CHAPTER XLIII

On the third day, the Yan army besieged Wucheng again, and Ran Fei sent troops to rescue, but unexpectedly, the siege of the Yan army was just a pretense, and the large army of Yan crossed the border of Zhao from the west of Wucheng and only took Gaotang. Ran Fei suddenly became a turtle in the urn, and the 7,000 troops went to 4,000, leaving only 3,000 defenders, plus the local troops in Gaotang, there were only more than 5,000 soldiers.

But there are 20,000 people on the other side!

With four to one, Ran Fei felt very difficult.

Soon, the Yan army began to attack the city, and the formation of the Yan army attacking the city was very strict and disciplined.

Nearly half of the troops in the city were old, weak, sick and disabled.

The situation is not optimistic!

The Yan army attacked the city, Ran Fei let the elite guard the main road, and the remnants of the army assisted, anyone who was a traitor, killed! Escapees, kill! Those who do not obey orders, kill!

In order to defend their homeland, the soldiers did their best, and wave after wave of attacks by the Yan army were repulsed. But Ran Fei's losses were also very serious, nearly 1,000 in half a day, and the elite lost 30%, Ran Fei could only use all the troops on defense and call on civilian workers to assist.

Ran Fei knew that if this continued, Gao Tang would be broken tomorrow at most, and if King Qi's troops wanted to come to support, it would take at least three days, and he couldn't hold Gao Tang by himself, the only way was to find the weak spot of the Yan army and lead people to break out of the encirclement.

Guan Zhong's method is very good, the king is in charge of most of the army, and the rest is divided into two parts, led by the marshals of the north and the south, but at this moment, there is a loophole, that is, it cannot respond to emergencies!

After lunch, Ran Fei gathered more than 1,700 elites, Meiling in the north was garrisoned by Zhang Dali, Meiling was easy to defend and difficult to attack, the Yan army did not dare to attack at will, and Meiling was the passage between Gaotang and Wucheng, even if Meiling was won, if Wucheng was not obtained, it would not be of much use, and it might be attacked from both sides.

Ran Fei's goal is to go to Meiling, as long as he holds on to Meiling, when the King of Qi's army arrives, the Yan army will be at a disadvantage, and the troops of the King of Qi will attack Gao Tang on both sides, and the lost ground will return to his hands.

The Yan army's raid on the northern part of Qi was secretly discussed with Zhao State, which is why Zhao State would allow him to attack Qi State, although Qi State was defeated before, but after all, it was a hundred-legged insect that died without stiffness, and the emaciated camel was bigger than a horse, and it was still a big problem in Zhao State's heart, and Qin State attacked Zhao State under Wei Ran's rule for many years, Zhao State mobilized troops to deal with Qin State, but was very worried about Qi State raiding from behind, but with Yan State weakening Qi State's strength, Zhao State also agreed.

Zhao Guo's plan is to kill two birds with one stone, Qi and Yan are fighting, the strength of the two sides will definitely be consumed by each other, and the influence of the alliance between Qin and Yan will be greatly reduced, and Zhao can also concentrate on dealing with Qin.

Most of the soldiers are Gaotang natives, unwilling to retreat, Ran Fei thought for a moment, rode on a tall horse and shouted to the soldiers: "I believe you know my Ran Fei's character, from the time of Le Yi's attack on Qi, I Ran Fei is a person who is not afraid of death, and it is the same now, but if we die here at this moment, then who will lead the way for the reinforcements of the King of Qi, the troops of the King of Qi are not familiar with the northern terrain, and they may be ambushed at that time, and they will be ambushed, then the State of Qi may fall into the hands of the Yan State again, for the country, Do you still want to die fighting and dying here? ”

The soldiers bowed their heads and remained silent, all showing signs of guilt.

Ran Fei said: "If we don't run away, we will fight back sooner or later, don't worry!" Come with me! ”

Night falls, the weather in the north, there has been a light snow, Yan is originally in the north, naturally prepared, just cotton clothes are worn on the body, inevitably some inconvenience, Ran Fei in order to improve the speed, let the soldiers take off their coats, each drink a pot of wine to warm up, Ran Fei took advantage of the night, led more than 1,000 people from the southern region where the Yan army was weakly defended.

The Yan army surrounded Gaotang to the point where it was impassable, and deployed heavy troops at the junction of Meiling in the north to prevent the Qi army from attacking the Yan army on both sides, Ran Fei changed his mind and broke through from the south, in order to meet the large army of the king of Qi.

In the middle of the night, most of the Yan army was already asleep, and the Qi army in Gaotang only had a few thousand people, and the Yan army didn't pay attention to it at all, let alone thought that the Qi army would break through.

But what they didn't expect was that Gao Tang led the army with Ran Fei, this military genius, as soon as Ran Fei's men and horses left the city, they divided their troops into two routes, all the way from the east road to feint, and all the way from the south road to break through.

The Yan army was attacked by the Qi army because it did not take precautions, but the Yan army reacted quickly and quickly increased its troops to the east, in a vain attempt to exterminate the Qi army that broke through, but he did not expect that the reinforced troops were cut in half by the cavalry of the Qi State in a plain area on the way, and they were immediately seriously damaged, while Ran Fei's two troops spit out of the encirclement one after another and converged in Yucheng!

When he arrived at Yucheng, Ran Fei nodded, and there were still 1,000 troops in the army, and Ran Fei immediately sent 300 cavalry to the south to find the large army of King Qi.

After the assembly of King Qi's troops, he immediately went north, and arrived in Jimo in three days, but found that Ran Fei had already taken people to Wucheng, and hurried all the way to Wucheng.

On the way, he met the cavalry sent by Ran Fei, so he turned to Yucheng.

On the second day of Ran Fei's breakthrough, Gao Tang was broken by the Yan army, but just after Gao Tang had not yet covered the heat, the Yan army scouts found that the large army of Qi had gathered in Yucheng.

The Yan army originally wanted to attack Meiling on both sides with the Yan army in the north of Meiling, and then besiege Wucheng into a dead city and force it to surrender, but he did not expect the Qi army to react so quickly, which was completely different from the description of the traitor of the Qi State.

Although the king of Qi has no talent, but he knows how to make good use of people, and the command of the reinforcements is handed over to Ran Fei, Ran Fei waved the army north, divided into four roads, all the way to the border of Qi and Zhao to garrison, cut off the way for the Yan army to retreat to Zhao, all the way to attack the Yan army in the south of Meiling and Zhang Dali to take back Wucheng, all the way to the northeast to prevent the Yan army from taking advantage of the emptiness of Linzi troops, cross Jishui to attack Linzi from Fuxing, and the last way to Wucheng to attract the attention of the enemy.

Ran Fei's plan is to be down-to-earth, encroaching step by step, first led the troops to attack the Yan army troops in the south of Meiling, Zhang Dali reacted quickly, the two attacked the Yan army on both sides, the Yan army immediately broke and fled, the two armies united, the Yan army generals of Gaotang knew that Meiling was not in their hands, the supply line was very long, and they must give up Gaotang and return to China, otherwise the whole army would be annihilated, and immediately led the troops to want to detour from Zhao State to Yan State, but they didn't want Ran Fei's people to wait for them there, the Yan army was defeated again, and the Yan army knew that he had no way to retreat, and most of them surrendered, The Lord was immediately arrested.

Ran Fei personally saw the chestnut belly, his body was strong, although he couldn't compare to Zhang Dali, he was more than Ran Fei.