Chapter 21: Breaking through Gaotang City
In Gaotang City, several generals wanted to open the city to save Qianfu, but Ji Cheng's father refused, and the Han army outside was eyeing it, and now the morale of the Qi army was low, and saving Qianfu was tantamount to opening the city and surrendering.
Wang Zijin met Qianfu in the Han camp and personally loosened his ties, and the favored Zhao Yuner stared nervously at the side, as if Qianfu had a slight change and fought for his life to protect the lord Quanquan. Qianfu didn't mean to surrender, but his tone was not so blunt.
So Wang Zijin had no choice but to order someone to take him down, and he served him with good food and drink.
Shi Jin, who had disappeared for more than a week at night, came back and told Wu Qi that the task was completed. Wu Qiqi nodded.
"Ladies and gentlemen, Gaotang City will be destroyed tonight, so it's better for the generals to come and compare who has captured more prisoners. Wu Qi smiled and looked at the generals in the tent.
Gao Chong, Zhao Yun, Liao Hua, and Mu Guiying all said that they were at a loss. "The last general doesn't understand, this Gaotang City has not been captured yet, how can he catch a prisoner?" because a few days ago, Wu Qi strictly ordered that he would not attack it. So there were still 100,000 soldiers and horses in the city. How could it be possible to storm the city in one night.
Then Wu Qi said that today Shi Jin is intercepting the river on the north side, and tonight the embankment will burst and flood Gaotang. He instructed the generals to evacuate the mountains on the west side, and the bamboo rafts and boats that had been built after the water flowed out to capture the prisoners.
When the generals learned of this, they prepared to take the army to the mountains at night. Then a signal was given to order the embankment to be dug up. In order to increase the impact of water, Wu Qi hoarded the river water for more than a week, and the water rushed to Gaotang City, and the powerful impact force directly broke through the city gate, and the torrent of water washed away the ranks of the Qi army, and the Qi army did not expect that Wu Qi would dare to break the embankment and flood the city regardless of the life and death of the people in the city.
For Wu Qi, who has mixed merits, some people attack him for his virtue, and some people praise his extraordinary ability, he never cares what the world thinks of him, he only cares about who can let him play his talents.
Ji Chengfu looked at the continuous flow of water in the city, the corners of his eyes were full of tears, he failed the trust of the King of Qi, and also underestimated Wu Qi's determination, and did not hesitate to bear the infamy for the sake of victory.
After dawn, Gaotang City was full of broken eaves and walls, and some Qi people climbed onto the roofs or floated with logs.
From time to time, corpses flowed by. The soldiers of the Han army rescued the people and captured the prisoners in the water. From time to time, there was a call for Mom, but there was no response for a long time, and a recruit named Ergouzi had some unbearable eyes in his eyes.
The veteran soldier next to him patted the new soldier on the shoulder, "This is war, either you die or I die, if you want to end this situation, you must complete the situation of the reunification of the lord and the father, and realize that every family lives and works in peace and contentment." The second dog wiped away the tears in his eyes and nodded.
After a day of search and rescue, a large number of civilians were rescued, 10,000 Qi army prisoners were captured, and the remaining 90,000 Qi soldiers were unknown whether they were alive or dead.
Wu Qi left Shi Jin to lead 10,000 soldiers to continue to salvage the corpses in the water. Centralized burial to avoid the occurrence of plague. Wu Qi ordered Zhao Yun to lead 30,000 Han troops to the west to capture Qi Hejian and other places, of which the garrison force was not much, Wu Qi continued to lead the remaining 70,000 to march to the east, the army covered the sky with a banner to try to threaten Linzi to let Qi divide the army, in fact, the division of troops to the west to take the plain, the past and other places, expand the results of the war.
After Le Yi confronted Tian Ji, a famous general of Qi for a week, Le Yi concentrated his forces on attacking Linzi, and after taking Linzi, he seized all the treasures and belongings of Qi and the sacrificial utensils of the temple and transported them to Yan State. King Yan Zhao was overjoyed, and personally rushed to the shore of Jishui to comfort the army, rewarded and rewarded the soldiers with wine and meat, and gave Changguo to Le Yi, with the title of Changguojun. When King Yan Zhao brought back the loot captured in Qi State, and let Le Yi continue to lead his troops to attack the cities of Qi that had not yet been taken.
Xiaobai, the prince of Qi, saw that the lonely city of Linzi was difficult to defend, so he led the civil and military forces to escape to Juyi and hold the city.
And Sima Sui Tho and Sun Bin led 150,000 troops to resist Sun Wu of Wu State. With the help of Sun Bin, the two parties hurt each other. In the end, Su Qin said that he moved Yun Chang, the king of Yue, and attacked Wu Guogu Su Cheng on his back. Wu Zixu led the soldiers in the city to resist. In order to avoid the loss of the national capital, the army of Wu withdrew.
Kuang Zhang was beheaded by Xiang Yu, his troops were killed 60,000, 40,000 were surrendered, and the rest of the troops held on to Taoyi City under the leadership of the deputy general Zhong Shou. Jiao, Suiyang and other places in the southern part of the Song State were occupied by the Chu State. In order to avoid another sneak attack by the state of Wu, the state of Chu occupied these places and did not continue to attack.
Of the four Qi troops, only Sima Sui Tho and Sun Bin confronted the Wu army all the way, and the other three roads were blown up one after another. The Yan army led by Le Yi defeated the 250,000 Qi army before and after. The defeated Tian Ji was nowhere to be found, and the Yan army continued to wave eastward. To conquer the Jimo City in the east.
Seeing that only Jimo and Ju were left in the territory of Qi, the children of the Tian family who retreated to Jimo, because he was a distant relative of the nobles of Qi State, and he was also surnamed Tian and had experience in managing the city, everyone elected him to be the leader and led everyone to stick to the city.
Tian Dan took this job hard, and he didn't know where to start. Because he had some simple experience in managing the market before, and his mind was relatively flexible, he quickly found a breakthrough.
First, psychological warfare was used to arouse the fighting spirit of the military and civilians in the city. Tian Dan found a nobody as a military advisor, but he claimed to be an immortal sent by God, and with his idea, the Yan army couldn't get in. He also took the opportunity to make the people sit outside the house when they ate, and the smell of the food attracted the magpie and other birds to hover in the air, and he had people spread the word that there was a man of God to guide him. Then he spread rumors that once the Yan army caught the Qi soldiers in the city, they would cut their noses, thus stimulating the fighting spirit of the soldiers and civilians in the city. It greatly strengthened the determination of the Qi army to defend the Yan army. There were all the people in the city, and the Yan army couldn't attack it for a long time. As a result, Le Yi besieged Jimo City in order to avoid unnecessary casualties.
The second is to use the discord meter to take Le Yi away first. Tian Dan knew that although Le Yi was valued by King Yan Zhao, he was at odds with his son, Prince Ji Hui. used the discord strategy to say that Le Yi supported the army and respected himself, deliberately besieged the two cities without fighting, and had the intention of rebellion, so as to achieve the goal of changing generals in battle.
King Yan Zhao was instigated by his son, saying that Le Yi attacked the Qi State like a split bamboo, but now he can't defeat Jucheng and Jimo, and he has selfish intentions to be the king of Qi. King Yan Zhao was very angry when he heard this, so he slapped the prince with 20 boards. But after all, it is his own flesh and blood, and King Yan Zhao still prefers his own family in his heart. So he took the opportunity of Le Yi returning to China to accept the reward, transferred Le Yi back, and commanded the army by the deputy general.
After learning that King Yan had transferred Le Yi away, Tian Dan decided to use a fraudulent surrender. Later, after angering the fighting spirit of the soldiers and civilians in the city, Tian Dan thought that it was time to open the city gate, so he let the old, weak, sick and disabled in the city stand guard on the city wall, and ambushed the elite armor soldiers in the city, and sent the general to lie about surrender, so as to relax the attention of the Yan army.