On the sixth day of the sixth month of the sixth year of King Wei, Meng Zhong led the four generals of Le Jin, Jin Bi, Lian Po, and Korean football, as well as nearly 40,000 troops to attack Hangu Pass.

Around Chen Hou, the armies were ready to attack. Jin Bi, Lian Po and Korean Foot led the troops of the first army to advance slowly towards Hangu Pass, and then Le Jin's army was under his command.

Such a large-scale operation naturally could not hide it from the Qin army scouts, and Bai Qi soon received the relevant news.

『Is it finally coming?』

After learning about Meng Zhong's resurgence, Bai Qi was also cautious and immediately summoned the generals in the army and ordered them to take up their own defensive positions. He and Sima Cuo climbed to the pass building of Hangu Pass and climbed up to look at the Wei army coming from afar.

About half an hour later, about half of the troops of Wei general Jin Bi arrived at Hangu Pass first, standing at about one mile away from Guancheng, and arranged troops in the middle.

"Hurry up!"

Jin Bi was patrolling the formation in a chariot, urging his Wei soldiers to hurry up and arrange the array. At the same time, he did not forget to glance at the left and right wings with a slightly profound look, that is, the area where Zhao general Lianpo and Han generals and Korean football were stationed.

After a short while, Zhao general Lianpo also led half of the vanguard troops to arrive in front of the pass, and ordered his Zhao soldiers to arrange troops next to the Jin Bi army.

During this period, Lian Po also deliberately or unintentionally glanced at Jin Bi who was giving orders in the distance, and frowned slightly.

From the side, a guard whispered: "Sima, that Jin Bi... seems to have some intentions against Sima."

"Don't talk nonsense." Lian Po said lightly.

But even though that was the case, Lian Po actually knew in his heart that Jin Bi was indeed a bit prejudiced to him.

The reason may be that during this period, Meng Zhong had repeatedly called him Lian Po a powerful general of Zhao State. Although such praise was spoken by people like Meng Zhong, Lian Po felt quite happy after hearing this, it was inevitable that he would be targeted by some people.

Look, that guy named Jin Bi is not very convinced of him.

When talking about this, Lian Po also felt incredible, because as far as he knew, Jin Bi had a bad relationship with Meng Zhong at first, but later, for some reason, Jin Bi gradually began to respect Meng Zhong, so that Meng Zhong praised him for saying "Liang Po" for a few words like "strong generals and brave generals", so Jin Bi looked very unhappy.

Since then, Jin Bi has competed with him everywhere. His soldiers cut down forests and built camps, and they have to compete with each other every day. What’s even more ridiculous is that even if they go on a battle today, Jin Bi will force the Wei soldiers under his command to arrive at the battlefield first.

Lian Po really wanted to ask Jin Bi in person: Is it useless to be the first one to arrive at the battlefield? Don’t you have to wait for the army to assemble and wait for the siege equipment made by Lejin Sima’s army? Isn’t it good to let the soldiers save some energy and keep it to attack Hangu Pass later?

"childish."

Noting that Jin Bi in the distance turned his head and looked at him, Lian Po couldn't help but snorted.

At this moment, there were bursts of shouts behind me.

"Give it, let it go."

"Let the building car and the catapult pass."

While Jin Bi, Lian Po and Korean armies were surrendering to each other, tower chariots and catapults were slowly pushed to the front of the formation, generally arranged in a row.

It has to be said that the building car built by Meng Zhong ordered Le Jin to supervise this time is larger and larger than the building car built by the Song State when it attacked Teng State, and is almost three meters high, just like a giant, but compared with the Guancheng in Hangu Pass, this height is still lower than that.

According to Lian Po's visual observation, the city of Hangu Pass was about five people high, and it was estimated that it was nearly four meters high. This means that even if these twenty tower cars were pushed to the bottom of the pass and lowered the bridge board, the soldiers had to face a steep bridge board slope. "Note: 1 meter in the Warring States Period was about 2.31 meters."

"It is worthy of being the world's number one pass..."

After staring at Hanguguan in the distance for a long time, Lian Po couldn't help but sigh.

At this time, a guard beside him reminded Lian Po, "Sima, Mr. Yancheng is in front of the formation."

Turning his head and looking in the direction pointed by the guard, Lian Po saw a commanding flag with the words "Wilson Cheng Jun Meng" written on it slowly moving forward among countless soldiers, as if he was heading towards the front central army where Jin Bi was.

Seeing this, Lian Po and his deputy general gave a few instructions, and then rode their horses to the front central army to see if Meng Zhong had any pre-war instructions.

Perhaps some people may wonder, a proud person like Lian Po would take the initiative to come forward and listen to Meng Zhong’s pre-war orders?

In fact, the reason is very simple. Because Meng Zhong treated Lian Po with courtesy, how could Lian Po have the nerve to show off his bad face?

A moment later, when Lian Po came to the front of the front central army, he not only saw Lian Po and the central army general Le Jin, but also the Korean football team on the left wing had arrived, so he accelerated and rushed forward.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he pulled up his horse, he heard Jin Bi say lightly: "I always hear the King of Yancheng praise Zhao's army. Today, I saw that the speed of the Zhao army and the arrangement of the formation were very average, not as good as that of our Hedong Army."

When Lian Po heard this, his face darkened and he said lightly: "Marching and fighting is always a must. Today, he is not a marching force, so why bother to be anxious? Some people are the first to arrive, and they don't have to wait for the rest of the troops to arrive obediently?"

Hearing this, Jin Bi also lowered his face and stared at Lian Po, who was not afraid.

"here we go again……"

Seeing this scene, Meng Zhongyi was really a little amused and crying.

As Gongsun Shu, Dou Xing, Wei Qing and others said, Jin Bi was indeed a powerful general. Not only was his personal strength no less than Meng Hu, but he was also familiar with military strategy. Lian Po was also not bad at all. Thinking about the civil war in Zhao State, Lian Po's martial arts surprised Meng Zhong and others. What's more, a few years later, it is no exaggeration to say that in terms of personal force, Lian Po was definitely the strongest one in the coalition at this moment.

As the saying goes, one mountain cannot accommodate two tigers. Because they are both powerful generals, Jin Bi and Lian Po do not like each other, so the two people have frequent quarrels recently, which is quite similar to Meng Hu and Hua Hu. But the difference is that Meng Hu and Hua Hu have been raised together since childhood. Most of the quarrels between them are just fun, but Jin Bi and Lian Po are not. A few times, if it weren’t for Meng Zhong, Korean Football, Le Jin and others to smooth things over, they might really fight.

What's even more troublesome is that Jin Bi and Lian Po are both arrogant and arrogant people. They are not only useless to scold such people, but also have a negative effect.

Fortunately, Meng Zhong is quite experienced in dealing with such a donkey. He patted his palm a few times and hinted: "Two, two, not only are our army tens of thousands of soldiers watching, but the Qin army opposite also watching..."

When they heard this, Jin Bi and Lian Po immediately put aside their glaring look at each other. After all, they also want face. As long as they don’t get over, they will naturally not make any jokes in public.

Seeing this, Meng Zhong smiled slightly and then said seriously: "I have already told about today's tactics yesterday, so I won't go into details. In short, the purpose of today's battle is to test the actual combat capabilities of the building and catapults, and to touch the virtual and real Qin troops in the pass, and by the way, put pressure on the Qin army opposite... If there is no doubt, you can start."

After hearing this, Jin Bi, Lian Po and the three Korean generals looked at each other, and it seemed that there was no doubt about it.

Seeing this, Meng Zhong nodded and said to Le Jin: "A Jin."

"Um."

Le Jin knew it and rode a war horse forward, directing the soldiers of the stone-popping convoy and said, "Take the stone-popping cart, prepare to drop bombs!"

At this time, the soldiers who operated the catapult were all soldiers of Fangcheng Army. It was not that Meng Zhong hid it and did not want to disclose this siege weapon to Korean Football and Lian Po. It was just that when Le Jin was supervising the catapult, he also taught some soldiers some time ago. Anyway, there are only twenty catapults in total, and Meng Zhong was too lazy to give them to Korean Football and Lian Po. Let’s talk about more catapults in the future.

Under Le Jin's command, about a hundred soldiers in the square city surrounding the twenty catapults were now skillfully loading the round stones that were hugging one by one into the catapults' throwing basket, and then worked hard with Tongze to stir the winch, using the noose on the winch to make the throwing basket continue to press down.

"put!"

With Le Jin's order, the more than a hundred soldiers of Fangcheng soldiers immediately let go of the winch.

Suddenly, there was a muffled sound, and the throwing baskets of the twenty throwing cars bounced violently at the same time, throwing the round stones that were embracing each other into the air.

At the same time, Qin generals Bai Qi and Sima Cuo were standing on the Guanlou and looking at the Wei army opposite.

During this period, the two of them also whispered the siege equipment in the Wei army opposite.

I have to say that when the Wei army started operating the catapult cart, neither Bai Qi nor Sima was too concerned. After all, the catapult cart was too remote, and they didn't even know what this thing was used for.

It was not until a moment later that a round stone roared on the city wall below the Guanlou, causing the entire Guanlou to shake a little. Bai Qi and Sima Cuo then showed an incredible look.

That thing...is actually used to smash the city wall?!

"Play!"

Seeing a stone bullet hitting the city wall of Hangu Pass from afar, Meng Zhong smiled and applauded.

But Le Jin was not satisfied. After all, half of the trial shots of a total of twenty catapults reached only half of the range, which was obviously a problem with the soldiers in terms of exercise.

Therefore, Le Jin gathered all the soldiers who operated the catapult cart together and gave some guidance.

Seeing Le Jin explaining and guiding seriously with a serious face, Meng Zhongxin was secretly amused. After all, something like a catapult, let alone Le Jin, is actually the first time he used it, so he has no practical experience.

It is precisely because of this that when the only stone bullet shot to the opposite city wall hit, he would applaud as a celebration.

Since you have no experience, then take your time.

Compared to Meng Zhong's calmness, Bai Qi and Sima Cuo on Hangu Pass opposite were not so calm.

Especially when the two of them discovered that the entire building was trembling slightly, and it was actually a stone bullet that hugged each other, Bai Qi became increasingly unable to calm down.

Hell, that was a round stone weighing dozens or even hundreds of kilograms. How did the Wei army make such a stone leap for nearly one mile and hit the wall of his Hangu Pass?

You must know this distance, even a crossbow can't shoot.

"What the hell is that?" Bai Qi murmured to himself, his face full of ghosts.

From the side, Sima chou stroked his beard and pondered.

I have to say that veterans are veterans. In terms of experience, they are naturally not comparable to those of frivolous young people like Bai Qi. After thinking for a while, Sima Cuo slowly said: "If I had never remembered it wrongly, this should be the 'roller throwing' that was invented hundreds of years ago."

"Hundreds of years ago?" Bai Qi was stunned when he heard this: "Why have I never heard of it?"

Sima Cuo stroked his beard and explained: "It's just that things are not conducive to combat... When the Zhou people invented the throwing of a car, they were to destroy the merchant's chariot, but because of the poor effect, they were gradually forgotten. Unexpectedly, Meng Zhong knew about this thing, and even created it to smash the city wall of my Hangu Pass... It turns out that, it seems that he also knew that my Hangu Pass was indestructible, so he wanted to destroy the city wall of this pass..."

"Then..." Bai Qi looked at Sima Cuo with a silence.

As if he had guessed Bai Qi's thoughts, Sima Cuo shook his head slightly and said, "I have just seen it a little while reading ancient books, and I don't know the details..."

While they were talking, the Wei army opposite began to drop bombs again.

There was a dull sound, and twenty stone bullets were thrown high and flew towards Hangu Pass.

"..." Bai Qi stared at the stone bullets without saying a word.

"Bang!"

There was another loud bang, and it seemed that another stone bullet hit the wall of Hangu Pass.

Without waiting for Bai Qi to curse at this, there was a loud bang. The entire location of the side building on the left side of the building collapsed, causing a panic and scream of Qin soldiers nearby.

"What's going on?" Bai Qi asked subconsciously.

In fact, when he asked this, he had already got the answer in his mind: it must have been those stone bullets that happened to hit the side building on the left side of the building.

"Long live! Long live!"

The Wei army in the distance began to cheer, and it was obvious that these people also noticed the collapse of the building on the Hangu Pass.

Seeing this, Bai Qi's expression became increasingly ugly, and he asked in a deep voice: "Report the loss immediately!"
To be continued...