"General Jin Bi of Wei led an army of 100,000 to Yecheng?" When Zhao Dan in Handan City heard the news that Miao Xian came to report, it was already a few days later.

The shock of this news to Zhao Dan can be noticed just by looking at the extremely surprised expression on his face.

Due to the memories brought by time travel, Zhao Dan subconsciously regarded Wei as a "quasi-ally". In previous meetings, he also tended to pay more attention to Yan State than Wei State.

There is no doubt that this is a mistake.

It is absolutely impossible for a true quasi-ally to do such an act of placing 100,000 troops in Yecheng, south of the river in Handan City, the capital of Zhao State, at such a critical moment.

This is like the Wei people sitting at the gate of Zhao Dan’s house with a submachine gun, and the muzzle of the submachine gun pointed directly at Zhao Dan’s bedroom!

After a full moment, Zhao Dan barely calmed down the many surprises, anger, confusion and other emotions in his heart, and said to Miao Xian in front of him: "Sound the ministers to the palace to discuss matters!"

Looking at Miao Xian's hurried departure, Zhao Dan's face gradually calmed down.

It was not until this moment that Zhao Dan suddenly realized that he had made a mistake that he had never noticed.

With the butterfly effect that appeared through time, the world has quietly changed. I can no longer simply apply the history in my previous memory to view the relationship between Zhao and other countries.

Whether it is an allies or an enemy, we should re-evaluate them from now on, and think about the relationship between Zhao and them from the current situation, rather than copying history.

After all, the idiom "During Qin and Chu" was originally used to satirize the vassal states in the Warring States Period to form an alliance with this today and another alliance with that one tomorrow.

However, what made Zhao Dan breathed a little relieved was that at least the Wei State had not officially started a war against Zhao State, so there should be a turning point in this matter.

What should we do to resolve this crisis?

Zhao Dan sat there quietly, his face constantly changing, and he fell into long-term contemplation.

Due to the distance, it was already half an hour later when the ministers of Zhao State gathered in front of Zhao Dan.

There were four ministers coming this time. In addition to Lian Po, who was absent from the front line as usual, Lin Xiangru, who was bedridden again due to an illness, did not show up.

But that doesn't matter, because the few people in front of Zhao Dan are enough to decide the military and national affairs of the entire Zhao State.

Mr. Liang Qichao once said, "If you want to compete outside, you must be the whole country as the military and national people. Among the seven heroes, only Qin and Zhao are the only ones who practice militarism. The king of Wuling is the great Peter of Zhao. The king changed to Hu's uniform and was considered a place to practice riding and shooting; using riding and shooting to teach the people is the so-called "all the people of the whole country are all soldiers."

In Liang Qichao's view, King Wuling of Zhao, who promoted the "Hu Clothing and Casting", was a national leader who was comparable to the best emperor Peter the Great in Russian history. Among the reforms implemented by these two emperors, in addition to restoring the country and strengthening the army, the most important thing is centralization.

Today's Qin and Zhao are the two countries with the highest concentration of power among the seven heroes of the Warring States Period. Qin is the leader, and Zhao is the second.

This status quo of the two countries is in line with the trend of the times and the laws of historical development. This is why Qin and Zhao were able to stand at the end in the cruel Warring States battle and compete on the final stage of the finals.

In the dragon platform, Zhao Dan looked at the ministers in front of him who were still a little confused, and finally turned his eyes to Zhao Sheng, the king of Wei, and slowly spoke: "The King of Wei ordered the general Jin Bi, the State of Wei, to lead a hundred thousand troops, and now he has entered Yecheng."

As soon as Zhao Dan said this, the four ministers present also showed shocked expressions. None of the people who could sit here were fools, so they certainly understood what the Wei State's troops stationed in Yecheng meant.

Handan is in danger!

Once Wei rebelled and cooperated with Qin, the Wei army could cross the Zhang River and go north to enter Zhao at any time.

After invading Zhao, the Wei army could not only besiege the capital of Zhao, Handan City, to carry out beheading tactics, or attack two other important towns in Zhao State, Wu'an and Zhongmu, and even further attack the Tunliu of the Beishangdang, completely cutting off the food route and retreat of the Changping army.

No matter which situation occurs, it is extremely fatal to Zhao State.

Of course, the previous monarchs of Zhao State were not unprepared for attacks from Wei State. Don’t forget that although the protagonists in the idiom “surround Wei and save Zhao” were Qi and Wei State, Zhao State was besieged by Wei State, and the besieged city was Handan!

Although the result of besieging Wei and rescuing Zhao was that the Qi army defeated the Wei army in Guiling, before the Battle of Guiling broke out, Wei general Pang Juan had already led the Wei army to capture Handan, forcing Zhao Chenghou, the then monarch of Zhao, to flee in a panic.

It was also because of the defeat of Handan that Zhao Chenghou was later forced to sign an unequal treaty with King Hui of Wei in the Zhangshui Alliance.

For Zhao Chenghou and Zhao State, this is undoubtedly a great humiliation.

So Zhao Chenghou and the subsequent monarchs of Zhao State built a Great Wall on the north bank of the Zhangshui demarcation line between Wei and Zhao to prevent the Wei army from moving north again. This Great Wall is the Great Wall in the South of Zhao State.

After the Southern Great Wall, Zhao's defense ability against Wei was significantly enhanced. Although the two countries had many wars in the past hundred years, Handan was never compromised by Wei again.

The censor Lou Chang barely squeezed out a smile and said, "Don't worry, my country of Zhao has the strength of the South Great Wall, and Liang's country of Wei cannot overcome it even if they are anxious."

Yu Xin yelled when he heard this and looked at Lou Chang with an idiot: "Now, all my Zhao soldiers gathered on the Changping line to fight against the Qin people. Even if there is the Southern Great Wall, who will defend it?"

As soon as Yu Xin said this, the temperature in the palace seemed to drop several degrees again.

This is the embarrassment in Zhao State now.

No soldiers!

Today, the Southern Great Wall has drawn a large number of soldiers and horses that were originally stationed here due to the Battle of Changping, but now only two or three thousand soldiers are stationed.

Moreover, most of these two or three thousand people were either recruits who had no hair, or were dead old soldiers who could no longer go to the battlefield, and had no combat power at all.

It is simply a dream to use such a team to guard the Southern Great Wall that lasts more than a hundred miles and guard against the assault of the 100,000 elite troops of Wei.

To protect the front line of the South Great Wall, it is impossible to do without tens of thousands of troops.

A troops must be dispatched!

But the question is - where does the soldiers come from?

Today, under a nearly militaristic system, the Zhao State can be said to be the whole nation, bringing the potential of war to the extreme.

As mentioned before, the Changping front gathered more than half of the young and strong people in Zhao State at this moment, with a total of 450,000 troops. Of course, it is impossible that all of them are combat troops, and they also include some of the personnel of the logistics and baggage troops.

So what about a small and a half young man? This small and a half young man has a heavy task, which is to be responsible for transporting food and grass for the frontline troops!

From Linzi to Handan, Qi State, and then from Handan to Changping battlefield, there were thousands of miles of journeys during this period. In the Warring States Period, when transportation was not well developed, a large number of chariots, horses and men needed to ensure the supply of food and grass for hundreds of thousands of people on the front line. This basically used other small parts of the young and strong in Zhao State.

Whether it is the Changping battlefield or the transport of grain, this is absolutely nothing to add or not to reduce. It is not enough to discuss it. After all, the overlord Qin is the number one enemy.

It can be said that, except for the five northern counties of Zhao State who still retained a force of about 50,000 people, almost all the young and strong people in Zhao State were mobilized and devoted to this extraordinary battle.

In history, after the Zhao army was wiped out in the Battle of Changping and was killed by Bai Qi, in the subsequent Battle of Handan, most of the defenders of Handan City led by Lian Po were composed of underage children, women and elderly people.

Even at the most critical moment, Zhao Sheng, the prime minister of Zhao State, even his wife and concubines, sent them to the Handan city wall, which shows how great the losses Zhao State suffered after the defeat in the Battle of Changping.

As for the 50,000 border troops in the five northern counties, although they have maintained a certain combat effectiveness, they should be wary of the nomadic peoples in the north of Zhao State to move south, and secondly, they should be wary of the attacks that the northeastern neighbor Yan State may launch at any time. They have been completely restrained and cannot go south to rescue them at all.

In this way, although Handan, the capital located in the southeast of Zhao State and close to the border between Wei and Zhao State, is protected by the South Great Wall, where did the troops stationed in the South Great Wall and resist the Wei army come from? All the ministers present here have no choice but to do anything.

There was silence in the hall.
Chapter completed!