PS: It should be over within this month.

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In mid-October, because he received an order to withdraw his troops from Linzi, Tian Da, Tian Tai and others, who were attacking Pengcheng in Luyi, realized that his Qi country was about to face annihilation.

After discussion, Tian Da, Tian Tai and others jointly led more than 100,000 Qi troops to evacuate, preparing to retreat a few hundred miles north to Tancheng, but unfortunately, Meng Zhong had long been watching every move of the Qi army, how could he easily let the Qi army evacuate?

No, on the night when more than 100,000 Qi troops evacuated overnight, Meng Zhongqin led tens of thousands of Song troops in Pengcheng to pursue.

Under the command of Meng Zhong, this Song army pursued the Qi army not too much, so as not to provoke hundreds of thousands of Qi troops to resist, but also did not easily let the Qi army flee away, and its army always firmly maintained a distance of about several miles, and on this basis, it ordered the Song convoy again and again to pursue and cover the Qi army that was evacuating.

But once the Qi army stopped withdrawing and reflexively resisted, the Song army immediately retreated, in short, it did not fight the Qi army head-on.

In the face of this pursuit, which could not be caught up in a short period of time, and could not be shaken off in a short period of time, the Qi army, which lacked time, had no power to counterattack, and could only watch as its own army was harassed and attacked again and again by the Song army on the way to retreat.

Compared with the anxious Qi army, on the other hand, the Song army followed the Qi army very calmly, gradually recovering the cities that were captured by the latter in this war, such as forcing Yang, until Tian Da led the Qi army to retreat into Tancheng.

At this time, the Song ** team under the command of Meng Zhong had recovered their morale in the multi-day pursuit battle, and the military Sima Dai Busheng asked Meng Zhong for help: "At present, the military heart is available, if Tian Da decides to refuse to defend Tancheng, I am willing to lead the soldiers to recover this city." ”

Regarding Dai Busheng's proposal, Meng Zhong said with a smile: "Tian Da suddenly withdrew his troops, it must be that Linzi learned the news that the Five Kingdoms were about to crusade against his Qi State, and he was flustered, so he immediately recalled the army of the Song Dynasty. And the five countries of Qi, the first priority lies in Linzi, the capital of Qi, in this case, how could Tian Da abandon Linzi and defend Tancheng? …… It's just that now that winter is approaching, he is afraid that our army will chase after him, so he hastily withdrew his troops and ordered most of the soldiers to die halfway, so he decided to take a break in Tancheng for the time being. Therefore, Dai Sima does not need to be in a hurry, at most in the spring of next year, Tian Da will continue to evacuate to the north, and then our army can pursue again. ”

Dai Busheng nodded and asked, "What about our army right now?" Is there a camp here? ”

Meng Zhong thought for a while and said: "It's close to November now, and the weather is getting colder and colder, instead of spending energy on building camps, it's better to recover Liangyi first, in short, wait for this winter to pass." ”

The Liangyi in his mouth is a small county between Tancheng and Pi County.

"Hmm." Dai Busheng nodded.

Under the command of Meng Zhong, the Song army did not rush to recover Tancheng in the end, but instead recovered Liangyi.

The Qi soldiers stationed in Liangyi had already evacuated at this moment, apparently having received Tian Da's orders in advance, and the Song army regained this small county effortlessly, preparing to let tens of thousands of Song troops be stationed here to survive this cold winter.

During this period, Meng Zhong even recovered Pi County in the south by the way, which was also very easy.

Although the Song army temporarily withdrew from the southern suburbs of Tancheng, Tian Da knew that it was only the Song army - to be precise, the Song army commander Meng Zhong did not want to pay too much to recover the county, but this city was still destined to be returned to the Song state.

After realizing this, Tian Da issued an order to the whole army, telling all the armies under his command to prepare in advance to continue to evacuate north after the beginning of spring in the next year, hoping that this time he could get rid of the pursuing troops of the Song State.

At the same time, another Qi army that attacked the Song State, that is, the Qi army that had been attacking Shanfu County and was preparing to use it as a base to launch a continuous attack on all sides, after receiving the order from Linzi, also immediately withdrew towards Dongjun, preparing to build a defensive line in the Jishui area to prevent the attack of the Five Nations Alliance.

At the same time, he received the order of 'arming the defense and water', and Tian Tu, who had just withdrawn from Xihe County, after receiving the order from Linzi, Tian Tu took Lixia City as the main stronghold and built a defensive line here.

The fortification of Yujishui means that the Qi State has given up the natural danger of the big river, in fact, there is no way to do it, after all, the time is too rushed, and winter is approaching, Tian Touch has no time to build enough defense on the south bank of the river, so he can only retreat to the second best thing and fortify in Jishui.

And this Jishui defense line is also the only line of defense for Qi to resist the crusade of the five countries, once this defense line is broken through by the five countries alliance, then everything will be over.

In the following November and December, many envoys sent by Qi successively came to Song, Zhao, Yan, and even Wei, but Qin and Chu were still on the way because their capitals were too far apart.

After receiving the envoy of the Qi State, Dai Wu, the crown prince who had truly become the ruler of the Song State, summoned the Minister of State Hui Ang to discuss the matter.

He said to Hui An: "Now the king of Qi has sent an envoy, saying that the five kingdoms have committed Qi, or will cause the death of tens of millions of Qi people, the king of Qi wants to make peace with my Song country, and even has the intention to let my Song state mediate, what does Hui think about this?" ”

Hui Ang snorted coldly when he heard this, and said: "Zi said, repay grievances with virtue, how can you repay virtue?" If the prince accepts the request of Qi to make peace, then the thousands of people and soldiers who died in the three Song and Qi battles will not be sacrificed in vain? …… As for the so-called tens of millions of Qi people who will die because of this, hmph, when he sent troops to attack my Song country, didn't he ever think that there would be countless Song people persecuted by his soldiers of the Qi country? ”

Speaking of this, he paused slightly, probably realizing that his words were inappropriate, so he calmed down and said: "Besides, the prince can also rest assured, this time the five kingdoms of Qi are aimed at the king of Qi, and Wei and Yan both hope to carve up the Qi country, and they will not persecute the innocent Qi people, as for my Song army, then there is no need to worry too much, can't the prince still trust my brother?" ”

"Hmm."

The crown prince Dai Wu nodded, and rejected the envoy of the Qi State that day.

After the Song state, Wei and Zhao received the envoys of the Qi state almost on the same day.

At that time, Wei was received by Tian Wen, the minister of state, and when the Qi envoy saw Tian Wen, he said: "Xue Gong, Ling Zun is the younger brother of King Xuan, you are the nephew of the Great King, and I am a noble Qi noble, and now my Great Qi is about to be attacked by the Five Kingdoms, why don't you come forward to stop it, but let it happen?" ”

Tian Wen laughed when he heard this, and immediately glared at the Qi envoy and asked, "When Tian Di regarded me as an enemy, did he ever care about the feelings of the same clan?" When he coldly forced Wei to death, did he ever care about the feelings of the same clan? Although my Tian Wen is a nobleman of the Qi State, but the Qi State back then, could he tolerate my Tian Wen? Now Wei, Qin, Zhao, Hanyan, and the five kingdoms are all in Qi, and they are really to blame for the land! If the Qi Kingdom dies because of this, it will not be in my Tianwen, but in him, the faint king! …… You went back and told Tian Di that when you chased Tian Wen that day, did you ever think that there would be such an end today?! ”

After some cynicism, Tian Wen ordered someone to expel the envoy.

I have to say that the famous Xue Gong Tianwen, in fact, has always been narrow-minded, in the list of Tian Wen's hatred, Meng Zhong, who humiliated him in Zhao State, can only be ranked third, the first and second, respectively, Qin State and Qi Wang Tiandi, the nature of these two is much worse than Meng Zhong, they have thought about putting Tian Wen to death, and Tian Wen also regards the two as lifelong enemies.

Now that the country of Qi is in trouble, the fields of the king of Qi are in chaos because of this, Tian Wen is too late to gloat, how can he go to help the country of Qi speak?

Don't forget, when the king of Wei decided to unite the four countries to crusade against the Qi state in order to show favor to the Song state, Tian Wen, the nobleman of the Qi state, expressed his support - one of his enemies, the Qin state, had already paid the price of more than 200 miles of Xihe land for offending him Tian Wen, and now it was the turn of the king of Qi's field!

Wei was humiliated by the lord and was forced to kill himself in front of the palace of Qi in order to protect his reputation Tian Wen, and Tian Wen has not forgotten this account.

This is what Meng Zhong must admit: although Tian Wen is narrow-minded, Tian Wen is indeed worthy of his reputation for loving talent in terms of protecting his shortcomings, that is, in protecting those who are willing to follow him.

If it is said that the envoy of Qi was humiliated and ridiculed by Tian Wen in Wei, then the experience of another envoy of Qi who rushed to Zhao was indeed much better.

It's no wonder, after all, Qi and Zhao have a history of alliances, such as in the period of Zhao Suhou and the early stage of Zhao's father, but the alliance of Qi is really unreliable, and sometimes the brain will do things that fall into the well for the allies, so Zhao's father later resolutely severed diplomatic relations with Qi, and turned to form an alliance with Song, secretly supporting Song Wangyan to resist Qi, until after the Dune Palace Change, Zhao Cheng, who served as Zhao Xiang's An Pingjun at that time, and Fengyangjun Li Dui, who later succeeded Zhao Cheng, advocated the restoration of the alliance with Qi. even facilitated the marriage of Zhao Qi, and He Ying, the king of Zhao, married the daughter of the Qi Guotian clan as his wife.

Because of this history between the two countries, the envoy of Qi who arrived in Zhao thought that he should be able to persuade Zhao to change his position.

With this in mind, after arriving in Handan, the Qi envoy immediately visited Fengyang Jun Li Dui.

However, Fengyangjun Li Dui regretfully told him that there was nothing he could do about it.

Indeed, at this time, Li Dui's control over Zhao is no longer stronger than before, although he still nominally sits in the position of Zhao Xiang, but in fact, even Li Dui himself is very knowledgeable, and he no longer interferes with Zhao's national policy, and the power of Zhao has returned to the hands of the royal family and the hands of Zhao Wanghe.

As for the military power, although his son Yang Anjun Li Ji is still in charge of an army for the time being, and even in this crusade against the Qi State, Li Ji will take Lian Po and become a member of this Qi Zhao army, but Li Dui knows that the military power of this army, his Li clan will have to hand over sooner or later.

In response to this matter, Li Dui took the initiative to recommend his love general Lian Po to Zhao Wanghe, hoping to get Zhao Wanghe's respect.

Unlike his son Li Ji, Lian Po is indeed brave and fierce, and he is a rare talent in Zhao State, Li Dui thinks that Zhao Wanghe, who has been calm since childhood, will never miss such a fierce general, and if Lian Po can get the weight of Zhao Wanghe, then Lian Po's 'old master' Li Ji will naturally be opened by Zhao Wanghe - this is the plan that Li Dui thinks of for his son Li Ji to save his life, and it may also be the only way for his Li family to settle down in Zhao State.

Fortunately, Li Dui and Li Ji's father and son have always been kind to Lian Po, and Lian Po is willing to repay them.

Let me ask, in this case, what ability do Li Dui and Li Ji father and son have to persuade Zhao Wanghe?

Now the ones who have influence on Zhao Wanghe are Fei You, Zhao Ben, those loyal ministers who once followed Zhao Wanghe and the royal family with all their hearts, as well as Zhao Wanghe's younger brothers, Zhao Sheng, the king of Pingyuan, and Zhao Bao, the king of Pingyang, not their father and son.

What's more, although Zhao Wang He has a strong heart, but in general, this strength and courage are still not as good as his father Zhao Zhu's father, when Zhao's father succeeded to the throne at the beginning of the year, he dared to face the countries that tried to take the opportunity to carve up Zhao, but Zhao He did not have this courage, in the case of Qin, Wei, Han and Yan, including the Song State, had already made it clear that they were going to destroy the Qi State, Zhao Wang He did not dare to be the enemy of the countries, even if he knew that his queen who was born in the Qi State secretly cried for this.

At this time, for the Qi State, the only one who can save the Qi State may be Qin and Chu.

However, it is a pity that this time the Five Kingdoms invaded Qi was proposed by Qin, although the envoy sent by Qi to Qin had not yet arrived in Xianyang at this time, it is believed that this envoy could not get any assistance from Qin.

As for the state of Chu......

At the beginning of the following year, the envoys of the State of Qi arrived at Chu Ying of the State of Chu, met with Xiong Heng, the king of Chu, and expressed his plea for the help of the State of Chu.

But it is a pity that the monarchs and ministers of the state of Chu did not deal with this envoy.

At this time, in the state of Chu, Xiong Heng, the king of Chu, was still addicted to wine all day long, and in the middle of the court, a group of courtiers headed by Ling Yin Zilan were supported by the Qin State, and a group of courtiers led by Zhuang Xin and Zhaoju were supported by Wei and Han.

If it weren't for the fact that these people were busy with internal fighting, let alone aiding the Qi State, they would take the opportunity to divide the Qi State together with the Wei State, the Yan State, and the Song State.

No, despite the fierce infighting, the Chu State ordered Yin Zilan to send a general named 'Nao Ya' to lead the troops to the Qi State to see the situation and see if he could participate in the division of the Qi State among the countries.

In the huge Central Plains, in the end, no country was willing to help the Qi country, I have to say, in addition to the general trend, this has a lot to do with the failure of the Qi king's field.

In the eighth year of the reign of King Wei of Wei, in March, the alliance of Qin, Wei, Zhao, Han and Yan was basically assembled in Handan and Julu in Zhao, and under the order of the commander Le Yi, the alliance of the five countries passed through the plains of Zhao and Gaotangyi, and then crossed the river and arrived in the area north of Jishui.

According to rumors, when Tian Touch's garrison was in Lixia, he was shocked when he learned that the commander of the Qi State who came to crusade against him was Le Yi.

After all, once upon a time, Le Yi swore to him that the Yan Kingdom would always be subservient to the Qi State, but he didn't expect that only a few years later, Le Yi would set foot on the territory of his Qi State as an enemy.

What's not good is that although Le Yi is the great Sima of Yan Kingdom, he has stayed in Qi Country all the year round and knows very well about the terroir, armament, and granary of Qi Country.

Thinking of this, Tian Touch did not dare to relax, and fought hard to defend Jishui, resolutely not allowing the coalition forces to have a chance to cross Jishui, after all, once Jishui was passed, everything would be over.

I have to say that Tian Touch, as a young general cultivated by Tian Zhang, a famous general of Qi State, is actually not so unbearable, and the reason why he has lost consecutive battles is just that he has encountered too strong opponents.

For example, he once lost to the Zhao army, the Wei army, and the Song army, but in fact, the opponents Tian Touch met in these three defeats were the same, all of them were Meng Zhong, and if you think about it carefully, you really have a back.

But losing to Meng Zhong does not mean that Tian Touch has no talent, no, in April and May, for a month and a half, Tian Touch defended Jishui to the death, and forced the Five Nations Alliance led by Le Yi to be unable to take a step beyond Jishui.

Because of this incident, Qin General Bai Qi also mocked Le Yi for this: "If you are not qualified for this position, I can replace you and help the coalition army defeat Tian Touch." ”

In this regard, Le Yi said lightly: "No need. I'm just thinking about how to get into Linzi as quickly as possible. ”

"Hey, then Bai is going to see and see." Bai Qi mocked and left.

For Bai Qi's ridicule, Le Yi didn't care, he ordered the generals of Wei Dou Xing, Tang Zhi and others to divide their troops to take Dongjun in advance, on the one hand, secretly help Wei, on the other hand, put pressure on Tian Touch, after all, Dongjun is in the west of Lixia, if Dongjun falls into the hands of Wei, then the coalition army can detour from Dongjun and bypass Tian Touch's Jishui defense line.

He used this tactic to force Tian Touch to divide his troops to save Dongjun.

However, Tian Touch was unmoved, and when his subordinates asked Tian Touch why he didn't save Dongjun, Tian Touch Zhengse said: "Le Yi this person, I have known him for many years, this person has a plan comparable to Meng Zhong, I am now taking advantage of the water to fight against him again, I must raise twelve points of energy, and I have no time to care about anything else." ”

At this time, Tian Daliu led more than 100,000 Qi troops to finally arrive in Jishui, at this time on the south bank of Jishui, there were 200,000 troops in Tian and 150,000 troops in Tianda, a total of 350,000 troops, and the strength of the army actually exceeded that of the Five Nations Alliance.

In this case, Tian touched his own garrison to guard against Le Yi's main force, and asked Tian Da to guard Luyi in the southwest direction of Lili to block the Wei ** team from Dongjun, and the two agreed to support each other.

However, King Qi Tiandi, who was in Linzi, had another opinion, probably seeing that the strength of the coalition army was inferior to his own, King Qi Tiandi issued orders to Tian Touch many times, asking Tian Touch to change the battle strategy and repel the coalition forces as soon as possible.

This is like a copy of the battle of Weesha - Tian Zhang, a famous general of Qi State, was blocked by the Chu general Tang Yu in Weesha, and he was not allowed to advance an inch for half a year, and King Xuan of Qi also conveyed orders many times to force Tian Zhang.

But the problem is, Le Yi is not ambiguous!

In this regard, Tian Ji privately discussed with Tian Da: "The king forced me to take the initiative, but I know that Le Yi has been tempting me, and once I take the initiative, I will definitely be defeated." ”

Tian Da was not as good as Tian Touch, and when he heard this, he hesitated and said, "Can ...... What about the king's commands? ”

Tian was speechless.

Subsequently, Le Yi tried to cross the river from Zhu'a, and Tian Yi weighed it for a long time, and finally decided to take the initiative.

In late May, Qi generals Tian Touch, Tian Da, and the Five Nations Alliance Army in Jixi launched a melee battle, as Tian Touch expected, the Five Nations Alliance Army did deliberately retain its strength, and it was not until this moment that all of them were displayed, so that more than 300,000 Qi troops were defeated by more than 200,000 Five Nations Alliance Army.

The Jishui defense line was shattered.

At the same time, Meng Zhong led the Song ** team to launch an offensive against Qi on the southern front, and after recovering Tancheng, he successively conquered the entire Donghai County, and then led the army to the north to attack Langxi County of Qi......