In the two decisive battles between Qi and Yan and Zhao, Qi won a complete victory with a small number and a large number.
Therefore, all officials and even the people had great confidence in Gu Min and Zhao Yan's dispatch of troops.
But on the tenth day after dispatching the troops, the battle report came back to Qi. All the officials were stunned. The 50,000 army led by Gu Min was actually defeated by Qin Baxian. In this battle, 20,000 Qi troops died in the battle. As a commander, General Gu Min died in battle.
Although Gu Min was a surrendered general of the Zhao Kingdom, his military skills were not weak. What's more, Song Yan taught him the cultivation method and he reached the innate level under his training, but he was still defeated by Qin Baxian.
The officials only received news of Gu Min's defeat, but they did not know the specific details of the defeat.
But what Song Yan got was detailed information. After reading the battlefield information sent back by the spies, he had to sigh that Qin Baxian was worthy of being a son of the plane, so he was so lucky.
Gu Min is a veteran with a calm personality.
After leading his troops into the territory of Yan State, he did not rush to attack Qin Baxian, but adopted a step-by-step combat method. Within a few days, he recaptured a county and city.
But unexpectedly, Qin Baxian had already dug a tree tunnel in this county city leading to the outside of the city.
Therefore, after Gu Min's army was stationed in the county, Qin Baxian ordered people to sneak into the city through tunnels and secretly burn the Qi army's food and grass.
I have to say here that Qin Baxian's luck is incredible.
After lighting the grain and grass, it actually ignited the gunpowder magazine.
Because the grain and grass were burned, Gu Min personally went to direct the troops to put out the fire, and the gunpowder depot exploded at that moment. Even if Gu Min had a high level of cultivation, he could not withstand the power of tens of thousands of kilograms of explosives exploding together, so he was blown up on the spot. die.
At the same time, all the thousands of Qi soldiers who were fighting the fire were killed.
There was a big explosion in the city. Qin Ba saw the opportunity first and took advantage of the civil unrest among the Qi troops. He should open the city gate and throw his troops into the city in one fell swoop.
With the death of the coach, Qi Bing seemed to have lost its backbone. In addition, Qin Baxian happened to enter the city at this time, so Qi Bing failed to form an effective resistance at all and fled the city in defeat.
Fortunately, Gu Min still had a very capable lieutenant, and he could barely gather 30,000 remaining soldiers.
However, they lacked food and grass and could no longer fight Qin Baxian. Instead, they fled to Qi with 30,000 remaining soldiers.
Putting down the information, Song Yan secretly sighed, what kind of bad luck did Qin Baxian have? He actually sent people to burn grain and grass and ignited the gunpowder depot.
Zhao Yan, on the other hand, did not disappoint Song Yan.
After ten days, they had recaptured the two counties for Zhao and defeated Qin's veteran general Meng Feng.
Thinking of this, Song Yan felt it necessary to remind Zhao Yan to make the gunpowder warehouse fireproof and waterproof, so as not to make the same mistake as Gu Min.
Gu Min's defeat made the whole Qi country very disappointed.
The ministers and generals gathered at the General's Mansion again and asked the General for advice.
At this meeting, Song Yan issued two orders.
First, send 50,000 soldiers and horses to meet the 30,000 remaining soldiers. Second, send another 30,000 elite troops to Zhao Yan. Since Gu Min's side has been defeated, we will give up temporarily and use our strength together first. Recover the country for Zhao.
However, during this meeting, someone expressed the hope that the general would lead his own troops to conquer the country.
However, Song Yan refused. As long as he completed his mission, he would leave this world. Therefore, he did not want Qi to rely too much on him. This was why he chose to delegate power in the past few months.
Otherwise, once the officials and generals develop the habit of relying on him, what will Qi do after he leaves
On the other side, Qin Baxian also became more famous because of his defeat of Qi general Gu Min, and was faintly more popular than Song Yan.
A few days later, Qi's 30,000 remaining soldiers were led back to Qi.
Song Yan personally met these remnants and encouraged them.
As for the dead soldiers, Song Yan was not stingy and ordered local officials to complete the statistics within ten days and distribute the compensation to the homes of the deceased.
At the same time, envoys from the State of Qin came to Linshui County.
The envoy of the State of Qin is called Wu Yan, who is the deputy prime minister of the State of Qin. This person is well-known in the State of Qin and is famous for his eloquence.
After Wu Yan met Qi Wang Jiang Dan, he came to the general's mansion alone.
General's Mansion, drawing room.
Song Yan was holding a cup of tea and drinking it slowly, while Wu Yan, who was sitting below him, was talking eloquently, spitting everywhere, and his tone was sometimes excited and sometimes high-spirited.
If he were put into the real world, he would definitely become a very famous speaker.
After talking for a full hour, Wu Yan stopped, looked at Song Yan and said, "General, what do you think of my suggestion?"
At this moment, Wu Yan mainly emphasized how powerful Qin was. If Qi and Qin were enemies, both sides would lose. Therefore, he persuaded Song Yan to cooperate with Qin to carve up the two countries Yan and Zhao.
"Not very good." Song Yan said lightly.
"General, please listen...!"
Seeing Wu Yan's tendency to speak at length again, Song Yan raised his hand, and at the same time, his slightly lazy body suddenly sat up straight: "I have exhausted all the troops of Yan and Zhao, so why should I take advantage of you, Qin?" If Qin’s soldiers and horses return to Qin, and return all the territory of Yan and Zhao, and then hand over the Qin tyrants to Qi, I can forget about it, otherwise, Qin will be destroyed!”
"What?"
After hearing Song Yan's request, Wu Yan couldn't help but get angry, no matter how well-mannered he was: "General, don't you think your conditions are excessive? You know, our Qin State is not weaker than Qi State. Once a war breaks out, It’s not good for either country!”
Song Yan said lightly: "Then it's up to you! In short, I will only give you ten days to think about it. If you exceed this time, I will mobilize the whole country to attack Qin!"
Hearing Song Yan's threat, Wu Yan couldn't help but turn pale with anger: "General, you are too arrogant. Although I admit that you are a good leader, our Qin country also has military wizards who don't need to be weak like you...!"
"Come here, see the guests off!"
After listening to Wu Yan's nonsense for an hour, Song Yan was already impatient and had no mood to continue listening.
"General, you will regret your decision today!"
Before leaving, Wu Yan shouted to Song Yan.
The next day, Song Yan sent a thousand wolf cavalry troops to the battlefield, handed them over to Zhao Yan, and gave him a life-threatening order to defeat the Qin army led by Meng Feng within ten days.
Zhao Yan lived up to Song Yan's expectations, and with the help of wolf cavalry, in just seven days, he recaptured all the lost territory of Zhao State, and in several battles, he killed no less than 20,000 Qin soldiers .
Meng Feng's failure made Qin realize that Qi was not as easy to bully as imagined.
In desperation, the King of Qin issued an order, ordering Qin Ba to temporarily stop attacking Yan State and let him lead his troops into Zhao State to deal with Zhao Yan.
Under the attack of Qin Baxian, Yan State had only one county and city left except the capital. In ten days at most, Yan State would be officially destroyed.
But it happened that King Qin sent a decree.
Qin Ba Xian felt very unwilling to do so, and was planning to go against King Qin's will and defeat Yan State first.
At this moment, the female prime minister Ji Yuxi also ordered someone to send news.
Qin Baxian could disobey King Qin, but he would not disobey Ji Yuxi's orders. Therefore, he had no choice but to withdraw his troops and turn to Zhao. (To be continued)