"PS: Today's interaction is ...... After dinner, the author closed his eyes and pondered the strategy of breaking through the door, and fell asleep......

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The next day, August 16, Meng Zhong led the five armies of Wei, Zhao, Han, Qi, and Yan to launch a war to force the crossing of Menshui.

At this time, the strength of the coalition army that obeyed his orders reached a full 170,000 troops, far exceeding the 80,000 establishment commanded by Li Dui, the commander of the coalition army.

Naturally, there was no need to dispatch an army of 170,000 to force the crossing of Menshui, and after Meng Zhong's selection, only 50,000 coalition troops were finally dispatched to try to force the crossing of the water.

Try, one might ask? What to try? With the establishment of 170,000 troops on Meng Zhong's side, in fact, the number of more than 150,000 troops, can't they break through a door that is not dangerous?

It is undeniable that this is also reasonable, with the existing army on Meng Zhong's side, it is indeed possible to win the battle of forcible crossing without any suspense, but the question is, in order to break through this river, what price does his coalition army have to pay?

The so-called killing of 1,000 enemies and self-inflicted 800 losses is not an exciting victory.

In order to crusade against the Qin State and eventually lead to the defeat of both the Qin State and the Three Jin Dynasty, this will only allow the Qi State in the east to take advantage, how to minimize the casualties of the Three Jin Dynasty troops, weaken the Qin State as much as possible, and make the Qin State succumb, with post-war compensation to make up for part of the losses of the Three Jin Dynasty in this dispatch, this is the consideration of Meng Zhong as the general of the Wei State and as the general of the coalition army.

Therefore, a strong attack actually did not work, because it would cause heavy losses to the Sanjin army under his command.

Therefore, his so-called attempt, in fact, to put it bluntly, is to see Bai Qi's attitude - he first put on a tough posture to see if Bai Qi on the opposite side will retreat, if Bai Qi retreats, then Meng Zhong will attack the other side in one go; Otherwise, if Bai Qi decides to be tough and tough, then Meng Zhong will retreat and think of another way.

Meng Zhong would not doubt whether Bai Qi would adopt the tactics of burning jade, first, Bai Qi had made similar moves during the battle of Wanfang; Second, the Qin State would not cause turmoil in the country because of the total annihilation of the army.

After all, the national conditions of the Qin State and the Three Jin Dynasty are different, and under the stimulation of the "Shang Jun Law", almost all the civilian men in the Qin State are eager to improve their social status by establishing military exploits on the battlefield, which means that the Qin State is far faster than the Three Jin Dynasty in terms of making up for the source of soldiers, and the price paid for conscription is also smaller than that of the Three Jin, so if they fight each other in a way that both loses, the Three Jin Dynasty may not be able to fight the Qin State in the end.

It can be understood that the criminal law of the Qin State after the Shang Dynasty changed the law, it was purely for the Qin State to expand abroad and enter the Central Plains eastward, and in a certain sense, it advocated the idea of nourishing war with war, which was almost impossible on the side of the Central Plains countries - this is also the reason why the Qin State could frequently wage wars but the Qin people at home had almost no complaints.

The art of war is cloudy, the same desire wins, this is the case of today's Qin State, the royal family wants to fight, the nobles want to fight, and the commoners want to fight, such a country is very terrible, and it is no wonder that the Central Plains countries are afraid of Qin.

For the same reason, if the Sanjin and Qin finally fight to the point of defeat, then, the Sanjin may not even be able to pay for the conscription, but the Qin State, I believe that a considerable number of Qin civilians may not hesitate to carry dry food to fight for the country for free in order to obtain military merits and improve their social status.

Around midnight, 50,000 heavily armed coalition soldiers slowly moved west from the Menshui camp and arrived at the Menshui River, a few miles away.

Such a large-scale operation, of course, it is impossible to hide the eyes of those Qin soldiers on the riverbank, no, the front foot of the coalition army has just arrived at the riverbank, and the back foot of the Qin army gathered on the other side of the river, and the troops are also arranged, ready to meet the attack of the coalition army.

Seeing this scene, Meng Zhong did not have optimistic thoughts in his heart.

Because it is obvious that the Qin army on the opposite side is so active, it is enough to prove Bai Qi's attitude in preventing his coalition army from crossing the river, and if Bai Qi decides to stop the coalition army at all costs, then if Meng Zhong does not want his army to suffer too much loss, he can only retreat in the end.

『…… Let's wait and see for a while.'"

Frowning and looking at the Qin army on the other side of the river, Meng Zhong thought secretly.

In charge of the forcible crossing, Meng Zhong handed over two sharp knives in the coalition army under his command, that is, the army led by Jin Wei and Lian Po.

As for the rest of the coalition forces, most of them are mainly crossbowmen, after all, this section of the door is not very spacious, once the war starts, the battle between the two sides will be more in the form of bows and crossbows, and there are more crossbowmen, of course, they can take advantage of a little cheaper.

But it's a pity that Bai Qi on the opposite side obviously thought of this, according to Meng Zhong's eyesight, the Qin army on the opposite side, crossbowmen accounted for at least about one-third, according to his judgment, Bai Qi should be the same as him, almost all the crossbowmen in the army were dispatched.

In this case, it depends on whether the army under the command of Jin and Lian Po can force the attack to the opposite bank under the rain of arrows, once the offensive of the two is contained, then the continuous fighting is actually equivalent to useless attrition of each other.

"Let's get started."

Meng Zhong ordered in a deep voice.

The left and right guards nodded, and immediately blew the horn.

"Woo-woo-woo-woo-"

Three trumpets sounded, resounding on both sides of the silent door and water.

Hearing this sound, Jin Contempt and Lian Po gave the order to attack at the same time.

I saw that under the orders of the two of them, the soldiers of Wei and Zhao in the front team pushed the rafts built in advance and carried here into the river one after another, and began the first wave of attempted attacks.

This move seemed to ignite the atmosphere on the battlefield at once, and the Qin army on the west bank of Menshui and the coalition army on the east bank of Menshui fired arrows at the opposite bank at the same time.

For a while, the arrows above the Menshui River were shot back and forth, and there were flying arrows everywhere they entered, densely like a locust tide, which made people feel terrified.

"Shoot the arrows! Shoot the arrows! ”

"Suppress the other side! Suppress the opposite! ”

In the shouts of the generals on both sides, the arrows on both sides became more and more dense.

During this period, countless soldiers of the two sergeants were shot by arrows, or gritted their teeth and held their shields, or unfortunately fell to the ground after being shot in the vital point, and the casualties on both sides quickly increased to about 1,000 in just a few rounds of fire.

Among them, the most difficult situation was the Wei and Zhao armies under the command of Jin and Lian Po, as they had to keep an eye on the enemy's arrows and cross the river with the help of rafts.

Although the soldiers of the Wei and Zhao armies played a more clever trick, that is, most of the soldiers did not ride on the raft, but climbed the edge of the raft to float across the river, trying to reduce the relationship between being hit by enemy arrows in this way, but there were too many crossbowmen on the Qin army's side, even if the soldiers of the Wei and Zhao armies used this clever method, they still could not reduce the casualties.

Wei Wushu was okay, because they were wearing three layers of thick armor, they only had to lower their heads and minimize fatal injuries as much as possible, but Zhao Jun did not have the thick armor of Wei Wushu, so that in a moment, hundreds of people were injured, and a trace of red blood flowed down the water, making Lian Po look like thunder.

In a fit of rage, Lian Po ignored the obstruction of the soldiers and guards, snatched the shield from the hands of the soldiers around him, and suddenly jumped onto a raft offshore, obviously preparing to go into battle in person.

If he made such a move, it was conceivable that he would inevitably be targeted by the Qin army on the other side, no, immediately the Qin army's crossbowmen aimed at Lian Po and launched a fierce shot at him.

Even a warrior like Lian Po was forced to squat down and raise his shield.

But even so, he was inevitably hit by more than a dozen arrows.

Fortunately, Lian Po also knew that this battle would be very fierce, and he also knew that according to his temper, he would inevitably rush to the front line at that time, and he wore an extra layer of thick armor in advance so as not to be too seriously injured - although it seemed that he was stuck with more than a dozen arrows in his body at the moment, which was very terrifying, but in fact, most of the arrows did not penetrate the flesh, but just looked scary.

"Shoot the arrows!"

"Shoot the arrows!"

The crossbow bolts on both sides of the gate and water are fired in an endless stream.

The crossbowmen of the coalition army were asked by the generals to shoot arrows to cover the Jin army and the Lian Po army, while the crossbowmen of the Qin army were asked to shoot as much as possible the enemy troops who tried to force the river, the crossbowmen were better, but the archers shot down in a few rounds, and the arm that drew the bow was already sore, and the generals of the two armies would temporarily let these archers rest, but at this time, the archers were asked to continue shooting, so that most of the crossbowmen had to grit their teeth and continue to shoot even if they pulled the bow until they were sweating profusely and their arms were trembling.

"Attack!"

With a roar on the battlefield, the vanguard troops of the Wei and Zhao armies, after paying heavy casualties, finally crossed the gate and launched an offensive towards the Qin army array on the river bank.

At this time, the Qin army had already set up an iron wall defense on the riverbank, and only to see a Ming Ge shield soldier holding his shield aloof, standing tightly, even in the face of the wave of attacks of the Wei and Zhao armies.

"No need to panic! Just hold the line! ”

During this period, there was a Qin general who slowly walked behind the Qin army array, and used firm words to boost the morale of the Qin soldiers under his command, and this person was Sima Cuo's former favorite general Jin Kuang.

I saw this Jin Kuang, while calmly commanding his subordinates, he turned his head from time to time to look at the coalition troops on the other side of the river, and looked at the banner of "Wei Yuncheng Junmeng".

It has to be said that Jin Kuang, to be precise, most of the generals under Sima Cuo's command, actually had a good impression of Meng Zhong, after all, in the war to support the Song State last year, Meng Zhong briefly commanded the Qin and Wei armies, and even, even the iron defensive formation adopted by Jin Kuang at this moment to resist the offensive of the Wei and Zhao armies was also imitated in the battle of Taoyi last year, when Meng Zhong commanded the Qin army to deal with Lian Po's night attack.

Using someone's tactics to deal with someone, if it were someone else, I am afraid that Jin Kuang would be a little proud in his heart, but for Meng Zhong, Jin Kuang was more regretful and regretful - regret that Meng Zhong, who had a good impression of him, was the general of Wei after all and the enemy of his Great Qin.

Of course, for this regret, there is no one who feels the deepest is Bai Qi, the commander of the Qin army.

Don't look at the fact that he hated Meng Zhong to death two days ago, and he couldn't wait to raise his sword to kill on the other side and die with Meng Zhong's guy, but at this moment, seeing the banner with the words "Wei Yuncheng Junmeng" from a distance, he still couldn't help but sigh in his heart: If this guy is willing to defect to my Daqin as my deputy general, how good it would be......

Bai Qi is still convinced that the combination of him and Meng Zhong will inevitably surpass the combination of Wei Zhang, the famous general of the Qin State, and Ying Ji, and become the existence that everyone in the Central Plains fears like the "big husband" Zhang Yi.

But over the years, this thought has gradually weakened, not that Bai Qi's mind has changed, but he knows that as Meng Zhong's status in the Wei State gradually rises, it is almost impossible for the Wei State to let Meng Zhong go.

is different from Wei Zhang's original situation, Wei Zhang defected to Qin because Wei was full of talents and could not be reused, but now in Wei State, except for a Zhai Zhang who is about to die of old age, what other famous generals are there? - Not to mention that because of his advanced age, Zhai Zhang will not only no longer compete with Meng Zhong for power, but will take the initiative to pave the way for the latter, so that the top and bottom of Wei are now more and more certain that Meng Zhong, the king of Yuncheng, will definitely succeed Zhai Zhang and become the great Sima of Wei.

In this case, in addition to the last glimmer of hope in his heart to fight side by side with Meng Zhong, Bai Qi has almost dispelled this thought.

Just like his initial prediction, Meng Zhong was destined to be his old enemy in this life.

"Come on, Monzhong! Unleash all your abilities!'

Gradually, enthusiasm ignited in Bai Qi's heart.

I have to say that so far, Bai Qi has experienced more than a dozen wars one after another, and has fought with generals such as Zhaoju, Li Ji, and Han Xu before and after, but what can awaken his enthusiasm the most is to meet the Mengzhong battlefield opposite.

Because regardless of victory or defeat, Meng Zhong on the opposite side can make him gain new insights and gain new gains every time.

Because of this, Bai Qi has always had only two evaluation criteria for generals in the world: Meng Zhong and others.

Even Jin Contempt and Lian Po, who are fighting bravely at this moment, are actually difficult to get into the eyes of Bai Qi.

"Come, Monzhong, use your abilities and defeat me head-on! …… I'm going to see what tricks you have up to your sleeve this time!'

Looking at the fierce battlefield at this moment, Bai Qi licked his lips, but became a little excited.

At the same time, Meng Zhong, who was standing in the main formation of the coalition army, frowned deeply because of the battle situation in front of him.

His premonition came true, Bai Qi refused to give up this gate that was almost impossible to defend, and put on a posture of wanting to fight a decisive battle with his coalition here, and he was not weaker than him in terms of momentum.

Under these circumstances, as he had predicted, his coalition forces had already suffered heavy casualties in order to force the crossing of the water.

If he continues to fight like this, even if he can finally break through the gate water, the remaining army under his command will probably not be enough to pose any greater threat to the Qin State.

『…… I finally felt the dilemma of my brother when he was in the water.

Meng Zhong thought secretly in his heart.

The battle situation in front of him reminded him of the battle of Chusand where his brother-in-law Kuang Zhang was blocked by Chu general Tang Wu for more than half a year in Chushui, and several frontal attacks were repelled by Chu general Tang Wu, which made Kuang Zhang and other famous generals in the world fall into a bitter battle.

In the end, how did Kuang Zhang defeat Tang Yulai?

『…… The autumn harvest is approaching, if we can break through the gate water and attack the hinterland of Qin before the harvest of Qin, it will be of great benefit to our side. But for now, it seems unlikely that a head-on breakthrough will be possible at a small cost...... It seems that the only way to try the tactics of the righteous brother to defeat the Chu general Tang Yu back then......

Looking at the battle situation in front of him, Meng Zhong secretly thought about the follow-up strategy.

On August 16, the sixth year of the reign of King Wei of Wei, Meng Zhong, the king of Yuncheng, led the allied forces of all countries to attack Menshui, but was blocked by the Qin general Bai Qi and did not return.