Zhao Tuo led his army to garrison Linzi, recruiting pro-Qin forces in the city, and with the help of these local wealthy families, stabilized the situation in Linzi and prevented the hundreds of thousands of Qi people in the city from causing any changes.
At the same time, he sent generals to carry the imperial edict of King Jian of Qi to persuade them to surrender, and divided the cities of Qi. There are more than seventy cities in Qi, and the land north of Jishui has fallen into the hands of Qin.
Therefore, the Qin army's attack was mainly concentrated in the vast area south of Jishui. Meng Tian led his army southward, with the goal of capturing Ju City until it bordered the area in the south that originally belonged to the Chu State, and completed the occupation of the southern part of the Qi State.
The reason why Zhao Tuo sent Meng Tian to attack in this direction was because Meng was originally from Qi. Meng Tian's eldest father, Meng Ao, was born near Mengshan Mountain in the west of Jucheng.
This land is where Meng Tian's ancestral home is. Letting Meng Tian lead his army to attack here can make the Qi people in the large area around Mengshan feel close to each other and weaken their will to resist the Qin army.
Another Qin general, Zhao Guang, led his army to the cities of Pi and Zhu, along the Great Wall of Qi, and headed straight for Langya in the southeast.
As for the Shejian Department on the last road, it has the heaviest task and the most soldiers under its command. Shejian was to lead his army to attack Qi, then cross Weishui and Jiaoshui to capture Jimo, the largest city on the Jiaodong Peninsula. Then he would divide his troops and seize small towns such as Yeyi and Huangyi, and plant the black Qin flag all over the Jiaodong Peninsula.
The three Qin armies attacked separately, with great momentum. The people of Qi have not fought for decades, and now they have received news one after another that an army of 300,000 people was defeated in Zhencheng. The great Sima committed suicide and died for the country. The Qin army occupied Linzi. The king of Qi Jian surrendered the whole country and issued an edict to persuade the cities to surrender to Qin. One by one, The people are already in panic and have no will to fight.
If King Jian of Qi died in Linzi, Qi people from all over the country might still be inspired by this bloody courage and fight against the Qin army.
But now it was King Jian of Qi and the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty who took the initiative to surrender. This had a great impact on the Qi people's psychology, and they directly lost their will to resist.
In addition, the Qin army also had previously captured Qi prisoners as temptations. As long as they surrender obediently, the Qin army will immediately release the prisoners, allowing the Qi family to reunite and reunite father and son.
Under this circumstance, wherever the Qin army passed, Qi's cities opened their doors and surrendered one after another. In a short period of time, the Qin armies of Meng Tian and Zhao Guang completed their strategic mission and occupied the entire southern region of Qi.
Only when Shejian was conquering the Jiaodong Peninsula, he hit a snag outside Jimo City. Jimo is a large city in Qi State and the base of Tiandan's restoration of the country in the past.
Many people in this place have the same sense of mission as Jimo doctor Tian Lang. Some people in Jimo even compared the current situation with the past when the five kingdoms conquered Qi.
They imagined that Jimo was the only city in Qi that had not yet been conquered, and then a figure like Tian Dan would appear and lead the Jimo people to fight back against the Qin army, regain the land of Qi, and reshape the legend of the past.
Jimo is the hope of Qi. Imagination is beautiful, but reality is cruel. Shejian besieged but did not attack, and used the thousands of Jimo prisoners captured under Zhen City and Linzi City to break the fighting spirit of the Qi people in the city, triggering internal fighting among the Qi people in the city. The families of those prisoners took advantage of the chaos to open the city gates and let the Qin army enter the city.
After entering the city, Shejian showed no mercy and killed all the Jimo people who took the lead in resistance. Their heads were piled outside the city as a deterrent.
Then he released the prisoners and appeased those Qi people who surrendered to Qin. With the combination of kindness and power, Jimo, the last major city of Qi, also surrendered to the Qin army's sword and halberd.
Since Jimo surrendered, the remaining Qi towns on the peninsula naturally lost the will to resist.
Within half a month, Qin's black flag was planted all over Qi. There are no more cities in the world with the Qi flag flying, which indicates the true demise of the Tian family's Qi country.
In Linzi City, when the news came that the three Qin armies had occupied the entire territory of Qi State. Zhao Tuo breathed a long sigh of relief.
"The land of Qi is more than two thousand miles away, and more than seventy cities are in my hands. Qi has finally perished." Zhao Tuo was very happy, and immediately wrote a handwritten letter, and then ordered Li Shang to send envoys to Xianyang day and night to capture the Qin army. Report all the good news to your Majesty.
At the same time, while the three-pronged Qin army captured the entire territory of Qi, the Qin army also basically grasped the situation of the Tian clan in Linzi and surrounding cities.
After occupying Qi Land, Zhao Tuo will begin the second step.
"Historically, the restoration of the Six Kingdoms at the end of the Qin Dynasty was led by the six royal families. Among them, the Tian family kings were very numerous and powerful. This time, the people of the Tian family were moved to Guanzhong by taking advantage of the power of destroying the Qi Kingdom."
"Qi will be much easier to manage without the Tian family. Even if there is a rebellion in Qi in the future, it is impossible for people from the Tian family to come out from King Xu of Qi and win over the Qi people." Zhao Tuo thought secretly in his heart. , picked up the directory on the eucalyptus and looked at it.
When he was in Xianyang, he proposed the strategy of migrating princes, nobles and powerful people to strengthen the clan, which was adopted by the Qin Dynasty. But this matter is of great concern. If it is not handled well, it is easy to force the newly conquered city to rebel.
In addition, the number of officials in the Qin State is still somewhat insufficient. The grammatical officials that were expanded last year are still in training. If the Qin State wants to control the newly conquered Qi land, it still needs to rely on the local wealthy and powerful clans to complete it.
Therefore, after discussion in the court, the migration strategy needs to be carried out separately and adapted to local conditions. This time Zhao Tuo destroyed Qi. His main task was to remove the Tian clan from Qi without touching the local heroes and wealthy merchants.
The Qin army not only did not move these wealthy families, but also cultivated the pro-Qin faction among them to assist the Qin army in managing the local area, helped them to rise to power, appointed them as local officials, and used these people to replace the original Tian family status.
This approach of wooing local wealthy people and moving away the Tian family can greatly avoid the turmoil and resistance of the local Qi people.
In order to seize the real estate, power and other things after Tian's departure, some wealthy people, driven by interests, will be more enthusiastic than the Qin army and help the Qin army isolate the Tian family.
This is what later generations call uniting the majority and attacking the minority. People from the Tian family were among the very few who were hit this time.
Under the shock of Qi's demise, under the threat of swords and halberds in the hands of the Qin army, under the example of Tian Jia and other nobles who took the family wealth to the west, and under the pressure of wealthy people from all over the country who were waiting for the upper hand.
The Tian clan in each city did not expect many people to resist, so they could only pack up their wealth and be escorted west by the Qin army to Guanzhong with their clan members.
There, they will settle down under the supervision of countless Qin people, and as time goes by, they will be assimilated by the Qin people.
In addition to the Tian family of Qi State, the Qin army later led its troops back to Xianyang, and also migrated the powerful clans of Wei and South Korea to Guanzhong along the way.
The land of Wei and Han is the only way for the Qin army to return to Guanzhong. The Qin army can just use the power of destroying Qi to defeat Qi on the way back without any effort.
As for the nobles and nobles from Chu, Zhao, Yan and other places who were further away, they had to wait for the next batch.
After the Qin State cultivated a large number of grammatical officials, they would slowly migrate and rotate in batches, and finally achieve the purpose of changing the blood of the Six Kingdoms, strengthening the Qin people's control over the hometowns of the princes, and eradicating the remnants of the Six Kingdoms. the threat posed.
"Order the generals from various places to win over local wealthy people. After sufficient preparations are made and the list is sorted out, the Tian clan will begin to move to various places." Zhao Tuo spoke solemnly and passed on the order.
At the same time, he also sent an order to Tu Sui in the rear, asking Tu Sui to come to Linzi and take full charge of this important event.
The migration of the Tian family into Guanzhong involves a very wide range of things and cannot be completed in a short time.
It will take a long time just to compile the list of the Tian clan in the newly conquered cities, and it will also take even longer to move these people from Qidi to Guanzhong. It will take at least next year to complete them all.
Zhao Tuo, as the general in charge of this attack on Qi, still needs to escort the three captured kings, as well as the princes, concubines, treasures, etc. of Qi and Dai back to Xianyang to present the prisoners. This is a big event, and it is impossible to stay in Linzi to handle it personally. The matter of migration.
After setting a general policy, he would hand over the matter to his deputy Tu Sui, and he would lead his elite troops to Puyang to escort the three kings to Xianyang.
Of course, Tu Sui and many Qin army officers and soldiers who stayed in Qidi to preside over this matter will also receive corresponding achievements and rewards, and will not have many complaints.
Zhao Tuo put the silk book in his hand on the eucalyptus and looked up to the west.
"I want to go back."
