Chapter 196: Zhao Yu Fei Qin reinforcements arrived
After Tian Ji accepted Guo Kui's appointment to fight, he discussed with Zhao Bird.
This Zhao Bird can be Tian Ji's deputy general this time, not only because he is the grandson of Zhao Yu, the late prime minister of Chu State, and was recommended by Tian Ji, but also because he has a deep insight into the art of war and is also deeply impressed by the King of Qi, so he was entrusted with an important task to be Tian Ji's deputy general.
I only heard Zhao Bird say:
"General, this time Zhao Guo actually dared to take the initiative to declare war on the twelve elite troops of my Qi State in this Feicheng with only 70,000 soldiers, it seems that it is not simple, so our Qi army must not be careless!"
Tian Ji smiled lightly:
"The eggs just touch the stones, and they send them to the door by themselves, just so that I can give my Qi army to enter Handan in advance!"
Zhao continued:
"Having said that, but don't underestimate it, in order to be cautious, just in case, I think we should immediately notify the Zhongshan army to dare to come, even if our Qi army loses, the Zhongshan army can also help us eliminate these Zhao army who don't know whether to live or die!"
Tian Ji hesitated:
"Also, after all, this time we Qi Guo Zhao can't make any mistakes!"
Then he ordered someone to send a letter overnight, in the hands of Sima Xi, the lord of Zhongshan who was stationed in Julu.
However, this letter was not delivered to the Zhongshan military camp, but was ordered by Guo Kui, who had already expected this, to intercept and kill the messenger of Qi here.
The total strength of the Qi army this time was 150,000, of which 120,000 were stationed in Feicheng, while the other 30,000 were stationed in Lieren City on the west bank of Zhangshui, guarding the retreat of the Qi army.
Guo Kui naturally knew the Qi army very well, so he had already asked Nie Xian to quietly take 50,000 Zhao troops, and took advantage of the Qi army's inattention to make a detour to Lieren City, while he took 20,000 troops and deliberately appeared to be huge to invite the Qi army to fight, so as to confuse the Qi army's sight.
That night, Guo Kui suddenly wrote three letters in a row to Tian Ji, the commander of the Qi army, all of which changed the location of the battle, from the northwest to the northeast of Feicheng, and back to the southwest, which made Tian Ji very angry, so he wrote back to ask Guo Kui where he was going to fight, and Guo Kui replied that he was fighting five miles southwest of Feicheng.
Tian Ji ordered people to investigate around, and found that sure enough, after Guo Kui had set up the Zhao army camp five miles southwest of Feicheng, he led the army to the place where Guo Kui had made an appointment to fight early the next morning.
However, after Tian Ji arrived at Zhao Jun's battlefield, he found that it was all discarded tents, which were completely empty, so he ordered someone to look for Zhao Jun, and as a result, some people reported that Zhao Jun was five miles northwest of Feicheng, and some people reported that Zhao Jun was in the southeast of Feicheng, which made Tian Ji a little confused.
So Tian Ji had to let Zhao Yu divide 50,000 troops to the southeast of Feicheng to find Zhao Jun, and he also led 50,000 troops to the northwest to find Zhao Jun.
Such a delay made Tian Ji find Guo Kui's Zhao army in the northwest direction had reached ten minutes of darkness, and then Guo Kui wrote to Tian Ji that it was not suitable to fight in the dark, and he would have a life-and-death duel with him tomorrow.
Tian Ji finally found Guo Kui's Zhao army, naturally a little unwilling, because the morning division of troops to Zhao Bird, now he only has 50,000 troops, and there is not much chance of victory, so he temporarily agreed to Guo Kui, and also sent someone to Feidongnan, informing Zhao Bird to come quickly, planning to wait for his arrival, while Zhao Jun is not paying attention, join forces to destroy it.
But Tian Ji's little abacus was actually expected by Guo Kui for a long time, and what Guo Kui was waiting for was Tian Ji to transfer back the Zhao Bird in Feidongnan.
When Zhao Bird began to rush to Tianji, suddenly there was an urgent report from the direction of the Lieren City, it turned out that the Zhao army attacked the Lieren City by night, and the Qi army in the Lieren City, because they were defenseless and not as familiar with the terrain as the Zhao Army, were scattered and fled by the Zhao Army, with countless casualties.
Tian Ji was also shocked when he got the news, this column of people is the most important back road for Qi to attack Zhao after crossing Zhangshui, this back road has been cut off, so what is it?
So Tian Ji immediately led his troops to support the people, and Guo Kui took this opportunity to lead the 20,000 Zhao army, with a magnificent momentum, pretending to be 200,000 troops, shouting frantically behind and chasing Tian Ji's army.
Tian Ji's army was originally going to withdraw its troops and go back to support, but when Zhao Jun was frightened, he instantly turned into a general of the defeated army, and he didn't stop Tian Ji's order at all, and fled frantically to the east.
How could Guo Kui let go of such a good opportunity, so he led 20,000 Zhao troops to chase down Tian Ji's 50,000 fleeing Qi troops.
After a while, Nie Xian's army also seemed to fall from the sky, blocking the direction of the Qi army's escape.
As a result, Tian Ji's Qi army was defeated, losing more than 30,000 soldiers and retreating back to Feicheng.
Zhao Jun was also overjoyed when he received this good news, so he hurriedly sent Gongzicheng to reward Nie Xian and Guo Kui, but after Gongzicheng arrived at Nie Xian's camp, he found that Nie Xian and Guo Kui were no longer visible.
There is only one letter left by Guo Kui in the camp tent:
"Lord Li Cheng, I, Guo Kui and Nie Zhuangshi, are not Zhao people, these days thanks to your kindness, I can't repay it, I should have left a long time ago, but I was afraid that it would affect you, my lord, so we chose this time, General Zhao Zhuang was killed by the two of us, and all the blame is borne by me Guo Kui and Nie Xian!"
Gongzicheng was also embarrassed when he saw Guo Kui's book, but he didn't expect that the two of them would win this battle for Zhao Guo for fear of affecting themselves.
And Zhao Jun arranged Zhao Zhuang to be Nie Xian's deputy general, in fact, he didn't worry about the two of them and let him be monitored, Guo Kui and Nie Xian also knew it, so there was the scene where Nie Xian and Guo Kui conspired to assassinate Zhao Zhuang.
After Zhao Jun learned that Nie Xian and Guo Kui had killed Zhao Zhuang and escaped, he was naturally angry, but after all, the two of them helped Zhao Guo and Qi Jun also fight an exciting victory, so they didn't dig any further.
Wei State Liang.
After Wei Si heard the news of Zhao's defeat of the Qi army, he was also a little incredible, but when he learned that it was Nie Xian and Guo Kui who did it, he couldn't help but say:
"I didn't expect there to be a talented person like Guo Kui in the world!"
Zi Lian, who was accompanying him, said:
"I heard that this Guo Kui is my Guigu grandfather's tall feet, of course you can't underestimate it!"
Wei Si stretched out his hand and hugged Zilian's waist beside him, looked at him and said:
"Then Lian'er, do you think this Mr. Guo Kui can be used by widows?"
Zi Lian replied:
"It's hard to say, I heard that this Mr. Guo Kui is so famous and rich, husband, you are now surrounded by so many capable people, even if Mr. Guo Kui works for you, I am afraid that he will not get what he wants, and don't you have a season, the king? Ji Zizhi's talent is not inferior to that of Mr. Guo Kui! ”
Wei Si sighed:
"Alas, well, since this Mr. Guo Kui can't be used by the widow, but the widow doesn't want it to be used by the enemy either!"
Zi Lian smiled at Wei Siyan:
"Great King, do you think Nie Xian will do something unfavorable to you, Great King?"
Wei Si nodded:
"Also, Nie Xian has done so many things for the widow, and he has always been loyal to the widow, and the widow has Nie Xian, so why don't you worry that the world can't return to Wei?"
梓涟 also says:
"Of course!"
Wei Si said again at this time:
"Alas, this time the Qi State is defeated, I'm afraid it will withdraw its troops, this is not what the widow wants to see!"
Zi Lian then said:
"It's hard to say, didn't you say that there was Zhongshan to help Qi to defeat Zhao? Then the Qi army can't ignore Zhongshan Kingdom, right? ”
Wei Si hugged Zilian and kissed him:
"Lian'er, let's rest, let's see the situation then!"
Zhao Guo Handan.
On this day, Qin's 100,000 reinforcements finally arrived outside Handan City.
Zhao Jun and Gan Mao, the commander of the Qin army, watched from the city tower.
After Zhao Jun saw the neat and high momentum and neat lineup of the Qin army, he couldn't help but be a little envious:
"Alas, it would be nice if my Zhao army could be like your Qin army!"
Gan Mao's apologetic response:
"This is all because our King Qin has taught the army, but I heard that your Zhao State trained a cavalry like the Hu people, why didn't you see it to protect Handan?"
Zhao Jun was a little helpless:
"How can the cavalry be so easy to train, although the widow trained a cavalry, now there are only a few thousand, and they should have rushed back to support Handan, but because they were on the border of Daidi, they were blocked by Zhongshan Guocong, and they really couldn't come back!"
Gan Mao nodded:
"I see!"
Zhao Jun took the opportunity to ask Gan Mao:
"I heard that your King Qin has newly succeeded to the throne and likes wrestling very much, right?"
Gan Mao responded:
"I didn't expect that our king's love of wrestling was known to you, Zhao Jun!"
Zhao Jun smiled:
"Isn't it? And the widow Handan happens to have a few strong men who are good at wrestling, if the time comes, the soldiers and horses of Qi and Zhongshan will be given to you King Qin, I believe that your King Qin will definitely like it. ”
As he spoke, Zhao Jun ordered someone to bring more than a dozen men with towering statures and bodies as strong as oxen.
Then he ordered someone to introduce himself in front of Gan Mao.
I only heard one of the tallest men come out first and say:
"My name is Meng Shuo, from the country!"
Gan Mao looked at the man who was a head taller than himself, and called Meng Shuo, was startled, and then stepped forward and asked:
"Are you the patriot who has been destroyed by the Wei State?"
Meng replied:
"Yes, it was because my defense was destroyed that I fled to Handan and defected to Zhao!"
Gan Mao smiled:
"Listening to you, it seems that you are very resentful of the Wei State, right?"
Meng replied:
"Yes, it was because Wei destroyed my country and caused me to be displaced that I had no choice but to come to Zhao State, I only hope that one day I can recover my country, and the brutal Wei State with a bloody blade!"
Gan Mao smiled with satisfaction:
"Not bad, not bad!"
Then he asked:
"Do you know where your monarch is?"
Meng replied:
"I know that our monarch has no choice but to be a guest in your Qin country, but it's a pity that Qin is too far away from here, and I don't have a chance to go!"
Joy of the Summer:
"Good...... Okay, our Qin State needs a strong man like you, and when this war is over, you can go back to Qin with me! ”
Zhao Jun also asked Gan Mao with a smile on the side:
"General, in order to thank you for the assistance of the Qin State, thank you King Qin, you are satisfied with these strong men you have found?"
Gan Mao nodded:
"Of course I'm satisfied, Gan Mao, and I'm sure our monarch will like it too, but don't forget the horses that your Zhao Kingdom promised to give us the Qin State when the time comes!"
Zhao Jun was also very happy:
"It's not, the horses of our Zhao State will not be missing from your Qin State, but the most important thing for us now is to retreat the armies of Qi and Zhongshan first!"