From early to mid-June, when the armies of Qi and Song were in a stalemate in Tengxian, Qiyang, and Dushan, Dai Busheng had already completed the deterrence of Tancheng and was preparing to set off from Tancheng to the north to attack the hinterland of Qi.

Considering that he only has more than 8,000 troops under his command, it is really not enough to pose a threat to the huge Qi State, and considering that after he leads his army north, the Qi families in Tancheng City may unite to recapture the city and cut off his way back, so Dai Busheng asked these families to send clan soldiers to assist him in going north, otherwise he would use the clansmen of these families to sacrifice the flag.

For Tancheng, the 8,000 soldiers under Dai Busheng's command are still quite deterrent, so some families can't resist the pressure, so they can only hold the attitude of hypocrisy and grievance, and send their clansmen to gather under Dai Busheng's command, and in this way, they have put together an army of about 2,000.

Of course, this army of about 2,000 family soldiers, Dai Busheng didn't dare to count on their combat ability, to put it mildly, once they encountered the army of Qi on the way, these people did not turn around and attack him, it was already thankful.

But even so, Dai Busheng still brought about 2,000 Tancheng family soldiers, on the one hand, he was to increase his prestige, and on the other hand, he was to minimize these hidden dangers in Tancheng - instead of letting these disloyal Tancheng families hide their children in Tancheng, it was better to take them out, so that these people could also help destroy the farmland in the city along the way.

In addition to coercing those family factions for their own use, Dai Busheng also asked these families to come forward to coerce the civilians in Tancheng City, the purpose of which was to increase their power.

Forced by the threat of Dai Busheng, those families did not dare to disobey, so they obediently obeyed, and came forward to recruit a group of young men in the city by semi-force, about three or four thousand people.

The 8,000 Song army coerced and monitored more than 2,000 Tancheng family soldiers, and more than 2,000 Tancheng family soldiers took the place of the 3,000 or 4,000 Tancheng civilians.

I have to say that although Dai Busheng was called "brave and resourceful" by Tian Zhang, he was still quite cunning in some aspects, worthy of his position as Sima of the Song Guojun.

From Tancheng straight to the north of the distance of 100 miles, along the way will pass the city located on the west side of the city "Lanling", Lanlingyi is the "Tan County (Donghai County)" under the jurisdiction of the Dayi, which first belonged to the "State of Zhang", after the State of Zhu was destroyed by the State of Ju, and the State of Ju was destroyed by the State of Lu, so it belongs to the State of Lu.

And when Wu and Yue were hegemonic, Lanling was captured by Wu and Yue before and after, and finally, when Chu destroyed Yue, Lanling belonged to Chu again. After the conquest of Qi and Chu, Lanling was occupied by the Qi State and became a big town under Tancheng.

When the Song State and the Qi State went to war two years ago, after the Song State army captured Xue Yi, the troops pointed directly at Lanling and Tancheng, but because the Zhao lord's father finally accepted the submission of the Qi State and turned his energy to the domestic seizure of power, the Song State could only stop the war, so that the Song State finally failed to conquer Lanling.

And this is also the reason why Dai Busheng knows a lot about Tancheng and Lanling, because he was one of the participants when he attacked Qi last time.

After he led the army to Lanling, the city of Lanling was already under martial law, but there were not many troops defending the city, probably only more than a thousand soldiers, and the garrison was very weak.

This is also something that can't be helped, after all, Tanjun once garrisoned more than 50,000 troops, but these troops have already been transferred to attack the Song State, so that the garrisons around Tancheng and Lanling are extremely empty.

After arriving in Tancheng, Dai Busheng called Sima "Xu Liang" of the Xu clan in the Tancheng soldiers, and ordered him to lead 6,000 Tancheng soldiers to attack Lanling, and he must break through the city within one day, otherwise all the Simas of each family will be executed.

Yes, Dai Busheng is purely taking the opportunity to consume the strength of this miscellaneous army, after all, the composition of this army is the large and small families and civilians in Tancheng, and there is no loyalty at all, don't look at them currently following Dai Busheng, but that is just forced to helpless, once the Qi State sends a regular army, this group of people will immediately defect.

Therefore, before these people defected, Dai Busheng was ready to squeeze them to the greatest extent, such as siege battles to let this group of people go first, so as to reduce the casualties of the Song State army under his command.

"Dai Sima, is just one day too harsh? You must know that more than half of us are civilians, and we don't even have complete armor......"

Even though he knew Dai Busheng's purpose, Xu Liang could only endure the anger in his patience and plead with Dai Busheng with good words.

After all, how can they be qualified to disobey Dai Busheng's order, don't look at their Tancheng soldiers and the Song army under Dai Busheng's command, both of them are 6,000 people, but the problem is that they are regular soldiers with full armor, and more than half of them are just civilians with hoes and bamboo poles, if they dare to resist, the Song army under Dai Busheng can easily slaughter them, and then send people to call the two thousand Song troops who stayed in Tancheng to execute all the clansmen of their family.

It's a pity that Dai Busheng didn't mean to be soft-hearted at all, and he was even sneering in his heart, after all, who let this war be provoked by the Qi State first?

Thinking of this, he said coldly: "One day! Just one day! If I haven't seen you break through Lanling before sunset tomorrow, don't blame me for being polite. ”

Xu Liang dared to be angry and didn't dare to speak, so he had to find a way to capture Lanling.

But the question is, what is the best way, Lanling has already learned the news of the fall of Tancheng, and it is precisely for this reason that the city gate is closed, and the whole city is under martial law, can he Xu Liang still persuade the family in the city to open the door and surrender?

Besiege!

Only siege!

So, Xu Liang and others let the civilian soldiers under their command spend half a day to build a number of siege ladders, and then launched an attack on Lanling City in a hurry.

Don't look at the fact that there are only more than 1,000 defenders in Lanling City, but these defenders are the well-dressed and well-armored Qi State Army, plus they have received the help of various families in Lanling City, so that Xu Liang paid more than 3,000 casualties, and then he defeated Lanling before dusk the next day.

There are only 6,000 people in total, and 3,000 people were lost in a battle, if these victims were all Song people, I am afraid that Dai Busheng would have beaten his chest in a hurry, but at this moment, Dai Busheng was not distressed at all, anyway, these people who died were either Qi people or Chu people, and they were not from his Song country.

As for the number of co-followers, as long as the old tricks were repeated after taking Lanling, he could completely gather another two or three thousand people.

On June 19, on the same day that Dai Jing and Xiao Ji led reinforcements to Qiyang, Dai Busheng took Lanling unscathed with the Song army under his command, and he did not care about the casualties of the co-conciliation army.

After the fall of Lanling, the nobles of the Qi State in the city fled one after another, but some people were reluctant to give up their family business, and came to Dai Busheng with panic and a pale face, expressing their willingness to surrender to the Song State, begging Dai Busheng to forgive them and not to slaughter his people.

In this case, Dai Busheng repeated his old tricks, copied the same way he did when he was in Tancheng, and asked these families to find a way to gather a few thousand people to assist him in attacking the hinterland of Qi State, otherwise, all the families who did not obey his orders would be executed.

Under the threat of death, the families of Lanlingyi had no choice but to comply, on the one hand, they sent their children, and on the other hand, they coerced the civilians in the city, and finally reluctantly scraped together another three or four thousand people.

Dai Busheng handed these people over to Xu Liang, and immediately, after the eight thousand Song troops under his command completed the food supply in the city, he immediately waved his army north again.

From Lanling to the north, on the way, you can pass through the "Zhuqiu Yi" of the Lu country located in the west, Dai Busheng did not stop, and continued to the north.

The reason is very simple, Lu is one of the places where contemporary culture converges, and has a very long relationship with Confucianism, and rashly attacking Lu without a name will inevitably provoke the accusations of the world.

What's more important is that in the past two hundred years, there have been frequent battles between the monarch and the "Three Huans" in the Lu State, and even several generations of Lu monarchs have died in the struggle with the Three Huans, so that the Lu State has no spare strength to interfere in the contradictions between the Central Plains countries, and of course, there is naturally no threat to the Song State.

It is for this reason that both Qi and Song have intentionally or unintentionally avoided Lu State, after all, Lu State has no threat to them at all, even if they want to seize the land of Lu State, they will not be in a hurry - first defeat the rest of the threatening countries, and then try to plot Lu State.

Further north from Zhuqiuyi, it is "Yanyi (Kaiyang)".

Yanyi was also the territory of the Lu State, so Dai Busheng continued north, and arrived at the "Judi" within a few days.

After arriving in Judi, Dai Busheng repeated his old tricks and ordered the troops of Tancheng and Lanling to attack Judi.

After that, the cities of "Genmu", "Quqiu", "Qi", and "Gai", Dai Busheng relied on this strategy to force the Qi people who surrendered to him to attack the cities, and the Song army under his command was more of a deterrent.

Although this strategy greatly delayed the schedule of the "surprise attack on the Qi State", the advantage was that the Song army under Dai Busheng was almost intact.

At this time, Dai was invincible, and he was able to quickly attack the hinterland of Qi State.

But on the other hand, King Tian of Qi also learned the news of the Song army's invasion of the country.

On June 26, King Qi Tiandi listened to the musicians in the court as always.

I have to say that as the monarch of the Qi Kingdom, the fields of the King of Qi are happier than the monarchs of many Central Plains countries.

Looking back at Zhao Yong, the king of Zhao Wuling, when he first succeeded to the throne, Wei Gang, the king of Wei Hui, gathered the armies of Qin, Qi, Chu, Wei, and Yan to coerce Zhao in an attempt to completely divide Zhao State.

But when Tian Di succeeded to the throne, Qi Guo was too peaceful.

What's more important is that the Qi State succeeded to the throne by the field, with the solid foundation laid by his grandfather King Qi Wei and his father King Qi Xuan, at this time the Qi State has completed the reform - Zou Ji Reform, the rotten old aristocratic forces in the country have been swept away, and the country's economy has developed rapidly.

In terms of culture and attracting talents, the Jixia School Palace of Qi is famous all over the world, and has replaced the Wei State during the reign of Wei Xianghuishi and has become the center of the world's talents, such as Song Jun, Yin Wen, and the "Xun Guo (Xunzi)" who is only a teenager but is destined to be famous in the future, and many talents are from the Jixia School Palace.

Speaking of the generals who commanded the army, it is undeniable that the State of Qi at this time is indeed not as good as the State of Qi during the period of King Qi Wei, after all, at that time, the State of Qi had famous generals such as Tian Ying, Tian Ji, Tian Zhu, Sun Bin and so on, but now, there is only one Tian Zhang left in the State of Qi to carry the military of the entire country, but then again, the State of Qi still has Tian Zhang, what does the Song State have?

Song generals Jing Wei, Dai Busheng, Dai Yingzhi and others, who were in high positions in the army, were just second-rate generals in Tian Zhang's opinion.

What does Yan Guo have?

Even if it is Zhao Guo, after the death of Zhao Yong, the king of Zhao Wuling, he can't find a figure who can match Tian Zhang. [PS: Heh, Master Zhao's father saved up an all-star lineup in the early days, and the result was like that, and the time was also fatal. Oh, and by the way, the book doesn't exactly follow history, it's just that the protagonist isn't strong enough to influence the general trend at the moment. 】

All in all, King Qi Xuan's land left to his son is one of the best powerful countries today, and only the Western Qin State can really compete with the Qi State, which is also the reason why the fields of King Qi have not had any sense of crisis since they succeeded to the throne, unlike King Zhao Wuling and King Yan, but after succeeding to the throne, it happened to be the time of life and death of the country.

Because there is no sense of crisis, King Qi Tiandi lives a very leisurely life every day, listening to the musician's music and watching the dance of the music girl in the palace.

Oh, by the way, when it comes to music, King Qi Tiandi likes music just like his father, King Qi Xuan.

At that time, Mencius persuaded King Qi Xuan that "solo music is not as good as public music", which was to use the music of music to persuade King Qi Xuan to treat the people well and let more people appreciate the beautiful things.

Regarding the fact that King Qi Xuan and King Qi Tiandi father and son like music, there is also an allusion called "Indiscriminate Filling", that is, the story of Mr. Nan Guo and King Qi Xuan, and King Qi Tiandi's father and son.

The veracity of this story is unknown, but Qi Wang Tiandi does like to ask a solo musician to play the pipe, and the background of the story just happens to match the Mr. Nan Guo who can only escape because he can't actually play the pipe.

On the day of June 26, when the king of Qi was enjoying the music of the musician alone in the palace, a courtier hurriedly walked in and interrupted: "The king, the big thing is not good, the south has sent military information, saying that the Song army will lead Dai Busheng to attack the hinterland of our country. ”

“……”

Qi Wang Tiandi was stunned for a moment, but did not react immediately.

After pondering for four or five breaths, his face showed surprise, and he immediately asked in surprise: "Song Jun...... How could the Song army attack my Great Qi? What about Tian Zhang? Isn't he leading the attack on the Song Kingdom? How could you ask the Song people to invade the territory of our Great Qi in turn? ”

"I don't know for the time being......," the courtier replied, bowing his head.

"Check it out! Find out what the hell is going on! Qi Wang Tiandi scolded angrily.

On the same day, on the one hand, the king of Qi Tiandi ordered people to inquire about the situation, wondering how the Song general Dai Busheng would lead his army to the territory of his Qi country, and on the other hand, he began to dispatch troops and prepare to repel Dai Busheng's army.

In all fairness, the Song general Dai Busheng led his army to attack the Qi State, and the King of Qi was actually not panicked, after all, his huge Qi State, even if he sent out 150,000 troops, how could he exhaust his troops because of this? He just felt angry, and as for the object of his anger, it was naturally Tian Zhang: I trust you so much that I asked you to lead an army of 150,000 to attack the Song State, but you, Tian Zhang, actually asked the Song army to counterattack into the territory of my Qi State? What do you eat?

If it were an ordinary person, I am afraid that Qi Wang Tiandi, who is not good-tempered, would have been furious a long time ago, but considering that the other party is Tian Zhang, Tian Di still endured it.

After all, Tian Zhang defeated the Qin army at Hangu Pass a few years ago and defeated the Qin State in one fell swoop, which not only greatly increased the status of the Qi State in the minds of Wei and Han, but also allowed Tian Zhang to enjoy a reputation in the Central Plains.

Although the field of King Qi has a lazy temperament, it is not without the ambition to compete with the Qin State and dominate the world, so he feels that it is still necessary to treat famous generals like Tian Zhang well, after all, he is in the army of the Qi State, and now there is only one Tian Zhang left to shoulder the heavy responsibility.

About two or three days later, Tian Zhang's letter arrived in Linzi, at this time King Qi Tiandi figured out the reason, but this also made him even more dissatisfied with Tian Zhang: You said that you Tian Zhang, a famous general in the Central Plains, but you can't even attack the Song Dynasty, but instead called a guy who came out of nowhere to design a sneak attack on Tancheng, what's even more ridiculous is that you yourself were actually pinned down in a place called Dushan in the Song State in a dilemma, do you really deserve the reputation of a famous general?

Of course, this dissatisfaction, Qi Wang Tiandi thought about it in his heart, and did not dare to reveal outsiders.

What's more, Tian Zhang's letter said that the Qi army under Tian Zhang's command is not currently at a disadvantage, and even that he has led the army to approach Pengcheng, the royal capital of the Song State.

Therefore, on the whole, it is barely passable, so King Qi Tiandi is not too annoyed, as for the Song general Dai Busheng's side, it is not a big deal to let the domestic left-behind army go to resist.

Thinking of this, King Qi Tiandi pressed the emotions in his heart, wrote a letter and sent it to Tian Zhang.

One is to tell Tian Zhang that he doesn't have to worry about the threat of Dai Busheng, and he will send troops to expel him;

The second is to comfort Tian Zhang, and by the way, tell him to take Pengcheng as soon as possible.

I have to say that the land of King Qi, who was the monarch of a powerful country at the beginning of his succession, did not take the Song State in his eyes at all, and the only thing he was worried about before was the Zhao State.

And now, Zhao's father is dead, Qi and Zhao have re-established diplomatic relations, and the rest of the neighboring countries are not worth talking about at all: Yan has surrendered; Because of the long-term internal strife, the country was in chaos and had no time to take care of itself; The state of Chu was busy defending against the state of Qin, and the current state of Chu was a faint monarch who was greedy for pleasure and had no ambitions; Only the small Song State still hopes to compete with his Qi State.

In the words of King Qi Tiandi, he simply doesn't know whether he is alive or dead!

At the end of June, Linzi dispatched three armies to stop Dai Busheng, with a total of about 35,000 men.

With more than 35,000 troops, can't they defeat Dai Busheng's only 6,000 troops?

As for the coerced clan soldiers and civilians under Dai Busheng's command, King Qi Tiandi didn't pay any attention to it, after all, he also understood that it was just a group of people who had the opportunity to fall to him at any time.

On the second day of the seventh month, the Qi general "Gao Cheng" was worshiped as a general by the king of Qi, and led more than 35,000 troops to meet Dai Busheng, and the two sides clashed at "Changcheng (Changle)".

In this war, of course, the Qi army was victorious, but Dai Busheng was quite cunning, he only sent those soldiers from various families and civilians in Tancheng, Lanling and other places, and took the opportunity to lead the 6,000 Song troops to evacuate, so the main force under his command was not damaged.

Subsequently, the Qi general Gao Cheng led the army to advance step by step, while Dai Busheng fought and retreated, and according to Meng Zhong's instructions, he was keen to destroy the farmland of the Qi State, as well as bridges, roads and other infrastructure.

After learning of this, King Tian of Qi was furious and ordered the general Gao Cheng to defeat Dai Busheng as soon as possible, and to capture Dai Busheng and put him to death.

It has to be said that considering that Gao Cheng had more than 35,000 troops under his command, King Qi Tiandi had no doubt that Gao Cheng would be able to defeat Dai Busheng easily, but what he never expected was that in early July, the situation suddenly changed: the Song State actually sent another army of 10,000 people led by the general Dai Jing to join forces with Dai Busheng in the area of Ju State.

At this time, the Song army in the territory of Qi had as many as 15,000 people, not including the Song army guarding Tancheng, Lanling and other cities along the way.

Seeing that the Song army was like rats in the fields at night, frequently attacking the cities and towns in the hinterland of Qi, setting fire to destroying farmland and nearby villages, and even slaughtering the unarmed people of Qi, the king of Qi was so anxious that he gritted his teeth with hatred.

Of course, he understood that this was Song State's revenge on his Qi State, and retaliated for him for sending Tian Zhang to lead an army to attack Song State.

But at present, these losses are still within the range that the fields can bear, after all, compared to annexing the entire territory of the Song Kingdom, occupying rich cities like Pengcheng, Shangqiu, Taoyi, etc., which are coveted by the monarchs of the Central Plains, at this time the Song army destroyed a few small cities and destroyed some farmland.

As long as Tian Zhang can defeat the Song Kingdom, all the losses can be made up!

At the same time, Tian Zhang, who was in Dushan in the Song Kingdom, had just received a handwritten letter from King Qi's field.

Seeing that the country of Qi had noticed that Dai Busheng had already noticed the Song army, Tian Zhang secretly breathed a sigh of relief, to be honest, compared to Dai Busheng's ability to fight all the way to Linzi City, in fact, he was more worried about being reprimanded by the king of Qi, after all, it was indeed his negligence that gave Dai Busheng the opportunity to attack the Qi country.

『…… There is no need to worry about the country, but now it depends on whether it can hold on to it first."

Putting away the letter from King Qi Tiandi, Tian Zhang thought secretly.

On 12 July, after launching a fierce assault on Teng County for more than 20 days, Qi general Tian Jing finally broke through Teng County after paying a heavy price of 20,000 casualties.

may have been forced by the punishment of Song Wangyan, this time the Song army's army Sima Jingyi and the reinforced general Dai Xi resisted desperately, seeing that they really couldn't resist the Qi army, so they had to leave more than 10,000 corpses of the Song army and retreat to the water village on the east bank of Nanhu, preparing to regroup there and retake Teng County.

After the capture of Teng County, Qi general Tian Jing could not repair the army, leaving 20,000 troops stationed in Teng County, and immediately led the remaining 40,000 troops to Qiyang, wanting to unite the armies of Tian Touch and Tian Da in the area of Qiyang to besiege Qiyang City.

A rough calculation shows that the Qi army has 60,000, while there are only 18,000 defenders in the city, and only 10,000 of them are the Song army.

It's not hard to predict that this will be a tough battle.

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