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With the sound of hurried footsteps, Bai Qi, dressed in military uniform, led a team of guards to the northern wall of Fox City.

At this time, Qin General Tong Yang was watching the city, and when he turned around, he saw Bai Qi hurrying over, and hurriedly stepped forward to clasp his fists and salute: "Bai Shuai." ”

"Hmm." Bai Qi nodded, waved his hand to signal that Tong Yang did not have to be limited to etiquette, and then he asked in a deep voice, "Where is it?" ”

"Please come down."

After saying this, Tong Yang led Bai Qi to the city wall.

I saw Bai Qi holding the city wall with both hands, squinting his eyes and looking out of the city, looking at a group of Wei cavalry in the distance outside the city.

To tell the truth, in recent days, there are often cavalry of the Wei army wandering around the two cities of Yihu and Yangren, and even watching the city on horseback, which is commonplace, and it is really not worth alarming Bai Qi for this little thing.

But at this moment, the Wei cavalry outside the city was different, and there were not only a few chariots in the ranks of this Wei cavalry, but also a team of Wei pawns on foot.

What does this mean?

This means that the main force of the Wei army has arrived in this area!

Therefore, the Qin general Tong Yang hurriedly sent someone to inform Bai Qi, and Bai Qi, after learning of this, immediately climbed the city wall and climbed to look at the Wei army, that is, the Wei army of Meng Zhong and Mu Wu, who was peeking into the city.

"The one surnamed Meng must be there right now......

Squinting at the Wei army's infantry in the distance, Bai Qi secretly guessed in his heart, and at the same time thought about countermeasures in his heart.

At this time, Tong Yang whispered beside him: "Bai Shuai, the Wei army has just arrived, why don't you take advantage of its unstable foothold and lead the army to attack tonight?" ”

Bai Qi secretly pondered when he heard this, and did not immediately reply to his generals.

According to the normal way of thinking, the Wei army traveled a long distance from the Xinzheng area to here, and the sergeants of the army may have been tired, so they took advantage of the fact that they had not yet built a camp and led the army to sneak attack at night, which is indeed a good idea, and this is also a relatively common tactic, but for the Wei army at this moment, Bai Qi is really not sure whether he can succeed in a sneak attack.

One of the most critical problems is that he does not know the state of the Wei army.

If it had been in the past, he would have immediately sent scouts to spy on the reality of the main force of the Wei army, and see if the more than 60,000 Wei soldiers were tired after a long journey, so that he could carry out the night attack tactics mentioned by Tong Yang, and take advantage of the fact that the Wei army had not yet gained a foothold in this place to frustrate the Wei army's spirit, even if it could not inflict great trauma on the Wei army.

But unfortunately, he really can't do that at this time, the reason is that the more than 300 Wei cavalry in the distance - to be precise, a total of three Wei cavalry with more than 300 cavalry each, these three Wei cavalry are eyeing his Qin army, rashly sending scouts to spy on the reality of the main force of the Wei army, which is equivalent to asking the soldiers to go out of the city to die in vain.

If the lives of some soldiers can be exchanged for the intelligence of the Wei army, the problem is that Bai Qi does not think that the scouts he sent out can sneak to the Wei army's garrison alive, and may be killed by those Wei cavalry halfway.

"Is there a night attack on the Wei army tonight?"

Bai Qi thought to himself.

After a long time, he let out a long breath, and his face added a little melancholy.

Although the Qin general Tong Yang who was on the side couldn't see it, Bai Qi knew that he had lost the sharpness to break through the Qin army.

Bai Qi didn't tell anyone, in fact, he hadn't thought about how to treat the Wei army at the moment: whether it was to defend the two cities of Huhu and Yangren, and fight the Wei army in this place? Or retreat south to the south of Rushui, keep as many soldiers as possible, and flee under the pursuit of the Wei army.

Yes, he hesitated.

He once led the army to attack the 180,000 Wei army at night without hesitation, but he hesitated, especially when he felt a faint pain in his left shoulder.

"Night Raid...... Forget it. ”

Exhaling slightly, Bai Qi said lightly: "The person surnamed Meng on the other side is also a person who is good at military strategy, how can he leave a flaw?" rashly attacked at night, I am afraid that I will be ambushed by the Wei army......"

Tong Yang nodded slightly, feeling that Bai Qi's words were reasonable, but he still couldn't help but ask: "However, if you can't crush the Wei army's sharp spirit before it builds the camp, you won't have a chance after you are afraid......

“……”

Bai Qi was silent.

In fact, why doesn't he think so? The problem was that he really didn't see any chance of winning the move.

After instructing Tong Yang to raise his garrison, Bai Qi returned to the county capital in the city, and in the main hall, he repeatedly looked at the marching map, trying to find a strategy for counterattacking.

In fact, he has a way to retreat, leading the army to retreat to the south of Rushui, this is his retreat, as long as the planning is good, the Wei army may not be able to intercept how many soldiers he has, but the problem is that once he walks on this retreat, then he has almost no chance of defeating the Wei army - whether it is the strength or the morale of the soldiers, I am afraid that it will not meet the requirements.

Because he was very aware of this matter, Bai Qi did not want to take this retreat immediately, otherwise, two days before the main force of the Wei army arrived, he could have ordered people to build a bridge in Rushui, and then cross Rushui to the south, and flee before the main force of the Wei army arrived—although there were three Wei cavalry around his Qin army staring at them closely, would these three cavalry dare to prevent him from crossing the river with more than 40,000 Qin troops head-on before his main force arrived?

Impossible!

『…… Although it is not clear where the main force of the Wei army is stationed, it is probably on the north side of the fox...... Well, it should be so, yes, if I were the one surnamed Meng, I would do that to prevent the Qin army from moving north to get close to Yique...... Hey, it's a pity that even if you can guess the location of the Wei army, you can't guarantee that you will be able to sneak attack...... Wait for him to attack the city? If he attacks the city, he will not be afraid, but he will besiege it and not attack it, and he will deliberately destroy the morale of our soldiers......

Rubbing his brow bones, which were a little sour, he thought to himself.

I have to say that what he hopes most at this moment is that the main force of the 60,000 Wei army will storm the two cities of Yihu and Yangren, so that his Qin army can rely on the defense of the city to take advantage of each other's pawn consumption, so that the strength of the Qin and Wei armies will be slightly closer - once the strength of the Qin and Wei armies is closer, he will have a greater certainty that he will be able to defeat the opposite Wei army.

But unfortunately, the one surnamed Meng on the other side may not let him succeed, if the other party adopts the tactic of "besieging but not attacking", the other party has the whole of Korea as the backing, and there will be no shortage of grain and grass, and where will the Qin army under his command get more grain and grass?

Then the question arises: will the guy surnamed Meng on the opposite side attack the two cities of Yihu and Yangren, or will he besiege but not attack?

Bai Qi put himself in his shoes and pondered deeply, and after some thought, he came to the conclusion that if he was the commander of the Wei army, he would definitely adopt the strategy of besieging but not attacking at this time.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but let out a long sigh, after all, in his opinion, what he could think of, the guy surnamed Meng on the other side also wanted to think.

"Withdraw! It has to be withdrawn! Before the Wei army decided to besiege the two cities of Huhu and Yangren......

Bai Qi thought to himself.

But as said before, retreating without a fight is bound to seriously dampen the morale of the army, so Bai Qi hopes that before retreating, at least a face-to-face confrontation with the Wei army, a confrontation that can at least ensure a draw, so that his subordinates can have greater confidence when they think of the Wei army: My generation, don't be afraid to wait!

And when it comes to "at least ensuring a tie encounter", it is undoubtedly best to lure the Wei army to attack the city of Tigers.

Touching the short beard at the chin, Bai Qi closed his eyes and thought.

After half a ring, he opened his eyes, took up his pen and wrote a letter, and immediately summoned three guards.

He said to the three guards: "I have a letter asking you to send it to the Wei army on the other side and hand it over to its current commander, do you dare to go?" ”

Several guards looked at each other, and it took a long time for someone to grit their teeth and say, "Dare!" ”

There is no way, the military discipline of the Qin army is strict, how dare these soldiers say no?

Don't say that Bai Qi just asked them to send a letter, even if they were asked to send them to death, they had to grit their teeth and agree.

Of course, this is just a statement, Bai Qi, who was born as a civilian, is still very tolerant and generous to his subordinates, so generous that he can turn a blind eye to the massacre and looting of Koreans by his Qin soldiers.

"Good!" Bai Qi praised it, and immediately advised: "If you encounter the cavalry of the Wei army on the way, you can tell the truth that if the two armies do not kill the envoys in battle, the Wei army will not do anything to you." …… Go ahead. ”

With that, he handed a bamboo slip to the three soldiers.

"Whoa!"

The three soldiers said goodbye and left with bamboo slips, and according to Bai Qi's instructions, they left the city and went straight to the north side.

On the way, the three of them naturally encountered the cavalry of the Wei army.

Seeing that these Wei cavalrymen in the distance raised their crossbow arrows with a smile, and were about to shoot them like hunting, the three Qin soldiers hurriedly shouted: "We are messengers, and we are sent to the generals of your army on the orders of the commander of our army." ”

"The Courier?"

As soon as they heard this, those Wei cavalry immediately put away the crossbow arrows in their hands and brought the three soldiers to their brigade commander Mu Wu.

At this time, Mu Wu had separated from Meng Zhong and was about to continue to patrol the vicinity with his troops, when he saw a cavalry under his command escorting three Qin soldiers in front of him.

After learning of the situation, Mu Wu really did not embarrass the three soldiers, and sent people to bring the three Qin soldiers to the Wei army's station.

When the three Qin soldiers arrived at the Wei garrison, Meng Zhong had just returned to the army, and he was sitting around a bonfire thinking about his next move, and to put it bluntly, he chose a plan between "besieging the city" and "besieging but not attacking" as a strategy.

Here he was thinking about it, when a soldier came to report: "Master Shuai, the Qin army of the fox sent three soldiers, saying that they were ordered by their commander to send a letter here. ”

"Oh?" Meng Zhong raised his eyebrows when he heard this, and the first thing in his mind was that "surnamed Bai", that is, the guy who killed the captured Gongsun Xi in front of the Qin and Wei armies that day.

"Bring it here."

"Whoa!"

A moment later, a group of Wei pawns brought the three Qin pawns to Meng Zhong.

I saw that the three Qin soldiers looked at Meng Zhong with incredible eyes, and they were speechless in surprise.

The person in front of him is the current coach of the Wei army?

This...... Isn't it younger than their white handsome?

But seeing that the Wei soldiers around him were all respectful to this young man, the three Qin soldiers did not dare to question it, took out the bamboo slip from their arms and said, "We are ordered to send the book at our feet." ”

Seeing this, Rong Yan stepped forward, took the letter, and handed it to Meng Zhong.

Meng Zhong spread out the bamboo slip and glanced at it twice, his eyebrows couldn't help but raise, and then the corners of his mouth raised a little inexplicable smile.

The reason is very simple, that is, Bai Qi's letter is full of provocation and ridicule, to the effect that it is satirical about why Wei Jun is belated, and he has been waiting for a long time in Huhu and Yangren.

But it's a pity that Meng Zhong, who was born as a Taoist disciple, could be angered by such a letter?

It was the final signing of the word "white up" that made Meng Zhong feel a little interesting.

"Bai Qi ......," he asked the three soldiers with a smile, "is that your current commander?" ”

The three Qin pawns glanced at each other and felt that this matter was not a big deal, so they told Meng Zhong truthfully: "Exactly. ”

Meng Zhong nodded, and his heart was suddenly surprised.

still remembers that when he first arrived in Wei, Jia Songlei, a Song merchant who knew each other well, told him one thing, that is, the newly built city "Xincheng" in Korea was captured by a young general who had no name before, and this young general was called Bai Qi.

『…… It turned out to be the white one.'"

At this moment, recalling what Song Lei said that day, Meng Zhong thought secretly.

Immediately, he smiled and said to the three Qin soldiers: "The letter of the commander of your army has been accepted below, and the three of you will tell him when you go back, so that he will have time to read more in the future, at least cover it up a little with words, don't show the thoughts in your heart so nakedly, just like this letter, the whole article is full of excitement, so that people can see through it at a glance......"

The three Qin pawns looked at each other.

After half a ring, one of the Qin soldiers said cautiously: "General...... Don't you write a reply? ”

Hearing this, Meng Zhong thought for a while and said, "No need, I know what your boss is thinking...... Tell him whether to attack the city or not, and when the city will be attacked, I will take the lead, not him, and let him defend the city for a good life. And tell him that my name is Meng Zhong, the one who is about to defeat him. …… Let's go back! ”

The three Qin soldiers looked at each other, and had no choice but to return to Fox City.

Looking at the backs of the three Qin soldiers leaving, Meng Zhong was thoughtful.

Around dusk, the three Qin soldiers returned to Fox City safely and relayed Meng Zhong's words one by one.

When he heard that Meng Zhong wanted him to study more in the future, Bai Qi's face couldn't help but stiffen, and he was even more angry in his heart.

It's no wonder, after all, in Bai Qi's opinion, although he was born a commoner, he has also read many sage books, how can he be as unbearable as that guy said? - The other party didn't even dare to write a reply, why did he dare to ridicule him for his lack of literary talent?

『…… He must have been trying to provoke me.'"

Bai Qi thought secretly.

But in fact, Meng Zhong only truthfully expressed his opinion, and did not want to provoke Bai Qi at all......

"What else did he say?"

Bai Qi asked with a slightly unswerving expression.

He said...... Calling Bai Shuai you are good to defend the city, whether to attack the city and when to attack the city, it is up to him to decide, not Bai Shuai......"

"Oh, by the way, he said his name was Meng Zhong, and he said that he would beat Bai Shuai you......"

The three soldiers conveyed it intermittently.

"Meng Zhong?"

learned the name of the guy opposite so easily, and Bai Qi was also slightly stunned.

He only realized at this moment that he might have really been seen through by the other party - yes, he deliberately left the signature with the word "Bai Qi", just hoping that the other party would reply to him with the same number of courtesies when replying to the letter, so that he could know what the name of this Wei general who had been fighting with him recently was.

To be honest, this matter has been bothering Bai Qi for a long time, and he believes in "knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent, and never slacking off in a hundred battles", so he naturally doesn't want to know what his opponent is called.

However, the other party did not reply as he thought, but took the initiative to reveal his name.

After thinking about it, Bai Qi asked the three Qin pawns, "That Meng Zhong...... How does it look? ”

『…… How does it look?'

The three Qin soldiers looked at each other, not knowing how to answer.

Seeing this, Bai Qi couldn't help but be a little disappointed, waved his hand and said, "Forget it, you three of you can step down." ”

"Whoa!" The three Qin soldiers retired as promised.

Looking at the backs of the three of them leaving, Bai Qi let out a long breath, holding his forehead with his hands, and thinking with his eyes closed.

This time, with the temptation of that letter, he finally figured out the name of the opponent, and Bai Qi was still a little happy about it, after all, this opponent was really strong, not a third-rate commander he disdained.

But the other party ridiculed him for his poor writing, which also made him secretly hate......

『…… It's such a calm person, it seems that if you want to provoke him to attack the city, I'm afraid you won't be able to achieve it......

Thinking of this, Bai Qi immediately sent someone to summon the general Ji Hong.

After Ji Hong arrived, Bai Qi asked him, "General Ji, how is the preparation for the bridge?" ”

Ji Hong clenched his fists and said, "I have already instructed Meng Yi to deal with this matter, and it may take two days." ”

Bai Qi frowned slightly when he heard this: "It will take two days, and the 60,000 Wei army is already outside the city!" ”

Seeing this, Ji Hong hurriedly explained: "Bai Shuai rest assured, he considered this matter two days ago, so he asked Meng Yi to order the soldiers to step up the cutting of trees outside the city, and now there is enough wood in Yangren City, but it may take a day or two to build these timbers into bridges......

Hearing such an explanation, Bai Qi's brow stretched slightly.

However, he still told Ji Hong: "General Ji and people urge General Meng Yi, although at present, the Wei army may not immediately attack the two cities of Yihu and Yangren, but maybe the Wei army will take a siege of these two cities, if the Wei army sees through our army's intention to build a bridge in Rushui, it will be extremely unfavorable to our army......

"Whoa!"

The next day, the Wei army did not attack Yihu.

After another day, the Wei army still showed no signs of attacking the city of the fox, but there was a Wei army with the banner of the word "Dou" and moved to the southeast side of the city, which made Bai Qi quite worried.

Although he felt that the Wei army was not yet able to see through his strategy of "crossing Rushui in the south" for the time being, considering that Wei had moved Dou Xing to the southeast side of Yuhu City, and the place was not very far from Rushui, Bai Qi was quite troubled by this.

In this regard, he could only order Ji Hong to step up his urging of Meng Yi and order the latter to prepare the bridge parts that could enable the army to cross Rushui south as soon as possible.

On 16 May, the Qin army had already prepared the parts for the bridge in Yang, while the main force led by Meng Zhong on the Wei side had also set up a fence on the north side of the city - although it was still shabby as the "main camp", Meng Zhong believed that it was enough to prevent the Qin army from sneaking attack.

In this case, Meng Zhong issued the first step in besieging the two cities of Yihu and Yangren, that is, to cut off the connection between the Qin army of the two cities of Yihu and Yangren, so that the Qin army stationed in these two cities was isolated from each other.

However, just as the Wei army was preparing to implement this tactic, the commander of the Korean army, Storm Kite, led 30,000 Han troops from Yishui to this area.

Hua Hu was the first to find out about the news and immediately sent someone to inform Meng Zhong.

Meng Zhong was stunned for a moment when he learned the news, knowing that he did not ask for help from the Storm Kite.

In the afternoon, under the guidance of Huahu's cavalry, the storm kite rode a chariot to the current main camp of the Wei army, that is, the camp built by Meng Zhong on the north side of the fox.

After learning the news, Meng Zhong naturally went out to greet him in person and invited the violent kite to the camp - a thatched hut.

The two had already had a hearty conversation when they were in Yique Mountain, and at that time, Storm Kite was quite satisfied with Meng Zhong, who advocated a real "joint fight against Qin", not to mention that during the period when Meng Zhong dragged the main force of the Qin army, Storm Kite had already captured Xincheng.

Therefore, seeing each other today, Storm Kite and Meng Zhong will not feel strange or cold.

"How could Da Sima lead his army here?"

After inviting Storm Kite to sit down by the campfire, Meng Zhong asked in surprise.

Hearing this, the storm kite said with a smile: "Knowing that Master Meng besieged the Qin army so far, the old man came to help Master Meng come to help. ”

It turned out that in fact, not only the Wei army hated the Qin army, but also hated the Qin army's commander Bai Qi, and the violent kite also gritted his teeth with hatred for Bai Qi.

After all, in the battle of Yique Mountain, if it weren't for a Meng Zhong in the Wei army, then after the battle of Yique Mountain, the 180,000 Wei army was defeated, the 100,000 Han troops under his command collapsed in horror when they heard the news, Gongsun Xi was killed, and he was defeated by a violent kite.

To put it bluntly, the appearance of Meng Zhong enabled the violent kite to avoid being implicated by Gongsun Xi to the rout.

Forget about hating Gongsun Xi, Gongsun Xi has already died in Bai Qi's hands, in this case, the storm kite naturally counted this account on Bai Qi's head.

So, when it was learned from the cavalry sent by Huahu that the main force of the Qin army had fled to Yihu, Storm Kite temporarily gave up his plan to continue attacking Yiyang, led his Korean army to withdraw from Yiyang in large numbers, and set up a heavy ambush on the west bank of Yishui, waiting for the Qin army led by Bai Qi to throw himself into the net.

Unexpectedly, for some reason, the Qin army under Bai Qi's command took root in the two cities of Yihu and Yangren.

After learning the news, Storm Kite was afraid that this Qin army had fled, so he ordered half of his troops to garrison Yishui and lead the other half of his troops to rush to Yihu: if the main force of the Wei army led by Meng Zhong had not yet arrived, then he would contain this Han army; If Meng Zhong had already led the main force of the Wei army to arrive, then he would gather his troops and attack the Qin army together.

At the same time that Storm Kite took the initiative to meet Meng Zhong, Bai Qi also received the news that 30,000 Han soldiers had arrived in the northwest of the city.

Unlike the worried look on the face of the Qin general Tong Yang who came to report the news, Bai Qi was quite happy when he learned about it, which made Ji Hong, Tong Yang and other generals very puzzled.

So Ji Hong asked Bai Qi: "30,000 Han troops rushed here to support the Wei army, Bai Shuai was not only worried, but happy, I don't know why?" ”

Bai Qi said with a smile when he heard this: "I'm not afraid of the enemy attacking the city, I'm afraid that the cunning and scheming Meng Zhong will besiege and not attack, and wear down the spirit of our army. …… Xincheng should have been captured by the Storm Kite, but Yiyang may not. In my opinion, Storm Kite must be in a hurry to attack Yiyang with the Wei army after defeating our army at this moment, how could he agree with the Wei army's strategy of 'besieging but not attacking'? …… That Meng Zhong must advocate a siege, and the violent kite must advocate a strong attack, if the two have a conflict because of this, it is God bless our army; Taking a step back, it is probably that Meng Zhong compromised and was coerced by the violent kite to attack the city together......"

"I see."

Ji Hong, Tong Yang and other generals suddenly realized.

But immediately, Ji Hong said in a low voice: "However, with the 30,000 Han troops of the Storm Kite, the number of Wei and Han coalition troops outside the city may reach 90,000, and our army is only 40,000, I'm afraid it will ......."

As if he had guessed the thoughts of the generals, Bai Qi said with a smile: "You can rest assured, facing more than 60,000 Wei troops alone, maybe I am not very sure, but the other party has more than 30,000 Han troops, and I am more sure...... I've come up with a plan, maybe I can break the 90,000 Wei and Han coalition forces outside the city! ”

Hearing these words, Ji Hong and Tong Yang looked at each other.

It's not sure to resist the 60,000 Wei army alone, but in the face of the 90,000 Wei and Han coalition forces, the young coach in front of him is sure?

Is there such a thing in this world?

But looking at the confident look on the face of the young coach in front of him, the generals can only choose to believe.