Chapter seven hundred and eighty seventh close call
After hearing Lian Po say this, Zhao Dan was obviously stunned for a moment, looked at Lian Po in confusion, and said to Lian Po: "Wu Xinjun, do you want me to retreat at this time?"
"Go back to the king, that's exactly what it is." Lian Po didn't care much at this time and immediately said to Zhao Dan: "The king is now in a critical situation. The enemy is too close to the king. If the king stays here, the old minister is really worried about the king's safety. Please return to Suiyang City quickly."
As a minister and a man who loves Zhao State very much, Lian Po naturally did not want Zhao Dan, the king of Zhao State, to be in any danger.
Zhao Dan looked at Lian Po in a steady manner. Of course, he understood Lian Po’s meaning. The battle situation is so critical now that once the Qin army breaks through, the king of Zhao will immediately face the Qin army. The personal safety of Zhao Dan, the king, will not be guaranteed by anyone.
Zhao Dan let out a light breath, looked at Lian Po deeply, and then slowly spoke, "Mr. Wu Xin, I cannot leave at this time." Lian Po was anxious when he heard this, and even forgot the etiquette of speaking between the king and the ministers, and shouted directly: "King, this is not the time to show off. Please retreat quickly!"
Fortunately, amid the shouts of killing in the sky, Lian Po's words were completely submerged, and only the nearby Zhao court guards could hear them.
Zhao Dan waved his hand, stopped Lian Po's words, and said very seriously: "Wu Xinjun, I am not ignorant, and I am not confused about the truth you are talking about. But you should know that the Qin people have come to me now. If I retreat at this time, have you ever thought about what consequences will be caused?"
Lian Po was stunned when he heard this. To be honest, what Lian Po thought about before this was mainly how to ensure Zhao Dan's safety. He really didn't think too much about what consequences would be if Zhao Dan retreated.
Zhao Dan pointed to the royal flag behind him, and pointed to the Qin people not far away in front of him, and then said in a deep voice: "If I leave, what should I do with the morale here? Once the morale is hit, the entire central army will collapse. Once the central army disperses, the battle will be completely over. Haven't Wu Xinjun thought about this before?"
Lian Po was completely stunned.
Zhao Dan took a deep breath and continued, "So I can't escape, nor will I run away. I'm here today to watch how these Qin people were blocked and then destroyed in front of my Zhao warriors! The battle situation has not yet ended yet, who can say that I and Zhao must be the one who failed? Don't say anything more, go and do what you should do."
Zhao Dan's voice was very calm. On this battlefield where killing sounds were in full swing, his calmness even made him an alien.
Lian Po looked at Zhao Dan with a steady look, his heart full of strange emotions at this moment.
If Zhao Dan's statement before the war had the intention of making a show, then at this time, Lian Po no longer suspected that Zhao Dan was making a show, because Zhao Dan is indeed facing a situation that may be threatened by the Qin people, and this situation may even lead to Zhao Dan being captured or killed!
Lian Po nodded heavily, his eyes shining with his brilliance, and he said in a deep voice: "Please rest assured, as long as the old minister still has a breath, he will never let any Qin people appear in front of the king!"
Zhao Dan smiled slightly and said to Lian Po: "Wu Xinjun's words are wrong. I am still waiting for Wu Xinjun to defeat these enemies in front of me and use the heads of these Qin people to add luster to my celebration ceremony!"
Lian Po jumped off Zhao Dan's king's chariot, returned to his chariot, and began to issue orders: "Boundler, stare at these damn Qin Ruishi, shoot directly, don't be afraid of accidental injury, be sure to attack these Qin Ruishi!"
Although Lian Po is also a general who loves soldiers as much as his son, this general who has been in the military for half his life knows the reason why Ci is not in charge of soldiers. The current situation is so critical that as long as Qin Ruishi can stop his advancement, there is no way even if he sacrifices his own people.
With the previous lessons of the Eight Niu Crossbow, after Lian Po's order, the crossbowmen of the Zhao army naturally no longer hesitated. They raised their crossbows one after another, and directly launched a covered, indiscriminate shooting towards the most active place between the Qin Ruishi, which was the front line of the battlefield between the two sides.
"Swoosh swish swish!" Hundreds of thousands of crossbow arrows shot out, instantly covering the most dense Qin Ruishi, that is, the protrusion where Wang Jian was.
Wang Jian noticed this as early as the Zhao army's crossbowmen were aiming, so Wang Jian rolled and hid on the ground beside him as soon as the crossbow arrow was shot, and he pulled over a body of Zhao's army to block the gun.
The next moment, Wang Jian's ears were filled with screams, and dense arrows were inserted into the ground, and corpses fell to the ground one after another.
Wang Jian let out a long breath, pushed away the arrow in front of him and stood up. He saw that about ten feet above him, no one could stand alive. There were corpses and wounded soldiers rolling around on the ground.
It is easy to see from the crowd lying on the ground that most of the people who were killed and injured were soldiers of the Zhao army, and only about twenty or thirty Qin Ruishi were injured or killed. But the problem is that every Qin Ruishi can play one or ten roles. From this point of view, it is hard to say who loses and who makes a profit on both sides.
Wang Jian gasped: "The commander of the Zhao army was so cold-blooded that he could delay my attack at the cost of his subordinates' lives!"
However, there was not much time left for Wang Jian to be ignorant, because after just a few breaths, countless Zhao soldiers appeared in front of him again, and hundreds of Qin troops also rushed over from behind Wang Jian, and the two sides began a fierce battle again.
But even so, the Zhao army's defensive dilemma has not passed.
Zhao Dan stood above the king's carriage, his eyes firmly locked on Wang Jian, and he couldn't help but ask left and right: "Who is this Qin general?"
In Zhao Dan's eyes, this young Qin general not only led the way but also brave. He led the Qin Ruis to kill through countless Zhao troops like a sharp knife. No matter how hard the Zhao army soldiers tried their best to stop him, they were killed in succession under the long sword in his hand.
Even as an opponent, Zhao Dan couldn't help but feel admiration in his heart, and even had the idea of cherishing talents and trying to recruit them.
After Zhao Dan asked this, someone naturally replied: "King, this person is Wang Jian, a general in the Qin army, and is one of the famous generals of the Qin generation at present."
"Wang Jian?" After hearing this answer, Zhao Dan couldn't help but look surprised on his face.
Unexpectedly, I actually met Wang Jian, one of the four famous generals of the Warring States Period here!
Zhao Dan looked at Wang Jian silently for a while and found that although Zhao Jun's crossbowmen repeatedly suppressed the arrow where Wang Jian was with covert long-range firepower, Wang Jian could avoid it every time without any delay, and then got up again to attack the part where Zhao Dan Wang Jia was.
Judging from Zhao Dan's vision, Wang Jian is only about two hundred steps away from Zhao Dan at this moment.
Zhao Dan was silent for a moment, stretched out his hand calmly, pointed at Wang Yan and said, "If you pass the order, whoever can kill this Wang Jian will be promoted to him by a third level and a second level."
Zhao Dan knew Wang Jian’s ability very well, so if he could take down Wang Jian’s head, Zhao Dan felt that the reward was worth 100%.
Zhao Dan's orders quickly spread throughout the defense line in just a short moment. Countless Zhao soldiers were excited when they heard the news and immediately rushed towards Wang Jian.
Among them are many elite veterans and even officers from Zhao State. They are all skilled in martial arts and cooperate with each other perfectly, so they want to kill Wang Jian directly to receive rewards.
However, Wang Jian was born into a family like the Wang family that has joined the army for generations, and with the advice of senior generals like Wang and Wang Ling, his martial arts are already very good. In addition, there are many Qin Ruishis around him as a cover, and there are hundreds of Qin soldiers behind him constantly following him, and his whole body is also as unstoppable as a tiger going down the mountain.
After a quarter of an hour of fierce battle, although Wang Jian was injured in many places, his whole body was still powerful. He still tore a gap in the Zhao army's formation and rushed in, approaching Zhao Dan's king's carriage step by step.
In the main formation of the Qin army, Wang He, the chief general of the Qin army, was very happy to see that Wang Jian was so fierce. He no longer hesitated and issued an order very decisively: "Send the order and beat the drum to order the three armies to advance with all their might. Today, it will be today!"
The sound of drums began to resound throughout the sky. Inspired by the drums, the soldiers of the Qin army fought bravely to the forefront, compressing the Zhao army's defense line step by step, and getting closer and closer to the King of Zhao.
After hearing the drums of the Qin army's general attack, Lian Po was shocked and no longer cared about it. He directly boarded the chariot of the king who was Zhao Dan, and shouted sternly: "King, please retreat immediately!"
Zhao Dan broke free from Lian Po's hand very hard, his eyes full of firm expressions: "Wu Xinjun, things have come to this point, only fighting to the death, how can he retreat because of the great enemy's momentum?"
As he said that, Zhao Dan suddenly pulled out his long sword from his hand, raised the tip of the sword high towards the sky, and shouted with the maximum volume: "All the soldiers, please follow me to fight to kill the enemy!"
All the soldiers of Zhao Dan's side of Zhao Dan also had red eyes and pulled out the weapons in their hands.
"Fight to the death, fight to the death!"
The thousand palace guards responsible for guarding Zhao Dan finally began to enter the battlefield. They were the most outstanding warriors in the entire Zhao Kingdom, and at this moment they became the last line of defense in front of their own kings!
One after another, the palace guards wielded their weapons and entered the battlefield, killing Qin Ruishi in front of them. Qin Ruishi, who had been invincible, finally met his opponent and his momentum of progress slowed down greatly.
But no matter what, the Qin army successfully attacked only a hundred steps away from King Zhao!
The old general Lian Po had already pulled out his weapon and replaced him with a war horse before coming to Zhao Dan's king's carriage. His white eyebrows kept trembling slightly on his face, showing his uneasiness in his heart.
With Lian Po's ability, of course, it can be seen that the personal force of the Imperial Guard may be comparable to that of Qin Ruishi, but when it comes to fighting on the battlefield, it is obviously still a long time to fight. Almost everyone is Qin Ruishi who crawled out of the dead, and it is better to be better.
This is why the Zhao State Imperial Guards clearly have more people, but Qin Ruishi is still moving forward continuously.
Judging from the current situation, it is already a matter of time before the Qin people break through this last line of defense.
Is there really nothing I can do? Lian Po's right hand holding the long sword couldn't help but exert force, and blue veins on his wrist were exposed.
Wang Jian roared and stabbed a hundred generals of the Zhao State Imperial Guard in front of him, then pulled out the long sword inserted into the other party's chest with force, and roared towards the sky like a crazy tiger.
"The second and third sons follow me and capture King Zhao to make achievements today!!!"
But at this moment, a roar like a bolt from the blue suddenly rang out from the side, even louder than Wang Jian's voice, and rushed into Wang Jian's eardrums heavily.
"Qin thieves, don't hurt my king!"
Chapter completed!