As Lian Po predicted, he was more cautious and vigilant than usual on the way to harass Meng Zhong and his army tonight, because he was also worried that he would be ambushed by Zhao Ben and Lian Po again, after all, Zhao Ben and Lian Po still had sufficient troops.

In fact, on the way to lead the army, Meng Zhong was also thinking about this question: if Zhao Ben and Lian Po repeated their old tricks and set up an ambush outside the camp like yesterday, what should he do?

After thinking about it for a long time, Meng Zhong finally thought that the safest way was to retreat temporarily to avoid the edge of Zhao Ben and Lian Po.

This is also something that can't be helped, if in the eyes of Wang Shi's side, Meng Zhong's strategy is a big threat to them, then in Meng Zhong's view, Lian Po's personal martial arts are their biggest threat - this is a general with the force to kill the general and capture the flag, if there is a choice, Meng Zhong does not want him and his friends to get too close to Lian Po, so as not to be killed by Lian Po alone.

However, even Meng Zhong didn't expect that Zhao Ben and Lian Po would come up with that kind of way to 'trap' him tonight.

"Zhao Ben and Lian Po set up an ambush in the camp?"

Since Meng Hu was directing his soldiers to harass the opposite military camp from a distance at the moment, Meng Zhong was only accompanied by Hua Hu and Mu Wu, so he first told Hua Hu and Mu Wu about his guess, which surprised the two.

"Nine times out of ten."

Seeing that Hua Hu and Mu Wu seemed to be a little suspicious, Meng Zhong explained in his words.

In Meng Zhong's view, the reaction of the two military camps of Zhao Baojun and Li Duijun at this moment was actually extremely abnormal.

In comparison, Li Duijun's barracks are quite normal, which is in line with the reaction of the barracks being disturbed, but Zhao Baojun's barracks are too abnormal, obviously there is no effective means to counter them, and they were ambushed by them for a while last night when they were preparing to ambush them.

"If it's just the two of you, would you two dare to do this?" Meng Zhong asked rhetorically.

Hua Hu and Mu Wu glanced at each other, frowned and shook their heads slightly.

Indeed, if you put yourself in their shoes, if they were Zhao Ben and Lian Po, they would never dare to be so arrogant - how could Zhao Ben and Lian Po ensure that he Meng Zhong, Hua Hu, and Mu Wu were only harassing tonight and would not really attack their camp?

Thinking about it this way, Zhao Baojun's military camp was silent at this moment, which seemed very unharmonious, as if to express a meaning to Meng Zhongjun: Look, I am defenseless, you hurry up and attack the camp!

From this, it is not difficult to guess that this must be a deliberate trick by Zhao Ben and Lian Po to lure the enemy.

"I see." Hua Hu nodded suddenly, and immediately asked Meng Zhongdao: "......What is there in Li Dui's barracks?"

Meng Zhong explained: "The reaction of Li Dui's military camp is not unusual on weekdays, but if it is put together with Zhao Baojun, there is a problem...... If what I expected is correct, Li Duijun is probably just asking a group of soldiers to deliberately create signs of chaos in his camp, so as to perfunctory harassment of you and me, as for the rest of the soldiers, I am afraid that they are resting in peace at the moment, in other words, the real defenselessness is actually Li Duijun's side, as for Zhao Baojun's military camp, it seems to be silent and defenseless, but in fact, it is secretly murderous......"

Hua Hu and Mu Wu nodded thoughtfully, and then asked Meng Zhongdao, "Then what should we do?" ”

"Well...... this"

Meng Zhong looked thoughtfully at Zhao Baojun's barracks.

I have to say that Zhao Ben and Lian Po's reaction tonight was too coarse, so that Meng Zhong could see at a glance that there was a hidden murderous motive - of course, in fact, it is also possible that Zhao Ben and Lian Po came to an 'empty city plan' and deliberately put on this posture, which made him suspicious, and he did not dare to really order an attack on the camp because he suspected that there must be an ambush in the camp.

This is also a train of thought.

However, when Meng Zhong carefully thought about Zhao Ben and Lian Po's usual personalities, words and deeds, he felt that the first guess was more likely, that is, Zhao Ben and Lian Po had indeed set up an ambush in the camp.

"Withdraw!"

After thinking for a moment, Meng Zhong said.

"Huh?" Hearing this, Hua Hu and Mu Wu looked at each other, a little incredulous what they heard: "Withdraw? ”

I saw Meng Zhong nodded, and said with a chuckle: "Since Zhao Ben and Lian Po let their soldiers set up an ambush in the camp, this means that many of their soldiers are destined to be difficult to get enough rest tonight, so what are we doing here after our army's goal has been achieved?" …… That's all for tonight, I'll go back to the camp early to rest. ”

Hua Hu and Mu Wu nodded in relief.

Under Monchung orders, tonight's harassment plan was terminated, and about 2,000 rebels quietly withdrew.

However, before withdrawing the army, Meng Zhong took a deep look at Zhao Baojun's military camp, and his eyes showed a little thought.

Just as Lian Po guessed, Meng Zhong has been strongly countering the opposing Wang Shi these days, whether it was attacking the military camp of Zhao Bao's army before dawn a few days ago, or ambushing Lian Po's army in turn last night, the purpose was actually to deter the Wang Shi soldiers on the opposite side - only by making Wang Shi's soldiers afraid of his army under Meng Zhong could his Meng Zhong's harassment strategy be successfully implemented; Otherwise, if Master Wang didn't take him Meng Zhong seriously at all, would Meng Zhong have to take risks several times to attack the other side?

You must know that any sneak attack is risky, and it is very likely that it will be countered by the enemy like Lian Po last night, if there is a choice, Meng Zhong will of course prefer a more secure method that can weaken the enemy's army, such as the "strategy of exhausting the enemy".

"It's Zhao Ben...... Or Lian Po? In any case, one of them must have seen through my intention to attack the camp before dawn that day, and realized that I had to do it at that time, and that it was only tonight that he devised this plan to lure me to the camp...... If I do not go, as time goes on, the men under his command will gradually get rid of their fear of our army, and I am afraid that it will not be as effective as it is now when I use the enemy's tactics in the future...... Oh, it's said to be a lure to the enemy, but in fact, this is a challenge to me...... But even so, I don't have to obey the two of you's thoughts, you two just wait......

Thinking of this, the corners of Meng Zhong's mouth raised a little inexplicable smile, and he led the rebels under his command to evacuate and withdraw to the military camp in the area of Qunqiu.

This made Zhao Ben and Lian Po and the soldiers under their command who set up ambushes in the camp.

In recent days, when the rebels led by Meng Zhong harassed Wang Shi's camp, they generally harassed once every half an hour, and occasionally twice within half an hour, but today it seems that the situation is a bit special, since the rebels harassed the first time around the second hour, there has been no movement.

Zhao Ben and Lian Po were quite surprised by this.

They didn't know that Meng Zhong had already decisively led the rebels to evacuate at this time, so that the two of them were analyzing the matter with serious expressions in the tent at the moment, speculating about the rebels' intention to suddenly stop harassing them.

"Then Meng Zhong, is he trying to test me and others?"

Zhao Benhu guessed suspiciously.

Hearing this, Lian Po also nodded in agreement: "That Meng Zhong is scheming and scheming, he must have seen some clues, so he deliberately asked the soldiers to hide the sound, secretly spied on the reality of this camp, and looked for flaws...... I'll be patient. ”

"Hmm!"

Zhao Ben nodded in conviction, and waited vigilantly with Lian Po, waiting for the moment when Meng Zhong's patience disappeared and finally launched a night attack on them.

Time passed little by little, and in a blink of an eye, around the time of the child, Zhao Ben and Lian Po, who were still able to calm down at first, became more and more impatient.

Na Meng Zhong...... Why didn't you attack the camp?

Looking at each other, both of them saw the confusion in each other's hearts from each other's eyes.

"Wait a little longer......"

"Well, wait a little longer......"

The two comforted each other.

However, until the end of the day, there was silence outside the camp, and no rebels came to harass them.

Finally, Zhao Ben couldn't help but speak: "That Meng Zhong...... It's not going to be a withdrawal back to the camp, is it? ”

Hearing this, Lian Po scratched his hair with his hand and did not speak.

In fact, as early as an hour ago, he had doubts about this, doubting whether Na Meng Zhong had already led the army to evacuate, leaving him and Zhao Ben stupidly vigilant against an enemy who had actually left long ago.

But because this incident hit the morale of the two of them too much, Lian Po could only hide it in his heart, and until this moment, Zhao Ben couldn't bear it and made his words clear.

After a moment of silence, Lian Po pondered and said: "It will be dawn in another hour, since we have already waited for this one, it is better to wait for another hour, maybe that Meng Zhong will repeat his old tricks and prepare to launch a surprise attack before dawn......"

After a pause, he exhaled and added in a strange tone: "If there is no sign of the rebels attacking by then, it means ......"

He didn't say any more, but Zhao Ben understood what he meant.

What does that mean? It means that they were tricked by that Meng Zhong again.

In this way, Zhao Ben and Lian Po waited for another hour until the sky cleared, but unfortunately, the rebels did not attack their camp from beginning to end—they were still extremely cautious in the moment before dawn.

"I was thoroughly seen through ......"

When the sky outside the tent was bright, Zhao Ben, who had been waiting all night, could not hide his tiredness, and the big thorn sat in the tent, shaking his head with a wry smile.

Opposite him, Lian Po kept his face calm and did not speak.

After waiting for the enemy to attack the camp all night, but the enemy did not cooperate at all, how could he be in a good mood at this moment?

"He'll come."

After a moment of silence, Lian Po said in a deep voice: "He didn't come last night, but he will definitely come tonight!" ”

“……”

Zhao Ben glanced at Lian Po and nodded slightly.

Although Lian Po also made a mistake in judgment last night, he Zhao Ben still agreed with Lian Po's point of view, that is, in order to ensure the effective implementation of his "strategy to exhaust the enemy", Meng Zhong must let the soldiers of Zhao Baojun and Li Duijun keep their spirits tense at night, which means that Meng Zhong has to launch night attacks on the two army camps from time to time.

In other words, they still have a chance to trap Meng Zhong unless Meng Zhong gives up his strategy before he does.

But before that, they had to deal with Gongzizhang's attack first.

Yes, if it is not bad as expected, Gongzi Zhang will lead his army to attack Quliangyi three times today, and make the most of Meng Zhong's strategy to exhaust the enemy on the Wang Division's side, otherwise, Meng Zhong's strategy of exhausting the enemy is actually not of much use.

I have to say that Zhao Ben and Lian Po guessed correctly at all, because at the same time, Gongzizhang did give an order to the army under his command to "attack Quliang again".

And the reason why he hasn't set off for the time being is because he met with Xiang Yu, a subordinate under Meng Zhong's command.

It turned out that after withdrawing the army back to the camp around Qunqiu last night, Meng Zhong summoned Xiang Yu and told Xiang Yu to set off for Gongzizhang's camp overnight, and asked the latter for a batch of military supplies, such as the military drum that had been buried in the fire before, and the huge fire arrows that night.

After receiving Meng Zhong's advice, Xiang Yu went to Gongzizhang's camp overnight, and finally arrived at Gongzizhang's camp at dawn at this moment, and asked Gongzizhang to meet him.

After learning of Xiang Yi's intention, Gongzizhang readily agreed to the things that Meng Zhong asked.

To tell the truth, military supplies such as bows and arrows, especially fire arrows, and oil oil, are actually very scarce in Gongzizhang's rebels, and the reason why he agreed so happily is because he knows that these things can play a greater role in the hands of Meng Zhong than in the hands of his subordinates.

After all, Gongzi Zhang was also a battle-hardened general of the Zhao State, and of course he knew Meng Zhong's role in this battle - it is no exaggeration to say that it was precisely because Meng Zhong was holding back Zhao Bao's army and Li Dui's army that he was able to attack Quliangyi without any worries.

During the period of instructing the soldiers to prepare those military supplies, Gongzizhang also asked Xiang Yu about the actions of the Mengzhong army in the past two days.

Seeing this, Xiang Yi was not too humble, and told Gongzizhang that Zhao Ben and Lian Po tried to ambush them the night before, but in the end they were ambushed by them in turn, and only heard Gongzizhang's heart.

What kind of generals are Zhao Ben and Lian Po, of course Gongzizhang knows, Zhao Ben won't say it, this person is the future commander of the Handan Army recommended by Yang Wenjun Zhao Bao, and Lian Po is the most prominent general on Wang Shi's side some time ago, beheading Hu Qian, injuring Peng Qian, and rescuing Zhao Wanghe, these feats have been unmatched so far, even if it is not an exaggeration to say that Lian Po is the first fierce general on Wang Shi's side.

However, Zhao Ben and Lian Po, who are as outstanding as this, have been repeatedly deflated in the hands of Meng Zhong, and they have not been able to bargain for anything so far, which made Gongzizhang very happy in his heart, and once again raised his evaluation of Meng Zhong.

He said to Xiang Yu: "Xiang Yu, when you return to tell Ah Zhong, I will take back the throne in the future, and I will definitely not treat you badly, and when I regain the throne, I will canonize him as Jinyang Shou, and you and others, everyone is a Sima ...... of the army."

Hearing this, Xiang Yi couldn't help but be a little moved, after all, Gongzizhang's promise was not ungenerous.

"It's a pity that Ah Zhong may not accept it at that time......

Xiang Yu thought to himself with regret.

Of course, thinking about it in his heart, he naturally would not refuse Gongzizhang's kindness in person.

"Thank you, Childe."

"Hahaha......"

After some politeness, Gongzizhang led nearly 30,000 troops to the direction of Quliangyi, and Xiang Yi handed over military drums, fire arrows and other materials in his military camp, and by the way, took dozens of chariots and returned to the Qunqiu military camp with these materials.

On August 26, Gongzizhang led the main force of more than 30,000 rebels to attack Quliangyi for the third time.

Because during the last attack, the Wang division had already shown its defeat, so that the second half of the second half almost completely relied on the camp and the antlers and other defensive facilities outside the camp to block the rebels' attack, so Gongzizhang prepared some siege equipment this time, such as long ladders, door trucks (rushing cars), as for the stone throwing machine, building car (well block), because it was not suitable to build, the rebels did not prepare.

I have to say that compared with the previous two attacks, today's rebel offensive is almost very similar to the siege, at the moment when the battle began, there were countless generations of county soldiers carrying long ladders to rush to Fengyangjun's camp, erecting the long ladder on the wooden camp wall, trying to attack the camp with the help of ladders.

It is worth mentioning that during the period when Li Duijun's military camp was attacked by the rebels under Gongzi Zhang, Anpingjun Zhao Cheng also led reinforcements to support, but he never thought that he was blocked by Pang Xuan's army halfway, Pang Xuan led the Tan Guard Army and nearly 5,000 Daijun soldiers to intercept Zhao Cheng and Zhao Ping's father and son in the wilderness, and the two armies started a fight.

The battle that day can be called the most fierce confrontation since the battle between Wang Shi and the rebels, and the battle lasted for six hours, until it was almost dusk, and Gongzizhang returned to his camp with regret and the hungry rebels under his command.

During this period, Meng Zhong also led hundreds of soldiers to the battlefield to observe today's confrontation from afar.

In his opinion, it is a pity that the rebels under Gongzizhang failed to break through Fengyangjun Li Dui's camp today, because the soldiers of Li Dui's army at that time were obviously unable to support it, as long as Gongzizhang was given another hour, maybe he could break through Li Dui's camp today and take Quliangyi in one go.

Of course, even if Gongzizhang's rebels failed to take Quliangyi today, it could be seen that Li Dui's soldiers were exhausted, which made Meng Zhong even more determined to have some thoughts in his heart.

In the evening, Lian Po still returned to the military camp of Yang Wenjun Zhao Bao with six or seven thousand soldiers under his command, preparing to continue to design the "booby-trap" Meng Zhong with Zhao Ben.

In Lian Po's view, the defeat of Wang Shi's side has become more and more obvious, and the reason for this is nothing more than that Gongzizhang's rebels can get full rest after each attack, while Wang Shi's side has been subjected to endless harassment by Meng Zhong.

If Meng Zhong cannot be eradicated as soon as possible, it will be difficult for Wang Shi's side to hold Quliang.

But how to eradicate the Mongols?

Lian Po discussed it with Zhao Ben, but decided to follow yesterday's strategy, that is, to relax his vigilance on the surface and lure Meng Zhong to attack.

However, considering that Meng Zhong was very likely to play tricks on them like yesterday, Lian Po and Zhao Ben decided to ambush only 5,000 soldiers, that is, let 5,000 soldiers wait for the arrival of Meng Zhong's army all night, while the rest of the soldiers would rest in the camp and rotate for half a night, so as to ensure that every soldier could get time to rest, even if Meng Zhongjun escaped quietly like last night, they would not be very injured.

That night, Meng Zhong led a full 3,000 soldiers to sneak quietly and came to the "triangle" with the Zhao Bao military camp and Li Dui's military camp.

First of all, he ordered Meng Hu to carefully search the vicinity with 500 soldiers to ensure that there were no ambushes from Zhao Ben, Lian Po or Li Dui in the vicinity, so as to prevent his own side from being ambushed.

Later, he ordered Meng Hu to take the 500 soldiers to shout outside the two barracks as he had done a few days ago, and beat the snare drums he had just obtained from Gongzizhang to harass the soldiers in the two barracks.

"This Meng Zhong is so annoying!"

In Li Duijun's barracks, Li Dui's son Li Ji was woken up by a noise made by Meng Zhongjun shortly after he fell asleep, and he gritted his teeth hatefully.

But hatred is hate, and there is nothing he can do, after all, the soldiers under the command of his father and son have just started a fierce battle with the rebels under the command of Gongzi Zhang today, so that the soldiers in the battalion are extremely tired one by one, and they have no energy to expel and encircle the Meng Zhong army.

So he recruited a lineman named "Jin Xuan" and instructed the latter to adopt Lian Po's previous method, that is, to gather hundreds of soldiers in the camp and let them deliberately create chaos in the camp, so as to perfunctory the rebels under Meng Zhong's command, so that the rest of the soldiers could rest well.

"Whoa!"

Jin Yu took the order and left.

At the same time, in Zhao Bao's barracks, Zhao Ben and Lian Po deliberately kept the sergeants quiet as they did yesterday and lured Meng Zhong to come to attack at night.

But then again, compared to yesterday, today's Zhao Ben and Lian Po's belief in ambushing Meng Zhong is obviously a little weaker, and the reason for this is nothing more than that they are too tired, and today's fight with the rebels under Gongzi Zhang has consumed too much of their energy, so that they don't care if Meng Zhong comes tonight or not-if they don't come, then take a good rest.

But Lian Po swore to Zhao Ben and said, "That Meng Zhong will definitely attack the camp tonight!" ”

For that reason, the generals under his command were too tired, and I believed that Meng Zhong would never let go of this excellent opportunity.

I have to say that Lian Po guessed right.

Last night, after weighing the pros and cons, Meng Zhong finally gave up his plan to attack the camp, that was because he was not sure to counter the ambush of Zhao Ben and Lian Po, but today is different, today's generals under Zhao Ben and Lian Po consumed too much energy in the fight with the rebels under Gongzi Zhang, so that he must have slept deeply at night, how could Meng Zhong miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity?

After Meng Zhong expressed his intention to attack the camp tonight to Meng Hu, Hua Hu, and Mu Wu, Hua Hu and Mu Wu were quite surprised.

Hua Hu asked Meng Zhong puzzled: "Ah Zhong, didn't you say last night that Zhao Ben and Lian Po deliberately set up an ambush in the camp to ambush our army?" ”

Meng Zhong nodded and said, "Yes, that's why I decided to attack Fengyang Jun Li Dui's military camp first!" ”

Hua Hu and Mu Wu looked at each other.

Seeing this, Meng Zhong explained to Meng Hu, Hua Hu, and Mu Wu: "Zhao Ben and Lian Po tried to ambush our army in the military camp of Yang Wenjun and Zhao Bao, so that Li Duijun deliberately showed that he was disturbed, so as to lead our army to Zhao Bao's military camp. …… But on the other hand, doesn't this mean that the soldiers of Li Dui's army would hardly expect our army to attack them? ”

Yes, in Meng Zhong's opinion, don't look at the fact that whenever they harass outside the camp, there will always be some chaos in Fengyangjun Li Dui's military camp, as if many soldiers were awakened, but combined with the judgment of "Zhao Ben and Lian Po tried to ambush them", thinking carefully, in fact, Li Duijun's camp was the most defenseless, because the whole army was cooperating with Zhao Ben, Lian Po and others, trying to guide him to the military camp of Zhao Baojun's army.

"Not to mention ......"

Meng Zhong whispered a few words to Meng Hu, Hua Hu, and Mu Wu, only to hear the three of them nodding again and again, with a look of sudden realization on their faces.

On the night of August 26, at two o'clock, Meng Zhong ordered Meng Hu to launch the first harassment outside the two barracks of Wang Shi.

For a full hour, there was no further harassment from the rebels.

In this way, until two o'clock, Meng Zhong took Hua Hu and Mu Wuyu with more than 1,000 crossbowmen from Daijun and sneaked close to the military camp of Fengyang Jun Li Dui.

"Drop the rocket!"

With Meng Zhong's order, thousands of Daijun rebels, armed with bows and crossbows, shot wave after wave of fire arrows towards Li Duijun's barracks, which instantly made the people in the barracks in front of them burst into real chaos.

Seeing that the interior of the military camp in front of him was on fire, Meng Zhong turned his head to look at Zhao Bao's military camp, which was still silent.

Compared with the forced night attack like "knowing that there are tigers in the mountains and biasing towards the tigers", he is more inclined to let himself lead the battle.

And now, the bait has been cast, and it depends on whether Zhao Ben and Lian Po bite the hook.