situation, the Qi State has no way to stay out of the matter, and because the Qin State has been afraid of Chu for a long time, there is no way to make a profit, and the Qin State will definitely die in the Qi State first, and then attack the Chu State.

As a military advisor, Mu Chong thought like this, he didn't know that Wei Yu had persuaded Zhao Zheng to agree to destroy Qi, but he knew that with the Chu army taking Hanzhong, the Qin army's access to attack Chu became extremely limited. Occupying the State of Qi and attacking Chu from Muling Pass to the south is also a path. And the state of Chu, which has insufficient troops, will be exhausted on the thousands of miles long border, and even if it is defended by the pass, it will have to share the troops, making the already insufficient troops even weaker.

"The envoy of Chu is rude, please chase the king away!" Mu Chong seized the opportunity to say that he was most afraid of the Chu envoy's ridicule, and then the king went out of the city to fight with the Chu army as soon as he was excited. The Chu army has come thousands of miles, and it will hold something, but he still doesn't know what the Chu army holds.

The gate of the small city of Linzi Xicheng was opened again, and Zhuang Wudi, who was holding a festival, was driven out by the Qi people, and the carriage waiting here quickly took him back to the Chu army camp in the northwest, Xiong Jing and other generals were already waiting.

"The minister is insulted to the mission, and he didn't say that he could fight with me quickly." Zhuang has no place to worship.

"Excuse me." To fight or not to fight, the decision is in the hands of Qi people, and this is not something that he can control, so Xiong Jing's expression has not changed when he hears this. When Zhuang Wudi got up, he asked, "What does King Qi say?" ”

"The king of Qi said: You will fight with me." Zhuang is not authentic. "When the minister asked me when he would fight, someone came out to answer, saying that it had nothing to do with me."

"Dare to ask who's on the list?" The Hou spy who led the way had a picture album in his hand, which was full of portraits of Qi Chen.

"Nai Qi National Military Division Mu Seed." Zhuang Wudi had already seen the portrait before going and knew who that person was. "The minister thinks that it is the policy of the Qi people, one is to wait for the reinforcements of each city, and the other is to wait for our army to run out of food. If reinforcements do not arrive, and the food is inexhaustible, they will not fight with us. ”

"The king, the last general has cut off the two cities of Linzi and Anping, and reinforcements cannot come quickly." Fei Jing hurriedly told him. Before the decisive battle, the task of the three thousand light cavalry was to cut off the contact between the Qi people and the outside world.

"Your Majesty, our army has enough food and straw, and it can still be eaten for forty-five days." Su Ke also said. "Only the horses are not enough."

When they came, each warship was loaded with corn and vegetable soup for two months, and there were also fifty large wings of beans and wheat for horses. It's just that horses don't just eat beans and wheat, they also eat weeds. The grass is light in weight and large in size, and the war boat is not easy to transport, only some of it was transported on the Suzaku, but it is still not enough, and now the horses eat all the concentrate, and there is little herb.

"Lack of horse feed?" Xiong Jing was a little strange, he remembered that the 50 large wings that were specially designed to transport horse feed were loaded with 1,250 tons of beans and wheat, and each large wing also loaded 5 tons of bean feed, and the horse feed added up to more than 2,500 tons, enough for 4,000 horses to eat for two months.

Chapter 82

People and horses have two months of food, minus the need to go back and forth, and the time that can be supported is more than a few days a month. Militarily speaking, this is enough, and the time for the Qi troops from all over the country to arrive in Linzi is almost a month. However, because of the cavalry suppression, all localities could not immediately learn that Linzi was surrounded, and the time for reinforcements to arrive in Linzi would be greatly delayed.

Under normal circumstances, the grain of the ancient army could not be transported from the rear, and most of them were requisitioned on the spot. But in this way, the army must keep moving, because no matter how much grain is in a place, there will be times when it is exhausted, and only by maintaining the movement can it be requisitioned in various places. Siege warfare, a kind of warfare without movement, should be avoided as much as possible, and without movement means that it is impossible to requisition grain and straw, and can only rely on rear transportation.

This is technically difficult to do unless there is unobstructed water transportation. In the pre-Qin period, hundreds of thousands of troops relied on water transportation, even if it was not water transportation, but also water transportation as the trunk and land transportation as the support. Only the Zhao State in the Battle of Changping had to cross the Taihang Mountains to transport grain by land to supply the army, which accounted for nearly one-tenth of the country's population, making the whole country tired.

There is no water transportation between Chu and Linzi, but there is sea transportation, but it is a pity that there are too few boats that can transport grain, and the Suzaku can only transport more than 200 tons at a time, which is just the consumption of the whole army for three days.

Grain is likely to be a problem, but the reinforcement of Linzi by Qi troops from all over the country is another big problem. In order to defend Mulingguan, of course, the Qi army could not all come, but at least 100,000 people would return to the division. There are more than 200,000 Qi troops in Linzi, plus 100,000 reinforcements, which is more than 300,000, which is more than ten times that of the current Chu army.

More than 300,000 is a suffocating number, and the generals are sweating in their hearts, and many people already have the idea of withdrawing the army in their hearts, but because Xiong Jing is calm, he endured the words in his stomach.

"Report ——!" The military report came from outside the shogunate, and the people who came shouted: "The Qi people are sending people out of the city." ”

"Kill!" Xiong Jing glanced at Concubine Jing and ordered without hesitation.

It is the task of the cavalry to cut off the inside and outside, and last night the commander of the third cavalry division abandoned his heel and led his troops to Linzi and Anping City, and after dawn Xiang Chao's second cavalry division took over, and the first division of Yu Jing was on standby. Now that the Qi army has sent people out of the city to help, there is no need for Concubine Jing to pass on his orders, and the robbery has already begun.

Linzi east is the water, the north is the canal, the Chu army only needs to hold the ferry bridge to prevent the Qi people from going out of the city, only the south, the west is not this obstacle, out of the city gate can run wildly. But the cavalry of the Chu army was guarding the gate of the city, and as soon as the chariot of the Qi people drove out of the city, they were beaten back, and there were also cavalry and foot soldiers who rushed away from the cavalry and went straight south, but how could the speed of the chariot be as fast as the cavalry, and in less than a while, the messengers sent out for help were all robbed and killed by the Chu cavalry, and the head was shot back to Linzi with a crossbow, and the silk book on the body was sent to the shogunate.

"Sure enough." The five silk books, the content is exactly the same, all stamped with the seal of the king of Qi, and they are asking the general Tian Luo for help.

"The Qi people do not want to fight me." Xiong Jing, who put down the silk book, was a little distressed, Qi Wang Tianjian was really a gutsless person, he kept shrinking himself and really had no way to take him.

"Please send someone to fight." Yang Yu glanced at Yan Qiu, the situation became like this, and the only way he could think of it was to scold and fight.

"Scolding?" Xiong Jing couldn't help but laugh in his heart, "It's only the first day, why rush for a while." ”

"The minister has a plan." A strategist whispered a few words in the ear of Jun Sima Zhuang Wudi.

"What do you do?" Xiong Jing asked, glancing at the strategist as well.

"Please open the military market, and allow the merchants of the Qi country to enter the market to buy and sell." Zhuang is not authentic.

"Open the military city?" Zhuang Wudi's strategy is very special, the military market has always only targeted its own merchants, and Qi is an enemy country. "Do you think the merchants of Qi will enter the market to buy and sell? Those merchants told the Qi people that our army had come to Linzi......"

"Linzi is the capital of Qi State, and the whole country should know about it after being besieged for a long time." Zhuang is not authentic. "At this time, the Qi army was mostly on the front line of Muling Pass, and although there were Qi troops in the west, there were not many of them. The king can allow the merchants to enter the market to buy and sell in the west of the water, and the Qi people will make heavy profits, and our army's entry into Qi this time will not harm the Qi people, but only punish the victory, and the Qi people and merchants may enter the market. ”

"But our army is not short of food...... Xiong Jing remembered what Su Ke said before, "only lack of herbs." ”

"King, our army is indeed not short of food, but Linzi is unknown." Zhuang is not authentic. "Even if our army piles up grain and straw in front of the Qi people, they don't believe that our army is not short of grain, but if the Qi people come to the market, they know that our army's grain and straw are not short. If the reinforcements do not arrive for a long time and our army is not short of food, we must fight with us. ”

Although Zhuang Wudi didn't know how the Qi court discussed, he could probably guess the psychology of the Qi people. The Chu army has defeated the Qin people in a row, and its prestige has shocked the world, so it is natural that there will be some taboos in their hearts, but if the delay fails to achieve their goal, the situation will change.

"The envoys were all robbed and killed by the Chu people?" The Zheng Dynasty had already retreated, and at this time Tian Jian was already sleeping in the road gate, looking at the big Sima Tianzong who came in to report to him, the green tendons on his forehead kept beating. He finally felt the smell of war, and the Chu people robbed and killed all the envoys he sent, and threw their heads into Linzi.

"Yes." Tian Zong's reaction was not as fierce as Tian Jian's, since this was a war, how could there be immortals. "The iron cavalry of the Chu people is invincible, and the ministers will send scouts out of the city at night."

"Alas!" Tian Jian sighed, "If the scout is killed by the Chu people again, what if? ”

"Don't worry, the king, Linzi is the capital of Qi country, and the business and travel routes are important cities, as long as the Chu people are isolated for three days, the world will know it." Tian Zong said busily. "Just wait for twenty days, reinforcements will arrive, and the Chu army will retreat."

"The Chu army is only 30,000, and we have 100,000, how can we not fight with one of them?" Tian Jian once again remembered the problem of facing up, and he was unwilling. "The Chu army has huge armor, our army also has huge armor, the Chu army has huge soldiers, our army also has huge soldiers, my Qi people are really afraid of Chu like a tiger?"

"King," Tian Zong said only after Tian Jian finished speaking. "Our army has only 50,000 huge armor soldiers......

"However, the Chu army is only 30,000!" Tian Jian's breathing was heavy, and the more he thought about it, the more unwilling he became.

"Great King, the Chu army has fought fierce battles every year for three years, and has defeated the Qin army in a row. I have only had one battle in the past forty-five years, and I was defeated by the Chu people, how to fight? "Tian Zong is an old minister, he can't help but feel a little sad when he thinks of the current situation of the Qi State, and some things that were difficult to say before can't help but say now." The queen mother fell, the king was victorious, his people were flattering, not sympathetic to the national government, several were bribed by Qin, the people were separated, the king of Chu only came to win, the soldiers had no fighting spirit, how to fight with it? ”

"Da Sima also thinks that Hou Sheng is guilty?" Tian Jian's unwillingness in his heart gradually dissipated, after the death of his mother, he entrusted the affairs of the country to Hou Sheng, many people said that Hou Sheng was a minister, but he felt that although Hou Sheng was greedy for money, he was very loyal to himself.

"If Hou Sheng is not guilty, how can the Chu people come to the city?" Tian Zong bowed and said, "The minister asks the king to be deposed after this battle......

The monarch and the minister are alone in the main bed, Tian Zong has counted the sins of victory, and outside the main bed, the entire Linzi has been in chaos. Compared with the chaos in the early morning, as soon as the common people who learned that the Chu people were besieging the city heard the word 'siege', they hurriedly rushed to the big city in the city with dustpans, clay pots, and ropes. The price of millet in the grain store may not rise immediately, but the sauce and firewood are not government-run, and the price increase is inevitable.