"Report! The traces of Qi army were found ahead! They were quickly evacuating north, while the cavalry in Fangcheng were delaying them..."

When the situation in front of the Song army's scout general reported to Song general Dai Busheng, Dai Busheng suddenly cheered up and shouted loudly to the Song army under his command: "I, Song Guoerlang, follow me to defeat the Qi army in front!"

“Oh oh oh”

The soldiers of the Song State raised their arms and shouted, under Dai Busheng's order, they rushed towards the Qi army directly in front of them like a tide, and instantly they killed a group of Qi army's rear team.

After the Qi army's rear team was attacked, they immediately sent people to inform the commander Tian Chu, who was in the Central Military Department.

In fact, even if there were no soldiers from the back team coming to report the news, Tian Chu had already discovered the strangeness of the back team. The back team, which was originally marching quietly, suddenly burst out with shouts of killing. No matter how you think about it, you must have known that the coalition forces of Qin, Wei and Song dynasties must have come up.

After realizing this incident, Tian Chu frowned immediately.

"Why did the Qin and Wei coalition forces arrive so quickly? Did they let Le Yi go to the Yan army?... Damn it, did Le Yi really have an affair with the State of Song?"

Tian Chu wrinkled and thought to himself.

After all, in theory, Le Yi also had 60,000 or 70,000 Yan troops under his command. If the three coalition forces of Qin, Wei and Song attacked the Yan troops first, they would definitely not have caught up with them so quickly.

Obviously, the three-nation coalition forces of Qin, Wei and Song did not attack the Yan army, but directly pursued the Qi army, which was a big problem.

But at this point, Tian Chu had no time to take care of the Yan army. What he cares most about now is how to preserve the army as much as possible.

Seeing that the soldiers and generals around him were panicked when they learned that there were pursuers behind him, Tian Chu calmly comforted him: "The reason why our army retreated was because the Qin and Wei coalition forces arrived in Tancheng. Although our army had 100,000, it was difficult to conquer Tancheng in a short period of time and then continue to attack the Song State... But this does not mean that our army is afraid of the Qin and Wei coalition forces."

After saying that, he ordered the Oguchi beside him, "Let Tian Da take over the command of the rear army immediately and command the soldiers to resist the pursuers."

"Here!" The guard left with his fists.

However, at this moment, Tian Da had already arrived from the central army in a chariot to the rear team.

At this time, the Qi army's rear army had already been in chaos. About 5,000 Qi soldiers were forced to fight with the Song army. However, several other troops of the Qi army's rear army were at a loss because of this. They did not know whether to continue to evacuate north or stop to resist the pursuers.

In this case, Tian Chu took advantage of the opportunity that the Song army was temporarily entangled by the about 5,000 Qi troops and immediately divided the Qi army of the rear army into two parts, east and west, and ordered them to form a line of defense. Then, he ordered the five thousand Qi troops who were in a melee to flee north from both sides.

When Dai Busheng led the Song army to pursue, Tian Da had already led about 20,000 to 30,000 Qi army rear troops, strictly blocking the Song army's way.

Dai Busheng was not a complete reckless man. Seeing that the Qi army ahead was neatly arranged, he certainly did not dare to launch a surprise attack easily.

He ordered his generals to say, "Just hold these broken Qi troops from afar. Since they stay to resist our army, they will inevitably leave their army. Wait until the army of Qin and Wei arrives, and then attack them again."

Under Dai Busheng's order, the Song army temporarily stopped the offensive and stopped, about a hundred feet away from the Qi army commanded by Tian Da.

Seeing this, how could Qi general Tian Da not know what Song army was thinking?

In fact, he had long expected the reaction of the Song army, so he divided the Qi army of the Later Army into two parts, east and west, in order to cover each other's evacuation.

Seeing that the Song army was not stationed, Tian Da immediately ordered the army behind the palace to retreat on the east side.

Seeing this, the Song army was about to take the opportunity to chase and kill, but was shot by the crossbow of the army behind the west side of Tian Da.

Subsequently, Tian Da ordered the army behind the west side to evacuate north. Seeing this, the Song army tried to pursue the Qi army again, but was shot from the crossbow of the army behind the east side.

In this way, the Qi army in the east and west parts of the palace rear troops were assigned to retreat, retreating only about one mile at a time, and they covered each other during this period. Tian Da used this tactic to prevent the Song army from taking the opportunity to chase and kill.

Even though the Song army was led by a fierce general like Dai Busheng, he was helpless in the face of the Qi army's evacuation tactics.

Of course, the main reason is that the Song army under Dai Busheng's command is far less than that of the Qi army.

"Military generals, Qi army set up this formation, what should we do?" A general from the Song State asked Dai Busheng about this.

Dai Busheng frowned and looked at Qi Jun in front of him without saying a word.

According to his personality, he must have pursued the Qi army desperately, but before sending troops, Meng Zhong had deliberately reminded him, which made Dai Busheng worry.

It’s not because of fear of Meng Zhong. The key is that Meng Zhong is right. Since the Qi army is destined to retreat, there is indeed no need to let the soldiers of Song State pursue the enemy with greater casualties. Since they can defeat the enemy with slight casualties, why not do it?

Thinking of this, he issued an order: "Let's just hang the Qi army away first, and wait until the Qin and Wei armies arrive."

A moment later, Sima Cuo's general Jin Kuang led about 20,000 vanguard troops of the Qin army to chase this place. Seeing that Qi general Tian Da used the method of covering each other with two rear troops to slowly evacuate northward in front of the Song army, he was also very surprised.

After all, this tactic did effectively curb the Song army's pursuit of Qi army.

But years of experience also made Jin Kuang realize that the tactic of the Qi army also had flaws, that is, as long as one of the Qi army retreated, the Qin army joined forces with the Song army to launch a pincer attack on another Qi army behind the palace, the Qi army behind the palace would inevitably be defeated.

After dealing with this Qi army behind the palace, he would pursue another Qi army behind the palace with the Song army, and could easily eat the Qi army behind the palace.

To put it bluntly, the Qi army used this tactic to resist the pursuit of the Song army simply to bully the Song army's few soldiers. As long as the Song army has a large number of troops, this move will be useless.

The problem is...

Frowning slightly, Jin Kuang's mind couldn't help but see what Rang Marquis Wei Ran and Sima Cuo said to him before he led his army to attack today.

"We must not only assist the Song army in pursuing the Qi army, but we cannot let the 100,000 Qi army be completely destroyed... That Marquis Rang will really make things difficult for others."

As a middle-level general of Qin, Jin Kuang certainly understood the nature of war.

The so-called war is actually the continuation of diplomacy. If you cannot achieve your goal with verbal communication, you try to use force. This is war.

In other words, war serves politicians and those important officials in Xianyang City who are responsible for national affairs.

Today, Marquis Rang Wei Ran secretly instructed him not to cause too much casualties in the Qi army. Jin Kuang immediately guessed the reason: Marquis Rang Wei Ran, perhaps he was still thinking about getting along with the Qi State.

The question is, does this make sense?

Jin Kuang didn't understand. After all, in his opinion, since the decline of Chu, Qi had long been the country that posed the greatest threat to Qin among the Central Plains. Looking back on the past few attacks by the Central Plains countries on Qin, Qi's attitude could almost determine whether the coalition forces of the Central Plains countries' attack on Qin was successful.

Especially the time when Tian Zhang led the coalition forces of Qi, Wei and Han to attack Qin a few years ago, it was the first time that the Hangu Pass of Qin was directly broken.

Before this, the biggest crisis that Qin State encountered was that when King Huai of Chu led the Chu army of the whole country to fight against him, the Chu army only had the advantage of Hangu Pass to prevent the Central Plains from being unable to hinder Chu State. If it weren't for Wei and Han at that time, all the monarchs of Han and Han happened to die, no one would have suspected that Tian Zhang would be likely to lead the Qi, Wei and Han coalition forces all the way to attack Xianyang, the capital of Qin State.

Therefore, in Jin Kuang's view, a strong enemy like Qi, like Qin, must take the opportunity to weaken it first.

Judging from the attitude of Marquis Rang Wei Ran, it seemed that he wanted to help Song State repel the invasion of Qi's army, but he did not want Qi State to suffer too much damage.

I don’t understand, Jin Kuang really can’t understand.

But if you don’t understand, you still follow the orders.

He ordered the summoning of Fan Bu and the two generals of Zheng Yin, and told them: "You two will attack the flanks of the Qi army..."

"Flank?" Fan Bu asked in surprise when he heard this, "Isn't it that the Qi army that was cut off? As long as our army joins forces with the Song army, we can defeat the Qi army that was cut off in a short time."

Jin Kuang was slightly stunned, and then smiled a little.

He was very pleased that the generals under his command also saw the fatal flaws of the retreat tactics of the Qi army, but the problem was that if he had arranged it like this, the Qi army's army's tens of thousands of palace-behind the palace would be destined to be defeated by him, the Qin and Song armies in a short time. Once the Qi army's palace-behind the palace-behind the palace-behind the palace-behind the palace-behind the palace-behind the palace-behind the palace-behind the palace-behind the Qin and Song armies would directly attack the Qi army's central army and even take the opportunity to destroy the entire Qi army.

And this is contrary to the advice of Rang Marquis Wei Ran to him.

The essence of commanding war lies in concentrating superior forces and defeating an enemy army as soon as possible, so that the enemy will suffer major casualties in a short period of time; and if you want to delay the war, then just do the opposite.

Take the current situation as an example. If he helps Dai Busheng's Song army attack the Qi army's rear army, the Qi army will be defeated; but if he let Dai Busheng face the Qi army alone, and his Qin army continues to pursue the Qi army, no matter which side of the Qi army, they will not be defeated by them in a short time.

And cleverly, the Song army would not blame them for this, after all, they were indeed pursuing the Qi army.

But these words were not easy to reveal directly to subordinates, so Jin Kuang pretended to say: "You are right, but in this way, the Qi army is likely to abandon the army behind the palace and lead the rest of the army to flee. Therefore, our army must hold back the Qi army's army..."

Such an explanation makes sense. At least neither Fan Bu nor Zheng Yin aroused suspicion, nodded and clasped his fists and said, "The General of the Mo understands... The General of the Mo immediately leads his army to pursue the Qi army."

A moment later, Fan Bu and Zheng, two Qin generals, led a force to pursue the Qi army, leaving Jin Kuang to lead nearly 10,000 Qin troops behind.

In order to prevent the Song general Dai Busheng from aggravating suspicion, Jin Kuang pretended to join forces with the Song army to attack the enemy troops behind the palace. However, because Jin Kuang had few soldiers and considered that he did not strictly order the Qin soldiers under his command to fight, he tried it with Dai Busheng, but there was no big result.

Sure enough, there was no reason for Dai Busheng, and he was just a little upset.

"What's wrong with that Jin Kuang? The Qi army behind the palace has not been defeated yet, and he actually divided his troops to pursue the main force of the Qi army? Don't he know the reason why he can't eat too much? Is this the general under Sima Cuo?"

Hearing Dai Busheng's words, the guards beside him guessed: "Maybe, the Qin army wants to take the opportunity to keep all the 100,000 Qi troops."

"Then we shouldn't divide the troops at this time..."

Dai Busheng frowned and complained. He was very doubtful whether Jin Kuang would fight.

Similar to Dai Busheng's idea, Tian Da, the general of Qi who was commanding the soldiers in the Qi army behind the palace, breathed a sigh of relief after learning about the Qin army's movements and secretly laughed at the stupidity of the Qin army.

"I don't know who was commanding that Qin army, but they actually divided their troops to pursue our main force at this time... If he joined forces with the Song army on the opposite side, the soldiers who cut off the rear would probably be defeated by them... Tianyou Daqi!"

While laughing secretly, Qi general Tian Da continued to command the soldiers and calmly resisted the two armies of Jin Kuang and Dai Busheng.

Even, I was a little confident about this.

At the same time, Meng Zhong also led about 16,000 square cities to the battlefield with Le Jin.

Shortly afterwards, he received news from Dai Busheng, and learned that Qi general Tian Da was using a special tactic to make the two dismissals cover each other and evacuate, so that the Song army could not find an opportunity to chase and kill.

"Tian Da?"

Meng Zhong recalled it carefully and then he remembered that this person was Tian Chu's deputy general.

However, he was not very concerned about Tian Da before. Seeing that Tian Da calmly commanded the Qi army to retreat, it was obvious that the other party was also a general who was well versed in military tactics.

From the side, after hearing the news, Le Jin smiled and said, "This formation of Qi army is not difficult to defeat. As long as our army attacks the flanks of one of the Qi army behind the hall, the Song army will take the opportunity to kill them and crack them."

Meng Zhong nodded slightly.

He was still very relieved about Le Jin, and there was no need for him to give me any advice.

Seeing Le Jin leading the city army under his command heading forward, a few confusion flashed through Meng Zhongxin.

After all, in his opinion, although Qi general Tian Da's strategy was clever, it was not difficult to crack. He only needed to concentrate superior forces to launch a pincer attack on him. Considering that Qin general Jin Kuang took one step forward than other city troops, Meng Zhong was surprised that the two Qi troops behind the palace had not been defeated.

What are the Qin army doing?

Thinking of this, he ordered several Oguards around him to say, "Go and find out what the Qin army is doing."
To be continued...