"Wu Chengjun..."

Meng Ao leaned over and was about to pay a visit when Zhao Kuo helped him up.

Zhao Kuo was still a step late. When he arrived at Hangu Pass, Meng Ao had already retreated and organized the entire army to resist the possible attacks of the enemy at Hangu Pass. Although he had suffered a great defeat, the food supply was finally restored and the soldiers were no longer hungry. However, this war caused the casualties of Meng Ao's troops to be seriously injured and killed, and no more than 200,000 soldiers could be invested in the battle. On the opposite side, the coalition army maintained a combat organization of 300,000 people.

Meng Ao did not dare to attack again, and allowed the coalition forces to show off their power in front of Hangu Pass and conquered cities around. A large area of ​​territory outside Hangu Pass of Qin State was lost. The large area of ​​territory opened by Shangdang County, Sanchuan County, Nanyang County, and King Zhaoxiang fell in an instant, which made Meng Ao extremely frightened. He already understood in his heart that after experiencing such a crushing defeat, he probably could no longer continue to command the army.

At this moment, he finally waited for reinforcements from Xianyang.

There were not many reinforcements, only more than 10,000.

However, the people who brought these reinforcements to Hangu Pass were extraordinary. It was Wu Chengjun from Qin. After confirming this situation, Meng Ao immediately brought the generals to greet him. The generals looked a little disappointed... They still followed Meng Ao to salute Wu Chengjun in the chariot. They had never seen Wu Chengjun in military uniforms before. Zhao Kuo helped Meng Ao up. Every time he saw these people who were much older than him saluting him, he felt it was inappropriate.

However, the King of Qin once ordered that if the ministers and soldiers wanted to respect Wu Chengjun as much as the King of Qin, Zhao Kuo could not stop them from saluting him.

Meng Ao took Zhao Kuo into Hangu Pass. The generals around him lowered their heads and followed him. When Zhao Kuo entered Hangu Pass, he felt the decadence of the soldiers here. Hangu Pass was built very large, but it cannot be said that he could fully accommodate 200,000 Qin troops. Therefore, several of the Qin camps were set up in Hangu Pass, and the soldiers inside the pass looked very decadent at this moment.

The Qin people have not been defeated for a long time. After winning countless wars, the sudden and disastrous defeat made them fall into uneasiness and restlessness for a while. This battle destroyed their confidence, and severely reduced their personnel, which made them even more painful... After the defeat, they could not get any titles, which made them feel very disappointed... Many negative emotions were mixed together, which was why Meng Ao did not dare to fight again.

Zhao Kuo looked at the Qin army seriously. At the same time, the Qin soldiers were also looking at him. The arrival of Wu Chengjun was probably what they had never thought about. The officers who were trying to inspire morale finally waited for a wonderful opportunity. They squeezed out their smiles and said to the soldiers exaggeratedly and exaggeratedly: Wu Chengjun is a famous general who can fight against Wu Anjun. With him here, the coalition forces will never dare to be arrogant again!

Zhao Kuo did not say a word and followed Meng Ao into the tent.

He sat in the upper throne, and Lu Buwei had already handed over the entire army to him, Meng Ao and others were about to obey his orders, and the generals of Qin sat beside him, Meng Ao, Hu Yang, Sima Geng, and even the young Wang Jian, Qiang, Yang Duanhe and others... Zhao Kuo looked at them and then asked, "How is the war?" Meng Ao stood up again, leaned over and said, "General... the war is very unsuccessful."

"The enemy's main force is in Quwo, and the partial troops are in Guoshan, Jiao, Shimenshan, Wu, Changchengshan and other places... Shangdang, Sanchuan, Henoi, Nanyang and other places, all suffered attacks from the enemy... The Chu people even brought the captured Qin people to Hangu Pass to execute him..."

Zhao Kuo frowned and nodded, and Meng Ao sat down.

Sima Geng said seriously: "Wu Chengjun...you once told us that the benevolent and righteous army has no enemies... Now we no longer kill prisoners, nor harm the people, but these atrocities have defeated us and come to harm our people... Why is this?!" Sima Geng's words were more like questioning. Meng Ao and others' faces changed drastically. Meng Wu hurriedly stood up and said to Zhao Kuo: "General Sima Geng has such a temperament. Please don't blame him."

Zhao Kuo shook his head, then stood up and said seriously: "The army of benevolent and righteous indeed has no enemies. The army of benevolent and righteous may be temporarily suppressed... But the final victory must belong to the army of benevolent and righteous..."

"Then please come and take us to the final victory... Now the coalition forces are attacking the cities outside our Hangu Pass everywhere and harming our people... They are all waiting for our rescue!" Sima Geng continued, Sima Geng is an authentic old Qin man, who is rigorous, serious, and serious... But everyone does not hate him. Zhao Kuo looked at Meng Ao on the side, and he said seriously: "Reward the army immediately... Three days later, I will lead my troops to the expedition myself."

Meng Ao looked at him in surprise and nodded.

On that day, Zhao Kuo personally rushed to visit the soldiers. Meng Ao took out the food he had just sent to Hangu Pass to reward the three armies. In fact, Qin would only reward the army when he was victorious. Before going to war, there was little practice of rewarding the three armies. After all, the morale of the Qin people did not need to be motivated, but now it is different. A big defeat seriously affected the morale of the Qin State. At this time, other methods needed to inspire their morale.

When Zhao Kuo appeared at the garrison, the soldiers stood up one after another and did not dare to continue eating and drinking. Zhao Kuo just smiled, waved his hand, and asked them to sit down, and then accompanied them to eat sesame cakes and meat... The soldiers of Qin were different from Zhao. Zhao dared to come up to chat with Zhao Kuo, but the soldiers of Qin did not dare to do this because of the title system and the social hierarchy of Qin were very strict.

Moreover, because of the social atmosphere of Qin, it is impossible to sit down and chat, joke, and the happy scenes are impossible. And here, there will be no soldiers complaining to the general or reporting the officers. However, Zhao Kuo's visit cannot be said to be useless. He told the Qin soldiers that he had come to Hangu Pass. The appearance of Wu Chengjun itself was an inspiration to the Qin soldiers.

The Qin people quickly made preparations. Three days later, Zhao Kuo summoned the generals and issued his first order.

"General Meng Ao, please bring an army of 50,000 people to help you. You send troops north and cross the river to Weicheng." Zhao Kuo ordered. Meng Ao was stunned. He heard Zhao Kuo say, "Please keep in touch with me and keep sending scouts. If you encounter a small-scale enemy army, you can attack, but if you encounter a large group of people, don't rush to fight."

"only!"

A group of Qin people suddenly came out of Hangu Pass, but they did not attack Quwo directly in front of them, but went north quickly... The movements of Qin were soon found out by Quwo's ​​coalition forces. When the scout brought the news from Qin, Xinling Jun couldn't help but squint his eyes and carefully looked at the map in front of him. Wei Qing stood aside, frowned, and said, "What are the Qin people trying to do? We are stationed in Quwo, and they dare to divide their troops?"

"It seems that Kuo has arrived at Hangu Pass...haha, okay." Wei Wuji laughed, and he immediately said to Wei Qing: "Send a scout to tell Pang Nuan stationed in Shimen Mountain... Let him lead troops to attack Qin's partial division... In addition, you can take 30,000 Wei troops to the river bank to block the connection between this partial division and Hangu Pass!!" Wei Qing nodded and left immediately.

After Meng Ao crossed the river, he discovered the movements of the Zhao army. Pang Nuan was leading the Zhao army to fight towards him. Zhao Kuo quickly sent a scout and told him to let Meng Wu lead some people to entangle Pang Nuan on the river bank, and Meng Ao and his people continued to go to Weicheng. Soon, Wei Qing brought people to cut off the river bank, but at this time, Meng Ao had already arrived at Weicheng and contacted Zhao Kuo through water from Weicheng.

Zhao Kuo ordered him to divide his troops again and asked Hu Yang to guard Weicheng. Meng Ao continued to lead his troops to attack Shimen Mountain.

Pang Gong also noticed something was wrong. When his army arrived at the river bank, he was entangled by Meng Wu. Meng Wu retreated and attacked, while the Qin army rushed to Wei City. Meng Wu retreated all the way to Wei City. They hid in the city. Meng Ao had already captured Shimen Mountain and surrounded Zhao's army on the river bank. Xinling Jun hurriedly ordered Pang Gong to withdraw all the way back to Jiao and rush to Wu City.

At this time, Zhao Kuo sent out a second partial division, and this time the number was slightly larger, with 80,000 people. Wang Jian was the general. Everyone did not understand why Wu Chengjun valued this young man who had no merits so much. He participated in many wars, but he never made any great contributions. He just relied on attacks from behind to make some military achievements.

Zhao Kuo ordered Wang Jian to take Sima Geng, Yang Duan and others to rush to Changcheng Mountain in the south... Xinling Jun frowned and hurriedly ordered Jingyang in Changcheng Mountain to do a good job in defense, while Jingyang personally took the people to block the Qin people. However, he did not expect that the purpose of the Qin people was not to capture Changcheng Mountain. The Qin people bypassed Changcheng Mountain and directly captured Yin Cheng behind him.

Xinlingjun himself also went out, and he asked someone to prepare the siege equipment and prepare to attack Hangu Pass.

At this time, Meng Ao from the north gathered in Shimen Mountain and sent troops to Yan City again. Xinling Jun hurriedly sent Pang Nuan to attack Shimen Mountain and ordered Gongsun Ying to support Yan City. Meng Ao ordered Hu Yang to guard against Pang Nuan in Shimen Mountain, and asked Meng Wu to entangle Gongsun Ying in Yan City, while he led his army to attack Anyi... In the south, Jingyang Valley went to attack Chengyin, Wang Jian left Sima Geng to pester the Chu people, but he led his main force to continue to be difficult to enter and recover Yiyang.

These actions of Qin State made people confused and made people completely unaware of what they wanted to do... Xinling Jun was also a little confused. Zhao Kuo did not attack the city or fight head-on. He just kept advancing and constantly changed the direction of the attack... Xinling Jun sat in the camp, looking at the map in front of him, and thought seriously for a moment. In an instant, his face changed drastically.

His eyes were gathered in Mianchi. The enemy's northern partial division passed through Anyi and could cross the river to Mianchi. However, the enemy's southern partial division fought to Mianchi through Yiyangeng. When the two armies met, the 300,000 coalition forces would be surrounded by the Qin people... Xinlingjun widened his eyes and took a breath. After many years of not seeing each other, Kuo was really becoming more and more powerful. He was going to make a thousand-mile detour. This guy was going to make two thousand-mile detours!

After understanding the Qin people's thoughts, Xinlingjun immediately made a response. Pang Nuan and Jingyang also discovered the strangeness of the Qin people. However, they did not see clearly like Xinlingjun... Xinlingjun ordered Pang Gong to stop attacking Shimen Mountain and march directly into Jingshan to prevent the Qin people's northern division from going south to Mianchi. On the other hand, he ordered Jingyang to shrink his troops and set out directly to Qiang. Qiang was in the east of Mianchi. As long as he occupied this place, he would not be afraid that the Qin army would successfully meet.

Soon, Mr. Pang entered Jingshan and Jingyang entered Qiang. Just when Xinlingjun felt that he had destroyed Zhao Kuo's strategic deployment, Mr. Pang sent people to send news that the Qin people were heading north again to Jingshan and rushed to Wenxi... And in the south, there was also news that the Qin people continued to advance eastward, bypassed Qiang, and directly attacked Gaodu. Xinlingjun was stunned for a moment. He ordered Mr. Pang to continue to enter eastward to Wangyuan City, and the Qin people rushed to Pingshan again.

In the south, Jing Yang had just entered Henan City, and the Qin people came to Yique again...

Xinlingjun grabbed his hair and looked at the map in front of him again. The purpose of the Qin people on the north road seemed to be Wusui. If they continued to advance, they could go to Gongxian through Wusui. The army on the south road could also come to Gongxian through Jiulicheng. Both sides would meet in Gongxian and surrounded the coalition forces... Xinlingjun led his main army to attack Hangu Pass. However, Hangu Pass was very majestic and tall, and the morale of the Qin people was also very high. Xinlingjun had no chance to break through.

Xinlingjun immediately retreated to Mianchi with his main force and stayed in Quwo, which was really not conducive to his orders to the entire army.

At this time, Zhao Kuo and his main force easily defeated Quwo and confronted Xinlingjun again.

Xinlingjun looked at Gong County and could only helplessly ask Pang Gong to defend Wusui, Jingyang to defend Jiuli to prevent the Qin people from meeting... Of course, the result was that the Qin people bypassed these two areas again and made progress again... The areas where these Qin people advanced were all local areas of the Qin State. In these places, the Qin people could continuously get supplies and even replenish manpower, and the march was extremely fast. Meng Ao and Wang Jian were both following Zhao Kuo's orders, rushing and constantly rushing, not fighting head-on with the enemy, just rushing!

Zhao Kuo and Wei Wuji broke into the defense one by one, pulling the front lines between the two sides for thousands of miles. The Qin people were still constantly advancing, but Wei Wuji had no way to summon the army again because his army was scattered on the front lines for thousands of miles... Such a war never happened, and Zhao Kuo's breakthrough strategy surprised everyone. Except for Xinling Jun, no one could see Zhao Kuo's deployment.

They just saw Zhao Kuo's two partial divisions constantly marching, while the coalition army was constantly blocking their path.

If this continues, the two partial troops of Qin will go to Handan and Daliang!!
Chapter completed!