Chu and Han contend for the throne

Chapter 173 Qin Jun's Choice
There is a lot of rubbing, and the breeze is blowing.

Meng Yu rode a fiery red "Red Monkey" BMW and walked slowly past the front of the Qin army's cavalry. In an instant, the eyes of more than 600 soldiers focused on Meng Yu, and they even lay on the horse. Many seriously wounded soldiers on their backs also struggled to raise their heads, staring at Meng Ji with fanatical and adoring eyes.

The Meng family of the Great Qin Dynasty has been loyal and good for generations, and in the generation of Meng Tian, ​​the reputation of the Meng family has reached the extreme, and because of Meng Tian's unjust death, the Meng family has even won the sympathy and loyalty of the soldiers of the Qin army in the Great Wall Army. To put it bluntly, The object of allegiance of these Qin soldiers had already changed from the Ying family to the Meng family.

Of course, Montessori's object of allegiance has never changed, it has always been Ying's.

For a family like Montessori, whose loyalty and integrity are handed down from generation to generation, betrayal is unimaginable. Chinese people have worshiped ancestors since ancient times. Those who are reviled are not allowed to enter the ancestral graves or mourning halls after death, and they will be left in a bad reputation for thousands of years.

In fact, Meng Ji never thought of abandoning the precepts of his ancestors.

Just now, Meng Yu even thought of attacking the Huns in the north to die for the festival, and he didn't want to live and betray the ancestral precepts.

Of course, if Ying Zhen married Xiang Zhuang, and ordered Meng Ji and his trilogy to serve Xiang Zhuang in the name of the Lord, it would be a different matter.

Meeting the fanatical and adoring eyes of the soldiers of the Qin Army, Meng Ji shouted: "Soldiers, the Great Qin Empire has perished. As old Qin people, your mission of following the Meng family to protect Jiuyuan has also been completed. Now, I am executed, in the name of the general, to officially disband the Great Wall Corps, and at the same time allow you to leave Jiuyuan..."

Before the words fell, the soldiers of the Qin Army had already clamored.

"No, General Meng, if we don't leave, we will follow you!"

"Yes, General Meng, wherever you go, we will go with you!"

"That's right, even if you die, you will die with General Meng!"

"General Meng, don't say anything, we will never leave you!"

"That's right, if the general insists on driving us away, we will die in front of you!"

As they spoke, many soldiers of the Qin Army began to lose control of their emotions and shouted.

Dozens of soldiers of the Qin Army even raised their double-edged epees and put them on their own necks. If Meng Chu insisted on disbanding the Great Wall Corps, they would definitely slit their own throats without hesitation.

Not far away, Bailixian witnessed all this, and he felt quite emotional in his heart.

Although Bailixian had a good relationship with Mengji, and the two of them were invincible, they never expected that Mengji would have such a lofty status in the hearts of the Qin soldiers of the Great Wall Corps. Of course, Bailixian also knew it well. However, the reason why the Qin Army soldiers of the Great Wall Legion supported Meng Ji so much was because of Meng Shi and Meng Tian.

Meng Ji was also emotional in his heart, but he couldn't say the following words.

At that moment, Meng Ji rode his horse again to come to Baili Xian, and said: "Brother Ziliang, you have also seen that this is the choice of the soldiers, they are not willing to leave Jiuyuan..."

"They just don't want to leave you." Bailixian said.

"It's all the same." Meng Ji said indifferently, "Anyway, they don't want to return to Chu..."

Bai Lixian interrupted Mengji again: "Brother Tianfang, do you know that Princess Yingzhen was not killed?"

"Huh?!" Meng Chu's face changed greatly when he heard this, and he said in a deep voice, "Brother Ziliang, what did you just say, the princess..."

Bai Lixian nodded and said solemnly: "Princess Yingzhen was protected by more than ten guards desperately, and escaped from Linhe in the chaos, but in order to protect Her Royal Highness, all those ten guards died in battle. He was quite frightened, but at the last moment, he was rescued by a cavalry patrol from Dachu."

"His Royal Highness is really all right?" Meng Ji was surprised, happy, doubtful and confused.

Bailixian said: "The princess is in Jiuyuan, brother Tianfang can go back to see her now."

"Okay, little brother, hurry back to Jiuyuan now." After Meng Chu finished speaking, he called the deputy general Meng Keng to his front and ordered him to command the troops temporarily, and told Meng Keng to obey Baili Xian's command and cooperate with the Chu army as much as possible. After the battle, everything was arranged, and Meng Ji left the army with a dozen cavalry soldiers, and hurried back to Jiuyuan across the mountains.

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The Chu army has already established its position and is facing off with Xiutu's army.

Xiang Zhuang had already asked Jin Xiang to spread out the map of Jiuyuan, and was discussing tactics with Wei Liao and Wu She around the map.

Wei Liao patted the map, and said in a deep voice: "General, based on the news from the scouts ahead, I can be sure that the old, young, women, children, cattle, sheep and livestock of the Xiutu people are not far from Gaoque, and Gaoque is far away from here. It's less than two hundred miles away, if the cavalry makes a surprise attack, they will arrive before dawn tomorrow!"

Wu She's face changed slightly and he said: "The military master said that he was going to sneak attack the old, young, women, children, cattle, sheep and livestock that the Xiutu people left behind in Gaoque?"

Xiang Zhuang said: "Even if the sneak attack is unsuccessful, we must force the Xiutu army back to the Gaoque Pass, otherwise, if we let such a large Xiutu cavalry stay in Hetao, we will have to be on guard all day long. What soldiers should we train?"

Wei Liao said: "The problem is, the Xiutu people still have at least [-] cavalry in Gaoque!"

"This is a big trouble." Xiang Zhuang pondered for a moment and said, "Our cavalry has not yet been trained, so we must not fight head-on with the Xiutu people now. It seems that we can only ride against each other on foot, with the chariot formation as a barrier , step by step to advance towards Gaoque, if Xiu Turen doesn't want to fight us decisively, then he can only withdraw from Gaoque obediently."

Wei Liao frowned and said, "But this must be done with the cooperation of cavalry."

Xiang Zhuang nodded deeply. Heavily armored infantry against light cavalry is nothing more than defending on the spot. You can set up an absolutely defensive tortoise shell formation. No matter which direction the enemy cavalry attacks from, they will be met head-on by your own infantry. Bash, in this case, even if it is [-] infantry against [-] cavalry, the cavalry should not even try to get close until the defender's arrows are exhausted.

But if the infantry wants to attack in reverse, it will be complicated. Since it is an attack, it must move forward.

Since it is necessary to move forward, it will inevitably expose the weakness of the wings and behind, because light cavalry come and go like the wind, and can quickly change the direction of attack, while heavy armored infantry must rely on strict formations and chariots as barriers , It was originally slower than cavalry when changing formations, and it was even more difficult to keep up with the rhythm when advancing forward.

In this way, the cavalry can easily find the infantry's flaws and attack.

But if one's own side also has the protection of light cavalry, such concerns will disappear.

Because no matter which direction the enemy cavalry launches a surprise attack, it will be intercepted by its own cavalry first. During the period of interception by the own cavalry, the own infantry can change formation in time and point the attack arrow at the enemy cavalry. At this time, the own cavalry Then retreat quickly to the two wings, and the enemy cavalry will be hit head-on by the long halberd formations of the own infantry and the strong bows and crossbows.

Although the current Chu army has enough horses, it doesn't mean that riding a horse can become a cavalry.

If Xiang Zhuang let the Chu army ride horses to act as cavalry to protect the flanks and rear of the infantry, the final result is that not only the flanks and the rear of the infantry cannot be protected, but it may even disrupt the formation of the infantry in turn. , this is not impossible, that's why Wei Liao said something.

As soon as Wei Liao finished speaking, Bai Lixian hurried back to the main camp under the guard of Bai Limao and You Yuan.

Xiang Zhuang and Wei Liao stood up to greet each other immediately, but Wu She fell far behind. To this day, his prejudice against the old Qin people has not been completely eliminated.

"Ziliang, how are you?"

"General, it's a good luck not to disgrace your life!" Bai Lixian cupped his hands, then turned around and said solemnly, "General, this is General Meng Ke's deputy——Meng Keng."

"General Mengkeng." Xiang Zhuang smiled and bowed.

Meng Keng just returned the salute lightly, and turned his head sideways, without looking at Xiang Zhuang.

Standing behind Xiang Zhuang, Gao Chu was furious and wanted to reprimand him, but was held back by Xiang Zhuang. It is normal for the soldiers of the Qin Army to have emotions in their hearts. Anyway, they all lost themselves not long ago Parents, wives and children, who can be in a good mood when encountering such a thing?
Bai Lixian patted Meng Keng on the shoulder, and said to Xiang Zhuang: "General, General Meng Chu has already said that the cavalry of the Qin Army will fully cooperate with our army in fighting."

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Jiuyuan, the princess Xingyuan.

Meng Kechang knelt on the ground, and said tragically: "The last general is incompetent, and he caused His Highness the Princess to be in danger, and it is a death penalty!"

Ying Zhen hurriedly stepped forward to help Meng Xun, and said in a low voice: "General Meng please get up quickly." After saying this, Ying Zhen sighed softly again, and said softly, "However, I really didn't expect that , and see you again, General."

Meng Ji refused to get up, and said sadly: "The last general is incompetent, he has brought the princess down, and even killed the old, young, women and children in Linhe City."

Ying Zhen shook her head and said: "No, General Meng, I can't blame you for this, it's all caused by Lou Fan, Lou Fan is not a human being."

"Your Highness, don't worry, Lou Fan has been killed by our old Qin people!" Meng Yu said with a serious word, "Including Lou Fan King, all Lou Fan has been executed."

"In this way, the old and young women and children in Linhe City can rest in peace." Ying Zhen couldn't help but breathe a long sigh of relief. As long as King Lou Fan died, no one in this world would know that she was responsible for the tragedy in Linhe. It was arranged, because everyone who knew the inside story had already died, and as for King Xiutu, he didn't know anything at all.

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At the northern foot of Yinshan Mountain.

The battlefield where the fierce fights took place during the day was already dead silent.

Lou Annoying's body was still lying across the battlefield. Although the Qin army cleaned the battlefield, they only took away the old Qin's body, and they naturally ignored Lou Annoying's body at all.

Suddenly, a Lou Annoying corpse moved strangely.

Then the uncle said that the head got out from under the annoying corpse, and there is a human-shaped pit under the cover of the corpse, which can just hide one person, and there are several corpses on it Overlapping cover, the uncle said that he had just escaped the Qin army cleaning the battlefield, and greedily took a breath of air, and the uncle said that he limped to the north again in the dark.

(End of this chapter)