The drumbeat of dusk slowly sounded on the battlefield, this was the sound of the army, the cub looked at the sky, the remnant sun was like blood, staining the pain in his heart, the chapped and white lips had not been wet for a day, he swallowed saliva, wanted to moisten his dry mouth, but found that it was just a drop in the bucket.

His stomach was growling, he hadn't eaten for three days, if you count the vegetable soup that was as light as water, the only few wild vegetable leaves were his lunch, and Qin Jun had run out of food.

As crossbowmen, they did not have to face the enemy directly, so the commanders of the army appropriately reduced their rations and left them for the Qin army who were about to go to battle.

I heard that it was the rangers from the nations who cut off their grain and grass, no, it shouldn't be said to be cut off, it was secretly burned!

Everyone in the Qin army who was constantly walking around next to them was also weak, and their extremely tired appearance revealed their mood at the moment, how could an army without food win a big victory!

Didn't eat and had a fart fight!

This is a portrayal of the hearts of all the Qin troops now, even if they are led by the invincible Great Qin Wu Anjun, they are still terrified in their hearts, almost all the Qin troops who participated in the war understand in their hearts what the crisis of food shortage, if there is no food, their Qin army will be unable to move an inch in Taoyi!

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"Bastard, what about the grain collected from the Zuo Clan?" Bai Qi looked at the Qin army scouts who were prostrate on the ground with an angry face, this was the third day of the food shortage, and he had discussed with Wei to get grain from Wei, but the baggage troops from Wei were attacked by the Qi army and suffered heavy losses, and even more so, the rangers in Wei listened to the 'rumors' and burned all the grain stored by the Wei army in various cities.

"The general has no food! When the Qi army surrendered, the Qi army burned the entire city's grain. The scout looked at Bai Qi helplessly, this was not the first time he had said it.

But after a while, Bai Qi had to ask if the Zuo family still had food.

"Kuang Yi! Tiandan! Puppeteers! Bai Qi gritted his teeth with hatred, since he joined the army, he had never seen such a difficult war to fight, and he had just exhausted the general trend of the Qin-Wei coalition army.

Who is the person Bai Qi hates the most? Now it is undoubtedly Tian Dan, Bai Qi was originally very contemptuous of Tian Dan, but he still didn't expect Jiang to be old and spicy, Tian Dan never planned to use the army of Qi to fight with the Qin army led by Bai Qi.

Imagine that one is the Qin army that has experienced a hundred battles, and the other is the Qi army that has not been on the battlefield for twenty years, even if the Qi army has 150,000 troops, it does not dare to resist the 50,000 troops of the Qin army.

This is undoubtedly hitting a stone with an egg!

But in the hard stone, it will also be slowly dripped through by water droplets, Tiandan's Qi State used step-by-step planning to continuously weaken the Qin army, and now the 150,000 Qi army has enough confidence to fight the 80,000 army of the Qin State.

No, it's not 80,000, now it should be said that it is 65,000, when attacking Zuo's city, Bai Qi's army was constantly consumed by the tall walls of Zuo's city, and lost about 8,000 people, plus the Qi army's sneak attack on the Qin army's baggage troops, a full 7,000 men and horses were annihilated alive by the Qi army!

"Tell Jin to come and see me." Bai Qi said angrily, now for the sake of today, I can only ask Jin Contempt for it, you must know that Jin Contempt's 100,000 Wei troops brought a lot of grain and grass when they went out to fight, and after occupying the cities of Tao County, Jin Contempt must have gathered a large amount of grain and grass.

"There's no need to send someone to find General Ben, I'm here." Jin Yan pushed open the curtain of the big tent, looked at Bai Qi, took off his helmet, and his face was also not very good-looking.

"General Jin, you also know what is going on now, if I, Qin Wei, want to win, I need the full support of Wei!" Bai Qi regained his composure and made some concessions to Jin.

"Needless to say, General Ben understands." Jin Wei shook his head, and his fat face was also worried, "My Wei army occupied most of the cities in Tao County, but I didn't expect this to be a trap!" ”

"Traps? What do you mean by that? Bai Qi looked puzzled, but then reflected, could it be that this old guy Jin Cong wanted to take a step back by himself after Wei Wangyu's order, anyway, the current Wei State has taken advantage of enough.

"Could it be that the Wei State ignores the righteousness of the alliance between the two armies of Qin and Wei!" Bai Qi asked.

"No, it's not my Wei country, it's the Qi country, the Qi army!" Jin Yan took a hard breath and calmed down his resentment, but no matter how he looked indifferent, he still spoke with a rush, "The Qi State has evacuated the city, but there are shadows buried in it, taking advantage of the carelessness of our Wei army, they seized the city late at night, and now there are thirty-three cities in Taoyi, and my Wei army has lost seventeen cities!"

Bai Qi was secretly shocked, like this, Tian Dan of the Qi army was terrible, "Then how many people are there in Wei now?" ”

"And fifty thousand!" Jin shook his head and sighed, now the Wei army and the Qin army can only make up enough 110,000 numbers, and they have lost their strategic advantage in the face of the Qi army.

"Is it only 50,000?" Bai Qi muttered, he sighed, originally the Qin and Wei coalition forces carried 200,000 military horses, which was unstoppable, but now there are only 100,000, and the war has not started, and it has shrunk by half.

"Whether the Wei army's grain and grass are sufficient, my Qin army only has seven days' food left." Bai Qi said, of course, he can't say that his Qin army has run out of food, otherwise the Wei army will be beaten at that time.

"Where is there still food and grass!" Jin Wei sighed deeply, his face sad with sadness.

"Where is the grain and grass looted by the Wei army?" Bai Qi glanced at Jin Contempt deeply and asked urgently.

"Where is the grain and grass, after the Qi army retreated, they looted the grain and grass of the people in the city, leaving only ten days' grain, and now eight days have passed, and they have no food in their hands." Jin said hesitantly.

Originally, Jin Wei didn't want to say to Bai Qi that the people in the city still had grain and grass, and he was afraid that these hungry Qin troops would go crazy and snatch the food of the people of Tao County, and then he would need Wei to clean up this mess.

And in his heart, Jin Contempt despises Bai Qi and even the Qin State, a country of Xirong, and does not understand the truth that the people are precious.

But these words are just thinking about it in my heart, and Jin Qi is still mostly afraid of Bai Qi.

"For today's plan, I can only wait..."Bai Qi glanced at Jin Disdain, his eyes were suggestive, and he nodded heavily.

Jin was stunned for a moment, not knowing what this meant, so he had to say: "Dare to ask Wu Anjun what to do next, according to the general's intentions, now that Qin Wei is afraid of decline, how about I wait to retreat first?" ”

For the Wei State, he really doesn't want to play this game with the Qin State anymore, now the advantage has been taken, and more importantly, the current Qin-Wei coalition army does not have as many troops as the Qi army.

No matter how many troops there are, it will not determine the victory of the war, especially now when the difference in strength is not much.

With the command of the main general, it is still possible for a few people to win, let alone the command of Wu Anjun.

But now the initiative is in the hands of Qi, not Qin and Wei.

"General Ben led 30,000 cavalry of the Qin army, bypassed the Great Wall of Qi, and directly attacked Linzi!" Bai Qi's face was a little heavy, this was the best way he could come up with, the current Tian Dan turtle shrank in Taoyi and didn't come out at all, and if it was consumed, Bai Qi didn't think that his Qin army would be able to win this war.

As for the Qi State, he has no danger to defend, and the only Mount Tai natural danger and the construction of the Great Wall of Qi are equivalent to decorations.

Why?

The main reason why the Qi State built the Great Wall of Qi was to prevent the attacks of the Chu State, the Jin State, and the Lu State.

Since the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty, the State of Qi has been closed to the Western Zhou Dynasty, and has made great social and economic development in the Spring and Autumn Period. Qi is bordered by the Yellow Sea in the east and the Bohai Sea in the north, and has the convenience of coastal fish and salt trade; Therefore, since the founding of the People's Republic of China, the State of Qi has adopted the national policy of "simplifying its manners because of its customs", and has given priority to the development of industry and commerce and fish and salt industry according to the natural geographical conditions of Qi, so that the commercial economy of Qi has developed rapidly, and has laid a material foundation for the strength and prosperity of Qi.

During the Spring and Autumn Period, the emergence of iron tools in the Qi State increased productivity. During the reign of Duke Huan of Qi, due to the reform of Guan Zhong, the policy of simultaneous development of agriculture and industry was adopted, and the sword coins were minted to encourage business, so that the Qi State was strong and prosperous, became a big country in the East, and dominated the princes. In the late Spring and Autumn Period, the Qi State successively destroyed the Ji, Tan, Ju, Lai and other countries, so that the territory of the Qi State expanded to the eastern coast, so that the open coastal industrial and commercial economy and the inland agricultural economy of the Qi State could develop simultaneously, creating conditions for the further development and prosperity of the social economy of the Qi State. Qi's development of the eastern region also gradually eliminated the hostile forces in the east, and shifted the focus of strategic defense and offensive to Luchu in the south, Wei, Jin, and Song in the southwest, and Yan in the north.

Therefore, the "Chinese Qi Language" recorded: "Huan Gongyi: 'I want to go south, what master?' The pipe said: "Lu is the mainstay, but it invades the ground and ......." Gong Huan said: "I want to go west, what master?" The pipe said: "Take the Wei as the mainstay, and oppose its invasion of Taiwan, Yuan, Gu and Qili ......." Huan Gong said: "I want to go on a northern expedition, who is the master?" The pipe said: "The swallow is the mainstay, but it invades the ground and barks at the dog." ’”

Because the border between Qi and Yan is flat, and there are Qing and Turbid rivers as natural barriers, there are no natural geographical conditions for building the Great Wall. During the Spring and Autumn Period, Yan was also weaker than Qi in terms of economic and military strength, so the hostile forces of Qi at that time were mainly in the neighboring Lu State in the south and the Jin, Wei, and Song Kingdoms in the southwest. At that time, the Lu and Jin states were all powerful countries, and they were very powerful in the Spring and Autumn Period, which can be proved from the examples of the battles of Qilu and Qi and Jin contained in the historical books of "Zuo Chuan" and "Historical Records".

But there is also a northern Yan country in the Qi country!

From the Spring and Autumn Period to the early Warring States period, in fact, Yan State is a soy sauce existence, in the time of Jiang Xiaobai, the slogan of Qi Huan Gong was "Respect the King and Conquer Yi", and Yan was a small country at that time, and was repeatedly attacked by Shanjung, and then Qi Huan Gong led the armies of the countries to destroy Shanjung, and gave the thousands of miles occupied by Shanrong to Yanguo.

This is also the time when Yan has grown from a small country to a medium-sized country.

The rest of the period is still soy sauce.

In the early Warring States period, in the third year of the reign of King Yan, that is, in 318 BC, he made a shocking event, "conceded" the throne of King Yan to Xiangbang Zizhi, and took back all the seals of high-ranking officials with more than 300 stones, and handed them over to Zizhi's appointment. In other words, Zizhi took full control of the military and political power of Yan State. This move caused the prince to be dissatisfied with the old nobles, and in 314 BC he raised an army to attack Zizhi, but failed, and died in the rebellion. This civil strife has caused the dissipation of people's hearts and the serious weakening of national strength.

The State of Qi took the opportunity to attack Yan, and the general Kuang Zhang led the army to occupy the capital of Yan within 50 days of sending troops, and the Yan State was almost wiped out, and the king of Yan and Zizhi were killed. At the same time, Zhongshan also took the opportunity to send troops to capture part of the territory of Yan. Under the fierce resistance of the army and people of Yan and the pressure of Zhao, Han, Qin, Chu and other countries, Qi had to withdraw its troops, and Zhao supported the position of prince of Han as a hostage, and escorted him to Yan with soldiers, which was for the king of Yan Zhao.

King Yan Zhao knows it! After ascending the throne, he worked hard and was determined to restore the Yan Kingdom and avenge the shame. Adopt Guo Kui's suggestion and recruit talents. Worship Guo Kui as a teacher, give preferential treatment, "humble and thick coins to recruit talents", build a golden platform, "thousands of gold to buy bones", as a result, scholars from all over the world "compete for Yan". Yan Guo quickly gathered a large number of talents from all walks of life. Among them, there are three most famous: Su Qin, Le Yi, and Zou Yan.

When the Five Kingdoms invaded Qi, with the strength of Yan State, how could it be possible to defeat or even destroy the Qi State in full swing, it was Yan State that took advantage of the four countries of Korea, Wei, Qin, and Zhao to fight on the frontal battlefield, and took advantage of the weakness to enter.

Because the Qi State looked down on the Yan State, it did not build the Great Wall in the north, so the Yan State picked up a bargain, set off from the north of the Qi State, and directly attacked Linzi and Gaotang, and then under the envious and jealous eyes of the other four countries, the Yan State even went down seventy-two cities and almost destroyed the Qi State.

You must know that in Zou Ji's satire on the king of Qi, he repeatedly proposed the seventy-two cities of Qi, yes, the inherent territory of Qi is seventy-two cities, but under the expansion of King Qi Xuan, the son of King Qi Wei, he occupied most of the Yan State, and under the "madness" of his grandson King Qi Min, Qi State successively occupied Huaibei of Chu State, and captured Song State, and the territory reached its peak, with more than 150 cities.

If it weren't for the five kingdoms to attack Qi, it would have been possible for Qi to complete the great cause of unification, you must know that the place of Qi is good, and it has occupied the small hegemony of Song State.

What a pity!

"Surprise attack on Linzi!" Jin Qi was taken aback, and looked at Bai Qi with a scrutinizing gaze, he couldn't imagine how this man could come up with such a crazy plan, his confidence that 30,000 troops could capture Linzi?

You must know that Linzi is the central capital of Qi State, with at least 100,000 troops, and it is undoubtedly a fool's dream to capture Linzi with 30,000 light cavalry!

"It is impossible for 30,000 light cavalry to break through Linzi, but if you want to encircle and suppress 30,000 cavalry, you must launch at least 200,000 troops. There was a hint of determination in Bai Qi's eyes, it was indeed a bit risky to go to Qi with 30,000 light horses, but with mobility, it was difficult for the infantry of Qi to catch up with him.

Not to mention, Qin also has an ally Yan Kingdom, so when the time comes, he will just hide in Yan Kingdom.