A Millennium Aristocratic Family Starting from the Shang Dynasty

Chapter 70 Annexation of Ji Country
Ji Hou didn't pay much attention to the minister's reminder. Ten years ago, Qi State wanted to attack Ji State, and pulled Song State and Wei State together.Three years ago, Qi State and Song State attacked Lu State again, and then lost again.

The successive defeats made Ji Guo feel that the strength of Qi State was declining day by day.Therefore, when Ji Hou learned that Qi State had conquered Huaiyi and Dongyi, he was relieved.The soldiers were dismissed, leaving only a part to guard the capital.

Wang Chengfu led the army to go out, and soon Huaiyi, Dongyi, and Laiguo got the news, and they began to recruit soldiers one after another, preparing to fight Qi.

There have been 200 years of disputes between Huaiyi, Dongyi, Lai, and Qi. In the past 200 years, the two sides have won and lost each other, but generally speaking, they are almost the same.Of course, this is on the surface. In fact, after the reform, the strength of Qi State has far surpassed them.

Just when Huaiyi, Dongyi, and Lai were preparing, Qi's army suddenly went north halfway and directly invaded Ji.

Facing the Qi State's attack, Ji State was caught off guard, but in just three days, more than a dozen cities were breached, and Qi State's army directly came to Ji Capital.

As soon as Qi State attacked, Ji Hou quickly summoned an army to resist.It's a pity that it was too late, when the army of Qi State arrived, Ji Hou only summoned about half of the army.

By this time, the arrow was on the string and had to be fired.Wang Chengfu led the Qi army to attack, and Ji Hou formed an array outside the city to fight against him.

It's a pity that Ji Guo has not kept up with the changes of the times, and has been left far behind by Qi Guo.The army rushed to kill, Ji Guo was defeated and lost, and Ji Hou escaped back to the capital with only his body.

Ji State's soldiers are not Qi State's opponents at all, and their armor rate is far inferior, and even their training level is also far behind. How can they be Qi State's opponents?
Qi State defeated Ji State's army, and then took advantage of the situation to attack the city.Jidu was besieged, the reinforcements did not arrive, and there was another big defeat. Jihou was frightened by the battle outside the city, and even ignored the country and led people to flee.

Seeing that Marquis Ji had already run away, all the people in Ji State abandoned their weapons and surrendered. Qi State defeated Ji State with very slight casualties.

Ji Hou fled, and Ji Guoguo was destroyed.Qi Guoqiang moved the residents of Qi, Qi, and Qi from Ji State to Qi, and then moved Qi people to Qi, Qi, and Qi, and Ji Guo did not exist.

Ji State, which had been entangled with Qi State for 200 years, was destroyed by one dynasty, which greatly shocked Huaiyi, Dongyi and Lai States.After the Qi State annexed the Ji State, it did not stop, but the army continued to march south.

Under the pressure of Qi State, the Huaiyi, Dongyi, and Lai countries united to fight against Qi.

In fact, the Huaiyi tribe has been attacked and annexed by the Huai State for these years, and they are about to die out. In fact, these Huaiyi tribes have merged with the Dongyi. The Lai State has fought back and forth with the Qi State in the past 200 years, but now it is not the same. It has been blocked by Qi State, Ju State and Tan State on the Jiaodong Peninsula.

If the prison cage cannot be defeated, it will only be a matter of time before the country of Lai is destroyed.

The army of Qi State came with the prestige of destroying the country, and the Huaiyi, Dongyi, and Lai countries gathered troops to fight against it.The armies of the two sides faced each other in the wilderness.The morale of Qi's army was high, and the armor was sharp. Yi Di was invincible and lost one after another.

The army retreated for more than a hundred miles, and then barely blocked the Qi army.

Seeing the strength of Qi's army, the Yidi allied army did not dare to fight, relying on cities and rivers to defend.I want to delay and let the Qi State run out of food and grass and retreat.

Wang Chengfu attacked several times, the Qi army suffered a lot of casualties, and the results were not great.Wang Chengfu was unwilling to pay more casualties, so he confronted the Lai-Yi coalition forces.

After discovering that the loss of the frontal breakthrough was too great, Wang Chengfu asked people to plant more flags, build more camps, and set up more campfires, and let soldiers go in and out between the camps every day, so that the Lai-Yi coalition army thought that the Qi army was still here. illusion.

Then Wang Chengfu dispatched an army of [-] and ordered the army to spare here and attack Donglai.If the sneak attack is successful, Qi will naturally win.Even if the sneak attack fails, and the army is threatening the capital, the Lai Kingdom will definitely send the army back, and the coalition forces will inevitably fall apart.

Qi State took advantage of the trend to attack, Lai State feared that there would be losses in the rear, so they did not dare to stay, but Huaiyi and Dongyi were not strong enough, so how could they stop them.

After Wang Chengfu divided his troops, he still sent part of the army to challenge every day. At the same time, he trained the army and sent scouts to detect the movements of the coalition forces. If they found signs of retreating, the army would immediately attack.

The Lai State coalition forces did not realize that Qi State had divided its forces into two groups, even because most of the troops were restrained here, leaving the rest of Lai State empty.

Qi State's [-] partial divisions dispatched, and soon detoured to the north, crossed the Jiaohe River, and then drove straight in, directly attacking Donglai, the capital of Lai State.

Fortunately, Lai and Qi have been fighting against each other for many years and have been fighting all the year round. They are very vigilant towards Qi. Although Qi's army came quickly, Lai still responded in time and blocked the sneak attack of [-] troops.

Lai State never expected that Qi State would go deep alone, with [-] troops making a surprise attack.Lai had no choice but to send envoys overnight to call for reinforcements.

For a while, reinforcements from all over the Lai Kingdom came to support them, but these reinforcements were no more than a few thousand people, and the few were only a hundred or so. As soon as they arrived near Donglai, they were defeated by the army of Qi State who had been waiting here for a long time.

The people in Donglai City were panicked, and the messenger went to the front line overnight to ask for help.

When the coalition forces on the front line learned that Qi State had sent a partial division to attack Donglai, they were also shocked.The general of Lai State immediately wanted to retreat to help, but was dissuaded by the Huaiyi Dongyi coalition forces.

"The army of the Qi State is watching. If we retreat at this time, the army of the Qi State will rush to kill, and the coalition forces will collapse immediately. At that time, not only will we not be able to save Donglai, we will die!"

"The division of Qi's troops will definitely weaken at this time. It is better for us to wait for the coalition army to dispatch the whole army, take the opportunity to defeat the Qi army, and then return to the division to rescue Donglai. Not only can the crisis of Lai be relieved, but the Qi army's partial division will also require the whole army. overwhelmed."

"The Qi army has suffered heavy losses, and we may still be able to invade Qi!"

After some discussion, everyone felt that this plan was feasible.Immediately, the army was exhausted, trying to rely on the superiority of troops to break through Qi.When Wang Chengfu saw that the whole army of the Lai State coalition was mobilized, he immediately understood that Qi State's partial division had succeeded.

Immediately did not fight recklessly with the coalition forces, let the army stick to the camp and come out.

Seeing that Qi State did not dare to fight, the Lai State Allied Forces thought that Qi State was timid, so they were overjoyed and launched an attack.The Qi army responded calmly, relying on the defense of the big battalion. The Lai State coalition forces attacked several times, but were all repelled by Qi State.

Instead of defeating the Qi army, the army suffered a lot of losses.In three days, the Lai Guo coalition forces only captured a few empty tents.A strong attack failed to achieve results, and the morale of the coalition forces was low. The Lai Kingdom was even more worried about Donglai's loss, and strongly demanded to retreat.

In the end, the coalition forces argued endlessly and had to lead their own troops to retreat.

In the fifth year of Duke Huan of Qi, the state of Qi defeated the barbarians, consolidated the state, and destroyed the state of Lai.

(End of this chapter)