After some discussion and discussion, Marquis Wei Ran and Zhai Zhang finally came up with a most feasible strategy.

First of all, the Qin-Wei coalition army led by Zhai Zhang and Sima Cuo rushed to Taoyi of the Song State to engage the Qi-Zhao coalition army led by Fengyangjun Li Dui himself, and helped the Song State resist the coalition army as much as possible.

At the same time, Bai Qi was sent to lead a surprise army to attack Zhao State, forcing Li Dui, the Fengyang Jun of Zhao State, to withdraw his troops back to Handan.

After Li Dui withdrew his troops, Zhai Zhang and Sima Cuo divided into two routes, pursuing Li Dui's army of Fengyang Jun all the way, and cooperating with Bai Qi's strange soldiers to attack Zhao before and after, forcing Zhao to give up assisting Qi to attack Song; The other road crossed the Song State and went to Pengcheng and Tancheng to resist the Qi-Yan coalition army.

This is the general strategy of the Qin-Wei coalition army.

Meng Zhong, on the other hand, was assigned to Zhai Zhang and Sima Cuo, and followed these two to lead the army to Taoyi in the Song Kingdom.

After the discussion, Wei Ran and Zhai Zhang gathered in front of Yangguan three days later, and then led the crowd to leave.

Subsequently, Storm Kite and Zhai Zhang chatted privately for a while, and then Storm Kite also left with someone.

On the way back to Wancheng, Marquis Wei Ran invited Bai Qi to ride in a chariot with him, and said to the latter on the way back: "Bai Qi, this time to rescue the Song State, only you are the most important way, you must break the remaining army of the Zhao State as soon as possible, and force the King of Zhao to recall Fengyang Jun Li Dui......"

Although Bai Qi listened to Wei Ran's narration, no matter how he looked at it, he seemed absent-minded.

If he could, he actually wanted to exchange with Sima Cuo, but unfortunately, Wei Ran asked him to quickly break through the remaining army of Zhao State, and create an opportunity for Zhai Zhang, Sima Cuo and others on the Taoyi battlefield to break the Qi-Zhao coalition army, and this meant that he could not cooperate with Meng Zhong, even if the two were rarely in the same camp.

Wei Ran seemed to see Bai Qi's absent-mindedness, and after half a sound, he asked with a smile: "When you returned to China, you often talked about that Meng Zhong, I thought you were unwilling, but according to what I saw today, it seems that you appreciate that Meng Zhong ......."

Bai Qi hesitated for a moment and said, "Meng Zhong is a very good general. ”

Wei Ran smiled slightly.

As the minister of the Qin State who holds great power, his vision is naturally different from ordinary people, even if Meng Zhong twice affects his plan for the Qin State to enter the Central Plains eastward, he can tolerate it, after all, this world is unpredictable, and no one can guarantee what will happen tomorrow.

It's like the union of Qin and Wei this time, who would have thought that?

At this time, on another chariot, Sima Cuo also interjected casually: "Marquis, although the top priority is to unite with Wei to crusade against Qi and Zhao, this Meng Zhong ...... I thought that I should also make some plans in advance, according to my secret observation today, Zhai Zhang also admires that Meng Zhong, if Zhai Zhang is brought along, then Meng Zhong will be as stable as Mount Tai in Wei, and may become my great rival in the future...... Hearing that the Marquis of Song was going to envoy to the Song State next, he thought it was necessary to talk to the King of Song and ordered him to recall Meng Zhong......"

Wei Ran nodded with a smile and said, "I think so too." If possible, I will try to get Meng Zhong as a minister of the Song State to my Great Qin Official. ”

Repatriation, as the name suggests, is an official who holds a position in two countries at the same time, which is a contemporary diplomatic means to promote cooperation between the two countries, and the effect is no less than that of a marriage between two countries.

It may sound strange that a courtier of another country should hold an important position in another country, but it is indeed a common diplomatic method in modern times, and this minister is not only responsible for his own home country, but also for this country.

For example, when Zhao sent his minister to Qin, Lou Zhuan, who was born in the Xiongnu, was an important minister of Zhao's father, and when he was sent to Qin by Zhao's father, he served as the minister of Qin, and attended various occasions as a co-minister of Qin and Zhao, and even dealt with the government affairs of Qin.

It was this measure that ensured the peace between Qin and Zhao for the past ten years, until Zhao's father died in the Dune Palace Rebellion, and Zhao was controlled by Zhao Cheng, Anpingjun, and Li Dui, Fengyangjun, realizing that he had lost Zhao, an ally, of Qin, so he deposed Lou Zhan and reappointed Wei Ran as the prime minister.

The significance is actually similar to that of Meng Zhong taking the initiative to come to Wei, all in order to ensure diplomatic relations between the two countries and avoid being taken advantage of by spies sent by other countries.

"Retainers? What about Meng Zhong? ”

After hearing Wei Ran's words, Bai Qi was stunned, and a little surprise rose in his heart.

As if seeing through Bai Qi's thoughts, Wei Ran said with a smile: "I know what you're thinking, but even so, you may not be able to let that Meng Zhong be your lieutenant general......

Bai Qi opened his mouth, and his expression became embarrassed.

Just as he made that request at the meeting, Meng Hu, Hua Hu, Tang Zhi and others immediately objected.

Seeing this, Wei Ran put his right hand on Bai Qi's shoulder, leaned over slightly and said, "However, there is a chance." …… You have been defeated twice at the hands of Na Meng Zhong, and the king is dissatisfied with you, this time you will attack Zhao State, and you must win the land beautifully, so that I can fight for you to be knighted......"

Hearing Wei Ran's words full of anticipation, Bai Qi was slightly moved and nodded solemnly.

From the side, Sima looked at this scene with a smile.

It is undeniable that Meng Zhong and Bai Qi are the most outstanding young men Sima Cuo has met so far, and if one day Meng Zhong can serve as a minister of the Song State to his Qin State, the combination of this person and Bai Qi will be no less than the combination of Wei Zhang and Ying Ji in the "Battle of Danshui Lantian".

It's just that Wei may not be willing to let go, and Song may not let Meng Zhong go to Qin as a vassal considering Wei's mood.

But in this troubled world, no one knows what will happen tomorrow, so who knows!

After returning to Wancheng, Wei Ran ordered Sima Cuo and Bai Qi to reorganize the army.

At this time, Xiang Shou, who was stationed in the area of Lixian a while ago, had already led his army to Wancheng and handed over his army to Bai Qi.

It's funny to say, since Bai Qi became a first-line general of the Qin State, Xiang Shou, the former general of the Qin State, has gradually retreated into the background, but to be honest, with Xiang Shou's level of leading troops to fight, he can actually only manage logistics, or defend a certain city or something, in terms of attacking the city, he is far inferior to Sima Cuo and Bai Qi.

Speaking of which, the alliance between Qin and Wei this time, in fact, has room for each other, to put it bluntly, it is not that they have a lot of trust in each other, such as the Qin State, the army under the command of Huayang Jun Qirong did not dispatch.

Huayang Jun Qirong's army was the main force attacking Hedong County of Wei over the years.

On the Wei side, Zhai Zhang never mentioned the army of Hedong guarding Gongsun Zhu, and it is no exaggeration to say that the Hedong Army is much more powerful than the miscellaneous army under Zhai Zhang's current command.

Obviously, Zhai Zhang and Wei Ran both knew that the alliance between Qin and Wei was only forced by the fact that Qi and Zhao attacked Song, and once Qi and Zhao were stopped, it would be inevitable that war would break out between Qin and Wei again.

There is no way, in the strategy of Qin's eastward advance into the Central Plains, Wei is the first huge obstacle, if Wei cannot be defeated, Qin will never want to set foot in the Central Plains, so it is almost impossible for Qin and Wei to be neighbors.

Because of this, both Qin and Wei had a tacit understanding to retain a part of their elite troops, so as not to play any tricks on the other side - of course, the main thing here is the Qin state.

While the Qin army was reorganizing the army, Meng Zhong led the city army under his command to withdraw from the Wancheng area, leaving only the army of Zhai Zhang and Storm Kite.

After leading the army back to Yangguan, Meng Zhong told Meng Sui, Wu Ying and others about the situation, only to hear Meng Sui, Wu Ying and others stunned.

It's no wonder, after all, the matter of Qin and Wei alliance is too bizarre, if it weren't for the real reality, Meng Sui, Wu Ying and others wouldn't believe it at all.

And when it came to the issue of reinforcements rushing to the Song State, Meng Sui asked Meng Zhong: "How many troops are you going to bring to support the Song State?" ”

Meng Zhong thought for a while and said, "Six thousand cavalry, I'll take four thousand, as for the foot soldiers...... Let's take a look at the reaction of the army first, hoping to persuade some of the soldiers to follow me to the Song Kingdom with the reward. ”

It was not for nothing that he said this, because after the Fangcheng army fought for a long time and paid heavy casualties, the soldiers' war-weariness was more serious, and they had to defend Yeyi and resist the Qin army, but now they had to ask those soldiers to support the Song State, which had nothing to do with them, and the soldiers who wanted to come to the Fangcheng army might not be willing to accept it.

This is also something that can't be helped, after all, most of the Fang Cheng army are Chu people, and they don't have a sense of belonging to the Wei State, let alone let them risk their lives to support the Song State?

Meng Zhong didn't want to force these soldiers, so the only thing he could do was to issue a reward and use the reward to persuade some of the soldiers to follow him to the Song Kingdom.

On the same day, Meng Zhong issued a notice to the whole army, describing the established fact that the Wei army would temporarily cooperate with the Qin army to rescue the Song state.

Just as he expected, the entire Fangcheng army exploded at once, most of the soldiers were stunned, and even a small number of soldiers resisted this matter.

"I will not fight side by side with the Qin people who killed my relatives! When hell freezes over! ”

"The Qin people only deserve to die!"

These were the exact words of those Fangcheng soldiers.

Knowing that the army's heart was turbulent, Meng Zhong had no choice but to order Meng Hu, Huahu, Wuying, Le Jin and other military horses to come forward to appease the army.

All in all, in the end, Meng Zhong reluctantly gathered 20,000 troops, including 4,000 cavalry, and prepared to take them to the Song Kingdom.

As for the accompanying generals, Meng Zhong selected Meng Hu, Hua Hu, and Le Jin, with Meng Hu and Hua Hu in charge of the cavalry, and Le Jin in charge of the infantry army, as for Meng Sui, Wu Ying, Mu Wu, Le Xu and others, they all stayed in the area of Fangcheng, Yangguan, and Yeyi.

On April 24, the last day of the three-day covenant, Sima Cuo and Bai Qi led their respective armies to join Zhai Zhang's army and go to Yangguan together.

As for Wancheng, Wei Ran generously returned it to the Storm Kite, after all, it was just an empty city.

After bidding farewell to the tyrannical kite, Zhai Zhang, Sima Cuo, and Bai Qi led their respective armies and slowly marched towards Yangguan.

During this time, Meng Zhong made a short trip back to Wuyangyi and told Ge Shi, Le Yan and Meng Yan about what happened in the Song Kingdom and what was about to lead the army to rescue the Song Kingdom.

Knowing that the Song State was being attacked by the armies of Qi and Zhao at the moment, Ge Shi, Le Yan and Meng Yan were worried.

After all, those who followed Meng Zhong to move to Wuyangyi were only the young children of the families in the Mengyi area, and the old people in the clans such as Mengqi, Mengyi, and Mengjian, as well as Le Yan's parents, still lived in Mengyi in the Song State at the moment.

Seeing this, Meng Zhong was relieved: "The alliance of Qin and Wei is far superior to the alliance of Qi and Zhao, and our side will undoubtedly win this battle." ”

In all fairness, the unity of the three kingdoms of Qin, Wei and Song and the alliance of the three kingdoms of Qi, Zhao and Yan, the strength of these two camps is actually quite close, whether it is national strength or army strength, but it is not necessarily in terms of generals who command the battle, it is obvious that the Qin and Wei alliances have an advantage.

After all, there are Sima Cuo, Zhai Zhang, Meng Zhong, and Bai Qi on the Qin-Wei joint side, two old famous generals with two new generals, all four of them are the talents of the coach, what about the Qi and Zhao joint side?

On Zhao Guo's side, Fengyangjun Li Dui is still famous, Xiao General Lian Po is simply not qualified to spread his reputation to Wei Ran's ears, and Qi Guo's side is even worse, Tian Touch, who is a candidate for the coach, is still a defeated general under Meng Zhong.

It is no exaggeration to say that unless the Qi State invites Tian Zhang, the Qi and Zhao coalition forces will have fallen into disadvantage in terms of leading the generals alone.

After another two days like this, Zhai Zhang, Sima Cuo, and Bai Qi led the army to Yangguan.

After many days, when I returned to Yangguan again, whether it was Sima Coo or Bai Qi, it was inevitable that I would be a little embarrassed.

Because it was this inconspicuous pass in front of him that once blocked his hundreds of thousands of Qin troops, making it difficult for his strong Qin army to take a step forward.

But when their Qin army was defeated, they were ready to pass through this pass as an ally of Wei today, which made people inevitably sigh about the unpredictability of the world.

At this time, the number of troops under the command of the Qin general Sima Cuo remained the same as before, still the original 60,000, while Bai Qi took over Xiang Shou's army, which was about 50,000, a total of 110,000.

As for the Wei army, Zhai Zhang's command was about 60,000 troops, plus Meng Zhong's 20,000 troops, about 80,000.

The total strength of the Qin-Wei coalition was about 190,000.

I have to say that when the Qin army passed through Yangguan, the scene was extremely tense for a while.

Who let those Fangcheng soldiers who were responsible for defending the city, including the Wei army under Zheng Zheng, always stare at those Qin soldiers with indifferent eyes.

It is no wonder that after all, the Wei army does not trust the Qin army, even if the Marquis Wei Ran rode alone in Zhai Zhang's chariot in order to reassure the Wei army.

Fortunately, the generals of Qin and Wei each restrained their subordinates, otherwise these 190,000 coalition troops would not have fought in this pass because of new hatred and old hatred.

During this period, Bai Qi found Meng Zhong and said to Meng Zhong in private: "Zhuang Xin and Zhuang Ji of Chu State are actually secretly colluding with you, right?" ”

Of course, Meng Zhong would not disclose it, and immediately flatly denied it.

However, Bai Qi ignored Meng Zhong's explanation and said to himself: "In addition, I think Zhao Ju may also be your internal response. …… Wancheng and Fangcheng used to be the cities of his Chu State, how could he not know that there was a mountain road on the north side of Fangcheng that could lead to Wancheng? But he just won't say it......"

Although Meng Zhong was shocked by Bai Qi's speculation in his heart, he didn't show any clues on his face, and pretended to be impatient and said, "If you are suspicious of Zhao Ju, then go to him and talk to me about it?" …… What are you doing with me? ”

"To give peace of mind to your generals." Bai Qi spread his hands and said: "Since entering the customs, the Wei army under your command has been staring at our soldiers, and even a few Wei soldiers have made the move of drawing their swords...... I can see it very clearly! ”

Meng Zhong looked around when he heard this, and sure enough, he saw the Fangcheng soldiers under his command, and many people looked at the Qin soldiers who were queuing up not far away with hatred.

"Don't blame them." He said lightly: "The soldiers under my command, many of whom have family members, died at the hands of your Qin people. ”

"War is inevitable."

"Humph! Slaughtering and looting? Meng Zhong scoffed.

"In fact...... Yes. Bai Qi frankly admitted that he connived at the evil deeds of looting and slaughtering his subordinates, and turned to Meng Zhong and said, "You are also in charge of the army, you should understand the reason." ”

I have to say that in fact, the generals of various countries have more or less connived at the evil acts of slaughtering and looting civilians by their subordinates, and the difference is only who is more frequent and who is worse.

Even if the soldiers slaughtered the civilians, the purpose was to let those soldiers who were nervous release the accumulated pressure, which was not enough to cause mutinies and riots, and conniving at the soldiers to loot the civilians was actually a disguised subsidy to the soldiers and win the hearts of the army.

"Hmph." Meng Zhong snorted sarcastically and didn't bother to pay attention to it.

Although he also admired Bai Qi's ability to lead troops into battle, sometimes Bai Qi's unscrupulous behavior to achieve his goals also made it difficult for him to accept.

"That's what you did?"

Seeing that Meng Zhong ignored him, Bai Qi was not annoyed, but asked Meng Zhong curiously: "I look at your Fangcheng army, it seems that they never rob civilians...... Then what do your soldiers rely on to support their families? ”

"Compensation, reward."

"Mercy I know, reward? The King of Wei treats your army so well? ”

"It's not the King of Wei, it's me who will give out the reward myself......"

"Huh? Do you have that much money? ”

"When I got married, I had some savings, and after I came to Wei, Duan Gan secretly gave me a batch of money to support the army......"

"Are you married? When did you get married? What nationality is Mrs. Ling? ”

"People from the Song Kingdom and Mengyi, my fellow countrymen...... Can't you go back to your own army? ”

"Hey, hey, don't care, you've known each other for almost three years, right? I remember when you and I first met, you almost cut off my head with a sword, and then you even shot me in the left shoulder with an arrow, and I didn't hold a grudge...... By the way, I have already been married in the Qin State, and the daughter of the Empress Dowager Xuan was recommended for me by the Marquis......"

"Congratulations...... By the way, what are you telling me about this? ”

"Hmm......"

All in all, under the restraint of the generals of the Qin and Wei armies, the combined forces of Qin and Wei finally passed through Yangguan and Yeyi without danger and entered the hinterland of Wei.

After crossing Yeyi, Zhai Zhang temporarily handed over his army to Tang Zhi to take charge, and he took Wei Ran, the marquis, to Daliang first, and replied to Wei Wang Wei about the formation of a coalition army, while the Qin-Wei coalition army slowly went towards Daliang.

On the way, Bai Qi lost his army to the deputy general Ji Hong, and often took Sima Jin to Meng Zhong's army to discuss military strategy with the latter, or to drink.

Although it felt a bit strange about this, the generals under Meng Zhong's command gradually acquiesced to Bai Qi's approach, at least they would not stop it.

And when resting along the way, Bai Qi also took the generals under his command to fight with Meng Zhong, Meng Hu, Hua Hu, Le Jin and others.

When Sima Cuo and Tang Zhi learned about this, they both pretended not to know.

In mid-May, after nearly fifteen days of travel, the combined forces of Qin and Wei arrived in the area around Daliang, the capital of Wei.

At this time, the Marquis Wei Ran had already met with Wei Wangjun on behalf of Qin, and rewarded the coalition army with Tian Wen and Sima Zhai Zhang, the ministers of Wei, so that the coalition army rested in the Daliang area for a day.

Subsequently, on the day of May 18, the Qin-Wei coalition army divided its troops in Daliang, with Tang Zhi leading his Qu troops to Yecheng with Bai Qi and his troops, while Zhai Zhang, Sima Cuo, and Meng Zhong led their respective armies eastward to Taoyi in the Song Kingdom.

In order to find out the current situation in Taoyi, Meng Zhong sent Meng Hu and Hua Hu to lead 4,000 cavalry to Taoyi step by step.

Taoyi, also known as Dingtao, it used to be the capital of Cao, because it is located at the intersection of Jishui and Surabaya, the land route is unimpeded, and the waterway is also accessible, so it quickly developed into a large city that is no less than Handan and Linzi, whether it is Wei, Zhao, Qi, in fact, they all covet Taoyi, and the reason why all parties have not started for a long time is just because of the attitude of other countries.

On May 22, after a four-day journey, Menghu and Huahu led the cavalry to the Taoyi area.

At this time, Taoyi had been broken by the Qi and Zhao coalition forces led by Li Dui, Fengyang Jun, and the armies of Qi and Zhao were both inside and outside the city.

Fortunately, the Qi-Zhao coalition army did not massacre and loot in Taoyi.

Don't think that this is Fengyang Jun Li Dui's benevolent heart, he just doesn't want Taoyi to be destroyed.

You must know that Qi Wangtian said that the bargaining chip for him to send troops to help and jointly attack the Song State was to give Taoyi to Li Dui as a fief - since it was about to become his own fiefdom, how could Li Dui, the king of Fengyang, allow the armies of Qi and Zhao to destroy it?

Looking at the Zhaozi banner fluttering on Taoyi City from afar, Meng Hu couldn't believe it: "Isn't it?" Taoyi has been captured? Counting the days, the two armies of Qi and Zhao met in Dong'a at the end of March, and it was only a month and a half, right? I don't know who was stationed in Taoyi before...... It can't be Jing Hui's old man, right? That old man can't do it. ”

"After all, it's the armies of Qi and Zhao." Hua Hu said lightly: "What's more, the Song Kingdom divides its troops to guard the east and west sides at the same time, so it is inevitable to take care of one and lose the other......"

Compared with the army of the State of Qi, he was actually more afraid of the army of the State of Zhao, especially the cavalry of the State of Zhao.

"Cavalry, the cavalry in the distance noticed me! …… The cavalry of the Zhao State! ”

No, after looking around for a moment, Hua Hu noticed that there was a cavalry of the Zhao State peeping at them from a distance in the distance.

Hearing this, Meng Hu also looked grim, frowned and stared into the distance, looking at the group of cavalry standing on horseback about two hundred zhang away from them.

Zhao State Cavalry!

"Cheer me up, little!"

Staring at the cavalry of the Zhao State in the distance for a moment, Meng Hu said in a deep voice to the cavalry behind him: "The cavalry of the Zhao State opposite is not as easy to deal with as the cavalry of the Qin State. ”

Hearing Meng Hu's words, Cao Chun and Cai Cheng also looked intently at the cavalry of Zhao State in the distance.

But all the Fangcheng cavalry knew that the way the three main generals Menghu, Huahu, and Mu Wu trained them was exactly the way Zhao Guo trained cavalry, and it was no problem to say that the other Fangcheng cavalry was a copy of Zhao Guo's cavalry.

Then the question arises, is the cavalry of Zhao Guo stronger as a teacher, or is the cavalry of Fangcheng as a student stronger?

At this time, the cavalry of Zhao State in the distance was also paying attention to the cavalry under the banners of "Wei" and "Fangcheng" in the distance, which was quite unbelievable.

That's the army of Wei?

Wei...... There are cavalry?!

"Come on, report to Fengyangjun quickly!"

General Zhao, who commanded this cavalry, immediately ordered.

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