"Are the young people of the Central Plains so brave today?"

After receiving the news that Jin Kuang had sent someone to ask for help, Sima Cuo frowned and paced back and forth in the tent.

He still couldn't understand that Meng Zhong, the Wei general in the opposite city, had exhausted his forces in today's first battle, and he had to say that this way of fighting completely subverted his concept of using troops.

In all fairness, it is true that he is a famous general of the Qin State, but he has not had much time to lead the army in the Central Plains, and he has been in the land of Bashu for nearly twenty years since he defected to the Qin State.

The destruction of the three countries of Ba, Shu and Tho made the Qin State completely occupy the entire land of Bashu, and then went out to Bashu twice, successively quelled the rebellion of Chen Zhuang of Shu and Yinghui of Shu, so that the land of Bashu completely belonged to Qin.

Since then, Sima Cuo has been sitting in Hanzhong, living in Shangyong, that is, the Chu people called the "Shang Yu" place, until two years ago the Qin State was ready to use troops against Wei and Han, Sima Cuo led the army to the Central Plains, and laid down the Xiangcheng of Wei.

Therefore, in general, Sima Coo did not have much combat experience in the face of the generals on the Central Plains, but even so, he couldn't imagine that the generals on the Central Plains were so "reckless" in their combat methods.

Dispatch all your forces as soon as you come up? Then Meng Zhong is not afraid of being defeated in a war?

You must know that Fangcheng's strength is not as much as the Qin-Chu coalition army, the Qin-Chu coalition army has a full 160,000, and the Fangcheng Wei army, full of Sima miscalculated his 50,000, the difference between the two is more than twice the strength of the force, unless the Wei army is ready to exchange one person for three, otherwise the more this fight to the end, the greater the advantage of the Qin-Chu coalition army.

In this case, the normal way of thinking must be to defend the city and use the advantages of the city wall to reduce the casualties of the Fang city, so that the Wei army can hold out longer.

But Meng Zhong on the other side did the opposite, using "grabbing grain" as a bait to lure him Qin Army to send troops.

Yes, now Sima Cuo has also figured it out, originally he kept those rice grains in Fangcheng because he lured the Wei army out of the city to collect grain, but now, he was calculated by Meng Zhong on the other side - the other party ambushed them in turn when he knew that once Fangcheng sent troops to collect grain, it would be immediately attacked by the Qin army.

Under the noses of the 160,000 Qin-Chu coalition troops, the Qin army was ambushed!

This kind of courage has never been seen before.

Just when Sima Cuo was still thinking, a subordinate general walked into the tent and reported with his fists in his fist: "Captain, the generals and soldiers in the army are ready." ”

"Good! Start now to support Jin Kwong! Sima Cao waved his hand and ordered.

In view of the fact that the two generals Chang Chi and Wu Rong each led 10,000 Qin soldiers are still looking for woods in the surrounding area and transporting timber in the direction of the main camp, so the main camp of the Qin army is actually only 40,000 Qin troops, so after learning that Fang Cheng intends to harvest rice at night, Sima Cuo will order Jin Kuang to take 20,000 Qin troops to attack Fang Cheng, don't look at the number, in fact, this is already half of the current Qin army's main camp side.

Sima Cuo originally thought that the 20,000 Qin army was enough to deal with Fang Cheng's army, at least to force Fang Cheng to give up harvesting the rice outside the city, but he never thought that Fang Cheng's purpose tonight was not to harvest the rice outside the city at all, but to use it as a cover to ambush his Qin army, and as soon as he came up, he dispatched almost all of Fang Cheng's troops, so that Jin Kuang fell into disadvantage all of a sudden.

To be honest, the reckless combat style of the Fangcheng Wei army, Sima Cuo really couldn't adapt to it.

In his opinion, the battle between the two armies should have been the two armies starting from the size of thousands of people to test each other, and then gradually increasing their troops, and finally investing all their forces in the decisive battle.

『…… Unless, then, Meng Zhong thinks that there is no need to test the details of our army.'"

On the way to Fangcheng to rescue Jin Kuang, Sima Cuo thought secretly.

But when he thought about it, he felt quite strange, because this was the first time that he and his army had fought against Meng Zhong in Fangcheng, so why would Meng Zhong think that there was no need to know more about the approximate strength of his Qin army?

Sima Cuo didn't think that Meng Zhong would not understand the truth of "knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent, and not being defeated in a hundred battles".

"Is it ......?"

Suddenly, Sima Cuo seemed to think of something, and looked back at Bai Qi, who was riding behind him in a chariot but didn't say a word, and suddenly realized in his heart.

He suddenly remembered that this time Bai Qi led the army to attack the 70,000 troops of the Chu State, some of which were the Qin troops who had been stationed in Shu County and Hanzhong.

"That's a ......."

Standing on the chariot and brushing his beard, Sima Cuo suddenly felt that he was at a loss.

After all, he knew almost nothing about Meng Zhong in Fangcheng and the Wei army under his command, but the other party seemed to have already explored the strength of the "Qin Army in Shu" under his command through the test of Bai Qi, and even maybe he had already thought of a way to target it.

What's worse is that Bai Qi, who could have given him advice, deteriorated his relationship with him again because of Meng Zhong's divisive letter.

"Obviously, the relationship has eased a little before......

Glancing at Bai Qi not far behind him, Sima secretly regretted it.

I have to say that after gradually understanding Bai Qi's character and his purpose, he also changed slightly to this young junior general.

At least he has realized that Bai Qi is not the kind of person who disregards the overall situation for his own selfish interests, at least at a critical time, Bai Qi will still remind him.

This is like Bai Qi reminding him a few days ago that he should be careful of the raids of Fangcheng's cavalry when he goes out to investigate the geographical advantages around Fangcheng, which makes Sima Wrong have a great change in his opinion of this young man.

However, Meng Zhong's letter of discord completely destroyed the relationship between the two, which had gradually eased, and made Bai Qi even more indifferent to him from then on.

Sima mistakenly felt that unless he was willing to hand over the leadership of the Qin army to Bai Qi and listen to the latter's proposition, Bai Qi would probably not communicate with him again.

And Sima Cuo couldn't do this, and he couldn't cede the dominance of the Qin army in public or private.

Although he admires Bai Qi a lot, this does not mean that he will sacrifice his own interests to fulfill Bai Qi - he is only in his fifties, he is not old, and he can still fight for the Qin State!

"Let's do this first, after conquering Fang City, find a good time to talk to him......

Glancing at Bai Qi not far behind him, Sima Cuo thought secretly.

At this time, a Qin sergeant came over to report: "Lieutenant, Zhao Ju, the general of Chu State, led the army to join our army. ”

"Hmm." Sima Co nodded and said, "Please come to that Doctor Zhao." ”

"Whoa!"

A moment later, Zhao Ju rode a chariot to Sima Cuo's side and exchanged salutes with Sima Cuo.

At this time, Sima Cuo said with a little apology: "I am tired of Dr. Zhao leading the army to help, and I really don't want to go." ”

It turned out that when Sima Cuo realized that Fangcheng might have exhausted his forces, he immediately sent someone to ask for help from the Chu army, and invited Zhao Ju to lead the army to attack the Wei army in Fangcheng with him, after all, after removing 20,000 troops who were cutting down trees far from the main camp, he only had 40,000 Qin troops under his command, and the troops may not be able to win Fangcheng, if there is no help from the Chu army, he may not be able to defeat Fangcheng tonight.

Here, Zhaoju listened to Sima Cuo's words, and hurriedly said: "The national lieutenant is serious, and the king of our country has ordered him to assist the national lieutenant, obey the dispatch of the national lieutenant, and take the national lieutenant as the head of everything from now on. ”

I have to say that this is a beautiful word, but it is not Zhao Ju's true words, maybe in his heart, he wishes that the Qin army was defeated in Fangcheng.

Obviously, Sima Cuo also knew a little bit, and he didn't take Zhao Ju's words too seriously, anyway, in Sima Cuo's opinion, as long as Xiong Heng, the king of Chu, was on the side of his Qin State, even if Zhao Ju opposed assisting the Qin army in attacking Wei and Han in his heart, he would not be able to come up with any tricks.

In contrast, Sima Cuo cared more about that Meng Zhong.

If he had been a little contemptuous of Meng Zhong before, then at this moment, he had been wary of this young man, just because the other party's actions had surprised him again and again.

He asked Zhao Ju, "What is Doctor Zhao's opinion on Meng Zhong in Fang City?" ”

In fact, Zhao Ju knows the details of Meng Zhong, after all, Qu Yuan is his brother-in-law, and the relationship between the two is very good, after Qu Yuan defected to Fangcheng, he wrote a letter to tell Zhao Ju the details of Meng Zhong and others, including Meng Zhong's background, teacher, etc., but obviously, Zhao Ju will not tell Sima Wrong about these.

No, I saw Zhao Ju holding his beard and pretending to think for a moment, shook his head and said: "I only heard that this Meng Zhong once defeated that Bai Zuogen in Yique in Korea, but I don't know anything else...... Oh yes, I heard that when Bai Zuogen attacked my Chu State a while ago, that Meng Zhong took the opportunity to take away hundreds of thousands of Chu people......" Speaking of this, he said with a smile: "I heard rumors that Bai Zuo had some agreement with that Meng Zhong in private at that time, so the two armies of Qin and Wei did not invade each other......"

"......" Sima Coo glanced back at Bai Qi not far behind him, and did not say anything about it.

At most, I think that the "friendship" between Bai Qi and Meng Zhong is really a bit strange.

Obviously, Meng Zhong had defeated Bai Qi in the Battle of Yique before, but Bai Qi had great respect for the former, and Sima Cuo could not understand this relationship very well.

This is not surprising, after all, as Bai Qi thinks, Sima Cuo has not encountered an enemy general on a par with him, so he naturally can't experience this feeling, unlike Meng Zhong's righteous brother Tian Zhang, even if Ying Ji died of illness, he still remembers this old enemy who once defeated him, that is, he is glad for Ying Ji's early death, and he hates the early death of this fierce enemy.

After chatting a little bit, seeing that Zhao Ju didn't know much about Meng Zhong, Sima Cuo didn't ask any more questions, but just urged the Qin and Chu armies to go to the area of Fangcheng as soon as possible.

However, just after his tens of thousands of troops left the main camp, some dark shadows slowly appeared in the distance under the night, and if they looked closely, it was clearly the Fangcheng cavalry led by Meng Zhong, Hua Hu, and Mu Wu.

"Ah Zhong guessed correctly, Sima Cuo really moved and sent troops to support the Qin army in the area of Fangcheng at the moment."

The corners of his mouth raised, Hua Hu's gaze turned to the main camp of the Qin and Chu armies, licked his lips and said, "In this way, his camp will be empty...... Tsk, Qin's famous general Sima is wrong, but that's it. ”

"Don't be careless."

Mu Wu reminded in a low voice beside him: "The Qin army has few soldiers, or it is pouring into the nest, but the Chu army may not be, I think that at least half of the Chu army is still in the camp, that is, 50,000 people...... And we, there are only a thousand people, and if one is not careful, it will be annihilated. ”

"That's what you say to that guy over there."

Hua Hu nodded to Meng Hu beside him, saying that this is a full reckless man, and he Hua Hu is familiar with the art of war, which is obviously different from the reckless man next to him.

As if he had seen through Hua Hu's thoughts, Mu Wu secretly sneered.

It must be admitted that Hua Hu is indeed familiar with the art of war, but in most cases, he is actually no different from Meng Hu, both horizontal and vertical rely on intuition, but Hua Hu is still proud that he feels that he is more strategic than Meng Hu, but in Mu Wu's words, Hua Hu's art of war is purely read into the dog's belly, except for knowing a few more words, there is almost no difference from Meng Hu.

And this is also the reason why Meng Zhong asked Mu Wu to preside over tonight's cavalry attack on the camp.

Thinking of this, Mu Wu couldn't help but snicker, making Lu Wen, the deputy general beside him, really a little helpless.

"Ahem."

With a low cough, Lu Wen reminded Mu Wudao in a low voice: "Sima, then Sima Cuo has led the Qin and Chu armies to Fangcheng, and we should take action." ”

"Yes, yes."

Mu Wu woke up from his personal reverie, lowered his voice and said to Meng Hu, Cao Chun, Hua Hu, and Cai Cheng: "Tonight's task, I believe you are already clear, that is, when the Qin and Chu armies rushed to Fangcheng, take the opportunity to attack his camp, and take the opportunity to burn the grain, grass, and baggage of the Qin and Chu armies, remember, once you succeed, retreat immediately, don't fall in love with war, now I will assign the task......"

Before the words fell, Meng Hu said impatiently: "What else is assigned?" There are many soldiers in the Chu camp, I will attack the Chu camp, you two go to the Qin camp! …… Cao Chun, let's go! ”

With that, he turned his horse and headed in the direction of Chu Ying.

Seeing this, Hua Hu was furious in his heart: "This guy ......"

Speaking of this, he also urged his lieutenant Cai Chengdao: "Cai Cheng, let's go to Chuying too, don't let Menghu, the damn guy, take the lead!" ”

With that, he also turned his horse away.

Looking at the backs of Meng Hu and Hua Hu leaving, Cao Chun and Cai Cheng glanced at each other, glanced at Mu Wu who was stunned with some sympathy, and said, "Mu Sima, what ...... Shall I go first? ”

After saying that, the two of them also fled and left, leaving only Mu Wu and Lu Wen still in place.

How can this be...... Outrageous...... These two bastards, obviously swore in front of Ah Zhong before, and they will definitely obey my command this time......"

I saw Mu Wu waiting for the backs of Meng Hu and Hua Hu leaving, and said through gritted teeth: "After I go back, I must give them a good look!" ”

Hearing this, Lu Wen rolled his eyes.

He knows very well that he is the main general, don't look at the fierce scolding at this time, he is really in front of Menghu and Huahu, but he can't be tough at all.

The reason is very simple, he, the main general, can't beat Menghu and Huahu.

Seeing that Mu Wu was still gritting his teeth here, Lu Wen thought for a while and reminded: "Sima, Menghu and Huahu sneak attacked the Chu camp, the Chu camp has a lot of soldiers, they may not be able to succeed easily, we can go to support Menghu and Huahu after the sneak attack on the Qin camp, and then we will make the greatest feat, won't we be able to compare Menghu and Huahu?" ”

Upon hearing this, Mu Wu turned his anger into joy and said beautifully: "You are right! Let's go, let's go to Qinying! ”

"Whoa!" Lu Wen smiled slightly, and clenched his fists to receive his life.

A moment later, the cavalry under the command of Meng Hu, Hua Hu, and Mu Wu was divided into two, with Meng Hu and Hua Hu sneaking up on the Chu camp, and Mu Wu sneaking into the Qin camp.

I have to say that the Qin camp at this moment is almost defenseless, there is only a half-man-high earthen wall around the camp, and the soldiers in the camp are basically sent to Fangcheng, leaving only a few thousand people to guard the camp, guarding the baggage and grain and grass in the army.

However, these Qin soldiers who stayed in the camp did not expect that the Wei army would launch a sneak attack on his camp at this time, so that when Mu Wu led more than 300 cavalry to break into the Qin camp effortlessly, those Qin soldiers who stayed behind had almost no time to make corresponding defenses.

"Where did the sound of horses' hooves come from?"

After faintly hearing the sound of horses' hooves from far and near, the Qin soldiers who stayed behind were stunned.

But soon, these people came to their senses and shouted: "Enemy attack! Enemy attack! ”

But even so, they were still a step late, and Mu Wu and his cavalry veterans skillfully rode their horses over the earthen wall, galloped back and forth in the Qin camp, or kicked over the braziers in one battalion, or poured the charcoal fire in the brazier on the tents, causing the camp to quickly burst into flames.

"Don't be in love!"

Staying in the Qin camp, Mu Wu commanded the cavalry under his command, setting fire to the camp while looking for the location where the Qin army stacked grain and grass and heavy equipment.

Although the Qin soldiers in the camp organized a formation in a panic and tried to expel these cavalry, it was a pity that these cavalry under Mu Wu were all veterans of the Battle of Yique last year, and they were very good at dealing with the infantry.

"Found it!"

Soon, cavalry found the location where the Qin army had piled up grain and grass.

As a result, the scattered cavalry immediately regrouped and launched a volley of fire arrows towards the location where the Qin army had piled up grain and grass, although there were many Qin soldiers who were desperately defending, but these Qin soldiers could not stop the Wei army from igniting those grain piles with fire arrows.

"Fight the fire!"

"Hurry up and put out the fire!"

The Qin soldiers panicked, and instead of resisting the cavalry that were close at hand, they turned to extinguish the fires on the grain piles.

But unfortunately, they did not hesitate to sacrifice their lives to fight the fire, and only slightly delayed the time when the grain and grass were burned.

Only half a moment later, the Qin camp was on fire everywhere, especially the place where the grain and grass were stacked, as if it had become a sea of fire.

Seeing this, Mu Wu did not hesitate to order the evacuation, and instead supported Meng Hu and Hua Hu, who attacked the Chu camp.

Compared with the Qin camp, the situation on the Chu camp side is not much better, after all, the Chu camp also lacks wood to build the camp, and only an earthen wall is barely used as a defense, and even, because the Chu camp occupies a large area, so that in some places the Chu army has not had time to pile up the earthen wall, which is simply the same as not being defended.

The only variable is that there are still tens of thousands of Chu troops in the Chu camp, but unfortunately, these Chu troops all went to the tents early to rest, and only some patrolling soldiers faintly heard the sound of horses' hooves.

But obviously, the reaction of the Chu army was much worse than that of the Qin army, so that when Meng Hu and Hua Hu had already led their respective cavalry to the camp, those patrolling Chu soldiers woke up like a dream to send a message representing the enemy's attack, so that the sound of the bell bell warning resounded throughout the camp.

But even so, these Chu troops were still a step late, only to see Meng Hu and Hua Hu leading their respective 300 cavalry to gallop back and forth in the Chu camp, raiding, lighting fires everywhere, creating chaos, although there were still tens of thousands of Chu soldiers in the Chu camp, but these Chu soldiers were in a panic, and they could not effectively stop the counterattack.

"Where are the enemy troops?"

"No, I don't know......"

"How many enemy troops are there?"

"I don't know ...... either"

I have to say that the above dialogue is a true portrayal of the Chu army camp at this moment, although most of the Chu soldiers felt the crisis, they didn't know how many Wei troops there were, and from which direction they were attacking, they just ran around the camp in a panic, trying to escape outside the camp.

This made it impossible for those generals in the Chu army to gather soldiers and organize an effective counterattack in a short period of time.

And when the Chu army was in a panic, Menghu, Huahu and the cavalry under their command did not relentless at all, holding Changge to kill in front of those Chu pawns who were running back and forth, waving the weapons in their hands, mercilessly slaughtering those Chu pawns who had almost no fighting spirit.

"Fangcheng's No. 1 warrior Menghu is here!"

"Fangcheng's No. 1 warrior Huahu is here!"

"Huahu, what are you always doing with me? You go over there! ”

"Why should I go over there? Going to go, you're going! Leave it to me here! ”

"Why?"

"Then less nonsense! Each according to his ability! ”

"Afraid of you?"

From a distance, watching each other's generals wield their weapons and kill many enemy troops, it was simply a big killing, and the cavalry under the command of the two praised their bravery, but they inevitably felt a kind of helplessness like "here again" in their hearts.

"Follow Sima, fight hard to kill the enemy, and compare the Menghu team!" Huahu's deputy general Cai Cheng seemed to be watching the excitement and shouted a word.

Hearing this, Menghu's deputy general Cao Chun tilted his head and turned his head to look at Cai Cheng.

"Provocative, huh?" He snorted lightly, waved his hand and ordered: "Follow closely behind Meng Sima, kill!" ”

"Wow!"

The open struggle between Menghu and Huahu, as well as the secret battle between Cao Chun and Cai Cheng, made the morale of the two Fangcheng cavalry on both sides ignited at once.

"We are the number one tiger rider in Fangcheng!"

"Fuck you, our door is the first tiger rider of Fangcheng cavalry!"

"Then it's up to each person! Whichever side kills more enemies is the first tiger rider! ”

"I'm happy to accompany you!"

I have to say that it seems that the conversation between the above two Fangcheng cavalry is not understood by outsiders at all.

A moment later, when Mu Wu led his cavalry to kill, although he was shocked that Menghu and Huahu were actually killing in the Chu camp where there were still tens of thousands of Chu troops stationed, they were also so angry that they couldn't do it, who let Menghu and Huahu only care about the competition, and actually forgot to take the opportunity to burn the grain and grass of the Chu army.

In the end, it was Mu Wu who led the cavalry under his command and took advantage of the chaos to burn the baggage, grain and grass of the Chu army.

At the same time, Meng Zhong was standing on the tower of the south gate of Fangcheng, staring intently at a "fire snake" approaching in the distance.

He knew that the Qin and Chu armies, which were carrying torches, were hurrying here and here, intending to support the Qin army that was surrounded by his Wei army.

"It's coming quickly, but it's ......"

Whispering softly, he looked up at the farther south, only to see that the distant south was full of flames, obviously Meng Hu, Hua Hu, and Mu Wu had already succeeded.

"It's a pity that it's just a feint here......"

Yes, Fang Cheng's side put on a posture of pouring into the nest, as if he wanted to swallow the 20,000 Qin troops under the command of Qin General Jin Kuang in one go, which was just a pretense for Meng Zhong to lure Sima Co to pour all his troops to rush to a decisive battle with him.

From beginning to end, Meng Zhong's goal was the main camp of the Qin-Chu coalition army, more precisely, the food and grass of these two armies.

"The order went down, stopped besieging the Qin army outside the city, and told Zheng Zheng, Wu Ying, Wei Xu and others to immediately lead the army to retreat into the city. …… Tonight, our army has won a great victory! ”

Standing by the city wall with his hands behind his back, Meng Zhong Zhengse ordered.

Behind him, several Wei pawns knocked on one knee and clenched their fists to lead the way.

"Whoa!"