Back Off, Let Me Come

Being a scapegoat is almost inevitable.

Mei Meng knew this.

"If she really found a scapegoat to divert the contradiction of the failure of the battle, it proves that she is not too stupid. The allied forces suffered heavy losses in this battle, and Qi State really reached a critical juncture of life and death. As the head of the country, she faced the questioning of allies from various countries and the doubts of domestic civil and military officials. Naturally, she would prioritize preserving her own status and life to ensure that she would not be pulled off the throne by external forces." Mei Meng's response exceeded Qi Cang's expectations. Under the other party's surprised gaze, she smiled with relief and said, "How can this not be a means of self-protection?"

It is better to die than to die.

This sentence can be used at any time and in any place.

Of course, Mei Meng expects the monarch and the ministers to know each other, and expects the people she is loyal to to choose her and trust her firmly, but this expectation itself is a luxury that violates human nature. When Mei Meng realized that the master was not her fellow traveler, she no longer expected it.

No longer expecting, naturally there is no real disappointment.

"She can protect herself, what about you?"

"Between the monarch and the minister... how can we have both?"

Mei Meng sighed self-deprecatingly, not knowing what she was thinking.

The king and she share the same fate. They have been through similar situations before. They should look at each other like a mirror. Therefore, they should be monarchs and ministers as well as close friends who can support each other.

Mei Meng underestimated the charm of power.

It is a thing that can change people beyond recognition more than time.

She also underestimated human nature.

Only Qi Cang, who was crazy all day, saw it more clearly than anyone else.

Pushing out insignificant pawns would only anger the public, so they could only push out something heavy enough to show "sincerity". At the moment, the only people who could be scapegoats were her and Cui Zhi. Cui Zhi fled from the battlefield, and Cui Shi secretly stabbed him in the back. Logically, they would be the best choice.

But——

If the battle hurts the vitality, I'm afraid that the lord will not be able to deal with Cui Shi, and will have to look at Cui Shi's face instead. Mei Meng was as calm as an outsider in the upcoming predicament. No, rather than being calm, it would be better to say that she is numb.

Qi Cang rolled his eyes: "You are also a stubborn person."

Back then, Yan An knew that there was no way out but he would go to his death, and now Mei Meng also knew that there was no way out but he would go to his death. Yan An didn't know that Zheng Qiao was hopeless? Mei Meng didn't know that her master was not the one she really expected?

Mei Meng wanted someone who could walk side by side with her, so she tried her best to assist and support her, but the other person only wanted a subordinate.

Both of them knew the truth, but they both liked to die.

Qi Cang sincerely suspected that Wen Xin and the scholars were all mentally ill.

Mei Meng pursed her lips tightly and remained silent.

After a while, she forced herself to cheer up and clean up her embarrassed appearance. When she was ready to leave, the guards who had survived the melee also came over. Mei Meng saw him turned into a bloody man with wounds of all sizes on his body: "Where are the others?"

The guard choked with fatigue: "No, all gone."

Although she was mentally prepared, when she heard this reply, Mei Meng's heart seemed to be squeezed by an invisible big hand, and the severe pain spread all over her body. It took a long time to ease. She said in a hoarse voice: "I already know about this, and I will meet up with the army first."

The navy led by Mei Meng was entangled, and both sides had to fight a life-and-death bloody battle, and they had no energy to keep in touch with other battlefields. She didn't know what the situation was like on the main force.

The river wind stopped, and the thick fog faded.

The sky finally turned pale.

For many people, the long and terrifying night finally turned over, but this nightmare-like fight did not end, and even had a tendency to intensify. A dagger poked out from the dark and pressed against the waist of the deserter.

The other party was so scared that his crotch was filled with fishy and warm urine on the spot.

"Please spare my life, my dear. I have old people and children to take care of. My whole family depends on me for food. Please be kind and have mercy on me!" His legs softened and he knelt on the ground. He didn't care about the gravel on the ground and kowtowed several times.

Ordinary soldiers who were hurried to the battlefield after simple training for ten days or half a month could not withstand high-intensity combat. Some people wanted to desert if the situation was slightly unfavorable. This man was no exception. He was afraid of being caught by the Allied Forces, and even more afraid of being chopped off by the brutal Kangguo as a military merit.

He didn't dare to take the main road, and chose those rural paths with dense vegetation and rugged and steep terrain. But when people are unlucky, even drinking a mouthful of cold water can make their teeth sticky... Just out of the tiger's den, they enter the wolf's den again.

A hoarse female voice came from above his head: "How is the front line?"

The deserter said timidly: "... Lost, all lost."

This made Mei Meng's dagger almost drop out of his hand: "Lost? All lost? Which team are you from, tell me everything!"

The deserter was not from the Qi State.

Coming from a small country, he followed and hid behind the main force. As a rower, he was relatively safe. Who knew that Kangguo had frequent treacherous schemes and repeatedly attacked them from behind. It would have been fine if it was just a sneak attack, but Kangguo used warships as siege vehicles in water battles, exchanging their own warships for their warships. After losing their warships, most of the soldiers had to go into the water. The troops of both sides fought around the underwater battlefield, but they never thought that Kangguo actually drove the warships underwater...

Watching the strange-shaped warships go back and forth freely in the water, hitting whoever they want to hit, strangling whoever they want to strangle, people were dumbfounded.

You can't fight underwater, and you can't win on the water.

It's hard to distinguish between the enemy and us in the chaotic battlefield.

The main force received the information and sent troops to rescue, but was blinded and delayed by Kangguo's illusionary words, and missed the best opportunity.

Mei Meng closed her eyes in despair when she heard what the deserter said.

In terms of the number of warriors and the average realm, the Southwest Alliance is superior to Kangguo. Before leaving, Mei Meng told the king that no matter how strong the enemy is, once they meet, they should send brave warriors to clear the way, rely on the number and average advantage to suppress the enemy's morale, and at the same time maintain the integrity of their own army formation, and don't easily divide the troops to fight. Ignore the enemy's provocations and temptations.

Steady and steady, for a "stable"!

In the melee, in terms of the efficiency of killing the enemy, the 20th-level Chehou and the last-rate Gongshi can't open up the essential gap. As long as the defense of the own side can maintain a seamless whole, the three armies are closely connected, and all actions can be unified, it will not be easy for Kangguo to bite. But if they are beaten into a mess, and the soldiers of the two sides are mixed together...

The situation is completely different.

Mei Meng initially guessed that Kangguo would use tactics and strategies to achieve this goal, so she repeatedly told them to be steady, but she didn't expect Kangguo to take an unusual approach and use the most violent means to forcibly dismantle each other's warships and fortifications, just to fight with swords!

The means were so violent that the Allied forces had no room to refuse.

Mei Meng herself suffered a great loss in this regard.

The deserter was just a small soldier. Not to mention the details of the front line, he couldn't even remember the name of the enemy leader he was fighting on the battlefield.

Mei Meng didn't force anything. After asking him the direction he came from, she let him go. She met several more deserters along the way and learned some details from them, but not much. Halfway through, she received news that the main force of the Allied forces had fled. It was already noon.

Before nightfall, the Allied troops were finally found.

The Allied troops were driven ashore by Kangguo and retreated to a distance of more than ten miles. The original camp fortress was lost and burned down by Kangguo. Seventy to eighty percent of the baggage and food were lost...

When Mei Meng came back, the King of Qi did not smile at all. She did not care, and only told her the news: "We fought with Kang State last night, and Zhongli Fu rebelled and defected."

The loss of troops was nearly 70%.

After dawn, most of the remnants gathered along the way fled again.

The King of Qi also told her some bad news.

"Father Luo Ben died in the battle."

When saying this, the King of Qi also looked at Qi Cang who came back with Mei Meng. When everyone was in a mess, Qi Cang looked decent, and his breath was as long as usual. In this state, he was probably working without effort.

I didn't see him fight much last night.

Mei Meng was shocked: "Died in the battle?"

How could a 19th-rank Guannei Hou die in the battle so easily?

The King of Qi would not lie to her about this.

If Mei Meng goes out to ask now, someone will definitely tell her that in the early morning, Luo Yuan's headless body was picked up by a young general with a strange look, and the head was still in the young man's hand. The young man carried the body on his long weapon and showed up in a swagger. When this person appeared, the breath that the allied forces had been holding on to was instantly lost, and their morale plummeted, and they gradually lost to Kangguo.

Mei Meng asked again: "Where is Gongyang Yongye?"

The King of Qi said: "Last night, someone saw him coming back, and for some reason he suddenly attacked and injured people, and then disappeared."

Mei Meng endured the pain in her forehead and asked about the losses of the allied forces.

"The damage is more than 40%, and the most families were wiped out, and no one survived. Only six allies are left."

There is no baggage and food to appease the people, and there is a mad dog Kangguo staring at them outside. The army is defeated, and there will be more deserters in the next few days.

The specific losses are still being counted, and it is not optimistic.

Mei Meng has no questions to ask, but the King does.

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My aunt came back from the plane in the early morning, so I rushed to pick her up at the airport, so today's update is just this much_(:з」∠)_