In the end, Zhao Xi, who thought that he would inevitably die, was really protected by Lian Po and forcibly killed the encirclement of the Qin-Wei coalition army.

It was not that Meng Zhong, who commanded the Qin-Wei coalition army at this moment, deliberately released the water, but thanks to the fact that Zhao's general Xu Jun sent his corporaries to cover desperately, regardless of casualties, he dragged down the Qin and Wei armies, creating favorable conditions for Lian Po and Zhao Xi to break through.

It's just that because of this incident, the army under Xu Jun also suffered heavy losses, and was killed by the Qin and Wei coalition forces and almost collapsed.

Half an hour later, when he saw that the Zhao army was defeated and fled in all directions, Meng Zhong couldn't help but shake his head slightly.

In his opinion, today's Zhao army's sneak attack on his Qin-Wei coalition army is itself a blind attempt, even if Lian Po took advantage of his blind spot in thinking, used the strategy he had used in Zhao to deal with him, and successfully attacked the Qin-Wei coalition army at the beginning, successfully creating chaos, but so what?

The sneak attack during the day is different from the sneak attack at night, the soldiers of the Qin and Wei armies can clearly see that the Zhao army that came to sneak attack is completely different psychologically from being attacked at night, not to mention that the Qin and Wei coalition army has a full 130,000 people, even if Lian Po seized the opportunity at the beginning, it can completely strike backward and reverse the disadvantage.

And if Zhao Jun's sneak attack itself is very blind, then then Zhao Xi rescues Lian Po, and Xu Jun rescues Zhao Xi and Lian Po, it is even more stupid, it is simply a gourd baby to save grandpa, sent one by one, so that in the end, nearly 40,000 Zhao Jun were killed and only more than 10,000 people were scattered and fled, and I don't know how many of them can escape back to Taoyi alive.

In order to rescue Lian Po alone, Zhao Xi and Xu Jun at least caught up with at least more than 10,000 Zhao pawns in vain.

From a rational point of view, this is an extremely stupid approach, for example, the calm Bai Qi would never do such a thing, if Bai Qi was in Zhao Xi's position at that time, Bai Qi would retreat immediately, he would not take the lives of more than 10,000 people in order to save one person, even if this person was Sima Cuo, the captain of his Qin State.

As for Meng Zhong, he couldn't be as indifferent as Bai Qi.

Although he felt that Zhao Xi would save Lian Po at any cost, and Xu Jun's practice of saving Zhao Xi and Lian Po at any cost was very stupid, but if it was Menghu, Huahu, Mengsui and other brothers who were trapped, Meng Zhong thought that he would not be able to retreat immediately, and most of them would lead the army to rescue like Zhao Xi and Xu Jun.

Because of this, although Meng Zhong felt that Zhao Xi and Xu Jun's actions were a little stupid, he didn't make any comments, even if Sima Cuo, Zhai Zhang, Jin Kuang and others who were beside him at that time were all laughing at Zhao Jun's successive deaths.

Immediately, Meng Zhong issued an order to pursue, and the generals of the Qin and Wei coalition forces each led their troops to pursue and kill the armies of Zhao Xi, Xu Jun, and Lian Po all the way to Taoyi.

At that time, the Zhao army in the Taoyi area learned that the army sent by them to attack the Qin and Wei coalition forces was defeated, and they did not dare to fight at all, and they did not dare to show their faces in several camps outside the city.

In this case, Jin Kuang consulted with Meng Zhong and proposed to take the opportunity to attack Taoyi, but Meng Zhong opposed it.

Meng Zhong explained to Jin Kuang: "Even if we take the opportunity to march and capture a few Zhao camps outside the city, the Zhao army can still retreat to Taoyi, considering that our army has not yet built siege equipment for the time being, if we forcibly attack the city, even if we suffer heavy casualties, we may not be able to take this city." What's more, there are many towns outside the city, which is the reason why Taoyi is rich, and once it is forcibly attacked, Taoyi will inevitably be destroyed......"

According to Meng Zhong's observation a few days ago, the damage caused by the Qi and Zhao armies to Taoyi was not serious, and it has to be said that this was due to Li Dui, the king of Fengyang, because Li Dui hoped to capture Taoyi as his own fiefdom, so naturally he would not sit idly by and watch the Qi and Zhao armies wantonly destroy the buildings of Taoyi and kill the people of this city.

Since Lian Zhao's army deliberately preserved Taoyi, Meng Zhong, as a native of the Song State, naturally hoped that this city could be preserved intact to avoid being harmed by the Qin and Wei armies - yes, what he was wary of was the Qin army, after all, the Qin army often slaughtered and looted after breaking through the city, and Meng Zhong certainly couldn't sit back and watch the Qin army's army mess up in his Song State.

When he had a choice, he still preferred to let Zhao Jun obediently withdraw from Taoyi.

Some people may ask, will Zhao Jun really take the initiative to withdraw from Taoyi as Meng Zhong thought?

The answer is yes, because at this moment, Bai Qizheng led another Qin army to fight against Zhao with Tang Zhi.

Bai Qi's strength in leading troops to fight Meng Zhong knew very well that it was not at all something that Li Ji, the son of Fengyang Jun Li Dui, could resist, including Han Xu, the new general of Zhao State who appeared out of nowhere.

Once Handan, the royal capital of Zhao State, was attacked by Bai Qi, not to mention that Fengyang Jun Li Dui did not take advantage of Taoyi at all, even if he defeated the 130,000 Qin-Wei coalition army, he would have to obediently retreat to Zhao State.

Since he knew that Li Dui's end could only be to obediently lead the army back to Zhao, Meng Zhong naturally would not choose to storm Taoyi to recover this city, lest this rich city not be destroyed in the hands of the Qi-Zhao coalition army, but in the hands of his Qin-Wei coalition army.

That's so ironic.

After listening to Meng Zhong's explanation, Jin Kuang nodded convincingly, and together with Meng Zhong, he led the pursuing Qin-Wei coalition army to retreat to the garrison.

Seeing the retreat of the Qin and Wei coalition forces, Fengyang Jun Li Dui was really relieved, and immediately ordered to summon the three generals Zhao Xi, Lian Po, and Xu Jun to ask them the reason for their defeat.

The three generals Zhao Xi, Lian Po, and Xu Jun did not dare to hide it, and told Li Dui everything about the passage in 1510, only to hear Li Dui silent.

It may be that seeing Li Dui's gloomy face and not saying a word, Lian Po said stubbornly: "Fengyangjun, today's defeat is mainly due to me, and it is I who misestimated the strength of the Qin-Wei coalition...... Although the Wei army was successfully attacked at first, the soldiers of our army were unable to break through the middle camp defended by the Qin army, but were surrounded by the soldiers of the Qin and Wei armies......"

On the side, Zhao Xi hesitated for a moment, and said for Lian Po: "Actually, it doesn't have much to do with Lian Sima, mainly because Xu Jun and I failed to support in time...... The reaction of the Qin-Wei coalition army was too fast, and Lian Po had just led his army into his garrison, and Meng Zhong sent his Fangcheng army out of the camp to intercept me and Xu Jun......

I have to say that although Zhao Xi was really desperate when he saw Lian Po come back to rescue him, he thought that he would definitely be killed by Lian Po this time, but during the breakout, when he saw Lian Po desperately protecting him from the encirclement, he was still very grateful to Lian Po.

After all, even if Meng Zhong is protected, as long as he surrenders, his life will not be in danger, but surrender is not a glorious thing after all.

Therefore, when he heard that Lian Po was ready to take the responsibility for the defeat by himself, Zhao Xi couldn't help but say a few words for Lian Po and admitted part of the responsibility.

Only Xu Jun snorted and sneered on the side, and it seemed that he was also taking responsibility, but his attitude was really not as frank as Lian Po and Zhao Xi.

"Enough!"

Seeing that Lian Po and Zhao Xi were there, you and I took the blame for the defeat of the war, and Fengyangjun Li Dui drank impatiently.

Think about it, Zhao Xi is the nephew of Anpingjun Zhao Cheng, and the current general under Li Dui's command, it is reasonable for Li Dui to punish Zhao Xi severely - how can there be a reason to severely punish his own henchmen?

And the same is true of Lian Po.

Even if Li Dui is so angry that his chest is almost tight, can he still severely punish Zhao Xi and Lian Po?

He scolded impatiently: "I don't want to hear this at the moment, I just want to know, what other strategies do you two have to break the Qin and Wei coalition forces?" ”

Hearing this, Lian Po and Zhao Xi glanced at each other and lowered their heads in unison.

Seeing this, Li Dui glanced at the few arrows on Lian Po's chest that were only half cut but deep in the flesh, waved his hand and said, "That's it, you wait and bandage the injury first, and recuperate, I also have to think about countermeasures." ”

Zhao Xi, Lian Po, and Xu Jun did not dare to disobey, and retreated with their fists in response.

At this time, Meng Zhong, Sima Cuo, Zhai Zhang, Jin Kuang and others had already led the Qin-Wei coalition army back to the garrison, and immediately, the Qin and Wei armies began to count their casualties.

In today's confrontation, the Zhao army killed a total of about 30,000 soldiers and surrendered more than 4,000 people, while the Qin and Wei coalition forces only had about 12,000 casualties, and among the more than 12,000 casualties, the Wei army accounted for 9,000.

It is no wonder, after all, the first to be attacked by Lian Po's army was the garrison of Wei general Chen Yang, and it is precisely for this reason that Chen Yang's army alone has taken care of about 5,000 casualties.

In addition, including the Fangcheng army, the rest of the Wei army included the remaining 4,000 casualties.

As for the Qin soldiers, there were only about 3,000 casualties, and most of them were concentrated under the command of the two Qin generals, Wurong and Fan Bu.

I have to say that the casualties of more than 12,000 people of the Qin-Wei coalition army are not heavy, but considering that the losses of the Zhao army are almost three times that of the Qin-Wei coalition army, this battle of the Qin-Wei coalition army can also be called a victory.

Obviously, the Zhao army came to sneak attack the station of the Qin-Wei coalition army, but it was killed by the Qin-Wei coalition army, and the generals of the Qin-Wei coalition army who returned victoriously almost died of laughter, and Le Jin also made up a joke for this, but unfortunately, because he laughed first halfway through what he said, his deputy general Yu Ying reacted quite indifferently.

Not only Lejin, but when cleaning up the battlefield, there were also many Qin and Wei coalition forces who made jokes about the Zhao army, in their words, they wished that this kind of sneak attack would come a few more times, so that they would not need to attack Taoyi, and the Zhao army himself would kill all of them.

Even, even the generals of the Qin-Wei coalition army were discussing this matter in private.

For example, Wei Xuan, he found Meng Zhong and said to Meng Zhong: "Fang Cheng Order, once our army has set up a camp, the Qi and Zhao coalition forces will not dare to attack again, why not postpone the establishment of camp and lure the Qi and Zhao coalition forces to attack our army again?" ”

Hearing this, Meng Zhong thought he was joking at first, hahaha laughed twice, and even when he saw Wei Yu looking at him with a stunned face, he couldn't help but be a little stunned: "Wei Sima is not joking?" ”

Wei Yu shook his head.

In fact, it's no wonder, after all, this sneak attack of the Zhao army was so stupid that the generals of the Qin and Wei coalition couldn't believe that they had achieved such a major victory - a battle annihilated 30,000 Zhao troops and captured more than 4,000 people, you must know that the Zhao army only had a total of 100,000 troops, and this time it went to a third.

Seeing this, Meng Zhong was happy, shook his head and said: "There was once a farmer in my Song country, and one day he happened to see a rabbit crashed and died under a tree stump, so he took the dead rabbit home and ate it to a full meal. Afterwards, he thought he had a plan, so he waited under the stump day after day, but instead of waiting for the other stupid rabbits, he wasted his own field...... In a war, you can't expect your opponent to be stupid again and again, right? ”

Wei Hao suddenly realized.

At this time, Zhai Zhang happened to come to Meng Zhong's tent with a few guards, and after hearing the conversation between Meng Zhong and Wei Luxury, he couldn't help but nod secretly.

I have to say that as they get along with each other for a long time, Zhai Zhang is more and more satisfied with Meng Zhong, and the only thing that makes him still worry at the moment is Meng Zhong's identity from the Song State and the reason why he defected to the Wei State.

Yes, Meng Zhong defected to the Wei State for the Song State, and this is exactly what Zhai Zhang is worried about at the moment.

After all, unlike at the time of the Battle of Yique, Meng Zhong gradually became famous.

Think about today's mighty Zhao general Lian Po, leading the rest of the people to break through the siege once, in order to rescue his colleague Zhao Xi, he took the initiative to break into the encirclement of his Qin-Wei coalition army, and escorted Zhao Xi out of the encirclement again, which can be called brave, right? Throughout his Qin-Wei coalition army, no general has the courage of Lian Po.

But it seems that such a fierce general, but he is not ranked on the side of Wei Ran, the minister of the Qin State, from beginning to end, Wei Ran only knows Fengyangjun Li Dui, but he does not mention Lian Po, obviously he does not know Lian Po.

However, Wei Ran, who was such a marquis, knew Meng Zhong, and even clearly knew Meng Zhong's origin and mentorship, which really made Zhai Zhang a little worried, worried about what tricks the Qin State would play against Meng Zhong, after all, at present, Meng Zhong has really become a huge obstacle to the eastward advance of the Qin State.

"Da Sima?"

Looking back at Zhai Zhang, Meng Zhong was stunned, and hurriedly said: "I have counted the casualties of our army in today's battle, and I am planning to send ...... to Da Sima."

"The old man is not here for this."

Seeing that Meng Zhong had a misunderstanding, Zhai Zhang waved his hand and explained: "The old man was idle, and when he was patrolling the camp, he met a report from the soldiers, saying that it was Sima Jingyi, the army of the Song State, who sent someone to contact our army, and seeing what he meant, it seemed that he wanted to join our coalition army and jointly recapture Taoyi...... "As he spoke, he ordered the guards beside him to hand Meng Zhong a bamboo book, and then asked with a smile: "That Jingyi doesn't seem to know that you are in our army, and you don't have any friendship with him?" ”

Meng Zhong took the bamboo slip and glanced at it twice, and then replied with a smile: "If you say that you have no friendship, it is not that when you first set foot on the battlefield in the next year, you will be a pawn under Jing Hui...... But for some reasons, there is no connection on weekdays. ”

"Oh."

Zhai Zhang didn't ask carefully, nodded and said: "The old man and Jing Wei haven't had any dealings before, since you are familiar with him, then it's up to you to come forward." ”

Also, the military Sima of the Song State in Jingyu District is not worthy of Zhai Zhang's personal reception, and it is almost the same to replace Dai Wulai, the crown prince of the Song Kingdom.

Hearing this, Meng Zhong did not shirk.

Another day later, probably hearing that a big battle had broken out on the side of the garrison, Menghu and Huahu returned to the garrison with 4,000 cavalry.

According to Meng Hu and Hua Hu's report to Meng Zhong, when they were chasing the Zhao cavalry led by Zhao generals Zhang Ji and Chang Yong, they taught the Fangcheng cavalry under their command a good lesson, so that those Fangcheng cavalry understood what is called the resilience of cavalry.

In fact, to put it bluntly, in fact, the Fangcheng cavalry chased the cavalry of Zhao State day and night in the field, and almost never rested for twelve hours a day.

As for the end, the cavalry of Zhao State was tired, and the cavalry of Fangcheng was also tired, and the two sides barely had a few battles, and then Zhang Ji, Chang Yong and others took the opportunity to evacuate with the remnants.

In this regard, Meng Hu expressed his feelings about this pursuit battle in the form of a complaint: "Next time I kill and I won't chase the cavalry, especially the cavalry of the Zhao State, even if I lead the cavalry." ”

Seeing Hua Hu sighing and nodding his head next to him, Meng Zhong secretly laughed.

Cavalry, to put it nicely, is the king of the flat land, but to put it ugly, it is a scoundrel on the flat land, which can be attacked, retreated and retreated, especially the cavalry of the Zhao State is not inferior to the warriors of the grassland people in terms of equestrianism, and the cavalry who eats, drinks, Lazar and even sleeps and naps on horseback, not to mention the foot soldiers, even if the general cavalry encounters, it is also an extremely desperate existence.

Take the 2,000-strong Qin cavalry under the command of Hu Yu, the general of the Bai Qi Division, if they are put together with the 2,000 Zhao cavalry led by Zhang Ji and Chang Yong, they will be properly played to death by the latter, because they don't know how difficult the Zhao cavalry is.

Only Menghu, Huahu and others who are familiar with the combat methods of the cavalry of the Zhao State, and the cavalry led by them are also cavalry trained in accordance with the Zhao style, are qualified to play with the cavalry of the Zhao State, and even so, Menghu and Huahu finally failed to completely annihilate the cavalry under the command of Zhang Ji and Chang Yong, and a large number of them were still escaped.

There is no way, this is the cavalry of the Zhao State that even the Xiongnu, Lin Hu and other alien races find tricky.

After Meng Hu and Hua Hu told their experiences in the past two days, Meng Zhong also told them about the confrontation that broke out in his Qin-Wei coalition garrison two days ago, only to hear Meng Hu and Hua Hu's blood boiling, and their faces were full of remorse.

In Menghu's words, if they knew this, what else did they chase the cavalry of the Zhao State, of course, they stayed in the garrison to participate in that big battle - with his 4,000 square city cavalry on the garrison side, whether it was Lian Po or Zhao Xi, they didn't want to break through at all.

Meng Zhong smiled at this.

In his opinion, it is not a big deal to go away with Zhao Xi and Lian Po, the key is that the Qin and Wei coalition forces annihilated more than 30,000 troops of the Zhao army in this battle, captured more than 4,000 people, and wiped out one-third of the 100,000 troops of the Zhao State, giving a heavy blow to the Qi and Zhao coalition forces under the command of Fengyang Jun Li Dui.

It is no exaggeration to say that as long as nothing goes wrong next, his Qin-Wei coalition army can be said to be invincible, and the difference is only in what way to defeat the Qi-Zhao coalition army and recover Taoyi.

Yes, recovering an intact Taoyi, this is Meng Zhong's purpose, otherwise, he immediately ordered the whole army to build siege equipment, and then attacked Taoyi, in fact, there is a great chance to capture this city.

It's just that in this way, Taoyi will inevitably be destroyed by the war - this is not in line with Meng Zhong's intentions.

A few days later, on the first day of the sixth month, Sima Jingwei of the Song army led thousands of troops from Cao County to join the Qin and Wei armies.

On Zhai Zhang's orders, Meng Zhong came forward to greet Jing Yu and the Song army.

I have to say that when he saw Meng Zhong outside the garrison of the Qin-Wei coalition army, Jing Yu was taken aback: "You...... Little Brother Meng, why are you here? ”

Meng Zhong smiled slightly and explained: "I defected to the Wei State the year before last, and now I am serving as the Fang Cheng Commander in the Wei State, and at this moment in the army, I temporarily take the position of the Chinese military assistant......"

From the side, Meng Hu greeted Jing Yi with a smile: "Yo, old Jing, don't come to harm." We're also military horses now......"

Looking at Meng Zhong and then at Meng Hu, Jing Yu was dumbfounded.

Among Meng Zhong and his brothers, Jing Yu only recognized Meng Zhong and Meng Hu, after all, these two brothers had served as soldiers under him when Jing Yu was ordered to attack Teng State, including Meng Hu's late father Meng Qing, who also belonged to Jing Hui's rule.

But after that, Jing Wei never saw the two brothers of this clan again, but he didn't expect that a few years later, Meng Zhong became a general of Wei, and even Meng Hu, who was just a corporal back then, became a military Sima on an equal footing with him, which made Jing Wei a little unbelievable.

However, in addition to being shocked, Jing Yu was also secretly happy in his heart.

After all, Meng Zhong was a native of the Song State like him, and there were some things that he was inconvenient for him to say to Sima Zhai Zhang, the Great Sima of the Wei State, but he could say to Meng Zhong, for example, to make Meng Zhong try his best to help the Song State repel the Qi and Zhao coalition forces or something.

I remember that a while ago he lost Taoyi, but was scolded by Song Wangyan for a while, ordering him to find a way to recapture Taoyi, at that time Jing Yi was very distressed, I don't know how to recapture Taoyi, I didn't expect that only a few days, he heard that Qin and Wei have sent reinforcements, and have arrived in the Taoyi area, so he immediately led the army to join the Qin and Wei coalition forces, hoping to recapture Taoyi with the strength of this coalition army, but he didn't expect to meet Meng Zhong and others.

Immediately, he found an opportunity to say to Meng Zhong in private: "Little brother Meng...... No, Meng Sima, you are also a Song person, now the Qi and Zhao coalition forces invaded our Song State and seized Taoyi, I hope that Meng Sima will see that for the sake of the same Song people, he will try his best to say a few good words in front of Zhai Da Sima to help my Song State recapture Taoyi. ”

From the side, Meng Hu laughed when he heard this: "Lao Jing, there is no need to report to Lao Zhai in this matter, my brother himself is enough to call the shots." …… Hehe, don't you know, Lao Zhai doesn't care about things at all, Wei Jun's affairs, and now they all hear about my brother Ah Zhong's fate. ”

"Don't talk nonsense."

Meng Zhong coughed and reminded Meng Hu.

To be honest, Meng Hu's words are actually not false, after all, during this time, in addition to inspecting the camp every day, Zhai Zhang is to talk to Sima wrongly, and take the opportunity to spy on what Qin State will do next.

But this is Zhai Zhang's trust in Meng Zhong, he just wants to cultivate Meng Zhong, but it doesn't mean that he is not capable of handling these things.

is as open-mouthed as Menghu, and it is not good to spread it after all.

He saw that Meng Zhong just reminded Meng Hu not to talk nonsense, but he did not deny it, but he immediately realized that the status of this kid in front of him was not ordinary in the Wei army, and hurriedly said: "In any case, please help me with Meng Sima." ”

It may be that he was repeatedly nagged by Jing Yi, so Meng Zhong had no choice but to tell Jing Yi about the current situation, and then said to Jing Yi: "Jing Sima, if you storm Taoyi at this moment, you can only recapture a ruined city, but if you wait patiently for a few days, our army will be able to harvest an intact Taoyi...... I suppose you want to recover an intact pottery eup, right? ”

Jing Yu nodded, and then couldn't help but ask, "But...... How long will it take? That Qin will be white...... Can you really defeat Zhao's remaining army? ”

Meng Zhong smiled slightly: "Jing Sima rest assured, maybe this will, Bai Qi has already won." ”

At the same time, on the border between Zhao and Wei, Qin General Bai stood on the north bank of Zhangshui with his hands on his back, not knowing what he was thinking.

A moment later, a Qin pawn under his command came to report: "Bai Shuai, the armies of Zhao generals Li Ji and Han Xu have been routed and are fleeing to the north. At present, the two generals Meng Yi and Zhong Xu, as well as Tang Zhi, the general of the Wei army, are joining forces to pursue the Zhao army, and General Ji ordered him to come to ask Bai Shuai, I don't know what instructions you have? ”

Bai Qi said calmly: "If you can catch it, you can chase it, if you can't catch it, just wait until he besieges Handan in the future, and you don't have to delay your work for this." ”

"Whoa!" The herald clenched his fists and left.

"Li Ji, Han Xu, hum, the general of Zhao State, isn't there anything more decent? At this level, even if Meng Zhong is drunk, he can use more soldiers than these two Zhao generals......

Glancing at the departing Qin pawn, Bai Qi glanced around the battlefield full of Zhao pawn's corpses in the distance, yawning and stretching.

Similar to when he attacked Chu State, although he won a victory, Bai Qi had no waves in his heart, let alone any joy after the victory.

Maybe it's because the opponent is too weak to reflect his white value.

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