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"In the current situation, we have to abandon the offensive strategy! Switch to a defensive strategy! Jing Ke said to Yan Dan.
After Yan Dan arrived at Guzhu, he released the Qingjun flank and led the army to attack Yanjing, but as soon as he crossed the two cities, he learned that the Qi army led by Qi Xiaobai had entered the Yan Kingdom.
"Shall we keep watching? The Qi army is only 500,000, and the soldiers in our hands are not less than those of the Qi country, if we want to keep defending, we will definitely be defeated. Yan Dan said to Jing Ke.
"Of course we can't stick to a city, we need to have a decisive battle with the Qi army, but we will win the decisive battle and completely defeat the Qi army!" Jing Ke said to Yan Dan.
For Yan Dan, there is no point in defending the city at all, they are isolated and helpless, defending a city, as long as the Qi army keeps attacking, the defenders will definitely fail.
"Then what kind of defense do you say, in my opinion, the whole army will be dispatched to meet the Qi army!" Yan Dan said to Jing Ke.
"Facing head-on, we are not opponents!" Jing Ke said to Yan Dan.
"We are not less numerous than the Qi army, how can we not be opponents? And judging from the previous record, Qi Country is not the opponent of my Yan Kingdom! Yan Dan looked at Jing Ke and asked.
"Childe, you can know that the Qi army has carried out reforms in the past year, and they have a strong army policy in their reforms, maybe they were not our opponents in the past, but now they may not be opponents, although I say it is defense, but it is not defending the city, we have to have a decisive battle with the Qi army in the right place, and this decisive battle we meet the enemy with a defensive posture!" Jing Ke said to Yan Dan.
"Then with Jing Shangqing's meaning, where should this suitable place be?" Yan Dan then asked.
"Please look at the map!" Jing Ke put a small stone in a place called 'Linyi' (Rongcheng, Hebei)!
"Is there a decisive battle with the Qi army here?" Yan Dan asked.
"That's right, we are going to gather all our soldiers and horses here and have a life-and-death duel with the Qi army in Linyi City!" Jing Ke said to Yan Dan.
"Now that the Qi army is in Wuqiang, this Qi army will arrive in Linyi, and it will only be about three weeks at most!" Yan Dan looked at the map and said.
Wuqiang is not very far from Linyi, Qi Xiaobai led the army to Linyi, and the normal march can basically be reached in three weeks, and the city that blocked Qi Xiaobai from going to Linyi basically couldn't stop Qi Xiaobai's 500,000 army.
And Linyi is also the only way for Qi Xiaobai, whether it is to Yanjing or to the lonely city, Qi Xiaobai has to arrive in Linyi.
"Linyi will hold for a while, and we and the Qi army are not fighting a decisive battle in Linyi City, but a decisive battle in this place behind Linyi!" Jing Ke said to Yan Dan.
"After Linyi, there is a huge plain, and on the plain, we can give full play to the 'cavalry', the most advantageous type of our Yan country!" Jing Ke said to Yan Dan.
The iron horse led by Le Yi is the signboard of Yan Kingdom, but the Jing family also has an iron horse, but the iron horse of the Jing family is not as famous as the iron horse of the Le family, so signboard.
However, the Jing family's iron cavalry should not be underestimated, after all, the wars of the vassal states in which the Yan State participated were all used by the soldiers of the Jing family.
"We have 100,000 elites and 30,000 Deadpools, but the military talisman of the Southern Hebei Army is in my hands, and we can mobilize the 200,000 iron cavalry of the Southern Hebei Army, as well as the 300,000 reserves of the Southern Hebei Army to respond to the war!" Jing Ke said to Yan Dan.
"In terms of the number of people, we are not less than the Qi army, on this plain, we are on the defensive and fighting a war of attrition with the Qi army, we will definitely win!" Jing Ke said again.
Qi Xiaobai entered the Yan Kingdom with an army of 500,000, but the number of all the soldiers under their control by Yan Dan was as high as 500,000, including 200,000 iron cavalry and 100,000 standing troops.
It was also because he knew that the number of Yan Dan's troops was not less than that of the Qi army, and Qi Xiaobai's marching speed was quite slow.
Basically, after walking for a day, you have to discuss how to have a decisive battle with Yan Dan.
And Qi Xiaobai wanted to test the combat effectiveness of his samurai legion, so he kept saying that he wanted the samurai legion to take the lead.
If Qi Xiaobai and Yan Dan are defeated, the Yanzhou Legion will enter the territory of Yan and integrate to counterattack.
And the reason why the Yanzhou Legion did not go out was that Qi Xiaobai was worried about what would happen to the Qi Kingdom if he left, so he asked the Yanzhou Legion to guard the Qi State to prevent accidents.
In Jing Ke's prediction, Qi Xiaobai arrived in Linyi in three weeks, but Qi Xiaobai's march was very slow, and it took two full months to reach Linyi.
Qi Xiaobai sent an envoy, hoping to persuade the people of Linyi City to surrender, Qi Xiaobai basically did not meet any resistance in this attack, only sent a siege battle, and after three hours of fighting, the other party surrendered, and the rest were under the lobbyist sent by Qi Xiaobai, and took refuge in Qi Xiaobai.
In fact, these county guards are mainly facing Qi Xiaobai's 500,000 army, and there are no troops to stop it, and surrender is indeed a correct choice.
Choosing to fight to the death and sending to death are two concepts, for these county guards, they don't even have the capital to fight to the death, and the people fight to the death because they know that although they are going to lose, they have enough troops and don't want to surrender so easily, so they hit the other party hard in the death battle, but they have no soldiers, and under Qi Xiaobai's army, they don't even have the capital to resist.
And the only person who defended the city didn't see this clearly and chose to resist Qi Xiaobai, but under the impact of the siege cannon and the sea of people, he realized that he couldn't hold it at all.
In fact, three hours later, the city gate had been opened, and the Qi army had already entered the city, carrying out a brutal massacre in the city, and the moment he arrived at the county guard's mansion, he was seen kneeling on the ground, holding the talisman in both hands.
And this time, when Qi Xiaobai was asking who was going to be a lobbyist, a soldier volunteered to go......
Because every time the lobbyist goes, he will succeed, Qi Xiaobai will also reward them with money and promote them, the first few times people were afraid of death, they were all ambitious Wu Zixu went, but later saw that Wu Zixu said it was so easy, the soldiers volunteered, this is an opportunity for them to get money and promotion, and they feel that there is no difficulty.
And the soldiers behind Wu Zixu did say it, after all, the real army of 500,000 is at the gatekeeper, and the county guard has to be weighed more or less, not everyone is the two million county guards who guard the city, and they don't know how to weigh it.
However, something happened to everyone's surprise, this little soldier who served as the envoy of Qi died in Linyi, and his head was hung on the city tower.
This made Qi Xiaobai furious: "The two armies fought and did not kill the envoys, and the county guards of Linyi City actually beheaded my envoy and hung my envoy on the city tower." ”
And the generals around Qi Xiaobai also corresponded, feeling that the other party was quite hateful, the person who resisted the Qi army before this, Qi Xiaobai also sent a small soldier messenger, but they did not kill the messenger, but sent the messenger out, let Qi Xiaobai go to attack the city, and came to the battle.