"ps: Starting from the Wei Kingdom chapter, as the protagonist's influence gradually increases, the history in the article will gradually deviate from the original trajectory. Of course, this kind of change has traces and will not change inexplicably. Interested book friends can leave a message in this chapter to discuss how different it is from the real history, so that this chapter will be a little more active."

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"Bai Shuai, the traces of the Wei army were found in the southeast of the camp. Perhaps the main force of the Wei army in Yique Mountain has arrived here."

“Um…”

Bai Qi nodded, then stared at the Wei army on the west bank of Luoshui for a moment, and then returned to the tent in the camp, which was the tent of the previous Wei general Tang Zhi.

Because Tang Zhi was quite hasty last night to support Dou Xing's departure, even the marching map was still placed on the low table in the tent and was not cleaned up. Bai Qi used this marching map to compare his own marching map to understand the current situation.

『…There are Wei troops in the west, south, and southeast, all directions. To the south are Dou Xing and the original Wei garrison of this camp. I don’t know who it was in the west, but to the southeast is the guy named Meng… It seems that only the north can break through.”

After looking at the two marching pictures for a while, Bai Qi felt a headache.

To be fair, even though he was surrounded on three sides at this moment, Bai Qi thought he didn't have to worry about it for the time being. After all, even if the Wei army wanted to attack the camp where he was, he had to prepare for at least one or two days. Moreover, there was still a way out to survive in the north. The worst result was that he was caught in the strategic steps of the Wei army, forced to the north by the opponent, and then began a battle of chasing and annihilation.

Strictly speaking, Bai Qi did not think that the Wei army could gain any advantage in the pursuit of them.

But the problem is that he doesn't want to be forced to the north.

The north is indeed very safe because it was the Western Zhou Dynasty. The territory of the two Zhou states of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty was similar to the weakest vassal states today, with only a few cities. It is no exaggeration to say that if it were not for the status quo, Qin, Zhao, Wei, and Han could have sent some troops to destroy the Western Zhou Dynasty. The Eastern Zhou Dynasty was not necessary. After all, these two Zhou states still represent the Zhou royal family and still rule the entire world in name. If it were the rash attacks of these two Zhou states, they would inevitably be jointly attacked by other vassal states on charges.

On the other hand, the two Zhou countries in the Western Zhou Dynasty and the Eastern Zhou Dynasty did not dare to provoke the powerful princes in the world. As long as Bai Qi did not attack the cities of these two Zhou countries, even if he led his army into the territory of the two Zhou countries, these two Zhou countries basically did not dare to make any changes. Bai Qi only needed to be on guard against the Wei army chasing them behind their backs.

The only problem is that it will take longer to evacuate north and go to Yiyang. Moreover, the guy named Meng from the Wei army opposite may not allow him to withdraw back to Yiyang. The other party sent troops to station the west bank of Luoshui in advance, cutting off his retreat for Qin's army to withdraw back to Yiyang. This obviously means that the other party has guessed his plan.

『…Since I won’t leave in the west…』

Bai Qi's eyes fell on the marching map, slowly moving to the east, passing by one by one, and finally freezing a series of cities.

"Hey!"

Not sure what he thought of, Bai Qi couldn't help but snorted, with a bit of teasing.

At the same time, Meng Zhong, Wei Qing and Jiao Ge, two army Simas, had returned to the temporary camp and discussed strategies to encircle and suppress the Qin army.

He would not believe such too humble words as Jiao Ge.

What a joke, how could the Sima of the Wei State really be brave and unscheming?

But then again, according to what Meng Zhong knew about Jiao Ge, this army Sima seemed to be a general who was biased towards defense.

In contrast, Tang Zhi was a general who was good at attacking, and it was said that his bravery was no less than Dou Xing of the Hedong Army.

After some discussion, Meng Zhong made arrangements: Jiao Ge was responsible for building the camp, Wei Qing, Zheng Shi and Cai Wu were responsible for blocking the Qin army, and preventing the Qin army from attacking his own side.

As for Fei Hui, he assisted Meng Zhong in taking charge of the central army and temporarily remained unmoved.

After the five Simas of Wei Qing, Jiao Ge, Fei Hui, Zheng Shi and Cai Wu left, Meng Zhong summoned Meng Sui, Meng Hu and others.

As soon as he saw Meng Zhong, Meng Hu immediately started to shout and asked Meng Zhong when he would go to war with the Qin army.

Well, Le Yi is not in the army at present. He is stationed in the camp that the Korean army handed over to the Wei army. He acted as the deputy general of Wei general Liang Xi, and now Liang Xi leads his army to garrison the west bank of Luoshui. Le Yi naturally becomes the Han camp. No, it is the main general.

Meng Zhong now needs to command all the Wei troops, and Le Yi has to stay at the current base of the Wei army. Therefore, Meng became the acting commander of the 2,500 soldiers under Meng Zhong and was assigned to the central army by Meng Zhong.

The so-called central army is actually the Wei army directly under Meng Zhong. It is nominally the fake commander of the Wei army, Gongsun Shu, but Gongsun Shu is very self-aware. He knows that he is not good at leading troops to war, so he entrusted all the military power to Meng Zhong, and he guards Yique Mountain and protects it. He is considered to take care of Meng Zhong's rear, so that Meng Zhong can pursue the Qin army without any worries.

By the way, when the troops stationed in Yique Mountain two days ago, Meng Zhong reorganized the Wei army under his command. After all, during the night attack of the Qin army's main attack on the Wei army, the Sima of the Hedong Group, the Heno Group, and the Henan Group were all killed in battle, and the generals of the Sima, the brigade commander and the division commander were even more casualties. Considering that the chaotic army organization was not conducive to fighting against the Qin army, Meng Zhong reorganized the army.

First, all the Wei army of the Henan Army were organized into Zheng Sheng and Cai Wu, the only remaining Henan Army Sima.

Secondly, the Hedong Army was reorganized and re-planned the Hedong Army, which had lost its Sima, and finally divided it into five armies, led by Dou Xing, Wei Qing, Fei Hui and Liang Xi, and the last one was handed over to Gongsun Shu to guard Yique Mountain.

In addition to the troops under Tang Zhi and Jiao Ge, the Wei army had a total of about 80,000.

If it weren't for the scattered soldiers and raids of the Wei side in the nearby area, these 80,000 people were the current total military strength of the Wei army. It has to be said that compared with the 180,000 Wei army, the current military strength has really shrunk a lot, but the victory lies in the gathering of the army's morale, uniting the upper and lower levels, and the morale is quite considerable. As long as you are well prepared, you may not be able to defeat the Qin army in one fell swoop.

On that day, under the command and dispatch of the army Sima Jiaoge, more than 10,000 Wei soldiers cut down trees nearby and built military camps and defense facilities.

During this period, the commander of the Qin army, Bai Qi, pretended to be a scout, and took dozens of Qin soldiers to spy on the site of the Wei army's military camp from afar, using this as a basis to modify his tactics.

At night, without Meng Zhong's expectations, the Qin army indeed launched a night attack on them.

But under the garrison of Wei Qing, Zheng Shi and Cai Wu, the Qin army not only returned in vain, but also was ridiculed by the soldiers of the Wei army and was confirmed to have a bad reputation.

After being dragged by the Wei army for a few days, the food and grass in Bai Qi's army gradually ran out. As a last resort, Bai Qi could only adopt the strategy he thought about the previous few days.

Surprise attack on Zhengcheng!

It is impossible to evacuate to the north. Although it is actually safe to retreat to the Eastern Zhou Dynasty and the Western Zhou Dynasty, it also means that Bai Qi was completely expelled from this battle by the Wei army. As long as the Wei army guarded Luoshui next, Bai Qi could not return to Yiyang and Xincheng.

what does that mean?

This means that the Korean army commander Bao Yuan can get enough time to recover Yiyang and Xincheng. Unless Xianyang sends reinforcements to the city, Qin will lose these two key cities, and it will pay a greater price to attack South Korea in the future.

Since you can foresee this, how can Bai Qi be willing?

In his opinion, rather than being expelled from this battle by the Wei army, it would be better to go straight to the hinterland of South Korea and destroy it in a large way. It can not only take the opportunity to weaken South Korea, but also wait for an opportunity to see if there is a chance to defeat the Wei army.

So, on the evening of April 17, Bai Qi launched a night attack on the Wei army under Meng Zhong for the third time.

Well, to be precise, this night attack was just a feint. Bai Qi pretended to attack Meng Zhong's Wei army at night. When he encountered a slight obstacle from the Wei army, he immediately withdrew his troops.

It is worth mentioning that after he withdrew his troops, he did not return to the camp, but went straight to the east.

Even Meng Zhong did not expect this.

He just felt that the Qin army's actions were a bit weird.

The Qin army launched a night attack on them, and Meng Zhong could understand that it was just that the Qin army wanted to take advantage of their first arrival here and had not yet gained a foothold to see if they could defeat them with night attacks.

Meng Zhong could understand that the Qin army had two night attacks on them. It might be that the Qin army felt that the first night attack had some shortcomings, or it could be that the Qin army used people's reverse thinking.

But without any change, it was very abnormal to attack the Wei army three times in three consecutive nights.

He summoned Wei Qing and the two generals Fei Hui and ordered: "Including tonight, the Qin army will attack us for three consecutive nights. This is very abnormal. I suspect that the Qin army may be preparing to evacuate north, so I immediately sent a scout to stare at the Qin army's every move. If the Qin army really evacuated north, I immediately ordered Tang Zhi and Dou Xing to lead the army to pursue, and our army would also follow immediately. As for Liang Xi, I would ask him to enter Luoshui camp."

"Here!"

Wei Qing and Fei Hui left with their fists.

Afterwards, Meng Sui waited for news in the tent, and during the time he looked through the "Biographies of Gongyang Chunqiu" given to him by his Confucian uncle, Xihe Confucian master.

An hour later, around the Chou Time on April 18, Wei Qing hurried to Meng Zhong's tent, frowned and said, "Meng Shishang, there are scouts, and the Qin army seemed to break eastward..."

"East?"

Meng Zhong was stunned for a moment, turned over and sat up from the straw shop, handed the book in his hand to Konomi Rongfu, asking him to keep it, and then flicked out the marching map, frowned and watched.

His eyes first fixed at the Luoshui Camp, then slowly moved eastward, frowned, and waited for the city, and finally stayed at it.

"Oops……"

He murmured to himself.

"What?" Wei Qing was shocked when he heard this and hurriedly came to him. Seeing Meng Zhong's eyes staring at Zheng Cheng on the map, a thought flashed through his mind and frowned and asked, "Meng Shishuai is suspicious that the Qin army may attack Zheng Cheng?"

Zhengcheng, the capital of South Korea, has been established since the fall of Zheng State of South Korea, and it is also a rich city that is no less than Daliang, Shangqiu, Taoyi and other places.

"It's possible..."

Meng Zhong nodded, then smiled bitterly and said, "The chief general named Bai of the Qin army is more stubborn than I expected..."

Isn't you stubborn?

Why didn't Meng Zhong set up an encirclement in the north of the Qin army? In addition to the tactic of surrounding three and one, he hoped that the Qin army would evacuate northward and stay away from the main battlefield, just like what Zhong Tian Zhang did to Meng Zhong when he was the first time, "Ying Ji of Feng Yang" was very powerful, right? I bypassed Bi Yang and went straight to Pengcheng, the capital of Song Kingdom, and opened up the second battlefield directly. No matter how powerful you are, you will stay in Bi Yang honestly.

Meng Zhong was preparing to take this move this time. He knew that the Qin general named Bai on the opposite side was very powerful and he might not be able to defeat the other party. Since that was the case, he simply forced him out of the main battlefield, which would prevent him from returning and could not stop Bao Yuan from attacking Xincheng and Yiyang.

Once Baoyuan conquers Xincheng and Yiyang, it will be the victory of the Wei and Han alliance.

This is a means of strategically suppressing opponents.

But obviously, the Qin general surnamed Bai on the opposite side did not want him to be led by Meng Zhong. He knew that there was a way to live on the north road, but he went east. It has to be said that this was really beyond Meng Zhong's expectations.

He had repeatedly considered that the Qin army would evacuate north, break through west, and break through south, but he did not think about whether the Qin army could break eastward. After all, if the Qin army advances eastward, it means that the Qin army has decided to "burn both jade and stones."

Therefore, it is no wonder that Meng Zhong would say that the other party is "stubborn".

"Uh... do you want to send someone to notify Bao Yuan?" Wei Qing said with a strange expression.

To be honest, he was not very panicked when he learned that the Qin army was preparing to attack Zhengcheng. After all, Zhengcheng was the capital of South Korea, but he was a Wei person.

"What should I do when I inform Baoyuan?"

Meng Zhong shook his head and said, "Bao Yuan should be in Xincheng at present, and there is no time to return to help. If you send someone to notify him of this matter, it will affect Bao Yuan's attack on Xincheng and Yiyang..." Speaking of this, he asked Wei Qing: "Does South Korea still have enough troops?"

Wei Qing replied after hearing this: "There must be an army, but are they elite... The army under Bao Yuan's command is the last elite in South Korea."

"In other words, it may not be able to stop the attack of these 50,000 Qin troops?" Meng Zhong frowned.

"If you are prepared, you should be able to withstand it in a short period of time, but if you are not prepared, Zheng Cheng may not be able to stop it in a day..." Wei Qing said his thoughts truthfully.

"I see!"

Meng Zhong nodded and immediately ordered: "Send someone to check Luoshui camp immediately. If the Qin army really abandons the camp and advances eastward, ask Liang Xi to enter this camp. The other troops set off eastward immediately and follow the Qin army. Remember, this Qin army is very good at ambushing along the way, asking the troops to learn from Dou Sima's lessons yesterday and be careful of the Qin army's ambush. In addition, send people to Xingyang, Zhaiyang, Zhengcheng and other places for warnings, asking the Han people to strengthen their defense, and don't throw away the city easily... Tell them that this Qin army will be defeated by our Wei army, so that they can defend the city well. By the way, prepare a batch of food and grass, and the food and grass in our army are not sufficient. ... Is there anything else to add to Wei Sima?"

"No." Wei Qing shook his head and said with a smile: "Meng Shishuai has already considered it very well."

In late April, the Qin general Bai Qi attacked Xingyang and took advantage of the unpreparedness of the Han people to seize the city. He massacred and looted the city, destroying the buildings in the city and farmland outside the city, causing Xingyang to suffer heavy losses.

Only half a day later, Meng Zhongbing led 60,000 to 70,000 Wei troops to arrive.

Unexpectedly, after learning that the Wei army was chasing, the Qin army immediately retreated early and headed for the next city that they had been attacked by them, and did not confront the Wei army head-on.
Chapter completed!