Great Zhou Tianzi

Ji Jie felt that it was time to formulate a new strategy. These days, he was always fighting against different enemies. Although he won every time, he didn't seem to get much benefit, except that the addition of Yan State increased the territory of Da Zhou. In addition to three times the increase, there has not been any pioneering work to expand the territory.

"The so-called long distance and close attack, there are really not many countries that have friendly relations with the Great Zhou. The neighbors Han, Zhao, Wei, and Qin, and only South Korea is our ally!" Ji Jie analyzed with the girls, and said: "Although Wei There is Lord Xinling in the State, Prince Zhao Qian in the State of Zhao, Yingzheng and Queen Mother Zhao Ji in the State of Qin, these people are all friends of the Great Zhou, but they have not yet reached the point of influencing a country or the thinking of those in power!"

Therefore, some measures must be taken to first include a certain surrounding country in the bag, so as to fundamentally expand one's own power, including the recruitment of soldiers. Now Zhou Yan and Zhou Yan can recruit at most 40 troops , The number is quite a lot, but at least half of the soldiers must be left to defend the city in wartime, and the available soldiers will definitely not exceed 20.

"Which country is your target?" Qin Qing asked.

"Zhao State!" Ji Jie pointed to the map and said, "First, they came to the door by themselves, if Zhao Wang hadn't taken advantage of our attack on Qi State to invade, I would have let him sit on the throne for a few more years! Second, Zhao is the top three country in terms of comprehensive national strength among the Seven Kingdoms, if it continues to develop, one day it will become a powerful enemy of Great Zhou!"

Having a state of Qin is enough for Ji Jie's headaches. He doesn't want to watch the state of Zhao rise again. They have slowly come out of the predicament after the Changping War.

"Should I send back some of the troops in Qi State?" Chen Yao suggested: "Although there are five cities that need to be garrisoned there, the distance between the four border cities is not far, so they can serve as barriers to each other and reduce the number of defenders. It works!"

Ji Jie shook his head. He knows the character of Qi people too well. They are purely a bunch of people who push their noses and face their faces. You just withdrew the troops, and they healed their scars and forgot the pain. It really fell into the crisis of fighting on two fronts.If they don't withdraw their troops, the Qi people will think that the main attack direction of Da Zhou is still with them, and they will be much more honest.

The defenders staying in Zhou and Yan can completely deal with Li Mu's [-] troops, and there is no need to mobilize all the soldiers who fought in Qi to return.

Then, Ji Jie reached a unified opinion internally: eat Zhao State first, and then deal with Qi State with all his strength, and the strategic policy of this battle is to defend and counterattack, defeat Li Mu and then place the battlefield in Zhao State.

"Report..." A messenger ran in in a panic, knelt down on one knee and said, "My lord, Zhao Guo's coach, Li Mu, personally brought the dozens of long-range trebuchets out of the camp. They intend to attack Longcheng again, and they are accompanied by Sima Shang's [-] vanguard troops to protect the safety of Li Mu and the trebuchet positions!"

"Pay close attention to their movements!" Ji Jie ordered.

"Yes!"

It is not clear what place Li Mu will choose as the trebuchet position, so Ji Jie didn't react immediately, he felt that the matter would definitely not be as simple as it appeared on the surface.

As an old opponent, Ji Jie still knows Li Mu very well. If he is not in Longcheng now, maybe Li Mu will repeat the old trick without thinking. He returned to the city yesterday with a high profile. send back.

A quarter of an hour later, the second messenger brought the latest news: "Li Mu chose a high ground three miles southeast of Longcheng, and is setting up a trebuchet!"

Ji Jie asked the messenger to clearly point out Li Mu's exact location on the sand table. He immediately understood everything, smiled and said to himself: "This is to lure me into the bait. It's a good trick to lure the snake out of the hole! Xiong Ben, order the first cavalry The team of 3000 people is ready to go, and go out of the city with this commander!"

"Decree, Your Majesty!" Xiong Ben was gearing up, and he had long been holding back to go out of the city to torture Zhao Jun who was in the limelight.

"The artillery commander listens to the order!"

"The commander-in-chief of the artillery is here!"

"After the commander-in-chief leads the troops out of the city, you will use the improved catapults and new artillery shells to intensively bomb the enemy's positions!" Ji Jie thought of the tragic death of Ou Ming, and gritted his teeth and said, "Then ambush them along the way." The soldiers are bombing intensively, and this commander is fighting hand-to-hand with them!"

"Decree, Your Majesty!"

It took a whole night last night. Ji Jie first improved the range of the long-range trebuchet, and then asked the forging supervisor to produce a batch of new shells that are slightly lighter than the sky-shattering cannon and have the same power. If Li Mu still thinks that today If it was still a one-sided battle, then he was very wrong.

Soon, the gate of the south city opened wide, and Ji Jie personally led [-] elite cavalry to charge out, heading straight for the catapult position that Li Mu was building.

On the southeast highland, Li Mu stroked his gray beard, smiled and said to Sima Shang who stretched out his hand: "Ji Jie was really fooled! It seems that yesterday's shelling had a great impact on him. General Sima, how did the ambushes along the way prepare?" How is it?"

Sima Shang cupped his fists and said: "The ambush was set up last night. No one knows their existence. As long as Ji Jie enters the ambush circle, he will never come back!"

"Okay, once Ji Jie dies, there will be no one in the entire Zhou Dynasty to be your opponent!" Li Mu's eyes flashed with joy after winning. He really needs a victory to prove his strength, especially defeating Ji Jie!

"Woooo..."

The sound of the bull's horn sounded in the sky, Li Mu raised his head subconsciously, how could the sound of the bull's horn spread so far?

Small black dots were flying towards this direction, Sima Shang exclaimed: "No, it's Zhou's attack, general, get out of here!"

After speaking, Sima Shang dragged Li Mu and ran down. Just as he hid behind a big rock, there was a violent explosion.

"How could their trebuchet hit so far?" Sima Shang was still in shock. If he hadn't reacted quickly just now, he might have been blown to death by now!

Li Mu smiled wryly and said: "Ji Jie invented the things in the first place, and what I can do is a piece of cake for him. It's just that I didn't expect that he could complete these transformations in one night. What a mistake!"

Sima Shang knew exactly what this meant, that is to say, the one-sided situation would still happen, but the god of luck returned from their side to Ji Jie's again.

"What should we do?" Sima Shang asked: "Should I order the ambushes to withdraw immediately, they are all within the range of the Zhou army's artillery fire!"

"Calm!" Li Mu waved his hand and said, "Ji Jie didn't know about the ambush. When he was caught in an ambush and the two sides were fighting together, the Zhou army in the city would not dare to fire. Don't worry if you let go and kill Ji Jie." It is the most important thing!"

Sima Shang nodded and looked towards the ambush position.