By the time Tong Guan finally urged the soldiers to attack, it was already early August, and the military operations of the Zhou army had become known to everyone, even Xu Shiyang, who was far away under Datong City.

Xu Shiyang has never been able to figure out what gave the imperial court so much confidence to launch an active attack against the Qi State.

In fact, Xu Muhe, the king of Qi, didn't figure it out, after all, the Qi army is now prestigious, and even the old nest of fake gold has been dug up, and the only two remaining Bo Jilie one has moved west, without a trace, and the other is shrinking in the icy Molong River Basin, with dogs, bears, wild boars and savages as companions, and the final destruction is just around the corner.

These are all done by the Qi army by their own hard power, in contrast, where did the Zhou army, which has never achieved any victory against the pseudo-gold, have the courage to take the initiative to attack the Qi country, which is stronger than the pseudo-gold?

In the eyes of the Qi people, this is a mystery.

But it doesn't matter if you can't figure it out, this doesn't delay King Qi first danced in ecstasy after learning the news, and then pretended to be distressed and denounced the imperial court's betrayal of him, a great hero who recovered Jiangbei.

"The king regards the minister as a mustard, and the minister regards the king as an enemy!"

At the moment when Tong Guan launched an attack on the Qi State, the King of Qi couldn't wait to announce that he would completely break away from the shackles of the Great Zhou and become an independent country.

In fact, Xu Shiyang felt that his father should wait a little longer.

Because this is really a bit too impatient, there is no traditional three-push-three-let procedure, and ...... directly announcing the breakup, even the divorce after a thousand years is not so simple.

Forget it, though.

Anyway, the bad reputation in this regard is carried by my father himself, and it has nothing to do with Xu Shiyang, and Xu Shiyang is too lazy to oppose Xu Muhe's decision that has been spread.

After all, you have to break with the imperial court no matter what, and it's just a few superficial procedures.

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On the third day of the eighth month of the sixth year of Longdao, the Eastern Route Army of the Zhou Army first began to attack Ganyu, which was under the control of the Qi army.

At this time, the Ganyu garrison had a total of 15 companies of field troops and reserve troops, with a total strength of about 3,000 people.

According to the number claimed by the Zhou army, they had a hundredfold superiority in strength; According to the actual strength of the Zhou army, they still have a numerical advantage of nearly 17 times.

However, in terms of combat effectiveness, the contrast between the two sides is diametrically opposed.

At first, the Ganyu defenders were indeed a little worried that the Zhou army of up to 300,000 might flood this small city in an instant.

However, when the fight really started, he found that he was too worried.

The attack of the Zhou army was not threatening, and could even be said to be weak.

They launched an attack on the third day of August, claiming that the 300,000-strong Eastern Route Army had actually invested less than 2,000 men that day, and all of them were Huainan Eastern Route Army.

As a result, as soon as the battle began, the Qi army repelled the Zhou army's attack with a ferocious flintlock salvo at close range.

The Zhou army suffered more than one hundred and fifty casualties and had to retreat temporarily.

After more than two hours, the Zhou army attacked again, this time there were a little more people, but the number of troops participating in the battle was still no more than 3,000, and it was still the people of the Huainan East Route Army, and the forbidden army still shrank behind to watch the excitement.

With his previous experience, the Ganyu garrison felt that the Zhou army was nothing more than that, so after relying on a salvo to defeat the Zhou army again, he immediately ordered his troops to launch an all-army bayonet charge.

As a result, Xueliang's bayonet caused the complete collapse of the entire Zhou Army's Eastern Route Army, and the rout of the Huainan Eastern Route Army directly swept the array of the forbidden army, and the forbidden army did not fire a single arrow, and ......fled with the Huainan East Route Army, no, it should not be said that in fact, the forbidden army fled faster than the Huainan East Route Army that was hit by the Qi army, so the fact is that the latter fled with the former, not the other way around.

The 3,000 Qi army chased the 50,000 Zhou army, and chased all the way from Ganyu City to the vicinity of Haizhou (Haizhou in Su Province), chasing more than 120 miles in one go!

Along the way, the Zhou army lost 1,750 dead and more than 12,000 captured, while the Qi army itself lost five killed and 32 wounded.

The gap in combat effectiveness between the two sides has reached a terrifying level.

And until this time, the Zhou army's middle route army and the western route army had not launched an attack, they seemed to want to use the Huainan East Route Army as meat shield or cannon fodder, and everyone else hesitated.

The two sides were deadlocked for several days, and in early August, the first batch of militia of the Qi army was mobilized and arrived at the front line, and the defensive strength in the southern part of Qi Province was expanded from the original 20,000 to 350,000 in less than an instant.

Although the vast majority of them were reservists and militiamen, all of them had the most basic military training, and at least half of them had served and participated in actual combat.

Moreover, in the hands of these troops, even if you do not count the muskets made by the people themselves, there are at least 150,000 guns, arquebuses or flintlock pistols!

The Qi army began to have a double advantage in strength and firepower, and the Zhou army did not dare to advance.

On the tenth day of August, the Qi army began to launch a counterattack, and Tong Guan immediately gave up the attack and retreated, and he pulled it so fast that he didn't even report to Weng Shuping's Western Route Army.

As a result, Weng Shuping, who was too slow to react, was caught up by the Qi cavalry near Xuzhou, and then the Qi infantry quickly followed up and surrounded Weng Shuping.

The Zhou army is also short of horses, their mobility is far inferior to the Qi infantry who exercise iron feet all day long, and there are Qi cavalry harassment around the Huainan West Route Army, and what is even worse is that the grain and grass of the Zhou army have also bottomed out.......

It's leaking everywhere.

On August 12, the 20,000 Zhou troops on the West Road were surrounded by 130,000 Qi troops and were 50 miles south of Xuzhou (50 miles in two days...... The overly strong Qi army settled the battle the next day, and the Zhou army lost 3,700 men, and the rest were all captured.

This includes Weng Shuping himself.

In mid-August, the Qi army advanced to the front line of the Huai River and confronted Tong Guan across the river.

At this time, after the second batch of mobilized militia, the ranks of the Qi army on the front line were close to 500,000! In addition, formed units continue to join in the future.

This made Tong Guan, who only had 100,000 soldiers left to fight, cold all over his body, and the experience he gained in his more than 30 years of military career, a country's army is either small and fine, or less elite with a large number of cannon fodder, he has never seen, and never thought that there can be a mobilization of 500,000 elite countries in the world!

Sometimes, Tong Guan even wanted to go north of the Huai River and ask the generals of the Qi army: "Didn't you say that Jiangbei is in ruins?" How do you feed so many troops? ”

In fact, not only Tong Guan found it unbelievable, but even Xu Muhe, the king of Qi, himself felt that this matter was too incredible.

That's right, Xu Shiyang once told him that the military mobilization capacity of Qi State can now reach more than one million.

It's just that at that time, he thought that this number might be an imaginary number, maybe it could reach 300,000 or 400,000 after mobilizing the militia? If there is this number, it is actually true to claim that one million is true.

He never thought that there was no discount on the number Xu Shiyang said (in fact, there is, for Qi Guo, the general mobilization of a million army is actually a tactic of disintegrating the heavenly demons by eating himself, and it is impossible to use it easily, but the King of Qi can't see this).