The nobles of Qi did not hear about foreign wars, and only wanted to make money and live a luxurious life. Qin Guozhou Division has appeared for so many years, and they only know about "Qin Guozhou Division", but they have not inquired about what the Zhou Division looks like.

Li Mu's thunderbolt has been used for more than ten years, and Chu Jun's face does not change when he hears the sound, and his heart does not beat, knowing the power of this thing, he is numb, just extinguish the fire.

But Qi people really don't know.

So under Li Mu's divine power to summon the heavens, thunder, earth and fire, the edict to recall the generals of Qi was still on the way, and the other feudal lords and county commanders of Qi were still waiting for the next order of King Qi, and King Qi opened the city gate and surrendered.

Li Mu wanted to speak and stopped. Fortunately, his expression was naturally serious, and Zhu Xiang said that he was a facial paralysis.

So he accepted Qi Wangjian's surrender with a straight face, and then fell into a dilemma.

There were really not many Qin troops he brought, neither enough to conquer other Qi cities, nor enough to take Qi Wangjian to cross the borders of several countries by land and return to Qin.

What is he going to do now? You can't take Qi Wangjian to the sea, right??

Chapter 238: Li Mu's Great Crisis

Li Mu encountered the biggest dilemma in his career as a soldier, and he had never encountered such a dilemma even when he resisted the Huns.

The king of Qi has fallen, but the country of Qi is not counted.

With the characteristics of the feudal monarchs in this era, except for countries with small land areas such as Korea, Wei, and Yan, the beheading of Chu, Zhao, and Qi will only disintegrate most of the country's strength, and cannot truly destroy the country.

This is the reason why Zhu Xiang's previous life, Wang Jian had to pull out hundreds of thousands of troops every time he destroyed the country.

Li Xin didn't see this clearly when he destroyed Chu, thinking that he would win by winning Shouchun, and only led 200,000 Qin troops straight to Shouchun.

As a result, the Qin army was surrounded by the feudal monarchs of Chu with their own troops, and then they were poked in the ass by the rebellion of Changping Jun, just like encountering the Jingchu characteristic hydra in later folklore, and suffered heavy losses from the enemy.

When Wang Jian fought the Chu State, he dragged out all the troops that the Qin State could take out and spread them out on the Chu Plain, so that the Chu army could not play in-depth combat.

When he fought the Qi State, he deliberately advanced slowly on the border of the Qi State, giving the King of Qi enough time to gather 400,000 troops from the feudal monarchs and county guards from all over the country, and then bypass the main force of the Qi army, first break Linzi, and then break the main force of the Qi army, and defeat the living force of the Qi army, so as to defeat the resistance of the Qi State in one fell swoop.

It's just that the king of Qi surrendered, and as long as the feudal monarch of Qi had soldiers in his hands, he would not necessarily surrender at the request of the king of Qi, but would support the clan to continue to fight against Qin.

For example, after Handan of Zhao was breached, Zhao Gongzijia fled to Daijun to continue fighting against Qin, and held out for six full years.

It was easy for Li Mu's 50,000 men to take Linzi City after the surrender of King Qi, but soon he would become the target of public criticism.

But the king of Qi surrendered, but he turned around and ran away, and he was unwilling.

But if you kill the king of Qi or capture the king of Qi, the state of Qi may support a more wise king of Qi, but it will create a greater obstacle for the state of Qin to destroy Qi.

The best way now is to ask for help from the Qin State, and occupy the Qi State in one fell swoop while the feudal monarchs and county guards in various parts of the Qi State have not yet come to their senses.

But this has a fatal problem.

The state of Qi is separated from the state of Qin by the state of Wei and Zhao to the west, and the state of Chu from the state of Qin to the south, which is a complete enclave.

Even if you can barely rely on the local resources of Qi to hold it after the occupation, how can you increase your troops?

The state of Qin was fighting against the Five Kingdoms, and it was too difficult to increase troops from the mainland; With additional troops from the south, Southern Qin did not have a sea ship that could transport more than 100,000 people in one go.

He brought 50,000 people and basically drove all the large sea ships. In order to leave a way out for these 50,000 elite soldiers, he couldn't let all the ships sail away and go to Southern Qin to pick up reinforcements.

In the end, Li Mu decided to take a risk.

The kings of Qi surrendered, and with Li Mu's pride as the world's top general, he couldn't just watch the merit of destroying the country fly away from his hands.

Linzi is connected to the bay by a river, but just as it is difficult for a large ship on an inland river to enter the sea, it is also difficult for a sea boat to enter the inland river to navigate.

Li Mu asked the sea ships to be stationed in the nearest seaport to Linzi, first swept away the Qi defense forces in the middle of the river, and then recruited the big ships of the Qi domestic river, and sent the Qi clan, who was also the heir of the king of Qi, and most of the high-ranking officials of the Qi State to the sea boats, and sent them to Southern Qin at the same time, they also asked for help from Southern Qin.

Although the crown prince of Qin is not in Southern Qin, Li Si and Han Fei are both talents of Xiangguo, and Fuqiu and Meng Tian can lead troops, so they should be able to make decisions in time.

Then, Li Mu asked the Qin army to take over the defense of Linzi City, put the grain in the palace to the hungry people in the city, and told them to eat the grain, if the Qi nobles broke through Linzi, they would all be executed by the nobles, and then recruit them to replenish the source of troops.

Li Mu also asked Hou Sheng to assist in the defense of the city, and asked Hou Sheng to catch those who were dissatisfied with the surrender of King Qi, and promised that if Hou Sheng assisted well, he would give Hou Sheng a chance of victory. When the time comes, Hou Sheng will reach the Qin State, and maybe he will be able to get a knighthood.

Hou Sheng was full of joy, as Li Mu expected, extremely positive.

He knew that he had pushed the king of Qi to join Qin, and if Qin didn't take him away, the nobles of Qi would skin him alive. In the matter of destroying Qi, he is now more concerned than Li Mu.

Hou Sheng also persuaded the king of Qi to issue an edict to let all parts of the Qi state surrender to Qin, so as not to prevent these people from rebelling against the Qin state, which made Li Mu angry and killed the king of Qi.

When King Qi saw that all his heirs and relatives were taken away by the Qin people, he hid in the palace and shivered, the six gods had no owner, and he believed whatever Hou Sheng said.

He issued an edict ordering the entire territory of Qi to surrender to Qin, and whoever did not obey the edict of the king of Qi was a rebellion.

Li Mu wanted to speak and stopped, and then sighed.

Fortunately, the current King of Qin is Zichu, and the future King of Qin is Zheng'er. Zheng'er's crown prince will definitely give Zhu Xiang support, and it will not be bad in the future.

After that, he will become dry bones in the grave, and King Qin will not be angry with him.

He thought of the former and current King Zhao, and was deeply glad that King Zhao had "sold" himself and Lian Gong to the Qin State.

Li Mu sighed again. Whether it's good or not, at least now he doesn't have to worry about the morale of the Qi army.

Even if the Qi army returns, the morale must be very low.

Making all preparations, Li Mu closed the city gate and prepared to defend the city.

Originally, he was just scaring the King of Qi with siege. But after the king of Qi surrendered, he wanted to take the opportunity to weaken the state of Qi, so he could only hold Linzi City and wait for the Qin army to come to help.

The battle must have been very difficult, and the losses were heavy.

Li Mu couldn't help but drink a jar of wine to vent his frustration.

He always felt that if he led the Qin army to attack the Qi State seriously, he would not be so aggrieved and difficult.

When Li Mu asked for help, the feudal lords and county guards from all over the Qi State finally came to their senses after receiving the news, and began to connect in tandem everywhere, and recommended leaders to attack Linzi together and rescue the King of Qi.

Although the king of Qi said that he would not be saved, whoever listened to the king of Qi at this time was stupid.

The armies of Qi all walks of life drove to Linzi. Li Mu stood at the head of the city with his hands behind his back and sighed again and again.

He hadn't defended the city for a long time, and he was upset.

When Li Mu asked for help from Southern Qin, he also sent a cavalry to the west to return to Qin, informing the Qin king of the strange things of the Qi State and letting the Qin king make a decision.

Due to the famine years and the dispatch of troops, the internal defenses of the five countries were empty, and the cavalry advanced quickly.

When Southern Qin sent reinforcements, the cavalry also saw Prince Chu of Qin, who was in the army, and handed over Li Mu's secret letter to Prince Chu of Qin.

Prince Qin Chu opened the letter, read it for a while, rubbed his eyes, looked at it for a while, and rubbed his eyes again.

He turned his head to Lian Po and said, "Lian Gong, Li Mu is joking with the widow!" ”

Lianpo is the safest here, and Qin Prince Chu lived here in Lianpo when he was in charge of the labor army.

Lian Po scolded: "How could Li Mu write a secret letter to you to joke? Show me. ”

Prince Chu of Qin handed over the letter.

Lian Po frowned and looked at it for a while, then looked up blankly: "Is this true?" ”

The messenger cavalry's face seemed to be depressed and happy: "It's true." ”

Lian Po slapped his head fiercely: "Li Mu must be extremely depressed." ”

Chu Le, the prince of Qin, said: "King Qi surrendered, what is he depressed about? ”

Lian Po rolled his eyes fiercely: "The king of Qi surrendered, but the country of Qi did not surrender." Although the Qi army does not repair armaments, it is troublesome to catch hundreds of thousands of pigs. Now the Qi army has almost no losses, and Li Mu is in trouble. ”

Prince Qin Chu woke up from the surprise, frowned, and said, "Let Li Mu return?" ”

Lian Po said: "If it were me, I would definitely return." This Qi country, if you want to take it, you have to increase your troops, but it is difficult to increase your troops; It's hard to defend if you take it, and it doesn't border with Qin. However, Li Mu is young and vigorous, and I am afraid that he may not be willing to withdraw from the army. ”

Prince Qin Chu sighed: "Yes, it doesn't border. The widow still gave Li Mu an edict and asked him to withdraw from the army. ”

Lian Po said: "Li Mu has his own ideas, he doesn't want to vote, just open up the road to Qin in the south." ”

He asked people to bring the map and pointed it to Prince Chu of Qin: "Now the middle gate of Qin and Qi is separated from Huaishui to the small piece of land of the Yellow River. According to Zhu Xiang, the Yellow River and the Huaishui River will be the hardest hit area by the locust plague, and it will definitely be sparsely populated. If I were Li Mu, I would definitely let the army of Southern Qin divide into two routes, all the way to Linzi by boat to reinforce it, and all the way south to attack Chu to reinforce from land. ”

Prince Chu of Qin looked at the map and also understood Li Mu's intentions.

He smiled and said: "Li Mu wants to let the widow get a country before the widow passes the throne to Zheng'er." ”

When Lian Po heard this, he felt very uncomfortable.

He remembered the "Xia Tong" when he was still in Handan.

As a big nobleman, Lian Po is not as kind to the people as Lin Xiangru.

He originally looked down on Zhu Xiang, and he also looked down on Zhu Xiang's account room Xia Tong.

But the mouth of eating people is soft. After following Lin Xiangru to eat at Zhu Xiang's house a few times, he became barely able to face up to Zhu Xiang and Xia Tong's talents.

When Zhu Xiang, Xia Tong and Lin Zhen became friends, he gradually regarded these two as nephews and nephews, and pondered to find some promotion paths for these two people.

But Zhu Xiang and Xia Tong refused to go to the front line to make meritorious contributions, so angry that he chased after the two of them.

At that time, Zhu Xiang and Xia Tong would always slip on the ground under the cover of Lin Zhen.

Zhu Xiang was the first to climb the tree.

Xia Tong is the weakest in body and the least agile in his movements, so he always needs Zhu Xiang to hold his hand and Lin Yi to resist his ass before he can barely climb to the tree.

Then Lin Zhen circled himself under the tree and took the opportunity to climb the tree as well.

If Lin Zhen was caught up by himself, Zhu Xiang and Xia Tong would obediently go down the tree, and the three of them would be kicked by him together.

He taught the three vertical soldiers the art of war at Zhu Xiang's house, which was much happier than teaching the younger generations at home.

After Lian Po knew that Xia Tong was the proton alien of the Qin Kingdom, he felt uncomfortable for a long time and scolded the alien for lying to him.

But when Qin Guo saw Xia Tong and saw Xia Tong's cautious flattering expression, Lian Po's heart softened again.

It's just that, the Inhumans didn't mean it.

Although Yiren is a proton of the Qin State and has a difficult life, he is also a noble Qin son. He can be called and drunk by himself like Zhu Xiang and Lin Zhen, which is enough to see his respect for himself, what is he not satisfied with?

Xia Tong became a stranger, and a stranger became Zichu, and Zichu became the prince and the king of Qin. Lian Po thought that Xia Tong would change, but he seemed to be wrong.

Lian Po also unknowingly brought some elder feelings to King Qin, and he couldn't see Zichu's body decaying day by day.

But what can he do?

Lian Po remembered that Lin Xiangru's body was declining day by day.

What can he do?