As an envoy, Zhuang Wudi swaggered and was given down by the servant, and as soon as he left, there was a lot of commotion in the court. Daxing Tian Ji spoke the most fiercely, shouting: "The king of Chu regards my Qi country as nothing, and if he does not fight, all the countries will despise me!" If you don't fight, how can my Qi country stand in the world! ”

"Yes, yes." More courtiers chimed in. "30,000 Chu soldiers are in Qidu, if they don't fight, how can the national prestige exist?"

"The king must not listen to the Chu people." The great Sima Tianzong also shouted: "Master Chu came from afar, and he was in a hurry to fight with me, without fighting, he wasted corn and weeds every day, and he retreated after eating." ”

"What does Da Sima mean by this?" Tian Ji was displeased. "There are 100,000 people with halberds, and the Chu army is only 30,000, why are you afraid of Chu like a tiger?"

"Chu Junguo 30,000 ears?" Tian Zong retorted. This sentence suddenly left Tian Ji speechless.

The 30,000 Chu army was said by the Chu envoy, not the conclusion reached by the Qi army's reconnaissance, what if the Chu army was not 30,000 but 130,000?

The court immediately quieted down, and after the courtiers who were originally fighting looked at each other, someone stepped forward and told Qi Wang Tian Jiandao: "Please summon the doctor of the capital, and know the geometry of the Chu army?" ”

The sun has risen very high. The boat division of the Chu army, which came from the water against the water, turned around in the northeast corner of Linzi City, turned into the Jiji Canal in the north of Linzi City from the water, and followed the canal to the northwest of the city, and then dropped anchor and threw the cable, and docked on the south bank of the canal. At this time, the generals, soldiers, horses, equipment, baggage, grain, and building materials on the war boat ...... Only then did they unload on the bank of the river one by one.

The canal is only two miles away from the north city, the northwest corner where the Chu army landed is only three or five miles, the Linzi city is four feet eight feet high, and the soldiers at the head of the city of the Chu army can see it clearly. In particular, the warships came up with three figures: two hundred and twenty-eight, two hundred and twenty-five, and two hundred and thirty-one after passing through the military and legal calculations in Beicheng. Even if there are 200 people in a warship, there are only more than 40,000 people.

This number surprised Du Dafu Tian Yang, he almost thought that this was just the vanguard of the Chu army, but after waiting for a long time, there were no more war boats coming from the water, and he was suspicious that these more than 40,000 people were the only main force of the Chu army.

Tian Jian summoned him to the court, and after he explained the data calculated by the law in detail, the great Sima Tianzong was silent in an instant. At this time, Tian Ji said again: "King, the Chu division is indeed only 30,000, please fight with it." ”

"King, the Chu people despise me, and only 30,000 soldiers are coming to Linzi, please fight with them." The courtiers said in unison, and the sound of the battle shook Tian Jian's eardrums. Before he could agree, Dajida said again: "If the king does not fight, the doctors of the various towns should no longer obey the orders of the imperial court." ”

Tian Ji is a big bank, responsible for diplomacy, the Chu army is only 30,000 people to force the Linzi 100,000 army to not be able to defend, the matter spread abroad, his big line will definitely be ridiculed by others, out of the city to meet the face of the Qi country. What Dajitian said is the reality, the war was provoked by the Linzi court, and now the Chu army is in Linzi, and 100,000 halberd-wielding soldiers dare not fight with the 30,000 Chu army.

There has never been a country that can truly unite the whole country, the feudal country has the rich and the low, the capitalist country has the rich and the poor, the colonial country has 'my Qing Dynasty' and 'China', so the rulers have always had two battlefields, one abroad and one at home. The difference is that some rulers are cruel on the outside and cruel on the inside; Some, on the contrary, are cruel on the outside and cruel on the inside.

The pre-Qin dynasty was all feudal, even if the power of the feudal monarch and the feudal province was already inferior to that of the Spring and Autumn Period, the monarch and the ministers still had the blood of martial arts. It may be cruel internally, but it is even more ruthless externally. Although Tian Jian was a little cowardly, he also knew that if he did not fight against the Chu people, Linzi would no longer have prestige over the provinces, and he would inevitably return to the days when his father had just ascended the throne.

He was about to decide to go out of the city to face the battle, and the military advisor Mu Chong hurriedly said: "The minister has a word, please let the king be good." ”

There is only one military division in the entire Qi country, and since Sun Bin, the position of military division has been highly valued by the whole Qi country. Like Sun Bin, Mu Chong also learned from the Ghost Valley, but Qi has not fought for decades, and he is now old at a young age.

"Strategist, please." Tian Jian nodded and said, hoping that he would give him a plan.

"Doctor Du said that the Chu army has no siege weapons?" Mu Chong did not offer advice, but asked Tian Yang, the capital doctor.

"......" Tian Yang thought carefully for a while, and finally decided: "The minister has not seen that the Chu army has the weapons to attack the city. ”

"The Chu army came from afar, but there was no siege weapon, and the whole army was only 30,000 people, and they begged to fight me." Mu Chong said. "My war with me is indeed unto men; If I don't fight, Dr. Yi may no longer obey the orders of the imperial court, and this dilemma is also. ”

"Does the military advisor mean to fight or not to fight?" Mu Chong's words were vague, and Tian Jian didn't understand what he meant after listening to it for a long time.

"The minister thinks that the war should be delayed." Mu Chong's tone remained unchanged and he said what he thought. "A slow war is not a war of disappointment, but a quick war of not fighting. Slowly, the Chu army ran out of food, and whether to fight or not to fight became a dilemma for the king of Chu; Slowly, the reinforcements of each city will arrive in Linzi, the Chu army is only 30,000, and after the reinforcements arrive, our army should have 300,000, and the Chu army will be eaten. ”

"I think it's time to delay the war." Tian Zong hurriedly echoed, "If the Chu army still has ambush soldiers, it will be slowed down." ”

"Please, the king, please." Tian Fake hesitated for a while, but finally chose to face the battle cautiously. If it is really defeated, and Housheng falls, the Qi country may also fall.

"Dare to ask the military advisor, when will the war be delayed?" Tian Ji asked.

"When the Chu army stops cooking, it will slow down." Mu Chong replied, "Or when the reinforcements arrive in Linzi, it will slow down." Muling Pass is less than 400 miles away from Linzi, and in terms of time, 20 days can also be. ”

"Twenty days? Linzi needs to be closed for 20 days?! Tian Ji smiled strangely, "There are only 30,000 Chu troops outside the city, and there are 100,000 halberd-wielding soldiers in the city." 30,000 people surrounded an army of 100,000 and trapped the capital of a country, and the military division was so fearful. ”

"Please summon the envoy of Chu again, just say that I will fight the war, and the war period is uncertain." Mu Chong did not take care of Tian Ji, but told Qi Wang Tianjian again. "Then ask Doctor Du to send people out of the city, and tell the general to return to Linzi as soon as possible."

On the one hand, he immediately went out of the city to fight the Chu army, and on the other hand, he waited for twenty days and waited for reinforcements to arrive before fighting the Chu army. The two choices made Tian Jian hesitate a little, and at this time Tian Zong said again: "King, the Chu people and the Qin people are fighting, three battles and three wins, if I am not careful, I will also be defeated by the Chu people." ”

"No." Stopping Tian Ji and the others who were still talking, Tian Jian preemptively agreed to Tian Zong. Hearing that Tian Jian called 'Nuo', Tian Zong and Mu Chong breathed a sigh of relief, but Tian Ji and these people were unwilling, but Qi Xianghou Sheng seemed to be an outsider, and stood withered without saying a word. He felt that he had lost the favor of Tian Jian, the king of Qi, and even if he defeated the Chu army, he would no longer be Qi Xiang.

Suddenly, the confessor summoned Zhuang Wudi again, and was facing in front of the ministers, Tian Jian responded to the battle, and Zhuang Wudi couldn't help but ask: "Dare to ask the king when he will fight?" Broken promises? ”

The word broken was Tian Jian's pain point, and he flicked his sleeves and shouted angrily: "Rude! ”

"When our army will go to war, it has nothing to do with the Chu people." Mu Chong was worried that Tian Jian would be in a hurry, so he hurriedly went out.

"Qi Guoxing's villain's move to avoid war has nothing to do with the Chu people. However, the Qi country is also a big country in the world, and there are 500,000 armor soldiers and 30,000 Chu troops, hehe......" Zhuang Wudi shook his head while laughing. "The widow does not come to destroy Qi, not to harm the Qi people, but only to ask about the crime of Hou Sheng, the king not only protects a minister, but also is timid and does not dare to fight with the Chu army, he will laugh for the world."

"Who laughs for the world, we will know after the war." Mu Chong said urgently, at this time Tian Jian's face was already red.

"Yes, yes." Zhuang Wudi no longer sneered, but looked at Hou Sheng again. "Please Qi Xiang take a bath and change clothes in the past few days, prepare a mirage wooden letter, the widow is happy to be clean, and if the head of Qi is stinky, I am afraid that he will be thrown to the East China Sea and not brought back to Yingdu."

"You ......" Hou Sheng has long since turned into a ball of pickles, but Zhuang Wudi sees him as a dead man. Hou Sheng was angry and anxious, and then thought that his head was going to be cut off, pickled in mirage and put it in a wooden box, and only shouted 'you' and it was soft to the ground.

"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.