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Qi Jiaogong's painstaking plan to break the discipline has undergone tremendous changes after several twists and turns. Originally, he made an agreement with Zheng Zhuang in the spring of the next year, but he didn't want Zheng Zhuang Gong to wait for him to recover with poor health, but Zheng Zhuang Gong replied that he had passed away. Since the death of Zheng Zhuanggong, Qi Gong suddenly felt that he was also aging, if he couldn't achieve the great cause of breaking discipline as soon as possible, wouldn't he be in vain to his father's deathbed entrustment! Thinking about all these years, he has been pinning his hopes for the destruction of discipline on Zheng Zhuanggong, but he doesn't know that this Zheng Zhuanggong has just made light promises again and again, but he can't fulfill them. It seems that you have to rely on yourself to do everything. He must hurry up and complete his revenge. It's unrealistic to expect anyone, you have to practice it yourself.

Qi Qigong calmly analyzed the current situation. If he launched a war against Ji Guo, the Zhou royal family, which was beyond the reach of the whip, would be powerless to help at this time. What's more, the two northern cities already belonged to Zheng State, hindering the Zhou royal army's northward movement. It's just that Lu Guo is a discipline force that cannot be ignored. And now the state of Lu is entangled in the contradictions between the Song State and the Zheng State. Zheng and Song came and went, entangled in the delivery of the three cities, and Lu Huan Gong was originally well-intentioned, but he fell into this entanglement. Isn't this intended to create opportunities for him Qi Gong?

If you don't start now, wait for when! Qi Gong thought.

Princess Qi has made up her mind. So he first sent envoys to Wei and Yan, and counted the crimes of the country, in fact, these crimes have nothing to do with Wei and Yan, such as suing the ancestor of Qi Aigong, sending someone to assassinate Gongzi Yi Zhongnian, etc., but the words behind Qi Gong are threatening, if you can help Qi Guo, you will never forget the grace of your country's help, and form a generation of allies. Qi Qigong did not say the consequences if he did not support the Cutting Discipline. The envoys sent out came back one after another to report.

When the envoy returned to the state of Qi, the result was not as expected by the Duke of Qi:

Yan Yihou promised to send a hundred military vehicles and thousands of soldiers to help Qi Faji. As for whether Yan Guo helped Qi Faji, Yan Yihou did not make such a hasty decision, but hesitated. Although he had no dealings with the Qi State, he just congratulated each other on the ascension to the throne, and the border between the two sides was peaceful and did not interfere with each other. But Yan Xuanhou is optimistic about Qi State, and there are two of them. One is that the Yan State is adjacent to the Qi State, but not the Ji State; Second, Qi is one of the powerful countries in the Central Plains, and the Yan State in the north should unite a big country as a reliance no matter what, especially when the royal family of Zhou is unable to pass the royal decree, and it is difficult to control the strong princes, so as to ensure that there are friends to help in the event of an invading enemy. It is none other than Qi who can directly help Yan, because any country in the Central Plains that wants to come to Yan must pass through Qi. In addition, this Yan Yihou also sees Qi as a strong country in the Central Plains, and Qi and Wei are generations of marriage countries, and Yan is adjacent to these two countries, keeping in line with them, becoming allies, and promoting a harmonious triangle situation is of course very important to Yan State. Yan Yihou didn't want to be the opposite of Qi State.

Wei Xuangong is not a problem for Qi Xuangong, he basically responds to his needs. This is also what Qi Gong expected. The reason is very simple, Xuan Jiang, the eldest daughter of Qi Gong, originally said that she would marry the son of Wei Guo, but she was admitted to the harem by Wei Xuangong. Of course, there's another story here.

In that year, Shi Jie (què) and Chen Guogong murdered Zhou Hu, and Wei Guo welcomed Ji Jin back from Xing State and established himself as the king of Wei Xuangong. This is something that Ji Jin never expected, he returned to the country to become the king of a country, and his power was unprecedented. In terms of his father's preferences, he is not as good as his eldest son Ji Wan, and in terms of his father's preferences, he is not as good as the state, but the situation of defending the country has changed suddenly, and he Ji Jin has succeeded to the throne. It can be said that good things in the world take turns.

Wei Xuangong succeeded to the throne, busy with court politics, and rarely had time to set his eyes on the harem, and walked to the harem in his spare time on this day, and at this time a concubine of his father Wei Zhuang Gong entered his eyes, this is Yi Jiang.

Speaking of which, this Yi Jiang should be the younger sister of Qi Gong's father, the youngest daughter of Qi Zhuang Gong. Yi Jiang was young and beautiful at that time, and he didn't want her husband to be old, so she passed away not long after, and it was unbearable to leave a young woman.

On this day, Wei Guo ushered in a new monarch from Xing State, and he was also in the prime of life. Yi Jiang stepped forward as an elder to talk, considering that it would be rainy in winter, and he also sent silk cotton to Wei Xuangong to keep warm, etc., to be more considerate. This move also made Wei Xuangong have bad thoughts, and the two came together tacitly.

Wei Xuangong and Yi Jiang had an affair, and the civil and military of the dynasty turned a blind eye, but whispered behind their backs. In order to avoid the eyes and ears of the ministers of the court, the old minister Shi Jie, made the decision for him and asked Wei Xuangong to officially accept the original wife and concubine. It's just that Wei Xuangong is tired of this and is inseparable from Yi Jiang. Leaving Concubine Xing aside in the cold, she was still messing with Yi Jiang. Not long after, Wei Xuangong and Yi Jiang gave birth to a son, named Jizi. Because of everyone's eyes and ears, he secretly sent the anxious son out of the palace to be raised. As Shi Jie and other old ministers grew old, they no longer cared about the government. Wei Xuangong openly messed with Yi Jiang, and no longer avoided the eyes and ears of the people in the court. openly took the anxious son back to the palace and made the anxious son the prince.

In this way, as the anxious son grew older, he reached the age of marriage. Wei Xuangong proposed to his anxious son very seriously, so that Qi Xuangong's eldest daughter Xuanjiang entered the field of vision. When he heard that Xuanjiang was extraordinary, Wei Xuangong was moved by compassion.

Wei Xuangong nominally built a new palace for the prince, and summoned domestic famous craftsmen to build a multi-storey platform on the Qi River, Zhu Lan Huadong, and a heavy palace complex room, which was extremely gorgeous, and was called Xintai. In fact, it was to satisfy his lust and wanted to see the beauty of this daughter-in-law.

When the new Taiwan was built, Wei Xuangong first sent an urgent son as an envoy to the Song State to respond to an errand and send the urgent son. Then he sent Zuo Gongzi Ji to Qi to welcome Xuanjiang into the new station. The ribbon was cut at the new station, and the monarch was going to inspect the stage, and it happened that Xuanjiang had been connected to the new station at this time. Wei Xuan Gongdeng

Looking at it on the stage, this beauty of Qi is really moving, and it is really a national beauty. At the moment, it was decided to include Xuanjiang in the harem as his concubine. None of the doctors with me dared to say anything else. In this way, Wei Xuangong lived with Xuanjiang in Xintai that night.

Wei Xuangong completely replaced the anxious son and lived with Xuanjiang in Xintai. When the anxious son came back from the Song Kingdom, he turned out to be his bride

Stepmother.

Wei Xuangong ordered him to worship his stepmother, and his son was full of suspicions, but his father had to worship him. Xuan Jiang had another feeling when he saw the anxious son, whether it was bitter or happy, sour or spicy, it was really mixed and indescribable.

The new platform stands high above the Qishui River, gorgeous and magnificent. There is a blue sky and white clouds above, and there is gurgling water below; Looking at a lonely mountain in the distance, thousands of miles of greenery, the beautiful scenery of the world is in full view. With the dawn of the moon, this old husband and young wife hugged and hugged the new stage, enjoying the beauty of the world in spring, which is really unique.

Xuanjiang originally came to marry the son of the prince, but he didn't expect it, but he became Wei Xuangong's concubine. Since you are an old man who wants to marry me, I want one condition, that is, to be the first lady of your country. Wei Xuangong was drunk with the beauty, and he didn't care about Xuan Jiang's conditions, and he accepted them one by one. So the power of the backyard of the six palaces of the country was handed over to Xuan Jiang.

This is the reason why Duke Qi wanted to defend the country and participate in the war, and Duke Wei Xuan, who had become the son-in-law of Duke Qi, had to obey him 100 times. So Wei Xuangong dispatched troops and sent 200 soldiers and 5,000 soldiers to reinforce the Qi State.

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Qi Jiaogong wanted to take advantage of the intensification of the contradictions between Lu, Zheng and Song to cause a war, so that Lu could not take care of Ji Guo and destroy Ji Guo by surprise. At this time, Qi Jiaogong strategized, and the strength that had been gathering momentum for many years came out in one breath.

Qi State united with Wei Guo and Yan State to send a five-way army to the east, and Qi Jiaogong was magnificent, he wanted to sweep Ji Guo and destroy Ji Guo in one go.

These five armies are the first main army with Qi Xigong as the commander, the son Jiang Pengsheng, and the company as the deputy general; the Second Route Army with the prince Jiang Zhuer as the main general and Gao Wei as the deputy general; the three-way army with Gongsun Dai Zhong as the main general and the Yan general as the deputy general; the four-way army with Gongsun Wuzhi as the main general and the patriotic general as the deputy general; With Gongzi Jiang Jie as the main general, there is a five-way army assisted by Guan Zhong and Zhaohu. Go hand in hand and kill Ji Guo.

The Five-Route Army agreed to advance eastward from the north-south of the Qi State territory in the west of the Ji State to enter the Ji Kingdom, and decided to gather in the capital of the Ji Kingdom, and the Five Route Army would attack the city and destroy the Ji Kingdom in the capital of the Ji Kingdom. From occupying the border city to breaking through the Ji capital, after years of hard work, Qi Jiaogong has made up his mind that when the Lu State has no time to care about the Ji State, he will destroy the Ji State in one fell swoop, and let the Ji State die on the map.

In addition to the main road army of Qi Ligong, the four route armies each attacked the border cities of Ji State. And Qi Qigong's main road army waited for an opportunity.

The five-way army was very smooth, capturing the four border cities of Ji State, while the main road of Qi Gong went straight to Ji Capital without stopping.

Just when Qi Qigong's army was invincible all the way to the capital of Ji Kingdom. Someone came to report that Lu Huan led the Lu army to save Ji Guo. Receiving this news shocked Qi Qigong's heart, this Duke Lu Huan was fighting in the Song Kingdom, why did he suddenly turn around to save Ji Guo, even so, how could he rush to Ji Guo so quickly!

Just when Qi Gong was still hesitating. Then someone came to report that Zheng Ligong led Zheng Jun to save Ji Guo.

Qi Qigong gasped. Could it be that the Lu and Zheng coalition really gave up the Song State to save the Ji State. This is indeed something that Qi Jiaogong never expected. Qi Jiaogong looked at the Jidu City, closed the door and guarded it strictly, no matter how challenging he was, he couldn't close his house. Qi Jiaogong must make a long-term plan, and quickly retreat thirty miles to set up camp, on the one hand, waiting for the other four-way armies to gather, and on the other hand, reorganizing the men and horses to prepare to meet the Lu, Zheng, and Ji coalition forces, and saying in his heart that this is a vicious battle!

Qi Gong also had the idea of attacking the city first while the armies of Lu and Zheng had not arrived. If the rescue forces in Ji Guo did not arrive and took Ji Guo, even if Lu Huan Gong arrived, there was nothing to be done. However, no matter how challenging it is, Ji Guo just stuck to the city gate, did not fight, and only waited for reinforcements.

The court of Ji State, with the Marquis of Ji Wu as the monarch, has always been afraid of the Qi State.

Qi Guo is like a giant python and a fierce tiger lying beside Ji Guo, who may pounce on him at any time and take his own life. This fear extends from the king to the ministers to the common people. Therefore, Ji Wuhou has never dared to relax the monitoring of Qi Guo. There were even spy personnel in Linzi to transmit the movements of Qi back to Ji Guo at all times.

When the Qi State mobilized the Five-Way Army and set off from Linzi, the information had already reached the Ji State.

Regardless of whether the legend of Jiang Taigong's two sons establishing the Qi State and the Ji State is true or false, before Qi Aigong, the two countries were still at peace. They get along with each other as brothers, and they live in harmony with each other for hundreds of years. In the early decades of the Zhou Dynasty, due to the joint development of Qi and Ji, the control of the salt industry and seafood, the economy was rich, and the people lived and worked in peace and contentment, so Ji and Qi were also considered a big country. In the Western Zhou Dynasty and the early Spring and Autumn Period, Qi, Lu and Ji in the East can be said to be a three-legged stand. In the more than 300 years at the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty, the State of Qi and the State of Ji were basically on par, and in some periods of time, the State of Ji was even more powerful than the State of Qi. During the reign of Duke Qi Zhuang, Ji Guo's expedition to Yiguo and other countries won many achievements and gains, showing that Ji Guo also had the honor of being a strong country in the Central Plains. During the heyday of the Ji Kingdom, he once attacked the Qi State, and the monarch of the Qi State took precautions, and was even forced to move the capital. In the era of Jiang Jihou, because Ji Guo married his daughter to King Zhou Yi, he was even more fearless and became an indispensable prince at that time. He led his four brothers to the north and occupied the territories of the four kingdoms of Xu, Yi, Yu and Yan. Three years later, his younger brother occupied Yu again. The five brothers divided their troops to guard it, forming a defense line that made it difficult for the Qi State to cross. But that's all in the past. Now is not what it used to be, the enemy is current, how can Ji Wuhou retreat from the enemy?

This time, Qi Jiaogong personally led the Five Route Army to be murderous, and there was a great momentum of annihilation. There was a lot of noise in the imperial court of Ji Guo. In general, the Ji Dynasty is roughly divided into two factions: one is the force fighting faction dominated by Ji Wuhou to resist the enemy, advocating high city walls, preparing sufficient weapons, and relying on Ji Capital to prepare for a big war; The first is the faction of peace talks and surrender, which is dominated by Shu Ji, who advocates giving up resistance, drafting a surrender document, and preparing to surrender. Until the soldiers came to the city, the two factions were still at loggerheads.

Ji Wuhou frowned and asked Jiang Liao, the old minister's uncle, for advice.

Ji Wuhou's uncle Jiang Liao was the oldest important minister in the Ji Dynasty, this old minister was holding his beard and his hands were trembling slightly, and his voice looked very old. He said: "I heard that the ancestor Jiang Ji led several brothers to drive away the Qi people, conquered the four countries, expanded the territory of the Ji country, and left the governing strategies for future generations to be hidden in the golden pot, but we have not found where the golden pot Danshu is hidden!" ”

Ji Wuhou sighed, thinking that if Ji Guo and the court were all such ministers, the day when Ji Guo destroyed the country would come soon.

At the moment of the great enemy, Ji Wuhou still clearly advocated resisting Qi and fighting to the death with the Qi army.

He made two decisions: one was to quickly inform Lu Huangong, hoping that he would send troops to help no matter what; The second is to abandon the border and protect the capital. Therefore, the Marquis of Ji Wu transferred the main forces of the border to Jidu, built the city wall, and prepared to hold the city and resist the Qi army to the end.

When the border cities saw the Qi army coming, they hurriedly scattered. The local soldiers did not dare to resist hard, and when they saw that the city was difficult to defend, they collapsed and fled inland. As a result, the border of Ji was defeated one after another. The slain were killed, the captives were captured, and the baggage of the cities was plundered. When the city is lost, it is natural that the people shed blood and sacrifice. Fortunately, because the people of Ji Kingdom knew that Qi State was going to revert to the revenge of previous generations, they were worried. I have always been afraid of the attack of the Qi army, but now I really saw the Qi army besieging the city, and I didn't believe that my soldiers could hold the city, so I had to hide and flee everywhere.

In this way, the troops of the country of Ji are concentrated in the capital of the country of Ji.

The five-way army of Qi State pressed the border, and the border cities came to report for help, but Ji Wuhou did not move. He decided to rely on the walls of Jidu to confront the army of Qi and fight to the death. Ji Wuhou just made the worst plan, that is, he stubbornly resisted the Qi army in Jidu to the end, and the city was ruined. Therefore, during this period, the resistance between the DPRK and China and the faction was also continuous.

Just as the report came: The army of Qi Gong had arrived in Jidu, and the envoy who went to ask Lu for help came back.

Marquis Ji Wu hurriedly went to the court to listen to the envoy's report.

The envoy reported: "Lu Huan is just fighting the Song Dynasty with the Zheng army. After receiving Ji Guoguo's letter, although Lu Huan was a little hesitant, he still decided to help Ji fight against Qi. Although the melee between the Three Kingdoms was very fierce, Duke Lu Huan and Duke Zheng Li discussed and decided to abandon the war against the Song State and immediately go north to save Ji. ”

This information is like a shot in the arm to bring vitality to the Ji Guo court.

Ji Wuhou had another spiritual pillar, and he repeated to the courtiers: "Integrate the soldiers and horses, strictly defend to the death, and prepare for a decisive battle." ”

At this time, the envoy was still kneeling there and did not finish speaking.

Ji Wuhou asked: "What else is there to report to the widow?" ”

The envoy said: "Zheng Ligong heard that Lu Huan Gong wanted to save my Ji Guo, and he also promised to go north with the Lu army to save Ji Guo. ”

Ji Wuhou asked again: "When is it estimated that the reinforcements of the two countries will be able to arrive?" ”

The envoy said: "When I returned to Jiguo, the two countries had already begun to correct their men and horses, and decided to go north immediately. It won't take more than three days to arrive. ”

Lu and Zheng jointly assisted Ji Guo, and this news was like an earth-shattering shock to Ji Guo's court. The ministers of the DPRK and China are very happy: there are two big countries to save the country, and the country should not be destroyed. Even Shu Ji, who had always advocated peace talks and surrender, was also emotional and decided to guard the west gate according to Ji Wuhou's orders.

When Ji Jun learned that the Lu and Zheng coalition troops came to the rescue, they were all in good spirits and increased their morale.

When Qi Jiaogong came to the west gate of Ji Capital to ask for battle, Ji Jun was eager to try and prepare to fight. It's just that Uncle Ji didn't allow it, but just ordered the door to be closed and waited. Uncle Ji didn't see the rabbit and didn't scatter the eagle, and if he didn't see the Lu and Zheng coalition forces arrive, he wouldn't go to war.

Qi Jiaogong took his son Peng Sheng and the young generals to say that the challenge could not be met, and while retreating back to the camp for adjustment, on the other hand, he sent people to urgently call the rest of the four-way army to quickly approach the capital and prepare for a vicious battle.

There was a dead silence in the capital of Ji Guo. The spring is cold, and flocks of crows hover in the air. It seemed to be waiting for that bloody scene to come.

An unprecedented chaos of the Seven Kingdoms is about to unfold in the capital of Ji Kingdom.