As soon as Wu Zixu heard the spies report that 50,000 Qi troops were coming to the rescue fifty miles away, he couldn't help but clapped his hands and laughed: "Congratulations to the king, Laiwu City is broken!" ”

King Wu was worried about the siege of the city, and when he heard Wu Zixu say this, he was stunned: "Why did Xiangguo say this?" ”

Wu Zixu said: "The Qi army is coming to the rescue, we must give up the siege, and send a part of the men and horses to intercept the reinforcements, and the other part is ambushed near Laiwu." The Laiwu Qi army, seeing that we have suddenly withdrawn, will definitely send spies out of the city to investigate the cause. When they learn that we have returned to our reinforcements, they will definitely send troops to attack us, forming a two-sided attack. We selected thirty masters of martial arts, and took advantage of the opportunity for them to open the city gate and send troops, and suddenly rushed up, occupied the city gate, and then the army entered the city, and Laiwu could be broken. ”

King Wu said, "This plan is very good. How to divide the troops? ”

Wu Zixu said: "There are 30,000 garrisons in Laiwu City, and the old minister leads 60,000 troops, attacking the city, with an absolute superiority of troops, it is enough to annihilate the defenders." ”

King Wu said: "The widow led the rest of the army to the east to meet the reinforcements, and it was enough to annihilate them all." ”

So the king of Wu ordered the army to withdraw from the siege position, and after a slight adjustment, the army was divided into two routes, one led by the king of Wu to meet the reinforcements to the east, and the other was led by Wu Zixu, who ambushed in the mountains and forests five miles away from the city.

Let's say that King Wu led more than 100,000 men and horses to move quickly to the east to find fighters. Suddenly, there was a report from the Malay Survey, and there were Qi army activities five miles to the east.

King Wu ordered Lu Hou to take 20,000 men to make a detour from the left, and Chen Hou to take 20,000 horses to make a detour from the right, and he led the rest of the army to meet it from the front, forming an encirclement of the Qi army. The people were commanded to go. King Wu led the team forward.

After walking a few miles, I went out of the mountains and forests, and in front of me was the plain, and I saw that there were army activities in the woods one mile ahead.

King Wu gave an order, the war drums were beaten, the flags were unfurled, and the two generals on the left and right led their troops to outflank the woods.

Suddenly, the smoke and dust rose in front, and the cavalry rushing in front fell down the pit one by one, and the soldiers behind had no time to stop, and they also fell down the pit one after another.

The troops behind did not understand the situation, but they still rushed forward vigorously, and they all fell into the pit. It turned out that this place was full of horse pits, and the pits were full of bamboo sticks and sharp knives, and if you fell down, you would definitely die.

King Wu hurriedly ordered the charge to be stopped, and first sent soldiers to explore the way, and marked the deep pit when he found it. Then the troops were ordered to go around the pit and move forward. As soon as there was such a delay, the speed slowed down, and by the time the large army entered the woods, there was no trace of the Qi army.

Losing its goal and unable to advance the army, King Wu ordered the army to rest in place and sent a large number of scouts out to investigate.

Suddenly, I heard the sound of drums behind the big earthquake, rushed a team of people and horses, when they were dozens of steps apart, ten thousand arrows were fired in unison, and the arrow rain flew, almost obscuring the sky, the incident happened suddenly, the coalition forces had no time to react, and they were hit by arrows one after another, and there were countless casualties.

There are not many people from the Qi army, only a few thousand people, but these people are selected from one in a million, all of them are strong in martial arts and superb in horsemanship. Rush into the coalition brigade and go on a rampage, as if entering a no-man's land.

King Wu hurriedly ordered the army to surround this group of men and horses and annihilate it. But this group of men and horses did not like to fight, rushed in and killed several coalition troops each, and with a whistle, the horses rushed out of the brigade, and in the blink of an eye they ran away without a trace.

Just a burst of clashes inflicted huge losses on the coalition forces. Thousands of masters rushed in, ordinary soldiers were no match at all, they slashed and killed two or three people each, and then quickly withdrew, and the coalition army was a loss of 10,000 people.

The coalition army originally had 180,000 horses, and the battle had not yet officially begun, and together with the more than 10,000 people lost in the attack on Laiwu, a total of more than 20,000 people were lost.

This piecemeal method of warfare is also very powerful. In this way, the continuous consumption of troops may turn an advantage into a disadvantage in the end.

The battle did not go well, and King Wu was anxious, but he couldn't come up with a good idea.

Suddenly, ten miles ahead, two roundabout groups of men and horses surrounded a Qi army. Fighting.

King Wu said: "How many people are there in the Qi army. ”

"There are an estimated 20,000 people. ”

King Wu said, "Good! Go and pass my order, asking them to surround the Qi army, don't let them run away, and the widow immediately sent troops to reinforce. ”

"Yes!" The scout horse galloped away.

King Wu immediately ordered an army of 20,000 to rush forward and rush to reinforcements. There are 40,000 horses in front, surrounding the 20,000 horses of the Qi army, plus 20,000 reinforcements, it becomes a situation of 60,000 fighting 20,000, and the troops occupy an absolute advantage, and there is absolutely no problem in annihilating the 20,000 Qi army.

King Wu breathed a sigh of relief, in the end, he got a little back, otherwise he would always lose money, what else would he play?

At this time, it was getting late, and King Wu ordered to set up camp. Then he called a meeting of the main generals and said: "The Qi army does not fight us head-on, and sends light cavalry to harass us, which will bring us great losses." Their strength is far from ours, so they adopt this guerrilla method to fight us, which is very unfavorable to us. We must reverse this situation, seize the fighters, and defeat the tens of thousands of Qi troops who have come to reinforce Laiwu. According to their combat style, the widow analyzes that they will come to attack our camp tonight, and it is very likely that they will rush in like they did during the day today, beat us by scratch, and then slip away like fish. We're going to have to be ready to bite him, keep them from running away, and then destroy them. ”

The generals said, "I want to listen to the king." ”

Sure enough, as King Wu expected, after the night watch, a large group of people suddenly opened the camp gate and rushed into the camp, only to see that the camp was blind with black lights and no one in the camp. The generals of the Qi army knew that the coalition forces had been prepared, and hurriedly ordered a retreat.

But it was already late, and suddenly a war drum sounded, and countless torches suddenly lit up on all sides, and the sneak attack Qi army was surrounded in the core, and the rain of arrows flew, and the Qi army fell to the ground one after another.

You can't run away, you can only rush to the death, and how much you run away in the end.

The scuffle began.

The current situation is that the 50,000 Qi troops who came to reinforce Laiwu were surrounded in two places, and in the face of coalition forces several times larger than themselves, it was impossible to break out of the encirclement. The final fate has been determined, and that is to be annihilated all.

The Qi army couldn't see a trace of life, and was completely desperate, anyway, one death, killing one was enough, and killing two was advantageous. I'm dead, and I'm going to pull two pads.

With this mentality, tens of thousands of Qi troops went crazy, and everyone was desperate to fight and rush, and their combat effectiveness suddenly increased several times.

It's pretty scary.

Every time the coalition forces kill a Qi army, they have to pay a price, and on the battlefield, blood flies wildly, and ghosts cry and howl.

It was not until the next morning that the last Qi army was killed. The battlefield within a radius of more than ten miles was full of corpses. Blood stained the ground red.

The 50,000 Qi army was completely wiped out, and the coalition forces paid about the same price. Almost 100,000 corpses, scattered on the battlefield within a radius of more than ten miles, what a tragic scene.

A pyrrhic victory!