In the last days of the year, Meng Zhong returned to Wuyang to celebrate the New Year with his family.

After the New Year, that is, the fifth year of the reign of King Wei, and Meng Zhong has truly entered the mark of twenty years old, as long as he has passed the crown ceremony, he is an adult.

For the sake of her son's crown ceremony, Ge Shi can be said to be worried, she has the heart to send someone to Mengyi to invite her son's teacher and elders in the clan to preside over the crown ceremony for her son and witness her son grow up, but she is also worried that the 200,000 Qin-Chu coalition army is still eyeing Wancheng, so she wants to stop talking about her son's crown ceremony several times.

Seeing this, Meng Zhong smiled and comforted his mother and said, "When the Qin-Chu coalition army is repulsed, then invite the teacher and the elders of the clan to come." ”

Ge Shi nodded when she heard this, after all, she couldn't think of any other way.

After staying at home for five days, Meng Zhong was driven back to Yangguan by his mother again, and at this time, he decided to go to Wancheng to meet Zhaoju and Zhuang Xin.

After learning that Meng Zhong was preparing to leave for Wancheng, Meng Sui persuaded Meng Zhong again.

In Meng Sui's view, Meng Zhong's trip to Wancheng to meet Zhao Ju may be just a futile effort, although Zhao Ju is not enough to betray Meng Zhong and tell the Qin army, but Meng Zhong wants to persuade Zhao Ju to secretly plot against the Qin army, I am afraid it is also very difficult.

But Meng Zhong insisted on this, and Meng Sui had no choice but to say: "If you want to go, I will walk with you." ”

Seeing this, Meng Zhong refused: "It's enough for me to go." …… When I'm not there, Yangguan still needs you to preside over the overall situation. ”

Also, in terms of the overall situation, among the siblings around Meng Zhong, Meng Sui is the most trusted by him, and the rest of the brothers are more or less lacking.

After coaxing Meng Sui, Meng Zhong selected the accompanying soldiers from the Wei army under his command.

Since he was going to pretend to be a Chu soldier to go to Wancheng, the selected soldiers naturally had to choose Chu people, otherwise once they encountered the Qin army in the Wancheng area, they were likely to show their flaws.

During the selection of soldiers, Meng Zhong remembered a person, that is, a brigade commander named Deng Shu in his army.

According to the conversation between Deng Shu and Qu Yuan that day, it can be seen that Deng Shu has regarded himself as a member of the Wei army in Fangcheng, and his younger brother Deng Dian is now by Zhuang Xin's side, this person is naturally quite reliable.

Thinking of this, Meng Zhong sent someone to summon Deng Shu, told him that he was going to Wancheng to rush to the agreement with Zhaoju, and asked Deng Shu if he dared to go with him.

I have to say that Deng Shu was stunned after hearing Meng Zhong's words, thinking about it, there are 200,000 Qin-Chu coalition troops in the area of Wancheng, and Meng Zhong, as the chief general of Yangguan, dared to go to the 200,000 enemy army to meet an enemy general, this courage made Deng Shu speechless.

However, Deng Shu also realized that this might be his opportunity, thinking of this, he gritted his teeth and said: "Fang Cheng's order is in the past, and his subordinates will give up their lives and swear to die!" ”

Hearing Deng Shu's firm words, Meng Zhong was also very happy, and immediately said with a smile: "In that case, you pick eight more trustworthy soldiers and go with me." ”

"Whoa!"

After bidding farewell to Meng Zhong, Deng Shu immediately called his most trusted brother Zhu Yi and told the latter about the incident.

Hearing this, Zhu Yi was also surprised and delighted.

Surprised, he didn't expect Meng Zhong to be ready to rush to such a dangerous agreement, and happily, he also realized that his opportunity to soar was coming-as long as he protected that Fang Cheng Commander during this trip, and made that Fang Cheng Commander remember their names, wouldn't his promotion be just around the corner?

Thinking of this, Deng Shu and Zhu Yi carefully selected seven soldiers and followed Meng Zhong to Wancheng.

These seven soldiers are basically the subordinates of the two when they were on errands in Lixian, because of the several expansions of the Fangcheng Army, most of them have been promoted to even chiefs, and there are even two uncles, although their personal strength may not be better than the brave Qin soldiers, but they are definitely courageous - also, the former Chu soldiers who can survive from the battle of Lixian to the present day have sharpened some courage, and as for temporary stage fright.

The only regret is that another good brother Cai Tong is not there, which makes Deng Shu feel a little regretful.

Unexpectedly, after hearing this, Zhu Yi snickered: "It's no wonder that guy didn't have this life." …… I get angry when I think of that kid, since that kid was promoted to the uncle of the cavalry, he was proud in front of me all day long, especially a few days ago, when he was picked by the Menghu Army Sima to go to Yuncheng to expel the cavalry, you don't know what kind of face he had at that time. ”

"Haha." Deng Shu laughed, and he agreed with Zhu Yi's words in his heart.

I have to say, don't look at Deng Shu, he has now been promoted to brigade commander, and Cai Tong is only a cavalry commander, but in terms of his status in the Fangcheng army, it is obvious that a cavalry commander is above the brigade commander of the infantry army.

After all, it was a cavalry, and each of them had a cavalry with a war horse, and how many soldiers in the Fangcheng army wanted to become a cavalryman with their heads sharpened.

After selecting the soldiers, Deng Shu immediately went back to surrender to Meng Zhong, and then, Meng Zhong also changed into the armor of the Chu army, and Deng Shu, Zhu Yi and others, who also pretended to be the Chu army, a total of ten people, embarked on the road to Wancheng with dry food.

It is worth mentioning that this time when he went to Wancheng, Meng Zhong did not take the main road in order to verify his idea, but instead took a mountain trail on the north side, from the path called Niuweipo by the locals to Wancheng.

Regarding this path, he sent soldiers to inquire more than a month ago to see if there were any Qin troops guarding this place, but after the soldiers sent out returned to the camp, they told Meng Zhong that there was not a single Qin soldier on this path.

Today, Meng Zhong came to take a look in person, and if this was the case, he saw that the mountains were covered with white snow, but he couldn't see a Qin soldier guarding and patrolling here.

From the perspective of the art of war, a path like this is the most vulnerable to the enemy's sneak attack, Meng Zhong does not believe that Bai Qi will have such negligence, and there is only one explanation, that is, the Qin army is not clear about this path at present.

And this made Meng Zhong see the hope of a sneak attack on Wancheng.

Because of the thick snow everywhere on the way, Meng Zhong and his party took twice as long as usual and took ten days to arrive in Wancheng from Yangguan.

At this time, looking at Wancheng from a distance, he saw that there were joint camps of the Chu army everywhere outside the city, but he couldn't see a few camps of the Qin army, and Meng Zhong guessed that the Qin army should be stationed in the city of Wancheng.

Also, although Wancheng was burned by Han Xiao when he retreated, just like Fangcheng, there are still four city walls, and the city walls are naturally more reliable than wooden barracks.

"City Order, what should I do now?" Deng Shu asked Meng Zhongdao at this time.

Meng Zhong shook his head and said: "Don't call me the city commander at this moment, you are the commander of a Chu army at the moment, and I am a soldier under you, so you can call me...... Just call me Zhuang Zhong. ”

“……”

Deng Shu and the soldiers looked at each other.

Although Deng Shu also knew that now was not the time to be hypocritical, he still felt a little unable to shout, after all, the one in front of him was the general who commanded the 50,000 troops of his city.

"As for what to do now......

Meng Zhong glanced at a group of patrol guards that could be seen in the distance, and said in a low voice: "The Chu army garrison is here, and it will definitely send guards to patrol around, let's get in and see if we can touch your brother...... If we're unlucky, we'll come back tomorrow. ”

"Brother? Adian? He's coming to pick us up? ”

Deng Shu was stunned, he also knew that his younger brother Deng Dian was now in Wancheng, beside Zhuang Xin, the doctor of Chu Guoshi, after all, when Deng Dian returned to Yangguan a while ago, he greeted his brother.

"Hmm." Meng Zhong nodded: "According to the agreement, he will meet us outside the Chu military camp...... Let's see if we can meet him. ”

"Whoa!"

I have to say that the luck of Meng Zhong's group was really good, and it didn't take long for them to meet a team of guards led by Deng Dian himself.

In other words, according to the agreement between Meng Zhong and Zhao Ju, Deng Dian led the team to patrol and wander outside the camp every day, waiting for Meng Zhong's arrival.

When the brother saw it, Deng Shu immediately greeted Deng Dian with a smile: "Adian." ”

However, Deng Dian did not respond as eagerly as he thought, but said seemingly unintentionally: "Brother, why did you come here?" Aren't you supposed to be in charge of patrolling the north side? Beware of being questioned. ”

As soon as they heard this, Meng Zhong, Deng Shu, and Zhu Yi immediately understood: Those Chu pawns behind Deng Dian were not people who could be trusted.

No, Deng Dian turned his head and said to the soldiers behind him at this time: "A few of you, go ahead first, and I'll say a few words to my brother." ”

"Whoa!"

Those Chu pawns nodded in response and passed by Meng Zhong, Deng Shu and others, during which they glanced at Meng Zhong a few times, intentionally or unintentionally, making the latter feel a little strange.

It wasn't until those Chu soldiers walked a little farther away that Deng Dian approached Meng Zhong and said in a low voice, "City Order." ”

As he spoke, he subconsciously clasped his fists and saluted, but was pressed down by Meng Zhong's hand: "Right now, I'm just Zhuang Zhong, a soldier in your brother's team, don't want to arouse the Qin people's ideas." ”

Deng Dian nodded in understanding.

At this time, Meng Zhong glanced back at the Chu pawns who had gone away and asked, "Aren't these Chu pawns Zhao Ju's guards?" ”

Deng Dian nodded and explained, "It's just some ordinary Chu pawns......

Meng Zhong was stunned when he heard this, and couldn't help but secretly say in his heart: This Zhao Ju is inevitably too big, and he actually asked Deng Dian to come with a few ordinary Chu pawns to respond, isn't he afraid that something will go wrong?

At this moment, Deng Dian explained: "Doctor Zhuang originally hoped that Zhaoju would send guards to answer me here...... You, but Zhao Ju thought it was inappropriate, he felt that the guards around him wandering outside the city for no reason would definitely cause confusion and even suspicion among the Qin people. ”

Hearing this, Meng Zhong was also relieved.

Also, as the chief general of the 100,000 Chu army, Zhao Ju's guards wandered outside the city inexplicably, which was indeed easy to arouse the suspicion of the Qin army.

At this time, Deng Dian added in a low voice: "...... When you came to make an appointment, only Zhao Ju, Doctor Zhuang and the three of them knew about the entire Chu camp, and even the guards around Zhao Ju did not disclose it. ”

Hearing this, Meng Zhong laughed dumbly.

He originally thought that Zhao Ju was too big to support him, and he actually asked Deng Dian to bring a group of ordinary soldiers to meet them here, but now after listening to Deng Dian's words, he suddenly felt that he was wrong: Is Zhao Ju a big one? Clearly means prudence, and prudence to a certain extent.

Shaking his head, Meng Zhong asked Deng Dian, "Do you have a way to tell me to sneak into the Chu camp?" ”

Deng Dian nodded and said: "I have the order of the Chu army, you can enter and leave the Chu camp freely, and you can follow me into the camp later......"

Speaking of this, he glanced at Meng Zhong and said euphemistically, "If you want to pretend to be a Chu pawn, you might as well ...... Restrain your momentum a little, like lowering your head a little or something......" He licked his lips and said, "Right now, you don't look like a soldier......"

Hearing this, Deng Shu, Zhu Yi and the others immediately turned their heads to look at Meng Zhong, and after secretly observing it, they suddenly realized.

Indeed, although Meng Zhong was wearing the armor of an ordinary Chu soldier at the moment, his momentum and eyes did not look like a soldier, and Deng Shu, Zhu Yi and others did not notice it before, because they had long been accustomed to such a Fangcheng order, but at this moment, Deng Dian mentioned it, and they felt that it was extremely disobedient - this Chu pawn, the momentum is even more intimidating than the generals of the Chu army!

And Meng Zhong also suddenly realized, and said with a smile: "I said why did those Chu pawns look at me frequently, so that's the case. ”

Astringent momentum...... How can we be considered to be constricting momentum?

In other words, do people really have such a thing as momentum?

Meng Zhong didn't understand this very well.

After thinking for a while, he pretended to be listless, drooping his head and putting on a sleepy expression, seeing that Deng Shu, Deng Dian, Zhu Yi and the soldiers next to him wanted to laugh but didn't dare to laugh.

"How's it going?" Meng Zhong asked the crowd.

Everyone couldn't help but smile and nodded again and again, indicating that the current Meng Zhong looked like a tired soldier.

After some discussion, Deng Dian took Meng Zhong and the others to catch up with the soldiers in his team, and then led everyone to pretend to go around outside a few times.

During this period, they encountered both the guards of the Chu army and the guards of the Qin army.

Fortunately, Deng Shu, Zhu Yi and others are all veterans who have seen big scenes, and they will not show their flaws, as for Meng Zhong, it is needless to say.

Only Deng Dian made Deng Shu feel a little worried, after all, his brother had never experienced any big scenes.

But it turned out that except for Meng Zhong, who was inconvenient to speak, among their team, Deng Dian was the most calm, and he even took the initiative to greet the guards of the Qin and Chu armies he encountered, making Deng Shu speechless in shock.

In this regard, Deng Shu asked Deng Dian in private: "Brother, when did your courage become so big?" ”

Deng Dian blinked his eyes and explained: "As long as you live in a military camp of more than 200,000 people, you will be surrounded by your enemies......"

Indeed, I remember that a few days before living in Wancheng, even if Zhaoju and Zhuang Xin helped to cover up, Deng Dian was also scared, after all, he was in the military camp of more than 200,000 enemy troops, but gradually, he got used to it.

Hearing his younger brother's explanation, Deng Shu opened his mouth, but he was speechless.

He also felt incredible: as a veteran who had experienced the battlefield several times, he was not as bold and calm as his younger brother, who had never set foot on the battlefield.

About half an hour later, Deng Dian led Meng Zhong, Deng Shu and others back to Chuying.

Just like what Deng Dian said before, there was no danger on this trip, because those guarding Chu soldiers seemed to know Deng Dian, and some people even joked with him: Why did you return to the camp so early today, aren't you afraid of being punished?

After entering the camp, Deng Dian casually found an excuse to disband the Chu soldiers in his team, and then took Meng Zhong, Deng Shu and others to the house of the scholar Zhuang Xin.

During this period, Meng Zhong pretended to be a tired Chu pawn, and secretly observed the situation in the Chu camp.

In view of the fact that the military tents of the Chu army were burned by his Wei army, I saw that the Chu military camp at this moment was full of thatched wooden houses, and it was difficult to see any military tents - of course, it is also possible that the Chu army built these thatched wooden houses for the winter.

After a while, the group came to the thatched house where Zhuang Xin lived, but was told by the Chu pawn outside the door that Zhuang Xin was at the place of the coach Zhaoju, so Deng Dian took Meng Zhong and the others straight to Zhaoju's handsome house, a thatched house that was almost the same.

The soldiers of Chu who were guarding outside the Shuai Station were basically Zhaoju's guards, so they naturally recognized Deng Dian, and greeted him after seeing him: "Are you here to find Doctor Zhuang?" Dr. Zhuang is drinking with Akiko in the house, and I'll let you know. ”

"I'm tired."

At the same time, as the guard said, Zhao Ju and Zhuang Xin were drinking in the house, using hot wine to drive away the cold, and suddenly saw a soldier enter the house to report: "Qi Zhaozi, Zhuang Dian asks to see Doctor Zhuang." ”

The Zhuang Dian in his mouth, that is, Deng Dian who pretended to be a member of the Zhuang Xin clan, and it was precisely because of this relationship that the guards around Zhao Ju were very polite to Deng Dian.

At this time, Zhao Ju and Zhuang Xin were already a little drunk, and they didn't have time to realize anything when they heard this, so they heard Zhao Ju say casually: "Oh, let him come in." ”

After a while, Deng Dian walked into the tent, and seeing that he was covered with snow, Zhuang Xin greeted him with a smile and said, "Come, Adian, drink a bowl of hot wine to warm up, it's cold outside, right?" ”

Deng Dian licked his lips, and after hesitating for a moment, he decided to drink this bowl of wine first.

I saw that he thanked Zhaoju and Zhuang Xin, took the bowl and drank the bowl of hot wine, immediately wiped the wine stains on the side of his mouth, and said to Zhaoju and Zhuang Xin in a low voice: "Zhaozi, Doctor Zhuang, that one is here." ”

"Who? Who's coming? ”

Zhao Ju didn't react at first, picked up the bowl and poured the hot wine into his mouth, and then he only heard a pop, and he squirted out the wine in his mouth, spraying Zhuang Xin who was sitting on the opposite side.

Zhuang Xin wiped his face with his sleeve and glared at Zhao Ju fiercely, fortunately, he didn't have time to worry about Zhao Ju at this time, and asked Deng Dian in a low voice: "Adian, who did you say is coming?" It's him? ”

Seeing that there were no outsiders in the house anyway, Deng Dian lowered his voice and said, "The city order of our city, Meng Zhong." ”

"Where is he?"

"Waiting outside the house."

“……”

Hearing Deng Dian's words, Zhao Ju and Zhuang Xin looked at each other.

Really, really?

Come to Wancheng, where 200,000 Qin-Chu allied troops are stationed?

After being slightly stunned, Zhuang Xin hurriedly lowered his voice and said, "Quick, please invite him in." ”

"Whoa!"

A moment later, in order to hide people's eyes, Deng Dian brought Deng Shu and other ten Wei pawns to the house, seeing this, Zhao Ju and Zhuang Xin looked intently for Meng Zhong's figure among these ten people.

And at this moment, Meng Zhong put away his listless appearance and raised his head to look directly at Zhao Ju.

This time, as if standing out from the crowd, Zhuang Xin immediately discovered Meng Zhong, and turned his head to introduce to Zhao Ju, but saw Zhao Ju pressing his hand.

Also, even if Zhao Ju had never seen Meng Zhong before, at this moment, he could guess that the soldier with extraordinary momentum and sharp eyes was the Wei State Fang City Commander who commanded the 50,000 Wei army, Meng Zhong.

So, he immediately got up and stepped forward quickly: "I have heard the name of the great man for a long time, and I feel honored to see it today." ”

Meng Zhong also arched his hand towards Zhao Ju and Zhuang Xin, who got up to greet him at the same time, and immediately said with a smile: "Is it convenient to speak?" I heard Deng Dian say that only three people in the camp knew about my appointment. ”

Of course, Zhao Ju understood what Meng Zhong meant, nodded and said: "The guards outside the house are all Zhao Mou's henchmen, even if they hear anything, they will not make a noise. But for the sake of caution, I still went to tell them a few words,...... Have a seat. ”

Seeing that Zhao Ju deliberately ignored his name at this time, Meng Zhong couldn't help but laugh in his heart: This Zhao Ju is really cautious to a certain point.

A moment later, Deng Shu, Deng Dian, Zhu Yi and others all retreated from the house, and stood guard outside the house with Zhaoju's guards, while Meng Zhong sat opposite Zhaoju and Zhuang Xin.

At this time, he saw Zhao Ju looking Meng Zhong up and down, shook his head and said, "Unbelievable...... The most courageous person I have ever seen here, if it were me, would never dare to go to the appointment. Speaking of this, he asked curiously, "Aren't you afraid that I will betray your feet?" ”

Zhuang Xin frowned when he heard this, glanced at Zhao Ju, and was about to speak, but saw Meng Zhong smile and asked, "Will Zhao Zi?" ”

Zhao Ju looked at Meng Zhong deeply a few times, then shook his head and said, "...... No. ”

"That's it, since Zhaozi will not betray him, what is there to be afraid of?" As he spoke, Meng Zhong took the bowl with one hand, took a sip of the wine in the bowl, and said with a little surprise: "In your army, there is still such good wine?" ”

Although Meng Zhong just said it casually, it still made Zhao Ju feel very embarrassed, after all, the original drinks in his Chu army were destroyed by the Wei army in that night attack, and these drinks were brought by Zhuang Xin a while ago.

Looking at Zhao Ju's embarrassing appearance, Zhuang Xin couldn't help but smile, and immediately, he changed the topic and said: "For the sake of the safety of the city order, the three of us should quickly complete the discussion and leave from the city order, so as not to leak the news." ”

Hearing this, Meng Zhong nodded, put down the wine bowl and said to Zhaoju and Zhuang Xin: "Don't hide it from the two, my Great Sima Zhai Zhang of the Wei State has gathered 150,000 troops in Yanyi, and is ready to end this battle as soon as possible after the beginning of spring...... If your army can provide some small but valuable help at that time, I can easily defeat the Qin army in one fell swoop. ”

Although Meng Zhong falsely reported twice the number of people, considering that Wei was originally a big country, Zhao Ju and Zhuang Xin did not doubt it.

After thinking about it, Zhao Ju shook his head and said: "150,000 reinforcements, plus 50,000 people under his command, a total of 200,000, the Qin army still has more than 100,000 troops, this gap in strength is similar to the battle of Yique the year before last, Gongsun Xidu failed to defeat the Qin army, is it sure that he has a foot?" ”

"In the battle of Yique, I remember that the last person to win was my Wei State." Meng Zhong said with a smile.

“……”

Zhao Ju was speechless, thought for a while and said, "What do you want me to do?" ”

"I hope that your army will not move, or even withdraw its troops suddenly......"

"It can't be." Zhao Ju shook his head and said, "Like this, how can I explain to the king?" ”

Hearing this, Meng Zhong pressed his hand to signal Zhao Ju not to worry, and then he said in a low voice: "I have discussed this matter with Doctor Qu and have come up with a way to make your army withdraw in name......

Hearing this, Zhao Ju and Zhuang Xin were both stunned: "I wish to hear and see." ”

I saw Meng Zhong look at Zhuang Xin and said in a low voice: "I heard that Doctor Zhuang has a clansman named Zhuang Ji, who defected from Chu before, why didn't Doctor Zhuang ask this person to deliberately make trouble in the country and force the King of Chu to order Zhaozi to lead the army back to aid Chu Ying?" At that time, the national capital was in crisis and withdrew its troops to help, and the Qin people couldn't blame the Chu State for betraying the alliance, right? ”

"This ......"

Zhuang Xin and Zhao Ju glanced at each other, secretly thinking about the feasibility of this strategy.