The Qi army was defeated and completely defeated. Prince Ji's army pursued the Qi army all the way, driving straight into the hinterland of Qi.
For those cities in Qi State, Gongzi Ji did not capture them immediately, but pursued the main force of the Qi army. Most of the Qi cities were occupied by nobles and ministers of Qi. They all defended the cities and did not dare to fight against Huai. As a result, the Qi army was defeated all the way.
Gongzi Ji commanded the army and chased him all the way to Linzi, the capital of Qi State. At this point, Gongzi Ji also encountered the army of Yan State.
Seeing those Yan soldiers with high morale and murderous intent, Prince Ji immediately stopped the army. After several trials and tribulations, the Yan army that conquered Qi was at its peak strength. With Leyi as its commander, it was also the period when Yan was at its strongest.
Le Yi on the other side also ordered the army to stop. As a top commander, he was very aware of the power of the Huai State. Tens of thousands of troops pursued them all the way, and they were able to maintain their formation. After encountering the Yan State, they could quickly adjust their formation.
So elite, even the Yan army with high morale under his command was slightly inferior. His trip was to attack Qi State, not to fight with Huai State.
Young Master Ji also had no intention of fighting with the Yan State. The Yan State was located on the border of the north and had no conflict of interest with the Huai State. In addition, the Yan State's soldiers were elite. If a fight broke out, no matter whether they won or lost, they would suffer heavy losses.
Immediately, Prince Ji sent an envoy to the Yan army. At the same time, Le Yi also sent an envoy to the Huai army.
Seeing the envoy coming, Gongzi Ji and Le Yi both knew that the other party had no intention of fighting. After the envoy conveyed the news, Gongzi Ji invited Le Yi to meet in person.
When Le Yi heard Wang Ji inviting him, he was slightly startled. The surrounding lieutenants quickly dissuaded him: "Generals cannot take personal risks. If it is the Huai Kingdom..."
Le Yi laughed and said: "That young master Ji is the official of the Huai Kingdom. Since the founding of the Huai Kingdom, the Huai Kingdom has never broken its promise."
"And the two sides communicated in front of the two armies. If they didn't go, wouldn't they be looked down upon?"
"The general is leaving, please let me wait for the escort!" the deputy general next to him insisted.
Le Yi nodded and said, "That's good." Then he turned to the Huai envoy and said, "Consult before the formation. Each side will bring five guards."
The Huai envoy immediately returned to report. He was happy that Yi and Wang Ji took five guards to the open space between the two armies to talk.
Wang Ji admired Le Yi very much. After a discussion in front of the battle, the two agreed that the Huai army would no longer go north and the Yan army would not go south. The Yan and Huai countries would not invade each other, and then both sides would retreat. Ten miles.
After the army retreated, Wang Ji began to conquer the cities of Qi, while Le Yi continued to command the army to besiege Linzi.
Although Qi has not yet been destroyed, it is only a matter of time.
Just when Huai State and Qi State were fighting, Qin State and the Three Jin Dynasties were also fighting fiercely in Hexi. Wei State regarded this battle as an opportunity to rise again. However, South Korea and Wei State were not strong enough, and Qin State occupied the city. As for Shou, the two countries still did not gain any advantage. On the contrary, Zhao Guo won consecutive battles and Qin Guo suffered heavy losses.
Qin was fighting on two fronts and was unable to fight back. Fortunately, the Western Chu State was also under attack from both sides due to Huai State's attack.
Qin was unable to attack, but Huai's siege became more and more fierce day by day. The siege of Jiangdu in Chu was extremely fierce.
The King of Chu rewarded his soldiers with large amounts of rewards. Coupled with the abundant food in the city and the difficult terrain, it was very difficult for the Huai army to attack.
Sun Bin asked the craftsmen of the Mo family and Gongshujia to make bed crossbows and trebuchets for attack. However, the trebuchets had a limited throwing distance. Although the bed crossbows had stronger attacks, their attack speed was slow.
Fortunately, with the arrival of more and more Huai troops, the balance of the war has begun to shift towards the Huai Kingdom.
Sun Bin sent a large number of soldiers to besiege Jiangdu, and at the same time sent Shanyue elites to find the weaknesses of the mountain city. At the same time, as time passed, more and more troops from King Qin of the State of Western Chu came over.
Only after these King Qin's armies gathered to a certain size did they begin to attack. It was just that Sun Bin had been prepared for this. Three thousand crossbowmen faced off, and then he let the Tengjia army outflank him from both wings. King Qin of Chu's army was defeated one after another.
These were originally the second-line troops of the Chu State, or how could the recruited Minzhuang be the elite opponents of the Huai State? Coupled with the command of a top commander like Sun Bin, it would be difficult for the Huai State to lose.
In the city of Chu State, we saw that the armies that came to King Qin were defeated by Huai State one after another, and the morale of the soldiers in the city was also decreasing little by little.
The city is besieged by a large army. If there are reinforcements outside the city to rescue them, even if the city is very difficult, the morale of the soldiers will not decrease and they are willing to fight to the death. The reinforcements outside the city are the hope of the soldiers in the city. But if the reinforcements outside the city are defeated one after another, the soldiers in the city will lose hope and their morale will plummet.
After defeating several reinforcements in a row, the resistance in Jiangzhou City gradually decreased. At the same time, another army from Huai State also attacked Shangyong City.
Huai State has built Chidao over the years, which not only improved Huai State's transportation capacity by several levels, but also trained a group of road construction teams for Huai State. The Huai army attacked Shangyong, opening roads and building bridges when encountering mountains and rivers. Attack all the way, build roads all the way, camp step by step, and forcibly widen the mountain road.
The land of Hanzhong is not like Jiangzhou, which is a mountain city. Hanzhong Shangyong is a plain, after passing through the mountains and rivers. Shangyong Hanzhong's army was originally mobilized to attack Qin, and later a large number of Minzhuang and Qinwang were taken away. By the time the Huaiguo North Road army attacked, there were only thousands of old and weak soldiers and tens of thousands of Minzhuang left in Shangyong City.
How can these troops resist the Huai army? A hundred thousand troops besieged Shangyong, and Huai State built a large number of siege equipment on the spot. How could Shangyong City resist?
In less than ten days, it was defeated by the Huai army led by Wei Zong. The governor of Shangyong County of Chu hanged himself, and most of the other soldiers surrendered. After the Huai Kingdom defeated Shangyong, Wei Zong immediately sent soldiers to maintain order in the city, implemented a curfew, and controlled the treasury in the city. Then he sent people to count the people in the city, who dared to cause trouble, took the opportunity to rob the people, set fire to kill people, raped women without mercy, and opened granaries to release grain.
Under Wei Zong's order, Huai soldiers immediately dispatched, and order was soon restored in Shangyong City. At the same time, after Huai opened warehouses to release grain, Shangyong City gradually settled down. These people finally did not have to worry about Huai's massacre of the city. .
When the Huai State attacked, in order to inspire the people's will to defend to the death, the Chu State deliberately made lies and threats, saying that the soldiers of the Huai State were all murderers, committing adultery, robbery and all kinds of evil, and that they would massacre the city if they captured it.
After the Huai Kingdom captured Shangyong, they specially sent people to open warehouses to store grain, in order to tell the people in the city that the Huai Kingdom would not massacre the city.
After the Huai army defeated Shangyong, a gap was torn open in the entire Hanzhong Plain.
(End of chapter)
