About a quarter of an hour later, when the Han army reorganized its formation and reached the battlefield, the Qin army retreated quickly and retreated to the city of Fox again.

Meng Zhong and Storm Kite led the Wei and Han coalition forces to take the opportunity to cover up for a while, and also gained some advantages.

Due to this unexpected battle, Meng Zhong terminated the order to attack Fox City, and prepared to talk to Storm Kite.

As he expected, during the period when the Wei army was reorganizing its formation outside the city, the storm kite drove the chariot to Meng Zhong's side in person, and expressed his apology to Meng Zhong with apologies and shame: "Brother, if you hadn't seen through the tricks of the Qin army this time, I would ...... brother."

I have to say that the violent kite really feels very ashamed, thinking that he is a famous general in his life, today he was almost planted in the hands of a little hairy boy called Bai Qi, if it weren't for Meng Zhong to see through the tricks of the Qin army, today's battle, not only the Han army will be broken by the Qin army, but even the Wei army may also be implicated by the Han army, and stage the scene of the rout of the Qi army in the "Battle of Pushang".

Seeing the look of shame on the face of the violent kite, Meng Zhong naturally said kind words to comfort and comfort: "Da Sima was just angered by Qin Jun's unscrupulous statement and lost his normal heart...... In normal times, I don't think I would have fallen for the tricks. ”

"Ha, my brother is too uplifting my brother......" Storm Kite shook his head with a wry smile, and then turned his head to look in the direction of Fox City, and said: "Having said that, that little hairy boy named Bai Qi is really not simple, I thought he just took the luck of the dog to defeat Xiwu in a sneak attack, but I didn't think about it...... It's really underestimated. ”

"Hmm." Meng Zhong nodded approvingly.

Of course, he knew the difficulty of Bai Qi, the commander of the Qin army on the other side, from Yique Mountain to South Korea, he and Bai Qi clashed openly and secretly several times, although Bai Qi couldn't help him, but he couldn't help Bai Qi, this person can be called one of the strongest enemies he has encountered so far, and his brother-in-law Tian Zhang is simply on par.

Shaking his head, putting the thoughts in his mind behind him for the time being, he asked the tyrant, "Do you want to continue the siege now?" ”

Hearing this, the storm kite glanced at the fox city, and then looked around to observe the state of the Han army and the Wei army, and said with a wry smile: "Brother is right, it seems that such a strong enemy is guarding the fox, and it is indeed not a ...... that can defeat it in a short time" After that, he paused slightly, looked at Meng Zhong and said: "After today's events, I have also figured it out, my brother's talent is far above my brother and me, if my brother doesn't dislike it, it's better for you to make decisions......"

"Me?" Meng Zhong was a little surprised when he heard this.

As if he had guessed what Meng Zhong was thinking, Storm Kite hurriedly explained: "Brother don't doubt it, this is what Brother said from the bottom of his heart. First, the white plan is far above mine, if you and I fight separately, I am afraid that I will be defeated by him......" Speaking of this, he added with a sneering face: "The main reason is that I am afraid of falling into the plan again." ”

"Huh." Meng Zhong smiled politely.

But it is true that today's battle is indeed dangerous, if it weren't for the fact that he sensed that something was wrong, the Qin army might really have a chance to stage another victory to defeat his Wei and Han coalition forces.

"I'm afraid this isn't appropriate, right? Da Sima is a famous general in the world, and below, he is just a nobody......"

"Huh! The elder brother should not be too humble, whether it is to reverse the disadvantage in Yique Mountain that day, or to see through the tricks of the Qin army early today, the elder brother's eyesight is far above the elder brother and me, and besides, I also have a general understanding of the elder brother's personality, which is very different from Gongsun Xi. …… At least my brother, my character, I can trust you. ”

Seeing that the violent kite was really sincere, Meng Zhong finally responded after a slight hesitation.

After all, his experience in Zhao Guo made him deeply understand a truth: in some cases, you have to take the initiative to stand up and take responsibility, rather than putting your fate in the hands of others.

If he could have insisted on his own opinion back then, or had the cheekiness to ask Zhao's father and Zhao Gongzizhang for more troops, instead of just a few thousand, then the outcome might have been slightly changed - even if he still couldn't recover that kind of regret in the end, at least Meng Zhong had tried his best not to be like now, always haunted by the affairs of Zhao back then.

"Since it is the meaning of Da Sima, then I will forgive you for trespassing......"

Meng Zhong hugged his fist towards the tyrannical kite, and then looked at Fox City and said, "In my opinion, this is probably the last attempt of the Qin army. ”

"A final attempt?"

Seeing that Meng Zhong was talking about business, the violent kite also restrained the smile on his face, stroked his beard and pondered: "You mean, today's battle? ”

"Hmm."

Meng Zhong nodded and continued: "In my opinion, it is difficult to repeat the tactics used by Bai Qi today, even if he captures some civilians of your country tomorrow and coerces them to rush directly at you and my army, we will not watch the civilians of your country break up the formation of our army; Even if he sends Qin soldiers to mix with the civilians, he will be seen through by us......"

"In other words, this is the last ploy of the white one?" Storm Kite pondered.

"It should be." Meng Zhong nodded, looked at the city of the fox and said: "The last attempt failed, I think Bai Qi also realized that it was no longer possible to reverse the victory and defeat, instead of trapping the two cities of the fox and the Yangren, and waiting for the little grain and grass left in the city to run out, I thought Bai Qi would choose to break through......"

"Breakout?"

The storm kite stroked his beard and thought for a moment, then frowned and said, "However, at present, the west, north, and east are all surrounded by your and my armies, and his Qin army ...... Not? Could it be that you are crossing the Rushui in the south? ”

"Possibly." Meng Zhong nodded and said.

I have to say that he didn't actually think about whether the Qin army would evacuate south towards Rushui, but he could come to this conclusion through analysis: the Qin army no longer had a chance to defeat his Wei and Han coalition forces, and it was almost impossible to break through in the three directions of the west, north, and east, so naturally, there was only one way to break through and evacuate to Rushui in the south.

Unless Bai Qi is willing to die trapped in the two cities of Yihu and Yangren, he will use his own life and the lives of the forty or fifty thousand Qin troops under his command to stubbornly delay the date of the Wei and Han coalition forces to attack Yiyang and buy time for the Qin State.

However, according to Meng Zhong's general understanding of Bai Qi, the latter is by no means a person who uses this kind of meaning, and between "Yiyang" and "450,000 Qin troops", Bai Qi will most likely choose to preserve the latter as much as possible, and this is also in line with the exhortation of the Art of War that "good fighters are not confined to the gains and losses of one city and one place".

"It makes sense."

After listening to Meng Zhong's judgment, Storm Kite nodded thoughtfully: "In that case, we can just send someone to keep an eye on the movements of the Qin army, and take the opportunity to cover up and kill when it evacuates, and we can win a big victory?" ”

Hearing this, Meng Zhong nodded, and said again: "Bai Qi, this person, I see that he is thoughtful, I am afraid that he has already thought of a way out...... I suspect that before today, he had made two preparations, on the one hand, he planned to defeat us, and on the other hand, he asked his subordinates to secretly build pontoon bridges in order to cross the Rushui River in the south, if the Qin army had really prepared timber for the construction of the bridge in advance, then it is very likely that in the two days of today and tomorrow, the Qin army will evacuate in large numbers to the south bank of the Rushui, as long as we seize the opportunity, we can inflict heavy damage on the Qin army! ”

"Hmm!"

Storm Kite nodded deeply.

Immediately, he asked Meng Zhong again: "What about today's siege ......?"

Hearing this, Meng Zhong glanced around a few times, then at the wells in the ranks of their two armies, thought for a moment and said to the storm kite: "My sergeant spent a few days building the well-cut car, wouldn't it be a pity if it was destroyed in vain if it was not used in the end?" Anyway, it's coming, so it's better to simply attack with a wave, and Da Sima can make your army's crossbowmen board the well car......"

"Good!"

After the discussion, Meng Zhong and Storm Kite each gave an order, so that the army under their command was approaching Fox City again.

It is worth mentioning that when he was about to give the order to attack the city, Meng Zhong deliberately appeared in front of the array of the Wei army, pointed to the fox city in front of him, and shouted in a deep voice: "On that day in the north of Yique Mountain, I asserted that the Qin army could be broken within three days, but the Qin army was afraid, and fled quietly at night. …… Today I still say the same thing, the Qin army will be broken on the day of three days, and when the time comes, I Meng Zhong personally talked about the generals of the Gongsun army, and celebrated the merits for you, but I don't know, do you still have the courage to defeat the Qin army?! ”

Because Meng Zhong saw through the tricks of the Qin army in advance today, the Qin army did not succeed in attacking the Wei army, but was repelled by the Wei army, which made the morale of the Wei army high.

Hearing Meng Zhong's words at this moment, tens of thousands of Wei soldiers shouted loudly: "Yes! ”

Seeing this, Meng Zhong said happily: "Okay! In this case, although it is not early today, at least give Qin Jun a little color first...... Regardless of victory or defeat, withdraw your troops and return to camp at noon! …… Do you understand everything? ”

"Understood!"

Tens of thousands of Wei troops shouted in unison.

The appearance of high morale was praised by the violent kite.

However, he didn't understand very well, he didn't understand why Meng Zhong wanted to motivate the Wei army at this time—didn't he say that today was just a feint siege? It's just to put pressure on the Qin army.

In fact, Meng Zhong's move was precisely to put pressure on the Qin army.

At least at this moment, Bai Qi, who had returned to the city of Fox and peeked at the Wei and Han coalition forces outside the city, felt a great pressure.

I saw Bai Qi frowning, and whispered as if gritting his teeth: "Actually motivate Wei Zu at this time...... Is this forcing me to break through tonight? Damn it! I'm afraid this guy guessed that I had the intention of breaking through......"

On the side, General Ji Hong heard Bai Qi's whisper and asked puzzledly, "Why is Bai Shuai so determined?" ”

Bai Qi explained in a low voice: "When he was in the camp north of Yique Mountain that day, before attacking our army's camp, Meng Zhong played a trick in front of tens of thousands of Wei troops, so that tens of thousands of Wei troops were convinced of him...... Look at those Wei pawns outside the city, what a terrifying momentum. …… He expected that I would back down so that I could take advantage of the opportunity to cover up when our army withdrew to Rushui...... That guy's grasp of the timing of the battlefield is simply first-class precision. ”

"That'...... Then wouldn't it be good if our army didn't retreat? Ji Hong asked puzzled.

"......" Bai Qi didn't answer, just let out a long breath.

No refund?

Excluding the thousands of soldiers killed in today's battle, his Qin army of less than 40,000 can withstand the Wei and Han coalition forces with more than twice the strength?

Indeed, his Qin army can indeed hold out for three days and make that Meng Zhong "lose his trust" in the Wei army, but what will happen to his Qin army at that time?

If the Wei and Han coalition forces attack fiercely in the past three days, maybe after three days, only half of his Qin army will be left, and considering the problem of grain and grass, maybe the whole army will eventually be wiped out here.

"Withdraw! You must evacuate to Rushui tonight! Bai Qi said decisively.

Hearing this, a trace of confusion and confusion flashed on Ji Hong's face: "That...... Didn't that just fall into the hands of the other party? ”

"yes, but there's no way to ......"

A few traces of melancholy flashed on his face, and Bai Qi turned his head to look at the Qin soldiers on the city wall, and sighed secretly in his heart.

He knew that if he ordered the southern crossing of Rushui, at least half of the nearly 40,000 Qin troops he had at present would have been intercepted by the Wei and Han armies and died in this land.

But there is no way, sacrificing 20,000 people can allow the other 20,000 Qin troops to escape, which is better than 40,000 troops all dying here.

『…… I'm still too big.'"

Raising his hand and pressing the position of the arrow wound on his left shoulder, Bai Qi couldn't help but regret it a little.

To tell the truth, when Meng Zhong led the main force of the Wei army towards Yihu, he actually had the opportunity to evacuate with the Qin army under his command, even if there were three Wei cavalry around here? All of his 40,000 Qin troops were dispatched, cutting down trees in all directions, and a pontoon bridge could be built in Rushui in just one or two days.

It's just that he evacuated like this, and was chased away by Meng Zhong in embarrassment, he was unwilling in his heart, so in the case of reserving a back road, he led the army to temporarily stationed in Fox City, wanting to see if there was a chance to counter the Wei army - if there was no chance, it would not be too late for him to withdraw at that time.

The arrival of the 30,000 Han troops led by the Storm Kite made Bai Qi see a few glimmers of hope for breaking the Wei and Han coalition forces, so he came up with a plan, hoping to defeat Meng Zhong and the Storm Kite in one fell swoop, but he didn't expect the strategy to be seen through by Meng Zhong, so that he fell short, and Meng Zhong guessed that his Qin army was in a state of "strong outside and middle-dry", and then thought that his Qin army might choose to evacuate.

As for the direction of his Qin army, when it is impossible to go to the west, north, and east, a three-year-old child can guess that it must be evacuated to the south and from Rushui, not to mention that Meng Zhong?

If you use a common saying to describe the mood of Bai Qi at this moment, "stealing chickens does not eat rice" happens to be everywhere - but there is no such saying in contemporary times.

"Woo-woo-woo-woo-"

With the sound of three military horns, Meng Zhong and the Wei and Han coalition forces under the command of Storm Kite finally launched an attack on Fox City.

But as of noon, a full hour and a half, the offensive of the Wei and Han coalition forces seemed to be thunderous and rainy, and the coalition forces only launched two decent offensives from beginning to end, and the rest of the time, it was the crossbowmen of the Korean army who stood on the well cart to suppress the city of Huhu, which made the Qin army hold the city without danger.

However, in all fairness, Bai Qi was not happy about this at all, because he knew that it was not the full strength of the Wei army at all, it was the generals of the Wei army who were deliberately suppressing the Wei soldiers' desire to attack, and as for the reason, it was nothing more than not wanting to have large casualties - the real purpose of the Wei army was to put pressure on his Qin army.

What's even worse is that the closer to the "three-day deadline" that Meng Zhong said, the stronger the morale and desire to fight the Wei soldier becomes, and on the contrary, the more uneasy he is for the Qin soldier.

Around noon, looking at the Wei and Han coalition forces that were evacuating like a tide, Bai Qi turned his head and said to Ji Hong: "Send someone to build a bridge in Rushui immediately, and evacuate immediately after the bridge is completed." After a pause, he lowered his voice and said, "Try to pick the wounded soldier to break off." ”

『…… After the wounded soldier was killed?! Isn't that what sent them to death in vain?'

Ji Hong glanced up at Bai Qi in surprise, and seeing that Bai Qi's face was indifferent, he opened his mouth, but finally didn't say anything.

After all, he also understood that in the case that the Wei army had guessed that they were preparing to withdraw to the south, if his Qin army wanted to withdraw to the south bank of Rushui, he had to use the method of breaking the wrists of strong men and leaving some troops to delay the Wei and Han armies.

Delay with the lives of those soldiers.

“…… Here! ”

Holding his fists in response, Ji Hong summoned the two generals Zhong Xu and Tong Yang, and whispered to them to give some orders.

After learning about Bai Qi's plan from Ji Hong's mouth, Zhong Xu and Tong Yang's faces flashed with all kinds of unbearable, but in the end they decided to follow Bai Qi's orders, after all, they also knew the stakes.

On the other hand, the violent kite simply withdrew with the Han army to the camp of the Wei army, so as to facilitate the action with the Wei army.

During this period, the cavalry led by Menghu, Huahu, and Mu Wu stared at the Qin army's every move.

Naturally, the fact that the Qin army built a bridge on the Rushui River could not hide it from the eyes of their three teams of cavalry.

Around mid-afternoon that day, the Qin army quickly built a bridge on the Rushui River, as the timber for the pontoon bridge had been prepared.

After learning that the bridge was completed, Bai Qi immediately ordered the entire army to retreat.

On the Wei army's side, at this time, Meng Zhong had also received the news sent by Meng Hu, Hua Hu, and Mu Wu, and learned that the Qin army was about to flee south across Rushui, so he immediately rushed to Wuhu again with the storm kite, with the Wei and Han coalition troops who had eaten dry food, to pursue the Qin army.

Knowing that the Wei and Han coalition forces were coming to pursue, Bai Qi ordered the generals Zhong Xu and Tong Yang to lead a part of the Qin soldiers to block the Wei and Han coalition forces.

At the beginning, these Qin troops still had the courage to fight with the Wei and Han coalition forces, until because of the strength of the troops, they gradually could not resist the offensive of the Wei and Han coalition forces.

At this time, when they turned back to look for the two generals, Zhong Xu and Tong Yang, they found that these two generals had disappeared with their guards at some point.

They were abandoned.

These Qin soldiers who came back to their senses cursed, cried, and pleaded, but in the end it was difficult to avoid the fate of being broken by the Wei and Han armies, even though they had put down their weapons in despair in the end, but they were still killed by the hateful Wei and Han soldiers.

In the battle of Yique Mountain, the 180,000 Wei army lost nearly 100,000 people in one night, and even almost wiped out the entire army, and even his famous Wei general Gongsun Xi was killed by the Qin people in humiliation, how could the Wei army not hate the Qin people?

On the side of the South Korean army, the Qin army counterattacked into South Korea, wantonly slaughtering civilians, wantonly burning and looting, and even coercing other Korean civilians to achieve their goals, how can the South Koreans not hate the Qin people?

Not to mention that in recent decades, the Qin State has continued to attack the territory of Wei and South Korea, causing countless soldiers of the two countries to die on the battlefield, how can this hatred be easily resolved?

Even though Meng Zhong issued an order to "those who surrender will not be killed", the Wei and Han soldiers, who had a deep hatred for the Qin people, still killed those Qin soldiers who put down their weapons and surrendered, so that the nearly 10,000 Qin troops who were cut off were almost alive in the end.

During this period, the three military Simas of Dou Xing, Tang Zhi, and Wei Qing, as well as the cavalry led by Menghu, Huahu, and Mu Wu, continued to pursue the Qin army, chasing all the way from Fox City to Yangren, and then from Yangren to the banks of the Rushui River.

At this time, the cavalry, showing their strong lethality in the pursuit of the enemy, in the pursuit of the road, each cavalry has an average of six or seven lives into the account, in comparison, Dou Xing, Tang Zhi, Wei Qing three Wei generals led by more than 10,000 Wei troops, but the record is far inferior to this thousand cavalry.

Thinking about this moment, Dou Xing and other military commanders in the army were completely convinced by these cavalry.

On May 19, the third year of the reign of King Wei of Wei, the Qin general Bai Qi led the Qin army to cross the Rushui River to the south, and the Wei general Meng Zhong and the Han general Storm Kite led the army to pursue, beheading 20,000 and winning a complete victory.

Subsequently, the Qin general Bai Qi led the remnants of the army of 20,000 to retreat westward, but along the way was pursued by the Wei cavalry led by Meng Zhong's subordinate generals Meng Hu, Hua Hu, and Mu Wu, and thousands of casualties appeared before and after, so that when Bai Qi finally retreated to the territory of Sanchuan, there were only 14,500 troops left under his command.

At the same time, Meng Zhong and Storm Kite immediately went straight to Yiyang after recovering the two cities of Yihu and Yangren.

It is worth mentioning that at this time, the Wei general Gongsun Zhu, who was sitting in Yique Mountain, also gathered a total of nearly 10,000 defeated troops from the vicinity, so that the number of troops under his command increased from 10,000 to 20,000.

After learning the news that the main force of the Qin army had been broken, Gongsun Jian immediately led his general Liang Xi and Le Yi, who was sitting in the southern camp of Yique Mountain, to lead a total of more than 30,000 Wei troops to Yiyang and join Meng Zhong and Storm Kite.

On May 23, 50,000 Han troops, thousands of Eastern Zhou troops, 80,000 Wei troops, and nearly 140,000 Wei, Han and Zhou allied troops joined forces in Yiyang City to discuss the capture of this city.

At this time, in Yiyang City, only the more than 30,000 Qin troops under the command of General Qin Xiang Shou could resist the offensive of these 140,000 allied troops?

In addition, seeing the main force of the Wei army appear under the city of Yiyang, Xiang Shou guessed that Bai Qi had been defeated, and his heart was even more desperate.

On the third day of the sixth month, the alliance forces of Wei, Han and Zhou broke through Yiyang and went straight to Hangu Pass with their troops.

Following Tian Zhang's crusade against Qin, Qin was once again attacked at Hangu Pass.

However, Meng Zhong also knew that although he had reached the Hangu Pass of the Qin State, the momentum of the alliance forces of the Wei, Han and Zhou Kingdoms was actually very reluctant.

This battle has been fought to this day, half of the 100,000 Korean elites have been lost, and half of the Eastern Zhou army has been lost, and the Wei army, the former 180,000 Wei army, only 80,000 people remain, and there are only more than 40,000 people left in the Hedong Wei army, and the 300,000 coalition army once upon a time was annihilated by the Qin army A full 160,000.

Even the commander of the coalition army, Gongsun Xi, the famous general of the Wei State, "Xiwu", was killed in this battle.

On the other hand, the Qin army's total strength was only 130,000, and the final loss was around 100,000.

Judging from the troop losses of both sides, the alliance forces of Wei and Han and the Three Kingdoms really cannot talk about a "big victory", and the only thing that can be comforted is that the two cities of Xincheng and Yiyang were recaptured by the coalition forces, which has extraordinary significance for South Korea.

However, in any case, the coalition forces also suffered heavy casualties this time, and although they attacked Hangu Pass, Meng Zhong still felt that it was unlikely to pose any threat to Qin.

What's more critical is that the Qin general who is sitting in Hangu Pass at this moment is named Sima Cuo!

Yes, it is the famous general of the Qin State who is as famous as "Qi Zhi Kuangzhang", "Wei Zhi Xiwu", and "Han Zhi Violent Kite", Sima Cuo.