"Gaotang City is lost?"

This news seemed to have some magic power, which immediately made the Longtai Main Hall, which was still singing and laughing just now.

Mao Sui, who was responsible for delivering the message, knew that the matter was very big and did not dare to say more. He quickly put the urgent report in front of Zhao Dan.

The shock in Zhao Dan's heart at this moment can be said to be unparalleled.

You should know that in Zhao Dan's mind, even if the war between Gaotang City and Qi cannot be won, it should be at least a draw.

But now, the Zhao army led by Lian Po actually lost to the Qi army!

During his entire military career, General Lian Po, who abused Qi, lost to the Qi people who absolutely shouldn't and could not lose!?

In just one day, Zhao Dan heard two things that he was difficult to believe.

One thing is that Shangdang won, and the other thing is that Lian Po lost.

So much so that when he picked up the urgent report of the war in front of him, he felt a little dazed.

The content on this urgent report is actually very short.

"General Lian Po attacked the Qi army camp at night, was buried and returned with great defeat. The Qi army took advantage of the situation to attack Gaotang, and Gaotang was lost. The general has led the remaining troops to retreat to Liaocheng."

Although it is very short, it is enough to let Zhao Dan understand the whole story.

Lian Po underestimated the enemy.

Of course, there must be a very detailed military information report for such a big event. This detailed military information report was sent to Zhao Dan in the afternoon of the same day with Lian Po's apology.

If it is normal, facing an enemy army that is several times more than one, any general will choose to stick to it.

But Lian Po was such an accident.

For Lian Po, he couldn't stand Qi Jun from the bottom of his heart.

After all, Qi State has been beaten by Lian Po too many times. The current Qi army commander Kuang Liang was also beaten by Lian Po all the way. Who would look down on a defeated general who lost to him countless times?

So even though there were only 50,000 troops in his hand, and even if the Qi State opposite had reached a huge amount of 200,000 after the increase in troops, which was four times that of Lian Po, Lian Po still did not intend to retreat to the city and not come out. Instead, he was preparing to "give the Qi people some color!"

Speaking of which, although the old general looked down on the Qi people, he was not so reckless. He first sent a small team to engage in many small-scale contacts with the Qi people in the previous wars, and confirmed a fact that the Qi army was still the same Qi army and had no progress.

After confirming this, Lian Po took the initiative to shrink his troops and gave all the Hejian land north of Gaotang to the people of Qi.

A few days later, Kuang Liang led a large army to surround Gaotang City, but failed for half a month.

Lian Po felt that the opportunity had come, so he led the main force of the Zhao army to quietly leave the city on the night before and suddenly launched a counterattack on the Qi army camp.

In Lian Po's view, even if this reaction cannot defeat the Qi army, it will at least be able to kill the Qi people.

However, Lian Po never expected that the people of Qi had predicted this sudden counterattack and set up an ambush in the camp in advance, causing Lian Po to lead his troops to directly penetrate into the encirclement of the people of Qi.

At this time, Lian Po's leadership ability was shown. Although he was surrounded by many people, he still led most of the troops out of the encirclement of the Qi people.

But just as Lian Po returned to the outside of Gaotang City, the incident happened again.

Some local nobles in Gaotang City bribed the officials in the city, and took advantage of Lian Po's departure to seize control of the city, and instead locked Lian Po outside the city.

In this way, General Lian Po was defeated by the enemy from both sides.

After a fierce battle, Lian Po once again broke out of the encirclement of the Qi people, but at this moment, the soldiers were already damaged and the generals could not fight again. He had to retreat to Liaocheng in the south with less than 10,000 remaining soldiers.

Speaking of which, Lian Po was not defeated by his lack of military capabilities, but by the traitor in Gaotang City.

Of course, these are all later stories.

However, in the main hall of Longtai, Zhao Guojun, who had originally seemed to be excited by the great victory in Changzhi, all seemed to be poured with cold water on their heads, and they all became cold in an instant after hearing the news of Gaotang's defeat.

After a while, Zhao Dan shook his head and said slowly: "Okay, things have happened, and nothing else will be of no help. For the sake of the current plan, let's talk about how to deal with the next battle situation first."

Although the people present did not have the kind of general who led the army, they could still look at the map for the most basic method.

Judging from the map, Gaotang is actually a very important place. It is not only the gateway of Handan City east of the Yellow River, but also the rear wing of the main force of the Zhao army Pang Qian who was fighting in the Wei State.

Now that Gao Tang is lost, the Qi army may cross the Yellow River from here to attack Handan City, or continue to go south along Gao Tang to cut off Pang Qian's retreat.

No matter which of these two things is, they are not good news for the current Zhao State.

After a full moment, Yu Xin said, "As for the Wei State, General Lian Po has retreated to Liaocheng, and Pang Qing's retreat should not be threatened for a while."

"Is that?" Zhao Sheng, who had been holding his breath, finally found an opportunity now, and said lukewarmly: "Now Wu Xinjun has only 10,000 defeated soldiers and defeated soldiers, and his morale is at a low point. If he is chased by the tail of Qi's army, hum... Maybe it is unknown if Liaocheng has been lost at this time."

When Yu Xin heard this, he was very upset and said angrily: "Mr. Pingyuan, the battle situation is now critical. It is time to work together. But what is your intention to say these rumors here?"

Zhao Sheng said with a slight smile: "Is that so? I don't know who was still questioning Pang Qing's position as the chief general just now. Look, fortunately, the chief general this time is Pang Qing. If someone else was replaced, maybe the main force is now...hehe!"

"Bang!" Zhao Dan suddenly slapped the table hard, shocking both Yu Xin and Zhao Sheng.

"It's time, and I'm still here to argue about this trivial matter! Do you like to argue? Do you want me to give you a few months off and let you go home and make arguing enough, huh?"

Zhao Dan was really angry this time, so it would be fine if it were normal. After all, this political struggle situation was created by Zhao Dan himself to some extent.

But fighting for power is a struggle, and it's a big deal. Still saying these things here, Zhao Dan, or any monarch, can't stand it.

Zhao Dan's anger was very serious. Zhao Sheng and Yu Xinxin knew that the situation was not good, so they were so scared that they hurried out to the list and kneel down to apologize.

Zhao Dan was still angry and scolded the two guys in front of him, and then said: "Okay, what I need now is a solution to the problem, not a quarrel to shirk responsibility! If you have an idea, say it, and if you don't have an idea, shut up!"

Zhao Dan said this, and the ministers of Zhao State looked at me and I looked at you, and naturally they just wanted to think of it.

As the saying goes, the three cobblers are better than Zhuge Liang, not to mention that the ministers of Zhao State present are not cobblers, but the heroes in the world today, so they quickly came up with an idea.

The first person to speak was Zheng Zhu, a great traveler: "King, from the perspective of the minister, now that the war in Qi is not good, then we should seek foreign aid. Yan State has always been a mortal enemy of Qi. The king should order people to speak with the Queen Mother Yan to ask him to send troops to help Zhao quickly. In this way, Yan State restrains the people of Qi cannot be too rampant."

Zhao Dan's face looked a little better when he heard this. In fact, Zhao Dan had already thought of this idea, but he was just waiting for someone to come up with it.

So Zhao Dan said, "As a big business, Zheng Qing should know that I had already sent envoys to Jidu, but Empress Dowager Yan delayed not replying."

Zheng Zhu nodded and said, "King, I think the reason why Yan State does not make concessions is just because I feel that I cannot get much benefit in this war. The king only needs to make some concessions to Yan State, so the people of Yan will definitely send troops to support!"

Zhao Dan pondered for a while and said, "Since that's the case, how much concessions should I make in Zheng Qing's opinion?"

"Wuyang!" Zheng Zhu obviously had an answer, and immediately said: "King, as long as Wuyang City is returned to Yan State, Yan State will definitely send troops."

"Wuyang City?" Zhao Dan's face changed slightly, obviously hesitating.

Wuyang City is the Xiadu of Yan State and was once the largest city in Yan State. If Wuyang City is returned to Yan State, it will definitely be a bargaining chip that the king and minister of Yan State cannot refuse.

The reason why Zhao Dan hesitated was not because Wuyang City was so important to Zhao State. With the current national strength of Zhao State, what if it is to give it four or five Wuyang City?

Zhao Dan was worried that Yan State had basically been crippled by Qi and Zhao's last attack on Yan State. Now that he returned Wuyang to Yan State, wouldn't it give Yan State another chance to turn over?

But if you think about it carefully, what if you return Wuyang to Yan State? Didn’t Yan State, which had Wuyang City, be abused by Zhao State as a rookie?

Seeing that Zhao Dan was still hesitating, Zheng Zhu continued to persuade: "King, as long as you pass this level, even if the princes in the world unite again in the future, it will be difficult for them to become opponents of Zhao again! Compared with this eternal hegemony, what is the mere Wuyang City? "

Zhao Dan took a deep breath and said slowly: "Zheng Qing's words are reasonable. Since that's the case, then please ask Zheng Qing to go to Jidu. Be sure to convince Empress Dowager Yan and Le's room, and let Yan send troops to contain Qi."

Zheng Zhu stood up, bowed deeply to Zhao Dan, and whispered loudly: "Please rest assured, I will do my best to live up to the king's entrustedness!"

Zhao Dan nodded and said, "Also, the people of Qi may not necessarily attack Liaocheng, and Handan may also be the target of attack, so this time Handan's defense must also be vigilant!"

"Please inform General Lian Po that if the enemy chases to Liaocheng, then he must guard General Pang Nuan's retreat at any cost and wait for General Pang Nuan to return to support after winning!"

"Shangdang County sent someone to tell Ju Xin that I don't need him to eliminate Jin Mou, as long as I keep the Northern Shangdang, he will be a great achievement!"

"Go and send someone to tell Pang Nuan that you must defeat the Wei people as quickly as possible! Once the overall situation is affected by his delay, I will only ask!"

After saying one by one, Zhao Dan looked at the ministers of Zhao in front of him and said in a very sincere tone: "You are the situation now that it is not clear, the outcome is unpredictable. Please work with me and I to overcome the difficulties together!"

All the ministers of Zhao State present stood up one after another, with a solemn expression: "Here!"

The situation, which had become clear because of the Changzhi victory, seemed to have become a little confusing again.

But the failure of Gaotang City was not the end of the world for Zhao State. Zhao Dan and his ministers had been through the storm for a long time. Of course, they would not become depressed or even feared after the baptism of Changping and Handan defense wars.

The real good show is actually still to come!
Chapter completed!