Han Dang is stronger

Chapter 417 The More Treacherous Youngest Liu
If he could hold the camp with confidence, then even if the Western Chu army ran away first, Han Xin would still have the courage to defend in Ye County. Win more with less, and defeat the main force of the Han army with a number of more than 3 with more than [-] Nanyang troops!

However, there is no way, the counterweight trebuchets of the Han army are really powerful, and Han Xin spent countless hours building and strengthening the camp, and it is still the same as the one he played, let alone it was built in a hurry a few days ago. In Liu Laosan's camp, there was no stronghold that could guarantee the safety of the army. Of course, Han Xin had no way to keep the balance and fight for victory. He was doomed to defeat the enemy with a little delay.

So there is no way, even if he knows that a hasty retreat will definitely give the Han army a chance to take advantage of the situation, in order to preserve the army as much as possible, to preserve the hope of the Nanyang army's comeback, and to save his precious life, Han Xin can only be the first He chose to abandon the camp and retreat three times in front of the Han army, but did not open his mouth to block Liu Laosan's order to let the Nanyang army rush out of the camp to assemble and retreat.

A hasty retreat at the enemy's knife edge has always been a huge test for the army commander. As long as there is a little carelessness, an orderly retreat is likely to turn into a complete defeat, and the loss may even be more severe than being defeated by the enemy head-on.So even though he knew very well that Liu Laosan is also a good tactician, and there would not be too many mistakes in the arrangement and deployment, Han Xin hurriedly searched for Liu Laosan, and asked Liu Laosan quickly: "My lord, do you plan to let Liu Laosan Which general led the army to the rear?"

"Fan Kuai!" Liu Laosan replied without even thinking about it: "Although this Shuzi is reckless and stupid, he is absolutely reliable in fighting tough battles. Only by letting him lead the elite troops to the rear can we hope to stop the Han bandits from chasing them. The main force must gain time to retreat!"

"Not enough!" Han Xin immediately said: "The Chinese traitor is treacherous, and the traitor Xiang Kang is also a good soldier. It is not unexpected that we will use our elite troops to fight to the death to stop his pursuit. If he divides his troops into two teams to pursue, he will use force Form the elite troops into the front team to hold against our rear army, and the rear team will go around the battlefield and pursue at full speed, and it is still possible to catch up with our main force."

Although he has never been deceived by Xiang Kang, Liu Laosan never dared to underestimate Xiang Kang, so he nodded quickly, admitting that there is indeed a possibility, and quickly asked: "In your opinion, how should we retreat?" ?”

"Divide into three teams and retreat." Han Xin replied in a deep voice: "Our main force is the first team, the first army led by General Zhou Bo is the second team, and General Fan Kui is the third team. Ensnare General Fan Kuai, the rear team went around the battlefield and continued to pursue, and General Zhou Bo was in charge of blocking the rear team of the Han bandits, so that we could be sure to bring the main force back to Yangcheng (now Fangcheng)."

Liu Laosan nodded again, but he didn't dare to rest assured. After a little calculation, Liu Laosan gritted his teeth, and simply passed Fan Kuai, Zhou Bo and Zhou Kesan all in front of him, and told them: "We will divide up later. The four teams retreat, the king leads the main force at the front, the three of you each lead four thousand troops at the rear, Zhou Ke is the second team, Zhou Bo is the third team, Fan Gou, you are the last team! If the Chinese bandits catch up with you, all Give this king a fight to the death and buy time for our main force to retreat! If we get separated, we will all meet up in Yangcheng!"

Without hesitation, Fan Kui and the others clasped their fists and sang promises, and took over the difficult task of leading the army behind the scenes with a resolute expression.Han Xin next to him nodded silently, and admitted that Liu Laosan's arrangement was more secure, and he hoped to bring the main force of the Nanyang Army back to Yangcheng as much as possible.Immediately afterwards, the soldiers of the Nanyang Army had just left the battalion to assemble. Liu Laosan immediately gave an order and personally led the main force of the more than [-] Nanyang Army to set off first. The army set off to the south, and the troops were divided into four groups and withdrew to Yangcheng, eighty miles away.

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On the side of the Han army, although Li Ji, the leader of the Southern Front Army Corps of the Western Chu Army, was somewhat moral, he was not shameless enough to take the initiative to send someone to tell Xiang Kang that he could send troops to settle accounts with the Nanyang Army, but the Western Chu Army went out to camp overnight to gather such a large crowd. His actions were still destined to be unable to escape the eyes of the Han army scouts. In fact, as early as the period when the Western Chu army was out of the camp and assembled in advance, the Han army scouts who had been closely monitoring the Western Chu army camp had already rushed northward to capture this incident. The important situation was reported to Xiang Kang.

As mentioned earlier, when attacking Han Xin’s camp in the daytime, Xiang Kang had expected that Liu Xiang’s allied forces would abandon the camp and retreat tonight, and he had already prepared the Han soldiers for overnight pursuit, so After receiving the report from the scouts, Xiang Kang was neither surprised nor flustered, but immediately ordered the soldiers of the Han army to gather out of the camp, distribute dry food and torches, and prepare to launch an overnight pursuit. The generals of the Han army arranged pursuit tactics.

In a short while, the generals of the Han army who were also psychologically prepared quickly arrived. Xiang Kang didn't talk nonsense, and said straight to the point: "The king just received the scout report, and the Xichu bandit army has already assembled from the camp. If there is no accident The Xichu bandit army is about to go south and retreat. Once the Xichu bandit army runs away, the Nanyang bandit army will definitely follow and will not stay and wait to die! Fighting opportunities are rare. Tonight we would rather let the Xichu bandit army slip away than We must not let the main force of the Nanyang bandit army escape, we must take this opportunity to kill the main force of the Nanyang bandit army for this king, and avenge our Hangu Pass and Wancheng soldiers! Do you understand?"

"Understood!" All the generals of the Han army answered in unison.

"Very good." Xiang Kang nodded in satisfaction, pointed at Longqi again and said, "Longqi, today's attack on the camp is your main force. Logically speaking, this king should let you rest, but there is no way. The combat strength is good, and there are many fierce generals, so you must continue to participate in the battle today, and you must serve as the vanguard for the king!"

"My lord, don't worry, I'm not tired!" Long Qi immediately replied, "As long as I can seek revenge from the Nanyang bandit army, I'll be fine if I fight for another day and night!"

Xiang Kang nodded and said: "Here are eight thousand elite soldiers, go out first, if there is no accident, that traitor Liu Ji will definitely use his elite troops to force the rear to stop our pursuit. You have met the rear army of the Nanyang bandit army. I will fight to the end, and I will try my best to wipe out the rear of the Nanyang Bandit Army. You don’t need to worry about chasing the main force of the Nanyang Bandit Army, as long as you can eliminate the elite rear guard of the Nanyang Bandit Army, it will be a great achievement! Go! "

Long Qi clasped his fists and sang promises, and immediately rushed out to command his troops to pursue. Xiang Kang pointed at Zhujishi again, and said, "Zhujishi, Liu Ji and Han Xin are both treacherous people, and they will definitely guess that we may They will bypass their rear army and directly pursue their main force, and it is very likely that they will arrange a second rear army. We have to guard against this. So this king will also give you [-] troops, and follow General Longqie to go south , if General Long Qie is entangled by the rear of the Nanyang bandit army, go around the battlefield and pursue it with all his strength. If the Nanyang bandit army really has a second rear army, you will be responsible for dealing with it. If not, you will catch up to Nanyang directly. The main force of the bandit army, don't hesitate, fight to the death with all your strength, reinforcements will arrive soon!"

Zhujishi, who had rested in Hanoi for a period of time before, also clasped his fists and sang promises, and immediately rushed out to lead the army to pursue south. Fifty-thousand-step cavalry is the third team, chasing the main force of the Nanyang bandits with all their strength! Ding Ji, you and the rest of the civil and military troops will stay in the camp."

All the generals clasped their fists together and sang promises, but when Xiang Kang was about to announce the disbandment of the account, Lou Jing, who was appointed by Xiang Kang as a servant, suddenly cupped his hands and said: "My lord, it is difficult to detect the enemy's situation accurately in the dark, and the threat of the Western Chu bandits It cannot be overlooked that the king will personally lead the army to launch a pursuit, and the troops around us are also very sufficient. For the sake of prudence, this subject believes that it is best for us to arrange another army just in case."

Considering that it might not be impossible for the Western Chu army to turn around and join the battle, Xiang Kang nodded, and after a little calculation, Xiang Kang gave his good brother Feng Zhong a chance, pointed at Feng Zhong and said: "Brother Feng, you take a The Wan army is the fourth team, following southward, as our general reserve team just in case!"

Feng Zhong excitedly agreed, and then Xiang Kang also announced the disbandment of the account, and let the generals of the Han army go down to lead the army to prepare for departure. After that, Long Qi, who hated the Nanyang army to the bone, was the first to lead the army in pursuit, and the rest The generals of the Han army also ordered their troops to attack one by one.

Let's take a look at Long Qi's pursuit first. Because the Han army was well prepared and moved quickly, Long Qi led his army to catch up to the Nanyang Army's Fan Kuaisuo just a few miles south of the Nanyang Army's camp. According to the order of Liu Laosan, Fan Kui immediately stopped the army when he saw the Han army approaching, and turned around to prepare for the battle. Then the Han army had just caught up, and Fan Kui took advantage of the opportunity that the Han army had not had time to regroup. He resolutely led the army to launch a charge, and rushed to the front with the dog-butcher sword he had cheated from Xiang Kang at the beginning, shouting with red eyes, "Kill! Kill the traitors and take my life away!"

Thanks to Xiang Kang's prediction that the Nanyang Army would have elite soldiers in the rear, Long Qie led the elite soldiers of the Han Army who were in their prime and well-equipped. Kang Shi sent one of the most valiant dragons in the Han army to confront Fan Kui. When Fan Kui was invincible among the Han army crowd with the sword of slaughtering dogs, as if he had entered no man's land, only someone from the Han army stepped forward. The enemy captured Fan Kuai, the number one fierce general under Liu Laosan's command.

During the fierce battle, by the light of the torch, he saw Fan Kui, who was covered in black flesh, rushing left and right among the soldiers and soldiers, and none of them could do anything. In battle, Fan Kui, who likes to fight on foot, has no fear. Not only did he fight with Long Qie indiscriminately when he was fighting on foot, he also caught a hole and slashed Long Qie's front leg with a knife. Thanks to Long Qi's agility, he jumped off the horse in time. It was not overthrown, and after standing still, Long Qi couldn't help being furious, and simply threw away his spear and drew his sword to fight. He and Fan Kui fought in the chaos of the army, and the situation changed. It was very difficult for each of them. Fan Kui and Long Qie, who ran into real opponents, fought hard and shouted happily, it was really an iron broom cleaning the copper pot, every family was tough.

Long Qie himself fought hard, but in this way, Long Qie's army was inevitably entangled by Fan Kui's army, and it was absolutely impossible for him to pull out his hand in a short time to continue the pursuit.Fortunately, Xiang Kang's arrangements were thorough, and within a short time, Zhujishi led the second team of the Han army to catch up to the vicinity of the battlefield. Seeing that Longqie's army was temporarily blocked by the enemy, Zhujishi certainly did not act stupidly to join the battlefield to waste Taking precious time, he just continued to go south with the army, and then after more than half an hour, he successfully caught up with Zhou Bo's troops of the Nanyang Army.

Like Fan Kuai, Zhou Bo, who had practiced martial arts since childhood, immediately led his army to turn around when he saw the rear of the Han army chasing him, and charged decisively at the Han army. Zhujishi led his army to meet them. He has a tenacious will, is fierce in fighting, and his vision is not clear in the middle of the night, so he can't use the advantage of troops to perform tactics such as encirclement and encirclement. He can only rely on soldiers to fight in groups. Go south to pursue.

On Xiang Kang's side, after leading [-] cavalry to bypass the Longqie Army battlefield and go south, they pursued to the battlefield where Zhong Limo was located. He vaguely saw that the enemy's troops were not many. Zhou Quan considered in advance that the Nanyang Army might arrange a second rear army, and then hurriedly led the army to continue to bypass the battlefield where Zhujishi was located, and continued to pursue southward with torches, and kept urging, "Hurry up! Hurry up! We must catch up with the main force of the Nanyang bandit army!"

Continue to the south, and after chasing another ten miles in one breath, a large area of ​​torches finally appeared in front of them. I was relatively calm, stood up in the car quickly, tried my best to look ahead, and judged the enemy's strength with the help of the number of enemy torches, but unfortunately, the light was too poor in the dark night, and the distance was still relatively far away, even though the battlefield experience was already very rich However, Xiang Kang still failed to quickly judge the number of enemy troops.

In the end, when Zhou Ke led four thousand Nanyang troops to launch a counter-charge and was about to rush to the front of the Han army, Xiang Kang's face changed drastically and he confirmed that the enemy's troops were not many, and the enemy who came back to kill them was still not the main force of the Nanyang army. However, it was too late for Xiang Kang to discover this. The Nanyang Army had already rushed to the front of the Han Army, and directly engaged in a close-to-hand battle with the Han Army soldiers. There was no way to make further adjustments. Take a shot and continue to chase the main force of the Nanyang Army.

"Damn! I didn't expect Liu Laosan to be so cunning, and even arranged a third rear army! This guy is indeed more treacherous than me!"

While complaining in his heart, Xiang Kang refused to give up, and quickly considered whether Guan Ying should lead the cavalry of the Han army to detour forward and pursue the main brigade of the Nanyang army alone. Some hesitation.But fortunately, at this time, Xiang Kang suddenly remembered something again, and he was overjoyed...

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Taking advantage of the opportunity of his friends from Pei County to sacrifice their lives for his rear, Liu Laosan has already rushed southward with the main force of the Nanyang Army for more than [-] miles, and successfully opened the distance from the Han army's pursuers. He kept turning his head, but never saw the Han army chasing him. Of course, Liu Laosan was both happy and proud, and said with a sneer, "Little traitor Xiang Kang, you must have never thought that this king would arrange three armies to follow one by one. Yours Even if the pursuers can bypass Fan Gou'er's battlefield, they will only be stopped by Zhou Bo and Zhou Ke's army, and it is a dream to catch up with the king's main force!"

"Your Majesty, we have already traveled more than 30 miles." Xia Houying, who was driving Liu Laosan, turned around and said, "Our soldiers are too far behind, so we should stop for a rest and gather our fallen soldiers!"

"I can't stop, I can't stop for a while!" Liu Laosan's voice was stern, and he shouted: "The time we have now is all bought by Fan Kui and Zhou Bo with their lives. We must not waste it! Go south at full speed, at least we will reach Dushu Only then can we rest, let the soldiers who fall behind, let them join us in Yangcheng by themselves!"

Knowing Liu Laosan's unruly temper, Xia Houying didn't dare to disobey, but hurriedly urged the horses to run quickly, and the soldiers of the main force of the Nanyang Army also gritted their teeth and accelerated, racing against the clock to head south at full speed.The result also proved that Liu Laosan's decision-making was wise. After a while, the soldiers of the Nanyang Army suddenly shouted, "Someone is chasing! An army is chasing!"

"Is it our rear army? Or the pursuers of the Han bandits?"

Liu Laosan's heart sank, and when he hurriedly looked back, he saw that the road coming from the north was full of torches, and there was indeed a team chasing after him. Immediately afterwards, Xia Houying who was driving Liu Laosan suddenly blurted out: "Not good! The sound of horseshoes Intensive, it should be the cavalry of the traitors!"

Liu Laosan hurriedly listened carefully again, and indeed he heard the sound of dense horseshoes, and his face changed suddenly, because the Nanyang Army's control area did not produce war horses, and the cavalry was scarce, and the cavalry with such a large number would only be the cavalry of the Han army.But after thinking about it, Liu Laosan was overjoyed again, and hurriedly shouted: "Quickly, tell our army to stop and line up to fight! The Han bandits let the cavalry pursue alone, and their infantry brigade must still be far behind. If we defeat the cavalry of the traitors, we can safely retreat!"

The reason why Liu Laosan looks down on the cavalry of the Han army so much is because the cavalry of this era is generally not strong in combat effectiveness. There are no high bridge saddles and stirrups. Without the infantry to cooperate in the battle, let alone breaking the infantry battle formation, it would be extremely disadvantageous to fight hand-to-hand with the infantry, so Liu Laosan was full of confidence in his own army to defeat the cavalry of the Han army.

The fact is exactly the same. After the main force of the Nanyang Army in the early [-]s stopped and lined up to fight, seeing the Nanyang Army forming a dense queue, they shot arrows at their own army without saying a word. Guan Ying really didn't dare to lead With about [-] cavalry of the Han army rushing to death, they chose to charge forward from the flank of the Nanyang Army's position, and detoured to the south of the Nanyang Army's position to intercept.Seeing this scene, Liu Laosan also immediately understood the intention of the Han army cavalry, and said with a sneer: "You want to entangle us and buy time for your infantry brigade to pursue? Dreaming!"

"Your Majesty, let our chariots be in the front." Han Xin suggested: "The whole army maintains its formation and continues to retreat southward. If the bandit cavalry refuses to give way, let our chariots rush up to open the way."

Liu Laosan accepted this suggestion without hesitation, and immediately asked Xia Houying to lead the Nanyang army chariots forward, and let the Nanyang army brigade maintain its formation, and continued to march south at a brisk pace, ready to fight with the Han army cavalry at any time. Close combat.As expected by Liu Laosan and Han Xin, the cavalry of the Han army did not have the courage to fight recklessly with the main brigade of the Nanyang army. Close combat.

"The bastard cavalry don't dare to fight Nai Weng head-on." Liu Laosan smirked triumphantly, and shouted: "speed up, if the traitor cavalry dare to fight us, let's fight them!"

The Nanyang Army jointly trained by Liu Laosan and Han Xin is really good. Even if they are going south at a fast pace, the formation is still quite neat, and there is no sign of chaos at all. The cavalry of the Han Army is like a tiger eating a hedgehog. , Life and death can't find the slightest chance to launch a charge, so they can only be forced to maintain a certain distance from the Nanyang Army, and continue to go south with the Nanyang Army.

However, even so, Liu Laosan was still unwilling to be satisfied. After predicting that the cavalry of the Han army would not dare to fight in close quarters, after going south to a flat area suitable for chariots to fight, Liu Laosan decisively ordered a charge. Killed the cavalry of the Han army who were weak in close combat.Then, as expected by Liu Laosan, seeing the Nanyang army charging, the Han army cavalry fled southward on their horses, taking the initiative to open the distance from the main force of the Nanyang army.

"Stop wasting time! Full speed ahead!"

When Liu Laosan proudly shouted out this order, the soldiers of the Nanyang Army behind him also shouted again, "There are people coming again! Another army is coming!"

Liu Laosan turned his head quickly, and saw that the torches were densely packed on the way from the north, and there was another army chasing after him. When he listened carefully, he found that there was no sound of horseshoes. Liu Laosan's heart sank again, and he secretly said: "Yes Infantry! How is that possible? Logically speaking, Fan Kuai, Zhou Bo and Zhou Ke couldn’t have been defeated by the traitors so quickly? How many troops did that little traitor Xiang Kang send to chase after me?”

(End of this chapter)