Chu and Han contend for the throne

Chapter 75
On the galloping road at the northern foot of Mount Tai, more than 50 Hu people are leading more than 500 good horses meandering forward.

This is a group of Bei Diao Hu merchants who came to Qidi to sell horses. The leader is a thin Hu man named Zhaoshe Qimai. But in order to facilitate business with the Central Plains people, he gave himself a Chinese name. Call Qi to buy.

Although trading horses between Donghu in the Central Plains is very profitable, it is also extremely risky, but Qibui has nothing to fear.

Because Qi Mai is the younger brother of Northern Raccoon King Zhaoshe, and the Northern Raccoon Tribe is a relatively powerful branch of the Eastern Hu, with tens of thousands of people who control strings, so even King Yan Zangtu must Buying some face for Qi, if not for this, the more than 500 good horses Qi bought would have been intercepted by Zang Yan (the eldest son of Zang Tu) who stayed behind in Yan Kingdom.

Of course, Qi Mai didn't know that his more than 500 good horses were still being targeted by others. At this moment, he was driving the horses forward with more than [-] warriors from the clan. At eighty miles away, Linzi, the great city of Qidi, would arrive. Qi Mai never thought that his cavalry would be attacked here.

Without warning, a spiked arrow suddenly whizzed out from the dense forest in front left.

The northern raccoon warrior who rode in the front was unsuspecting, and was shot through the throat in one shot, and immediately turned over and fell off his horse.

The next moment, dense arrows like locusts shot out from the dense forest and grass on both sides of the road, and the fifty or so Bei Diao warriors who walked in front of the horses and fell behind screamed and fell off their horses. The buying reaction was fairly quick, and coupled with his thin body, he huddled on the horse's back at once, which barely escaped the rain of arrows.

At this time, the horses in the middle were also frightened and began to run wildly.

Qi Maixin reined in his horse and was about to take advantage of the chaos to escape when hundreds of people from the Central Plains suddenly rushed out of the dense forest on both sides, and all of them were heavy armored soldiers wearing iron armor and holding large shields. They were quickly gathered to the side of Chidao, and dozens of Bei Diao warriors who were only injured by arrows were cut down to the ground one after another.

Seeing two heavily armored soldiers coming straight at him with Leng Sensen's long knives, Qi Mai was heartbroken and shouted loudly in desperation: "Don't, don't, don't kill me, I am the Northern Raccoon King!" The younger brother of Zhaoshe Luowei's compatriots, as long as you let me live, I am willing to donate another five hundred good horses, no, one thousand good horses!"

Jing Qian was holding a horizontal saber, and was about to behead the barbarian who was lying on horseback and pretending to be dead, but he was surprised that the barbarian spoke the Central Plains dialect. You know, when he heard that the barbarian could donate another thousand good horses, Jing Qian didn't dare to make up his own mind, and immediately shouted: "Tie it up, take it back and hand it over to the general."

"Promise!" The two soldiers in the formation agreed loudly, stepped forward and without any explanation, they tore Qi Mai off his horse and tied him up.

Less than a moment later, more than 500 good horses were all driven into the dense forest beside the road, and the corpses of more than 50 Bei Diao Huqi were also dragged into the forest and hid. The Xiandeng dead soldiers cruising at the side crossing also hid in the dense forest on the left side of the road one after another. At the same time, there were more than a dozen corpses of travelers who were dragged into the forest.

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Two hours later, the two hundred entrapment soldiers and three hundred Nufeng archers sent out returned.

Jing Qian threw Qimai, which was bundled like rice dumplings, in front of Xiang Zhuang, bowed his head and reported: "General, the horses are in hand. Only one of the 56 barbarians will be kept alive, and all others will be killed!"

"What's left of the robbery?" Xiang Zhuang said indifferently, "Drag it, chop it up."

"Don't, don't, please, General, please, please." Qi Mai was terrified when he heard the words, and said anxiously, "The villain, Qi Mai, is the younger brother of a compatriot named Zhaoshe Wang Zhaoshe in Donghubei. Let the villain go, the villain is willing to donate a thousand good horses, no, two thousand good horses!" In order to save his life, Qibuy really spared no expense, and this has increased to two thousand good horses.

"Oh?" Xiang Zhuang's heart skipped a beat when he heard the words, and he said, "Are you the younger brother of Diao Wang Zhaoshe in the East and North?"

In his previous life, Xiang Zhuang had heard about hundreds of forums, and knew that there was a cavalry force from the Bei Diao Tribe who followed Yan Wang Zang Tu to participate in the Battle of Gaixia.

"Yes, yes, the villain is really the younger brother of King Bei Diao." Qi Mai nodded again and again, "If there is any falsehood, the sky will strike with lightning, and the villain will have a terrible death."

Xiang Zhuang rubbed his chin, and suddenly asked: "Do you often come to Zizi to sell horses?"

"Come often, come often." Qi Mai nodded repeatedly, "The villain has come to Zizi more than ten times."

Xiang Zhuang asked again: "Is the horse market in Linzi inside or outside the city? Do you have any acquaintances in Linzi?"

Qi Mai rolled his eyes and guessed Xiang Zhuang's intentions, and immediately replied: "The Linzi horse market is outside the city, but the villain has a gold medal from King Han Xin of Qi, so the villain and his clansmen can enter and leave the city gate at any time." After all, Qi Mai pulled out a gold medal from his bosom like a magic trick, and handed it to Xiang Zhuang with both hands.

This gold medal was really given to Qi Mai by Han Xin, because Qi Mai sold thousands of good horses to Qi State successively, and directly helped Han Xin expand Guan Ying's cavalry army!
Xiang Zhuang took the gold medal, looked back at Wei Liao and said, "Military division, it's done!"

Wei Liao nodded with a smile. With this gold medal, the Chu army's confidence in winning the city will be increased by at least [-]%.

At that moment, Xiang Zhuang ordered Gongsun to select more than 50 sharp men from among the first dead men, and all of them were dressed in the clothes of Beiracoon Hu people. The trapped camp, the first boarded camp, the Nufeng camp and other armies followed behind, and also rushed towards Linzi at night.

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Tian Si was leading a team of the Qi army, leading more than [-] people, and it happened to be his turn to guard the Yongmen tonight.

Linzi is an ancient city with a thousand years old. After hundreds of years in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, it finally formed the current pattern of a large city overlapping a small city. The small city is in the southwest, also called Miyagi. Official workshops such as minting coins, iron smelting, and copper smelting can be said to be the political and economic center of Qi.

Dacheng is in the northeast, where officials, civilians and businessmen live.

Dacheng has eight gates, of which Yongmen is the middle gate in the north.

At the end of the Qin Dynasty, the world was in chaos, and the land of Qi also changed hands several times. There were two large-scale wars, one was Han Xin's destruction of Qi, and the second time was the dragon's defeat of Qi. However, the battle of Han Xin's destruction of Qi went smoothly. The unaligned ground caused too much damage. As for the battle of Long Qie against Qi, it was limited to the southern part of Qi State, and the damage to Qi State was also not great.

Because of this, Han Xin was able to quickly assemble an army of more than 30 after pacifying Qidi!

In the Battle of Gaixia, even Liu Bang could only cobble together 20 troops, but Han Xin brought 30 troops at once, which made Liu Bang terrified and couldn't even sleep at night. Liu Bang and Chen Ping tried their best to dissuade them again. Liu Bang might have captured Han Xin's 30 army long ago!

Closer to home, due to the large population of Qi and the lack of major war damage, even though Han Xin took away 30 troops, he still left behind a considerable number of defenders. In Linzi alone, there are Five thousand defenders, and all of them are young and strong, not old, weak, sick and disabled.

Tian Si is in the middle of his life, and he looks very powerful, and he is sitting in the porter's room drinking.

Guarding the city gate is hard work, especially in this cold weather. Standing on the top of the city for half an hour can freeze your legs to death. If you don't drink a few sips, who can bear it?

"Team leader, someone is coming over there, it seems to be a barbarian who entered the city during the day."

A small soldier suddenly pointed to the street in front of him and shouted. When Tian Si looked back, he saw dozens of drunken barbarians walking towards the city gate with torches. I recognize it, it is the younger brother of the Northern Raccoon King, Yan Mai, and the king even gave him a gold medal.

Soon, dozens of drunken barbarians came to the city gate.

Tian Si stepped forward to meet him, barely blocked Yan Mai's path, and said with a smile: "Mr. Yan Mai, where are you going?"

The dozen or so soldiers behind Tian Si also rushed up one after another, all of them with smiles on their faces, they all knew that Yan Mai was a horse dealer, and his hands were generous, and it seemed that he planned to leave the city overnight, which violated the rules. Although it's not like he didn't do such a thing before, but he should show something, right?
Yan Mai is worthy of being a rich horse dealer, and he did not disappoint these big soldiers, so he casually took out a few pennies from his pocket and handed them to Tian Si, and said drunkenly: "Tian team leader, these pennies are yours. Take it to buy some wine for the brothers, please open the city gate now, I, I want to go out of the city."

Tian Guo took the money and weighed it, then turned around and shouted: "Open the door!"

A dozen soldiers rushed forward, quickly removed two huge bolts weighing more than a thousand catties, and opened the iron-covered city gate with force. Almost at the same time, the suspension bridge outside also creaked. When it landed, Yanmai turned around and waved, and dozens of barbarians staggered into the city gate.

When Tian Si was about to go back to the concierge to drink a few more sips, there was a clear moan from the back of his head, which sounded like the sound of a sharp knife being unsheathed. The next moment, he felt himself "flying" suddenly, violently During the rotation, Tian Si faintly saw a headless corpse, and what's more, those dozens of barbarians pulled out their long knives and were killing his soldiers wantonly!

How dare these barbarians kill their own soldiers? !Tian Si was furious, what do they want to do?
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