The Rise of History’s Most Powerful Empire

In the sixth year of Emperor Yuan Dynasty, at the beginning of June.

The army of the coalition army, mighty and mighty, swept across the west of Qi State with an unstoppable force.

Since the coalition forces started their attack in early April, and now it is only February, they have already broken through Xue County of Qi State and captured it, and their troops are pointing directly at most of Qi State.

So far, except for Jiaodong County, which is located in the rear and not disturbed, the remaining three counties of Jibei County, Linzi County, and Langya County are all threatened by the coalition forces and are under attack at all times.

The state of Qi was shocked from top to bottom, and the whole country was in panic.

In order to cope with such disasters, Qi State mobilized from top to bottom, drawing a total of one million troops, and all of them were sent to Yangguan, the front line against the coalition forces.

At this time, Xuejun, which was captured by the coalition forces in Qi State, except for one city of Qufu, was still holding on.

Even in Qufu City today, the situation is not very good.

The intimidation of the bad behavior of the coalition forces outside the city in Qufu City, as well as the unremitting determination of the guards in the city to express their resistance, quickly won the support of the people in the city.

Under the mobilization of the whole city, a mob with a population of 300,000 was formed.

Although the combat power is really vulnerable, they all have a heart of hostility to the coalition forces and the will to fight to the death. So in general, the people's ocean is quite scary.

Although these 300,000 people included tens of thousands of strong women, many children with no teeth, and old men who were rickety when they walked, they still shocked the coalition forces that surrounded Qufu outside the city.

Therefore, in order to attack and eliminate the defenders of the Qi State who are only at the center of themselves and pose a great strategic threat to the overall situation of the coalition forces.

In line with the goal of consuming the war potential of the six nations as much as possible, Zhong Yu left behind 500,000 troops with a swipe of his pen, and issued a death order, the city will not be broken, and the war will continue.

This command is stupid and hard to understand.

For the coalition forces, although the so-called 300,000 troops in the city are more difficult to deal with, it is more difficult to eat them.

But that's all.

Anyone with a little military knowledge knows that as long as 100,000 or 150,000 troops are stationed under the city, the so-called 300,000 troops in the city can be blocked inside, and it is difficult to figure it out.

Why send out a large army to attack thanklessly, not to mention the loss of soldiers and generals, and it is time-consuming and labor-intensive, which is quite worthless.

The most correct way is to surround them in the city, block their way out, and starve them to death deeply. This is the best military strategist.

However, the questions of the subordinates can only be questions, and even the questions of the monarchs of the six kingdoms can only be questions. The real caller is the commander of the coalition forces, Jing Wang Zhongyu on the bright side.

How did they understand? Zhong Yu's grand strategy and real goal in his heart.

Attacking the Qi State is only secondary, consuming the overall strength of the Central Plains, so that when he goes south to unify the world in the future, the real reality is to reduce more stumbling blocks.

Therefore, the 500,000 troops are doomed to tragedy.

In their barracks, there are more than 10,000 accounts that are finally left behind, as well as the nominal commander Cao Cao.

With Cao Cao's methods and his ruthlessness, he can definitely consume the 500,000 troops in the siege without knowing it, and it is difficult to cause the army to resist.

And the defenders in the city will naturally be exhausted in the process.

After such a calculation, the five or six hundred thousand troops of the Central Plains were finally consumed quietly, and they were all young and middle-aged men, the main force for sowing seeds in the Central Plains in the future!

Without them, there would be widow villages, widow counties, and even widow counties in many counties and counties in the Central Plains.

Thinking about it, in the future, Yuguo, whose male population will explode, will definitely be welcomed by these widow villages and counties when they go south.

It is very likely that there is no need to even appease people. As long as some garrisons are left and a few widows are married, the local people's hearts will be tied.

Thinking of the beautiful days in the future, Zhong Yu no longer showed an extremely lewd smile on his face.

The topic is brought to the front.

A 500,000 army was left in the rear to besiege the only stronghold of the Qi State, and the rest of the army, except for the tens of thousands staying in the entire Xue County, rushed to the front line.

Under Yangguan City, a well-known pass city in Qi State, the terrain is majestic, needless to say, it is surrounded by Mount Tai.

Yangguan guards the dangerous place where the Taishan Mountains enter the territory of Qi, and has always been a battleground for military strategists.

If the coalition forces want to attack Qi State in an all-round way without any worries, Yangguan is a nail that must be pulled out and a place that cannot be opened.

Therefore, both the coalition forces and the Qi State realized the importance of Yangguan's position, and they all stationed soldiers, preparing to fight a decisive battle here.

With this decisive battle, the fate of Qi and even the whole world will be determined.

Needless to say, Qi State, the whole country has been mobilized. It can be said that except for the men under the age of fourteen who have not been mobilized, the rest as long as they can move around and hold weapons, they are all mobilized on the battlefield. Even inside the barracks, there were quite a few long and strong women, who also shouted bugles along with the men, held weapons, and looked at the coalition forces opposite with hatred.

The Union Army is different.

The mentality of the entire coalition army is very relaxed, yes, it is very relaxed.

Although the coalition forces add up to only 800,000, 200,000 less than the opposite side.

Although many of the coalition forces couldn't afford to wear armor, except for the 300,000 elite who barely had a set of leather armor and some fairly sophisticated weapons, many of them had ragged clothes and rotten wooden sticks. Compared with the rebel army with 600,000 elite leather armors and 200,000 armored troops on the opposite side, it is like a beggar compared to a local tyrant.

But the coalition is easy.

They were really fascinated by their previous record.

Not to mention Qi's first battle, the 100,000 vanguard reinforcements fought the first battle with the 300,000 vanguards on their own side, and they were defeated and fled in less than three days.

You know, the 100,000 Qi State reinforcements are Qi State's standing army, and the entire Qi State is only 150,000 people, which can be said to be the most elite existence of Qi State.

However, their combat effectiveness was greatly disappointed, and they were defeated by the coalition's 300,000 pioneers, an army composed of old men and children.

Moreover, compared with the Qi army, the weapons of the vanguard of the coalition army are just like the savages of the stone age, and they are not of the same level as those of the people of the bronze age.

Afterwards, just under the city of Yangguan, the coalition forces still fought against the pioneers of the Qi State, 100,000 against 100,000 people, but ended in a narrow tie. Although the coalition forces were defeated in this battle, it was a glorious defeat.

After all, if 100,000 old and weak are fighting against 100,000 young and strong, there is still an unstoppable gap in equipment between the two sides, and the Qi army can win a miserable victory.

This kind of combat power cannot but be blamed for the ridicule of the coalition forces.