Daqin Engineers

The capital of Yan State is more than nine hundred miles away from Handan.

According to the normal marching speed, Yan Wangxi's army can reach Handan in about twenty days.

But in fact, it took only 13 days for Yan's army to reach Julu, and two days later, they came to the city of Handan.

On the one hand, King Yan ordered his troops to speed up their march day and night. On the other hand, many troops came directly from the Yanzhao border to assemble, and the distance was much closer than the army transferred from Capital Ji.

But of course, the main force did not dare to act rashly before the Yan army forward.

They only built fortifications and siege equipment outside the city.

The atmosphere in Handan city immediately became tense. There were soldiers from the Qin Army running back and forth. Carts of arrows, rocks, and logs were transported to the city wall. The people also hid in their houses and dared not go out.

The artillery under the Shenbing was ordered to rush to make catapults and stone bullets.

When Shen Bing passed by Cang, Cang, who was building the trebuchet, asked in a flustered expression:

"Brother, do you think how many soldiers and horses came from that country?"

What Cang wanted to ask was whether this trip to Handan could be held.

But of course you can't ask casually, so Cang changed his opinion.

If before that, no one would take Yan Guo’s soldiers seriously, an army that had repeatedly fought and defeated, once attacked Zhao with five times the strength, but was besieged by Zhao’s capital. This has become a reality during the Warring States Period. A joke.

If calculated according to this ratio, the more than one hundred thousand Qin army led by Wang Jian could resist a million Yan army.

But now and then:

Ying Zheng’s life and death do not know that the army’s mind is unstable, the city lacks food and the people's mind is unstable, and the army of the Wei State is still on one side and heading north at any time...

Therefore, not only Cang, but the artillery and even the entire army were panicked, and the entire army was shrouded in the haze of imminent disaster.

Shen Bing answered disapprovingly:

"How can I know how many soldiers and horses Yan has?"

"However, if you count the previous Dai Kingdom and Wei Kingdom, there are hundreds of thousands!"

Shen Bing deliberately frightened them.

Sure enough, everyone was disgusted after hearing this.

Cang was a little unbelievable, followed up from behind and asked:

"Brother, if there are hundreds of thousands of enemies, why are you so calm?"

Shen Bing smiled and replied:

"How about being calm? How about not being calm?"

He even hummed a little tune as he said, only to see the artillery master was taken aback.

The secret path is that the engineer has the demeanor of a general, and can be calm and comfortable in such a dangerous situation, so it is not an exaggeration to say that the Taishan collapse is ahead.

How did they know that Shen Bing didn't think this was a predicament at all.

It is even said that the catastrophe is imminent, Yan Guo:

There is a saying that warriors and horses go ahead before they move the food.

Yan Kingdom is going to attack the three counties and there are still hundreds of thousands of troops. Naturally, there will be large quantities of grain and grass transported to the three counties.

The reason why Ying Zheng hasn't come forward yet is that he wants to transport the food for a while...

These grains and grass, I am afraid that Wang Jian's counterattack against Yan and Dai's capital.

On the other side, Yan Wangxi did not expect this, he still urged to speed up the march and transport food.

When Yan Wangxi rushed to the city of Handan, he pointed to the wall with a laugh and said to General Qing Qin:

"General, if Handan is captured, this city will be handed over to you!"

Celebrating Qin's great joy, he hurriedly responded:

"Thank you, King!"

Handan was the capital of the former Zhao Kingdom. If it were to be granted this city, it would basically mean sitting in the Zhao Kingdom. How could Qing Qin not be overjoyed.

The three counties of the Qin Kingdom... to be exact, there is a reason why the former Zhao Kingdom built these three cities.

The three cities are more than two hundred miles apart from each other in a triangle.

If an enemy comes to face these three cities, no matter which direction you go into the area between the three cities, you will be attacked by the Zhao Jun from several sides...

More than two hundred miles happened to be the distance that the cavalry could reach in one day.

So these three cities can reinforce each other, and even the enemy dare not encircle any of them, otherwise they should worry that a cavalry will suddenly appear behind them and be attacked by two sides.

However, this only has this advantage for the Zhao State Cavalry.

The Qin army was mainly infantry, and the distance of more than two hundred miles obviously weakened the connection between the three cities.

This is also one of the reasons why Yan Wangxi was so energetic and confident on this trip.

Ji Danna was the same, he was responsible for attacking Julu and Taiyuan together with the army on behalf of the country.

Ji Dan was even more anxious than his father, and as soon as he came up, he ordered the Yan-Zhao coalition forces to attack Ercheng.

According to Ji Dan's words:

"The military situation is urgent. We should take this time to launch an offensive as soon as possible without giving the Qin army any chance to breathe!"

Ji Dan's tactic may be right.

The combined army has many generals and the Qin army only has more than 100,000 soldiers, so the sooner it starts, the better. The combined army can afford it but the Qin army cannot afford it.

But strategically...

On the contrary, it felt something wrong on behalf of the country.

The leader of the country is Sima Shang.

This Sima Shang was originally a friend of Li Mu. When Li Mu was wronged by Zhao Wangqian, only Sima Shang spoke a good word for Li Mu, but he was dismissed because he didn't want to.

After learning that Li Mu was killed, Sima Shang knew that the State of Zhao was about to die, so he persuaded Zhao Jia to leave Handan and flee to the north before the siege of the Qin army.

Zhao Jia therefore left a life. After arriving in the north, he listened to Sima Shang's suggestion and actively rehabilitated Li Mu and gathered Li Mu's old ministry. He really gathered 50,000 soldiers.

However, these fifty thousand soldiers only had thirty thousand to fight, the other ten thousand were wounded and ten thousand were recruits temporarily recruited.

The 30,000 Northern Goblin soldiers brought by Dai Guo this time.

Zhao Jia was eager to recover the country. As soon as he arrived in Taiyuan, he wanted to attack the city according to Ji Dan's order, but was persuaded by Sima Shang.

Sima Shang said to Zhao Jia with some anxiety:

"My lord, I'm afraid of fraud in this battle."

"If Qin Jun is so easy to deal with, I, Zhao Guo, will not be destroyed by Qin!"

At this time, Zhao Jia was of course obedient to Sima Shangyan, and it was right to think about it, so he ordered the postponement of the attack and only used the catapult to fire stone bullets, and built fortifications to prevent the Qin army from counterattack.

Unexpectedly, just this "suspend" saved Zhao Jia's life...

Ying Zheng checked that the time was almost up, and gave the command with a wave of his big hand:

"Wei dare to betray the alliance and abandon the agreement!"

"One hundred thousand soldiers, the widows must be conquered by their own hands."

...

In this way, the entire strategy of the combined army was completely messed up.

First of all, Wei's army north of Anyi is only 70,000, while Yingzheng's army has 100,000.

And this is the well-trained Qin army, or Yingzheng Yujia personally conquered...

Obviously Wei Jun is not an opponent.

Since then, Wei Jun could not cut off the grain road and retreat of the three counties of Qin.

If Wei Guo dares to fight with the Qin Army in a serious battle, it is not yet known who will die.

After all, after the Qin army had just destroyed the state of Zhao, it had a large scale of national strength and a lot of soldiers. The three kingdoms of Wei, Dai, and Yan may also be able to defeat the Qin army.

However, the most deadly thing is that Yingzheng did not die.

When Wei Wangjia heard that Yingzheng was not dead...

Not only did he not die, but he also personally conquered the State of Wei, so he was dumbfounded for the first time.

Is this being used by Ji Dan as a knife?

Isn't this burning your body?

The first one is Wei Guo!

Fortunately, Wei Guo just adjusted his troops and has not really started the war...

So King Wei changed his mind and immediately sent an envoy to Ying Zheng to beg to let him go.