Ji Jie occupied four border cities with Qi State, plus a small south city, and wiped out 200,000 Qi troops and more than 20,000 Chu troops with less than 20,000 casualties. Of course, the Chu army had left Qi State, but anyway This has all been recorded on the merits of the Zhou-Korean coalition forces.
In the palace of King Qi, King Qi felt a bit toothache when he saw the indisputable facts before him. Before going to court, he was angrily scolded by the queen.
The queen's original words were as follows: "If you don't understand military affairs, don't point fingers at the army. The coalition forces have suffered losses at the hands of Ji Jie, so they should retreat immediately. Instead of confronting them head-on even though they know they are losing, now You are satisfied. Hundreds of thousands of Qi troops died because of your words, and General Tian He met a tragic end!"
King Qi was so angry that he had no choice but to vent his anger on his officials.
"You all tell me, what should we do next?" King Qi threw the battle report in front of all the ministers and said angrily: "Aren't you all bragging at the beginning that our Qi country is invincible and that an army of 200,000 can defeat the Zhou Dynasty? Are you pissed off? Now, the country is in ruins, and they are almost attacking Linzi!"
The ministers of Qi State were used to being pampered, and few of them had ever seen a large battle, and for a while they had no idea.
"Look at how cowardly you are, how could I use you incompetent people!" King Qi took the queen's ideas as his own and said, "I think we must unite Zhao and Wei at this moment. Let them send troops to the Great Zhou Dynasty. If there is a fire in Ji Jie's backyard, he will have to lead his troops back. This will relieve my urgent need!"
"Your Majesty is wise! I am extremely ashamed!" An old minister shouted a flattering slogan.
"Your Majesty, your Majesty is wise!" All the ministers shouted, and the King of Qi became a little excited.
The King of Qi immediately sent envoys with gold and silver treasures to Zhao and Wei to persuade them to send troops to invade Zhou.
King Zhao drooled when he saw the property sent by the Qi people and agreed without thinking. King Wei was also tempted, but gave up the idea after Lord Xinling's dissuasion.
King Zhao reactivated the veteran general Li Mu and gave him 100,000 troops. Sima Shangye was reinstated as the vanguard general. The two led their troops into the territory of Yan from the northwest and approached Longcheng of the Great Zhou Dynasty.
At this time, Ji Jie was discussing with the generals the strategy of using troops for the next alignment.
"Damn it, Zhao Guo really doesn't want to be left alone!" Ji Jie cursed angrily, and Zhao Qian lowered her head subconsciously. After all, it was his father who ordered the attack on Zhou Dynasty, even though King Zhao had publicized it in public more than once. It broke away from the father-daughter relationship.
"Your Majesty, the total number of defenders we have left in Zhou and Yan exceeds 300,000. What can Li Mu's 100,000 troops do?" Ji Jian said nonchalantly.
Ji Jie shook his head and said: "If someone else was appointed as the general of the Zhao army, I wouldn't take it seriously, but it is Li Mu! In terms of intelligence and military skills, there are few of you here who can match him. In addition, he has been patient for several days. This time Regaining military power must be based on the idea of showing off one's talents, which should not be underestimated! This move of King Zhao gives me a headache. On the one hand, I can't bear to leave the city that I finally captured in Qi, and on the other hand, I have to take into account Li Mu's relationship with Zhou Yan. Threat to the land.”
In the end, he could only let a group of generals lead their troops to garrison the city, and he returned to Zhou Dynasty to resist the enemy.
The guard generals of the five cities are Ji Jian, Zhao Ling, Xiong Ba, Xiong Kui and Tai Shi Yong. Zhao Qian stayed to continue leading the medical team, Ji Xueling was responsible for the overall work, and Sima Xueran and Xiong Ben returned with Ji Jie. .
In addition, he sent someone to quickly deliver a message to Ji Lin, asking her to return to Jicheng and take charge of it, so that Li Mu would not be able to take advantage of the Great Zhou and attack Yan instead.
On the way back, Xiong Ben asked confusedly: "Your Majesty, why do you pay so much attention to Li Mu?"
Ji Jie said sincerely: "Of the famous generals in the world, there are only two that I can like, one is Li Mu and the other is Wang Jian! Of course, Wang Jian is still just a junior colonel in the Qin Army, so there is only one Li Mu who can Attracting enough attention from me, think about it, except for Li Mu who suffered defeat at my hands, he has always defeated his opponents!"
Regardless of whether Xiong Ben fully understood the meaning of these words, as long as it was Ji Jie's words, he would firmly believe them.
When Ji Jie rushed to Longcheng, he saw the devastated city walls and gates. To be honest, he was really shocked. The walls of Longcheng were notoriously easy to defend and difficult to attack. What did Li Mu do? What kind of attack method can cause such great damage in the morning!
Entering the city, the city was also in a mess. An old man cried and told Ji Jie that Ou Ming, the head of the forging supervisor, died in yesterday's attack by the Zhao army.
"What, Ou Ming is dead!" Ji Jie was angry. As the head of the forging supervisor, Ou Ming had made outstanding contributions to the research of new weapons, the improvement of artillery shells and the transformation of trebuchets. The military of the Great Zhou Dynasty It was also because of him that my strength achieved a qualitative leap in a short period of time.
But now, he is dead, killed by Zhao Jun's artillery bombardment!
"How could this happen?" Ji Jie asked in a roar.
The reason is that Li Mu brought a trebuchet that can shoot farther. During this period of forbearance, he conducted detailed research on the new siege weapons used by Ji Jie, made many improvements, and successfully catapulted long-range trebuchets. The range of the aircraft was doubled, and dozens of them were made using free time.
Zhao Jun built a trebuchet position three miles away. The Longcheng defenders did not take these people seriously. In their opinion, Zhou's weapons were the most powerful, and those of other countries were not worth mentioning at all.
When more than a dozen trebuchets roared, these people realized the seriousness of the matter, but it was too late.
The city guard sent cavalry out of the city to destroy the enemy's positions. On the way, they were killed by the Zhao army who had been ambushing on both sides of the road. The cannonballs exploded one after another on the city wall and in the city.
As a result, we have the current result.
In the end, Zhao Jun's position was still threatened by more than a dozen groups of cavalry sent out from the city, and they had to choose to retreat. By this time, the shelling had lasted for more than half an hour.
"Of course, launch a comprehensive investigation of Zhao Jun!" Ji Jie gritted his teeth and said: "After Li Mu was demoted, I almost forgot about the existence of his opponent, so that he took advantage of such a big loophole! There is only one in this battle The goal is to kill Li Mu, the number of enemies annihilated does not matter!"
After knowing him for so long, Sima Xueran saw Ji Jie gnashing her teeth with hatred for someone for the first time. Indeed, Ou Ming is a rare talent. Li Mu may not know that he has touched that part of Ji Jie's body. Reverse scale.
"Okay, I'll start an investigation right away!"
Ji Jie looked at a group of Dragon City officials who were more or less injured, took a deep breath and said: "The main reason for this matter is not you. How can you just take advantage without suffering a loss? This is the cruel law of war! However, you must learn from it and make improvements immediately to avoid the same thing happening again! Let the main personnel of the Forging Supervisor come to see me, and we can work out a plan to avenge Ou Ming!"