Chapter 242: Battle of the Attack [Two in One]
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"Bai Shuai, do you really want to put Gongsun Xi to death?"
On the way back to Nanying Yuanmen, Ji Hong said to Bai Qi in private.
It turns out that in modern times, although it is common to kill enemy generals on the battlefield, it is rare to kill enemy generals captured by one's own side, and it is generally used as a bargaining chip between countries.
Take Gongsun Xi as an example, like this famous general of Wei known as "Xi Wu" is now captured by the Qin army, according to the unwritten rules in the past, the Qin army will eat and drink well to entertain Gongsun Xi, until the commander of the Qin army sent someone to escort to Xianyang, the capital of Qin, to the king of Qin, and then the king of Qin himself persuaded to surrender.
If Gongsun Xi refused to be used by Qin at that time, the King of Qin would send an envoy to Wei and exchange Gongsun Xi for one or two cities of Wei.
Under normal circumstances, Wei would accept such conditions.
Back then, Sun Bin was persecuted by his fellow brother and the famous general of Wei to the point of pretending to be crazy and stupid, but later Sun Bin helped Tian Ji of Qi to defeat Pang Juan in the "Battle of Guiling" and captured him, Sun Bin did not kill Pang Juan, and then, after Qi asked Chu to intervene in the Wei and Zhao wars and forced Wei and Zhao to truce, Qi finally released Pang Juan back to Wei.
Generally speaking, through this form of "transaction", countries have not only obtained beneficial benefits, but also demonstrated their own attitude of "loving talents" and "not being able to bear to kill them".
But Bai Qi was dismissive of this.
What do you do with Gongsun Xi?
Since this Gongsun Xi is determined to refuse to return to the Qin State, what is the use of keeping him?
As for exchanging Gongsun Xi for the city of Wei, since he is in vain, why use this way to get the city of Wei?
Since it is useless to leave it, it is better to kill it and see if it can interrupt the momentum of those Wei troops outside the camp.
Under Bai Qi's instructions, Gongsun Xi, who had already been tied up with ropes, was first stuffed with a cloth ball in his mouth, and then pushed to the camp gate by two Qin soldiers.
"What does this little hairy boy want?"
Glancing at Bai Qi standing in front of him on his left, Gongsun Xi flashed a little confusion in his heart, not understanding why Bai Qi asked someone to take him outside the camp.
Was it that he was going to be put to death outside the camp?
"Anyway, how noisy are the people outside the camp?"
Gongsun Xi looked at the camp gate rather confused.
And at this moment, with a rumbling sound, the gate on the south side of the camp slowly opened, and immediately, a team of Qin soldiers quickly rushed to the outside of the camp, neatly lined up.
"Huh?"
Meng Zhong, who was in front of the Wei army array opposite, frowned slightly.
In view of Wei Qing's suggestion, from the very beginning, Meng Zhong was weighing the odds of "if he attacked the Qin army on a large scale at this moment".
To tell the truth, even though he had tried his best to gather more than 40,000 Wei troops, considering that the Qin army on the opposite side was more numerous, Meng Zhong was not very sure, so he did not give the order to attack for a long time.
But to his surprise, the Qin army on the opposite side actually opened the gate by himself and put on a posture of wanting to compete with his Wei army.
"This ...... It shouldn't be.'"
Meng Zhong frowned and thought.
In his opinion, although he was certainly not sure of defeating the Qin army, the Qin army was stuck in an extremely critical period of weakness by them, and he might not be sure to defeat them, so how could he take the initiative to go out of the camp to fight?
How long has it been?
In less than an hour, even if the Qin army on the opposite side hurried to rest during this period, where could those Qin soldiers who had fought for a night and were so tired that they even lost their strength recover after just an hour's rest?
"I don't understand ......"
After thinking for a while, he said to Dou Xing and Wei Qing: "No matter what tricks there are on the other side, it is not wrong to ask the soldiers to be vigilant after all. β¦β¦ If the Qin army really wants to fight with our army, then fight with them, and at this time, our army may not lose. β
"Hmm!"
Dou Xing and Wei Qing nodded.
And just as the three of them were discussing, they suddenly saw the array of Qin troops on the opposite side spread out to both sides, and immediately, a team of Qin soldiers escorted Gongsun Xi to the front of the formation.
"That's ......"
"Rhinovu!"
Dou Xing and Wei Qing exclaimed in surprise, and their complexions suddenly changed greatly.
Meng Zhong frowned again.
After all, during this time period, Qin Jun escorted Gongsun Xi out of the five flowers, which made him have a bad premonition.
"This is ......"
Just when Meng Zhong, Dou Xing, Wei Qing and others saw Gongsun Xi, Gongsun Xi also saw them, and saw the Wei army with more than 40,000 in the distance.
"My army...... How did it end up here? β¦β¦ Are they fighting? Obviously, the Qin army defeated our army yesterday, how could they dare to come here to fight? Wait, why can't the Qin army hold on?"
A deep consternation appeared on Gongsun Xi's face, and he really didn't understand what was going on.
I have to say that Gongsun Xi is the general of Rong Ma's life after all, even if he can't react for a while, but after careful consideration, he still understands the current situation: that is, the army under his command, taking advantage of the weak period of the Qin army's fierce battle last night, regrouped and came to fight, as if a fish bone was stuck in the throat of the Qin army.
"Beautiful! Nice counter-attack! β¦β¦ The Qin army has been fighting for a night, and they are extremely weak at the moment, they will definitely not dare to fight easily, so that the soldiers of our army can take the opportunity to win back a game in morale and regroup! β¦β¦ What a precise eyesight!'
With a lot of praise in his heart, a question suddenly flashed in Gongsun Xi's heart.
Who is it?
Who came up with this clever strategy to counter the Qin army?
"Vertical? β¦β¦ No, it's supposed to be that kid......
Not long after, Gongsun Xi was in front of the array of the Wei army on the opposite side and saw Meng Zhong standing on the chariot.
In an instant, he felt his face burn, and an indescribable shame welled up in his heart.
γβ¦β¦ Xi Wu, near the north side of the top of Yique Mountain today, ran into a team of Qin army spies pretending to be Han soldiers...... The Qin army will not send soldiers to send them to death for no reason, since they have ventured to send people to Yique Mountain to peek at the whole picture of our military camp, then it is only possible to know the deployment of our military camp to the west...... I suspect that the Qin army is trying to sneak attack the western side of our army!"
γβ¦β¦ Xiwu, the Qin army of Xiangshan crossed the Yishui and attacked our army, and I thought that this was just a trick of the Qin army. β¦β¦ Having said that, the fact that the Qin army abandoned the relatively weak Han army and took the lead in designing our army further confirms that the following judgment is correct: the Qin army is plotting to attack our Wei army!"
γβ¦β¦ The Qin army ignored the 100,000 Han army and went around to Yushui to try to sneak attack the main camp of our army, which means that the Qin army has realized that blindly defending will only lead to defeat, and only by attacking our army by surprise and taking the lead in breaking our 180,000 Wei army will they have some chance of winning! β¦β¦ On the premise of knowing this, just because Tang Zhi and Jiao Ge were stationed in Yushui, the Qin army knew the difficulty and retreated? Still blindly sticking to it, and finally ushering in a doomed defeat? β¦β¦ Or did they decide to go around to the north side of our army and continue to launch a sneak attack on the main camp of our army without alarming Tang Zhi and Jiao Ge? Which of the two does Xi Wu think is more likely?"
Meng Zhong's words, Xi Wu listened to it in his ears that day, but when he thought about it at this moment, it really made him full of shame and remorse.
What is a white child?!
His Gongsun Xi is also an extremely outstanding general, and he has accurately grasped the movements of the Qin army from beginning to end.
But hating his grandson is arrogant, conceited, and refuses to listen to such good words, so that he was defeated yesterday!
Defeat is not unjust!
γβ¦β¦ This kid is currently in the middle of Dou Xing and Wei Qing, and it seems that he must be entrusted with a heavy responsibility for this kid...... Okay, very good, although my Gongsun Xi is defeated, my Wei army still has a breath of air, and Bai Qixiao doesn't want to easily defeat my remaining soldiers......
Just thinking about it, a question suddenly flashed in Gongsun Xi's mind: What did Bai Qi deliberately take him outside the camp and bring to those Wei generals under his command?
"Is it ......?"
A thought flashed in his heart, and Gongsun Xi suddenly had a bad premonition.
And at this moment, Bai Qi pulled the rope on Gongsun Xi's body, and together with several other Qin soldiers, he forcibly dragged Gongsun Xi to the front of the array, and immediately shouted: "Listen to the Wei soldiers on the other side, the commander Gongsun Xi you are waiting for has become a prisoner of my Qin army!" β
Hearing this, it was obvious that the momentum of the more than 40,000 Wei soldiers was stagnant, and it turned out that those Wei soldiers who were full of presumptuous faces and kept insulting the Qin army seemed to be choked by something at the moment, and they couldn't speak at all.
"Rhinovu...... Caught by the Qin army? β
"Rhinovu?"
"Xiwu was caught?"
In a moment, whispers sounded among the more than 40,000 Wei soldiers, and it was obvious that some of the soldiers had panicked on their faces again.
It's no wonder that the so-called "soldiers are the courage of generals, and generals are the soul of soldiers", generally in an army, the main general and the commander are always the core soul, and now at first glance, when I heard that the commander of my side was captured by the Qin army, you can imagine the panic and uneasiness in the hearts of these more than 40,000 Wei soldiers.
"Oops......"
Dou Xing frowned and looked at the Wei pawns who were in an uproar behind him.
It is precisely because of the fact that the matter of "the commander was captured" is very important and may cause the despair of tens of thousands of defeated soldiers, so a few hours ago, when Meng Zhong and others learned that Gongsun Xi was unfortunately captured by the Qin army, Gongsun Zhu, Dou Xing, Wei Qing and other military Simas immediately blocked the news, and lied to the soldiers below that Xiwu was seriously injured in order to break off, so Gongsun Jian served as a fake commander and commanded the army on his behalf, and did not dare to reveal the news that Gongsun Xi had been captured by the Qin army, for fear that the remaining 60,000 or 70,000 Wei troops would be desperate after learning about this incident, and they scattered in a hurry and fled separately.
Unexpectedly, this matter was still exposed by Qin Jun.
"Despicable ......"
Wei Qing gritted his teeth and cursed in a low voice, but he couldn't think of any way.
Even if it is Meng Zhong, he is a little helpless at the moment.
"Very good, very good......
Seeing that the more than 40,000 Wei troops on the opposite side had obviously wavered, Bai Qi's heart was suddenly overjoyed.
If it is more than 40,000 Wei soldiers with full physical strength and rising morale, even if he still has more than 60,000 troops under his command, he may not be sure to defeat the other party; But if these 40,000 Wei troops are in turmoil...... Hum!
Secretly sneered, Bai Qi attached his ear to the left and right and commanded: "Pass the order, use my beheading of Gongsun Xi as a signal, and all the troops in the camp will be killed together!" β
At this time, Gongsun Xi also saw the vacillation of those Wei pawns on the other side.
"Woo (no!) No! οΌβ
He struggled excitedly, but several Qin soldiers restrained him to the death.
"Don't trespass!" Those Qin soldiers warned viciously, but Gongsun Xi was unmoved, even though his whole body was tied with ropes, even if his mouth was stuffed with cloth, even if he was suppressed by several Qin soldiers, he still used all his strength, staring at the Wei army on the opposite side and "shouting".
"Woo (Don't waver!) οΌβ
"Woo woo (attack!) Offensive! οΌβ
"Woo woo (Qin Bing is extremely weak at the moment, if he doesn't attack at this time, when will he wait?!) οΌβ
"Woo woo (Meng Zhong!) Dou Xing! Wei Qing! οΌβ
"Rhinowu ......"
Meng Zhong's face was moved.
He could vaguely guess Gongsun Xi's gesture to them, but he couldn't help it......
He glanced back at the Wei soldiers behind him, only to see that they were either depressed or full of panic, and they no longer had the momentum of Fang Cai.
At this time, Dou Xing and Wei Qing were also discussing in private.
"Rhinovu...... That's signaling our army to attack, right? β
"It should be...... It's just that the momentum of the soldiers has been interrupted, how can this be fought? β
Helpless!
In the case of Bai Qi's sacrifice to Gongsun Xi, Meng Zhong, Dou Xing, Wei Qing and other Wei generals were helpless.
"Woo (stupid!) Idiot! οΌβ
"Woo (you gave the order to attack!) Do you want to watch the morale of the soldiers fall to the bottom, and then be killed by the Qin army?! οΌβ
Scolding Meng Zhong, Dou Xing, and Wei Qing for their "cowardice" in his heart, Gongsun Xi suddenly caught a glimpse of Bai Qi standing not far from him with a smug smile on his face.
"Shaft! Child!'
I saw that Gongsun was angry and angry, and used his only remaining strength, shook his body to break free from the suppression of the two Qin pawns, and then pulled the other two Qin pawns and slammed into Bai Qi with all his might.
There was a "bang", and Bai Qi, who was caught off guard, was suddenly stumbled by Gongsun Xi.
It's a pity that Gongsun Xi's whole body is tied up with ropes at this moment, and even his mouth is stuffed with a cloth ball, even if he can stumble while Bai Qi is not paying attention, there is no other means to hurt Bai Qi.
"Old horseman, I think you're really tired of being alive!"
Because Gongsun Xi's relationship was ugly in public, Bai Qi was angry in his heart, and immediately shouted: "Set him up for me!" β
Hearing this, the four Qin soldiers immediately forcibly held down Gongsun Xi and made him kneel on his knees, as if he was about to be executed.
Immediately, I saw Bai Qiqiang pull out the saber at his waist with a bang, and slashed at Gongsun Xi's head with a sword.
"Poofβ"
Blood splattered, Gongsun Xi's head fell to the ground, rolling twice on the ground, and his eyes, which gradually lost their brilliance, were right in front of Wei Jun in the distance.
"Enter...... Attack ......
He shouted silently.
"Old Puff!"
Shaking off the blood on the blade of the sword, Bai Qi raised his sword and pointed at the 40,000 Wei troops opposite, and shouted: "The whole army ......"
And at this moment, a roar sounded in the array of Wei troops opposite.
"Gentlemen, rhino martial arts would rather die than give in to the Qin army, is it possible that my tens of thousands of soldiers are just watching and indifferent?" Speaking of this, Meng Zhong drew his sword from the chariot, pointed straight ahead, and shouted with all his might: "Kill the Qin army and avenge the rhino force!" β
In the first few columns of more than 40,000 Wei troops, many Wei soldiers saw Gongsun Xi's feat before his death, and were shocked.
"Kill the Qin army! Avenge the Rhinosa! β
"Kill the Qin army! Avenge the Rhinosa! β
"Kill the Qin army! Avenge the Rhinosa! β
At first, there were only a few thousand, but after a few sounds, it quickly expanded to more than 40,000 Wei soldiers.
Even Bai Qi was a little shocked by that momentum, and immediately quickly ordered: "The whole army is attacking!" β
At the same time, Meng Zhong, who was standing on the chariot in the distance, also ordered at the same time: "The whole army attack!" β
"Wowββ!!"
40,000 Wei soldiers and 60,000 Qin troops, the armies of these two sides are like two torrents, rushing towards each other.
"It's finally ......"
Finally seeing the Wei soldiers under his command launch a surprise attack with a terrifying momentum, Gongsun Xi slowly closed his eyes.
"Please, erect, please, annoying boy......
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"Kill ββ!"
In the blink of an eye, the 40,000 Wei army and the 60,000 Qin army collided together, as if the angry waves were crashing stones, splashing countless blood flowers.
On the one hand, there are mourning soldiers who are relatively full of physical strength and are full of anger because the commander was humiliated, and on the other side is the victorious soldiers who have just broken through the more than 200,000 Wei and Han coalition forces with 80,000 and achieved a great victory, although it is 40,000 against 60,000, but neither Meng Zhong nor Bai Qi can accurately grasp the trend of this battle at this moment.
As soon as the foot soldiers in the front row fell to the ground, the foot soldiers in the back row followed closely, not retreating an inch, not giving an inch.
"Actually...... Killing Gongsun Xi in front of the Wei army failed to shake the military spirit of the Wei soldiers, but it became like this now...... Damn it!'
Secretly scolded, Bai Qi immediately ordered: "Summoning Wang Wen, Wei is angry at the moment, so he led the Chinese army to retreat slowly, and then ordered Meng Yi and Zhong Xu to lead the two wings of the army to outflank the past and surround and kill the Wei army!" β
"Whoa!" Immediately, a herald went as he was told.
However, a moment later, another soldier came with the latest battle situation: "Qi Qi Bai Shuai, the two wings of our army have been intercepted by the enemy!" β
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Bai Qi frowned slightly, he had already boarded a chariot at this moment, climbed high and looked into the distance, looking for the command of the Wei army.
In the blink of an eye, he found the Wei army's "main formation", a main formation with only about two dozen soldiers, and the figure that he remembered vividly.
"I thought he would take advantage of the momentum of the Wei army and take advantage of the Chinese army to break through, but I didn't expect it...... Is he such a cautious person? However, he was so cautious that he only left about two dozen people around...... Is this a conceit of your own martial arts?'
Bai Qi raised his hand and touched the scabbed blood on the right side of his neck.
Although he didn't want to admit it, he had to admit that that guy's martial arts were indeed above him.
"General Ji."
He turned his head to Ji Hong, who was standing on a chariot next to him, and said, "That is the main formation of the Wei army, please personally lead a light army and intercept it!" β
"Whoa!"
Ji Hong hugged his fists, and immediately took more than 2,000 soldiers around the frontal battlefield and came towards the "main formation" of the Wei army.
At this moment, in the main formation of the Wei army, there were only Meng Zhong, Rong Yan, Meng Ao and more than 20 Song soldiers.
Just as Meng Zhong was staring at the battlefield and was about to give orders at any time, suddenly Rong Yan pointed to the south side and said urgently: "Master Shuai, there is a Qin army trying to surround us!" β
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Meng Zhong glanced at the distance, then frowned and said, "It's really good eyesight......
"Clan, clan brother."
Meng Ao, the clan brother who drove the chariot for Meng Zhong, swallowed his saliva, and couldn't help but say, "The Qin soldiers over there look like there are quite a few people......
"yes. If you can't hold the formation, you won't be able to defend it......" As he spoke, Meng Zhong pulled out the sword at his waist and said in a deep voice: "Don't fall, the banner in your hand!" β
Rong Yan glanced up at the military flag with the word "Wei" he was holding high, and said categorically: "Rest assured, even if you die, you will never let this flag fall!" β
"Good! β¦β¦ Then head straight to the battlefield! β
"Straight, straight to the battlefield?" Meng Ao was taken aback and stammered and asked, "Clan, clan brother, do you mean, let's rush to the battlefield of these hundreds of thousands of people?" β
"yes." Meng Zhong blinked his eyes and said, "We are hiding among the 40,000 Wei soldiers, won't the Qin army that rushed to us not find us?" β
"Uh......"
"It sounds reasonable, but something feels wrong......
Meng Ao didn't react for a while.
"Let's go!"
As Meng Zhong patted Meng Ao on the shoulder, Meng Ao subconsciously shook the reins, and drove the chariot straight to the battlefield of the 100,000 people in front of him with a pale face.
Behind him, Rong Yi and more than 20 Song soldiers held high the banner and followed closely.
"General! The banner of our army ......"
Some Wei soldiers noticed the banner of their army and immediately reported it to the army Sima Dou Xing.
Dou Xing, who was fighting bloodily, turned his head and saw that their main flag with the word "Wei" was rapidly coming towards this side of the battlefield at this moment.
"Courage!"
After complimenting him, Dou Xing raised his sword high and roared sharply: "In this battle, there is only victory, no retreat!" Kill Qin Dog and avenge Xi Wu! β
"Kill Qin Dog and avenge Xiwu!"
"Kill Qin Dog and avenge Xiwu!"
The momentum of tens of thousands of Wei troops once again appeared in an unbelievable increase.
"Block! Stop the Wei army! β
At the same time, Qin General Wang Wen also shouted with all his might.
Although Bai Qi ordered him to retreat slowly to create an opportunity for the two wings of the army to outflank the Wei army, it seems that in the current situation, his Chinese army was clearly and quickly chiseled through by the Wei army.
Hey, hey, hey! Are you kidding! Were the soldiers of Wei so brave? It's more than twice as brave as last night's Wei pawn, right?
Suddenly, a soldier from the side exclaimed, "General, be careful! β
"How?"
Wang Wen immediately came back to his senses and saw a chariot rushing towards him.
"Bang!"
The two chariots collided straight together, and from the chariot of the Wei army, a young Wei general jumped up, holding a sharp sword and killing Wang Wen.
"The kid who hasn't dried up dares to come to die?!"
Wang Wen raised his sword to meet him, but he didn't expect that the young Wei general on the opposite side had really good martial arts, and he fought hard several times, but Wang Wen felt that his follow-up was weak, and his arm was sore, obviously it was caused by the fierce battle last night, and he had not fully recovered at the moment.
"Poof!"
The sharp blade pierced Wang Wen's chest, and he looked at the young general of the Wei army in disbelief, his face full of unwillingness.
"I, Wang Wen, actually ...... Died at the hands of such a nameless junior......"
"Who the hell are you talking about as a nameless junior!"
The Qin general in front of him kicked off the chariot, and the young general of the Wei army, no, Meng Hu, the first warrior under Meng Zhong, stepped on the railing of the overturned chariot with one foot, and glanced at the group of Qin soldiers below with shocked faces.
"Lao Tzu is the self-proclaimed "No. 1 Warrior of Wei" Menghu, remember this name!"
"......" looked at the boastful Menghu, and the deputy general Cao Chun shook his head slightly.
As soon as Leng Buding turned his head, Cao Chun suddenly saw Wei Xu looking at Meng Hu with appreciative eyes, and immediately after noticing his gaze, he glared at him viciously.
γβ¦β¦ What's wrong with this guy?'
I don't know what happened, Cao Chun felt that Wei Xu's relationship with him was getting worse and worse.
"Follow the brigade commander! Kill the Qin army to avenge the rhino force! β
"Wowββ!!"
At the same time, Meng Zhong also took Rong Yi and others to the battlefield, as well as the main flag with the word "Wei".
Seeing this main flag of the Wei character, more than 40,000 Wei soldiers seemed to have temporarily forgotten that their commander Gongsun Xi had died, and spontaneously gathered around the main banner and launched fierce attacks on the Qin army again and again.
More than 40,000 Wei troops gradually suppressed the Qin army in terms of momentum and battle situation.