Chapter 726: The Praying Mantis catches the cicada, and the yellow finch is behind
"Increase the offensive for the outnumbered, at all costs! Capture Jinyang City! ”
"No!"
Under Qingji's orders, the coalition forces intensified their offensive against Jinyang City.
This is not a conventional tactic of encircling three without one, but encircling on all sides.
Qingji really plans to eradicate Zhao Ying and his remnants in Jinyang City together!
"Kill!"
The soldiers of the coalition fought bloodily, climbed up the ladder to the top of the city, and after holding their spears, they engaged the enemy in hand-to-hand combat.
The coalition army is fierce, and the Zhao army's army is not vegetarian.
With red eyes, like mad beasts, they strangled the enemies who rushed up one by one and threw them down from the city.
Many of the coalition soldiers who were still climbing up the ladder were killed by random arrows, or were knocked down by boiling water, stones, rolling logs, and other lethal things, and fell into meat sauce.
This offensive and defensive battle, from the very beginning, seems to have entered a white-hot stage.
Due to the approaching winter, the weather in Jinyang is already cold and windy, and the biting frost makes everyone shiver.
Although the tragic fighting is in full swing, once injured, those who treat these soldiers will inevitably be disabled in the future......
This situation is especially serious for the soldiers of Wu from the south.
They are not well adapted to the climate of the Northlands.
Once it is winter, there is heavy snow in Jinyang, and the Wu army is afraid that there will be a situation of non-combat attrition.
All this made Qingji's mood quite heavy.
Jinyang City, without a doubt, is a northern heroic city with a murderous atmosphere.
Once upon a time there was a mountain, the mountain of hanging urns; Once upon a time there was a river, which was the Jinshui River.
Hanging urn mountain under the Jinshui side, there is a big city named Jinyang.
Historically, until Emperor Taizong of the Song Dynasty burned Jinyang in the fourth year of the Taiping Rejuvenation of the Kingdom, this city existed for more than 1,700 years.
It is prosperous in the soldiers, destroyed in the soldiers, different from other cities, all its life has the brand of drums and horns to compete for the flag hunting!
Jinyang City is located in the Fen River Valley, surrounded by mountains and rivers, rich in products, the city wall is towering, solid as gold, originally located in the north of the Jin Kingdom, Zhao with its internal control of Zhuqing, external control of Zhurong, laid the foundation of Zhao.
Previously, because of the civil war between the Zhao clan and the Handan clan, Zhao Ying was attacked by the Fan clan, the Zhongxing clan and the Handan clan, and had to retreat to Jinyang City, and finally resolved the crisis.
As a traverser, Qing Ji vaguely remembers that during the period of Zhao Wuxian, the heir of Zhao Ying, the Jin State broke out the Battle of Siqing.
The Zhao family retreated to Jinyang and was surrounded by the Zhi, Han, and Wei families for three years, and later, the Zhao family used a counter-strategy, but instead united the Han and Wei families to destroy the Zhi family.
After the Battle of Siqing, the three families of Han, Zhao and Wei completely controlled the Jin Kingdom, and in the following decades, the Jin Kingdom was divided among the princes - the Three Families.
This is a landmark event at the beginning of the Warring States Period in history, and Jinyang, when it was born, stood in a key position in history with a tenacious and majestic attitude!
Therefore, Jinyang City is not so easy to conquer.
With the food hoarded by the Zhao family in the city, I am afraid that it can support it for a year or two......
Can you afford to spend it?
Can't afford it!
Why did Qingji insist on fighting this battle?
Aside from Zhao Ying's henchman, Wu needs to establish Wu's hegemony in the Central Plains through this battle of Jinyang.
Unchallengeable hegemony!
By the way, we will really consume the national strength of the "Six Jins".
……
Just when the Battle of Jinyang was in full swing, Shi Yan, a retainer of the Zhao family who was far away in Linzi, was lobbying for the third time against Qi Hou.
Qi Hou was already annoyed, but Shi Dian was still "happy".
According to Zhao Ying's instructions, after Shi Dian entered Linzi, he immediately bribed Tian Qi, Guoxia, and Gao Zhang Sanqing with a lot of money, and got the opportunity to meet the Marquis of Qi.
It's just that Qi Hou is not interested in sending troops to attack Wu, or does he not dare at all?
Shi Dian didn't know, anyway, no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't persuade Qi Hou to send troops.
However, Shi Dian kept his mission in mind and never forgot the task given to him by Zhao Ying.
"Qi Hou!"
I saw Shi Dian still kneeling under the majestic platform, with tears in his eyes, and said silently: "As soon as the Jin Kingdom falls and the Zhao family is destroyed, then in the future, with the wolf ambition of Marquis Wu, the next step will definitely be to wave the army to destroy Qi, or even destroy Qi!" ”
"The State of Chu, the overlord of Chu in the past, has been eaten by the State of Wu! How is the State of Qi compared to the State of Chu? ”
"It's not as good as that!"
Shi Yin sighed and said: "If the Marquis of Qi does not take this as a warning, the ministers are really worried about the future of the Qi State. ”
"Since the succession of Marquis Wu Qingji, the state of Wu has become aggressive, destroying Chu and swallowing Yue, going north to chase deer, destroying the Jin State, and assembling the princes and the world."
"It's the former Duke of Qi Huan, Duke Wen of Jin, and Duke Chu Zhuangzi, and that's it!"
“……”
Qi Hou, who heard this, just squinted his eyes and lay lazily on his throne, without speaking, as if he didn't want to deal with Shi Dark.
Seeing this, Shi Dian was not discouraged, and after thinking for a while, he said: "Has Qi Hou ever seen three animals at the same time: cicadas, praying mantises and yellow finch? ”
Qi Hou finally changed to a comfortable position and lay down, supported his chin, and said with great interest: "Cicadas, praying mantis and yellow finches, the widow has naturally seen them. I just haven't seen ...... at the same time."
Qi Hou was already in his sixties and well-informed, how could he not have seen such an ordinary animal?
What kind of birds and animals are not in his garden?
He didn't know why Shi Yin would ask this question.
However, Qi Hou did come to be interested.
Shi Yan hurriedly said: "Marquis Qi, I wanted to shoot in my early years, and I had seen such a scene. ”
"There are trees in the garden, and there are cicadas on them, and the cicadas are high in sorrow and cry and drink dew, and I don't know that the praying mantis is behind them."
"The praying mantis is committed to bending and attaching itself, wanting to take the cicada, but not knowing that the yellow finch is beside it."
"The yellow finch stretches its neck, wanting to peck at the praying mantis, but does not know that the bow and arrow are under it."
"All three of them want to get the good of the past, regardless of the trouble that comes after!"
After a pause, Shi looked at Qi Hou meaningfully and said: "This so-called 'praying mantis catches cicadas, and yellow finches are behind'. ”
"Today, the Zhao family is a cicada, the Wu country is a praying mantis, why can't the Qi country be a yellow finch?"
"As for those who wield the bow, in the eyes of our ministers, there is none."
"Now those who can stir up the general trend of the world, except for the Wu country, should belong to the Qi country!"
Shi Dian said loudly: "Please Qi Hou Mingjian!" The main army of Wu is in the siege of Jinyang City, its domestic defense is empty, if Qi sends troops to attack Wu, it will be able to fight and smash Jinling, a great success! ”
"Jinling, is the land of heavy capital in the world, since Wu Hou Qingji succeeded to the throne, swallowed Chu and destroyed Yue, collected the treasures of the national treasury, and returned to the Jinling treasury, there are many of them, that is, the inner treasury of the Marquis of Qi, rare treasures, I am afraid that there are no more inner libraries of Wu Hou."
"If the Qi army breaks through Jinling City, those treasures will be yours of Qi."
"And the state of Wu, which has lost the capital of Jinling, will inevitably become the soul of the ownerless, why can't the Marquis of Qi replace the state of Wu and truly dominate the world?"