Meng Wu didn't let Yu Ye come out with him, left him in the big tent of the Chinese army, and then took Meng Yi and Xu Wan to the front of the army.

On the way to the road, Meng Wucai asked Xu Wan about the whole story.

Xu Wan recounted in detail how he faced the battle, how he pretended to flee as planned, how the crossbowmen shot at the opponent's horses, and then the two sergeants captured the three elders and their soldiers alive.

It turned out that after Yingzheng blessed the crown ceremony, the Meng family army hurried to Longxi County, and then deliberately transferred the defenders of Yongding Pass and Longxi County to paralyze Rong Dijun's carelessness.

Xu Wan's fraudulent escape was also a strategy that was discussed in advance. He used himself as a decoy and then relied on the Ballista Battalion for an ambush.

If the results of the Flying Crossbow Battalion were not so obvious, then Xu Wan would also rush back to save the Flying Crossbow Camp as soon as possible.

And now this result, not to mention Xu Wan, even Meng Wu didn't think much of it.

It was expected to be a fierce fight, but it didn't turn out to be a one-sided situation.

Enjoying the joy of the big victory, several people secretly admired the domineering of the flying crossbow in their hearts.

"General Meng, what should we do next?" Xu Wan asked.

Meng Wu didn't think about it, and said directly: "Next, there is a better bait than you." ”

"Oh?" Xu Wan hesitated for a moment, then understood what Meng Wu meant, so he laughed.

The three elders, of course, are the best bait.

"However, the main force of the enemy army is quite numerous, and we must also be well prepared." Meng Wu said again.

Xu Wan nodded and asked, "I don't know where the 30,000 troops who were transferred from Longxi a few days ago are now?" ”

"They went to Yongding Pass, and now they may have taken it back." Meng Wu said quite firmly.

Xu Wan said with a lot of surprise: "No wonder the temple urgently ordered the 30,000 soldiers to leave Longxi, presumably it was a detour to intercept the back road of Rong Di, and they couldn't run if they wanted to." ”

"Not bad." Meng Wu said, "The current situation is that the Mengjia army has 50,000 troops, you still have 20,000 infantry bows and crossbows, and our flanks and rear, 3,000 'our army' are also ready to go, and the Rong Di army has lost 10,000 today, and there should be more than 90,000 left, which is almost the same in terms of numbers." ”

"But if you add the factors of time and location, then they have no chance of winning." Meng Yi followed and analyzed.

"yes." Meng Wu nodded and said, "What's more, the king also personally led an army of 50,000 to be our backup." ”

"The king himself is here, too?" Xu Wan asked in surprise.

"Hehe, that's good." Meng Wu said with a smile, "Meng Tian and Li Si took an army of 50,000 and escorted Chang Yu to Yongcheng to help, and after the king executed Chang Yu, he brought them all, but they set off two days later than us, and they should still be on the way." ”

It turned out that after Yingzheng blessed the crown ceremony in Yongcheng, he knew that Yiqu would definitely lead a large army to attack, so he sent Meng Wu to Longxi with the Mengjia army in advance to wait for the opportunity, and then sent a fast horse to transfer the defenders of Yongding Pass out and go to Longxi.

After the defenders of Yongding Pass converged with the Longxi Army, they lied that they wanted to rush to the aid of Yongcheng, and divided 30,000 troops led by Yingcheng, bypassing the Rong Di army and attacking Yongding Pass.

Xu Wan led 20,000 Longxi troops to stay in Longxi, and as early as before the arrival of the Rong Di army, he set countermeasures with Meng Wu, which led to today's big victory.

On Yingzheng's side, after rectifying the affairs of Yongcheng, he brought Meng Tian, Li Si, and the 50,000 troops they brought to support.

The three of them talked and chatted, and they had already come to the front of the battle, only to see that Rong Dijun was cleaning up the corpses of war horses left on the battlefield.

At this moment, a herald rushed from the enemy line, holding a flag and signaling not to release arrows.

Meng Wu gave the order and called the herald to come and speak.

The herald drove his horse to the front and arched his hand, "May I ask who is the commander of your army?" ”

"I'm the boss." Meng Wu said, "What's the matter with you?" ”

"The commander of our army has asked to say before the battle

Speech. After that, the herald of the righteous canal turned his horse and ran back, as if he did not dare to stay longer for a moment.

"Father, I'll go with you." Meng Yi said.

Meng Wu nodded, and led Meng Yi to drive his horse to the front of the formation.

I saw two people driving out of the horse on the other side, it was Thorin and Qiang.

Meng Wu bowed his hand very politely and said: "In Xia Mengwu, I don't know who the two young heroes are?" ”

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Suolin also replied: "In Xiayiqu, the young patriarch Suolin, who has admired the name of General Meng for a long time, saw it today, and it was really heroic. ”

"Hehe, Yiqu has many talents, and it is really blue." There was something in Meng Wu's words.

"This is the young patriarch of the Qiang tribe, Qiang." Suorin turned sideways and introduced the Qiang Fist, and then said, "We came here this time to ask, did Yu Ye, the third elder of Yiqu, have been captured by your army?" ”

"Hahaha......" Meng Wu laughed and said, "Your ministry came to Qin Realm as a guest with a banner, how can we not do a little bit of the friendship of the landlord, if the two of you are interested, you can also come to our army as a guest." ”

Meng Wu's words made Thorin a little speechless.

Thorin held back his anger, knowing that it was impossible, but he still asked, "Then I don't know if the Third Elder has been a guest, can he go home now?" ”

"Hehe, there's no hurry." Meng Wu said with a smile, "The wine and food have not yet been served, and Daqin can't lose his courtesy." ”

Seeing that he couldn't ask for the third elder, Solin also smiled and said, "There is an old saying in Huaxia that it is not rude to call for it, since General Meng is so gracious, we have to find a way to invite General Meng to the next place." ”

"Hehe, General Ben will wait and see."

With that, the two sides turned their horses around and returned to their respective camps.

On Rong Di's side, the four elders saw that Solin and Qiang were back, and hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "How is it?" Do they let people go? ”

Thorin shook his head and said, "The three elders are important people in our Yiqu, how could they let them go so easily, I have already issued a war letter to them, we must attack and save the three elders!" ”

"Good!" The fourth elder said in a loud voice, "Leave this matter to my brothers." ”

With that, the fourth elder looked at the fifth elder, as if asking for advice.

The Fifth Elder didn't speak, just nodded vigorously.

"Then let Qiang Qi lead his troops to go out with you, you have a total of 50,000 iron cavalry, and I will take the remaining 40,000 horses to you to make a strategy, in case the Qin army sneaks up from the flank." Thorin said.

The two elders and Qiang Qi received the order in unison, and each gathered his men and horses, and made preparations and mobilization before the battle.

However, it was getting late, and even if Thorin and the others were anxious, they could only wait for the night.

It is impossible to sneak attack at night, after all, Rong Dijun is not very familiar with the terrain in this area, and it is easy to fall into the trap of the Qin army if he attacks rashly.

On the Qin army's side, in order to prevent Rong Di's night attack, they did make a lot of preparations, in addition to strengthening the vigilance and expanding the scope of activities of the horses, around the camp, they also dug a lot of horse traps, placed a lot of horse ropes, and each sergeant also carried a tripping horse rope.

This kind of tripstring is relatively simple in design, it is a hemp rope, and two stones of considerable weight are tied at each end. The armorer grabs a piece, spins it around, throws the triphorse rope out, and it spins and smashes into the enemy's warhorse.

The horses that were hit were either stoned or tripped in their legs by ropes.

Although cavalry is the most brave and flexible among all arms, war horses are indeed a weakness.

Perhaps, the disadvantage of the Rong Di army is that there are too many single types of troops, all of which are cavalry.

In Meng Wu's big tent, the third elder Yu Ye took a bite of the leg of mutton in his hand and chewed it with taste.

After swallowing this mouthful, Yu Ye poured another big sip of wine, and then took another big bite of the leg of mutton.

He ate this way, not because he had never eaten good meat and wine, but because he thought that this was probably the last meal of his life.

Meng Wu and Meng Yi on the side

The father and son looked at Yu Ye's appearance and couldn't help but laugh in their hearts.

After a while, Yu Ye seemed to be full, threw down the leg of mutton with only bones left, wiped his mouth directly with his sleeve, and said, "Whatever you want to ask, you can ask, but Elder Ben won't say anything." If you don't want to ask anything, then you can send Elder Ben on his way. ”

Meng Wu knew that he had misunderstood, and did not explain anything.

Meng Yi was young and quite naughty, so he wanted to deliberately tease Yu Ye: "Okay, then you hear clearly, I'm going to start asking." ”

"Humph!" Yu Ye snorted coldly and closed his mouth.

Meng Yi cleared his throat and asked, "It is said that you nomadic tribes are inseparable from grass, so can you tell me how big this grassland is, how much grass grows on it, and how much is eaten by war horses and sheep every year?" ”

Meng Wu covered his mouth, almost not laughing.

Yu Ye didn't react for the first time that Meng Yi was entertaining him, blinked his eyes, and said, "Who can count what you asked, I thought you were going to ask something about the Yiqu tribe." ”

"Ask about the Yiqu tribe?" Meng Yi also held back a smile and pretended to be ignorant and asked, "Why?" ”

"Aren't you trying to find out the secrets of Rong Dijun?" Yu Ye asked.

"You don't want to talk about it." Meng Yi pouted and said, "Then why do I ask that?" ”

"You ......" Yu Ye heard that Meng Yi was teasing him, "Okay, good, the old man doesn't talk to you quickly, since there is nothing to ask, then let's do it." ”

"Do it?" Meng Yi is still the same, "What do you do?" ”

Yu Ye widened his eyes again, but before he could say anything, he heard Meng Wu say beside him: "Okay, Yi'er, don't make trouble." ”

Meng Yi grimaced and stepped aside.

Meng Wu stepped forward and arched his hand and said, "The dog is offended, and I hope that the third elder Haihan will be up." ”

"Humph!" The three elders twisted their heads to the side.

"However, the Third Elder may have misunderstood us." Meng Wu explained, "I don't want to torture the three elders for anything, let alone put them to death. ”

Yu Yehu looked at Meng Wu suspiciously, and said: "This is strange, neither torture nor killing, but also good wine and meat to entertain, what are your intentions?" ”

"Huh." Meng Wu smiled bitterly and said, "We are neither enemies nor selfish grudges, so why do we have to fight and kill?" And the Rongdi tribe is not my Great Qin people, now the soldiers are meeting, it is for the sake of state affairs, since it is a state affair, then it should naturally be decided by the king, a general in the lower district, can not be the master! ”

After a few words, Yu Ye was speechless, and he realized that he had despised the general in front of him.

However, Yu Ye still said disdainfully: "What about King Qin, it's not that he will either put the old man to death, or use the old man as a hostage to force Yiqu to retreat." ”

"Definitely." Meng Wu shook his head and said, "Before coming here, my king specially instructed that even if it is in front of the two armies, try not to kill, otherwise, the three elders can imagine that in today's battle, will those clans of yours still be alive?" ”

Yu Ye suddenly realized.

Indeed, today he led the army to defeat, most of the tribes were injured and fell to the ground, if it wasn't for the Meng family army deliberately sparing their hands, presumably the 10,000 tribes would have lost their lives.

But in reality, only a very small number of a few hundred people died in the chaotic battle, and the rest of them were taken back to the Mengjiajun garrison, and I heard that they were being treated by military doctors one by one.

"Besides." Meng Wu continued, "If you want to defeat the Rong Di army, why do you need to take the elders as hostages. ”

Meng Wu's extraordinary self-confidence and calmness had to make Yu Ye admire.

"It's not too early, the elders rest early, and this big tent will be given to you. Tomorrow, let's witness Daqin and Rong Di together, which is stronger and which is weak! ”

With that, Meng Wu walked out of the big tent with Meng Yi.

The three elders stared blankly at the tent door, pondering what Meng Wu had said.