Chapter 169: Meng Zhong and Lian Po (7) [Two in One]
As Lian Po guessed, Meng Zhong led the army to attack Fengyangjun Li Dui's military camp, which was just a pretense, and the purpose was just to transfer Lian Po, a fierce tiger, from Yangwenjun Zhao Bao's military camp so that he could sneak attack this military camp.
Some people may think that Yang Wenjun Zhao Bao and Zuo Sima Zhao Ben have both had a relationship with Meng Zhong before, why did Meng Zhong target these two three times and twice? Could it be that Meng Zhong has any resentment towards Zhao Bao and Zhao Ben?
Of course not!
Meng Zhong targeted the armies of Zhao Bao and Zhao Ben's uncle and nephew several times, just because of the geographical relationship - in fact, what Meng Zhong wanted to sneak attack the most was Fengyang Jun Li Dui's army, after all, that was the main force of Wang Shi to resist Gongzi Zhang, but the problem was that if Meng Zhong rashly attacked Li Dui's military camp at night, Zhao Bao and Zhao Ben were very likely to send troops to cut off his way back, which forced Meng Zhong to decide to take the lead in pulling out the nail of Zhao Bao's military camp, so as not to be accidentally countered by Zhao Bao and Zhao Ben.
As for why Lian Po was deceived away, there are two reasons, one is to crack the strategy of Zhao Ben and Lian Po to "set up an ambush in the camp", and the second, it is because of Lian Po's personal threat - throughout the entire rebel army, no one can match Lian Po's force, which is also the reason why Meng Zhong has tried his best to avoid confrontation with Lian Po so far, and only dares to adopt strategies such as sneak attacks, luring the enemy, and ambushes.
As for how Meng Zhong determined that he could deceive Lian Po out of Zhao Baojun's military camp, this is actually not difficult, after all, Zhao Baojun's current only two generals, Zhao Ben and Lian Po, Zhao Ben is Yang Wenjun Zhao Bao's Zuo Sima, and he must stay in the military camp, and Lian Po is the Sima under the command of Fengyangjun Li Dui, so it is reasonable that Lian Po should lead the army to support Li Duijun's military camp.
It's a very simple analysis.
Around the time of the night that night, Meng Zhong ordered Mu Wu to lead more than a thousand generations of crossbowmen to harass Li Duijun's military camp with fire arrows.
The task given to Mu Wu by Meng Zhong is very simple, that is, to repeatedly harass Li Duijun's military camp, if Li Duijun goes out of the camp to expel during the period, then temporarily retreat, and when Li Duijun returns to the camp, he will harass him again with long-range fire arrows, anyway, Li Duijun's soldiers have just fought a fierce battle with Gongzizhang's army during the day today, how can they have any energy to search for Mu Wu at night?
In contrast, Mu Wu only needs to be wary of the reinforcements from Lian Po's side.
While Mu Wu harassed Li Duijun's military camp, Meng Zhong and Hua Hu led hundreds of Xinwei soldiers and hundreds of Daijun rebels to lurk in the military camp of Zhao Baojun's army, staring at every move of this military camp, and sure enough, Lian Po led 5,000 soldiers to support Fengyang Jun's army.
So, Meng Zhong estimated the footsteps of Lian Po's army, and when he thought that Lian Po's army was worthy of arriving at Fengyangjun's military camp, he immediately ordered his subordinates to launch a night attack on Zhao Baojun's military camp.
However, it is a pity that this sneak attack did not go well, it may be that Lian Po instructed Zhao Ben before leading the army to leave, so that Zhao Ben strengthened the garrison of the camp, so that when the Meng Zhong army launched an attack on this military camp, the king of the camp Zhao Pawn reacted very quickly, and the rebels had just launched an offensive, and Zhao Pawn in the battalion quickly supported the East Camp area and blocked the invasion of the rebels in this camp.
There is a saying that blessing is unequaled, disaster does not go alone, even if the sneak attack is not smooth, the speed of Lian Po's army's return is also much beyond Meng Zhong's prediction, so that when the rebels are attacking the camp of Zhao Bao's army, Lian Po's army appeared on the side of the rebels without warning and launched an attack on the rebels.
"Sima, there is an enemy army attacking from the northeast!"
Soon, a soldier reported the incident to Meng Zhong.
"Northeast ......"
Hearing this, Meng Zhong turned his head and glanced to the northeast, and sure enough, he saw that under the dark night, an army was faintly attacking them.
"It's so fast, Lian Po......
Meng Zhong frowned slightly, and immediately decisively ordered a retreat.
Looking at his face at this moment, there was not the slightest panic, the reason was very simple, because Lian Po returned to Zhao Ben's move, which was also within his expectations, and even he had planned to ambush Lian Po when he returned.
Meng Zhong knew very well that the plan he carried out tonight might not be able to deceive Lian Po - just from the fact that Mu Wu only harassed Li Duijun with fire arrows, instead of taking advantage of his unpreparedness to kill his camp, Lian Po should have been able to guess that the rebels' attack on Li Duijun's military camp was just a pretense, otherwise, how could the long-range fire arrows directly lead the troops into Li Duijun's military camp to cause great damage?
Knowing that the rebels' harassment of Li Duijun's camp was just a cover, Lian Po would naturally think of others, for example, whether the rebels would ambush him along the way, that is, the so-called encirclement point reinforcement in the art of war - the famous "encirclement of Wei to save Zhao" strategy, in fact, is a typical victory of encirclement and reinforcement, and the strategic thinking of the two is actually the same.
In this case, Lian Po must have been extra cautious on the way to aid Li Dui's army, but he may not be able to take this into account when he returned to the camp of Zhao Baojun's army on the way back.
Therefore, Meng Zhong originally thought of ambushing Lian Po on the way back to help, and killed Lian Po by surprise.
But after much thought, he gave up the idea, because the plan seemed to be a good one, but it was not easy to actually put into practiceβhow could he guarantee that Lian Po would pass through the ambush in such a dark night? In case Lian Po temporarily changed the road, or the black light blindly touched the wrong way, so that he plunged headlong into the side of the rebel ambush, then the soldiers led by him Meng Zhong would be completely finished.
Not to mention that according to Meng Zhong's previous secret peeping, when Lian Po left the camp, he had at least four or five thousand soldiers under his command, and from the process of the rebels ambushing Lian Po the night before, it can be seen that Lian Po was very good in the face of the enemy's sudden attack - this is also the reason why Meng Zhong consumed countless fire arrows that night, but in the end only caused nearly 1,000 casualties to Lian Po's army.
Considering this kind of thing, Meng Zhong gave up the idea of "ambushing this army when Lian Po's army returns", and honestly led his troops to attack Zhao Baojun's military camp, hoping to inflict huge casualties on the soldiers in this military camp before Lian Po returned to help.
Unexpectedly, this sneak attack did not go well, not only Zhao Ben was prepared, but even Lian Po also returned to the camp before the arrival time predicted by Meng Zhong, so that Meng Zhongjun now fell into the embarrassing situation of being attacked by the enemy.
Fortunately, Meng Zhong still had a backup move, so he was not panicked at the moment, at most, it was a pity that he failed to successfully hit Zhao Baojun's military camp.
"Ding! Ding Ding Ding! Ding! β
"Ding! Ding Ding Ding! Ding! β
I saw that in the army led by Meng Zhong, there were several Xinwei soldiers holding copper cymbals and hitting them with copper cymbals at a unique frequency to convey the message of "retreat" to the rebel soldiers.
"Huh?"
At this time, Hua Hu led hundreds of Xinwei troops to launch an offensive in the camp, and when he heard the sound of their Meng Zhong army, he couldn't help but be stunned in his heart.
He listened carefully for a moment with a frown, and then realized that it was indeed the sound of gold in his armyβbecause the frequency of each army's sound was different.
"Why did Ah Zhong order the retreat? Could it be that Lian Po led the army back to help? So fast?'
Several thoughts flashed in his heart, and Hua Hu ordered a retreat without saying a word, and quickly withdrew from the Dongying area with the Xinwei army.
Seeing this, Zhao Ben, who had previously led the army to resist the Xinwei army, was overjoyed.
"It must be Lian Sima's reinforcement, so the rebels want to retreat!"
Thinking of this, Zhao Ben snorted coldly: "How can you be told to go so easily?" β
After that, he raised his sword and shouted loudly: "Lian Poxing Sima has led the army back to help, everyone, pursue the rebels with me and Lian Sima!" Be sure to annihilate the rebels in one fell swoop! β
Hearing this, the soldiers under Zhao Ben's command were also greatly boosted, and they chased after the Xinwei army who were evacuated, and chased them all the way out of the camp.
However, what made Zhao Ben quite depressed was that the soldiers under his command couldn't catch up with the Xinwei army that was evacuating in the distance, and even, occasionally a few soldiers chased too far ahead, but they were killed by those Xinwei soldiers who turned around and killed them.
As for the reason, it is nothing more than a large gap between the physical strength and energy of the soldiers on both sides - the soldiers under Zhao Ben have consumed a huge amount of energy and physical strength in the battle with Gongzizhang today, so that they are extremely tired at the moment, while the Xinwei army is full of energy, and the state of the two is not at the same level at all.
This is also the reason why the army under Zhao Ben obviously has an advantage, but just now it was suppressed by hundreds of Xinwei troops led by Hua Hu.
It is no exaggeration to say that if it had not been for Lian Po's timely reinforcements, the rebels would indeed have a good chance of forcibly breaking through the camp.
After withdrawing from the camp, Huahu immediately joined forces with Meng Zhong.
At this time, Meng Zhong was commanding the Daijun soldiers under his command to resist the attack of Lian Po's army.
Although Lian Po's army occupies an absolute advantage in strength, the Daijun rebels are full of energy, so although Lian Po has a full 5,000 soldiers under his command, for a while, he can't help the 500 Daijun soldiers under Meng Zhong's command, so he can only surround them.
The encirclement of a tired army was certainly not enough to make the Xinwei army panic, after all, many Xinwei soldiers knew that those Zhao pawns chasing behind them were just paper tigers, if the timing was unfavorable at the moment, Wang Shifang's soldiers far surpassed them, how could they be chased by those tired Zhao pawns?
In comparison, the Dai Junbing side was a little flustered.
It's no wonder, after all, anyone who finds themselves surrounded by enemy forces that are several times larger will be alarmed.
Realizing this, Meng Zhong straddled the war horse and said loudly: "The soldiers of Daijun listened to the order, and the people who surrounded us were just a tired army with no advantage in strength. β
After saying that, he shouted loudly: "Lou Rang, tell the soldiers to form a formation to resist the enemy!" β
As soon as the words fell, a man's response came from a distance: "Lou let obey the order!" β
Lou Rang is a line Sima under the late rebel general Hu Qian, Lou Annoying was born, and currently serves as a brigade commander (500 generals) under Meng Zhong, and he is also a quite powerful general.
Of course, what is more important is that Lou Rang knows each other very well, so that when Meng Zhong harassed Wang Shi in recent days, whenever he wanted to use these soldiers, he almost asked Lou Rang to lead the troops to assist.
"Deus Ex?"
From a distance, Lian Po heard Meng Zhong's shout and couldn't help but sneer.
Now, how could he sit back and watch Meng Zhong flee from here?
Thinking of this, he tried his best to urge his soldiers to launch attacks again and again, but because his soldiers were physically exhausted, they couldn't break through the formation of the Daijun soldiers for a while.
This made Lian Po more and more angry in his heart, and scolded hatefully: "The rebels in front of us are only five or six hundred, and we have nearly five thousand people, can't the five thousand people surround and kill only five or six hundred people?" β
Seeing that Lian Po's face was full of anger, he hurriedly persuaded left and right: "Sima is angry, it's not that the soldiers are unwilling to do their best, they are really exhausted......
Hearing this, Lian Po restrained the anger in his heart a little.
In fact, he also understood that the soldiers under his command were already quite tired after today's daytime fighting, not to mention that Fang Cai followed him to the aid of Fengyangjun's military camp and then returned the same way, they were already exhausted and could not exert their due combat effectiveness at all.
But seeing that Meng Zhong was in the distance, but there was no way to kill him, it was conceivable that Lian Po was anxious at the moment.
At this time, the 500 Xinwei troops under the command of Hua Hu had formed a formation outside the camp, and with the 500 Daijun soldiers under the command of Lou Rang, the two forces supported each other and slowly withdrew.
To put it simply, that is, the Huahu army retreated a certain distance and formed a formation in situ to set up defenses, during which the Lou Rang army resisted the Wang division; Subsequently, Lou Rang retreated a certain distance and formed a formation in situ to set up defenses, during which the Huahu Army resisted Wang Shi.
With the help of this way of retreat, the Huahu army and the Lou Rang army assisted each other in defense, supported each other, and moved back little by little, although Zhao Ben and Lian Po had joined forces at this time, and even always surrounded the two armies of Huahu and Lou Rang, but still did not have enough strength to defeat the army under the command of the two.
During this period, Lian Po, who was becoming more and more anxious, also tried to lead his army to cut through the rebels, but every time he appeared, the rebels shot at him with bows and crossbows, forcing Lian Po to retreat.
"Damn!"
After being forced to retreat three times and twice, Lian Po only felt that his liver was on fire, filling his entire chest.
At this moment, the feeling of guilt in his heart was even worse than when he was ambushed by Meng Zhong the night before, it was clear that Meng Zhong was in the rebel army not far away, and the number of this rebel army was only a thousand, far inferior to them, but there was no way to effectively suppress this rebel army.
"Meng Zhong! Is that how you just fled from here? Don't you want to kill Lian? Lian is here......"
Lian Po, who was furious, shouted loudly in the direction of Meng Zhong.
Hearing Lian Po's shout from afar, Meng Zhong turned his head to take a look, but because his vision was blocked at night, he didn't really see Lian Po's figure, but he only roughly knew Lian Po's location.
Of course, he won't pay attention to Lian Po's provocation - let him and Lian Po fight alone, what is the difference between that and looking for death?
Therefore, after chuckling, Meng Zhong turned a deaf ear to Lian Po's provocation and still focused on those soldiers of the royal division.
Although the soldiers under his command were able to block the siege of Wang Shi with their advantages in formation and energy, Wang Shifang's bow and crossbow shooting still caused a lot of casualties to the Xinwei army and Daijun soldiers under his command.
In contrast, the Xinwei army wearing three layers of thick armor was fine, but the Daijun soldiers had successively as many as nearly 100 people shot to death by Zhao pawns on the opposite side.
This is also a helpless thing, after all, the difference in strength between the two sides is too far, even if Meng Zhongjun can temporarily resist the offensive of the opposite side with the advantage of physical strength, but after a long time, he still can't escape the end of a total annihilation.
"It's time to break through......
Frowning, Meng Zhong turned his head to look at a certain place to the south, secretly estimating the distance between the two places in his heart.
Immediately, he instructed to the left and right: "Summons Hua Hu and Lou Rang, and when the sound of gold rings again in a while, the whole army will break through to the south, and Hugh must ignore the pursuers behind him!" β
"Whoa!" The left and right guards took the order and left.
A moment later, Meng Zhong ordered the guards around him to sound the sound of gold again.
Hearing this message, Hua Hu immediately shouted loudly: "The Xinwei Army listens to the order, and all the staff will break through to the south without delay!" β
On the other hand, Lou Rang also gave the same order.
At the sound of an order, the remaining nearly eight or nine hundred rebels immediately turned around and killed the Wang division who surrounded them on the south side.
Although it seemed as if the rebels were surrounded by the rebels, when all the rebels launched a surprise attack on them, even if they were several times the number of the rebels, they could not escape the end of being defeated by the rebels in a matter of moments.
At that time, it was as if a tiger had entered a flock of sheep, hundreds of Xinwei soldiers and hundreds of Daijun soldiers killed them together, and suddenly, the Wang Shishi on the south side was defeated and retreated, and the screams continued.
At this time, Lian Po was on the north side of the rebels, and suddenly heard the amazing sounds of fighting and screams from the south, and he was suddenly shocked in his heart.
"Not good! The rebels are about to break out!'
Thinking of this, he couldn't hold it anymore, and rushed forward as soon as his legs clamped the horse's belly.
"Now, how can I let you escape again?!"
After whispering a word, Lian Po shouted sharply: "The rebels want to break through to the south, and the armies will follow me to pursue and cover up!" β
At the sound of the order, his soldiers poured into the rebels who had broken through to the south again, so that the scene became very chaotic for a while.
If the rebels only relied on their superiority in formation and physical strength to resist the Wang Division, then at this moment, after Meng Zhong ordered the whole army to break through to the south, the rebel soldiers canceled the formation, and it was naturally difficult to parry the Wang Division, which was several times their strength.
For a while, the rebel soldiers who were running slower were all overwhelmed by the tide of Wang Shi, and there was no movement again.
ββ¦β¦β
Meng Zhong, who was breaking through, turned his head to look at the north side, and watched many slower soldiers being surrounded and killed by Wang Shi, and a little unbearable flashed in his heart.
When he gave this order, he actually knew very well that once he gave the order for the whole army to break through to the south, those soldiers who were closer to the Wang Division would definitely become the sacrifice of this order, but there was no way, only by breaking through the siege could more soldiers be saved, and even, in turn, Zhao Ben and Lian Po would be together.
The only thing he could do was to cut off as many of his infantry as possible, and kill those who wanted to rush up.
"Boom!"
The sharp sword in his hand slashed down, bounced off the Changge stabbed by a Wang Shishi, and saved a soldier who fell to the ground because of running.
"Retreat!"
Ignoring what words of gratitude the Daijun soldier had uttered, Meng Zhong shouted loudly, and then led dozens of guards around him to fight and retreat.
"Meng Zhong!"
"Where is the rebel Meng Zhong? Can anyone see that Meng Zhong?! β
In the distance, Lian Po's shout was heard, as if he was looking for Meng Zhong's figure.
To be honest, because the voice was closer, Meng Zhong was still a little stunned in his heart.
And this also strengthened his idea of practicing more martial arts in the future, after all, on specific occasions, the general's personal martial arts can also play a role in turning the tide of the battle.
Just like at this moment, if he has the ability to kill that Lian Po, the soldiers under his command will even have the opportunity to fight back, and maybe he will not be able to use the backup moves he has reserved to defeat the army under the command of Zhao Ben and Lian Po.
But for now, Meng Zhong felt that he still retreated honestly, and it was better to keep a certain distance from Na Lianpo.
"Evacuate, retreat!"
"Chase! Chase! β
"Break south! The whole army broke through to the south! β
"Stop them! Hold them off! β
Amidst countless noisy voices, the rebels broke through the encirclement of Wang's division in one fell swoop and quickly broke through to the south.
Seeing this situation, Zhao Ben and Lian Po led thousands of soldiers in hot pursuit.
One side fled, one side chased, and in this way chased and fled for nearly ten miles, just when Wang Shi passed by a wood, suddenly a wave of fire arrows shot out of the forest, so that the unprepared Wang Shi soldiers fell to the ground one after another.
Immediately, an army came out of the woods and cut off the king's division in one fell swoop.
"Kill!"
In a deafening shout, Meng Sui slowly rode out of the night, and with the help of the faint light of those fire arrows, he frowned and looked at Wang Shi not far away.
"What? Ambushes? β
Seeing this situation, Zhao Ben and Lian Po's faces changed greatly.
At this time, Meng Zhong grabbed the reins of his horse, pointed the sword in his hand at Wang Shi, who was chasing them, and shouted: "The Xinwei army and the Daijun army have listened to the order, the enemy army has been ambushed by our army, so you should quickly turn back and flank the enemy army!" β
Hearing this, Hua Hu and Lou Rang's soldiers immediately turned around and attacked the army led by Zhao Ben and Lian Po together with the ambush led by Meng Sui.
"Why is it so long?"
A moment later, Meng Sui and several soldiers armed with torches found Meng Zhong, frowning at the bloodstains on the latter's armor.
"Miscalculated the speed of Lian Po's reinforcement......"
Meng Zhong wiped the blood on his face, and said with a wry smile: "The main thing is that he is too greedy, and wants to destroy Zhao Ben's military camp before Lian Po returns to help, but he was almost blocked by Lian Po to retreat, if it weren't for the fact that most of the soldiers on the opposite side were exhausted, they would ...... tonight Sure enough, you still can't be greedy. β
It turned out that Meng Zhong's series of actions tonight were all to lure the enemy, including his night attack on the military camp of Zhao Baojun, and the purpose was to ambush Lian Po, but Meng Zhong wanted to expand the results of the battle and hoped to take the opportunity to end up the military camp of Zhao Baojun, which led to some changes, but fortunately, Zhao Ben and Lian Po's corporal were too tired after today's fierce battle, which made Meng Zhong and others turn the danger into danger and successfully lured Zhao Benjun and Lian Po Army to the ambush place.
"Okay, let's not talk about that."
Seeing Meng Sui frowning as if he was about to say something, Meng Zhong quickly ended the topic and set his eyes on Wang Shi in the distance.
I saw that after the Mengsui army came out, Xiang Yi, Le Jin, Le Xu and others led their soldiers to kill from the ambush place, and cooperated with the soldiers under the command of Hua Hu and Lou Rang, and in turn surrounded the troops of Zhao Ben and Lian Po.
Looking at the dense array of rebels around, not to mention Zhao Ben, even Lian Po's face was extremely ugly.
Because they had already discovered that the rebels surrounding them were faintly numbering in the thousands, as if the rebels under Meng Zhong's command were pouring out of their nests this time.
Although the total number of troops under the command of Zhao Ben and Lian Po is five or six thousand, even if two or three percent are left behind on the way, there are still three or four thousand, but how can a tired army of three or four thousand withstand the thousands of rebels who are waiting for work and are full of strength at the moment?
"Those who descend will not be killed!"
In the distance, Meng Zhong's slightly hoarse voice came: "We are all soldiers of the Zhao State, so we won't get to the point where you are alive or dead, as long as you are willing to put down your weapons and surrender, you can live!" β
"Those who descend will not be killed!"
"Those who descend will not be killed!"
The surrounding rebels, led by the Guards, shouted loudly.
Hearing this, the kings and Zhao pawns looked at each other, and they didn't know who was the leader, and when they threw away the weapons in their hands, they immediately threw down the weapons in their hands one after another, squatted down and surrendered with their heads in their hands.
Exhausted and encircled, these kings and soldiers completely lost their fighting spirit.