With Zhao Yong's order, the territory of Zhao State was turbulent. Lian Po and Zhao She each gathered their troops and prepared to attack Ye County, the capital of Wei State, which was only a hundred miles apart.

Since the founding of the country a hundred years ago, Wei established its capital in Anyi and later moved to Daliang.

The main cities in the territory include Daliang, Ye County, Wei County, Chenliu, Guantao, Puyang and other places. The area is not vast, but the population is extremely dense, the land is fertile, and the economy is prosperous.

Under the rule of previous monarchs, the Wei State gradually rose and grew, becoming one of the strongest countries in the Central Plains.

When Weis succeeded to the throne, he appointed Li Kui as prime minister, supplemented by civil officials such as Ximen Bao, Zhai Huang, and Su Dai, which made the Wei State's political affairs harmonious and the weather smoothly, and the population grew rapidly to four million, becoming one of the world's powerful countries.

Weiss' brother, Xinling Jun, Wei Wuji, was respectful to the wise and generous, treated people with kindness, and was well-known, and had a lot of reputation.

During his heyday, there were as many as 5,000 disciples under Xinlingjun's sect, making Wei Wuji as famous as Zhao Sheng, the Pingyuan Jun of Zhao State, and was also known as the second son of the north and south.

As for Tian Wen, Mengchangjun of Qi, because Qi is now under the Lü family of Jiang, Tian Wen is just an ordinary civil servant in Qi.

The Chunshen Jun Huang Xie of Chu State did not even have an official position, and he didn't know where to play in the corner of the wall. Therefore, people only know that the "Fourth Prince of the Warring States Period" does not exist at present.

Wei Wuji was not only capable and prestige, but also loyal. He has always worked diligently to assist his brother Weis, working hard to develop the Wei Kingdom, and survive and grow in this troubled era when heroes stand together.

Weiss also used people without doubt and entrusted the important tasks of his brotherly compatriots, giving Wei Wuji a place to use his skills and showed extraordinary talents in both military and political affairs.

In terms of military generals, Weis promoted a group of military generals such as Pang Juan, Leyang, Wei Liao, and Jin Bi to forge armor, make weapons, and train soldiers, which led to the increase in the military strength of the Wei State year by year. At its peak, it had 230,000 armored men.

Even if it is as powerful as Qi, Qin will sell Wei Hou a little bit thin, not to mention that other small and medium-sized countries will not change their color when talking about strong Wei?

However, with Zhao Yong's reform of "Hu Clothing, Horse and Shooting", the State of Zhao quickly defeated the ethnic minorities such as Loufan, Linhu, etc. in the north, and expanded the territory of Zhao five or six hundred miles northward, occupying Julu, Pingyuan, Changshan, Anping, Bohai, Hejian and other places, and growing at an incredible speed.

Zhao Yong's ability is not inferior to Weiss, and even more than that, while the talents of Zhao State also emerged like bamboo shoots after a rain.

As for civil officials, Zhao Yong was like a treasure after discovering Lin Xiangru's talent and obeyed his words, which led to the rapid development of Zhao's national strength, rapid economic development, and rapid population growth.

Pingyuan Jun Zhao Sheng also made his mark, showed extraordinary political talents, gained the valuation of Zhao Yong, and worked with Lin Xiangru to provide advice for Zhao State and strengthen Zhao State.

But overall, the quality of the civil officials of Zhao State is not as good as that of Wei State, which is also the reason why Zhao Yong tried his best to win over Gongsun Yan. But what made Zhao Yong unhappy was that Gongsun Yan could not truly serve Zhao State.

The civil servants of Zhao were slightly inferior to the Wei State, but they were far behind the Wei State in terms of military generals.

Lian Po, Li Mu, Zhao She, Sima Shang, Le Cheng, Jia Yan and others even appeared in a blast, especially Li Mu and Lian Po showed extraordinary military talents. They led the Zhao army to attack Lin Hu, Lou Fan and other aliens fled in a hurry, and did not dare to easily invade the Central Plains.

Li Mu led the Zhao army to advance eastward and captured the Bohai, Hejian, Pingyuan and other places for Zhao State. Lian Po led the Zhao army to the north and captured Changshan, Zhaoxian, Julu and other places for Zhao State. Zhao She led the Zhao army to go south and captured Guangping, Feixiang and other places for Zhao State.

All fronts were blossoming in full swing, causing the population of Zhao to rapidly expand to 4.5 million and the army exceeded 300,000, surpassing Wei in one fell swoop and becoming one of the five powerful countries in the world.

How could a tiger sleep soundly beside the bed, but beside the State of Zhao and Wei, there was a tiger in each of them, and if it was not careful, it would be swallowed up.

Seeing the former little brother rising rapidly and surpassing him, Weiss felt very sad and uncomfortable.

In order to curb the development of Zhao State, Weis decided to adopt the strategy of "double capitals" and left Wei Wuji and Wei Liao to take charge of Daliang. He took Li Ji, Pang Juan and other civil and military personnel to move the capital to Ye County, more than 100 miles away from Handan, Zhao State, and confronted each other.

Look at these two countries with equal strength, look at me, look at you, beware of each other, compete in secret, but don’t dare to start the battle lightly.

The eldest brother Jin State in the west was unhappy, especially the development of Zhao State seriously affected the status of the overlord of his region. He repeatedly relied on many soldiers and generals to attack Zhao State, and all returned in disgrace and returned in vain.

Zhao State had a grudge against Jin State, so he did not dare to offend Wei State.

The Wei State has many grievances with South Korea in the south and meets each other from time to time, so they dare not provoke Zhao State easily.

The two neighbors were so peaceful that they had been neighbors for many years, and almost no conflict of more than a thousand people broke out. However, this time, under the instigation of the monarchs and ministers of the Tang Dynasty, a huge conflict finally broke out, and the war was about to break out.

When he learned that Zhao Yong sent Lian Po and Zhao She led 160,000 troops to invade, Weis ordered Jin Bi, Wang Liao and others to organize troops to fight, while sending envoys to ask about the reason for Pang Juan's incident.

"Pang Juan has been a little inflated recently. First, he refused to reject the order of the general outside the army. Now, without my permission, he burned Zhao's food without my permission, causing conflict. It's time for me to beat this guy!"

Weiss was very dissatisfied with Pang Juan's recent performance. The words in the edict were quite harsh, with many words such as "repeated defeats, hard work but no result, and generals were arrogant and mediocre." He instructed Pang Juan to withdraw his troops quickly to fight against Zhao State.

Pang Juan and Le Yang took away 100,000 soldiers and horses when they set out to war. Wei Wuji and Wei Liao led 50,000 soldiers and horses to guard the southern part of Wei State to resist the harassment of South Korea.

In this way, the troops around Yecheng were only about 60,000, and there were more than 20,000 scattered soldiers in other places such as Puyang, Guantao, Weixian and other places. Facing Lian Po and Zhao She, the 160,000 Zhao army was obviously at a disadvantage and the situation was in a hurry.

While revising a book, Weis ordered Pang Juan to withdraw his troops, he ordered all counties to recruit soldiers, sighing: "The Tang Kingdom is surrounded by enemies on three sides, so why is the Wei Kingdom the same?"

Li Kui shook his head and sighed: "The Tang Kingdom established by Fang Li and him are simply a mess, and the world is in turmoil!"

Looking at the whole world, war has broken out in full swing, and it is difficult for any country to stay out of war.

The enemies of the Tang Kingdom included Jin in the north, Wei in the east, and strong Qin in the west, which looked like enemies but not friends.

The enemies of Wei State were Tang in the west, Han in the south, and Zhao in the north.

The enemies of Chu State were Wu in the east, Song in the north, and Qin in the west.

Zhao State is fighting against Jin and Wei; Han State is challenging Wei and Zheng.

Wu and Yue, Chu were deadly enemies, Qi and Lu had a hundred years of feud, and now it has formed a liangzi with Yan.

Although Qin State is in the westernmost state, it has been trying to control Bashu in recent years, and has continuously sent Wang Jian and Meng Tian to conquer Shu and Ba from Hanzhong and Langzhong, trying to annex this fertile land.

The beacon fire has burned all over the world, and the wolf smoke has spread everywhere. The Wei State now deeply felt the feeling of the Tang State being surrounded by enemies on three sides and being in a state of chaos.

As the forefront, Yecheng has long been deep and high trenches, with arrow towers and deer antlers everywhere. Although facing the fierce Zhao army of 160,000, under the command of two generals, Jin Bi, Wang Liao, they were not in a hurry and calmly responded to the battle.

Lian Po and Zhao She attacked several times, lost thousands of soldiers and gained little.

The two generals discussed and decided that Lian Po would continue to attack Yecheng, and Zhao She, Zhao Kuo and his son would lead 60,000 troops to attack Qinghe, Guantao and other places in Wei State.

The Wei State now has empty troops except Yecheng and Daliang. The troops stationed in Qinghe and Guantao are only about 3,000. Zhao She and his son are out of power. They have occupied Qinghe and Guantao in just two days.

Weis was not in a hurry. He knew that the troops of Wei could not defend the entire line, so he had already vacated the food and supplies of Qinghe and Guantao, and let Zhao fight the city casually, and seized the opportunity in the future and then regained it.

When he learned that the fire broke out in the rear, Pang Juan could no longer sit still. He held the letter sent by Weis and kept sweating on his forehead: "Zhao Yong sent troops, and Bao Yuan did not retreat, and the country was in a hurry!"

Le Yang punched the table and cursed: "I knew that Zhao Yong was a villain who was a slaughter. When Zhao State sent troops to attack Jin last year, we should take the opportunity to attack Handan."

Pang Juan shook his head and sighed: "Aren't you afraid that Jin would destroy Guo and Yu at that time, and that it would grow too quickly to threaten our Wei State! Who knew that the Jin army was defeated in Pinglu in the end, and lost an astonishing 70,000 troops, which allowed the Tang State to rise rapidly."

"It's too late to say anything now. Should I withdraw my troops and return to Yecheng to rescue the siege?" Le Yang bowed his hand and asked.

Pang Juan looked unwilling: "This time, sending 100,000 troops to attack Tang, wasted twenty days, and lost 15,000 soldiers, 700 chariots, and more than 2,000 war horses. He left in shame. Juan was really unwilling to accept it!"

"Victory and defeat are common affairs of military strategists. It is not too late to settle accounts with the Tang State after the siege of Yecheng is lifted." Le Yang advised him bitterly.

Pang Juan paced back and forth in the commander's tent, and suddenly became happy: "Haha... I suddenly thought of a clever plan to attack Fang Li for a while before withdrawing the troops, and save his face."

Pang Juan summoned all the generals to make a deployment, and sent Leyang to lead 30,000 people to retreat in advance to reinforce Yecheng, Deng Lu and Zuo Si each led 10,000 troops to ambush a hundred miles ahead. He led the remaining soldiers to finally withdraw overnight, pretending to be messy, loose formations, and panic.

"General Le is waiting to watch the show, and I believe Fang Li must come and chase him!" Pang Juan vowed to Le Yang, Deng Lu, Wei Gu and others.

Although Le Yang was unwilling to get entangled with Tang State again, Pang Juan was the main general after all, so he could only advise Pang Juan to be careful in using troops and not to be greedy for merit and fight. "Le took a step back first, General Pang should not be in love with fighting!"

The scout of the Tang army immediately reported the news of the Wei army's retreat: "Report to the lord, the Wei army has retreated overnight, and the ruts are messy, the formation is loose, and people are panicked!"
Chapter completed!