Chu Ying was lost, Yiling fell, and hundreds of thousands of Chu people were forced to flee east.

Previously, Qu Yuan, a Chu doctor who was in Yeyi, learned that Bai Qi was attacking Chu Ying, and hurriedly begged Fang Cheng to order Meng Sui to lead the army to support, but Meng Sui said helplessly: "The king's order has not arrived, and my clan brother is not here, so I dare not make a claim." ”

Qu Yuan pleaded many times, but Meng Sui never agreed, so Qu Yuan defected to Zhaoju, hoping to do his best to stop the Qin army.

But unfortunately, Chu Ying was finally broken by the Qin army led by Bai Qi.

When the city was broken, Zhao Ju, Zhuang Xin, Qu Yuan, and the ministers of Chu led by Ling Yin Zilan and others protected the Chu King Xiong Heng to escape, during which he saw countless Chu people being wantonly slaughtered by Qin soldiers, corpses all over the ground, crying and wailing, Chu King Xiong Heng was at a loss.

He angrily reprimanded his younger disciple Lan Dao: "You persuaded me to be friendly with the Qin State, but now the Qin State has disregarded the situation and driven troops to attack my Great Chu Capital, what is your explanation for this?" ”

Zilan was resigned, speechless.

Seeing this, Xiong Heng, the king of Chu, immediately drove away Zilan, and immediately ordered someone to invite Zhaoju and Zhuang Xin.

He said to Zhuang Xin: "I regret not listening to what Mr. said at the beginning, now that the Qin State has broken through Chu Ying, hundreds of thousands of Chu people have been wantonly slaughtered by the Qin people, and I still regret it." ”

Seeing that Xiong Heng, the king of Chu, looked indignant, his eyes were full of anxiety, and he no longer looked like a hippie smiling face in the past, Zhuang Xin and Zhaoju glanced at each other, and said to Xiong Heng: "It's not too late to make amends, in the past, Shang Tang and King Wu of Zhou made the world prosperous with a hundred miles of land, and Xia Wei Shang Xuan, even if he sat on the world, he would inevitably be defeated." Although the Qin army has captured Jingdi, there is still a land in Jiangdong in our Great Chu, as long as the king can cheer up, my Chu State will finally be able to recover the lost territory in the future. ”

From the side, Zhao Ju also advised: "Qin Zhibai is not invincible, at least Meng Zhong of Wei has defeated him several times, as long as the king is willing to firmly resist Qin's belief and form an alliance with Wei, he can use the power of Wei to recover the lost territory." …… Qu Yuan had not previously been exiled to Jiangdong according to the king's orders, and if the king could not blame him, he would have befriended Meng Zhong of Wei and could serve as an envoy to invite reinforcements from Wei. ”

"Qu Yuan ......"

Xiong Heng, the king of Chu, muttered Qu Yuan's name, and said with a face full of shame: "The widow has no face to see Doctor Qu, where can he dare to blame him." ”

Seeing this, Zhao Ju took the opportunity to say: "Qu Yuan was in Yeyi, and when he learned that the Qin army was attacking Daying, he begged Wei General Meng to send troops to no avail, so he went to Weichen alone to help the ministers defend the city wall......"

Xiong Heng, the king of Chu, was moved when he heard this, and exclaimed, "Why didn't the widow know? ”

Glancing at Zhao Ju, Zhuang Xin said in a low voice: "Qu Yuanyan, he is guilty of sin, and he does not dare to show his face, so he can only do his best for Da Chu." ”

The king of Chu Xiong wanted to speak and stopped.

Subsequently, Zhaoju invited Qu Yuan, and Xiong Heng, the king of Chu, personally apologized to Qu Yuan, which made Qu Yuan feel flattered.

After Xiong Heng, the king of Chu, confessed himself, Zhuang Xin pondered: "Now the Qin army is strong, and only by inviting the Wei army, otherwise it will not be able to resist the Qin army." ”

After that, he turned his head and asked Qu Yuan, "Doctor Qu, as far as I know, you and Na Mengzhong had an agreement before...... You see, can you convince him to send troops to support? ”

Hearing this, Xiong Heng, the king of Chu, also looked at Qu Yuan eagerly.

Seeing this, Qu Yuan said wistfully: "Great King, although the minister has made an agreement with that marquis, but at the moment, that marquis is not in Wancheng or Fangcheng...... A while ago, he hurried back to Daliang because of the restoration of Qi. ”

As he spoke, he told Xiong Heng, the king of Chu, about the defeat of the Yan generals by the Qi general Tiandan and the subsequent restoration of the Qi state.

However, at this time, Zhuang Xin frowned and said, "Even if Meng Zhong returns to Daliang because of this matter, how can it be used for nearly a year?" In my opinion, Meng Zhong's delay in returning to Wancheng is probably because he hopes that Bai Qi will attack the great Ying of my Chu State. ”

"This shouldn't be ......," Qu Yuan said with a frown.

"Won't?" Zhuang Xin chuckled lightly and said, "Although Meng Zhong is a disciple of a saint, he is a general of the Wei State after all, and he must give priority to the interests of the Wei State...... What's more, even if Meng Zhong didn't think so, Wei Wangjun didn't think so. Don't forget, when the Qin State attacked my Chu State last time, the King of Wei tried to watch the fire from the other side......"

On the side, Zhao Ju sighed when he heard this: "Having said that, at the moment, we can only ask for help from the Wei State...... At least Wei wouldn't suddenly attack its allies like Qin. ”

Hearing this, Xiong Heng, the king of Chu, Qu Yuan, Zhuang Xin and others were silent.

Half a month later, Xiong Heng, the king of Chu, took his ministers and hundreds of thousands of Chu people who fled with him, and retreated back and forth from the lower reaches of Rushui and Yingshui, and came to Chenyi.

During this period, there were originally several Qin armies chasing and killing along the way, but when they chased all the way to Rushui, some Qin troops saw that the Wei army appeared on the other side of Rushui.

Looking at the banner, it is the army of Yuncheng of Wei State.

Considering that Jingdi had not yet been completely occupied, and Bai Qi did not want to provoke Meng Zhong, he ordered the pursuers to stop at Rushui and let Xiong Heng, the king of Chu, and others flee.

After ordering the cessation of the pursuit of Xiong Heng, the king of Chu, Bai Qi concentrated on dealing with the army of Zhuang Ji, the 'rebel general' of Chu.

At this time, Zhuang Ji was stationed in Zifang, and he was the only Chu army in Jingdi that was still fighting against Qin, but unfortunately, Zhuang Ji could not resist Bai Qi's offensive, and after desperately resisting for half a month, he was defeated by Bai Qi, so he had to lead the remnants to flee south and flee into Qianzhong County.

Because he had to guard the Jingdi that he had occupied, Bai Qi naturally did not divide his troops to pursue Zhuang Ji, after all, the north of Jingdi was Wancheng and Fangcheng, and Bai Qi was also wary of when Meng Zhong suddenly came out to give him a look.

As a result, the task of pursuing Chu General Zhuang Ji was handed over to Zhang Ruo, the Shu county guard of Qin.

In the nineteenth year of the reign of King Wei of Wei, Zhang Ruo, the commander of Qin Shu County, sent troops to attack the two Chu counties of Wujun and Qianzhong, and then joined Bai Qi in Jingdi.

And the wonderful thing is that Zhang Ruo did not intercept Zhuang Ji's remnant army, so he thought that Zhuang Ji's remnant army had died in the poor mountains and bad waters in Qianzhong County, but he did not expect that a few years later, Zhuang Ji actually gained a firm foothold in Dianchi Lake south of Shu County of Qin State, and even formed a Dian State, trying to counterattack Shu County of Qin, which once became a big problem for Shu County.

Besides, after the king of Chu Xiong fled to Chencheng, he finally breathed a sigh of relief, because Chencheng was located on the east side of the Yuncheng of Wei, and the distance between the two places was about two hundred miles—if the Qin army wanted to continue to attack Chencheng, even if it was necessary to cross the Rushui from the west, and the Yuncheng of the Wei State was located downstream of the Rushui, how could the Qin State be easily allowed to cross the border?

Sure enough, when the Qin army pursued Rushui, the Yuncheng army immediately dispatched, not to mention preventing the Qin army from pursuing the Chu king Xiongheng in disguise, and even, even Xia Cai and Pingyu, the two Chu cities located on the east side of Rushui, the Wei army in Yuncheng did not tolerate the involvement of the Qin state.

The Qin army also knew each other, and the pursuit reached Rushui and then withdrew the troops, and there was no conflict with the Wei army.

It's no wonder, after all, this Wei army is the army that defends the fiefdom for the Marquis Mengzhong, and even if it is white, you have to weigh whether you should provoke Meng Zhong at this time.

In addition to being relieved, Xiong Heng, the king of Chu, ordered Chen Cheng to be the capital, renamed Chen Ying, and then deposed Ling Yin Zilan, changed Qu Yuan to Ling Yin, and named Zhuang Xin as the king of Yangling, Zhao Ju as the great Sima, and the original group of courtiers headed by Zilan were successively deposed by Xiong Heng, the king of Chu.

Subsequently, Xiong Heng ordered Zhuang Xin to send an envoy to the Great Liang of Wei to form an alliance with Wei and fight against Qin; He also asked Zhaoju to go to the land of Wuyue in Jiangdong to recruit troops, determined to recover Jingdi; At the same time, he sent Qu Yuan to the land of Wanfang to visit Meng Zhong, hoping that Qu Yuan could convince the latter.

You must know that Meng Zhong is the great Sima of the Wei, Song and Han Kingdoms, and if he can't get his support, even if the king of Wei nods his head, it may not be useful.

When Qu Yuan visited Wancheng, it was when Meng Zhong returned to Wancheng and received Bai Qi's letter of showing off, Bai Qi complacently boasted in the letter that he had been named Wu Anjun by the King of Qin.

Think about it, although Bai Qigui is the captain of the Qin State, Meng Zhong is also the great Sima of the Wei, Song and Han Kingdoms, and his authority is only higher than Bai Qi, as for the title, Meng Zhong is the marquis, and Bai Qi is just Wu Anjun at the moment, and there is still one level behind - Meng Zhong really can't figure out what Bai Qi wrote to him to show off.

But then again, in addition to Meng Zhong, Bai Qi actually can't find anyone to show off, although Sima Cuo, Xiang Shou, and Qi Rong have a good relationship with him, but the age difference is more than one round, and among people of similar age, like Wang Yi, Hu Yang, Yingyi and others, the current position and title are far inferior to Bai Qi, Bai Qi is sandwiched between the old generals and the younger generals of the Qin State, and he is not up or down.

Thinking about it, I'm afraid that only Meng Zhong, who is similar in age, status, and strength to him, is one of the few people who can communicate with him on an equal footing.

It is worth mentioning that after Bai Qi captured the capital of Chu State, some people with good deeds evaluated the famous generals of the time, and rated the four so-called famous generals of the world, "Qin Baiqi, Wei Mengzhong, Yan Leyi, and Qi Tiandan".

Although it is not taken seriously at first glance, the reasons for it are also very good, such as Bai Qi has the merit of breaking Chu, and Meng Zhong defeated the power of Qin, Le Yi once destroyed the Qi State, and Tian Dan relied on Jimo and Jucheng to restore the Qi State.

Following Tian Zhang, Gongsun Xi, Storm Kite and others, there was no general in the world who could compare with these four people.

What's even more interesting is that not only Qin Baiqi and Wei Mengzhong are old enemies, but now the 'Yan State Leyi', who has now switched to Zhao State, is also said to be located in Guanjin at this time, across the river from Tiandan of Qi State.

This makes many people in the world secretly watch, wanting to see who is the winner of these two groups of old enemies.

And among them, the most concerned is naturally the old enemies of 'Qin Baiqi' and 'Wei Mengzhong'.

In the twentieth year of King Wei's reign, the monarch Wei Wei died and was succeeded by the crown prince Wei Yu.

This incident had a great impact on the Wei State, and the most direct impact was the gradual loss of power by the Minister of State Tian Wen - in view of Tian Wen's power in the country, the first thing the crown prince Wei Yu did after succeeding to the throne was to canonize his brother Wei Wuji as the king of Xinling to compete with Tian Wen.

After learning about this, Meng Zhong sighed.

Because he knew that this meant that the local Korean and Chinese forces in Wei were finally going to attack Tian Wen.

Poor Tian Wen served as the minister of state in Wei for more than 20 years, but in the end he was still not accepted by the local nobles of Wei.

But then again, this incident had no effect on Meng Zhong, after all, his 'backer' was the Xihe Confucianism headed by the Duan Gan clan, and the backer behind the Duan Gan clan and the Xihe Confucianism was precisely the newly succeeded crown prince Wei Yu - or should be called, Wei Wangyu.

To put it bluntly, he Meng Zhong himself is a member of the 'princeling', so naturally he will not be affected.

Not to mention that before the old King Wei died, he also specially instructed the crown prince Wei Yu to continue to trust Meng Zhong and reuse Meng Zhong, and not to repeat the mistakes of the new Yan King and Le Yi, so instead of weakening, Meng Zhong's power was not weakened, but there was an additional fief.

But in the final analysis, in fact, it was Meng Zhong's title of 'saint disciple' that made the new King of Wei dispel his doubts, after all, no one would believe that Meng Zhong, as a proud disciple of Zhuangzi, Huizi, and Mencius, would actually do something that dishonored his teacher's reputation.

In the first year of the reign of King Wei Yuan, Wei and Chu formed an alliance, and Meng Zhong led an army to assist Chu in recapturing Jingdi.

In this battle, Meng Zhong personally led a 100,000 combined army, and the Chu army was only more than 100,000, and on the opposite side, it was the 150,000 army of Wu Anjun of Qin State, and the two sides fought fiercely for six months, and finally Meng Zhong helped Chu State recapture more than 20 cities, re-establish Jing County, and forced Qin State to retreat to Qianzhong.

In the second year of the reign of King Wei of Wei, Qin and Zhao jointly attacked Wei, and Qin Guobai raised troops to send a letter to Guguan to attack Yiyang, while Zhao general Lian Po attacked Yecheng and Anyang of Wei.

After getting the news, Meng Zhong sent Meng Hu and Lejin to reinforce Tang Zhi in Yecheng, and on the other hand, he sent the army to reinforce Yiyang, and confronted Bai Qi again.

The two sides fought fiercely for several months, but they could not win for the sake of nothing, so they withdrew their troops and retreated to Hangu Pass.

In the third year of the reign of Wei Wangyu, Bai Qi defeated Mengsui, captured the four cities of Caiyi and Zhongyang of Wei, and threatened the hinterland of Wei; Meng Zhong defeated Wang Yi and Hu Yang in Hedong, captured the four cities of Liyang and Chongquan, and pointed his troops directly at Xianyang.

Wei was frightened, and Qin was also frightened, so the two sides once again ceased war and made peace.

In the fourth year of the reign of King Wei of Wei, Bai Qi attacked the Western Zhou Kingdom, and Meng Zhong was ordered by the king to save the Western Zhou Kingdom, and hundreds of thousands of troops on both sides fought in the territory of the Western Zhou Kingdom for several months, and Bai Qi finally failed to annex the Western Zhou Kingdom.

In the sixth year of the reign of Wei Wangyu, Qin and Zhao jointly attacked Shangdang County in South Korea, Meng Zhong led the army to reinforce Shangdang, and at the same time ordered the Jin contempt in Hedong to attack the Xihe of Qin, and called the Tang of Yecheng to attack Zhao, and finally Zhao took the lead in retreating, so Bai Qi also retreated with interest.

The seventh year of the reign of Wang Yu of Wei......

Eight years of the reign of Wang Yu of Wei......

The ninth year of the reign of King Wei ......

In a period of several years, Meng Zhong and Bai Qi fought more than a dozen times and countless small battles, almost covering most of the wars in the entire Central Plains over the years.

Although there were wars in other countries during this period, for example, the Qi general Tiandan united with Zhao to crusade against Yan, but was repelled by the Yan general Rong Worm, and Rong Worm was worshiped by the Yan King as 'Gaoyang Jun'.

Subsequently, King Yan ordered Gaoyang Jun Rong to crusade against Zhao, but unfortunately was repelled by Zhao general Zhao Hao, and Zhao Hao was also named 'Ma Fu Jun' by Zhao Wang He.

Another example is the Qi State against the Song Dynasty, the Song State against the Qi State, and the Song State and the Chu State fought for the land of Sihuai and Wu Yue, but in general, these wars that took place in the eastern part of the Central Plains, no matter the scale or intensity, are not as good as the wars between the Wei State and the Qin State in recent years.

Especially the battles between Meng Zhong and Bai Qi.

If we go back a few decades to that era, it belongs to the era of Zhang Yi and Wei Zhang, then the current era belongs to Meng Zhong and Bai Qi.

Qin Baiqi and Wei Mengzhong, during the confrontation between the two, not to mention the rest of the countries, even the two monarchs of Wei and Qin trembled and walked on thin ice.

If you strike a shield with a spear, or the spear is damaged, or the shield is destroyed.

And what about spear against spear?

Qin Wangji and Wei Wangyu were terrified, fearing that the two countries would eventually end up in a miserable situation in which each other's countries were attacked by each other's enemy generals.

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