As Chu Shipu, the deceased minister of the Wei State, said, Wang Sunjia, the commander of the Right Army of the Wei State, was a smart and cautious person. After a little contact with the vanguard of Zhao Bing and Taoyi, he lost hundreds of people and led his army back and never took the risk to get close.

The opponent's armor, the opponent's flag, and the number of stoves and fires in the battalion made him sure that he had bitten the main force of Zhao Bing. They could not tempt themselves to go over and fight, but they would not want to leave easily.

Therefore, the information sent by the Marquis of Wei sent a car to the Qi army became like this: Zhao Bing was entangled in Taoyi and Qingqiu area by the Guards, and he was also expected to come and fight quickly.

This move hit the point where the Duke of Qi Chujiu wanted to fight quickly in front of Xue Luo. He was overjoyed and gave up besieging Qinyi, Zhen and Linqiu. Regardless of the danger of crossing the enemy's territory, a mighty army of 40,000 went south, with spears raised high and flags fluttering. Unexpectedly, as soon as he arrived here, he met the vanguard of Zhao Bing and ate his fifty-horse vanguard.

"This place is a hundred miles away from Taoyi. The Wei people just swear that Zhao Yang is in that area, but now the Zhao family's flame sun and black bird flag suddenly appears here. What's going on!?"

The Duke of Qi was furious and suddenly met Zhao Bing, which made him feel a little uneasy. After all, Zhao Yang's good fighting and courage were famous.

"The news from the Wei people was delivered a few days ago. Maybe not long after that, the Jin people heard the news that we entered Xilu, so they went back here overnight despite the Wei people chasing behind us, trying to find a strong city to stop us? If this is true, they missed Linqiu. Now they should pursue it closely, and do not let them escape into Gaoyu, Yuncheng and other towns, and they can only fight against us in the wild!"

Just when Gao Zhang was at a loss, Chen Heng's well-informed analysis made the Duke of Qi turn worries into joy, and immediately deployed the Qi army to form two clamp-shaped routes, and launched a pursuit to Zhao Bing, who had retreated with one blow.

That night, they caught up with the enemy's tail near Gaoyuyi, but Zhao Bing launched the attack first.

Through the high walls and the fields shining with moonlight, the two armies could be seen in Gaoyu Township. Zhao Bing probably thought he could take advantage of the night or the Qi people to relax, but he was very wrong. Thousands of archers in Qi released dense rockets. Flying arrows sizzled over the fields, igniting dead grass when they fell. From a distance, there was a different beauty, but they did not get many living targets.

"The attacks of the Jin people were ineffective, and the enemy was left with corpses." Although Chen Heng said this when asking for me, when counting the results of the battle the next day, the Qi people only found a few bodies of Zhao soldiers. The battle last night was over soon, and the surviving enemy troops fled without a trace in the darkness. Although there were not many killings, this was an exciting victory in the end.

When the Qi people regained their momentum and were about to continue pursuing the enemy, the Duke of Qi asked Yang Hu proudly about his opinion on the battle.

"The people of Jin are at the end of their journey. The emperor has sealed off the roads in the west and north, and directly forced Zhao soldiers to the Pu River. When they reach the edge of the river, they will be unable to fly even if they have wings!" Yang Hu, the deceased minister of Lu, who has lost weight and is no longer majestic, said this.

The Duke of Qi was very happy, but Yang Hu's real thought was not like this: "This is not like a breakout attack at all. It's just that Zhao Qing gently flicked his fingertips, as if he was teasing Qi people and continuing to go deeper."

Yang Hu only met Zhao Yang last summer and was very impressed. He felt that with his personality, if he really wanted to fight, he would only tighten his fingers and become a hard fist as bronze, and bombard the weak parts of the Qi army violently. He would forcefully set off a path instead of such a cowardly retreat.

But in front of the Duke of Qi, he dared not tell the truth. "The master is wise and he is careful to serve him" is also his nonsense. The Duke of Qi will become stubborn when he encounters victory. Yang Hu will follow the last word and will not make things boring. While he acts as a counselor in the Qi army, he observes the situation and looks for opportunities to escape!

On the third day, the clever Chen Heng found that the campfire and stove fire left by Zhao Bing had decreased significantly compared to the previous day, and he was even more overjoyed.

"Zhao Bingzhao's fire has been greatly reduced. The day before yesterday was more than 10,000, yesterday was only 10,000, today. Perhaps because we were chasing each other tightly, the morale was lost. The people who were forced to recruit in Xilu and Wei began to flee!" Chen Heng said happily.

The Duke of Qi stroked his beard and smiled, as if he saw the Victory and the Overlord pose waving to him: "However, once he is forced to turn back and fight with us, Zhao Meng will suffer a great loss this time! I wonder if he can capture him alive."

All the ministers congratulated each other, but only Gao Zhang was still frowning, worried about this and that.

"The emperor wants to chase the troops again, but he doesn't know whether the food and supplies chariots behind him can catch up with the army. The food in the army is only enough for three days..."

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"Yesterday's defeat was very similar to your Wen County soldiers." Standing outside the ruins of Liyi, looking at his nephew Zhao Guangde who pretended to be a robbery camp and then returned from the deceitful defeat, Zhao Yang brushed off the mud spots on his armor for him, and laughed loudly.

Although the timid Zhao Guangde has gone from an incompetent noble who dared not even hold a wooden sword to a strong boy who can carry heavy troops and pedal vehicles to supervise the battle, he is the same as his father Zhao Luo. He is afraid that Zhao Yang will be afraid of death, and is even more afraid of those spears, so he just can't speak out when he jokes about Zhao Yang.

Zhao Yang felt a little bored, but also a little unhappy, and his face suddenly became stern: "But the plan of Fu Su and Wu Xiu is too cowardly. He actually asked me to pretend to retreat and defeat and lead the enemy deeper. The Duke of Qi must have looked down on me now!"

Zhao Guangde almost bit his tongue in fear and quickly replied: "It's just for the time being. I just hope my cousin can complete the plan as soon as possible. By then, my uncle will be able to fight Qi Jun back and forth!"

Zhao Yang's iron palm patted his head again, making Zhao Guangde's head dizzy under his helmet.

"You speak more than your father, I hope this is the case..."

It turned out that the Cao army deployed in Taoyi area was actually after reaching an agreement with Zhao Yang and Zhao Wuxiu, who used the remaining flags and clothes to disguise themselves as Zhao soldiers. They had only five or six thousand people, but they bluffed out more than ten thousand, dragging the Wei people in the south, and then let Qi believe the false news and go south.

After meeting the Qi people, Zhao Bing pretended to be caught off guard and retreated to the southeast. He seemed to want to enter Gaoyu and Linqiu defended, but he seemed "only a little short" every time, which made the Duke of Qi itch and chased him despite the danger. At the same time, Zhao Bing's good mobility and the supplies he could get from the closed towns of various city gates from time to time made them always faster than the Qi people.

The Qi army followed closely behind, and its direction was getting further and further south. It was already two hundred miles away from Dong'a, the base camp where grain storage was stored, and Pingyin was almost the same distance from the capital Diqiu, the Wei Kingdom, which was full of corn. At this distance, infantry took four days to walk quickly, and it took six days for the cart full of food to arrive!

Also, because they wanted to chase the Zhao army, the food, supplies and even spare winter clothes carried by the Qi army with the army fell thirty or forty miles behind, and they walked slowly with the strength of a division.

Zhao Wuxiu, who had not shown up from beginning to end, gathered the 800 light cavalry of the entire army together, quietly waiting in a wooded forest west of Linqiu, ready to go...
Chapter completed!