Before the construction of the Zhou Dao, Qi did not have much contact with the Central Plains, especially with Zhao to the west of the Yellow River. Since the Neolithic period, the vast majority of the ruins and Fangguo have been south of Jishui, not north of Jishui. After the state of Qi, the Yellow River without embankment flooded from time to time, and Qi Huan paid attention to water control, but the construction of the Yellow River embankment was a matter of the last hundred years.

The cities in the territory of Qi were congenitally eastward, and it was late to build embankments along the Yellow River, because the border with Zhao was vast and sparsely populated, and the Qin army invaded Qi from the border between Qi and Zhao in the north, and the Qi people did not know. It was only considering that the flying communication was extremely fast, which destroyed the flying communication line to Rao'an and Fuyang.

Originally, they should have been discovered by the Qi people after crossing the Jishui, but the heavy snow fell from the sky, the wind and snow and the cover of the night, and when the Qi people found this Qin army that was driving straight in, they had already rushed to the city of Linzi.

The first to see the cavalry of the Qin army was the lookout post on the watchtower of Linzi City, when the drum sounded, the city panicked, and the Qi people outside the city were stunned at first, and when they saw the Qin cavalry on the white snow field, they subconsciously hurried back to the city.

The wax festival has only been more than ten days, and the Qi people of Linzi City have not yet gotten rid of the joy of the New Year, and people are either playing the flute and drums in the city, or going out of the city to parade for a good time. It was not easy for the long convoy to turn around, and not everyone was like Tian Dan who 'broke his axle and Fu the iron cage' in advance, and the result of turning around and fighting for the road was the result of the Yan army's defeat of Anping, and 'the defeat of the car was captured by the Yan' [Note 17].

Hearing the drumming at the head of the city, the cavalry of the Qin army, which was slowly running, suddenly accelerated, as if they wanted to take advantage of the panic to attack the city at this moment. Seeing this, the Qi people who were in a hurry to enter the city were even more anxious, and all the things outside their bodies were abandoned ...... carriages, bags, gold and silver, and people rushed to the nearest city gate in the gaps of the chariots. It's a pity that most people are still late, and the city gate guards hurriedly closed the city gate, and the city head lowered the hanging gate in a panic.

The hanging door weighed more than a thousand catties, and once it was put down, it could not be put away in a short time, and the Qi people who could not enter the city couldn't help but cry under the city, but their wails were soon covered by the hoofs of tens of thousands of Qin troops behind them. The snow field could not trample on the smoke and dust, only the powdery snow foam, and the sound was like angry thunder rolling across the sky, rumbling and crushing everything.

There are three gates in the west of the city, and each gate has three paths. These doorways were either quickly closed in the wailing of the Qi people, or they were suddenly dropped by a thousand catties of hanging doors, so that the Qin people had no chance to take advantage of it. However, the Qin people did not just snatch the city gates, when the city gates were closed and the hanging gates were lowered, the cavalry who rushed to the front rushed into the crowd and began to chop human heads, cut off a human head, dismounted and bolted it under the saddle, and then swung their swords and cut again.

Not all of the Qi people outside the city were crying, some were still watching, and when they saw the bloody heads being cut off, they cried and shouted. The wise ones ran along the frozen waters to the north and south of the city, and the cowardly could only kneel and beg for mercy, but neither could escape the doom of death. The Qin army has surrounded Linzi City, the city gates have been closed, and it is useless to flee; It is even more useless to beg for mercy, the head is the title, how can there be any reason for the other party to give up the title if he begs for mercy.

Three miles outside the Shen Gate, a group of military officials were rushing towards the cavalry general under Yu Jing, wearing a crane crown and wearing scale armor, he watched his subordinates roll towards Linzi City like a frenzy under the support of his personal guards, and the crying and shouting of the city did not move him in the slightest.

It is impossible to take advantage of the chaos to seize the city, and this national governor's office has long expected it. Linzi was attacked by the Chu army five years ago, and it is impossible that it will not be re-prepared. The hanging gate at the head of the city is not vegetarian, once the mechanism is opened and the chain is broken, the hanging door can fall in an instant. The Qin army chased the Qi people into the city, just to increase the panic of the Qi people and snatch the heads of the military merits.

"What?" Yu Fen looked at the rushing military officials, and couldn't think of any military orders Wang Ben had.

"General, may I ask the general, who has the most cars?" The military officials worked hard to fight for it. The cavalry took Wang Ben as the general, Yu Fen as the right general, and Qiang Qi as the left general. Before dawn, Wang Ben had ordered: Qiang led the army from the north to Linzi and attacked the eastern city; From the west to Linzi, and around the southern city. The two sides erected one flag in the north of Linzi City, and the other in the east of Linzi City.

"Where else? This is it. He raised his whip and pointed to the Shenmen who was facing him. Within the Shenmen is the Linzi Palace, and there are many doctors and servants in the palace, and these people naturally have cars. The Qin army suddenly attacked, the doctors immediately abandoned the car and fled, usually elegant and they ran no slower than the servants, but their car was still blocked on the bank of the river and inside and outside the city gate, and the head was mercilessly cut off by the Qin cavalry and hung on the saddle.

"Here!" The military officer pointed to the Shenmen Gate not far away, and a bright red flag was planted on the ground.

"Why is that?" He couldn't understand the actions of the military officer, and he didn't know what kind of mystery he was going to play.

"The general has an order, and this must not be said to others." The military official is Wang Ben's cronies, and he speaks with the same Guanzhong Pinyang accent as Wang Jian and Wang Ben, and he waved at Yu Fen again, apologized, and then ran to the rear. He turned his head to look over, and immediately saw a huge convoy rushing towards him, and the horses were even more horses than the king's king.

Because of the shielding of the horses, he could not see what the horses were pulling. Yu Fen couldn't see clearly, but Tian Zong, Mu Chong, Tian Yang and others who were standing at the head of Linzi Wangcheng could see it clearly, those sweaty, white steaming horses were not others, it was artillery.

Tian Yang's Lu Lijing immediately fell, and the more calm Mu Chong's hands also began to tremble. The artillery is the weapon of the thunder god, and the Xianyang City, which is more than seven zhang high, has not resisted the artillery, and how can the Linzi City, which is no more than five zhang high, block the artillery?

"The country of Qi is dead." Holding up the landing mirror, the big Sima Tianzong muttered. When he saw the artillery, he didn't know who to blame or scold, he could only mumble sadly.

"Where did the Qin people get artillery?! Where did the Qin people get artillery?! Before the Lu Lijing of Doctor Tian Yang fell, he saw that the horses were pulling a cannon, but he still couldn't believe that this was the truth.

"Chu Qin is also crossed!" Mu Chong's speech was a little slurred, and his face stiffened as he tried his best to overcome this problem. "The Qin people gave the Chu people hostages, and the Chu people gave the Qin people more than 30 artillery pieces, but I didn't think about it, I didn't think about it......"

The king of Chu handed over the country's heavy weapons and artillery to the Qin people for some unimportant people, and as soon as this news came out, the people of the world dismissed him as obsessed. Anyone with a discerning eye can see that what the King of Chu wants to change is not Xiong Qi's family, not the Hou spy of Chu, not the corpses of Jing Ke and Lu Goujian, but the uncle of Mi Xuan's father.

As a king who disregards the country's social affairs and is a woman, the doctors of the Jixia Academy can't help but make the judgment that 'the state of Chu must not be the world'; As soon as this statement came out, it was rumored all over the world that salt and vinegar were added to the well of Daliang City, saying that the king of Chu would build a deer platform outside Ji Ying, and in the future, the wine pond meat forest would be absurd.

The rumors in the market are naturally not taken to heart by people like Mu Chong, and what he cares about is whether the Qin people will obtain the artillery technology of the Chu State and not just artillery; also thought about where the war between Qin and Chu would develop after the Qin people got the artillery. At this moment, seeing the artillery appear outside Linzi City, there was no need for him to think about it anymore.

"Strategist, strategist, what am I, what am I?" When Mu Chong lost his mind, Tian Yang had already grabbed the placket of his clothes and shook it vigorously until he finally came back to his senses.

"Quickly block the doorway!" The news from the State of Chu had already said a way, and only Mu Chong remembered it in a hurry.

"Quickly block the doorway! Block the doorway quickly! Tian Yang ran around on the city wall like crazy, the ice and snow on the city were extremely slippery, he fell after not running a few steps, but fortunately, he immediately helped him up left and right.

"And no?" Tian Yang ran away by himself, but Tian Zong still had a sad expression.

"What if you can't?" Mu Chong said helplessly.

After Qin, the Ming and Qing dynasties, the city gates were mostly single doorways, and the city gates of the pre-Qin period, especially the city gates of the capital, were all three-door roads. The widest main gate in the middle is about nine zhang long, and the doorways on both sides are also more than three zhang. How can such a wide doorway be blocked? There is no way to block such a wide doorway.

The structure of Linzi is a big city and a small city, and Shenmen is the west gate of the palace. Such a structure meant that the outer city could not be used as a buffer, and once the gates were opened by artillery, the royal city would fall. Once the royal city falls, Linzi will definitely surrender, and then the state of Qi will die. Mu Chong has imagined a lot of scenarios in the past few days, but due to inertia, he did not add artillery to these expectations.

"I've seen the general, I've seen the gentleman, I've seen the great engineer......" Outside the Shenmen, when the soldiers set up the artillery, they worked hard to ask the main general Wang Ben, the students of Lord Bai Di Wuji, and the great engineer Ye Tunnel.

The three of them had the same wind and frost on their faces as him, and Ye Tunnel was coughing incessantly. Starting from Zhaodi, crossing the frozen Yellow River and heading straight to Linzi, it took more than 300 miles for the whole army to take three days. All the baggage was abandoned, including Wang Ben, Wuji, and Ye Tunnel also had to ride horses, and only those artillery had artillery carts, which were dragged by horses.

The plan to attack Linzi with cavalry was in Wang Ao's mind five years ago, and that time he stood at the head of Linzi City and watched the defeat of the Qi army. At that time, the Chu army came from afar and did not have siege equipment, so they could only ask the Qi army for battle. The problem of the Qin army's surprise attack on Linzi is the same as that of the Chu army, if the Qi army does not fight under the city of Linzi, how to pull out the city?

The first idea was a trebuchet, which was rejected as soon as it was proposed, and then the idea came to mind, and the idea was the Thorn Crossbow, which could also fire stone projectiles. However, the crossbow fires stone projectiles, and once the Qi people lower the stone hanging door, they may not be able to break the door quickly. The result of not being able to break down the door quickly is that the doorway is blocked by Qi people. At this time, the state of Chu proposed to exchange artillery for hostages, which was simply dozing and sending pillows.

Break the door with artillery first, and then attack the city with artillery. Qin Jun was the most loyal student of the Chu army, and Lu Gao's city-breaking technique was sent to the desk of the State Captain's Mansion Wei Yu very early. Of course, this is for defense, Wei Yu never thought that the Qin army also had artillery, and it could also attack the city like this, but this dream will come true today.