Chapter 409: Bad News

PS: The second chapter is in the afternoon

"Yiyi has been breached?"

When he heard the news, Fan Jishu was dozing off in the temple where Keyi was burning with warm charcoal, and he suddenly woke up, stunned and stunned.

From the beginning of the war, Fan Jishu never really wanted to fight hard with the people of Qi, and the defenders stood in the way of the way just gave him an excellent excuse.

Because in Fan Ji's heart, the people of Qi were too powerful, and when attacking Yiyi, Qi Hou invested a total of 2,000 people and 50,000 soldiers, not including the more than 10,000 partial divisions of the Chen family who confronted Zhongxing Jiahe. The Jin State only had two secretaries and one doctor to confront it head-on, and the Bank of China had 15,000 soldiers, and only 12,000 people were left to guard the west bank of the river after the defenders of Yiyi's first division were reimbursed. The Fan clan dispatched 12,000 people, and the Handan clan sent 8,000 people, but because of the sudden rebellion of Wei Hou, they were delayed for half a month, and they could not arrive in time, and only more than 1,000 people who set off in the early stage took in.

As for the Zhao family, who was supposed to be the marshal of the Imperial Qi this time......

Thinking of this, Fan Jichu was full of resentment, Zhao Ying lost his previous good habit of putting the country first and then his family, he actually ignored the besieged Yiyi, and went directly to Chuqiu to threaten Puyang. And his son went south to Pushui, and now he has seized a large area of land and population of the country: Juye, Hanging Hill, Lishan, Shengdou, Chengpu, and now he has crossed Pushui to besiege Qingqiu, which can be called the biggest winner of this war.

Because there are not many territories east of Taihang, the three secretaries of the six secretaries are indifferent to the war with the Qi country, and they shrink into the country under various excuses.

However, although Fan Jijiao has a deep prejudice against Zhao, he has to admit that Zhao Ying's hand is indeed beautiful. The two-thousand-mile attack of Post Wuzheng was jaw-dropping, and after Zhao Bing crossed the river. The situation between the rivers and rivers changed dramatically.

After Wei Ren learned that Pu Nan had fallen, Wei Hou hurriedly sent someone to contact Fan Ji. Fan Jichu also did not want to fight against the defenders, who were also mobilized by the whole country, so he turned a blind eye and let them leave the battlefield. The Fan family also started from Zhongmu, who expected to walk to Keyi in the middle, and Yiyi was gone.

"It's only a matter of time before the city falls."

When he said this, Fan Jichu felt regret that he couldn't arrive in time, and guilt for Zhong Xingyin, who was also his friend and brother, but more importantly, he felt relieved.

Although it is a pity that Yiyi's population of fifty or sixty thousand. There are also the defenders of the first division of the Zhongxing clan, and the two thousand forwards of Fan and Zhongxing. However, compared to the damage to the main force of the Zhongxing clan to the point of affecting the domestic power comparison of the six kings, it is still cost-effective to lose one-tenth of the population. As for the captured soldiers, perhaps through diplomacy and conspiracy, the Chen family, who had a relationship with the Fan family, could help redeem them.

"However, it was breached a few days ago, and I had already rushed to Xinzhu, and after learning the news, I knew that the general trend had gone, so I divided my troops and went south."

The other person in the house is Handan Ji, the head of the Handan clan. The news of Yiyi's fall was told by him to Fan Ji.

Handan Ji is only in his forties, and his figure is not tall enough to be wrapped in a black mink fur. His face is sad, and he has a bitter face whenever he looks at it. He had just returned from the north, and was now rubbing his fingers and ears red from the cold by the copper charcoal basin in the beast's mouth. It's early November, and it's getting colder and colder. Presumably, the Handan soldiers outside are huddled in the camp tent.

Although the Fan clan was hostile to the Zhao clan, they were very close to the Handan clan. Regard it as a subordinate of the Zhongxing clan.

After learning the news, Handan Ji divided the 8,000 people under his command into two, half of them went to join the Zhongxing clan, and the other half was led by Handan Ji to Keyi, and after staying for two days, he planned to continue south.

"What do you want to go south?" Fan Ji shot a stirring spirit and continued to ask. "Aren't you going to help Zhao Meng?"

Handan Ji glanced at him meaningfully: "However, the head of the family has a call, the guards are now in Tanyuan, and the head of the family is facing the river in Chuqiu, he let the Handan soldiers attack from the north, and the Zhao soldiers crossed the river to attack them...... He also took the position of the Chinese military assistant and ordered Fan to accompany him. ”

"Hey, Zhao Meng's good idea." Faced with the summons of the enemy, Fan Jichu sneered, and did not intend to obey.

In ancient times, in the process of pouring into the sea in the east, the great river branched off into many tributaries in the lower reaches of the impact plain.

In the time of Yu, there are nine branches in the lower reaches of the river, just as the "Nine Rivers are the Dao" said in "Yu Gong", which are Tuxiao, Taishi, Ma Cheek, Covering, Hu Su, Jian, Jie, Hook Pan, and Jiu Jin.

In the spring and autumn of the Yin Zhou Dynasty, as the climate cooled and warmed, the nine rivers either dried up, or diverted, or disappeared into the sea, leaving only one east and one west. They are separated in the lower reaches of the Thamjin River, and the narrow area in the middle is called the Interriver Land. The northern, central, and southern parts of the Hejian Land were controlled by the Qi State, the Jin State, and the Wei State, respectively.

The southernmost part of the Jin River is Fan's Keyi, and the south fifty or sixty miles to the south is the Weiguo Tanyuan, which is the location of the alliance of the Song Liao Tanyuan in the later generations.

If the six secretaries of the Jin State are still monolithic, Zhao Ying's action is naturally a wonderful strategic detour, if he can encircle and annihilate the Wei army with worrying combat effectiveness, although he has lost Yiyi this time, he can bite a piece of meat from the Wei Guo, and the loss and gain can be compensated.

But since Fan Ying's time, the Fan and Zhao families have been on the same page, and they want Fan Ji to help? It's a dream!

Not only that, Fan Jijiao wanted to give Zhao Ying a slap and persuade Handan Ji not to go south!

……

Handan Ji was still a little afraid of Zhao Ying, and he said hesitantly: "Not to mention that Zhao Meng is a Zhongjun Zuo, who was appointed as a marshal by the monarch and the ruling party, and now has the highest title among the three secretaries of the front. It is said that the Zhao family is a large sect, Handan is a small sect, if the order of the head of the family is not respected, I am afraid that Zhao Meng will be angry again after he goes back, and punish our clan. ”

Fan Ji shot a clever tongue: "False, Zhao Gongmeng had two sons, one is the ancestor of Handan, and the other is Zhao Chengzi, the ancestor of Handan was originally the son of the clan, with a noble status, and should inherit the family business, but because Chengzi followed the exile of Jin Wengong, he was able to become a big sect, which shows that the big sect and the small sect are not absolute. What's more, now that more than 100 years have passed, the Handan clan has also come out of the five-service sequence, which should be independent of Handan and directly belong to the monarch. Why should you be called by Zhao Meng to drink again? You have not forgotten that the year before last, when the Zhao family's cheap concubine had a gap with Ruzi Awu. How did Zhao Meng summon you to Wen County and reprimand you in front of the incompetent Zhao Luo? ”

After successfully evoking the memory of Handan Ji's dissatisfaction with the Zhao clan in his heart. He took the opportunity to say again: "If you and I send envoys to negotiate with Qi and Wei this time, we will jointly attack the Zhao ......."

Before he finished speaking, Handan Ji panicked, jumped up directly from his seat, lowered his voice and said: "The next army Zuo Xiu has to talk nonsense!" The law of the Jin Kingdom, the first disaster is dead! Not to mention whether this matter can be done or not, if the domestic Zhi, Wei, and Han Sanqing know, how will they let us go! ”

Through half a sentence, Fan Jiji figured out Handanji's bottom line. He was dissatisfied with Zhao Ying, but he did not dare to resist openly, and he was unwilling to obey Zhao Ying's orders, and he had to do it.

The reason for this is that the strength of the Zhao family is still greater than that of Handan, especially in the past few years, under the toss of the Zhao family's cheap concubines, the Zhao family's short board economy is even more thriving, and it has the intention of moving the capital to Jinyang. The sky is high and the birds fly, and the Fan family is even more helpless to the Zhao family. And Zhao Ying is extremely strong, so strong that Handan Ji is like a mouse seeing a cat, and it will continue to develop like this. Only after the death of Zhao Ying, it was possible for Handan to defect.

But Zhao Ying is in the prime of life, if there is no accident. There is at least one or two decades of life, how can Fan Jizhu wait?

So he waved his hand and said, "Doctor Handan misunderstood." I don't mean you and me to get involved, but to watch the fire on the east coast from the west bank......"

Handan Ji asked, "What do you mean by this?" ”

Fan Jishu waved his hand and asked his cronies to bring the map and spread it out. He waved everyone away, and let the guards stay far outside, and no one was allowed to enter.

What he is going to say next is extremely confidential and must not be passed on!

Fan Jishu pointed to the map and said to Handan Ji: "Didn't you say that after the Qi people uprooted Yiyi, they had already sent a striker to the south?" As far as I am concerned, there are no more than three goals, one of which is my Fan's Wulu and Dunqiu Eryi, after the capture of this place, the Jin State will no longer have a city east of the Great River to threaten Qi and Wei and contact the Lu State. The second is to go to Puyang and Chuqiu, so as to force Zhao Meng and us to retreat and relieve the embarrassing situation of Weihou. The third is the land of Xilu and Punan, and the Marquis of Qi will definitely try his best to recapture the Qiuqiu that was conquered by Zhao Meng last year! ”

Handan Ji saw that Fan Ji's analysis was straightforward, and his jaw head agreed.

"The Qi people have three places to attack, but if you and I cross the big river, stationed in Dunqiu and Wulu respectively, see the strategy and forget it, the weather is cold, and the siege does not know when it will end, so at that time, the Qi people will inevitably avoid the two places here, this is the first step."

"At the same time, we negotiated with the Wei army again and let them cross the river and return to Diqiu Puyang. If Wei Hou is able to escape, he will inevitably lead his army south to recover Punan, and then he can reach a situation with Qi Hou to flank Zhao Meng and Zhao Wuxian! This is the second step. ”

"Even if the Qi people let the wounded return first, they still have to leave troops to guard Yiyi to guard against the Zhongxing, and there can be 40,000 people. Coupled with 20,000 guards, attacking more than 10,000 soldiers of Zhao's father and son, it will be like slapping eggs with stones, when the Zhao family will be defeated and its strength will be greatly damaged, you can be freed from the shackles of the great sect, and I and Zhongxingbo can even help you replace Zhao Meng as Qing, why not? ”

……

In Qingqiuyi, north of Pushui, Zhao Wuxian swept the power of Punan, and then the next city!

Qingqiuyi is bordered by Cao's Taoyi in the west, Zhenyi in the northeast, and Qinyi, which is just connected to form a defensive diagonal line, protecting the newly captured Punan land behind and cutting off the passage of the defenders.

At this point, the Punan strategy was completed, the whole process lasted more than a month, more than 2,000 guards were killed and wounded before and after, more than 2,000 were captured, and only seven or eight hundred people were killed or wounded, and most of the casualties were still those cannon fodder thieves who had just been recruited.

There were cheers, but there was no joy on the face of Zhao Wuxian, the conqueror, because the messenger sent by Zhao Ying in the west and the arrival of the scouts sent by Zhang Mengtan in the north made his heart sink down.

"The bad news is one after another, after the Qi people conquered Yiyi, they had the ambition to go south to watch the troops in Xilu and Pushui. And the two armies of Fan and Handan, who were originally restraining the defenders, actually sat back and watched the Wei Hou calmly cross the river, and now the guards have crossed the river and are ready to return to Puyang and Chuqiu......" (to be continued......

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