Meng Qi's initial impression on Li Yuanze and his confidants was that "he can fight, but he has few good strategies to win by surprise; he has foresight, but he does not work rigidly, and he uses troops very prudently." Good candidate? Apart from being young, there are no other disadvantages.
The truth is that most of Meng Qi's art of war was self-taught at that time. Although he was able to master it all by himself, he was suddenly responsible for the lives of hundreds of thousands of people under his command, and the hundreds of thousands of troops in front were relying on the food and forage he escorted. ? This is a job that does not seek merit but seeks no fault, and the result is too good to be misunderstood.
But there is something wrong. At first, the Chu army was not the strongest rebel army in the world, and the threat to food and forage was not too great. Meng Qi, who was half-skilled in the art of war, just took advantage of this rear errand to learn a lot from his colleagues. thing.
Li Yuanze's counsellors also appreciated Meng Qi. After all, young people are so frizzy, they all want to make contributions. The Pioneer Officer's job is plundered by everyone, and someone like Meng Qi who squatted in the back and was willing to learn his skills, only found this one with a lantern.
According to historical records, as the war progressed and the world pattern was initially determined, the fourteen heroes around Li Yuanze also appeared one by one, forming a deep friendship with each other.
For Meng Qi, some people have a relationship with him as both a teacher and a friend.
Mainly because he learns a lot, learns fast, and is good at drawing inferences from one thing, and it won't be long before everyone can't teach. Everyone felt that Meng Qi was born in a poor family and had no famous teacher, so he was delayed. Heroes cherished heroes, and people with lofty ideals cherished the best of their generation. In addition, they had the same ambition as a minister, and soon everyone changed their minds to follow Meng Qi. Generations meet.
It's a status that comes from one's ability.
At first, Li Yuanze also sent veteran generals, counselors and Meng Qi to escort the grain and grass together, but later he simply let Meng Qi guard the rear and guard the entire grain route.
This achievement is well known to the advisors and the famous generals, but not to outsiders.
Zhu Yan, the Marquis of Leyang, once said with a smile that Meng Qi should be "a good fighter without great merit".
- The enemy will not publicize the failure of grabbing food and grass, and the Chu army will not fool around to boast that they have a general who is particularly good at guarding food and grass.
Meng Qi guarded the camp stably. If the needle could not be inserted, the water could not be splashed in, and he was not provoked by the enemy. Even if the enemy dug a tunnel (Fat Mouse: tease me?), it was useless. The army of the Chen Dynasty had already arrived outside the barracks where Meng Qi was stationed several times. Because they couldn't see the flaws, and felt murderous, they didn't want to die and had to go back the same way.
To subdue the enemy without fighting is the highest state of the art of war.
This is no longer the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. There are fewer and fewer things that can resolve the war between the two countries with the words of a counselor.
To be like Meng Qi, he has no reputation at all. Even Zhu Yan thinks Meng Qi is extraordinary. This is to see through his name!
Meng Qi: "..."
No, it's mainly the gerbils, and there is still a sense of self-knowledge.
There are Confucian scholars in chatting and laughing, and all contacts are celebrities. These famous generals are good friends, and they can compete with Chu Jun. Basically, they are not too bad. After all, they will be finished in one round.
Dragon veins are not omnipotent, and there are many things Meng Qi can't do.
If you don't have the talent to write documents, you don't have the patience to manage internal affairs, you don't learn martial arts well, and you can't go straight to the enemy's line among thousands of troops.
How to strategize and win thousands of miles away, frowning to make up your mind - the difficulty is too high.
Meng Qi recalled the past and couldn't help sighing to Mo Li:
"When I was fighting the world, I felt that the world's wise generals were like crucian carp crossing the river, and they all had the heart to compete in the world and aspire to the Central Plains. Often, after one fight and the second, it made people tired to deal with it. But when the Chu Dynasty was established When I govern the world, I also feel that the world is full of stupid and greedy people, that teaching is not good, and it is impossible to control it. It makes people suspect that smart people come out to fight for the world in troubled times and then die..."
"cough."
Mo Li stared at Meng Qi vaguely, and there are people who are reclusive like Mr. Qin.
Meng Qi changed his words eloquently: "There are too many mediocre people in the world. If I had met the doctor earlier, my temperament would not have been so wild."
When the swordsman heard this, he thought to himself that this is wild, and clearly owed a cut!
- Ever since he met Meng Qi, his hand holding the knife has been about to move! At this moment, the urge to copy the knife can't be suppressed without the knife in his hand.
The camp is right in front of you, since you understand the formation, you can do it directly! What's the point of whispering, everyone is a master of the family, what's the point of speaking in a low voice? If you don't want yourself to hear it, just pass the sound into the secret! The swordsman murmured, still looking down at the barracks indifferently.
People are under the eaves and have to bow their heads.
If the national teacher wants to blow, let him blow.
After the swordsman learned this principle without a teacher, the chaotic aura of the whole body due to the entanglement and pain was calmed down a bit.
Ink carp: "… "
Thanks to Master Yuanzhi's departure, otherwise the old monk would be pleasantly surprised to praise Meng Qi's mastery of the principles of Zen and his ability to "save" people.
The gerbil is already very shy, and adding an old monk who looks at the gerbil, I am afraid it is not going to heaven.
Meng Qi saw the reactions of the two of them in his eyes, the corners of his eyes twitched, and he turned his head and said solemnly, "I can break through this formation."
"The plan will come out?"
Mo Li took this sentence without hesitation, and it was all right in the playbook.
Meng Qi's throat moved, and he smiled: "My lord is sitting here, and the subordinates will come when they go."
Mo Li was suddenly called out by Meng Qi, and was stunned there.
When he thought of Meng Qi's joking joke, he mentioned that the tone of the word lord was still weird, as if trying to contain something, and his heart suddenly burst.
Mo Li suddenly looked up at Meng Qi's back.
Meng Qi, however, was not as worried as Mo Li had been, because he mentioned things that he couldn't say, and his mind changed drastically.
In fact, after the words "Master" came out, Meng Qi felt that a big rock that vaguely existed in his heart suddenly loosened.
Meng Qi's original intention was to take the excerpts of the army order and put it on the account to make a joke for Mo Li, but the word "lord", Meng Qi only addressed Li Yuanze alone. When it comes to hearing these two words on weekdays, Meng Qi has an uncontrollable anger, but after the anger, there is more remorse.
This regret is the regret of failing to discover in time the irreversible trend.
This hate is not because I don't understand why it ended up like this, but because I hate everything.
Li Yuanze, whose temperament has changed drastically, the person who keeps provoking between the emperor and the important officials for his own benefit, the colleague who clearly perceives something wrong but waits to die...
It is a joke that the emperor wants a minister to die, and none of the twelve heroes is so pedantic.
Colleagues began to have accidents one by one, and they were charged with conspiracy. Everyone was surprised at first, but can they still understand it later
Just after weighing the pros and cons, I feel that it is made. It's too late, and I'm not alone. The stability and prosperity of the Chu Dynasty were obtained through countless hardships. Li Yuanze was about to die, so why not the twelve heroes? No one in the world is immortal, and their life is the last thing they can do for their past ideals and for the stability of the world.
So I noticed that the strange people didn't say anything, didn't tell those old, sick and confused friends, but supported each other, went to the last palace banquet of Emperor Chu, and drank calmly in the singing and dancing of prosperous times. poisoned. medicine.
In the early years, Li Yuanze thought that Meng Qi had no intention of fame and fortune, and later he did not feel that Meng Qi was a threat to the Chu Dynasty.
Meng Qi had no wife or children, no huge family behind him, no disciples, and no power in the court. Although Li Yuanze was so extreme and crazy that he removed old ministers for his son, ironically, Li Yuanze still knew very well that he had relied on every minister.
He knows whoever is prone to impulsive troubles, so he will strike first; he knows whoever cares about his family, he will use it as a threat.
He knew the temperament of Prime Minister Deng and Wei Guogong, as well as Meng Qi's character, so he found an excuse to transfer Meng Qi, but Meng Qi received a suicide note from the two when he rushed back in anger. Yuxi left the office.
Although Li Yuanze didn't know how high Meng Qi's martial arts was, and he didn't know Meng Qi's true identity, he was Li Yuanze after all. Even if he was crazy and confused, he could still do what he wanted to do.
Meng Qi suddenly realized that maybe at that time, he also hated himself.
—Why should he be a sober man? Why should I be persuaded by that letter, it's not good to be completely mad? If you are crazy and out of control, you will not remember the people of the Chu Dynasty! He wants to kill Li Yuanze's sons one by one, and let Li Yuanze watch the Li family lose the Chu Dynasty!
However, reason suppressed the rage and turned it into an unhealable wound in the bottom of my heart.
This is the main cause and root cause of Meng Qi's disease, not the leakage of mercury from Emperor Li's mausoleum.
When Emperor Qi sent people to burn the house and killed the small dragon veins in Shangyun Mountain, Meng Qi's madness finally broke out completely.
The past is over.
Regardless of regret, or unwillingness, it is useless.
Meng Qi's eyes were dark, and there was neither joy nor sorrow in his expression, but the suffocating energy around him suddenly exploded.
The swordsman looked at Meng Qi's back, his pupils contracted, and he took a step back.
Mo Li took three steps and took two steps, rushing to catch up, and at the same time looking hesitant.
He could feel that Meng Qi's breath was unusually stable, it didn't look like a maniac attack, but the killing intent was very real. Mo Li couldn't help holding the bladeless knife in his sleeve, ready to take action if something went wrong.
"Om."
The machine spring rang, and several sharp arrows flew.
The people on guard in the camp couldn't stand this murderous aura, and subconsciously let go of the crossbow. bow fingers.
"Enemy attack!"
Someone shouted sharply, and the whole camp shook.
Meng Qi shot down a sharp arrow with a flick of his sleeve, the wind blew his robe sleeves, and the man landed on the top of a tent in the southeast like a falcon.
In an instant all the sharp arrows pointed that way.
Meng Qi's toes charged, and he stepped over the towering tent.
"No, save Mr. Li quickly!"
The soldiers were in chaos.
Some people rubbed their eyes and didn't put on their trousers. They got up and scolded and wanted to know what was going on. Some people ran towards this side, shouting and shouting, as if to save the people in the collapsed camp, and some people were dizzy and dizzy. , heard the shout and ran.
"Where is Mr. Li?"
"That tent... collapsed..."
The officers and soldiers hurriedly raised their heads and found that the number of collapsed tents had increased to three.
Although I am familiar with the barracks, the lights are dark at night, and there is chaos, and many people can't find their way.
Standing at a high place, the swordsman found that the identities of the people in the camp were clear at a glance: those who were running around were obviously real soldiers, and those who had a little knowledge of the fighting method and went straight to Meng Qi's direction, eight of them were people related to Piaoping Pavilion.
Such a rough calculation is shocking, almost one-fifth of the soldiers have problems.
"It turns out that this formation... Maybe there is no obvious defect in itself, but the soldiers in the camp are not of one mind, and Piaoping Pavilion can't completely replace the officers and soldiers with its own people. Once there is chaos, most people will run rampant, and the formation will not attack. Self-destruction." Mo Li was thoughtful, and at the same time let down a little.
Doctor Mo didn't like to boil medicine for gerbils, but when Meng Qi had to drink medicine, he liked to boil it harder.
At this time, Meng Qi had already taken advantage of the night to run over with a guy whose head was smashed by a collapsed tent.
Mo Li asked suspiciously, "This is—"
"That camp is the eye." Meng Qi deliberately shook the person in his hand, and Mo Li realized that this guy was in rags, his cheeks were swollen, and his head was tilted to one side.
Mo Li quickly realized that Meng Qi ripped off the man's clothes and knocked out a few teeth.
Probably because he was afraid that the other party had a thunderbolt hidden in his body and put poison in his mouth. medicine.
"I thought it was the shopkeeper of the Sun family, but that's fine. If you can issue orders in the eye of the formation, your identity will not be too low, and you know this formation." Meng Qi satisfactorily handed him over to Mo Li and urged, "We Get out first."