Qi is densely populated, the territory of the city is numerous, when Le Yi cut Qi under the seventy-two cities of Qi, Qi was preserved by defending Jimo and Yingcheng. When Xiang Yu attacked the Qi State, the two brothers Tian Rong and Tian Heng relied on the city to defend step by step, and let the 200,000 elites of the Chu army fall into the Qi land, which kept the Qi State.

Now Liu Bang is planning to follow Tian Heng's example, wanting to consume the Qin army's sharpness and energy with a long-lasting siege war of attrition.

Although the Qin army had more than 100,000 troops, most of them were recruited by Zhao Zucang to promote the army, and the real backbone and main force were only 50,000. Fortunately, the martial arts of Zhao Di prevailed, and the soldiers and people were proud of their swords, although it was a temporary army, but it also seemed to be the same, and what was lacking was only the run-in and fire.

After Han Xin invaded Qidi, the originally expected battle of the large army did not come as scheduled, and Liu Bang chose a path he least wanted to see - that is, to clear the wilderness, and wanted to drag down the Qin army through endless offensive and defensive attrition wars.

Because of the hurry to the south, most of the Qin troops went lightly when they drove from Zhaodi, and they did not carry a large amount of baggage, which also greatly reduced the Qin army's siege ability. After entering Qidi, Han Xin urgently ordered Li Zuoche, who stayed in Zhaodi, to hurry up and build siege equipment to transport to Qidi, and more than ten days later, the first batch of equipment had been transported to the front line.

After receiving supplies, Han Shin immediately ordered the siege of the city. The Qin army avoided the big cities such as Linzi and Boyang, and Han Xin's approach to these tall cities was to besiege but not attack, and to patrol outside with large groups of rangers to prevent the Han army from breaking through, while other foot soldiers carried siege equipment to storm all important places in the Qi state. The Han army was gradually divided into several large and small legions by the Qin army, the largest of which was naturally the 200,000 army led by Liu Bang to defend Linzi.

Linzi was formerly known as Yingqiu, and was renamed Linzi by Qi Xiangong because of the east of the Zi River. As the capital of Qi for more than 800 years, the Duke of Qi Huan was the first to dominate here in the Spring and Autumn Period, and after defeating the powerful Wei State in the early Warring States period, King Qi Wei also met the princes of the world here and established a short-lived hegemony.

As the capital of a big country, Linzi's style will naturally not lose to any city, and in its heyday, it was based on the city for hundreds of miles, and it was located in the land of Qilu. Although Linzi is a city, there are more than 10 fortresses and camps of all sizes around it, and Linzi is guarded by various arches. If there are 200,000 soldiers, according to this Xiongcheng, it should be impregnable.

It's just that after the unification of the Qin State, in order to prevent people from occupying Qi and causing chaos, most of the castle camps outside Linzi were destroyed. Xiang Yu once captured Linzi when he entered Qi, which also caused great damage to the city defense, and although Liu Bang rebuilt it, it was no longer majestic. Even so, Linzi is one of the few fortified cities in the world.

Therefore, Han Xin did not choose to storm Linzi, but bypassed it and continued to attack other cities. At first, the Han army often sent people out to attack the flanks of the Qin army, because of the lack of cavalry, the foot soldiers went out of the city to attack and harass the Qin army, and they often had no time to withdraw to the city gate and were already followed by the Qin cavalry to bite the tail. After three times and two times, the Han army in the city also suffered heavy losses, so they had to give up this idea, just stick to the city, and no longer fight easily. On the other hand, the Qin army also only besieged but did not attack because of the lack of troops. Han Xin was not in a hurry, but just told his subordinates to be careful and waited for an opportunity to find a fighter.

In Linzi City, Liu Bang is not as calm as Han Xin, and his mood at this moment can only be described as anxious. Qi Di is fighting like this now, and he really can't calm down.

After listening to Chen Pingjian's advice and Qingye, the situation really improved greatly, probably because of the lack of food and grass, the Qin army did not launch a huge siege war, but interspersed with Qi to seek a breakthrough, cutting the Han army into pieces. Although there were constantly spies reporting that the grain and grass of the Qin army had indeed been in supply difficulties, the grain trucks transported from Hebei became fewer and fewer, and finally the supply was basically cut off. In comparison, the situation of the Han army was much better, although it was besieged in the city, it did not have to worry about the supply of grain and grass for the time being.

But time passed day by day, but the Qin army did not withdraw as expected, Liu Bang's patience was exhausted little by little, and his temper became more and more irritable. He had to climb the top of the city every day and tiptoe into the distance, hoping that when he climbed the head of the city one day, he would be pleasantly surprised to find that the Qin army had suddenly withdrawn overnight. At this time, he no longer cared about any ambition to win the world, but just wanted to survive.

It's a pity that the Qin army did not retreat as early as he expected, but patiently camped under Linzi City to confront each other, and the Han army did not attack the city without leaving the city, but just watched each other and watched each other.

Above the city, Liu Bang could no longer hold back the mania in his heart, and pointed to the Qin army camp in the distance and scolded. Liu Bang seemed to want to vent all the hatred that had been in his heart for many years, and the more he scolded, the more ugly he became, and his voice became louder and louder. Even the Qin military camp in the distance was alarmed, and the Qin soldiers came out of the camp one after another to watch the excitement from afar.

The Han soldiers beside Liu Bang were shocked and speechless, in their hearts, the "king" was high in the title, solemn and dangerous, how could they, the hillbillies, ever seen a prince and king scold like a shrew in the city, which opened their eyes.

And Xiao He and Chen Ping, who were behind Liu Bang, stood behind them with embarrassed faces, and they had no choice but to stand silently behind Liu Bang without saying a word. Liu Bang didn't stop until he scolded and his mouth was dry. glared at Chen Ping, who didn't know what he was thinking with his head down, and said angrily; "Chen Ping, didn't you say that the Qin army would run out of food and retreat, why did I wait for sixteen days, but the Qin army did not show the slightest sign of retreating, how do you explain."

Chen Ping smiled bitterly and arched his hand, saying; "King Han, I'm just a rough guess, I'm not a living immortal, how do I know how long the grain and grass of the Qin army can last. But it should be soon, so King Han, please be impatient, wait patiently, and wait for changes. ”

Liu Bang muttered in his mouth; "Sit and wait for change, sit and wait for change......" couldn't help but smile, and said with a somewhat bitter face; It's just that I don't know if this 'change' is a good change or a bad change, and I don't know if I'm going to run it from time to time or if it's going to be completely finished. ”

Xiao He sighed secretly in his heart, he had already heard the deep worry in Liu Bang's expression. It made him feel extremely uncomfortable. Because Liu Bang will never be defeated and defeated, although he seems to be weak, in fact, the tenacity in his bones is more than anyone else, even when everyone should be desperate, he will be full of confidence. His heart is so strong that any failure will hardly destroy his ambitions.

But this time, he was scared, afraid, because he had no way to retreat, there was no way out, only to fight to the end.

Looking at Liu Bang's somewhat lonely figure on the city wall, Xiao He couldn't help but take a few steps forward, gently pressed his shoulder and said; "King Han, you don't have to worry too much. It is up to people to make things happen, we have already done what we should do, and the rest of the results can only depend on the will of God. ”

Liu Bang shook his head and said; "You don't need to comfort me, and I don't need to comfort me. I, Liu Bang, have never been a person who believes in fate, if I believe in fate, I will not risk the danger of raiding my family and exterminating my clan to start an incident against Qin; If I believe in my fate, I will be content to be a small official in Pei County for the rest of my life, and I will drink wine and delay meat with my brothers every day, which will be fast. He Han Xin is done, or he is suspended, what does it have to do with me? Why should I suffer from this bird's anger? ”

"Since there is an incident, we must think about achieving great things, instead of being like Zhao Xie Tianrong, who is a short-sighted guy who only thinks about being self-reliant and waiting to die! What kind of person is I, Liu Bang, that is a person with great ambitions, and his mind is comparable to these guys, even that Xiang Yu I don't care about! What else will he do besides fighting, you see this great country, he has made a black miasma. If I could sit on his throne, I would have pacified the world and ascended the throne as emperor, then what else would be the other princes. ”

Speaking of this, Liu Bang's face couldn't help but be full of spirits, and the original haze was swept away. "If it weren't for the sudden killing of this Han Xin, it would be unknown who would have killed the deer in this world. Xiang Yu is just a reckless man, even if he wins a hundred times on the battlefield, he only needs to lose once, and it will be enough to be fatal. ”

Xiao He was indeed silent, just lowered his head, he knew that what Liu Bang said was the truth, Liu Bang could have achieved a great feat from the past to the present, and he, Xiao He, could also single-handedly create an ancient emperor, a great empire that replaced the tyrannical Qin! As Liu Bang said, although Xiang Yu is very strong, his bravery and use of soldiers are unmatched in the world, but his shortcomings are also so obvious. For the heroes who are competing in the world, this shortcoming is enough to be fatal.

Therefore, Xiao He had no doubt that Liu Bang would be able to defeat Xiang Yu in the end, but unfortunately all this was based on the real destruction of the Qin State. Now the newly born Qin State is like a phoenix nirvana, radiating amazing combat power, and once again sweeping the world with the momentum of its annexation of Liuhe. Now it is he Liu Bang who bears the brunt of it.

The three of them stood at the head of the city, Liu Bang stood in front of him, Xiao He and Chen Ping followed closely behind, and they no longer spoke, but they were thinking about their own thoughts.

Soon this silence was interrupted by the sound of hurried footsteps on the city tower, and a Han sergeant panted and trotted all the way up the city wall, and saw a large number of Liu Bang and the three of them hurriedly running over, kneeling down and holding up a roll of bamboo slips.

"Report to the king, Jiaodong is urgent."

Liu Bang's heart sank, if this battle report was from the front line, it would be natural, but it came from his own rear Jiaodong County. What that meant, he knew very well.

Almost trembling hands took the military report, slowly opened it and looked at it, and suddenly his face was like ashes. was silent for a long time before turning his head to look at Xiao He's word-by-word spit; "Cao Shen went."