"Were they really planning to pull a Coriel version of besieging Wei to rescue Zhao?" Li Wei wondered aloud.
Li Wei had never underestimated the intelligence of this world's natives, so he was not overly surprised that Kaierben, having considered the coastal city-states' utter disadvantage in naval Combat Strength, had come up with this sort of "home-swapping" tactic.
After all, it was not their "home" being swapped.
In fact, the moment he heard that Luskan had launched a surprise attack on Moonshadow Island, Li Wei had entertained the same thought—but the problem was, he did not think much of it.
The biggest reason was that, in Li Wei's already hazy memories of Blue Star, even the real strategy of besieging Wei to rescue Zhao had ultimately failed in terms of its actual strategic objective.
On the surface, Qi's commander Sun Bin had successfully defeated the returning Wei army and captured his old lover Pang Juan, achieving his revenge—a seemingly flawless triumph of strategy.
But the real historical outcome had been nowhere near so perfect:
By the time Qi's army besieged Daliang, Wei had already taken Handan, Zhao's capital, successfully accomplishing its military objective. And when Wei's commander Pang Juan led his forces back upon hearing that Daliang was under siege, he had not withdrawn every Wei soldier from Handan as Qi had expected, but merely a small portion of them.
Judging from the outcome of the campaign, besieging Wei to rescue Zhao had failed to crush Wei's main force. Qi had not formally attacked Wei's Daliang, Zhao's capital Handan remained under enemy occupation, and apart from Sun Bin successfully taking revenge, the scheme seemed to have achieved no tangible result.
No—apparently, even Pang Juan had later been returned to Wei during negotiations, and still remained a general entrusted with great