Although it is unlikely that the Rong people will retreat to Qinlan County to repeat their old tricks this time, they will definitely have a back hand when they think that Xiao Jinxing.

Others don't know, but Zhu Lihua is well aware of the combat effectiveness of the Rong army, so in his opinion, how could these Rong people lose to the Qi Yong coalition army twice.

Therefore, he felt that there must be fraud in this.

Although they have not seen the combat effectiveness of the Qi ** team with their own eyes, it can be seen from the confrontation between them and Yongluan's Xie Yu Army over the years that the combat effectiveness of the Qi army is definitely not much better.

You must know that Yongluan's army can't even defeat the rebels, and when it encounters the attack of the Rong people, it will only flee, so how could the Qi army, which was suppressed by the army under Yongluan's command in the past, suddenly become like a Baisheng hero.

Moreover, they won two games in a row in the first battle with the Rong army, and they had already become arrogant soldiers at this time, otherwise they would not have desperately pressed all their troops to Yuanyou County and prepared to eat the Rong people in one fell swoop.

Every time he thought of this, he could only shake his head and sigh slightly.

Although the people of Qi are still friends and foes to themselves, they are still a little gloomy when they think that everyone is a Zhou person and will suffer a fiasco.

Half a month later, the 10,000-strong army of Lihua came to a small hill called Luling fifteen miles outside Shangdang City, where he joined Wei Mu, who had arrived here more than a month earlier.

On the same day, Zhu Lihua and Wei Mu, Gao Yunce and other generals discussed the siege of the city, and finally everyone decided to implement the plan formulated by Zhu Lihua. It's just that this plan was revised by Wei Mu, the vanguard officer who came to the party in advance to find out the situation of the Qi army.

Early in the morning of the second day, more than a dozen "rebel armies" under various strange banners such as "King of Pingshui", "King of Digging", and "King of Occupying Mountains" appeared in the northern boundary of Shangdang. They raided houses and houses, burned and looted, so that the nobles of the pavilions on the outskirts of Shangdang were terrified and poured into Shangdang County to join relatives and friends in the following days.

Previously, when the Rong army occupied Shangdang, although they killed the county officials and some nobles in the city, after all, the occupation time was too short, and the vast majority of nobles did not suffer losses. Therefore, as soon as the Qi army came, they immediately entrusted these nobles with important tasks and let them take over the administrative affairs of the party from top to bottom.

Although the Qi ** team occupied Shangdang, they knew that these nobles not only had close ties with the nobles in Hedong County of Qi State, but they would also be the basis for helping them consolidate the rule of Hexi County, so they naturally did not dare to slack off when they saw that the nobles outside the city had fled into the county.

Bai Rui, the marquis of the city defenders, would personally sit in the government every day to appease these nobles from outside the city.

But after meeting the nobles every day, Bai Rui would be indignant in his heart, because these nobles did not seem to treat him very kindly.

But Bai Rui also knew that these nobles didn't know that Yongluan had sold Hexi County to Qi State, and they didn't know that the Qi ** team didn't plan to go back this time. They thought that these Qi people were "invited" by their monarch to come to help attack the Rong people, so they naturally guessed the huge price that the Qin State would pay.

In this way, the nobles of the Shangdang will look at the Qi ** team's move to help from the perspective of interest exchange. Since the price has been paid, then what is naturally "deserved" does not need to be so humble.

So Bai Rui was embarrassed

Now, every nobleman who met with him seemed to have the audacity to ask himself to bring his troops out of the city to expel the rebels, who at first glance knew to be homeless people, and even refused when he asked them to provide the number and clues of the rebels.

For such an attitude, although Bai Rui was depressed, he was actually not very angry, compared to those nobles and lords in Qi who were drunk and dreamed of death, these nobles of Qin State were at least somewhat responsible, and some people even preached directly to Bai Rui that they could personally go into battle to kill the enemy. This made Bai Rui take a big surprise.

And Bai Rui even knew that it was only less than 20 years since the Qi ** team slaughtered Shangdang City, and now the people living in Shangdang City, which of the people outside the city did not migrate into the city back then, but they were inextricably linked with the nearly 100,000 people who were slaughtered by the Qi army.

After all, it's only been a generation since then.

Therefore, Bai Rui naturally did not dare to be too strong, for fear that he would provoke the hatred buried in the hearts of the nobles and the people of Shangdang County.

After meeting with all the nobles who had fled into the city, Bai Rui learned from the scouts sent out to inquire about the news of the rebels that the number of rebels wandering in the north of Shangdang was about 2,000 people, but they seemed to be composed of more than a dozen forces.

After knowing these circumstances, Bai Rui, who was relieved, "made a decision immediately", and he wanted to personally lead 3,000 soldiers and horses out of the north of the city to exterminate the rebels from the north.

In the encouragement and nodding of the nobles in Shangdang County, the proud Bai Rui rode out of the city on a high-headed horse unique to the Qi State.

However, Bai Rui did not know that his decision to easily exterminate the rebels of the exiles would make him the first military marquis of Qi to die in Qin. And when he was dying, the doubt in his heart was why the exiles of the Qin State were even more powerful than those Rong people.

When the army of "displaced people" from Zhulihua came to the outside of Shangdang County, the only remaining 2,000 Qi troops in the city were already terrified.

With the death of the lord, the 3,000 robes who went out of the city to suppress the bandits only escaped back a few hundred, and the 2,000 soldiers and horses in this city immediately prepared to escape.

Shangdang is the territory of Qin, and as a guest soldier, there is no need for him to defend the land for foreigners and kill rebels.

Moreover, these rebellions are not so easy to kill.

Subsequently, the army of "homeless" people outside the city began to siege the city. The desperate Qi people found that the number of these displaced rebels was far greater than the two thousand that they had learned earlier, so the siege battles launched by the rebels in the west, south, and north at the same time quickly achieved results.

If it weren't for the nobles in the city who were afraid that the rebels would die after entering the city, they immediately organized the people in the city to assist the Qi army to defend the city, then I am afraid that the Shangdang defenders would not be able to hold out for even a day.

And outside the city, watching the gains and losses of the Shangdang that could have been easily won, Zhu Lihua was even more depressed, and he kept slandering the nobles and people who helped the Rong people defend the city, but after all, he could only be helpless. Who disguised himself as a "rebel" outcast?

These aristocrats were driven into the party by themselves "with their own hands", and the bitter fruits they planted naturally had to be tasted by themselves.

When something like this happens, it's also caused by your own thoughtlessness, and think about who you can blame except yourself

This.

With a wry smile, he ordered his soldiers and horses to change into the black battle clothes of the Qin State again, and changed the banner to the Xuanwu battle flag again, so that he started the siege battle again on the second day.

And the people of Qi saw that the army that attacked the city yesterday had changed from a rebel army to an official army of the Qin State, and they suddenly realized that they had fallen into a plan, but in their hearts, they wondered where the officials and troops of the Qin State came from around the Shangdang.

After asking the nobles of the county to no avail, the leading general had no choice but to climb the city again.

In the battle the next day, Zhu Lihua still adopted the method of attacking the city on three sides, and he understood that as long as those nobles did not come to make trouble, the Qi army of less than 2,000 in the city would not be able to stop today's offensive at all.

But what surprised him still appeared in front of him, when the three-way army attacked the city, there were far more people composed of people defending the city than yesterday, and those Qi people became auxiliary personnel, and they did not show their heads for a long time.

Depressed, he had no choice but to order the withdrawal of troops and horses again, and sent a lobbyist to the city to explain to the nobles, but the lobbyist came back in disgrace and bluntly said that the nobles in the city did not believe their explanation at all, saying that when the "homeless people" of Lihua attacked the northern pavilions, they were really killing people and setting fires.

He then summoned the generals who had been sent to pretend to be the "homeless" rebels some time ago, and after asking, he learned that the "rebels" who had originally surrendered had indeed killed those nobles in the pavilions, so that the nobles' families who did not escape into Shangdang City in time were all killed.

Therefore, when Zhu Lihua learned of this, although he was furious in his heart, he was forced to pursue the matter due to the current situation, but after thinking about it, he sent people to Shangdang City again to negotiate with the nobles who defended the city, and bluntly said that the current monarch did not invite the people of Qi to help in the war.

The lobbyist sent by Lihua stated several times in front of everyone in the city that the occupation of Shangdang by the Qi ** team was considered an invasion by reason, and that he was the Great Qin army, and he was not in the same group as the displaced people who attacked the northern pavilions of Shangdang earlier, so he asked the nobles to make their own decisions.

Of course, in the end, the people sent by Lihua also said that if the nobles in the city still help the Qi army defend the city tomorrow, then the Qin army outside the city will no longer care about the lives of their compatriots and will attack the city with all their might.

As soon as this ultimatum-like order reached Shangdang City, it immediately caused an uproar among the nobles in the city.

Although the matter of the Xijing Rebellion had not yet reached Shangdang, the nobles of Shangdang still vaguely felt that it was too strange for the Qi people to suddenly cross the Yellow Water to drive away the Rong people. Now that Zhu Lihua explained the reason, some people's minds immediately became active.

The other part of the nobles were extremely dissatisfied with Lu Lihua's explanation, they simply did not believe that the "exile rebels" who were still besieging the city yesterday had become an official army today, and even if they were official soldiers, the official army that killed the nobles was not as good as the Qi ** team.

So on this day and night, the two sides had a fierce debate over whether to continue to hold the city or drive away the Qi army and let the Qin army enter the city.

However, this controversy came to an abrupt end in the middle of the night, because the Qi army, which had been guarding for two days, was afraid.

Taking advantage of the fierce discussion among the nobles of the Shangdang, they quietly opened the north gate and went straight to the Huangshui Ferry, and fled back to Qi by boat.