"PS: From the Wei State chapter, because the influence of the protagonist gradually increases, the history in the text will gradually deviate from the original trajectory, of course, this change has traces to follow, and it will not change inexplicably. щIf you are interested, you can leave a message in this chapter and discuss how much it is different from the real history, so that this chapter can be a little more active."

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"Bai Shuai, traces of the Wei army have been found in the southeast of the camp, and the main force of the Wei army in Yique Mountain has arrived here."

"Hmm......"

Bai Qi nodded, and then stared at the Wei army on the west bank of the river for a moment, and then returned to the tent in the camp, that is, the tent of the previous Wei general Tang Zhi.

Because Tang Zhi was in a hurry to support Dou Xing last night, so that even the marching map was still placed on the low table in the tent and was not cleaned up, Bai Qi used this marching map to compare his own marching map to understand the current situation.

『…… West, south, southeast, there are Wei troops in three directions, the south is Dou Xing and the original Wei garrison of this battalion, I don't know who it is in the west, and the southeast is the guy with the surname (name) Meng...... It seems that only the north side can break through.'"

After looking at the two marching charts, Bai Qi felt a headache.

In all fairness, even if he is surrounded on three sides at the moment, Bai Qi thinks that there is no need to worry about it for the time being, after all, even if the Wei army wants to take an offensive against the camp where he is located, it must at least prepare for a day or two, not to mention that there is still a way to survive in the north, and the worst result is just to fall into the strategic steps of the Wei army, be forced to the north by the other party, and then start a period of pursuit and annihilation war.

Strictly speaking, Bai Qi did not think that the Wei army would be able to take advantage of them on the way to pursue them.

But the problem is that he doesn't want to be forced north.

The north is indeed very safe, because it is the territory of the two Zhou states of the Western Zhou and the Eastern Zhou, which is similar to the weakest vassal state of the present day, with only a few cities, and it is no exaggeration to say that if it were not for the sake of fame, the countries of Qin, Zhao, Wei, and Han could easily send some troops to destroy the two countries of the Western Zhou and the Eastern Zhou - but there is no need, after all, these two Zhou states still represent the Zhou royal family, and still nominally rule the whole world. humiliating the Zhou royal family".

On the other hand, the two Zhou states of the Western Zhou and the Eastern Zhou did not dare to provoke the powerful princes of the world too much, as long as Bai Qi did not attack the cities of the two Zhou states, even if he led the army to break into the territory of the two countries, the two Zhou states basically did not dare to make any changes, and he only needed to guard against the Wei army chasing them behind him.

The only problem is that it will take longer to evacuate north to Yiyang, and the guy surnamed Meng of the Wei army on the other side may not let him withdraw to Yiyang - the other party sent troops to garrison the west bank of Luoshui one step in advance, cutting off his retreat route for the Qin army to withdraw to Yiyang, which obviously means that the other party has guessed his intention to "prepare to withdraw to Yiyang".

『…… Since the west won't let me go......

Bai Qi's gaze fell on the marching map, and slowly moved to the east, passing through a series of cities such as "Xingyang", "Zhaiyang", and "Dongyu (Chenggao)" one by one, and finally froze in "Zhengcheng".

"Hey!"

I don't know what I thought, Bai Qi couldn't help but snort lightly, with a little bit of abuse on his face.

At the same time, Meng Zhong, Wei Qing and Jiao Ge had also returned to the temporary camp to discuss the strategy of encircling and suppressing the Qin army.

During this period, he also summoned Fei Hui, Zheng Zheng, Cai Wu and other military horses.

As Bai Qi had predicted, Meng Zhong did not intend to launch an immediate attack on the Qin army, not exactly, not that he didn't want to, but that he couldn't.

During the discussion, he said to Wei Qing: "The chief general of this Qin army does not seem to be Xiang Shou, but a young man with the surname 'Bai', who seems to be about the same age as me...... I once met this person on Yique Mountain, this person crossed Yishui with some Qin soldiers, ventured up Yique Mountain, and condescended to peek at the main camp of our army, he was a very bold guy......"

Wei Qing had probably heard of Meng Zhong's experience, and said with a little smile when he heard this: "If I had known about this guy surnamed Bai, I think Master Meng would have slaughtered this guy in advance even if he swam through Yishui at that time, right?" ”

Meng Zhong smiled bitterly and shook his head.

Indeed, he didn't know the details of Bai Qi at that time, even now, he only knew the other party's surname (surname) Bai, and he didn't even know that this Qin general surnamed Bai was the current commander of the Qin army.

"So, what will he do next for such a bold fellow?" Jiao Ge interjected beside him.

"Probably the most unexpected move...... For example, a sneak attack on our army. ”

Meng Zhong replied casually.

"Our army?"

Wei Qing was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and asked puzzledly, "Master Meng refers to our side?" ”

There was something incredulous about his expression.

You must know that after he joined up with Jiao Ge and Meng Zhong, the strength of their side was a full forty or fifty thousand, which was the largest number of troops among the several Wei armies at present, while the strength of the Qin army on the opposite side was about fifty thousand - didn't it mean that the fifty thousand Qin army would not dare to sneak attack their forty or fifty thousand troops, and it stands to reason that the other two Wei armies with the weakest troops should not be chosen?

For example, the Liang Xi army on the west bank of the Rushui River, the Dou Xing army and the Tang Zhi army on the south side of the Qin camp in the Luoshui River, compared with Meng Zhong and their side, it is obvious that the forces of the first two are weaker and easier to be broken by the Qin army alone.

"Not necessarily."

After listening to Wei Qing's confusion, Meng Zhong shook his head and said: "Taking the lead in breaking through the weaker enemy army is a conventional art of war under normal circumstances, but I believe that the guy surnamed Bai on the other side will not do that, because he has some scruples, and he is afraid that our army will wait for the opportunity to counteract...... Therefore, if he changes his thinking, it may not be impossible for him to decide to attack our army first. After all, as long as our army is defeated, it will be much easier to break the remaining Wei army. ”

This was the reason why Meng Zhong did not dare to rashly attack the Yushui Qin camp.

"The Art of War" cloud: first is invincible, and the enemy can be defeated.

In layman's terms, it is to put oneself in an invincible position first, and then think about how to defeat the Qin army, so that it can be invincible.

And the specific way to make oneself invincible first is the most common way to build a camp, which is why the generals in the world are bound to build a camp first everywhere they go.

On the other hand, if Meng Zhong rashly attacked the Qin camp at this moment, it would be good to win, but if he was defeated, when the Qin army took advantage of the victory to launch a wave of night attacks, the Wei army on Meng Zhong's side would be blown up immediately, and it was not impossible for the Qin army to be completely defeated or even annihilated.

"I understand, I'll leave the matter of setting up the camp to you." Jiao Ge clenched his fists and said: "There is no courage and no strategy in the bottom, but the matter of building a camp can still be competent." ”

"Jiao Sima is too modest." Meng Zhong said with a smile.

He wouldn't believe Jiao Ge's overly humble words.

What are you kidding, the military Sima of the Wei State, how can there really be brave and unscrupulous people?

But then again, according to what Meng Zhong knew about Jiao Ge's deeds, this military Sima seemed to be a general who was biased towards defense.

On the other hand, Tang Zhi was a general who was good at attacking, and it is said that the degree of bravery was not inferior to Dou Xing of the Hedong Army.

After some discussion, Meng Zhong made arrangements: Jiao Ge was responsible for building the camp, and Wei Qing, Zheng Zheng, and Cai Wu were responsible for the blockade of the Qin army and preventing the Qin army from attacking him.

As for Fei Hui, he assisted Meng Zhong to sit in the Chinese army and temporarily stood still.

After Wei Qing, Jiao Ge, Fei Hui, Zheng Zheng, and Cai Wu left, Meng Zhong summoned Meng Sui, Meng Hu and other brothers.

As soon as he saw Meng Zhong, Meng Hu immediately shouted and asked when Meng Zhong would go to war with the Qin army.

Well, Le Yi is not in the army at the moment, he is stationed in the camp handed over to the Wei army by the Korean army, acting as the deputy general of the Wei general Liang Xi - now that Liang Xi is leading the army to garrison the west bank of the river, Le Yi naturally becomes the commander of the Han camp, no, he is the chief general of the "(Yique) Shannan Wei camp".

Meng Zhong now needed to command the Wei army, and Le Yi had to stay in the current base camp of the Wei army, so Meng Sui became the acting division commander of the 2,500 soldiers under Meng Zhong's command, and was included in the Chinese army by Meng Zhong.

The so-called Chinese army is actually the Wei army directly under the command of Meng Zhong, which nominally belongs to the Wei army's current fake handsome Gongsun Zhu, but Gongsun Zhu is very self-aware and knows that he is not good at leading troops to fight, so he entrusts all the military power to Meng Zhong, and he guards Yique Mountain, protecting the "Shannan Wei Battalion" and "(Yique) Shanbei Camp", which can be regarded as taking care of the rear for Meng Zhong, so that Meng Zhong can pursue the Qin army without any worries.

By the way, when the garrison was in Yique Mountain two days ago, Meng Zhong reorganized the Wei army under his command, after all, in the night attack of the Qin army on the main camp of the Wei army, the Wei army in the Hedong line, Hanoi line, Henan line of the army Sima were all killed, and the generals of the level of Zuo Sima, brigade marshal, division marshal and other levels were even more casualties, considering that the chaotic army establishment was not conducive to fighting the Qin army, Meng Zhong reorganized the army.

First of all, all the Wei troops of the Henan military system were incorporated under the command of Zheng Zheng and Cai Wu, the only remaining Henan army Sima.

Secondly, the Hedong Army was also reorganized, and the Hedong Army, which had lost its military Sima, was re-planned, and finally re-divided into five armies, which were commanded by Dou Xing, Wei Qing, Fei Hui, and Liang Xi, and the last one was handed over to Gongsun Zhu to defend Yique Mountain.

Coupled with the troops under the command of Tang Zhi and Jiao Ge, the Wei army still has a total of about 80,000.

If it weren't for the stragglers of the nearby Wei side, these 80,000 people, that is, the entire strength of the current Wei army, I have to say that compared with the 180,000 Wei army, the current Wei army has shrunk a lot, but the victory lies in the cohesion of the army, the unity of the upper and lower levels, and the morale is also quite impressive.

On that day, under the command and dispatch of the military Sima Jiaoge, more than 10,000 Wei soldiers cut down trees nearby and built military camps and defense facilities.

During this period, Bai Qi, the commander of the Qin army, pretended to be a scout, and took dozens of Qin soldiers to peek at the location of the Wei army's military camp from afar, and used this as a basis to modify his tactics.

At night, as Meng Zhong expected, the Qin army really launched a night attack on them.

However, under the garrison of Wei Qing, Zheng Zheng, and Cai Wu, the Qin army not only returned in vain, but was also ridiculed by the soldiers of the Wei army, and was confirmed by the notoriety of "only daring to sneak attack".

The ridicule of the Wei army made the generals of the Qin army feel quite annoyed, like Ji Hong, Meng Yi, Tong Yang and other Qin generals, who asked for battle in front of Bai Qi, and pleaded to confront the main force of the Wei army led by Meng Zhong, but Bai Qi stopped them.

In all fairness, although Bai Qi was afraid of Meng Zhong, he was not afraid, and Bai Qi was not afraid of the main force of the Wei army under Meng Zhong.

It's not that his Qin army can't go head-to-head with the Qin army, it's just that it's not necessary - compared with the conventional tactics of war, Bai Qi is more inclined to "win by surprise", after all, the reward of surprise moves is greater, for example, he previously broke more than 200,000 Wei and Han coalition troops overnight, during which he killed and defeated more than 100,000 Wei and Han soldiers, and his own casualties were less than 20,000.

Therefore, when Meng Zhong led the main Wei army to arrive here, Bai Qi also wanted to try whether he could break this main Wei army by attacking at night.

But alas, he didn't make it.

I have to say that Meng Zhong doesn't know the details of Bai Qi, but Bai Qi also doesn't know the details of Meng Zhong - Meng Zhong, who is also a general who is extremely good at night attacks and sneak attacks, how could he be easily succeeded by Bai Qi's sneak attack?

It is no exaggeration to say that if Bai Qi knew that Meng Zhong had led his troops to fight in the Zhao State at the beginning, and that Meng Zhong had also defeated tens of thousands of Qi troops through a night attack, he would definitely not think about how to defeat Meng Zhong through a night attack.

It can only be said that Bai Qi tasted too much sweetness in Gongsun Xi and couldn't hold it back.

One night attack, two night attacks, in just two days, the Qin army launched two full night attacks on the Wei army under Meng Zhong, but one was also unsuccessful, which made Bai Qi finally give up the plan of night attack.

These two night attacks also made the Wei army under Meng Zhong quite annoyed, and they implored Wei Qing, Fei Hui, Zheng Zheng, Cai Wu and other military Simas to come forward, hoping to attack the Qin camp as soon as possible, but in the end Meng Zhong vetoed.

Because Meng Zhong did not think it was necessary.

He explained to Wei Qing and the other military Simas: "This camp of Tang Sima and Jiao Sima has not saved much grain and grass, at most more than 20,000 troops can eat half a month's grain reserves, and the Qin army on the opposite side has 50,000 people, and the grain and grass will not last long......

"Indeed."

Jiao Ge nodded beside him and agreed: "Since the main camp of our army was attacked by the Qin army that night, that camp has not been replenished with grain and grass, and the words of 50,000 Qin troops ...... At most, it barely lasts for five or six days, and it can't be any more. ”

"Then wait five or six days."

Meng Zhong looked around at the armies in the tent and said: "Right now, the violent kite must be storming the new city, and it should be the Qin army who is anxious, not us, what are we anxious about?" Why rush to a decisive battle with the Qin army? We just need to drag the Qin army. ”

The Sima of the Zhujun thought so, and nodded their heads in agreement: Indeed, their Wei army does not need to be in a hurry.

As a result, the process of the Wei army's attack on the Qin camp in Luoshui slowed down, and the tactics of encircling but not attacking were adopted, the purpose of which was naturally to consume the grain and grass of the Qin army, and then attack when the Qin army's grain and grass were exhausted - although the Wei army's grain and grass were actually insufficient, but who made the Qin army worse in this regard?

Only Tang Zhi and Dou Xing, the two military horses, were quite anxious, and sent people to ask Meng Zhong one after another within a few days, hoping that Meng Zhong would order all Wei troops to launch a general attack on the Qin army, Meng Zhong thought that it was not easy to refuse, so he simply asked Wei Qing and Jiao Ge to refuse on their behalf, anyway, Wei Qing and Dou Xing were close, and Jiao Ge and Tang Zhi were close.

In this way, the Wei army dragged on for a few days, and the grain and grass in Bai Qi's army were gradually exhausted, and Bai Qi had no choice but to adopt the strategy he had thought about a few days ago.

Surprise attack on Zheng Cheng!

It was impossible to evacuate to the north, although it was actually safe to withdraw to the territory of the Eastern Zhou and Western Zhou states, but at the same time, it also meant that he was completely expelled by the Wei army from this "Qin-Han War" - as long as the Wei army held the water next, he would not be able to return to Yiyang and Xincheng at all.

What does this mean?

This means that the commander of the Korean army, Storm Kite, will have enough time to recover Yiyang and Xincheng, and unless Xianyang sends reinforcements to arrive, Qin will lose these two key cities, and will pay a greater price for attacking Korea in the future.

Since he can foresee this, how can Bai Qi be willing?

In his opinion, instead of being expelled by the Wei army in this "Qin War", it is better to go straight to the hinterland of Korea and wreak havoc, which can not only take the opportunity to weaken Korea, but also wait for the opportunity to see if there is a chance to break the Wei army.

As a result, on the night of April 17, Bai Qi launched a night attack on the Wei army under Meng Zhong for the third time.

Well, to be exact, this night attack was just a feint, Bai Qi pretended to attack the Wei army under Meng Zhong at night, and immediately withdrew his troops when he encountered the slightest obstacle from the Wei army.

It is worth mentioning that after he withdrew his troops, he did not return to the camp, but went straight to the east.

Even Meng Zhong didn't think of this.

He just felt that Qin Jun's actions were a little weird.

The Qin army took a night attack on them, and Meng Zhong could understand that it was just that the Qin army wanted to take advantage of their first arrival and had not yet gained a foothold, to see if they could break them with a night attack.

The Qin army took two night attacks on them, and Meng Zhong could also understand it, it may be that the Qin army felt that there was something inadequate in the first night attack, or it could be that the Qin army used people's reverse thinking.

But without changing his tactics, he attacked the Wei army three times in three consecutive nights, which was very abnormal.

He summoned Wei Qing and Fei Hui, two generals, and ordered: "Including tonight, the Qin army attacked us at night for three consecutive nights, this thing is very abnormal, I suspect that the Qin army may be preparing to evacuate north, and immediately send scouts to keep an eye on the Qin army's every move." If the Qin army really withdrew to the north, he immediately ordered Tang Zhi and Dou Xing to lead the army to pursue, and our army immediately followed, and as for Liang Xi, he was asked to enter the Luoshui camp. ”

"Whoa!"

Wei Qing and Fei Hui hugged their fists and left.

Subsequently, Meng Sui waited for news in the tent, during which he looked at the "Legend of the Spring and Autumn Period of the Ram" given to him by his uncle Gong Gong Ping of Xihe Confucianism to pass the time.

An hour later, around the ugly hour of April 18, Wei Qing hurried to Meng Zhong's tent, frowned and said, "Master Meng, there are scouts who say that the Qin army seems to have broken through to the east......"

"East?"

Meng Zhong was stunned for a moment, turned over from the grass bunk and sat up, casually handed the book in his hand to the guard Rong Worm, and told him to keep it, and then turned over the army map, frowning and watching.

His gaze first fixed on the location of the Luoshui camp, and then slowly moved eastward, frowning and sweeping over the cities of "Xingyang", "Zhaiyang", and "Dongyu", and finally stopped at "Zhengcheng".

"Oops......"

He muttered to himself.

"How?" Wei Qing was startled when he heard this, and hurriedly approached the front, seeing Meng Zhong's eyes staring at Zheng Cheng on the map, a thought immediately flashed in his heart, and he frowned and asked, "Meng Shishuai is suspicious, it is possible for the Qin army to sneak attack Zheng Cheng?" ”

Zhengcheng, that is, the capital of South Korea, since the fall of Zheng in Korea, the capital has been set here, and it is also a rich city that is no less than Daliang, Shangqiu, Taoyi and other places.

"It's possible ......"

Meng Zhong nodded, and then said with a wry smile: "The chief general of the Qin army, surnamed Bai, is more stubborn than I expected......

Isn't it stubborn?

Why didn't he set up a siege on the north side of the Qin army? In addition to the tactics of encircling three and one, it is hoped that the Qin army will withdraw northward away from the main battlefield of the "Battle of Qin", just like what Nakata Zhang did to Meng Zhong in the "Battle of Qi and Song" - the "Ying Disease of Forcing the Sun" is very powerful, isn't it? I bypassed the Yang Dynasty and went straight to Pengcheng, the capital of your Song Kingdom, and directly opened up the second battlefield.

And Meng Zhong was ready to take this move this time, he knew that the Qin general surnamed Bai on the opposite side was very powerful, and he might not be able to defeat the other party, since this was the case, he simply forced him out of the main battlefield of the "Battle of Qin and Han" - that is, the "Yique Battlefield", so that he could not return, and he could not prevent the storm kite from attacking Xincheng and Yiyang.

Once the storm kite conquered Xincheng and Yiyang, it was a victory for the Wei-Han coalition army.

This is a means of strategically suppressing the opponent.

But obviously, the general surnamed Qin on the opposite side didn't want him to be led by Meng Zhong's nose, knowing that there was a way to survive on the north road, but to the east, I have to say that this was really unexpected by Meng Zhong.

He had repeatedly considered that the Qin army would withdraw to the north, to the west, and to the south, but he did not think about whether it was possible for the Qin army to break through to the east - after all, if the Qin army marched eastward, it meant that the Qin army had decided to "burn all the jade".

Therefore, it is no wonder that Meng Zhong would say that the other party was "stubborn".

"Uh...... Do you want to send someone to inform the kite? Wei Qing said with a strange expression.

To be honest, he was not very panicked when he learned that the Qin army was preparing to attack Zhengcheng, after all, Zhengcheng was the capital of South Korea, and he was a Wei person.

"What are you going to do with the kite?"

Meng Zhong shook his head and said: "Storm Kite should be in Xincheng at the moment, there is no time to return to help, you send someone to inform him of this, but it will affect the ...... of Storm Kite attacking Xincheng and Yiyang" Speaking of this, he asked Wei Qingdao: "South Korea, is there still enough army?" ”

Hearing this, Wei Qing replied: "There must be an army, but is it elite...... The army under the command of Storm Kite is the last elite of South Korea. ”

"In other words, it may not be able to block the attack of these 50,000 Qin troops?" Meng Zhong frowned.

"If you have precautions, you should be able to resist in a short time, but if you don't have precautions, and then there will be a time to do it, I'm afraid Zheng Cheng won't be able to stop it......" Wei Qing said his thoughts truthfully.

"I see!"

Meng Zhong nodded, and immediately ordered: "Immediately send someone to check the Luoshui camp, if the Qin army really abandons the camp and marches eastward, then ask Liang Xi to enter this camp, and the rest of the army will immediately set off to the east and follow the Qin army." …… Remember, this Qin army is very good at ambushing along the way, and asked the armies to learn the lesson of Dou Sima yesterday and beware of the Qin army's ambushes. In addition, they sent people to Xingyang, Zhaiyang, Zhengcheng and other places to warn, and told the Koreans to strengthen their defenses and not lose the city easily. …… Tell them that this Qin army will be defeated by our Wei army, and tell them to defend the city, and by the way, prepare a batch of grain and grass, and the grain and grass in our army will not be enough. …… Is there anything else that Wei Sima can add? ”

"Nope." Wei Qing shook his head and said with a smile: "Master Meng has already thought it through very thoroughly. ”

In late April, the Qin general Bai attacked Xingyang, taking advantage of the unpreparedness of the Koreans to seize the city, massacring and looting in the city, destroying the buildings in the city and the farmland outside the city, causing Xingyang to suffer heavy losses.

Only half a day apart, Meng Zhong arrived with 60,000 or 70,000 Wei troops.

Unexpectedly, after learning that the Wei army was chasing, the Qin army immediately withdrew in advance and went straight to the next city "Zhaiyang", which had been successfully attacked by them, and did not confront the Wei army head-on.

Seeing this, Meng Zhong also understood.