Zhao Weiwang in the Warring States Period

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The old eunuch stepped forward and squeezed his shoulders and beat his back again, but at the next moment Qin Wangji suddenly opened his mouth, and wow, another big mouthful of blood spewed out, right on Zhao Zhu's body.

Zhao Zhu's scare was no small matter, he was so frightened that he was out of his wits, he stood up in a panic and was about to call the palace doctors who were waiting outside to come in quickly, but Qin Wangji grabbed his hand unexpectedly.

"It's okay, I have something to tell you."

Zhao Zhu wanted to break free, but he was afraid that his father would fall because of this, so he had no choice but to sit down.

Qin Wangji pointed to the old eunuch beside him: "This man is waiting, you should know it."

Zhao Zhu was startled when he heard this, and looked at the old eunuch in disbelief.

The famous "Hou" turned out to be such an ugly old eunuch?

Although Zhao Zhu is the future king of Qin, this is the first time he knows the true identity of "Hou" today.

But why did Qin Wangji suddenly confess this matter at this time?

Before Zhao Zhu could figure it out, Qin Wangji let go of Zhao Zhu's hand and said, "Let the ministers come in."

After a while, all the Qin ministers who had been waiting outside the palace came before Qin Wangji.

The Qin ministers were shocked after seeing the blood on the ground and on Zhao Zhu's body, but seeing Qin Wangji sitting there staring at everyone with piercing eyes, no one dared to ask about it.

Qin Wangji's eyes flicked across the ministers of Qin State, and finally turned into a deep sigh.

"The widow knows that the end has come. After the widow's funeral, the throne of King Qin will be passed on to Zhu'er. The ministers must help Zhu'er and lead the Great Qin to tide over the difficulties together!"

As soon as King Qin's words fell, the hall fell to their knees in unison.

On April 257, 4 BC, a generation of heroes who once led the Qin State to the peak, and watched the Qin State fall from the peak, Qin King Ji died in Xianyang.

An era is over.

4Chapter 16 The Confident Zhao Dan

Handan.

Zhao Dan sat in the headquarters with an extremely serious expression on his face.

In fact, not only Zhao Dan, but everyone present had very serious expressions on their faces.

An anxious atmosphere that could not be concealed slowly spread in the air of the entire headquarters, making everyone feel as if they were sitting on pins and needles.

The situation of the battle became more and more unfavorable.

Outside the city, arrow towers stood up one after another, putting more and more pressure on the soldiers of Zhao Jun on the top of the city.

And the only armored cavalry in Handan City that can be used to deal with the arrow towers of the Wei Qi coalition army, only attacked twice, and there are less than 200 people left.

After that, Zhao Dan prohibited the armored cavalry from attacking again.

Because Zhao Dan learned from the battle report that in order to stop the attack of the armored cavalry, the Wei army used the bed crossbow frantically!

This feels like hitting mosquitoes with a cannon, a bit too much!

All in all, the pressure on Handan City Defense is now getting bigger and bigger day by day.

As Xiangbang, Zhao Sheng did everything conscientiously, not only sent all three thousand of his followers to the city, but also persuaded many other nobles to send followers to enrich the defense of the city.

In addition, the method of exchanging titles for grain has also successfully allowed Zhao Guo's treasury, which was about to be exhausted, to have a large amount of grain again, so that there will be no food shortage in Handan City.

As the supreme commander in Handan City, Pang Nuan and his deputy Ju Xin also did everything they could.

The two men patrolled the city wall in person almost whenever they had time to boost morale, and even once when a dozen Wei soldiers rushed to the city as the vanguard, the old and vigorous Pang Nuan brought his own guards They launched a counterattack together to wipe out all these Wei soldiers. Pang Nuan even beheaded two Wei soldiers in this battle!

But all of this cannot conceal the fact that even though Zhao State has the advantage of the city wall, the fighting power of the Zhao army defending the city is still not as good as the elite troops of Wei State and Qi State.

After all, Zhao Guo's elite troops are all in the hands of Lian Po, but Lian Po is thousands of miles away.

Not only that, but according to Pang Nuan's report, there was a huge gap in the southeastern city wall of Handan under the unremitting bombardment of the trebuchet. Thousands of lives will be filled in this gap.

The trouble is, since sending recruits up could not stop the Wei army's offensive, Pang Nuan had to send teams of elite veterans to defend the gap.

But with the passage of time and the continuous death of Zhao Guo's veterans, Wei Jun's offensive became more fierce day by day.

After Zhao Dan listened to Pang Nuan's routine report, he pondered for a moment and said, "General Pang Nuan, tell the truth, how long can Handan City last?"

Pang Nuan looked left and right, and found that besides Zhao Dan, there was only his deputy Ju Xin, so he said in a deep voice: "Returning to your lord, in my opinion, Handan will definitely fall to the Wei people if it takes five days or ten days at least. hands!"

Zhao Dan was silent for a long time after hearing this sentence, his face was a little ugly.

In fact, to be honest, the defense of Handan has been fought for several months now, and the time of persistence is actually relatively long.

According to the plan presented to Zhao Dan by the staff department in advance, such a long time should be enough for Lian Po and Li Mu to complete the goals assigned to them by Zhao Dan before the war.

So at this time, Zhao Dan was also a little anxious.

How did Lian Po and Li Mu accomplish their tasks?Why was there no good news and no return?

It's a pity that despite the countless question marks in Zhao Dan's heart, no one can give Zhao Dan the answer at all.

Annoying, annoying.

Pang Nuan saw that Zhao Dan was silent and his face was cloudy, and thought that Zhao Dan was worried about the problems after the city was broken, so he immediately said in a low voice: "My lord, if the city is broken, I am willing to lead two hundred armored cavalry to open the way for the king." , must let the king escape from Handan!"

Only then did Zhao Dan come to his senses, couldn't help laughing, patted Pang Nuan's shoulder heavily, and said, "Don't worry, the widow will not escape, and Handan will definitely not fall!"

Zhao Dan's words were decisive and full of incomparable confidence.

After leaving the temporary headquarters, Zhao Dan, who was a little upset, also lost interest in going elsewhere, and returned directly to his temporary palace.

At this time, Zhao Dan really felt the helplessness of poor information.

If only I had a mobile phone or a radio, so I could know what the battle was like outside.

Whether it's good or bad, it's better than having black eyes now!

While he was meditating, a gust of fragrant wind hit his face, followed by Queen Han Wan's soft voice: "My lord, could it be that the city defense is in trouble?"

Zhao Dan raised his head and glanced at the queen in front of him, suddenly stretched out his hand, and directly embraced the beauty in front of him.

Han Wan's body was stiffened by Zhao Dan's sudden movement, and she didn't know what to do for a while.

Although they are old couples, such unrestrained actions are really rare.

Zhao Dan didn't talk nonsense, he directly picked up Han Wan and walked towards the bed.

At this moment, Zhao Dan needs to release the pressure.