Han Dang is stronger

Chapter 181 Do Your Best
As analyzed by Xiang Kang, after learning that Puyang was quickly breached by the Young Marshal, although the White Horse garrison of the Qin Army issued an alarm immediately, they only sent people to contact the main force of the Qin Army in Jiyuan and the Qin army stationed in Aocang. The army Sima exhausted all his troops, and did not notify Dong Kan, the mobile unit of the Qin Army. He couldn't do it if he wanted to. He didn't know where Dong Kan's army was and where it was. They were almost arriving at Baimajin, and they didn't know that Puyang had actually been captured by the Young Marshal's Army. At the same time, the main force of the Young Marshal's Army had also moved to the north bank of the Yellow River, waiting for him to come back and die.

However, Dong Kan, who was entrusted by Zhang Han with the important task of maneuvering, was not a careless person. No matter how anxious he was to return to Puyang, he did not forget to send scouts to clear the way ahead, and grasp the situation ahead as much as possible in advance. There is no fool He only knew to rush forward, but this also bought the Qin army a certain amount of early warning time. Not long after Xiang Kang left the ferry wharf with the main force of the young marshal and went west, the Qin army's scouts quickly reported the situation to Dong Kan. , and gave Qin Jun time to respond in advance.

Knowing that the main force of the young commander's army suddenly appeared in front of him, Dong Kan was of course taken aback. In addition to subconsciously ordering the army to stop advancing immediately, he quickly asked about the current location and approximate strength of the main force of the young commander's army. The main force of the handsome army is only ten miles away from the Qin army, and its strength is more than 2.Dong Kan frowned even more when he heard this, then immediately looked up to see the sky, and asked casually, "What time is it now?"

"The first moment of Shen Shi has just passed." Jiu De, the general next to him, replied immediately.

"There is still an hour before dark." Dong Kan muttered in his heart, and then quickly made up his mind, saying: "Command the whole army to form a battle formation immediately, hurry up to drink water and eat dry food, Prepare for battle. Send out men, and cut down trees to make torches for use at night."

"General Dong, why are you still forming an formation?" Jiu De hurriedly asked: "The enemy is outnumbered, and our army is exhausted from marching. We should take the time to retreat?"

"It's because our soldiers are exhausted that we can't retreat." Dong Kan said: "We came all the way in a hurry. If we retreat immediately without taking a rest, we will definitely be overtaken by the main force of the bandit army who is waiting for work. At that time, we want to It is difficult not to lose the battle. Only by setting up the formation immediately, let our soldiers seize the time to rest for a while, and then meet the enemy with our expert formation, fight hard to force the Xiangkang bandit army back, and then we can quickly retreat under the cover of night and get rid of the bandit army pursuit."

Jiu De and other generals of the Qin Army came to their senses, clasped their fists together and sang promises, and quickly sent an order to the entire army, telling the exhausted Qin Army soldiers to take time to drink water, eat and rest temporarily, so as to face the coming main force of the young commander's army, and at the same time assign manpower to cut down Nearby trees, prepare torches for night marches.

When the third quarter of Shenshi was approaching, the main force of the Young Marshal led by Xiang Kang rushed to the scene. Seeing that the Qin army did not retreat in a hurry, but formed a mixed formation of infantry and cavalry to fight with him, Xiang Kang I couldn't help being a little surprised, and said: "Dong Kan is a thief who can make a decisive decision. He found that we were approaching and not only did not escape, but formed a battle formation to prepare for the battle. It was clear that they wanted to make use of their strengths and avoid weaknesses, and use their special battles to temporarily retreat Let's retreat under the cover of night."

Knowing that Xiang Kang didn't like battles, Chen Ping next to him hurriedly suggested: "General You, we can't let the Tyrant Qin army get what we want. We should not rush to attack, and wait until the Tyrant Qin army has to withdraw before attacking to avoid their attack." Good at fighting."

Xiang Kang was a little shaken for a while, but when he saw the Qin army transporting the freshly cut trees back to the position from a distance, Xiang Kang immediately changed his mind and said: "You can't miss the opportunity. If you don't seize the time to launch an attack, you can attack before it gets dark." Defeating the Tyrant Qin army gave them time to prepare for the night battle, and it will only be more difficult for us to destroy this Tyrant Qin army."

After all, Xiang Kang, who is notoriously dislikes fighting battles, immediately issued an order to let the main force of the young generals form a square formation to prepare for battle. As a result, after the order was issued, all the young generals who knew Xiang Kang's nature were all surprised , They all said in surprise: "The sun came out from the west today? Our right general didn't play tricks in the war, and we are going to fight the Tyrant Qin army with dignity?"

Surprise is nothing but surprise, the opportunity is precious. In fact, the main force of the young commander who has never neglected battle training quickly formed a battle formation, or formed a square formation that required a high level of command ability from the general. Then Xiang Kang did not hesitate, As soon as the phalanx was set up, Xiang Kang asked his own soldiers to display the banner and ordered the young commander to send two thousand troops from the front to directly hit the front of the Qin army's battle formation. He also ordered Zhong Limei to send troops from the right wing and lead three thousand troops to attack the Qin army Battle left.

"General You, excuse me for speaking bluntly, aren't you being a little nervous?" Chen Ping cautiously reminded: "Although the students don't know much about battles, they also know that in battles, they should first send a small group of troops to test repeatedly, find The weak point of the enemy's battle formation, and then avoid the strong and attack the weak, and attack the enemy's weak point. Now you don't make any temptations, launch the attack directly, and focus on attacking the left wing of the Tyrant Qin army. If the elite soldiers of the Tyrant Qin army happen to be on the left wing , I am afraid we will suffer a loss if we fight like this."

"It's almost the time of You, and the days are short in late autumn. We don't have time to test it out." Xiang Kang replied directly, and then said: "It doesn't matter if the enemy's elite is on the left wing. We can attack their left wing by storm. Killing their elite forces will benefit our next battle."

Seeing Xiang Kang's straightforward answer, and seeing that Uncle Zhou, the most powerful general under Xiang Kang's command, did not stand up to object, Chen Ping, who is not good at military affairs, had no choice but to keep his mouth shut and let Xiang Kang mess around.Dong Kan, who was on the opposite side, sneered when he saw Xiang Kang's arrangement, and said: "Don't make any temptations, and use so many troops to launch an attack as soon as you come up. It is said that Xiang Kang's children can't fight battles. It seems This is really true.”

This is also the first time that Xiang Kang confronted the enemy head-on since he started his army, and the result is quite satisfactory to Xiang Kang. But he still gritted his teeth and rushed closer, winning the opportunity to fight Qin Jun in close quarters.At the same time, the Zhongli Mei army who attacked from the right wing also acted resolutely. After paying a certain amount of casualties, they also rushed to the left wing of the Qin army and fiercely waved their weapons to fight the Qin army in close quarters. But it also successfully entangled the left wing of the Qin army.

Xiang Kang was indeed very anxious. Only ten minutes after the melee battle started, Xiang Kang ordered Long Qie to lead an army of [-] to attack to assist Zhong Limo in strengthening the offensive against the left wing of the Qin army. Chen Ping was of course dumbfounded when he saw it. I don't understand why Xiang Kang attaches so much importance to the Qin army's left wing, but Dong Kan, who was hiding behind the Qin army's formation, raised his eyebrows, vaguely discovered Xiang Kang's intentions, and secretly said: "No way? It doesn't mean that Xiang Kang's children are not good at formations. fight?"

The Qin army under Dong Kan has no more than 500 troops. Excluding the right wing and the frontal center army, there are only five [-]-man teams that can be deployed on the left wing. Naturally, the pressure of [-] troops to resist the [-] young commanders is huge. What's worse is that the rear army of the Young Marshal Army led by Long Qie didn't directly join the frontal battlefield, but detoured to the north of the Qin Army's left wing, launched an attack on the side of the Qin Army's left wing, and joined hands with Zhong Limei to attack from two directions The pressure on the left wing of the Qin army and the left wing of the Qin army naturally doubled. After a fierce battle, the left wing of the Qin army felt extremely exhausted and had to ask the Chinese army for help.

Forced to do nothing, Dong Kan could only hastily mobilize 3000 troops from the central army to reinforce the left wing. However, to Dong Yi's bewilderment, Xiang Kang sent Li Shang to lead [-] troops into the left-wing battlefield of the Qin army, far away. Detoured to the back of the Qin Army's left wing, rushed to the back of the Qin Army's left wing from the rear, and frantically used [-] troops to attack the Qin Army's left wing of more than [-] troops on three sides.

At this point in the battle, Xiang Kang's intention was already very obvious, which was to take advantage of his superiority in the number of troops and take advantage of the relatively open terrain of the Qin army's left wing to attack the Qin army's left wing with more fights and less.But this method was stupid, but it was impossible for the Qin army to crack it, forcing Dong Kan to continue to replenish troops to the left wing obediently, and at the same time pray for the blessing of the gods, so that his left wing could withstand Xiang Kang's three axes and persist until Turnaround appears.

Prayers are doomed to be useless. Under the command of Xiang Kang, Zhong Limei and Long Qie, who stormed the left wing of the Qin army, were originally top-notch generals of this era. Seeing that Xiang Kang has repeatedly increased his troops on the left wing battlefield, he also understands that Xiang Kang has placed high hopes on himself. Therefore, there was no need for Xiang Kang to send people to urge and supervise the battle. Zhongli Mo and Long Qie had already rushed to the front line, personally led the young generals to fight bravely, shaking the Qin army on the left wing one after another, and also forced the left wing. The Qin army can only gradually change into circular formations of different sizes, and turn to the defensive in an all-round way.

At this time, the sun was gradually setting, and it was going to be dark in a blink of an eye, but the offensive of the young commander's army was still surging like a tide, and the swords, spears and halberds crazily greeted the soldiers of the Qin army, although the soldiers of the Qin army also fought hard However, the disparity in the strength of the troops was too great, and the outer circle formations were quickly breached by the young marshals. The soldiers without the cover of their companions were killed one after another, and many people were forced to flee to the central army formation on the right for help. However, the offensive of the Young Marshal's Army still did not slow down. With red eyes up and down, they just rushed and killed, and gradually exerted pressure on the Qin Army's central army position from the side.

"Shameless bastard, you can only rely on more to win less! If the general's strength is the same as yours, you don't even think about having any chance in this battle!"

No matter how unwilling Dong Kan roared, he still failed to save his bad luck of the collapse of his left wing. When the sky was about to be completely dark, he couldn't withstand the crazy attack of the young commander's army. The Chinese army evaded the position, and the three young marshals on the left took the opportunity to use their flags as guidance and directly launched a fierce attack on the side of the Qin army's central army position.Xiang Kang, who had a strong army, took the opportunity to urge Zheng Bujun to come forward and stormed the Qin army's central position with torches.

It was still extremely tragic, and under the light of the few torches, the young generals and soldiers rushed forward, shouting and launching a wave of shocks to the Qin Army's central army position, and the Qin Army's central army was forced to attack twice before. Due to the division of troops to reinforce the left wing, the strength of the troops has already been weakened, coupled with the fact that the defeated troops have affected the ranks, it is inevitable that the fight will be more difficult. Although there is no sign of defeat, the position has gradually loosened, and they are forced to turn to the defensive in an all-round way.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Dong Kan could only make a prompt decision, mobilized his right-wing army to reinforce the central army, and attacked from the side the flank of Zheng Bu, who was attacking from the front by the Young Marshal's army, in an attempt to temporarily force Zheng Bu back in order to retreat, while Xiang Kang and others also Just at this opportunity, the right wing of the Qin army had just started, and the left wing army of the Young Marshal immediately mobilized, aggressively attacking the right wing soldiers of the Qin army, and pulling the Qin army into a full-scale melee.

The situation of all-out melee is still extremely unfavorable to the Qin army. The young generals are good at fighting melee, and this will have the upper hand. The morale is high, and the strength of the troops is also in an absolute advantage. It is inevitable that they will be handy when fighting. The Qin army was terrified, screaming again and again, and was forced to go on the defensive.

After fully shifting to the defensive position, although the Qin army will be able to support it for a while, Dong Kan knows very well in his heart that unless a miracle occurs, the self-army will undoubtedly lose this battle, and the troops in his hands are still very sufficient. Kang just needs to wait patiently for a while, and when the young commanders on the front line exhaust the Qin army, and then calmly join the reserve team, the Qin army will definitely end up being slaughtered wantonly.Therefore, Dong Kan had no other choice. First, he accepted the kindness of the soldiers, and immediately changed into the clothes of the soldiers. Then he hurriedly rang the golden bell for withdrawing troops, led the Qin army to flee for their lives, and retreated to Chaoge to save the army as much as possible.

Dong Kan still underestimated Xiang Kang's commanding ability. The Qin army had just begun to retreat. Under Xiang Kang's command, the cavalry of the Young Marshal Army, who had been preparing for a long time, immediately attacked under the leadership of Guan Ying and Yang Xi, bypassing the The battlefield directly pursued Dong Kan's banner, and at the same time, the Qin army retreating in a hurry was in chaos. He lost his armor and chased him barebacked, and killed the defeated Qin army until they lost their helmets and armor, and were defeated.

The victory was decided, and it was at this time that Chen Ping, who had been on the sidelines all the time, heaved a sigh of relief, and couldn't help laughing at Xiang Kang: "General You, everyone says you are not good at battles, you only like field battles and battles." Surprise victory, now it seems that this statement should be wrong, you don’t seem to be so bad at battles, don’t you?”

"Do you want to hear the truth or a lie?" Xiang Kang asked back, and then immediately said: "The lie is that I have no chance to win by surprise this time, I can only fight head-on, so I have to fight this battle."

"As for the truth." Xiang Kang smiled slightly and said, "Actually, I'm not really afraid of battles. I really didn't have a chance to fight battles before. Every time I fought in the past, my troops were always at a disadvantage. There are many battles, and I have to rely on tactics to win, or my troops are in an absolute advantage, and the enemy dare not face me in a decisive battle. This is the first time I have encountered such a decisive battle opportunity , It is also the first time I have the opportunity to fight an upright battle."

Xiang Kang's words were a bit bragging. If he hadn't been personally taught by Xiang Liang in Pengcheng, which had greatly made up for Xiang Kang's weakness of not being good at battle, perhaps Xiang Kang would not dare to confront the Qin army head-on today.But it doesn't matter if you are bragging. After defeating the Qin Army's mobile unit in battle by relying on its strength, the Young Marshal easily killed more than [-] soldiers of the Qin Army in the pursuit, captured more than a thousand people, and forced Dong Kan abandoned his banner and fled for his life on Qingqi, severely injuring Zhang Han's mobile troops in the rear and winning a big victory.

After the battle on the north bank was over, Xiang Kang led the main force of the young marshal to cross the Yellow River south on Baima and returned to the battlefield on the south bank.During this period, although the Qin Army's Su Yu's Department took advantage of the opportunity of the young commander's main force to temporarily leave Puyang, and launched three large-scale attacks on Puyang in two days, they still had no way to take Puyang's strong city. The losses in the fortified battle were not small, so it was just discovered that the main force of the Young Marshal turned around and returned to Puyang. Su Lu could only stop the siege immediately and prepare to withdraw to Jiyuan.

Just as Dong Kan underestimated Xiang Kang's battle ability, Su Nu also underestimated Xiang Kang's preparations for a rainy day. While the main force of the Young Marshal was still crossing the river, the Zhujishi Division of the Young Marshal who was in charge of monitoring the White Horse Qin Army immediately went east. Jin, aggressively came to Puyang to prevent Su Lu from withdrawing, and successfully arrived in Puyang before Su Lu led the army to retreat, biting Su Lu's tail. Chao Zhi also brought the [-] defenders in Puyang City to join the pursuit battle, and joined forces with Zhujishi to slow down the retreat of the Qin army, buying precious time for the main force of the young commander to catch up with Su Lu.

Then, near Dunqiu in the east of Puyang, the main force of the Young Marshal who arrived in light clothes fought the Qin Army again. With the courageous fighting of the young generals, he once again defeated the Qin army in battle, defeated Su Lu, and successfully completed the established tactical plan to defeat the Qin army's reinforcements one by one, completely cutting off the Qin army's Yellow River water transport, allowing The main force of the Qin army fell into a food shortage crisis.

The good news kept coming. First, the guards of the Qin Army in Baima saw that the two support armies were defeated by the Young Marshal. In order to survive, they took the initiative to open the city and surrender. Send someone to send news, introducing the situation where the main force of the Qin army was forced to abandon the Julu battlefield and retreat southward and the main force of the Chu army won a big victory in Zhanghe.Xiang Kang was overjoyed when he heard the news, and quickly called Uncle Zhou and others to discuss how to further cooperate with the main force in combat.

When it came to the use of tactics, he was still the director of Uncle Zhou Dazhan. Just after learning about the general situation of the Julu battlefield, Uncle Zhou made a suggestion to Xiang Kang: "General You, we should contact the former general as soon as possible and ask him to dispatch All the way, the anti-Qin righteous army attacked Dangyin, cutting off the way for the main force of Tyrant Qin to retreat directly from Jiyuan to Chaoge."

"If this move is successful, then we can fully grasp the initiative on the north bank. If the main force of the Tyrant Qin does not retreat westward, we will intercept the main force of the Tyrant Qin on the spot in Baimajin, and cooperate with our main force to pinch the main force of the Tyrant Qin back and forth. If the main force of the Tyrant Qin The main force of Qin dare not retreat westward through Baimajin. We can also go directly north from Baimajin to Dangyin to reinforce our allies, and join forces with our allies attacking Dangyin to prevent the westward advance of the Tyrant Qin army. In short, no matter how the main force of Tyrant Qin chooses, we all have hope Cut off the retreat of the main force of the Tyrant Qin, and join hands with our main force to severely injure and even annihilate the main force of the Tyrant Qin."

Xiang Kang remained silent, not because Uncle Zhou's strategy didn't work, but because Xiang Kang was worried that if he really wiped out the main force of the Qin army in Handan County, he would lose the opportunity to take advantage of the emptiness and attack Guanzhong He gave it to his overbearing cousin.

Fortunately, Xiang Kang's conscience has not been eaten by dogs after all. Considering that the most important thing is to destroy Qin at the moment, and if Zhang Han is given a chance to make a comeback, what's the use of his brave and foolhardy cousin? By accident, even if I entered Guanzhong from Wuguan in Nanyang, the main force of the Qin army who returned to the division in time might make dumplings in Guanzhong. Xiang Kang thought about it, but nodded and agreed to Uncle Zhou's suggestion.

The letter was almost finished, and the reliable courier was sent out soon. However, after the courier left, Chen Ping cautiously reminded Xiang Kang: "General You, Uncle Zhou suggested that the former general divide his troops to attack Dangyin. , although the tactics are very correct, but the former general may not obey the students who treat the heart of a gentleman with the heart of a villain."

"Why don't you listen?" Xiang Kang was stunned, then immediately came to his senses, and said lightly: "Whether elder brother listens or not, anyway, I have tried my best. If he doesn't want to accept my kindness, I won't accept it." There is no way. If uncle has a spirit in heaven, he will only blame him, not me."

(End of this chapter)