Chapter 043: The Strength is also comparable

Xiang Liang's army fought with the regular troops of the Qin army for the first time, and before they were familiar with the battle formation of the Qin army, the vanguard of 5,000 soldiers and horses soon could not withstand the 2,000 vanguard of the Qin army, and gradually showed signs of defeat. Seeing that the army in front of him was about to be defeated and could not get rid of the pursuit of the Qin army, Xiang Liang hurriedly sent more than 10,000 troops to fight to respond.

Wang Wei saw that the enemy's support troops were killed, and he also invested 5,000 soldiers and horses, but the front army still couldn't resist, and sent 5,000 more soldiers and horses to join the battle, but it was too late, and the Qin army lost the best fighter to annihilate the advance of the Chu army, and it seemed that it was quickly repelled by the Chu army.

The Qin army fought and retreated close to the camp, but the dust became bigger and bigger, and in the evening, the Qin army collected its troops and entered the camp. The Chu army did not dare to enter the camp, and the first battle between the two sides was that the Chu army pursued and killed the Qin army to the camp, and the Qin army suffered a small defeat.

That night, Xiang Liang's shogunate held a small banquet to celebrate the victory, and Xiang Liang was also drunk during the banquet.

There was one person who was worried, and that was the resourceful Li Zuoche, who always felt that the defeat of the Qin army was pre-planned, and his mind repeatedly reproduced the situation of the Yu Zi period.

At the beginning, it was clear that the combat strength of the Chu army could not compare with the Qin army, and the army formations of the front army were defeated and retreated, but when their own reinforcements came, they immediately had a plan to start retreating, and when their reinforcements came, they did not seriously engage the battle, but took back the retreating front army......

Li Zuoche also wanted to remind Xiang Liang of these points, but Xiang Liang was as happy as reviving the Chu State, how could he be in the mood to listen to him to spoil the fun! Li Zuoche was dull for a while, and when he saw that everyone was drunk, he left the scene silently.

On the side of the Qin army's camp, Zhang Han told Wang Wei to disguise the army in the camp, and sent the army out of the camp every day to provoke the enemy, and he himself joined the army non-stop and secretly approached the Langxicang.

After dawn the next day, the 80,000-strong army led by Zhang Han finally approached the Langxicang, and sent a large number of scouts to disguise themselves as ordinary people, merchants and some Chu troops to go out to inquire about the news.

In the evening, the army rested for a day, and Tanma also reported the news of Lang Evil Cang, and found that Xiang Liang actually deployed more than 50,000 troops to guard Lang Evil Cang very tightly, and Xiang Liang's headquarters was less than thirty miles away from Lang Evil Cang, once he received the news of being attacked, he could arrive in less than an hour, but there was a Ji River in the middle, but the water level was very shallow, and he could cross it on foot.

Zhang Han thought about it for a long time, and couldn't think of a way other than a quick attack, but he had to divide his troops to delay Xiang Liang's reinforcements......

"Alas-" Zhang Han sighed, feeling helpless.

Just as Zhang Han was about to write a report on the situation and Xianyang asked Fusu and Meng Tian for help, Meng Zhi came over from the side with beef jerky and asked Zhang Han: "Why didn't the general order an attack?" ”

Zhang Han smiled helplessly: "This general has been thinking hard about attacking without a good plan, and he is planning to ask the general for help!" You kid is usually full of scheming, General Wang Wei praises you, see how to deal with this situation? ”

Meng Zhi didn't come over unintentionally, he was still very concerned about this proposal to attack Lang Xiecang regardless of Xiang Liang's frontal army: "I have a way to isolate Xiang Liang from coming for reinforcements, we pretend to be some people to isolate the upper reaches of the Ji River and store water, and then ......"

Zhang Han instantly understood, and then said anxiously: "We have less than 100,000 soldiers and horses, and the number of enemy defenders is equal, how can we attack?" ”

Meng Zhi said without thinking: "We pretended to be some displaced people to rob them of the grain and grass they transported to Xiang Liang's army, and made things bigger, so that the defenders in the battlements would inevitably come out to rescue, and our army of displaced people became more and more, and then pretended to be the Chu army from Xiang Liang's army to come to reinforcements and mix into the battlements by the way, so that a field battle could be formed." ”

Zhang Han smiled instantly, patted Meng Zhi's shoulder and said, "You kid can, this battle annihilated the rebels, and the general will be recommended to His Majesty the Emperor." Monge smiled and left.

At this time, it was the beginning of spring planting, and suddenly the Ji River was cut off, and Xiang Zhuang, the general of the Chu army guarding the granary, found out that it was the local people who were storing water upstream for irrigation. The grain transport team came to report to Xiang Zhuang: "Zhao Guo ran in chaos and many displaced people came to grab grain. ”

After Xiang Zhuang was a nobleman, he despised the untouchables, and he was furious at that time: "Kill all these untouchables, and the deputy general will lead a thousand elites out of the battlements to besiege and kill the exiles." "The adjutant general took the order.

After a while, he received a report: "The homeless people couldn't rob the army, so they actually set fire to the grain and grass, and surrounded the deputy general." ”

Xiang Zhuang was furious and ordered to send an additional 500 elite soldiers and 200 archers to kill these untouchables and cut them with a thousand knives, and the Chinese army Sima ordered to go. On the side of the grain transport team, the displaced people saw the archers of the large army appear, and quickly scattered and fled, and the soldiers of Xiangzhuang saw that the displaced people were scattered and turned around to leave, but they did not take a few steps, and the displaced people swarmed to snatch the grain transport team.

Xiang Zhuang's army had no choice but to come over again, and it took most of the day to go back and forth. In the afternoon, when it was almost evening, Xiang Liang sent troops to meet him, and all the displaced people immediately retreated, so that the grain transport team could cross the Jishui safely.

The Xiang Liang army that came to meet them also followed Xiang Zhuang's army to enter the Lang Evil Cang, saying that there was an order to be delivered. When the lieutenant general saw that the reinforcements had helped to kill the displaced people, he went back to the battlements together without inspection.

In the battlements of Lang Evil Cang, Xiang Zhuang sat on the upper seat and listened to orders:

"According to Lord Xiang Bo's visit, the recent war in Zhao has led to the influx of displaced people into Qidi, in order to ensure that the grain is not disturbed, so an additional 10,000 grain troops will be dispatched, and they will arrive after dark, please arrange it for the general."

Xiang Zhuang said angrily: "I know, let it go." Glancing at the corner of the desk, he continued to drink, and the herald retired, seeing that he was a little bored.

Night slowly fell, a group of nearly 10,000 troops outside the battlements of Langxicang slowly approached, and when the vanguard army reached the range of the battlements, it began to shout, saying that it was the army sent by Xiang Bo to escort the grain transport. The deputy general of the city guard came down to open the door and inspect the relevant documents.

The deputy general of the inspection took the bamboo slip and looked at the long content on it, the front was all about Xiang Bo's analysis of the displaced people, and the content behind it became more and more unfocused.

The adjutant general looked at it for a while before he realized that something was wrong, and when he looked up at the army coming over, he was immediately shocked, except for the front army in the army, it turned out that the front army was dressed as the Chu army, and the back was actually the Qin army covered in black armor!!

While he was checking the papers, the two wings of the army had already approached the city gate and were about to enter the city, and when he was about to shout the enemy's attack, a sword slashed at his neck, and he could never shout.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the Chu army in the city hurriedly issued an early warning and prepared to block the city gate, but the Qin army that had sneaked past had already grabbed the city gate, and the two sides had to have a wrestling match to push the door.

The Qin army was obviously prepared, and the crossbow archers who approached the city immediately began to pour rockets and arrows, and in less than a moment, the city gate was opened, and the panicked Chu army hurriedly sent out various signals, among which the signal sent to Xiang Liang was particularly urgent.

Xiang Zhuang is brave and unscrupulous, but his identity is special and very brave. In the event of this change, in addition to asking Xiang Liang for help, he immediately organized an army to start meeting the enemy, and the Chu army quickly began to fight the Qin army in an orderly manner after a period of disorder.

As soon as Zhang Han saw that the plan to quickly defeat the Chu army had not been realized, he immediately sent various squads to set fire to the surroundings of the Lang Evil Warehouse, if he could not rob the Lower Lang Evil Warehouse, he could not leave it to these Chu troops.

The south gate of Langxicang began to fight like a field battle, and the front army led by Meng Zhi and the Chu army launched an unprecedented tragic fight, at the beginning the strategy of the Qin army was not to defend at all, and frantically slashed at the Chu army, scaring the Chu army back dozens of steps.

The leading army of the Chu army saw that the Qin army's ferocious fighting style made its army unable to withstand it, and they also learned from the Qin army with a cross heart, and slashed at the enemy desperately, and the two sides were evenly matched for a while.

The space that had been vacated for dozens of steps before was the fundamental purpose of Meng Zhi, and this space immediately filled the crossbow archers behind him in an instant, and soon the crossbow arrows were poured wildly, and the Chu army fell down in a large area, and suddenly began to panic again......

At night, Xiang Liang saw that Lang Xiecang kept sending distress signals, and knew that something was wrong, so he immediately sent Yu Ziqi to lead 10,000 vanguard troops to the rescue, and then beat drums to gather generals.

Li Zuoche listened to all the news, and finally understood the true purpose of the Qin army's previous battles and the continuous challenges in the last few days. Li Zuoche didn't say a word, left Xiang Bo to defend the city, and drove a large army to rescue Lang Evil Cang.

When Yu Zi led the troops to Jishui, suddenly the waves were loud, like a flood bursting the embankment, and the Jishui River, which was about to dry up, was stormy, and the soldiers who crossed the river disappeared in front of them in an instant.

Yu Ziqi was taken aback, fortunately he did not ride a horse over, and after such a change, Yu Ziqi hurriedly sent someone to report to Xiang Liang. Xiang Liang's army also came not far away, they all heard the terrifying sound of the flood, after receiving the express report of Yu Ziqi, Li Zuoche immediately suggested: "The Qin army has already planned this defense, and I suggested that the general leave General Yu Ziqi to find a fighter, and our army immediately went to attack the Qin army camp." The Qin army knew that we had a heavy army guarding the granary, and we would inevitably send a large army to attack the granary, so the empty camp was an opportunity for our army to attack. ”

Xiang Liang suffered this accident before he came out of the previous victory, and he had no idea in an instant, so he followed Li Zuoche's advice and carried it out......

After careful preparations before the battle, Zhang Han's army still paid more than 30,000 casualties and defeated Xiangzhuang's 50,000 soldiers and horses with great difficulty. Xiang Zhuang saw that there was no hope of defending and no reinforcements, so he ordered to burn the granary and retreat, but it was not dawn at this time, and he encountered a large number of arson squads sent by Zhang Han before, who were going to burn down the granary before, and now they have become protecting the granary.

Xiang Zhuang lacked strategy, suffered another big loss, found that the Qin army appeared in the granary, thinking that the Qin army had completely controlled the granary, so he led more than 1,000 horsemen to escape without engaging in battle, and the arson team over there still pretended to chase and kill, and then turned back.

Wang Wei, who led an army of 20,000 to defend the camp, saw the fire in the direction of Langxicang and sent a signal repeatedly, knowing that Zhang Han had succeeded. But in less than an hour, Xiang Liang actually led a large army to attack the camp, with the assistance of Li Zuoche, in less than two hours, the camp was breached, and Wang Wei had to lead the defeated army to assemble to Zhang Han's army.

The outcome of the battle between the two armies of Qin and Chu changed dramatically, first Zhang Han recaptured the battlements of Langxicang, and then Xiang Liang broke through the large camp of Zhanghan's army, and still controlled the city of Langxie County.