Chapter 201: Swallowing Xichu
The Qi army was defeated and collapsed, and the army of Gongzi Ji chased the Qi army all the way, drove straight in, and went deep into the hinterland of Qi.
For those cities of Qi, Gongzi Ji did not capture them immediately, but chased the main force of the Qi army. Most of those Qi cities were the nobles and ministers of Qi, and they all defended the cities and did not dare to fight against Huai, and as a result, the Qi army was defeated all the way.
Gongzi Ji commanded the army and chased all the way to the vicinity of Linzi, the capital of Qi State, and at this point, Gongzi Ji also encountered the army of Yan State.
Seeing those morale-boosting and murderous Yan State soldiers, Gongzi Ji immediately asked the army to stop. After several rounds of tempering, the strength of the Yan army that broke through the Qi State is at its peak, and with the commander of Youle Yi, it is also the strongest period of the Yan State.
On the other side, Le Yi also ordered the army to stop, as a top commander, he knew very well the strength of Huai State, tens of thousands of troops pursued all the way, and he could still maintain the formation, and after encountering Yan State, he would soon be able to adjust the formation.
is so elite, even the morale of the Yan State army under his command is slightly inferior. His trip was to attack the Qi State, not to fight the Huai State.
Gongzi Ji also has no idea of fighting with Yan Guo, Yan Guo is located on the border of the north, and there is no conflict of interest with Huai Guo, plus Yan Guo's elite soldiers, if it really fights, whether it is won or lost, it will suffer heavy losses.
Immediately, Gongzi Ji sent an envoy to the army of Yan, and at the same time, Le Yi also sent an envoy to the army of Huai.
Seeing the messenger coming, Gongzi Ji and Le Yi both knew that the other party had no idea of fighting, and after the messenger passed the news, Gongzi Ji invited Le Yi and Le Yi to meet in person.
Le Yi was slightly stunned when he heard Wang Ji inviting him, and the deputy generals around him hurriedly dissuaded: "The general can't be in danger, if it's Huaiguo"
Le Yi laughed and said: "That prince Ji is the Huaiguo Office, and Huaiguo has never broken his promise since the founding of the country. ”
"And the two sides communicate in front of the two armies, if they don't go, wouldn't it be underestimated?"
"The general is going, please let me wait for the guards!" The lieutenant next to him insisted.
Le Yi nodded and said, "That's good." Then he turned to the Huai envoy and said, "Discuss before the battle, and each side will bring five guards." ”
The envoy of Huai immediately returned to report, and Xing Xingyi and Wang Ji respectively took five guards to the open space between the two armies to talk.
Wang Ji was very appreciative of Le Yi, and after some discussions between the two before the battle, they agreed that the Huai army would no longer go north, and Yan would no longer go south, and Yan and Huai would not invade each other, and then the two sides would each retreat ten miles.
After the army retreated, Wang Ji began to conquer the cities of the Qi State, while Le Yi continued to command the army to besiege Linzi.
Although the Qi State has not yet been destroyed, it is only a matter of time.
At the time of the war between Huai and Qi, Qin and Sanjin were also fighting very fiercely in the land of Hexi, and Wei saw this battle as an opportunity to rise again, but the strength of Korea and Wei was insufficient, and Qin held the city, and the two countries still did not take any advantage. On the contrary, it was the Zhao State that won consecutive battles, and the Qin State suffered a lot of losses.
The Qin State fought on two fronts and was powerless to fight back. Fortunately, the Western Chu State also fell into a state of being attacked by the Huai State.
The Qin State was unable to attack, but the Huai State was besieging the city more and more fierce day by day, and the siege battle in the Jiangdu of the Chu State was extremely tragic.
The king of Chu took out a large number of rewards to reward his soldiers, coupled with the abundant food in the city and the dangerous terrain, it was very difficult for the Huai army to attack.
Sun Bin asked the craftsmen of the Mo family and the Gong Loser to make bed crossbows and trebuchets for attacking, but the distance thrown by the trebuchet was limited, and although the bed crossbow was stronger in attack, the attack speed was slow.
Fortunately, with the arrival of more and more Huai troops, the balance of war has begun to shift in favor of Huai.
Sun Bin sent a large number of soldiers to besiege Jiangdu, and at the same time sent Shanyue elites to find the weaknesses of this mountain city. At the same time, as time went on, more and more troops of the King of Western Chu rushed over.
After these Qinwang armies had gathered to a certain size, they began to attack. It's just that Sun Bin had already prepared for this, three thousand crossbowmen fought against him, and then let the Tengjia army outflank him from both wings, and the army of King Qin of Chu was defeated one after another.
These are the second-line army of Chu State, or how can the conscripted Minzhuang be the elite opponents of Huai State, plus with the command of a top commander like Sun Bin, it is difficult for Huai State to lose.
And the city of Chu saw that the army that came to King Qin was defeated by Huai State one after another, and the morale of the soldiers in the city was also decreasing a little.
The city is besieged by a large army, if there are reinforcements outside the city to rescue, even if it is very difficult in the city, the morale of the soldiers will not be reduced, and they are willing to resist desperately, and the reinforcements outside the city are the hope of the soldiers in the city. However, if the reinforcements outside the city are defeated one after another, there is no hope for the soldiers in the city, and the morale will plummet.
After defeating several reinforcements in a row, the resistance in Jiangzhou gradually decreased. At the same time, another army of Huai also attacked Shangyong City.
Over the years, Huaiguo has built a gallop road, which has not only improved the transportation capacity of Huaiguo by several grades, but also trained a group of road repair teams for Huaiguo. The Huai army attacked Shangyong, and built bridges in the mountains and rivers. Attack all the way, build roads all the way, and forcibly widen the mountain roads.
The land of Hanzhong is not like Jiangzhou, which belongs to the mountain city, and Hanzhong Shangyong is a plain, after passing through the mountains and rivers. The army of Shangyong Hanzhong originally drew an empty attack on Qin, and later drew away a large number of people Zhuang Qinwang, and when the army of Huaiguo North Road attacked, there were only thousands of old and weak soldiers and tens of thousands of people left in Shangyong City.
How can these forces withstand the Huai army? An army of 100,000 besieged Shangyong, and Huaiguo built a large number of siege equipment on the spot, how could Shangyong City resist.
In less than ten days, it was broken by the Huai army led by Wei Zong, and the Shangyong County of Chu was hanged, and most of the rest of the soldiers surrendered. After Huai conquered Shangyong, Weizong immediately sent soldiers to maintain order in the city, imposed a curfew, and controlled the city's treasury. Then he sent people to count the people in the city, who dared to make trouble, took the opportunity to rob the people, set fire to and kill people, and those who committed adultery with women were killed, and opened warehouses to release grain.
Under the order of Wei Zong, the Huai soldiers immediately dispatched, and soon Shangyong City restored order, and at the same time, after Huai opened a warehouse to release grain, Shangyong City gradually settled down, and these people finally did not have to worry about Huai Guo slaughtering the city.
When the Huai State attacked, in order to stimulate the will of the people to defend to the death, the Chu State deliberately falsely intimidated, saying that the Huai soldiers were all murderers, rape and plunder, and they would slaughter the city if they captured it.
After Huai conquered Shangyong, he deliberately sent people to open a warehouse to release grain, in order to tell the people in the city that Huai Guo would not slaughter the city.
After the Huai army broke through Shangyong, the entire Hanzhong Plain was also torn open a gap.
(End of chapter)