NFBE Chapter 245 Reluctant
Chapter 245 Reluctant
Long Feiguang in Pofu Pass was well prepared, so when he saw the Qi army attacking the city, he was not panicked at all. He didn't even rush to light the signal smoke, but first waited and saw whether the troops attacking the city were the main force of the enemy.
After seeing that the attacking troops were indeed the main force of Qi State, Long Feiguang lit the wolf smoke as a signal.
At the same time, he heaved a sigh of relief. Since it was confirmed that the main force of the enemy was here, it meant that the general's grain transport team was vulnerable.
In this case, we only need to defend Guanzhong and wait for reinforcements to arrive. Then we can be bolder and cooperate with the reinforcements outside the pass to directly encircle the enemy!
Long Feiguang thought so and actually did so. When he saw Bai Xiuyun leading his troops to help, Long Feiguang directly drew his sword and rushed out of the pass. For a while, the battle situation was extremely chaotic, and the Qi soldiers began to doubt whether they came to attack the city or to be attacked?
Lang Weiye looked at the enemy troops rushing out of the big gate of Pofu Pass and was so shocked that his eyes almost popped out.
Naturally, they could see that this was not a surprise attack at all. Judging from the enemy's preparations, it was clear that they had anticipated this.
Having lost the initiative and the morale of the troops, it was obviously not a wise decision to continue the attack at this time. Lang Weiye did not dare to stay for a moment and immediately ordered a withdrawal and turned his forces around to leave.
"General Lang, are you leaving now?" The generals nearby were obviously unwilling to give up, and said in a cold voice: "The general has ordered us to recapture Pofu Pass! How can General Lang report back if he retreats now?"
"The situation has changed. The enemy has been prepared for this. They will not gain any advantage against our army if they launch another attack." Lang Weiye said hurriedly.
"General Lang is retreating without a fight! This undermines the dignity of our army!" The general who spoke first was very angry and said, "Besides, the enemy reinforcements outside the pass are only a thousand or so. Why should we be afraid of them?"
"..."
Lang Weiye's face looked a little ugly. He turned his head to look at the flags raised in the back and could not help but said angrily: "General Quan, why don't you take a good look! The flags used by the reinforcements are the Ghost Camp troops under Zong Yanli's command!"
He frowned and said, "Each of the ghost soldiers in the ghost camp is a powerful force that can fight ten or one against a hundred."
"Zong Yanli has placed this battalion of soldiers outside the pass as reinforcements. It is clear that he has made several preparations. If our army does not retreat now, Zong Yanli will lead the troops that went to intercept the food to come back to reinforce us, causing heavy losses to our army. Do you think you can bear it?"
"Follow my orders! Retreat!" Lang Weiye cursed the general angrily, then turned around and shouted loudly.
General Quan's face instantly turned red after being scolded. He wanted to speak but held back as if he had some reservations. He turned around and said unwillingly after hearing Lang Weiye's order: "Withdraw!"
The other generals watched this scene, not knowing what they were thinking, but they also withdrew their troops.
Zong Yanli hurried over, but he didn't even catch the tail of Qi's army. Looking at the messy battlefield, he looked unhappy and said with a sigh, "It's really a wasted trip..."
No benefit gained!
"General, you are really good at foresight!" Long Feiguang came up to him from afar and said to Zong Yanli with a happy face, "Not even a grain of soil has fallen off the wall of Pofu Pass this time!"
"Yes." Zong Yanli raised his eyebrows slightly and smiled, "Let's go back to the interior."
"Didn't the general go to intercept food supplies?" Long Feiguang glanced at Monkie behind Zong Yanli, then looked at the people who returned empty-handed and asked in confusion.
"Don't mention it..." Monkie couldn't help but get angry after hearing this. He gritted his teeth and told Long Feiguang how angry he was that they had gone through so much trouble to intercept the grain truck, but it turned out to be loaded with garbage!
Long Feiguang couldn't help laughing when he heard it. He looked up at Zong Yanli. He had followed the general for so many years, but it was very rare for him to see someone make the general lose face. Could it be that there was such a scheming person in Qi State who could give Min Wenshan advice?
Zong Yanli led his troops back to the military camp inside the pass. Over there, Duzhe took his war horse for a gallop with great fanfare, and when he saw the wolf smoke from Pofu Pass, he came back like a galloping horse.
I had just returned when I learned that Zong Yanli gained nothing on this trip. I felt a little sorry, but then I heard that the Qi army's attack on the city was a wasted trip. I felt balanced again in an instant.
Zong Yanli had expected a lot of things, but he didn't expect that the food and fodder was actually a pile of garbage. He was very depressed at the moment, and couldn't help reflecting on himself while sitting in the tent.
"General, have you met an opponent?" Kuang Xingquan crossed his arms, not daring to go forward to disturb Zong Yanli, and could not help but touch Long Feiguang and said.
"Hmm..." Long Feiguang responded hesitantly, then silently turned his gaze to Pei Liang, Zhan Haoyue and other advisers.
He felt that the military advisers must be partly responsible for this mistake, right?
Zhan Haoyue's face froze, and he lowered his head in shame and said, "I have been busy writing the biography these days and have not focused on occupying the land. This is why this strategy has come to nothing."
Pei Liang felt a little unhappy after listening to Zhan Haoyue's words, as if he would definitely be able to plan this.
Doesn't this make their efforts seem particularly shameless?
Huo Wenqi turned to look at Zhan Haoyue and said, "Mr. Wujiu, you are joking. The enemy's plan is very sophisticated. This is the first time we have encountered such a situation after fighting against Qi for a long time."
"It seems that we underestimated Qi, thinking that there were no capable counselors in Qi, so we were at a disadvantage." Huo Wenqi said, straightening his face and laughing: "Although we didn't achieve any success this time, at least our army didn't suffer any losses."
"Next time we face the enemy Qi, we will go all out."
As Huo Wenqi finished speaking, Pei Liang, Zhuang Chengbi and others followed suit.
Zong Yanli raised his eyes and looked at them, finally smiling and saying, "I am already very satisfied that you gentlemen have such a heart."
"But I don't mean to blame you gentlemen." Zong Yanli sat up straight, and said with a thoughtful look in his brows: "I'm just thinking, who is the person who offered advice to Qi this time?"
"..."
Pei Liang and the others looked at each other. They really couldn't guess it for a while.
Finally, they all turned their eyes to Duzhe. As the only local among them, Duzhe suddenly felt pressured at this moment, and said with a stiff upper lip: "The counselors around Min Wenshan are just those few..."
He didn't think that such a brilliant plan could be thought up by those cobblers. After thinking about it for a while, he suddenly said, "General Zong Yan, do you think the person who gave Min Wenshan the plan was Mr. Mingxi?"
"Who is Mr. Mingxi?" Zhuang Chengbi and Huo Wenqi looked up in confusion.
"Didn't General Zong Yan find a letter from Min Wenshan's room?" Du Zhe laughed and said, "It was written by a female teacher, and that woman followed Min Wenshan."
"I think the one who could break the convention and offer such a brilliant plan to Qi State might be this lady." Du Zhe felt more and more credible as he spoke, and said in a firm tone.
"Madam..." Pei Liang and Zhan Haoyue looked at each other, and there was naturally some surprise in their eyes.
Zong Yanli sat upright in front, listening to Du Zhe's words and nodded thoughtfully. The look in his eyes became more and more curious, full of curiosity about Mr. Mingxi.
She lowered her head for a while and said, "This matter still needs to be verified, so I won't investigate it further for now."
"Although this strategy has achieved nothing, it is a good thing that it has not harmed the army." Zong Yanli stood up and said to everyone, "Generals, you have worked hard this time, go down and rest early!"
"Yes." Everyone took their leave together, and everyone got along very harmoniously in the tent.
On the other hand, the Qi army was in chaos at this time.
Lang Weiye also didn't expect that after he finally returned with his troops and avoided a large-scale encirclement and suppression with casualties, he was actually framed by Quan Liangpeng and went to the general to reluctantly file a complaint against him!
Quan Liangpeng was filled with anger, and he kept saying that Lang Weiye was afraid of fighting in front of the enemy. However, he was scared away after a face-to-face encounter with the enemy, and couldn't even touch the gate of Pofu Pass. This strategic failure was all due to Lang Weiye's improper leadership!
"Stop talking nonsense!" Lang Weiye's face turned blue with anger. He knew that Quan Liangpeng had caused such a farce because he was jealous and resentful for not being able to get the power of leadership this time.
"Isn't what I said true? My brothers saw it with their own eyes!" Quan Liangpeng shouted, "Didn't you say that each of Zong Yanli's soldiers could defeat a hundred at a time and that we shouldn't order a withdrawal for the sake of fighting?"
Lang Weiye almost rolled his eyes at his tone of voice, and immediately lifted his robe, knelt down in front of Min Wenshan and said respectfully: "General, please forgive me! I did order the troops to withdraw, but there was a reason!"
He did not indulge Quan Liangpeng, and told Min Wenshan the whole situation in front of him, emphasizing the difference between 'one against a hundred' and 'one against ten'.
The name of the Ghost Camp under Zong Yanli's command is well-known. Was it right for him to say this?
It was also mentioned that the people inside Pofu Pass had been prepared for a long time, and even opened the gate wide to rush out and try to encircle the enemy.
Lang Weiye lowered his head and said, "I know this battle is fruitless and I don't want to make more sacrifices, so I ordered a withdrawal."
"General Quan ignored the battlefield situation and rejected the commander's order! Not only did he try to shake the morale of the troops, he also wanted to win credit!"
"Now you are trying to turn the tables in front of the general. I wonder what you are up to!"
Quan Liangpeng's face changed again and again, and he immediately knelt down and loudly defended himself. The two of them were speaking for themselves. Min Wenshan listened to their words and then listened to their endless arguments. He interrupted them with a cold voice: "Enough!"
Min Wenshan stared at the two men with a frown in a headache. After a while, he pointed at the two generals behind them and said, "You two can tell me what happened at that time."
The two people who were pointed out turned pale, and hurriedly walked forward and knelt beside him, lowering their heads and recounting the situation one by one.
Min Wenshan said calmly: "If you don't understand, I will ask someone else to clarify. By then, I won't let you kneel down and explain so easily.
How could the two dare to lie after hearing what Min Wenshan said? They finished speaking in a few words. Quan Liangpeng's face became a little flustered. Lang Weiye didn't think he did anything wrong. As the commander, what he did must be for the overall situation.
"You, go down and receive the punishment yourself." Min Wenshan took a deep breath and said to Quan Liangpeng with cold eyes.
"General..." Quan Liangpeng raised his head with a little reluctance.
"Do you still want this general to do it myself?!" Min Wenshan raised his voice in vain, and Quan Liangpeng's words were blocked. Finally, he responded in a muffled voice, glared at Lang Weiye unconvincedly, turned around angrily and went out to accept the punishment.
Min Wenshan couldn't help but frown when he saw this. He seemed to have sensed Quan Liangpeng's anger and unwillingness.
But the leadership position is supposed to be held by the most capable.
Although Min Wenshan did have high hopes for Quan Liangpeng back then, it was a pity that Quan Liangpeng was not suitable to be a leading general. Min Wenshan decided to hand this matter over to Lang Weiye after much consideration.
Looking back today, he did not make the wrong decision.
"General Lang has been wronged." Min Wenshan smiled at Lang Weiye and said, "Get up quickly."
"Thank you, General." Lang Weiye secretly breathed a sigh of relief, stood up and looked at Min Wenshan. He was very touched that the general trusted him so much. After all, he had not followed the general as long as Quan Liangpeng.
Min Wenshan asked Lang Weiye to take a seat, and then began to ask about the details of the battle.
Lang Weiye did not dare to hide anything and told the story in detail. From what Lang Weiye said, Min Wenshan was almost certain that Zong Yanli must have gone to intercept the grain, but he did not expect that such a grain transport team could not make Zong Yanli let down his guard.
Not only did he let the Ghost Camp wait outside the pass for reinforcements, he even let Du Zhe lead his troops to confuse him...
Even the interior of the pass was heavily guarded and cautious. If Lang Weiye had not made a prompt decision and given the order, Qi would have suffered a great loss at the hands of Zong Yanli.
"Fortunately, the grain cart was fake..." Min Wenshan breathed a sigh of relief, and couldn't help but think of Yingli who came up with this idea. He frowned again and said, "This incident can be regarded as a wake-up call for us. We should be more cautious when facing Zong Yanli in the future."
"This time, thanks to General Lang's quick response, I am relieved that Qi's troops are under the command of General Lang." Min Wenshan said to Lang Weiye with a laugh.
"It is my honor to serve the general!"
The military tent was filled with peace and harmony, and when Quan Liangpeng, who had gone to receive his punishment, returned from his battle with the military stick, his anger only grew worse.
Finally, he was carried back to his own military tent in a disheveled state. Upon asking, he found out that the general had not even sent anyone to question him. From what outsiders said, he was afraid that he would completely lose power in front of the general.
Quan Liangpeng's anger turned into resentment and unwillingness. He didn't understand why the general's attitude towards him changed so much overnight?
"General Quan, this is medicine for you." Just when Quan Liangpeng was filled with grief and indignation, he suddenly heard a strange voice outside the tent.
He forced himself to go out, but there was no one there to deliver the medicine.