On the edge of Fen River.

The military camp of Qin State was vast and grand.

Xiang Yan stood on the east bank and looked towards the west bank. Counting the time, the Qin army had been camping here for several days. Baizhong had been silent. He seemed not to want to cross the river. He just pressed the border with the Chu army and had a stalemate with them.

"Shangzhu State, the Qin army has not crossed the river yet."

A general of the Qu family named Qu Ye looked at the warships docked on the west bank and continued: "In fact, the Qin army has a high chance of success if they forcefully cross the river, but Baizhong did not do so."

Xiang Yan is very careful now. The person he has to face is Bai Zhong, and he was defeated by this person in the last battle.

Since the Qin army did not move, he did not intend to take the initiative to attack. He and Bai Zhong were in a stalemate to the end to see who could not hold on in the end. He said: "Baizhong did this because he wanted to compete with our great Chu for national strength."

In war, in addition to the struggle of soldiers' strength, there is also a competition of national strength.

The competition is about who has more food, whose logistics can keep up, and whose country will be in chaos first.

Xiang Yan continued: "Without my order, do not provoke the Qin army or cross the river. Since Bai Zhong does not intend to go to war, we should not go to war either."

Since Bai Zhong wants to compete for national strength, he can accompany him to the end.

They all felt that Chu's national power must be stronger than Qin's, with its vast territory, dense river network, and large amounts of cultivated land, which Qin could not match.

The west bank of Fen River.

Bai Zhong was too lazy to observe the Chu military camp. Every day he either led troops to train on the school grounds, or asked the Iron Eagle warriors to go to the boat and into the water to continue to practice their water combat capabilities.

In the military camp of Qin State, there was no tension as in Chu State.

The soldiers of the Qin army did what they were supposed to do, neatly and orderly, calmly and calmly.

"General, all the Chu army's scouts must retreat."

Li You walked into the military camp and said.

Bai Zhong analyzed: "Xiang Yan is also prepared to continue the stalemate with us. The Chu army is still very powerful and has high morale. We can win and cross the river. There is no problem, but the loss will definitely be huge. Wait a moment. I'm waiting.

With an opportunity to cross the river, no matter what the Chu army does next, as long as they are not attacking, there is no need to pay attention to it, but when they find the scouts, they still kill them as much as possible."

Li You asked: "Even if the Chu army crosses the river to provoke, don't you ignore it?"

"It's just a provocation, don't use it for the time being."

Bai Zhong thought for a while and then said: "If the Chu army crosses the river, come and tell me."

"only!"

Li You didn't know how long the two sides would delay.

However, we can delay it as long as we can, depending on who can't hold on first.

Xiang Yan also led an army of 400,000 troops and stationed it on the east bank of the Fen River. The amount of food consumed every day was an astronomical figure, and one day it would eventually be overwhelmed.

Bai Zhong sent Li You away and was about to inspect the military camp. He saw Fusu and Ying Shu chatting next to the school field.

"Teacher, why haven't you started fighting yet?"

Fusu asked curiously.

Bai Zhong smiled and said: "Young master, do you really want to fight? When marching and fighting, you need to be able to keep your composure and be careful not to rush forward in a hurry. Sometimes not going to fight is also a strategy."

Fusu seemed to understand but felt that these words made sense and said: "Thank you teacher for your teaching."

Ying Shu warned: "I will call you uncle from now on."

They are all married, and Bai Zhong has changed from a teacher to an elder of Fusu, and their relationship is closer.

"I'm used to teachers."

Fusu explained: "It's more respectful to call me teacher."

Bai Zhong said indifferently: "It's just a title. You can call me whatever you want."

Next, the Qin and Chu armies continued to stand in a stalemate.

No one takes the initiative to fight, they are all waiting for the other party to start the war first.

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Time flies so fast, nearly a month has passed.

The envoys from Chu State finally came to Qi State and persuaded the King of Qi to join Chu State in fighting against Qin State. The King of Qi State also wanted to send troops to attack Handan and Jicheng.

After King Jian of Qi came to power, Qi State always dreamed of forming an alliance with Qin State. It neither joined forces with other countries to fight against Qin nor strengthened its own military defense. Until Qin destroyed the three Jin Dynasties and crippled Yan State, now it starts again.

When he was conquering Chu, he heard various persuasion from Chu envoys, and finally felt the threat from Qin, so he quickly gathered his troops back.

Hou Sheng, the Prime Minister of Qi, was the uncle of King Jian of Qi. This man was only interested in profit and accepted countless gold and jade articles from Qin. When Zhao was destroyed, Yao Jia went to Qi as an envoy and saw Hou Sheng.

It was precisely after Hou Sheng was persuaded that Qi's grain merchants, including the government, would not sell a grain of grain to Zhao.

Now the envoys of the Chu State came to Linzi to persuade King Qi to send troops. Naturally, they were in great danger of winning the war, so they kept persuading King Qi to give up this idea.

However, Qi Wangjian seemed to want to be tough. Knowing that Qi State had been destroyed, he could no longer be a great king, and he could no longer live in fine clothes and food, so he loudly said: "I have decided to send troops!"

Qi Wangjian, who was lying flat before, wanted to stand up now, but it was too late.

After the Qi army was integrated, it first wanted to attack Handan.

Hou Sheng was very anxious. After receiving so much money from Qin, he could not do anything. He wrote a letter overnight and asked people to send it to Qin as soon as possible to the guard of Handan.

This was the only thing he could do, but it was foreseeable that even without his own tip-off, the Qi army would definitely be defeated.

Now that he is spreading the news, he hopes that if the Qi State is destroyed in the future, Ying Zheng can take it for granted that he has done so much and let him go without killing him.

The Qi army was very fast and crossed the border between the two countries.

at the same time.

Hou Sheng's letter was also sent to Yang Duanhe.

"Send my military order and immediately go to the Qi border to be on guard!"

Yang Duanhe immediately ordered.

Within Handan, there are still 100,000 troops, all composed of former Zhao people, with the purpose of suppressing any remaining resistance forces in the Zhao Kingdom, such as some nobles who escaped, etc.

Knowing that Qi dared to send troops to Qin, Yang Duanhe left 30,000 people in the city and led 70,000 to attack Qi's army.

The morale of Qi's army was not high to begin with.

Even if this group of Qin troops is composed of Zhao people, they have been trained by Yang Duanhe for a long time, and they have been rewarded with military titles. They are like tigers and hungry wolves. In the first battle between the two sides, the Qi army was defeated.

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However, the Qi army did not retreat and stationed at the border, hoping to fight Yang Duanhe to the end.

"Qi Wang Tian Jian, you are seeking death!"

Yang Duanhe did not take the Qi army to heart. While resisting the enemy at the border, he wrote letters and sent them back to Xianyang.

Even though the main force of the Qin army is now outside Chencheng, it is not very difficult to gather forces to destroy Qi.

But whether to fight like this, Yang Duanhe depends on Ying Zheng's opinion.

Before the king's edict came down, he decided to destroy the invading Qi army first.

"Early tomorrow morning, attack."

Yang Duanhe said again.

The Qin army prepared quickly and stormed into Qi's military camp the next morning.
Chapter completed!