Ji Hou didn't pay much attention to the minister's reminder. Ten years ago, Qi State wanted to attack Ji State, so he dragged Song State and Wei State together, and then was beaten violently by Lu State, Ji State and Zheng State. Three years ago, Qi State and Song State once again attacked Lu State and were defeated again.
Continuous defeats made Ji Guo feel that Qi State's strength was declining day by day. Therefore, after Ji Hou learned that Qi State was conquering Huaiyi and Dongyi, he felt relieved. The soldiers were dismissed, leaving only a few to guard the capital.
Wang Cheng's father led the army to go on an expedition. Soon Huaiyi, Dongyi, and Lai got the news and began to recruit soldiers to prepare for a war with Qi.
The disputes between Huaiyi, Dongyi, Lai State and Qi State have been going on for two hundred years. Over the past two hundred years, the two sides have won and lost each other, but generally speaking, they are similar. Of course, this is superficial. In fact, after the reform, Qi's strength has far exceeded them.
But just as Huaiyi, Dongyi, and Lai were preparing, the Qi army suddenly marched northward and directly invaded Ji.
Facing the attack of Qi State, Ji State was caught off guard. In just three days, more than a dozen cities were captured, and the Qi State army came directly to the capital of Ji.
As soon as Qi attacked, Jihou quickly summoned an army to resist. Unfortunately, it was too late. By the time the Qi army arrived, Ji Hou had only summoned about half of the army.
By this time, the arrow was already on the string and had to be fired. Wang Chengfu led the Qi army to attack, and Ji Hou formed a formation outside the city to fight with him.
It is a pity that Ji State has not kept up with the changes of the times and has been left far behind by Qi State. The army charged and killed Ji Guo, who was severely defeated. Ji Hou only escaped with his own body and fled back to the capital.
Ji's soldiers were no match for Qi's, their armor coverage was far inferior, and even their training levels were far behind. How could they be Qi's rivals?
Qi State defeated Ji State's army and then took advantage of the situation to attack the city. Jidu was besieged, reinforcements failed to arrive, and they suffered a major defeat. Jihou was so frightened by the battle outside the city that he led his people to flee regardless of the country.
When everyone in Ji State saw that Ji Hou had run away and was still willing to fight to the death, they all abandoned their weapons and surrendered. Qi State conquered Ji State with very slight casualties.
The Marquis of Ji fled, and the country of Ji was destroyed. The state of Qi forced the residents of Ji State to move to Qi, and also moved the people of Qi to live in the three cities of Pi, Wei, and Pi. The state of Ji did not survive.
The Ji State, which had been entangled with the Qi State for two hundred years, was destroyed in one fell swoop, which greatly shocked the Huaiyi, Dongyi and Lai States. After Qi State annexed Ji State, it did not stop. Instead, its army continued its southern march.
Under the pressure of Qi, the Huaiyi and Dongyi Lai countries united and wanted to fight against Qi.
In fact, Huaiyi is about to disappear after years of attack and annexation by Huai State. In fact, these Huaiyi tribes have merged with Dongyi. Lai State has fought back and forth with Qi State in the past two hundred years, but now It has also been blocked by Qi State, Ju State and Tan State on the Jiaodong Peninsula.
If the cage cannot be defeated, it will only be a matter of time before the Lai Kingdom is destroyed.
The army of Qi State came with the power of destroying the country, and Huaiyi and Dongyi Lai State gathered their armies to fight with them. The armies of both sides faced each other in the wilderness. The Qi army had high morale and sharp armor, but the Yi and Di were defeated and were defeated one after another.
The army retreated for more than a hundred miles before barely blocking the Qi army.
Seeing that the Qi army was strong, the Yi and Di forces did not dare to fight and relied on the city's rivers to defend themselves. He wanted to delay and allow Qi to run out of food and retreat.
Wang Chengfu attacked several times. The Qi army suffered heavy casualties and achieved little success. Wang Cheng's father was unwilling to pay more casualties, so he confronted the Laiyi coalition forces.
After discovering that the losses from the frontal breakthrough were too great, Wang Cheng's father asked people to plant more flags, build more camps, and set up more campfires, and let soldiers go in and out of the camps every day, so that the Laiyi coalition forces thought that the Qi army was still here. Illusion.
Then Wang Chengfu mobilized 30,000 troops and ordered the army to pass here and attack Donglai. If the sneak attack is successful, Qi will naturally win. Even if the sneak attack fails and a large army threatens the capital, the Lai Kingdom will definitely send its army back, and the coalition will inevitably fall apart by then.
Qi State took advantage of the situation to attack, but Lai State was worried about losses in the rear and would not dare to stay. However, Huaiyi and Dongyi were not strong enough, so how could they stop it.
After Wang Cheng's father divided his forces, he still sent a part of the army to challenge every day. At the same time, he reorganized the army and sent out scouts to detect the movements of the coalition forces. If there were any signs of withdrawal of the coalition forces, he would immediately attack with the army.
The Laiguo coalition forces did not realize that Qi State had divided its forces into two groups, and even because most of the troops were contained here, the rest of Laiguo was empty.
Qi State's 30,000 partial troops were dispatched, and soon detoured to the north, crossed the Jiaohe River, and then drove straight in to directly attack Donglai, the capital of Lai State.
Fortunately, Lai and Qi had been fighting each other for many years, and they were very wary of Qi. Although Qi's army came quickly, Lai still responded in time and blocked the sneak attack of 30,000 troops.
Lai State never expected that Qi State would go deep alone and attack with an army of 30,000. Lai had no choice but to send envoys overnight to summon reinforcements.
For a time, reinforcements from all over the Lai Kingdom came to support, but these reinforcements were only a few thousand people, and only a few hundred people. As soon as they arrived near Donglai, they were defeated by the Qi army that had been waiting here.
People in Donglai City were panicked, and envoys went to the front line overnight to ask for help.
When the frontline coalition forces learned that Qi State had actually sent a partial division to attack Donglai, they were also shocked. The Lai generals immediately wanted to retreat and come back for reinforcements, but were dissuaded by the Huaiyi and Dongyi coalition forces.
"The Qi army is watching from the side. If we retreat at this time and the Qi army rushes to kill us, the coalition forces will collapse immediately. Not only will we not be able to save Donglai, but we will also die!"
"The strength of the Qi State will definitely be weakened when the Qi State divides its troops. It is better for us and other coalition forces to dispatch the entire army, take the opportunity to defeat the Qi Army, and then return to the division to rescue Donglai. Not only can we relieve the danger of the Lai State, but the Qi Army's partial division will also require the entire army. Overturned."
"The Qi army suffered heavy losses, and we may be able to invade Qi!"
After some discussion, everyone felt that this plan was feasible. Immediately all the troops were sent out, hoping to rely on their superior strength to defeat Qi. When Wang Cheng's father saw that the entire Lai army was dispatched, he immediately understood that Qi's partial division had succeeded.
He immediately stopped fighting with the coalition forces and allowed the army to hold on to the camp.
When the Lai State coalition forces saw that Qi State did not dare to fight, they thought that Qi State was cowardly, so they were overjoyed and launched an attack. The Qi army responded calmly and relied on the defense of the camp. The Lai army attacked several times, but was repelled by Qi.
Not only did the army fail to defeat the Qi army, it actually suffered considerable losses. In three days, the Lebanese coalition forces only captured a few empty camps. A strong attack failed to achieve results, and the morale of the coalition forces was low. The Lai Kingdom was even more worried about Donglai's losses and urged to retreat.
In the end, the coalition argued endlessly and had to lead their own troops to retreat.
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In the fifth year of Duke Huan of Qi, the state of Qi conquered the Yi and Di states, merged with the state of Ji, and defeated the state of Lai.
