"I didn't think he would say that to me......

When evacuating, Meng Zhong couldn't help but think in his heart.

He never thought that Bai Qi would persuade him to defect to the Qin State, and at that time.

He thought that Bai Qi shouted at him at that time, and he was about to say cruel words such as "I can't spare you" and "We're not done", and remembered that he was about to laugh at the time, but he didn't expect that Bai Qi's purpose in shouting him was to recruit him, and his attitude seemed to be quite sincere, which also made Meng Zhong not know how to reply at that time, so that in the end he didn't say anything and left with his subordinates.

"Defect to the Qin State...... What?'

Recalling Bai Qi's words of persuasion, Meng Zhong seemed to feel a little funny, and shook his head slightly.

It is undeniable that today's Qin State is indeed very powerful, so strong that it seems to be the overlord of Xizhui, even if Wei and Han are huddled together for warmth, they still have fewer victories and more defeats in front of Qin State, but according to what Meng Zhong heard his righteous brother Tian Zhang say back then, Qin State is not a good place to go.

Think about the fate of Wei Ying, Zhang Yi, Wei Zhang, Gan Mao and others, these are all famous ministers and virtuous ministers who have made great contributions to the Qin State, if there are no these people, I am afraid that the Qin State is still a country that is looked down upon by the Central Plains countries like the Chu State, but what is the fate of these people?

Moreover, Qin's decrees were also too harsh, although the monarch of the Song State, Song Wangyan, was mostly scolded by the world - in fact, he was scolded by the Qi State as a reincarnation, but in fact, the political laws of the Song State were far from being as strict as the Qin State, and the number of foreign wars launched by the Song State was far less than that of the Qin State.

Therefore, in general, the Qin State is only a secondary choice, and only if the Central Plains countries such as the Wei State cannot get along, they will choose to defect to the Qin State.

Wei Ying is like this, he used to be a guest under the acne seat of his uncle, when he realized that he could not be valued by King Wei Hui, he defected to the Qin State; Zhang Yi was inspired by his senior brother Su Qin when he failed to lobby the countries, and then defected to the Qin state; Wei Zhang was unable to be reused in the Wei State, so he defected to the Qin State.

Among these four people, the only exception, Gan Mao, was recommended by Zhang Yi and Zhu Liji, and was valued by King Qin Hui and King Qin Wu before and after, but later left Qin State gloomily because of conflicts with Xiang Shou, Zhu Liji and others.

The fate of these famous ministers and virtuous ministers made Meng Zhong feel that the human touch of the Qin State was very light, maybe you were still a very popular minister one second, and the next second you were wanted by the whole country, Shang Jun Wei Ying is the best example, his appearance made the Qin State, which was not originally a strong state, quickly catch up with the Central Plains countries, but in the end, this virtuous minister, this virtuous minister who was rumored to be Qin Xiaogong intended to give him the position of monarch, but in the end ended up with a dead five horses.

It can be seen that defecting to the Qin State is indeed a good choice, but it is not the best choice.

At least as far as the current Meng Zhong is concerned, he doesn't think about this, after all, the strict laws of the Qin State are one thing, and he has no connections in the Qin State, which is another aspect.

On the side of the Central Plains countries, Meng Zhong has considerable contacts in almost every country.

In Yan Kingdom, Yan Wang Zhao used to be close to him, and now he is in a high position in Yan Kingdom, the former is his old colleagues, and the latter is his brother who was born and died.

In Zhao State, he still has some feelings with Zhao Wang He, and Zhao Ben, the son of the former Zhao Xiangfeiyi, and Zhao Ben, the nephew of Yang Wenjun Zhao Bao, have a good relationship with him.

In the country of Qi, there is his brother Tian Zhang.

In the Wei State, there were Duan Ganyin, Tian Di, Gongyang Ping, and the entire Xihe Confucianism.

In Korea, there are violent kites and public extravagance.

In the state of Chu, there are Qu Yuan and Zhuang Xin.

Not to mention in the Song Kingdom, from Song Wangyan to the crown prince Dai Wu, to his brother-in-law Hui An, who served as the minister of the Song Kingdom, as well as Dai Busheng, Dai Yingzhi, Jing Wei and other military Simas, all have a close relationship with him.

With these connections, where can't he go? Do you have to defect to the unconnected Qin State?

This is exactly why Meng Zhong thought it was a little funny at the time.

But then again, although he didn't plan to defect to the Qin State, Bai Qi still surprised him when he mentioned it.

He thought that Bai Qi would most likely hate him to the core—thinking about it carefully, in fact, even Meng Zhong felt that Bai Qi should be like this, but surprisingly, Bai Qi didn't seem to have any hatred for him.

『…… Looks like this is a weirdo.'"

Meng Zhong thought secretly in his heart.

At this time, a Wei pawn beside him interrupted Meng Zhong's thoughts: "General, what should we do next?" ”

Hearing this, Meng Zhong put the matter of Bai Qi behind him for the time being, and after pressing his hand to signal the Wei soldiers behind him to calm down for a while, he paid attention to the movements around him attentively.

According to what he saw, Bai Qi did not send people to search for him in all directions, and at this moment, the Qin-Chu coalition army in the city was rapidly retreating outside the city.

Even, if he listened carefully, he could vaguely hear the voice of the Qin soldier in the distance.

"Bai Shuai has an order, and all the troops in the city immediately withdraw from the outside of the city...... Wei pawn in the city? No, there is no time to search for those Wei soldiers now, go out of the city immediately, and be ready to fight the Wei army at any time, this is an order! ”

After hearing these voices, Meng Zhong secretly said in his heart: It is worthy of being white!

In all fairness, this time Bai Qi is in the middle of the plan, to put it bluntly, it's just that Bai Qi is reluctant to give up the intact Fangcheng and the sufficient firewood in the city, and wants to gamble and lose, which is nothing to say, and it is not a shame, even if Meng Zhong is in Bai Qi's position, he will choose to gamble, because once the bet is won, it will be able to let the Qin-Chu coalition army, which lacks baggage, get a city that can survive the winter and enough firewood, and reduce the number of soldiers of the Qin-Chu army who freeze to death due to cold in winter.

Yes, this is a conspiracy, even if Bai Qi had guessed Meng Zhong's fire attack strategy in advance, he would not choose to give up an intact city, as well as sufficient firewood in the city, even if he knew that it was dangerous, he would still hold on to the psychology of luck, so that he would eventually fall into Meng Zhong's calculations.

It can't be said that Bai Qi is greedy, nor can it be said that he is short-witted and resourceful, it can only be said that the Qin army really lacks the baggage to survive the winter, and Bai Qi can't do anything.

But at this moment, after realizing that he could no longer protect the city and the many firewood in the city, Bai Qi decisively ordered the whole army to withdraw from the city, and warned the troops in advance to prepare for war with the Wei army immediately, which shows Bai Qi's wisdom - he had guessed that Meng Zhong's night attack tonight was not just about setting fire to the city.

It's just that tonight's battle plan was arranged in advance, even if Meng Zhong found out that the Qin army was already prepared at this moment, he didn't have time to stop the next attack of the Wei army under his command on the Qin-Chu coalition army, not to mention, he had already expected the reaction of the Qin army.

"Let's go, join the Qin army."

As bold as Meng Zhong, he immediately took his Wei soldiers disguised as the Qin army and blended into the ranks of the Qin army who were rapidly evacuating towards the city gate, and the Qin army did not have any suspicion of them, or rather, did not have time to doubt them.

Think about it, at this moment, there is a sea of fire everywhere in the city, whether it is the Qin army or the Chu army, they don't even have time to escape for their lives, how can they care to carefully distinguish whether there are any spies in their army who have mixed with the Wei army?

Looking for a few hundred Wei spies among the more than 70,000 Qin-Chu coalition troops? Wouldn't it be better to evacuate to the outside of the city first?

Thinking about this, even though Bai Qi and his subordinates such as Ji Hong, Zhong Xu, Tong Yang and other Qin generals knew that there must be Wei spies mixed with their soldiers, but in terms of the situation at the moment, they had no time to take care of it.

In their opinion, the top priority was to get the army to withdraw outside the city immediately and organize a formation to guard against the next attack on them by the main force of the Wei army.

And this gave Meng Zhong and others the opportunity to create chaos again.

I saw Meng Zhong deliberately approaching a group of Chu soldiers who were holding weapons and were about to follow the Qin army out of the city, and immediately, when no one was paying attention, he deliberately approached the weapons in the hands of a Chu pawn, and immediately retreated, pointing at the other party and shouting: "You, what are you doing?" ”

"What?"

Those Chu soldiers didn't know what was going on, and before they could explain, they saw Meng Zhong shouting: "Chu army, Chu army is attacking us......"

And from the side, the Wei soldiers under his command rushed towards those Chu troops, fighting with them, and shouted: "The Chu people have betrayed us!" The Chu people have betrayed us! ”

"What?!"

When the nearby Qin pawns heard the shouting, they all turned their heads to look around, and sure enough, they saw Meng Zhong and the others fighting with a group of Chu pawns.

Seeing this, some impulsive Qin pawns immediately rushed forward to help Meng Zhong and others besiege those Chu pawns, and scolded the Chu people for their treachery while besieging them.

Pity those Chu soldiers, they were just defending properly, and before they could figure out what was going on, they died at the hands of Meng Zhong, these fake Qin soldiers, and the real Qin soldiers from the side.

Immediately, someone in the nearby Chu army also shouted: "Qin army! The Qin army is killing our people! Brothers, fight with them! ”

"Is it Awu?"

Hearing that familiar voice, Meng Zhong turned his head to take a look, and sure enough, he saw that Mu Wu and a team of people were creating chaos.

It's a pity that there are too many people here, and Mu Wu didn't find Meng Zhong, but this does not prevent him from cooperating with Meng Zhong, after all, this is what they planned in advance.

"Damn, these Chu people really betrayed us!"

"Bastard, are these Qin people crazy? They're attacking us! ”

Due to the dim light, most of the soldiers of the Qin and Chu armies couldn't see what was going on at all, but they could hear the shouts of Meng Zhong, Mu Wu and others, and seeing that the Qin army (Chu army) dared to attack the soldiers on their side, the surrounding Qin soldiers and Chu soldiers immediately joined the battle to help Tongze of their own army.

In the blink of an eye, the two soldiers of Qin and Chu on this side of the city gate fought each other.

After learning about this, General Qin Tong Yang gritted his teeth angrily, how could he not know that this was deliberately instigated by Wei Jun's spies?

So he immediately rushed into the crowd that was fighting, and hissed to try to stop the Qin-Chu coalition forces who were fighting each other: "Stop! Stop! I am Tong Yang, whether it is Qin or Chu, I order you to stop immediately! ”

Some Qin soldiers heard Tong Yang's shout and said puzzledly: "General, the Chu people betrayed us, why don't you kill them?" ”

"Fart!" Tong Yang angrily slapped the back of the Qin pawn's head and angrily reprimanded: "It's the spy of the Wei army who is instigating!" ”

As he spoke, he also looked around, but unfortunately, in such a dim environment, how could he find those Wei army spies wearing his Qin army armor?

What's more, the ranks of the Chu army were also mixed with Wei soldiers wearing Chu army armor.

Seeing that he couldn't completely stop the two soldiers of Qin and Chu from fighting each other, Tong Yang could only order to urge his Qin soldiers to leave the city immediately: "Hugh wants to take care of these Chu people, get out of the city immediately!" Get out of town now! ”

At Tong Yang's urging, most of the Qin soldiers immediately rushed out of the city, and at this moment, from the night outside the city, there was a heaven-shattering shout: "Kill!" ”

"Sure enough, as Bai Shuai expected, the Wei army really took the opportunity to attack!"

Gritting his teeth, Tong Yang immediately shouted at his corporaries: "Formation!" Challenge! ”

As soon as the words fell, a wave of arrows rained down in the distance, only to hear a burst of screams, the Qin soldiers who had just fled outside the city, as if they were blown by a huge wind in the wheat field, fell to the ground one after another, even Tong Yang himself, an arrow in the shoulder, couldn't help but muffled, holding the arrow wound and taking two steps back.

"General!"

The guards around him immediately protected Tong Yang in it, and looked into the distance in disbelief.

And at this moment, a figure burst out under the dark night in the distance, and it was the Wei soldier holding Changge.

"For Fang Cheng!"

"Kill!"

Under a slogan, countless Wei pawns rushed out of the night and charged towards the Qin army.

Unfortunately, most of the Qin soldiers had just escaped from the city full of fire at this moment, and before they could form a formation, they were attacked by the Wei army, so that they were killed by the Wei army and retreated.

Seeing this situation, the Qin general Tong Yang was shocked: How could the number of Wei troops be so large?

Just when he was suspicious, he saw several chariots driving in front of him, led by a Wei general holding Changge, leading all Wei soldiers to kill in the Qin army.

"Who's coming?!"

"Your grandfather Lejin is also!"

With a loud roar, the young Wei general held Changge in his hand and drove the chariot towards Tong Yang's side.

only heard the sound of the bell, and Tong Yang, who had fought hard with the coming general, actually retreated again and again.

"Where to go?!"

With a loud roar, the young Wei general jumped off the chariot with Chang Ge in his hand, and slashed at Tong Yang's shoulder, only to hear Tong Yang's muffled sound, the sharp sword on his shoulder was torn out of the flesh and blood by the opponent's Chang Ge, and the blood was like an infusion.

"General!"

"Quickly lead the general to withdraw first!"

"You guys, go up and hold the general! Fast! ”

The guards immediately ordered the nearby Qin soldiers to resist the Wei general, and at the same time protected Tong Yang to evacuate immediately.

A moment later, Sima Cai Wu of the Wei army also drove a chariot to this place, and his eyes widened in surprise when he saw Le Jin holding Changge and leading the Wei soldiers to forcibly assault the formation of the Qin army.

"So this kid is so fierce?"

Cai Wu was a little unbelievable.

Because in his impression, Le Jin always looks like he is giggling on weekdays, and he has to tell him some jokes that are not funny at all, but at this moment, Le Jin is the first to kill, and even the armor on his body is soaked with blood, he is really a fierce general.

"Don't ask the Qin army to form a formation, kill with me!"

"Block the city gate and block the Qin army in the city!"

I saw Le Jin or holding Changge to give orders, or leading the Wei army to launch a surprise attack on the Qin army, and his majestic appearance was like two people on weekdays.

Even if it was the military Sima Cai Wu who saw this scene, he had to praise: The future is terrifying!

At the same time, at the east gate and north gate of Fangcheng, those Qin-Chu coalition troops who fled outside the city were also attacked by the Wei army one after another.

As Bai Qi expected, tonight the Wei army was all out of their forces to attack the Qin and Chu armies, although the Qin-Chu coalition army in the area of Fangcheng was still above the Wei army in terms of strength, but because the Qin-Chu coalition army was in a hurry to respond to the battle, most of the soldiers were crowded together, and they didn't know where the Wei army came from.

Especially when the city gate was blocked by the Wei army, the Wei army had enough space outside the city, while the Qin army had a large number of soldiers blocked inside the city, and it was impossible to effectively counterattack, which made countless Qin soldiers die in vain without killing a single Wei pawn.

It wasn't until Ji Hong, Zhong Xu, Meng Yi and other generals led the Qin army to forcibly kill out of the city gate that the Qin army slowly recovered some of its disadvantages, at least it would not be attacked by the Wei army blocking the city gate again.

When he learned about the battle situation at this time, Bai Qi also regretted it in his heart, but unfortunately it was too late.

He sent someone to give an order to his generals: "Withdraw first!" Withdraw to the main camp first, and then make plans. ”

Under Bai Qi's order, the Qin army withdrew to the main camp in large numbers, but the Wei army pursued endlessly, seeing this situation, Bai Qi decisively sent someone to send a message to Zhao Ju, ordering Zhao Ju to lead the Chu army to break off the Qin army for him.

I have to say that when he received Bai Qi's order, Zhao Ju couldn't help but scold in his heart.

It is true that Meng Zhong was merciless when he carried out tonight's night attack, but Zhao Ju did not hate Meng Zhong for this, after all, even if he was in Meng Zhong's position, he would not show mercy to his subordinates, but what are you doing in vain, but when you are in a hurry, you ask the army of the allies to cut off for you, what are you?

At this time, after calling him Chu Jun to break off, wouldn't this mean that he was sent to death by Chu Jun in vain?

At that time, after the subordinate generals under the command of Zhao Ju learned of this, they said angrily: "The Qin people only care about running for their lives, and they actually ask us to wait for them to be cut off, isn't this asking the soldiers of our army to die for them?" Zhaozi, it's better for us to pretend that we didn't receive Bai Qi's order......"

Hearing this, several nearby generals also echoed it.

"Yes, Zhaozi, there is no need for us to die for the Qin army......"

"I heard that when Fang was out of the city, those hateful Qin people also killed many soldiers of our army......"

Listening to the generals' words, Zhao Ju frowned and thought for a moment.

From the bottom of his heart, he didn't want the Qin army to defeat the Wei army at all, let alone let his soldiers die for the Qin army, but he also knew very well that if he pretended not to receive Bai Qi's order at this moment, he would inevitably offend the Qin people again.

At that time, Xiong Heng, the king of Chu, may not send someone to replace him.

Of course, what Zhao Ju is worried about is not losing his official position or losing his title, for the nobles of their Zhao, Jing, and Qu clans, unless they commit acts of treason, they will basically not be punished too severely - Qu Yuan's crime is serious enough, right? Several times pointed at the nose of Xiong Heng, the king of Chu, and Ling Yin Zilan, and scolded the faint monarch and traitorous ministers, but in the end he was only exiled, this is the influence of the Zhao, Jing, and Qu families in the Chu State.

Because of this, Zhao Ju was not worried about losing his official position and title at all, what he was afraid of was being transferred out of the army at this moment.

Yes, once he Zhaoju is transferred, he can no longer do "stop loss".

This involves two aspects, on the one hand, Meng Zhong of Fangcheng, when he got Qu Yuan's letter, Zhao Ju did not have too deep feelings, until he personally led the army to face that Meng Zhong, he gradually realized how powerful this young man was.

Of course, Meng Zhong led his troops to fight hard, which is actually a good thing for Zhao Ju, in fact, he wished that the Qin army would be defeated in Fangcheng, but the problem is that once the Qin army is defeated, his Chu army will also be implicated, and what Zhao Ju has to do is to secretly ask the Chu army to release water and help Meng Zhong in disguise, while trying to reduce the casualties of his own Chu army.

On the other hand, Sima Cuo and Bai Qi would use the allies as an excuse to try to transfer some of the losses of the Qin army to his Chu army, and if he was replaced by someone to replace him, he was worried that that person would be used by Sima Cuo and Bai Qi.

This is the idea of "stop loss" held by Zhao Ju, not only to guard against Meng Zhong, but also to guard against Sima Cuo and Bai Qi and others.

Therefore, he could not leave the handle behind and give Sima Cuo and Bai Qi an excuse to ask Xiong Heng, the king of Chu, to send someone to replace him.

Thinking of this, Zhao Ju appeased the generals and said in a deep voice: "No! Our army is broken off by the Qin army! ”

Hearing this, the generals changed color one after another, and were about to speak, but heard Zhao Ju say again: "Meng Zhong of Fangcheng is not a murderer, and he ordered all the armies to allow surrender to the Wei army if it is urgent. There are more than 100,000 people of our Great Chu under the rule of Meng Zhong, and more than half of the Wei army under his command are our Chu people, he will not kill our Chu people indiscriminately, as long as our soldiers surrender, they can escape. ”

The generals looked at each other, and they couldn't figure out why Zhao Ju would make such a decision.

Not surprisingly, in order to break off the Qin army, the Chu army suffered losses that should have been borne by the Qin army, and countless Chu soldiers were killed by the Wei army on the way to evacuate, and even several armies were directly defeated by the Wei army, and countless Chu troops rushed to escape and collapsed.

However, in view of the fact that Zhao Ju had previously issued an order to allow the soldiers to surrender to the Wei army, the vast majority of the Chu soldiers dropped their weapons and surrendered on their knees when they could not break through.

And as Zhao Ju said, at least half of the Wei army in Fangcheng was from Chu, and seeing that their former compatriots surrendered on their knees, these Wei troops did not kill indiscriminately, which allowed at least thousands of Chu soldiers to survive.

Around the end of the day, Sima Cuo and Bai Qi finally led the remnants of the army back to the main camp.

After returning to the main camp, Bai Qi returned to his tent without saying a word, and with a gloomy face, he lay on the straw bunk in the tent, reflecting on his mistakes tonight.

He thought that he was just gambling, and Meng Zhong might not have expected that he had seen through his fire attack strategy, and it was only then that he realized that he had just swallowed the bait that Meng Zhong had deliberately thrown.

It's like the fish that are caught by the fisherman, those stupid fish, always think that they can eat the bait on the hook before they are caught......

“…… I'm that stupid fish! ”

With his hands behind his head, Bai Qi muttered to himself.

At this time, Sima Coo walked in, and he couldn't help but be stunned when he heard this.

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