Hanguguan Ganmao was reading a book leisurely, and the strong man Meng Ben was poor and bored, and was competing with an old locust tree in the yard. It is the trees shaking and the leaves falling, and the chickens flying and the dogs jumping.

Faced with this reckless man's excess energy, Gan Mao could only smile faintly and no longer say anything.

A reckless man, how does he know such a general direction as strategy? Drain your energy, let it be.

Gan Mao smiled disdainfully, then pulled a woolen felt over his lap.

Datang's felt is really good, it's late autumn, the city is filled with the fragrance of ripe wheat, in this late autumn, such a blanket can be in the cold wind of late autumn without chill, but you can enjoy the fragrance of wheat.

Feeling the smell of the blanket, Gan Mao had another kind of worry.

The things of the Tang Dynasty are inexplicably wonderful, and they have all become the accumulation of money for the princes everywhere, including the Qin people, who are also constantly buying materials from the Tang Dynasty, and are constantly proud of having Datang money.

At this time, a messenger hurriedly came in, saluted Gan Mao directly, and then reported worriedly: "Prime Minister, the king has an urgent order." After speaking, he solemnly took out King Qin's letter from his arms and presented it with both hands.

Faced with the messenger's expression, Gan Mao stood up, took it respectfully, and did not open it, but asked, "The messenger is from the army?" ”

The messenger replied: "Yes. ”

Gan Mao's expression became even more solemn, and he asked again: "The battle between the king and Zhao Xing Baishuiyuan was a battle, how was the battle situation?" ”

The messenger saw Meng Ben coming, and said to the two people: "Our army was defeated, losing 90,000, and now the king has retreated to the ancient Great Wall, after the Tang army won a great victory, swept the entire Hetao area, and we lost a total of 100,000, and now Tang Hou is desperately attacking the ancient Great Wall, and there is a great intention to break through the pass and invade Qindi." ”

Gan Mao's hand shook and he couldn't help but stumble. Meng Ben's hands were quick and he hurriedly held on.

"100,000 Qin troops, those are the elite of our Qin country's elite, just like this, the battle is gone, it's painful, it's a pity." Gan Mao stomped his feet again and again, shouting pity.

Yes, this time the division of troops to fight on both sides, in order to defeat Zhao Xing, the emerging prince, in a battle, in order to take advantage of the situation to recover the entire Hetao, the Qin State recruited the best soldiers of the entire Qin State for the King of Qin, 200,000, in fact, this is the old foundation of the Qin State, and the loss of 100,000 at once can be said to be a break for the Qin State.

And the Qin army was greatly injured, but Zhao Xing still attacked aggressively, which shows that everyone underestimated Zhao Xing's potential. Once the Great Wall, the last northern defense line of Great Qin, is breached, it will be an endless Guanzhong Plain, and it will be difficult to hold on. The world-famous Zhao Xing Iron Cavalry can gallop like the wind in the Guanzhong Plain, and it is difficult for Daqin to control the enemy, Daqin, it is dangerous.

Trembling hands to open the edict of the King of Qin, but it was the King of Qin who ordered Gan Mao Meng Ben to immediately solve the enemy outside Hangu Pass, and then replaced the 50,000 Qin elites who defended Hangu Pass with the newly recruited new army, and ordered Gan Mao to defend it, and Meng Ben took 50,000 elites to the north to reinforce the Qin army and block Zhao Xing.

This is a helpless move, but it is also a wise move. At the same time, the king of Qin also believed that the elite of the 50,000 Qin army should have an absolute chance of victory against the rabble outside the pass, not to mention annihilation, at least they could be defeated, and then transfer their troops to the north. The strengthened Northern Army will have the strength to fight against Zhao Xing again.

"The strategy of dragging down Zhao Xing with the consumption of Hangu Pass has ended, and the battle to drive away the enemy outside Hangu Pass must begin. Having lifted the threat of Hangu Pass, we immediately marched north. ”

Seeing that the war had begun, Meng Ben continued to mention the old saying: "Qi people are greedy for pleasure, it has become their nature, although their soldiers wear the most gorgeous armor in the world and hold the sharpest weapons in the world, but as long as they engage the enemy, they will be defeated first. At that time, the various princes will definitely fall apart in order to ensure their strength, so that the enemy of Hangu Pass can be eliminated immediately. ”

Gan Mao thought so, and immediately decided: "Tomorrow's decisive battle will be in accordance with the general's law." Come, send a war letter to the commander of the coalition forces outside the city, and we will fight a decisive battle outside the city tomorrow. ”

Le Yi told the commanders of the coalition forces that night that the war method of staring at each other was over, and the real battle to the death began.

In the face of the imminent death battle, the commanders glanced at each other, no one objected, and no one had the idea of preserving strength, the reason is that you are grateful to Zhao Xing and are friendly with Le Yi. If you have kindness, you will repay it, and you will help if you make friends, this is the kind-hearted nature of the ancients.

In addition, Le Yi is actually the largest strength group in the entire coalition army, and the 30,000 Zhao army, 30,000 Han army, plus 10,000 Tang army, and 70,000 troops under the command of Le Yi, will not be defeated at all in a decisive battle with the Qin army, everyone is a soldier, and a soldier is eager for victory. Since there is a doomed victory honor waiting for you, let's fight. I've been eating people for too long, and if I don't fight for others, I'm really sorry.

Early this morning, Le Yi summoned all the generals of the coalition army, and also invited Zhou Yuan's nominal marshal Zhou Gong overnight to discuss the attack on Hangu Pass.

A tragic siege battle must be arranged carefully and closely.

As a result, when everyone was taking the lead for whom to carry out a cannon fodder-style climbing battle, the messenger of the Qin people came in high-spirited and submitted a declaration of war to the Duke of Zhou.

Zhou Gong's eyes were dizzy, he didn't even look at it, and handed it over directly to Le Yi. Then he took the messenger out and discussed the weather and the health of both parties very gentlemanly.

Le Yi opened the letter, the content was Gan Mao's bully, everyone has been here for three or four months, autumn is coming, the soldiers of all countries should go home to harvest wheat, or delay the agricultural time, war, how can it be more important than going home to harvest wheat?

In order not to delay everyone going home to harvest wheat, we decided that we would no longer stare at each other so much, and we would have a dignified appointment, win or lose the battle, and then we would go back to our respective homes and find our own mothers.

The Qin army went out of the city to fight, and asked Le Yi to retreat the coalition camp back ten miles, leaving enough open space in front of the pass, so that the 50,000 Qin troops could set up a formation to fight against each other, "Let's have a gentleman's battle with honor." ”

When Le Yi saw the invitation to fight, he was surprised, then confused, and then ecstatic.

Le Yi was surprised that Qin was really a state of etiquette, what age is this, and he is still engaged in this kind of trick of first going to war, agreeing on the time and place between the two sides, and setting up a battle in a dignified formation.

What is confused is that the Qin army was confused, and let the Hedong countries "ambush millions of corpses and bleed and drift" The moat was not guarded, but took the initiative to make an appointment.

And the ecstasy is that his elder brother has no power to fight back now, and they are eager to get out to reinforce the Northern Army.

The commanders also celebrated one after another, because they no longer had to worry about being used as siege cannon fodder, and everyone could fight with the Qin army together.

And what makes everyone happy the most is that after this fight, Ende has been repaid, and the friendship has been explained, and everyone can take the aura of victory, go back to their respective homes, and find a mother.

Although I ate and drank for nothing, I ate and drank well, but after being away from home for a long time, everyone was homesick.