After leading the Qi army under his command to enter Taoyi City with Zhao army, there was not much smile on the face of the Qi army leader Kuang Liang.

His subordinates all thought that this was because Kuang Liang was humiliated by Le Cheng, the leader of the Zhao army, before, but only Kuang Liang himself knew in his heart that this was not the reason.

Mr. Kuang Liang felt that something seemed wrong in this war.

After Kuang Liang's observations over the days, he always felt that this time the Zhao army seemed to be doing things that were difficult for him to understand. The stay outside Taoyi City was just one of these things that were difficult for him to understand.

When the troops were sent at the beginning, King Jian and Housheng of Qi once instructed Kuang Liang to keep Kuang Liang at the Zhao army, so as not to be annexed too much of Wei land by the Zhao army.

Yes, the whole world knows that Zhao State must have some intentions for Wei State this time, and other vassal states know in their hearts that because Zhao Dan now occupies the most righteous component, the expansion of Zhao State is legitimate and difficult to stop.

Of course, it’s not just because of righteousness. After all, everyone can shout things like justice, but they can’t be used as food.

After the last failed four-nation war against Zhao, an argument began to quietly emerge among the other countries. This argument believed that Zhao was the strongest country, and that Zhao was invincible before several other countries completely started.

When an invincible country wants to expand externally, it is not something that these six other countries that have no desire to join forces can stop it. They can only try their best to limit it. Kuang Liang is doing this job.

To be honest, Kuang Liang is under great pressure.

Kuang Liang discovered that since the Zhao army entered the territory of Wei, they not only did not harass any surrounding Wei villages whenever they went to a place, but they also deliberately arranged the marching route to a place far away from the villages, trying not to disturb the people as much as possible.

This kind of marching route is a very strange choice in this era.

Logically speaking, all the generals who lead troops know one thing, that is, since you are going to fight now, "just eat from the enemy" is the best choice.

It is indeed spring now, and the seedlings have just sown into the fields. Even if they want to snatch them between the fields, they can't grab any food. But no matter what, there must be some food in the villages of Wei.

If it is inferred based on the normal war logic, the commander of the Zhao army should send a large number of cavalry teams to the nearby villages of Wei to steal all the food that can be found for the army to fight. This is also a common practice for generals of the vassal states for hundreds of years.

Cola Cheng didn't do this.

Even when Kuang Liang sent a team to a nearby Wei village to grab grain, he was obstructed by the Zhao team who also claimed to be coming to grab grain.

Since Zhao is the backbone of the coalition forces now, and the number of Qi troops is far less than that of Zhao, Qi's grain robbery team naturally did not dare to reach any conflict with Zhao's team, and could only return to the camp helplessly.

But the Qi team then found a fact that after they left, the Zhao people also quickly left, and when the Zhao people left, they had never even entered that damn village!

Mr. Kuang Liang felt that this should be the people of Zhao who were buying people’s hearts.

If this is the first doubt, then the second doubt naturally comes from Le Cheng's hesitation and entanglement outside Taoyi City.

When Duan Ganzi chose to evacuate, the coalition forces led by Le Cheng were actually only two days away from Taoyi. From the perspective of a long-standing general, Le Cheng would either accelerate forward and seize Taoyi, or speed up the pursuit of Duan Ganzi to catch up on the road and defeat Duan Ganzi's troops.

Even if it is because of the distance, you may not be able to catch up with Duan Ganzi. You can follow Duan Ganzi to outside Suiyang City and launch an attack while Duan Ganzi has just arrived in Suiyang City and have not yet established a foothold. This is the most consistent with military theory.

How is Coke riding done?

Not only did Le Cheng not continue to pursue, he stayed outside Taoyi City for so many days. After entering Taoyi City, Le Cheng was also paying attention to those things that bought people's hearts. For example, he spent three days searching for prisoners everywhere in the city, and then took a thousand prisoners to the door of the vegetable market and beheaded his head in front of half of the residents of Taoyi City.

Beheading is very common for Kuang Liang, but the question is who has ever seen an occupation army perform such a behavior in a newly occupied city? This is simply an enforcement of the law by the government.

Kuang Liang felt that the people of Zhao were still buying people's hearts.

The people of Zhao actually wanted to win people's hearts in Taoyi City? This is undoubtedly a very dangerous signal.

Kuang Liang felt that it was very necessary to immediately feed the news to King Jian and Housheng of Qi in Linzi.

But Kuang Liang was still a little hesitant because he was not sure if what he had made was a misjudgment.

After all, Kuang Liang's mission at the beginning was to make Zhao not swallow Wei too much. In this way, it seems understandable that Zhao insists on swallowing Taoyi, and it is not too much.

Taoyi is really close to the current border of Zhao, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is the treasure of the people of Zhao.

In view of this, Kuang Liang decided to temporarily suppress his doubts and continue to observe the next trends of the people of Zhao.

But soon, Le Cheng's next move made Kuang Liang unable to calm down.

On the third day of occupying Taoyi, a large number of Zhao officials arrived in Taoyi City and began to restore the order of the city very quickly.

At this time, Kuang Liang finally confirmed that the people of Zhao really planned to take Tao Yi completely for themselves and did not plan to return it to Wei.

On the fifth day after occupying Taoyi City, Le Cheng finally continued to move south.

This time, the Qi and Zhao coalition forces arrived in Anyang City two days later, and the Anyang Order chose to open the city gate to surrender to Zhao State.

Two days later, the Zhao army arrived in Chuqiu, and Chuqiu ordered the city gate to surrender to Zhao.

At the same time, Kuang Liang also discovered that Zhao State sent several troops of two to three thousand men, and took advantage of the night to leave the camp and headed in several different directions.

Fortunately, Kuang Liang has been vigilant all along, the departure of the small troops of Zhao State did not escape his sight.

So Kuang Liang immediately sent many spies to follow these small troops scattered by Zhao State, hoping to investigate and grasp the movements of these small troops.

A few days later, the spies finally brought back the information that Kuang Liang hoped to get.

Le Cheng sent these small troops not for anything else, but to receive many cities in Wei north of Danshui, such as Shanfu, Guanqiu, Waihuang and other cities, and even Xiaocheng a hundred miles away, was in the target list of people in Zhao.

What shocked Kuang Liang was that none of these cities chose to stand firm and resist, but were all occupied by Zhao's army.

In this way, the entire land north of the Wei State has now become the sphere of influence of the Zhao State.

After doing all this, Le Cheng led the army to move south again.

Five days later, the army crossed Danshui and arrived at Mengcheng, which was only a few dozen miles away from Suiyang.

Originally, the journey that should have been completed in only ten days at most, but it has been almost a month since Le Cheng stayed again and again.

Here, what Kuang Liang was worried about happened again.

The people of Zhao once again sent many small troops to the surrounding areas to surrender to nearby cities, but this time, perhaps because they were closer to Suiyang, the surrounding cities such as Lingling and Xiangcheng all refused the Zhao army's surrender and chose to close the city and defend the city to the death.

So Le Cheng no longer hesitated and led the main force of the army south to surround Suiyang City. At the same time, Le Cheng also sent two troops of about 10,000 people to capture Lingling and Xiangcheng respectively.

At this time, Kuang Liang felt that he could finally be sure of his judgment.

So he picked up a pen and wrote a secret letter, and asked someone to send it to Linzi at a speed of 800 miles. The content in the letter was very simple, which was to tell Linzi Wang Jian and Housheng a sentence.

"The State of Zhao seems to want to join the entire territory of Wei and enter Zhao territory. How to act? Please decide!"
Chapter completed!