Zhao Weiwang in the Warring States Period

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As long as it was a frontal consumption with the defenders in Handan City, Wei Wuji was right at all.

Because Wei Wuji knew very well in his heart that when it comes to the combat effectiveness on the frontal battlefield, Wei Jun is definitely far better than Zhao Jun in Handan City.

Regardless of the fact that the two sides are evenly matched at the gap these days and even Zhao Jun can often gain some upper hand, but Wei Wuji knows very well that this is because there are still tens of thousands of soldiers from the Central Army of Zhao State in the city.

These Central Army soldiers undoubtedly belonged to the elite of Zhao State, but the problem is that there are not many elite Zhao State in Handan City, only tens of thousands.

As long as all the tens of thousands of Zhao Guo's elite can be wiped out, then Handan City will be a fish on the chopping board, and Wei Wuji can slaughter it whatever he wants.

Once Handan City is breached, it will definitely be an out-and-out serious setback for Zhao Guo.In this way, it is no longer an unattainable goal for Wei Guo to step on Zhao Guo's head to regain the throne of the current overlord.

Of course, it is certainly impossible for Zhao Guo to decline from the world's most powerful country overnight just by relying on this battle to break Handan.

But what is certain is that as long as Handan is breached, Zhao will inevitably decline after the myth of invincibility is broken, just like Wei, Qi, Chu and even Qin back then.

At this moment, in Wei Wuji's sight, thousands of Wei soldiers were rushing towards Handan City in front of him like a tide, launching wave after wave of fierce attacks.

The killing sound shook the sky, and the gunpowder smoke billowed.

Wei Wuji's confidant general Zhong Chengcheng stood beside Wei Wuji, this young generation of Wei Guowei's eyes were full of eagerness at the moment, looking at Wei Wuji from time to time, as if he wanted to get an order to attack from Wei Wuji's mouth.

But unfortunately, Zhong Cheng waited for half an hour and did not get any instructions from Wei Wuji at all.

Zhong Cheng finally couldn't help but said: "General, please let the last general lead the elite soldiers of Wei to fight, and he will definitely be able to break the city in one battle!"

Wei Wuji shook his head slowly when he heard Zhong Cheng's words.

"No."

Zhong Cheng was anxious: "Why?"

Wei Wuji let out a sigh of relief, and said: "Although Handan is crumbling, the soldiers and civilians in the city are still united. If our whole army presses down, it is true that we can break the city, but our army will also suffer heavy casualties. .”

Zhong Cheng said anxiously: "General, if Handan City can be breached, why can't some casualties be acceptable?"

In Zhong Cheng's view, if Handan could really be broken through, let alone a few thousand more people died, so what if one hundred and eighty thousand people died?

This is the capital of Zhao, the most powerful country in the world. Isn't it worth paying more casualties to break through such a powerful city?

Wei Wuji turned his head, took a look at the most daring general under his command, and said, "Now those who are guarding the gap are all the elite veterans of the Zhao Kingdom, let's wait for a few days until all the veterans of the Zhao Kingdom are killed or injured. After that, you can lead your army to launch an offensive and capture Handan City in one fell swoop!"

Zhong Chengdao: "But now Daliang City has also been besieged. If we can't break through Handan City as soon as possible, I'm afraid Daliang City will be defeated."

Zhong Cheng didn't continue, but Wei Wuji obviously understood.

Lord Xinling shook his head lightly, and said: "Don't worry, Zhao Jun has surrounded Daliang City for less than a month now, such a short period of time is not enough to break through Daliang City. In a few days, Daliang City is still Can wait."

Wei Wuji actually didn't tell Zhong Cheng what he really thought in his heart.

Wei Wuji's idea is actually very simple, that is, Handan City must be broken, but the premise of breaking the city is that the strength of Wei's army cannot be lost too much.

Don't forget that it is not only the Wei State that is surrounding Handan City and fighting with the Zhao State, but also the Qi State!

If Wei Wuji suffered heavy losses in the siege battle because he invested too much troops, how would Wei Wuji, who lost his troops and generals, share the spoils with the surviving general of the Qi army Kuang Liang after the city was broken?

For things like dividing up the loot, whoever has the stronger army must get more things!

Therefore, when victory is not certain, Wei Wuji can invest in troops to attack at all costs, but now that victory is in sight, Wei Wuji must consider the issue of casualties.

In fact, Wei Wuji felt that as long as Kuang Liang, the general of the Qi State who was in charge of attacking the west and north of Handan City, was not a fool, then Kuang Liang's actions would probably be the same as Wei Wuji's.

Of course, there is absolutely no need for Wei Wuji to tell Zhong Cheng about such thoughts.

But no matter what, Lord Xinling felt that the overall situation of this war was settled.

The cheerful Lord Xinling didn't notice that a few miles away to the south, a messenger from the Kingdom of Wei was driving his horse under his crotch towards the camp of the Wei army where Wei Wuji was.

That was the messenger from Daliang City.

Chapter 448 Urgent Report, Sad Report

After saying this, Wei Wuji didn't pay attention to Zhong Cheng, who was very upset, but looked at Handan City in front of him.

As we all know, Zhao Guo, South Korea and Wei Guo all came from Jin Guo, so they are also called the Three Jins.

But there is actually competition between the three Jins. Wei has always been the well-deserved leading brother among the three Jins, but as time goes by, Wei gradually declines, while Zhao slowly rises.

No matter how much Wei Guo suppresses, no matter how unwilling to accept it, it must admit the fact that Zhao Guo is far stronger than Wei Guo.

It can be said that if there is any country that is most dissatisfied and angry with the rise of Zhao Guo, then this country is definitely Wei Guo.

For the rise of Zhao Guo, Wei Guo's mood is very complicated.

This kind of complicated feeling is as if Chu State was facing the rise of Qin State back then.

No matter if it is Wei State or Chu State, they can't bear to be Zhao State and Qin State, which have been their younger brothers for hundreds of years, suddenly turn over one day and even ride on their own head.

Of course, as a wise and well-known son of the state of Wei, the reason why Wei Wuji attacked the state of Zhao was actually not just because of such a little face.

In fact, for the nobles in the Warring States Period, this face issue was not a problem at all.

In the final analysis, Wei Wuji just complied with the psychology of the Wei people, and then combined the current facts skillfully, so as to achieve the combination of the two goals of attacking Zhao and making Wei rise.

The strategy adopted by Wei Wuji is actually the same as that adopted by Zhao Guo back then.

40 years ago or even 20 years ago, Zhao State was just a second-rate power, and this second-rate country formed an alliance with Qin State in order to rise up, and then attacked Chu State and Qi State together.

In the end, Qin State replaced Chu State, Zhao State replaced Qi State, and became the first and second most powerful country in the world.

Therefore, during the Battle of Changping, Wei Wuji had already made plans to defeat the powerful Qin State together with the weaker Zhao State, and then look for opportunities to give Zhao State, which had just become a hegemonic country, but still had an unstable foothold. Overturned to the ground.

In this way, once everything goes well, then Wei Guo can step on the corpses of Qin and Zhao, step by step towards the position of the strongest overlord in the Warring States Period.

Thinking of this, Wei Wuji was very excited.

First of all, defeating Qin State in the Battle of Changping was equivalent to completing the first and most critical step in Wei Wuji's plan.

In fact, Wei Wuji paid a very high price for completing this first step.

Because of the matter of stealing amulets to save Zhao, Wei Wuji had to flee from Wei State to Zhao State, away from the power center of Wei State.

Wei Wuji thought that his life would sink because of this, but what he never expected was that God gave Wei Wuji another chance, allowing Wei Wuji to return to the state of Wei and become the prime minister of the state of Wei.

After that, Wei Wuji continued to help Zhao State to weaken Qin State in an orderly manner. After the Qin State was completely weakened in the First Battle of Hedong County, Wei Wuji felt that it was time to complete the second step of the plan and weaken Zhao State.

So this time Qin, Wei, Qi and the Three Kingdoms attacked Zhao.

And at this moment, the goal of completing the second step is already within sight.