Su Qin saw Zhou Shao's mysterious and unfathomable demeanor, and asked about the meeting between Ning Jun and Pang Ci a few days ago, his heart chuckled for a moment, and he thought: "This matter has not passed, is there really another hidden secret?" ”

Su Qin replied to Zhou Shao a little nervously: "I did talk to General Ning about Pang Ci, so what?" Why did General Zhou ask this question? ”

Zhou Shao looked around, leaned closer to Su Qin's ear, and said, "I heard that General Ning Jun and Pang Ci didn't go out of the city directly that day, and they also went to other places in Sogo City?" ”

Su Qin immediately frowned, and he asked eagerly, "Ah, there is such a thing, where did they go in the city?" What did you do? ”

Zhou Shao replied: "I don't know where it is, I heard the news from one of my sergeants, who said that he saw General Ning Jun and another person wearing a Qin army uniform in Sogo City a few days ago. ”

I asked where he had seen him. He said it was near the east gate of Sogo City. ”

"I think General Ning Jun should send Pang Ci out of the West Gate, what are they going to do at the East Gate?"

Zhou Shao expressed his suspicions, and Su Qin also felt strange, he thought: "Ning Jun will not be like Zhou Shao, deliberately leading Pang Ci around the corner in Sogo City." He and Pang Ci are old friends, how can he embarrass Pang Ci? ”

"If it wasn't for deliberately tossing Pang Ci, then what they were doing at the East Gate, this is really a puzzling thing."

Su Qin began to regret why he didn't ask Ning Jun more carefully just now? In the final analysis, he was still hindered by Ning Jun's feelings, and always hoped that Ning Jun would tell the situation by himself, rather than under Su Qin's interrogation.

Su Qin listened to Zhou Shao's report, and his first reaction was to call Ning Jun back and ask about the specific situation at that time. But after thinking about it, I felt that it was inappropriate.

Zhou Shao said: "In a battle with the Qin army tomorrow, if our army's actions are mastered by the Qin army, the consequences will be extremely serious. General Ning Jun is also the chief general who commands the army all the way, and the matter is big, so I hope the prime minister will think twice! ”

Su Qin was full of doubts, weighing the credibility of the information brought by Zhou Shao, and at the same time considering whether to change generals on the spot. After a long thought, he decided to keep the original arrangement unchanged.

Su Qin said to Zhou Shao: "I understand General Zhou's worries very well, and there is really no room for mistakes in this matter, otherwise, the losses of our army will be incalculable." ”

He changed his words and said, "But I have been friends with General Ning Jun for many years, and my friendship is extraordinary, how can I easily doubt him?" Besides, tomorrow's battle plan has been issued, all the generals have begun to prepare, and the generals are changing generals in battle, and the army's morale is unstable, how can this battle be fought? ”

Zhou Shao scratched his head, thought about it, and showed a confused look on his face, and he didn't know what to do.

Su Qin looked at Zhou Shao and said, "Let's stop this matter for the time being, we still carry out the original battle plan." If the situation on the battlefield changes, we will change at the opportune moment. ”

Su Qin had made up his mind, so he began to prepare for the next day's combat operations, he summoned a group of soldiers of the Chinese army, and assigned various tasks to them one by one, including various divisions of labor such as driving, ordering flags, and beating drums.

At midnight the next day, before dawn, the first group of right-hand troops began to set off, Su Qin personally went to the gate of the barracks, bid farewell to General Ning Jun, held his hand, and instructed again: "The right-hand army will ask General Ning to you, Wanwang camera to act, in order to preserve vitality." ”

As Su Qin spoke, he stared at Ning Jun nervously, wanting to see his reaction. However, Ning Jun's expression was not abnormal. He replied: "Ji Zi, please be relieved, I will lead the army well, and strive to exchange the least casualties for the greatest victory." ”

After seeing the departure of the right army, according to the scheduled time, the left army also set out one after another, and the sky was slightly bright at this time. Su Qin stood on top of the Chinese army chariot commanding the operation, watching the army march forward.

The army of more than 100,000 people lined up in a long neat queue and was marching towards Michi City.

After leaving Sogo City for more than an hour, the army on the left turned the mountain pass into the Michi area, and reached the valley, where the troops advanced along the mountain road.

At this moment, news came from the army on the right that the troops led by Ning Jun had been harassed by a small force of the Qin army, and the two armies had begun to engage the battle, the small force of the Qin army had been repulsed, and the army on the right continued to advance.

When Su Qin heard the news, he immediately arranged for the two heralds to send a letter to the army on the right, and instructed General Ning Jun: "The army is fighting steadily, not seeking to advance quickly, but seeking to be safe and safe." ”

The reason why Su Qin arranged this way was also out of the lessons of the past, the last time the Han army went to rescue Shangguancheng, they encountered a sudden ambush on the way, and the losses were quite heavy. Such a tragedy should not be repeated in the army on the right flank. And the Right Route Army led by Ning Jun was the main force of the South Korean army, and they were also bitten by snakes for ten years, and they were afraid of the well rope for ten years. I'm afraid it will be difficult to bear the pain of being ambushed again.

The army on the left led by Su Qin himself was progressing smoothly, and they advanced for sixty or seventy miles without being disturbed by any attack by the Qin army, let alone resisting. Su Qin thought to himself: "Could it be that the Qin army was so careless and forgot to be vigilant in the direction of Michi?" ”

Su Qin vaguely felt that this situation was not very normal, if Sima Cuo had the common sense of fighting, it was impossible for him not to even arrange a guard sentry on the road leading to Michi City. If that's the case, wouldn't Michi City completely give up the early warning?

The other generals of the Left Army, however, were mostly unalert, and they were now complacent. Thinking that the army on the left was like entering a no-man's land, it dodged the edge of the Qin army, avoided the real and attacked the false, and took it by surprise.

As the troops advanced, Su Qin's heart became more and more hanging. He had the intention of asking the troops to pause for a moment, so that he could observe the situation. However, after thinking about it again and again, he thought that it was still necessary to carry out the original plan, because once the Qin army was really defenseless, the victory of the coalition army would be great.

Under the temptation of such military exploits, which general can avoid being tempted. Therefore, although Su Qin was suspicious, he still followed the original train of thought and led his army to Michi City.

The troops went more than twenty miles further, and it was less than thirty miles away from Michi City, and the troops of the Left Route Army were filled with optimism, and everyone thought that Michi could be taken in one fell swoop by surprise.

At this moment, the herald brought a second message from the Left Route Army: "The Left Route Army led by General Ning Jun has encountered the Qin army, and the two armies are inseparable. ”

When Su Qin heard the news, he immediately asked for the details and asked, "Which general of the Qin army did General Ning Jun encounter?" How are they arranged? ”

The herald replied: "Report to the commander, it is the army of Sun Yan of the Qin army, the number of the opponent is about 30,000, and it occupies a favorable mountain and favorable terrain. It was very difficult for our army to attack. ”

When Su Qin heard this, he was shocked in his heart, and suddenly thought: "There is a gap between this Gongsun Yan and Sima Cuo, Sima Co arranged him in the direction of Shangguan City, could it be that the main force of the Qin army is not under Shangguan City?" Besides, isn't Gongsun Yan stationed in Jiaoyang City? ”

The Qin army was basically undefended in the direction of Mianchi, and sent Gongsun Yan to block the right army of the coalition army, and the two suspicious points superimposed on Su Qin and had to make Su Qin vigilant. He pondered: "Then where did Sima go wrong, could he just stay in Mianchi City and sit back and watch the Qin army fight against the coalition army under Shangguan City?" Why is that? ”

"Did he have the foresight to know in advance that the troops of the Ludao Coalition Army attacking Shangguancheng were not all the main forces?"

"And once Shangguancheng is the main force of the coalition army, then Sima Cuo can't bear the responsibility of major negligence?"

Su Qin thought and judged urgently, and he suddenly shouted: "Not good! Sima Cuo has already grasped the true intentions of our army. ”

He suddenly lifted the curtain of the troop chariot and ordered to the thirty or so herald cavalry who were following the left and right sides of the chariot: "All the heralds obey the order, immediately go to all the troops to pass on my general orders, and let the troops stop advancing!" ”

At this time, the Left Coalition Army was advancing into a valley, the road was rugged and narrow, winding on a rock face halfway up the mountainside, flanked by towering hills, and it was extremely difficult to spread out the formation. Su Qin glanced at the surrounding terrain and thought, "If the Qin army is ambushed here, the general situation of our coalition army will not be good!" ”

Not long after Su Qin anxiously dispatched the heralds, all of a sudden, the front of the coalition army was full of people, war horses neighed, and the formation was in chaos. The vanguard troops poured in behind like a tidal wave.

After a while, the heralds who ran to the front to deliver the letter desperately squeezed through the crowd and rushed towards the location of Su Qin's Chinese army, and before they could get close to the military vehicle that Su Qin was riding, they shouted loudly: "Report to Prime Minister Su, the troops in front have encountered an ambush by the Qin army!" ”

Su Qin was already standing on top of the military cart at this moment, and when he heard the herald's report, his heart was beating wildly.

At this moment, from the hills on both sides of the valley, a large number of Qin troops emerged, some of them holding strong bows and crossbows to shoot at the allied soldiers on the mountain road, and some pushed down the rolling logs with hooks and sharp edges and corners.

Su Qin's side suddenly had a lot of school guards hit arrows, some of them were seriously injured and couldn't fall to the ground, and most of them covered their heads with weapons and dodged close to the side of the rock wall. The coalition formation on the mountain road was in chaos, and the people were panicked, shouting and crying.

At this time, Su Qin was of course sure that he had been ambushed by Sima Cuo's arrangement, and he immediately understood that his action plan was already in Sima Cuo's grasp.

In a hurry, he couldn't think about how the battle plan was leaked, and the quick reaction in an instant was: "Hurry up and command the troops to retreat and break through!" ”

The arrows shot down by the Qin army are still scattered and disorderly, Su Qin spent time in the Qin army in his early years, and he knows that this is far from the Qin army's arrow rain array.

If it was for the Qin army to organize an arrow array, the crossbow arrows would fall as densely as a drizzle, and where the crossbow arrows passed, even a fly might not be able to escape, let alone a big living person.

At that time, where will the soldiers of the coalition forces on the mountain road still have a chance to live!