When I was in Qin Dynasty, I really didn't want to make progress

When King Jian of Qi heard the news, these were the only things he could think of.

"Your Majesty, since Yang Chong is already afraid, do you not need to lead the army in person?" Hou Sheng, who sent King Jian of Qi to the outskirts of Linzi, still wanted to rescue him again.

Although he did not think that the Qi army would be defeated, King Jian of Qi also had no reason to lead the army in person. The so-called accidents, even if they were only a one in ten thousand chance, still existed. It was better to stay in Linzi to be safe.

"No, the fake king is afraid of me, so I should lead the army myself." King Jian of Qi, who misunderstood the news, became more determined.

The contact with the army in the past few days made King Jian of Qi discover the beauty of the army. The palace is certainly a paradise where one can live a life of luxury, but the iron-blooded conquest in the army is also a man's romance.

At this time, the passion in King Jian of Qi's heart had been completely ignited by the military spirit.

King Jian of Qi said that he also wanted to show off his courage.

Hou Sheng realized that his advice was innocent, so he could only accept the current facts. Although there was a one in ten thousand chance that an accident would occur, there was still a nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine chance of winning. Since King Jian of Qi had already made the decision, there was no point in him objecting.

More importantly, Hou Sheng could not think of any reason why King Jian of Qi would be defeated. After all, King Jian of Qi's advantage was too great.

"There shouldn't be any problem with King Jian of Qi's move at this time. After all, even if it is the so-called imperial expedition, he has never left the territory of Qi, which is less than 200 miles away. Even if something unexpected happens, Qi's troops in all directions can provide support at any time." Dun Ruo thought to himself as he looked at the endless Qi army.

But there was always a vague sense of uneasiness in his heart. There was no reason, it was just an intuition. But it was precisely because of this intuition that his mind was unable to calm down.

Chapter 247 Attack, Attack, and Attack Again

The Qi army had a large scale, but its marching speed was very slow. It took the Qi army five days to march only a distance of two hundred miles. During these five days, Yang Chong just rested his energy and did nothing else.

But some people have done a lot. For example, King Zheng of Qin, in order to get the news from the Qi army as quickly as possible, not only sent the best killer in Luowang into the deep of Qi State to pass the news to the rear, but also temporarily set up a number of post stations along the thousands of miles from Dingtao to Xianyang to facilitate the spread of news.

After all this trouble, before King Jian of Qi led his army to the battlefield, information about the Qi army had already appeared on the desk of King Zheng of Qin.

"King Jian of Qi?" King Zheng of Qin looked at the information in his hand, then handed it to Wang Jian, motioning Wang Jian, Huan Xi and Xiong Qi to pass it on. He wanted to take advantage of this time to digest the information. King Jian of Qi actually led the army in person, which was really beyond his expectations.

It is true that not everyone can lead an army in person, especially in the past history, there have been too many failed experiences. Not to mention other things, the Zhou royal family alone produced two negative examples. The Zhou emperor who was shot by an arrow was unlucky, but it was only an external injury after all. One of his ancestors died directly.

In those days, King Zhao of Zhou personally led an expedition against the State of Chu. However, when he was crossing the Han River to the south, he fell into a trap set by the Chu people and boarded a boat that was made of wooden boards spliced ​​together with an adhesive that melts in water. As a result, the boat fell into pieces when it was halfway across the river, and the great Zhou emperor ended up being eaten by fish. It was truly sad and lamentable.

Of course, this incident also shows Chu Ren’s boldness and fighting spirit. The Chu people are also unruly in this world. Otherwise, in the future, when the Qin State was about to unify the world, the Chu people would not have such a cry.

To get back to the point, King Zheng of Qin did not think that it was a good thing for a king to lead the army in person. Moreover, even if he did, he would not necessarily go to the front line to lead the troops. In war, things change rapidly. No matter how smart a king is, he is not a general leading troops on the front line after all. If he appears on the front line of the battlefield, it is easy to backfire.

What a king has to do is to stay in the temple, plan strategies, deploy troops and generals, and win battles thousands of miles away. Even if he wants to lead the army in person, he should choose a base behind the battlefield, where the king can supervise and coordinate the army.

This was King Zheng of Qin's understanding of leading an expedition in person, but King Jian of Qi obviously did not think so.

"In this war between Eastern Qi and Western Qi, King Jian of Qi may be a variable." When the last person finished reading the military situation, King Zheng of Qin spoke.

After jointly electing Yang Chong as the King of Qi, in order to distinguish the two Qi states, the Qin monarchs and ministers still called Yang Chong's Qi and King Jian's Qi "East Qi" as well as "West Qi". When they discussed the war between the two countries in public, they naturally also used the same terminology.

"Yang Chong is extremely adventurous in the use of troops, even daring and reckless. I am already relatively radical in the use of troops, but compared to Yang Chong, I am still conservative. If King Jian of Qi appears on the battlefield, Yang Chong may really see an opportunity." Huan Qi said after careful consideration.

Among the people present, if we were to ask who knew Yang Chong best, it would of course be King Zheng of Qin. But if we were to ask who knew the best about Yang Chong's way of leading troops in battle, it would be Huan Xuan. After all, this understanding was built on the blood of tens of thousands of Qin troops and was obtained at a painful price.

"King Jian of Qi?" King Zheng of Qin silently repeated the name and couldn't help but have a bad premonition. When plotting against Yang Chong, he had taken all factors into consideration, but the only one he had missed was King Jian of Qi.

King Jian of Qi had become a variable at this time. If he accidentally let Yang Chong seize the opportunity and take over Qi in one fell swoop, then King Zheng of Qin would really lose both the wife and the army. Not only did he fail to plot against Yang Chong, but he helped Yang Chong a lot. Once Yang Chong took control of Qi, with the abilities Yang Chong had demonstrated in recent days, he would undoubtedly turn Qi into a powerful existence, enough to reproduce the glory of Qi during its peak period.

Over the years, the Qin State has experienced many wars, including several bitter battles that were enough to determine the rise and fall and survival of the country. After several generations of efforts, the Qin State defeated the overlords of one era after another, from the Wei State, to the Chu State, and then to the Qi State, and finally hit the Zhao State hard in the Battle of Changping, pulling Zhao off the throne of overlord, making the Qin State the only overlord in the world.

It was precisely because of so many wars, with generation after generation of Qin people shed their blood and sacrificed their lives, that the Qin State had the power and opportunity to unify the world.

If a powerful Qi State suddenly appeared at this time, the Qin army would not be afraid, but the pace of unifying the world would inevitably be delayed by ten, twenty years, or even more.

The patience of King Zheng of Qin had been worn out in the battles with Lü Buwei and Cheng Jiao. At this moment, King Zheng of Qin did not have much patience. His plan was to conquer the six kingdoms in ten years and build his ideal kingdom in another ten years. If the incident between Yang Chong and Qi forced him to postpone his plan...

King Zheng of Qin thought about it, and for the first time he doubted his decision.

Could it be that I am really wrong?

"I will not be wrong." When King Zheng of Qin began to doubt himself, the other king still maintained full confidence in his decision.

King Jian of Qi had led the Qi army to thirty miles away from the Dong'a army's station. While he was rushing here from Linzi, many more Qi soldiers came from all over the place. At this time, he had raised 420,000 Qi troops under his command. Such a huge force, in the world today, except for Qin, probably only Qi can mobilize so many troops in such a short time.

It has to be said that although Qi State rarely fought foreign wars over the years and did not invest much in the military, its strong financial resources enabled it to unleash unimaginable military forces that were unimaginable to other countries in the shortest time.

Yang Chong was no exception to this situation, because in his memory, there were similar countries in later generations. Keeping wealth among the people was a characteristic of Qi. After decades of recuperation, although the Qi people's spirit was almost destroyed, their wealth had reached a higher level. They only needed to slightly tilt the resources they controlled to form a large-scale army.

This is also the reason why Yang Chong chose a quick battle. Once the people of Qi get used to war, the power of Qi will no longer be something he can pry open.

With such powerful troops at hand, King Jian of Qi felt that even if King Zheng of Qin came, he had the confidence to defeat him, not to mention his enemy was Yang Chong.

It was with such confidence that the Qi army had already deployed its troops and was crushing towards the Dong'a army before the Qi army had fully assembled.

King Jian of Qi believed that whether it was 420,000 troops or 500,000 troops, they would be enough to crush the Dong'a army with only 70,000 troops.

In the heart of Qi, on the plains that had not seen the flames of war for many years, war broke out again. The clanging of armor, the rolling of chariots, and the neighing of war horses filled the air with a murderous aura that rose to the sky.

"Four hundred and twenty thousand soldiers and horses are indeed a lot!" On the plain, Yang Chong restrained his restless mount with one hand and uttered such praise.

Looking around, the Qi army really had flags covering the sky, the soldiers' sweat turned into rain, and they could cover the sky with just a wave of their sleeves. There were a total of 420,000 troops, which was truly boundless. It was really difficult to defeat such a huge army.

Not to mention that there are 400,000 soldiers on the opposite side, even if it is 420,000 pigs, a force of this size gathered together is also an invincible force.

However, Yang Chong is not pessimistic about this war at all. If he were really pessimistic, he would not appear here.

"It's too late to withdraw our troops now. We have no choice but to fight." Yan Ju, who was in the rear, said to himself. He had never thought about such a war, but now he had to experience it. The pressure was really too great.

"But it is also more exciting because of this!" Yan Ju's worry soon turned into excitement. Since the boss Yang Chong has decided to go to war, and the current situation makes it necessary to go to war, he can only go all out.

Today I will either become part of a miracle or die here! I have wasted so many years. If I give up this opportunity, I will never have another chance. Yan Ju kept talking to himself. Since the reality could not be changed, he could only convince himself.

The Qi army was large in scale, but it was correspondingly more troublesome to mobilize. For a time, the various units were unable to coordinate, and these were their flaws and also Yang Chong's opportunities.

While the Qi army was still mobilizing, the Dong'a army launched an attack directly. There was not even any horn or shouting. There was only a big flag marching out at an extremely fast speed, leading a cavalry of 10,000 people to rush towards the center of the Qi army.

At this time, there were no more tactics, only attack, attack and attack again, at all costs to break through the central army formation of the Qi army, cut off the king's flag of the Qi army, and capture King Jian of Qi.

"What is this?" Qi Wangjian noticed the changes in front of the formation and was a little surprised. At this time, he was completely convinced that the other party was a madman.

However, a madman can only disgust people, but not be enough to scare people, because King Qi Jian has enough confidence in his own strength.

At the command of King Jian of Qi, his attendants on both sides passed down the military orders, and another flag-bearer waved the command flag for the drummer to see, who then turned it into a military drum and gave it to the commanders of each formation, who mobilized their troops to respond to King Jian of Qi's orders.

War is not that difficult! Although this is my first time on the battlefield, I am familiar with everything. So I have been delayed all these years. In fact, I also have the potential to be a famous general.

Seeing that countless Qi troops were mobilized following his order, King Jian of Qi couldn't help but feel a surge of pride.

The battlefield is a place that can make people's blood boil.

However, the Qi army deviated due to the movement of King Jian of Qi. Upon hearing the drumbeats, the two large formations of the central army moved in the same direction at the same time. As a result, the two formations not only failed to form a tight defense, but chaos broke out at the moment of contact. Where the two armies met, soldiers in the formations collided and trampled on each other.

If the huge army formation is a piece of indestructible bronze, then a crack will appear at its connection point. This crack will not exist for too long, because although bronze is dead, the people in the army formation are alive. In the brief chaos, this crack can be bridged.

Unfortunately, bronze will have no enemies, but the army will have enemies.

At the moment when the Qi army was in chaos, Dong'a's cavalry vanguard had already rushed over. At the moment of close combat, an indestructible sword energy directly knocked over dozens of people, and a small gap appeared in front of the crack.

Those cavalrymen were all wearing heavy armor, which had never appeared in this era. Under the leadership of the leader, they were invincible. Wherever the heavy cavalry passed, the cracks in the Qi army's formation quickly expanded. Some opportunities lasted only a moment, but as long as they were seized, they would be enough to unleash tremendous power to influence success or failure.

At this time, Yang Chong had transformed into a peerless warrior. He had exerted his power, which had reached the level of a master, to the extreme. The Taia sword in his hand had been replaced with a big spear. The spear head was surrounded by wind, fire, thunder and lightning, making him look like a god bathing in blood.

At this moment, in the eyes of the Qi army soldiers, he was a real god. He was invincible, and he was surrounded by power that only heaven and earth could control. In their fear, the Qi army soldiers could only have such thoughts.

But there were still too many Qi troops. When Yang Chong went deep into the enemy camp, the surrounding Qi troops had already begun to reinforce. More and more Qi troops came in. Although they could not stop Yang Chong's way, they could cut off Yang Chong's retreat and make Yang Chong's way more difficult.

In the bloody battle, Yang Chong had no idea how many enemy soldiers had died at the hands of his gun. He only felt that the gun barrel in his hand had become slippery and difficult to hold. He only felt that his master-level true energy seemed to have reached its limit.

The power of heaven and earth will eventually be exhausted. No matter how fierce and violent earthquakes, hurricanes, floods and other natural disasters are, there will always be a time when the power is exhausted. This is how all things in the world can continue to live.

If the power of heaven and earth is like this, what about human beings?

Natural disaster? Yang Chong suddenly realized something while fighting, but he couldn't spare any more energy to care about it. At this time, more and more Qi troops were surrounding him from three sides. If Yang Chong couldn't break through the Qi army formation from the front, the thousands of cavalrymen who followed him would be drowned in the swords and shadows of the Qi army, and he would also be exhausted by the Qi army's successive attacks and eventually die without a burial place.

"Then let's fight to the death!" Yang Chong had given up all his thoughts at this time. Now he had only one way to go. At this time, the so-called calculations and plans were no longer meaningful. Everything was just a confrontation of strength.

Chapter 248 Today I Can Be the Doorkeeper

The biggest advantage of the Qi army is its large number of people, but its biggest disadvantage is also its large number of people.

Since ancient times, the more soldiers and horses a person has on a battlefield, the better. The combat effectiveness of an army has two core factors: one is the commander's ability, and the other is the overall combat effectiveness of the soldiers. Only when the two are perfectly combined can the combat effectiveness of the army be maximized.

If the two cannot cooperate effectively, they will only get half the result with twice the effort, and the combat effectiveness of each other will be greatly reduced. This involves the issue of the maximum extent to which a commander can lead his troops.

Some people command 30,000 or 40,000 soldiers and are extremely powerful, but they may not be able to control 100,000 soldiers. Some people can rule the world with 100,000 soldiers, but if they are asked to command 300,000 soldiers, they will be stretched to the limit and in a miserable state.

A general who can command 300,000 soldiers and horses as easily as an arm is a true general, and there will be only a few of them in an era. A general who can command 600,000 soldiers and horses and make it look like a piece of cake may be a famous general that can only be seen once in a hundred years.

However, King Jian of Qi was obviously not a rare general. He was not even as good as ordinary generals. During Yang Chong's attack, he only knew to mobilize troops to besiege Yang Chong, but he did not have a clear concept of the order of mobilization. As a result, the Qi army's formation had more and more flaws with Yang Chong's attack, and these constantly emerging flaws were Yang Chong's opportunities.

In the Qi army's formation, Yang Chong rushed left and right, constantly attacking the Qi army's formation. In this process, no matter how Yang Chong changed direction, he had only one target, and that was King Jian of Qi.

At this moment, Yang Chong has broken through one Qi army formation after another, but there are still two Qi army formations in front of him, and on his left, right and behind, there are more Qi troops pouring in. Yang Chong quickly assessed the situation.

His physical strength was certainly enough to support him to fight his way to King Jian of Qi, but the soldiers under his command were still within the scope of human beings and still had the limitations of being human. Heavy armor certainly improved the combat effectiveness of the cavalry across the board, giving them an overwhelming advantage over the Qi army in the charge, but conversely, the physical consumption of the cavalry was also terrifying.

If Yang Chong had to attack the Qi army alone without the help of his cavalry, he would probably be drowned in the crowd even if he had extraordinary abilities.

"It's time to use that weapon." Yang Chong raised his hand while thinking.

The royal guards who noticed Yang Chong's actions quickly reached for the bag on the side of the saddle, and a slingshot appeared in their hands.

Slingshots were used before humans invented bows and arrows. After ancient humans freed their hands, throwing stones at prey was an effective means of attacking the enemy. Later, people discovered that by tying a rope to a stone and swinging the rope, they could unleash greater power. From then on, throwing stones became slingshots.

To this day, the trebuchet is still the most easily obtained long-range attack weapon for humans, and Yang Chong was using such a trebuchet at this time.

However, this time the catapult no longer threw stones, but simple incendiary bombs made of black gunpowder and white phosphorus. In order to refine these things, Yang Chong also spent a lot of effort, and even did not hesitate to "compromise" and use the "beauty trap" to let Ehuang use her not-so-good alchemy to experiment with the proportions of these things.

At this time, Yang Chong's personal guards, who numbered less than 400 people, threw their catapults with incendiary bombs in their hands with all their might. At one time, hundreds of incendiary bombs were thrown into the sky above the Qi army. At the same time, Yang Chong also threw the almost unusable spear in his hand into the sky.

"What is this going to do?" Prince Jian of Qi, who was in the rear formation, stood on a high platform and took in all the changes in the war: What new tricks does the fake king have?

Countless Qi soldiers subconsciously looked up at the sky. The originally clear sky suddenly exploded with a loud thunder, hitting the spear thrown high into the sky by Yang Chong. In the flash of lightning, violent flames rose, followed by even more violent explosions and flames spreading in the air.

At this moment, the chaotic war suddenly became quiet. What did they see?

What countless soldiers saw was a loud thunder and the sound of countless thunderbolts exploding. That kind of exploding sound could not be anything other than the power of heaven. Also, there was the flame rising in the air, like a ball of heavenly fire falling from the sky.

Is this something a human can do?

It's impossible. This is not something that humans can do. Human power cannot reach such a level. Since humans can't do it, it can only be done by God.

This was Heaven helping Yang Chong and the Dong'e army. For a moment, the Qi army's courage was lost. They were not afraid to fight against the Dong'e army, but what about against Heaven?

Among the people of the seven countries, the people of Qi were the most superstitious. What happened at this time fell into the sight of the Qi army, and some of them thought of a rumor.

Thinking of the rumor and what was happening at this time, some soldiers in the Qi army began to waver in their will. Amid their wavering, there were screams of many people. The flames in the sky turned into meteors and fell into the Qi army's formation. The flames seemed to have life, sticking to the Qi soldiers, igniting their skin and hair, and igniting their armor and clothes.

If the fear just now only existed in the mind, then at this moment, the fear has become reality.

The most fearful among them was King Jian of Qi.

As strong was King Jian of Qi's determination before, as great was his fear at this moment. The courage he mustered was due to impulse. When his impulse was replaced by the fear of the unknown, his collapse happened in an instant.

"I cannot stay here, he is not a human being." King Jian of Qi thought as the man walked down the platform uncontrollably. A gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall, let alone he is the king.

Seeing that the heavy cavalry led by Yang Chong were about to break through the army formation and rush to him, it was too dangerous for him to stay here.

Especially at this time, Yang Chong seemed to be helped by heaven, and King Jian of Qi felt that he needed to avoid his edge.

As King Jian of Qi retreated, the royal flag of the Qi army also began to waver. As the royal flag retreated, Yang Chong launched a fatal blow that squeezed out the last of the heavy armored cavalry's strength.

King Jian of Qi's retreat began to cause the Qi army, which was already filled with fear, to fall into even greater chaos. At this moment, fear turned into chaos, and chaos turned into collapse.

"The king is dead." Such a voice came from somewhere. At first, the voice was still very weak for such a large battlefield, but it spread quickly. In just a moment, the sound of the king dying and the king escaping was like a landslide and tsunami.

It was also at this moment that the Qi army's formation was defeated by the Dong'a army. In front of Yang Chong was no longer the endless Qi army, but the back of King Jian of Qi.

"Kill." Yang Chong drew the long sword from his waist. He had already seen King Jian of Qi. That was his chance to win.

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"King Jian of Qi actually lost?"

At this time, Linzi City had fallen into great chaos. The 420,000-strong Qi army was defeated three times by the Dong'a army in three days. The reason for all this was that King Jian of Qi was captured by Yang Chong himself in the first day of the battle.

In the following two days, although there were loyal generals in the Qi army whose king was captured and were willing to fight a decisive battle with the Dong'a army, with their king captured, the army's morale and fighting spirit were completely lost. They were defeated in successive battles, and finally nearly 200,000 soldiers fled, and nearly 200,000 were captured.

The huge Qi army turned into a thing of the past in such a ridiculous and tragic way, and the high and mighty king of Qi, King Jian, was actually imprisoned. His ending would probably not be much better than that of his grandfather.

Faced with such a situation, even Yan Fei, with her temperament, couldn't help but express such emotion.

Although she thought Yang Chong was extremely extraordinary and even had a connection with the legendary Blue Dragon and the Seven Stars, she actually had no hope that Yang Chong could defeat the Qi army. But now, the facts told her another answer.