After Huayang Jun Qirong withdrew from Yin and Jin, the half of the army under his command that had been deployed on the south bank of the Great River naturally withdrew to Chongquan and Liyang with his own generals, and this means that between Yin Jin and Hedong County, there is no more blocking force of the Qin army.

On the same day, on the way back to Zheng County with the Storm Kite, Meng Zhong sent several henchmen to cross the river to the Anti-Fengling Crossing to meet Sun Zhu, the Shougong of Hedong, and informed the latter of the current situation on the side of the coalition army.

After learning the news sent by Meng Zhong, Gongsun Zhu did not hesitate to order the formation of a fleet and prepare to enter with the army under his command.

And he himself was ready to cross the river to Zheng County in the early morning of the next day, and discuss the current situation with Storm Kite and Meng Zhong.

As for the coalition forces, Fengyang Jun Li Dui is still waiting for Xianyang's reply, and is preparing to wait for Xianyang's reply before convening the second peace conference after waiting for Xianyang's reply.

But in fact, this was just an excuse to deceive Meng Zhong and the others, because Wei Ran didn't really send someone to Xianyang to ask for Qin Wangji's attitude.

What is there to solicit?

Here, the violent kite wants to swallow more than 200 miles of land of the Qin State in the land of Huakun, from the Yin Jin Dynasty to Hangu Pass; Over there, Meng Zhong wanted to annex Qin's land and cities in a radius of about 100 li in Xihe, and let Qin cede more than 300 li of land at once, and it was still a very important land for Qin in terms of geographical location, how could the King of Qin agree?

Considering that the young monarch of his Qin State was sometimes impulsive, Wei Ran naturally wouldn't really send this kind of infuriating news back to Xianyang, and the reason why he explained to Storm Kite and Meng Zhong that he needed to ask Qin Wangji was that he wanted to delay time in the final analysis.

Of course, in view of the fact that the coalition forces have now obtained Yin Jin, and the hidden danger of insufficient supply of grain and grass is about to be lifted, Wei Ran has also given up his plan to calculate the coalition army in the cold winter, and his current strategy is to split the coalition army and disintegrate the five-nation alliance from within.

For the time being, the effect is not bad, at least after listening to his persuasion, Li Dui, the Fengyang Jun of Zhao State, has expressed his willingness to help him, after all, for Zhao State, in fact, Qin is weak and Wei Qiang is a greater threat.

It's no wonder, after all, Wei and Zhao are too close to each other, not to mention that Handan, the capital of Zhao, is only a hundred miles away from Wei.

On the same day, after Storm Kite, Meng Zhong, Tian Touch, and Le Yi returned to Zheng County one after another, Li Dui and Wei Ran discussed in the tent.

It is undeniable that the conditions put forward by Storm Kite and Meng Zhong are indeed harsh, and it is clear that they want to forcibly cut off a piece of meat from Qin Guo's thigh, not to mention Wei Ran's anger in his heart, in fact, even Li Dui does not want Storm Kite and Meng Zhong to succeed.

Storm Kite said that Li Dui didn't think that Korea could hold the land of Huakun on its own, but the land of the West River that Meng Zhong asked for by Wei State was a land suitable for grazing war horses, and he had no doubt that once the Wei State got the land of the West River for more than 100 miles, Sun Zhu, the Shougong of Hedong, would immediately train cavalry on this land.

The cavalry is an excellent product of Zhao's implementation of the Hufu cavalry and archery reform, and it is also Zhao's greatest reliance to defend itself, but now, the cavalry of Wei seems to have a faint meaning of catching up, standing in Zhao's position, Li Dui is quite worried.

It's all to blame on that Meng Zhong!

This kid learned how to train cavalry and drive cavalry from his Zhao State, but he used this knowledge to Wei State to create a Fangcheng cavalry that even his Zhao State was afraid of.

But on the bright side, he didn't dare to say anything about it, for fear of offending Meng Zhong, after all, Meng Zhong belonged to the kind of evil wolf who never barked in his eyes, but when he bitten people, that kid was never ambiguous, no, it was better than Qin Guo was bitten by Meng Zhong this time.

"If you delay in the name of King Qin, I'm afraid you can't delay for a long time, what are your plans next?" Li Dui asked Wei Randao.

Wei Ran thought for a while, and said truthfully: "Let's delay it until the winter of this year, at least to ensure that the Wei and Han armies cannot threaten Xianyang this year, and at present, Xianyang is vigorously recruiting soldiers to prevent the Five Nations Alliance...... I mean the Wei and Han armies, to prevent them from attacking Xianyang. ”

After a pause, Wei Ran said again: "Wait until tomorrow, if Fengyang Jun can secretly help my Great Qin and withdraw the army, even if he turns against the Wei and Han armies again, Xianyang will not be without the strength to fight." ”

Hearing this, Li Dui turned his head and glanced at Wei Ran, and said meaningfully: "Is the Marquis trying to emulate your country's strategy of defeating Kuang Zhang in Pu Shang?" ”

In the battle of Pushang, Kuang Zhang led the Qi and Song coalition forces to attack Wei, and the Qin army sent troops to support Wei.

This is also the reason why Kuang Zhang was always unconvinced, and hoped to compete with the famous general of the Qin State, that is, Ying Ji, but unfortunately Ying Yi died of illness within a few years, making this matter the most regrettable thing in Kuang Zhang's life.

Hearing Li Dui's words, the Marquis asked with a smile, "Fengyang Jun also knows Lizi?" ”

Li Dui smiled and said: "The famous generals in the world, how can the old man not have heard of them? ”

Wei Ran smiled slightly, and then shook his head and answered Li Dui's guess: "Feng Yangjun's suggestion is very good, but I don't want Feng Yangjun to deeply offend Wei Guo because of this......"

The corners of Li Dui's eyes twitched slightly.

He just asked casually, how could he really help Qin Guo do that?

For the sake of Qin State to offend Wei State and offend Yuncheng Jun Meng Zhong, who is now in full swing, is he really stupid?

This Wei Ran, knowing that he Li Dui would not agree to this, deliberately said it righteously, which was really cunning.

"What are you going to do?" Li Dui asked.

Wei Ran smiled, and said with a gentle smile: "Storm Kite and Meng Zhong asked my Great Qin for more than three hundred miles of land, how could such a big matter be decided in just a few days?" …… It seems that the demands put forward by your country and Qi Yan are not harsh, and they can be negotiated within a few days; On the contrary, the conditions between Wei and South Korea were too harsh and needed to be discussed for some time...... There's nothing controversial about that, is it? ”

This Wei Ran is really cunning......

Li Dui stroked his beard and nodded with a smile, but secretly commented in his heart.

He has figured out Wei Ran's plan: Wei Ran plans to get rid of the three armies of Zhao, Qi, and Yan first, and leave the Wei and Han armies alone to continue to negotiate with the Qin State.

More than 200,000 Five-Power Coalition troops can't be defeated, and now there are only 60,000 or 70,000 Wei and Han Coalition troops left, right?

A moment later, when Wei Ran took his leave and went to the camp to rest, Li Dui summoned his general, Uncle Dong, and told the latter about the conversation with Wei Ran.

After hearing this, Uncle Dong smiled and said, "It seems that Wei Ran wants to send away my Zhao army and Qi Yan army first, so that Meng Zhong cannot rely on the power of the alliance of all countries...... This trick is very clever, but ......" he said with a little hesitation: "I'm afraid of offending that Yuncheng Jun because of this......"

Hearing this, Li Dui said lightly: "My Zhao State is raising troops to attack Qin for the sake of righteousness, since Qin has promised to abolish the emperor and accuse the people of the world, my Zhao State naturally can no longer use unrighteous soldiers, what is wrong with withdrawing troops and returning to China at this time?" ”

That's what he said, but in fact, the reason why he didn't agree to Wei Ran was actually afraid of offending Meng Zhong, you know, he and Meng Zhong had a long history of grievances and grievances in the past, and now the two of them don't have river water, in the final analysis, it's just that Meng Zhong didn't kill them all in order to repay Li Dui back then.

If this time because of Li Dui's relationship, Meng Zhong failed to gnaw the piece of meat of Xihe from Qin State, whether Meng Zhong would be angry with Li Dui because of this, Li Dui really didn't dare to guarantee.

Although he Li Dui is already half of the age of the earth, he still has children, grandchildren and nephews, what if Meng Zhong sees that he doesn't have time to retaliate against him, so he takes revenge on his children and grandchildren?

When the time comes, how could King Zhao turn against Meng Zhong again in order to protect his Li family? Li Dui doesn't have this confidence.

He knew very well that the monarch of his Zhao State was still looking forward to the day when Meng Zhong would return to Zhao State and take up the post of Jin Yang Shou, who had been appointed as early as the time of Lord Zhao's father, and become the border general who protected him in Zhao State.

If he didn't agree, Li Dui was afraid of offending Wei Ran - to be precise, he didn't want to destroy the friendship he had established with Wei Ran in the past few days.

The reason is simple: think about your children and grandchildren.

He only has one son, that is, Li Ji, who is not too good at being decent, Li Dui doesn't think that Zhao Wang He will rely on his son Li Ji in the future, since Zhao Wang He will not rely on his son, then, his Li family's situation in Zhao will be very embarrassing at that time, even if he Li Dui has made a contribution to Zhao Guoguo this time, but at best, this can only avoid Zhao Wang He from settling accounts after the autumn, and it does not mean that he Li will be able to get Zhao Wang He's reuse.

If the consequences of the day really can't be reused in the Zhao State, then it might be a good idea to move some of the clansmen to the Qin State?

For example, at present, he has two grandsons, one is called Li Yun and the other is called Li Ke, and his grandson Li Yun naturally wants to stay in Zhao State to inherit the ancestral business, but the second grandson Li Ke can be sent to Qin State to find a way out - of course, the premise is that Zhao Wang He always has a grudge against his Li family.

I have to say that recalling the past when Zhao Wang He acquiesced to force his father Zhao to death, Li Dui felt cold in his heart.

He is not Meng Zhong, Zhao Wang He has no feelings for him, once he dies, whether his son Li Ji can keep the ancestral business of the Li family, Li Dui really dare not guarantee.

It is better to take this opportunity to give Ke'er a way out in the Qin State......

That night, Li Dui thought secretly.

Some people may say, isn't Li Dui close to the Qi State, how could he consider sending his second grandson Li Ke to the Qin State?

The reason is very simple, on the one hand, the Qi country is too chaotic now, and the land of the king of Qi can't even tolerate the nobles and grandsons of his Tian clan, and he can't wait to take back the land and fiefdom given by the ancestors to the nobles of the Zhutian clan, so that the political situation in the Qi country is now turbulent, how dare Li Dui send his grandson to the Qi country?

On the other hand, as the most powerful state in the world at the moment, even if it was temporarily suppressed by the Wei state, which had Mengzhong, Li Dui still felt that the Qin state had great potential.

Of course, for Wei and Yuncheng Jun Mengzhong, Li Dui will let his son Li Ji show his closeness, and naturally there is no need to spend more effort in this regard.

He left Zhao Qinqi, his son Li Ji left Zhao Qinwei, his grandson Li Yun left Zhao Qin, and his second grandson Li Ke defected to Qin, this is Li Dui's plan for his family members, including Qin, Qi, Wei and Zhao, the four most powerful countries at present, and he thinks that there should be nothing missing.

The next day, when talking to Wei Ran again, Li Dui proposed this "deal": he hoped that his second grandson Li Ke would serve as an envoy to Qin, so that Qin Wangji would go to Zhongyang to negotiate with Zhao Wanghe about the major affairs of the Central Plains, and also hoped that Wei Ran would take more care of his second grandson Li Ke.

"It would be great if the Marquis could introduce the King of Qin on behalf of his grandson......" Li Dui hinted with a smile.

Wei Ran was stunned for a moment, and immediately agreed: "Haha, this matter is easy." According to me, the Li family is also from the surname Ying, and the surname Ying in the world is all one family, and the king is happy to meet the distant relatives of Zhao Guo......"

Of course, he would not refuse, after all, he also hoped to win over Zhao to contain Wei together.

Li Dui was overjoyed when he heard this, and arched his hand and said, "Then please leave it to the marquis." ”

"Where, where, it's just a little thing." Wei Ran waved his hand generously, and immediately hinted at Li Dui: "That ......"

Of course, Li Dui understood what Wei Ran meant, and stroked his beard and hinted: "Hou Hou and rest assured." ”

The two old foxes looked at each other, laughed tacitly, and became closer to each other.

And at this moment, suddenly a Zhao pawn entered the account and said: "Fengyang Jun, there is a group of Wei troops who crossed the river from the north side and went straight to Zheng County. ”

"I know, you stand down." Li Dui nodded and dismissed the Zhao pawn, and then turned his head to Wei Ran and said: "This should be the Gongsun Zhu who rushed to see Meng Zhong, if nothing else, presumably after Huayang Jun withdrew his troops yesterday, Meng Zhong sent someone to inform Gongsun Zhu on the other side of the river, Marquis should be careful, Meng Zhong summoned Gongsun Zhu at this time, this is not a good thing." ”

"Hmm." Wei Ran nodded slightly, and immediately asked Li Dui: "As far as I know, Gongsun Zhi and Meng Zhong have a good relationship, right?" ”

"Isn't it a good relationship?" Li Dui shook his head and corrected: "Gongsun Zhu has the grace of knowing Meng Zhong, it is said that during the Battle of Yique, Meng Zhong and Gongsun Xi disagreed, Gongsun Zhu was Gongsun Xi's cousin, but after hesitating for a long time, he finally chose to believe Meng Zhong's judgment...... Later, he handed over all the military power in his hands to Meng Zhong, which allowed Meng Zhong to turn the tide later. ”

"I've heard Bai Qi say this......" Wei Ran nodded with a complicated expression.

The Battle of Yique, that battle was the most regrettable battle of his Qin State in recent decades, if it wasn't for Meng Zhong's troubles at that time, how could his Qin State's conquest of the Central Plains in recent years be difficult?

“…… All in all, Meng Zhong can be regarded as Gongsun Zhu's confidant and favorite general, although Meng Zhong is not from the Wei army in Hedong, today Gongsun Zhu was recruited by Meng Zhong, the old man might as well make a bold guess, maybe half of the Wei army in Hedong County will also join Meng Zhong's command......" Li Dui said in a low voice.

Wei Ran stroked his beard and didn't speak.

Of course, he understood what Li Dui meant, and it was obvious that Meng Zhong did not think that he Qin would simply agree after making that harsh request, so he immediately invited his old boss Gongsun Zhi to ask for the latter's assistance.

"In two days, I implore Fengyangjun to convene the generals again, I want to test the attitude of the Wei and Han armies again......"

"Okay." Li Dui nodded and agreed.

Li Dui guessed right, the Hedong Wei army heading towards Zheng County at this moment was led by Gongsun Jian himself.

In the evening of this day, Gongsun Jian led more than 500 Wei soldiers to arrive in Zheng County.

At that time, when the two of them learned about it, they hurriedly went to the outside of the city to greet them.

It can be seen that Gongsun Jian is very happy, even though he has been traveling for a whole day, his old face is full of tiredness, but the moment he saw Meng Zhong, he still laughed and stepped forward to hug Meng Zhong, and gave Meng Zhong the highest praise: "Well done, Meng boy, I knew that you would definitely be able to kill the Qin people and flee in embarrassment!" ”

On the side, after learning the news, Wei General Dou Xing, who followed Meng Zhong and others to greet Gongsun Zhu, deliberately said at this time: "General, how can you call Yuncheng Jun Meng Boy?" ”

Gongsun Jian feigned anger when he heard this, and waved his hand to hit Dou Xing: "The old man needs you to teach him a lesson?" ”

When Dou Xing dodged, everyone laughed, including Meng Zhong, who swore and said: "In front of the general, I will always be the 'Meng boy' back then." ”

This is not that Meng Zhong deliberately curryed favor with Gongsun Zhu, in fact, with his current status in the Wei State, there is no need to please Gongsun Jian at all, in the final analysis, Meng Zhong does have respect for Gongsun Zhu.

After all, in the Battle of Yique, at the critical moment when hundreds of thousands of Wei troops were in the critical moment of life and death, Gongsun Zhu resolutely resisted the order of his cousin Gongsun Xi and supported Meng Zhong to retreat to Yishan and reorganize the military, which led to Meng Zhong's later efforts to turn the tide.

Someone once said that Meng Zhong was the most critical person in the Battle of Yique, but in fact, Gongsun Zhu was the most critical person, without the support of this veteran, even if there were ten Meng Zhong at that time, it would not be able to change the situation of the defeat of the Wei army on all fronts.

In addition, Gongsun Jian did not have any obsession with greed for power, and the reason why he squeezed out Meng Zhong to become Hedong Shou was only because Tian Wen was an obstacle at that time, so the relationship between Meng Zhong and this old boss did not change at all.

In fact, over the years, Gongsun Zhu has always hoped that Meng Zhong will replace him in Hedong, after all, Hedong is the forefront of Wei's fight against Qin, and in turn, Meng Zhong has obtained several fiefdoms in Wuyang, Yeyi, and Yuncheng before and after, and he is reluctant to leave......

After the greetings were lively for a while, when Meng Zhong was about to set up a banquet for Gongsun Zhu to catch the wind, Gongsun Zhu waved his hand and said, "Don't be in a hurry to eat wine and dinner, tell the old man the current situation first." ”

Unable to resist this veteran, Meng Zhong and Storm Kite had no choice but to take Gongsun Zhu to a room in the county capital in the city, gathered at a low table in the room, and Meng Zhong told Gongsun Jian in detail about the current situation.

“…… The reason why Zai Xia invited the old generals to come was only because Zai Xia felt that Li Dui's attitude was a little ambiguous, and he might have made some agreement with Wei Ran in private. If I guessed correctly, Wei Ran probably planned to drag me and the tyrant Marshal until the Qin State met the conditions of the three armies of Zhao, Qi, and Yan, and made the three armies retreat, and then ...... I'm afraid that the deterrence of Wei and Han against the Qin State is not as good as it is now. ”

After listening to Meng Zhong's story, Gongsun stroked his beard and asked calmly, "If it turns out to be as you say, what will you do?" ”

"Keep fighting!"

After glancing at the storm kite, Meng Zhong lowered his voice and said: "As long as Hedong County can fully support it, my Wei and Han armies alone still have the strength to fight with the Qin State, and I am afraid that the country will ...... at that time."

"There is no need to worry about domestic affairs, the king is not a faint king, and Tian Wen is not a fool." Speaking of this, Gongsun raised his head, looked at Meng Zhong and said with a smile: "After receiving the message from the person you sent, the old man immediately rushed to support you. …… Let it go, Meng Zhong, I have been in Hedong County all these years, and I have long expected that there will be a big war in Wei and Qin, although I am not capable enough to make the Hedong army stronger, but I have successively stockpiled a lot of grain and grass over the years. These grains and grasses, as well as the Hedong County that I summoned to Fenglingdu, can be used as your confidence to fight against the Qin State today! …… Regardless of Xiwu's hatred, Xihe will definitely take it back for me! ”

Looking at the tired and serious face of the old general in front of him, Meng Zhong immediately straightened his expression and clasped his fists.

"No!"