Just when Bai Qi tested Wang Yan at Hangu Pass, Meng Zhong had already led the Wei, Zhao and Han army to withdraw to the Daozhong camp.

How can we say the emotions of the three armies of Wei, Zhao and Han at this moment? There is no depression and annoyance of defeat in the battle, and almost generally it feels inexplicable.

After all, as far as the battlefield was concerned, not only did the Zhao army and the Korean army return to the battlefield, but the Hedong army and the Fangcheng army did not suffer serious losses. In the eyes of ordinary people, there was still a fight in this battle, and no one understood why the Yancheng Jun Meng Zhong, as the main general, ordered the withdrawal of troops.

I have to say that if another person was the main general, I believe that the soldiers of the Wei, Zhao and Han army would probably begin to question the ability of the main general, but they still trusted Meng Zhong, Wei, Zhao and Han army.

There is no need to say much about the Hedong Army and the Han Army. Meng Zhong led the remnants of troops to reversal during the Battle of Yique, and helped South Korea to regain the two cities of Yiyang and Xincheng. In the minds of the soldiers of the Wei and Han army, they had already established the position of a brave general. Zhao's army - to be honest, Meng Zhong's reputation in Zhao State may not be very good, because he was once a subordinate of Prince Zhao Zhang and a member of the rebel army, but this "rebel general" has the ability to believe in Zhao State's soldiers.

The generals would not question it. After all, during the civil war between Zhao that year, when the king's army was suppressed by the rebels, Meng Zhong and Pang Qian were two generals of the rebels. They defeated Yangwenjun Zhao Bao, Fengyangjun Li Dui, and Anpingjun Zhao Cheng, and killed the king's army to retreat step by step and retreat back to Handan. They almost even the king's capital Handan was defeated by the rebels. If it weren't for the rebel general Niu Jian's final rebellion, the civil war would undoubtedly end with the victory of the rebels.

Since the abilities of the chief general were impeccable, the soldiers of the three armies naturally began to think about the reason why the Yanchengjun withdrew. They were talking a lot on the way to withdraw. Some said that Meng Zhong realized that the strength of the defenders in Hangu Pass exceeded expectations, and some said that the Hedong Army and Fangcheng Army had already collapsed at that time. In short, after a long debate, they could not reach any conclusion that could stand the scrutiny.

After withdrawing from the Wei camp in Daozhong, Lian Po, Jin Bi and Korean Foot disbanded the army and immediately headed towards the tent of the general. Obviously, they also wanted to ask Meng Zhong about the real reason for the withdrawal.

I have to say that judging from the appearance of Lian Po, Jin Bi and Korean Football, you can clearly see the different combat methods of the three of them.

Let’s talk about Korean Football first. Although it cannot be said that the armor on his body is still bright and beautiful at this moment, there is indeed not much blood. Obviously, Korean Football is not a general who leads soldiers to fight on the front line. On the other hand, Lian Po and Jin Bi are indeed full of red, especially Jin Bi. When he left the battlefield, it seemed to be fished out of a blood pool, and blood was dripping all over his body. Not to mention the enemy soldiers, even the soldiers on his side were afraid that they would feel a little chill when they saw such a warrior.

Coincidentally, because of the same destination, Lian Po, Jin Bi and Korean Football met not far from the main general's tent.

Subconsciously, Lian Po and Jin Bi stared at each other and looked at each other. When they saw that Lian Po’s blood was coagulated and formed a scab, which was obviously not as thick as himself, Jin Bi’s face showed a proud and contemptuous smile: “Isn’t this the powerful general of Zhao State Lian Po, Sima, Sima? I heard that the army was defeated by a Qin general named Meng Yi on the opposite side today?”

Lian Po is not the kind of person who obeys the situation. When he heard the ridicule, he immediately sneered: "Which eye of Sima Jin saw that our army was defeated by the Qin army? If it weren't for the Qin general named Meng Yi leading the army to attack, if it weren't for the Lord of Yancheng, I ordered me to retreat and reorganize the army, whether it was Meng Yi or Wang Yan, Lian killed him... Then again, Sima Jin had been on the battlefield for so long, but he didn't even know the name of the Qin general he was facing?"

"..." Jin Bi's expression changed slightly when he heard this. After all, he was indeed not sure about the identity of the Qin general he was facing at that time.

Next to him, the Korean football team stood alone, watching Lian Po and Jin Bi mocking each other awkwardly.

Although Jin Bi's words of ridiculing Lian Po made Korean Foot feel very embarrassed, after all, the situation of the Korean army was similar to that of Zhao army at that time. They were all attacked by Qin general Zhongxu because they were too focused on Wang Yan's army. So that when Jin Bi mocked Lian Po, Korean Football also felt inexplicably embarrassed.

However, there is something more embarrassing than this, that is, Lian Po doesn't use the words "The Korean army was also attacked by the Qin army, why do you just say our army?" to refute Jin Bi, which made Korean Football feel... Well, it's very uncomfortable, just like although standing aside at this moment, Lian Po and Jin Bi were just quarreling with each other as if they didn't see him, just caring about quarrels with each other.

Isn’t this completely ignored?

Seeing that Lian Po and Jin Bi were becoming more and more fierce, they were in a state of disagreement. Not to mention the soldiers of Wei, Zhao and Han soldiers who were beside each other were trembling and did not dare to come forward to persuade these two warriors, even Korean football dared not interfere.

Fortunately, at this time, Le Jin and Sima Yuyingjiu smiled and smoothed out: "Two, two, what's wrong?"

When he turned to look at Le Jin, Jin Bi looked at the blood on Le Jin and Yu Ying's armor from head to toe. It has to be said that Le Jin and Yu Ying's armor also had a strong blood on the armor, but in the end, it was still not as good as Jin Bi.

Seeing this, Jin Bi secretly praised in his heart: Le Sima and Yu Zuo Sima are also two warriors.

While praising him, he pretended to be careless and said, "It's nothing, it's just that some people have the ability to talk about their mouths..."

Lian Po was furious when he heard this and reached out to grab Jin Bi, but was stopped by Le Jin and Yu Ying. After much persuasion, Lian Po and Jin Bi stopped this somewhat naive targeting each other.

In short, it was finally relieved that a farce was finally put down. Le Jin and Yu Ying were ready to leave.

Seeing this, Jin Bi asked casually: "Le Sima, Yu Suo Sima, are you going to the Lord of Yancheng? It's just right to pass."

Unexpectedly, after hearing this, Le Jin was stunned for a moment, and then smiled and said, "Isn't this urgent? Anyway, today's battle was planned in advance, and there were no accidents during this period. In my opinion, there was no need to report anything."

"Those two are..."

"Oh, Yu Ying and I went back to our respective tents to get a set of clothes for changing clothes, and then prepared to find a place to wash the river nearby." As he said that, Le Jin pulled the armor and showed a discomfort on his face.

No wonder, after all, his body was covered with blood and sweat at this moment, and it was sticky. If Le Jin hadn't been used to fighting for many years, ordinary civilians would have vomited out disgustingly.

『Scrub the body? Instead of overturning my life?』

Lian Po and Jin Bi looked at each other, and they were a little confused. After all, according to common sense, isn’t this common sense to overturn the general after the war?

As for the blood on the armor, isn't it just for showing off your courage?

Maybe it was because of Lian Po, Jin Bi, and Korean Football. Le Jin smiled and said, "Believe me, go find a place to wash it first, and then go to Ah Zhong to suppress his life... I won't say anything, I'll take a step first, my body is sticky, making me feel uncomfortable."

After saying that, he called Zuo Sima Yuying and said goodbye to Jin Bi, Lian Po and Korean Football.

Looking at the backs of Le Jin and Yu Ying, Jin Bi, Lian Po and Korean Football looked at each other. Korean Football was fine, but Jin Bi and Lian Po suddenly felt that they were really stupid to show off their blood clots on each other just now.

What's worse is that after Jing Lejin said that Lian Po and Jin Bi began to feel the sticky feeling strongly, not to mention that there were actually some minced meat, blood tendons and other things hanging on their armor.

"Or the three of us also find a place to clean it first, change into clean clothes, and then go to Yanchengjun to cover his life?" Korean football suggested hesitantly.

Upon hearing this, Jin Bi and Lian Po looked at each other at the same time, but neither of them spoke.

It seemed as if the two of them were waiting for each other to speak first.

Seeing this scene, Korean football immediately understood that his proposal was in vain: "Forget it, let's just overturn the Lord of Yancheng first. I hope the pungent bloody smell on both of them will not smother the Lord of Yancheng."

A moment later, because neither Jin Bi nor Lian Po were willing to speak first, they and Korean football eventually appeared in Meng Zhong's tent.

As Le Jin said, although the guards outside Meng Zhong's tent all looked at Jin Bi and Lian Po, who were covered in blood with great admiration, some guards kindly reminded them, reminding Jin Bi and Lian Po to wash their bodies and armor first. After all, the blood on their bodies was indeed too rich.

Even Meng Zhong was stunned when he saw Lian Po and Jin Bi, who were covered in blood, and then he would use the situation to praise Jin Bi and Lian Po's bravery.

As for the blood and bloody smell on Jin Bi and Lian Po, Meng Zhong didn't care much. After all, he was promoted from the soldiers. How could he have never seen blood?

Afterwards, Jin Bi and Lian Po asked Meng Zhong about the reason for withdrawing troops.

Meng Zhong explained frankly: "In order not to break out in the decisive battle early."

As he said, he said to Jin Bi in a slightly blameless tone: "Jin Bi, I know you are very brave and can be called the number one general in our army, but what you do today almost caused a decisive battle between our army and the Qin army to break out..."

I have to say that if someone else said this, Jin Bi's expression would have fallen immediately, but given that this was what Meng Zhong said, Jin Bi was not angry, he was just a little confused: "I don't understand... Isn't this better than our army's fierce attack on Hangu Pass and the Qin army went out of the city to fight with our army?"

Beside him, Lian Po also nodded slightly, obviously he also agreed with Jin Bi's words.

After hearing this, Meng Zhong couldn't help but feel a little troubled. After all, there were some things that Lian Po and Jin Bi were not aware of, and Meng Zhong did not intend to tell them.

You should know that Lian Po and Jin Bi have both stubborn and stubborn personality. If Meng Zhong revealed to them here, what small moves might be made in the joint attack on Qin? With Lian Po and Jin Bi's personality that could not hide their worries, it is guaranteed that the whole army will know about it tomorrow morning. By then, wouldn't the internal internal forces be worse?

After all, the reason why Meng Zhong, Fengyang Jun Li Dui, Bao Yuan and others pretended not to know the intention of the Qi army was, on the one hand, to create the illusion that the five countries of Wei, Zhao, Han, Qi and Yan united to attack Qin and put pressure on Qin. On the other hand, they did not give up trying to win over the Qi and Yan armies - at least in this war against Qin, Wei, Zhao and Han still needed the Qi and Yan armies to contribute.

Under this premise, some things are destined to not be put on the table, and they cannot easily tear each other apart. Otherwise, wouldn’t this war between the five countries’ attacks on Qin immediately?

Considering this, Meng Zhong thought about it and explained to Jin Bi, Lian Po, and Han Football, "I believe you three actually know that this time the attack on Qin, Wei, Zhao, and Han are the main forces. Qi is just afraid of the alliance between us and the three Jins, and afraid that our three Jins would pursue their own proclaimed Eastern Emperor, so he reluctantly sent troops to cooperate with our three Jins to attack Qin. In fact, this was not the original intention of Qi. As for the Yan army, since the death of Zhao Zhufu, Yan State has followed Qi's horse leader since then. Qi is unreliable, and Yan State may not be reliable. The army led by you three are the elite of our three Jins. If you had suffered heavy losses in the battle with the Qin army early, then this attack on Qin would probably have died in the middle of the journey..."

After hearing this explanation, Jin Bi, Lian Po and Korean football nodded thoughtfully. After all, this explanation makes sense. The army under the command of the three of them is indeed the elite of Wei, Zhao and Han.

"As for the others..." Meng Zhong hesitated for a moment, and finally decided to reveal it a little to prove his trust in Jin Bi and the other two: "Actually, there are some small problems within our coalition at present. Feng Yangjun and the general of the storm also know about this matter, but it is not the time to be revealed... As for what the problem is, it is not convenient to disclose it to you three for the time being, please forgive me."

It must be the problem of the Qi and Yan armies.

Although Jin Bi and Lian Po had a bit impulsive and reckless personality, they were not stupid. When they heard Meng Zhong's tactful explanation, they guessed that it must be the small moves of the Qi and Yan armies.

However, since Meng Zhong did not tell them, it means that this matter is more serious, at least not what generals at their level can know. Therefore, Jin Bi, Lian Po and Korean Football Team were tactfully not asking questions.

But while giving up the questioning, Jin Bi raised questions about the attack on Hangu Pass: "I understand what the Lord of Yancheng is about. Yancheng Jun hopes that our army can reduce the casualties of our army while capturing Hangu Pass, but... I think it's not that easy."

Beside, Lian Po nodded slightly.

He agrees with Jin Bi's point of view very much.

As the head coach, Lian Po was really relieved. After all, Meng Zhong was indeed very responsible and would not do such an act of preserving his own army and letting other countries sacrifice his army. But at the same time, Lian Po also believed that Meng Zhong's way of using troops was too... merciful, how could he not die in war? Capturing Hangu Pass without reducing his own casualties? Is this kind of thing unrealistic?

After thinking about it, Lian Po felt it was necessary to remind Meng Zhong a little bit: "June Yancheng... Lian Po admires my Zhao army's compassion, and is also very grateful. However, I think that the soldiers of our army have also made up their minds to die on the battlefield. Take today's battle as an example. I actually think that... our Zhao army is completely possible to deal with it... and I also think that the view of Sima of Jin is not wrong. Instead of asking the Qin army to defend Hangu Pass to death, so that we are forced to attack that heroic pass, I think the decisive battle in the wild is actually more beneficial to us..."

Seeing Lian Po and Jin Bi look serious, Meng Zhong couldn't help but feel a little funny.

He wouldn't be able to see that these two powerful generals complained in disguise that Meng Zhong was too weak in fighting.

So he smiled and comforted, "Okay, I will definitely let you kill you next time."

After receiving Meng Zhong's promise, Lian Po and Jin Bi were also satisfied. Soon after, they left the military tent with Korean Foot and washed away the blood on their bodies.

Meng Zhong was sitting alone in the military tent at this time, thinking about subsequent strategies.

As Bai Qi guessed, although Jin Bi's radical approach at that time almost broke out a decisive battle between the coalition and the Qin army in advance, Meng Zhong also broke out in a cold sweat at that time, for fear that Bai Qi would send all the troops in the pass in anger and cause heavy damage to the coalition under his command.

So what if you give up the advantage of the city wall? As long as you use the advantage of military strength to swallow Meng Zhong's army in one bite, when Fengyang Jun Li Dui leads the main force to attack, you will have time to defend the enemy. There is no need to be too tolerant.

However, the Qin army's tolerance made Meng Zhong unexpectedly estimate the rough force of Hangu Pass - less than 100,000 troops were killed.

After all, if there are more troops, Bai Qi will be confident to start the decisive battle ahead of time.

The Qin army had 100,000, and the coalition was 250,000. If the Qin army had the advantage of Hangu Pass before, the coalition might not have been able to win. Then after Meng Zhong took out the catapult, the Qin army's chances of winning were actually very small.

Yes, as Bai Qi guessed, Meng Zhong no longer cared about Hangu Pass at all. What he really cared about was the winding and narrow Hangu Road that lasted fifteen miles long.

Simply put, he was confident of conquering Hangu Pass, but how to pass the fifteen-mile-long Hangu Road left him helpless. After all, this valley road had too much advantage over the Qin army, even greater than Hangu Pass.

If his coalition forces despise the Hangu Road and go deeper rashly, this Hangu Road may not have ruined his 250,000 coalition forces.

Is there a way to bypass this Hangu Road?

But unfortunately, until now, Meng Hu and Hua Hu, who are responsible for searching for remote roads in this area, have not found any other paths that lead to the back of Hangu Pass.

It seems that Hangu Pass is the only way his coalition forces can invade the Qin State.

This is very troublesome.

That night, Meng Zhong lay on the straw couch with his hands on his pillow, still thinking hard about ways to break through the Hangu Road, such as using ropes to ask the soldiers to climb up the mountains on both sides of the Hangu Road.

But the problem is that as far as he knows, the mountains on both sides of Hangu Road were not flat, and there were gullies and broken walls everywhere, so they could not pass through at all. Even if the soldiers could climb up, they could not help the friendly forces to break through the entire section of Hangu Road that lasted fifteen miles long.

Just as Meng Zhong was thinking hard, he suddenly heard some noise coming from the northeast of the camp.

At first he didn't care. After all, there would be some friction between the soldiers of the Wei, Zhao and Han army. It would be enough to leave this kind of thing to the generals of the three armies to negotiate and resolve. He did not need to come forward, otherwise it would be difficult to resolve.

But gradually, Meng Zhong felt something was wrong, because the voice was endless and even had a more intense meaning.

The Qin army attacked at night?!

A thought suddenly flashed through his mind, Meng Zhong turned over and walked out of the tent quickly.

At this time, he subconsciously looked towards Hangu Pass, but saw that Hangu Pass was silent.

The only one who will launch an attack on his coalition forces was the Qin army. However, judging from the current situation, it seems that the Qin army attacked at night did not come from Hangu Pass, but from...

behind?
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