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In mid-October, because he received an order from Linzi to withdraw troops, Tian Da, Tian Tai and others who were attacking Pengcheng in Luyi, he realized that Qi State was about to face a catastrophe.

After discussion, Tian Da, Tian Tai and others led more than 100,000 Qi troops to evacuate, preparing to retreat northward for hundreds of miles to Tancheng. Unfortunately, Meng Zhong had been staring at the every move of the Qi army, so how could he let the Qi army evacuate easily?

On the night when more than 100,000 Qi troops evacuated overnight, Meng Zhong personally led tens of thousands of Song troops in Pengcheng to pursue them.

Under Meng Zhong's command, the Song army pursuers did not force the Qi army too much to prevent more than 100,000 Qi troops from rising to resist, but they did not let the Qi army flee far away easily. Their army always kept a distance of about several miles, and on this basis, they ordered the Song Dynasty's combat chariot convoy to pursue and cover the evacuation of Qi army again and again.

But once the Qi army stopped evacuating and turned to fight, the Song army immediately retreated, and in short, it would not fight head-on with the Qi army.

Faced with this pursuit that could not catch up in a short time and could not be shaken away in a short time, the Qi army, who lacked time, had no power to counterattack, and could only watch his army being harassed and sneak attacked again and again by the Song army on the way to retreat.

Compared with the overwhelming Qi army, the Song army followed the Qi army calmly and gradually recovered the cities that were captured by the latter in this war, such as Fengyang, until Tian Da led the Qi army to retreat into Tancheng.

At this time, the Song ** team under Meng Zhong had recovered their morale during the pursuit for many days. The army's Sima Dai was unable to win and volunteered to Meng Zhongying: "The morale of the army is available at the moment. If Tian Da decides to refuse to defend Tancheng, I am willing to lead the soldiers to recover this city."

Regarding Dai Busheng's proposal, Meng Zhong smiled and said, "Tian Da suddenly withdrew his troops. It must be Linzi who was panicked when he learned that the five countries were about to attack him. Therefore, he immediately recalled the troops to attack Song. The top priority of the five countries to attack Qi lies in Linzi, the capital of Qi. Since this is the case, how could Tian Da abandon Linzi and defend Tancheng?... But now that winter is approaching, he was afraid that our army will pursue him, which will lead to his hastily withdrawal, so he ordered most of the soldiers to die halfway through, so he decided to temporarily rest in Tancheng. Therefore, Dai Sima does not need to be in a hurry. At most, Tian Da will continue to evacuate northward at the beginning of next spring, and our army will pursue it again."

Dai Busheng nodded and asked, "What about our army now? Are we stationed here?"

Meng Zhong thought for a while and said, "Nine months is approaching, and the weather is getting colder. Instead of spending energy to build a camp, it is better to recover the Liangyi first. In short, wait for this winter to pass."

The good city he mentioned was a small county between Tancheng and Pi County.

"Um." Dai Busheng nodded.

Under Meng Zhong's command, the Song army did not rush to recover Tancheng, but instead regained Liangyi.

The Qi soldiers stationed in Liangyi had already evacuated at this moment. They had obviously been ordered by Tian Da in advance. The Song army recovered the small county without any effort and prepared to let tens of thousands of Song troops station here to survive this cold winter.

During this period, Meng Zhong also recovered Pi County in the south, which was also very relaxed.

Although the Song army temporarily evacuated from the southern suburbs of Tancheng, Tian Da knew that this was just the Song army - to be precise, the Song army commander Meng Zhong did not want to pay too much to recover the county town, but this city was destined to be returned to the Song State.

After realizing this, Tian Da issued an order to the entire army, asking his troops to prepare in advance to continue to evacuate north after the beginning of the year. He hoped that this time he could get rid of the pursuers of Song State.

At the same time, another Qi army that attacked Song State, that was the Qi army that had been attacking Shanfu County, was planning to use this as a stronghold to launch a continuous attack around. After receiving the order from Linzi, it immediately evacuated towards Dongjun and prepared to build a defense line in the Jishui area to prevent the attack of the Five-Nation Alliance.

At the same time, Tian Chu, who had just withdrawn from Xihe County, received the order from Linzi, used Lixiacheng as the main base to build a defense line here.

The defense of Ji River means that Qi has given up the natural danger of the river. In fact, this is impossible. After all, time is too hasty, and winter is approaching, Tian Chu has no time to build enough defense on the south bank of the river, so he can only settle for the second best to defend in Ji River.

This Jishui defense line is also the only defense line for Qi to fight against the five countries' confrontation. Once this line of defense is broken through by the coalition forces of the five countries, everything will be over.

In the following November and December, many envoys sent by Qi came to Song, Zhao, Yan, and even Wei. Only Qin and Chu were the only ones. Because their capitals were too far apart, the envoys sent by Qi were still on the way.

After receiving the envoy of Qi, Dai Wu, the crown prince who had truly become the ruler of Song, summoned the prime minister of the State to discuss the matter.

He said to Hui'an: "Now the King of Qi sent an envoy, saying that the five countries invaded Qi may cause the death of thousands of Qi people. The King of Qi hopes to be in harmony with our Song State, and even wants our Song State to mediate from it. What does Hui think about this?"

Hui Ang snorted coldly when he heard this, and said, "Zheng said, how can we repay kindness with kindness? Qi attacked our Song State three times, and now that his country was attacked by five countries, he remembered to reconcile with our Song State. If the prince accepted the request from Qi State, then wouldn't the thousands of people and soldiers who died in the three battles of Song and Qi State be sacrificed in vain?... As for the so-called thousands of Qi people who were killed because of this, hum, when he sent troops to attack our Song State in the fields, did he never think that countless Song people would be persecuted by his Qi State soldiers?"

Speaking of this, he paused for a moment. Perhaps he realized that his words were not appropriate, so he calmed down and said, "Besides, the prince can rest assured that the five countries attacked Qi this time were targeting the King of Qi, and both Wei and Yan hoped to divide the Qi state. I thought that they would not persecute innocent Qi people. As for our Song army, there was no need to worry too much. Could it be that the prince could not trust my brother?"

"Um."

The prince Dai Wu nodded and rejected the envoy of Qi that day.

After the Song Dynasty, Wei and Zhao received envoys from Qi almost on the same day.

At that time, the Prime Minister of Wei was met by Tian Wen. When the Qi envoy saw Tian Wen, he said, "Duke Xue, Lingzun is the younger brother of King Xuan, you are the prince's nephew, and I am the noble of the Great Qi. Now my Great Qi is about to be attacked by the five countries. Why don't you come forward to stop it and let it happen?"

Tian Wen laughed when he heard this, and then stared at the Qi envoy and questioned the Qi envoy, "When Tian Di regarded me as an enemy, did he care about the feelings of the same clan? When he forced Wei Chu to death, did he care about the feelings of the same clan? Although Tian Wen was a nobleman of Qi, did Qi have tolerate my Tian Wen back then? Now the five countries of Wei, Qin, Zhao, Han and Yan attacked Qi, it was because of the blame! If Qi died because of this, the life was not due to me, Tian Wen, but his foolish monarch!... Go back and tell Tian Di, when he chased Tian Wen that day, did you think that there would be such a consequence today?!"

After some sarcasm, Tian Wen ordered people to expel the envoy.

It has to be said that the famous Xue Gong Tian Wen has always been narrow-minded. On Tian Wen's list of grudges, Meng Zhong, who humiliated him in Zhao State, could only rank third, first and second, namely Qin State and Qi King Tiandi. The nature of these two is much worse than Meng Zhong, and they both thought of killing Tian Wen, and Tian Wen also regarded them as lifelong enemies.

Now that Qi is in trouble, the king of Qi is in chaos, and Tian Wen is gloating and is too late to gloat, how could he go to speak for Qi?

Don’t forget that when King Wen of Wei decided to join forces with the four countries to attack Qi in order to show goodwill to Song, Tian Wen, the nobleman of Qi, expressed his support - one of his enemies, Qin, had already paid the price of Xihe land for offending him, Tian Wen, for his former offense. Now it’s King of Qi’s turn to land!

Wei Chu was humiliated for the sake of the Lord, and was forced to commit suicide in front of the palace gate of the Qi King's Palace in order to safeguard his reputation. Tian Wen has not forgotten this account.

Even Meng Zhong must admit this: Although Tian Wen is narrow-minded, he is indeed worthy of his reputation for loving talents in protecting his shortcomings, that is, in maintaining those who are willing to follow him.

If the envoy of Qi was humiliated and ridiculed by Tian Wen in Wei, then the experience of another envoy of Qi who rushed to Zhao was indeed much better.

It is no wonder that Qi and Zhao have a history of alliance. For example, during the reign of Zhao Suhou, Zhao Zhufu was not reliable in the early days. Sometimes he would do something to do if he had a brain to do something to hurt the allies. Therefore, Zhao Zhufu later resolutely cut off diplomatic relations with Qi and formed an alliance with Song, secretly supporting Song Wangyan to resist Qi. Until the Shaqiu Palace changed, Zhao Cheng, Anping Jun, who was the prime minister of Zhao at that time, and Li Dui, the Fengyang Jun who later replaced Zhao Cheng, advocated the restoration of the alliance with Qi, and even promoted Zhao Qi's marriage, and Zhao Wang He married the daughter of the Tian clan of Qi as his wife.

It is precisely because the two countries have such a history that the Qi envoy who arrived in Zhao believed that it should be possible to convince Zhao to change his position.

With this thought in mind, after arriving in Handan, this envoy named Qi immediately visited Fengyang Jun Li Dui.

However, Li Dui, the Fengyang Jun, told him regretfully that he could do nothing about this.

Indeed, at this time, Li Dui had no longer control over Zhao State than before. Although he was still nominally in Zhao's position, in fact, even Li Dui himself was very sensible and no longer interfered in Zhao State's national policies. Zhao State's power had returned to the hands of the royal family and to the hands of King He of Zhao.

As for military power, although his son Yang Anjun Li Ji is currently in charge of an army, and even this time when he attacks Qi, Li Ji will lead Lian Po to become a member of the Zhao army in attacking Qi, Li Dui knew that the military power of this army would be handed over sooner or later by his Li clan.

Regarding this matter, Li Dui took the initiative to recommend his favorite general Lian Po to King He, hoping to get the value of King He of Zhao.

Unlike his son Li Ji, Lian Po is indeed brave and a rare talent in his Zhao State. Li Dui believes that King He, who was calm since childhood, would never miss such a powerful general. If Lian Po could be valued by King He of Zhao, then Lian Po's "old master" Li Ji would naturally be disguised by King He of Zhao. This is the life-saving plan that Li Dui thought for his son Li Ji, and perhaps the only way for his Li clan to survive in Zhao State.

Fortunately, Li Dui and Li Ji and his son have always treated Lian Po well, and Lian Po is willing to repay them.

Let me ask, in this case, what ability does Li Dui and Li Ji have to persuade King Zhao?

Nowadays, those who have influenced King He on Zhao are Fei You and Zhao Ben, those loyal ministers who have been following King He on the side of the royal family, as well as King He’s younger brothers, Zhao Sheng, Pingyuan Jun and Zhao Bao, Pingyang Jun, instead of their father and son.

What's more, although King He of Zhao was strong inside, in general, his strength and courage were not as strong as his father, Master Zhao. When Master Zhao first ascended the throne, he dared to confront the countries that tried to take the opportunity to divide the Zhao State, but Zhao He did not have the courage. When the four countries of Qin, Wei, Han and Yan, and Song, had clearly stated their position to destroy Qi State, King He did not dare to be enemies with the countries, even if he knew that his queen from Qi State was crying secretly for this.

At this time, for Qi, the only one who could save Qi was perhaps the only two countries Qin and Chu.

But unfortunately, the five countries attacked Qi this time was proposed by Qin. Although the envoy sent by Qi to Qin had not arrived in Xianyang at this time, I believe that the envoy could not receive any assistance from Qin.

As for Chu State...

At the beginning of the next year, the envoy of Qi arrived in Chu Ying, Chu, and met King Xiong Heng of Chu, and expressed his plea to Chu for help.

But unfortunately, the monarch and ministers of Chu did not pay attention to this envoy.

At this time, King Xiong Heng of Chu was still addicted to wine and sex all day long. In the court, a group of ministers led by Yin Yin Zilan received support from Qin, and a group of ministers led by Zhuang Xin and Zhao Ju received support from Wei and Han. These two groups of people were fighting fiercely, so how could they pay attention to Qi?

If these people were not busy with internal strife, let alone aiding Qi, they would take the opportunity to take advantage of Qi, and it would be almost the same to divide Qi together with Wei, Yan, and Song.

Not only that, despite the fierce internal struggle, the Chu State Order Yin Zilan sent a general named "Nao Chi" to lead troops to Qi State to see if he could participate in the division of Qi State.

In the huge Central Plains, no country was willing to help Qi. It has to be said that in addition to the general trend, this has a lot to do with the failure of Qi King Tiandi as a human being.

In March of the eighth year of King Wei, the five-nation coalition forces of Qin, Wei, Zhao, Han and Yan were basically assembled in Handan and Julu in Zhao. Under the order of command of commander Le Yi, the five-nation coalition forces passed through the plains and Gaotang in Zhao, and then crossed the river and arrived in the area north of the Ji River.

According to rumors, Tian Chu was garrisoned in Lixia and was shocked when he learned that the commander of Qi who came to attack him was Le Yi.

After all, once, Le Yi once vowed to him that Yan State had always surrendered to Qi, but unexpectedly, just a few years later, Le Yi stepped onto his territory as a hostile person.

What's not bad is that although Le Yi was the Grand Sima of Yan State, he stayed in Qi State all year round and knew very well about Qi State's customs, defenses, and granaries.

Thinking of this, Tian Chu did not dare to relax, and he was determined to defend Jishui and refused to give the coalition forces the opportunity to cross the Jishui. After all, once they pass the Jishui, everything will be over.

It has to be said that Tian Chu, as a young general trained by Tian Zhang, the famous general of Qi, is actually not that unbearable. The reason why he lost consecutive battles was because he encountered an overly powerful opponent.

For example, he was defeated by the Zhao army, the Wei army, and the Song army, but in fact, Tian Chu encountered the same opponent in these three defeats, all of them were Meng Zhong. If you think about it carefully, you will be very decisive.

But losing to Meng Zhong does not mean that Tian Chu has no talent. In April and May, Tian Chu defended Jishui for a month and a half, making it impossible for the five-nation coalition forces led by Le Yi to cross Jishui one step.

Because of this, Qin general Bai Qi also mocked Le Yi for this: "If you are unable to take this position, I can replace you and help the coalition forces defeat Tian Chu."

In response to this, Le Yi said lightly: "No need. I am just thinking about how to attack Linzi as quickly as possible."

"Hey, then Bai wants to see and see." Bai Qi left mockingly.

Le Yi didn't care about Bai Qi's ridicule. He ordered the generals of Wei State Dou Xing, Tang Zhi and others to divide their troops to capture Dongjun in advance. On the one hand, they secretly helped Wei State, and on the other hand, they put pressure on Tian Chu. After all, Dongjun is in the west of Lixia. If Dongjun falls into the hands of Wei State, then the coalition forces can detour from Dongjun and bypass Tian Chu's Jishui defense line.

He used this tactic to force Tian Chu to divide his troops to rescue Dongjun.

However, Tian Chu was unmoved at all. When his general asked Tian Chu why he did not save Dongjun, Tian Chu said seriously: "I have known this person Le Yi for many years. This person is comparable to Meng Zhong's plan. Now I use Jishui natural danger to fight him again. I must raise up twelve points of energy and have no time to worry about anything else."

At this moment, Tian Da left behind and led more than 100,000 Qi troops to finally arrive at the Ji River. At this time, there were 200,000 Tian Chu troops on the south bank of the Ji River, and 150,000 Tian Da's troops, totaling 350,000 troops. In terms of strength, it actually exceeded the coalition forces of the Five Kingdoms.

In this case, Tian Chu's main force in the garrison of Li Li was guarding against Le Yi, who was called Tian Dashou in the southwest of Li Li, to block the Wei ** team coming from the East County, and the two agreed to support each other.

However, Tiandi, the King of Qi who was in Linzi, had another view. It may be that he saw that the coalition forces were not as strong as his own. Tiandi of Qi issued orders to Tian Chu many times, asking Tian Chu to change his battle strategy and repel the coalition forces as soon as possible.

This is another replica of the Battle of Chusha. When Tian Zhang, a famous general of Qi State, was blocked by Chusha by Chusha. He was unable to make progress for half a year. King Xuan of Qi also repeatedly conveyed orders to force Tian Zhang.

But the problem is, Le Yi is not Tang Mei!

In response, Tian Chu discussed with Tian Da privately: "The king forced me to take the initiative, but I know that Le Yi has been seducing me. Once I take the initiative, I will definitely be defeated."

Tian Da was not as good as Tian Chu to understand Le Yi, and hesitated and said, "But... what should I do if the king's order?"

Tian Chu was speechless.

Afterwards, Le Yi tried to cross the river from Zhua area. Tian Tuo weighed the pros and cons, but finally decided to take the initiative.

In late May, Qi generals Tian Chu and Tian Da started a melee with the five-nation coalition forces in Jixi. As Tian Chu expected, the five-nation coalition forces had indeed deliberately retained their strength, and it was not until now that all of them were revealed, so that more than 300,000 Qi troops were defeated by more than 200,000 Five-nation coalition forces.

The Jishui defense line was declared to be shattered.
Chapter completed!