"PS: My father-in-law and mother-in-law are here today, so I started writing late, so I have been waiting for you for a long time."

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The night is getting darker.

On the top and bottom of Yique Mountain, many bonfires have been lit one after another, and many Wei soldiers sit around the bonfires and chew the rice balls in their hands.

There were also some individual Wei pawns, carrying rice balls, waiting for the grilled fish by the bonfire to gradually smell fragrant.

These were the Wei soldiers who were in charge of cutting down trees and building dams today, so the first fish caught by the army with nets were distributed to these soldiers who had worked hard.

Generally speaking, the morale of the Wei army is not bad at this moment, after all, they won a small victory against the Qin army this morning, which made at least half of the Wei soldiers gradually begin to believe that their Wei army is the strongest, and the Qin army is just a bunch of rats who only know how to sneak attack.

Of course, in fact, this is not the case, but the generals of the Wei army, including Meng Zhong, did not intend to "clarify" this fact, after all, what his Wei army needed most at the moment was to re-establish the confidence in facing the Qin army, even if there were soldiers who would swell their mentality for this.

Some people may think that last night, more than 200,000 Wei and Han coalition troops were killed by the Qin army and retreated, and there are still people who despise the Qin army?

The answer, of course, there is, after all, at the beginning of this morning, only 20,000 Wei soldiers blocked the Qin army's camp and scolded it, and the Qin army in the camp was "frightened" that the Qin army could not be held, which is also a fact - although in the truth, the Qin army was not afraid of the Wei army at all, they just happened to be weakened by the Wei army, and they didn't want to risk paying the price of huge casualties, and they fought with the Wei army with all their will.

“…… Let me tell you, before you came, more than 20,000 of us blocked the camp of the Qin army and scolded, and the Qin army in the camp did not dare to go out of the camp to fight......"

“…… Didn't the generals say that the Qin army was just a bunch of rats who only knew how to trick, so that they could fight with our army in the daytime? Damn, I felt a fire when I remembered the incident of the previous night, I was sleeping in a daze that day, and I suddenly heard someone next to me calling me, and when I woke up, I saw that the Qin army's gang of dogs had been killed in the camp......"

“…… At that time, Beiying had already been lost, right? ”

"Not really! I didn't even know when the Qin army's gang of dogs entered the camp......"

Beside a bonfire, several old soldiers recounted their experiences on the night of the night of the Qin army's night attack, which aroused the curiosity of the Wei soldiers from the side.

"Which battalion were the brothers from before?"

"Beiying's."

"Beiying? Wow......"

The answers of several old pawns surprised many of the Wei pawns on the side.

You must know that at this moment in Yique Mountain, the Wei army under the mountain is basically Wei pawns in the four camps of the West Camp, the Middle Camp, the East Camp, and the South Camp, among which the number of Wei soldiers in the South Camp is the largest, that is, the soldiers under the command of Jun Sima Fei Hui.

As for which camp has the fewest Wei pawns, it is naturally the North Camp, the main general of the North Camp, Gongsun Zhu, once upon a time there were 1 or 20,000 Wei pawns under his hands, including many Wei Wu pawns, as a result, the night when the Qin army attacked the Wei camp at night, this and 20,000 Wei pawns did not even know what happened, and they were easily attacked by the Qin army and slaughtered in the camp, so that there was not one of the ten Wei pawns in the North Battalion, and almost all the troops were wiped out.

And these veterans can still survive until now, this is really luck.

After all, the battle that night was extremely tragic, and even the military horses of the Hedong Army under Gongsun Xi unfortunately died four people that night - one of them is said to have been killed by the Qin army as soon as he walked out of the tent, and the other three military horses were killed by the Qin soldiers in the process of gathering his subordinates.

If it had been changed at other times, when the Wei army was prepared, the Wei army would definitely not have suffered such heavy casualties: before the battle began, four military commanders were killed.

Probably because there were not enough military tents, the Wei soldiers could only sleep around the bonfire in the past two days, wrapped in their clothes and armor, which caused many Wei soldiers to have difficulty sleeping, so that many people gathered around the bonfire and talked about the defeat of his Wei army the night before.

Just like at this moment, because they were aroused by those Beiying veterans, the Wei soldiers around the bonfire couldn't help but talk about the battle situation that night.

Most of the Wei pawns basically have a similar memory of that night: when they opened their eyes from their sleep, they had already been defeated or at an absolute disadvantage before they could figure out what had happened.

Because of this, many Wei troops were unwilling to lose this defeat.

"Hey, a few old brothers over there, I think I'd better try not to mention the events of that night, right?"

Suddenly, under the tree not far away, a Wei pawn reminded the gang of unobstructed robes by the bonfire.

Hearing this, those Wei pawns around the bonfire also seemed to realize something, and immediately remained silent, including those old soldiers from the northern camp.

But soon, a young Wei pawn from the other direction smiled disapprerovantly: "It's okay, those military horses of ours are actually half angry about this, I heard that people, this morning in the Qin camp...... It is outside the camp where we used to be, Dou Xing, Wei Qing, Fei Hui, Zheng Zheng, Cai Wu and those military horses scolded the most fiercely, I heard that Dou Xing and Dou Sima also rushed to the land of one stone, and scolded the Qin army's gang of dogs, if you have the guts, come out, let's kill again! …… Stunned, none of the Qin soldiers dared to leave the camp. ”

"Hahaha!"

"Dou Sima...... Well, Dou Sima is brave......"

The remarks that belittled the Qin army made the soldiers of Zhu Wei smile and laugh, and then praised the bravery of the military Sima Dou Xing.

Now that they had learned that the generals in the army were not taboo about this, but were as angry as they were, the soldiers couldn't help but continue to talk.

Chatting and chatting, some people inevitably mentioned Gongsun Xi.

"Rhinovu...... Is he really dead? ”

When a young Wei soldier, who was only in his twenties, mentioned Gongsun Xi in an uninteresting way, the originally cheerful atmosphere around the campfire inevitably became a little heavy.

After a long time, a Wei pawn in his thirties sighed and said, "Yes." …… I saw it with my own eyes. ”

"See for yourself?" The Wei pawns from the side cast curious glances.

"yes, I was lucky enough to be at the top of the list this morning...... Oh, I'm under Wei Qing and Wei Sima. The 30-year-old Wei explained.

Hearing this, even Wei Shu couldn't help but ask, "Tell me quickly, how did Xi Wu get killed?" I heard that Xiwu was captured by the Qin army, right? ”

The thirty-year-old Wei pawn was silent for a moment when he heard this, and said in a deep voice: "Regarding whether Xiwu was captured by the Qin army...... Probably. That night, when our army fled into Yique Mountain, I heard that it was Xiwu who led some people to break it, so as not to kill more people by the Qin army. As for how Xi Wu died, I saw it very clearly this morning, he was beheaded by Qin Jun's dog cub in front of the battle...... Those damn Qin country bitches! ”

As he spoke, he casually picked up a piece of firewood beside him and threw it at the bonfire in front of him, only to hear a snap, and the bonfire sparks splashed everywhere, startling the rest of the Wei soldiers sitting around the bonfire to quickly retreat.

But even so, there was still a Wei pawn who was burned by Mars, and he couldn't help but curse in pain: "Ouch, it's burned me, what are you kid doing?" ”

"I'm sorry." The thirty-year-old Wei pawn smiled bitterly and said astringently: "It's just that when I think of Xi Wu's death, I feel a little angry in my heart......

Hearing him say this, the Wei pawn who was originally very excited gradually calmed down, and the rest of the Wei pawns also sighed silently.

At this time, I heard this thirty-year-old Wei pawn say bitterly: "Xi Wu...... He's a good guy. I am from the "Puban" side of Hedong, and you must also know that since my Wei State lost the West River, the dog cubs of the Qin State have been using troops against my Hedong all the time, and one year the Qin army invaded Puban, my father and brother were killed by the Qin dogs, and finally it was Xiwu who led the troops in time to feel supported and repelled the Qin dogs. …… During the war that year, all the fields at home were trampled by the Qin army, and there was no surplus food at home for the winter, and it was Xiwu who sent people to distribute military rations and relieve the Pusaka people......" said, he raised his head and glanced at the robes around the bonfire, and said solemnly: "Therefore, after my mother passed away, I resolutely recruited accordingly and joined the army under the command of Xiwu, firstly, to repay Xiwu, and secondly, to kill more Qin people and avenge my many Pusaka people!" ”

"I see......"

The Wei soldiers around the bonfire suddenly realized.

Immediately, one of the Wei pawns couldn't help but speak: "Xi Wu...... The people are really good, I am also from the Hedong Army, but I am from Anyi, for example, the old brother from Puban is lucky, and the Qin army rarely attacks Anyi. I remember when I first joined the army, I didn't understand the rules of the army, and I didn't know the martial arts, and once when I was on duty to patrol the camp, I saw someone hanging around in the camp, so I went up and asked...... And guess who? ”

"It can't be a rhino, right?" The Wei pawns said amusedly.

"Isn't it!" The Wei pawn slapped his thigh and said with a fresh memory: "At that time, I was almost scared to death, thinking that this is the end of this, but what is the result?" ”

Speaking of this, he smiled and said in a low voice: "As a result, instead of blaming me, Xi Wu praised me for my devotion to my duties and patted me on the shoulder...... This is it. ”

He pointed to his right shoulder, and his intoxicated look caused a wave of jealousy from the Wei pawns beside him.

Also, not everyone has the opportunity to get close to a famous Wei general like Xiang Gongsun Xi, let alone be praised by the latter on the shoulder, and most Wei soldiers' impression of Gongsun Xi is still only at the level of "That's my famous Wei general".

Just like at this moment, when the previous Wei pawns told the story between them and Gongsun Xi, some Wei pawns could only listen with envy, these people actually didn't have much feeling for Gongsun Xi.

"Hey, over there, why don't you sleep in the middle of the night?"

At this moment, a patrol group of non-commissioned officers approached.

Seeing this, one of the oldest guards by the bonfire immediately got up, and after glancing at the other party's armor, he reported solemnly: "Back to this Shangguan, the night is windy, and the brothers can't sleep, so they are chatting a few words." ”

It turned out that the patrol guard was led by a brigade commander.

"Oh."

The brigade commander didn't blame too much when he heard the explanation, nodded and said quite understandingly: "The wind on the mountain is indeed strong, but you can rest assured, the Gongsun army general and the commander of the Meng division have reached a tacit understanding with the commander of the Korean army, Storm Kite, and they will hand over the camp to us in a few days, and then some people can move to the camp of the Korean army, and they don't have to suffer in the wind on the mountain." ”

"Is there such a thing?"

"The Korean army is willing to give up their camp to us?"

"What kind of method did General Gongsun use?"

After learning of this, the Wei soldiers were shocked.

"How do I know that?"

The brigade commander rolled his eyes, and then squeezed to the campfire and squatted down, and said: "Give up your seat, let me bake the fire, the wind on this mountain is really strong, but the damn Lao Tzu will have to continue patrolling later......"

Hearing this, all the Wei soldiers laughed.

"Speaking of which, what are you talking about?" Rubbing his hands around the campfire, the brigade commander asked casually.

After a moment of silence, the thirty-something Wei pawn whispered, "We're talking...... The matter of the rhino warriors. ”

"Rhinowu, ......"

The smile on the brigade marshal's face gradually retracted, and then became a little gloomy.

He exhaled slightly, and said in a low tone, "Xi Wu...... It's really a pity that the dignified famous general died of the tricks of traitors...... Those Qin country dogs, they are afraid of us, they are afraid of rhino force, they dare not confront our army head-on, they will only play tricks and conspiracies......" Speaking of this, his face showed a little ruthlessness, and he gritted his teeth and said: "What's even more hateful is that the Qin people are not only ashamed, but proud of it, today I went to the Qin army with a few military horses, and the Qin dog is afraid of us attacking the camp...... You heard it right, at that time we only had 30,000 or 40,000 people, and the number of the Qin army was twice as large as ours, but they were still afraid of us, so they brought Xi Wu to the front of the battle, and threatened our army to retreat, however, Xi Wu refused to succeed in the Qin army's trick, even if they were tied up with ropes, they still saw the opportunity and knocked a Qin general to the ground...... In the end, he was unfortunately killed by those Qin dogs. …… Xiwu, it's good! is worthy of being a famous general of my Wei country, a man who stands up to the sky! ”

Listening to the brigade commander tell how Gongsun Xi resisted at that time, and then how he was killed by the Qin army, the Wei soldiers on the side all heard the fire in their hearts, and subconsciously clenched their fists one by one.

Suddenly, a young Wei pawn asked timidly, "Brigade Marshal, what do you say...... Can we defeat the Qin army? There is no ...... of the Commander of the Warriors."

The brigade commander glanced at the young Wei pawn and asked with a sneer: "You see that we went to the Qin army to fight this morning, and those Qin people dare to come out?" They are good for nothing but sneak attacks, and they don't dare to confront us head-on! As he spoke, he clenched his fists and said in a deep voice: "We still have at least eighty or ninety thousand people, even if we lose Xiwu, there are also Gongsun generals, as well as Dou Xing, Wei Qing, Fei Hui, Liang Xi and other brave military horses, which is enough to kill all those Qin people, in order to comfort the souls of Xiwu and many sacrificed Tongze in the sky!" ”

Hearing this, the Wei pawns on the side suddenly felt confident in their hearts.

After a while, the brigade commander stood up and reminded Zhu Wei: "Okay, I have to go on patrol to prevent you rabbit cubs from setting fire to the whole mountain without going to bed before going to bed, and ask us tens of thousands of people to bury you." …… Go to bed early, maybe tomorrow morning the generals will attack the Qin army again. ”

"The brigade commander walks slowly."

The Wei soldiers smiled and sent the brigade commander off.

"That's it! Have this heart, take care of the campfire, and if you run a little spark, be careful that I peel off your skin. ”

"Hahaha, don't worry, brigade commander."

With this laughter and scolding, the brigade commander left with his Wei pawns, and they walked along the mountain road for a while, and came to another campfire field.

"Hey, over there, why don't you sleep in the middle of the night?"

"Oh, back to Shangguan, we just chatted casually and fell asleep immediately."

"Oh...... What to talk about? ”

"That's it...... The matter of the rhino warriors. ”

"Rhinowu, ......"

At that campfire, under the slightly panicked gaze of those Wei soldiers, the brigade commander stopped by the bonfire again, crouched down and roasted the fire, and sighed gloomily.

"Rhinovu...... It's a pity ......."

At the same time, Meng Zhong was standing on the top of the mountain, holding his hands behind his back and watching the bonfire going down the mountain.

After a long time, a general walked up to Meng Zhong, clasped his fists and said, "Master Meng......

Meng Zhong turned his head and hugged his fists in return: "Sima Liang." ”

It turned out that the person who came was one of the military commanders of the Hedong Army, Liang Xi.

To be honest, with Liang Xi's identity as the military commander of the Hedong Army, he would not be so respectful to a division commander, but the division commander in front of him was not an ordinary division.

Now Gongsun Zhu, who is now serving as a fake commander, has successively released some messages to the military commanders, for example, all the affairs of the army are handled by Meng Zhong, the young division commander, and even today, on the way back to the mountains, Gongsun Zhu also intends to say in front of the army Sima that as long as Meng Zhong can defeat the Qin army, he will recommend Meng Zhong as the defender of Hedong in front of the King of Wei.

In all fairness, Liang Xi was stunned for a long time when he heard this.

Meng Zhong?

A young man who has not yet been weakly crowned, Gongsun Zhu actually wants to recommend him as Hedong Shou?

Not to mention that Dou Xing, Wei Qing, Fei Hui and other other military commanders have an attitude towards this, he Liang Xi is a little uncomfortable in his heart.

But after thinking about it, Liang Xi couldn't find anything wrong with this, after all, if there was no young man Meng Zhong, their sixty or seventy thousand Wei troops would have been wiped out by the Qin army a long time ago, how could there be any possibility of counterattacking the Qin army?

Meng Zhong is talented and strategic, but he is really too young, and more importantly, because of Gongsun Xi in front, it seems that Liang Xi and other generals will inevitably subconsciously compare Meng Zhong with Gongsun Xi, and at present, Liang Xi thinks that Meng Zhong is far inferior to Gongsun Xi.

It's no wonder, after all, it seems that Dou Xing, Wei Qing, Liang Xi and others don't know Meng Zhong, in their impression, Meng Zhong is just a general who is good at using tricks, that's all.

"Sima Liang, what's the situation?" Meng Zhong asked Liang Xidao.

Liang Xi said with a straight face when he heard this: "The situation is very good, according to the reports of the subordinate generals under his command, they easily aroused the indignation of the soldiers against the death of Xi Wu, and hated the Qin army to the core. ”

"Hmm."

Meng Zhong nodded with satisfaction.

Yes, tonight, the soldiers generally talked about the rhino martial arts, in fact, it was not the whim of the soldiers, but Meng Zhong, Dou Xing, Wei Qing, Fei Hui, Liang Xi, Zheng Zheng, Cai Wu and other military horses, as well as the generals under them, as well as some henchmen and soldiers deliberately guided.

For example, the thirty-year-old Wei pawn and the brigade commander who happened to pass by, in fact, these were deliberately arranged by Meng Zhong and others, in order to arouse the indignation of the soldiers against the fact that "Xiwu was humiliated and killed by the Qin army".

"Lao Tzu" said: ...... The resistance is similar, and the mourner wins!

This is not a military art that can win every battle, but only predicts the victory or defeat of war from the perspective of human nature.

As a Taoist disciple, Meng Zhong is of course familiar with "Lao Tzu", and he feels that Lao Tzu's words are indeed very reasonable.

Although an agreement had been reached with the commander of the Korean army, Storm Kite, to "drag down the main force of the Qin army" in exchange for the entire Han army camp and the grain and grass in the camp, Meng Zhong knew very well that in the face of the Qin army under the mountain, his Wei army was actually still at a disadvantage.

Don't look at the small victory of the Wei army in the early hours of this morning, but it was only because the Qin soldiers had overdrawn their physical strength in the previous night's fighting, and the 40,000 Wei soldiers led by him Meng Zhong were in Yique Mountain to fill their stomachs and rest for several hours, so the Qin army was naturally not the opponent of his Wei army.

But now, all kinds of signs indicate that the Qin army does not intend to retreat, but is ready to fight them again after resting their physical strength, and when the time comes, whether the Wei army can defeat the Qin army again, to be honest, Meng Zhong is not very sure.

The main reason for this is morale.

After removing the Wei army that Tang Zhi and Jiao Ge were still stationed in the area of Luoshui, the Wei army in the area of Yique Mountain at this moment numbered about sixty or seventy thousand, and the total number of troops was almost the same as the main force of the Qin army on the opposite side, but the morale was ...... Even now, I'm afraid that only half of the Wei pawns still think that they can defeat the Qin army, and the rest of the Wei pawns are still jealous and even afraid of the Qin army.

Meng Zhong believed that it was important to boost the morale of his own Wei soldiers as much as possible before the Qin army took the initiative to attack them.

Therefore, he borrowed the prestige of the rhino force.

Since it had been decided to use the slogan "Kill the Qin army to avenge the rhino army", it was natural for Meng Zhong to find a way to make the soldiers in the army accept this point of view.

Therefore, he made a series of arrangements, in short, to belittle the Qin army and elevate Gongsun Xi.

In all fairness, in terms of treating soldiers, Gongsun Xi was far inferior to Wu Qi, a former famous general of Wei, but then again, Gongsun Xi at least did not treat his soldiers badly - referring to the Wei army in Hedong.

For another example, as the thirties Wei Zu said, there are things about Gongsun Xi leading the army to rescue Pusaka, opening up military rations to relieve civilians, etc., these are indeed true things, but is this incident enough to set off Gongsun Xi's character?

In fact, strictly speaking, that is just Gongsun Xi's duty - Gongsun Xi is the Hedong Shou of Wei, and Puban is a county seat in Hedong (County), of course, he has the obligation to rescue Puban, repel the Qin soldiers, and relieve the local civilians.

This matter is meritorious, but it is not enough to talk about morality - if Gongsun Xi is really kind-hearted, he will not try to calculate the violent kite when the Korean people are being invaded by the Qin people, and end up being broken by the Qin army and even killed by the Qin army.

However, in order to defeat the Qin army, Meng Zhong didn't mind beautifying Gongsun Xi, so that the Wei soldiers and soldiers thought that it was a very regrettable thing to lose Gongsun Xi, and then gradually transformed the regret of the soldiers into hatred for the Qin army, and used it as a medium to make the Wei army unite as one.

"If what I expected, Qin Jun will ...... tomorrow At most, they will attack our army the day after tomorrow, after all, they are coming from a long distance, and there is not enough food and grass, so it is better to take the initiative than to fall into passivity when the time comes......

Turning his head to look in the direction of the Qin army under the mountain, Meng Zhong thought secretly.

He will never let the Qin army recover, never!

After all, once the Qin army recovers, the Wei army under his command may not be able to win steadily.

"Pass the order, and attack the Qin army again tomorrow! All the Wei pawns on and off the mountain, all of them attack! ”

"Whoa!"