『ps: In the previous chapter, someone asked whether "Xiwu" and "Gongsun Xi" were one or two people. I would like to explain that Xishou and Xiwu are two military positions in the Wei State. However, in most cases (including historical books), Xishou refers to Gongsun Yan and Xiwu refers to Gongsun Xi, because these two are the most famous and representative. In addition, "Xi" was a symbol of courage at that time.

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Gradually, more and more generals of the Sima level who came to the tent to participate in the military convention were more and more.

The military system of Wei State also continued to Jin State, while Jin State adopted the organization of "The Literature of Zhou", that is, one army had 12,500 people. Therefore, there were about 180,000 Wei troops here, which included about 14 to 15 military Simas.

There were fifteen generals of the Wei army who arrived at the scene, and even one of them was Meng Zhong, who was not unfamiliar with the army general Gongsun Shu in the rear camp.

When Gongsun Shu walked in, he saw Meng Zhong sitting near the tent. The veteran was stunned for a moment, but even Meng Zhong was surprised that Gongsun Shu did not expose him and expelled him from the tent. Instead, after looking at him with interest, he smiled at him and nodded, his actions were full of kindness.

I have to say that this incident surprised Meng Zhong quite. After all, in the "Hou Battalion Incident" a while ago, Meng Zhong broke into the Hou Battalion and made a big fuss. The Hou Battalion was exactly the jurisdiction of Gongsun Shu. It was hard to imagine that this veteran had no malice towards him.

"Probably because of Duan Gan or the Confucianism in Xihe?"

Meng Zhong had a self-knowledge, but he would not arbitrarily think that Gongsun Shu had loved him.

But even so, he didn't mind at all, and even wished that Gongsun Xi could use him for the sake of Duan Gan and the Confucianism of Xihe.

Unfortunately, according to Meng Zhong's careful observation in recent times, Gongsun Xi finally favored Xue Gongtian Wen, and more or less targeted him.

『By the way... Gongsun Xi hasn't noticed it yet, right?

Meng Zhong turned his head and looked at Gongsun Xi who was sitting in the main seat in the tent. He saw that the latter was holding a pen and burying his head on the low table in front of him, and he didn't know what to draw or write.

It may be drawing a map of the garrisons of the Qin, Wei and Han armies.

However, Gongsun Du, the guard standing beside Gongsun Xi, discovered Meng Zhong's arrival early, and stared at Meng Zhong intently at this moment.

Meng Zhong was not afraid at all and had several contacts with Gongsun Du.

Just as Meng Zhong secretly observed the world in the tent, the military Sima who had already sat in the tent also secretly observed him.

I remember that after these people entered the tent, they had already seen Meng Zhong sitting in the seat near the tent, with a look of surprise on their faces.

Some military Simas do not recognize Meng Zhong, so when they see Meng Zhong, they can't help but think in surprise: Is this kid so young? Is he actually a colleague of the military Sima level?

However, some soldiers recognized Meng Zhong, so when they saw Meng Zhong, they were more surprised than others: I remember this kid, Is this the commander named Meng Zhong? Xiwu recruited Sima of the army to discuss military information, how did this kid get in?

But even if he recognizes Meng Zhong's army Sima, no one has exposed Meng Zhong at this moment. After all, the "back camp incident" a while ago had spread among the 180,000 Wei troops, so that everyone in the army learned about a news that this commander named Meng Zhong had a very tough backstage and was also quite strong himself, so it was particularly unwise to offend such young people for no reason.

And considering that Meng Zhong himself knew the situation, he chose a seat close to the tent and sat there, so no one went to trouble him.

Seeing this, Jun Sima Jiaoge was very surprised and whispered to Jun Sima Tang sitting beside him: "This kid actually got in..."

Tang Zhi smiled faintly, waved his hand and signaled Jiao Ge not to make a sound. At the same time, he turned his head to glance at Xi Wu who was sitting in the main seat in the tent.

According to what he saw, Xi Wu was sitting in the main seat and lowered his head to draw a map, so he never noticed Meng Zhong's arrival.

But when can I get confused like this?

Tang Zhi was very much looking forward to what would happen when Gongsun Xi saw Meng Zhong.

It was not targeting Meng Zhong. He was just quite curious about this. Who made Meng Zhong's methods in the "Back Camp Incident" a while ago were really cunning, so he wanted to see what Meng Zhong could do to convince Gongsun Xi this time.

After about a moment, Gongsun Xi put down the pen in his hand. At this moment, on the low table in front of him, there was indeed a newly drawn marching map. The map was roughly painted with "Yique Mountain", "Yi Shui", "Xiangshan", and the stationed locations of the four armies of Qin, Wei, Han, and Eastern Zhou dynasties.

Before explaining this map, we must first explain the meaning of "Yique".

Que, as the name suggests, is Menque. Therefore, the popular explanation of Yique is "a gateway natural danger located on the Yishui River."

It turns out that two mountains in Yique are confronting each other, with Yique Mountain in the west and Xiangshan in the east. Yi River flows through it. From a distance, it looks like a natural gate, so it is called Yique. [ps: Yique Mountain is also called Longmen Mountain. The Longmen Grottoes are located on the cliffs of Yique Mountain and Xiangshan on both sides of the Yishui River, but it was carved in the Northern Wei Dynasty.]

Nowadays, the 100,000 troops of South Korea and nearly 10,000 troops of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty are deployed on the plains south of Yique Mountain on the west side of the Yishui River, the armies of the two countries have built barracks and solid defense facilities in this area to resist more than 100,000 Qin troops coming from the "new city" in the southwest direction.

As for the 180,000 Wei troops under Gongsun Xi, they are now stationed about ten miles north of Yique Mountain, about thirty miles away from the coalition forces of South Korea and Eastern Zhou countries. Of course, considering that they need to bypass Yique when supporting the troops of South Korea and Eastern Zhou, the distance between the two armies is more than thirty miles.

But then again, the reason why Gongsun Xi stationed his army on the north side of Yique Mountain was not entirely because he wanted to let the Korean army and the Qin army consume each other first. He was also guarding against the Qin army.

After all, he once followed Tian Zhang with Bao Yuan to conquer Qin State and knew the vast land south of the river. Take Yiqueyi as an example. He knew that the opposite bank of Yique Mountain was Xiangshan, and the heights of the two mountains were similar. It was difficult to guarantee that the Qin army would not send people to occupy Xiangshan, climb up to see the deployment of the Wei and Han armies. If the Wei army was too far ahead, it was difficult to guarantee that the Qin army would not sneak across the river from the north side of Xiangshan, sneak to the north side of Yique, and launch two sides of the Wei and Han armies.

Like Wei Zhang, Luji, Sima Cuo and other famous generals of Qin are all very good at this tactic.

But what Gongsun Xi did not expect was that this time, the Qin State actually sent Xiang Shou to command more than 100,000 Qin troops, which surprised him. After all, Xiang Shou always followed the steps in leading troops. Although his ability to command troops was not weak, he rarely used any strange strategies. Therefore, Gongsun Xi was not worried that Bao Yuan would be defeated by the Qin army.

After all, the coalition forces between South Korea and the Eastern Zhou Dynasty were 110,000, and the Qin army was only between 120,000 and 150,000.

"Are you all here? This is the marching map of the Yique area we have just drawn, and we will all pass on it."

As he said that, Gongsun Xi handed the cloth with a map in his hand to Gongsun Du, the guards.

I saw Gongsun Du handing the map to Gongsun Shuhou, who was sitting in the chief, returned to Gongsun Xi, and whispered to the latter.

At this moment, Gongsun Xi turned around and looked at the tent. Seeing Meng Zhong sitting there calmly, his face suddenly darkened and he said in a deep voice: "Meng Zhong, what are you here to do?"

Meng Zhong had already expected that Gongsun Du would expose him to Gongsun Xi, but he was not surprised to see this. He heard this and said to Gongsun Xi with a calm expression: "Report to Xiwu, I am coming down to participate in the military discussion."

Hearing this, Gongsun Xi sneered: "The order I issued was to recruit the Sima of the army in the camp to discuss military information. You are just a commander in the army. Why don't you obey the general's order and get into the commander's tent?"

"This kid is just a handsome guy?"

『…After speaking, this kid is too brave.”

After hearing Gongsun Xi's words, the soldiers who were not familiar with Meng Zhong in the tent were all surprised and looked at Meng Zhong with shock, and they were secretly shocked by Meng Zhong's boldness.

However, those soldiers who knew Meng Zhong's background at first, such as Jiao Ge, were quite gloating at this moment. Among these people, Tang Zhi did not include these people. After all, after the "Houying Incident", his hostility towards Meng Zhong had already retreated a lot. He just wanted to see if Meng Zhong could persuade Gongsun Xi to allow him to stay in the tent today.

Seeing nearly twenty pairs of eyes, Meng Zhong said calmly: "The army Sima is the leader of each army. However, he is above the lower level, but there is no jurisdiction over the army Sima. Therefore, he is a subordinate to be the leader of the army, so he came to participate in the military discussion..."

“…”

Gongsun Xi was immediately excited.

Defend yourself as the commander of the first army? Other commanders of the first army are all generals of the Sima level in the army, holding 15,000 troops. You are just a division commander with only 2,500 people in your hands, and only one-fifth of the force of the first army. Do you even dare to arrogance to be the commander of the first army?

"Meng Zhong, you are too arrogant!" Gongsun Xi shouted with a serious face.

After hearing this, Meng Zhong's face showed some confusion: "Huh? Are you misunderstanding? I thought that Xiwu would not be assigned to the subordinates under the jurisdiction of a certain army, in order to take care of Duan Gan's face and the face of King Wei. After all, no matter what, Duan Ganyin, Tian An, Gong Yang Ping and other great sages of Xihe Confucianism personally recommended to the King of Wei..."

"Wow! This kid is so big!"

After hearing Meng Zhong's words, the Simas in the tent, mainly those of the 100,000 Hedong Wei Army, were really shocked at this moment.

Perhaps the two great sages, Tian An and Gong Yang Ping, have a slightly lower reputation, or perhaps these generals in the Wei army may have never heard of them, but Duan Gan is an unbiased family of the Wei State. It is a big family that sells livestock in Wei State, and is also responsible for teaching the royal family and the children of the Wei State.

If the Duan Gan family is not famous enough, the Xihe Confucianism is still famous enough, right? Nowadays, at least 30% of the officials in Wei State come from Xihe Confucianism, or have learned art from Xihe Confucianism. Although Xihe Confucianism has no background in the Wei State army, in the court, even Xue Gongtian Wen had to give Xihe Confucianism face.

More importantly, the Confucianism of Xihe was also responsible for teaching Wei's prince Wei, Prince Wuji and others. Therefore, offending the Confucianism of Xihe was equivalent to offending the new king in the future.

"Bang!"

Gongsun Xi slapped the table in front of him and asked with a calm face: "Meng Zhong, what do you mean? Are you threatening me?!"

Gongsun Xi was not stupid. He could not guess that Meng Zhong deliberately mentioned Duan Gan, Xihe Confucianism, and Wei Wang, the King of Wei, with the purpose of putting pressure on him.

"I dare not. I just talk about the matter."

Meng Zhong said calmly: "Are you saying something wrong here?"

“…”

Gongsun Xi was speechless and stared at Meng Zhong with a heavy face.

At this time, Gongsun Shu smiled and smoothed out, "Okay, okay, it's not a big deal....Meng Shishuai is a talent recommended by Duan Gan to the king. He should not only be granted the position of Shishuai, but Meng Shishuai is still young, and Xiwu is afraid that he will not be able to convince the public. Instead, it will damage the face of Duan Gan and the king. Therefore, he temporarily granted the position of Shishuai and the king, and he will give it a little temper..."

As he said that, he turned to look at Meng Zhong and said with a smile: "Meng Zhong, don't misunderstand Xi Wu's kindness."

In fact, Meng Zhong knew exactly what Gongsun Xi was about him, but since Gongsun Shu said that, he was happy to go with the flow. First, without any need, he did not want to break up with Gongsun Xi completely; secondly, Gongsun Shu had no malicious intentions towards him, and there was no need to make enemies for no reason.

Thinking of this, Meng Zhong smiled and said, "What Gongsun Jun said is very true. I naturally understand Xiwu's good intentions. I am eager to make contributions and have no choice but to let Xiwu down.... The boy is young and energetic, and I hope Xiwu will forgive me."

When he said this, it seemed as if Gongsun Xi was deliberately restraining him to take care of him. This made Gongsun Shu nod secretly: This kid understands human nature and is good at being a human being.

So Gongsun Shu smiled and said to Gongsun Xi: "Xiwu, it is inevitable that young people are eager to seek merit. Although Xiwu has been entrusted by Duan Gan, he should not protect Meng Shishang too much."

『Huh?』

Meng Zhong glanced at Gongsun Shu in surprise.

At the same time, Gongsun Xi also frowned and looked at Gongsun Shu because he knew that Gongsun Shu was deliberately saying this to everyone present.

After looking at Gongsun Shu for a few deep glances, Gongsun Xi snorted and stopped pursuing Meng Zhong's fake military Sima into the commander's account to participate in the military discussion.

The Lord General intends to reveal this matter, and the Sima of the soldiers in the tent will naturally raise it again without any hesitation.

But it has to be said that even if Gongsun Shu had smoothed out the situation, most of the Sima present could still vaguely see one thing, namely, Xiwu Gongsun Xi and Meng Zhong, the master commander, did not deal with each other.

What's clever is that Meng Zhong is a kid, and even if it was Gongsun Xi, he would have no choice but to do anything to him for a while.

A moment later, the map drawn by Gongsun Xi himself was circulated throughout the army in the tent, including Meng Zhong, the only commander-level general.

Immediately, Gongsun Xi re-arranged the deployment of his troops, mainly with the 100,000 Hedong Wei army under his command as the main force, and the remaining 80,000 Wei army as the auxiliary army, deployed on the west bank of the Yishui River to prevent the Qin army from crossing the river and surrounding them from behind.

"Do you have any doubts about this?"

After the arrangement was made, Gongsun Xi asked the Sima of the army in the account.

Hearing this, Meng Zhong clasped his fists and said, "Xi Wu, I'm a little confused."

As he said that, without waiting for Gongsun Xi's permission, he said to himself: "Xiwu, as you said, the Qin army is only 120,000 to 150,000, but our army, Han and Eastern Zhou coalition forces, have a total of 300,000. Why not join forces to attack the Qin army together?"

『This kid…』

Gongsun Xi glanced at Meng Zhong and said lightly: "Meng Shishuai must obey the general's order."
To be continued...