"Ding Ding, Ding Ding"

Facing the crossbow formation defense at Yangguan, Qin general Bai Qi had no choice but to retreat.

Although he was determined to test the garrison of Yangguan today, he never expected that Meng Zhong did not know what tricks he had used, so that he kept shooting rain of arrows from Yangguan. This not only made the soldiers of the Qin and Chu army panic, but also Bai Qi seemed a little upset because of this.

In today's world, although there are "Sun Tzu", "Wu Zi", "Sun Bin" and other military strategies, any general who has read the military strategy understands that wars need to be "concise and win with strange things", but the reason why strange strategies are called strange strategies is not something that can be thought of casually.

But Meng Zhong on the opposite side seemed to have every time he met this guy, he could make some novel things. For example, in the Battle of Yique last year, he imitated Zhao's cavalry and cracked the strategy of Bai Qi to counter the Wei army's rushing and rushing strategy. But today in Yangguan, he didn't know what tricks he had used to make his crossbowmen perform continuous shooting.

I have to say that this makes Bai Qi's mood particularly complicated.

On the one hand, the better Meng Zhong performed, the less waste Bai Qi regarded him as his strong enemy. Even Bai Qi was secretly looking forward to whether Meng Zhong could perform better; but on the other hand, Bai Qi also hoped to defeat Meng Zhong as soon as possible and take him under his command.

There were many generals who had cooperated with each other before, such as Wei Zhang and Ying Ji. It was the tacit cooperation between these two that made Qin finally defeat the Chu State, which had devoted all its strength to attack Qin State, and wiped out the Chu army that invaded Qin State in one fell swoop, making the arrogant and powerful Chu State no longer dared to provoke Qin State.

Because of this, even though Wei Zhang and Ying Ji were both dead today, the elderly Qin people still missed these two famous generals.

However, Bai Qi firmly believed that as long as Meng Zhong was willing to join Qin and join him as his deputy general, he and Meng Zhong Jingcheng would join hands, even the combination of Wei Zhang and Ying Ji would be compared by them.

But if you want to conquer Meng Zhong, you must first defeat this person, but if you want to defeat Meng Zhong...

I have to say that this is not an easy task.

"Long live!"

"The Qin army retreated!"

"Long live!"

Seeing the Qin army retreating like a tide outside the pass, the Wei soldiers on the Yangguan city wall couldn't help but cheer, and then, there were also tides of cheers in the pass.

"Is it a withdrawal of troops?"

Zheng Shi, Sima of Xu Dijun, was simply unbelievable. He never thought that the Qin and Chu coalition forces' offensive today would be such a slash.

No, there is no question of being a tiger's head and a tiger's head, because the Qin and Chu coalition forces have almost no threat to Yangguan today.

Of course, although he felt incredible about this, Zheng Shi also understood the reason. He felt that it was probably because of his uninterrupted crossbow arrows from the Wei army that fooled Sima Cuo and Bai Qi.

When he mentioned this uninterrupted crossbow arrow volley, he couldn't help but admire Meng Zhong.

You should know that crossbow soldiers have been around for hundreds of years, but there is always a fatal weakness, that is, they are filled with crossbow arrows too slowly and cannot shoot continuously, which makes crossbow soldiers only serve as icing on the cake on the battlefield and are not enough to become the main force. However, today, Meng Zhong relied on clever tactics to scare the Qin army to evacuate immediately with thousands of crossbow soldiers alone. Zheng Shi really admired him.

Thinking of this, Zheng Xian immediately walked from the city wall to Guanlou, hugged Meng Zhong, and said with a smile: "Congratulations to Fang Chengling for repelling the Qin army again... But this time it was too relaxed. Before he took down a Qin soldiers' head, the battle ended. It was really unhappy..."

Meng Zhong smiled and said, "Today, Sima Cuo and Bai Qi were just frightened by us. If they learned the secret, they would not have evacuated so easily when they sent troops to attack my Yang Pass next time..."

Hearing this, Zheng Xian was stunned and immediately frowned and said, "In this case, it is necessary to warn the soldiers to keep the secret and not to leak this tactic..."

Meng Zhong smiled slightly.

To be fair, of course he also wanted to keep the secret of the second sprint, but as the saying goes, paper cannot keep the fire. No matter how he keeps the secret, Sima Cuo and Bai Qi will eventually learn the secret, and even learn it and deal with them in turn.

Since you are destined to be unable to keep the secret, it is better to let it go and put more thoughts into thinking about new strategies throughout the past and present. Which famous general can win all the victories with just one move?

At this time, Meng Suiyi walked over from the city wall and talked with Meng Zhong and Zheng Shi for a while.

After calculating, Meng Sui lowered his voice and said to Meng Zhong: "A Zhong, although this tactic is extremely powerful, the reserves of crossbow arrows in the pass are also extremely consumed. In just a moment, almost 30,000 to 40,000 crossbow arrows were shot out..."

Beside him, Zheng Shi widened his eyes in shock when he heard this.

He couldn't help but interrupt and said, "What? Just so hard? Thirty or forty thousand arrows are gone?"

Hearing this, Meng Zhong smiled bitterly helplessly.

In order to guard the pass today, he was transferred all the crossbow soldiers under his command and the crossbow soldiers under Zheng Shi, and about 6,000 people were gathered. Each of these 6,000 crossbow soldiers shot ten arrows. Isn’t it just 60,000 crossbow arrows?

At this time, Meng Sui said to Meng Zhong seriously: "For the future consideration, I think it is necessary to reserve a batch of crossbow arrows."

After a moment of pause, he pulled out a crossbow arrow from the quiver on the waist of a crossbowman on Guanlou and told Meng Zhong his thoughts: "I think relying solely on crossbow arrows transported from Wei State is not enough to completely compensate for the arrow consumption of our army. If we want to defend this place for a long time, I think we should build some workshops that specialize in forging arrow clusters..."

"Specially forging arrow clusters?" Zheng Shi next to him was slightly stunned.

"Yes." Meng Sui turned to Zheng Shi and nodded and explained: "In order to save iron and stone, forging arrow clusters alone is enough to penetrate the armor of the Qin army. The arrow rods are enough to use wooden poles. In order to save manpower, we can help cut these wooden poles. Ye Yi's people have more than 100,000 people. If there are 100,000 people, each of them cuts ten wooden poles a day, that is one million..."

Build one million arrow shafts a day?

Zheng Shi was beside him, so shocked that he could not count the words.

It is no wonder that, after all, in today's world, a single city can have a population of more than 100,000, and there are also cities of the capital level like Handan, Daliang, and Linzi. Most of the cities with a population of about 30,000 to 40,000, so naturally there is no such exaggerated productivity.

“This is a good idea.”

Meng Zhong nodded after hearing this.

He considered Meng Sui's suggestions from two aspects, one was the repeated use of crossbow arrows, and the other was Ye Yi's labor force.

Although there is still sufficient arable land in the Yeyi area, with the development of Yeyi, the nearby land around the city will eventually be reclaimed, and at that time, a large number of people without land will appear.

Without land, it means no income, and without income, you will survive.

Therefore, it is particularly important to develop some small workshops in Yeyi and share some of the pressure on land shortage.

In short, if a city wants to develop sustainably, agriculture, industry and business are indispensable.

Thinking of this, Meng Zhong immediately said to Meng Sui: "In this way, you can send someone to Yangguan immediately, let's discuss this matter..."

"Um!"

Meng Sui nodded, said goodbye and left after saying hello to Zheng Xian.

Looking at Meng Sui's leaving back and looking at Meng Zhong standing beside him, Zheng Shi couldn't help but have a strange thought in his heart: These two are obviously about the same age as his son, but he can't understand the conversation between them?

However, when Zheng Shi felt relieved when he thought of Meng Zhong and Meng Sui and both were disciples of Master Zhou Zhuang, the great sage of the Song Dynasty.

After all, he is a saint's soccer, so ordinary people naturally cannot compare with him.

Afterwards, Meng Zhong and Zheng Shi inspected the pass again, and during the period, they talked to their soldiers to boost morale. And while he was encouraging morale, a Wei soldier suddenly came to him with two Wei soldiers and reported to him with his fists: "I reported to Fangcheng Order, and a messenger from Yancheng sent a message to see Cai Wu and Sima Cai."

Hearing this, Meng Zhong looked at the two Wei soldiers from Yancheng and said in surprise: "Zei Sima had led his army back to Yancheng a few days ago. Haven't you met on the way?"

The two Wei soldiers in Yancheng looked at each other and were stunned for a while before a soldier lowered his head and said, "We should have arrived here yesterday, but because we encountered the pursuit of enemy cavalry on the way, so...for the reason..."

"I see."

Meng Zhong nodded, without saying a word to blame the two of them, but instead comforted him: "But you two can rest assured that Zei Sima has led his army back to the rescue of Yancheng. Calculate the days, and I am afraid that he has arrived in the Yancheng area at this moment..."

After saying that, he glanced at the letter in the hand of one of the Wei Zhushu in Yancheng and asked, "If you don't mind, can you read this letter and see what's going on in Yancheng now?"

Hearing this, the Wei Shu, who held the letter, immediately handed the letter in his hand respectfully to Meng Zhong and said, "If it is Fang Chengling, it should be okay..."

Obviously, this Wei Zhu also knew that Meng Zhong and Cai Wu had a very good relationship.

After saying thank you, Meng Zhong took the bamboo book, slowly spread it open, and carefully looked at the contents of the letter.

Like the letters asking for help a few days ago, this letter was also written by Du Su, the county magistrate of Yancheng. The general idea is that villages in Yancheng have been frequently attacked by Qin cavalry recently, and countless casualties have occurred. Du Su, as the county magistrate of Yancheng, could no longer cover up this matter, and because Yancheng lacks military strength, it is impossible to conquer the enemy. Therefore, he hopes that Cai Wu will lead the army back to the rescue as soon as possible.

Judging from Du Su's tone in the letter, it seems that his relationship with Cai Wu is quite good, at least he does not mean to threaten Cai Wu.

But when Meng Zhong saw the letter that there were countless casualties and many refugees defected to the county town, he was quite sad.

After all, if he hadn't written a letter to ask Cai Wu to lead his troops to help, Yancheng might not have experienced this disaster.

Zheng Shi also saw the content in his heart. Seeing Meng Zhong feel a little guilty, he advised him: "There is no need for this to be the order of Fangcheng. Fangcheng and Yancheng, including my Xu County, are not far apart, and their lips are dead and teeth are cold. I and Cai Wu help Fangcheng, which is equivalent to helping Yancheng and Xu County. Now Fangcheng has resisted more than 200,000 Qin and Chu coalition forces. Otherwise, if there are more than 200,000 troops outside, they can go straight to the hinterland of our three cities along Yangguan and Ye Yi. By then, there will be more than a few hundred casualties and nearly a thousand people in Yancheng..."

It has to be said that this is indeed a fact. Sima chou attacked Fangcheng, and Yangguan was to occupy this passage so that he could threaten the hinterland of Wei at any time.

Hearing Zheng Shi's words, Meng Zhong nodded slightly, and then looked at the letter of help in his hand.

Although he was not sure who the chief general of the two thousand Qin cavalry under Bai Qi was, he could see that this person was not reckless but a little cunning. Seeing that Yancheng was unable to send troops to conquer them, he simply took root in Yancheng first, attacked local villages everywhere, seized food and clothing, and left it to use during the winter.

Since they are a general with a little intelligence, they will naturally not be defeated by Meng Hu, Hua Hu and others in a short period of time. In addition, the road blocking in winter is very unfavorable for cavalry combat. Therefore, Meng Zhong did not expect Meng Hu and Hua Hu and others to defeat the Qin cavalry as soon as possible and lead their troops back to Yangguan. Most of the time, the two cavalry will not have to wait until the spring next year before the two cavalry will have a large battle.

This is good, at least in this way, Bai Qi would think that all the cavalry under his command had been transferred to Yancheng, but he didn't know that there were still three thousand cavalrymen on his side of Yangguan.

Yes, in order to show his attention to the Qin cavalry in Yancheng, Meng Zhong not only sent a thousand cavalry veterans under the command of Meng Hu, Hua Hu and Mu Wu, but also allocated an additional two thousand cavalry to them in total, but even so, Meng Zhong still had three thousand cavalry under his command.

I'm afraid Bai Qi would never have imagined these three thousand cavalrymen.

So, is there a way to use these three thousand cavalry that were unexpected by Bai Qi to once again deal a fatal blow to the Qin coalition?

『Wancheng... Fangcheng... Wancheng... Wancheng...

After careful consideration, Meng Zhong waved to summon a guard and asked, "I once heard that among the mountains on the northwest side of Fangcheng, there is a secret path leading directly to Wancheng. I don't know if it is true, go and inquire."

"Here!"

The guard retreated with his fists.

Looking at the guard's back, Meng Zhong frowned and thoughtfully.

At the same time, Cai Wu had barely led his army to Yancheng.

Unlike Fangcheng, although Cai Wu was the Sima of the army stationed in Yancheng, he was not the Sima of Yancheng County, Yancheng County, which owns the Sima of Yancheng, responsible for public security and anti-theft matters. Cai Wu's previous main task was to guard the Wei-Chu border and resist the Chu army invading from the Chu State.

To put it bluntly, he and his army were only affiliated with Yancheng, but not the army directly under Yancheng.

If Wei was in a tight situation on other defense lines, Cai Wu and his troops would be transferred to another place. Just like when Wei supported South Korea last year, Cai Wu and Zheng Shi were transferred to South Korea from their own garrison zone.

Because of this, even if Cai Wu wants to thank Meng Hu, Hua Hu, Mu Wu, Cao Chun and others for returning to Yancheng with him and intends to set up a banquet to entertain them, he cannot directly bring Meng Hu and others into the city at this moment. He needs to send someone to inform Yancheng's county magistrate Du Su first.

Therefore, after arriving in the Yancheng area, Cai Wu brought Meng Hu, Hua Hu, Mu Wu and others to his military camp, and immediately sent someone to notify Yancheng order Du Su.

At this time, Du Su was waiting in Yancheng for Cai Wu to lead his army back to the rescue. Suddenly, he learned that Cai Wu had led his army back to the barracks outside the city. He was overjoyed and immediately ran to Cai Wu's barracks in a carriage.
To be continued...