[Since September of the second year of the Han Dynasty, Han Xin led tens of thousands of soldiers, and after several months of destroying Wei, Ping, Zhao, and Dingyan, he almost completely conquered the entire area north of the Yellow River with his own strength.

But despite this, in the face of the last eastern power, the Qi State, Han Xin was still jealous.

At the same time, due to the fierce eye of Western Chu, this battle of Qi is destined to be an extremely difficult battle.

In fact, the Battle of Qi was the last battle of Han Xin's Eastern Expedition to the Five Kingdoms, and it was also the most difficult battle he fought. 】

[Before sending troops to attack Qi, there was also a small episode between Han Xin and Liu Bang, perhaps it was precisely because of this episode that Liu Bang was thorned in his heart. 】

[In October of the third year of the Han Dynasty, after Han Xin and Zhang Er led the army to defeat the Zhao State, they established Changshan County and Dai County in the Zhao State.

It stands to reason that Han Xin, as the general of the Han State, after he fully controlled the Zhao State, he should have returned the governance of the Zhao State to the Han State and handed it over to Liu Bang to appoint.

At that time, before Han Xin captured Zhao, the Han regime, had already appointed Zhang Cang, the county guard of Changshan County, in advance.

Later, when Zhang Cang assisted Han Xin in defeating Zhao, the central government of the Han Dynasty took Zhang Cang as the "acting minister" and took full control of the land.

Therefore, according to the precedent of the previous invasion of the territory, the newly conquered Zhao State should be the "Zhao Xiang" appointed by the Han regime.

But what people didn't expect was that before the Han regime could speak, Han Xin, the general who was the actual controller of Zhao at that time, put forward his suggestions to the central government of the Han regime in turn.

Han Xin's suggestion was simple, that is, he hoped that Liu Bang would regain the status of a vassal state of Zhao and make Zhang Er, the former king of Changshan, the new king of Zhao.

Everyone knows that Zhang Er is Han's confidant, so it is obvious that Zhao Dihan does not want to completely hand him over to Liu Bang's control. 】

[Liu Bang did not ask Han Xin to ask Zhang Er to be the queen, so he immediately named Zhang Er the king, so from here you can see Liu Bang's hesitation and secretly dissatisfied with Han Xin.

But because Xiang Yu was leading the Western Chu army to attack Xingyang frantically at this time, Liu Bang had no time to take care of the affairs of Zhao State, so he could only let Han Xin further deepen his control over Zhao State.

This is a big no-no!

I don't know if Han Xin thought of this question, or maybe Han Xin had already thought of it, but he didn't care about it at all.

Han Xin's pride can be seen. 】

[At that time, the Western Chu army had been frantically attacking Liu Bangjun on the front line of Xingyang, causing Liu Bangjun to be beaten back to Guanzhong for a time.

Then Liu Bang made a detour and went out of Wuguan to Nanyang County, but then he was beaten back to the Chenggao line.

And Han Xin and Zhang Erjun, who were far away in Zhao State, were supposed to come to help, but for some reason, for such a long time, the reinforcements were delayed. 】

[When the time came to June of the third year of the Han Dynasty, Liu Bang, who finally broke through the encirclement of the Chu army again, finally couldn't bear it anymore, so he took the light cavalry and went straight to the camp of Han Xin's army stationed in Zhao State, and then directly seized the actual control of Han Xin's army.

Because Liu Bang came too quickly, Han Xin and Zhang Er didn't react for a while.

In addition, many people under Han Xin's command at that time, such as Cao Shen, the fake left prime minister who was Liu Bang's confidant, had always been the nominal deputy marshal in Han Xin's army, so Han Xin was taken away from military power by Liu Bang in an instant, but he was helpless. 】

"Actually, Han Gaozu is also guarding against Han Xin, and he should know Han Xin's character very well in his heart."

"Han Xin probably just doesn't want to give his hard-earned territory to others so easily, he is still very loyal to Liu Bang, otherwise he would not refuse the proposal of independence."

"You think too simply, the reason why Han Xin is not independent is that there are many other factors."

"I want to hear about it!"

"For example, grain and grass"

[Because almost all of Han Xin's previous main army was transferred by Liu Bang, the king of Han, when Han Xin was fighting Qi, except for some of the old generals who followed him, such as Cao Shen, Fu Kuan and others, only the cavalry led by Guan Ying remained. 】

[The plan to cut off the grain route of the Chu army and strategically encircle Xiang Yu was the third step to destroy Qi, so Liu Bang ordered Han Xin to lead his troops to the east to attack Qi.

To this end, Liu Bang adopted two means: one was to order Han Xin to march into the army, trying to subdue Qi Wang Guang by force; Second, it is the fate of Li to eat his lobby Qi Wang Guang. 】

[In the face of the roar of Han Xin's army, the Qi army also quickly gathered a large army to carry out an active defense.

It should be said that the Qi army's defensive operation was also quite well prepared, and it was also used by people including the foreign general Hua Wushu and the clan general Tian Jie.

Therefore, if nothing else, with Han Xin's current military strength, it will not be easy to pass through the past.

In fact, after Han Xinjun arrived near Lixia, he did not immediately attack.

Of course, one of the reasons why Han Xinjun did not directly attack was also because Li Shiqi, who was one of the military divisions under the command of Liu Bang, the king of Han at that time, went to Qi State, and the purpose of his visit to Qi State was very simple, that is, to persuade Qi State to surrender. 】

[And Li Shiqi, he actually succeeded.

At that time, Li Shiqi and Qi Wang Tian Guang and Qi Xiang Tian Heng successfully reached a peace agreement after some talks, and then the King of Qi took the initiative to remove the Qi army's combat readiness in the past to show his sincerity.

And when Han Xin heard that Li Shiqi had said that he had surrendered to Qi, he was ready to stop attacking Qi, just as Han Xin recorded in "Hanshu Han Xin's Biography": "Hearing that the king of Han made Li Shiqi say that he had said that Qi was down, the letter stopped." 】

[But why did the Battle of Qi break out again? ]

This brings us to the most critical point, and this is also the most important argument for Kui Che to persuade Han Xin to attack Qi:

"Li Sheng Yishi, Fu Shi dropped three inches of tongue, more than 70 cities, tens of thousands of generals, more than 50 cities under Zhao. In order to be a few years old, it is better to be a Confucian! ”

It means that even though Li Shiqi has contributed a lot to convincing Qi Guo, he is a person after all.

And the previous persuasion of Yan Guo to surrender was also the credit of an envoy, but that envoy was sent by Han Xin, so no matter what, the credit of Yan had to be put on Han Xin.

But this time the result was different, although Li Shiqi was sent by Liu Bang, the king of Han, but more of him took the initiative to invite Ying to go, so this time Li Shiqi said that he surrendered to the Qi country, which can really be said to be a monstrous achievement with the power of one person! 】

[Kuaitong was Han Xin's advisor, and he finally suggested that Han Xin attack Qi for two reasons: first, Liu Bang ordered Han Xin to attack Qi, but did not edict to stop attacking Qi; Second, Han Xin captured more than 50 cities in Zhao State in a year, and Li Shiqi persuaded the generals and soldiers of more than 70 cities of Qi State to surrender with his tongue, but in the end he was not as good as a Confucian student, even if you Han Xin can accept it, can you accept so many newly surrendered soldiers under your command?

In fact, this is not only Kuaitong's idea, but also the will of the middle and high-level soldiers in the army and even the grassroots soldiers. 】

[There is no doubt that in order to take care of the emotions and future of his soldiers, Han Xin finally adopted Kuaitong's suggestion.

And this decision has also led to two consequences:

The first consequence is that Li eats his tragic death.

Because of the merit of persuasion, Li Shiqi was the guest of Qi Wang Tianguang.

In order to show the sincere surrender, the soldiers were withdrawn from the border line of the Qi State. And Han Xin took the opportunity to attack the city and hit it all the way to Linzi, Tian Guangshen felt deceived, so he cooked and killed Li Shiqi when he fled.

The second consequence is to reverse the situation between Chu and Han.

After Tian Guang, the king of Qi, escaped to Gaomi, he sent someone to Chu for help.

When Xiang Yu besieged Liu Bang, he sent the general Long and rescued the Qi State, which can be said to be a strategic decisive battle between Han and Chu.

And in this decisive battle of great strategic significance, Liu Bang and Xiang Yu did not participate.

Han Xin and Long Ji represented Liu Bang and Xiang Yu with full authority, and opened a decisive battle between Han and Chu in advance! 】

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