343 Taking the Opportunity to Capture the State of Qi
Ji Jie's purpose in sending the three women to Qi was simply to lead the Zhou army stationed there and seize the Qi city with lightning speed.
"But I heard that Li Yuan has basically controlled the power departments of Qi State!" Sima Xueran said: "The king and queen are also in his hands, and the old dignitaries of Qi State have to obey Li Yuan's arrangements. Of course, Many of them chose to defect and became Li Yuan's lackeys."
Ji Jie nodded and said: "Yes, that's it! Although on the surface it seems that Qi State has been controlled by Li Yuan, the actual situation is not like this. Most of the Qi troops do not want to accept his orders! In addition, our focus has always been In the Qin State, how could the people of Qi have thought that Zhou Dynasty would use troops against them at this time, so it can have an unexpected effect!"
"Okay, let's set off right away!" Ji Xueling nodded.
"Well!" Ji Jie took out the token and said: "After arriving in Qi State, the Zhou army stationed there will be under the command of the three of you. Although the number of troops there is limited, there are many generals. It should not be a problem to capture Qi State. !”
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After receiving Xiong Bi's resignation letter, Ji Jie smiled and said to the people around him: "This guy, he actually did a very good job. Although he lost the city, he didn't cause too many casualties to the army, and he even set fire to Ba." The county town is enough to make Wang Jian furious for a while. Pass my order, and the army will immediately break camp and go to Shu County to join Xiong Ben. I want to learn about Wang Jian's talents!"
Wang Jian led his army to camp sixty miles outside the city of Shu County. He never dared to attack the city for two reasons: first, the strength of the two sides was roughly equal, so the party attacking the city would naturally be at a disadvantage because it would be difficult to form a superior force. Second, Ji Jie's team can rush to the gate of Shu County at any time, and the Qin army will be faced with the danger of coordinating internal and external forces.
"Where is Ji Jie's army?" Wang Jian asked.
Tan Ma reported: "He has been wandering around the outskirts of Shu County. He has not set up a big camp, and there is no sign of rushing towards our army!"
"Where are the reinforcements?" Wang Jian asked again.
"General, the reinforcements have set off from Xianyang three days ago and will probably arrive here the day after tomorrow!"
Wang Jian frowned and said to himself: "According to the rules, Ji Jie should attack me before my reinforcements arrive, but why hasn't there been any movement yet? Could it be that he wants to wait until I get together with the reinforcements before he attacks me?" If he eats it in one bite, his appetite will be too much!"
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After the three women arrived in Qi State, they divided the hundreds of thousands of Zhou troops stationed here into three groups and selected the nearest city to launch an assault.
The morale of the Qi army defending the city was already very low. As a result, the Zhou army captured seven cities in one day, and the Zhou army's troops were directed towards Linzi, the capital of Qi.
Li Yuan was furious, pointed at the surrendered generals of Qi in front of him, and cursed: "What did you do? Why don't you defend the city with all your strength?"
A surrendered general stepped forward and said: "The soldiers are in a low mood, and the Zhou army used a sneak attack, so they lost the city!"
Li Yuan said angrily: "Immediately give me an order to the city guards. I will kill anyone who loses the city, whether it is his life or the life of his whole family! I really don't know what you people are thinking. You can actually sit back and watch Ji Jie occupy your land, really!"
The several surrendered generals looked at each other, and they all thought the same thing: since we can sit back and watch you, Li Yuan, invade our land, we can sit back and watch another person do the same.
In the Qi Palace, the Queen and the Queen were tied to a chair. This situation had been maintained for several days.
"Old woman, I need a warrant from you!" Li Yuan said with a sinister smile on his face and a pen in his hand: "Let me tell you something, Zhou Dynasty has sent troops to Qi State, and your incompetent Qi army has been lost. Seven or eight cities, in order to prevent things from developing further, you should write a warrant and let them fight the enemy bravely. This will be good for you and Qi State, isn't it?"
"Bah!" The queen glared at Li Yuan and said, "It is much more upright and fair for Zhou Dynasty to conquer by force than this shameless villain to control our Qi country with conspiracy. Anyway, the situation is like this, I would rather Qi country return to the Great Zhou Dynasty Zhou, I don’t want to see it fall into your hands!”
"Damn old woman, I see you are impatient!" Li Yuan smashed the pen in his hand at the queen's face.
"I don't want to live anymore, you kill me!" There was no trace of fear on the queen's face.
Li Yuan didn't want to kill her, but he knew very well that he couldn't do it.
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The strength of the Qin army has exceeded 200,000, which is comparable to the Zhou army. Wang Jian felt that he had the strength to compete with Ji Jie and no longer had to worry about insufficient strength.
"Come here, give this letter of challenge to Ji Jie!" He handed a letter of challenge written by himself to the ordering soldier.
"yes!"
Half an hour later, Ji Jie received the letter of challenge.
Unfolding the letter, he read the content with a smile: Ji Jie, Lord Zhaowen of the Great Zhou Dynasty, personally announced that as a minister of the Great Zhou Dynasty, you led troops to invade our country, the Qin Dynasty. It is really inappropriate and unworthy of the title of Lord Zhaowen. Wang Jian is responsible for protecting the family. It is my duty to defend my country, and I am willing to fight with you...
"This Wang Jian is quite arrogant!" Xiong Ben said unconvinced: "He also calls himself a teacher of justice. Your Majesty, give me a force, and I will fight him for three hundred rounds now!"
"Don't worry, they have sent a letter of challenge, so we have to reply, right?" Ji Jie wrote a few words directly on the blank space on one side of the letter of challenge, threw it again to Qin Bing who delivered the letter, and said: "Take it back to you General, please tell him to be kind. Is it possible that you are the only one allowed to attack the Qin State, but others cannot attack the Qin State?"
The letter of challenge soon returned to Wang Jian's hands. As soon as he took a look at it, he picked up the teacup on the table and smashed it to pieces.
Ji Jie's reply was: I've read it. Let's fight if we want. Why bother talking so much? I think my handwriting is pretty and crawls like a tortoise. It's not embarrassing!
"General, what's wrong?" Several generals heard the noise and came in to ask.
Wang Jian took a deep breath, and the anger on his face was gradually replaced by a smile. He shook his head and said, "Ji Jie did this just to anger me, because people lose judgment when they are angry, and he can take advantage of it." ! Go ahead and dream, how could I be affected by these words? Ji Jie, you must be looking down on me too much!"
"That's right, General Wang is calm in all battles!" A general flattered him: "Those stinky boys from Ji Jie are not worthy of being so petty! General, what are we going to do next?"
Wang Jian stood up, pointed to the huge map hanging on the wall, and said: "This general, I want to fight in Huofenglin. The vanguards on the left and right will obey orders!"
"The end is here!"
"I order you two to lead our troops to the Fire Phoenix Forest to set up an ambush!" Wang Jian said with confidence: "I will lead the rest of the troops to set up a formation outside the forest to attract Ji Jie to attack. When the time comes, you two will attack from the left and right. , catch him off guard!"