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"Kill!"

"Kill Qin Dog to avenge Xiwu!"

The Wei soldiers shouted slogans like these, and under the guidance of the main banner in the army, they bravely launched wave after wave of offensives against the Qin army.

The poor and strong Qin army, which had just defeated the more than 200,000 allied forces of Wei and Han last night, was suppressed by more than 40,000 Wei troops at this moment and couldn't raise their heads, which made the Qin army a little unbelievable.

"Could it be that Gongsun Xi's death actually made these Wei soldiers so angry?"

Even if it is white, it is inevitable that he will be a little stunned at the moment.

Because it stands to reason that as soon as the commander dies, there is a good chance that the soldiers under his command will disperse in a hurry, but the Wei army on the opposite side did the opposite, because of the death of Gongsun Xi, it became more and more courageous, to be honest, this kind of thing has never been heard of in vain.

He didn't notice that in fact, the slogans shouted by the Wei army were not only the sentence "Kill Qin Dog to avenge the rhino force", at least not Meng Zhong, he was always inspiring the Wei soldiers under his command from other slogans, such as "The Qin army is almost unable to hold on", "Our army is about to win", etc., etc., in fact, these slogans supported the Wei army to become more and more courageous.

Of course, the slogan is only one of the reasons, the most critical problem is the weakness of the Qin army - the Qin army defeated the 200,000 Wei and Han coalition forces with 80,000 last night, although it was terrifying, but it also made the Qin army overdraft huge physical strength and energy for this, if Bai Qi could use Gongsun Xi's death to shake the morale of the Wei army, it would certainly have no effect, but like now, the two armies launched an attack, and the weak disadvantage of the Qin army was soon exposed.

No, "Wang Wen", the general of the Sima level of the Qin army, was actually killed by the brigade commander Meng Hu of the Wei army, and it was quite easy, if it was placed on weekdays, this would simply be impossible.

Defeat and retreat!

Under the onslaught of the Wei army, the Qin army could be said to be defeated and retreated, forcing Bai Qi to order his army to retreat to the camp, and use this camp to block the Wei army that seemed to be crazy.

Due to the blockage of the camp, the offensive of the Wei army was inevitably contained, but on the contrary, the morale of the Wei army was also boosted again, and it was a real improvement, after all, they successfully repelled the Qin army, which had hit them hard last night.

"Commander."

Wei Qing's soldiers drove the chariot to Meng Zhong's side, and discussed with the latter in a low voice: "The Qin army has withdrawn into the camp, I am afraid it will not be easy to attack head-on, if you continue to attack, it is better to attack the flank......

The camp that the Qin army is stationed at this moment is actually the main camp of the Wei army before, and the west camp, the middle camp, the north camp, and the east camp have been destroyed in the battle last night, and only one south camp remains, so instead of attacking the camp head-on, it is better to bypass the south camp in a roundabout way and enter the ruins of the west camp, where there are almost no defense facilities.

Of course, this is Wei Qing's opinion, as for Meng Zhong, in fact, he doesn't want to continue this war at all.

Or to put it more simply, today's battle was actually unexpected-his original plan was just to bring more than 40,000 Wei troops under his command to show off his might in front of the Qin army, so as to restore the morale of his Wei army, and never expected that the Qin army on the opposite side would kill Gongsun Xi in public in front of the battle.

I have to say that recalling this incident, Meng Zhong still has palpitations at the moment, after all, the influence of a commander on an army is too great, and normally when this happens, the Wei army will collapse on the spot.

Fortunately, Gongsun Xi's heroism before the temporary period infected some Wei pawns, otherwise, Meng Zhong really didn't dare to imagine that he could pull these Wei pawns who had lost their boss and fell into panic back from the brink of defeat with a soft sentence of "revenge for Xiwu".

"First...... Retreat first. ”

After thinking for a moment, Meng Zhong said to Wei Qing.

Hearing this, Wei Qing glanced at Meng Zhong in confusion: "Retreat? ”

"Hmm." Meng Zhong nodded and said, "Instead of attacking the Qin army with the protection of the camp, it is better to sit back and wait for him to take the initiative to withdraw from this camp." …… Our army's momentum has been achieved, and the Qin army on the opposite side should understand that they are no longer able to exterminate us, I think the Qin army will choose to take the initiative to retreat, and our army only needs to cover up with the army......"

"I see."

Wei Qing nodded suddenly, but immediately, he asked in a low voice, "But these soldiers below...... How to explain it to them? ”

I have to say that this is indeed a problem, you must know that they just shouted the slogan of "killing all the Qin dogs to avenge the rhino force", and now seeing the Qin army retreating into the camp, Meng Zhong and the others want to accept it if they want to see it, so how to explain this matter to the soldiers?

After thinking about it, Meng Zhong said in a low voice: "Just say it...... Today, we will first collect the corpses of Xi Wu, and then take the lives of these Qin soldiers in the coming day. ”

"Hmm......"

Wei Qing thought about it for a while, and felt that this was also explained, so he nodded in approval of Meng Zhong's idea.

A moment later, Meng Zhong's order spread among the Wei army: tell these Qin dogs to live for another day or two, and first collect the corpses of Xi Wu, so as not to let the corpses of the heroes of our Wei State be left in the wild.

Of course, the soldiers of the Wei army would not refuse this righteous and awe-inspiring reason, and immediately stopped the attack on the camp and rummaged through the many corpses to find Gongsun Xi's body.

"Wei Jun...... Looking for Gongsun Hee's body. ”

On the guard tower in the camp, Qin General Ji Hong frowned and said to Bai Qi.

"Hmm."

Hearing this, Bai Qi said flatly: "The Wei army wants to evacuate...... Their goal had been achieved, and they had not brought the equipment to attack the camp, so naturally they would not forcibly attack the camp. ”

"That'...... Just let them take Gongsun Xi's corpse? ”

"It's just a corpse, what's the use of keeping it?" Bai Qi said flatly.

With Bai Qi's wisdom, he saw through Meng Zhong's mind after a little thought, it was nothing more than that he didn't want to storm this camp at the cost of huge casualties.

But Bai Qi didn't mind this, he wished that these Wei troops would get out of here quickly - Meng Zhong was unwilling to storm the camp considering the casualties of the Wei army, and Bai Qi also considered that his Qin soldiers were physically exhausted at this moment, and he didn't want to continue to fight with the Wei army.

Due to the tacit understanding between the two sides, the Wei army took away the corpse of Gongsun Xi and the corpses of the soldiers killed in the battle, while the Qin army did not provoke the Wei army again with bow and crossbow shooting from beginning to end, and the two sides fought a war with a tacit understanding.

The reason is very simple: that is, the Qin and Wei armies are not in the best condition!

"The Wei army withdrew ......"

"The Wei army retreated ......"

After seeing the 40,000 Wei troops evacuate with their own eyes, the Qin army in the camp felt quite relieved.

I have to say that at this moment, the generals of the Qin army have a feeling of shame and even shame in their hearts, you must know that they defeated the victorious division of more than 200,000 Wei and Han coalition forces with 80,000 troops last night, but today they were beaten to the ground by only 40,000 Wei troops and couldn't raise their heads, which is simply incredible!

However, Bai Qi understands that the reason why today's Wei army can "defeat the victorious division with defeat" is nothing more than that the timing is good, and it just seized the weak period after the fierce battle of his Qin army, otherwise as long as one day passes, it is almost impossible for the 40,000 Wei army to suppress the 60,000 Qin army - Gongsun Xi will not die, it is all this result.

At this time, Ji Hong asked beside him: "Bai Shuai, since the Wei army has retreated, what arrangements will our army make next?" ”

Hearing this, Bai Qi exhaled rather melancholy.

Yes, although the Wei army temporarily retreated, where will the Qin army go?

In his original plan, he first let his soldiers rest in a whole wave, and then immediately attack the Han army, or the Wei army that fled into the Yique Mountain, and annihilate the last Wei-Han alliance army in one fell swoop, so that the victory of this war will fall firmly into his pocket.

However, today's Wei army's countermeasures have completely disrupted Bai Qi's plan.

Now it's okay, the morale of the sixty or seventy thousand Wei troops in Yique Mountain has been revitalized because of this battle, and now it is not only difficult for his Qin army to annihilate this Wei army, but even there is no way to bypass this Wei army to attack the Han army.

Think about his 130,000 Qin troops, 20,000 casualties, 60,000 of the remaining 110,000 are here, only 50,000 troops are in Luoshui, in the main camp of his Qin army, and he has to take care of the defense of the new city.

But the problem is that the Wei army will not let them return to their main camp so easily.

Bai Qi knew very well that the reason why the Wei army did not storm the camp was only because the Wei army did not carry long ladders, rushing cars and other war equipment with the army, and attacking the camp would inevitably pay huge casualties, so he temporarily retreated and waited for his Qin army to take the initiative to retreat from the camp, so that when the time came, he would cover up with the army - this kind of trick was almost rotten, and Bai Qi knew what the Wei army on the opposite side was thinking about even if he thought about it on his knees.

Then the question arises: whether he, Qin Jun, will retreat or not?!

After pondering for a while, Bai Qi still couldn't come to a conclusion, so he summoned the generals to help him and ordered the latter to rebuild the camp on the ruins of Dongying—at least to get some defensive facilities, so that they would not be broken by the Wei army in a short time.

Unexpectedly, only half an hour after Wei Yuan led the army to leave, he sent someone back to report to Bai Qi, saying that the Wei army had a force stationed on the west bank of Yishui first, and the camp was being built at the moment.

"This is to cut off the route of our army's withdrawal from the east......

Bai Qi suddenly understood in his heart.

At this moment, his 60,000 Qin troops wanted to evacuate this area, cross Yishui to the east, and withdraw to Xiangshan on the other side of the river, this path was obviously the fastest and most convenient, but unfortunately, the Wei army had already prepared in advance.

It is not difficult to guess that as long as he dared to order the whole army to cross Yishui from the east, the Wei army would definitely launch a general attack as soon as they were halfway through, forcibly leaving half of his Qin army behind and encircling and annihilating them.

Of course, his Qin army can also retreat westward, but the problem is that to the west, in the area of Luoshui, there are still more than 10,000 Wei troops stationed, as long as they are slightly blocked, when the Wei army in the area of Yique Mountain arrives, his Qin army will be in a dilemma.

Looking at it this way, it seems that retreating north along the road from which it came is the only way to retreat?

But in fact, this route was the worst in Bai Qi's opinion, first, this route first retreated in the direction of Luoyang, then crossed the river to the west, made a large circle, and finally returned to the main camp of the Qin army, which was located on the south side of the main camp of the Korean army.

How far is the journey? For a full two or three hundred miles, if the Wei army caught the exact timing of his Qin army's withdrawal and launched a pursuit along the way, maybe all his 60,000 Qin troops would die on the way to retreat.

Even if the Wei army didn't seize the opportunity and let Bai Qi and the others run smoothly, the Wei army would be able to take advantage of the situation to storm the new city - by the time he Bai Qi led the 60,000 Qin troops around the new city in a big circle, the daylily was cold.

Of course, these are just thoughts about retreating, in fact, Bai Qi can continue to fight with the Wei army, after all, the Wei army in Yique Mountain has almost no grain and grass, unless the Han army borrows grain, Keri will definitely run out of food, and the grain and grass of the Han army cannot support the remaining at least 1670,000 coalition troops today.

Therefore, Bai Qi pondered that the Wei and Han armies might collapse on their own because of the relationship between grain and grass.

Just when Bai Qi weighed the pros and cons in the camp tent and thought about the next retreat of his Qin army, Meng Zhong had already led the 40,000 Wei army with a small victory and returned to the area of Yique Mountain.

They were greeted by the heartfelt cheers of the remaining twenty or thirty thousand Qin soldiers up and down Yique Mountain.

What are these defeated soldiers cheering for? Was it simply because Tong Ze defeated the powerful Qin army? Of course, they were cheering for the hope that they finally saw their lives.

Seeing this, Wei General Dou Xing snorted very unhappily, because he knew very well what these Wei army defeated were cheering for.

But Meng Zhong didn't care, after all, it was not a shame to be afraid of death, he was also afraid of death, afraid that his mother, sister, and wife would be alone after his death.

Thinking of this, he comforted Dou Xing in private and said: "Dou Sima don't have to worry about it, at present, our army can only turn the victory and defeat around if we unite from top to bottom." ”

Dou Xing nodded when he heard this, and ordered the soldiers to bring Gongsun Xi's body and head.

Similar to Wei Qing, Fei Hui, Zheng Zheng, Cai Wu and other military Simas, Dou Xing still has some respect for Meng Zhong, after all, Meng Zhong's move today accurately grasped the "defeated army countermeasures" of the Qin army's weak period, which can be said to have revitalized the sixty or seventy thousand Wei troops in the Yique Mountain area at once, if Meng Zhong did not offer this strategy, his sixty or seventy thousand Wei troops may not be able to escape the end of being killed by the Qin army until the whole army is annihilated.

A moment later, Meng Zhong, Dou Xing, Wei Qing, and Fei Hui brought Gongsun Xi's head and corpse to the fake handsome Gongsun Zhu.

Seeing that the old brother who had been separated from his body for decades ended up with a corpse, Gongsun Zhu couldn't help but burst into tears, and said in a trembling tone: "Will ...... Tell the old man what happened. ”

Seeing this, Meng Zhong told Gongsun Jian about the 1510 of the battle, and finally said with a little regret and guilt: "Fake Shuai, with the situation at that time, there is really no way to save Xi Wu......

Hearing this, Dou Xing, Wei Qing, Fei Hui and others also lowered their heads in shame.

"I don't blame you, I don't blame anyone, I blame ...... Blame himself. ”

After half a ring, Gongsun Zhi let out a long breath, barely calmed down, and said with a bitter face: "It was he who refused to listen to good advice, which led to the defeat and death, and almost wiped out my 180,000 Wei army...... Speaking of this, he glanced at Gongsun Xi's corpse on the ground again, couldn't bear to turn his head, and instructed the guards beside him: "Come on, first move Xiwu's body to the camp, and ask someone to carefully sew up the corpse." ”

"Whoa!"

Several guards hugged their fists, one picked up Gongsun Xi's head, and two lifted Gongsun Xi's body and left everyone's sight.

Looking at these guards, Meng Zhong suddenly thought of Gongsun Xi's guard Gongsun Du, since he parted ways with Gongsun Xi last night, he had never seen Gongsun Du again, thinking that during the period when Gongsun Xi was captured by the Qin army, Gongsun Du had died on the battlefield.

Thinking of this, Meng Zhong sighed slightly, and sighed that human life on the battlefield was as cheap as mustard, and at some point, the person you are familiar with will become a cold corpse, and even the corpse cannot be found.

"Meng Zhong, what are your plans next?" After calming down for a moment, Gongsun Zhu asked Meng Zhongdao.

Seeing this, Meng Zhong hugged his fists and said: "I guess that most of the Qin army will choose to withdraw their troops, so I will give up attacking the camp today......

"You're right, go on." Gongsun nodded vertically.

"Whoa!" Meng Zhong nodded and continued: "The strategy of the Qin army is nothing more than to pursue it when it withdraws, for this reason, I have asked Zheng Zheng and Cai Wu to re-station the west bank of Yishui with their troops, just because the Qin army is cut off from crossing Yishui to the east and fleeing to Xiangshan, if the Qin army still insists on choosing this route, our army can attack halfway, at least half of the Qin army can be left behind......"

"Hmm." Gongsun nodded approvingly: "If we can forcibly leave half of the Qin army's troops, we will finally be able to recover some disadvantages in this battle......

Speaking of this, he seemed to suddenly think of something, frowned and asked: "Meng Zhong, how to pursue the Qin army, the old man believes in your talent, so he just asks, right now our army is facing a difficult problem......

Meng Zhong heard this and said, "Fake Marshal refers to military rations, right?" ”

"Hmm." Gongsun nodded and said, "Your adjutant Le Yi, the old man has already asked the young man, and he told the old man that the grain in the mountain camp has long been exhausted, and there is not much grain and grass left at this moment that you asked Han Jun for two days ago...... What do you do about it? ”

Meng Zhong thought for a while and said: "This matter has already been considered, so that the soldiers can build a dam in the upper reaches of Yishui, which can not only store water for fishing, but also prevent the Qin army from trying to cross Yishui eastward...... If the Qin army dares to force the river, our army only needs to destroy the dam and release water, and the Qin army can be severely damaged. ”

"Not a bad plan." Gongsun Zhi nodded, but then raised his head again and said: "But building dams and storing water for fishing is not enough to feed my sixty or seventy thousand Wei soldiers in the Yique Mountain area...... Even if the old man had ordered the collection of dead and wounded horses on the battlefield and the cutting of meat as rations, it would be far from enough...... Therefore, the old man felt that it was necessary to go to the camp of the Korean army and discuss the matter with the tyrant kite face-to-face, hoping that the Korean army could give our army some more food and grass...... Meng Zhong, you go with the old man. ”

Of course, Meng Zhong understood what Gongsun Jian was doing with him, it was nothing more than to let the tyrant kite know him, and the two sides should cooperate with each other, so that the 300,000 coalition army not only defeated more than ten Qin troops, but was almost defeated by the Qin army.

"Whoa!"

Meng Zhong hugged his fists and said, "Let's arrange the deployment first." ”

As he spoke, he made arrangements for Dou Xing, Wei Qing and other military Simas: "Dou Sima, I implore you to garrison the northwest side of Yique Mountain next, on the one hand, to prevent the Qin army from fleeing westward, and on the other hand, to send people to contact Tang Zhi and Jiao Ge as soon as possible. …… As for Wei Sima and Fei Sima, the two of them were stationed at the defense line under the mountain, closely watching the Qin army's every move, if the Qin army showed signs of retreating, they could attack and pursue, and they must bite the tail of the Qin army and not let it escape. ”

"Understood!"

"Wrap it up with us."

Dou Xing, Wei Qing, Fei Hui and others hugged their fists to lead their lives.

I have to say that if it were in the past, these military horses would never have listened to the orders of young men like Meng Zhong who had not yet been weak, but this time Meng Zhong did save the sixty or seventy thousand Wei troops in the area of Yique Mountain.

Seeing this scene, Gongsun Zhu was surprised, and nodded secretly in his heart.

On the way to the Han army camp on foot, Gongsun Zhu said to Meng Zhong: "According to the old man, you have gradually been trusted by Dou Xing, Wei Qing and other soldiers in the army, and the old man recommended you to be a fake marshal......

Meng Zhong was stunned, and hurriedly said: "The fake handsome doesn't have to be like this, as long as the fake handsome is willing to trust the ......."

"You listen to the old man."

Gongsun pressed his hand and continued: "I, in fact, don't know anything about military affairs, only by virtue of the relationship with Xiwu, I have my current status, if you didn't appear, that night, I'm afraid I can only follow Xiwu's instructions, unite the Han army to fight against the Qin army, and finally end up defeated and killed, and the 100,000 Hedong Wei army was wiped out...... Meng Zhong, do you know what the fall of the Hedong Army means? ”

Meng Zhong thought for a moment and said cautiously, "It means...... Qin may attack Hedong? ”

"It's inevitable."

Gongsun stroked his beard and said in a deep voice: "Qin has always had the ambition to set foot in the Central Plains, and it was the Xiwu garrison in Hedong that made the Qin State a little worried, but now the Xiwu is gone, and my Hedong Army has also lost more than half, even if the coalition army can defeat the Qin State in this battle, the Qin State will most likely organize troops again to attack Hedong!" …… Hedong is the rich land of our Wei country, and if we lose that land, our Wei country will definitely be greatly damaged. ”

Speaking of this, he patted Meng Zhong on the shoulder, even though he was sad because of Gongsun Xi's death, he still managed to squeeze out a few smiles: "The old man knows that you are very talented, but you are too young, and you are not very famous in my Wei State before...... But if you can defeat the Qin army in this battle instead of Xi Wu, the old man can recommend you to defend Hedong. The old man believes that this is a good thing for me Hedong, and for you, it is definitely not a bad thing, think about it. ”

What's there to consider about here? What a surprise!

Hedong of Wei, which is half of the territory of Wei, if it can become Hedong Shou, it means that he has become a pivotal figure in Wei, which is extremely beneficial to the stability of the "Wei-Song Alliance".

"Thank you for the fake handsome!"

"Don't be in a hurry to rejoice just yet." Gongsun Zhu smiled and said: "This matter must be approved by the king, and besides, if you can't defeat the Qin army in this battle, the old man will not recommend you in front of the king." ”

"Defeat the Qin army?"

Meng Zhong licked his lips with some excitement.

In his opinion, at present, the Wei and Han coalition forces and the Qin army have advantages and disadvantages of each other, and the next step is to see how each other uses tricks and deceitful forces to give their own side a greater advantage.

『…… There's a chance! There is still a chance to recover the disadvantage and defeat the Qin army!"

Meng Zhong thought secretly.

So on the way to the Han army camp, Meng Zhong didn't say a word, thinking about the strategy of defeating the Qin army.