1388. Mingyi Wei
After Shangguan Mingren entered the Wei region, he began to divide his troops to attack the Hezhong County of the Wei State, and attacked the 'Tongbai City' of the Hezhong County in a three-way manner.
In the case that the troops were inferior to the Chu people, Wan Hao did not choose to fight a decisive battle with him, and also chose to abandon some unnecessary cities and only hold a few important positions.
His purpose was to make it impossible for the Chu army to attack Tongbai City, unable to occupy the river, and dispel the ambition of the Central Plains where the Chu army was stationed.
On the Qi army's side, under Xinye City, the Qi army set up a formation, but it did not launch an attack for a long time.
In the camp of the Qi army, many generals discussed.
A general looked at Wu Zixu: "General, in my opinion, let's launch a strong attack, although the other party does not have many resources, but it is no problem to consume it for a year like this!" ”
And Vice General Wu Zixu on the side looked at Wu Zixu: "We need to attack, otherwise we will never be able to break through New Leaf City!" ”
"This, of course, I know, but if we attack like this, we will make a lot of meaningless sacrifices, and if we sacrifice too much, it will affect morale, which is very detrimental to our next war! Wu Zixu looked at his lieutenant Luo Xin and said.
"How many hard battles, we have all fought, this time a hard battle, why did you hesitate?" Luo Xin looked at Wu Zixu puzzled and asked.
"Because this new leaf city, under the construction of Wei Hao, is very strong, and it is very difficult to break it!" Wu Zixu looked at Luo Xin and said.
"Are we at a stalemate? If it is a long time and there is no record, where will Yingqiu be held accountable! ”
"When the time comes, the general will inevitably be blamed!" Luo Xin looked at Wu Zixu and said.
Wu Zixu nodded: "Give me some time, if I can't think of any good way, then we will attack!" ”
Luo Xin watched Wu Zixu insist on his own opinion, and he had no choice but to give up, after all, he was just a deputy general, and the main general would be Wu Zixu, Wu Zixu was not dead yet, this vanguard army still listened to Wu Zixu.
Luo Xin sighed and walked out, in fact, he also knew that if he attacked strongly, he would inevitably suffer heavy losses, but if he couldn't fight for such a long time, if it reached Qi Xiaobai, there would inevitably be a devastating battle, and when the time came, I was afraid that he would be held accountable.
In fact, he is also for Wu Zixu's good.
'Yanjing' in the north of Qi State.
Qi Jie looked at the document in his hand: "Your Majesty, Mingyi Wei, secretly Zhao!" ”
Feng Tan on the side looked at Qi Jie and said, "Your Majesty, let's send troops to attack Zhao?" ”
Qi Jie nodded: "Now that the forces of Zhao and Wei are deadlocked in Hedong County, our army will directly enter Zhao, and no one can resist the iron cavalry of our Great Qi Empire!" ”
"Wei has a famous general named Wei Hao, he will definitely be able to drag Wu Zixu, which will also attract people's attention!" Qi Jie said lightly.
"Zhao is our old rival, we need to fight with full spirit to fight Zhao!" Qi Jiao sorted out his clothes.
Ten days later, the Jizhou Legion of Qi State dispatched 300,000 heavy armored infantry, 100,000 heavy armored iron cavalry, and 200,000 light soldiers to enter Zhao State from Daidi!
Zhao land is very empty, under the offensive of the Jizhou army, three months, the important cities in the east of the Zhao people, all lost, this time Qi Jiao sat on a black horse, with his army, is running to Handan City.
From sending troops to attacking Zhao, Qi Jie only took a month, and Pingyuan Jun also got the news, so he could only draw troops from it and go to Handan to help.
And after learning the news of Qi Jiao's attack on Zhao, Wu Zixu was not so eager to attack, he felt that he was just a bait, a bait to attract the attention of the Wei people.
Jidong County is broken or not, it doesn't matter in Qi Jie's eyes, Qi Jie put the main battlefield in Hedong County, he wants to annihilate the main army of Wei, and then attack from both sides to destroy Wei.
At this time, the Zhao people only controlled the western half of the Zhao land, Changshan County, Taiyuan County, and Handan County, while the Qi State controlled the 'Julu County' to the east of the Zhao land.
Qi Jie's expedition, no one expected, because of the departure of Pingyuan Jun, they did not arrange an effective defense line in the east at all, which made Qi Jiu easily occupy the east.
Just three days later, Qi Jie will be able to march under Julu City.
At this time, Zhao Sheng took Hu Fu to cavalry and shoot, and the Zhao army came to a place not far from Handan City to station, since he knew that Qi was attacking Zhao, he didn't think about it, withdrew his army, and began to guard Handan City.
Outside Handan City, Zhao Sheng had already set up a position, and here were the most elite troops of Zhao State, with about 500,000 men with armor, including 100,000 light cavalry.
Three days later, the Qi army appeared outside Handan City, and Qi Jie did not rush to attack, but wrote a letter to Zhao Sheng.
"If you are unified today, it is the trend of the times, I hope you can comply with the destiny of heaven!" This is Qi Jie's letter to Zhao Sheng, asking Zhao Sheng to surrender.
Zhao Sheng burned the letter with a torch, then looked at the surrounding generals and said: "This is a battle to destroy the country, if we lose, Handan City will not be protected, and I, Zhao, will cease to exist!" ”
Zhao Sheng didn't expect the Qi Kingdom to launch a sudden attack on Zhao, after all, in the past five years, the land of Zhao Yan has only been a small fight, and there has never been a major friction, but today Qi Jiao actually led a large army to suddenly attack Zhao Di, and in just one month, he controlled Julu County.
Zhao Sheng then looked at the generals on the side and asked, "Have the garrisons of Taiyuan County and Changshan County arrived?" ”
"It's going to take five more days!" The general was silent and said.
When Zhao Sheng heard this, he said angrily: "What, there are still five days? I came here from Hedong County, but they told me, "There are still five days?" ”
Taiyuan County and Changshan County are not very far from Handan County, and it will take ten days for the army to be dispatched here.
And it takes a month for Hedong County to get here, under normal circumstances, but he adopted the method of rapid marching and arrived here in half a month.
Of course, although it has arrived here, it is only a large army, and the second half of the army will take fifteen days to reach it, but this advance force is enough to resist the Qi army for a while, after all, the Qi army has not all arrived.
In front of them this time, it is also the vanguard of Qi State, after all, Qi State has dispatched 600,000 troops this time, and it is unrealistic to bring them all in such a short time.
And the battle of Qi against Zhao has broken out for a month, according to normal speaking, the troops of Taiyuan County and Changshan County should come to support in time, and for a month, they did not move their troops, but at this critical moment, they are still hesitating.
This made Zhao Sheng quite angry, but he was helpless, after all, this was a critical moment, he still needed these people, if he wanted to hold these people accountable, these people directly rebelled, then they would inevitably become the biggest threat to Zhao State, although angry, but he could only try his best to appease these people.