Chapter 350: Qin and Yan face off, Li Si offers advice
An Lushan led an army of 400,000 and stationed in front of the Yan army.
The Yan army, after many battles, had suffered heavy casualties.
The current military strength is only 450,000.
Although the Wu army had tens of thousands more troops than the Qin army, it didn't take long for the Wu army to arrive.
In this way, An Lushan had a total of 550,000 troops.
Their main task is to find ways to defeat the Yan army.
Instead, we must stop them and attack Shangjing City.
So for An Lushan, there was no pressure at all.
The Yan army did not dare to act rashly.
Deputy Commander Hou Junji held a banquet in front of the two armies to entertain An Lushan.
He was worried about a trap, so he asked one of his generals, Shi Siming, to attend the banquet.
When Hou Junji saw the other party coming, he asked directly:
"When Great Yan learned of Jin's actions, we were deeply disgusted and sent a large army to help Qin destroy Jin."
"Logically speaking, our two armies should attack the capital together. Why are you blocking our army here?"
Shi Siming sneered, "Who are you trying to fool?"
Hou Junji was stunned for a moment, then laughed and said, "How could I be fooling you? I speak from the bottom of my heart!"
"If our two armies join forces, we will surely be able to destroy the State of Jin at the lowest cost."
Shi Siming remembered what Zhuge Liang said to him.
No matter what the Tang Dynasty generals say, don't believe anything.
"You keep on fooling me."
Shi Siming watched the other person's performance without even blinking.
Hou Junji also had a hot temper. He groaned and said:
"You and I are both high-ranking generals of our respective armies. Why are your words so vulgar?"
Shi Siming said seriously: "Your heart is like arsenic!"
Now Hou Junji had no idea what to do, so he had to leave in a depressed mood.
After returning to the camp, he discussed the next plan with Li Dao Zong:
"The Qin army is so powerful that our army has no choice but to avoid its front. We can't take Shangjing City."
"I have already informed Your Majesty of the situation here in detail. I believe that our reinforcements will arrive soon."
Upon hearing this, Hou Junji frowned and said, "I'm afraid that by then, Shangjing City will have already changed hands."
Li Daozong thought about it again and again, and said: "Jin State has more than just Shangjing City. Let's go and attack other cities in Jin State."
"As long as Qin doesn't take the initiative to attack our army, then our army cannot be the first to attack."
Hou Junji nodded and said, "That's the only way."
Afterwards, the Yan army began to change direction and attack the rest of the Jin territory.
When An Lushan heard the news, he specially invited Zhuge Liang to discuss the matter.
"Military Advisor, I thought I could fight the Yan army to a draw, but I didn't expect them to run away!"
"I'm only worried now. With their attack speed, it won't be long before they occupy half of Jin!"
Hearing this, the latter asked with a smile, "General, do you mean that you don't want Yan State to make such progress?"
An Lushan nodded immediately and said, "Of course, we were ordered to go to war, isn't it to contain the State of Yan?"
Zhuge Liang smiled and said, "If that's all, it's easy to handle."
"We will take back the land occupied by Yan State."
After hearing this plan, An Lushan was stunned for a moment. After a moment, he frowned and said:
"Military Advisor, although I don't understand politics very well, I understand that at this critical juncture, it's not appropriate to proactively provoke a war with the Yan army."
"Otherwise, if this matter gets out of hand and is known to other nations, I'm afraid that Great Qin will be in the wrong."
Zhuge Liang smiled and said, "In order to quickly capture the territory of Jin, the Yan army will certainly not station garrisons in every city."
"Even if we do station a garrison, it will only be a small number. Afterwards, we can just say we didn't realize it was Yan's territory."
"There was a problem with the intelligence, not that the Qin army intended to oppose the Yan State."
"We can even turn the tables and say it was Yan that first occupied the land occupied by Qin."
Listen to what he said.
An Lushan understood instantly.
He immediately ordered the Qin-Wu coalition forces to attack the city gates that the Yan army had captured.
Thus, a rather comical scene in military history occurred.
The territory that the Yan army had just conquered yesterday was now in the hands of the Qin State.
Once or twice, Li Daozon and Hou Junji endured it.
But when this happened every time, they realized that the Qin army did it on purpose.
Both of them were great generals of the State of Yan. When had they ever suffered such humiliation?
So without saying a word, he confronted the Qin army in a place called "Mingtai Mansion".
No matter what, this is just a small town with a population of less than 30,000.
Perhaps, even this small town did not expect that one day, it would attract nearly one million troops from both sides to fight for it.
How face-saving would it be to say this?
It is more impressive than the big brother going to the capital. After all, the Qin and Jin armies in the capital have only about 700,000 troops combined.
The total strength of the Qin and Yan armies near Mingtai Prefecture just reached one million.
When later historians studied this period of history.
I also feel extremely puzzled.
Logically speaking, the place with the most conflicts and the most suitable for launching a large-scale battle should be Shangjing City.
How could it be just a small Mingtai Mansion?
Mingtaifu: You didn’t expect that. I didn’t expect that either.
It’s actually very simple.
The war has come to this point. Does it still matter who occupies how much land or which city is captured?
Apparently not important.
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