Chapter 277: The Dangerous Situation in the Southern Qi State

The county was depressed. Although the city had not yet been destroyed and the Qi army still had hope, all the soldiers of the Qi army knew that the Qi State was just fighting to trap beasts. Zhao Xin led nearly 400,000 troops to besiege the county. Li Rubing troops in the south suppressed Qi County. Chu Fei had a miracle, otherwise there would be no hope in Qi State.

Just when the Qi army in the county was at a loss about its future, Li Rubing from the south walked into Linqu City. When Li Rubing led his troops into the southern part of Qi, Qi dispatched 30,000 people to return to defense, of which 10,000 were stationed in Linqu. However, under the fierce attack of the 100,000 Zhao army, the Qi army was captured in less than ten days.

Li Rubing led his troops into Linqu City to rest and attack Linqu. The Zhao army also suffered a lot of losses. Only more than 80,000 people were left in the 100,000 Zhao army, and more than 10,000 casualties. However, due to the lack of excellent generals in Linqu City, only more than 5,000 people were killed in battle. The rest were injured. Except for some serious injuries, the rest could continue to fight once they were raised.

Li Rubing entered the Linqu County Government. Li Rengong walked in and said to Li Rubing: "General, all the soldiers have entered Linqu City to rest and recuperate, and the Qi army in the city has been cleared."

Li Rubing nodded and said, "Very good, by the way, have the injured brothers been resettled?" The injured soldier was also an existence that Li Rubing was extremely concerned about. Since moving south, although the Zhao army has won a series of victories, the losses have been greatly. Two hundred thousand Zhao Guoerlang have died in the Central Plains. Li Rubing really didn't want to see Zhao Guoerlang have major casualties.

It is Li Rubing's personality that loves soldiers as much as his sons that made the younger generation of Zhao State admire him, such as Li Rengong and Kou Fei. Although Zhao Xin, Sima Chong, Zhang Chuan and other famous generals of the older generation are very powerful, they never care about the life and death of their soldiers. As long as they can win, no matter how big the casualties are, it is worth it. Li Rubing's personality, coupled with the success of Sima Chong, the achievements of Zhang Chuan, the two veteran Zhao State famous generals, make the young generals unable to help but follow Li Rubing's horse.

Li Rengong nodded and said, "Everything has been arranged, please rest assured. By the way, General, we have already broken Linqu. What should we do next?"

Li Rubing thought for a while and said, "As the saying goes, we will take advantage of the victory and pursue Linqu. We will definitely make Guangxian and the Qi army in Banyang scared, so we will decide to attack Guangxian in two days!"

"Two days later? But the general, the wounded soldiers can't be well-behaved within two days. Will they be delayed?" Li Rengong had no objection to Li Rubing's decision to attack Guangxian, but should he wait until the wounded soldiers are well-behaved?

But Li Rubing was obviously unwilling to wait, but he shook his head and said, "It will take ten days to wait until the wounded soldiers are well prepared, and it will take one month to wait. How can we have so much time to wait? The wounded soldiers stay in Linqu to recuperate and guard Linqu at the same time!" More than a year since the war started, although Zhao State had already gained an absolute advantage, the domestic logistics was already very difficult, so the right way was to fight and decide quickly.

"Here!" Li Rengong saw that Li Rubing was so persistent, so he had to agree.

Two days later, Li Rubing led his troops out of Linqu and headed towards Guangxian.

At this time, the Guangxian town was in panic. The Zhao army captured Linqu. The fool knew that the next target of the Zhao army was Guangxian, so the 10,000 Qi troops in Guangxian were preparing in full swing. However, in the eyes of the Qi army soldiers, all of this felt so powerless.

Guangxian and Panyang are two gates of Linzi. As long as any place is lost, the Zhao army can approach Linzi. The guard of Guangxian is named Han Chuan. He is also a clan of Qi and is of the same generation as Han Qing. However, he does not have the commanding ability of Han Qing. The reason why he came to the commanding army in Guangxian was entirely because no one was available in Qi at this time, and because he was a clan and loyal to Qi.

On September 13, 18th year of Qianyuan, Li Rubing arrived in Guangxian. It was already mid-September, and the weather in the Central Plains began to slowly become colder. It would not take long to enter the cold winter. Therefore, Li Rubing was very anxious. If he could not conquer Linzi when the cold winter came, the Zhao army would have to wait until next year, which was definitely not good news for Zhao State.

After coming to Guangxian, Li Rubing did not send anyone to persuade him to surrender, because before coming, he had already figured out the situation of the Guangxian garrison Han Chun. This was a person who could contribute everything to Qi, so it was impossible for him to surrender, so Li Rubing was too lazy to do it.

After resting in the city of Guangxian for a day, Li Rubing set up a formation under the city, and this time the four gates attacked together. Li Rubing arranged 20,000 troops at each city gate, including Tu Gao, Kou Fei, Zhuang Hong and Li Rengong, who were responsible for the attack, and he led the remaining thousands of troops to take charge of the army.

Li Rubing looked at the city of Guangxian in the distance, pulled out the sword at his waist, pointed at the head of Guangxian in the city, and shouted: "Siege!"

"Dong!Dong!Dong!" With a command from Li Rubing, the Zhao army's war drums began to beat. The Zhao army soldiers who received the order went to the head of Guangxian like a tide.

Han chin on the city looked at the Zhao army swarming in and quickly commanded the soldiers to fight, but all this seemed very powerless in the face of the powerful offensive of the Zhao army. The difference in strength was too great. In the series of defeats, the Qi army had gradually developed a fear of Zhao and could not raise morale to fight with the Zhao army.

The 10,000 Qi army in Guangxian was divided into four parts by Han Geng. Each of them was 2,500, and they were stationed in the four gates respectively. However, the gap of nearly ten times made the Qi army unable to resist. In less than a day, the Zhao army captured the Guangxian city guarded by Han Geng. Han Geng committed suicide to his country. Ten thousand Qi army died and surrendered.

After capturing Guangxian, Li Rubing did not attack Linzi as anxiously as he had just captured Linqu, because he knew that the 10,000 elite Qi troops in Linzi were more elite than any one he had ever encountered. Therefore, if Li Rubing wanted to quickly capture Linzi, he could not be anxious, but needed to gather all his strength to strive for success in one battle.

After learning that the Zhao army had broken through Guangxian, the Qi court in Linzi immediately recalled the 10,000 troops stationed in Panyang. Now Guangxian has been lost, and the door of Linzi is open, and there is no point in stationing in Panyang. Therefore, Qi simply gave up Panyang and stationed in Linzi with all his strength. At the same time, in order to make up for the shortcomings of military strength, the monarchs and ministers of Qi also began to mobilize the people in Linzi City to join the ranks of defending the city, determined to defend Linzi with all their might.

Qi's actions in Linzi were not hidden from Li Rubing, but Li Rubing still did not make any moves because he was not ready to break Linzi in one fell swoop, so he was still waiting, and at the same time putting psychological pressure on the people of Qi.

In the Guangxian County Government Office, Li Rengong found Li Rubing again and said, "General, our army has been staying in Guangxian for ten days. I don't know when will we send troops to attack Linzi?" After entering Guangxian, Li Rengong originally thought that Li Rubing would want to be in Linqu, and only rest for one or two days before sending troops. But now ten days have passed, Li Rubing still has no action, which makes the Zhao army soldiers confused, so Li Rengong came to ask Li Rubing.

Li Rubing did not answer Li Rengong's question directly, but asked: "How is the recovery of wounded soldiers in Guangxian Town? When will Linqu soldiers arrive in Guangxian?"

Although Li Rengong felt very strange about Li Rubing's failure to respond to his own question, he replied: "Return to the general, all the injured soldiers who attacked Guangxian this time have recovered, and Linqu's troops have also left Linqu. I believe that they will arrive in Guangxian in two days."

Li Rubing nodded and said, "Okay, let me pass the order and the army will continue to stay in Guangxian and wait for our general's order."

"No, General, it's time to rest. When will the troops be sent?" Li Rengong asked when he saw that Li Rubing had no intention of sending troops.

Li Rubing smiled and said, "General Li, as the saying goes, haste, you don't know. Do you know that the Qi army has given up on Panyang and plans to defend Linzi to the death. The 10,000 elite Qi army soldiers in Linzi City are the most elite troops of Qi, which are stronger than the Qi army we have encountered in the past. In addition, Linzi City is not so easy to break, so I need to take out all the chips in my hand. Do you understand?"

Li Rengong thought about it and suddenly realized: "The last general understands that the general is going to wait until all the troops of our army gather before sending troops!"
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