After leading the Qi army under his command to enter Taoyi City with the Zhao army, Kuang Liang, the commander of the Qi army, did not have much smile on his face.

His subordinates thought that this was because Kuang Liang had been humiliated by Le Cheng, the commander of the Zhao army, but only Kuang Liang knew in his heart that this was not the reason.

Kuang Liang always felt that there seemed to be something wrong with this war.

After Kuang Liang's observation these days, he always had a feeling that this time Zhao Guo's army always seemed to be doing something that was difficult for him to understand. A stay outside of Taoyi is just one of these more incomprehensible things.

At the beginning of the army, Qi Wang Jian and Hou Sheng once told Kuang Liang to pay attention to the Zhao army, so as not to be swallowed up too much Wei land by the Zhao army.

Yes, the whole world knows that Zhao State is definitely going to have a plot against Wei State this time, and the other vassal states know in their hearts that because Zhao Dan now occupies the element of righteousness, such an expansion of Zhao State is justified and difficult to stop.

Of course, it's not just because of righteousness, after all, everyone can shout about justice, but it can't always be used as food.

After the last defeat of the Four Kingdoms War, a narrative began to quietly rise among the remaining states. This argument holds that Zhao is the strongest country, and that Zhao is invincible until several other countries are fully united.

An invincible country, when it wants to expand externally, it is not at all what these other six countries that have no desire to join forces can stop at all, they can only limit it as much as possible, and Kuang Liang is doing this job.

To be honest, Kuang Liang was under a lot of pressure.

Kuang Liang found that since the Zhao army entered the territory of Wei, not only did they not harass any surrounding Wei villages in every place they visited, but also deliberately arranged the marching route far away from the passing villages, trying not to disturb the people.

This route of march was a very strange choice for this day and age.

It stands to reason that all generals with troops know one thing, that is, since it is now a war, "eating the enemy" is the best choice.

It is true that it is spring, and the seedlings have just been sown in the fields, and even if they want to grab from one field to another, they will not be able to grab any grain, but in any case, there must be some grain in those villages of Wei.

If it is inferred from the normal logic of war, at this time, the commander of the Zhao army should send a large number of cavalry squads to the nearby Wei villages to snatch all the food that can be found for the use of the army, which is also the common practice of the generals of the vassal states for hundreds of years.

Coke didn't do that.

Even when Kuang Liang himself sent a team to the nearby Wei village to grab grain, he was also obstructed by the Zhao State team who also claimed to be coming to grab grain.

Since Zhao is now the backbone of the coalition army, and the number of Qi troops is far less than that of Zhao State, the grain grabbing team of Qi State naturally does not dare to reach any conflict with Zhao Guo's team, so they can only return to the camp helplessly.

But the Qi team then discovered a fact very angrily, that is, after they left, the people of Zhao also left quickly, and the people of Zhao didn't even enter that damn village when they left!

Kuang Liang always felt that this should be Zhao Guoren buying people's hearts.

If this is the first doubt, then the second doubt naturally comes from Lecheng's hesitation and entanglement outside Taoyi City.

When Duan Ganzi chose to evacuate, the coalition forces led by Le Cheng were actually only two days away from Taoyi, and from the perspective of a battle-hardened general, Le Cheng could either accelerate his advance and capture Taoyi, or accelerate the pursuit of Duan Ganzi in an effort to catch up with and defeat Duan Ganzi's troops on the road.

Even if it is because of the distance, it may indeed be impossible to catch up with Duan Ganzi, then you can follow Duan Ganzi to the outside of Suiyang City, and launch an attack when Duan Ganzi has just arrived in Suiyang City and has a stable foothold, which is the most in line with the theory of soldiers.

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Not only did Le Cheng not continue to pursue, but he stayed outside Taoyi City for so many days in vain, and after entering Taoyi City, Le Cheng was also paying attention to those things that bought people's hearts, for example, he spent three full days searching for criminals everywhere in the city, and then escorted a whole thousand prisoners to the gate of the vegetable market and beheaded them in front of half of the residents of Taoyi City.

Beheading is a very common thing for Kuang Liang, but the question is, who has ever seen an occupying army do such an act in a newly captured city? This is simply government law enforcement.

Kuang Liang felt that Zhao Guoren was still buying people's hearts.

Zhao Guoren actually wants to buy people's hearts in Taoyi City? This is undoubtedly a very dangerous sign.

Kuang Liang felt that it was very necessary for him to immediately feed back the news to Qi Wang Jian and Hou Sheng in Linzi.

But Kuang Liang was still a little hesitant, because he wasn't sure if what he had done was a misjudgment.

After all, Kuang Liang's mission at the beginning was to ask Zhao Guo not to swallow Wei too much, so it seems understandable and not too much to say that Zhao Guo insisted on swallowing Taoyi.

Taoyi is really very close to the border of today's Zhao State, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is in the bag of Zhao people.

In view of this, Kuang Liang decided to hold back the doubts in his heart for the time being, and continued to observe the next movements of Zhao Guoren.

But soon, Lecheng's next actions made Kuang Liang unable to calm down.

On the third day of the occupation of Taoyi, a large number of Zhao officials arrived in the city of Taoyi and began to restore order in the city with great speed.

By this time, Kuang Liang finally determined that the people of Zhao did intend to take Taoyi for their own entirety, and did not intend to return it to Wei.

On the fifth day of the occupation of Taoyi City, Lecheng finally continued south.

This time, the Qi-Zhao coalition army arrived at Anyang City two days later, and Anyang Ling chose to open the city gate and surrender to Zhao.

Two days later, the Zhao army arrived at Chuqiu, and Chuqiu ordered the city gates to surrender to Zhao with the same gates opened.

At the same time, Kuang Liang also found that Zhao sent several more troops with a number of two to three thousand, taking advantage of the night to break away from the main camp and go in several different directions.

Fortunately, because Kuang Liang has always been vigilant, the departure of these small troops of Zhao State has not gotten rid of his sight.

So Kuang Liang immediately sent many spies to closely follow these small forces scattered by Zhao Guo, wanting to detect and grasp the movements of these small forces.

A few days later, the spies finally brought back the information that Kuang Liang had hoped to get.

Lecheng sent these small forces not for anything else, but entirely to receive many Wei cities north of Danshui, such as Danfu, Guanqiu, Waihuang and other cities, and even Xiao Cheng, which was a hundred miles away, was also on the target list of the Zhao people.

To Kuang Liang's shock, none of these cities chose to stubbornly resist, but all of them were occupied by Zhao's army.

As a result, the entire land north of Tamsui in Wei has now become the sphere of influence of Zhao.

After doing all this, Lecheng led the army south again.

Five days later, the army crossed the Danshui and came to the city of Meng, which was only a few dozen miles away from Suiyang.

Originally, the journey should have been completed in ten days at most, but it has now been almost a month since Lecheng's repeated stops.

Here, Kuang Liang's fears happened again.

Zhao Guoren once again sent many small forces to the surrounding areas to surrender to the nearby cities, but this time, perhaps because of the relative proximity to Suiyang, several surrounding cities such as Lingling, Xiangcheng and other cities all rejected the surrender of the Zhao army without exception, and chose to close the city and defend it.

So Lecheng no longer hesitated, and led the main force of the army south to surround Suiyang City, and at the same time Lecheng also sent two troops of about 10,000 people to capture Lingling and Xiangcheng respectively.

At this time, Kuang Liang felt that he could finally be sure of his judgment.

So he wrote a secret letter, asking people to send it to Linzi at an expedited speed of 800 miles, and the content of the letter was very simple, that is, to tell Qi Wangjian and Hou Sheng in Linzi a word.

"Zhao Guo seems to want to merge the whole territory of Wei into Zhao Tu, how to act, please decide the king!"