At that time, the Wei army was so terrifying!"

As he said that, he saw Xiang Dian, Gao Xi, Ji Wu and others looking at him in astonishment and doubt, and added: "Don't forget, the original Chu State General Xiang Mo and his 500,000 troops, and

The 100,000 Zhengyang army commanded by Chu Shouling Jun Jingshe desperately tried to hold back the Wei army, but in the end, Wei Gongzi Run led his army and killed him at the foot of Shoying City..."

After that, he took a deep look at Xiang Xiang, and his expression seemed to say: Facing Wei Gongzi Run, if you choose to defend, then you will be dead!

Hearing this, Xiang Qian frowned and thought for a moment, then asked, "What is General Tian Dan's advice?"

Tian Dan raised his hand and pointed at Rencheng on the map, and said in a deep voice: "If you defend against the water, although there is the danger of Weishan Lake, when the time comes, Wei Gongzi Run can also launch an attack on Tengdi across the lake without any scruples.

When we attack and intervene, our army is passive.

Therefore, Tian thought that we should take the initiative and capture Rencheng before the Shang Shui army led by Wei Gongzi Run arrived!... Rencheng is a large county and has the convenience of a city wall, plus the crossbowmen of the Lu army.

, enough to defend any city."

After that, he glanced around the people around the table and said in a deep voice: "At that time, Lord Gao Xi and General Ji Wu will be stationed in Rencheng, while Tian will lead an army alone and station outside. In short, we must not

Let Wei Gongzi Run take the offensive comfortably, but he must be forced to defend.

Shou...According to Tian's understanding of him, over the years, Wei Gongzi Run has always taken the initiative. He is very good at pushing the defensive side that he thinks is impregnable to a dead end, but he has little experience in passive defense. As long as we can

If you disrupt his steps, you will have a chance of winning this battle!"

"..."

General Ji Wu of Lu State looked at Tian Dan with a strange expression. He was a little confused that the latter was so cautious and even fearful. However, since Tian Dan's "active attack" strategy also coincided with his, he didn't say much.

What.

As the commander-in-chief of the Qi-Lu coalition, Gao Xi, the high minister of Qi, had no objection - how could the Wei army be defeated miserably and let Wei fully understand the consequences of offending him?

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Seeing that Gao Xi, Ji Wu, and Tian Dan all tended to take the initiative, Xiang Xiang had no choice but to obey the strategic arrangements of the first three.

The next day, the Qilu Allied Forces managed to cross Weishan Lake and set foot on the west bank of Weishan Lake.

During this period, Ji Wu also sent people to contact the country to transport a group of war weapons such as trebuchets made by Lu craftsmen along the Surabaya River from the Lu-Song border to the other side of the lake.

Across Weishan Lake, on the other side of the lake from Tengcheng is "Huling", which is the city occupied by Nangong Chen and his old Nangong troops. In order to realize Tian Dan's strategic arrangement, the Qilu Allied Forces must capture this city.

As a result, after the Qilu Allied Forces set foot on the west bank, they immediately launched an attack on "Huling". After hundreds of trebuchets carefully crafted by Lu craftsmen were assembled in the east of "Huling" city, Xiang Shu finally realized

, why did the Qilu Allied Forces defeat the Chu State so that it could not lift its head?

In just four or five rounds of volleys, several parts of the city wall of Huling County were destroyed by the Lu Army's trebuchets. Later, Tian waited for Tian to order the Bei Navy and Langya Army to launch an attack on the city. The city soon fell.

It fell into the hands of the Qilu Allied Forces.

It is a pity that this attack on Huling failed to capture Nangong Chen. Otherwise, if he captured Nangong Chen, the eldest son of Nangong Yao, the sinner of the Song Dynasty, this would also be a matter of extraordinary significance to the Song Dynasty——

To be fair, Nangong Chen's behavior is much better than that of Huan Hu, but because he has "the blood of sinners", Xiang Chen has no good impression of him at all.

This is the reason why Xiang Shen would rather cooperate with Huan Hu, who had a bad behavior, than Nangong Chen, who actually had a good moral character.

In view of the fact that the top priority now is to capture Rencheng as soon as possible, Xiang Feng did not send troops to hunt down Nangong Chen. Instead, he escorted the Qilu coalition forces and marched towards Rencheng.

On the eighth day of April, the Qi and Lu coalition forces arrived at the eastern suburbs of Rencheng.

General Ji Wu of the State of Lu originally planned to repeat his old trick and capture Rencheng using the method of capturing Huling. However, what he didn't expect was that the Wei army's bravery was not comparable to that of Nangong's old troops under Nangong Chen. Before the soldiers of Lu had formed a group outside the city

After installing the trebuchet, Wei General Cai Qinhu led a group of infantry to rush out of the city. If Tian Dan hadn't sent troops to stop him in time, the soldiers of Lu State who were operating the trebuchet under Ji Wu might very well have been killed.

They were all killed by the Wei army.

But what shocked Ji Wu the most was the equipment of the Wei army.

He never expected that the Wei army led by Wei general Cai Qinhu would actually hold shields and withstand the fire of numerous Lu state machine crossbow boxes and force their way into the Lu army's formation.

The powerful crossbow box couldn't shoot through the shields of the Wei army's infantry?!

Similar to Ji Wu's expression, Shangqing Gao Xi, who was the head coach at that time, also showed a shocked look after seeing the brave side of the Wei army.

How could the Wei army use their shields to withstand the baptism of crossbow bolts and force their way into their own ranks? No, in front of Lu's crossbow box, shouldn't the Wei soldiers fall to the ground one by one like wheat fields blown by strong winds?

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Seeing the stunned expressions of Gao Xi, Ji Wu and others, Tian Dan secretly shook his head: Do you really think that the Wei army is a food recruiter of the Chu state?

Indeed, the soldiers recruited by the Chu State are, to put it bluntly, a group of civilians who are willing to take great risks to set foot on the battlefield in order to make ends meet. The nobles of the Chu State recruit these civilians only to use them as cannon fodder, and they will not be able to fight at all.

No matter what kind of weapons and equipment they were equipped with, when Chu State's grain recruits set foot on the battlefield, they often had a variety of weapons in their hands. In addition to the commonly seen swords, guns, swords and halberds, there were many people holding pitchforks and bamboo spears.

As for the armor, that's even more of a joke: What kind of armor do a group of cannon fodder need to die?

If Korean infantry generally wear leather armor and are considered light infantry, then the Chu State's grain soldiers are simply unarmored, so that when they encounter the well-equipped Qilu Allied Forces, they cannot even pose the slightest threat to the latter.

One by one, they died under the crossbow box of the Lu State's mechanism.

However, the infantry of the Wei State were all heavy infantry wearing iron armor and holding iron shields. If ordinary bow arrows did not hit the vital point, it would actually be difficult to kill a Wei soldier. As for specialized weapons such as mechanical crossbow boxes,

War weapons designed to deal with unarmored and light-armored infantry did not pose any threat in front of the Wei soldiers holding iron shields.

After all, the power of the mechanical crossbow box is actually far weaker than that of a normal crossbow.

The iron shields in the hands of Wei's infantry can even block the country's individual hand crossbows (excluding sniper crossbows) also developed by the Smelting Bureau from 60 steps away. Although the impact of the crossbow arrows cannot be resolved, if it is blocked,

If the posture is incorrect, it is very likely that the Wei soldiers will suffer bone fractures and fractures, but don't expect that the Wei soldiers will fall to the ground and die one by one in front of Lu's crossbow box like the grain soldiers of Chu.

"For the sake of stability, let's set up camp first."

After losing the first battle, Tian Dan made the suggestion expressionlessly.

In fact, when Ji Wu vowed that he could capture Rencheng like he captured Huling, Tian Dan knew that this kid was going to suffer.

Sure enough, Cai Qinhu, a powerful general of the Wei State, taught Ji Wu, an arrogant Lu man, a lesson and taught the latter what it means that "the infantry of the State of Wei are unparalleled in the world." With only three thousand infantry, two soldiers were defeated.

The more than ten thousand troops of Lu State were in chaos, and even Qi State's Beihai Navy and Langya Army were also in chaos.

In fact, if Tian Dan had not sent troops to stop Wei general Cai Qinhu in time, Cai Qinhu might have directly killed Ji Wu at that time and cut off the latter's head.

But overall, Tian Dan can still accept this defeat.

Or to put it simply, this was what he had expected: Gao Xi and Ji Wu were still using the same tactics used by the Qilu coalition to deal with the Chu army, and it was simply unreasonable not to suffer defeat.

But now, only after losing the first battle, Gao Xi, Ji Wu, and the rest of the soldiers in the Qi-Lu coalition will curb their pride and truly take the Wei army seriously.

"Tomorrow, please be sure to let Tian Mou command the siege."

At the meeting to discuss strategy that day, Tian Dan put forward his only suggestion.

I have to say that Gao Xi looked a little embarrassed, but in the end, he nodded.
Chapter completed!