Chapter 159: The Death of Meng Fu (2)

From the place where Meng Fu was stationed to go to Shangdang, you have to pass through a narrow mountain road in Taihang Mountain. Sun Tzu's Art of War has clouds: don't enter the forest. Meng Fu led the troops for many years, and he was naturally familiar with this taboo, so he divided the army of 100,000 into three parts, and he led the front army to the front.

When entering the mountain road, he sent scouts to explore the way, and after the scouts sent news that the road ahead was safe, Meng Fu rode in armor and rode at the front of the 100,000 army.

The trail is not long, but it takes a lot of time to get all 100,000 people through. This time, because of the need to siege the city, most of the soldiers were shield armor and halberders, so the army marched slowly on the mountain road.

By the time the front army led by Meng Fu reached the halfway point of the mountain road, the Chinese army behind had not yet entered the mountain road.

Fan Yuzhi knew that he would not be Meng Fu's opponent when he led his troops, so he could only defeat Meng Fu's sharp spirit in one fell swoop in this place. The soldiers brought by Fan Yuzhi had already been ambushed here the night before, so all the scouts sent by Meng Yu to explore the way were also caught by Fan Yuzhi's people and quietly extinguished.

After killing Meng Fu's scouts, Fan Yuzhi found a soldier who was similar to a scout to change into the Qin army's military uniform, and then sent him to trick Meng Fu into saying that the road ahead was safe. As long as Meng Fu dares to enter the mountain road, then this is his place of death.

Meng Fu's deputy general was Zhang Tang, who was afraid that the mountain road ahead would be ambushed by the enemy, so he wanted to lead the front army in front of Meng Fu instead. But Meng Yu did not agree, only said that Fan Yuzhi was not good at leading the troops, and now that he knew that his army was coming, it was too late to defend the city, how could he dare to go out of the city to fight. Then he insisted on personally leading the front army and teaching Fan Yuzhi a lesson.

Seeing that the time was almost up, Fan Yuzhi began to order archery at the Qin army on the mountain road below.

On the mountain road, Meng Fu was leading the troops forward, and was suddenly attacked by the enemy's bows and arrows on the mountains on both sides of the mountain road, he immediately knew that he had fallen into the trap of the enemy, but fortunately this time he was all infantry, so he hurriedly ordered to turn around and withdraw from the mountain road.

The mountain road is not wide, but it is not narrow, and it can only accommodate five people walking side by side. However, the mountain road is dozens of miles long, even if it is a gallop on horseback, it takes half a stick of incense to get out of this mountain road.

After Fan Yuzhi and Cheng switched to Zhao Guo, Zhao Ren did not trust the two very much. Regarding Fan Yuzhi's ambush of the Qin army in the city, the Zhao people only allocated him 5,000 men and horses, and more than 10,000 bows and arrows. These 5,000 men had only 1,000 archers, and on average there were less than 10 arrows per person, and all but the archers were all axemen.

The Qin army walking on the mountain road was suddenly attacked, and the formation was immediately chaotic, and everyone ran forward and backward. In addition to those who were killed by arrows, the most people died because the mountain road was slippery and fell to the ground and was trampled to death by their own people.

Meng Yu rode a horse and walked in front of the front army with several lieutenants around him, and was naturally recognized by Fan Yuzhi at a glance. Fan Yuzhi wound up the arrow, drew the three-stone bow full, and then shot an arrow towards Meng Fu.

As soon as the bowstring sounded, it could be heard clearly on the silent mountain road, and the sound of feathered arrows breaking through the air brought into full play the experience of leading the troops for many years. He instantly crouched on the horse's back, then rowed to the side of the horse's back. As soon as he landed on the ground, he heard a "whoosh" in his ear, and an arrow flew over his horse's back and landed at the lieutenant on his left hand, who fell off his horse.

"There is an ambush, retreat quickly!" By the time Meng Fu shouted, it was too late, and countless arrows shot down from the slopes on both sides of the mountain road, and the Qin army suffered countless casualties for a while.

The shield of the shield soldier was erected, but it had little effect, because there were enemies on both sides, and even if the shield stood in front of him, it could only block the arrows on one side, but the arrows from behind could not stop it.

Fortunately, the Zhao army did not have many arrows, and the ten arrows were shot very quickly, so after a rain of arrows, the Qin army killed and injured nearly half of the people. Looking at Meng Fu at the front of the team, even if he dodged the first arrow shot at him by Fan Yuzhi, he couldn't block the second and third ......

Losing the general's command, the Qin army was in disarray, fighting separately, and began a white-knives battle with the Zhao army.

After the Qin army, who was at the end of the line, learned that the front army had been ambushed, they immediately sent someone to report to Zhang Tang behind. Zhang Tang learned that Meng Fu was ambushed, and hurriedly led people to rescue him.

However, the narrow mountain road was not conducive to the army going together, and by the time Zhang Tang led his people to the battlefield, the five thousand Zhao troops had already killed the remaining ten thousand Qin troops.

With the arrival of Zhang Tang, the advantage of the Zhao army was gone, and after fighting Zhang Tang for a while, the Zhao army retreated after leaving more than 3,000 corpses. Zhang Tang was afraid that there was an ambush of the Zhao army in front of him, so he did not send people to chase and kill.

When Zhang Tang crossed the mountain road full of dead people and rushed to the front of the front army, the scene in front of him made Zhang Tang kneel on the ground in an instant.

"General Meng......" Zhang Tang knelt on the ground and moved forward little by little with his knees. He moved to Meng Fu's body, only to see dozens of arrows in Meng Fu's body, each arrow shot at Meng Fu's chest and back, and Meng Fu's upper body was already stained red with bright red blood.

Meng Fu's eyes were wide open, his eyes were blood-red, and his lips were closed. The sword that hung at his waist had been drawn and held in the old general's hand, but the old general could no longer go into battle to kill the enemy.

Seeing Zhang Tang kneeling on the ground, the Qin army behind Zhang Tang naturally understood what was happening, and more than 10,000 people all knelt on the ground to bid farewell to General Meng.

Meng Yi was reviewing the chapter in the Zhangtai Palace, it was getting late, today's chapter had been reviewed, Meng Yi walked to the door of the Zhangtai Palace, stood on the high steps at the door, and watched the sunset as bright as blood in the west slowly fall.

Meng Tian walked down the steps and got into the chariot at the gate of the palace to go home, but was stopped by a chamberlain who came in a hurry.

"Lord Meng, there is an urgent military intelligence report that needs to be reviewed by adults, please leave a moment late. ”

Yi sighed, Wang Shang and a few old adults went to Yongcheng and haven't returned, and now letting him, a young man, do these boring things here, it's really a headache.

Although he was very reluctant, Meng Yi still got out of the car and said, "The waiter will lead the way." Then he returned to Zhangtai Palace.

Meng Yi returned to the side hall and sat down, and saw a roll of bamboo slips on the table, wrapped in black cloth. Meng Yi felt a little uneasy in his heart, the black cloth, which showed that this was used only when the battle ahead was unfavorable and the generals sacrificed, but I didn't know which general was sacrificed this time.

The sun was setting, and the soldiers of the forbidden army outside the Zhangtai Palace heard a heart-rending cry from inside the palace: "Grandfather!"

Ying Zheng stayed in Yongcheng for half a month, and had already decided to return to Xianyang City in three days. During this time, Meng Tian and Zhang Han have always been responsible for the defense of the old palace of Yongcheng, and the two of them have been in charge of one night and one day.

Meng Yi finished his night guard and went back to sleep. I don't know how long I slept and was woken up by a knock on the door.

Meng Tian muttered in his sleep, "What time is it?What's wrong?I haven't woken up yet......"

A voice came from outside the door: "General Hui, it's just past noon." The king sent a message to him that he had something important to consult with you. ”

"Got it, I'll go. Meng Tian sat up lazily from the bed, shook his still somewhat dizzy head, and began to get dressed.

Meng Tian slept in Wei Yu's home, some distance from the old palace. Meng Tian rode the black wind to the old palace, and then walked into the main hall to meet Ying Zheng.

When he walked into the main hall, he only saw Li Si, Wei Yi, Lu Buwei and Yingtong in the main hall, and even the Qin Wang Yingzheng had a sad look on their faces.

Meng Tian walked into the hall and knelt on the ground in front of the throne: "Minister Meng Tian see the king." ”

Ying Zheng seemed to be crying, and said in a somewhat hoarse voice: "Aiqing is flat." ”

Meng Tian felt a different atmosphere in the hall, and asked, "I don't know what happened to the king's summoning of his ministers?"

"This ......" Ying Zheng looked at Meng Tian with an unbearable look on his face, "This ...... Meng Qing, the widow hopes that you will be prepared in your heart. Alas, forget it, Mrs. Li, you can say it for the widow. ”

Li Si bowed down to receive the order, and he walked in front of Meng Tian, with an ugly expression on his face. He took a deep breath and said, "Meng Tian, Meng ...... The old general ......"

"What's wrong with my grandfather?" a bad omen rose in Meng Tian's heart.

Li Si couldn't bear to look directly at Meng Tian, and said sideways: "General Meng, he ...... He sacrificed his life for my Great Qin. After speaking, Li Si turned around and raised his arm to wipe the tears from the corners of his eyes.

Meng Tian stood there as if struck by lightning, tears welling up in his eyes.

"Grandfather!" Meng Tian knelt on the ground, supported the ground with his hands, bowed his head and cried.