Gaotang is the western 10,000-household Dayi of the Qi State, the south of Yiyi and Liaocheng, which have been occupied by the Zhao army last year, and the land between the rivers of the Jin State in the west, which is the center of the Qi State in the Jibei region, and it is the old nest of the Chen family. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Fifty years ago, Qi Hou Jiujiu gave Chen Huan Zi Wuyu the city next to Judi because of Chen's expulsion of Qingfeng, and also expelled Luan and Gao Erqing for meritorious service. The scheming Chen Wuyu first pretended to say thank you, and then bought Mu Mengji, the mother of the Marquis of Qi, to ask for a better Tang Dynasty for him, and then the Chen family moved the head of the family here and began to "prosper".

In late May of the third year of Zhao Hou, more than 70,000 Zhao and Wei allied forces had besieged Gaotang City so much that they couldn't even escape from a mouse.

"Qi has been a big country since the time of Taigong, with a radius of two thousand miles, east to the sea, west to the river, south to Muling, north to Wudi, it can be said to be a place of four stops. However, if you want to talk about its physical victory, it is not as good as the dangers of the Qin State and the Zhou Dynasty; The territory is still not as vast as that of Chu and Wu. However, to become a patient of Zhao Guoda, there is no one more than Qi Guo! ”

Zhao Wuxian outlined the leader, first gave such a definition to Qi Guo, and then looked at the generals in the account to see what they had to say.

Cavalry general Yu Xi said: "Qi State to Zhao State, dog teeth are wrong, only a river apart, if Zhao State is strictly guarded, it is fine, but if the country is empty, Qi State sent an elite army to cross the river and break the river, and then enter Dongyang, within ten days, you can reach the periphery of Yecheng ......"

"That's right, so in the past ten years, the widows have sent troops to recruit Qin and Wu, and they must use the strength of Lu to contain Qi, but the strength of Qi has been restored under the rule of Chen, and we can't wait any longer.

But just as Li Shiqi said during the dispute between Chu and Han in later generations: Qi bears Haidai and blocks the river, although hundreds of thousands of divisions cannot be broken.

Although the Qi State has been weakened by the Zhao clan several times and has serious infighting, it still has more than two million mouths and tens of thousands of soldiers.

But in Zhao's view, this is not impossible.

"Although Qi is known as the four stops, but in fact, there are loopholes everywhere, the terrain of Haidai is shallow and narrow, although the west of Mount Tai, but there is still not enough lofty mountains and mountains to isolate the Central Plains, although the east is surrounded by the sea, the west is bordered by the river, but these are still not the weak water that can not be crossed three thousand. Hejian and Dongyang are choking, and Lu and Sishang are strong, and now the geographical advantages have been controlled by our army, why should Qi be afraid? ”

At present, the first thing the Zhao army has to conquer is the Gaotang Dynasty, which is the northern gateway of the Qi State, and also an important north-south confucius, located in the Central Plains Hengqu, which is the grain transshipment center for the Zhao army to enter the Qi State.

"Twice the attack, ten siege, the outnumbered commander 70,000 troops besieged Gaotang, the people in the city have all withdrawn to the east under the coercion of the Chen family, there are only less than 3,000 guards left in the city, attacking day and night, and it will be broken soon." The city wall of this era has not been able to hold on for several months in front of the siege equipment made by Lu Ban such as the "Shaoliang Cannon", and what Zhao Wuxian cares about is the plan behind it.

"The whole Jibei is flat and fertile, without the obstruction of the famous mountains of the Great River, while the foot soldiers are pausing in Gaotang, the cavalry has been killed hundreds of miles away in the surrounding area, eliminating the Qi people who may resist. As soon as the Tang Dynasty is broken, the Qi people will have no danger to defend north of Jishui. ”

Tracing back the history, Zhao Wuxian and his generals can find that from the Battle of Saddle to the Battle of Pingyin, the confrontation between the Jin State and the Qi State was always carried out in the south of Jishui, and the north of Jishui, the Qi State has never defended to the death.

Therefore, the only natural obstacle is still in the Jishui area, which is called the "Qing River".

Zhao Yi, who has been stationed in the defense of the country and is responsible for monitoring the state of Qi, also said: "The Chen clan of the state of Qi has only 50,000 available soldiers, and it seems that they know that they will lose the battle with the king in Jibei, and they have almost made a plan to retreat to the front line of Jishui from the beginning, Jishui is the pool, the Great Wall is the plug, and the Zhao country has no naval army, and it cannot be outflanked from the sea, and the Qi country seems to be safe for the time being." ”

Zhao Wuxian bowed his head, and the Chen family also sent envoys over, saying that they were willing to return Yiyi, and could even cede Jibei, where Gao Tang was located, in exchange for a peace treaty, but Zhao Wuxian did not let go at all about this enemy who had disgusted him for nearly twenty years, and he had a posture of destroying the Qi State, after all, the Xu and Si conquered the year before last were too vast and sparsely populated to attract military nobles to immigrate on a large scale. However, the state of Qi is close at hand, and the fertile land also makes the Zhao people salivate, and after more than a year of recuperation, the Zhao country urgently needs a new war to restart the machine of "military merit knighthood".

Throughout late May, the Zhao army, which had not moved for a long time, stormed Gaotang, and by early June, Gaotang had fallen.

In addition to Gao Tang, Yan Yi next to it has been instigated by Yan Yu, the exile doctor of Qi State, to raise troops to resist the Chen family and welcome the arrival of the Zhao army, while the rest of Maiqiu and Liqiu have cities, but they are not enough to stop the advance of the army, they are either captured, or Wangfeng surrenders, and the will of the Qi people to fight is completely incomparable with Qin and Wu.

At the same time, a large number of people who were accustomed to Chen's rule began to flee to Jinan out of panic, and although the cavalry of Zhao State intercepted some of them, most of them chose to continue to believe that Chen would protect them, which shows that Chen really hated people in Qi State.

Jinan, that is, the south of Jishui, here is now called "Lixia", geographically south of Mount Tai, north of the Bohai Sea, the benefit of fish and salt, located in the middle of the noon road, is really an elbow and armpit in the country of Qi. Once the history is saved, it will not be a big deal for the Qi State to be captured even if Jibei is captured, but if it is lost like the Battle of Saddle and the Battle of Pingyin, the Qi State will be in danger.

In short, if the Zhao army could not capture Jinan and Lixia, it would be impossible to attack Linzi, the capital of Qi, and the main force of Qi was 30,000 or 40,000 people, and they were also stationed in Lixia, Pingyin and other places to prevent the Zhao army from crossing the water to attack.

Therefore, next, the discussion of the generals of the Zhao army mainly focused on how to further attack Jinan after the capture of Jibei.

Zhao Wuxian had his own plans, and when he held a military meeting, he said: "The old rules, the truth is virtual, the virtual is real, the army rests for a few days and the soldiers come to the water and make a gesture of crossing the river, but on the other side, the widow still has a strange army......"

Wuxian pointed to the east of the map and said: "The direction of the first attack on Jinan should be on the front line of the Great Wall of Mount Tai!" ”

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"Good fellow, how long is this Great Wall?"

When stationed in the horse, Zhao Guangde, the prime minister of Zou State, looked at the Great Wall of Qi, sighed, because from his position, only to see that it was built in the undulating and continuous Taiyi Mountains, although there are flat valleys along the line, but most of them are mountains, or build rammed earth, or the Great Wall of bricks and stones is built according to the mountain, although its building is not tall, but it is connected together, like a stone snake along the mountain spiral and extend, it is indeed magnificent.

After the death of the Marquis of Qi fifteen years ago, the Chen family relied on the hearts of the people to seize power, because the Zhao family was busy returning to the country to end the civil war, they barely stabilized their position, but they were also afraid that the Zhao family would ease down and continue to attack, so Chen Qi Chen Heng and his son thought of an idea: they began to build the Great Wall on the Qilu border, and after more than ten years of operation, this had the "natural risk" in front of Zhao Guangde.

"Originally, the defense of the Qi country was intermittently hundreds of miles, and now the Chen family spent more than ten years to build this Great Wall of Qi, extending from the defense gate near Pingyin to the east, passing through the stone gate, Jiagu, Muling Pass, until the Jimo seashore, nearly a thousand miles from east to west."

The two white-eyed generals Tiger Club came from the rear, he used to be the guard of Zhao Ying's loyal ministers, and in the nearly 20 years under the command of Zhao Wuxian, he changed from a small pawn to Zuo Sima of the Mighty Lu State, exterminating the bandits and resisting the Qi State, all of which have his credit.

"How much does it cost to make the people's fat and people's anointing, and the blood and sweat of the people." Zhao Guangde couldn't help but be speechless.

Although it has been a hundred years since the death of Duke Huan of Qi, the State of Qi began to build the Great Wall on the southern border to prevent the attacks of Jin and Chu, and it has been a hundred years now, the Chen clan has only finally completed it. But such a huge project, Zhao Guangde asked himself that he could not do it, he controlled Sanyi for Zhao Wuxian, and implemented the same "car on the same track, book on the same text" policy in Zou State as Zhao and Lu, and also developed the economy, but with the population of 200,000 in Zoudi, it could not even be built for a hundred miles, which shows that Qi is a thin camel bigger than a horse, and the strength of the country is really terrifying.

However, the Tiger Club scoffed at the danger in front of him: "What's the use of spending so much effort and manpower? Zou Xiang, you should know that this Great Wall is actually empty! (To be continued.) )