Wei Si gathered nearly 30,000 Wei troops around Guanze, and after meeting with 70,000 soldiers of the Song State and 20,000 troops of the Wei State, he first took Malingyi, Pingyi and other important military places of the Qi State, and then went straight to Acheng.

At the same time, Zhao first sent Fei Yi with 50,000 soldiers to Wuhuan to rescue the Yan army, and then sent Zhao Bao with 50,000 troops to attack the Gaotang of Qi State, intending to meet with the troops of the other three countries under the Qi State calendar.

In Malingyi, Wei Si, Su Qin, Zilian and several guards stopped here and did not continue the eastward expedition with the troops.

Wei Si walked to a dead tree that Pang Juan had killed when Ma Ling of Wei was defeated by Qi that year, and said to Su Qin and Zi Lian:

"You see, this is the Maling Road where our Wei State suffered a crushing defeat due to the light enemy!"

Su Qin walked to the big tree, wiped the withered tree with his hand, and obviously saw that there were eight big characters faintly engraved on it, "Pang Juan died under this tree", so he sighed very regretfully:

"Alas...... General Pang Juan was the first general of Wei after Wu Qi, but I didn't expect the final ending to be so miserable!"

Wei Si also approached and said:

"Yes, General Pang Juan made countless contributions to the eastward and westward expansion of the Wei State back then, and he was undefeated in a hundred battles, but King Naixian was afraid that General Pang Juan would be a great general, and appointed my dim brother Gongzi Shen to fight with Qi and take away the position of Pang Juan's main general, which led to General Pang Juan's final defeat, and he was humiliated and killed himself under this tree, which is also the most painful lesson for my Wei State in the past few decades!"

Zi Lian came over at this time and said:

"I heard that there seemed to be a military advisor named Sun Bin on the side of Qi back then, this person is still General Pang Juan's nemesis, and the words on this tree should also be engraved by Sun Bin, right?"

Wei Si responded:

"This matter is not very clear, but with General Pang Juan's generous character that has already surpassed that of General Wu Qi back then, if he is really a mortal enemy with this Sun Bin, then this Sun Bin must not be a good person, but it seems that Qi has not heard of Sun Bin since the Battle of Maling in these years!"

Su Qin smiled lightly:

"Sun Bin, I, Su Qin, have heard of this person!"

Wei Si naturally wanted to understand what was going on between Sun Bin and Pang Juan, because in his heart, it was absolutely impossible for Pang Juan to frame Sun Bin in Sima Qian's historical records, and Pang Juan had always been in the minds of everyone in Wei, and his reputation was extremely good, and he was even more than Wu Qi, who founded Wei Wushu back then.

I only listened to Su Qin's explanation.

Forty years ago, General Pang Juan at that time was drinking in Anyi City, and met this person named Sun Bin who was also drinking, because they were familiar with the art of war, they became brothers on improvise, and General Pang Juan also knew that he wanted to go to Wei to seek a career in the conversation with this Sun Bin!

Pang Juan talked with this Sun Bin for a few days, and after knowing that he did have some talent, he agreed to his request, and planned to introduce him to the then minister of state.

Although this prince Mao is a member of the Wei clan, he is not the son of King Hui, but only the grandson of Marquis Wu, but his strength is that he is good at dancing and music, and he is flattering to King Hui, and he can always make King Hui happy, but in fact, he has no talent for governing the country.

Pang Juan's recommendation of Sun Bin to Gongzi Mao was actually a helpless move, because he was about to go on an expedition to crusade against the Qin State, and it was naturally inconvenient to take Sun Bin with him.

After Sun Bin entered Gongzi Mao's Prime Minister's Mansion, it turned out that Gongzi Mao had a few days ago and treated Sun Bin with good wine and meat, and then asked Sun Bin some things about the art of governing the country. Originally, having a Pang Juan with great military achievements was enough to give Gongzi Mao a headache, and Gongzi Mao couldn't help but kill this Sun Bin.

Until one day Sun Bin opened his mouth and wanted to ask Gongzi Mao when he could recommend himself to the King of Wei, Gongzi Mao naturally couldn't hide his selfishness anymore, and then directly ordered someone to put Sun Bin in prison in his own house, and framed Pang Juan, the general who was fighting outside, saying that Pang Juan made him so.

Sun Bin, who had no hope of coming out of prison, naturally gradually became resentful of Pang Juan, and gradually made a vow that "Pang Juan must be ruined in this life".

Half a year later, when Pang Juan was about to return to Daliang, this prince Mao ordered someone to torture Sun Bin in the name of the general Pang Juan, and sent someone to secretly rescue Sun Bin and send him to Qi State.

When Pang Juan came back to meet Gongzi Mao to ask about Sun Bin, Gongzi Mao told Pang Juan that Sun Bin was dissatisfied with the life of Wei Anyi and secretly went to the richer Qi State in the east.

Until a few years later, Wei officially moved the capital to Liang, in order to protect the country and counterattack Zhao, this battle Pang Juan led troops to defeat Zhao, but also surrounded the Zhao capital Handan, at this time Qi sent troops in name to save Zhao, in fact, only sent 50,000 troops to attack the east of Wei, threatening Liang.

Pang Juan naturally knew the intentions of Qi State, and advocated ignoring the Qi army and capturing Handan first, but Gongzi Mao, the prime minister of the country, was resolutely opposed, and counted Pang Juan's various crimes in front of King Wei Hui every day.

In order to be anxious to make meritorious contributions, he asked his father King Wei Hui for his life, and recruited the remaining 8,000 Wei soldiers in Daliang City, and personally put them into battle to resist the Qi army.

King Wei Hui couldn't stand the pleas of his beloved son Gongzi Ang, so he also agreed to his plea, and also advised it not to underestimate the enemy, if it met the Qi army, it could not fight, after all, although Gongzi Ang's 8,000 Wei warriors were elite, but the strength of the 50,000 Qi army was indeed too great.

This Gongzi Ang still remembers the defeat of 500,000 Qin troops by Wu Qi with 50,000 Wei soldiers, and of course he also wants to reproduce the glory of Wu Qi back then, so that after returning to China, his prestige in Wei is naturally incomparable, and his position as the crown prince will naturally be stable in the future.

But I didn't expect that after this son, Ang, the 8,000 Wei warriors, met the 50,000 Qi army led by Tian Ji and Sun Bin, he chased and beat him directly like a cat seeing a mouse.

At this time, Tian Ji listened to Sun Bin's plan, feinted, retreated to Guiling Road, and designed an ambush to wait for Gongzi Ang to come.

Gongzi Ang, who was eager for meritorious service, led 8,000 people to pursue 50,000 Qi soldiers, and pursued for dozens of miles, which would have thought that the Qi army in front would suddenly set up an ambush again, so he rushed to the back of Maling Road, and was surrounded by Qi soldiers here, after a night of fierce fighting, Gongzi Ang's troops were all wiped out, and he eventually became a prisoner of Qi.

Sun Bin went through this battle, and Tian Ji returned to Qi in order to consolidate his position in front of the king of Qi, so he naturally publicized the general trend of this battle, and directly boasted that the defeated 8,000 Wei troops had become 80,000 Wei soldiers, and Sun Bin was also touted as the first army division since Sun Wu.

It was not until the later Battle of Maling that Pang Juan killed himself, and the main general Gongzi Shen was captured and defeated the Wei army, and Sun Bin's reputation in Qi became more important at this time.

And Tian Ji was also worried that Sun Bin's fame and prestige would threaten his status, so he persuaded Sun Bin to retire to the countryside as a lobbyist.

Wei Si suddenly asked Su Qin again at this time:

"Then did this Sun Bin finally know that he had misunderstood General Pang Juan?"

Su Qin replied:

"I think it should have been understood a long time ago, but doesn't everyone have their own selfish intentions? Even if Sun Bin knows that it is not Pang Juan who harms him, but compared with Pang Juan's fame and Gongzi Mao, which is more important? ”

Wei Si nodded:

"Also, after all, compared to Gongzi Mao, this Sun Bin tied himself to Pang Juan, the number one general of my Wei State at that time, and he was indeed more able to create his greatness!"

Zi Lian said on the side:

"After listening to Mr. Su Qin's words just now, I realized that not only is the competition between countries fierce, but even the competition between talents from all countries is so fierce!"

Wei Si smiled lightly:

"Of course, just like Zhang Yi and my Wei Xianggong Sun Yan today, didn't the two of them compete in the Qin State before? However, compared to the tricks, Gongsun Yan is still slightly inferior to that Zhang Yi! ”

Su Qin also smiled and said:

"You can't compare like this, Gongsun Xiangguo can't lose to any famous generals when he leads the troops, that Zhang Yi is just good at the battle of words, and your king, isn't there my uncle Su Dai, Chen Zhen and Mr. Ru'er by your side, the talent of the three of them is not lost to that Zhang Yi!"

Wei Si stretched out his hand and patted Su Qin's shoulder, and said with great relief:

"Su Qin, I believe that you will definitely be stronger than that Zhang Yi in the future!"

Su Qin immediately replied modestly:

"Your majesty, you are really a mistake, how can I, Su Qin, be deed, how can I compare with my uncle and Mr. Chen Zhen?"

At this time, a messenger ran over and handed a letter to Wei Si, and after reading it, Wei Si's expression became a little solemn.

Next to him, Su Qin immediately took the letter in Wei Si's hand, opened it, and said:

"Your Majesty, this ...... This...... How could this Chu State be so vulnerable and actually lose to the Qin State in Badi? ”

It turned out that this letter was sent by Ru Er from the country of Ba urgently, and the meaning of the letter was that 150,000 soldiers of the state of Chu fought with the Qin army in the country of Ba, and the result was that the Chu army was defeated, and only the 30,000 remnants of the army led by Qu Qi retreated to the state of Chu.

Su Qin saw that King Wei had not spoken at this time, so he said again:

"King, in fact, this matter is also good news for our Wei State, the King of Chu will inevitably take revenge on the Qin State after this defeat, and when the time comes, the Qin and Chu wars will be a good opportunity for our Wei State!"

Wei Si sighed and pointed to the west:

"Su Qin, have you forgotten that the widow poured the power of Wei to attack Qin this time? Now that the Chu State has been defeated so quickly, our Wei State may have a much lower chance of winning this time against Qin, and we have not received any reply from Gongsun Xiangguo so far, so the widow is very worried now. ”