Chu and Han contend for the throne

Chapter 362 Handan Falls
Although it was late at night, the Zhao Palace was still brightly lit, and the grand national banquet was still going on.

Zhao Wang Zhang Ao obviously drank too much and needed the support of two female officials to stand firm. Even so, he still insisted on toasting the ministers one by one. This is the junior Zhao Wang Zhang Ao, replaced by other princes. Only the ministers toast them, when will it be the king's turn to toast the ministers one by one?
After the round of respect, Zhang Ao suddenly remembered something, he hadn't gone to the camp yet to work in the army.

"Oh, I almost forgot." Zhang Ao slapped his forehead suddenly, then looked back at the general Zhao Wu and Bai Xuan, the second general, and said, "General, second general, you will accompany me to the barracks."

Zhao Wu and Bai Xuan had no objections, and immediately accompanied Zhang Ao out of the hall and came straight to the palace gate.

However, before leaving the palace gate, there was a cold and harsh sound of breaking through the night sky in front of him. Bai Xuan reacted very quickly, and blocked Zhang Ao with a dodge. Zhao Wu did not react too slowly, and immediately drew his sword, He yelled sharply: "There are assassins, protect the king!" Hundreds of forbidden troops rushed up with a roar, protecting Zhang Ao in the middle.

"Ah? Assassin?!" Zhang Ao was so frightened that he fell to the ground, and his drunkenness disappeared immediately.

However, the expected rain of arrows did not come. The assassin seemed to only shoot one arrow, and the accuracy was ridiculously poor, and it all hit the lintel of the palace gate.

"There is a letter on the arrow!" A sharp-eyed guard suddenly pointed at the arrow on the palace gate and shouted.

When Zhang Ao, Zhao Wu, and Bai Xuan looked anxiously, they saw a letter stuck in the arrow, and ordered someone to fetch the ladder to pull out the arrow from the door lintel, and took down the letter. He took the letter in his hand and unfolded it. At a glance, he caught a glimpse of a striking mark at the bottom left of the inscription, but it was a dark cliff.

"Black Wood Cliff?!" Bai Xuan's heart shuddered, which meant he had heard of it.

There has never been an impenetrable wall in this world. The fact that Xiang Zhuang trained a large number of dead soldiers and spies in Wumuya, and then sent them to various countries to obtain information for Chu State, has long been known to all the princes. The existence of Ya is one thing, but being able to find out the spies of Wumuya lurking in the country is another.

"Wumuya?" Zhang Ao tremblingly said, "Wumuya wants to assassinate the widow?"

Zhao Wu pointed at the secret letter in Bai Xuan's hand with the sword in his hand, frowned and asked, "Bai Xuan, what is written on it?"

After reading the secret letter in a hurry, Bai Xuan's expression changed immediately, and he said anxiously, "Your Majesty, this is a warning letter. Xiang Zhuang, the King of Chu, informed us under the guise of Wu Muya that he has personally sent [-] cavalry to invade Qi. The country said that Han Xin would withdraw his troops in the near future, but before he retreated, he might play a trick of playing hard to get!"

"Playing hard to get?" Zhao Wu frowned, "Han Xin playing hard to get?"

"What do you mean?" Zhang Ao asked in a daze, "Is it a fake Qi army's retreat?"

"Playing hard to get? Playing hard to get! Playing hard to get?!" Bai Xuan muttered a few times, then suddenly shouted, "No, if Han Xin is really playing hard to get, then the time for them to do it is likely to be tonight, my lord, it's urgent, you You must leave Handan immediately, go out of the Xiaonan Gate and go to Yecheng!"

After finishing speaking, Bai Xuan pleaded with Zhao Wudao again: "General, please lead the imperial cavalry to escort the king to Yecheng!"

Although Zhao Wu didn't like to see Bai Xuan all the time, he still recognized Bai Xuan's judgment, and now he believed it a little bit, but he still said: "Bai Xuan, even if Han Xin is a fake retreat, it's okay, let's just Gather the troops by beating drums and divide the troops to guard the four gates. It may be extremely difficult for the Qi army to capture Handan City, so it seems that there is no need to go to Yecheng, right?"

Bai Xuan said anxiously: "Han Xin's soldiers have always been old-fashioned. When did he leave room for others? At this time, it may be too late to gather troops with drums and divide them to guard the four gates. Your Majesty's safety measure, General, you should hurry up and lead the Imperial Guard cavalry to escort your Majesty to Yecheng!"

Zhang Ao was also a little anxious, and said: "Then what about the queen and princes of the widow? And the ministers of the court?"

"I don't care about them anymore. As long as the king is here, Zhao Guo will be there." Bai Xuan said as he took the helmet from the soldiers, put it on his head again, nodded to Zhao Wu, and turned on his horse. Galloping towards the barracks, Bai Xuan knew very well that there were very few soldiers guarding the four gates at this time, even if he rushed there, nothing would help.

The most urgent task is to go to the camp and gather the army to meet the Qi army who came back from killing.

Zhang Ao's heart was suspended for a moment, looking back at Zhao Wu, he said: "General, I..."

"My lord, let's go to Yecheng!" Zhao Wu took a deep breath and said in a deep voice, "Let's go now!"

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Under the dark night sky, the [-] Qi army was marching westward at a rapid pace. Han Xin walked in the middle of the team with a white horse and a purple robe, guarded by dozens of generals.

Suddenly, a fast horse galloped from the front: "Report..."

Han Xin gently reined in the white horse under his crotch, waved his big hand and shouted loudly: "Speak."

The scout cavalry got off their horses, knelt down on one knee and gasped, "Handan urgent report, the palace night banquet is still going on!"

As early as three days ago when he withdrew his troops from Handan, Han Xin quietly left behind a large number of spies, and now a large number of these spies have infiltrated Handan City.More importantly, Han Xin also left an ambush outside the city of Handan. Now, Cheng Hei's ambush should have captured the East Gate of Handan, right?

However, for Han Xin, capturing Handan was not the goal. His goal was to capture Zhao Wang Zhang Ao. Only when Zhao Wang Zhang Ao was captured, Zhao Guo would surrender, and this battle was the final victory.

At that moment Han Xin said loudly: "Zhao Xi, Lu Qing, Xu Zhang listen to the order!"

General Zhao Xi hurriedly urged the horse forward, bowed his hands on the horse's back and said, "The last general is here!"

Han Xin raised his right hand, pointed to the front and said, "Lead [-] elite soldiers each to block the north, west, and south gates of Handan. Even a mouse is not allowed to escape from the city!"

"Here!" The third general Zhao Xi responded with a loud bang, and went off on his horse.

Han Xin said again: "The rest of the generals, each lead their own troops, and follow the widow to block the east gate!"

"Here!" Dozens of generals responded loudly, and then turned around and went off to ride their horses.

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The East Gate of Handan has indeed fallen.

When Cheng Hei led eight hundred elite soldiers out of the tunnel and strode into the city gate, the entire city gate was completely controlled by hundreds of secret agents who had sneaked into Handan City in advance. It is unbelievable to say that the gate of the city, which has not been breached by countless casualties, has now been taken down by hundreds of secret agents.

"General!"

"General!"

"General!"

Seeing Cheng Hei entering the city, the secret workers guarding both sides of the city gate bumped their chests to salute, and Cheng Hei also punched the chests of these Qi army secret workers from time to time, excitedly saying: "Well done, brothers! Well done! Alright, when Handan is taken down and King Zhao is captured, this general will definitely ask the king for your credit, hahaha..."

"General, it's nothing, Zhao Jun's defense is too lax."

"That's right, the hundred and ten Zhao troops guarding the city gate were already drunk. We didn't bother to kill them all."

"If I knew this earlier, what were you doing so hard a few days ago?"

These big soldiers didn't know, if it wasn't for the onslaught of those few days and the sacrifice of thousands of people, how could Zhao Jun be negligent today?How could Han Xin stage this play of playing hard to get?

While he was talking, there was a sudden loud noise from the street in front of him, and then a long line of torches rushed out from several nearby streets and dozens of alleys at the same time. Zhao Jun, who was in bright armor, was already approaching the city gate with a murderous look.

The corner of Cheng Hei's mouth suddenly showed an extremely ferocious murderous intent, and then slowly drew out his long sword, pointed the tip of the sword at Zhao Jun who was rushing forward, and shouted sharply: "Listen up, brothers, this Handan City The door is now the tiger's mouth, and we are the fangs in the tiger's mouth, and the bastards of Zhao Guo want to pull out our fangs, and they still have some skills!"

The eight hundred elite soldiers and a hundred or so fine workers were all iron-blooded veterans who had experienced many battles. Without saying anything nonsense, they slowly drew out their long swords and raised their halberds one by one, and slowly but firmly crowded behind Cheng Hei. If Zhao Jun wants to take back the city gate, there is only one way, and that is to step over their corpses.

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Seeing the elite Qi army waiting in front of them, Bai Xuan knew that the fall of Handan was inevitable!

Han Xin, as expected of Han Xin, the use of troops is really unpredictable, until now, Bai Xuan can't figure out, where did the elite Qi army that captured the city gate come from?After the Qi army retreated, Bai Xuan once sent a large number of scouts to search all surrounding forests and valleys where soldiers might hide, but found nothing.

If he is not sure that the Qi army has all retreated, Bai Xuan will try to offend Zhao Wu, even if he tries to offend the monarch, he will stop this extravagant military labor, and even if he can't stop it, he will try to retain enough troops to guard the four gates!But now, it's too late to regret, the East Gate of Handan has already fallen!
Tightening the long sword in his hand, Bai Xuan put all distracting thoughts behind him.

Now that things have been like this, regretting it is useless. Now that the matter is up to now, we should fight back with all our strength and take back the city gate as much as possible. The army's attention will increase the chances of success for the king's escape.

Slowly raising the long sword in his hand, Bai Xuan suddenly roared hoarsely: "Warriors of the Great Zhao Kingdom, for your wives, children, old and young, for your homeland, kill..."

"Kill, kill, kill..." Hundreds of soldiers following Bai Xuan roared in unison.

"Kill all the dogs of the state of Qi on the opposite side, leaving no one behind! Kill!" Bai Xuan raised his sword to the sky, and raised his head to the sky again to howl.

"Kill, kill, kill..." This time, almost all the soldiers of the Zhao army roared fiercely, and the huge sound wave instantly shattered the night sky, and it could be heard clearly for tens of miles away.

(End of this chapter)