The Great Wei Empire in the Warring States Period

Wu Tong led 50,000 guards to set up camp 30 miles away from the Qi-Song coalition.

Inside the tent

Wu Tong said to the generals: "Everyone, the Qi-Song coalition seems to be powerful, but there is internal discord, like a pile of loose sand, so we only need to confront the Qi-Song coalition head-on! I wonder if you are willing to fight the enemy to death with me!"

"I am willing!"

"Good! Our army will win this battle!" Wu Tong encouraged.

Wu Tong immediately ordered: "This battle must be carried out according to my requirements. Do not fight privately! Send an envoy to the enemy camp immediately to submit a declaration of war."

"Yes!"

Qi Army Camp

After reading the declaration of war, Tian Ji said: "The Wei army wants to fight our army head-on. The declaration of war has been submitted. What do you think?"

Tian Ying shouted: "Okay! We will fight the Wei army head-on. The Wei army is only 50,000, but we have nearly 100,000 troops! Why should we be afraid of the Wei army that was defeated by our army not long ago!"

"General Tian Ying, although the Wei army is only 50,000, what if the other side has any tricks?" Ji Xiti said.

Tian Ji thought for a while and said: "If General Ji Xi is worried that the enemy will attack from behind, how about this, the Song army will lead the charge, and our Qi army will follow behind?"

"How can this be! The Qi army is more elite than our Song army, why should our Song army lead the charge!" Ji Xi objected.

Tian Ji smiled and said: "The Wei army is only 50,000. The general led the Song army to attack. Isn't our Qi army behind? Although our Qi army is more elite, in order to prevent the enemy from attacking from behind, if the Song army is behind, if the enemy attacks from behind, won't the Song army be defeated immediately?"

Ji Xi disagreed and said: "The Qi army has 80,000 people. Although more than 10,000 people were lost in the attack on Xiangling, the number of Qi army is still much larger than that of our Song army, and the Qi army only needs to send 20,000 people to guard behind with our Song army. Wouldn't it be better for you to lead the Qi army to attack, General Tian Ji? Besides, the Wei army was defeated by your Qi army before, not by our Song army! "

Tian Ji laughed and said, "General Ji Xi, you can't say that. Besides, we promised to give the occupied land to your Song country when we attacked Wei this time, unless you Song country agrees not to take those lands!"

"How can the general go back on his word! When Qi and my Song country discussed sending troops together, they agreed to give me a few cities! Does the general want to break the agreement?" Ji Xi said unwillingly.

Both sides don't want to take the lead, and both want to use this to retain their own strength.

How should Tian Ji fight if this continues? So he shouted angrily: "General Ji Xi, I am the commander of the coalition army. I now order you that tomorrow's battle will have your Song army take the lead, and our Qi army will follow! This is the military seal given to me by your king, I hope General Ji Xi can cooperate!"

Ji Xi had no choice but to agree: "Okay! Tomorrow our Song army will take the lead."

The next morning

The Qi-Song coalition army formed a battle formation, and Tian Ji stood at the battle line.Looking at the army with high morale and sophisticated weapons on the car, he said with satisfaction: "Such a mighty army, who in the world can defeat it!"

Tian Ji held up the command flag and said: "The Song army is the front army, and the Qi army is divided into four teams, with 30,000 in the middle army, 15,000 on each of the left and right wings, and 10,000 in the rear army. The front army is the offensive formation, the middle army is defensive, and the two wings are restrained!"

Wu Tong held the command flag in his hand and looked at the Qi-Song coalition army formation without any care, as if the Qi-Song coalition army's formation was like loose sand. He smiled and said: "Qi's deployment of troops is still the same. The formation is heavy but not solid. As long as we can withstand the offensive of the front army, the rest will be easy to fight."

A young general smiled and said: "Lord Sima, it is just as you said, the Song army will take the lead."

Wu Tong held the command flag and began to deploy the formation. It was seen that the 50,000-strong army was deployed in a short time under Wu Tong's command.

This formation was not an ordinary formation. It was neither a circular formation nor a square formation, nor a goose formation or a long snake formation. Even the generals on his side could not figure out what kind of formation it was. The whole formation was like the Eight Diagrams, with eight gates, and the chariots, flags, and command platforms were arranged in an orderly manner.

Tian Ji stood on the chariot and looked for a long time but could not figure out what formation the Wei army had set up.

Deputy General Tian Ying said impatiently: "General, just attack quickly. What are you afraid of with only 50,000 people!"

"Attack!"

"Dong Dong Dong~~"

"Attack!"

Ji Xi drew out his sword and drove the chariot and shouted: "Follow me to attack!"

Kill kill~~

The Song army rushed towards the Wei army formation, and saw that the formation changed drastically, sometimes fierce, sometimes dead, and changing unpredictably. The Song army's strength was not much different from that of the Wei army, but they were beaten by the Wei army without any defense.

The Song army seemed to be in a maze and could not get out. They could only run around randomly in the Wei army's formation.

The Wei army's long halberds and spears kept harvesting the lives of the Song army, but the Song army still did not break the formation. Instead, its offensive formation was disrupted.

In less than half an hour, the Wei army's advantage had greatly surpassed the Song army, completely suppressing the Song army's offensive.

Tian Ji also saw that the situation was not good, and immediately ordered: "Charge on the left and right wings!"

Wu Tong saw that the Qi army also moved, and smiled secretly: "Tian Ji, this is where you will die!"

When the Qi army pressed forward, the Wei army's formation changed again, with formations within formations, crossbows, spears, halberds, and shields seemed to be integrated. Crossbows were used to attack from a distance, and long halberds and spears were used to fight back from close.

When the archers of the Qi and Song armies fought back, the crossbow carts in the Wei army fired at the enemy archers, making the Qi and Song archers helpless.

Although Tian Ji sent troops from the left and right wings to press forward, they only managed to draw.

Just when Tian Ji was about to give an order, a scout ran over and said, "General, the main force of the Han army was found on the south bank!"

"What!" But when he heard that it was on the south bank, his heart relaxed instantly. After all, he was now on the north bank, separated by a river.Water, asked: "Has the enemy crossed the river?"

"They are crossing the river!"

"Tian Ying, you lead the rear army, I will give you another 5,000 people, go to intercept the Han army. You should understand the half-crossing attack, right?" Tian Ji ordered.

"Understood!"

When Tian Ying led the rear army to intercept, Bao Yuan was secretly observing the Qi army's deployment in a forest in the north, and said happily: "The Qi army is divided, the central army is empty! Brothers, go!"

The 40,000 Han army took advantage of the situation and quickly divided into two groups before the Qi army could react, one to attack the rear of the Qi army and the other to attack the flank of the Qi army.

The Qi army was in chaos before they understood what was going on. Tian Ji looked at the Han army in horror and cursed the scout commander: "Why didn't you find the Han army in the north? What are you scouts doing!"

At this time, the generals around him couldn't care less. A young general advised: "General, withdraw the army. We can't stop it."

Due to the reform of Han, the combat effectiveness of this new army was much stronger than the old army. The Han army was unstoppable and less than a hundred steps away from Tian Ji's central command.

Bao Yuan stood on the chariot and calmly commanded the army to strangle the Qi army. He ordered: "Bowmen shoot arrows! Cover the whole team's attack!"

The advantage of Han crossbows was well-known throughout the world. The Qi army was shot and fled. The chariot troops were shot by Han crossbows and dared not charge and turned around to flee.

Tian Ji ordered the supervisory team: "Captain of the supervisory team, go and stop those chariot troops and tell them to charge back!"

"General, run, those chariots are rushing towards us!"

I don't know who said, brothers, let's run! It was this sentence that caused the Qi army's central army to collapse across the board. The supervisory team killed dozens of people but couldn't stop the collapse of the Qi army. Some soldiers even slashed their swords at the soldiers of the supervisory team.

The central army was scattered, and the troops fighting with the Wei army in front had no command. Wu Tong also found that the Qi army's central army had collapsed and shouted loudly: "The Qi army's commander is dead! Brothers, kill him!"

After hearing this, the Song army and the Qi army looked at the command center, only to see that the Qi army's central army had already been in chaos, the battle flag fell, the chariots were seized, and even the commander's flag was nowhere to be found.

Run!

Wu Tong seized the opportunity and ordered: "All troops, attack! Drive the enemy into the river!"

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Tian Ji fled eastward under the protection of hundreds of his personal soldiers, while a large number of Qi-Song coalition troops were driven to the Ji River by the Wei-Han army. In order to save their lives, the soldiers of the Qi-Song coalition jumped into the cold river water one after another. They were either killed by the Wei army on the shore or drowned by the turbulent river water.

The Han army also organized archers to shoot arrows at the soldiers of the Qi-Song coalition swimming in the river. The war ended in the evening, and the Ji River was dyed red with blood. There were corpses everywhere on the shore.

In this battle, the Wei-Han army lost more than 20,000 people, the Qi-Song coalition was completely wiped out, and even Tian Ying's Qi army was annihilated by the Han army, and the Qi prince Tian Ying was captured.

Qi State Court

Tian YinqiAfter listening to the story of King Tianji, he was so angry that his liver was furious. The surrounding eunuchs comforted him one after another: "Your Majesty, calm down, Your Majesty, calm down!"

Tian Yinqi sat on the throne, slowly pointed his finger at Tian Ji, and said with strong anger: "Come here! Put Tian Ji in the death cell for me!"

Military Advisor Advice~~

Tian Yinqi saw Sun Bin coming and asked hurriedly: "Teacher, teach me! Now our army is defeated and the Nian army is annihilated. What should my Qi country do!"

Sun Bin did not say it directly, but begged for mercy on behalf of Tian Ji: "Your Majesty, I have a plan, but please forgive General Tian Ji. Brother Tian Ji and I are old friends. To deal with the Wei army, Tian Ji and I must work together. "

After struggling for a while, Tian Yinqi reluctantly agreed: "Alright!"

Sun Bin bowed and said: "Thank you, my king!" Then he said: "Unite with Chu and mobilize..."

Before he finished speaking, a messenger rushed in and said: "My king, it's not good. The Wei army is heading towards my Qi. One is led by Xiang Ci, the division of Handan and the troops of Wei County, and the other is led by Wu Tong, a total of 100,000 Wei-Han coalition forces. The two armies, totaling 180,000, are heading towards the Great Wall!"

"What! My Qi is dead!" Tian Yinqi said bitterly.

Sun Bin immediately suggested: "Your Majesty, the only way for us now is to seek peace. You can send an envoy to Chu to ask the King of Chu to mediate the dispute between Qi and Wei. Wei is afraid of Chu's strength and will definitely agree to a reconciliation between the two sides."

"Okay! Just follow the military advisor's advice, Doctor Chunyu Kun, you go to Chu immediately! Zou Ji, you take ten horses, ten pairs of white jades, ten East China Sea pearls, ten beauties, and a deep-sea coral tree that a big merchant recently gave me to the King of Wei, and ask for his forgiveness. Qi is willing to be a vassal of Wei!"

"Yes, sir!"

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