The battlements here had collapsed a lot, and they couldn't stop Meng Fu's tall body, so he was planted from the top of the city wall.

In the final analysis, it is also related to Meng Fu's overwork.

During this time, Meng Yu was devastated, coupled with his old age, and after learning that Fan Yuzhi could not come to rescue him, he finally collapsed completely, and actually fell from the city wall very dramatically and fell to his death.

Meng Fu's death lacked the vigor of the big man when he died in battle, nor did he have the heroism of shouting 'fire at me' at the enemy with open arms, and his death was so dramatic and so suffocating.

It can be said that Meng Fu did not die at the hands of the coalition forces, nor did he fall to his death accidentally, but died in the internal struggle of the Qin State.

If Meng Fu hadn't taken into account the pressure of Qin's native generals, he would not have reluctantly agreed to Zhang Ping's harsh conditions when he negotiated with Han Prime Minister Zhang Ping, so that the Qin army would eventually fall into a desperate situation.

If Meng Fu had been able to unrestrained and unrestrained in his ability to command troops, the whole war would not have been so radical.

It is highly likely that Meng Fu will directly retreat to Qin, waiting for reinforcements to arrive before engaging the coalition forces.

Even though Meng Fu made radical mistakes due to internal strife, he was still able to find hope for survival in a desperate situation, and led tens of thousands of Qin troops to defend Pinggao to this day.

If Fan Yuzhi and others had come to the rescue in time, Meng Yu and the others would not have ended up in such a situation.

It's a pity that history has always been a king and a loser, even if there are many excuses, Meng Fu was still defeated and died in the end, and the history books will not record Meng Fu's helplessness, but will only record his repeated defeats.

"General!"

On the city wall, the soldiers of the Qin State, who were already dizzy from hunger, were all shocked when they saw this, and then crowded in front of the battlements and shouted loudly.

At this time, Wang Qian, who was patrolling outside the city, also discovered the movements of the Qin army.

"Report!"

Just when Wang Jian was still a little confused, he suddenly saw the scout galloping towards him and shouted loudly: "The commander of the Qin army, Meng Fu, fell down the city wall and died!" ”

When Wang Jian heard this, his eyes widened suddenly, and then he shouted: "Quickly snatch Meng Fu's corpse!" ”

"Boom!"

Three thousand iron cavalry launched a charge towards Pinggao, but fortunately, after a hard battle in the city, the Qin army had already exhausted the arrows in reserve.

Without the threat of arrows, the 3,000 cavalry rushed towards the city wall almost unscathed.

At this time, the gate of Pinggao City, which had been blocked for a long time, was also slowly opened, and thousands of Qin troops with their faces on their faces also rushed towards the location of Meng Fu's body.

Even if Meng Fu died, they would take back the corpse, and not allow the corpse of the commander to become the enemy's exploits.

"Take the city!"

When Wang Jian saw the Qin army open the city gate and pour out, his eyes immediately lit up, and he grasped the fighter very accurately, and resolutely gave up the credit of continuing to snatch Meng Fu's corpse, and instead directly led the troops to kill the Qin army that poured out.

"Kill!"

The war horse gallops, shouting to kill the heavens!

Even though the courage of the Qin army is commendable, the outcome is still self-evident.

Mo said that the Qin army had long been starved and lost its combat effectiveness, even if the Qin army was at its peak, in the face of the cavalry of the land of Shenqi led by Meng Fu, there was absolutely no chance of victory in a head-to-head confrontation.

Not long after the two sides clashed, the Qin army had already been defeated by the 3,000 elite cavalry led by Wang Qian.

The defeated Qin army swarmed towards the city gate, and Wang Jian took advantage of the situation to enter the city, but after capturing the city gate, he did not continue to charge, but firmly occupied the city gate.

"Captain, now that the defeat of the Qin army has been decided, why not take the opportunity to enter the city and make meritorious contributions!"

"Yes, Meng Fu's body is still under the city wall, why didn't the commander send someone to rob it?"

Facing the questioning of the generals under his command, Wang Jian said in a deep voice: "Although the defeat of the Qin army has been decided, it has become a battle of trapped beasts. ”

"The king trusts Wang Qian, let you and others follow me here to take revenge, how can Wang Jian let his brothers be in danger?"

"Now that we have captured the city gate, we have easily made the first contribution, it is better to give the rest of the credit to the Chu army, so that the brothers will not suffer too many casualties, nor will they be hated by the generals of the Chu State."

When the generals heard this, they suddenly realized that they would not say more.

At this time, Wang Jian has already shown his mellow attitude towards the world.

In history, Wang Jian almost single-handedly wiped out the Kwantung countries, and made such a great contribution, not only did he not take pride in his achievements, but he was very aware of the current affairs and retreated bravely and died well.

Compared with Wang Qian, Lian Po is too different in this regard.

In fact, Wang Qian's main purpose in guarding the city gate is to give the credit to the Chu army, otherwise the credit will be taken away by Wang Qian, and the Chu army, which has besieged Pinggao for so long, will inevitably hate Wang Qian, and even be unfavorable to this alliance.

Know the current affairs, know the advance and retreat.

Wang Qian's move will inevitably be appreciated by the generals of Chu State.

Sure enough, when Chun Shenjun learned that Meng Fu had fallen to his death and Wang Jian had broken through the gate of Pinggao, he was immediately anxious and angry, and ordered the Chu army to hurriedly attack the city to grab the merit.

He was also worried that if the credit was taken by Wang Qian, Chun Shenjun and the 200,000 Chu army would become a laughing stock.

When the Chu generals later learned that Wang Jian only occupied the city gate and did not attack the city, most of the Chu generals secretly ridiculed Wang Jian for being cowardly as a mouse and giving up such a good opportunity for meritorious service.

Chunshenjun Huang Xie, who is proficient in politics and good at figuring out people's hearts, immediately understood Wang Qian's mind after learning that Wang Jian did not send someone to snatch Meng Fu's body, and secretly remembered this favor.

200,000 Chu troops were stationed in Pinggao, and the outcome of this war was already doomed, and it didn't take long for the Qin army in the city to be slaughtered.

Why do you say so?

It was only because the Qin army's massacre of the city angered South Korea that there were Korean envoys in the Chu army, asking the Chu army to kill the Qin army.

Chu and Qin have had a grudge for a long time, and this time it was a Korean claim, so Chu naturally did not have any psychological burden and killed all the Qin troops in the city.

It's just that, as Wang Jian guessed, although the Qin army is the end of the strong crossbow, it is also the battle of trapped beasts.

When the Chu army was cleaning up the Qin army, it was also caused a lot of trouble by the Qin army, which was familiar with the terrain, and although the casualties were not too many, they were not small.

In half a day, the Chu army had already ended the war.

Chun Shenjun looked at the corpse on the ground, remembered Wang Qian's move, and immediately said: "This time Pinggao can be easily conquered, Wang Qianduwei and his subordinates snatched the city gate, which is undoubtedly the first merit!" ”

"Pass on my military order, reward Wang Jian Duwei with 100 gold, and reward his soldiers with wine and meat."

"In addition, I heard that the old man Meng Fu killed Wang Jian Duwei's uncle Wang Su, and someone came to send Meng Fu's body to Wang Jian Duwei!"

For Chun Shenjun, the credit of beheading tens of thousands of Qin troops is indispensable.

This credit is very important both to Chun Shenjun himself and to the entire Chu State.

It is precisely for this reason that Huang Xie is so generous, and is even willing to send Meng Xiao's body to Wang Jian for disposal.

When Wang Jian received Meng Fu's body, he watched Meng Fu's gray hair stained with blood and mud, and the resentment that had been accumulated in his heart for a long time seemed to dissipate.

"People die, the lights go out."

"After all, Meng Fu is a famous general in the world, it is inappropriate to insult his body, clean up Meng Fu's body, put on clean armor for him, and return it to Chun Shenjun."

Pinggao City was broken, 50,000 Qin troops were all killed, and until the outbreak of the war, the 100,000 Qin troops led by Meng Fu have been completely lost.

Even for the Qin State, the loss of 100,000 troops was an incalculable loss.

The morale of the Qin army who learned the news plummeted, and Fan Yuzhi did not dare to delay any longer, and quickly led his troops to the border between Qin and South Korea.

As for the countries that joined the country, they were all overjoyed when they learned the news.

Zhao Guo, Handan.

During this time, good news continued to come from the front line, which made Zhao Yan, who was still a little worried, slowly relax.

"My son is really a thousand miles of horses!"

At this time, Zhao Yan, after letting go of his prejudices and precautions against Zhao Jia, also began to rejoice in Zhao Jia's achievements.

Although Zhao Jia did not participate in several battles to exterminate the 100,000 Qin army, he could not ignore Zhao Jia's contributions.

If it weren't for Zhao Jia, the Four-Power Alliance would not have been established, and the Qin army would probably have hit Zhao proper.

As an advocate of cooperation, Zhao Jia, no matter what results the coalition forces have achieved in this battle, they must give Zhao Jia a credit.

"Wang, Mr. Fan asks to see you!"

Zhao Yan, who was full of spring breeze, hurriedly said after hearing the eunuch's report: "Quickly invite Mr. Fan in!" ”

For Fan Zeng's talent, Zhao Yan also appreciates it very much.

The reason why Fan Zeng was not given the title of official is that Zhao Yan is worried that this move will be suspected of digging Zhao Jia's corner, and second, because Fan Zeng's identity is now secret and cannot be exposed.

In the entire Handan City, there are very few people who know that Fan Zeng is in the palace.

"Meet the King!"

After saluting, Fan Zeng hurriedly took out a letter from his arms and handed it to Zhao Yan.

"This is a letter sent by Gongzi Jia's henchmen, and Gongzi needs the king's cooperation if he has something."

Zhao Yan took the letter, and after reading the contents, he was immediately shocked: "Jia'er wants to personally lead the troops to detour to Puban and cross the Yellow River south to attack Xianyang?" ”

Although the father and son had many discords before, after the ice released their previous suspicions, Zhao Yan naturally did not want to take risks as his only son.

Seeing this, Fan Zeng felt a little relieved in his heart, but he still said: "Gongzi has never done things that he is not sure of, since he has set such a plan, he must have a perfect strategy." ”

"If the king is worried about the son, he might as well cooperate more in Handan, so that the child's policy can be implemented!"

Zhao Yan frowned and thought for a long time, and finally gritted his teeth and said, "So what does Mr. think the widow should do?" ”

"King, the envoys of the Yan Kingdom ask to see you!"

At this moment, the eunuch suddenly shouted loudly outside the house, and his voice was full of excitement.

When Fan Zeng heard this, he couldn't help but smile and said: "The envoys of the Yan Kingdom came at the right time, the king is like this, and he will definitely be able to help the prince!" ”

In the palace hall, the envoys of the Yan Kingdom were a little uneasy.

Originally, Yan was attacked by the Qin and Zhao coalition forces, lost the ten cities of Hejian, and was already greatly injured, in order to quell the war, Yan was even willing to sacrifice the ten cities of Hejian to Lü Buwei, in order to get the protection of Qin.

The Qin State agreed to form an alliance with the Yan State, and even did not want the ten cities between the Yan States and the River.

Yan Guo originally thought that with the powerful Qin State as a backer, Zhao State would soon be trampled under the feet of Yan State.

Unexpectedly, although Zhao Guo retreated, Qi Guo called.

In the past few years, the Yan State, which has been defeated by Zhao repeatedly, how to make the opponent of the Qi State, was soon captured by the Qi State, and almost the entire place of the governor was captured.

Now, the armies of Yan and Qi are deadlocked in Anci, and Yan finally relied on its geographical advantages to temporarily block the army of Qi, but it has been defeated for many years, which has made Yan's treasury empty, and I don't know how long it can last.

The reason why the Yan State struggled to support it in the past was that it firmly believed that the Qin State could quickly defeat the Zhao State army, and at that time, the Qi State would definitely not dare to continue to spread wilderness in the territory of the Yan State.

It's a pity that the news that Yan State has been waiting for is that the 100,000 army of Qin State has been wiped out, and Meng Fu, the general and secretary of Qin, also died on the battlefield.

For Yan Guo, this news is tantamount to a thunderbolt from the sky, and the only trace of Yan Guo's desire to rely on Qin Guo has also been broken.

Today's Yan Kingdom is extremely frightened.

If the Qin State is defeated in this battle, the next target of the coalition will definitely be the Yan State, and without the backer of the Qin State at that time, the weak Yan State is very likely to have the disaster of losing the country.

This fear finally made King Yan send an envoy to Handan to beg for peace, hoping to rejoin the Hezhong army.

When Zhao Yan learned the purpose of the envoy of Yan Kingdom, he couldn't help but secretly praise Fan Zeng for being like a god.

"Our Kwantung countries, Qin has been suffering for a long time, and this is why they have repeatedly joined forces to attack Qin, only Yan State often secretly colludes with Qin and deliberately sabotages the alliance of Hezhong, so what kind of face do you have to continue to join the Hezong army this time?"

When the envoy of the Yan State heard this, he couldn't help but secretly slander: "Isn't it because the Zhao State took the lead in forming an alliance with Qin to attack Yan, and the Yan State wants to form an alliance with the Qin State by ceding land to resist the Zhao State?" ”

Although the envoy of the Yan Kingdom thought so in his heart, he did not dare to say it.

He bowed his head and said: "The tiger and wolf Qin is the great enemy of the world, this time my king sincerely allied all countries to attack Qin, in order to show his integrity, my king is willing to cede the ten cities between the rivers to the Zhao State." ”

Pang Nuan sneered when he heard this: "The ten cities in Hejian have been occupied by my Zhao State, even if the Yan Kingdom doesn't want to cede it, what can it do?" ”

"You ceded these ten cities to Zhao State, did you want to play tricks on my king?"

The envoy of Yan State shook his head and said: "Although the ten cities of Hejian are occupied by Zhao State, the household registration of the people in the city is still Yan State, and everyone is also from the heart of Yan, if there is no consent of my king, even if Zhao State can forcibly occupy the ten cities of Hejian, it will take several years to really take it for himself." ”

When Zhao Yan heard this, he couldn't help nodding secretly, and he was also very tempted by the conditions of Yan Kingdom.

However, after remembering Fan Zeng's words, Zhao Yan immediately said: "It is not impossible to let Yan State rejoin the Hezong Alliance and persuade Qi State to withdraw its troops. ”

"It's just that Yan Guo needs to agree to three conditions for the widow."

The envoy of the Yan Kingdom was overjoyed when he heard this, and said, "The king says it's okay! ”

Zhao Yan said in a deep voice: "First, in addition to the ten cities between the rivers that have been occupied by my Zhao State, the Yan State also needs to cede the four cities west of Laishui to the Zhao State. ”

"Second, the territory of Yan occupied by the Qi State will be owned by the Qi State from now on, otherwise there is no way for the widow to persuade the Qi State to withdraw its troops."

"Third, Yan State needs to send 100,000 troops to join the Hezong army and work together to attack Qin!"

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