"PS: The serial number of the previous chapter is wrong, this chapter is corrected."

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After returning to Wei Ying, Meng Zhong took the lead in asking the coach Gongsun Xi.

At this time, Gongsun Xi was also idle, and was taking the guards Gongsun Du and others to inspect the camps in the camp, but suddenly learned the news: Meng Zhong was asking to see him at the tent.

"This annoying boy!"

Gongsun Xi couldn't help but curse in a low voice, and wanted to hang Meng Zhong not to see him, but he didn't expect the guards who came to report to the news added: "Meng Shishuai used a chariot to transport more than 20 corpses to Shuai's tent, I don't know what the intention is." ”

"Two dozen corpses?"

Gongsun Xi was stunned and frowned slightly.

His first reaction at this time was that he thought that the kid might be causing trouble again—maybe someone offended Meng Zhong and was killed by that kid.

But think about it carefully, since that kid Meng Zhong broke into the tent of the commander to participate in the military meeting that day, among the 180,000 Wei troops under his command, even the Wei generals at the level of military Sima did not dare to provoke that kid, how could there be a conflict?

"It can't be a soldier of Han or the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, right?"

Gongsun Xi frowned, and hurriedly returned to the tent with a group of guards.

After a while, when he returned to the tent of the Chinese army, he saw about twenty corpses neatly placed outside the tent, and Meng Zhong was standing aside with Le Yi, Wu Ying, Wei Xu, Yu Ying and others.

"Meng Zhong, you ......"

Gongsun Xi originally wanted to ask, "What trouble have you caused again?" But when he approached Meng Zhong, he found that the latter's face was without any fear of committing a mistake, so he immediately changed his words: "What did you do with more than 20 corpses to the old man's tent?" …… Furthermore, what happened to these corpses? ”

"Rhinovu."

Meng Zhong hugged his fist towards Gongsun Xi, and then pointed to the corpse on the ground and said: "These are the corpses of Qin State spies, but according to what I can see below, these Qin State spies should be Qin pawns......

"Huh? You say these are Qin pawns? ”

Gongsun Xi glanced at the corpse on the ground in surprise.

Unfortunately, most of the contemporary armor is made of cowhide, animal skin, etc. exposed to the scorching sun into hard skin, except for the armor worn by senior generals is more beautiful, the armor worn by ordinary soldiers is almost all sewn from piece of hard skin, which means that if the armor has not been engraved with marks, the armor of the Central Plains countries, especially the soldiers of Qin, Wei, Han and Zhao, is basically the same, relying on the banner to distinguish between friend and foe - this is also the reason why Tian Zhang was able to blend into the ranks of the Qin army in the first battle and finally won the victory by deception.

Because of this, Gongsun Xi looked at the more than 20 corpses on the ground for a long time, and he didn't recognize whether the other party was a soldier of the Qin State.

However, in this kind of matter, he would not doubt Meng Zhong's words, after all, Meng Zhong is a disciple of the three schools of Taoism, Ming, and Confucianism, and he will never and would never dare to make up nonsense in this kind of matter, otherwise wouldn't it be insulting to the teacher?

"What's going on?" Gongsun Xi asked with a frown.

Seeing this, Meng Zhong told Gongsun Xi everything that happened on Yique Mountain today, only to hear Gongsun Xi frown frequently.

"Is it really not a pawn of Han or a soldier of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty?" He couldn't help but ask again.

Hearing this, Meng Zhong was a little amused, shook his head and said: "Afterwards, I met with Han Zu, the military commander of the Han army, and asked him about this matter, and the Han Zujun Sima said that the guards they sent only operated in the south and southeast of Yique Mountain, and would not be sent to the north side of Yique Mountain, and the army of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty did not send people to patrol Yique Mountain, how could it be Han Zhu or the soldiers of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty?" …… What's more, if it was really a Han pawn or a soldier of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, how could they falsely claim to be my Wei pawn? What's the point? ”

"Hmm......"

Gongsun Xi nodded approvingly.

Although he felt that Meng Zhong was very annoying, he was still clear about this kid's talent, not to mention that Meng Zhong said it so clearly, after thinking about it carefully, he also felt that there was a good chance that these twenty or so corpses were soldiers sent by the Qin State to peep at his Wei camp.

The problem is, the Qin army is so dignified that he doesn't peep at his Wei camp on the side of Xiangshan, so why should he risk great danger to run to the side of Yique Mountain? You must know that there are nearly 300,000 Wei, Han, and Eastern Zhou allied troops here.

Seeing Gongsun Xi frowning deeply, staring at the more than two dozen corpses on the ground without saying a word, Meng Zhong guessed that the commander was probably guessing the intention of Qin Jun's move, so he clenched his fists and said: "Regarding why the Qin army sent people to risk running to Yique Mountain to peek at our military camp, instead of looking at the Xiangshan from afar, there is a guess in my heart, and I implore you to report to Yu Xiwu in the marshal's tent." ”

“……”

Gongsun Xi stared at Meng Zhong a few times, nodded, and brought Meng Zhong and the others to the tent.

After arriving at the tent, Meng Zhong first asked Gongsun Xi for pen and ink and a piece of white cloth, and then drew a map of the local area on the low table in the tent.

While drawing the map, he said to Gongsun Xi: "Xiwu, you see, our army is on the north side of Yique Mountain, if the Qin army peeps at our camp from the Xiangshan on the other side of Yishui, only the west side of our camp cannot see completely. …… 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...... Does this mean that the Qin army is very likely to attack our army from the west? ”

"From the west side?" Gongsun Xi frowned and said, "On the west side is the ...... of Yushui."

"Yes." The pen in Meng Zhong's hand fell on the Qin army camp on the map, that is, the location of the Han camp in the south of Yique to the south, and then drew a half circle to the west, and said: "Just like this, the west crosses the Luoshui to bypass the Han army camp, and then the east crosses the Luoshui to the west of our army to carry out a surprise attack on our army." …… It may also be that the Qin army in the Yiyang area attacked our army, as far as I know, Yiyang was occupied by the Qin State ten years ago, and the Qin State has occupied heavy troops in Yiyang since then. ”

Looking at the map half-ringing, Gongsun Xi looked up at Meng Zhong twice, and said with a smile: "Well, it's a very good tactic." …… Okay, that's all for today, the old man will give you credit for killing more than 20 Qin soldiers today......"

The implication is that he does not agree with Meng Zhong's view.

Seeing this, Meng Zhong was puzzled and asked, "Xi Wu, did you say something wrong?" Please advise you. ”

Gongsun Xi took a deep look at Meng Zhong, he knew that if he didn't explain, the annoying kid in front of him would definitely be entangled.

Thinking of this, he reluctantly explained: "First of all, you are right about Yiyang, Yiyang was captured by the then Qin general "Gan Mao" ten years ago...... You may not know Gan Mao, Gan Mao is a Chu people, a person from Yingshang, who studied under the Daxian "Shiju" of Xia Cai, and later recommended by Zhang Yi and Zhu Liji, defected to Qin, and was reused by King Qin Hui. After the death of King Qin Hui, King Wu of Qin succeeded to the throne, who expelled Zhang Yi, causing Wei Zhang to lose power and flee together, while Gan Mao was reused by King Wu of Qin and was once promoted to the left minister of Qin, and his status was still above that of Zhu Liji, who was the right minister at that time. It was at this time that Gan Mao helped Qin capture Yiyang in Korea. However, during this period, Gan Mao offended Xiang Shou, Xiang Shou's bottom line must be known now, this person is the maiden relative of the Empress Dowager Xuan of Qin, even if Gan Mao is in a high position, how can he fight the Empress Dowager Xuan, Wei Ran, and Xiang Shou? What's more, soon after, King Wu of Qin died in the Zhou State, and the Qin State welcomed Yingji as the monarch under the intervention of the Zhao State, Wei Ran, Zhu Liji, Xiang Shou and others were close to Yingji, so they were reused, and Gan Mao was offended by Xiang Shou and Zhu Lijian when he once captured Yiyang, so he fled to Qi State, served as a secretary in Qi State, and then was sent by Qi State to envoy Chu State, and finally died in my Wei State. …… The reason why the old man said this is to let me tell you that after Gan Mao fled from the Qin State, the Qin State sent Xiang Shou to be stationed in Yiyang, and at this moment, the 120,000 to 150,000 Qin troops who confronted the two armies of the Storm Kite on the south side of Yique Mountain, most of them are Xiang Shou's subordinates, and they were the heavy troops of the Qin State stationed in Yiyang, so you understand? Yiyang has no power to attack our army at all, and all the Qin troops in this area are south of the Korean army at the moment. ”

"I see......

Meng Zhong nodded suddenly, I have to say, if Gongsun Xi doesn't say these things, he really doesn't know.

After thinking about it, he asked: "Is it possible that the more than 100,000 Qin troops who are confronting the Han army at this moment want to sneak attack our army?" ”

Gongsun Xi stared at Meng Zhong for a while, and suddenly sneered: "Although you kid is quite annoying, but the old man once thought that you were still quite scheming, why are you so stupid at the moment?" …… The number of the Qin army is only more than 100,000, and our army has 180,000, how many troops do you say the Qin army has to send to attack our army in order to defeat our army in one fell swoop? Fifty thousand? Lakh? The front took away 100,000 Qin troops to sneak attack our army, once the news of this matter leaked, the storm kite could take the new city without much effort, and the old man and the storm kite joined forces together, and divided a few troops to contain Yiyang, and the rest of the coalition army went straight to Hangu Pass and attacked the hinterland of Qin, isn't the Qin army a complete defeat? …… Your speculation is indeed very reasonable, but it is too dangerous, and the battle between the two armies is not a desperate fight, how can anyone use such a dangerous strategy? ”

"But ......"

Although Meng Zhong felt that what Gongsun Xi said was indeed very reasonable, he still couldn't help but say: "But the Qin army sent soldiers to Yique Mountain to spy on our military camp, there must be some deep meaning in this......

"Meaning? I can't wait to send you to Xiangshan!'

Staring at Meng Zhong a few times angrily, Gongsun Xi said impatiently: "Okay, okay, the old man doesn't have time to entangle with you, today you wait for the credit of killing more than 20 Qin soldiers, the old man will give you a note, okay, you go back first, build a camp in Yique Mountain as soon as possible, and then watch every move of the Qin army for the old man." …… Go ahead! ”

Although Meng Zhong still wanted to discuss with Gongsun Xi again, Gongsun Xi was already full of impatience at the moment, and he could only retire temporarily.

After all, the matter of "the Qin army or the two crossings of Luoyang to attack the west side of the Wei army" is only a speculation in Meng Zhong's heart that he is not very sure about.

However, even Meng Zhong never expected that his guess, which he was not very sure of, was actually a very accurate prediction of the Qin army's next strategy.

No, when Meng Zhong returned to the camp to tell Gongsun Xi about his experience on Yique Mountain today, Bai Qi and Xiang Shou, with the support of the only three remaining Qin soldiers, endured the pain on their bodies and returned to the Qin army camp.

I have to say that Xiang Shou, the former commander of the Qin army, and Bai Qi, the current commander of the Qin army, in order to go to Yique Mountain to spy on the deployment of the Wei army's camp this time, can be described as nine deaths, and they escaped with their lives.

Let's talk about Xiang Shou first, Xiang Shou was scratched in many places on his face and arms, but the most serious thing was the sword that Meng Zhong slashed at his back.

Meng Zhong's slash directly cut the armor on Xiang Shou's back, and left a scar on his back that was about half a finger long.

It was also a loss to Xiang Shou, and Meng Zhong couldn't catch up at that time, otherwise as long as Meng Zhong took another step forward, changed to a stab, and directly stabbed Xiang Shou's back with the sword in his hand, I am afraid that Xiang Shou would not be able to escape today.

Compared with Xiang Shou, Bai Qi's injuries are almost the same, his most serious injury is in his left shoulder, that is, the position where he was injured by Meng Zhong with a crossbow, but because it is not critical, it is not life-threatening except for pain, in contrast, the shallow blood mark on the right side of his neck is actually the most thrilling, after all, if he hadn't blocked the sword in Meng Zhong's hand in time, his head might have been cut off by the other party.

In addition, there were only three people left when the twenty or so Qin soldiers who accompanied him came back, which made Xiang Shou complain vigorously on the way after he escaped by luck, and Bai Qi could only smile bitterly to make amends, and promised not to risk his life in the future.

After the two returned to the Qin army camp, they each bandaged their wounds, and asked Shou Bai Qi: "Do you still want to implement the tactic of "two crossings of the water to attack the Wei army"? ”

Bai Qi looked at Xiang Shou puzzled: "Does General Xiang have any objections?" ”

"There is no objection." Xiang Shou frowned and explained: "Although your strategy is dangerous, I also think that it may be the only strategy that can defeat the 300,000 Wei and Han coalition forces, but it is just ...... Today, we met the commander of the Wei army, and I was worried that the Xi Wu would see through our intentions. ”

Hearing this, Bai Qi estimated in his heart, and said: "It's better to send 50,000 people to cross the water to attack the Wei army, 30,000 people are stationed in Xiangshan to confuse the Wei army, and the remaining 50,000 troops are stationed here as suspicious soldiers. ”

"That'...... And what about the 50,000 troops? ”

"If the plan is defeated, retreat to Yiyang and regroup the formation." Bai Qi's answer is like a stream.

Xiang Shou Wenyan pondered carefully, and finally nodded with a little hesitation.

He was not worried that if Bai Qi's strategy failed, it would lead to the defeat of his Qin army, after all, even if the plan was defeated, they could retreat to Yiyang and Xincheng, and take advantage of the danger to resist the coalition army.

The key is that if this plan fails, the 300,000 allied troops of Wei and Han will develop momentum, which is the most troublesome.

"Let's deploy suspicious soldiers in the Xiangshan area first."

"Hmm."

After reaching a tacit understanding with Xiang Shou, Bai Qi immediately summoned the general of the army, "Wei Fu", and told the latter the plan and true intention of the garrison in Xiangshan.

Wei Fu took the order and left, and in the early morning of the next day, he led 30,000 troops to the north side of Xiangshan and camped there.

Following Bai Qi's orders, Wei Fu did not rush to set up camp after leading his army to the Xiangshan area, but spent several days of work, built some pontoon bridges, and managed to carry out a failed sneak attack on the Wei army a few days later.

The reason why it is said to be a failed sneak attack is that the Wei army's defense of Yishui on the east side is quite tight, and it is impossible for Weifu to succeed in the sneak attack; Second, whether it is Bai Qi or Wei Fu, in fact, he didn't think about the success of the sneak attack - the purpose of Wei Fu's sneak attack on the Wei army across Yishui was to attract the attention of the Wei army to Yishui, so that Bai Qi could implement his tactics of "crossing the water twice and attacking the Wei army".

I remember that when Wei Fu crossed the Wei camp of Yishui and attacked him, Meng Zhong had already built a simple camp fence wall on Yique Mountain with his soldiers, and suddenly got a report from his corporal and learned that the Qin army had attacked his Wei camp across the river, so he climbed on the top of Yique Mountain to look down on this confrontation.

But in less than half an hour, the confrontation ended, and the Qin army was never able to break through the Wei army's defensive line, so they could only withdraw their troops and build a military camp on the north side of Xiangshan.

Standing on the mountain and thinking for a while, Meng Zhong immediately went down the mountain, returned to the Wei camp, and went straight to Gongsun Xi's handsome tent.

As he guessed, today the Wei army repelled the Qin army, and after the battle, Gongsun Xi really summoned the Sima of all the armies in the army to listen to the battle situation and casualties of each army.

It may be that Gongsun Xi has acquiesced to Meng Zhong's participation in the military meeting, so that when Meng Zhong walked into the tent halfway through the military conference and casually found a position to sit down by the tent, although Gongsun Xi and the military Simas in the tent all saw him, no one said anything about it, as if it was commonplace.

I have to say that because of the repulsion of the Qin army's attack today, the Sima of the tent was in a very good mood, so much so that when Meng Zhong walked into the tent, everyone in the tent was making fun of the Qin State that there was no general who could take on the heavy responsibility.

“…… Since Wei Zhang and Gan Mao fled, and Yuli died of illness, are there still any available generals in the Qin State? ”

"How is Xiang Shou? Hahaha......"

"Xiang Shou? Do you mean Xiang Shou, who was blocked by the violent kite and couldn't move an inch? ”

"Don't underestimate the Qin State, at least the Qin State still has Sima Coo......"

"Speaking of which, why didn't the Qin State send Sima Cuo to resist the Xi Wu? Xiang Shou, where is the opponent of Xiwu? ”

"That's right! …… I don't know what Xiang Shou thinks, seeing that he can't break through the blockade of the South Korean army, he actually wants to sneak attack our army across the Yishui River? Does he think that my Wei army will be weaker than the Han army? It's not like words! ”

"Who knows! Maybe Xiang Shou can only come up with such a superficial trick. ”

The armies in the tent sometimes belittled Xiang Shou together, and sometimes touted Gongsun Xi, which made the atmosphere in the tent quite good.

During this period, only Meng Zhong crossed his arms and frowned in contemplation.

Of course, even if he showed such a solemn look, no one took the initiative to talk to him or ask him.

"Alright, alright."

Seeing that the time was almost up, Gongsun Xi pressed his hand and said with a smile: "Xiang Shou is just a mediocre general, even if you belittle him and praise the old man, the old man doesn't think that there is anything to be happy about being better than a mediocre general." …… Resisting the Qin army today, Zheng Zheng and Cai Wu reacted very quickly, which is commendable! Let's give you both a note. ”

"Xi Wu Miaozan, I dare not be ashamed."

Zheng Zheng and Cai Wu hurriedly thanked them.

These two people are similar to Tang Zhi and Jiao Ge, they are not generals of Gongsun Xi's family, but generals who were temporarily transferred from all over the Wei State, so they have been praised by Gongsun Xi today, and Zheng Zheng and Cai Wu are quite flattered.

Of course, they also know that even if Gongsun Xi praises them, the coach's most trusted generals are still his direct subordinates of the Hedong family, unless they can make more contributions and be appreciated by the coach.

However, just when the atmosphere in the tent was quite harmonious, Meng Zhong suddenly interjected abruptly: "Xi Wu, I think that the Qin army's sneak attack on our army today is probably just a suspicious strategy!" ”

“……”

Hearing this, the tent suddenly fell silent, and the generals in the tent also turned their heads to look at Meng Zhong.

"It's this annoying boy again!"

Gongsun Xi stared at Meng Zhong helplessly.

Meng Zhong didn't care about Gongsun Xi or other people's eyes on him, and clenched his fists to state his thoughts: "I don't believe that there are no Qin army spies in the Gongcheng area, and the Qin army still doesn't know the approximate strength of our army...... They are certainly clear! This is very strange, Xiang Shou can't even defeat the 100,000 Korean troops under the command of the commander of the Korean army, how can they have the confidence to provoke my 180,000 Wei army? Aren't they afraid that this will anger our army and make the Xiwu divide their forces to aid the Korean army and attack them? …… According to the following estimates, Xiwu only needs to send half of the Hedong Army under his command to join the Han army, and the Qin army will not be able to parry. In that case, why did the Qin army sneak attack our army? And is it a sneak attack on our army across the Iraqi water? Are they all blind? Can't see the deployment of our army on this side of the Yishui River? Or is it ...... They didn't think they were going to win this confrontation in the first place? ”

Gongsun Xi frowned and pondered Meng Zhong's words, and then asked, "Boy, what do you want to say?" ”

"West side! Xiwu, the west side! ”

Clenching his fists, Meng Zhong Zhengse said: "I didn't have much confidence in the first two days, but seeing that the Qin army attacked our army today, I was at least seventy percent sure of it...... The Qin army wanted to attract the attention of our army to Yishui's side, and this matter was simply too obvious. …… Although it is not clear what the reason is, there are all kinds of signs that the Qin army wants to sneak attack our army from the west side after going around! ”

"This kid...... I wasted my words the other day!'

Glancing at Meng Zhong angrily, Gongsun Xi shook his head slightly, and didn't bother to explain anything to Meng Zhong, pointed to Meng Zhong and said with a smile: "Everyone, our Meng Shishuai thinks that it is possible for the Qin army to bypass the camp of the Han army in one crossing, and then to the west side of our army and carry out a sneak attack on our 180,000 army...... What do you think? ”

"West side?"

"Around?"

The generals in the tent all showed a smile with a few hints of jokes and mockery when they heard this, but in view of Meng Zhong's lack of proximity, they didn't dare to laugh too much.

Meng Zhong didn't care about the ridicule of the generals in the tent, and said to Gongsun Xi sincerely: "Xiwu, our army has a full 180,000 people, and 20,000 or 30,000 people are stationed on the west side and garrisoned in the area of Yushui, what's the big deal?" ”

This sentence is also pertinent, indeed, 20,000 or 30,000 people are stationed in Luoshui, which is really not a big deal for the Wei army, which has 180,000 people.

Thinking of this, Gongsun Xi spread his hands and said with a smile that the generals in the tent smiled: "That's it...... Wait, who wants to move to Luoshui? ”

The generals in the tent looked at each other, but no one spoke.

And just then, I heard someone say, "I'll go!" ”

“……”

Everyone in the tent turned their heads in surprise, but found that the person who opened his mouth was none other than the military Sima Tang Zhi.

"Tang Zhi, you ......" Jiao Ge, who was sitting next to Tang Zhi, looked at this friend with an incredulous expression.

At this time, he saw Tang Zhi say to Jiao Ge: "Jiao Ge, I don't have enough troops, you can go with me." ”

"You...... You guy, I didn't get anything good last time I helped you......"

Jiao Ge sighed helplessly, hesitated for a while, and finally hugged his fist towards Gongsun Xi and said, "Xiwu, I am willing to be stationed in Luoshui with Tang Zhi." ”

"Oh, so be it."

Gongsun Xi didn't care, nodded and allowed the matter.

After the meeting, Meng Zhong specially waited outside the tent for Tang Zhi and Jiao Ge.

To be honest, he never thought that Tang Zhi would "help himself", after all, after the "Houying Incident" a while ago, the two sides did not owe each other, and then maintained a tacit understanding that the well water does not interfere with the river water.

"Tang Jun Sima ......"

"Don't get me wrong, I don't owe you a favor." Interrupting Meng Zhong's words, Tang Zhizheng said, "I just think that what you said is indeed very reasonable...... The Qin army's sneak attack on our army today is indeed quite strange, as if it was done deliberately. ”

Meng Zhong nodded, arched his hand and said, "Then please ask Tang Jun Sima." ”

"Hmm."

Without saying anything, Tang Zhi waved his hand and left with Jiao Ge.

Looking at the backs of the two of them leaving, Meng Zhong breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

He felt that with nearly 20,000 Wei soldiers under the command of these two military Simas, he was afraid that it would not be so easy even if the Qin army really wanted to cross the water twice to attack his Wei army.