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"Report! The rear army has been routed by the armies of the Wei and Song dynasties......"

When the herald crawled to the ground to report the bad news to Tian Touch, the commander of the Qi army, Tian Touch's whole face turned pale.

He didn't know that the Qin army had actually released water at the beginning, but from his point of view, he naturally thought that the rear army was defeated too quickly, and it failed to buy enough time for the rest of the armies to retreat.

“……”

Gritting his teeth slightly, Tian Yan stood on the chariot and looked around.

At present, the Fangcheng cavalry of the Wei army is mainly concentrated in the front of his Qi army, constantly harassing them with long-range shots from crossbows, so that his Qi army cannot retreat at a normal speed, and the left flank is pinned down by the Qin generals Fan Bu and Zheng Yin, and now that Tian Da's rear army is defeated, it is not difficult to guess that the Wei and Song armies will immediately pursue and launch an offensive against his central army and right flank, which means that the retreat speed of his Qi army will be limited again.

What to do?

Tian Touch's head couldn't help but ooze beads of sweat.

At this time, one of the generals under his command hurriedly came here with a chariot, and said to Tian Touch with a fist: "Touch, it can't go on like this, instead of asking the soldiers to be slaughtered by the armies of Qin, Wei, and Song so badly, it is better to reflexively fight with them!" ”

Fight it out?

Tian Yan frowned and thought.

In all fairness, even though the rear army commanded by Tian Da was defeated by the alliance forces of the Qin, Wei and Song Kingdoms, the Qi army still numbered more than 50,000, and it was not impossible to fight with the pursuing enemy forces, the problem was that it was almost impossible to win.

In Tian Touch's estimation, the most optimistic outcome is that both sides lose.

It is worth mentioning that this is under the condition that the Yan army does not participate, and at present, all kinds of signs indicate that the Yan army and the Song State are very likely to have some private agreement, which makes Tian Touch full of distrust of the Yan army - in case the Yan army defects at this time and jointly besieges his Qi army with the alliance forces of Qin, Wei and Song, then the 100,000 army under his command will be wiped out here, and even the alliance army with the Qin, Wei, Song and Yan four countries can kill all the way to the hinterland of his Qi country.

This is the fundamental reason why Tian Touch does not dare to fight.

However, at present, the alliance of the Qin, Wei and Song Kingdoms is gradually encroaching on the army under his command, which makes Tian Touch a little dilemma: should he abandon part of the Qi army and flee, or concentrate his forces to break the net with the alliance army of the Qin, Wei and Song Kingdoms?

Just as Tian Touch hesitated, he suddenly heard a noise erupting from the army on the west side.

He listened carefully and vaguely heard many soldiers shouting "Yan Army" and "Yan Army" and the like.

Yan Jun?! Le Yi really dared to turn his back on me?

At the first time, Tian Touch subconsciously thought that Yan Jun saw that his Qi army was in a weak position and took the opportunity to fall into the ground, but a moment later, the situation reported by the herald who came to report made him feel extremely shocked.

"Report! The Yan army has come to the aid of our army, and they are fighting against the Qin army on the left flank of our army! ”

……

Tian opened his mouth, but he didn't react for a while.

Yan Jun...... Supported them?

Could it be that the Yan army did not actually form an alliance with the Song State in private? And did not turn his back on him Qi country?

Just when Tian lost his mind, another herald hurriedly came to convey the suggestion of Le Yi, the commander of the Yan army: "Touch, Yan General Le Yi said that his Yan army will not be able to resist for long, and I hope that our army will evacuate quickly." …… He also said that the Qin army on the west side would be handed over to him, and asked our army to focus on resisting the Wei and Song armies! ”

"Good, good ......"

Tian nodded again and again, only to feel a mess in his head.

He didn't suspect that Le Yi had any conspiracy, after all, as far as the current situation of his Qi army was concerned, if Le Yi really had any ill intentions towards his Qi army, the other party didn't need to play any tricks at all, just unite with the alliance forces of the Qin, Wei and Song Kingdoms to flank them, which was enough to wipe out tens of thousands of his Qi army.

But Le Yi did not do this, but instead led the Yan army to reinforce his Qi army, which is enough to prove that Le Yi did not turn his back on his Qi country.

Thinking of this, Tian Touch was extremely remorseful for his previous judgment.

knew that Le Yi had no intention of turning his back on Qi State, so why did he leave the Yan army and flee alone? He could have retreated with the Yan army and covered up with each other.

But now is obviously not the time to regret, he took a deep breath, boosted morale and said: "Tell all the armies, the Yan army has also broken through the blockade of the enemy army and smoothly converged with our army, and then, tell the armies and the Yan army to cover each other and slowly retreat." …… Don't be afraid, although the alliance forces of the Qin, Wei and Song Kingdoms are outnumbered, the strength of our Qiyan alliance is not inferior......"

Encouraged by Tian Touch, and also informed that the Yan army was coming to help, the Qi army finally temporarily stabilized the army's morale, and then, as Le Yi suggested, the Yan army resisted the Qin army, and the Qi army mainly resisted the armies of Wei and Song.

It has to be said that after receiving the support of tens of thousands of Yan troops, the Qi army finally had relatively sufficient troops to resist the Wei and Song armies, which also made it impossible for the armies of Qin, Wei and Song to achieve the expected results in a short period of time.

A moment later, a Qin pawn in front sent the latest battle situation to Qin General Jin Kuang's side: "Report!" Our army was blocked by the Yan army! The Yan army was supporting the evacuation of the Qi army, and the two generals, Fan Bu and Zheng Yin, were heavily blocked by the Yan army, and they begged the general to send reinforcements! ”

Hey?

Hearing the soldier's report, Qin General Jin Kuang was really a little surprised in his heart.

What's the situation? The Yan army is covering the retreat of the Qi army?

Isn't Yan Jun the internal response of the Song State?

I have to say that looking at the state of the Yan army when it followed the Qi army to attack Tancheng before, Jin Kuang thought that the Yan army was the internal response of the Song State.

Later, when Meng Zhong was chasing the Qi army, the armies of Wei and Song turned a blind eye to the Yan army, which once again deepened Jin Kuang's judgment on this matter, but what is the situation now?

Jin Kuang, who was confused, couldn't help but turn his head to look at Meng Zhong, only to find that the latter was frowning and looking thoughtful.

Licking his lips, Jin Kuang asked tentatively: "General Meng, this Yan army ......"

Of course, Meng Zhong knew what the situation was with the Yan army, but of course he would not reveal the secret to Jin Kuang, so he frowned and thought for a moment, and said in a deep voice: "Has the Yan army reinforced the Qi army?" Tut! Looking at the previous Yan army's offensive against Tancheng, I thought that the Yan army did not want to fight for the Qi army, but I didn't expect ......"

This Meng Zhong didn't even know?

Jin Kuang was a little surprised, and said tentatively: "Could it be that Song Guo actually didn't have any private agreement with Yan Jun?" ”

"A private pact?" Meng Zhong said amusedly: "General Jin Kuang thinks there is some private agreement between the two sides? If this is the case, shouldn't the Yan army unite with you and me to besiege the Qi army at this time? ”

"That's what you say...... When General Kemeng asked the armies to pursue the Qi army before, he turned a blind eye to the Yan army, and I thought there was something ...... the Yan army."

"It's me wrong." Meng Zhong frowned and said: "I thought that the Yan army would also like this Qi army to be wiped out by you and me, and considering that the threat of the Yan army to us is far inferior to that of the Qi army, I abandoned the Yan army and chased and killed the Qi army, but I didn't expect it...... I made a mistake. ”

This Meng Zhong also has a time when he makes a mistake?

Jin Kuang glanced at Meng Zhong in surprise, and then his heart moved slightly, and he clenched his fists and said: "General Meng, at this moment, the two generals under my command Fan Bu and Zheng Yin are being blocked by the Yan army, and they are urgently asking for reinforcements, but the troops on this side are also insufficient, do you want to let the soldiers in front temporarily withdraw first......

How could Meng Zhong not know what Jin Kuang was thinking, you must know that because of Le Yi's relationship, he had no intention of annihilating the 100,000 Qi army this time, the reason why he wanted to press the Qi army step by step was actually to help Le Yi gain the trust of Tian Touch and Tian Da in disguise, after all, the more he received the support of the Yan army in a dangerous situation, the more Tian Touch and Tian Da would trust Le Yi.

However, of course, he would not reveal these internal information to Jin Kuang, only to see him frowning, and pretending to be displeased and said: "I know that your army is brave, how can I not even defeat the army of the Yan Kingdom?" Could it be that General Jin Kuang has any selfish intentions? ”

I have to say that if it were someone else, I'm afraid Jin Kuang would have scolded him at this time, but in the face of Meng Zhong, he really didn't have the guts, after all, Meng Zhong defeated him twice in the Qin State, which had already made many Qin generals afraid of him - you must know that Meng Zhong defeated him twice in the Qin State, not with the advantage of any troops, but entirely with excellent strategy, which is what makes these Qin generals feel the most awe-inspiring.

Therefore, he hurriedly explained: "General Meng, don't misunderstand, my Qin army went to Song this time to help the Song State repel the Qi army with your army, how can I have any selfish intentions?" …… However, even General Meng didn't expect that the Yan army would actually cover the withdrawal of the Qi army, let alone the soldiers in front of our army? I think that most of them were caught off guard by the Yan army because of this reason. …… Although there may have been some contradictions between General Meng and our Qin army in the past, but now that the Qin and Wei armies are allies of each other, General Meng's suggestions will naturally be listened to, but if the soldiers of our Qin army suffer too many casualties because of this, I am also worried that the soldiers of our Qin army may have a grudge against General Meng......

Hey, you still dare to threaten me?

Meng Zhong naturally heard the deep meaning of Jin Kuang's words, and felt a little funny in his heart.

In fact, when he questioned Jin Kuang just now, he was already ready to tear his face with Jin Kuang - the two sides tore their faces, Jin Kuang naturally would not listen to his orders again, and of course, the Qin army would not continue to advance the two armies of Qi and Yan.

And once the Qin army does not cooperate, the Wei and Song armies will naturally no longer be able to pursue the Qi and Yan coalition forces, so they can only let the other party evacuate, so that Le Yi can help Tian Touch and Tian Da evacuate safely.

Unexpectedly, Jin Kuang actually endured it, although there was a bit of disguised warning in his words, but his attitude was not resolute.

What's going on? Is this Jin Kuang such a good talker?

Frowning slightly, Meng Zhong thought about how to solve the current situation.

However, Jin Kuang was mistaken, and seeing that Meng Zhong was calm and silent, he was inevitably a little weak-hearted: "General Meng is not strange, there is no other meaning in the bottom." …… It is rumored that General Meng loves soldiers like a son, and he must be able to understand that Jin does not want his soldiers to suffer too many casualties...... Of course, if General Meng insists on continuing to persecute the Qi and Yan armies, our Qin army will also follow. ”

Is that still there?

Muttering secretly in his heart, Meng Zhong coughed, and hurriedly opened his mouth to dispel Jin Kuang's thoughts: "No, General Jin Kuang is right. Now that the Yan army is reinforcing the Qi army, the strength has surpassed our army, and it really should not be pressed too tightly, lest the other party be forced to a dead end and jump over the wall in a hurry, and our army will be killed...... Moreover, if you think about it carefully, I, the general of the Wei State, are indeed not qualified to ask your army to ......"

"What is General Meng talking about?" Jin Kuang said with a smile: "General Meng's talent, even if it is the soldiers of my Qin army, they admire it, not to mention, it is difficult to conclude the affairs of the world, maybe General Meng will defect to my Great Qin in the future?" With the talent of General Meng, as long as he is willing to defect to my Great Qin, it must be a feudal king......"

Meng Zhong smiled slightly, and did not say anything about it.

I have to say, in fact, Jin Kuang is really right, in this era, it is indeed a very frequent thing for generals from various countries to defect to other countries, such as Wei Zhang, Gan Mao, Gongsun Xi, etc., the country they have served for the longest time is actually not the home country where they were born.

Seeing that Meng Zhong seemed to be in a bad mood, Jin Kuang took the opportunity to say, "That'...... Then Jin ordered Fan Bu and Zheng Yin to withdraw? ”

"That's all there is to it for the time being." Meng Zhong nodded, pretending to be unwilling.

Seeing Meng Zhong's acquiescence, Jin Kuang was overjoyed, and asked Fan Bu and Zheng Yin to withdraw from the boat, although he kept saying that it was a temporary retreat and regrouping, but he privately called Fan Bu and Zheng Yin to deliberately delay.

As for the reason, naturally he didn't want his side to suffer too many casualties, so Fan Bu and Zheng Yin didn't doubt it.

However, Jin Kuang's small actions did not hide from Meng Zhong's eyes, but Meng Zhong did not demolish him.

Perhaps Jin Kuang felt that only he, the Qin army, deliberately released water in this pursuit battle, I am afraid that he would never have thought that it was not him who released the most water to the Qi Yan coalition army, but Meng Zhong beside him.

As Meng Zhong judged, when the Qin army no longer forced the Qi and Yan armies too much, the Wei and Song armies were also unable to support themselves and could not expand any gains, so Meng Zhong naturally ordered the Wei and Song armies to also withdraw, join forces with the Qin army, and follow behind the Qi and Yan armies from afar, chasing and killing those Qi soldiers who had fallen behind for various reasons.

And how many people can be killed?

The main force of the Qi army, after all, was still under the cover of the Yan army, and most of it was saved, and it quickly withdrew to the north.

After pursuing for thirty miles, the armies of Qin, Wei, and Song each collected their troops, cleaned up the corpses along the way, and by the way, divided the spoils of the enemy's corpses.

Seeing this, Qin General Jin Kuang also breathed a sigh of relief.

He felt that he had succeeded in preventing the annihilation of the Qi army after all, and he could finally explain to the Marquis Wei Ran.

Seeing him say goodbye to Meng Zhong with a smile on his face, and then turned to leave, Le Jin said to the deputy general Yu Ying with a strange smile: "Yu Ying, let me tell you a joke, then Jin Kuang thought that he helped the Qi army escape the fate of destruction......"

Zuo Sima Yu Ying glanced coldly at his own commander, and then turned to Meng Zhong and said, "City Order, I don't understand, since the State of Qin has the intention of uniting the State of Qi, why do you want to help the State of Song repel the invading Qi army?" ”

Meng Zhong said lightly: "It's only because the Qin State is also forced to have no way to choose to cooperate with the Qi State." …… Qin did not want Qi to annex Song prematurely, but also did not want Song to help Wei defend against him Qin set foot in the Central Plains, therefore, Qin needed Qi to contain Song. ”

Yu Ying frowned and thought for a moment, then shook his head and sighed: "The deceit between countries is really not understandable by my martial artists. ”

Hearing this, Meng Zhong smiled slightly, and immediately turned his head to look in the direction of the retreat of the Qi Yan coalition army.

According to his estimates, in today's pursuit battle, the Qi army has at least 40,000 casualties, counting the Qi army's previous casualties in Tancheng, the 100,000 army of the Qi general Tian Touch, I am afraid that there are only about 40,000 left, which can be regarded as weakening the Qi State.

Of course, according to Meng Zhong's original plan, he planned to let the 100,000 Qi army be wiped out in the Song State, but it is not an unacceptable thing to exchange the 40,000 Qi army for Tian Touch and Tian Da's trust in Le Yi and in exchange for the trust of Qi State in Yan State.

After all, the entire Yan State is indeed the internal response to cover the Qi matter, and only when the Yan State gains the trust of the Qi State, can the Yan State army launch a fatal blow against the latter when the Qi State is defenseless, and crush the entire powerful Qi State in one fell swoop.

Using more than 40,000 Qi troops in exchange for the fall of the Qi State is a very profitable thing no matter how you think about it.

Of course, the most important thing is to avoid a head-to-head confrontation with Yan Jun, or even a head-to-head confrontation with Le Yi.

Le Yi is different from Bai Qi, for Bai Qi, although Meng Zhong admires him, he puts Bai Qi in the position of the enemy from the beginning, and naturally he will not have any burden because of the war with Bai Qi; But Le Yi is different, Le Yi is a brother who has been with Meng Zhong and others for many years, unless he has to do it, otherwise, whether Meng Zhong or Le Yi, he will not want to see each other on the battlefield of the confrontation between the two armies.

Helping King Yan to fall the Qi Kingdom is undoubtedly an extremely difficult road...... Take care, Ah Yi.

Looking at the direction of the retreat of the Qi Yan coalition army, Meng Zhong said secretly.

At the same time, more than ten miles away, Le Yi was riding a war horse, looking at the wilderness where there were no chasing soldiers of Qin, Wei and Song behind him.

"Monsima has mercy."

I don't know when, a voice came from Le Yi's side, just by this Meng Sima's title, Le Yi didn't have to guess to know that it was Rong Yi.

"I know." Le Yi nodded slightly.

Of course, he knew that Meng Zhong's men were merciful, after all, his Yan army had just appeared on the battlefield, and the army of the three kingdoms of Qin, Wei and Song that was pursuing the Qi army immediately slowed down its offensive, and then slowly retreated.

After that, he didn't know how many losses there were on the Qi army's side, anyway, on his Yan army's side, at best, there were only 2,000 casualties - on the battlefield where there were hundreds of thousands or 200,000 troops at every turn, the casualties of just 2,000 soldiers could indeed be called extremely small casualties.

"It's for your sake and my sake."

“…… I know. Le Yi frowned and glanced at Rong Yi: "What do you want to say?" ”

"Nothing." Rong Yi's tone was indifferent, but Le Yi could see the unhappy look on his face clearly.

Obviously, Rong Yi is still deeply dissatisfied with Le Yi's rescue of the Qi army, as a Yan general from the Song Dynasty, Rong Yan is actually not much different from the Yan people, and they all want those Qi people to die, but for the sake of the overall situation, he led his troops to cover the withdrawal of the Qi army, and also paid the price of many casualties among his subordinates, no wonder Rong Yan was unhappy.

At the same time, in the Qi army not far away, the Qi general Tian Touch had also learned the news that the armies of the Qin, Wei and Song Kingdoms had given up continuing to pursue them, and he was relieved to do so.

He must admit that this time he was able to lead tens of thousands of Qi troops to successfully break through the resistance of the alliance forces of the Qin, Wei and Song Kingdoms, all thanks to the rescue of the Yan army, without the rescue of the Yan army, maybe his remaining 40,000 troops at the moment would be wiped out today.

Thinking of this, Tian Touch felt extremely ashamed of his previous suspicion of Le Yi and his practice of leaving the Yan army alone to lead the Qi army to evacuate.

He said to the deputy general Tian Da: "Tian Da, maybe you and I really misunderstood Le Yi...... Alas, if I knew this, why did you and I leave the Yan army and evacuate alone? Our army lost tens of thousands of soldiers in vain......"

Hearing this, Tian Damo was silent, his face was pale, and after half a sound, he raised his head and said, "I still don't believe in Le Yi and Yan Jun...... The Yan army covered the withdrawal of our army, I admit it, but what happened before? You and I have seen with our own eyes that the Yan army was passive and sluggish when attacking Tancheng......"

"That's it!"

Tian Yan raised his hand and interrupted: "In any case, this time it is all up to Le Yi and the Yan army, and our army can avoid suffering greater losses." You and I should express our gratitude to Le Yi. ”

Although Tian Da was reluctant, he finally nodded helplessly.

After a while, after Le Yi and Rong Yi returned to the Yan army, Tian Touch and Tian Da came to the Yan army and met with Le Yi.

Seeing Le Yi again, Tian Touch's face was full of shame, and he hugged his fist deeply towards Le Yi, and he couldn't afford it for a long time.

After being helped up by Le Yi, he said ashamedly: "Le Sima, Tian doesn't know what to say, in short, thank Le Sima for supporting our army regardless of his past suspicions, so that our Qi army can avoid suffering greater losses." ”

Hearing this, Le Yi said calmly: "Tentacles don't have to be like this, there were some misunderstandings between you and me before, and there was indeed part of the responsibility of my Yan Army, but I once said that thanks to the benevolence and righteousness of King Qi, my Yan Kingdom was able to survive, why does Tentacle think that my Yan Kingdom has turned its back on Qi State?" ”

Tian touched and nodded, but on the side, Tian Da couldn't help but ask, "What happened when the Yan army attacked Tancheng before?" ”

Le Yi's face remained unchanged, and he calmly explained: "I explained this matter before, for some reason, the soldiers of my Yan army are unwilling to help your country fight, which is beyond Le's control. If it was just one or two people like this, Le would naturally be dealt with by military law, but everyone in the army was like this, what could Le do? Wouldn't it be worse if it caused a mutiny among the soldiers? ”

Tian touched and nodded.

In the same way, when Le Yi explained it like this, Tian Touch was skeptical, but at this moment, he was convinced of Le Yi's conviction, after all, Le Yi and Yan Jun did help them at their most critical moment.

After explaining, Le Yi asked Tian Touch: "What is the next plan for the touch?" ”

Hearing this, Tian Touch smiled bitterly and said, "What else can I plan?" Let's go back to China first, and see how the king sends us down. …… Alas, the battle was not effective, even Tancheng failed to capture, and lost fifty or sixty thousand soldiers, and after returning to Linzi, I don't know what the king will do with the two of us. ”

On the side, Tian Da also had a look of panic on his face when he heard this.

Seeing this, Le Yi Zhengse said: "In my opinion, the two of them are not to blame for this defeat, only the Qin and Wei countries sent reinforcements...... Alas, if only the two of them could have given more trust to Zaixia before, at least they could get out of the way......"

Hearing this, Tian Touch was both grateful and ashamed, and said again and again: "The two of us are destined to be severely punished by the king, and there is really no need to implicate Le Sima ......"

Subsequently, Le Yi also comforted Tian Touch and Tian Da with a few words.

I have to say that Le Yi didn't think that this time the King of Qi would severely punish Tian Touch and Tian Da, after all, according to his estimates, Linzi may have already learned the result of the battle of Taoyi at this time, and the King of Qi wants to hate and hate Li Dui, the Fengyang Jun of Zhao - the defeat of the Qi-Zhao coalition army is destined to end in Qi's crusade against the Song State, no matter whether Tian Touch and Tian Da's side win or lose, it is not enough to affect the overall situation.

It is precisely on this basis that Le Yi has to try to gain the trust of Tian Touch and Tian Da.

Otherwise...... Hum!

Is it true that Le Yi doesn't resent Tian Touch and Tian Da for leaving his Yan army and withdrawing alone?

Oh, Le Yi really doesn't hold a grudge, after all, he has never regarded Qi Jun as an ally from the beginning.