When Li Yuan saw the ten boxes of gold sent by Qi State, his eyes were straightened. This was one hundred thousand taels of gold!
"Go back and tell your king that I agree with his proposal!" Li Yuan said to the Qi envoy without thinking: "Within three days, I will send 100,000 elite troops to Qi to fight the enemy together!"
The envoy of Qi State quickly bowed and said: "Thank you very much, Prime Minister, but one hundred thousand people is a bit small. If it is convenient for you, send more. Wouldn't it be better to scare Ji Jie away directly?"
Li Yuan didn't like hearing this. He pointed to the box and said: "One hundred thousand, just right, no one will suffer! If I want the Prime Minister to send more people, okay, let your Majesty the King of Qi be more generous!"
Of course the envoy understood what he meant, and what he meant was that money was what we in Qi had. We were afraid that if we could not afford it then you, Li Yuan, would not be able to send troops!
"Okay, I understand, then I won't disturb the Prime Minister!" Qi Shi resigned very wisely.
After he left, Li Yuan grabbed a handful of gold bars and sneered to himself: "Ji Jie, you came to this door yourself. Don't blame me for not thinking about our past friendship. It's not good for you to hit anyone. You have to hit them all." Who doesn’t know that Chu and Qi are allies, so attacking him would be equivalent to attacking me!"
For a high-sounding reason, Li Yuan notified Li Yan of this matter just before sending troops.
Li Yan was furious, but there was nothing he could do. The military power was in Li Yuan's hands. She didn't even have the right to mobilize a single soldier, and a hundred thousand troops were already on their way.
Now that the matter has come to this, we can only quickly write a letter and send it to Ji Jie to explain to him that he has nothing to do with this matter.
In fact, even without this letter, Ji Jie knew that it was Li Yuan's idea to send troops, not Li Yan.
In this dispatch, Ji Jie's 120,000 horses were divided into 40,000 cavalry, led by general Zhao Ling, 50,000 infantry led by Ji Jian, 10,000 left and right vanguards, and Xiong Ba and Xiong Kui on the left as the chief and deputy vanguard generals. , on the right are Taishi Yong and Xiong Bizhang's troops, and finally there are 10,000 artillery troops and 300 trebuchets of various types, plus hundreds of trucks of ammunition.
The 30,000 people of the Korean army were composed of 10,000 cavalry and 20,000 infantry. Ji Jie arranged them on the flanks for escort work.
The 150,000-strong army marched across South Korea and headed straight for the border with Qi. At this time, the 100,000 Chu troops sent by Li Yuan also entered the Qi territory. After joining the 200,000 Qi troops, 300,000 The people defended four border cities plus a coalition camp.
In a great war, four of the seven Central Plains Kingdoms (after the Yan Kingdom was assigned to the Zhou Dynasty, the Eight Kingdoms once again became the Seven Kingdoms) were involved. The troops invested by both sides reached 450,000. This was going to be a great war.
There were three girls accompanying Ji Jie, namely Sima Xueran who was in charge of intelligence, Ji Xueling who was in charge of security, and finally Zhao Qian who was in charge of medical security.
This girl Zhao Qian took advantage of her free time some time ago to form a medical team of more than a thousand people, mostly composed of girls. This made Ji Jie's eyes light up: My dear, my woman accidentally gave me We organized a team of nurses, mm, this is truly unprecedented!
In order to prevent the nurses from being "harassed" by the male soldiers, Ji Jie asked the medical team to follow the Chinese army's tent when the army set off, and no one was allowed to approach them except during field rescue!
He originally wanted to choose a few beautiful girls among the nurses to fill his harem, but the three girls were super strict with Ji Jie. He had no chance at all and could only stare at them.
The army stopped briefly at the border between the two countries, and Ji Jie had to choose the best attack route based on the garrison situation of the Qi-Chu coalition forces.
Directly ahead, there are four medium-sized border towns, each housing 20,000 Qi troops and 10,000 Chu troops. Then there are 180,000 people in the coalition camp. No matter where you attack, you will be attacked by reinforcements from four directions. Moreover, the number of enemies far exceeds that of the Zhou and Korean coalition forces.
All the soldiers were sitting in the tent, waiting for Ji Jie to send him a mission.
Ji Jie held the baton, pointed at a point on the sand table and said: "Left and left vanguards obey orders!"
"The end is here!"
The three Xiong brothers and Tai Shiyong stood up together.
Ji Jie ordered: "Start tonight, half an hour before dawn tomorrow, launch an attack from the east on the left, and go back to the enemy's rear on the right to catch him by surprise! The battle must be ended before dawn, and then repair the fortifications to prepare for the arrival of our army. Be prepared!"
"Got the order!"
The rebels Ji Jie ordered to attack were not within the scope of the four border towns and the enemy's main camp at all, but a small town in the south near the Wei State, where 6,000 Qi troops were stationed. It was an inconspicuous place.
There are two reasons why we chose this location as the breakthrough point.
First, achieve an unexpected effect and quickly establish your own "bridgehead" within the territory of Qi State; second, after occupying the small city, you can build a strong fortress, leaving some people to guard it, and the large army marches straight into Linzi, the capital of the Seven Kingdoms, to attack. Disrupt the defensive rhythm of 300,000 enemies!
The enemy is strong and we are weak, and the ratio of troops is two to one. If you want to win the battle, you cannot fight offensive and defensive battles according to the enemy's wishes. Even if you win in the end, you will cause a lot of casualties to your own side. The best strategy is Mobilize your enemies and eat them on the move.
"The army will set out at dawn tomorrow and arrive at the small town before noon. The generals will go back immediately to make arrangements for the departure!" Ji Jie gave the second order in shock.
"Yes!" All the generals stood up and shouted together.
The two vanguard armies arrived at the scheduled position one hour before launching the attack, took a short rest, and waited for the launch of the fierce attack.
When the time came, Xiong Ba picked up the giant ax and shouted: "Brothers, charge!"
"Charge!" Xiong Kui also waved his giant ax and shouted loudly. The two of them rushed at the front, leading 10,000 cavalry towards the small town.
At this time, there was still half an hour before dawn. It was the sleepiest time of the day. There were not many defenders standing on the top of the city. They were all asleep against the city wall. They opened their eyes only when they heard the rush to kill people. That's stupid.
"Enemy attack...enemy attack...boom boom boom..."
The rapid alarm gong sounded, and before the sleeping soldiers in the city had time to put on their underpants, Xiong Ba and Xiong Bi rushed to the city gate. Together they picked up the steel crossbow and fired the crossbow arrows with thunderbolts. On the suspension bridge chain.
"Boom boom..."
There were two explosions, the iron chain was broken, and the suspension bridge automatically fell. Xiong Ba rushed over with two sky-shaking cannonballs and threw them at the city gate.
"Boom..."
The violent explosion not only destroyed the city gate, but also destroyed the city gate building.
Xiong Ba smiled bitterly and said, "I would have used one if I had known earlier. This is so smooth!"
"Why are you standing there, charge!" Xiong Ben clamped his horse's belly and rushed into the city with his men.
At this time, Tai Shiyong and Xiong Bi, who were coming from the other direction, also used the same method to blow open the city gate. The Zhou army swarmed in and slashed and killed the disheveled Chu army.
Screams and begging for mercy kept coming and going.
In less than a quarter of an hour, the small town was completely occupied. About a thousand of the six thousand Chu troops were killed, and the rest all surrendered.