Han Dang is stronger

Chapter 97

Although there was a secret plan to run away if they couldn't fight, Gongsun Qing and the generals of the Qin army used a lot of energy to prepare for this decisive battle in order to turn defeat into victory. , Another 500-man team was drawn from the Xiapi County soldiers to participate in the battle, and the number of troops in the battle was expanded to more than [-] people, making up enough capital for a frontal battle with the main force of the young commander-in-chief.

In addition, in order to boost the morale of the army, Gongsun Qing asked the generals of the Qin army to publicize among the soldiers the fatal weakness of the young generals who are not good at battle, and repeatedly boasted about the strength and fear of the Qin army's battle formation. It made the soldiers of the Qin army feel that as long as it was a direct decisive battle, the self-army must have a high degree of confidence in winning.At the same time, Gongsun Qing also promised a heavy reward, promising that for every head cut off by the soldiers of the Qin Army, in addition to being promoted to a rank, they would also be rewarded with hardware. Morale.

Not to mention, Gongsun Qing's actions really had some effect. In order not to be swallowed by the flood, and because he was greedy for the reward promised by Gongsun Qing, the mental outlook of the Qin Army team really improved to a certain extent. The gossip was significantly reduced, and everyone was busy arranging weapons and equipment, replenishing crossbow arrows, feeding horses, and overhauling chariots. They were no longer in a constant state of panic like the previous day, and somewhat restored the appearance that some county-level main forces should have.

After trying to make the most rigorous pre-war preparations, the night passed quickly. Early the next morning, the soldiers of the Qin army who had had a full breakfast gathered on time and waited for orders. Gongsun Qing gave another order, and the soldiers at the east gate of Xiapi The gate of the city was opened immediately, and four thousand Qin troops walked out of the gate in line, and under the leadership of Gongsun Qing, they slowly pushed towards the camp of the Young Marshal's army more than six miles away.

The response from the Young Commander's Army was quick. Before Qin Jun had all walked out of the city gate, the Young Commander's scouts had already returned to the camp and reported the news to Xiang Kang.As a result, when they heard the news, Zhou Zeng, Xiang Zhuang and other young commanders of the army were of course all smiles, and they repeatedly claimed to praise Xiang Kang's clever plan like a god. As expected, Gongsun Qing was forced to jump over the wall and was forced to leave the city for a decisive battle.Xiang Kang just smiled slightly, and then ordered in a calm tone: "Order all the troops to prepare for battle immediately, strictly guard the camp, and no army is allowed to fight without my order. If the Tyrant Qin army attacks our camp , just shoot back with random arrows."

"Why?" Xiang Zhuang asked very strangely: "Brother, it was so hard to force the Tyrant Qin army to come out for a decisive battle, why didn't you fight?"

"The Tyrant Qin army took the risk to go to war. They must have made sufficient mobilization preparations before the battle, and their morale was relatively high. Sending troops to fight at this time is not good for us. Even if we win, there will definitely be a lot of casualties." Xiang Kang explained, and said: "So This battle can't be rushed, we must first exhaust the morale of the Tyrant Qin army, and then send troops to fight, this is in our best interest."

"But what if the Tyrant Qin army retreats?" Xiang Zhuang asked worriedly.

"How could he retreat so easily?" Xiang Kang smiled and said, "It doesn't matter even if he does retreat. As long as we are prepared, we can send troops to chase him at any time."

Xiang Zhuang just nodded, and hurried back to his team with the young generals to lead the soldiers to prepare for battle. Xiang Kang asked Xiang Yang to arrange an envoy immediately, and explained to the envoy, and asked the envoy to follow According to the plan, Zhou Zeng was asked to organize the rear army to make dry food so that it could be distributed to the soldiers to eat on the battlefield, and he was ready for a long-term battle early.

Qin Jun's movements were also very fast. As soon as the young commander guarding the camp entered the combat position, Qin Jun had already bullied the vicinity of the young commander's camp, and quickly formed a formation two miles away, setting up a sweeping six The phalanx of the Qin army, which was invincible in the country, is a mixed formation of heavy crossbows and chariots. It is located on the two wings and protrudes slightly forward. The cavalry is behind. Later, Gongsun Qing led the flag formation and stationed behind the left cavalry to command the overall situation.

The Qin Army's battle formation had just been established, and before Gongsun Qing sent someone to fight outside the camp of the Young Marshal's Army, a horse rushed out of the camp of the Young Marshal's Army, trotted to the front of the Qin Army's formation with a white flag, and shouted loudly: "Bao Qin army listen, since you dare to come to die, then you just wait a moment, we will send troops right away, and fight to the death with you!"

After the yelling, the envoy of the young commander who was already in a dangerous position turned around and ran away. Fortunately, the Qin army in front did not shoot any arrows, but sent someone to report the situation to Gongsun Qing. After hearing this, Gongsun Qing sneered and said with a sneer : "I know you, Xiang Kang, won't miss this opportunity, so hurry up, I can't wait!"

What happened next, of course, left Gongsun Qing speechless, and he agreed to leave the camp for a decisive battle after a while, but the soldiers of the Qin Army waited for nearly half an hour, and there was still no movement in the young commander's camp, and neither the army nor the troops were seen. Assemble, let alone see even one soldier leaving the camp.In the end, he couldn't wait any longer, so Gongsun Qing simply sent an envoy to ask Xiang Kang outside the gate of the Young Marshal's barracks why he hadn't sent troops yet. As a result, the envoy quickly brought back the answer from the Young Marshal——Xiang Kang He is praying to ghosts and gods, so let Gongsun Qing wait patiently for a while.

"Pray to ghosts and gods? A traitor son of a bitch, playing me like a monkey?" Gongsun Qing was furious when he heard this, and roared, "The right wing stepped forward, knocked on the camp of the rebels, and forced the rebels to come out for a decisive battle!"

"Your Majesty, wait a minute." Wu Ping, the general next to him, was calm, and quickly dissuaded him: "There are many rebels and our army is few, and the camp of the rebels is located on a high ground, which has the advantage of condescending. If you are not sure, it is easy to damage the soldiers too much, which is not conducive to the morale of the army. According to the opinion of the subordinates, it is better to wait a little longer."

Still able to listen to Jin's persuasion, Gongsun Qing calmly withdrew the order to attack directly, but Gongsun Qing was still angry, and shouted: "Send some soldiers with loud voices from the Central Army to come forward outside the camp of the rebels to insult and force the rebellion. The thieves come out and fight!"

After the order was delivered, the battle of scolding, which is very common on the battlefield of cold weapons, began. Twenty or thirty loud Qin soldiers rushed outside the young commander's barracks, and opened their throats to scold Xiang Kang from Xiang Kang's eldest father, Xiang Yan, to Xiang Kang. The unborn sons and daughters spoke viciously, meanly and trickily, and even ordinary young marshals and soldiers couldn't help being angry when they heard this.However, after the news was reported to Xiang Kang, Xiang Kang laughed and said, "Let them scold you! Tell our soldiers to scold you back, and provoke him, Gongsun Qing, to attack the camp!"

According to Xiang Kang's order, some young marshals with loud voices also launched a counterattack. They also greeted every family member of Gongsun Qing with vicious words, especially Gongsun Qing's parents, Gao Tang.The soldiers of the Qin army reported the situation to Gongsun Qing. Gongsun Qing was so angry that he wanted to order an attack on the camp several times, but was held back by his subordinates.

While the officers and soldiers of the two armies were insulting each other, time also passed unknowingly and quickly. In the blink of an eye, an entire hour had slipped away quietly, but there was still no movement in the camp of the young commander's army, and there was no sign of a decisive battle. signs.But the generals of the Qin army standing in the wilderness were shivering from the cold wind in early winter, their faces were blue and their mouths were pale. ,Disappear.

Faintly realizing that he seemed to have been fooled by Xiang Kang again, Gongsun Qing couldn't bear it anymore, and regardless of the opposition of his generals, he forcibly sent the right-wing army forward to attack the gate of the young commander's camp head-on.The result was as expected by Wu Ping, the general of the Qin army. The Qin army had just approached, and the young marshal's camp immediately fired random arrows, which made the Qin army unable to move forward at all. Because the soldiers of the Young Marshal had sheep and horses to protect their bodies, not only did the bows and crossbows not gain any advantage in shooting the Qin army, but the number of casualties was obviously higher than that of the Young Marshal.

Faced with such a shameless opponent as Xiang Kang, Gongsun Qing was helpless. He wanted to launch a full-scale attack, but worried that he was not sure enough, so he was unwilling to retreat, hesitated, and couldn't make up his mind for a long time.On the contrary, Wu Pingping and several generals of the Qin Army saw Xiang Kang's intentions, and they all persuaded Gongsun Qing: "Jun Zun, Xiang Kang's rebels made it clear that they want to wait for work with ease, and we will send troops for a decisive battle when we are exhausted. If you fall into his tricks, the situation is definitely not good. Why don't you just retreat and let the soldiers go back to rest and regain their strength, and come back tomorrow to fight the rebels."

Gongsun Qing was still a little hesitant, but at this moment, a miracle happened. The gate of the rear camp of the Young Marshal Army suddenly opened, and more than a thousand infantrymen of the Young Marshal Army strode out of the camp. The flank of the army launched an attack.Gongsun Qing was overjoyed when he saw this, and immediately put his plan of retreating behind him, and just watched the battle ahead with his eyes wide open.

The young general army was indeed lacking in the battle. The Qin army's right-wing soldiers who attacked the camp had just turned their spears, and they shot the young general army away without a few rounds of feather arrows. They couldn't attack the camp. , Immediately launched a pursuit, Gongsun Qing did not stop, and he really hoped that the infantry of the Young Marshal Army would escape directly to the gate of the rear camp, so as to create opportunities for the soldiers to rush into the camp of the Young Marshal Army.

It's a pity that the infantry of the Young Commander's Army did not flee back to the camp, but chose to flee to the open place to the east. The Qin army on the right wing pursued closely, and at the same time let the cavalry circle around and block the way of the Young Commander's Army. , the young commander had no choice but to fight on the spot.Seeing this, Gongsun Qing was also elated immediately, and laughed triumphantly: "Fight in battle? Wish it!"

Something unexpected happened to Gongsun Qing. After the young commanders formed an formation to fight, their combat effectiveness had improved significantly. The hastily arranged circular formation was also very neat. The soldiers equipped with swords and spears were at the front, kneeling on one knee On the ground, the crossbowmen were in the rear, and they kept shooting the right-wing Qin army with feather arrows, which made it difficult for the Qin army to move forward, and also forced the right-wing Qin army to push the only ten chariots to the front of the formation, and use the chariot Charge and break through.

Then, something that surprised Gongsun Qing even more happened. After the ten chariots of the Qin Army on the right launched a charge, the circle of the Young Marshal continued to stand still. The young marshals of the army even violently rose up one after another, or used spears to push against the Qin army's chariots, or swung knives to chop off the horse's legs. The impact force of the Qin Army's chariots did not allow the Qin Army to break down from the army's circle. The soldiers of the Qin Army who followed the chariot had no choice but to start a close combat with the young generals who were not in disorder. .

"Who is the leader of the rebellious bandit? This traitor seems to know how to fight?" Gongsun Qing asked in surprise, but he had no choice. The Qin army had too little information about the young commander. Qing reported that the infantry commander of the Young Marshal Army had the character 'Chao' written on his banner, but he didn't know anything about the rest.

When the right-wing Qin army was forced to engage in close combat with the young commander Chao Zhibu, there was a new move in the young commander's camp. The gate of the rear camp opened again, and another thousand-man team rushed out, and directly attacked the army. The right-wing Qin army who was fighting with Chao Zhi made it clear that they wanted to take advantage of the local force advantage and give priority to breaking the right-wing Qin army.Gongsun Qing understood this truth and did not dare to neglect, so he could only quickly send the left-wing Qin army forward to reinforce the right-wing Qin army.

As a result, the battle was concentrated in the southeast of the Young Marshal's camp. The Young Marshal's reinforcements rushed to the battlefield and did not immediately go into battle. Instead, they waited for the reinforcements from the Qin Army to arrive before the Young Marshal stepped forward to stop them and lined up. The left-wing Qin army immediately parried with random arrows, and the reinforcements of the young commander's army rushed back, leading the reinforcements of the Qin army to approach the Qin army on the right wing. It was only when the two roads of the Qin army were about to meet that the reinforcements of the young commander's army turned around and launched an attack. The right flank of the Qin army, whose formation was already chaotic, was flanked by the enemy on both sides. They could only be forced to move closer to the reinforcements, and of course the formation of the Qin army's reinforcements was destroyed in the panic. As a result, the armies quickly mixed together, each fighting endlessly.

At this moment, the main gate of the Young Marshal's camp finally opened, and more than 600 cavalry trotted out, charging towards the Qin army's flag formation that had lost the protection of the flanking soldiers and horses, forcing Gongsun Qing to quickly move in with the flag formation. He left the Chinese army phalanx for protection.However, the cavalry of the Young Marshal Army was not discouraged. After bypassing the Qin Army's central army phalanx, they galloped directly to the rear of the Qin Army's phalanx, blocking the Qin Army's way back to the city.

The ultimate move of the Young Marshal Army finally appeared. Amidst the sound of war drums, one troop after another of the Young Marshal Army soldiers trotted out of the camp and rushed to line up under the high ground. Then, there were more than [-] Young Marshal Army chariots. Drive out of the camp, behind is the banner of Xiang Kang's coach!

"It's been tricked!" At this point, Gongsun Qing finally realized it, and screamed: "Xiang Kang's traitor knows that his bandit soldiers are not good at battle, so he deliberately used the division of troops to attract our two-winged soldiers and horses, and disrupted the battlefield. Don't give us a chance to form an formation to fight! Only then will we really dispatch the main force to fight us head-on!"

It was too late to find out that the trick was taken. The Qin army's two-winged soldiers and horses had been entangled by the young commander's army. Gongsun Qing ordered the recall of the two-winged army at this time, which was tantamount to showing his ass to the young commander's army. Failure may even cause the defeated soldiers to rush into the phalanx of the Chinese army, making the Qin army die even worse.With no other choice, Gongsun Qing had no choice but to let the soldiers and horses of the Chinese army stabilize their formation, and to face the enemy with battles in some areas, blocking the main force of the Young Marshal's army led by Xiang Kang himself, and persisting until a turning point appeared. ——Of course, the premise is that the Qin Army's phalanx can withstand the impact of the chariots of the Young Marshal's Army.

Without any doubt, after leaving the camp with [-] troops, Xiang Kang, who knew the weakness of his own army, waved his claws and waved the flag, and the chariots of the Young Marshals who had already lined up in front of the formation immediately urged their horses forward. The trot gradually accelerated, and rushed directly to the front of the Qin Army's phalanx. Xiang Zhuang led the young commander's infantry to follow closely behind, keeping a certain distance from the chariot and running forward. Go forward and start a close combat with the Qin army, which is currently relatively good at the army.

The critical moment to decide the outcome of today's great battle has arrived. Amidst the thunderous shouts and the sound of war drums, more than [-] chariots of the Young Marshals rushed forward bravely against the crossbow arrows hastily released by the Qin army, overwhelming the mountains and seas , Without hesitation, it hit the Qin Army's infantry phalanx, and like a hammer, it directly hit the Qin Army's infantry phalanx heavily. There were countless roars, screams and people shouting and neighing.

Not disappointing Xiang Kang, the chariot of the Young Marshal directly smashed through the five hundred-man small phalanxes of the Qin Army, and before the momentum disappeared, it slammed into the other two small phalanxes of the Qin Army. Cheering and killing, he rushed into the chaotic crowd of Qin soldiers like a torrent, forcing the Qin army to start a close combat with their own army.

The melee combat is of course the Qin army's disadvantage, and the young commander's army's battle ability is indeed a bit weak. However, after many actual combat experiences in the past few months, the young commander's army's close combat ability has clearly surpassed that of the Qin army. Cut, wielding weapons faster and more fiercely in the melee, and very experienced specially greeted the vital points of the soldiers of the Qin army, but the soldiers of the Qin army who had undergone strict training but lacked actual combat experience were in a hurry, able to block east but not west, Killed by the soldiers of the young commander, the ghosts were crying and howling, and the corpses were all over the ground. The chaotic five square formations collapsed in a blink of an eye. The Qin army in the back row was frightened and kept retreating, causing more congestion and chaos.

At this time, the cavalry of the Young Marshal Army who had circled to the rear before also shot again, and very cunningly bypassed the relatively tightly guarded rear of the Qin Army, and stabbed at the right wing of the Qin Army's phalanx, causing chaos on the right wing of the Qin Army and the front. , The soldiers escaped from the phalanx one after another, yelling and fleeing in the direction of Xiapi City.The Young Marshal's army was as powerful as a broken bamboo, smashing through several small phalanxes of the Qin Army one after another, and was about to kill the Qin Army's flag formation in a blink of an eye.

At this point in the matter, even if Wu Qi and Han Xin were to command the Qin army, it would be difficult to recover, let alone Gongsun Qing, who only appeared once in the history books.Seeing that the situation was overwhelming, Gongsun Qing didn't even have the courage to fight for recovery, so he immediately turned around and rushed towards Xiapi. The defeat was far more miserable than in the Yishui Xiaolu battlefield.The Young Marshal's Army followed closely, and the cavalry charged forward again, chasing Gongsun Qing's commander-in-chief, forcing Gongsun Qing to let his own soldiers discard the commander-in-chief and completely give up command of the army.

On the other hand, after seeing the defeat of the Chinese army and Gongsun Qing leading the army to flee for their lives, the morale of the soldiers on both wings of the Qin army, which was entangled by the young commander's army, also collapsed. Pidongmen ran wildly, and under the command of Xiang Sui and Chao Zhi, the Young Marshal's Pianshi chased after him. They also killed the Qin army, leaving corpses strewn all over the field and blood pooling in puddles.

Gongsun Qing was lucky, and fled to the east gate of Xiapi first on horseback. However, what made Gongsun Qing extremely angry was that the east gate of Xiapi was still tightly closed until now. Gongsun Qing had no choice but to Shouting loudly under the city, asking the defenders on the city to open the door quickly.

The answer to Gongsun Qing was the sudden mass of feathered arrows. Gongsun Qing was caught off guard and hit two arrows in a row. When Gongsun Qing was screaming in pain, Xiapi County Magistrate Xiao Jing also appeared at the top of the east gate, pointing at Gongsun Qing. Qing yelled, "Gongsun Qing! I have already decided to surrender to Young Marshal Xiang. Together with Young Marshal Xiang, we will overthrow Tyranny Qin and restore Great Chu. Hurry up and get off your horse and accept surrender!"

Roaring and cursing, he turned around and fled. Gongsun Qing, who was desperate to the extreme, wanted to flee directly to Tancheng, but unexpectedly, a group of defeated soldiers of the Qin army who had been driven away by the cavalry of the young marshal rushed up from the opposite side, and collided head-on with him in a panic. He was knocked off the horse directly, and countless straw sandals stepped on his body and face one after another, directly trampling him into a meatloaf, which also caused the young commander to spend a lot of effort after the battle to pass The official seal of Donghai County, which he was wearing with him, confirmed his body.

After Gongsun Qing's death, Xiapi county magistrate Xiao Jing revolted again and closed the city gate of Xiapi. Of course, the Qin army outside the city had no hope at all. If they saw the opportunity, they could quickly put down their weapons and kneel down to surrender, or hurry up Fleeing in all directions, only a very small number of diehards resisted stubbornly. In the end, they were quickly hacked into pieces by tens of times the number of young commanders and soldiers, and died miserably.The 600 Qin army was completely annihilated, and the number of soldiers who directly put down their weapons and surrendered to the young commander's army exceeded [-].

Seeing that the overall situation outside the city had been decided, Xiao Jing, the smart and interesting county magistrate of Xiapi, of course opened the gate of the city immediately, and respectfully invited the young generals to enter the city to take over Xiapi.However, Xiang Kang did not rush to Xiapi to accept the surrender at the first time, because at this time, Xiang Kang just received an urgent report from Ling County. He said anxiously to Xiang Kang: "Young commander, it's not good news. When our division attacked Huaiyin, it failed for a long time and was forced to withdraw from the siege."

"It's the other way around, for me, this is the good news." Xiang Kang sneered in his heart, while reaching out to receive the urgent report, he casually asked the Ling County messenger: "Where did our partial teacher go after withdrawing from the siege? "

"Reporting to the young marshal, I went to Xutai."

The answer from the messenger from Ling County made Xiang Kang feel alert, because Xiang Kang was very aware of the situation at Xutai. To the north was the Xu County Young Marshal Army led by Feng Zhong, and to the south was the East China Sea Rebel Army led by Chen Ying. Gao, not only is it very likely to be captured head-on, but he may even surrender without a fight, and take the initiative to open the city gate and Uncle Xiang and his son enter the city. ——But fortunately, Uncle Xiang had promised to give up Xutai to Qin Jia before, so even if he took Xutai, it would be difficult for Xiang Bo to eat up the city, and Xiang Kang didn't have to worry that he would Immediately become difficult to get off the tail.

The matter was not over yet, and after hastily opened the urgent report sent by Huang Gao, the new magistrate of Ling County, Xiang Kang's face was a little ugly again, because Huang Gao reported that Xiang Bo, in order to save the face of Huaiyin City, was going to Ling County. When the county rear informed the self-army's itinerary, he asked his envoy to threaten Huang Gao that he had already contacted Chen Ying of the Dongyang Rebel Army, and that Chen Ying was also very yearning for the Young Marshal, so the Young Marshal this time Going west to Xutai, it is even possible to directly incorporate Chen Ying, the newly-emerged Dongyang Rebel Army.

"Whether he's bragging or not, we can't let him succeed. Once he recruits Chen Ying, he may be completely in danger." Xiang Kang made up his mind and said secretly: "If Chen Ying's rebel army really surrenders to us My only plan is to ask Feng Zhong to come forward and directly compile it for me."

Thinking up to this point, Xiang Kang was somewhat thankful that he was prepared. Long before he arranged for Uncle Xiang and his son to launch the Southern Expedition, he had asked Feng Zhong to send someone to try to contact Chen Ying. Although Feng Zhong did not report the progress to himself afterwards, with his loyalty to himself, he would definitely not forget about this order, and he must have laid a foundation for him to come forward and recruit Chen Ying for him. Rebels, it should be much more convenient.

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