Surpassing the State of Qi and returning the State of Chu to the status of the largest country in the world has always been the dream of the monarchs of the Chu State in the past, and the current Emperor of Chu, Xiong Huan, is no exception.

Half a month ago, Xiong Huan received a good news from Xiang Tong that the Chuyan coalition army won a complete victory in Nanyang, annihilating 150,000 Qi troops, killing Qi general Gan Zining, and occupying Nanyang City.

This news made the court of Chu State boiling, since the Song State became independent from the Chu State, the Chu State had only been passively beaten in the face of the Qi State, and in recent decades, the Chu State had never won a big victory in the war with the Qi State.

This victory made Xiong Huan suddenly feel that he was a master of Zhongxing, and even began to fantasize about whether the Chu State could unify the five kingdoms in his own hands.

It wasn't until later that he heard that Tian Wuji, the general of Qi, personally led 100,000 troops to recapture Nanyang, that Xiong Huan was a little sober, after all, Tian Wuji was also a first-class general in the world, although his reputation was slightly inferior to Deng Yuanjue, but Qi's national strength was far from being comparable to that of Song, in contrast, Xiong Huan would rather face Deng Yuanjue than face Tian Wuji.

Just when the whole state of Chu was focusing on the battlefield of Nanyang, Emperor Xiao Daocheng of the Song Dynasty quietly sent the general Deng Yuanjue to lead 70,000 troops to attack Jizhou County, and Shi Luosheng, Liu Zixuan and Wang Lun also went out with the army.

Deng Yuanjue led the troops out of Yuzhou City, and gave 30,000 troops to Shi Luosheng, asking him to quietly take Yongzhou City, and he took 40,000 people to Jizhou City, the capital of Jizhou County.

Gao Kegong, who stayed in Jizhou City, had just been defeated by Deng Yuanjue a few months ago, and now when he heard that he was coming to attack him again, he was so frightened that he transferred all the troops from the surrounding cities to Jizhou to defend.

After Deng Yuanjue arrived, he set up camp outside the city and did not send anyone to call for war. Although Gao Kegong has an advantage in troops, his fear of Deng Yuanjue is in his bones, seeing that he is not in a hurry to attack the city, there is no need for him to take the initiative to go out of the city to face the battle, as long as he can hold the city, it will be considered a meritorious service.

"Report to the general, General Song Guowei Shi Luosheng led the army to attack Yongzhou City, and now Yongzhou City has been lost."

"Report to the general, General Song Guowei Shi Luosheng led the army to attack Chenzhou City, and now Chenzhou City has been lost."

"Report to the general, Liu Zixuan, the leading general of the Song State, led the army to attack Shaozhou City, and now Shaozhou City has been lost."

For three days in a row, Gao Kegong lost three cities in a row. Now he also understands that the reason why Deng Yuanjue is not in a hurry to attack the city is to contain himself in Jizhou, so he can divide his troops to attack other cities.

Gao Kegong, who was fooled, was so angry that he ordered all his men and horses to go out of the city and went straight to the camp of the Song army.

Gao Kegong led the army to attack from all sides, but the Song soldiers guarding the village could not resist and scattered in all directions. Gao Kegong seized the camp and was about to look for Deng Yuanjue everywhere. Suddenly, there were murders around the camp, and Deng Yuanjue took his second son Deng Wenhao and third son Deng Wenjie to outflank him in three ways.

It turned out that Deng Yuanjue had long expected that Gao Kegong would raise troops because of anger, so he deliberately showed weakness, let him seize the camp first, and then led the troops to surround him in the camp.

Gao Kegong found out that he had been tricked, and hurriedly abandoned the village and left, behind which Deng Wenhao and Deng Wenjie led the army to chase, but fortunately, the generals around him fought to the death, escorting Gao Kegong all the way back to Jizhou City. When I returned to the city and counted the casualties, I found that half of the soldiers and horses I brought out had been lost, and now the defenders of Jizhou were less than 30,000.

After the victory, Deng Yuanjue ordered the siege of Jizhou City, but he was still not in a hurry to attack the city.

Besides, Shi Luosheng led an army of 30,000 to attack Yongzhou City, and quickly divided his troops and Liu Zixuan with 15,000 people each to take the two cities of Chenzhou and Shaozhou.

Most of the defenders of these cities had already been transferred to Jizhou City by Gao Kegong, and it was a sudden sneak attack, so the two of them directly captured it without much effort.

Shi Luosheng said to Wang Lun: "Sir, there are nine cities in Jizhou County, and we have won three now. The court of Chu should have also received the news, and there will be half a month at most, and they will send reinforcements over, and we have to speed up the progress. ”

Wang Lun said with a smile: "This time Ning Buqu did us a favor, he made a plan to trap Xiang Tong in Nanyang City, and he didn't expect that even Tian Wuji would go out of the mountain in person, and Xiang Tong was afraid that he would not be able to come to the rescue of Jizhou." General, who do you say Emperor Xiong Huan of Chu will send? ”

Shi Luosheng thought for a while and said: "Although there are many generals in the Chu State, except for Xiang Tong, the only one who can fight with his father-in-law is the Great Sima Gaoyi, and he should be the one who came to the rescue this time." ”

Wang Lun said: "I have studied Gao Yi, he is not a famous general, although this person is old, but he can only fight with the wind, as long as he can eat a few small defeats, he will not fight, and we will be relaxed later." ”

After saying Gao Yi, Wang Lun continued: "General, we don't need to rush to fight other cities, as long as we can hit Gao Yi hard and take Jizhou City, other places can only choose to surrender if they are isolated and helpless." ”

Shi Luosheng nodded and said: "What Mr. said makes sense, I will write a letter to Zixuan, we will go to Jizhou to meet with our father-in-law first, and then discuss how to deal with Gao Yi." ”

Deng Yuanjue has been thinking about how to repel the reinforcements of Chu in the past few days, and when he saw Shi Luosheng and the three of them coming back to mention this matter, he said with a smile: "My opinion is the same as Mr. Wang, although Gao Yi is in a high position, he is not good at military affairs, and the reason why I surrounded Jizhou City and did not fight was to wait for him to take the bait." ”

Shi Luosheng asked, "Could it be that my father-in-law wants to besiege the city and send reinforcements?" ”

Deng Yuanjue said: "That's right, Gao Kegong is Gao Yi's own nephew, and now that Jizhou is in trouble, Gao Yi will definitely come to the rescue." Luosheng, Zixuan and the two of you led the headquarters to ambush near Yuezhou and Changzhou respectively, and after Gao Yi passed, you began to attack the city. If Gao Yi doesn't go to the rescue, once the city is taken by you, the Chu army will be cut off from retreating. If he sends troops to rescue him, he will inevitably divide his troops, and then I will personally lead the troops to meet him. ”

Shi Luosheng praised: "Second, Gao Yi will definitely go to the rescue, as long as he dares to divide the troops, Zixuan and I will lead the troops to withdraw, and wait until Gao Yi is defeated by his father-in-law and escapes, and then come out to kill him for a while." As long as you win two battles against him first, the rest of the battle will be easy to fight. ”

In Shouchun City, after Chu Emperor Xiong Huan received Gao Kegong's request for help, he immediately lost the joy when he had just defeated the Qi army, and lost three cities in three days, even if he held Nanyang City, he couldn't make up for the loss of Jizhou.

Gao Yi saw that his nephew had lost the battle again, and hurriedly asked for orders to lead the army to the rescue. Xiang Tong was not there, and Gao Yi was the oldest in the court, so Xiong Huan had no choice but to agree to his request and allocate him an army of 100,000 at the same time.

Gao Yi didn't dare to delay all the way, for fear that if he went late, Jizhou would not be able to hold it. Ten days later, as soon as Gao Yi crossed the border of Jizhou, he heard a report from a scout that Yuezhou and Changzhou were being attacked by Song soldiers.