Han Dang is stronger

Chapter 247
Liu Laosan has always been good at understanding the weaknesses of human nature. Although Sima Ang is not the commander of the Zhao army, he has already given birth to the ambition to betray Zhao Zili just like Chen Yu and Shen Yang. Sima Ang, who was still a general of Zhao State, still couldn't bear to leave Zhao State's army behind and escape alone, so he ran away cheekily like Liu Laosan.

Zhao's army now needs someone to stand up and take over from Chen Yu to take charge of the overall situation. Zhang Ao's power-seizure mutiny has seriously hit Zhao Jun's morale and morale, and it has also completely disrupted the order of Zhao Jun's camp. At a loss, the Young Marshal Army has urgently dispatched troops to take advantage of the fire. If there is no one with a certain prestige to stand up and turn the tide, the main force of the Zhao army will not be defeated!
Because of this, after Zhou Chang, a little friend from Pei County sent by Liu Laosan, got in touch with Sima Ang, Sima Ang, who was still somewhat responsible, immediately remembered that he had more important things to do, and he couldn't leave Zhao for a Chen Yu. Regardless of the main force of the army, Li Zuoche also urged Sima Ang to focus on the main force of the Zhao army. Sima Ang had no choice but to roar angrily, agreeing to give Liu Laosan the task of chasing and killing Zhang Ao's defeated soldiers, and ordered Tian The Qi army led by Li and Tian Du helped Liu Laosan, and then hurriedly took his own army back to Zhao Jun's camp to preside over the overall situation.

The current situation in Zhao Jun's camp is worse than what Sima Ang and Li Zuoche feared. The back camp is in complete chaos, and even the Chinese camp is affected. escape.What made Sima Ang's nose crooked even more was that he had previously ordered Chen Yu's general Wei Xiu to lead his troops out of the camp and line up to intercept the upcoming attack of the Young Marshal's army. The Duo Zhao army followed Wei Xiu out of the camp and lined up outside the gate of the front camp, symbolically forming a line of interception and defense.

It's not bad at all, the young commander's army has only dispatched [-] troops to Zhao Jun's camp in an emergency. The soldiers grabbed him and shouted: "Go and tell Wei Xiu that if you want to survive, you must immediately go west to meet the enemy. No matter what, you must temporarily stop Xiang Kang's bandit army and buy me time!"

Roaring and sending his own soldiers to pass orders, Sima Ang rushed directly into Chen Yu's tent, ordered someone to blow the horn, and summoned the generals of the Zhao army to discuss matters in the tent immediately. Fortunately, the generals of the Zhao army also desperately hoped that someone would be able Standing up to be the mainstay, after hearing the horn, he rushed to the commander-in-chief's tent one after another. Sima Ang stood in front of Chen Yu's commander-in-chief and roared like thunder, "I don't talk so much nonsense anymore. That rebel Ao has kidnapped and left, Xiang Kang's rebels are about to kill them in a big way, if you want to survive, follow Lao Tzu's command! Take all your troops and go out with Lao Tzu to fight Xiang Kang's rebel army to the death!"

"Generals, life and death are at stake. I hope you don't hesitate, and you must obey the command of General Sima!" Li Zuoche also said loudly: "In the current situation, we can only unite under the banner of General Sima and work together to kill the enemy. Retire Xiangkang's bandit army, so that we can keep the main force of our Zhao army! If not, the remaining nearly [-] Zhao soldiers will not be able to return to Zhao!"

"I would like to listen to General Sima's orders!"

The generals of Zhao Jun who had no other choice clasped their fists together and answered in unison, while Sima Yang waved his hand and shouted: "Then go back immediately, lead the army out of the camp immediately, and fight Xiang Kang's bandit army to the death!"

The remaining less than [-] Zhao troops hurried out of the camp, and was forced by Sima Yang to take the initiative to march westward to meet the enemy. Wei Xiu's troops also joined the troops of Ding Ji, the front team of the Young Marshal's Army, in the eastern suburbs of Hangu Pass. In order to buy time for Sima Ang as much as possible, Wei Xiu wisely chose the most defensive circular formation to intercept. Ding Ji, who has accumulated countless experience in actual combat, is not stupid. , he decisively ordered two thousand troops to launch a charge, and won the opportunity to fight hand-to-hand before Zhao Jun took a firm footing. At the same time, he asked the remaining four thousand troops to form a cone formation. Launch a general attack.

This was also the first tough field battle between the Young Marshal's Army and the allied forces of the princes. Amidst the loud shouts of killing, the conical formation of the Young Marshal's Army was like a sharp arrow, piercing directly into Zhao Jun's circular formation, spraying countless The blood and limbs of the soldiers of the young commander who were eager to take advantage of the fire were all like tigers descending the mountain, waving their weapons fiercely and stabbing and killing them, killing the demoralized soldiers of Zhao Jun, screaming and falling to the ground, like a group of soldiers. Like a sharp knife, Zhao Jun's formation was raised inward, almost directly entering the fragile interior of Zhao Jun's circle.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Wei Xiu could only personally bring the reserve team inside the circle to come for reinforcements. After a lot of effort, he managed to withstand the charge of the young commander, but the soldiers on the two wings of the young commander Unceremoniously, he roared and hacked the soldiers of Zhao army who came to intercept them back again and again, and forcibly smashed a deep hole in Zhao army's circle, and kept moving forward, weakening Zhao army bit by bit with the momentum of crushing. Although Zhao Jun's middle and grassroots generals also mustered up the courage to lead the army to fight hard, they still could not stop the advance of the Young Marshal Army.

Then, just after Xiang Kang led the main force of more than [-] young commanders out of Hangu Pass and assembled an army outside Hangu Pass, Ding Ji's troops made a breakthrough and forcibly tore a gap in the Zhao army's circle. The front team of Ding Ji, who was fighting outside the conical formation, took the opportunity to rush into the Zhao army's circle and slashed and killed the Zhao army soldiers who were still fighting hard from behind.

Zhao Jun's combat effectiveness is indeed not weak, and his melee experience is quite rich. Even if the quality of individual soldiers is not as good as that of the young commander who has always followed the route of elite soldiers, one-on-one is not without power to fight back.It's a pity that Zhao Jun's military spirit is really flustered now. Everyone knows from top to bottom that something big has happened to their own army. The defeat at the Hangu Pass battlefield has already been forged. Knowing that they will lose, the combat effectiveness of Zhao Jun's soldiers has naturally been seriously affected. , even if you have to fight hard to survive, you will retreat as soon as you have a chance, ready to run for your life at any time, so even if the front team of the Young Marshal Army is pulled into the melee, Zhao Jun's crowd is still retreating, and there is a danger of collapse at any time .

The Zhao army's front team still failed to escape the collapse. Guan Ying and Yang Xicai led the young marshal cavalry to help out, and just entered the battlefield from the right wing. The demoralized Zhao army Wei Xiu's unit collapsed completely. He even gave up even a little effort to restrain himself, and was the first to turn his horse's head and run for his life. Zhao Jun's soldiers fled all over the mountains and plains. The defeated army, while driving out the enemy's defeated soldiers as the vanguard, attacked the main position of the Zhao army lined up outside the camp.

Fortunately, the front team of the Zhao army led by Wei Xiu did not fight hard in vain. Taking advantage of the time they gained, the rest of the Zhao army had already mobilized and formed a huge mixed infantry and cavalry battle formation outside the barracks.At the same time, Sima Ang was also very decisive. Without hesitation, the soldiers of the Zhao army fired bows and arrows at the defeated soldiers of their own family, and drove away the defeated soldiers of the Zhao army who had fled directly with a dense rain of arrows. Opportunity to self-rank.

Sima Ang's immediate decision helped the main force of the Zhao army to escape this crisis. Seeing that the arrows of the own army were shooting like rain, Zhao's defeated soldiers could only obediently spread out to the sides and flee for their lives to the open place where no one was around. There were many casualties, but at any rate they did not disrupt the formation of the main force.Ding Ji's Department of the Young Marshal's Army couldn't withstand Zhao Jun's dense arrow rain, so he had to retreat for the time being, and retreated to a distance to wait for the main force to come for reinforcements.

Xiang Kang personally led the main force of about 2 troops to the scene. When he joined forces with Ding Ji and Guan Ying, it was close to Shen time in the afternoon. He saw that the Zhao army camp was devastated, with collapsed tents and fences everywhere. The young generals were naturally overjoyed, scrambling to ask Xiang Kang to launch an attack immediately, taking advantage of the demoralized Zhao army to defeat the enemy in one fell swoop.Xiang Kang was very calm. He carefully observed the situation of Zhao Jun's battle formation, and then said: "Don't rush, now is not an opportunity."

"General You, Zhao Guo's bandit army has just experienced civil strife, and the morale of the army is chaotic. Now is not an opportunity, when will it be?" Zhujishi asked very strangely.

"The bandit army of the state of Zhao came out of the camp in full force, and they are ready to fight to the death. If we launch a strong attack at this time, even if we win, we will definitely have to pay a high price." Xiang Kang replied: "Wait a minute, wait for the bandit army of the state of Zhao to pass. After taking this breath, morale is exhausted, and it will not be too late for us to launch an offensive again."

After saying that, Xiang Kang not only ordered the young generals to stand firm and guard against the Zhao army's active attack, but also hurriedly sent someone to Zheng Bu who was staying at Hangu Pass to order Zheng Bu to immediately organize people to rush to make torches. And dry rations were sent to the main force, and they were prepared to confront Zhao Jun for a long time.The young generals did not dare to insist on objecting, but immediately returned to their headquarters, led the army to confront Zhao Jun from a distance, and patiently waited for the opportunity to appear.

After another period of time, I saw that the young commander-in-chief had never launched an attack. Of course, the generals of the Zhao army headed by Sima Ang were all at a loss as to what kind of medicine was sold in Xiang Kang's gourd. Only Li Zuoche sighed With a sound, he said: "No wonder Xiang Kang's little Zhuzi has won hundreds of battles since his debut, and he has never lost a single one. This little Zhuzi is really good at using soldiers."

"What do you mean by Mr. Guangwu?" Sima Ang asked very strangely.

"Xiang Kang didn't want to launch an attack in a hurry because he knew that our fighting spirit was at its peak. Even if we could defeat us, we would have to pay a certain price." Li Zuoche replied, "That's why he chose to avoid the front for the time being, and wanted to wait for our morale to rise." Launch an attack after exhaustion, so that we can be defeated with the smallest cost."

"Is that so?" Sima Yang was skeptical, and said, "Isn't he afraid that we'll take a breather, the army's morale will no longer be chaotic, and the fight will be more difficult?"

"In the current situation, how can we still be able to take it easy?" Li Zuoche smiled wryly, and said, "Our soldiers are just trying to survive, so they muster up their energy and prepare to fight against Xiang Kang's bandit army. After a long time, the desperate thoughts gradually dissipated, and thinking of the chaos in the camp and the capture of the commander, the morale of our army will only be lowered, the morale of the army will be affected, and we will not be the opponent of Xiang Kang's bandit army."

"General Sima, let's stop wasting time." A general Zhao next to him yelled, "Our soldiers are now ready to go all out, so why not take the initiative to attack and kill Xiangkang's bandit army!"

"What nonsense are you talking about?" Li Zuoche scolded angrily: "Our military spirit is panicked, and we take the initiative to launch an attack. If we fail to succeed, our morale will only decline faster, and our losses will only be worse! "

After scolding General Zhao who came up with bad ideas, Li Zuoche hurriedly said to Sima Ang: "General Sima, now we have only one way, which is to quickly let the rear army in the camp load food and grass, prepare enough dry food torches, and arrange The elite army is in the rear, retreat as soon as it gets dark, so that we can keep more of our Zhao army."

It's a pity that in history, if the people in power in the Zhao Kingdom could listen to Li Zuoche's good strategy more, maybe Xiang Yu, Han Xin, and Liu Laosan would not have anything to do. The same is true in this historical plane. Thinking about it, he shook his head and said: "It's not that easy. If we retreat at night, we will definitely lose even worse. The best way now is to take advantage of our soldiers who are still willing to work hard and have an advantage in strength, and take the initiative to attack Xiangkang thief After the army is killed and retreated, we can calmly withdraw from the Hangu Pass battlefield and keep the main force of our Zhao State."

After all, Sima Ang didn't allow Li Zuoche to say more, so he decisively ordered the flag to be raised, the drums beating, and the soldiers on both wings were urged to attack, and took the initiative to attack the young commander's army with a total strength of less than 3. Li Zuoche saw With a wry smile, he could only say helplessly: "I just hope that Xiang Kang's little Zhuzi is not good at battle anymore as in the legend."

At the same time, in the Young Marshal's banner formation, seeing Zhao's army take the initiative to attack his own army, Xiang Kang's mouth almost didn't crooked, and he laughed wildly and said: "You dare to take the initiative to attack, I really think you are not miserable enough to die Ah! Order the whole army to stand firm and beat Zhao Guo's bandits until their mothers can't recognize them!"

Li Zuoche's hopes fell through, and Xiang Kang, who was ridiculed by everyone as not good at battles, was not really afraid of battles like a tiger, but almost every time when raising troops, he fought with the weak against the strong, with fewer enemies and more enemies , there is no way to avoid a huge battle. After receiving the guidance from the second uncle of the hero, Xiang Kang's short board has been greatly strengthened, so Zhao Guo's army summoned up the courage to take the initiative to launch an attack After that, naturally he kicked the iron board.

The Young Marshal’s Army also made changes that made Zhao Guo’s soldiers want to cry without tears. After taking down the Xianyang Arsenal and a large number of sophisticated weapons produced and manufactured by Qin Ting with a lot of money, the young Marshal’s soldiers, who were once quite chaotic in equipment, have already fully changed their outfits. With the standardized production of the excellent Qin crossbow, the arrows fired not only have greater momentum, but also have a longer range and significantly higher accuracy!
Accompanied by the orders of the middle-level generals, the young commanders and soldiers holding Qin crossbows are like machines, constantly stepping forward in turn, shooting feather arrows through Wangshan Mountain neatly, and the bullet-shaped arrowheads draw countless air currents in the sky. Accurately hit the soldiers of the Zhao Army who were charging, and directly pierced through the rough leather armor of the soldiers of the Zhao Army. He even fell to the ground and died, but the rain of arrows from the young generals still kept coming, splashing blood on more Zhao soldiers.

Unable to withstand such a violent rain of arrows, Zhao Jun's first wave of attacks was quickly repelled. Seeing that Sima Ang was furious, he immediately dispatched a supervisory team to force Zhao Jun's generals to attack again. No matter how persecuted by the team, Zhao Jun's soldiers were still unable to rush to the front of the Young Marshal's formation to engage in melee combat. Finally, when the rear was forced to increase troops to the front line, Zhao Jun's soldiers barely rushed to the front of the Young Marshal's two wings, and fought with the Young Marshal. The army started hand-to-hand combat.

The troops were at a disadvantage, and the Young Marshal's army on the two wings fought very firmly for a time, and the formation was forced to shrink again and again. Finally, the dense formation withstood Zhao Jun's charge. It is a pity that the position of the young commander's army is denser, and it has been continuous from the beginning to the end. No matter how the soldiers of the Zhao army attack, they still have no way to get close. On the contrary, they are shot dead or wounded. It was so severe that he was forced to retreat many times.

Unwilling to give up, Sima Ang sent more troops to the front line again, but after a fierce battle for a long time, Zhao Jun failed to make any breakthrough, whether it was the battlefield on the two wings or the frontal battlefield of the Chinese army, and he was always in a stalemate with the young commander.Sima Ang became even more furious, roaring orders to ring the third round of war drums, and launched a third large-scale charge. Seeing this, Li Zuoche was shocked, and hurriedly tried to dissuade him: "General, you can't attack by force again. Let's go all out, and then decline. If we are exhausted three times, our morale will be gone if we cannot attack again."

Sima Ang ignored Li Zuoche's remonstrance at all, and stared viciously at Xiang Kangshuai Banner in the distance with his copper bell eyes wide open. Xiang Kang is a traitor!

Sima Ang was angry and helpless. When the sun was slowly setting, Zhao Jun's third large-scale attack was still retreated by the young commander's army. Big discount.Xiang Kang seized the opportunity and ordered decisively: "Order the whole army to prepare for a general attack! We will eat after we take down the camp of Zhao's bandit army!"

As soon as the order was delivered, Xiang Kang resolutely ordered to beat the drums for the general attack. The soldiers of the young commander who had been preparing for a long time also forgot their hunger for a while, and shouted to directly attack the central army of the Zhao army. Sima Yang hurriedly ordered the whole army to stand Standing firm, he yelled and demanded that the generals of the Zhao army should withstand the all-out counterattack of the young commander's army no matter what.

No matter how much you shouted, it was useless. The morale of the army was unstable, and the morale that was boosted for survival was completely exhausted after the active attack was frustrated. Zhao Jun's front team immediately fell into chaos, and then broke into an army. The morale of the young generals was like a rainbow, and they broke through many square formations of Zhao Jun one after another, and rushed directly to Sima Yang's handsome flag!
"Drumming! General attack! All-round general attack!"

The situation was too critical, and Sima Ang could only order an all-out general attack in a hurry. Unfortunately, the morale of the Zhao army had already declined. Even if the fresh troops from the rear came forward, they couldn't stop the tide of the young commander's attack, and they were quickly defeated. When they got out of battle, the soldiers of the Young Marshal rushed like a torrent, and in a blink of an eye they were less than [-] steps away from Sima Yang's flag.

To praise Sima Yang, even at this time, he still did not turn his horse around and run away decisively like Liu Laosan. He just moved the flag formation urgently, and moved the flag and golden drum to the back of the right wing that has not yet been attacked by the enemy. The army continued to resist stubbornly, but it was still useless. With the collapse of the central army's position, the two wings of the Zhao army did not fight. Before the young commander turned around and killed, countless soldiers of the Zhao army had already fled , Sima Yang yelled, "Every man! A bunch of men! Useless bastards, hold on to me! Hold on to me!"

"Who are you? Are you really the general of our Zhao State?" This was the heartfelt thoughts of countless soldiers of the Zhao State.

At this time, the front team of the Young Commander's Army had changed the direction of their charge, and charged towards Sima Ang's flag formation again. , he could only roar aloud, then turned his horse's head and fled with his personal troops.And after his commander-in-chief fell, the main force of the Zhao army also completely collapsed. They didn't even have time to carry the camp, food, grass and military supplies. They fled everywhere yelling. In the military camp, during the pursuit, the soldiers of the Zhao army were killed so that the road was covered with corpses and blood pooled in puddles.

It was only after the pursuit of Caoyangting that Zheng Bu sent the transport team of the Young Marshal Army to catch up with the main force of our own army, and handed over the hastily made dry rations and torches to the main force soldiers. Light up a torch and continue chasing, Leng chased to the city of Shan County in one breath.As a result, what made Zhao Jun's defeated soldiers complain endlessly was that Zhang Ao's defeated soldiers who fled before had already entered the city first, and took control of the county seat of Shan County, leaving them no place to breathe. Liu Laosan and Qi's army had fled long ago It was too late to see the shadows, and the pursuers of the young commander quickly caught up. The defeated Zhao army, who was hungry and exhausted to the extreme, had no choice but to put down their weapons and surrender on their knees. Only some troops followed Sima Yang and continued eastward. Fleeing, the main force of the Zhao army, who was still blatantly arrogant in the morning, also completely disappeared within a day.

By the way, after the war, Xiang Kang gave Mr. Uncle Sun the first meritorious service and encouraged him to make persistent efforts and continue to make contributions to the Young Marshal Army on the diplomatic battlefield, but Mr. Uncle Sun did not appreciate it at all. , Prostrate in front of Xiang Kang and just wailing, "General You, you don't have to give up this first meritorious official, just please don't let me go to the enemy's camp in the future! I really don't like being an envoy to take risks!"

(End of this chapter)