On July 21st, early in the morning, the weather was fine, and Bai Qi came to the tower of Hangu Pass early, leaning against the wall and looking at the Wei camp in the distance outside the pass.

Today was the fourth day of his return to Hangu Pass, and everything was calm, which was somewhat different from what he had guessed, and Meng Zhong did not play any tricks on the day he left Hangu Pass.

Although there was Sima at Hanguguan at that time, even if Meng Zhong on the opposite side wanted to play any tricks, he might not be able to succeed, but Meng Zhong didn't do anything, which made Bai Qi feel a little strange.

Some people may wonder why Bai Qi thinks that Meng Zhong can conclude that he was not in Hangu Pass a few days ago?

In fact, it is very simple, just like Meng Zhong said to Le Jin before, the 100,000 Qi Yan coalition army invaded the defense area of the Menshui Qin camp, how could Bai Qi ignore it? For the sake of prudence, he at least went to the Menshui Qin camp to see the reality of the Qiyan coalition army, and judge whether the 100,000 Qiyan coalition army would pose a threat to his Menshui Qin, which was his duty as the main general.

Therefore, not only could Meng Zhong guess that Bai Qi must have gone to the Menshui Qin camp, but Bai Qi could also guess that Meng Zhong had probably also guessed that he went to the Menshui Qin camp, because he always paid attention to the situation on the side of Hangu Pass when he was on the side of the Menshui Qin camp, and immediately returned to Hangu Pass after the second tacit battle between the Qi Yan coalition army and his Qin army, for fear that Meng Zhong would take the opportunity to play some tricks - even if Meng Zhong did not actually make any changes at that time.

"It's too quiet......"

Looking at the direction of Wei Ying in the Dao, Bai Qi muttered.

On the side, the guard Sima Jin asked curiously when he heard this: "Does the national lieutenant refer to Meng Zhong on the other side?" ”

"Hmm." Bai Qi nodded slightly.

Seeing this, Sima Jin said incomprehensibly: "As far as I know, isn't Meng Zhong busy building and throwing cars?" ”

"That being said......"

Halfway through speaking, Bai Qi let out a long breath.

To be honest, from Meng Zhong's point of view, Bai Qi does not think that building more buildings and throwing cars can break the current deadlock between the two sides.

Because no amount of building cars and throwing cars can only help the coalition forces capture Hangu Pass at best, but they cannot help the coalition forces break through the Hangu Road - as long as the coalition forces cannot break through the Hangu Pass, then this road is a dead end.

Therefore, according to common sense, Meng Zhong should set his sights on the direction that can break the current deadlock, such as the Menshui Qin Camp - this is also the reason why Bai Qi is sure to lead Meng Zhong to the Menshui Qin Camp, even if Meng Zhong actually guessed his intentions.

After thinking about it, he whispered to Sima Jin: "Meng Zhong is not moving, I guess there may be two reasons, one is that he feels that he can come up with a way to break through Hangu Dao; Second, he believed that Tian Touch and Na Le Yi would be able to capture the Menshui Qin camp and break the current stalemate......"

Hearing this, Sima Jin said with a strange expression: "The first reason is understandable, and the second reason is ...... Didn't the two armies of Qi and Yan not want to help the Three Jin Coalition Army? ”

"yes." Bai Qiqi nodded and said: "At first, I also thought it was very strange, on the one hand, Li Dui, Storm Kite, and Meng Zhong hoped that the Qi Yan Coalition Army would fight with our side to defeat both sides, but judging from Meng Zhong's current immobility, it seems that he has certain expectations for the Qi Yan Coalition Army...... Odd. ”

Sima Jin frowned, and immediately showed a suspicious look on his face, and said in a low voice: "Could it be ...... Tian Touch and the lieutenant privately agreed, could it be a fraud? ”

"Not really."

Bai Qi shook his head and said, "Tian touches this person, I can conclude that he is ...... To be exact, he Qi country, there must be some attempt. On this matter, I have discussed with Sima Lao many times, according to Sima Lao, the Qi State is bent on annexing the Song State, and this time in response to the call of Fengyang Jun Li Dui to conquer my Great Qin, I am afraid that there is no purpose of 'false Dao to defeat Yu', but unfortunately the Song State did not send troops to respond to the Three Jin. I can't tell whether the Song State was inspired by my Great Qin's rescue last year, or if some Song people guessed the intention of the Qi State and took a hand in Qi defense...... In short, after seeing Na Tian Touch, I can be sure that Na Tian Touch probably didn't have the idea of crusading against my Great Qin, but he was coerced by the Three Jins, and it was difficult for him to ride a tiger. …… If this is the case, then what Meng Zhong is looking forward to is probably not Tian Touch, but Le Yi. …… I can't see through this Le Yi. ”

"Can't see through?"

"Hmm." Bai Qi nodded, and then asked Sima Jin, "Have you heard of Meng Sui?" ”

"Mengsui?" Sima Jin thought for a while and said, "I remember, it seems to be Meng Zhong's clan brother, right?" ”

Bai Qi smiled and nodded, then shook his head again and said, "More than that." …… According to the news sent back to China a while ago, the army on the side of Fangcheng, even in the days when Meng Zhong was not in Fangcheng, was still training and cultivating fields in an orderly manner, and even as far as I know, the Fangcheng army under Meng Zhong was actually trained by Meng Sui on his behalf...... However, the strange thing is that although he has such an excellent clan brother, Meng Zhong's original deputy general is not Meng Sui, but Na Le Yi...... What does that mean, you say? ”

"Meaning...... Is Le Yi better than Meng Sui? Sima Jin guessed.

Bai Qiqi nodded and said, "I think so too, I don't believe that Meng Zhong looked away......

Sima Jin thought for a while and said: "It's also possible, it's Meng Zhong who wants to win over Le Yi, then Le Yi may not be better than Meng Sui, Guowei You think, Meng Sui is Meng Zhong's brother, naturally he is in tandem with Meng Zhong, but Le Yi, I heard that he is from Zhongshan......"

"Haha." Bai Qi smiled, nodded and said, "It's possible that you say it, but I don't think so,...... You may not know the people around Meng Zhong, in fact, Meng Zhong is surrounded by many talents, since Na Le Yi was able to stand out among the group of people around Meng Zhong and become Meng Zhong's lieutenant, he must have something extraordinary......

"Is that really the case? But I don't seem to have heard of any extraordinary deeds of Na Le Yi. ”

"That's the problem!" Bai Qi smiled slightly, then squinted his eyes and said: "Meng Zhong's deputy general, after defecting to the Yan Kingdom, he was immediately worshiped by the King of Yan as the Great Sima, such a character, do you still doubt his talent?" But the strange thing is that, as you said, Na Le Yi has not done anything extraordinary so far, which makes me wonder if this person is ...... I'm afraid I'm deliberately hiding my skills. ”

"What does the national captain mean......" Sima Jin seemed to think of something, and his face was shocked.

"No, it shouldn't be what you think." As if he had guessed Sima Jin's thoughts, Bai Qi shook his head and said: "I once asked Sima Lao about Le Yi's situation in the battle of Tancheng last year, according to Sima Lao, that Le Yi did not do any extraordinary deeds at that time, if he really hid his true ability, it means that Le Yi has been deliberately hiding since then, it may be for some purpose, how can it be deliberately aimed at my Great Qin?" After thinking about it, he added with a smile: "It looks like it's going to target Qi ......"

"Qi Guo?"

Sima Jin didn't understand, after all, according to what he saw a few days ago, the relationship between Le Yi and Tian Touch seemed to be quite close, how could it be aimed at Qi Guo?

He was about to ask a question when suddenly there was a rush of footsteps behind him.

He subconsciously looked back, and then saw a Qin pawn hurrying towards this side.

"Lieutenant."

I saw that under Sima Jin's gaze, the Qin pawn hurriedly rushed to Bai Qi's side, knocked on one knee, and said with a fist: "The hidden Xizuo sent back the news, so far, there has been no change in the main camp of the Wei army where Yuncheng Jun Mengzhong is located......

Bai Qi nodded slightly, and then asked, "Where is the partial camp where Wei generals Dou Xing and Wei Qing are located?" What have those two Wei armies been doing lately? ”

The Qin pawn clenched his fists and said, "Wei General Wei Qing has been helping the main camp to cut down trees in recent days, as for Dou Xing...... I don't know. ”

Bai Qi suddenly frowned: "Go and find out!" ”

"Whoa!" The Qin pawn clenched his fists and retreated.

That night, Bai Qi received news that the Wei army under the command of the Wei general Dou Xing was building a dam downstream of the Gate River.

This made Bai Qi quite suspicious, and he instinctively felt that this matter was not simple, so he sent out more detailed work, staring at the Wei army under Dou Xing day and night, wanting to see what this Wei army wanted to do.

After monitoring for several days, Bai Qi learned that Dou Xingjun had brought a lot of soil from nowhere, and I have to say that Wei Jun's strange behavior made Bai Qi feel a lot of pressure.

"Damming...... Water storage...... Dirt ......

Combined with the clues he knew, the more Bai Qi thought about it, the more frightened he became.

"Meng Zhong, that guy, doesn't he want to divert water from the door to pour into Hangu Dao, right? Kehan Valley Road...... Obviously, the terrain in the west is higher, if the big water can flood the Hangu Road, then the tens of thousands of troops of the Wei camp in the other road will not also become fish and turtles under the water? …… I don't understand, I don't understand, what the hell is that guy thinking? ”

Thinking about it and thinking about it, Bai Qi had no choice but to send more detailed works to keep an eye on the Wei camp in Daozhong and the Beishan Wei camp of Wei general Dou Xing at any time, because he felt that these two Wei armies might be going to play some tricks.

Hangu Pass sent a large number of meticulous works, and of course this matter could not be hidden from the eyes of the Fangcheng cavalry.

No, Meng Hu led the Fangcheng cavalry to patrol everywhere in front of Hangu Pass, hunting and killing those Qin army spies, but it is a pity that the gang of spies on the opposite side also knew the power of the Fangcheng cavalry, most of them would only act at night, and then find a hidden place to squat before dawn, and do not move throughout the day, even if it is the Fangcheng cavalry, there is no way to find out all the Qin army's meticulous work.

For this reason, Meng Hu also ran to Meng Zhong's tent to complain: "In the past few days, Hangu Pass has sent a large number of meticulous works like crazy, and they can't finish killing, what did you do to make Bai Qi so nervous?" ”

"It's nothing." Meng Zhong smiled and said casually.

It seemed that this answer did not satisfy Meng Hu, and he said dissatisfiedly: "Ah Zhong, even I have to hide it? ”

After that, he looked outside the tent, lowered his voice and said, "Actually, I have already guessed, do you want to divert water from the door to pour into Hangu Road?" ”

Meng Zhong glanced up at Meng Hu and asked casually, "Why do you think so?" ”

"You're less here." Meng Hu said with a smile: "In the past few days, you asked Lao Dou to build a dam downstream of Menshui, and you brought a lot of soil from nowhere to consolidate the embankment on the east bank of Menshui. ”

"Is it that obvious?" Meng Zhong asked in surprise.

Seeing that Meng Zhong seemed to acquiesce, Meng Hu became even more proud, and said with a smile: "It's not very obvious, but I still can't hide it from me, I'm ......"

Speaking of this, he seemed to think of something, his face was uncomfortable, and he swallowed back the symbolic sentence "the first fierce general of so-and-so".

The reason is very simple, because last time in order to follow Meng Zhong to envoy Zhao State, he had already transferred this "honor" to Hua Hu.

Well, he is still very trustworthy.

At this time, Le Jin picked up the tent and walked in, saw Meng Hu, and greeted him in surprise: "Yo, Ah Hu." ”

Seeing Le Jin enter the account, Meng Hu also knew that he and Meng Zhong must have something important to discuss, so he didn't bother to intervene, stood up and yawned and said: "Ah Jin, you talk, I'll go first, I promised those guys to bring them some drinks back......"

Seeing Meng Hu walk out of the tent, Le Jin asked Meng Zhong curiously: "Why is Ah Hu here?" ”

Meng Zhong smiled and said, "He's here to get wine, and by the way, he complained to me a few words, and to put it bluntly, a large number of scouts have been sent over there in the past few days...... By the way, he also asked me if I wanted to divert water from the door to pour water into Hangu Road. ”

"Heh, Ah Hu is still very clever." Le Jin smiled, and then asked Meng Zhongdao: "Anyway, can you really fool Bai Qi?" The water from the door is poured into Hangu Road, in fact, if you think about it carefully, this is unlikely......"

"It doesn't matter." Meng Zhong said calmly: "If it were someone else, Bai Qi might not believe it, but because it was me, he didn't dare not be vigilant...... Turning around, ask Dou Xing to pretend to dig ditches around the big river, and as for this side, tell the soldiers to prepare to pull out the camp and move to higher ground. I don't expect to fool Bai Qi, but as long as his attention falls here, he doesn't have the energy to suspect elsewhere......"

"Makes sense."

Le Jin nodded, and immediately seemed to think of something, and said: "By the way, Wei Qing just sent someone to deliver the news, he has followed your instructions, borrowed the convenience of cutting down trees in the mountain, and sent several groups of hundreds of people to try to cross that mountain, but according to him, the progress is very slow, I am afraid that it will take a while to forcibly open up a mountain road leading to the Menshui Qin Camp......

"It's okay." Meng Zhong nodded and said, "During this period, Dou Xing and I will divert Bai Qi's attention for him, just tell him to take his time, I'm not in a hurry." ”

"Then I'll reply to him like this." Speaking of this, Le Jin hesitated for a moment and asked, "Ah Zhong, why do you want to open another mountain road?" Isn't it good to take the hidden path before? ”

Meng Zhong shook his head and said, "That will cause Tian to touch and ...... Vigilance over there. ”

"But with a small force alone, it may not be able to capture the Menshui Qin camp."

"Don't worry, when the time comes, I will ask Jin Con or Lian Po to lead an army from that path to the Menshui Qin camp, and cooperate with Wei Qing to launch a two-sided attack on the Menshui Qin camp...... Once the victory is tilted in our favor, even if Tian Touch has any agreement with the Qin army in private, he must honestly cooperate with us to attack the Menshui Qin camp. …… If he has a choice, he will never want to completely tear his face with my Sanjin Alliance. Meng Zhong said firmly.

"Hmm......"

So, for more than half a month later, Tian Touch and Le Yi were still fighting with the Qin army in disguise, and in front of Hangu Pass, Meng Zhong and Wei general Dou Xing launched preparations for breaking through Hangu Road out of nothing, even Bai Qi was frightened by Meng Zhong's abnormal actions, and sent a large number of meticulous works to keep an eye on Meng Zhongjun and Dou Xingjun all the time, thinking about the deep meaning of Meng Zhong's actions.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Wei Qing sent a team of hundreds of people every few hours every day under the cover of cutting down trees, opening up a road in this hilly and dense forest little by little, and opening up a mountain road leading directly to the area of Menshui Qinying.

Finally, after spending more than 20 days, Wei Qing finally opened up this mountain road, personally led a surprise attack force, drilled into the mountains and forests south of the camp, and quietly came to a mountain northeast of the Qin camp in Menshui, peeking at the Qin camp in the distance.

At this time, a young general walked to Wei Qing's side, it was Jin Cong.

I saw Jin contempt looking at Qin Ying in the distance, and comforted Wei Qing and said, "What Yuncheng Jun expected, there will be nothing wrong." ”

Hearing this, Wei Qing glanced at Jin Contempt with a strange expression.

You must know that Jin Cong had a lot of opinions about Meng Zhong at the beginning, but he didn't expect that now, this kid has become a fan of Meng Zhong.

But thinking about it carefully, Wei Qing also felt that Yun Chengjun did have a convincing charm.

"Are you ready?" Wei Qing said lightly: "Although Yun Chengjun asserted that the Qin camp was defenseless, after all, it was a camp with tens of thousands of Qin troops stationed, and it should not be underestimated. ”

Hearing this, Jin said confidently: "Fighting the Qin army head-on, I and my soldiers are not afraid, not to mention that the Qin army is defenseless?" ”

"Very good, courageous, did not lose face of my Hedong Army." Wei Qing nodded a few words of approval, and then instructed: "In addition, remember your mission, your task is not to kill the enemy, but to disrupt the Qin camp, after you succeed, Huahu Sima will immediately send cavalry to help, and then there is the Zhao army of that Lian Po......"

"Lian Po, ......" Jin's face showed a little disgust: "What is that reckless man doing?" Do you share the credit? ”

"Less nonsense!"

Wei Qing also knew that Jin Contempt and Lian Po disliked each other, and he didn't bother to say anything to Jin Con, so he said with a straight face: "Yuncheng Jun has a life, tonight no matter what, I will take this Gate Shui Qin Camp!" ”

"Whoa!" Seeing Wei Qing's serious expression, Jin Cong didn't dare to joke, and hugged his fists to take his life.

After a while, Wei Qing and Jin Contempt took advantage of the darkness to go down the mountain and quietly touched the Menshui Qin camp in the distance.

At the same time, in the main camp of the Qiyan coalition army in the east, Tian Touch was standing outside the camp, looking at Hua Hu and Lian Po in front of him a little helplessly, and listening to Hua Hu's explanation of this coming: "...... Knowing that the tentacles had failed to attack the Qin camp many times, Yunchengjun sent a special subordinate and Lian Sima to lead the troops to help. ”

Tian Yan didn't know how to answer, and hesitated for a while before he smiled dryly: "I see, I didn't expect Yun Chengjun to care so much about the battle situation here...... It's not that I'm shirking my responsibility, but the defense of the Menshui Qin camp is really strong...... Of course, if Hua Sima and Lian Sima help each other, the odds of victory are certainly greater. …… Hmm, did Yun Chengjun ever instruct when to attack the Qin camp? ”

At this time, Hua Hu's eyes caught a glimpse of the fire that seemed to appear in the night in the west, the corners of his mouth raised slightly, and he exchanged glances with Lian Po.

"This is the moment!"

Putting away the smile on his face, he said expressionlessly.

“……”

Tian Touch and Le Yi both changed their faces slightly.

As if they had a premonition, they turned to look to the west, and then their faces showed a deep look of surprise.