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The next morning, Pang Xuan personally found Meng Zhong.

He said to Meng Zhong: "Fang Cai Gongzi Zhang sent Tian Buyu to personally enter the palace to meet Master Zhao's father, and begged Master Zhao to send you and me to assist him in guarding the camp again, but Master Zhao only promised to send you to assist Gongzi Zhang. ”

"Oh." Meng Zhong replied calmly.

Seeing this, Pang Xuan seemed to think of something, so he explained: "Meng Zhong, don't think about it, Master Zhao just considered that you are good at night attacks, and you must also be proficient in how to prevent night attacks, so I asked you to help Gongzi Zhang, and it has nothing to do with your advice to Master Zhao to flee from Zhao Country yesterday." …… Until now, how could Master Zhao not realize that what you suggested was correct? It's just that Master Zhao's father is ...... You know, he just can't pull his face down to admit it himself. ”

"Huh."

Facing Pang Xuan's relief, Meng Zhong smiled, shook his head and said: "Whether Master Zhao is willing to follow my advice or not, at least I have fulfilled my duties as a courtier, which is enough to repay Lord Zhao's kindness in teaching me martial arts and promoting me. Speaking of this, he shook his head slightly again, and said lightly: "But the matter has come to this, and we can only do our best and see the will of heaven." ”

“……”

Pang Xuan was silent for a moment when he heard this, and then nodded slightly.

Even Pang Xuan had to admit that Meng Zhong had fulfilled his duties as a courtier, and if it weren't for Master Zhao's conceited being too conceited and unwilling to listen to Meng Zhong's advice, things would not have come to this point at all.

"Later, I will send Zhao Hao to hand over the South City Gate with you."

Gently patting Meng Zhong's arm, Pang Xuan didn't say anything more and left silently.

After Pang Xuan said goodbye, Meng Zhong summoned Le Yi, Meng Sui, Meng Hu and other friends, and after relaying the order of Master Zhao's father, he asked the friends to gather the Xinwei army.

After a while, after Zhao Hao, the commander of the Tan Guards, led 500 Tan Guards to the south gate of the Dune Palace, Meng Zhong handed over the defense of the city gate here to Zhao Hao, and led nearly 800 Xin Wei troops to the southern suburbs outside the city and entered the camp of the army under Gongzi Zhang.

After coming to Gongzizhang's handsome tent, Meng Zhong, Le Yi, and Meng Sui saw Gongzizhang.

and the once high-spirited Gongzizhang is like two people, the three of them saw Gongzizhang today, with his head covered, his eyes bloodshot, a few faint smells of wine from his body, and his expression was quite tired, presumably he drank a lot of stuffy wine yesterday.

"I'm ashamed to let you see me in such a gaffe......"

When he saw Meng Zhong, Gongzizhang laughed at himself with some shame.

Meng Zhong shook his head slightly, he could actually understand the helplessness and depression in Gongzizhang's heart, after all, he couldn't blame him for the defeat of Handan that day, and he couldn't blame him, if he wanted to blame Master Zhao's father for trusting Niu Jian too much, so that Gongzizhang didn't expect Niu Jian to defect to Wang Shi - I have to say that it was precisely because of the same reason that even Meng Zhong and Pang Xuan didn't expect Niu Jian to turn against each other in advance.

After a brief chat, Gongzizhang said to Meng Zhong: "Ah Zhong, I will give you 5,000 soldiers, and then give you the position of "Sima of the Chinese Army", so that you can assist in the management of the battalions. ”

"Whoa!"

Meng Zhong clenched his fists and received the order, and was about to leave the handsome tent with Le Yi and Meng Sui, but saw Gongzi Zhang suddenly call him again: "Ah Zhong." ”

"Does An Yangjun have any other orders?" Meng Zhong turned around and asked.

I saw Gongzizhang looking Meng Zhong up and down, and immediately shook his head, with a smile on his face: "No, let's ...... first." So be it for now. ”

"Retire below."

After bidding farewell to Gongzizhang, Meng Zhong met with Wei Yuan, Tian Huang, Han Gu, and Peng Zhen, the four generals under Gongzizhang.

Because some time ago, Han Gu led the army to block Zhao Xi in Qinghe, and did not follow Gongzizhang's army to attack Handan, so he felt very unbelievable that Meng Zhong was in charge of 5,000 troops at a young age, and in contrast, Wei Yuan, Tian Huang, and Peng Zhen all sincerely welcomed Meng Zhong's arrival.

After all, the three of them all knew Meng Zhong's ability, not to mention Wei Yuan and Tian Huang, who showed high appreciation for Meng Zhong's initiative to stay behind after the rebels defeated Handan that day.

Just like Wei Yuan said to Meng Zhong: "Rushing into battle to kill the enemy is what we are good at, but in terms of strategy and surprise attacks, we still have to rely on Meng Sima." ”

In general, Meng Zhong was relatively popular among the rebel generals.

After some small talk, the generals began to discuss defensive matters.

At this time, Meng Zhong knew that after Gongzizhang suffered a defeat in Handan, he was quite depressed and invincible, so that after returning to the camp from the palace last night, he threw the defense to Wei Yuan, and asked Wei Yuan to discuss with Tian Huang, Han Gu, and Peng Zhen on his own, while Gongzi Zhang himself hid in the handsome tent and drank a night of stuffy wine with Tian Buyu.

Even, even the matter of "asking Master Zhao to ask Meng Zhong and Pang Xuan to help" was mentioned by Wei Yuan to Gongzi Zhang, and then Tian Buyu asked Lord Zhao for help.

Therefore, Wei Yuan also asked Meng Zhong if Meng Zhong could persuade Gongzi Zhang and let the latter cheer up again.

But unfortunately, Meng Zhong is also helpless about this.

After all, Gongzizhang's blow this time was too great: a moment ago, the rebels broke through the city of Handan, as long as they took the inner city, Gongzizhang could be called the monarch of Zhao; At the next moment, because of Niu Qian's defection, the rebels were defeated and retreated, and less than 20,000 of the more than 50,000 rebels under his command remained. The gap between before and after this is no less than falling from a mountain to a deep valley, and I believe that no matter who it is, there will be a deep despair of all hopes.

"Let's talk about camp defense first. …… What is the morale of the soldiers? Meng Zhong asked him what he was most concerned about at the moment.

Hearing this topic, Wei Yuan, Tian Huang, Han Gu, and Peng Zhen all shook their heads and sighed.

I have to say that the defeat of the rebels in Handan was really a heavy blow to the morale of the rebels, not to mention that the morale of the Daijun soldiers plummeted, even the morale of the Tan Guards under Pang Xuan and the Xinwei Army under Meng Zhong was also greatly affected, and even the veterans of the Xinwei Army were also confused about the future trend of this war, and even many people were talking in private, discussing how long they could hold out.

After pondering for a moment, Meng Zhong said in a deep voice: "Until now, the only way to bite the other side is to bite the other side is the 'unjust' army. Fortunately, Zhao Wanghe has not come forward in person, so we can pretend that Zhao Cheng, Li Dui and others have kidnapped Zhao Wanghe, and Gongzi Zhang went to pacify Zhao Cheng and Li Dui on the order of Zhao's father......"

Hearing this, Wei Yuan hesitated and asked, "...... Master Zhao's side?"

"I can't care so much." Meng Zhong Zhengse said: "If you can't manage to regain morale, how can the nearly 20,000 soldiers stop the Wang Shi who is several times larger outside? I believe that even if Master Zhao learns about this, he will not blame us and others. ”

"I see."

Wei Yuan nodded.

Seeing this, Meng Zhong pondered for a moment and said: "This alone is not enough, it must also be revealed to the soldiers the opportunity to reverse the current victory or defeat, for example, Master Zhao is already trying to contact Qin and Song, and ask Qin and Song to send troops to help us......"

Hearing this, Wei Yuan, Han Gu, Tian Huang, and Peng Zhen were all stunned.

You must know that this suggestion was only mentioned by Meng Zhong to Master Zhao yesterday, although Gongzizhang also revealed it to Wei Yuan, Han Gu, Tian Huang, and Peng Zhen after returning to the camp, but for the soldiers under his command, whether it was Gongzi Zhang or Wei Yuan, Han Gu, Tian Huang, and Peng Qian, the four generals did not dare to reveal the slightest, so as not to leak the news.

After all, this is also a confidential matter.

Thinking of this, Tian Huang frowned and said, "Meng Sima, this is not right, right?" Meng Sima may not know that since Wang Shi led the army to the sand dunes area yesterday, there have often been people shouting outside the camp, instigating our soldiers to abandon the army and surrender, so that last night, hundreds of soldiers left the camp one after another to surrender to Wang Shi, if these soldiers reported this matter to Zhao Cheng and Li Dui, wouldn't it be ......?"

"Master Wang sent someone to persuade him to surrender?" Meng Zhong was slightly stunned, he really didn't know about this matter.

Seeing this, Tian Huang proposed: "It's better to pretend that our army is about to have reinforcements arriving, but don't reveal the truth, what do you think?" ”

"I'm afraid it won't be a ......" Meng Zhong shook his head: "First of all, it is difficult to gain the trust of the soldiers with such a perfunctory false claim of reinforcements, and secondly, I am afraid that it will not be able to hide it from the Wang Shi on the other side...... Until now, if we still have reinforcements, it will be nothing more than the army of Qin, Song, and Yan, and it will be the army of Qi? …… Yan Guo was too busy to protect itself, in other words, only Qin and Song were left, deliberately concealing the intention of the reinforcements, and I am afraid that they would not be able to deceive Wang Shi. Anyway, if you can't be deceived, you will simply reveal the truth and boost the morale of our army first. ”

"But if Wang Shi learns about this, maybe he will step up his attack......" Wei Yuan hesitated to speak.

Hearing this, Meng Zhong asked amusedly, "Didn't you hear about this matter, and Master Wang would have appeased us?" As long as the generals on the opposite side know the art of war, they must know that now is the best time to attack our army...... Only by surviving today can we have the energy to think about tomorrow, right? ”

"Hmm......"

Wei Yuan, Han Gu, Tian Huang, and Peng Zhen nodded convincingly when they heard this.

Without further ado, after the meeting was dispersed, the four generals Wei Yuan, Han Gu, Tian Huang, and Peng Zhen each returned to their camps, personally comforted the soldiers under their command, and revealed to them the news that "the Qin and Song will send troops to support them", which finally made the morale of the rebels, which had fallen to a low point, slightly improved.

After that, Meng Zhong asked Gongzizhang to see him again, and begged to reward the title of soldier in the name of Gongzizhang, to put it bluntly, that is, nearly 20,000 rebel soldiers were all promoted to the rank of one level, and the soldiers who originally did not have a title were given the title of "Shi", and the original corporal and sergeant were promoted to sergeant and sergeant; The original sergeant was promoted to sergeant.

As for the land, houses, etc., which match the title, according to Meng Zhong's meaning, Gongzizhang said that he would reward the soldiers after the war, to put it bluntly, that is, the empty lord will first stabilize the army's morale - if the situation can be reversed in the end, Gongzizhang will certainly not care about this reward; If it is not able to turn the tide in the end, then it does not hurt to make more promises at this time.

Although it is a bit deceptive, after this "reward", the morale of the rebels has indeed recovered.

It's just that the rebels, who have recovered some morale, can they resist the attack of the king's division?

Even Meng Zhong was not sure about this, just like he said to Pang Xuan, until now, he can only do his best and see the will of heaven.

On 19 October, Wang Shifang was still firmly encircling the rebels and even the Dune Palace.

However, Lian Po, who was monitoring the movements of the rebels, found something unusual, and immediately reported to Anpingjun Zhao Cheng and Fengyangjun Li Dui: "Anpingjun and Fengyangjun, I have been monitoring the movements of the rebels in the southern suburbs of the palace for the past two days, and for some reason, I found that the morale of the rebels seems to have rebounded. ”

"What?"

Anpingjun Zhao Cheng and Fengyangjun Li Dui were quite surprised when they heard this, and immediately under the leadership of Lian Po, they came out of the camp together to the rebel camp in the southern suburbs of the Dune Palace, and peeked at the movements of the rebel camp from a distance.

That's not good!

You must know that Anpingjun Zhao Cheng and Fengyangjun Li Dui have besieged the rebels and even the Dune Palace in the past few days, the purpose of which is to completely surround Zhao Zhang and Zhao's father, so as not to have a situation where "Gongzizhang" hijacks "Zhao's father flees", not to mention that in recent days, rebels have sneaked out of the camp every day to surrender like Wang Shi, so Zhao Cheng and Li Dui felt that instead of attacking at this time and forcing Gongzizhang to "hijack" Zhao's father to break through the encirclement, it was better to build the encirclement network first, and then attack from all sides, and decide on a battle.

Unexpectedly, due to their "appeasement" in the past few days, the rebels gradually recovered some morale.

How does this make it?!

"Are you sure the morale of the rebels has picked up?" Zhao Cheng asked Lian Podao.

As soon as the words fell, Li Dui's son Li Ji replied on behalf of Lian Po: "An Pingjun, I agree with Lian Sima's point of view, in recent days, there are often rebels who flee and surrender to our army, sometimes it can reach six or seven hundred people in one night, and when it is few, there are three or four hundred people. However, since the day before yesterday, the number of rebels who have fled to our army has been greatly reduced, and the maximum number of soldiers in one day and one night has only ......."

From the side, Zhao Cheng's son Zhao Ping also said: "Speaking of this, last night, a soldier who fled to our army revealed one thing, saying that the rebels on the opposite side were spreading the news of reinforcements......

"Reinforcements?"

Anpingjun Zhao Cheng couldn't help but laugh, shook his head and said: "The army of my Zhao State is now on our side, what reinforcements are there......"

"It's not Zhao, the rebels are talking about the armies of Song and Qin." Zhao Ping interrupted his father's words.

Hearing this, Anpingjun Zhao Cheng and Fengyangjun Li Dui glanced at each other, and their faces became a little solemn.

Seeing the serious expressions of Anpingjun Zhao Cheng and Fengyangjun Li Dui, Zhao Ping panicked inexplicably, and hurriedly explained: "Father, the child thought it was just a lie made up by Gongzizhang in order to restore the morale of his soldiers, so he didn't care about it......"

"Alright."

An Pingjun Zhao Cheng raised his hand to interrupt his son's explanation, and looked at the rebel camp in the distance with Fengyangjun Li Dui.

In fact, the problem of Qin and Song, Zhao Cheng and Li Dui had also considered it before, but it was pointless to consider this matter at that time - after all, even if there were no reinforcements from Qin and Song to support Zhao's father and son, their Wang Shifang's army was once pressed to the ground by the rebels and beaten violently, and the rebels once broke through the outer city of Handan City.

But now, the situation is very different, and they need to think about it carefully.

After frowning and thinking carefully for a moment, Li Dui said to Zhao Cheng: "Master Zhao's father has a good prestige in the Qin and Song dynasties, this matter can only be trusted, not credible, and must end this war as soon as possible before the Qin and Song countries learn of the incident, otherwise, the Qin and Song dynasties will inevitably intervene." ”

Zhao Chengshen nodded approvingly.

On October 20, Zhao Cheng, the king of Anping, ordered Zhao Yuan, Li Yan, Zhao Ping, and Li Ji to lead their armies to besiege Gongzizhang's camp.

Unexpectedly, because the rebels had been given a few days to breathe, the rebels were able to stop after a strong attack by Wang Shi.

Even though Wang Shimeng, the general under Li Ji, Lian Po forcibly entered the camp several times, he was also blocked back by the rebels in an orderly manner.

That night, Li Dui ordered Lian Po to lead an army to attack the rebel camp at night.

However, what I didn't expect was that Meng Zhong had already taken precautions against this.

He said to Wei Yuan: "Looking at the fierce attack on our army's camp by Wang Shi today, you know that they want to break through our army's urgency as soon as possible. ”

Wei Yuan nodded, set up an ambush in the camp according to Meng Zhong's suggestion, and sure enough, waited for Lian Po to lead the army to come to the night attack.

It was also thanks to the haste of the guards that Lian Po ordered an ambush in the camp when he had just led the army into the camp, otherwise, if Lian Po had gone deep into the rebel camp at that time, he might have been trapped in it and could not get out.

The night attack failed, Lian Po led the defeated army back to Wang Shi, and gave orders to Zhao Cheng, Anpingjun, and Li Dui, Fengyangjun: "The rebel camp has already been prepared, and the ambush troops have been prepared in advance, and I guess it must be Meng Zhong's plan for the rebels......"

On the side, Yang Wenjun Zhao Bao, who was just a bystander, was slightly stunned when he heard Lian Po's words, and then sighed secretly.

The defeat of the night attack, Zhao Cheng and Li Dui didn't pay attention to it at all, in contrast, they were a little surprised that Meng Zhong actually stayed by Zhao's father and Gongzi Zhang's side.

You must know that the rebels are over, this is a fact that can be seen by a three-year-old child, Zhao Cheng and Li Dui don't believe that Meng Zhong can't see it - to this point, Meng Zhong is still willing to stay by Zhao's father and Gongzi Zhang's side, which can really be called love and righteousness.

"This Meng Zhong is really a trouble...... Fengyangjun Li Dui said with a frown.

It's not that he thinks that Meng Zhong can still play any tricks so far, but how to deal with it.

Killed?

Then offend a group of people who died, like Zhuangzi and Mencius, regardless of the attitude of King Zhao and the famous general Kuang Zhang of Qi, then you have to weigh it, right?

In late October, Wang's division, relying on its absolute superiority in strength, attacked the rebels day after day.

It was only on October 28 that the first snow fell, and the offensive of the Wang Division stopped slightly.

In the face of Wang Shi's attack, even Meng Zhong had no choice but to secretly pray that there was something flaw in Wang Shi.

But it's a pity that Zhao Cheng, who seems to be Anpingjun Zhao Cheng, Fengyangjun Li Duina and other old ministers of Zhao State who came all the way from the reign of Zhao Suhou, may not be able to keep up with the current era, but as the so-called older and more stable, Meng Zhong wants to find an opportunity to reverse the situation in them, which is undoubtedly a fool's dream.

Therefore, Meng Zhong could only watch Wang Shi accumulate victory little by little.

On the second day of the first day of November, the rebels' camp in the southern suburbs was broken by Wang Shi's army, and the rebel generals Tian Huang, Han Gu, and Peng Zhen were all killed by Wang Shi's soldiers.

Seeing this, Zhao Cheng, the king of Anping, ordered Wang Shi to surround the Dune Palace and asked the Dune Palace to hand over the Gongzi Zhang.

From this, it is not difficult to see that the lie of "Gongzi Zhang holding Zhao's father hostage" seems to be not believed by Anpingjun Zhao Cheng and others at all.

When Zhao Hao, who was guarding the city gate, conveyed the meaning of Zhao Cheng of Anpingjun, Lord Zhao's father was furious: "If I don't hand over my son, will Zhao Cheng dare to enter the palace?!" ”

In anger, Lord Zhao's father ordered Pang Xuan to go to the city to convey his meaning to Wang Shi.

I saw Pang Xuan ordered to come to the city, and said to the two after shouting out Anpingjun Zhao Cheng and Fengyangjun Li Dui: "My Tan Guards have taken control of the Dune Palace and captured Gongzizhang, Zhao's father will dispose of Gongzizhang by himself, Anpingjun and Fengyangjun and dismiss the army!" ”

However, Anpingjun Zhao Cheng refused to obey his orders, and he shouted to Pang Xuan under the city: "The old man is ordered by the king to crusade against Gongzi Zhang, please hand over Gongzi Zhang quickly!" Otherwise, the old man will attack the palace! ”

After that, he took out the edict of Zhao Wanghe from his sleeve, and recited aloud the crime of Gongzi Zhang, which had the meaning of ordering an attack on the palace immediately after reciting.

Seeing this, Pang Xuan immediately conveyed the words of Anpingjun Zhao Cheng to Master Zhao's father, so that Master Zhao was shocked and angry after hearing it, he never expected that Anpingjun Zhao Cheng and others really had the courage to attack the Dune Palace.

And when Master Zhao and everyone in the hall were a little at a loss, Gongzi Zhang knelt in front of Master Zhao and kowtowed, and then said affectionately: "Master Father, your love for Erchen is remembered by Erchen, this matter starts from Erchen, and it should end by Erchen, you don't have to take risks for Erchen." …… Erchen can't regain the throne this time, I'm afraid it's a few days, and this time I went back to the palace, in fact, just to see the master again, and express my gratitude to you in my son's heart. If there is an afterlife, the son will still be the son of the Lord's father. ”

With that, he stood up and drew his sword to kill himself.

"Anyang Jun ......"

"Childe ......"

"Zhao Zhang......"

Everyone in the hall was dumbfounded.

At this time, Tian Buyu, the only one who was not surprised, arched his hand towards Master Zhao's father, and said calmly: "Master Father, please allow the minister to send the head of the prince to the outside of the palace." ”

With that, he walked to Gongzizhang's corpse, cut off the head with his sword, and walked out of the hall with both hands.

When passing by Meng Zhong, who was also stunned, Tian Buyu paused slightly, and said to Meng Zhong: "Ah Zhong, you blame Brother Fool and Gongzi for killing Fei Yi in your heart, but even today, Brother Fool still doesn't think that there is anything wrong with our actions at that time, the fault is that the old man Fei Yi was too cautious, so that we failed to kill Zhao He, and finally caused the disaster of killing today. …… If you survive this fate, you must remember that sometimes you must cut down the grass and eradicate the roots! ”

After that, he looked at Meng Zhong, whose face changed, sighed, and left straight away with the head of Gongzi Zhang.

On the same day, Tian Buyu left the palace with the head of Gongzizhang in his hand and handed it over to Wang Shi.

Immediately, Anpingjun Zhao Cheng ordered Tian Buyu to be executed on the spot, and Tian Buyu's head was hung on the flagpole to show the public.

"It's finally over."

Seeing that Gongzi Zhang and Tian Buyu had been ambushed, Yang Wenjun Zhao Bao and Fengyang Jun Li Dui breathed a sigh of relief.

However, An Pingjun Zhao Cheng shook his head.

"No, not yet! …… There is one more person, who is not dead! ”

"One more?"

Zhao Bao and Li Dui glanced at each other, and then their faces changed slightly.

They know that what Anpingjun Zhao Cheng refers to is the father of Zhao in all likelihood!