At this time, the pioneer state of the Jin State had already caught up, and the two had to abandon the car and flee. The state called for a halt to the chariot and fired two arrows at the colony, hitting his left and right shoulder blades respectively, and Guo Zhi continued to flee with his companion in his arms.

Grab the third arrow and shout: "Stop, I will guarantee your life!" Otherwise! I'll in the back of your heart! ”

He stopped, bowed his arms and turned back, "Do you dare to swear?" ”

"If I break my promise, let God punish me!" ”

Only then did the two turn around and walk towards the state. Zhou Xuan jumped out of the car, untied the bowstring, and tied his hands behind his back; Che Yougu Bing also imitated his approach and tied Guo Shi. The two were later forcibly ordered to sit under the drums of the Chinese army.

The coalition forces spent a lot of time clearing the barricades. The Jin intended to catch up with the enemy before they fled back to Linzi and crush their opponents outside the capital.

But the Qi division had already passed through Lu Cheng at this time. Lucheng is a well-defended large city, guarding the main transportation route to the hinterland of Qi. The coalition forces came to the southern outskirts of Lucheng, and the sergeants looked at the behemoth in front of them at a loss.

Lu Renhe and Wei people believed that they could not prevent the Qi army from returning to China no matter what, and proposed to Zhong Xingyin that instead of continuing the pursuit, it was better to turn back and eliminate the two strongholds set up by the Qi people on the Great Wall.

It turns out that there is a fortress in the east and west of Pingyin, which are Jingzi and Yicheng; As the coalition forces passed through Pingyin, they were flanked by the defenders of the two cities, and although the losses were not large, they were particularly tiresome. The defenders of the fortress did not retreat with the main force, and the coalition forces did not bother to attack them and continued to pursue the deserters.

Zhongxingyan affirmed the proposal of the two people, and he ordered Zhao Wu and Han Qi to attack Lucheng, Wei Jiang and Luan Ying to attack Yicheng, and he himself and Shikuo to attack Jingzi. The fighting was fierce and brutal, and on 13 November, the Chinese army captured Jingzi. The resistance of the city was particularly stubborn, and the lower army did not break through the city gate until the 19th.

After completing the task, the two armies turned north, but found that Lucheng was unscathed and the upper army had not built an inch. It turned out that Qi Linggong was frightened by the enemy and had lost his ability to command, so he handed over the supreme command to Gao Hou. Gao Hou ordered Yan Ying to lead the main force to quickly rush back to Linzi (Cui Zhu defended the country and was not in the army), and he led a partial division to defend Lucheng and block the coalition army.

Lucheng can be called the capital of the Qi State, the city is large and strong, and has been a fiefdom of the Gao family for hundreds of years. Gao Hou would not allow generations of fiefdoms to be lost from his hands, and the Lu people enthusiastically defended their homeland under the command of their lords. Lucheng is bordered by Jishui in the west and high mountains in the east; The terrain to the west was narrow, making it impossible to assemble an army or to carry out a siege. The eastern side of the city is connected with a steep slope and cannot be attacked; Therefore, the only thing that the lower army could attack was the southern wall. The Lu men dug another trench outside the wall and piled up a wall of earth on the inside of the trench.

The numerical superiority of the attackers does not show at all in battle, while the defenders, although there are few, the work is easy. Later, an army went through hardships and dangers, and finally returned to the north side of Lucheng, but it was wiped out by the Qi people who rushed out of the city in an instant.

Zhao Wu and Han Qi were at a loss, but they had no choice but to launch a continuous strong attack. However, the corpses of Lucheng were piled up under the high walls, and the city remained unmoved.

Believing that he could not waste his time and soldiers' lives on capturing Lucheng, he ordered to bypass Lucheng and continue on a newly opened mountain road.

After an arduous march, the coalition forces finally reached a place called Qin Zhou on the southern outskirts of Linzi on December 12. The coalition forces rested for a day, and the Bank of China assigned combat missions. The next day, the coalition forces began a general offensive against Linzi.

The capital of Qi had not been attacked by an enemy for more than a hundred years (most recently during the reign of the Duke of Qi, when the attackers were only Shanjung Liukou), and Linzi, along with Xinjiang and Ying, was considered the least likely city in the world to encounter war. Today, however, this traditional notion has been shattered (as did Xinjiang and Ying).

After hundreds of years of operation and expansion by Qi people, the scale of the city has been unimaginable; The outer city is surrounded by the inner city, and the structure is very complex, and it is easy to lose it if you are not careful; There were two or three gates on each of the four walls.

It was impossible to encircle Linzi (even if all the soldiers of the coalition army joined hands, they could not encircle it), and the coalition forces could only put the target of attack on the city gate.

The task of attacking Yongmen in the south of the city fell on Shi Ying. The attackers used trebuchets and arrows to suppress resistance from the city, rammed the gates with crash carts, set up ladders to the city, and began digging into the walls.

The task was very difficult, the grief and indignation of the Qi people exceeded the imagination of the attackers, and the resisters were not afraid of the rain of flying stones and arrows from the city, and launched a confrontation with the enemy; The death squads also rushed out of the side gate to destroy the siege equipment of the attackers; The defenders even pushed the ladder away with their feet against the wall, only to smash it to the ground along with it.

The soldiers on other offensive missions were lucky, but the worst were the attackers who gathered outside the city gates. The Qi people deliberately relaxed their defenses here in order to attract more enemies to them. When the enemy army was huddled together, the Qi people poured grease from the city and lit a fire, and the city suddenly became a hell on earth, and the people covered in fire wailed in pain. Many soldiers also had oil on their skin, so removing their armor did not help; The soldiers who were not on fire tried their best to extinguish the fire on their companions, but in the end they could only cry and watch their companions being burned alive and turned into charred zombies.

The fire burned many sergeants to death, and many were burned, and the north wind blew scorching smoke into the coalition camp, and the whole camp felt nauseous and vomited all over the camp.

Fortunately, he was only burned off his beard and eyebrows, and he decided to return a tooth for a tooth. The gate was originally covered with a layer of metal, but after several attacks, the metal plates on the door had been broken in many places, revealing the wood inside. The Jin people then poured grease on the door and lit a fire. After several burnings, the main body of the gate became fragile.

On the third day of the first month of the nineteenth year of Lu Xianggong (BC554), the Jin people smashed the city gate, and the soldiers rushed to the front with swords, and the soldiers rushed in, so they seized the Yongmen. But the army rushed in and found that there was no road ahead, it turned out that they actually entered the urn city, the Qi people had already sealed the inner city gate with clay in the wall of the city wall, the Jin people could only see a city gate-shaped wall, surrounded by some unmanned buildings, and the Qi people condescendingly threw rolling wood and stones.

The martingale attacked for several days, but found that he had only thrown himself into a net and turned into a turtle in an urn. He was furious and helpless, so he set a fire to vent his anger and fled through the door.

On the same day, the coalition forces burned the outer city west of Linzi; Shi Qiao also followed the practice of Shi Ying, and burned a bamboo forest outside the south gate. On the 6th, the coalition forces conquered the east and north gates, and burned the outer cities in those two directions.

After the war, Zhou Xuan boasted about his bravery to Luan Ying and said: "When I attacked the east gate, the war horse was frightened, and I wandered left and right in front of the gate and could not advance. At that time, the blows of the Qi people were very fierce, but I didn't care; I could not go forward, so I counted the nails of the gates. Qi people don't necessarily know, but I can tell you the exact number of door nails! ”