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"The Qi army has retreated!"

"The Qi army has retreated!"

"Hooray!"

"God bless the Song Kingdom!"

When they saw the large-scale withdrawal of the Qi army, the soldiers and civilians on the city couldn't help cheering, and even the crown prince Dai Wu dropped the weapons in his hand and cheered with the soldiers and civilians beside him, and the entire northern city wall was filled with a cheerful atmosphere.

At this time, Meng Zhong looked up at the sky and judged the hour by the direction of the scorching sun, and found that it was only before the hour (about two o'clock in the afternoon).

"I retreated before I could ......

I have to say that Meng Zhong was a little surprised, after all, in his expectations, today's offensive of the Qi army should not be so anticlimactic - since it is the last attempt to attack the city before rectifying the army, then the Qi general Tian Jing will definitely do his best, and the momentum of the Qi soldiers has not been discharged, but he ordered a retreat, which is really a little puzzling.

"I guess I noticed them......

Turning his head to look at the cheering crown prince Dai Wu and many civilians in the city on the city wall, Meng Zhongjiu's tense face couldn't help but show a little smile.

He knew that the reason why the Qi army retreated hastily at the wrong time was precisely because he noticed the change of civilians in Qiangyang City to assist in defending the city, and thus realized that Qiangyang City was currently a situation where everyone was united, so he chose to retreat in great disappointment and stop the senseless attack.

"As the righteous brother said, what an excellent prince."

Looking at the crown prince Dai Wu with a satisfied smile on his face in the distance, Meng Zhong secretly praised.

"Prince."

He walked towards the crown prince Dai Wu.

Seeing Meng Zhong approaching, the crown prince Dai Wu stopped cheering with the nearby soldiers and civilians, and immediately said to Meng Zhong with a smile: "Zuo Sima, how much can I wait to help?" ”

Looking at the civilians in the city around him who were all looking at him, Meng Zhong showed a few sincere smiles on his face: "Yes." ”

Hearing this, the crown prince Dai Wu raised his arms and cheered: "Everyone, Zuo Sima also recognizes our merits!" ”

Seeing that Meng Zhong, the commander of the battle, also recognized the merits of his own people, those civilians were even more happy, and couldn't help but cheer again: "Long live! Banzai! ”

During this period, some young civilians were in a state of flux, shouting things such as "the Qi army is nothing great" and "if the Qi army attacks again next time, we will help defend the city again".

Seeing this, Meng Zhong coughed twice, interrupted the cheers of the civilians with his suppressive hand, and then said seriously: "Meng Mou thanks you for your assistance, but if you are still willing to help defend the city next time, I think you still need to go through a certain amount of training, so as to greatly reduce the casualties and ......"

Hearing Meng Zhong's words, the civilians turned their heads to look around, only to realize that they had also sacrificed a lot of people.

Immediately, the burly men who had just spoken to Meng Zhong said: "This Zuo Sima, please send a sergeant to train us, we also want to help resist the Qi army, fight for my Song Kingdom, and fight for His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!" ”

Seeing that most of the civilians around him were resolute, Meng Zhong nodded solemnly, and immediately sent someone to invite the military Sima Dai Yingzhi and asked him to be responsible for the training of these civilians - you must know that Dai Yingzhi was the military Sima of the Song State, and this time in order to resist the attack of the Qi army, he was willing to obey Meng Zhong's command.

Therefore, of course, Meng Zhong could not ignore his existence and appoint someone else, otherwise he really would not give Dai Ying face, unless the latter himself resigned.

After a while, when Dai Yingzhi came to this section of the city wall, Meng Zhong told him about it, and Dai Yingzhi paid special attention to it.

He nodded and said: "Although the Qi army has temporarily retreated, its ambition to annex my Song State has not been weakened, and it is indeed necessary to immediately expand the strength of my Yang City and step up training." …… Prince, Zosima, this matter is on me. ”

"I'm tired." Prince Dai Wu nodded, and then looked back at Meng Zhong and Dai Yingzhi and said: "But between me, this matter will start today, as for today, I think we should celebrate it." ”

Meng Zhong and Dai Yingzhi glanced at each other, and both nodded: "The prince is wise!" ”

In this way, the crown prince Dai Wu ordered the whole city to celebrate, so that the soldiers and civilians in the city of Qiyang launched a celebration to repel the Qi army, and the civilians in the city volunteered to take out the food and wine at home to reward the soldiers and reward themselves, which made the entire city of Qiyang immersed in a cheerful atmosphere.

Compared with the Qiangyang City, which was in a cheerful atmosphere, Tian Jingjun, who had retreated to the twenty-mile camp not long after, was lifeless here.

It's no wonder, after all, this time Tian Jing led 40,000 Qi troops to attack Qiyang, attacking the city for six days in a row, during which more than 20,000 soldiers were killed, and the rest of the soldiers were all wounded.

What's next for this battle?

To be honest, Tian Zhang was also a little confused.

How many of the 150,000 Qi troops under his command are currently left?

Excluding the 40,000 Qi troops stationed in Tengxian County to guard against the Song generals Jing Yu and Dai Xi, as well as the 5,000 Qi troops who stayed in Xue Yi, in the area of Qiyang, Tian Jing, Tian Touch, and Tian Da, there are probably only more than 20,000 people left in total, but in the area from Dushan to Pengcheng, there are about 30,000 Qi troops led by Zou Xi, and the Qi army is about 100,000 troops.

Otherwise, this is still a powerful force, but the problem is that the strength of these 100,000 Qi troops has been dispersed, so that at the moment, neither the Yang nor Pengcheng can be defeated.

In the final analysis, it was because the Qi State underestimated the strength of the Song State.

I have to say that the Song State is not the Yan State that the Qi State easily defeated some time ago, it can survive among the three powerful countries of Wei, Chu, and Qi, how can it not have a certain strength?

After returning to the Twenty-Mile Camp, Tian Zhang personally wrote a battle report about the battle of Qiangyang City, and ordered the trusted soldiers to be sent to Linzi immediately, and immediately, he said to Zuo Sima Tian Jing: "You send someone to inform Zou Xi and tell him to slow down the attack on Pengcheng. The force of the sun cannot be taken, and our army should not go deep alone...... Anyway, slow down the offensive and wait for me to come back. ”

"Waiting for you to come back?" Tian Jing was puzzled and asked, "Zhangzi, where are you going?" ”

Tian Zhang explained: "Taking advantage of the reorganization of the army, I want to go to Zou to visit my teacher, after all, my teacher is also old, and I see less than one." …… By the way, go to Teng County to see the situation. ”

Of course, Tian Jing knew that Tian Zhang's teacher was Meng Ke, a Confucian sage of Zou State, and he suddenly realized when he heard this.

In this way, while Tian Jing began to reorganize the army in the Twenty Mile Battalion, Tian Zhang took four guards and drove the chariot to Zou State.

To go to Zou from Qiyang, you must pass through Xue Yi and Teng County, and Tian Zhang happened to check the situation of the Qi army under the command of the garrison by the way.

Xue Yi is the safest for the time being, after all, its two ends are Teng County and Qiyang, and both places are currently garrisoned by Qi troops, unless the Song army crosses the South Lake by boat to attack Xue Yi, Xue Yi is currently the safest.

As for Teng County, although there are still two Song generals Jing Yu and Dai Xi in the local area, they still lead about 20,000 Song troops to try to recapture Teng County, but considering that Tian Jing reserved a full 40,000 troops here before turning to attack Yang, the Song army here does not need to care.

Only the ......

This time, the army under his command Tian Zhang's battle damage in Qiyang City was too serious.

It is no exaggeration to say that Zou Xi has only lost five or six thousand troops in his attack on Pengcheng so far, and the number of Qi troops in the small city of Qiangyang is more than four times that of Zou Xi's side.

What's even worse is that after paying such a huge price in casualties, the Qi army has not seen the slightest chance to break through the city of Qianyang, which is the most frustrating.

Because he had to inspect the situation in the area of Xue Yi and Teng County on the way, Tian Zhang took an extra day to travel from Qiyang to Zou State, which was originally only four days, so that on July 27, he arrived in Zou State and came to Mencius's residence where his teacher Mencius lived.

Today, in Mencius's residence, it is not Mencius who is teaching in person, but Mencius's proud disciple Wan Zhang.

If Zhuangzi's eldest disciple is Mengzhong, then Mencius's eldest disciple is Wanzhang, followed by Gongsun Chou, these two are the first to be accepted by Mencius as formal disciples, and have always followed Mencius so far, even if Lu, Chu, Qi and other countries sent people to invite Wanzhang and Gongsun Chou to go to be officials, they were also politely rejected by these two.

Although Tian Zhang is older than Wan Zhang and Gongsun Chou, in terms of seniority among Confucian disciples, even Tian Zhang has to be honored as these two senior brothers.

It may be that seeing that his senior brother Wan Zhang was teaching the junior disciples and the rest of the registered disciples in place of the teacher Mencius, Tian Zhang did not disturb, and consciously moved a straw mat to listen quietly at the end of the lecture, but even so, he was quickly recognized by the nearby Confucian disciples, and immediately became lively in the house.

"Senior Brother Tian is back."

"It's Senior Brother Tian."

"Senior Brother Tian."

Seeing that there was a noise in the lecture seat, Wan Zhang frowned unhappily, but when he found out that it was caused by Tian Zhang's arrival, he was immediately relieved.

After all, the Confucian disciples still respect Tian Zhang, the senior brother, after all, Tian Zhang is the most outstanding of their Confucian Mengmen disciples - academic talent aside, at least Tian Zhang's talent in leading troops to fight is beyond the reach of other Confucian disciples.

Seeing that his arrival still disturbed Senior Brother Wan Zhang's teaching, Tian Zhang hurriedly walked in front of Wan Zhang and confessed: "Senior Brother Wan forgive me." ”

"Senior brother, what are you talking about?"

Because of Tian Zhang's return, Wan Zhang was also very happy, and immediately announced the suspension of today's class, and a group of Confucian disciples gathered around Tian Zhang and chatted with each other.

During this period, Gongsun Chou asked Tian Zhangdao curiously: "Senior brother, aren't you leading the attack on the Song Kingdom?" How can I have time to return to Güne to visit my teacher? ”

As soon as he heard this, Tian Zhang was immediately deflated, sighed and said: "Alas, don't mention it, this time I was ordered by the King of Qi to attack the Song Kingdom, I thought that it was nine out of ten, but I didn't expect to encounter a 'Ying disease' in Qiyang City, so that I lost many soldiers, but I have not been able to conquer Qiyang, so I don't dare to attack Pengcheng alone." ”

"Sickness?" Le Zheng asked in surprise when he heard this: "Isn't Ying Ji from the Qin Kingdom, and Senior Brother, when you came back last time, you said that this Ying Ji has passed away, how can he be in the Song Kingdom?" ”

Tian Zhang explained: "It's just a pronoun, because I don't know the name of the Song army commander in Qiyang City, but I just feel that this person is very similar to the soldier's use of the army......"

"I don't know?" Chen Zhen asked curiously, "Didn't Senior Brother Tian go to inquire?" ”

Tian Zhang shook his head and explained: "Of course I sent someone to inquire around, but that guy seemed to appear out of thin air, and he couldn't find any news. …… Is there still such a figure in the Song Kingdom? ”

Gongsun Chou, Le Zheng, and Gongdu glanced at each other, as if they had thought of something, and their faces showed a little strange expression.

At this time, it happened that a Confucian disciple in the main room shouted from a distance: "Senior Brother Tian, Master asked you to enter the room to see him." ”

"Good!"

Tian Zhang responded, and immediately bowed to Wan Zhang, Gongsun Chou, Le Zheng, Gongdu and other senior brothers: "Senior brothers, I will go to see the master first, and then talk to you senior brothers and sisters." ”

"Go, go, go."

Wan Zhang, Gongsun Chou and others said with a smile.

However, after Tian Zhang walked away, Wan Zhang, Gongsun Chou, Le Zheng, Gongdu and others whispered.

"It can't be Meng Zhong's kid, right?" Gongsun Chou whispered in surprise.

"Possibly." Le Zheng nodded and said, "Our little junior brother is said to have served as the guard Sima of Lord Zhao's father in Zhao State, and has commanded thousands of troops. I remember that when he was in Zhuke County, Meng Zhong attacked tens of thousands of Qi troops with 500 soldiers at night...... If there is anyone in the Song Kingdom who can stop Senior Brother Tian Zhang, I'm afraid only our little junior brother will be it. ”

"That's really ......," Gong Du couldn't help but shake his head.

"Ahem!"

Seeing Gongdu's expression, Wan Zhang coughed and reminded: "This is a war between the Qi State and the Song State, even if it is indeed Meng Zhong who is in Qiyang City at the moment, he has not done anything wrong, after all, he is the master." ”

Gongsun Chou also chimed in: "Compared with the arrogant and rude Qi Wang Tiandi, I am more inclined to the Song Kingdom. …… When I went to the Song Kingdom some time ago, I saw Dai Wu, the crown prince of the Song Kingdom, who was really a humble gentleman, Hui Ang and Xue Juzhou, it was really good to teach the crown prince Dai Wu well, and in the future, Dai Wu inherited the throne of the Song Kingdom, which was of great benefit to my Confucianism......"

"Yes!"

Le Zheng, Gongdu and others nodded one after another, after all, they all knew that although Hui Ang was erudite and talented, in fact, what had the greatest impact on him was their Confucian thoughts, which were no different from their fellow brothers, and the crown prince Dai Wu was taught by Hui Ang and Xue Juzhou, so he naturally had a great affection for Confucianism.

It can be seen that once the crown prince Dai Wu inherited the Song State in the future, his Confucian ideas could be widely spread in the Song Kingdom, and I believe that as long as he was a Confucian disciple, he was quite looking forward to this matter.

And when Wan Zhang and the others were discussing in private, Tian Zhang had already stepped into the main house and saw Mencius who was writing a pen in the house.

He smiled and bowed, "Seeing that the master is in good health, the disciple feels very fortunate. ”

Hearing this, Mencius raised his head and said with a smile: "Tian Zhang, wait a while, and wait for the old man to finish writing this." ”

Hearing this, Tian Zhang was not in a hurry, so he sat upright at the low table where Mencius was sitting.

It took only a moment for Mencius to put down the brush, and after blowing the handwriting on the bamboo slips, he rolled it up, and immediately recruited a disciple and instructed: "You immediately send it to the post house in the city, and ask the post guard to send someone to the Zhuangzi of Mengyi." ”

"Whoa."

The disciple nodded, and immediately walked away with the bamboo slip in his hand.

Seeing this, Tian Zhang smiled and said, "Is it a letter to Master Zhuang?" The teacher is still discussing academics with Master Zhuang recently? ”

"Discuss academics?"

Mencius was stunned, and then after reacting, he said with a smile: "Yes, that guy Zhuang Zhou, if he wants to abandon his heart, I don't think he can do it himself." What is supposed to be beneficial to juniors and beneficial to each other, that stubborn guy has to ...... Hey! It's a pity that he scolded...... Well, I can't say it, although he claims that even Hui Shi is also his defeated general, but the old man traveled around the world when he was in his forties, eloquent and heroic in the world, how could he be scolded by him so easily...... Speechless? ”

Tian Zhang blinked, feeling that Mencius's words were a little strange, but considering that the matter between Mencius and Zhuangzi was not something that he, a junior, could ask, he said with a smile: "It's good that the master is happy." ”

"Hahaha." Mencius stroked his beard and laughed: "He came and went, and he didn't say anything!" One of the fun, not for outsiders either. ”

As he spoke, he saw Tian Zhang's look of confusion, so he smiled and diverted the topic: "Why do you have time to visit the old man today?" ”

In front of his teacher, of course, Tian Zhang would not hide anything, and said honestly: "The king of Qi ordered his disciples to lead the army to attack the Song Kingdom, but the disciples were frustrated in Qiyang City, and many soldiers were lost, but they failed to conquer the city, and they were upset. ”

Hearing this, the smile on Mencius's face gradually retracted, and he said with a straight face: "King Qi Tiandi, when he was still the prince, the old man had seen him, he seemed to be smooth, but in fact he was proud, there was no tolerance for people, there was no art to resist the enemy outside, there was no skill to resist the enemy inside, and he was suspicious by nature, not the master of the Ming, far less than his grandfather King Qi Wei and his father King Qi Xuan. …… The "Tian Jia" rebellion the year before last is an example. ”

"......" Tian Zhang didn't know how to answer, so he remained silent, but in his heart, he actually thought that Mencius was right.

Yes, even in Tian Zhang's view, today's King Qi Tiandi is far inferior to King Qi Wei and King Qi Xuan, who have just ascended the throne, and indiscriminately want to try to weaken the power of Prime Minister Tian Wen - in fact, in Tian Zhang's view, although Tian Ying and Tian Wen's father and son are selfish, they are still quite loyal to Qi and the royal family.

However, King Tian Di of Qi felt uneasy about the power of Tian Wen's faction in the country, so when Tian Wen went to Wei and united with Wei Han to deal with Qin, he took the opportunity to eliminate Tian Wen's influence in the court and replaced all the courtiers who had a relationship with Tian Wen.

In addition to Tian Wen, King Qi Tiandi was also quite harsh on the rest of his uncles, that is, the other sons of his grandfather King Qi Wei, and wanted to take back all the rich fiefs that King Qi Wei had rewarded his sons with, including Tian Ying, Tian Wen's father and son's Xue Yi.

This caused the Tian clan to have a lot of resentment towards Qi Wangtian.

The year before last, when Zhao joined forces with Song and Yan to attack Qi, although Tian Zhang led his army from Wei to Qi in time, the king of Qi obeyed Zhao very well and expressed his willingness to submit to Zhao - was it just because Qi was not enough to fight against the combined forces of Zhao, Song, and Yan?

In fact, it is not, because at that time, a civil strife broke out within the Qi State, and the great nobleman "Tian Jia" was dissatisfied with the Qi King's field and wanted to deprive them of their fiefdoms, so when the Zhao, Song, and Yan kingdoms invaded the Qi State, they gathered a group of people to plot a rebellion and tried to hijack the Qi king's land, so even if Tian Zhang returned to the Qi State in time, the Qi State was unable to resist the attack of the Zhao, Song, and Yan Kingdoms in the case of civil strife in the country, so he could only surrender to the Zhao State.

Afterwards, Zhao's father led the return to China to seize power, and the king of Qi Tiandi was also busy ordering Tian Zhang to quell Tian Jia's rebellion.

Tian Jia's people, of course, were not Tian Zhang's opponents, and they were quickly pacified, but this incident exposed a problem, that is, the nobles in the Qi Kingdom, including the Tian clan, actually had many people who were dissatisfied with Qi Wang Tiandi.

Therefore, during Tian Zhang's envoy to Zhao, King Tian of Qi sent people to thoroughly investigate the nobles in the country, wanting to see if some of them participated in Tian Jia's rebellion.

During this period, because Xue Gong Tian Wen was once involved, he dismissed Tian Wen in a fit of anger and announced Tian Wen's traitor status, so frightened that Tian Wen hid in Wei and did not dare to return to Qi State, for fear of being implicated by Tian Jia.

After learning of this, Tian Wen's staff Wei Chu returned to Qi alone, and killed himself in front of the palace, so as to clear Tian Wen's grievances, and sent someone to review the matter of "Tian Jia's robbery of the king" again, and finally because there was no evidence of Tian Wen's direct involvement, Tian Wen's wanted was revoked and Tian Wen's phase was restored.

I have to say that although Tian Jia's measures are very rebellious, but tracing back to the roots, the civil strife in the Qi State was caused by the King of Qi in the final analysis, although in the end this civil strife was pacified, but the reputation of the King of Qi Tiandi plummeted, and many nobles and courtiers felt that this monarch was mean and unkind, and there was no room for people.

But as a courtier of the Qi State, when Mencius talked about it, Tian Zhang didn't say much, so he could only remain silent.

"That's it, let's not talk about him."

It seemed that he had noticed Tian Zhang's attitude, and Mencius also felt that it was meaningless to evaluate the fields of King Qi in front of this disciple, so he changed the topic and said, "You just said that you have suffered a setback in the Song Kingdom?" Who is frustrating you? ”

"I don't know." Tian Zhang shook his head when he heard this and said: "This person seems to have appeared out of thin air, so that the disciple sent people to inquire many times and couldn't find any news, but according to my battle with him, this person is extremely good at using soldiers and resourceful, I really doubt that when did the Song Kingdom have such a character?" ”

“……”

Hearing this, just like Wan Zhang, Gongsun Chou and others, Mencius's expression also became strange.

"The Song general that Tian Zhang said in his mouth, could it be that kid Meng Zhong?"

He secretly speculated.

You must know that when Meng Zhong returned to the Song Kingdom, he first came to Zou State to visit Mencius, and also told Mencius that he would go to Pengcheng and tell Song Wangyan and Hui'an about the upheaval in Zhao State.

Mencius secretly estimated that when Tian Zhang led his army to attack the Song Kingdom, Meng Zhong should still be in Pengcheng, in other words, Meng Zhong was likely to participate in this battle - in addition, Mencius could not think of anyone else who could resist Tian Zhang.

"Master, do you know something?"

The strange expression on Mencius's face, Tian Zhang immediately noticed it.

“……”

Mencius was silent.

After all, Tian Zhang is certainly his favorite disciple, but Meng Zhong is also his valued junior.

Even in Mencius's eyes, Meng Zhong, a Taoist disciple, was actually no different from his disciple, after all, Meng Zhong very much agreed with his Meng Ke's ideological ideas.

Seeing that Mencius was silent, Tian Zhang showed a shocked expression on his face: "Teacher, do you really know? Wait, it can't be my Confucian disciple, right? ”

"Don't say."

Forced by Tian Zhang, Mencius waved his hand.

After all, firstly, he was not sure, and secondly, he was also worried that his leak would destroy Meng Zhong's strategy.

The palms and backs of the hands are full of meat, and between Tian Zhang and Meng Zhong, Mencius really can't help anyone, so he can only remain neutral.

"Is it really my Confucian brother?"

Tian Zhang simply felt like a dog in the sun, looking for him thousands of times in the crowd, and suddenly looked back, the "Ying Disease" that made him feel a headache was actually his Confucian brother.

It's simply amazing!

The question is, in addition to his Tian Zhang, does he have a brother who is good at using soldiers to fight?

Suddenly, Tian Zhang thought of someone, and the corners of his mouth also raised a little clear smile.

At this time, he finally realized that he had excluded one general after another from the Song State, but only an acquaintance who was about to return to the Song State at that time, or even had already returned to the Song State, was left behind.

Only that kid has the strategy to resist his Kuang Zhang.

That is, his "little junior brother" of Tian Zhang, Meng Zhong!