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"Attack! Offensive! ”

"Hurry, hurry! Storm the walls ......"

"Block the Qin army!"

In the last wave of the offensive before sunset, the offensive of the Qin army became more and more ferocious, and in just a short moment, six places on the southern city wall were attacked by the Qin army, so that the generals of Fangcheng, such as Menghu, Huahu, Mu Wu, and Cao Chun, had to run back and forth to support, and even in the end, even Meng Zhong personally went into battle, holding a sword and fighting with the Qin soldiers.

I have to say that Meng Zhong's personal participation in the battle really greatly encouraged the Wei soldiers in Fangcheng.

At this time, at the Qin army's main formation, Sima Cuo was finally able to connect the young Fang Cheng Ling with the fierce general after seeing Meng Zhong personally in battle—until then, he had been mistaken for Meng Zhong as a general who was good at cunning and weak in force.

In this regard, Bai Qi was not surprised, because when the two first met on Yique Mountain, Bai Qi had fought with Meng Zhong, and at that time he realized that the rival opposite who looked two years younger than him was actually above him in personal force, as if he had fought on the battlefield again and again.

It's no wonder, after all, the Qin State doesn't pay much attention to Meng Zhong at present, and he didn't send someone to find out the details of Meng Zhong, otherwise people like Sima Cuo and others would understand that Meng Zhong climbed up from the soldier layer step by step, although he rarely went into battle to kill the enemy in person, but this did not mean that he lacked the experience of charging into battle.

"It's getting dark."

Sima mistakenly glanced at the sun in the west, which had gradually disappeared into the mountains, and pretended to remind Bai Qi carelessly.

In fact, he could also see that Fang Cheng was obviously at the end of the crossbow at this moment, and if he launched another wave or two of fierce attacks, he might be able to take down this city today, but the problem was that the sky was too dark at this moment, although it was not to the point where he couldn't see his fingers, but it had obviously seriously affected the sight of the soldiers on both sides.

He didn't want to interfere with Bai Qi, but he still felt in his heart that it was better to temporarily withdraw troops today, anyway, in his opinion, Bai Qi would definitely be able to attack Fang Cheng tomorrow.

Of course, if Bai Qi refuses to listen, he will also respect Bai Qi's opinion, after all, this time the two made an agreement before.

I saw that under Sima Cuo's secret attention, Bai Qi stared at Fang Cheng for a long time, and then let out a long breath.

In fact, Bai Qi also knew that if he ordered to continue to attack Fangcheng desperately at this moment, Fangcheng would be broken by him sooner or later, but in this way, the casualties of the Qin soldiers under his command would be very large, which was not conducive to fighting with the armies of Wei and Han in the future.

What if Wei had sent a reinforcement army to support Fangcheng and was hidden in a secret place by Meng Zhong?

Being countered by the enemy when his own soldiers were exhausted had already tasted in the hands of Meng Zhong during the Battle of Yique, and he knew very well that Meng Zhong was very self-aware of the entire battle situation, and once he showed his flaws, he would be countered by the other party.

This is also the reason why Bai Qi only sent 50,000 troops from beginning to end today, and he has never dared to move his remaining 20,000 troops, just to prevent Meng Zhong from repeating his old tricks.

The only problem is that he will not be able to fulfill the vows he made in the past, which may not be a bargain for Meng Zhong to mock him in the future.

Thinking of this, Bai Qi glanced at the sunset that was about to be completely hidden behind the mountains, and thought in his heart.

A moment later, under Bai Qi's order, the Qin army's main formation finally sounded the sound of gold on behalf of the withdrawal of troops.

After hearing this sound of gold, the Qin army under Fangcheng City took the cloud ladder and the long ladder that had not yet been destroyed, and retreated like a tide.

Then, the sound of gold sounded on the western outskirts of Fangcheng, and it was obvious that the Chu army was also preparing to retreat.

At this time, Meng Yi, the former army general, came to Bai Qi and Sima Cuo, and said eagerly: "Bai Shuai, please give the last general another chance, as long as there is another hour, the last general will definitely be able to break through Fangcheng!" ”

As soon as the words fell, it seemed that Zhongxu, Tong Yang and other generals also echoed one after another.

On the side, Ji Hong also persuaded Bai Qi and said: "Bai Shuai, I made an oath outside Fangcheng that day, saying that I will definitely break through Fangcheng when I come back today, if I withdraw my troops at this moment, it will definitely boost the arrogance of the Wei army and hit the morale of our army, it is better to let the soldiers retreat five miles, eat and rest for a while, and then resume the siege." …… I see that Fang City is already at the end of its strong crossbow, and it may not be able to resist our army. ”

I have to say that these words are also exactly what Zhongbai Qi's heart is, I saw him think about it and say: "Let's see how the morale in the army is first, and then make plans." ”

In all fairness, the morale of the Qin army at this time is not too good, but it is not too bad, although today's siege has caused heavy losses to the Qin soldiers, but how can there be immortals in the war? What really affected morale was because the last wave of the Qin army's offensive was blocked by Fang Cheng.

It was precisely because this last wave of offensive was repelled by the Wei army in Fangcheng that the morale of the Qin army fluctuated greatly.

Seeing this, Bai Qi and Ji Hong whispered a few words, preparing to join forces with the generals to perform a scene later.

At the same time, on the walls of Fangcheng, Meng Zhong watched the retreat of the Qin army with his sword.

I saw that at this moment, his clothes and armor were full of blood, and he was like two people who were elegant on weekdays, but seeing Meng Zhong at this moment, the Wei soldiers on the city wall felt more at ease.

"Hooray!"

"The Qin army has retreated!"

"Hooray!"

Seeing the Qin army retreating like a tide outside the city, the Wei soldiers in the city couldn't help but cheer.

In the midst of these cheers, Meng Sui, who was also covered in blood, walked up to Meng Zhong's side, and after breathing a sigh of relief, he whispered, "It's finally over...... I'm really afraid that these soldiers won't be able to withstand the pressure of the Qin army......"

"The thrill was worth it."

Turning his head to look at the Wei pawns who were cheering, Meng Zhong lowered his voice and said, "After this battle, these new pawns can be called trustworthy ......."

Meng Sui nodded, he knew that the reason why Meng Zhong decided not to withdraw his troops immediately was not only for fear that Bai Qi would see through some of their arrangements, but also to use the Qin army to sharpen these new soldiers who had only undergone a few months of training.

Although these new soldiers also suffered heavy losses in today's battle, it was worth it.

Under the pressure of the Qin army, these soldiers who were lucky enough to survive were quickly transformed into reliable soldiers, which made Meng Sui have some confidence in the next defense of Yangguansuke.

As the so-called Ci is not in charge of the army, if these new soldiers cannot be sharpened by the Qin army today, after they retreat to Yangguan in the future, they may not be able to resist the onslaught of the Qin army, and once Yangguan is broken by the Qin army, then everything will be over.

"How's the situation on the south wall?" Wiping the blood from his face, Meng Sui turned his head and asked Meng Zhongdao.

Meng Zhong smiled reluctantly and told Meng Sui, "Zhao Ju...... It should be merciful, in short, according to Zheng Zheng's report to me, there is almost no danger on the side of his southern city wall, and several attacks by the Chu army were easily repelled by him......"

Meng Sui nodded when he heard this: "Qu Yuan and Zhuang Xin are right, Zhao Ju is just involuntarily, but in this way, it makes me feel a little guilty...... Guilty about what we're going to do next. ”

Meng Zhong was silent for a moment when he heard this, and then sighed lightly: "It's not just him, you and I can't help ourselves, if Zhao Ju wants to resent you and me in the future, then there is no way...... Let's get moving, tell the soldiers to hurry up and rest, and after an hour, the armies will retreat from Chaoyang Pass, and then, as previously planned, ......"

"Hmm!"

Hearing the last sentence, Meng Sui looked straight and nodded solemnly.

At the same time, Bai Qi was standing on the chariot and followed the army back to the main camp.

At this time, looking at the soldiers of the Qin army, I saw that they were hanging their heads one by one, or holding on to their wounded robes, or carrying weapons alone, and they seemed to be walking weakly on the road, compared to when they went to Fangcheng this morning, they were like two armies.

It's no wonder, after all, they didn't succeed in breaking through Fangcheng today as Bai Qi had sworn at the beginning, which inevitably had some impact on the morale of the army.

"Bai Shuai!"

Suddenly, the Qin soldiers heard the voice of General Meng Yi nearby, and couldn't help but turn their heads to look.

At this time, they found out that Meng Yi, Zhong Xu, Tong Yang, Wei Yuan and other generals came to their boss Bai Qi's side at some point, and deliberately said to Bai Qi: "Bai Shuai, you said outside Fangcheng that day that Fangcheng would be broken today, why did Bai Shuai order to withdraw his troops when the city below was not broken?" Could it be that the oath of the day was just a casual remark by Bai Shuai? ”

Hearing this, the nearby Qin soldiers stopped one after another and turned their heads to look at Bai Qi's conversation with the generals.

I have to say that in addition to the fact that he failed to break through Fang Cheng today, the promise that Bai Qi made that day did not come true, which also had a slight impact on the Qin soldiers' trust in Bai Qi, which made the morale fluctuate somewhat.

After listening to the words of Meng Yi and others, Bai Qi was silent for a while, and on the side, the deputy general Ji Hong said unhappily: "Meng Yi, you are too presumptuous!" How dare you humiliate Bai Shuai like this? ”

However, at this moment, Bai Qi raised his hand to interrupt Ji Hong, and immediately explained sincerely: "Bai Mou did say something like that, but I didn't expect that the next time our army will attack Fang Cheng again, it will be six months later, and you also know that six months is enough time for Fang Cheng to be fully prepared......

Speaking of this, he took a long breath, and after glancing around at the Qin soldiers who were looking at him, he nodded and said, "In short, the failure to capture Fang City today is the responsibility of me for nothing, and it has nothing to do with anyone. ”

Hearing this, the nearby Qin soldiers suddenly felt in their hearts: This is what happened.

Thinking about it carefully, they felt that Bai Qi was indeed right.

At the beginning, Bai Qi threatened to attack Fangcheng next time, it was in early April, but soon after, they were recalled to Hanshui by Sima Cuo, so that they missed the opportunity to break through Fangcheng, and it was not until half a year later today that they attacked Fangcheng for the second time.

In this case, his Qin army failed to successfully break through Fang City as Bai Qi said, can this boss be blamed?

If you want to blame it, it's also to blame the national captain Sima Cuo, who didn't know what was going on, and ordered his 70,000 Qin troops to withdraw from Fangcheng to Hanshui!

Thinking of this, the nearby Qin soldiers were also relieved.

However, this was not enough, after Bai Qi finished saying that, Ji Hong explained anxiously: "What is Bai Shuai talking about? Before you withdrew your troops, you said that as long as you were given another hour, you would definitely be able to break through Fangcheng, because you didn't want too many casualties among the soldiers in the army, so you ordered the withdrawal of troops...... Otherwise, Fang Cheng will definitely be able to break through today! ”

"That's enough, Vice Admiral Ji." Bai said with a straight face: "I said, this is the end of today. ”

"Your reputation can be ......"

As he spoke, Ji Hong glanced at Meng Yi and the other generals.

The generals agreed, and immediately Tong Yang said to Bai Qi in a deep voice: "Bai Shuai, this matter is not only about your personal honor and disgrace, but also about the honor and disgrace of my 70,000 Qin army...... Our army could have breached Fangcheng today, so why wait until tomorrow? ”

Bai Qi shook his head and said, "It's too late, it's not conducive to attacking the city. ”

As soon as the words fell, Zhong Xu said: "You can ask the soldiers to attack the city with torches......

"This ......" Bai Qi hesitated.

Seeing this, Zhong Xu deliberately provoked the nearby soldiers: "I, the generals of Great Qin, are you willing to return to the main camp like this, waiting for the Wei army to laugh at me?" Or is it a re-attack on Fangcheng? …… The Fangcheng Wei army is already like the end of a strong crossbow, and it only needs to attack again, it will definitely be captured by our army, why do you need to get tomorrow?! ”

With that, he hooked his hand towards the Qin soldiers, and immediately raised his arms and shouted, "Resume the war!" Restart! Restart! ”

The surrounding Qin soldiers looked at each other at first, but gradually, some of them followed Zhong Xu and raised their arms high, shouting for a resumption of battle, and then more and more Qin soldiers joined them.

It's no wonder, after all, in today's last wave of offensive, the Fangcheng Wei army only barely blocked the Qin army's offensive, which also made the Qin soldiers willing to believe the judgment of Tong Yang, Zhong Xu and others.

"Resumption! Restart! Restart! ”

Looking around at the countless Qin soldiers who raised their arms and shouted slogans, Bai Qi pretended to hesitate for a while, and then pretended to grit his teeth, put on a posture of sacrificing his life to accompany the gentleman, nodded and said, "Okay!" In that case, let's rest here, satisfy our hunger with dry food, and wait for two hours before attacking Fangcheng again!" ”

As soon as the words fell, Meng Yi and other generals also raised their arms again and shouted: "I will definitely speak bluntly in today's son, break through Fangcheng, and let the Wei army know that my Great Qin's army will talk about it!" ”

"Wow——!"

Zhu Qin Jun raised his arms and shouted.

Seeing this scene from afar, Sima Cuo smiled bitterly and shook his head.

Although Bai Qi had not revealed it to him before, how could Sima Cuo not see that Bai Qi was just acting in a scene with Ji Hong and other generals? Is the purpose just to mobilize the morale of the soldiers?

Obviously, Ding Bao, the guard next to Sima Cuo, also saw it, and when he saw this, he lowered his voice and said: "Captain, Bai Zuo wants to lead his troops to retake Fangcheng, this is ...... What do you think are the odds of winning? ”

Sima looked at the Qin soldiers who were raising their arms and shouting, stroked their long beards and said slowly: "If Fang Cheng really only has that many troops, the chances of winning this time will be in vain...... Not small. After that, he stroked his beard and explained: "According to what the old man saw today, the Wei army in Fangcheng was also exhausted after a day of fierce fighting, and there were still 20,000 troops under Bai Qi's command who had not participated in the battle......

In all fairness, Sima Cuo didn't care that Bai Qi shifted the responsibility for failing to break through Fang Cheng on him, after all, this was indeed his Sima Cuo's original misjudgment, of course, the main reason was that Sima Cuo had gotten along well with Bai Qi in recent days.

If Bai Qi can really mobilize the fighting spirit of the Qin soldiers in the army, regain Fangcheng and capture this city in one fell swoop, Sima is also happy to take this responsibility for Bai Qi, after all, he is now also beginning to feel that he must defeat Meng Zhong as soon as possible and occupy Fangcheng and Yeyi, otherwise, his Qin army will not be able to control this important road to Wei, and it will not be able to further threaten Wei, and this will have a great impact on his next attack on Korea.

Compared with Bai Qi's side, Sima Cuo felt the need to knock Zhao Ju, after all, as far as he could see, today's army under Bai Qi's command had attacked the city wall of the upper city several times, although it was finally repelled by the Wei army, but this does not mean that Bai Qi and the army under his command are not satisfied, it can only be said that the Wei army in Fangcheng is tenacious, but the west city wall that is attacked by the Chu general Zhaoju, as far as he knows, the Chu army has almost no major threat to the other city.

This made Sima Cuo a little displeased, after all, if the Chu army could fight like the Qin army under Bai Qi today, maybe Fangcheng had been captured by his Qin-Chu coalition army at the moment, so why should Bai Qi and others join forces to act to boost morale and regain Fangcheng.

Therefore, when Bai Qi later sent someone to invite him to go with Zhaoju to discuss, Sima Cuo pointed this out unceremoniously.

Zhao Ju only explained resignedly, only to blame that it was the Wei army of Fangcheng who was so brave that the Chu army under his command was incapacitated.

Of course, Sima Cuo was not satisfied with this explanation, and it was not until Zhao Ju repeatedly promised that he would strictly supervise the battle tonight, and Sima Cuo was slightly satisfied.

Two moments passed in a blink of an eye, and the Qin army under Bai Qi and the Chu army under Zhao Ju filled their stomachs with dry food and also raised their physical strength.

And just as Bai Qi was about to give the order to retake Fangcheng, a Qin army suddenly sent news that the defenders of Fangcheng were retreating to the valley pass on the east side, that is, Chaoyang Pass.

"Really?"

After learning the news, Bai Qi's face was full of surprise, and he repeatedly asked the few people who came to report the news: "Did you really see the Wei army retreating towards Yangguan on the east side?" ”

"Yes, the little one saw it with his own eyes." The few of them swore solemnly.

Hearing this, Bai Qi frowned, and kept muttering, "How come?" No way......"

From the side, after Sima mistakenly heard it, he thought for a while and said, "It's not impossible. …… Before sunset today, although Fang Cheng blocked the last wave of our army's offensive, anyone with a discerning eye could see that the Wei army was already at the end of its strong crossbow, and in order to prevent the city from being besieged by your army in the coming day, he retreated tonight, not that he couldn't say it. ”

"No!" Bai Qi shook his head and said in a deep voice: "The national captain doesn't understand that Meng Zhong, that Meng Zhong is extremely strong in leading troops to fight, as long as he has a choice, he will never show weakness to others, according to my understanding of him, even if he realizes that Fang Cheng is difficult to defend for a long time, he will definitely hold it until tomorrow, and then set fire to the city, and withdraw his troops while mocking me...... And at the moment, he is too peaceful, which is not like his person. Speaking of this, he crossed his arms and pondered for a moment, then slowly shook his head and said, "I felt that something was wrong with this battle from the beginning......

"Something is wrong?"

"Well, I can't tell, but I know that Meng Zhong will definitely not be so peaceful, he must have something...... Ruse. ”

『……』

Hearing this, Sima Cuo looked at him with a strange expression.

He felt more and more that Bai Qi was overestimating that Meng Zhong, and even Meng Zhong thought that he was invincible and withdrew his troops overnight, so he could be suspicious about it.

He thought for a while and said, "What is it, you will know when you go to Fang City." ”

“……”

Bai Qi nodded slightly, and immediately ordered the Qin and Chu armies to march towards Fangcheng.

In view of the eagerness to know the situation in Fangcheng, Bai Qi gave the order to march quickly.

Of course, there was no need for Sima Cuo to remind him, and Bai Qi was also vigilant against the Wei army's ambush at any time on the way, but his vigilance proved to be meaningless, because there was no Wei army sneaking up on them along the way.

Around the time of the subsession, Bai Qi finally led seventy or eighty thousand Qin and Chu coalition troops to Fangcheng.

On the light of the torches, Bai Qi found out at this time that the Wei army in Fangcheng didn't even have time to clean up the corpses outside the city, and only some of the corpses were stripped of their armor and picked up their weapons.

When he looked up at the square city in front of him, he saw that the city was dead silent.

"Doctor Zhao, if you don't mind, please send an army to the city to check on the situation." Bai Qi said lightly.

Zhao Ju knew that he released water into the city today, which made Sima Cuo and Bai Qi quite unhappy, so he didn't dare to object, and immediately sent an army of 1,000 people into the city.

After estimating about a moment, the thousand-strong Chu army sent back the news: there was no Wei army ambush in the city.

However, Bai Qi did not believe it, and then sent a Qin army under his command into the city to check the situation, but still received a unanimous reply: there were no ambushes in the city.

"How so? Did that guy really withdraw?'

Frowning, Bai Qi crossed his arms and looked at the square city in front of him, and couldn't help but mutter, "How is it possible?" Why didn't he burn the city? ”

He knew that his Qin army was short of food and baggage, and Meng Zhong also knew that after all, it was Meng Zhong who burned a large amount of his Qin army's baggage.

But after thinking about it, Meng Zhong sent an intact city to his Qin army, so that his Qin army could be stationed in this city and use the dwellings in the city to survive the cold winter, which is not right?

So Meng Zhong is so kind?

From the side, Adjutant General Ji Hong guessed this: "Maybe he is afraid that the fire of the burning city will attract the attention of our army...... The casualties of his Wei army today are not small, if our army learns that it has withdrawn to Yangguan, it will definitely attack, and the Wei army will definitely suffer heavy losses at that time. Besides, I don't think that Meng Zhong expected that the whereabouts of his Wei army would be known to our army so soon......"

"......" Bai Qi crossed his arms and said nothing.

It is undeniable that Ji Hong's explanation does make some sense, but Bai Qi still feels unreasonable.

"Let's go into the city and have a look. Besides, I ordered the soldiers of the army to carefully search every house in the city, and I do not think that Meng Zhong will be kind enough to send a city to help us survive this winter, and there must be some trickery in it. ”

"Whoa! The last general will order it immediately. ”

After taking a deep look at the city in front of him, he held the sword at his waist with his left hand and walked into the city with a solemn expression.