A few days later, the Chu-Yue coalition army was killed under the city of Xiapi.

Xiapi City used to be the territory of Pi State, and later Pi State was under the pressure of Chu State, and moved north to Xue, and from then on the north of Xia Pi City became Xia Pi, and Xue Di was called Shang Pi. During the reign of King Qi Wei, Chenghou Zou Ji was sealed in Xiapi, and Xue Di was given to Tian Ying.

Now Zou Ji is dead, and Tian Ying is still alive.

When Kuang Zhang entered Xiapi City to attract the attention of the Chu army, Tian Ying also brought his son Tian Wen and his disciple Ding Zhuang into Xiapi, intending to live and die with Xiapi City.

As for the reason, it is because Tian Ying's own fiefdom Xue Di has no city walls, and Tian Ying's wealth, thousands of guests under the door, the world is obvious to all, once Chu and Yue break through Xiapi, will they let go of Xue Di in the north?

Yue Guo may, but Chu State definitely not, Tian Ying and Chu State contradictions have been planted since the time of King Chu Wei.

Tian Ying was on the city wall, looking at a large area of Chuyue coalition troops below, cold sweat broke out on his head, and he said to Kuang Zhang, who was also watching the situation beside him: "Zhangzi, do you think we can defend Xiapi City?" ”

Kuang Zhang said calmly: "There is no problem at all, I have 50,000 elite soldiers in my hands, plus the elite and people of Xiapi, as well as the elite brought by Jing Guojun, it is not a problem to hold Xiapi City at all." ”

Although he received a positive reply from Kuang Zhang, Tian Ying was still not confident.

In particular, Kuang Zhang had already moved north to the people within 30 miles of the north of Xiapi, and was obviously ready to be breached in Xiapi City.

Tian Wen followed behind Tian Ying, constantly scolding Zhang Yi in his heart, if it wasn't for Zhang Yi's bad idea, why did Xue Di fall into such a passive situation.

Also, before Xue Di didn't build a wall because he was afraid of arousing the suspicion of King Qi, but now the situation has changed, and he can't do it if he doesn't repair it...

At this time, Jingcui was also under the city and watched Picheng with Wang Xing, the lord of Yue.

Jing Cui smiled lightly: "This time Pi is not as good as Pengcheng of the Song State, which was originally abandoned by the Pi State, and then annexed by the Song State, and then became the territory of the Qi State, that is, the city wall was strengthened during the war between the Qi and Song Kingdoms. Even a fortified city like Pengcheng in the Song Kingdom, in the face of you and my 200,000 troops, you have to be cautious, and now with only Kuang Zhang's 50,000 troops, you want to hold Xiapi, which is wishful thinking. ”

Wang Xing echoed: "What the general said is true, I don't know how the general plans to attack the city." ”

Jing Cui thought for a while and said: "Although Xiapi is small, there is also a city wall of more than one zhang, and Kuang Zhang is a famous general of the Qi State, if it is attacked, you and I will definitely lose a lot." ”

As soon as Wang Xing heard that Jing Cui did not plan to attack the city, he immediately agreed.

"What the general said is good, the art of war has a plan for soldiers on the cloud, followed by fighting, and the last siege, and siege is a last resort. I wonder what the general is going to do? ”

Jing Cui thought of the order from the King of Chu, in addition to using the national strength of Chu to consume Qi and Yue, the remaining requirement was to plunder the population.

Thinking about it, Jing Cui looked at Xia Picheng and said: "Now there are only 50,000 troops in Xia Picheng, but our coalition army has more than 200,000 troops, at least four times that of Qi, so I plan to leave 100,000 troops here to monitor Kuang Zhang, and the rest of the army will go to plunder other small towns in Qi to lure Kuang Zhang's army out." ”

"In the art of war, it is said that if you take it for the country, because you will eat the enemy, you will eat the enemy for one hour, and you will be for twenty minutes. And now that the autumn harvest is not long ago, there should still be a large amount of grain in the hands of the people of Qi State, and if they go to loot at this time, they will inevitably return with a full load, I don't know what the general thinks? ”

Wang Xing agreed: "It is indeed the best policy to give food to the enemy, but I am worried that if we attract the main force of the Qi State, but what if our two countries are scattered and broken by each other?" ”

Jing Cui said: "This is not difficult to deal with, the closest big city to here in Qi is Jucheng, if the reinforcements of Qi come here, it must also come from Jucheng, 100,000 troops from Jucheng here, it must be half a month, we will take ten days, loot around, how?" ”

"Okay, listen to the general." Wang Xing agreed, and then asked: "How will the remaining troops be distributed, and how will the looted grain be distributed?" ”

Jing Cui said with a smile: "Naturally, whoever grabbed the food is who's own, as for the troops left behind, how about you and I leave 50,000 troops each?" ”

Leave 50,000 troops each?

But he only has a total of 80,000 troops, and if he leaves 50,000, there are only 30,000 left, and Chu still has 100,000 troops, so he will suffer too much.

But if there are too few people left, in the face of the sneak attack of Qi State, it is inevitable that they may suffer.

Wang Xing shook his head and said: "General, whoever grabs the grain will be anyone's, this method is very good, but the remaining troops, I have few soldiers in the Yue country, and I am willing to leave half of the army to defend the Qi country." ”

Halfway?

That's 40,000!

Jing Cui thought for a while and agreed: "Okay, just according to what the general said." ”

Return to Chuying.

Jing Cui said to the generals: "I was going to send people to rob the people of Qi to lure Kuang Zhang out of the city to fight, I don't know who wants to go?" ”

"Raiding the people..."

The generals discussed a lot, and most of them were bright-eyed, and they all asked for help: "The last general is willing to go." ”

Then, Xiang Jun, An Lingjun and other feudal monarchs who came in person followed and pleaded: "Zhuguo, I am willing to go." ”

"Okay, all the monarchs are loyal to state affairs, and they are all approved."

Jing Cui glanced at them and explained: "This time to rob the people, it is different from the usual looting, not only to rob the property and food, but also to rob the people of the Qi country together, so I planned to use five thousand people to avoid the county seat of the Qi country and plunder the villages and small towns of the Qi country to the north." ”

"And in order to strictly prevent the arrival of Qi reinforcements, you only have ten days."

The generals hesitated when they heard this...

"Arrest the people? This..."

Snatching money and food is a commonplace thing now that war is doing everything, but even people are robbed...

This is still extremely rare.

Zhong Lijun opened his mouth and said: "Zhu Guo, although now we don't pay attention to the battlefield and don't kill the enemy who turns back and flee, and we don't pay attention to stabbing the enemy with one sword and not cutting the second sword, let alone not hurting the enemy with long white hair. But the matter of capturing the people of the enemy country, even if even the tiger-like Qin State has not done this, we will affect the prestige of the king by doing so. ”

An Lingjun echoed: "Zhuguo, what Zhong Lijun said is good, war and looting are inevitable, but according to the previous rules..."

Jing Cui interrupted everyone's discussion and said: "What you said, Ben Jiang naturally knows, but why it is difficult to capture the city when attacking is because the people behind the city continue to deliver food and war materials to the city, Ben will do this in order to capture the city faster." ”

"Pillar Country..." As soon as Xiang Jun opened his mouth, Jing Cui interrupted.

"This robbery of the people, as long as they are alive, every time they rob a living people, they will be counted as a beheading, and all of them will be counted as war merits. However, at the same time, the enemy troops you killed in the hinterland of Qi are not considered war exploits. ”

"However, as compensation, you will not keep 30% of the property obtained from the plunder, but 50% for yourself."

As Jing Cui spoke, the audience gasped.

This ······

Using the people for combat exploits is the first time that it is unprecedented, even if the barbarism of the Qin State has not happened in a large number of killings and surrenders now, let alone the people.

Between merit and conscience...

Immediately, nearly half of the people saluted and said, "The last general will listen to the order..."

Anyway, it's not about killing or killing people!

There has been a new breakthrough in the moral defense line...