The outcome of a war is related to a general. Sometimes a general decides a war. In the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there were such warriors, relying on their own strength, to connect seventy cities and pools in a country in a short period of time, which can be said to have destroyed a country with the strength of one person. Who is he? Then another general used the strength of one man to recover seventy cities in a short time. Who is he? It is the Le Yi and Tian Dan that we are going to talk about today.
Le Yi was a general of the Yan state, and when Le Yi led a large army to attack the state of Qi, the state of Qi sent a tentacle as a general. This tentacle was also a famous general of the State of Qi, who was a major general in the Battle of the State of Qi to destroy the Song Dynasty. It was just that this war came too quickly, the State of Qi was not fully prepared at all, and the King of Qi Tang regarded himself as great, and ordered his son to only be victorious and not defeated, and threatened to dig up ancestral graves and kill people. This is a big taboo for soldiers. The Qi army was separated from the soldiers in front of the battle, and had no intention of fighting.
When Le Yi's army rushed in, the Qi army collapsed for thousands of miles. Touch fled, while the deputy general Dazi retreated to Linzi. Subsequently, Le Yi's army took advantage of the victory to pursue, attacked the capital of the State of Qi, Linzi, and then advanced south in multiple ways, breaking through the seventy cities of the State of Qi, and the State of Qi was finally left with only the two cities of Chang and Jimo. King Qi Also died in exile, and the State of Qi was almost destroyed. At this time, the State of Qi can be said to be running wildly at the end of the road, most of the territory of the State of Qi is occupied by the coalition forces, and the two cities of Juju and Jimo are garrisoned by the Qi army.
The war between the State of Yan and the State of Qi changed from a war of revenge in the past to a two-man war between Le Yi and Tian Dan. In terms of the situation, it is obviously more favorable to Le Yi, and everyone thinks that the two remaining cities in the State of Qi may be difficult to resist Le Yi's iron army. For the Six Kingdoms, everyone believes that the State of Qi, which has long occupied the land of Qilu, is finally going to perish. And the new overlord will be the Yan Kingdom. The monarchs and courtiers of the Yan Kingdom, even imaginably, were constantly celebrating feasts.
Tian Shan was a distant relative of the Tian clan of Qi Wang, and was a relatively distant clan member of the Tian clan. At that time, Tian Dan had served as a city supervisor in Linzi City in the Qi State, but he was just a small official, who did not have any military power, or few people knew that Tian Dan had the ability to fight well. Moreover, when Linzi City was breached by Le Yi, Tian Dan also followed among the displaced people. From Linzi to Anping, and from Anping to Jimo, and in the Battle of Jimo, even Doctor Jimo was killed in battle, and Tian Dan's encounter could be described as a mess.
It was in the city of Jimo that Tian Dan's fate took a turn. Or in Jimo City, there are too few children of the Qi State Gong Clan, so the low-key Tian Shan just wants to be low-key. The exiles discovered Tian Dan as if they had discovered the Savior, and publicly promoted him as the main general against the Yan army. From a certain point of view, Tian Dan seems to have been driven to the shelves by ducks, that is, he does not want to be the main general, and he has also become the main general.
Le Yi was later suspected by the Yan monarchs, largely because of this Jimo City. Le Yi attacked seventy cities in the State of Qi in dozens of days, but attacked this small Jimo City for several years. This is inevitably suspicious. Of course, later it was said that Tian Dan had sent people to the Yan kingdom to spread rumors that Le Yi had ambitions to monopolize the state of Qi and establish himself as king. It does not matter whether Le Yi has such an idea in the end, on the one hand, Jimo City has not been breached for a long time, on the other hand, the new monarch of the Yan Kingdom is on the throne, which has become the biggest crisis for Le Yi.
At that time, the princely states of the allied forces all had the intention of withdrawing their troops. This is very illogical, for the princely states, it must be completely divided up after the State of Qi, it is possible to achieve the greatest benefits. And the yan army of Le Yi is still in the state of Qi, and the nations are withdrawing, which in the eyes of the monarchs of the State of Yan, it is obvious that what is happening in the homeland of the state of Qi is absolutely happening? Will it be Le Yi colluding with other countries to become an independent king in the state of Qi? Therefore, Le Yi deliberately slowed down the progress of the war, and did not completely break through Jimo, that is, to win time for himself.
The "Chronicle of History" says: "Tian Shan heard that he was idle against Yan, and the declaration said: The king of Qi is dead, and the city does not pluck the ears of the two." Le Yi was afraid of the curse and did not dare to return, in the name of Fa Qi, he really wanted to join the army to the south and Wang Qi. The Qi people were not attached, so they slowed down to wait for the matter. The Qi people are afraid, lest he come to him, that is, the ink will be destroyed. The King of Yan thought so, and made the rider Dai Leyi. It is precisely in these few words that it can be seen that Le Yi is absolutely ahead of Tian Dan in terms of combat strength, and Tian Shan can be described as a conspiracy expert by dividing the hearts of the Yan monarchs and subjects in reverse.
And Le Yi did not understand the new monarch of the Yan kingdom, and did not believe in the second, so when the position of the lord was replaced, that is, he thought that he was already fierce in the Yan kingdom, he would flee to the Zhao kingdom without hesitation. The Yan army was far away from its homeland, although it was a victorious army, it was a major general who changed the main general on the front, and it was a main general with extremely high prestige, and the battlefield of the two countries was completely changed from the place of death, and the state of Qi rose from the dying place to life, and the pattern was reversed for a while. Yan Guo lost the best opportunity, and the war between Le Yi and Tian Shan had been won or lost.