The confrontation between the Shang Shui Army and the East Route Army led by Tian Tan, a famous general of Qi State, should start after the Shang Shui Army conquered Qi County. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

As Zhao Hongrun and Duan Pei assured, the date when the Shang Shui Army conquered Qi County was really half a day earlier than the Yan Ling Army taking Gong County.

It's no wonder, after all, the Shang Shui Army has the assistance of the Nanmen clan, and the latter should cooperate with the Shang Shui Army to capture half of Qi County, which is much simpler than the Yan Ling Army attacking Gong County.

But then again, while the battle was simple, it wasn't easy.

You must know that Haoxian is the fiefdom of Juyang Jun Xiong Li, so the 30,000 Chu soldiers led by Sun Shuke are actually the private army of Juyang Jun Xiong Li, although they are fully armed and equipped, but in fact, they cannot be called the main army of Chu State.

But Qi County is different, Qi County is a subsidiary city of Fu Li Sai, it is regarded as the northern barrier of the Chu king Du Shou Ying together with Fu Li Sai, so the garrison here is the Zheng army of Chu State, and the number of troops is 40,000 or 50,000, guarded by a general named Ji Cong.

Ji Cong, born in the Ji clan of Chu State, some people may be relatively unfamiliar with the Ji clan, but as long as one thing is mentioned, you can understand whether this clan is strong or not: Ji clan, and Lian clan, these two clans are branches of Ji Lian's clan; And the Ji Lian clan is the lineage left by the brother of the first king of the Chu State, and is the great nobleman of the great nobles of the Chu State.

Although the Ji clan is only a branch of the Ji Lian clan, and it can't even talk about splitting the family, in front of this clan, the Nanmen clan, which is also famous in the Chu State, is nothing at all.

All in all, the state of Chu deployed heavy troops in Qi County, and also appointed a noble general with a high status like Ji Cong to guard it, which is enough to prove the importance of Qi County.

It is no exaggeration to say that if it were not for the assistance of the Nanmen clan this time, the Shang Shui Army would not have been able to break through the city and capture half of the city in such a short period of time with its 20,000 troops alone.

No, the course of this battle fully proved this: even if half of the city was captured, the Shangshui army was still fiercely counterattacked by Ji Cong.

Fortunately, the Nanmen clan gave the Shang Shui Army great help, and in the face of the threat that Qi County was about to be attacked by the Qi general Tian Tan, the Nanmen clan contacted those noble forces in the city, and finally assisted the Shang Shui Army to drive Ji Cong out of the city.

Now, Ji Cong's defeated army retreated to the north bank of the Hu River and camped there in an attempt to prevent the Wei army from forcibly crossing the Hun River.

I thought I could breathe a sigh of relief for a while, but I didn't expect that the Eastern Route Army led by Tian Tan would come so quickly.

I have to say that these days, the Western Route Army led by Zhao Hongrun has achieved remarkable results, but the progress of the Eastern Route Army led by Tian Tan is not inferior, and even Tian Tan's East Route Army is better than the Western Route Army.

This army, since the soldiers went out of the Pi fortress, first took Zhongwu, and then divided the troops into two roads, all the way to Lanling (Donghai County), all the way to Liyang.

When it was August 9, Lanling was breached first.

In the northeast of Lanling, there is a Yushan fortress built by the previous Qi kings to resist the attack of the Chu state, after the capture of Lanling, Tian Tan and the town guard of the Yushan fortress Qi general got in touch, and the two joined forces to attack Haizhou (near present-day Lianyungang).

After that, the Yushan Army was subsumed into Tian Tan's Eastern Route Army and waved its army south to attack Yangling, while Tian Tan returned to Lanling and commanded the attack on Liyang.

From August 11 to August 13, Tian Tan led the Eastern Route Army to storm Liyang, defeated Liyang Jun Xiong Sheng several times, and finally conquered Liyang.

Of course, after the war, it was inevitable to cause some slaughter in the city.

As Nanmen Chi told Zhao Hongrun at the beginning, Tian Tan took advantage of the day when the East Route Army was repairing in Liyang, and hanged all the nobles of Chu in Liyang City, regardless of men and women, old and young, on the city wall, and continued to wave his army to the south the next day.

On 15 August, the Eastern Route Army broke through Si County.

On August 17, the Eastern Route Army broke through Shandao.

In front of the overwhelming Eastern Route Army, Xiong Sheng's army of Chu Liyang Army could not be stopped at all, and they were defeated and retreated one after another, losing the city and losing the land.

It was not until August 18 that the Eastern Route Army attacked Zhongli, and the Eastern Route Army encountered strong resistance.

Because Zhongli is also a city on the edge of the lower reaches of the Hun River, it is already very close to the king of Chu, Du Shouying, and Tian Tan's fierce reputation is too strong, so that the Chu people panicked, and actually mobilized 200,000 troops to Zhongli to intercept Tian Tan.

However, Tian Tan's real goal is not Zhongli.

After all, the number of troops under his command is only about sixty or seventy thousand, even if he is a famous general of the Qi State, he can't kill Shouying, the king of the Chu State, with this amount of strength alone.

You must know that further south, there is a million army of Chu gathered and took sixty or seventy thousand people to attack more than one million troops?

This is not called bravery, this is called stupidity.

So, Tian Tan set up a suspicious formation in Zhongli's hometown, posing as if he wanted to cross the Hun River by force, and while frightening the Chu army to defend the Hun River, he quietly led the main army to the northwest.

Yes, Qi County is the real target of Tian Tan.

Because according to the strategy specified by the king of Qi, Lü Xi, Zhao Hongrun's Western Route Army and Tian Tan's East Route Army will capture Xuan County and Qi County respectively, and the two will work together to launch an offensive against this fortress from the rear of Fuli Fortress and assist Qi King Lü Xi to break through the blockade of Fu Lisai.

After that, the alliance of the three kingdoms of Qi, Lu and Wei, with an army of more than 300,000 people, will unite the front and force the crossing of the Huhe River.

Unexpectedly, when Tian Tan led the East Route Army to quietly come to the city of Qixian and was about to attack this city, he was surprised to find that the city wall of this city actually erected the military flag of the Wei Shang Army.

Qi County...... Captured by the Wei army? What does that mean?

staring intently at the military flag of the merchant army, even if it was Tian Tan, he was a little stunned for a while.

Because as far as he knows, Qi County should not be the target of the Western Route Army.

Moreover, the Western Route Army actually took Qi County so quickly?

……

Tian Tan's mind came up with the appearance of a young man, that is, the young man he had seen when he acted as a guard to protect the newlyweds of the prince of Wei, Ji Zhao, and the princess of Qi, when they went to the capital of the king of Wei, Zhao Hongrun, or Ji Run.

"Tian Shuai, this ...... What to do? ”

Several generals under their command rode horses to Tian Tan's side, thinking that they also noticed the Wei army flag on the head of Qi County, so they temporarily left their troops and came to Tian Tan's side in person, asking the commander of the East Route Army what he meant.

Among them, one of the generals asked suspiciously: "Could it be a trick of the Chu army?" ”

"You mean pretending to be Wei Jun?" Tian Tan glanced at the general with a smile.

Although he looked down on the Chu people and hated them, he still did not believe that the Chu people would be "brazen" enough to hang the banner of another enemy army on the city.

At this time, Zhong Sun Sheng, the general of Qi State, said with a smile: "It's not easy to figure it out? Tell the generals of the city to come out, and ask questions. ”

"Hmm." Tian Tan nodded, approached the east gate of Qi County with a single horse, and shouted in the direction of the city tower: "A certain is a big Qi Tian Tan, who is in charge of the city, come out to meet Tian!" ”

While shouting, Tian Tan carefully observed the suspicious army on the upper floor of Qixian County.

He was surprised to find that he had obviously ridden to the range of a stone's throw from Qi County, but the army in the city did not shoot him with a bow.

Could it be that Qi County has really been conquered by the Wei army?

Tian Tan muttered secretly.

As the so-called self-affairs are clear, Tian Tan naturally knows his reputation in the Chu State, and he doesn't know how many Chu people dream of killing him.

However, now the suspicious army on the upper floor of Qixian County did not show the slightest hostility.

Perhaps, if it is really an ally?

Just as Tian Tan was muttering secretly, a young voice came from the upper floor of the East City Gate of Qi County, which was Wu Ji, the general of the Shangshui Army.

"Wu, I've seen General Tian!"

Tian Tan squinted his eyes and looked at the Qixian County Tower, and vaguely saw that it was a seemingly young general, and he was secretly surprised in his heart, and asked, "Who is deploying at the foot?" ”

Hearing this, Wu Ji replied on the city tower: "Wu is the chief general of the merchant and water army under the command of His Royal Highness King Su of Great Wei, Wu Ji. ”

Tian Tan was slightly stunned when he heard this, originally he saw that Wu Ji was young, and thought that the other party was just a small general, but he didn't expect to know that he was actually the chief general of one of the three armies of the Wei army.

In terms of status, I am qualified to talk to him.

So, Tian Tan said with a hint of indignation: "General Wu, as far as Tian knows, Qi County is the prey of my Eastern Route Army, why did your Western Route Army defeat it?" ”

Wu Ji was a very honest person and was not good at lying, so he replied: "The Nanmen clan in Qi County has been subordinated to my Great Wei, so it is the responsibility of our merchant navy to protect its safety." ”

Tian Tan is such a shrewd person, after a little guessing, he guessed the reason: it must be the Nanmen clan in Qi County, who was terrified when he learned that Tian Tan was going to attack Qi County, and hurriedly took refuge in the Wei army, so as not to encounter accidents.

Thinking of this, Tian Tan laughed and said, "General Wu, it seems that you owe Tian a certain favor." Saying that, he shook his head slightly, and he didn't have the heart to ask Wu Ji for this favor, so he said casually: "Forget it, since Qi County has been conquered by your army, it will save Tian a lot of effort." …… General Wu, please hand over Qi County to Tian. ”

When he said this, he didn't want to rob the merit of the Shang Shui Army, after all, Qi County was located here, and Wu Ji couldn't bring it back to Wei at all.

The reason why Tian Tan wanted Qi County was because this should be a stronghold city belonging to the Eastern Route Army, and their Eastern Route Army would be stationed here to launch an offensive against Fu Lisai.

Unexpectedly, Wu Ji in Qi County said in an embarrassed tone: "Can you ask General Tian to wait for a while?" …… The city is packing. ”

The implication is that Wu Ji is willing to transfer Qi County to Tian Tan, but he wants the East Route Army to wait for a while.

It's no wonder, after all, it's not an easy task for the Nanmen clan and other nobles in the city to pack up their family property.

But after hearing this, the generals of the Eastern Route Army were a little annoyed: What do you mean? Let them stand stupidly outside the city and drink the wind?

Immediately, a Qi general shouted unhappily: "Even if you take away the merits of our army, you still want me to wait for tens of thousands of soldiers to stand stupidly outside the city?" What is your intention? ”

As soon as the words fell, the generals of the Qi Kingdom echoed one after another.

The more they talked, the more angry they became, and even in the end, they even threatened that if the merchant army did not open the city gate immediately, they would attack the city.

And hearing this, Wu Ji on the city tower is also very hot.

Raising his hand in one direction, he shouted towards the generals under the city: "Look at this banner, dare to say that you want to attack my merchant army?!" ”

The generals under the city still shouted and scolded again and again, but Tian Tan's eyes were slightly condensed and silent.

Because the banner that Wu Ji refers to has the words Wei and King Su written on it.

In other words, this is the royal banner of Zhao Hongrun, the king of Wei Guosu. (To be continued.) )