Chapter 197: Meng Zhong and Tian Zhang (3) [Two in One]
Because of the "ζ¨ι" of the Qin State, it is called ζ¨ιdisease, or ζ¨ιε.
In terms of origin, Ying Ji is the concubine of "Qin Xiaogong Yingquliang" and the half-brother of "Qin Hui Wang Yingsi".
Qin Xiaogong and Qin Huiwang father and son, both of them were the Ming monarchs of the Qin State, compared to the male lord of the Zhao State "Zhao Suhou Zhao Yu", Qin Xiaogong was more outstanding, he reused the "Wei Ying" to implement the reforms, and worked hard to govern the country, laying a solid foundation for the strength and prosperity of the Qin State today.
Although their parents are more outstanding than Qin Xiaogong, their successors, that is, Qin Xiaogong's son Qin Hui Wang Yingsi, and Zhao Suhou's son "Zhao Wuling King Zhao Yong" are indeed comparable in talent and courage, but the key thing is that Qin Hui Wang Yingsi died at the age of only forty-six, and when he died, Zhao Wuling King Zhao Yong was just twenty-nine years old and was in the prime of life.
It was precisely because of the death of King Yingsi of Qin Hui and the subsequent successor "King Yingdang of Qin" who ran to the Zhou State and passed away at the age of twenty-three, causing the Qin State to lose two monarchs in a row in just a few years, so that King Wuling of Zhao seized the opportunity to lead the rise of the Zhao State.
At that time, some people may say that the Zhao State at that time was the only country among the six countries that could resist the westward advance of the Qin State, but it is a pity that sixteen years later, Zhao Yong, the king of Zhao Wuling, also died because of the civil strife of his two sons seizing power, and died at the age of forty-five.
Speaking of Ying Ji, after Qin Hui Wang Ying Sichu succeeded to the throne, he did two things, the first was to kill Shang Jun Wei Ying; The second is to promote his trusted brothers, Yinghua and Yingji, and grant them military power to help him rule the country.
At that time, the Qin people all said that Yinghua was brave and martial, Yingqi was wise and wise, and these two brothers were the right-hand men that Qin Hui Wang Yingsi relied on the most.
In the eighth year of King Hui of Qin, it was in the stage of "Qi and Chu competing for power", when the once powerful Wei State was completely weakened by the First Battle of Maling, and the Qi State rose strongly, so Wei Xianghui Shi promoted the "Xuzhou Xiang Wang", so that Qin and Wei recognized each other's thrones, and on the condition of "jointly crusading against Chu", Qi agreed to form an alliance with Wei.
However, this incident caused great anger in the state of Chu, so in the following year, the monarch of the state of Chu, King Chu Wei, personally led a large army to conquer the state of Qi, when the two countries of Qi and Chu launched a major war in Xuzhou, and finally the state of Qi was defeated, and the state of Chu entered the peak period, and its strength was unprecedentedly strong.
However, because Qi Xiangtian Ying personally came forward to persuade King Chu Wei, the two countries of Chu and Qi finally reconciled.
At this time, seeing that the state of Chu had defeated the state of Qi, Wei and Han immediately fell to the state of Chu, and persuaded the king of Chu Wei to crusade against the state of Qin, trying to use the power of the state of Chu to resist the state of Qin - after all, at this time, it was when the eldest husband Zhang Yi was in the limelight in the state of Wei, although the state of Wei refused to give in to the state of Qin, but it was also beaten by the state of Qin extremely passively, so he hoped to use the power of the state of Chu to fight against the state of Qin.
Therefore, under the organization of Gongsun Yan, the six kingdoms of Chu, Qi, Zhao, Wei, Han, and Yan, as well as Yiqu, which later joined the ranks of attacking Qin, soon formed a situation in which the Seven Kingdoms joined forces to attack Qin, and Qin faced the greatest crisis since Qin Hui Wang Yingsi succeeded to the throne.
In the face of such crises, King Hui of Qin never gave in, and he appointed Ying Ji, who had gradually emerged in the war against Wei in recent years, as the chief general, leading the Qin army to resist the attack of the coalition forces of various countries, and finally repelled the coalition forces with different intentions with great difficulty.
So far, the reputation of the Yingji and Yinghua brothers has soared.
During this period, Wei and Han saw the defeat of Hezhong, coupled with Zhang Yi's envoy to Wei, who frequently exerted pressure on Wei, causing Wei and Han to fall to Qin again.
In order to oppose the alliance of Qin, Wei, and Han, Chu decided to form an alliance with Qi, on the condition that Qi acquiesced in the occupation of Yan, which was about to have "internal strife in Zi", in exchange for Qi's full help in Chu against Qin.
At this time, the Central Plains formed the mainstream situation of the "Qin-Wei-Han Alliance" against the "Qi-Chu Alliance".
Among them, the Zhao State and the Song State, which had already formed the "Zhao and Song Alliance", watched the fire from across the strait, and sat and watched the tripartite wrestling between Qin, Chu, and Qi; As for Yan Guo, he was too busy to take care of himself because he was caught in the "internal strife of the son".
At this time, the Zhao State had not yet begun to exert its strength, and the Qi State also hoped to draw the Zhao State into its own camp, but the behavior of the Qi State to take advantage of the internal turmoil in Yan to annex the Yan State aroused the vigilance of Zhao Yong, the monarch of the Zhao State, after all, once the Qi State successfully annexed the Yan State, the threat to the Zhao State would naturally increase greatly.
So Zhao Yong secretly united with Qin to prevent Qi from annexing Yan - which made Zhao unable to contribute even if he was forced to be involved in the joint attack on Qin by Qi.
As a result, due to the resistance of the Yan people, even if the famous general Kuang Zhang destroyed the entire Yan country within 50 days, he could not completely subjugate the Yan people, and had to lead the army back to China.
During the period when Qi was seeking to take over Yan, Qin also did a big thing, that is, he sent Zhang Yi to try to destroy the alliance between Chu and Qi, which was the famous "Shang in 600 li" incident - Zhang Yi, who was like a hanging river, deceived King Huai of Chu into taking the initiative to sever relations with Qi on the condition that "Qin is willing to cede Shang to Chu in 600 li".
This incident made King Chu Huai furious, so he poured all his troops into attacking Qin, which is the famous "Battle of Qin, Chu and Danyang".
In this war, the state of Chu was finally defeated, killing 80,000 elites, and the two countries of Wei and Han were forced by the threat of the Qin envoy Zhang Yi to fall to the state of Qin again, until a few years later King Hui of Qin died, and the disgusted King Wu of Qin succeeded to the throne and expelled Zhang Yi, Wei and Han returned to the camp of the state of Qi.
During the "Battle of Danyang of Qin, Chu and Qin", the State of Qi saw the battle between Qin and Chu, so he took the opportunity to attack the State of Wei with the armies of Zhao and Song, which had fallen to Qin at that time.
Because Zhao had already had a private alliance with Qin at that time, it was deliberately delayed and delayed, and the Song State, which was angry with Zhao, simply completely yin Qi State.
This happened after the Battle of Danyang, in order to support the Wei State, the Qin general Yingji, who had just defeated the Chu State in "Danyang", immediately led his army to the Wei State and rescued the Wei State together with the Korean general "Han Feng".
Subsequently, Ying Ji led his army to confront the Qi army in the Pushui area, but just when the two sides were about to fight a decisive battle, the Song army, which was the flank of the Qi army, suddenly retreated, causing the Qi side to be empty.
During this period, the Qin general Yingjian took the opportunity to personally lead the team to quickly enter the position of the Song army, defeating the Qi army in one fell swoop, forcing famous generals such as Tian Zhang to flee in embarrassment.
I have to say that this is Tian Zhang's only defeat so far - the annexation of Yan State cannot be counted, it was that Qi State could not withstand the pressure of Qin, Zhao, Wei and Han and took the initiative to withdraw its troops - and it was also the most embarrassing defeat in his life.
But for this defeat, Tian Zhang was not convinced, after all, the key reason for his defeat was that the Song army, which was secretly connected with the Qin State, retreated from the battle, and completely yin him.
Of course, this is not convinced, but it just means that Tian Zhang thinks that he was wronged in the battle at that time, after all, he was put on the side by the Song army, which does not mean that he is sure to defeat Yingji.
Even if there was no such thing as the retreat of the Song army, in fact, he was not sure that he would defeat Yingji.
After all, before the decisive battle of Pushui, he had many small-scale confrontations and temptations with Ying Ji, but from beginning to end, Tian Zhang did not take advantage of Ying Ji who was called "Wise General" by the Qin people on the other side, as if Ying Ji could completely see through his intentions every time.
It is no exaggeration to say that at that time, looking at the world, only Ying Ji could make Tian Zhang feel this feeling of "being controlled everywhere", and in addition, the generals of the other countries could not make him feel this powerlessness.
After sixteen or seventeen years, Ying Ji, who was secretly regarded as a fierce rival by Tian Zhang, had already died of illness, but he didn't expect that in the Song Kingdom, Tian Zhang once again felt the illusion when facing Ying Ji, just like the "Song Army Commander" opposite, he could also see through his intentions like Ying Ji, which made Tian Zhang ignite a strong fighting spirit.
Although he knew very well that the "Song Army Commander" opposite could not be Ying Ji, because these two people gave Tian Zhang a very similar feeling, this made Tian Zhang intentionally or unintentionally regard the Song Army General opposite as Ying Ji, and wanted to defeat this "fake Ying Ji" to relieve the regret in his heart that he had no chance to defeat the deceased Ying Ji.
And just when he led the army back to the Twenty-Mile Camp, thinking about how to defeat the Song army general on the opposite side, who seemed to be sick, it happened that the detailed work sent out before returned to the camp to report something important to him.
"Qiqi Zhangzi, according to our inquiry, the crown prince Dai Wu seems to intend to build a city in the area of Qiyang." As he spoke, the fine worker took out a map from his bosom and handed it to Tian Zhang.
"Building a city?"
Tian Zhang frowned, took the piece of cloth with the map and looked carefully, only to see that on this map, the city marked with the word "Forcing the Sun" was clearly drawn, and around it, in the more critical places of the terrain, there were several forks drawn, according to the detailed work, all of which were the approximate locations where the Song Kingdom was preparing to build the city.
"Build a city at this time? And it seems that you have to build several cities in one go? This...... What's the point?'
Tian Zhang frowned and pondered.
It just so happened that at this time, Tian Touch and Tian Da walked in, and after learning the situation, they couldn't help but laugh: "The Song people are really unreasonable, our army has already attacked the sun, so he just thought about building a city nearby to block our army, don't you think it's too late?" Hmph, before he built the city, our army would have already captured the sun! β
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Tian Zhang nodded secretly when he heard this.
He also felt that it was unnecessary for the Song people to build a city in the vicinity of Qiyang at this time, unless the Song people on the opposite side were confident that his Qi army would not be able to conquer Qiyang.
"Do you think that our army will not be able to capture the sun? It seems that the 'Ying Disease' on the other side is very certain......
Because it is still unclear who the main general of the Song army on the opposite side is, Tian Zhang simply refers to his former old enemy "Ying Ji", after all, the two give him a very similar feeling.
After secretly snorting coldly, Tian Zhang then put the map in his hand into his arms, walked to the low table in the tent, and leaned over to examine the marching map.
During this period, his eyes initially converged on the forced sun, and then slowly penetrated into the hinterland of the Song Kingdom, and finally fixed on Pengcheng, the royal capital of the Song Kingdom.
"I can't win today, and you don't save you, but if I enter Pengcheng, can you still be so calm?"
Thinking of this, Tian Zhang immediately summoned his general Zou Xi and instructed the latter: "Zou Xi, I order you to lead 30,000 troops to bypass Qiyang and enter Pengcheng. As he spoke, he whispered a few words to Zou Xi.
"Obey." Zou Xi clenched his fists and received the order, withdrew from the tent and prepared to go out.
At this time, Tian Zhang told Tian Touch and Tian Da again: "Tian Touch, Tian Da, I order you two to lead 10,000 soldiers each, and be ready to attack the sun at any time." β
"Whoa!"
Tian Touch and Tian Da hugged their fists to lead the life.
That night, according to Tian Zhang's orders, Zou Xi led 30,000 soldiers armed with torches to cross the Yang and go deep into the hinterland of the Song Kingdom.
What is the concept of 30,000 soldiers walking in the night with torches in hand? This means that as long as the Song army on Forcing Yang City is not blind, he can see it clearly even if he is more than ten miles away!
No, the Song soldiers who saw this scene in Yang City immediately reported the matter to the crown prince Dai Wu, and the shocked prince Dai Wu immediately took Meng Zhong and Le Yi to the city wall to take a look.
When he saw from a distance that he didn't know the exact number of enemy troops holding torches, bypassing the forced sun and going deep into the hinterland of the Song Kingdom, looking like a winding and long fire snake from a distance, the crown prince Dai Wu's face changed suddenly, and he exclaimed: "Isn't the Qi army trying to attack Pengcheng by surprise?!" β¦β¦ Meng Qing, how is this good? β
Meng Zhong calmly glanced at the fire dragon in the distance, and then said to the crown prince Dai Wu with a smile: "Prince, that's just a trick by the Qi army to cover up, just don't see it, I'll go back to the city later." β
The crown prince Dai Wu didn't understand what Meng Zhong meant, and said with a frown and a suspicious face: "Meng Qing, the Qi army is clearly planning to attack Pengcheng, how can this be ignored?" β
Considering that the crown prince Dai Wu had no experience in leading troops into battle, Meng Zhongsui patiently explained: "No, prince, this is just a trick of the Qi army, and the purpose is to trick us into leaving the city. β¦β¦ You don't need to worry about Pengcheng at all, according to my observation in the past few days, Tian Zhang's command is only about 50,000 soldiers, even if all of them go to attack Pengcheng? Could it be that Pengcheng will be captured in one fell swoop? Pengcheng has at least more than 20,000 troops, not to mention the local family soldiers, only 50,000 Qi troops, can not conquer Pengcheng at all, Tian Zhangnai is a famous general, he will not be unaware of this matter, therefore, the possibility of him sending troops to attack Pengcheng is extremely low, this is one of them. As for the second ......"
He pouted at the fire snake in the distance, and said with a smile: "Since you chose to march at night and put on a posture of wanting to sneak attack Pengcheng, but you also asked his subordinates to hold torches high, as if they were afraid that we would not be able to see it, it is really ......funny to cover your ears and steal the bell like this."
Speaking of this, he suddenly remembered that the commander of the Qi army on the opposite side was his other righteous brother Tian Zhang, and hurriedly coughed and changed his words: "All in all, I already understand Tian Zhang's intentions, that is, to follow the strategy of encircling Wei to save Zhao, and put on a posture of wanting to attack Pengcheng by surprise, and lure our army out of the city to return to Pengcheng. β
"I see......"
Prince Dai Wu nodded suddenly in realization, and then he frowned again and asked, "Meng Qing, how sure are you about this?" In case the Qi army really attacked Pengcheng, but the father was negligent in guarding against ......"
"That's the best part of this plan." Meng Zhong turned his head and glanced at the direction of the Qi army's camp, and said in a low voice: "Tian Zhang knows that Pengcheng is only two hundred miles away from this Yang, and it is where the royal city of my Song Kingdom is located. β¦β¦ All in all, don't care, in two or three days at most, the Qi army will retreat in the face of difficulties and obediently retreat to its camp. β
And at this moment, Le Yi suddenly interjected and reminded: "Ah Zhong, don't forget to send reinforcements." β
"Reinforcements?"
Meng Zhong was stunned, and then suddenly seemed to think of something, nodded and said, "Yes, yes, I almost forgot that there are reinforcements......"
After that, he explained to the prince Dai Wu with a puzzled face: "Your Royal Highness the Prince, Ah Yi is referring to the reinforcements who came from Pengcheng to reinforce Qiyang, although we have seen through the tricks of the Qi army, but the reinforcements from Pengcheng may not know about this matter, if the Qi army is ambushed in the middle of the way, and our reinforcements happen to pass by, and they are unprepared on the way, they may be ambushed by this Qi army." β¦β¦ This is the only thing to be wary of. β
When he said this, he couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed, after all, he was only thinking about how to block the Qi army with the strength in his hands in recent days, and so far he had not let the crown prince Dai Wu ask Peng Cheng for help, so that he subconsciously did not consider the issue of reinforcements - in the final analysis, whether he let the prince Dai Wu ask for help, this has nothing to do with whether Peng Cheng sent troops to rescue, after all, Song Wang Yan will have his own judgment.
Or to put it simply, after learning about the situation in the vicinity of Qiyang, Song Wangyan would definitely gather troops to reinforce Qiyang.
Thinking of this, Meng Zhong glanced at the direction of the Qi army's camp with some melancholy, and said with a wry smile: "Considering the reinforcements, it seems that we have really done something, at least we have to inform Pengcheng of the Qi army's intentions, lest the reinforcements from Pengcheng be ambushed by the Qi army......"
After thinking about it, Meng Zhong first asked the crown prince Dai Wu to immediately send soldiers to Pengcheng as envoys to report the intention of "the Qi army may attack Pengcheng" to Song Wangyan, so that Pengcheng could be prepared, and then he asked the crown prince Dai Wu to send people to invite Dai Busheng and Dai Yingzhi, two military horses.
At this time, Dai Yingzhi was still stationed in the camp in the northeast corner of the city, and Dai Busheng, the previous garrison was in the camp in the northwest corner of the city, but today because the camp was attacked by the Qi army, he gave up the camp in accordance with Meng Zhong's instructions, and after getting rid of the chasing Qi army, he entered the city from the south gate of the city.
Not long after, Dai Busheng hurried over with a few guards.
Seeing this, Meng Zhong was not in a hurry to explain the situation, until a moment later, Dai Yingzhi also entered the city with a few people and came here, and Meng Zhong told Dai Busheng and Dai Yingzhi about the abnormal behavior of the Qi army.
It is worth mentioning that he originally thought that Dai Busheng would be as anxious about Pengcheng's safety as the crown prince Dai Wu, so he prepared some rhetoric in advance in order to persuade this military horse, but what he didn't expect was that although Dai Busheng was a little anxious at first, after listening to Meng Zhong's judgment and analysis, he didn't have the slightest look of anxiety on his face, he just looked at Meng Zhong with interest, as if waiting for Meng Zhong to give an order.
Not to mention Meng Zhong, even the crown prince Dai Wu was surprised by this, and asked curiously: "Uncle Busheng, have you also guessed the tricks of the Qi army?" β
Hearing this, Dai Busheng laughed and said, "How can I guess? If I can guess, then I am a famous general of the Song Kingdom comparable to Tian Zhang...... I trust the judgment of this kid Meng Zhong! As he spoke, as if to show his closeness, he slapped Meng Zhong's shoulder heavily, causing the latter to take a slight breath in pain.
Quietly moving his shoulder, which was slightly tingled by Dai Busheng, Meng Zhong Zhengse said: "Considering the factor of reinforcements, I can't let the Qi army wantonly bypass the city and go deep into the hinterland, so there is Lao Sima You lead the troops to pursue that Qi army...... It is not difficult for me to predict that most of the Qi army will wait to ambush Sima halfway, and when the time comes, we can also plan it. β
After that, he whispered a few words to Dai Busheng and Dai Yingzhi, only to hear Dai Busheng raise his eyebrows again and again, and couldn't help but laugh, while Dai Yingzhi stroked his beard and smiled.
"There are two Simas." Meng Zhong bowed his hand and bowed.
"What's that talking about?" Dai Busheng and Dai Yingzhi waved their hands, and immediately said goodbye to the crown prince Dai Wu: "Prince, without further ado, the two of us will leave immediately." β
That night, Dai Yingzhi led his army to pretend to return to Pengcheng.
Sure enough, before he could lead his army thirty miles south, he was ambushed by the Qi army.
It turned out that the 30,000 troops led by Zou Xi, after being far enough away from the forced sun, immediately extinguished the torches in their hands and ambushed them halfway, waiting for the Song army to return to Pengcheng.
Subsequently, Dai Yingzhi was really "fooled", and was ambushed by the Qi army halfway, and his corporal was defeated and fled.
The black light was blind, and the Qi general Zou Xi actually didn't know how many Song soldiers were defeated, so he immediately returned to Qiangyang, and contacted Tian Zhang to take the opportunity to attack Qiangyang.
Although Tian Zhang was a little surprised and suspicious of this, he couldn't miss the opportunity in front of him, so he immediately ordered Tian Touch and Tian Da to join Zou Ji to storm Yang City.
And just when Tian Zhang, Tian Touch, Tian Da, Zou Xi and others were focusing all their attention on attacking Qiyang, the defeated Dai Yingzhi had already gathered his subordinates who had pretended to be defeated before, and took the opportunity to attack the Qi army camp that was empty.
"Sima! My military camp! My military camp! β
During the attack on the sun, Tian Zhang suddenly heard the soldiers around him shouting, and subconsciously looked back, but was stunned to see the direction of his own "Twenty-Mile Battalion", which was burning at this moment.
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Even if it was Tian Zhang, he couldn't help but be stunned for a moment at this time, and couldn't figure out where the Song army attacked his camp, after all, after learning the news that Zou Xi had defeated Dai Yingzhi's army, Tian Zhang immediately ordered to attack Qiyang, and it stands to reason that Qiyang has no chance to send troops to attack his camp.
And there could be no other Song troops around here.
After thinking for more than a dozen breaths, Tian Zhang suddenly had an epiphany, and a strange expression appeared on his face: "Is it actually the army under Dai Yingzhi?" β
I have to say that even if it was Tian Zhang, he never expected that he would be attacked by an army that had obviously been defeated.
"That's a ......."
Looking at the Qiyang City in front of him, which showed no signs of breaking the city, and then looking back at his own military camp that was burning with raging fires, Tian Zhang hesitated for a moment, and finally decided to retreat and end this siege battle that the enemy had already countermeasures.
Seeing the retreat of the Qi army, the gate of Forcing Yang City was open, Dai Busheng led his soldiers to take the opportunity to chase and kill a Qi army, although because of Tian Zhang's retreat, Dai Busheng did not find a chance to expand the advantage, but it was enough for him and his soldiers to sweep away the rout of the previous successive defeats in the hands of the Qi army, and by the way, also helped Dai Yingzhi to return to Qiangyang City.
However, after returning to Qiyang City, Dai Busheng did not disband his subordinates, only to see him lead the soldiers to enter from the north gate, and out of the east gate, and quietly went towards the east.
Not to mention the Qi army who was busy returning to the rescue to fight the fire at the moment, even the Song soldiers in Qiyang City were immersed in the joy of repelling the Qi army, and almost no one noticed the whereabouts of Dai Busheng and the army under his command.
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