Fifteen days later, around June 28, Tian Touch and Le Yi led the Qiyan coalition army to engage in the first confrontation so far on the not very wide flat land about five or six miles east of the Menshui Qin camp.

Due to the terrain restrictions, the Qi-Yan coalition army invested a total of about 20,000 soldiers in this battle, and the actual number of soldiers was about 10,000, while the Qin army invested about 15,000 soldiers, and the actual number of soldiers was about 9,000.

I saw that after the battle began, the Qin army took the lead in building an iron wall defense, and a Qin soldier with a shield in his hand stood closely, like a copper wall and iron wall, so that the Qi army holding Changge on the opposite side repeatedly returned in vain, and was even forced to retreat step by step by the Qin army.

Seeing this, as a soldier, the Yan soldiers shot arrows all over the sky, unfortunately, the Qin soldiers opposite them seemed to be very experienced in dealing with this kind of flying arrows, only to see those Qin soldiers unhurriedly raised their shields above their heads, and the Yan army's arrows were stunned that they could not cause too much damage to them.

Seeing this scene, Le Yi, who was standing on the viewing platform at the back of the battlefield, couldn't help frowning slightly.

It is true that in today's confrontation, both this side and the other side have maintained a tacit understanding of restraint, the Qiyan coalition army did not launch the kind of surprise attack regardless of casualties, and the Qin army has put on a posture of defending the defense line from the beginning, but even if this kind of battle is reserved on both sides, it is not difficult to see the gap between the soldiers on both sides.

In fact, in Le Yi's view, the soldiers of the two sides are almost similar in terms of combat ability, mainly because of the gap between the momentum and fighting spirit of the soldiers.

For example, in the case of being shot by the same arrow, the Qin pawn on the opposite side can continue to fight without changing his face, or even more brave, like a wounded beast, but the soldiers of his Qi and Yan armies, especially the Qi soldiers, most of them wailed and screamed backwards, and their ability was greatly reduced by the fear of death.

In general, compared with the Qin pawns, the soldiers of his Qi and Yan armies are like newborn calves that are not afraid of tigers, and they look very imposing, but when they are really bitten by the tigers, all the staff will inevitably begin to panic and be at a loss, and they are completely inferior to the other side in terms of toughness and fighting spirit.

"Qin Jun...... Sure enough, he was brave. ”

Just when Le Yi was secretly analyzing Qin Jun, beside him, Qi General Tian Touch muttered with emotion.

In fact, to be precise, Tian Touch also had a confrontation with the army of Qin during the Battle of Tancheng in the Song State last year, but at that time, due to his misjudgment, he tried to take Le Yi's Yan army as an outcast and led the Qi army to flee alone, but he didn't expect that Meng Zhong, who commanded the three armies of Qin, Wei and Song at that time, did not care about Le Yi's Yan army at all, but stared at him The Qi army chased and killed, so that almost half of the 100,000 Qi troops under his command died that night, and finally relied on Le Yi to lead the army to relieve the siege.

This was the only time Tian Touch had faced the Qin army.

However, due to the fact that the chase took place at night, Tian Touch did not have a rough estimate of the strength of the Qin army.

It wasn't until today, when he personally led the Qi and Yan armies to fight against the Qin army, that he realized how strong and resilient the Qin army really was—even if the Qin generals on the opposite side secretly released water, the soldiers under his command could safely resist the offensive of his Qi and Yan armies.

What the?

Why could Tian Touch see that the Qin army on the opposite side had released water?

Because he saw the front line formation of his Qi army chaotic several times, but the Qin generals on the opposite side did not take the opportunity to send surprise soldiers to raid several defensive loopholes of his Qi army, but slowly retreated with the help of that iron wall formation, which was obviously delaying the fighters, trying to drag out this battle for a longer time, so that Tian Touch and Le Yi could write a battle report to the commander of the coalition army, Fengyangjun Li Dui.

As a general cultivated by the famous general Kuang Zhang, how could Tian Touch not see this?

At this moment, he should feel lucky, glad that the Qin general Bai Qi on the opposite side kept his promise, and the two sides launched today's confrontation with a tacit understanding, otherwise if the Qin army on the opposite side unleashed all its strength, Tian Yan was really worried about how many of the 20,000 Qiyan coalition troops here would be able to return to the camp alive.

"The Qin army is so brave, how did Zhang Zi defeat the Qin army back then? How did Yun Chengjun defeat the Qin army? ”

Tian Touch muttered to himself.

In his impression, so far there are only two people who have been able to confront the Qin army head-on, and even defeat the Qin army, one is Tian Zhang of his Qi State, and the other is Meng Zhong of Wei State.

In addition, even the famous Korean general Storm Kite could not ensure that he could suppress the offensive of the Qin army.

And he was really curious about how Tian Zhang and Meng Zhong suppressed the Qin army.

In fact, it is very simple, it is nothing more than the word "calculation", whether it is Tian Zhang or Meng Zhong, at the beginning of their confrontation with the Qin army, they almost avoided the Qin army without fighting, after all, the Qin army's combat ability on the frontal battlefield is really strong, and the Wei warriors who are so strong that Wei cannot ensure that they can suppress their opponents steadily.

In this case, it is necessary to consider temporarily avoiding its edge, find a way to wear down the vigor and fighting spirit of the Qin army, and then take the opportunity to launch an offensive when the Qin army is slack and tired.

Whether it's Tian Zhang or Meng Zhong, they all do it.

Therefore, like Tian Touch and Le Yi, trying to come up with a way for them to defeat the Qin army on the frontal battlefield, it cannot be said that it is absolutely impossible, but this possibility is indeed very small, especially when the Qin army is led by famous generals like Sima Cuo and Bai Qi, if they want to defeat the Qin army, they can almost only count on Sima Cuo and Bai Qi to make mistakes in decision-making.

However, gradually, Tian Touch and Le Yi also saw it, and Tian Touch also sighed for this: "I didn't expect that the gap between our soldiers and Qin's soldiers would be so big." ”

"Hmm." Le Yi nodded solemnly.

In fact, it's no wonder, don't look at Qi and Yan The two countries are not indisputable and don't know what war is, but compared to the Qin country, which is facing enemies on all sides, the Qi people and the Yan people do lack a few traces of toughness, and at this point, they may not even be comparable to the soldiers of Wei, Han, and Zhao.

Needless to say, although the national strength of Wei has deteriorated over the years, in the confrontation with Qin, most of Wei is still dominated by rivalry, which can be called the vanguard that prevents Qin from entering the Central Plains; As for the Zhao State, because it has experienced several wars against Zhongshan and wars against the grassland peoples abroad, it has sharpened one army after another, and the domestic soldiers can also be called brave and good at fighting.

But after the horizontal and vertical comparison, after all, the soldiers of the Qin State are more ferocious, worthy of the fierce beasts raised by the "Shang Jun Law", one by one in order to kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions without fear of death, throughout the Central Plains, except for the Wei soldiers of the Wei State who can suppress the fierce momentum of the Qin soldiers, it is really difficult for the armies of the rest of the countries to suppress the Qin army in momentum.

This made Le Yi can't help but start thinking about the strategy of defeating the Qin army.

To tell the truth, it is almost impossible for him Yan to really face the Qin State in a short period of time, after all, there are three countries of Wei, Zhao and Han between the Central Plains and Xitui, and the declining South Korea can not be mentioned, but Wei and Zhao, one is a skinny camel bigger than a horse, and the other is rising day by day and the national strength is thriving, and it is not so easy for Qin to break through the blockade of Wei and Zhao and go deep into the Central Plains.

But considering the future, Le Yi also sincerely felt that the Qin State might really be the biggest threat to the Central Plains countries in the future.

Of course, no matter what kind of threat Qin becomes to the Central Plains in the future, in his opinion, the top priority is to overthrow Qi, a country that is a great threat to both Yan and Song—and at this point, Qi is still the biggest threat.

"Almost, huh?"

Suddenly, Tian Touch turned his head and asked Le Yidao.

Seeing that Le Yi nodded, Tian Touch really ordered Ming Jin to withdraw his troops.

"Dingding-ding-"

"Dingding-ding-"

In an instant, the sound of striking the bronze cymbals resounded through the main formation of the Qiyan coalition army.

After hearing this, Qi Yan's two armies left behind about two or three thousand corpses and resolutely retreated.

At this time, Qin General Wei Yuan saw the retreat of Qi Yan's two armies, and also pretended to pursue, allowing his subordinates to chase and kill about 100 enemy soldiers, and then announced their victory with a high profile, preparing to collect their troops and return to the camp.

Because of the secret communication with the two armies of Qi and Yan, except for the commander Bai Qi, only the generals at the general level knew about it, and the soldiers of the Qin army below did not know the specifics, so when Wei Yuan ordered the troops to be collected and returned to the camp, it was inevitable that there would be generals at the level of thousands of generals who were puzzled, and even asked Wei Yuan.

"General, why don't you pursue the enemy army?"

"The enemy's momentum has been defeated, if our army pursues it, it will definitely be able to win a great victory!"

"Do you think Lao Tzu doesn't know?"

Faced with the questions of the thousands of generals, Wei Yuan explained expressionlessly: "First of all, the task given to us by Bai Shuai is to defend this military camp; Secondly, although the Qiyan coalition army was scattered, if our army offended the pursuit, it might not be ambushed by it...... Presumably, you also know that the valley and valley road ahead are narrow, which is suitable for ambushing soldiers, what if our army pursues the past and is ambushed by the enemy? All in all, the task of our army is to defend this barracks to the death, to prevent the coalition forces from crossing the water, and to repel the enemy if they attack, so as not to give the other side a chance to play tricks. ”

“……”

The thousands of generals of the Qin army present looked at each other, obviously the arguments of Wei Yuan could not completely convince them.

However, in the end, Wei Yuan still sent away this group of unruly thousand-man generals, dragged a somewhat tired body to the rear, and surrendered to Bai Qi, who was watching this confrontation in the rear.

"Bai Shuai."

"Hmm. …… It's hard for you. Nodding in response to Wei Yuan's salute, Bai Qi said with a smile.

This sentence "It's hard for you" made Wei Yuan couldn't help laughing.

I saw him nod, and said to the dialogue half-jokingly: "It's only been a few times, and the last general almost can't help it......"

As if he understood the meaning of Wei Yuan's words, Bai Qi shook his head and said, "That's not possible." …… If we hit the Qi Yan coalition army hard, wouldn't it be in vain to be a knife in the hands of the Three Jin Coalition forces? Li Dui, Storm Kite, and Meng Zhong, they don't trust the Qi Yan coalition army, so they sent these two armies here, if our army fights with them and loses both, wouldn't it take advantage of the minds of Li Dui, Meng Zhong and others? ”

"Just them?" Wei Yuan glanced at the Qi Yan coalition army that was rapidly withdrawing in the distance, and said contemptuously: "Just because they are also worthy of losing both with our army?" Having said that, is that Tian Touch really the successor cultivated by Kuang Zhang? And that Le Yi, who used to be the deputy general of Meng Zhong? I feel that compared to the Wei army, the strength of this Qiyan coalition army is too weak......"

"Just get used to it."

Bai Qisheng put his hands behind his back and said an unfathomable sentence with a calm expression.

He could understand the gap in Wei Yuan's heart, after all, from the Battle of Yique to the Battle of Wanfang, they were all fighting with the Wei army, and since the second half of the Battle of Yique, the Wei army led by Meng Zhong had almost doubled the threat, and if one was not careful, the entire army might be wiped out.

But just when they have gradually adapted to this kind of strong opponent, they suddenly change to a weak opponent, which makes them feel uncomfortable.

It's like Bai Qi, who went to conquer Zhao last year, didn't exert much force, and killed Zhao's generals Li Ji and Han Xu to the ground, so that after the victory, he almost didn't feel any real joy, but there was an inexplicable emptiness.

Wei Yuan nodded with a smile, and then asked Bai Qi again: "Bai Shuai, what should I do next?" Or is it according to that agreement? ”

"Hmm."

Bai Qiqi nodded and said, "In order to prevent it from being too obvious, you can also send some soldiers to sneak attack the opposite side...... Make it louder, you know? ”

"Understood." Wei Yuan nodded.

What's not to understand about this?

It's nothing more than deliberately making a movement to let the other side know, so that the other side can repel them.

Seeing this, Bai Qi also nodded and said: "In short, in this way, the Three Jin Coalition Army will not suspect the Qi and Yan armies, and when the time comes, in order to break the deadlock, the Three Jin Coalition Forces will most likely transfer Meng Zhong to this side, and replace Meng Zhong's previous garrison position with the Qi Yan Coalition Army, and at that time, it will be time for us to launch a counterattack...... Before that, you must calm down, and in addition, stabilize the morale of the army, and don't let the sergeants of the army have too strong hatred for the Qi Yan coalition army, lest anything happen and destroy our plan. ”

"Whoa!"

Wei Yuan responded with a fist.

"Okay, then I'll leave it to you and Hu Yu here, and I'll go back to Hanguguan first. …… Although there is Sima Lao on the side of Hangu Pass, considering that Meng Zhong is scheming, I am still a little uneasy. Gone, Jin, Wang Di. ”

"The last general will send Bai Shuai ......"

Not to mention that Bai Qi took Sima Jin and Wang Yi and his party back to Hanguguan, and said that Tian Touch and Le Yi returned to the barracks.

After returning to the barracks, Tian Yan wrote a battle report and sent someone to the Sanmenxia coalition army camp, which was the location of Li Dui and the current garrison of Storm Kite.

In about two days, this battle report was first delivered to Li Dui and Storm Kite.

After reading the battle report, Li Dui and Storm Kite were still quite satisfied.

Although behind the mountains south of the garrison, the Qi Yan army led by Tian Touch and Le Yi only cared about building a camp for half a month, and never fought with the Qin army once, even if there was no small-scale temptation, but half a month later, the two finally had a confrontation with the Qin army.

Regardless of whether this battle is won or lost for the time being, as long as Tian Touch and Le Yi have the intention of fighting with the Qin army, Li Dui and Storm Kite are satisfied enough, not to mention that according to Tian Touch's battle report, this battle between the two sides invested about 35,000 people, the sacrifice of the Qiyan coalition army was about 3,000 people, and the wounded were thousands, while the battle losses of the Qin army on the opposite side were about 2,000 people, in general, the Qiyan coalition army was slightly disadvantaged.

In the case of a head-on confrontation with the Qin army, it is only a slight disadvantage, what else is to blame? And not everyone is a monk.

"It's finally in vain for me to send people to urge me again and again......"

After reading the war report, the storm kite said with a smile.

Li Dui stroked his beard and smiled without saying a word, he also felt that it should be that they sent people to urge again and again, which put pressure on Tian Touch and Le Yi, forcing the two to finally lead the army to fight the Qin army.

"It's not enough." After shaking his head slightly, Li Dui lowered his voice and said, "In my opinion, this time it was just Tian Touch who was forced to be helpless, so he had to fight with the Qin army and show his attitude to us...... But even so, the two armies of Qi and Yan are still a hidden danger for our coalition army, before Yunchengjun has built enough building cars and stone-throwing trucks, it is better to ask Tian Touch and the Qin army to fight as much as possible, and when the time comes, my army of the Three Jin Dynasty will lose less......"

Hearing this, Storm Kite glanced at Li Dui with a strange expression, and asked meaningfully, "Isn't Fengyang Jun afraid that he will offend the King of Qi because of this, and thus lose the support of the Qi State?" ”

Li Dui smiled slightly, but did not explain.

It is true that he Li Dui has always advocated uniting Qi and fighting against Qin, but if Qi suddenly becomes strong enough to care about forming an alliance with Zhao, then his role in Qi will be minimal.

And once he loses the ability to influence Qi State, can he still keep the position of Zhao Guoguo's prime minister?

You must know that since Zhao Wanghe returned to take charge of state affairs, there are a group of guys in the court who didn't dare to speak out loud in front of him before, and they instigate Zhao Wanghe from time to time, hoping that Zhao Wanghe will remove him from the post of state minister of Li Dui, but Zhao He's city is very deep, and he has not done anything so far.

But even so, Li Dui still felt the crisis.

He knew that Zhao Wang He was a monarch who paid more attention to the interests of Zhao than his father, Zhao Master, and if he wanted to keep his position as prime minister, he had to prove that he was useful to Zhao, otherwise...... A monarch who can ruthlessly force his biological father to death, Li Dui really can't imagine what the young monarch will do with him and his Li clan once he loses power.

Perhaps when the time comes, his Li clan will have no choice but to abandon the hometown where their ancestors have lived for generations, and be forced to flee from the Zhao State, so that they can choose another place.

And this is what Li Dui never wants to see.

Taking a deep breath and putting the cranky thoughts in his heart behind, Li Dui turned his head and said to the storm kite: "Copy a battle report and send someone to Yunchengjun's side?" It is also good to let Yun Chengjun feel a little relieved and deal with the Qin army with peace of mind. ”

"Hmm." Storm Kite smiled and nodded.

It turned out that in the half month that Tian Touch and Le Yi had been stationary, Meng Zhong had also sent people here from time to time to ask Li Dui, Storm Kite and others about the current situation of Qi Yan's two armies.

Therefore, after receiving Tian Touch's battle report today, Li Dui and Storm Kite naturally sent someone to copy a letter and send it to Meng Zhong's side, so as not to be distracted by Meng Zhong's daily attention to the Qi Yan coalition army.

After all, both Li Dui and Storm Kite were counting on Meng Zhong to help them defeat the Qin State.

Immediately, Storm Kite personally copied a battle report from Tian Touch, and sent his henchmen and guards to send it to the Wei camp in Daozhong and to Meng Zhong.

That night, around the time of the day, the two guards of the storm kite drove the chariot to the Wei camp in Daozhong, and after asking to see Meng Zhong, they handed over the transcribed battle report to Meng Zhong: "Yuncheng Jun, today the main general of the Qi army, Tian Touch, sent a battle report, and Da Sima copied a letter and sent me two to send it to you." ”

"Oh?"

Meng Zhong was very surprised when he heard this, and asked, "The two armies of Qi and Yan have finally clashed with the Qin army?" ”

After that, he spread out the battle report and glanced at it a few times, and found that it was indeed a battle report from the battle with the Qin army, and his heart was very happy.

He summoned the guards outside the tent and ordered, "Take the two of you down to rest for a while, and get some food and wine with them." ”

"Whoa!"

"Thank you, Yuncheng-kun!" The two guards sent by the storm kite were overjoyed when they heard this, and after thanking them, they bowed and retreated.

At this time, Meng Zhong reopened the battle report and read it carefully.

But looking at it, the smile on his face slowly retracted, replaced by a suspicious look.

I saw him put this battle report on the low table in front of him, his fingers lightly tapping on the table, and his face showed a thoughtful look.

"Two days ago, on June 28...... After half a month, is this the first battle? ”

He muttered to himself.

This battle report, how to say it, there is nothing wrong with what is depicted between the lines, but Meng Zhong always feels that something is wrong.

Let's talk about Tian Touch and Le Yi setting up camp on those mountains first.

100,000 Qi Yan coalition troops!

This scale is enough to alarm Bai Qi, enough for Bai Qi to immediately go from Hangu Pass to Menshui Qin Ying, right?

According to Meng Zhong's understanding of him, Bai Qi would most likely send people to set fire to those hills and force the Qi-Yan coalition army to retreat to the east side of the mountains - even if this move did not cause the Qi-Yan coalition army to suffer serious losses, it was enough to delay the time for the Qi-Yan coalition army to set up camp.

With Bai Qi's character of doing anything for victory, he will definitely set fire.

But...... Bai Qi did not.

In recent days, there is a good chance that he has not set fire to the mountain in Baiqi, Menshui Qin camp, so much so that Tian Touch said in this battle report that he has initially established a camp.

Secondly, the confrontation that took place on June 28 described in this battle report also took place in an extremely strange way.

There is nothing wrong with the process and the outcome, but what about the motivation?

Tian Touch, as a general cultivated by Tian Zhang, knew that the Qin army was powerful, and he didn't need to plan or sneak attack, so he attacked it directly?

What's even more bizarre is that the Qin army that is fighting with it doesn't know what to think.

Judging from the fact that the Qin army did not increase its efforts to harass the Qi and Yan armies at first, the local Qin army should be biased towards defense and did not dare to rashly attack; However, when the Qi-Yan coalition army launched an offensive against the Menshui Qin camp on June 28, the local Qin army immediately changed the way it responded to the enemy and took the initiative to resist the Qi-Yan coalition army, instead of using the camp to defend, and suddenly changed from defensive to aggressive.

This is really inconsistent.

It's as if the Qiyan coalition army is fighting purely for the sake of fighting, and there is no reason to stand up to scrutiny; And the Qin army, the response before and after is simply like two different armies.

There is also white ......

After hearing that the 100,000 Qi Yan coalition army was going to the Menshui Qin camp, this guy would definitely rush to the Menshui Qin camp from Hangu Pass, but from Tian Touch's battle report, Meng Zhong couldn't see what Bai Qi had done on the side of the Menshui Qin camp.

Although Meng Zhong is very optimistic about Le Yi, considering that Le Yi has never had experience in fighting Bai Qi before, he won't let Bai Qi have no idea where to start as soon as he comes up, so he won't try anything, right?

『…… Something isn't right.'"

Glancing at the battle report on the table, Meng Zhong frowned deeply.

At this moment, he had a bad guess in his heart, but he wasn't sure, he needed Tian Touch's next few battle reports to verify his guess.

After thinking for a while, he wrote a letter with a stroke of his pen.

In this letter, he first praised the results of the first battle between Tian Touch and Le Yi, and then encouraged the two, and urged the two to continue to put pressure on the Menshui Qin camp to create opportunities for him.

"Someone come, immediately send this letter to the main camp of the two armies of Qi and Yan, and hand it over to Tian Touch."

"Whoa!"

The guards who entered the tent took the letter and bowed back.

"What it is, it will be clear in a few days......

Looking at the swaying tabernacle, Meng Zhong thought to himself.