Kuang Zhang continued to speak: "In order to rush to Xue Di before, this general ordered the army to march more than 200 miles, and rushed from Tancheng to Xue Di to help Meng Weijun in less than three days, precisely because he was worried that Xue Cheng would lose. Now, after our army marched more than 200 miles, the soldiers were tired and needed to rest, so as not to be treated by the Chu army. ”

"Besides, where did Xue Cheng gather 400,000 troops, I don't know what the situation of the Chu and Song coalition forces is, Ben will rush into it with 150,000 people, isn't this just going to die?"

Qi Maung retorted: "General, the Chu and Song dynasties have been storming Xuecheng for a month, where are there still 400,000 troops, and now they can still gather 35 troops, they are lucky." ”

Kuang Zhang shook his head: "No matter how many people there are in the Chu and Song coalition forces now, the general will always find out the enemy's situation, so that it is convenient to act." Otherwise, if it would have been defeated by the Chu and Song coalition forces, the Lu State would not be protected at that time, and I am afraid that Xue Cheng would also be defeated. ”

Qi Maung's argument was stagnant, if what Kuang Zhang said really happened, then Xue Cheng would really be finished.

Besides, Kuang Zhang has already led the reinforcements to Xue Di, and he can reinforce Xue Cheng at any time, so he is not in a hurry at this time.

Thinking of this, he didn't ask Kuang Zhang to march immediately, paused, and asked tentatively: "Then when is the general expected to arrive at Xue Cheng, and he will inform Meng Weijun to prepare the things of the labor army in advance." ”

Kuang Zhang thought for a while and said: "Now that the situation in Chu and Song is unknown, I will find out the news in two or three days, and it will take some time for the army to rest. Therefore, please Mr. Hui will go back to Xuecheng to inform Meng Yanjun, and say that Ben General has led reinforcements to Xuedi, and ask Meng Yanjun to be ready and ready to respond at any time. ”

"Good!" Qi Maungbi nodded, then bowed and left.

Kuang Zhang looked at his departing back and couldn't help but shake his head.

Go to Xue Cheng, how is this possible.

With the 150,000 Qi army in his hands, even if the defenders in Xue City are added, in front of the powerful Chu and Song coalition forces, they can only defend the city to protect themselves.

Once you enter Xue City, Xue Cheng will definitely be able to hold it, but doing so is only beneficial to Xue Cheng, and what good is it to Qi Guo?

For the sake of Qi, thwart the plan of the Chu and Song coalition forces to capture Xuecheng, and although it is important to hold Xuecheng, this is not the most important.

For the Qi State, the most important thing is to be able to defeat the Chu State under Xue Cheng, which is the purpose of the Qi State.

Thinking about it, Kuang Zhang ordered Tian Jia: "Order, when the army builds a large camp, it must be built high and large, and it must be built extremely strong." ”

"No."

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"Your Majesty, the minister has not failed in his mission, and has asked the king to send reinforcements, a total of 150,000 people, led by the general Kuang Zhang himself, and the reinforcements have arrived in Xuecheng, and they are resting seventy miles east of Xuecheng, and they can support Xuecheng at any time." After Qi Maungbi returned to Xue Cheng, he happily reported to Tian Wenyu.

Although the reinforcements were still a hundred miles away, Qi Maung estimated that Xue Cheng should be in urgent need of reinforcements, so he revised the information of the reinforcements himself.

Tian Wen was overjoyed, and happily announced to the surrounding doormen: "Everyone, the king's reinforcements have arrived in Xue Di, and our Xue City is no longer alone. ”

When the doorman heard this, they were all relieved and cheered.

Reinforcements arrived, and Xue Cheng was saved nine times out of ten!

Soon, the news of the arrival of reinforcements sent by the King of Qi spread throughout the city, and the defenders in the city were all demoralized when they heard the news.

After all, Xue Jun is still outside the city, and Xue Gong is in the city!

At sunset, Xue Cheng was even happier when he saw a large number of Chu troops heading east.

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Outside the city, after receiving the news that the Qi army had arrived in Xuedi, Xiong Huai ordered Xiang Jun and others to take the remaining 50,000 Chu troops to support Tang Yu according to the previous plan.

Although the east is the main battlefield next, Xiong Huai, the king of Chu, cannot go to supervise the battle.

In order to paralyze Kuang Zhang and create a sign that the center of gravity of the Chu and Song coalition forces was still in Xuecheng, the king of Chu and the king of Song had to stay in Xuecheng to organize the coalition army to attack the city.

Xiang Jun and the others arrived at the camp in the east, and saw Tang Yu frowning and looking east on the east wall of the camp.

Xiang Jun came to Tang Yu's side and asked, "Si Defeat, how does the Qi army deal with our defense line now, and why does Si Defeat look like this?" ”

Tang Yu replied: "The spies have come to report, and now Kuang Zhang is intensively building a camp in the east, starting at noon yesterday and continuing to build it until today!" ”

Kuang Zhang stopped and looked like he was defending with all his might, which was what Tang Mo was most worried about.

Xiang Jun's heart tightened when he heard this, and he hurriedly asked: "Si defeated, this Kuang Zhang has some conspiracy, it can't be that he is afraid of us!" ”

If the Qi army lord who came to help would be someone else, Xiang Jun would definitely think that the Qi army was afraid of the Chu army.

But Kuang Zhang's reputation is outstanding, and if he does this, there must be a conspiracy.

Tang Mo thought for a while and said, "Maybe! Or maybe it's because of the lack of troops, and they are waiting for reinforcements! ”

"Waiting for reinforcements?" Xiang Jun looked thoughtfully at the bricks to the north.

If there are still reinforcements from the Qi State, it will only be in the north.

After the 50,000 troops of the Chu State arrived, another five days passed, and the 30,000 reinforcements promised by the King of Song were late. Now, Tang Yu has gathered 150,000 Chu troops plus 30,000 Song troops, a total of 180,000 troops, and has overwhelmed Kuang Zhang in terms of the number of troops.

On the other side, in the Qi camp, after receiving the news that Tang Wu had received reinforcements again and again, Tian Jia reported to Kuang Zhangyu with a heavy face: "General, the scout has come to report, just now Tang Wu received 30,000 Song troops to help again, and now we have gathered 180,000 troops in front of us. ”

Saying that, Tian Jia pondered: "General, should we take a detour to Xue Cheng?" ”

Kuang Zhang shook his head, Tian Jia had a close relationship with Meng Weijun Tian Wen, but the relationship between him Kuang Zhang and Tian Wen was not good enough to this extent. Not to mention Tian Wen, even if Tian Ying is still there, it is impossible for him Kuang Zhang to ignore the interests of Qi for the sake of Xue Cheng and the Qi State.

Thinking about it, he opened his mouth and refused: "You can't take a detour, now that Chu has blocked the road for thirty miles in front of Tang Wu, if you go around to Xue City from the north, you will not only need to walk twice as much." And the heart is walking between the Song State Tengdi and the Chu army Tang Yu, it is too dangerous, if it is blocked by the Chu and Song coalition forces, then the army is at risk of collapse, and I would have thought that it was impossible. ”

"What's more, even if we arrive near Xuecheng safely, the detour is to put Tang Wu's hundreds of thousands of troops in the rear and cut off the back road, so that if we lose the back road, we will have no way out except to enter Xuecheng. At that time, once the Chu and Song coalition forces besieged the city and besieged it without attacking, how long could Xue Cheng hold out? Food, water, firewood, etc., all doubled the consumption, can Xue Cheng hold on? ”

"Marching and fighting, being controlled by others and not by others, this is the principle of victory and defeat."