hundred and fifty-seven wounded, one hundred ,eight hundred and seventy-five thousand were conscripted for civilian service, twenty-seven thousand three hundred and fifty-three were killed, and sixteen thousand three hundred and eighty-one wounded; 33,700 horses were killed, 17,900 were wounded, and 52,500 cattle, donkeys, sheep, and livestock; 1,757 chariots destroyed; Three million eight hundred and eighty-three thousand seven hundred stone of grain were consumed, two million fifty-five thousand stones of forage, two hundred and twenty-three thousand five hundred horses of cloth, three hundred and thirty-four thousand two hundred spears, one hundred hundred and seventy-two thousand four hundred, one hundred and twenty-seven thousand three hundred halberds, one hundred hundred thousand one hundred thousand swords, seventy-two thousand five hundred bows, twenty-five thousand two hundred crossbows, and one fifteen,250 thousand arrows. 87,500 pieces of heavy armor and 182,800 pieces of leather armor......"

Listening to this series of boring figures, but none of the ministers present showed any reluctance, and everyone listened attentively to every number, but when they heard a number, the corners of many ministers' eyes would involuntarily twitch, because these numbers were so amazing.

“…… A total of 14,785 gold were dismantled. After Qin Wangzheng's confidant Zhao Gao read out the last sentence, the entire hall was silent, and no one spoke for a long time.

After a long while, I heard Qin Wangzheng's voice say, "All kinds of materials, how much is left in my Qin country?" ”

Wang Juan said: "Back to the king, the rest of all the materials are less than sixty percent, and some of the materials are more than thirty percent. ”

Qin Wangzheng pondered for a while before he said, "Do you think this battle can go on again?" ”

Wang Juan immediately said: "Back to the king, the minister thinks that this battle can not be fought anymore, it is better to collect the troops as soon as possible, and if you continue to fight, even if you can win, at most it will be the result of a Changping battle, and my Qin State can only achieve a crushing victory, the treasury is exhausted, and the vitality is greatly damaged." And once lost, for my Qin State, it is a broken muscle, if the five eastern countries form a joint anti-Qin country, then our Qin State is in danger, so please also ask me Wang to think twice. ”

The imperial historian Feng Zheng also came out of the ranks, and said: "The king, the minister thinks that the words of the prime minister Wang are reasonable, and now the Zhao army has Li Mu in charge, this person's skill in using troops is by no means under the white rise, although General Wang is the first general of my Great Qin, but from the time of this half a year, he has made no achievements on the front line, and his ability is far inferior to Li Mu......"

Before he finished his words, Wei Yu had already hurriedly interrupted his words and said, "Great King, now that General Wang has done his best, if he had changed to other leaders, my Qin army would have been defeated long ago." ”

Feng Zai said: "Lieutenant, I didn't say that General Wang didn't do his best, but General Wang's ability to use troops is far less than Li Mu, this is always a fact, not to mention that now Li Mu has a plateau around him, this person is training a strong army for the Zhao army, and offering strange schemes, and his ability is probably not under Li Mu, with these two people, my Qin State will be able to defeat Zhao Yu, so the battle of Chen Cai Jian can no longer be fought." ”

At this time, it was the end of August, and the war between Qin and Zhao had been going on for more than half a year, and during this time, the Qin army had suffered more than one percent of the troops, and consumed a large amount of military supplies, but the situation on the battlefield had not made any progress, and Wang Jian was still firmly blocked by Li Mu to the west of Jingcheng, and it was difficult to take a step forward to the east. And now they are still building fortresses in order to keep their own logistical supply lines, and they still need a lot of supplies. With the strong national strength of the Qin State, at this time, I also felt a little difficult.

Although during the battle of Qin-Zhao Changping, the Qin State had been resisting for three years, in this war, the Qin State dispatched more troops and consumed more; The battlefield was farther than the Battle of Changping, and the logistics line of the Qin State was stretched longer; As a result, there are more supplies that need to be supplied. In addition, there is another important reason, that is, the operation launched by the plateau to attack the Qin army's supply line, and nearly thirty percent of the materials consumed by the Qin State were destroyed by the Zhao army. If there was no action on the plateau, the Qin State would have been better off.

And now the Qin State has also collected accurate information, the super powerful cavalry and infantry troops in the Zhao army were all trained by the plateau, and the military operation to attack the Qin state's Jiji line was also commanded by the plateau to Li Mujin. After learning this news, it also made the Qin State pay attention to the plateau, after all, these two points are important factors that caused the Qin army to be so passive now, and it can also be said that if the Zhao army did not have the plateau, the Qin army might not be so passive.

Therefore, within the court of the Qin State, some people also began to issue that this battle could not be fought anymore, and this voice also became more and more passive in the Qin State as the Qin army became more and more passive on the battlefield. Qin Wangzheng also had to gather the main ministers to discuss whether this battle could be fought again.

Prime Minister Wang Juan and Lang Zhong ordered Feng to get sick, and the imperial envoy Feng Zai all believed that this battle should not be fought again, and the national lieutenant Wei Yu, as well as Yao Jia and Dun Weak, all advocated that when the battle reached this point, they could only grit their teeth and insist, and they must not stop.

Just now, Wei Yi couldn't wait to interrupt Feng Zheng's words, and after Feng Zheng finished speaking, Wei Yi immediately said: "King, now that my Qin State has consumed a lot of manpower and material resources for this battle, how can I give up halfway, I can only continue to persevere." What's more, our Qin State consumes a huge amount, and Zhao State is no better there, Li Mu only has one county, how can he fight with my Qin State for national strength, now Shandong countries, only Zhao State still has the strength to fight, as long as Zhao State is defeated, other countries are not worried, so we must not count a qiē, we must fight hard with Zhao State. ”

Feng Qu hurriedly said: "Guowei, it's still too late to stop now, if you continue to hold on, what if you lose this battle, you must know that Li Mu has defeated my Qin State twice." If we lose this battle again, it will take at least twenty years for our Qin State to recover again. It is better to collect troops and return to China now, and take Wei and Chu first, and then turn back to destroy Zhao after all the countries are destroyed. ”

In fact, whether he can win the war if he continues to fight, Wei Yu has no bottom in his heart, but this time the battle of Zhao was planned by him, a total of 500,000 troops were invested, five generals were dispatched, and a lot of manpower and material resources were consumed.

After listening to Feng Zheng's words, Wei Yu immediately said: "If you withdraw your troops now and attack other countries instead, wouldn't you give up halfway?" So aren't all the manpower, material and financial resources we have consumed before wasted? What's more, even if we attack other countries instead, Zhao will be so difficult that he will sit idly by and sit idly by? Don't forget, since the Battle of Changping, Zhao has been the first to attack Qin. For example, this time, as soon as the Qin army withdraws, Li Mu's name will be as good as the sky, if he comes forward to call for all countries to join forces, Wei, Chu, Yan, and Qi will respond, and then Li Mu will command the five-nation alliance to attack our Qin country, not to mention attacking other countries, it is difficult to say whether it can be guaranteed as the land east of Hangu Pass. ”

Listening to the rhetoric between the ministers, Qin Wangzheng was also a little dilemma at this time, from his heart, of course, he didn't want to withdraw the army, one is that Zhao is the biggest opponent of Qin, as long as Zhao is eliminated, the other four countries are indeed not to worry, and secondly, Qin Wangzheng's selfishness, because before the age of ten, Qin Wangzheng and his mother Zhao Ji have been detained in Zhao as a hostage, although they have no worries about food and clothing, but they have also been bullied by many Zhao magnates, Qin Wangzheng of course hopes that after the destruction of Zhao, he will come to Handan as a conqueror, looked at the magnates of Zhao State, who had bullied their mother and son back then, kneeling in front of him, begging for mercy. Of course, in the end, Qin Wangzheng would never forgive them.

But the current situation is really not optimistic, when the battle of Changping, the Qin State only achieved a disastrous victory, the national strength was greatly damaged, the vitality was greatly damaged, and then three attacks on Handan, and twice was defeated by the Xinling Jun to form a joint column, the land east of Hangu Pass was almost lost, and it took more than 20 years to recover. This is also due to the fact that Qin has the rich land of Bashu.

And now the six eastern countries no longer have the strength to compete with the Qin state, Qin Wangzheng after the pro-government, more ambitious, to annex the six countries, unify the world, and build a career far beyond the ancestors of the Qin dynasty. And just last year, the Qin State destroyed Korea, opening a good start for the unification of the world, this time it is almost to launch the power of the country, and want to destroy the Zhao State in one fell swoop, then the goal of unifying the world is half completed, but if another disastrous victory like the Battle of Changping is achieved, of course, it is the result that Qin Wangzheng does not want to see.

Therefore, Qin Wangzheng really felt in a dilemma at this time, and he didn't know how to decide.

At this moment, Li Si, the court lieutenant, came out of the ranks and said: "King, Nanyang pretends to guard Han Teng to play the imperial court, and is willing to lead the headquarters of 5,000 troops to enter Zhao to participate in the war." And after entering Zhao, he has his own strategy to break Zhao. ”

Qin Wangzheng was also slightly stunned, although Han Teng broke through Xinzheng, the capital of South Korea, with 5,000 troops, and made the first contribution to destroying Han, but after all, South Korea is the weakest country among the Seven Heroes, and Han Teng is a Korean clan, and he has a lot of connections in Korea, so it is difficult to say how much he really has the ability to use troops. Moreover, after Han Teng destroyed Han, when Han Wang'an and more than 30,000 people from the Korean clan were all killed, this also caused many Qin ministers to slander. After all, after Bai Qi, all the people in the Qin State were very disgusted by the large-scale killing of prisoners.

Although Qin Wangzheng didn't care too much about Han Teng's behavior, he couldn't ignore the voices of the ministers, so he let Han Teng garrison in Nanyang instead of letting him return to Xianyang, which also had this consideration. Otherwise, with Han Teng's exploits in destroying Han, how could he be promoted to the rank of a general and serve in Xianyang.

But now that Han Teng is playing, saying that he has a strategy to break Zhao, in the current situation, Qin Wangzheng can't be unmoved, so he nodded and said: "Okay, immediately recruit Han Teng into Xianyang, and the widow wants to ask him face to face, what strategy does he have to break Zhao." ”