Wei Huan smiled when he heard this, and even said that he didn't dare, and after finishing speaking, he stretched his neck and listened to Gongzisi ask: "Back then, the Rong people occupied seven or eight out of ten of the land of Qin, and the countries quickly joined forces to elect Wang He as the commander and raise the soldiers of Shenzhou to confront the Rong people, and now the Rong people are almost finished occupying the Qin State, but why don't we unite with the Qin State to fight against the Rong, but cultivate Yongluan to be the enemy of the Duke of Qin?"

As everyone knows, under the cold lips and teeth, a bad one will play with fire**. ”

After the eldest son asked this with a frown, he looked at Wei Huan with a lot of expectations.

It's just that after Wei Huan heard it, he complained again and again in his heart.

As the eldest prince said, no one in this Great Qi or even in the world does not know what the eldest prince said, but only the Duke of Qi and the handsome Lian Min think that the Duke of Qin is cowardly, and after Fang Yuanheng's death, the Qin State is completely finished, so they don't have the intention of uniting the Qin State to fight against the Rong people at all.

Besides, as far as I know, except for Zhou Tianzi's efforts to bring together various countries to jointly resist the Rong, all the countries have their own ghosts, and they all want to come to the Qin State to get a piece of the pie at this moment, where will they sincerely fight against the Rong people.

Perhaps in the eyes of the nations, I am afraid that there is no essential difference between the Xia State of the Rong people and the Qin State.

But when the eldest son asked about this, how could he tell the eldest son the answer he had figured out. I'm afraid that as soon as I said it on the front foot, the eldest son on the back foot told the suspicious Qi Gong, then his good life would come to an end.

So Wei Huan had no choice but to play haha, and fooled the past on the grounds that the people in the army only listened to the king's orders and did not figure out the king's intentions, although he also understood, the eldest son's heart was as clear as a mirror.

Sure enough, in a meaningful smile, the eldest prince no longer mentioned this matter, and only asked him if he had any good way to break the enemy, Wei Huan breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly brought many methods he had thought of in the past few days to the eldest prince.

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It has been the fifteenth day since Shangdang was besieged, and at this time, both Lihua and Wei Huan have successively obtained the latest military information from Yuan You.

A month after the Qi and Yong coalition forces surrounded Yuanyou, the Rong people finally opened their ferocious minions and took the initiative to attack the Qi army at Fumoling, ten miles south of Yuanyou City.

After a big battle, the 100,000 Qi Yong coalition army that was chased by the Rong people to Fumo Ridge was defeated for three consecutive days, and was forced to retreat from Fumo Ridge into the mountains between Yuanyou, Baili, and Qinyu counties before they could hold out until the Xu Chang Qi army came to the rescue.

The more than 30,000 Qi troops in Xuchang and Binshui were suddenly ambushed by less than 10,000 Rong cavalry in the process of being ordered to go south to attack, and as soon as the two armies fought in the wilderness, the Qi army immediately changed from a fiasco to a rout, and the Qi army that was finally able to escape back to Xuchang was only less than 10,000 people.

And the Yuan Yourong people also took advantage of the situation to go south, and redirected their troops to the two cities of Baili and Qiujiao.

As soon as this news reached Shangdang, the generals of Qi and Qin were all taken aback.

Wei Huan obviously didn't expect that the Rong people would burst out with such amazing combat effectiveness after losing the first two battles, and 70,000 horses and horses could win on two fronts at the same time. In this way, it seems that the Rong people at the time of the Baili decisive battle must not have exerted their true strength.

And he didn't expect that the two-front Qi army would be defeated so quickly.

In this way, it is particularly important to take down the party by himself, and he will not think that the only remaining 20,000 Qi troops can hold Xuchang and Binshui. So once the party can't take it down, then Xu Chang and the waterfront Qi army will really become the turtle in the urn.

After figuring out this section, Wei stood up

Immediately ordered an early attack on Shangdang, and he wanted to quickly take this city, which was a headache for him, and use it as a bridgehead. At that time, whether it is the transfer of reinforcements from Qi or the retreat of the Qi army in Xuchang and Binshui, it will be more calm.

And Lu Lihua's side was also taken aback after getting the news of the decisive battle of Yuan You, but what he thought was different from Wei Huan.

The 100,000 Qi and Yonglian troops were forced into the unfamiliar uninhabited mountainous area three days after the war, and they must have run out of ammunition and food. In the winter months when heavy snow is approaching, the results speak for themselves of what it means to be lost in the mountains that are off the beaten track.

Once the Rong army takes 100 miles, then the coalition army will be completely trapped to death. These hundreds of miles of mountains in the three counties will be the burial place of these 100,000 allied troops.

It seems that this is a plan that Xiao Jinxing has planned for a long time, and it will wipe out the 100,000 allied troops without a single soldier, even if they can come out alive, they will definitely have no combat effectiveness at all.

Not only that, but Lu Lihua even found that Xiao Jinxing had even calculated himself, and they seemed to have the whole army going south with the intention of capturing Baili and Autumn Shot as soon as possible, but they did not have the energy to pursue the remnants of the Qi army who fled back to the waterfront and went to the party. But Zhu Lihua understands that this is Xiao Jinxing's plan to kill two birds with one stone.

Binshui and Xu Chang Qi army are bound to go north to recapture Shangdang after they have no hope of going south, so that the Qi army will have to fight with the tip of the needle against Mai Mang in one place, as long as neither side can quickly resolve the battle, then Xiao Jinxing's rear will naturally sit back and relax, not afraid of a fire in the backyard.

Depressed, he immediately ordered to strengthen the city defenses, and constantly sent scouts out to investigate the movements of the Qi army.

Sure enough, three days later, the scouts came with the news that the Qi army at the Huangshui Ferry had moved south again, preparing to launch an attack on Shangdang City. After learning the news, he did not send troops out of the city to meet the battle like last time, but mobilized the whole city to go up and down to defend the city.

The Qi army is imminent to seize the Shangdang, so they will definitely die this time.

Five days later, the corpses outside the Shangdang city were scarred, and the head of the city, Li Hua, wearing a thick black coat, watched intently the movement of the Qi army camp in the distance.

During the five days, the Qi army relied on the strength of the number of people to take a wheel war, and would fight hard to attack the city every day, so there would be more and more corpses under the city.

It's not that Lu Lihua is unwilling to let the Qi army come to remove the corpse, but the Qi army itself has long lost the energy and time to transport the corpse back of the robe Ze regardless of life and death, so he just let the corpses under the city be exposed in the wilderness.

Fortunately, there is no fear of plague in winter, otherwise just how to deal with the corpses outside the city is enough to worry about Lihua.

The walls of Shangdang are high and thick, easy to defend and difficult to attack.

In the past five days, both sides have deeply realized this. The Qi army had left nearly 10,000 corpses under the city, and there were also five or six thousand armed civilians killed or wounded in the city.

Because Lihua used his troops and horses to fight out of the city at any time, the nobles in the city did not think that there was anything wrong with Lihua arming the people to defend the city, after all, the danger of going out of the city to fight was much greater.

But the strange thing is that the casualties of the armed people in the city in the past five days were far greater than the officers and soldiers who went out of the city to fight, which made the nobles even more impressed by the bravery of the soldiers and horses.

At the head of Shangdang City, Zhu Lihua was still sitting on the cold bamboo chair, looking at the camp of the Qi army two miles away like a white cloud in the sky, and there was no end in sight, but his eyes were resolute and never showed one

Fear.

Although the Qi army's siege of the city in the past five days was very terrifying, he knew in his heart that the people of Qi would never come to attack the city like this every day, in that case, I was afraid that if the city was not captured, his men and horses would have already died.

And looking at it today, I found that the people of Qi really had no intention of attacking again.

Zhu Lihua felt that he was afraid that the people of Qi would not be able to attack in one go, and he was thinking of other ways at the moment.

After waiting for a long time and not finding any movement in the Qi army camp, the corners of his mouth raised slightly, and then he sneered and returned to the city.

"Send someone to transport the corpses of the Qi army outside the city to a distant place, and bring the remains of those rushing car ladders into the city to make firewood, and let people take back the rolling wood and stones.

Send some more people out of the city to dig some traps out of the city, the moat has been frozen, and the original traps have also been filled with Qi army soil, now since they don't attack, then let's make some trouble for them.

Oh, by the way, those armor and weapons of the Qi army, I think the materials are very good, take them back to the city and distribute them to the people. ”

Before leaving, Zhu Lihua settled down to Xu Xiaoyang and the others who were guarding the city.

Xu Xiaoyang smiled and answered with his companions on the side, and then turned to leave.

The expressions of Xu Xiaoyang and the others were completely looked at by Zhu Lihua, but he just smiled bitterly and shook his head without saying anything more.

This kind of behavior of removing armor from the corpses of enemy soldiers has never been a noble practice, but it seems to be a common trick among the outcast rebels, so Xu Xiaoyang and others, who are commoner nobles, will feel a little funny after giving the order in Lihua.

But they all knew it, and Zhu Lihua never cared about these false names, because he was always very different from those nobles.

Sure enough, when almost all the armed people in the city were wearing Qi army armor, some nobles ran to complain to Lu Lihua, but Lu Lihua's attitude was very tough, and bluntly said that whoever did not want to wear armor would continue to wear cloth clothes to fight, no need to say more.

Therefore, although some nobles still ordered that their own clansmen and servants still forbade their tenants to wear Qi army armor, most of the common people would not eat their own clothes, because in such a time of life and death, their own lives could not be judged by others.

After three days of silence, the Qi army finally gave up the frontal siege after reorganizing several bloody siege battles without success.

For the soldiers of the Qi army, the defenders in Shangdang City were so strong that the daily camp and siege of the city was like going to die. The soldiers were timid, and it was also extremely difficult for the generals of the Qi army to drive these frightened soldiers anymore.

In the past half a month of continuous operations, the lives of 20,000 Qi troops have been thrown away under the still majestic city. And until today, the Qi army has not even touched the head of the party, so a sense of powerless frustration filled the Qi army, and the morale of the soldiers dropped sharply to the lowest point.

Shangdang, this not very majestic city, has turned into a black giant beast in the eyes of everyone in the Qi army camp, constantly devouring the flesh and life of the Qi people.

Especially every time the people of Qin took the initiative to transport the corpses from the city to the front of the Qi army camp and pushed them into a mountain, tens of thousands of Qi ** soldiers calmly witnessed the scene that should have been extremely shocking, but what they thought in their hearts was that one day they might also appear in the pile of corpses.