Zhao Kuo's army was stationed in the city of Juzi, which is not unfamiliar to Zhao Kuo. When Zhao Kuo first went to war, he fought against the Lifu of Yan State. That war was more than twenty years old. Zhao Kuo came here again with his army, and things had changed a lot. The changes in Zhao State were quite big. Several towns that Zhao Kuo had known were now turned into ruins, which was not caused by the Qin State's attack.

Years of war and heavy taxes and labor service have caused the people of Zhao to decrease continuously, and many towns have become ruins. People living here either died in the war or at the hands of officials. Zhao Kuo came here for the second time and was deeply touched. The people here did not forget the man who saved them, but this man is now here to attack them.

The Zhao people's feelings for Zhao Kuo were so complicated, but Zhao Kuo was not like this. Zhao Kuo's feelings for them never changed from beginning to end.

Zhao Kuo opened the granary to help the local people, and told them that the Qin State would exempt them from the taxes and labor service this year and announced the abolition of all miscellaneous taxes... The Zhao State's people looked at him, but no one cheered. These policies could save their lives, but the person who came to issue the policies should be Ma Fujun of Zhao State, not Wu Chengjun of Qin State. Zhao Kuo was in the area of ​​Juzi and did not continue to attack.

On this day, a pedestrian came to the city of Juzi. The man was sitting in a carriage. When he came to the city gate, the Qin soldiers were also a little surprised because there were almost no Zhao people who wanted to enter or leave the city during these days. On the one hand, the Qin people did not allow the people in the city to go out, and on the other hand, it was because the Zhao people were afraid and did not dare to contact the Qin soldiers. When the Zhao people came here, the Qin soldiers were a little embarrassed.

According to the Qin system, he had to find out his identity so that he could enter the city. However, it was a war period, and Zhao did not completely surrender, and Qin did not clarify household registration information in various places in Zhao. The attitude of the soldiers of Qin was also kind, and the person in front of him also understood Qin's words, which was even more convenient. The soldiers first asked about his identity and his purpose. The guests told the soldiers that they were here to visit Ma Fujun.

Two soldiers took him to Zhao Kuo's residence.

Zhao Kuo chose a courtyard in the city of Fengzi as his temporary office, where he handled matters everywhere. When the soldiers came to report that someone had entered the city and said they wanted to visit him, Zhao Kuo put down his pen and someone came to visit him? Could it be an old friend in Zhao? Zhao Kuo asked the soldiers to invite the guest in. When the guests walked into the courtyard with a big belly and panting, Zhao Kuo almost jumped up.

"Dong Chengzi?"

It was indeed an old friend. The person who came raised his head and smiled with a silly face. It was Zhao Kuo's friend Dong Chengzi. After so many years, Dong Chengzi has not changed much. His figure and appearance are the same as before. His hair color is mixed with some silver white, and he is no longer young. Zhao Kuo hurried forward and held his hand. The two had not met for many years. When they met at this moment, Zhao Kuo was so excited.

"Don't come well?"

When the two friends met, they had too many things to say. Zhao Kuo sent away the soldiers and asked someone to prepare some food. The two sat in the courtyard and started chatting. After greetings, Zhao Kuo sighed: "I didn't expect that we could meet again. Li Mu and the others said, "If you leave Handan, no one has seen you again. I thought you are no longer in the human affairs..."

"Oh, I offended too many people. After you left Zhao, I left... I don't want to implicate my family. Over the years, I have studied in Zhao, Yan, Qi and Wei... and studied the local customs and culture and their systems. It can be said that I have learned a lot..." Dong Chengzi said, and he looked at Zhao Kuo again and asked, "Where are you?"

"After you went to Qin, you never heard about you again... I later heard about you leading your troops to defeat Xinlingjun..."

"Oh, I'm fine. I raised a few children and now I have grandchildren..."

The two chatted for a long time, and it was late at night when Dong Chengzi mentioned the matter about Zhao State. He smiled bitterly and said, "I have seen that Qin State is going to attack Zhao State. I thought it would be Wang Jian or Meng Wu, but I didn't expect that you would be here to lead the soldiers to attack Zhao State." Zhao Kuo was silent and did not reply. Dong Chengzi smiled and said, "Don't worry, I'm not here to accuse you."

"In the past few years, I have visited many countries, and what I have seen is similar. The nobles drank and had fun day and night, and the people were suffering... The taxes in Zhao State were constantly chaotic, the political chaos of Wei State, and the embezzlement and bribery in Qi State... Such a country may be right to perish." Dong Chengzi said, suddenly thinking of something, and he said: "But there is one thing I must tell you."

"The reason why local people oppose Qin is because they do not know the Qin system. Officials from all over the country have been slandering Qin and slandering Qin's system and policies. The people are bewitched and acted because of fear. As long as someone can change their wrong views, they will not resist. I am very worried that the soldiers under your command will kill because of anger."

Zhao Kuo nodded, and he said, "I understand that with me, no one will do this... When Zhao State is defeated, I will preach the Qin system in various places, so that the people will give up resistance. As long as they can live a better life than before, the turmoil will naturally stop." The two almost talked until tomorrow. When talking about future events, Dong Chengzi said, "I have learned a lot in recent years. I really want to write a book."

"In the future, I may settle in my hometown... to write books."

Zhao Kuo naturally also wanted to stay in Zhao State. For a long time in the future, he might have to stay in Zhao State. After arranging Dong Chengzi's daily life, Zhao Kuo began to prepare for the attack on Zhongshan. Even if Zhao Kuo did not look at the map, he knew the location and situation of many counties. At present, Zhao Jia has gathered a lot of soldiers in Zhongshan, and his army is stationed in the two counties of Songzi and Fenglong, and is ready to resist tenaciously.

Yan State sent him a lot of food, and stationed troops in the two cities of Wusui and Zhongren, ready to support Zhongshan State. Zhao Kuo had only more than 40,000 troops, and it was not easy to break through many counties in Zhongshan. Zhao Kuo had to be fully prepared, so Zhao Kuo called Wang Ben over, and Wang Ben stood next to Zhao Kuo excitedly, waiting for him to give orders to him.

Zhao Kuo said seriously: "Feng Long and Song Zi are both very strong cities. If you want to forcibly break through, there will be great casualties. I will take 20,000 soldiers to detour Shangyuan and attack Shicheng. The Shicheng defense is empty. Once I take down Shicheng, Feng Long and Song Zi's defenders will definitely give up the city to rescue. At that time, you can take the soldiers to attack these two cities. I will continue to attract them and continue to forge ahead in the direction of Zhongshan..."

Zhao Kuo talked about his strategic deployment. Zhao Kuo wanted to use the organizational strength and mobility of the Qin army to fight with the Zhao army. Zhao Jia stationed two armies on the front line, but his abdomen was very empty. Zhao Kuo took advantage of this and took a detour to attack his abdomen, forcing the front line troops to return to defend. In this way, Wang Ben could calmly capture the front line cities and chase them step by step.

Wang Ben remembered Zhao Kuo's orders and continued to garrison with the remaining troops, while Zhao Kuo left the city of Fengzi with 20,000 soldiers. Zhao Kuo had also thought about whether he could persuade the soldiers in Zhongshan to surrender. Unfortunately, the people gathered in Zhongshan were all the original nobles of Zhao State. They were unwilling to surrender or surrender. Zhao Kuo could only defeat their army first and then make plans.

When Zhao Kuo left the Fengzi City with 20,000 people, arrived at the Yuan family, and quickly detoured to Shangyuan, the Zhao soldiers in Fenglong City opposite the Yuan family had already discovered the movements of the Qin army. They hurriedly passed the news to Zhongshan in the rear, which was still a long way from here. When the news arrived at Zhongshan, Zhao Kuo had already captured Shicheng, which was a mobile warfare.

Zhao Jia was also extremely uneasy. The person who led the troops to fight with him at this moment was Ma Fujun. He had never been defeated once. Many famous generals had been defeated in his hands. Zhao Jia had no confidence to defeat him. Not to mention Zhao Kuo, Wang Jian, it was enough to make them afraid... Thinking of this, Zhao Jia did not dare to make a decision directly. He hurriedly summoned the generals who came to join him to come up with a plan to fight against the enemy.

In fact, after hearing that it was Ma Fujun who led his troops to attack Zhongshan, these people's faces turned pale... They all grew up listening to Ma Fujun's record. How to defeat their invincible idols? The generals pondered for a long time, but finally came up with a plan. The soldiers on the front line returned to guard and asked Yan people to help them, so that the Yan people could transfer their troops to Quyang, Nanxingtang, Yetai and other areas... besieged Zhao Kuo in Shicheng Yitian and then defeated him.

After Zhao Kuo captured Shitou City, he attacked Dongdan again. The two troops on the front line of Zhao also turned around and began to pursue Zhao Kuo's army. Their return was inevitable. If they continued to be on the front line, Zhao Kuo could easily cut off their supplies and turn them into an isolated army... At this moment, Zhao Kuo could cut off the supplies of the soldiers on the front line, but Zhao could still complete the supplies through Quyang.

Just Feng Long's soldiers could not get food supplies in time.

After capturing Dongdan, Zhao Kuo did not stop and went to the Nine Gate... And Wang Ben, who was in the rear, hurriedly followed up after learning that the Zhao army was retreating, and took Feng Long and Song Zi effortlessly. At this moment, Feng Long's army came to Shicheng, and Song Zi's army came to Yi'an. At this moment, Zhao Kuo suddenly turned around, Wang Ben set out from Song Zi, and Zhao Kuo set out from Jiumen, and the two sides united to attack Yi'an.

With a retaliation, Zhao Kuo broke through the guards of Yi'an. Another army of Zhao State was still attacking Dongdan at this moment, and there was no time to rescue him. After breaking through Yi'an, Zhao Kuo captured more than 10,000 people. Zhao Kuo gave an order and released more than 10,000 people directly. Wang Ben widened his eyes. What was this situation? Why did he let him go after it was finally caught? However, he could not persuade Zhao Kuo, let alone him, even Wang Jian could not persuade Zhao Kuo.

When more than 10,000 people returned to Dongdan helplessly, they no longer had the will to fight.

Ma Fujun released them.

Ma Fujun is still the same horse Fujun as before.

The Zhao army had no intention of fighting with Zhao Kuo, and the news that Zhao Kuo released the prisoners shook their morale. They did not want to continue to pick up weapons to fight Ma Fujun. Many defeated soldiers appeared in the army. Zhao Kuo continued to go north, attack Xia Quyang, crossed the river quickly, and rushed to Kujing County. The Yan army was in Yetai, Nanxingtang and other areas. This was the western city of Zhongshan, and Kuxing was in the eastern part of Zhongshan.

When Zhao Kuo conquered Kuxing, Zhongshan was completely exposed to Zhao Kuo.

Zhao Kuo just used a simple retaliation and an unpredictable offensive route to get rid of the heavy obstacles between Zhao and Yan and attacked Huanglong. When he heard that Kuxing was in the fall, Zhao Jia was sweating all over. He hurriedly ordered that the Yan army stationed in Yetai and other areas come to Zhongshan to help defend the city, while the Zhao army on the front line immediately rushed to Xiaquyang and cut off Zhao Kuo's retreat.

Zhao's army rushed to Xiaquyang, but they didn't know that Wang Ben had been waiting here for a long time.

Wang Ben was serious in his work, quite like his father's demeanor, and never took risks. When the Zhao army came here for a long distance, Wang Ben was not in a hurry to attack. Until the Zhao army was about to sit down and rest, Wang Ben suddenly came out and fought between the two sides. In the end, Wang Ben captured nearly 30,000 people. Wang Ben gritted his teeth, endured the temptation of military merits, and released these soldiers again. At this moment, the Zhao army completely lost its fighting spirit.

The Yan State's army rushed towards Zhongshan from the Yetai area. Zhao Kuo did not attack because he had few soldiers. He bypassed Zhongshan and stationed on the important road north of Zhongshan. At this moment, Wang Ben, who defeated Zhao's army, successfully captured Yetai. Wang Ben was so excited. Zhao Kuo's command was so wonderful. There were 110,000 people in Zhao Kuo, who had a total of 40,000 people.

It was an unimaginable thing to take 40,000 people to attack 110,000 people.

Zhao Kuo launched a perfect roundabout movement war by dividing his troops. He didn't fight with the enemy head-on too many times, so he easily captured all the cities except Zhongshan... Zhao Jia didn't know what happened, and his cities fell. From beginning to end, the Zhao army chased Zhao Kuo and ran around. Not only did he not catch up, but he lost all the cities... Wang Ben was really convinced of such command ability.
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