『Um…』

In the tent, Fengyang Jun Li Dui held the letter of peace sent by the King of Qin, reading it word by word, while carefully pondering the mentality of the writer when writing this letter.

At first, when Li Dui received this letter, he was extremely happy.

After all, ‘forcing Qin to surrender’ is not something that ordinary people can do.

There are very few people who have been able to do this in recent decades, and only Su Qin, Zhao Zhufu, Tian Zhang and others have only been counting.

In addition, Qin's surrender could also stop the war. Although Li Dui insisted on attacking Qin in Zhao's position, he never thought of fighting with Qin. According to his ideas, he would fight to Hangu Pass and pose a threat to Qin. Now the results of the battle are far beyond his expectations. He is actually very satisfied and does not want to completely anger Qin because of the relationship between Bao Yuan and Meng Zhong.

Therefore, after reading this letter of Qin King Ji's request for peace, Li Dui had actually accepted the request for peace in Qin, but Meng Zhong's words just now sounded the alarm bell in Li Dui's heart.

From time to time, Li Dui glanced at Meng Zhong who was sitting in the tent, secretly peeking at Meng Zhong's expression, trying to guess the credibility of Meng Zhong's warning just now based on Meng Zhong's expression.

But unfortunately, it was probably because Meng Zhong learned from Taoism and Master Zhuang. Meng Zhong did a good job in self-cultivation and emotional management. Even if Li Dui read countless people, he could not see what Meng Zhong was thinking.

Is it Meng Zhong’s alarmist statement, or is it really a fraud in Qin’s pursuit of peace?

To be honest, Li Dui is really hard to judge.

After thinking about it, he asked Meng Zhong: "What is the basis for what Mr. Yan Cheng said just now?"

In fact, Meng Zhong had no basis for this, and he didn't even know whether Qin really wanted to seek peace, but Meng Zhong knew one thing very well: if he didn't 'scar' Li Dui at this moment, Li Duibao might have a peace talk with Qin immediately, and what's wrong with him and Bao Yuan?

Therefore, he couldn't stand the attitude of Qin. Even if he confirmed that Qin did have the intention of seeking peace this time, he would distort it and affect Li Dui's judgment.

In view of this, he pretended to be sneered and said to Li Dui: "Mr. Fengyang, do you know why I happened to come to your tent so much?"

"Aren't you here to persuade me to continue to attack Qin?"

Li Dui looked at Meng Zhong with a profound meaning, shook his head and said, "I don't know, please make clear to Mr. Yancheng."

Meng Zhong didn't care about the deep meaning in Li Dui's eyes, and said in a pretentious way: "I believe Mr. Fengyang has also heard that in the past few days, a large number of Yiqu cavalry have appeared on the battlefield. It is estimated that there are nearly 10,000 cavalry. I am here today, hoping that your country's cavalry and our city cavalry will work together to hurt it..."

"So that's it." Li Dui nodded in a sudden realization.

At this time, Meng Zhong continued: "I didn't think much about it, but I didn't expect to see Qin's letter of peace from Fengyang Jun... It's strange. Since Qin is willing to seek peace, why did he recruit reinforcements from Yiqiu?"

Li Dui was also an important official of Zhao State, so naturally he would not be led by Meng Zhong's nose in a few words. He stroked his beard and objectively guessed: "It's probably because he is afraid of the Fangcheng cavalry under the command of Yanchengjun."

To be fair, when it comes to Fangcheng cavalry, let alone Qin's fear, in fact, even Li Dui has a certain sense of vigilance.

Regardless of the strength of Fangcheng cavalry, as a student of the "Zhao State Cavalry", its strength is almost close to that of the teacher, but the most important thing is Meng Zhong's understanding of the cavalry.

You should know that except for Yiqiu, Zhao was the first country to form cavalry in the Central Plains, but the Zhao people were actually not very experienced in the use of cavalry.

Although the cavalry of Zhao defeated Lin Hu, Xiongnu, and Lou Fan, it was because the other side were all grassland ethnic groups, and most of them drove the cavalry to fight. In other words, Zhao just passively adapted to the war style of these grassland ethnic groups and defeated them.

But what about the battlefield on this side of the Central Plains?

How to use cavalry?

You should know that the war on the Central Plains is different from the war on the grassland people. The most different point is the city and stronghold.

Most of the alien races on the grassland are nomadic peoples, mainly relying on grazing to make a living. The lifestyle is "no fixed place". Once the grass in the place is eaten by grazed horses or flocks, these ethnic groups will migrate to another place with rich grass to settle down. Because of the frequent migration, nomadic people will hardly build solid cities. At most, there is a circle of wooden fences on the periphery of the tribe's temporary residence. In terms of defense capabilities, they are not as good as camps built by the Central Plains army.

Such defense certainly cannot stop the cavalry, and because of the high mobility of the cavalry, the grassland nations value cavalry combat.

But the Central Plains are different.

The battlefields on the Central Plains are almost all aimed at "sieging cities and depriving villages". The entire war revolves around siege cities, and the ultimate goal is to conquer enemy cities. Simply put, most of the wars in the Central Plains are mainly based on tough battles, and in the attack, infantry and archers are the absolute main forces. It is really difficult for cavalry to play a great role in the soldiers riding on horseback, how can soldiers riding on horseback attack the enemy's cities through cloud ladders?

The different methods of war have made the State of Zhao unable to integrate the cavalry into its own military power for the time being. To put it bluntly, in addition to waiting for an opportunity to attack the enemy, they did not think of any role that the cavalry could play in the battlefield in the Central Plains.

However, Meng Zhong is an exception. This person's understanding of cavalry almost always inherited from Zhao State, but this person's use of cavalry has long surpassed any general in Zhao State.

Take the fact that his coalition forces "came through the Menshui" a while ago. Meng Zhong ordered tens of thousands of coalition forces to feint the Qin army to divert the Qin army's attention in order to allow more than 4,000 Fangcheng cavalry to take the opportunity to pass through the Menshui and go deep into Huagu to carry out destruction.

If Meng Zhong hadn't had a thorough understanding of the cavalry, would he generally understand how to do this?

It is precisely because of this that Li Dui's opponents of the cavalry of the Fangcheng City are also wary of the cavalry of the Fangcheng City alone. The cavalry of the State of Zhao may not be inferior to that of the cavalry of the State of Zhao, but if Meng Zhong is added, to be honest, Li Dui is not sure.

After all, this Yanchengjun was the most outstanding "disciple" cultivated by Zhao Zhufu back then. In the expectation of Zhao Zhufu, he was a figure who could bear the banner of Zhao Guojun's conquest!

To put it simply, Zhao Zhufu hopes that Meng Zhong will become his Zhao State's "Kuang Zhang"!

Faced with such Meng Zhong and such Fangcheng cavalry, Qin State hurriedly invited the cavalry from Yiqu State to help. Li Dui did not think there was any problem in this, nor did he think that it could be inferred that Qin State had any tricks based on this matter.

Thinking of this, Li Dui shook his head and added: "...I don't think there is anything wrong like this. Previously, the Fangcheng cavalry under the command of Yanchengjun caused huge food losses to Qin, so Qin decided to 'use cavalry to control cavalry' and invited a cavalry from Yiqu Kingdom as reinforcements to avoid being attacked by Fangcheng cavalry under the command of Yanchengjun again. It is not difficult to understand."

In fact, Meng Zhong also felt that the specific situation was probably like this, but he sneered: "I don't think so. I think that Qin invited these Yiqu cavalry to cut off our army's food route!... It's really ulterior motives!"

『…』

Li Dui's eyes twitched slightly twice.

He had to admit that the point put forward by Meng Zhong was very correct, but the question is, wasn’t this hidden danger caused by Bao Yuan and Meng Zhong? If these two people had not advocated advancing and advanced more than 200 miles in one breath, and in disguise, he asked his coalition forces to extend the grain transportation line of more than 200 miles again, how could there be the hidden danger of "fear that the Yiqu cavalry attacked the grain road" today?

However, when Meng Zhong said that he was the trick of pushing all this to Qin, Li Dui was also very amused.

He shook his head and said, "What Mr. Yancheng said is indeed worthy of consideration. But in my opinion, since Qin clearly exposed nearly Wanyiqu cavalry to me, it can be seen that this is just a "warning" and warned me not to force it too much... If it is true as Mr. Yancheng said, the purpose of Qin's invitation to the Yiqu cavalry was to sneak attack our army's food and grass, then shouldn't Qin hide this strange soldier? Why do they expose it? Such an approach can only make the war stalemate but cannot repel our army!"

"Mr. Fengyang is right, this is the purpose of Qin!" Meng Zhong said with a confident look on his face.

"Ah?" Li Dui was stunned, not understanding Meng Zhong's meaning: "I... don't understand."

Looking at Li Dui with a confused look on his face, Meng Zhong's thinking quickly turned and calmly made up an explanation: "The deadlock! The deadlock mentioned by Fengyang Jun just now is the purpose of Qin State... Fengyang Jun thinks carefully. It is only mid-September now, and there is no sign of shortage of food in our army. At this time, if Qin State sends Yiqu cavalry to attack our army's food route, we will naturally send Fangcheng cavalry to resist with your country's cavalry. Let's ask, in this case, can Qin State defeat our army? No! Because once Qin State's strategy of "attacking the food route" works, our coalition will retreat immediately. Even if Qin State launches a counterattack, it may not be able to win steadily?... But if this matter is postponed for another two months, it is another situation!"

"Tutorial two more months?"

Li Dui frowned while stroking his beard, obviously thinking of something.

"In two months, it will be deep winter. Jieshi closed the roads, and it will be even more difficult to transport food and grass. Even if Qin cannot judge how much food our army has at present, they can guess that our army will definitely be short of food at that time. Jieshi, Qin asked the Yiqu cavalry to cut off our army's food route and waited for our army to lose food and then took the opportunity to chase after it. Then my more than 200,000 coalition forces would die without a place to bury!"

Speaking of this, Meng Zhong pointed to the letter from the King of Qin in Li Dui's hand and said in a profound manner: "So, this is a delayed strategy for Qin to defeat our more than 200,000 coalition forces!"

After saying that, he seemed to have seen through Qin's tricks, but he felt relieved in his heart: Finally, it was over.

While relaxing, he glanced at Li Dui calmly, wanting to see Li Dui's reaction.

I have to say that when Li Dui heard Meng Zhong's alarmist statement, his face was solemn, and even a slight sweat oozed out of his forehead.

Yes, although Meng Zhong's words were temporarily compiled, Li Dui didn't know. To him, Meng Zhong's inference was indeed very reasonable.

At least, the 'winter food shortage' is indeed a huge problem that his coalition forces are about to face. Although Li Dui is inclined to the Qin State to seek peace in his heart, he does not dare to take it lightly, so as not to be surprised by Meng Zhong.

The same goes for him, he was the commander of the coalition forces in the attack on Qin this time. He was the credit and his guilt. If more than 200,000 coalition forces were destroyed by Qin because they failed to listen to Meng Zhong's advice, then he would not only become a criminal of Zhao, but also in history books, it is difficult to guarantee that he would not be of bad reputation as "stubborn" and "not listening to honest advice".

Suddenly, Li Dui glanced at Meng Zhong, changed his solemn attitude just now, and said with a deception: "Hehehe, these are all lies made up by Yanchengjun, right? I know very well that you and Bao Yuan advocated continuing to attack Qin, so naturally they don't want me to negotiate with Qin. Therefore, Yanchengjun's incident was alarmist."

If it were an ordinary person, he might have been cheated by Li Dui, and he would have revealed any flaws, but who is Meng Zhong, a Taoist disciple!

The most basic thing for Taoist disciples is to cultivate themselves and cultivate their nature and to sharpen their minds. How could they be easily deceived by Li Dui?

Just like Meng Zhong at this moment, although he was inevitably a little panicked and was thinking about responding quickly, he said indifferently: "Ha, does Fengyang Jun think so? In Fengyang Jun's eyes, it turns out that his reputation is not as good as that of Qin... Haha, what reputation does Qin have for the reputation of Qin? Does Fengyang Jun still remember the promise of Qin's "600 miles of land for business?"

“…”

Li Dui frowned when he heard this, stroked his beard without saying a word.

Of course he knew that Qin's promise was once a "600-mile land of shopping"; after all, that was one of the most proud things in Zhang Yi's life.

The Qin State also accused Zhang Yi of his actions at that time, which caused King Huai of Chu to be furious and devoted all his troops to attack Qin State. Then the "Danyang Lantian Battle" that broke out, which was related to the destiny of Qin and Chu.

Although many years later, Queen Mother Xuan of Qin made up for this matter after presiding over the national affairs, and gave Zhang Yi the 600-mile shopping area to go abroad, this matter still had a great impact on Qin's credibility.

Look, when Meng Zhong mentioned this, Li Dui was murmured in his heart.

Although he knew very well that Meng Zhong's proposal to continue to attack Qin may not deliberately deceive him in this matter, compared with Meng Zhong's credibility and Qin's credibility, Li Dui thought about it and finally felt that Meng Zhong's credibility was more reliable at least Meng Zhong would not deliberately harm the Allied forces, but Qin was not sure that in order to achieve his goal, the Qin people had always done nothing.

After thinking about it, Li Dui asked Meng Zhong with a look of his true feelings, "What Mr. Yancheng said is indeed very reasonable, but how can Mr. Yancheng ensure that he has no selfish intentions?"

Meng Zhong certainly understood what Li Dui meant, and smiled and said, "Mr. Fengyang, you know that you have never liked fearless wars. If Qin really wanted to seek peace, and if Qin could gain some benefits for our Wei State without bloodshed, I would in turn persuade the general to storm.... My request is very clear. As long as Qin State is willing to return several cities such as Yuanli, Heyang, and Linjin in Hexi, I will agree to negotiate with Qin State."

"Does this kid want to ask Qin for the Xihe County that once belonged to Wei? He has a little bit of an appetite..."

Li Dui looked at Meng Zhong with a calm expression and thought to himself.

But then again, although Li Dui felt that Meng Zhong had a little big appetite, he believed Meng Zhong's words instead.

As for the cities and land that Meng Zhong was preparing to ask for from Qin, these things can be discussed slowly.

After all, whether it is politics or diplomacy, it is essentially a concession and compromise between each other, unless one party can't help but want to overturn the table.

After pondering for a while, Li Dui asked in a deep voice: "What Mr. Yancheng said...is the truth?"

Of course he cared about Meng Zhong's attitude. After all, just Bao Yuan can't make a fuss. Whether it is Bao Yuan's own ability or the strength of South Korea behind Bao Yuan, it would be difficult to deal with if Meng Zhong stood on Bao Yuan's side. After all, Meng Zhong's ability is obvious to all, and Meng Zhong is the Wei State, which is probably not inferior to his Zhao State. For various reasons, Li Dui can not take care of Bao Yuan and even Han's attitude, but he must respect Meng Zhong and the attitude of Wei State behind him.

Not to mention that he was very clear about Zhao He, the monarch of Zhao State, and he still missed Meng Zhong. He dreamed that Meng Zhong could join him in Zhao State again. According to what Zhao's father and Fei Yi once thought, he served as the governor of Jinyang, governor of Jinyang, Yanmen, Fushi, Xihe and other places in Zhao State, as the generals stationed in Xinjiang who resisted the alien races of Qin and Hetao.

Hearing Li Dui's questioning again, Meng Zhong smiled and said, "Of course! As long as Qin is willing to meet the requirements of his country, he certainly does not want to take the risk to fight with Qin. But the question is, how credible is Qin's peacekeeping this time? Just a letter, I don't believe it!"

This view was very pertinent, and Li Dui nodded with approval. In fact, he did not believe it very much just a letter. After all, the reputation of Qin is indeed very poor, and it is not much better than Qi.

After thinking about it, he asked Yu Meng Zhong for advice: "As Mr. Yancheng said, it's just a letter, and I don't believe it. The Qin people must show more sincerity! But what is the right way?"

Meng Zhong spread his hands and said with a smile: "It's very simple. As long as the King of Qin is willing to go out in person to Daliang of our Wei Kingdom to meet the King of Wei, I will believe in Qin's sincerity!"

"this……"

Li Dui looked at Meng Zhong suspiciously and secretly guessed whether Meng Zhong was taking the opportunity to hijack the King of Qin.

He knew the young man in front of him very well. At this moment, the Yanchengjun in front of him was the "judge" who obeyed the rebellious Prince Zhang and attacked the royal family when he was in Zhao State. He was very brave.
To be continued...