With the help of the Qin people, the domestic economy has improved slightly, but I believe that its weak national power cannot maintain the country's army. Therefore, in the eyes of the Qin people, our country is just a piece of fresh fat. Compared with the Wei State, the Qin State has only a few talents.

It’s a true insatiable desire.”

As Han Wangran said, if he is still somewhat sure about the truce with Wei, then he is really helpless with Qin, because Qin's national policy requires this country to go to war with foreign countries and plunder foreign goods.

way to feed the domestic army, and among the forces currently bordering Qin, some have been equally divided with Qin over the years.

The "Xiqiang" in the autumn colors include the "Linhu" who have just lost the Hetao area to the Qin and Wei coalition forces and have already fled to the northern plateau, and the Wei State, which is currently the most powerful in the Central Plains and has a marriage alliance with the Qin State.

, and South Korea, which is about to lose in this war and is far richer than the Xiqiang - which force do you think the Qin Congress will choose as the target of its attack?

Old Prime Minister Shen Buhai nodded happily and helplessly.

Since it is said to be a complaint, it is destined that this conversation between Han Wangran and Shen Buhai will not change the current situation in South Korea: the domestic war faction still demands that the war with Wei continue.

In desperation, Han Wangran had no choice but to obey these people. After all, South Korea is also a country based on aristocrats and aristocratic families. In some cases, even if you are a king, you have to compromise with the aristocratic forces in the country - this is not the case in any country in the Central Plains.

There is nothing unusual about a country.

Since a fight with the Wei army was unavoidable, Han Wangran simply thought about it.

As for the outcome of this battle, to be honest Han Wangran didn't really care.

He could accept the defeat. Anyway, he decided to fake defeat from the beginning and transfer Handan to the Wei State to fulfill the agreement he made with Wei Gongzi Run that day. If he defeated...hey, that would be interesting.

Of course, Han Wangran knew very well that it would be extremely difficult to defeat the Wei army when Wei Gongzi Zhao Run and Wei Nanliang King Zhao Yuanzuo had already joined together.

But having said that, no one can guarantee that South Korea has no chance of winning this battle, right?

At least, he had a very powerful "Daijun Heavy Cavalry" in South Korea, so powerful that even the Wei army did not dare to confront it head-on.

When he thought of that Daijun heavy cavalry, Han Wangran could not help but feel a mixture of love and hate in his heart.

I remember that after he regained power, he had reviewed the expenditures of the treasury in recent years. When he found out that Lihou Hanwu had spent such an astronomical amount of money to build the 50,000 generations of heavy cavalry, he was simply dumbfounded.

Because this amount of money is more than their annual tax revenue in South Korea, and it is much more. It is so much that Han Wangran feels a little cramped in his heart.

What's even more annoying is that according to Acting Governor Sima Shang, the heavy cavalry still needs maintenance. For example, the armor is damaged, the horses are injured, etc. According to rough statistics, the cost of maintaining this heavy cavalry once is enough to make Korea useless.

Have to rebuild an infantry force.

Therefore, after a fierce ideological struggle, Han Wangran decisively added the remaining 40,000 generations of heavy cavalry to the sequence of the "last battle", hoping that this heavy cavalry would be able to fight in this final battle.

Reflecting the strength corresponding to its value, it gave South Korea some hope of turning defeat into victory; of course, it doesn't matter if it cannot defeat the Wei army, just take this opportunity to reduce the number of this heavy cavalry.

Even if Han Wangran feels heartbroken to spend such a large amount of money to build heavy cavalry, even if he loses one person, it is better than letting him bleed this army again and again, right?

Of course, the premise is that Wei Gongzi Run on the opposite side accepts his invitation to fight.

Just when he was thinking wildly, the messenger he sent hurriedly came to the palace holding a wooden box. He knelt on the ground, lowered his head and raised the wooden box above his head with both hands, and said seriously: "Your Majesty, Wei Jun is sending

Here comes the reply."

Han Wangran perked up after hearing this, opened the wooden box, and took out the letter inside - in fact, it was just the letter of challenge he sent, but someone added a sentence behind the letter of challenge.

"See how I cut off your thoughts..."

As he slowly read the words behind the declaration of war, Han Wangran's expression became a little subtle.

He had to admit that what Wei Gongzi Run said back then was very correct: It is a blessing to have an opponent who can guess one's thoughts, but it is also very annoying.

"Oh."

Shaking his head and holding the letter of war in his hand, Han Wangran said seriously: "Invite Ma Kuo, Zhao Cong, and Yan to gather in the palace, and then send them outside the city to summon Qin Kai, Sima Shang, Le Yi, and Xu Li.

!”

"yes!"

The waiter nearby responded and left.

On that day, Han Wangran summoned the generals of the army in the palace and told them about this "last battle."

After some discussion, Qin Kai, Sima Shang, Le Yi, Xu Li and other generals returned to the army and began to make full preparations for this last battle.

The generals knew very well that this would be their only and last chance to change the fate of the country. If they could win this war, they might be able to persuade the young king to give up his previous plan to sue for peace with Wei at the cost of ceding Handan.

Decide.

Later, South Korea and Wu'an also opened their arms warehouses and distributed a large amount of newly minted armaments, as well as manufactured arrows, crossbow bolts, etc., to each army to supplement the consumption of each army.

As for the Wei army, in just ten days, they also relied on huge warships to transport many war supplies to the battlefield along the rivers in South Korea.

It is worth mentioning that before this, there was a war between the fleets of Wei and South Korea in the river. Although Wei did not have the concept of a naval army at all, it relied on many huge warships and powerful mechanisms.

Lian Nu and Wei's fleet still opened up the waterway with an almost overwhelming advantage, leaving the Korean generals on the opposite side, Julu Shouyan Crepe, helpless - the gap between the warships of the two sides and the weapons loaded on the warships was too big.

There is no way.

On June 21, the first batch of warships from Wei State entered Qishui along the river, and then landed in the Qixian area.

The Shanyang Army, who had already received the news and were waiting here, temporarily acted as civilian husbands and unloaded all the war necessities on the ship to the shore, and then loaded them into tractors, preparing to transport them to the front line of the battlefield.

"Are these things parts of a catapult?"

In the process of inspecting the transportation situation, King Zhao Jiang of Yan watched curiously as his soldiers transported huge components off the ship one by one, and he was very surprised.

Because he discovered that these disassembled parts, which looked like catapults, were extremely huge, so big that King Yan Zhao Jiang could not imagine whether there was a city wall in the world that could withstand such a city-destroying weapon.

Unfortunately, due to the confidentiality system, the craftsmen of the Smelting Bureau who followed the fleet to the battlefield refused to disclose the contents of the cargo. Even if King Zhao Jiang of Yan asked him personally, the craftsmen only responded in embarrassment.

The apologetic smile made King Yan Zhao Jiang more and more curious.

A few days later, the Shanyang Army successively transported these war supplies to the Shangshui Army Camp in the "Cixian" area.

Immediately, under the curious attention of countless Wei soldiers, the craftsmen of the Smelting Bureau who came with the fleet assembled the huge components one by one.

During the assembly process, the Wei soldiers who were watching were simply stunned, because they had never seen such a huge trebuchet. Let’s not talk about anything else, just that the basket was thrown, and it was more than enough for two or three soldiers to sit in it.

"Your Highness, does he want to completely destroy Handan?"

"This is too cruel..."

The Wei soldiers and generals looked at each other in shock.

They bet that even Daliang, the capital of their Kingdom of Wei, would never be able to withstand such a huge trebuchet. It is not difficult to guess that Handan, the capital of South Korea, would definitely not be able to withstand it either.

The problem is, if you use this thing to throw a few huge rocks, Handan City will definitely become a ruin. Is this... a pity?

After all, if Handan becomes the territory of the Wei State in the future, the Wei State will definitely station heavy troops in this capital. Will it be rebuilt by then?

On the sidelines, what Zhao Yuanzuo, the king of Nanliang, was thinking about was another question: With such a huge stone trebuchet, it is natural that the stone projectiles thrown must be huge. Then the question is, who has so much strength?

, carry such a big bomb into the throwing basket?

Or is this thing just to scare the Koreans in Handan?

For a time, the Wei army generals were full of doubts, and everyone was speculating on the role of those huge trebuchets. Unfortunately, the craftsmen of the Smelting Bureau remained silent about this, which made all the army generals

I feel itchy and unbearable.

In fact, in addition to trebuchets, the Smelting Bureau also transported many other war weapons this time, such as improved martial arts chariots, even tortoise-shell chariots, and many repeating crossbows. Unfortunately, these war weapons

It's far less impressive than those huge riprap trucks.

By mid-July, the preparations for the war between Wei and South Korea were almost in progress.

The two sides had a tacit understanding and gradually pushed their troops to the plain between Handan and Ci County - let's call it the "Handan Plain" - to make final preparations for the war.

The so-called final pre-battle preparations, to put it bluntly, are the arrangement of defensive positions. After all, there are so many armies of the two countries involved in this decisive battle. On the Wei Army side alone, there are Shangshui Army, Suppression of Rebellion Army, Shanyang Army, Nanyan Army and

The private armies under the command of nobles such as Chengling King Zhao Shen and Anping Hou Zhao Tan had at least more than 200,000 troops.

South Korea was not to be outdone. After deploying troops and recruiting troops, it also piled up 200,000 troops.

In a situation where 400,000 troops are often in a stalemate, this war zone must be divided into areas in detail. After all, it is impossible for one person to take care of the entire battlefield with the naked eye.

"...Come on, Han Ran, as I said before, let me cut off your last thought!"
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