Chapter 313: Breaking the Qi Army

Le Yiming repaired the plank road, secretly transported 5,000 elite Yan troops out of the city, and launched a surprise attack at night, burning the grain and grass of the Qi army and reducing the morale of the enemy.

Subsequently, Le Yi mobilized the main force of the Yan army, went out of the city in one go, and fought with the Qi army whose morale had dropped at night.

In this battle, the 400,000 Qi troops on the northern front were nearly 100,000 short, while the Yan army still had 400,000 people, especially the enemy was the quasi-S-level famous general Le Yi who pushed the Qi State to the edge of the cliff in history, and the battle situation on the northern front of the Qi State fell into a crisis.

In desperation, Qi Huan Gong had to divide his troops into two routes, all the way with Meng Weijun Tianwen as the main general, leading 20,000 Praetorian Guards, 50,000 Qi troops, 100,000 volunteers, a total of 170,000 people rushed to the southern front battlefield to rescue the besieged Jumo City. On the other hand, it was personally commanded by the Duke of Qi Huan, who led 30,000 Praetorian Guards, 50,000 Qi troops, and 100,000 volunteers, a total of 180,000 people rushed to the battlefield on the northern front, and fought a decisive battle with Le Yi, who also drove the expedition and broke out with the strength of a quasi-S-level famous general.

Jumo City, which had been besieged for several days, had already set up a series of extremely lethal traps outside the city, in order to prevent Tian Ji and Sun Bin from leading 100,000 Qi troops to break out of the city and join the 170,000 Qi troops led by Meng Weijun.

At the same time, learning from the experience and lessons of Le Yi's defeat of the Qi army, Qin Wu used 100,000 troops to carpet check the possible secret passages outside Jumo City, and sealed all the secret passages that might be used to secretly transport soldiers out of the city.

In this way, Jumo City has truly become a besieged city.

Meng Weijun brought 170,000 Qi troops, although in terms of quantity, the Qi army overwhelmed the Wuchu coalition army, but in terms of quality, it was the Wuchu coalition army that had the absolute upper hand.

When Meng Weijun rushed over with 170,000 Qi troops, Qin Wu immediately gave up besieging Jumo City, leaving Xiang Yu and Feng Qujian to lead 50,000 Wu troops to defend Xinjicheng, which had been captured not long ago, while Qin Wu and Xiong Fang led 230,000 Wuchu coalition troops.

At the same time, Xiang Yan, Xiang Liang, Zhao Ji, Xi Qishu, Feng Zai, Yu Sue and other generals of the Wu army, as well as Gu Yang, Ying Qi, sharpshooter Yang Youji, Lebo and other Chu army generals, also went to war with the army.

In the face of the fierce attack of the Wuchu coalition army, the Qi army, which was marching in a hurry, immediately fell into disadvantage.

Although the Qi army had 170,000 people, 100,000 of them were only volunteers. The so-called Volunteer Army is a good name for the militia, with poor weapons and equipment, low combat effectiveness, few participation in fierce battles, extremely lack of combat experience, and when encountering inferior situations, it is quite easy to collapse and form a rout.

The generals and the army have fallen into an absolute disadvantage, how can the Qi army be invincible?

And the 100,000 Qi army, which finally got rid of the siege, heard that Meng Weijun was attacked, and immediately left 10,000 people to defend the city, so he led an army of 90,000 to kill it.

However, when Xiang Yu and Feng Quji were sitting in Xinjicheng, Sun Bin and Tian Ji did not dare to rush over, so as not to be attacked from both sides by the Wuchu coalition army and the defenders of Xinjicheng.

If you stop to confront the defenders of Xinjicheng, you may watch the 170,000 Qi army led by Meng Weijun be wiped out under the onslaught of the Wuchu coalition army.

At the critical moment, Sun Bin decisively made a decision to implement the strategy of encircling Wei to save Zhao, leading 100,000 Qi troops to attack the empty Wuguo, in an attempt to force Qin Wu to come to the rescue.

got the news that Tian Ji and Sun Bin were attacking Wuguo, but Qin Wu was not timid at all. This time he came out with 150,000 Wu troops to attack Qi State, but Qin Wu left 100,000 defenders in Wu Country, plus Mo Zhai and Gengzhu were in charge, in a short period of time, Qin Wu was not worried that Sun Bin would be able to capture Wu State.

When the strategy to save Zhao from Wei failed, the 170,000 Qi army led by Meng Weijun suddenly fell into a more difficult situation.

After only holding out for ten days, the 170,000 Qi army was defeated on all fronts, and its main general, Meng Weijun Tianwen, was captured by Qin Wusheng.

After Tian Wen was captured, there was not much suspense in the battle, 80,000 of the 170,000 Qi troops were killed, 50,000 surrendered, and the remaining 40,000 fled in all directions, nowhere to be found. And the Wuchu coalition army, which had a hard fight with the enemy, also paid 30,000 casualties.

So far, there are still 200,000 left of the 250,000 Wuchu coalition troops at the time of the expedition, but they have created a glorious record of defeating more than 300,000 Qi troops.

Meng Weijun was defeated, and the 170,000 Qi army was annihilated, and the Qi country immediately shook like the sky and the earth cracked.

The strength of the entire Qi State was no longer enough to resist the attack of the combined forces of Yan, Wu, and Chu.

After understanding this, the Duke of Qi Huan soon lost his fighting spirit, and thought that the Zhou Dynasty would issue a request for King Wu of Zhou to mediate the battle, and the Qi State was willing to cede land and pay compensation. On the other side, Duke Qi Huan also sent a request for peace from Yan, Wu, and Chu, wanting to end the battle.

In addition, Duke Huan of Qi once again sent a request for help to the four kingdoms of Qin, Wei, Zhao, and Wei.

If the Qi country is really destroyed, then you will add another powerful enemy in the east, and once the other party recovers, you may face the fate of being destroyed like the Qi country.

Faced with Qi State's second request for help, Qin State refused without hesitation. The state of Wu and the state of Qin are far apart, and even if the state of Wu becomes stronger, it is extremely difficult to threaten the state of Qin.

Feeling the greatest threat, it was the Wei State, which was close to Wu and Chu. King Wen of Wei wanted to keep the state of Qi and stay to contain the state of Wu and Chu, but he also did not want to offend Qin Wu and the king of Chu Zhuang, so he left a handle, and was later attacked by the two countries in retaliation.

As a result, King Wen of Wei also sent an application for mediation to the Zhou Dynasty, and at the same time sent a suggestion to Qin Wu and King Chu Zhuang, meaning that the Qi State is not obedient, and the two eldest brothers will teach a lesson, and if they want the Qi State to pay some medical expenses and mental damages, forget it, and don't rush to kill them all.

Zhao was also worried that after the fall of Qi, Yan and Wu would turn the spearhead against themselves in the future, but because they needed to concentrate their forces to resist the attack of Zhongshan State, and at the same time they were also worried about the retaliation of Chu and Wu, King Wuling of Zhao also did not dare to send troops, so he did the same thing as King Wen of Wei.

At the same time, facing the critical moment of the country's ruin, not only the Duke of Qi Huan, but also the officials and wealthy businessmen in the Qi State stood up together, raised troops, collected weapons, equipment, grain and grass, used their connections, and called on the relatives and friends of the vassal states to agitate military support.

But the voices of so many people can't affect the hearts of the kings of the vassal states.

In national politics, at the critical moment, it is still necessary to compare whose fists are harder, and the hard one has the right to speak.

(To be continued)