The Great Wei Empire in the Warring States Period

Tian Ji looked at Sangqiu City and muttered to himself: "It seems that the Yan army has made preparations. This siege will cause great losses!"

Tian Ji took out the red flag and ordered: "The catapults drop kerosene barrels and burn Sangqiu City!"

More than ten catapults quickly put a large earthenware jar on the catapults, and introduced a large number of small stones into the jars, and then introduced a small bucket of kerosene, and stuffed a bundle of straw at the mouth of the jars. After lighting them, bang bang bang~~ More than a dozen earthenware jars were shot into the sky by the catapults. When the Yan army saw the catapults of the Qi army, they quickly hid behind the parapet. Ji Bai also hid in the tower under the protection of his personal soldiers, but these jars did not hit the city wall, but went over the city wall and directly hit the houses.

Bang bang~~After a dozen earthenware jars smashed into the houses, a large amount of flames burst out, and the hot stones exploded directly and smashed into the houses, causing many houses to catch fire. In an instant, thick smoke billowed out of the city. Ji Bai was shocked when he saw it, and then he said angrily: "This Qi army is really incompetent. They actually used fire attack. Quick! Take people to put out the fire!" Hundreds of Yan troops, led by two captains, began to evacuate the people in the city and put out the fire in an orderly manner.

Tian Ji smiled at the billowing smoke in the city and ordered: "Archers, shoot!"

Several archers began to trot and stopped about 150 steps away from Shangqiu City. All of them raised their bows and arrows. With a swish, thousands of arrows were fired at the Yan army. Ji Bai found that the Qi army began to shoot arrows and ordered the soldiers: "Soldiers, quickly form a shield formation!"

The soldiers hurriedly formed a shield formation. Due to lack of training, the speed of forming a battle formation was obviously not fast enough. As a result, they were knocked down by the rain of arrows from the Qi army. After the Qi army archers finished shooting arrows, they hurriedly trotted back to the army formation. Ji Bai gritted his teeth and said to the archers: "What are you archers looking at? Hurry up and shoot the Qi army archers!"

A captain said carefully: "General, the Qi army archers have retreated!" Ji Bai kicked the captain and said: "You idiots, you don't know how to shoot when you see the Qi army archers coming. Do you have to wait for my order?"

Tian Ji took out the yellow flag and waved it back and forth, saying: "The whole army changes its formation! Form an offensive formation!"

The three square formations quickly formed an offensive formation. Tian Ji said to a captain: "Order the wooden curtain car to go ahead and protect our army's advance!" Dozens of wooden slow cars walked in front under the control of more than a hundred Qi soldiers, protecting the Qi army formation behind them. When the Yan soldiers on the city saw the Qi army coming, they quickly drew their bows and shot arrows. In an instant, thousands of arrows were fired, but because of the protection of the wooden curtain car, they all shot at the wooden curtain car. Ji Bai was very disappointed when he saw this, and angrily said to the archers beside him: "You bunch of idiots, didn't you see the opponent's wooden curtain car! Slingshot the wooden curtain car for me!"

Several catapults on the city wall shot stone bullets at the wooden curtain car, and the wooden curtain car protecting the Qi army in front was instantly broken apart! TianJi smiled after seeing this and ordered: "Move forward!"

The two siege towers slowly moved to a position less than 200 steps away from Shangqiu City and stopped. The Qi army archers on the siege towers looked down and fired at the Yan army firing catapults on the city wall! The Yan army was forced to counterattack, but due to the height difference, they could not cause any damage to the Qi army archers on the siege tower!

Suddenly, the five ladders of the Qi army were gradually approaching the city wall. Ji Bai saw that the ladders were approaching the city wall and hurriedly ordered: "Push the cart! Overturn the ladders for me!"

Several Yan soldiers used carts to hit the ladders. One ladder was directly knocked down by the ramming cart. The Qi army who had no time to dodge below was instantly smashed into meat stuffing. After seeing this, a Qi army lieutenant said to the archers beside him: "Once the enemy's carts come out, you archers, shoot arrows for me!" - Yes!

When several Yan soldiers pushed carts and prepared to push down the ladders, more than a dozen arrows shot at them and shot them down from the city. These Yan soldiers fell down from the city with full reluctance!

Finally, two ladders leaned against the city wall. The morale of the Qi army was greatly boosted. They rushed up the city wall. The Yan army quickly took out rolling logs and kept throwing them at the Qi army under the city, trying to prevent the Qi army from climbing the city. Several Qi soldiers were hit by a rolling log when they climbed the city. Those Qi soldiers fell down from the city. Not long after, there was a wailing sound under the city wall, but this still did not weaken the confidence of the Qi army to attack the city. The Qi generals under the city encouraged: "Soldiers, hurry up and climb the city. As long as you climb up, we will win! Soldiers, don't be afraid, kill!" Kill kill~~

Just when the morale of the Qi army was greatly boosted and they were about to attack the city fiercely, suddenly clang clang clang~~ the horn sounded to call back the troops! The soldiers of Qi army could only retreat with full reluctance! The Yan army on the city saw that the Qi army retreated, and cheered, because they defended the city. Ji Bai sat on the city wall and laughed. He was covered with blood and seemed to have killed many enemies. The deputy general next to him said to him: "General, the Qi army retreated, it seems that we have defended it!" Ji Bai swallowed his saliva and said: "Tell the brothers to celebrate tonight, buy a few pigs from the people in the city and slaughter them to reward the soldiers!" - Yes!

Qi Army Camp

Many soldiers in Qi Jun's camp were talking to each other. An old soldier of Qi army said dissatisfiedly: "I was about to climb the city wall, but I called back. We are not at a disadvantage. Why should we retreat? I think the deputy general is afraid. Brothers, why don't we report him to the main general? Tian Ji, the kid, delayed my military merits!"

The soldiers of Qi army on the side also echoed! They all thought that this young general was afraid of death. Another soldier stood up and said, "I think this general got in through the back door!" Right~~

In the commander's tent, Lv Jing sat quietly drinking water and secretly glanced at Tian Ji standing beside him. He could hear the curses of the soldiers outside in the commander's tent. Lv Jing put down the kettle and said to Tian Ji, "Are you angry?"

Tian Ji shook his head and said: "General, I am not angry. After all, this is for the sake of the overall situation. It is normal for soldiers to complain. Besides, they don't know that this is a strategy! Don't you always say that a general must be able to endure and bear heavy responsibilities, and be magnanimous?"

Lu Jing laughed and said: "Very good, kid, you have improved this time. Remember, no matter what time it is, you must have a magnanimous heart. Having a magnanimous heart will enable you to think better in battle, because a strategy is thought out in a calm and composed manner. Only when you are angry can you come up with a plan. When you are angry, you will only have loopholes! I have seen all the wars written in history books, and there is no general who won the war when he was angry! "Tian Ji bowed and said, "General, I understand!"

In this way, for several days, the Qi army also called off the attack as usual. Now there are more and more curses in the Qi army camp. All the soldiers are unhappy with Tian Ji. Even some lieutenants don't understand why General Tian Ji suddenly called off the battle when the battle was fierce?

In the commander's tent, Lu Jing looked at Tian Ji and asked with a smile: "Tian Ji, what do you feel in your heart?"

Tian Ji said quickly: "General, now I only know one thing in my heart, that is, in the future wars, our Qi army will win, because our army has repeatedly let the water go in many sieges and deliberately lost to the Yan army, making the Yan army arrogant. Now the Yan army has become arrogant, and the military book says that arrogant soldiers will be defeated! However, due to the repeated defeats of our army, the soldiers did not feel any sense of loss in their hearts, but only blamed me. They thought that it was because I deliberately called back the troops in the fierce battle that they were defeated, so the morale of our army continued to rise. When After the decisive battle between our army and Qi army, our soldiers will definitely vent all their anger on the main force of Yan army, so in the next decisive battle with Yan army, our Qi army will win! "Lü Jing laughed and said: "Good, very good, you now understand the way of using troops!" Wuyang City Qin Liang received the battle report from Sangqiu and said happily: "Everyone, now, the Qi army has been repeatedly defeated in attacking Sangqiu City. Now, I estimate that the combat effectiveness of the Qi army must have dropped a lot, and due to the repeated failures of the attack, the morale must be low, and the army is also very tired. Now it is time to attack the Qi army from both sides. Order the whole army to attack!"

"-Yes! But the deputy general on the side said worriedly: "General, what if the Qi army deliberately let us go? I think it's better to be careful."

Qin Liang said unhappily: "What's wrong? Are you questioning my experience in fighting? The Qi army is now a tired army. If the Qi army surrounds but does not attack, I still think they want to lure our army out, but now the Qi army is already a tired army. If our army misses this great opportunity and does not try to reduce the fresh troops of the Qi army, what do you think I should do? If we want to defeat the Qi army, we must try to reduce the enemy's fresh troops! And according to the scouts, the Qi general seems to be just a little boy. I, Qin Liang, will block it.After serving as a general for decades, what is there to worry about for a mere Huang Ru kid? "

After hearing this, the deputy general hurriedly bowed and said, "Sima sir, I understand, I was wrong."

Qin Liang then stood up and pointed to Sangqiu City on the map and said, "All troops, listen to the order, set off immediately!" - Yes!

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