In mid-September, after Zan Shou and Zhong You led the Qianzhong army to capture Weicheng next to Weishan Lake, Yan Yue also successfully captured Fuyang, and when Zan Shou and Zhong You led the Qianzhong army to Pengcheng, Bai Yan handed over Pengcheng to the two, and he immediately led the remaining iron cavalry soldiers from Pengcheng to Qufu.

If you look at it from the map, at this moment, under the territory of Wei, from Qianzhong County, to Nanjun, Nanyang County, Yingchuan County, and then to Wei, almost the roads leading to the Central Plains in the west and north of Chu are already the territory of Qin, and in Jiao County, south of Wei, Wang Ben led more than 100,000 Qin troops, eyeing Chu.

Now, Bai Yan has captured Pengcheng and Fu Yang in the west of Chu State, not only going deep into the west of Chu State, but also attacking more than ten cities such as Qufu in the northward direction.

Once the state of Chu loses the more than ten cities of Qufu and all the territories from Mengshan to Wei, the state of Chu will no longer have a road to the state of Qi.

Knock, knock, knock~!

Outside Qufu City, drums sounded, countless soldiers wearing Wei State clothes and armor, holding Qin flags, listed a phalanx outside Qufu City, each phalanx of 5,000 people, and at a glance, the number of phalanxes was at least more than ten, and the dense sea of people was dazzling.

The soldiers of the Wei State held the black flag of Qin, which was a little funny to say, but for the Chu army in Qufu City, it was not funny at all.

On the smoky city, the soldiers of the Chu State who came and went kept holding weapons, stones, and giant trees, and smashed them towards the Wei soldiers who were attacking the city, and the crossbowmen also kept pulling arrows to shoot those Wei soldiers.

However, in the city road, under the feet of these Chu pawns, at a glance, there are all the corpses of Chu pawns and Wei pawns, the miscellaneous weapons, arrows, and blood all over the ground, you can see the cruelty of this war.

In the sound of slaughter, screams were heard from time to time all around.

"General, there are too many people in the Qin army, and if there are no reinforcements, the soldiers will be unable to hold on!"

A general of the Chu State with a bloody face, looking outside the city, the sea of Qin soldiers in the distance, and a phalanx of soldiers attacking the city, turned around with a panicked face, came to the Chu general Jing Fang and said.

"I must guard it, Qufu cannot afford to lose!"

Chu Jiangjing, who was in his fifties, looked out of the city with a face full of vicissitudes and gloomy eyes.

How could Jing Fang not know how dangerous the current situation is, but the location of Qufu is too important, directly leading to the Yang Pass of Qi State, and Wei Di to the west, which can threaten Taoyi at any time.

Jing Fang is a veteran of the Chu State, and he should understand what it means for the Chu State to lose the Qu testicle.

"General, there is no Qin army outside the eastern city, we will defend it to the death, and order someone to escort the general......"

Xiao Jiliang wanted to say something, but before he finished speaking, the next moment he saw Jing Fang staring at him angrily.

"If you dare to abandon the city again, I will kill it!"

Jing Bian's face was full of anger, and he said sharply.

This appearance made Xiao Jiliang helpless, lowered his head, and did not dare to mention the matter of leaving from the east again.

Jing Fang thought that Xiao Jiliang was a trusted general cultivated by himself, and Xiao Jiliang was also thinking about his safety, and after calming down his anger, he looked up at the outside of the city and commanded Xiao Jiliang.

"Tell the soldiers that as long as they hold on, there will be reinforcements soon!"

After Jing Fang finished speaking, although his eyes were worried, his eyes were extremely firm.

"No!"

Xiao Jiliang heard the words of the general Jing Bian, his eyes were not the slightest excited, but a little gloomy, as Jing Bian's cronies, how could Xiao Jiliang not know that from the beginning, their plan was that once the Qin army attacked Qufu after destroying Wei, the 30,000 defenders in their city were responsible for dragging the offensive of the Qin general Bai Yan and making the Qin soldiers tired.

When the time comes, the Chu army in other places will encircle the Qin army.

However, at the moment, the Qin army outside the city is not the real Qin army at all, and Bai Yan and the elite of the Qin army under his command have not appeared at all.

Xiao Jiliang knew that even if there were reinforcements who wanted to rescue Qufu, they would be blocked by the elite of the Qin army led by Bai Yan.

"General, general, General Nongyue of Beicheng, has ordered someone to take away the last batch of arrows in the treasury, and the arrows in the city are about to run out!"

Suddenly, a Chu pawn hurriedly came to Jing Fang to report.

Although Jing Fang's expression was well hidden, looking outside the city, he still had a momentary panic when he learned that the arrows had been consumed.

Xiao Jiliang, who was about to leave, heard the soldier's report, and his cheeks under the blood stains became more and more pale, but he still turned around to boost morale.

Outside the city of Qufu.

In the army of Qin, Hewlett-Packard rode a war horse, as the general of the army, Hewlett-Packard looked at the Chu army at the head of Qufu City, and frowned.

When a soldier came to report something, HP looked surprised, then asked the lieutenant to guard here, turned around and rode towards the rear of the army.

A moment later.

In the Qin army camp, in the empty camp, there were few Qin pawns, and only occasionally some patrolling and guarding Qin pawns were on the periphery of the camp.

HP hurried to the camp with his cronies, and as soon as he entered, he saw that Bai Yan was already in the tent, and in addition to the yak, there was also a man in cloth beside him.

"General!"

HP came to Bai Yan to salute, and looked at Bai Yan looking at the map all the time.

"No need to be polite!"

When Bai Yan saw HP coming back, he looked up at HP, and after returning the salute, he asked HP to explain the situation on the battlefield during this period of time.

"According to the general's instructions, the last general divided all the large armies into three routes, from the west, the north, and the south, and attacked the city......"

HP said to Bai Yan, and told all the matters related to the siege of the city during this period of time, and in the end, HP was a little ashamed, he had 150,000 Wei troops, but he did not capture Qufu for a long time.

He and Xiao He listened to HP's words, and then looked at Bai Yan.

"Don't worry, you've done a good job right now!"

Bai Yan looked at the map and said, 150,000 miscellaneous soldiers attacked Qufu, they couldn't attack for a long time, the morale was still there, HP had done a very good job, at least when Bai Yan handed over this matter to HP, he didn't expect HP to make a 150,000 miscellaneous army so stable.

"General, the last general predicts that in some time, the Chu army will definitely collapse without a fight!"

HP said to Bai Yan, from beginning to end, he did not arrange soldiers and horses outside the eastern city, and all the Chu scouts in the city, as well as the Chu army scouting out of the city, HP ignored them, and even deliberately let those people know that in the east, there was no Qin army ambush.

In order to do what Bai Yan expected at the beginning, the Chu army was in chaos from within, and collapsed without a fight, thus abandoning the city.

"If the Chu army breaks and flees, remember that after the Chu army leaves the city, it must not be allowed to go south, and all the Chu troops will be driven to Qidi."

Bai Yan commanded.

Hearing Bai Yan's words, HP was a little surprised, and even Xiao He couldn't understand it.

"General, the State of Qi does not dare to attack our Qin State now, so at present, there is not much threat to the border of the State of Qi, if the Chu army is allowed to go to Qi, I am afraid that the Qi army will not easily hand over the Chu army, and the Chu army may go south at any time, I am afraid that it will be disadvantageous to our Qin army."

HP thought about it, but still said.

Xiao He also nodded, looking at the map, once the Chu army went to Qi, even if Bai Yan was the general of the Qin State and asked the Qi State to hand over people, I am afraid it would not work, and if the King of Qin was asked to open his mouth and let the King of Qi hand over people, it would take time to go to Xianyang alone, not to mention that he would have to discuss in the palace, select the envoys, and then let the envoys go to the Qi State.

I am afraid that there will inevitably be changes in the time it takes to go back and forth, and during the Qin army, it will also suffer from the enemy.

This is a big no-no!

"It doesn't matter! Just do what you are told! ”

In the face of HP's doubts, Bai Yan didn't explain too much, but just told HP to remember that the Chu army could rush to Qidi immediately when it left the city, and there was no need to fight to the death with the Chu army.

"Put some more pressure on the Chu army!"

Bai Yan looked up at HP and said.

"No!"

HP heard Bai Yan's order, nodded, arched his hand, and then hurriedly turned around and left.

Bai Yan looked at the map, when his eyes saw Yangguan.

"Calculate the time, Tian Ding should have returned to Yangguan at this time!"

Bai Yan opened his mouth and said.

"If there is no accident, it has arrived at Yangguan."

Xiao He heard Bai Yan's words, nodded, and looked at Bai Yan with some curiosity.

Bai Yan raised his head and saw Xiao He's gaze, as if he had guessed what Xiao He was thinking.

"At most, in two days, the Chu army in the city will abandon the city and leave, and without HP, the Chu army will also go to Qidi, and the Qi army in Qi will definitely let the Chu army enter Qi."

Bai Yan said.

"It's Tian Ding!"

Xiao He frowned slightly when he heard Bai Yan's words, and after thinking about it, he thought of what Bai Yan said before, and immediately thought of Tian Ding, Bai Yan meant that Tian Ding would definitely send someone to Qufu to let the Chu army go out of the city and go to Qidi.

"It's not just Tian Ding!"

Xiao He shook his head slightly, suddenly came to his senses, and immediately knew what Bai Yan meant.

Now all the roads to the south are already heavily guarded, and the state of Chu is unable to rescue Qufu.

Xiao He suddenly thought of the previous fake tripod, Xun Shuo said that the fake tripod was inseparable from the state of Chu.

"General, there is a person outside the camp who calls himself Banding, asking to see the general!"

A soldier came to the camp at this time and reported to Bai Yanyu.

When Bai Yan heard this, he was a little surprised, he didn't expect Ban Ding, who had disappeared for so long, to come here at this time.

"Bring it in!"

Bai Yan said.

A moment later, under the leadership of the soldiers, Ban Ding came to the camp tent, and when he saw Bai Yan, Ban Ding saw that Bai Yan's face was not very good, and immediately laughed quickly.

"Banding, meet the general!"

Ban Ding saluted Bai Yan.

"How did you know I was here?"

Bai Yan looked at Ban Ding and asked curiously, knowing that he had just come to Qufu City, Ban Ding immediately came to ask for a meeting.

"It's all because ......the general ordered people to sneak into the city, and I immediately guessed that the general would definitely come to Qufu soon, so I have been waiting."

When Ban Ding said this, he glanced at Xiao He, because he didn't know if Xiao He was a credible person, so he didn't tell Chu Jiang Nongyue.

Looking at the quiet Bai Yan, Ban Ding was also a little worried that Bai Yan would be disappointed in him, so he looked at Bai Yan with an inquiring gaze, and then looked at Xiao He.

"This is Xiao He, credible!"

Bai Yan naturally understood what Ban Ding meant, and said softly.

"Xiao He!"

At this time, Xiao He bowed to Ban Ding.

"Banding!"

Ban Ding hurriedly returned the salute.

After the ceremony, after knowing that this Xiao He was credible, Ban Ding no longer concealed it, and told Bai Yan all the people who had rebelled during this period of time, and also told Bai Yan that he really did not slack off during this time.

"What?"

Xiao He listened to Ban Ding's words, and the whole person was extremely shocked, and at this time, Xiao He Fang knew how much Bai Yan had made preparations for attacking the Chu State in private and how many people he had bought.

Under Xiao He's gaze, Ban Ding also explained to Bai Yan why he had not contacted Bai Yan for a long time, and the matter had to start from receiving the news from Shouchun's eyeliner.

At that time, Ban Ding learned that Xiang and Jing Qi seemed to be plotting something important, and he was worried, so he went to investigate.

However, because Xiang and Jing Qi do not seem to be the masterminds, they are both correspondence, and few people know about them, so they are very secretive, and Ban Ding has never been able to investigate, but only slightly understands that Xiang secretly seems to have been looking for something to make people.

Until......

It is rumored that someone in Surabaya saw Jiuding.

Speaking of this, Ban Ding looked at Bai Yan and raised his hand.

"General, there is a sentence that I don't know if Ban Ding should say it bluntly, that Jiuding is likely to be fake!"

Ban Ding said to Bai Yan, his tone was full of entanglement, apprehension, and uneasiness.

At this time, Ban Ding didn't know if Bai Yan would believe this speculation, after all, Ban Ding had also doubted that Chu Jiang Huang Ye was acting, and deliberately gave Peng Cheng to Bai Yan, so that Bai Yan could find the fake Jiuding.

However, Ban Ding later specially ordered someone to investigate, but found that Huang Ye was not cheating, but really angry, that is to say, Peng Cheng was not abandoned by Huang Ye on his own initiative, but was actually taken by Bai Yan.

This made Ban Ding worry whether Bai Yan would believe this matter, after all, this was just speculation, there was no evidence, and Bai Yan personally took Peng Cheng from Huang Ye, and there was no fraud in this matter.

Inside the tent.

Xiao He heard Ban Ding's story, and it took a long time to come back to his senses, but when he heard Ban Ding mention the matter of Jiuding later, Xiao He, like Ban Ding, looked at Ban Ding with a strange face.

Bai Yan on the side, at this time, finally knew why it had been so long, and there was no news from Ban Ding.

"General, it's still too late to stop Jiuding at this time."

Ban Ding suggested to Bai Yan, although Ban Ding also understood that Bai Yan might have been tricked now, but at least he could save it in time, if he was really sent to Xianyang one day, it would really be a fake ding, and it would be too late by then.

"Don't worry about this, let's talk about Nongyue first!"

Bai Yan asked Ban Ding not to care about Jiuding's affairs, but first told the matter of Nong Yue, the general of the Chu army in the city, in detail.

"This ......"

Ban Ding looked at Bai Yan really didn't believe Jiuding, it was a fake Ding, and his face suddenly showed a very worried look, but looking at Bai Yan's determined appearance, Ban Ding also knew that it was useless to say more.

Sigh.

At the moment, Ban Ding can only hope that after the incident, Bai Yan can still have a way to remedy.

………………

Xianyang, Qin State.

At dusk, in the Xianyang Palace, Ying Zheng was in the study, as in the past, dealing with one thing after another, and reviewing the bamboo slips weighing two stones every day was something that Ying Zheng couldn't do.

"Your Majesty!"

A light and pleasant voice sounded slowly, and then Ying Zheng saw that Concubine Qi took the maid and brought cold juice to the wooden table.

Watching Concubine Qi gently bring the juice to the wooden table from the wooden plate in the maid's hand, and then Concubine Qi asked the maid to bring another bowl to Meng Yi on the side, Ying Zheng didn't mind.

"Your Majesty, this is the concoction of the concubine body of the Shang Shi Ling, and please taste it!"

Concubine Qi looked timid, but she looked at Yingzheng with a flattering face.

Seeing this, Ying Zheng thought about it, did not refuse Concubine Qi's kindness, and also took the opportunity to ask Concubine Qi how much ice was left.

Not only the Qin State, since ancient times, there has been the habit of storing ice in winter and eating in summer, and the Zhou royal family has a position of Ling Ren, specializing in managing ice cubes, and the king will also save the ice when it is hot, and give it to the doctor to eat, this habit has been passed down by the countries.

"During this period of time, I learned that Bai Yan was from Qi, and my concubine's face was much better!"

Ying Zheng took a sip of juice, looked at Concubine Qi and said.

Concubine Qi's careful thinking about Yingzheng didn't know that a long time ago, Concubine Qi had been looming since she chose Zhan Lu, and she was quite close to Bai Yan, and now she learned that Bai Yan was from Qi, and like Concubine Qi, she was also from Qi country, and Concubine Qi naturally couldn't help but be overjoyed.

"Please don't laugh at the concubine!"

Concubine Qi said softly.

"At the beginning, Concubine Ai was a household name in Qi Kingdom, and Bai Yan must have heard of the name of Concubine Ai."

Ying Zheng looked at Concubine Qi and couldn't help laughing and said, maybe it was the destruction of the Wei State, or maybe it was the news of Jiuding, which made it difficult for Ying Zheng to be heavy and tired during this period of time.

Even now, occasionally, he will tease Concubine Qi.

"I didn't know that the concubine had never known before, and when I saw General Bai Yan so many times, the concubine thought that General Bai Yan was a disciple of the Bai family!"

When Concubine Qi heard Ying Zheng's words, her delicate and beautiful face was a little shy and helpless, thinking that she had been in this study before, and had seen Bai Yan so many times, she didn't know that Bai Yan was a Qi person, and her mother country was the same as her.

"It's not right to be outnumbered! In the future, what the concubine wants to know, everyone will know. ”

Ying Zheng saw Concubine Qi's gaze, thought of Bai Yan, and thought of Bai Yan's identity as a Qi person, Ying Zheng, who already loved Concubine Qi, naturally loved it even more now.

"Then can the king inform the concubine about General Bai Yan, but the concubine will not know what to say with General Bai Yan in the future, the concubine is far away from the Qi country, and now she has met General Bai Yan......"

When Concubine Qi said this, her eyes were a little red, as if she was homesick.

Seeing this, Ying Zheng looked at Concubine Qi for a while, and saw Concubine Qi bowing her head, Ying Zheng also knew that now everyone is paying attention to Bai Yan is Qi people's affairs, if you tell Concubine Qi now, don't say whether Concubine Qi will say it, even Meng Yi, as well as those maids and eunuchs, may accidentally leak secrets in the future.

But for now, Ying Zheng is still willing to tell Concubine Qi something.

"Concubine Qi knows that Bai Yan was once driven out of Qi by Tian Ding!"

Ying Zheng said.

One sentence directly made Concubine Qi suddenly raise her head, and looked at Ying Zheng in disbelief, as if she wondered if she had heard it wrong.

"Your Majesty, Lord Tian Ding's personality and concubine body are clear, how could Lord Tian drive General Bai Yan out of the Qi Kingdom?"

Concubine Qi shook her head slightly, her beautiful eyes were full of doubts and looked at Ying Zheng, not believing Ying Zheng's words.

Even Meng Yi is like this, Meng Yi has also heard of Tian Ding's deeds, and he doesn't believe that Bai Yan was driven out of Qi by Tian Ding.

"Why should the widow deceive Concubine Ai, if Concubine Ai doesn't believe it, when Bai Yan returns, she can ask Bai Yan in person."

Ying Zheng said with a smile.

Thinking that in the Qi State, Tian Ding has always been quite resistant to the Qin State, and Yingzheng really wants to know what the King of Qi will do when he learns about this!