It's a pity that Wang Jian was not fooled at all. He obviously saw through Qi Ren's plan.
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In late December, the battle between Qin and Qi took an obvious turn.
Successful reports came frequently from all three fronts and were sent back to Xianyang.
In early January, the Qi army was forced to retreat for the second time, abandoning some undefeable or relatively unimportant cities, further shrinking its defense lines, concentrating superior forces, and preparing to start a war of attrition against Qin.
It is not a secret that the Qin people have been fighting for many years and do not have enough money and food.
The people of Qi turned to take an all-out defensive stance, preparing to fight Qin to exhaustion.
If the food and grass are exhausted, the Qin army will have no choice but to retreat.
News related to the battle situation were sent back to Xianyang at the same time. Zhao Huaizhong was in his study looking at the progress of the three-pronged attack on the Qi army.
"The Qi people have been defeated for the first time and have reduced their defense lines for the second time. If they are defeated again and have no way to retreat, they will probably start to use methods other than the battlefield."
Lu Buwei was also in the hall and said with a smile: "The Qi people were quite powerful in their early years, so they must have some foundation. Next, we may have to compare our foundation outside the battlefield..."
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It was January.
Qi Di, Southern Line.
Wang Jian led his army to besiege Xuzhou.
Xuzhou is the hub of Qi people's southern route and is one of the few fortified cities in the world.
Large siege equipment trembled inside and outside the city wall, and defensive formations were densely covered on the city wall.
The battle between the two armies reached a fierce point, with shouts of killing occurring one after another.
Wang Jian has already personally stepped forward to suppress the governor.
In this battle, Qin used new secret weapons.
A solid iron pillar more than ten feet long, made of iron inside and covered with bronze.
This thing requires several people to embrace it. It is like a giant siege tree. The pillars are densely packed with new secret scripts with the word "heavy" engraved on them.
The secret text of the origin of heavy characters can be superimposed to increase the weight of the artifact.
The blessing ceremony was engraved with the secret text of origin, making this huge copper pillar unimaginably heavy.
This thing is not for human use, but for bronze men to use to attack cities.
When the bronze man picked up the bronze pillar like a siege log and hit the city wall and gate, the secret text on it flashed.
Boom!
With muffled thunderous sounds one after another, the Xuzhou city gate was torn apart, and even the city walls were covered with cracks and collapsed in pieces.
In mid-January, the Qin army attacked Qi, and its advantage became more and more obvious.
Wang Jian's troops first defeated Xuzhou, then moved northward, approaching Qufu in Qi (the hometown of Confucius and the former capital of the Yin and Shang Dynasties).
When we arrived in Qufu, we were already in the hinterland of Qi people.
On the western front, the Qin army led by Lian Po was forced to the outside of Wuyan City. Li Mu also went south at the same time, plundering hundreds of miles of land.
The three routes approached Qi Ren's heart at the same time.
News of the war spread, and the Qi clan was horrified.
By now, it had been three months since the war started, and the Qin army had officially established a huge advantage on the battlefield.
Tian Dan changed his formation several times and retracted his defense line, but was still defeated by the Qin army. It was impossible to defeat the Qin army in terms of military strength.
Evening, Linzi.
In the palace, Tian Dan said to Qi Wang Jianda: "Your Majesty, please order me to use the immortal gift to open the ancient altar and activate the power of heaven and earth to reverse the war situation that is unfavorable to us, Da Qi."
Qi Wangjian was silent for a moment and asked: "How sure is Prime Minister Tian?"
"I'm not sure, but there is no other way to turn defeat into victory."
Qi Wangjian said flatly: "It's fine. I also want to see what will happen if the power of the ancient altar is unleashed. Just follow what Prime Minister Tian said."
That night, several royal orders were sent from Linzi to various places in Qi.
In the cities all over the country, the Qi army stayed behind closed doors.
Late at night, inside the Qi Palace, a pillar of light slowly rose.
The light pillar was weak at first, but after it appeared, it quickly became powerful.
There was a broken stone pillar in the light, and it rose into the sky. Countless mantras flashed on it, and the power released shone with the stars, the sun and the moon.
At the same moment, thousands of miles away in Daqin, in the stone hall of the ancestral temple, the Immortal Pillar was also shaking slightly.
In the bedroom of Xiangying Palace, Zhao Huaizhong suddenly opened his eyes, turned over and sat up.
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