Generally speaking, when both of them think that the other party is a fool, at least one of these two people is a real fool, and of course it is possible that both of them are fools.

King Jian of Qi felt that Zhao Dan's cousin was a fool, because Zhao Dan ignored the great opportunity to destroy Yan State with what was within reach.

Zhao Dan also thought that King Jian of Qi was a fool, because King Jian of Qi actually felt that he could use the weak Qi State now to accomplish things that even the powerful Qi State could not do back then.

So King Jian of Qi left Zhao Dan alone and decided to eat Qi alone; so Zhao Dan also watched coldly at the behavior of Qi Wang Jian, and also planned to provide a batch of excellent weapons and equipment to the Yan people after the truce with the Yan people, so that the Yan people could hold the Qi people tightly.

Different decisions will inevitably lead to different results. At this time, Zhao Dan and King Jian of Qi thought they were right, but neither of them could be sure that the direction of things could be as good as what they thought.

This is how the world is. If you choose and do it, you may succeed or fail. Those who win will be respected, and those who lose will be ruthlessly ridiculed.

But no matter what, as long as you make a decision, before you make sure that you have completely failed, what you need most is to move forward bravely, fight to the end, and never retreat.

Zhao Kuo's decision was very simple, that was to defend Dingxi City to the death and wait for reinforcements to arrive.

In fact, Zhao Kuo had no other good choice unless he was willing to open the city gate and surrender to the Hun Dulongqi Shanyu outside the city.

Speaking of which, Dulongqi Shanyu really surrendered.

Before the two sides really started a war, Dulongqi Shanyu sent a arrogant messenger with a strong smell on his body to tell Zhao Kuo that as long as Zhao Kuo was willing to surrender, he could become a little king of the Huns, with a tribe of tens of thousands of people and a horse farm that satisfies Zhao Kuo.

Zhao Kuo patiently listened to the messenger's nonsense, then pulled out the weapon from his waist and chopped off the messenger's head.

Zhao Kuo's movements were very fast, so soon Dulongqi Shanyu saw the head of the messenger hanging on the top of the city.

So the siege began.

For the nation on horseback, siege is actually a chore.

The years of horseback life makes their legs more or less tangled, and their figures are not as tall as those of the Central Plains, so they often cannot gain the upper hand in absolute physical strength.

At the beginning, it was not the Huns who attacked, but the 20,000 Yuezhi people who were defeated and captured by the Huns in the previous battle.

These Yuezhi people held extremely simple weapons in their hands, and many of them even had firewood or stones. Under the supervision of the Huns' military team, they came step by step towards the city of Dingxi City.

To these vanguard cannon fodder, Zhao Kuo led the defenders of Dingxi City to give them a very warm "welcome."

After entering the range, Zhao's army's arrows fell from the sky like raindrops, harvesting these cannon fodders piece by piece like harvesting wheat.

Many Yuezhi cannon fodders were frightened by the deadly arrows in front of them and wanted to turn around and run away, but when they really did this, the Huns' supervision team located in the rear also educated these Yuezhi cannon fodders with arrows and bloody heads.

So an almost unilateral siege began.

The Yuezhi people who lacked armor and weapons fell down one after another under Dingxi City. Occasionally, a few extremely brave guys rushed to the top of the city, but they would soon be torn to pieces by the Zhao army, which was waiting for battle.

But it is obvious that neither Dulongqi Shanyu nor the Huns' nobles actually took these slaves seriously, after all, they were just consumables.

Fortunately, the Hun nobles still needed some herd slaves to herd cattle and sheep for themselves, so after two days of siege, when the Huns keenly discovered that the arrows shot from the top of the city began to become increasingly rare, they began to send new forces to attack the city.

These new forces were real Huns. They were all extremely brave and bloodthirsty. When they heard Dulongqi Shanyu's promise to break the city and let them give priority to plunder and distribute spoils, they howled like wild wolves, and rode their weapons and horses, they started charging towards the walls of Dingxi City.

In addition, a large number of Hun cavalry continued to go back and forth around the city wall and began to suppress the archers of the Zhao army at the city. Although the Zhao army's archers had the advantage of condescending and protecting battlements, the Huns still suppressed the Zhao army's archers of the city with their larger numbers and the exquisite cavalry and shooting trained on horseback.

In such a situation, fierce hand-to-hand combat is bound to happen.

The Huns attacked the city again and again, and were defeated by the Zhao defenders again and again.

Day after day, the city was covered with the bodies and blood of the Huns, but the siege continued, and the defense of the Zhao army continued.

A very intense and even tragic siege battle.

The casualties of the Huns were increasing day by day, and even more than that of many Huns' kings, big and small, began to complain.

Dulongqi Shanyu chose to resolutely suppress these complaints. When the heads of the three little kings and one king were hung above the gate of the Hun camp, all the Huns chose to close their mouths with great tactfulness.

So the Huns' offensive became even more fierce.

When ten times the enemy attacks a city with an extremely fierce momentum, the city can't last long.

So soon, both the Huns and the Zhao army discovered a fact that the defense line in Dingxi City began to be a little unstoppable.

With the struggle for many days, the distance between the city wall and the ground was gradually shortening, and the Huns were able to climb up the city and engage in close hand-to-hand combat with the Zhao army soldiers on the city.

Perhaps the Hun soldiers were not as good as the Zhao army in terms of individual combat effectiveness and equipment, but when more and more Hun soldiers rushed to the city, the entire situation began to slowly change in a direction that was unfavorable to the Zhao army.

Xian Shan stood in front of the formation, staring at the extremely tragic siege with expressionless face.

Since being persuaded by Tu Xi that day, Xian Shan followed Tu Xi to meet the Aries King, expressing his attitude of "reversing the past".

Perhaps it was because the Aries King was paying attention to other things at that time, or perhaps it was because the Aries King had already been looking forward to such a situation. In short, Xian Shan, who thought he had poor acting skills, finally got the understanding of the Aries King and became the deputy commander of the four thousand Aries tribe soldiers, responsible for leading the soldiers of the Aries tribe to fight.

Tu Xie was right next to Xian Shan, and there was a bow behind him that looked much larger than others. It took a lot of strength to pull this kind of bow. Only Tu Xie could do it in the entire Aries tribe. This is why Tu Xie was able to become a archer.

"The people of Zhao are going to fail." Tu said diagonally to Xian Shan.

Xian Shan nodded and said, "Today, at most tomorrow, this Dingxi City will not be able to defend."

Tu Xie said: "Should we do something?"

Xian Shan shook his head gently and said, "We can't do anything."

Looking at Tu Xie, who was eager to try, Xian Shan couldn't help but glared at the other party fiercely: "Don't forget that we only have four thousand people!"

Tu Xi snorted and said, "There were only two thousand armored cavalry back then, and they still defeated the tens of thousands of cavalry of King Lin Hu!"

Xian Shan condemned without hesitation: "But what we are in our hands is not armored cavalry, nor is the Shanyu King Linhu!"

Tu Xie snorted a little annoyed and said, "Are we just watching Dingxi City be captured and doing nothing? You have to know that there are tens of thousands of people inside!"

Xian Shan pondered for a while, then slowly said, "If Lian Po's reinforcements had not yet appeared, we would indeed be unable to do anything."

Lian Po could come at any time, which is something that all the senior officials of the Huns know, and it is also the reason why the intensity of the Huns' siege in the past few days is far better than that of the previous few days.

Tu Xi sighed, his face full of disappointment.

At this moment, Xian Shan suddenly exclaimed and said, "Tu Xie, have you heard anything?"

Tu Xie said angrily: "I heard the screams of Zhao people on the top of the city! Hey, wait, what is that?"

Tu Xie and Xian Shan turned their attention to the east at the same time.

On the horizon to the east, a black army began to appear, and the sound of shocking drums came from afar. Even though they were so far apart, they still sounded quite shocking.

A big red flag was flying high, and there was no need to look at it to know that there must be a big word "Zhao" written on it.

Xian Shan and Tu looked at each other side, and then they smiled at each other.

Lian Po finally arrived.

After learning about Lian Po's arrival, Dulongqi Shanyu threw the wine cup of the Yuezhi Xihou skull that he regarded as a treasure for a while and then gave an order.

"Let the warriors retreat and prepare to start fighting against the main force of the Zhao people!"

The Huns retreated like a tide, and a shocking cheer erupted from the city of Dingxi City. The cheer sounded very harsh in the ears of every Hun.

There is no doubt that for the Huns, this was an absolute failure.

However, Dulongqi Chanyu did not feel any frustration. After beheading three small Hun kings who were ineffective in fighting, Dulongqi Chanyu told the remaining Hun nobles this way.
Chapter completed!