In the early morning of June 13, Bai Qi opened his eyes on the couch, and after a simple wash, he walked in the direction of the closing building.

When Bai got up and went to the upper floor of the pass, he saw Wang Di standing by the city wall looking at the Wei army camp in the distance outside the pass.

"Wang Di." Bai Qi said hello.

Hearing the voice, Wang Yi turned his head, and when he saw that it was Bai Qi, he immediately clasped his hands and saluted: "Captain." ”

"Hmm." Bai Qi nodded, slowly walked to Wang Yi's side, looked in the direction of the outside of the gate and asked casually, "Are you observing the movement of the Wei army on the other side?" Is there any change in the Wei army? ”

Hearing this, Wang Yi shook his head: "There is no movement. …… In addition, according to the report of the scouts sent out to monitor the movements of the Wei army, the subordinates of Yun Chengjun on the opposite side are vigorously cutting down trees, and if it is not bad, the opposite side is vigorously building a ...... of building cars and throwing cars."

Hearing this, Bai Qi frowned slightly.

I remember that on the sixth day of the first month of June, he did not hesitate to take the initiative to expose the existence of the Menshui Qin camp, and asked the guards of the Menshui Qin camp to lead the army to attack that night, and attacked Meng Zhong's Daozhong Wei camp at night, deliberately revealing this hidden path to Meng Zhong, counting the days, the night attack has been a full six days ago, but the strange thing is that Meng Zhong, the main general of the enemy army outside the pass, has not taken any action for a long time.

"Lieutenant." Wang Yi lowered his voice and guessed: "You say, did Meng Zhong guess something?" …… I mean, we deliberately leaked that hidden path to him. ”

Hearing this, Bai Qi said lightly: "I didn't think about deceiving him in the first place. ”

Yes, I remember that when Bai Qi decided to call for Wei to attack Meng Zhong's Daozhong Wei camp at night, Sima Cuo had been dissuaded by the side.

This veteran felt that Bai Qi's move was too eager, do you think, during the day, Meng Zhong had just launched an offensive against Hangu Pass, and there were all kinds of signs that the building carts and stone throwing vehicles that the Wei army had put into use at that time were very effective in attacking the city, and at night his Qin army sent people to attack at night in a panic, and he did not hesitate to risk leaking that hidden path and launched a meaningless night attack on the Wei army, how could it not be recognized by Meng Zhong on the other side?

Therefore, Sima mistakenly thought that the plan could be implemented after a day, so that it would not be too obvious.

But Bai Qi didn't listen to Sima Cuo's suggestion, because he felt that it was unlikely that it would be possible to deceive Meng Zhong on the opposite side of the Wei camp if it was attacked one day and one night earlier, or one day and night later.

What's more, whether Meng Zhong guessed his true intentions or not, in Bai Qi's opinion, did not change much from the current situation.

What if Meng Zhong guessed his intentions? Will the coalition forces abandon the route of attacking the Menshui Qin camp?

Impossible!

No matter how powerful Meng Zhong is, he can only capture Hangu Pass at most, but he basically can't break through the winding and narrow ancient road of Hangu Road, which is fifteen miles long, so as long as the coalition forces still have the intention of bringing him to the submission of the Qin State, then they will inevitably try to attack the Menshui Qin camp and try to see if they can bypass Hangu Pass.

In this case, whether Meng Zhong guessed his intentions in vain did not have much to do with the actions of the coalition forces.

This is a conspiracy, even if the other party guesses the truth, he must act according to his white intentions.

The worst outcome was for Meng Zhong to capture Hangu Pass on this side first, hand over the defense of this place to the coalition forces, and then consider going to attack the Menshui Qin camp.

In this way, he will have to retreat to the other side of the Hangu Road, which will cause a little trouble in retaking Hangu Pass in the future.

But Bai Qi believed that Meng Zhong would not do that, because the valley mouth of the Hangu Road was narrow, and only a small number of soldiers were needed to block the valley mouth, which could make it impossible for the coalition forces to advance, and if Meng Zhong took the lead in capturing Hangu Pass, his Bai Qi's army could be transferred to reinforce the Menshui Qin camp - wouldn't this increase the difficulty of capturing the Menshui Qin camp in disguise?

With this in mind, Bai Qi thought that Meng Zhong should not capture Hangu Pass first.

And this was the real reason why he was anxious to let Meng Zhong know about that hidden path.

To put it simply, in the current battle, Hangu Pass can indeed be abandoned if necessary, but if he can hold it, Bai Qi of course still has to work hard, after all, this is also related to his reputation.

Although he didn't care much about fame before, but under the temptation of "Fengwu Anjun", he had to weigh it.

Only when he gets the title of Wu Anjun can he be regarded as equal to Meng Zhong on the opposite side, and he will not be short of the other side in terms of status.

"Wait a little longer."

After pondering for a while, Bai Qi comforted Wang Yi and said, "Meng Zhong knows that he can't break through Hangu Pass, so he will definitely choose to lead his army to attack the Menshui military camp in the south. ”

With that, he walked into the gate building and used the breakfast brought by the guards.

Pickles with rice.

In view of the fact that the three armies of Wei, Zhao, and Han outside the pass have been busy cutting down trees and building siege equipment such as building carts and stone-throwing vehicles in the past few days, and they have not come to rush to invade Hangu Pass, so the two sides have nothing to do with each other, and after noon, Bai Qi still squinted in the gate building for a while and took a nap.

It wasn't until near evening that Bai Qi's subordinate Zhong Xu hurriedly walked up to the Guan Lou and woke up Bai Qi, who was sitting in the Guan Lou with his eyes closed and thinking about how to retreat from the enemy: "Bai Shuai, Fang Cai Wei Yuan sent someone to deliver the news. ”

Hearing this, Bai Qi immediately opened his eyes, and his face showed a little "finally here" look.

"Tell me about it." He said with a smile.

Zhong Xu nodded and said in a deep voice: "Wei Yuan sent someone to convey that the scouts he sent to the mountains in the east found a large number of enemy troops this morning...... Looking at its banner, it seems to be the armies of Qi and Yan. ”

"Huh?"

The smile on Bai Qi's face suddenly froze, and the fox asked, "Qi and Yan's two armies?" Are you saying that it was the two armies of Qi and Yan that went straight to our Shui Qin camp? ”

Zhong Xu nodded: "Yes." ”

“……”

Bai Qi opened his mouth, but stopped talking.

After a while, he nodded and said, "I know, you...... Let's go down first. ”

"Whoa." Zhong Xu clenched his fists and retreated.

Watching Zhong Xu walk out of the gate, Bai Qi couldn't hold it anymore, raised his right hand and slapped it on the low table in front of him, gritting his teeth hatefully: "Damn...... Meng Zhong ......"

At this moment, he couldn't wait to rush to the Daozhong Wei camp on the opposite side, rushed to the front of Meng Zhong, grabbed the other party's clothes and scolded angrily: Are you okay to get out, can you go to the door and water?

Of course, this is just a joke, but it is undeniable that Bai Qi's mood at the moment is really a little depressed.

You must know that his original plan was to lure Meng Zhong and his troops to the Menshui military camp, so as to take the opportunity to attack the coalition forces led by Fengyang Jun Li Dui and Storm Kite in this area, and wait for the other armies in the coalition to be dealt with, and then turn around and concentrate on dealing with Meng Zhong.

At that time, when the general trend has gone, even Meng Zhong will not be able to escape defeat.

Unexpectedly, the coalition forces outside the pass suddenly sent the armies of Qi and Yan to attack the Shuiqin camp in Hemen, and the damned Meng Zhong still refused to move his nest in front of Hangu Pass.

Obviously, Meng Zhong on the opposite side had indeed guessed his intentions, so he blocked Hanguguan and the coalition led by Li Dui and Storm Kite with a strong momentum, preventing Bai Qi from taking the lead in attacking the coalition led by Li Dui and Storm Kite.

In this regard, except for being angry and secretly scolding Meng Zhong in his heart, Bai Qi also had no way.

After scolding more than a dozen words like "bastard", "damned", and "hateful", Bai Qi finally calmed down, turned his head to the guard Sima Jin and said, "Jin, go and invite your grandfather to come, that is, I have something important to discuss." ”

"Whoa!" Sima Jin nodded, and immediately went to ask his grandfather Sima Cuo.

It turned out that in the past few days, because there was no war on the side of Hangu Pass, Sima Co moved to the west side of the town to live, drinking wine and eating meat every day, and occasionally came to the customs tower of Hangu Pass to inspect it.

Of course, this also proves that Sima mistakenly believes in Bai Qi's ability.

More than half an hour later, Sima Jin led his grandfather Sima Cuo to the Guan Tower.

Seeing this, Bai Qi got up and greeted him: "Sima Lao." ”

"Lieutenant." Sima Cuo also returned the salute, and immediately pointed to his grandson Sima Jin and asked, "This son just said to the old man, there have been some changes in the national captain's strategy?" ”

"Hmm." Bai Qiqi nodded, and while inviting Sima Cuo to sit in the building, he said in a deep voice: "The news has been sent from the Wei Yuan, as we expected, the coalition army finally decided to send troops to attack our Shuiqin camp, but the difference is that the coalition army did not transfer Meng Zhong, but sent the armies of Qi and Yan......"

"I see." Sima Cuo nodded suddenly in realization when he heard this, and then he asked curiously: "By the way, didn't the national captain expect this possibility before?" ”

Bai Qi exhaled heavily, shook his head and said, "I think I've thought about it, but ...... I always thought it was unlikely. Since the battle on the side of Hangu Pass is currently in a stalemate, even if Meng Zhong wants to attack Hangu Pass, I am afraid that it will take a month or two to build enough building cars and stone throwing vehicles, in this case, why not send Meng Zhong to attack the Menshui Qin camp? So that such a fierce general is here to supervise the construction of siege equipment? Don't you think it's overkill? ”

It turned out that although he was sure that even if Meng Zhong guessed his intentions, the coalition forces outside the gate would inevitably try to attack his Menshui Qin camp, but he really didn't think that the coalition army on the opposite side would actually send generals other than Meng Zhong to attack the Menshui Qin camp.

Therefore, no matter how you think about it, Meng Zhong was transferred to attack the Menshui Qin camp, and the coalition faction will receive the location of the Meng Zhong army on behalf of the Meng Zhong army, and replace the Meng Zhong army to build siege equipment such as building vehicles and stone throwing vehicles, right?

Unexpectedly, the truth is the opposite.

Shaking his head, Bai Qi said in a deep voice to Sima Cuo: "Sima Lao, I invite you to come here this time, I hope you will temporarily sit here on my behalf......"

Of course, Sima Cuo understood what Bai Qi meant, and asked, "The national lieutenant is going to go to the upper reaches of the gate water?" ”

"Hmm." Bai Qi nodded, and said in a deep voice: "Only by defeating the armies of the two countries of Qi and Yan can it be possible to make the opposing coalition forces change their tactics and transfer Meng Zhong to the upper reaches of the Gate River; On the other hand, if Meng Zhong does not move...... I can also try to annihilate the armies of Qi and Yan first. ”

Hearing this, Sima Cuo stroked his beard and pondered for a moment, and suddenly said: "Captain and don't be impatient, the old man thinks that the captain might as well send someone to contact the commanders of the two armies of Qi and Yan......"

"Huh?" Bai Qi asked puzzledly: "I don't understand what Sima Lao means." ”

Seeing this, Sima Cuo asked Bai Qidao: "How much does the national lieutenant know about the mutual emperor of Qi and my Great Qin?" ”

Bai Qi thought for a while and said: "I know that this is the proposition of the Marquis, which is intended to promote an alliance between the Qi State and my Great Qin, so that the Qi State will not give assistance to Wei and Han when our Great Qin attacks Wei and Han...... But it is said that I know that the Qi State broke the covenant of the mutual emperors, and the Marquis of the land was blamed by the king. ”

"Then do you know why the Qi Kingdom reneged on this covenant?" Sima Cuo asked again.

"As far as I know, is it because of the signs of an alliance between the Three Jins?"

"Exactly!" Sima Coo nodded, then stroked his beard and said, "Before this expedition, I talked to the Marquis about this matter. From the perspective of the overall situation, I don't think there is anything wrong with the proposition of the Marquis this time, uniting the Qi State and crusading against Wei Han is the correct proposition in my opinion, but I didn't expect that the reaction of the Three Jin Dynasty to this was so great...... You know, Zhao was an ally of Qi before, but in the case of Qi and my Great Qin, all kinds of signs indicate that Zhao has been pulled to the side of Wei and Han, once the Three Jin re-conclude the alliance, this may affect the relationship between Qi and Zhao, once the alliance between Qi and Zhao is destroyed because of the alliance between the Three Jin Dynasty, so that the two countries will go to evil, then the pattern on the Central Plains side may return to the situation before the death of Zhao's master, that is, the alliance between Zhao and Song will be directed against Qi. …… The alliance of the Three Jin Dynasty, plus the Song State, and the two countries of Zhao and Song are bordering the Qi State, this force, even if it is the Qi State, does not dare to underestimate it, so the Qi State panicked to abolish the emperor's title, trying to save the relationship with the Zhao State...... Hmm, this is the speculation of the marquis and the old man themselves. ”

Bai Qi nodded when he heard this, and said, "It makes sense." But what does this have to do with the battle at hand? ”

Hearing this, Sima Cuo smiled and said: "If the Qi State is really panicked because of the alliance between the Three Jin Dynasty and is forced to repent of the alliance with my Great Qin, then this time the five kingdoms of Wei, Zhao, Han, Qi, and Yan will crusade against my Great Qin, and the Qi ** team may not really fight with our army...... Think about it carefully, this guess is indeed impossible, you look at the Yuncheng Jun outside the pass, in addition to the army of Wei, there are also the elites of Zhao and Han under his command, but there is no army of Qi and Yan, can this prove that in the coalition army, the two armies of Qi and Yan and the three ** teams of Wei, Zhao and Han are not of the same mind? ”

"Hmm......"

Bai Qi touched his chin and nodded slowly, with a slightly thoughtful look on his face.

Seeing this, Sima Cuo said again: "This time the two armies of Qi and Yan attacked our Menshui military camp, the national lieutenant should not think that this is the willful action of Li Dui, the king of Fengyang, as far as the old man knows, Meng Zhong has a very high status in the coalition army, and I believe that Li Dui will definitely discuss with Meng Zhong in advance." …… On the one hand, it was of course to prevent the national lieutenant from taking the opportunity to sneak attack the rest of his coalition army, on the other hand, the old man felt that it was very likely that Li Dui, Storm Kite, and Meng Zhong conspired to try to make the two armies of Qi Yan and our army fight to the death. The reason is simple, because they don't trust the Qi and Yan armies. …… If the commanders of the two armies of Qi and Yan were not mediocre, they should have guessed the intentions of Li Dui, Storm Kite, and Meng Zhong, but they were forced to compromise due to the strength of the Three Jin armies. ”

"Makes sense."

Bai Qi nodded, and immediately said to Sima Co in shame: "Sima Lao is worthy of being my Great Qin's general, far-sighted, but it's ridiculous that Bai Qi was ignorant at the beginning, and he once repeatedly contradicted Sima Lao, which is really ......."

"The lieutenant is serious." Sima Coo smiled and was relieved, and at the same time praised Bai Qi.

has been with Bai Qi for so long, and he has gradually figured out Bai Qi's smooth donkey character, so it is no wonder that Bai Qi has more and more respect for him.

"Since this is the case, I will immediately go to the upper reaches of the gate water, and as for the side of Hangu Pass, I will ask Elder Sima to do so."

"Don't worry, Lieutenant."

After some discussion, Bai Qi led the guard Sima Jin and the powerful general Wang Yi, whom he admired, and led dozens of Qin soldiers straight to the Qin camp in the upper reaches of the gate.