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Chapter 185: The Last Days of Handan (3)

The autumn scenery is about to end, and the earth is desolate. Looking around, there are only bleak grass and trees left on the boundless land.

The cold north wind blew, making people shivered.

Even at this time, the climate in the Central Plains was generally warmer, and the winter in the north of the Dahe River was still much colder than in the south.

Ten days have passed since the Qin army besieged the city.

It was said that it was a besieged city, but in fact the Qin army only blocked the city gates in the north and south directions. The Qin cavalry often patroled and cruised. When they met the Zhao people who wanted to enter Handan or the Zhao people who fled from Handan, they would shoot and kill them and drove the remaining people back to Handan City.

However, there were few people in the Qin army, and there were still fish that missed the net. Seeing that the situation was not good, they fled from Handan, a big ship that seemed to be silent.

"You must hit Handan before the first snow. Otherwise, it will be difficult to use troops when heavy snow spills over the earth."

Meng Tian rode a horse and stayed on a high ground, tightening her body under the north wind.

Most of the grain stored in Handan was transferred to the front line army. The remaining grain was added to the tens of thousands of mouths from Quliang City, and it should have been almost consumed.

Lin Biao used the residents in the city to consume the food in the city. When he attacked Changchun City, he used this method to perfection. Historically, when the Mongols attacked other countries, they often used this method.

It’s just a pity that a group of innocent Zhao people will die, a damn war.

Meng Tian looked at the bleak city of Handan, frowned, and his eyes became firm.

It's time to pick the fruits of victory!

"Transfer news to Jing Su and ask him to arrange for me to meet with Guo."

"The general really wants to meet Guo?"

When Meng Tian heard Meng Tian's words, Meng Hu was shocked and almost fell off the horse's back.

"It's too unreasonable for Guo Kai to ask the general to meet him in Handan City. If Guo Kaixin had malicious intentions, the general would be in danger..."

Meng Hu held the horse and followed Meng Tian, ​​and persuaded Meng Tian to dispel this crazy idea.

On the battlefield, we met with the enemy. During the Spring and Autumn Period, many beautiful talks were circulated. Shang Yang led his army to attack Gongzi Ze. After secretly capturing Gongzi Ze in the name of peace talks, he led soldiers and generals from various countries. When he heard the name of peace talks, he felt like he was facing a great enemy.

During the Spring and Autumn Period, the Qin people were very honest and often deceived the Jin people. After Shang Yang's reform, many Jin people entered Qin as officials. When dealing with the six countries, the Qin people began to use their power and strategy, and they were better than the blue.

The people of Jin often detained envoys from other countries, but when King Zhaoxiang of Qin was in power, he played a big deal and actually detained the king of Chu, King Huai of Chu.

The Qin people themselves did this behavior, of course they would not believe that the Zhao people would become Qin people in the Spring and Autumn Period. They were obviously deceived, but they would still earnestly follow their previous promises.

"Guo Kai intends to surrender to Qin. If I don't show up, it will not be able to dispel his doubts. Now, Qin is strong and Zhao is in danger. Even without me, Meng Tian, ​​the old general Wang will face the city of Handan. Guo Kai takes me and will not change the end of Zhao's declining fortune."

Meng Tian waved his hand and signaled Meng Hu not to continue persuading him. His determination was made.

The news from Jing Su was very clear, and Guo Kai pointed out that he would negotiate with the Qin army leader.

Guo Kai, who was able to be the Prime Minister of Zhao State, was favored by Zhao Qian, but people who reached this point were definitely not useless.

Guo Kai should have seen the situation between Qin and Zhao very clearly.

As for whether Guo Kai had any ideas that were unfavorable to Meng Tian, ​​Meng Tian was not sure, but Meng Tian was more willing to take a gamble than the Handan City in front of him.

"How can you get a tiger's son if you don't enter the tiger's den!"

The Qin army camp outside the south gate of Handan is a different scene.

The soldiers looked at the tall city walls of Handan and showed a hint of confusion on their faces.

"What? The siege is still not going well?"

Seeing Li Xin leading his soldiers back to the barracks, with a haggard and gloomy face, Huan He couldn't help but feel nervous.

"There is a lack of large-scale siege equipment and insufficient preparation. I finally attacked the city, but I could not support it in time and gained a foothold in the city."

Li Xin took off his helmet, wiped his sweaty face with a facial towel, and shook his head helplessly.

For several consecutive days, the Qin army tentatively siege the city, causing a lot of losses in vain, but there was no progress at all.

Looking back on the battles these days, Li Xin's head was as big as a numb person. In the past, he was used to leading the chariots and cavalry troops and charged rapidly. He suddenly faced a strong city and needed him to command the attack, so he couldn't help but feel a little busy.

"Has Meng Tian's Qin army started to attack the city?" Huan asked.

"Meng Tian led his army to restrain him, but did not attack the city in large quantities."

Li Xin looked at Huan He with his eyes and felt a little funny. Before he reached the city of Handan, Huan He wished Meng Tian would take the lead in attacking the city, and he was bleeding. But when he arrived at the city of Handan, he saw that Meng Tian did not take the lead in attacking the city, Huan He could not hold back his anger and could not hold back, so he first launched an attack on Handan City.

"Does this kid rushed to the city of Handan just to act like a show, or wait for the elder General Wang to come and solve the tough bones of Handan?"

The first idea of ​​invading Handan City always tempted Huan.

Wang Jian's army was fighting with Li Mu's army at this time, and it was impossible to advance for a while. If he could conquer Handan alone, Huan He would certainly not want to miss such an opportunity.

"Send someone to urge Meng Tian to attack the city. Also, it is cold and the land is frozen, and our army has not much food. Let Meng Tian allocate some of the food to our army...."

The Qin army's offensive temporarily stopped, and the calm in Handan City returned to its original state.

In order to celebrate the victory, Zhao Qian asked the palace musician to arrange a singing and dancing performance to reward the ministers who stayed in Handan.

"Prime Minister, why do I look a little worried when I look at the Prime Minister?"

After returning to the study room of the Prime Minister's Mansion, Guo Kai, who looked kind and smiling, suddenly became frown and restless.

Guo Kai's sanctuary has been following Guo Kai for some time. When he was still in the palace, he found that Guo Kai was full of worries.

"The king of Qin, don't be young, but the will to destroy Zhao is extremely strong."

Guo Kai sighed. Guo Kai, the king of Qin in Xianyang Palace, had met several times in Handan. But he didn't expect that the little prince of Qin who was personally sent back by Zhao has now become the gravedigger of Zhao.

"When King Qin was in Handan when he was a child, he was humiliated. Pingyuan Jun ordered the destruction of the entire family of the Queen Mother of Qin. With this hatred, if the King of Qin did not destroy Zhao, I am afraid he would not stop!"

"When it comes to this young King of Qin, it's really not easy. At a young age, he took back the power from Lu Buwei, Lao Ai, and Empress Dowager Zhao. Compared to our King of Zhao, one is on the earth and the other is on the sky."

The Sheren stayed in the Prime Minister's Mansion for a long time and had a lot of information. The more he knew about the Qin King, the more shocked the Sheren felt.

According to Confucianism, is there really a so-called born saint in this world?

Guo Kai leaned on the soft collapse, half-closing his eyes. Thinking of Zhao Cong, Yan Ju had already followed Zhao Qian's order to go to the front line to replace Li Mu, so he had no doubts again:

"Wei Zhong, I plan to surrender to the Qin army in secret. What do you think?"
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