The first light appeared in the sky in the distance, and the Qi soldiers who had been stationed on the city wall all night finally breathed a sigh of relief.

They were the soldiers who originally stayed in Zhencheng, and they had personally watched Da Sima be in high spirits and set foot on the battlefield with an army of 150,000.

They had also watched Da Sima flee back to the city in embarrassment, and when they raised their eyes, they saw that outside the city were robes that were chased and killed by the Qin people. I even saw with my own eyes the surrender scene of tens of thousands of Qi troops abandoning the Qin people under this city.

That scene had already frightened these Qi people, and the words spoken by General Tian Dan during his inspection in the evening aggravated this emotion.

"The Qin people are bloodthirsty and murderous, and they take beheading as a merit, and those who surrender to them will definitely be a dead end, and they will be beheaded by the Qin people as a military merit. If the Qin army breaks through the city, you will definitely be beheaded, there is no reason to survive, if you want to live, you should fight to the death!"

Tian Dan's words are very in line with the Qi people's impression of the Qin army, brutal and bloodthirsty, and the first meritorious.

Therefore, although the Qi soldiers in the city were frightened by the Qin army's achievements, they still mustered up their courage and decided to use the city defense to fight the Qin people to the last moment.

There is still hope of survival in the end, and once the city is broken, it will definitely be slaughtered.

On this night, they did not dare to take it lightly, holding the weapons in their hands tightly, watching the movements outside the city, for fear that the Qin army would take advantage of the night to attack the city overnight.

Fortunately, the night passed peacefully.

"We can finally go down to sleep."

One of the pawns grunted and let out a long breath.

The others nodded.

At this moment, a Qi pawn suddenly shouted, "The Qin army has attacked the city!"

All the Qi soldiers were startled, and hurriedly looked outside the city wall, and really saw a dark shadow in the distance running towards Zhencheng in the morning light.

"Enemy attack!"

"The Qin army is attacking the city, and the crossbowmen are ready!"

The commander defending the city ordered the men to issue a warning while the crossbowmen on the city walls were prepared.

At this time, the sky was not yet bright, and in the morning light, they could only see the shadows running in the distance, but they couldn't see the specific appearance of those people.

The Qi generals defending the city felt that this Qin army was a little strange.

These Qin people wanted to take advantage of the dawn to sneak attack the siege city, but they did not carry ladders and push siege equipment. Could it be that they could climb the city walls empty-handed?

And these people are too scattered, they don't even have a formation, they are not as good as their Qi army.

"With such an army, can you defeat Da Sima?"

Thinking like this, the defending general saw that those figures had already entered the range of the bow and crossbow, and decisively gave the order to shoot.

In an instant, arrows rained down, casting shadows on the people running outside the city.

"Qin Jun, that's it."

Just when the Qi generals were proud, the screams outside the city sounded their familiar Qi language.

"Stop shooting, your own people!"

"It's a robe! It's an ally!"

A moment later, when Tian Chong, who was full of exhaustion, hurried up to the city.

The scene he saw was the dense crowd of tens of thousands of Qi people who returned from the station outside the city in single clothes.

"Da Sima, let us into the city, we are hungry!"

The Qi people wailed and cried, begging the great Sima of the city to open the city gate and let them in for a hot meal.

Tian Chong's face turned white all of a sudden.

"Da Sima, can we open the door?"

……

Ayi, that is, Dong'e in later generations, is located in the northeast of Zhencheng.

The geographical location of this city is very important, if Zhen City is the first gateway to the western border of Qi, then Ayi is the second.

Because this city depends on Jishui, as long as the Qin army takes Ayi, it can rely on Jishui to transport soldiers and grain, and it is very convenient to reach the north of Linzi through water transportation.

If this city falls into the hands of the Qin army, then Linzi will be in real danger.

Therefore, in addition to arranging an army in Zhencheng, Da Sima also laid 20,000 horses along the Ayi line, led by the Qi general Zou Bai

Defend this line of defense.

By this time it was getting dark, and it was already dusk on the second day after the war.

Tian Rong led several horsemen, and after a day of wild running in the middle of the night, he finally arrived at the outskirts of Ayi.

He not only had the order of the Great Sima ordering the Qi general Zou Bai to strictly guard the city, but also the documents to accuse the Qi Wang Jian and ask for support.

"After the order, I should go to Linzi and tell Xiangbang and the prince about the fierceness of the Qin army and the danger that my Qi country will face. After the king understands the situation, he will definitely recruit another army to defend against the Qin people, as long as there are another 100,000 people, my Qi country will be safe this time."

Just as Tian Rong was thinking in his heart, a short soldier beside him shouted, "Oh my God, Ayi has been attacked!"

Ayi was attacked?

Isn't Qin Jun still in Zhencheng?

Tian Rong was stunned for a moment, but immediately after, he saw it.

In the distance of Ayi City, there was smoke everywhere, and at the same time, there were figures shaking everywhere.

Tian Rong's body trembled, and he hurriedly stepped forward, and when he got closer, he finally saw it clearly.

Outside the city of Ayi, there are really countless black-armored Qin troops, who have occupied the Qi army camp originally stationed outside the city at this moment, and are also attacking the city.

At this time, it was the end of the battle, and Tian Rong clearly saw that a Qin pawn had planted a flag on a city wall, and the black Qin flag was waving in the wind, announcing the new ownership of the city.

At the same time, the rest of the city gates of Ayi had been opened, and fast horses and vehicles rushed out of the city and fled into the distance.

"Ah Yi is finished......

Tian Rong gasped, only to feel sweat on his forehead.

The loss of Ayi not only opened the door to Linzi, the capital of Qi, but also represented that the back road of Zhencheng Dasima was cut off.

As long as Ah Yi was in the hands of the Qin army, it would be impossible for Zhen Cheng to receive any support from Qi proper.

"You two, hurry back to Zhencheng and inform Da Sima of the situation of Ayi's loss, so that Da Sima can prepare early. I will go to Linzi and inform the king of this important news! I beg the king to call in for reinforcement at once!"

The two short soldiers named by Tian Rong immediately agreed and rode back in the direction of Zhencheng.

Tian Rong took a deep breath, took the rest of the short soldiers, bypassed Ayi, and ran in the direction of Linzi.

Before leaving, he couldn't help but turn his head and look at the city that was still smoking in the distance.

"Where did this Qin army come from?"

……

Outside Ayi City, Meng Tian, who was covered with wind and frost, looked at the Qin flag fluttering on the city wall, and his tense cheeks were stretched.

"The Qi army guards of Ayi only know how to send sentinels to patrol to the west, but they ignore the east. Now that I have taken Ayi, I have cut off the retreat of Zhencheng's Qi army, which is a great achievement."

Meng Tian's eyes flashed with joy, and he, who had a strategic vision, naturally knew the significance of his move.

"General Meng, what should we do next, should we lead the army to Zhen City and join General Zhao to annihilate the Qi army?"

Su Jiao, a powerful subordinate, came up and asked.

Meng Tian shook his head and said, "The battle of Zhencheng, we don't have to worry about it, with General Zhao's ability, it is easy to fight a great Sima of the Qi Kingdom. And you send someone to the west to inform the general, before the general's order arrives, our task is to hold this city, beware of the counterattack of the Qi army, as long as this city is controlled by us, then the Qi army west of Ayi will have nowhere to escape. That's a great job!"

……

Zhencheng, early the next morning.

Da Sima Tian Chong took Tian Dan, Xiang Fu and other generals to walk up to the city wall early in the morning and looked at the camp in the distance.

Just two days ago, the camp was still owned by the Qi army, but now it has become the Qin army's garrison.

Looking from the city wall, I saw that the camps were crowded with people, and the black armor covered the eyes, which was very infiltrating.

If you look over the camp and look into the distance, you can see a flock of birds flying high in the mountains and forests farther away.

It was the Qin army cutting down trees and building siege equipment.

"In the past two days, the Qin army has been counting and building weapons,

There was no siege. But it's just a few days of peace, and it won't be long before there will be a bloody battle."

Tian Chong sighed lightly.

Xiang Fu Ji said: "Don't worry, Da Sima, our army has strengthened the city defense in the past two days, and all kinds of materials for defending the city are also ready. The grain and grass stored in the city are enough to feed our army for several months, and enough to hold out until the reinforcements called for by the king come."

Tian Chong nodded, Zhencheng is the border city of Qi, in the face of a war that may break out at any time, a huge granary was built in the city, and a huge amount of grain and grass was stored, which was originally for his army to eat.

Now that the army has been defeated by the Qin people, the rest of the people will be able to hold out longer by eating the food in the city, and there is no need to worry about this.

Thinking of the grain, Tian Chong's face suddenly became gloomy again.

"Tian Dan, are you sure that there are no Qin women in those 10,000 people?"

Tian Dan smiled bitterly and said, "The last general has sent someone to carefully check, these 10,000 people are indeed from my Qi country, all of them can speak in unison, and they can tell their local origins, know each other, and no Qin people are mixed in."

Tian Chong's face softened slightly, and he whispered, "Looking at it this way, Zhao Tuo is also a bit of a gentleman. There was not enough food in the army, so he didn't kill the prisoners, but put them back in Zhencheng, but he had a heart."

Hearing the word "gentleman" from Da Sima's mouth, the faces of the people around him changed.

Tian Dan frowned and said, "The last general thinks that there may be tricks of the Qin people in this, because those 10,000 people are genuine soldiers of our army. However, according to the observation of the last general, after they returned to the city, they preached everywhere that the Qin people did not kill prisoners, and some people even said that the Qin general Zhao Tuo was merciful."

"Before, we said that the Qin army killed brutally to motivate soldiers to fight to the death, but now that we have been disturbed by this matter, I am afraid that the army's morale will be unstable again."

Tian Chong's face changed slightly, and after being reminded by Tian Dan, he figured out the joints at once.

"What a Zhao Tuo, I still thought he was a gentleman, but I didn't expect it to be another trick, this is to break my army's heart!"

Tian Chong gritted his teeth, but he had no choice in the face of Zhao Tuo's conspiracy.

After all, in the face of 10,000 Qi people wailing and begging outside the city, he had no way to keep them out of the city, in addition to his conscience, he also had to consider the psychology of the soldiers in the city.

was chased and killed by the Qin army before, in order to prevent the Qin people from taking the opportunity to seize the city, he abandoned tens of thousands of defeated soldiers and forced the city gate to pass the past.

But in the face of the situation that there are no Qin people on his side and 10,000 of his own children are begging hard, if he Tian Chong dares to refuse, I am afraid that the already unstable military spirit in the city will fall directly to the lowest point.

So he could only pinch his nose and let the 10,000 people into the city.

"It was strictly forbidden for the soldiers to talk to each other about this. Mr. Xiangfu, you are extremely eloquent, and this time I also ask you to go to the city sergeant's pawn to preach that the Qin army has released the prisoners, in order to provoke the hearts of the soldiers in our city, so that the soldiers must not be fooled!"

"And motivate the soldiers, tell them that as long as they can fight to the death and defend the city, they will be able to wait for the king's reinforcements, and then they can drive the Qin people out of our Qi country!"

Tian Chong spoke to Xiang Fu.

Xiang Fu Ji immediately bowed his hand and said, "Don't worry, Da Sima, I will show my lips and tongue later, and inspire the soldiers to fight to the death!"

Tian Chong nodded, and said, "Although Zhao Tuo's strategy can break the morale of our army, the soldiers in our city will not surrender to him. After all, the strength of our Qi country is still there, and the king can still recruit troops to come to support, and with this hope, no one in the city wants to go to his Qin camp as a prisoner. Therefore, Zhao Tuo let these 10,000 people come back, but he increased our combat power to defend the city!"

Xiang Fu Ji followed with a smile and said, "What Da Sima said is that with these 10,000 people defending the city, the Qin army will definitely pay more time and casualties if they want to break through the city. From this point of view, what Zhao Tuo did was really a mistake."

[The app that has been running stably for many years is comparable to the old version of the book-chasing artifact, which is used by old bookworms.]

The soldiers came to report it, saying that they had brought news of Ayi."

"Brother Rong sent someone to reply?"

Tian Dan was stunned, their brothers captured Hengyang Jun of South Korea, not only was favored by Da Sima, but also won the title of doctor of Qi State for his merits.

"Ayi?"

Tian Chong raised his eyebrows and said, "Zou Bai is always talented, and with him guarding Ayi, I am still more relieved, just to see what news Ayi can come."