Chapter 725: Hidden Concerns in Wuzhou, Tian Ji and Tian Dan are the Two Commanders

"Jin Yu, now that Kong Ming and Gong Jin are willing to serve under you, with talents like Kong Ming and Gong Jin, why worry about not accomplishing great things?"

"The wisdom of Kong Ming, the ability of Gong Jin, and your ambition, this is a match made in heaven."

Guan Zhong listened and laughed, his eyes full of love and expectation for these two young talents.

"What Guan Gong said is absolutely right. With the help of Kong Ming and Gong Jin, I believe that the battle in Wuzhou is nothing to be afraid of."

"However, having said that, since Kong Ming is well versed in military yin and yang, he will be more confident in dealing with Sun Bin."

When Su Ye heard this, his heart moved and he couldn't help but laugh.

"To deal with Sun Bin, we must not only make strategic plans, but also pay attention to the details."

"His art of using Yin and Yang in warfare emphasizes the unity of man and nature. We can take advantage of this and do the opposite. We can arrange some battles that seem to be in accordance with fate but are actually full of mysteries, making it difficult for him to guess our true intentions."

Zhuge Liang nodded slightly, and his expression regained some seriousness.

"At the same time, we can also use natural conditions such as terrain and weather to set up a confusing formation, get out of the battle situation he is good at, and make it difficult for his layout to be effective."

"After all, in the Bing Yin and Yang lineage, no matter how clever the layout is, it cannot defeat the ingenious use of the power of heaven and earth."

Zhou Yu also restrained his smile and added.

Listening to the two's response to Sun Bin, Su Ye gradually understood. With the help of two big men, Zhuge Liang and Zhou Yu, Wu Qi should not be difficult to suppress Zhu Jiuyin and Sun Bin.

After all, Su Ye had no doubts about Sun Bin's intelligence, but as for his frontal command ability, whether he could withstand the joint attack of Zhuge Liang and Zhou Yu, two commanders of 100, was still an unknown.

Moreover, among the vanguard army, there is Wu Qi, the second sage of military strategists and a peerless commander with a basic command level of 104. No matter how badly the army collapses, it won't be too bad.

The reason why Zhao Gongming was able to succeed before was because Wu Qi was caught off guard by the sudden appearance of Zhu Jiuyin and Sun Bin.

But even so, facing the careful plan of the two, Zhao Gongming and others still managed to kill their way out relying on the 800 warriors left behind by Wu Qi.

After Wu Qi had a response to the two of them, it would be basically impossible for them to achieve the same great victory as before at the hands of Wu Qi.

But Su Ye was a little worried because according to the information passed down by Luo Wang, Jiang Xiaobai had a general named Tian Ji under his command.

Perhaps this name is still unknown today, but how could Su Ye not know the strength of Tian Ji, the famous general of Qi State during the Warring States Period.

In the Battle of Guiling, Zhao State first captured Wei State's ally Wei State, which led to Wei State sending troops to besiege Zhao State's capital Handan. After receiving Zhao State's request for help, King Wei of Qi adopted Duan Ganpeng's suggestion and divided his troops to attack Xiangling in the south to tire out Wei Army, and Tian Ji led the other to rescue Zhao State after Wei Army broke through Handan.

King Wei of Qi appointed Tian Ji as the commander-in-chief and Sun Bin as the military advisor.

Sun Bin believed that Wei had been attacking Zhao for a long time, its main forces were consumed externally, its old and weak were exhausted internally, and its domestic defense was empty. He believed that he should adopt the tactics of making a feint to the east and attacking in the west, and besieging Wei to save Zhao, and directly attack the Wei capital Daliang to force it to withdraw, and Zhao would naturally be saved.

Tian Ji adopted Sun Bin's strategy. On the one hand, he sent the officials of Linzi and Gaotang to lead troops to attack Pingling to attract the main force of the Wei army. On the other hand, he sent light chariots to attack the Wei capital Daliang directly, forcing Pang Juan to lead his troops to return for support. He also sent a small number of troops to pretend to fight and show weakness.

Pang Juan fell into the trap and marched lightly and quickly to rescue Daliang day and night.

Tian Ji led the main force to set up an ambush in Guiling and captured Pang Juan in one fell swoop. In the subsequent Battle of Maling, Tian Ji led his army to attack Wei's capital Daliang, and Pang Juan hurriedly withdrew his troops from Han to rescue him.

On Sun Bin's suggestion, Tian Ji adopted the classic tactic of luring the enemy deep into the territory and showing weakness and reducing the number of cooking fires, thus luring Pang Juan to lead his elite cavalry to pursue them day and night to Maling.

When Pang Juan saw the words "Pang Juan died under this tree" written on the tree next to him and saw that he was surrounded by the army, he knew that the situation was hopeless and there was no hope of survival, so he drew his sword and committed suicide. Some also say that Pang Juan was shot to death by arrows.

Tian Ji pursued the victory, annihilated 100,000 Wei troops, and captured Wei's main general, Prince Shen.

The State of Wei was severely damaged and lost its dominant position, while the State of Qi rose to dominate the East.

It can be said that the tacit cooperation and mutual support between Tian Ji and Sun Bin, the two generals, not only played an important role in the battle of Wei to save Zhao.

It even directly defeated the powerful Wei State in the Battle of Guiling and the Battle of Maling. These two battles indirectly established Qi State's position as the overlord of the Central Plains.

But what made Su Ye even more worried was that he didn't know if there was another tribesman named Tian Dan behind Tian Ji.

That is the good brother who had fought against Yue Yi in history.

In the past, Le Yi led the coalition forces of Zhao, Yan, Chu, Han and Wei to attack more than 7000 cities of Qi. When Qi was left with only Ju County and Jimo, Tian Dan was ordered to hold Jimo, gather and reorganize more than soldiers, build city walls to strengthen defense, recruit his wives, concubines and clansmen into the army, distribute food to the soldiers, weave straw tools and work with shovels, personally inspect the city defenses, and share the joys and sorrows with the soldiers and civilians.

Seeing that a strong attack would fail, Yue Yi switched to a siege strategy.

Therefore, Tian Dan led the military and civilians of Jimo City to resist the Yan army for five years, and fought with Yue Yi countless times during this period.

Finally, Tian Dan sent people to the State of Yan to sow discord, claiming that Le Yi deliberately slowed down the attack on Jimo and actually wanted to be crowned the King of Qi.

The newly enthroned King Hui of Yan was already dissatisfied with Yue Yi, and also resented Yue Yi's failure to capture Jimo after a long siege. He fell into a trap and sent Qi Jie to replace Yue Yi.

Therefore, after losing Le Yi as his opponent, Tian Dan directly deployed the Fire Bull Formation.

Finally, he defeated the Yan army with the Fire Bull Formation, recovered the lost territory, and was appointed as Prime Minister and given the title of Lord Anping.

The two envoys used a counter-espionage strategy to alienate the King of Yan and Yue Yi, and let the Yan army's act of digging up graves and burning corpses inspire the country's military and civilians to avenge their country's humiliation.

He used a trick to deceive the enemy and weaken the morale of the officers and soldiers of the Yan army. In the final head-on confrontation, he used the fire bull formation and won by surprise.

According to the strength shown by Le Yi of the Dayong Dynasty, relying on the mismatched troops of the vassal kings' coalition forces under his command, he managed to beat the Emperor Star Shangguan Lie several times.

He even had several fights with Ning Piaomiao through the air. Since Ning Piaomiao did not take part in the fight in person, neither of them could do anything to the other for the time being.

Therefore, judging from Le Yi's current level, his command attribute is guaranteed to be at the peak of the god level of 100, and is most likely around 101, which is the initial stage of the saint level.

The probability is that Tian Dan, who competed with Yue Yi in battle, is not much worse. He is also likely to be at the peak of the god-level with a command of 100. It is even possible that he is at the initial saint-level of 101, just like Yue Yi.

In this situation, with the combination of Tian Ji and Sun Bin, the two most capable generals, and Zhu Jiuyin, a top-level god of war with saint-level intelligence, the threat level is instantly maximized.

(End of this chapter)