Although the Feng Zhong Corps of the Young Marshal Army attacking head-on is a typical rabble, it has to be admitted that Feng Zhong, the most trusted general with a different surname by Xiang Kang at present, still makes great efforts in governing the army and training the troops, no matter how it is a patchwork army, the officers and men of Feng Zhong's Corps, who are striding forward to the beat of the drum, move neatly and uniformly, the formation is almost not chaotic at all, the formation is also reasonable, the combination of arms is very orderly, and the army is directly chasing the main force of the young marshal's army, which is far from being comparable to the miscellaneous armies of Qin Jia and Zhou Fu.

But there is no way, people are more popular than people, how Feng Zhong worked hard to manage the army and train with the help of the soldiers surnamed Han, compared with the hastily assembled Feng Zhong Corps and the Qin army formation opposite, there is still a very obvious gap, the same formation, the Qin army formation of less than 3,000 people on the opposite side is not only more strict and orderly, but also more seamless and flexible with the combination of troops, and there is also a murderous aura that is almost visible to the naked eye, which is daunting.

Although the gap is very obvious, the commander's tactical use can sometimes make up for many gaps, quite to Yao Ang and Jiang Wen, the commander of the Qin army on the south bank of Suishui, the young marshal army with superior strength advanced to the front and rear of the Qin army formation, and did not impatiently dispatch vehicles and infantry to attack the Qin army's formation, but chose the Qin army's most skilled crossbow salvo tactics to start a battle with the Qin army. Feng Zhong's banner commanded, and the young marshal's crossbowmen who followed the long shield immediately adopted the rotation firing tactic of standing and kneeling, and preemptively cast feather arrows at the Qin army's array that was just within reach.

Jiang Wen, who commanded the Qin army on the south bank, was quite calm, and expected that the distance of the young marshal's army was too far, and the feather arrows cast could not cause great damage to the army, and he was not in a hurry to let the Qin army's crossbowmen launch a counterattack, and chose to be patient for the time being to let the young marshal's army waste crossbow arrows, and the result was not as Jiang Wen expected, although the young marshal's feather arrows flying from the front also caused some damage to the Qin army, most of them still became the end of the strong crossbows, even if they were shot on the leather armor of the Qin army, they could not cause any damage to the Qin army's soldiers, so although the young marshal's crossbow arrows were many, the effect was not great.

The inexperienced Feng Zhong obviously didn't notice that the self-army was wasting crossbow arrows, and he was still constantly taking turns standing upright and kneeling to release arrows, and had been suppressing the Qin army's array with a rain of arrows, but shooting and shooting, Jiang Wen gradually realized that something was wrong, the feather arrows shot directly by the young marshal army were getting stronger and stronger, and the casualties caused to the Qin soldiers were also increasing. The young marshal crossbowmen who took turns to get up and release the arrows also had to take a step forward every time before squatting and kneeling to wind, and slowly approached the Qin army's array together with the long shield horizontal team, gradually widening the distance from the infantry brigade of the young marshal army in the rear.

Scolding Feng Zhong's cunning, Jiang Wen couldn't bear it anymore, and hurriedly ordered the crossbowmen of the Qin army in the front row to take turns to get up and release arrows, and compete with the young marshal army to shoot crossbows, and the situation on the battlefield immediately changed dramatically.

Jiang Wen was angry, although the crossbows of the Qin army's unified equipment were stronger and had a longer range, and the movements of the Qin soldiers were more neat and orderly, but the losses were due to the fact that the troops were at a disadvantage, and the casualties of the Qin army's crossbowmen had always been on par with the casualties of the young marshal's army, and because the Qin army's infantry was lined up in the rear of the crossbow team, the overall casualties were obviously greater than those of the young marshal's army. - The infantry phalanx of the Young Marshal's Army was exactly at the edge of the range of the Qin Army's crossbow arrows, and it was of course difficult for the Qin Army to hurt the infantry brigade of the Young Marshal's Army in a counter-shooting battle.

Of course, Jiang Wen also has a way to crack the stupid way of the young marshal's army to fight more and less, if Jiang Wen is willing, the Qin army only needs to move forward head-on, or it won't be long before the young marshal's crossbowmen can be forced back, so that the Qin army's crossbow can directly touch the infantry brigade of the young marshal's army, but Jiang Wen did not dare to do this, because at this moment behind the phalanx of the Qin army, the soldiers of the Qin army have begun to grab the pontoon bridge with all their might, if Jiang Wen urges the army to step forward, then the cavalry of the young marshal army ambushed on both wings will definitely go out immediately, impact the ferry and destroy the pontoon bridge, cut off the connection between Jiang Wen and the rear army, so Jiang Wen had no choice but to grit his teeth and continue to fight the stupid tricks of the young marshal army.

Fortunately, the Suishui River in the dry season narrowed, and the flow speed was relatively slow, giving the Qin army the opportunity to quickly build a bridge, Jiang Wen gritted his teeth and persisted for a moment, and the Qin army's four pontoon bridges were built one after another, and Yao Ang also hurriedly sent troops forward to cross the bridge to reinforce the battlefield on the south bank. However, at this time, the order flag of Feng Zhongqi's array shook, and then the order flag was also shaken on the Fuli city next to it, and the south gate of Fuli facing Gushui was quickly opened, and the three young marshals of five hundred people rushed out in line and rushed directly to the Suishui ferry in the west.

Feng Zhong's banner was not just to order the young marshal army in Fuli City to attack, when the young marshal army in the city was dispatched, Feng Zhong's camp also dispatched 2,000 troops at the same time, and under the cover of the city, he rushed straight to the north from outside the east gate of Fuli, and directly rushed to the ships lined up on the shore of the north gate of Fuli, and quickly boarded the ship under the cover of the friendly troops out of the city, and rushed straight to the north shore with a paddle. Yao Ang was shocked when he saw it, and immediately understood that the young marshal's army wanted to take advantage of the opportunity of the main force of the self-army to go south, and directly attacked the baggage convoy of the self-army, and hurriedly let the rear army form a formation to protect the convoy.

The situation on the battlefield has therefore become extremely complicated, the front army of the Qin army is carrying Feng Zhong's main force on the front, the eastern flank is fighting fiercely with the young marshal army of Fu Li, and the rear army is directly threatened by the cavalry of the young marshal's army, and the Chinese army led by Yao Ang himself is at a loss, and it has to be ready to return to the north bank at any time, and it has to be ready to reinforce the front army, and I don't know which side to take care of.

At this time, more than 20 civilian boats suddenly came to the upper reaches of Suishui, each boat also pulled a raft full of firewood and grass, just rushed to the nearest place, and immediately lit the raft on the firewood and grass, and at the same time cut the rope, let the raft drift with the waves, blazing and rushing to the Qin army's pontoon bridge, the Qin army was shocked when they saw it, and their morale was suddenly frustrated, Yao Ang was even more at a loss, and he didn't know what to do. The former soldiers of the Qin army were shot dead and wounded.

"Why did you suddenly become an enemy on all sides?"

Looking at the young marshal's surprise soldiers that kept appearing, Yao Ang's heart was also confused to the extreme, and he didn't know whether to continue to move forward or retreat to the north bank decisively, but a general next to him saw the key and hurriedly said: "General, I'm afraid the pontoon bridge is difficult to keep, you should go all out, give priority to defeating the main force of Feng Zhong's rebels, and then turn back to reinforce the north bank." We still have 3,000 troops on the north shore, and we will be able to hold on for a while, so we don't have to worry about it for the time being. ”

As if grasping a life-saving straw, Yao Ang, who was in a state of chaos, immediately adopted this suggestion without thinking, and immediately urged the army to step forward and join Jiang Wen's troops to attack Feng Zhong's main force head-on, and Feng Zhong also immediately withdrew the bow and crossbow team in front of him and formed a strong formation to contend with the Qin army.

In fact, the strategy adopted by Yao Ang is actually not bad, the main force is forward and backward, no matter how the main force of Feng Zhong of the pure rabble fights, it is impossible to block the attack of the Qin army for a long time, and at the same time, the Qin army on the north bank has also relied on the local strength advantage to block the surprise soldiers of the young marshal army head-on, so even if the raft released by the young marshal army has burned a pontoon bridge of the Qin army, and then there is still a great certainty of directly cutting off the north-south connection of the Qin army, as long as the Qin army can quickly defeat Feng Zhong's main force, it can still save the situation. Regain the upper hand. Pity......

It's a pity that Yao Ang didn't know that the real enemy he encountered this time was not Feng Zhong, the head of the Shiling Pavilion who was bullied by the children of the Xiang family and kowtowed and begged for mercy, but the personal soldiers surnamed Han beside Feng Zhong. So just when the main force of the Qin army and Feng Zhong's main force had just started a fierce battle, a scout rushed in front of Yao Ang and shouted with a crying voice: "General, it's not good! Upstream of the valley! Ten miles upstream of the valley, an army of thieves suddenly crossed the river with boats hidden in the woods and built a bridge, and a pontoon bridge had been built and was crossing the river at full speed! ”

"And ambushes?!" Yao Ang's eyes almost didn't pop out, he never dreamed that the enemy would be so bold, obviously a group of rabble, and even dared to repeatedly divide troops and set up ambushes, and at the same time sneak attack his own army from several directions.

In addition to desperately urging the army to step forward and attack Feng Zhong's main force, he hurriedly ordered the Qin army on the flank to return to the north bank, but the Qin army on the flank had just made a move, and the young marshal army of Fu Li, who had been killed and retreated, immediately made a comeback, biting the tail of the flank Qin army, and at the same time, the raft of the young marshal army was burning, and quickly burned the second pontoon bridge of the Qin army, and lit the third pontoon bridge of the Qin army.

The Qin army's military heart became more and more panicked, and the more chaotic it became, but this was only the beginning of the nightmare of the Qin army, when the ambush of the young marshal's army who crossed the river from the upstream appeared on the battlefield on the north bank, the Qin army was even more panicked to the extreme, several armies were all completely chaotic, and Yao Ang was even more like being in a nightmare, completely overwhelmed.

The main force of the Qin army on the north bank has been entangled by the strange soldiers of the young marshal army, and the ambush of the young marshal army from the upstream rushed to the front and rear, and the Qin army on the north bank can only hurriedly throw down the baggage grain cart and line up to fight with the ambush of the young marshal's army, but the ambush of the young marshal army is not interested in fighting with them at all, and the front has just met, and the rear army immediately detours forward, rushing into the Qin army's baggage convoy with torches, wantonly setting fire to the grain, burning the baggage, and the Qin army on the north bank of the two-line battle was forced to return to the grain cart, and the ambush soldiers of the young marshal army who killed on both sides took the opportunity to cover it again, The panicked Qin army on the north bank was completely chaotic, and the grain transport vehicles, which were already invaluable to the Qin army, were quickly set on fire one by one by the young marshal soldiers and turned into thick black smoke.

The defeat of the Qin army on the north bank has been decided, affected by the battle situation on the north bank, the morale of the Qin army on the south bank has also fallen directly to the extreme, Feng Zhong took advantage of the situation to launch a counterattack, and the situation on the south bank was suddenly reversed.

The first to collapse was the flank army of the Qin army, as the fourth pontoon bridge was ignited by the young marshal's arms raft, the soldiers of the Qin army, who had no way to retreat north, could no longer resist the fierce offensive of the young marshal army of Fu Li, and the ghost cried wolf howled and fled in chaos to join the main force, and directly caused a chain reaction, causing the main force of the Qin army to be more panicked to the point of no return, and it was more difficult to support before the impact of Feng Zhong's main force, and the formation was quickly chaotic.

Grain and grass will definitely not be saved, if you want to keep the army, Yao Ang's only way is to fight to the death to kill Feng Zhong, and then it is possible to withdraw from the battlefield with the army in formation. For this reason, the elite of the Qin army in Longxi led by Yao Ang and Jiang Wen also made great efforts, almost gritting their teeth, and also impacting Feng Zhong's flag formation many times in the melee, in a vain attempt to destroy Feng Zhong's flag formation and reverse the tide of the battle.

'Feng Zhong''s command art made Yao Ang and Jiang Wen and other Qin army generals desperate, obviously a group of rabble, but under the command of 'Feng Zhong', the military formation of the young marshal army seemed to have become a piece of kraft candy, the more they rushed, the stronger they became, and the more they rushed, the more sticky they became, and the Qin army counterattacked several times and was quickly stopped by the young marshal army array that suddenly appeared in front, and at the same time, the young marshal soldiers on both wings immediately outflanked and attacked the Qin soldiers who sacrificed their lives to charge on three sides, relying on the local strength advantage to consume the elite of the Qin army little by little.

The ordinary Qin army, which was mainly composed of Lishan prisoners, also completely exposed their weaknesses at this moment, the army was flustered and their morale fell to the bottom, and they did not have the courage to fight alone with the young marshal army, and they would only follow the elite of Longxi in a mess, fleeing from south to north, panicking like a swarm of headless flies, and as the elite of the Qin army in Longxi fought less and less, the offensive of the Qin army became more and more weak and weak, and gradually fell into a state of being semi-surrounded by the young marshal's army.

The Qin army on the north bank has already completely collapsed, and all the Qin army's baggage vehicles have also been ignited by the strange soldiers of the young marshal army, and the young marshal army ambush soldiers who have completed the task quickly returned to the south bank of the division by boat to reinforce the main battlefield, seeing that there is a cheap to occupy, Xiang Han, who has been pressed by Xiang Kang to defend the city, also couldn't wait to personally lead the army out of the city, and brought the troops and horses to beat the water dogs, and in the face of more and more enemies, the main force of the Qin army also completely lost the hope of turning the tables, and the generals rushed to beg Yao Ang to retreat quickly, It is not uncommon for soldiers to escape from the main force and flee alone.

Completely helpless, in order not to be annihilated by Feng Zhong's group of rabble, Yao Ang had no choice but to give up the dream of turning the tables, taking advantage of the fact that the army had not completely collapsed, and hurriedly fled west with the remnants of the defeated army, Feng Zhong did not hesitate to lead the army to chase and kill, and killed the Qin army's partial division that fled in a hurry, and chased and killed more than 20 miles in one go, beheaded more than 1,000 in the pursuit battle, and captured countless armor and weapons abandoned by the Qin army.

After the big victory, of course, the young marshal army was beaming, and Feng Zhong was even more smiling, patting the shoulders of the soldiers surnamed Han and laughing constantly, and couldn't wait to promise that they would definitely give the soldiers surnamed Han a heavy reward. It's a pity that the soldiers surnamed Han have always regarded money as dung, and they didn't pay attention to how much reward Feng Zhong promised to give him, and said to Feng Zhong: "If the general still wants to make meritorious contributions, then it is best to pack up his troops and horses immediately, and send troops to the west tomorrow, while pursuing the defeated soldiers of the Tyrant Qin army, while recovering Xiangxian, Mangxian and Dangxian and other places that we had previously fallen, blocking the road for the main force of the Tyrant Qin army to return to Dangjun in the west, and creating an opportunity for our main force to completely annihilate the main force of Tyranny." ”

"Westward pursuit?" Feng Zhong was taken aback and said, "But the order that Young Marshal Xiang gave us was to return to Pengcheng?" ”

"Pengcheng doesn't need us to help anymore." The soldier surnamed Han said coldly: "Have you forgotten the Pengcheng military information that General Xiang Han provided us with before?" Our main force once attacked the camp of the Tyrannical Qin army, burned a lot of the grain and grass of the Tyrannical Qin army, the southern expedition of the Tyrannical Qin army has been defeated, the grain and grass of the main force is unsustainable, and we will definitely choose to retreat to Dangjun, we will take the first step into Dangjun, block their westward retreat road, and then attack with our main force back and forth, it is difficult to fight a big victory. ”

"Although the words are reasonable, they are not ...... consulted." Feng Zhong hesitated.

"The general is outside, the king's order is not affected, and it is the general's action to make a decision when he sees the fighter." The soldier surnamed Han said solemnly: "You can not listen to my suggestion, but I can guarantee that if you miss this opportunity, Young Marshal Xiang will definitely be very disappointed in you, and he will not dare to hand over a bigger burden to you in the future." ”

After hesitating for a long time, considering that the situation on Pengcheng's side had stabilized, and at the same time, Xiang Kang did not urge him to hurry north to help Pengcheng, Feng Zhong still gritted his teeth, nodded and said: "Okay, just do it, go back and pack up the troops and horses immediately, and go west tomorrow to chase and kill the defeated soldiers of Tyrant Qin." ”

Of course, for this decision, Feng Zhong also wasted saliva with Xiang Han, and at the same time, in order to avoid Xiang Kang's misunderstanding, Feng Zhong sent Wu She, a scribe he had stored in Xuantai, to the north with a book, and reported the matter to Xiang Kang in person, and at the same time honestly admitted that he was good at dictatorship, and said that if Xiang Kang objected, he would immediately take the army back to help Pengcheng.

Feng Zhong was obviously blindly worried, after Wu Shi rushed north to Pengcheng with his handwritten letter, Xiang Kang was ecstatic at Feng Zhong's miraculous victory, not only did not blame Feng Zhong for his own assertion at all, but on the contrary, he praised Feng Zhong for making great progress, and had already known how to take a look at three things, which would create a favorable situation for the army, and praised Feng Zhong's immediate decision.

But it's also a pity that when Xiang Kang asked what kind of people planned for Feng Zhong about the complex tactics of the Fuli War, although he also heard some rumors, but because he knew very well that Feng Zhong liked to take credit and greedy for merit, in order not to be put on small shoes by his boss, Wu Shi chose to help Feng Zhong tell a lie, and insisted that these were all from Feng Zhong's plan. Xiang Kang was skeptical when he heard this, and said suspiciously: "Is it really Feng Zhong?" Brother Feng is really so talented in military affairs, why didn't I see it at all before? ”

Although he was very skeptical, but deep down, Xiang Kang still hoped that Feng Zhong would really be so capable, the reason was that Xiang Kang still had a Xiang Liang on his head, and the young marshal army would have to join forces with Xiang Liang's army sooner or later, at that time, as a junior and self-appointed young marshal, Xiang Kang must also obey Xiang Liang's command, and the children of the Xiang family will definitely be all Xiang Liang's leader, and whether Xiang Kang can still maintain his military power and independent status depends on whether the major generals with different surnames in the young marshal army choose to continue to support Xiang Kang.

Therefore, for Xiang Kang, Feng Zhong, who has a close personal relationship with him, had better be so capable, because only Feng Zhong and Zhou Zeng, the cronies with foreign surnames who Xiang Kang personally cultivated by Xiang Kang, are the least likely to be pulled away by Xiang Liang. And even if Xiang Liang forcibly asks for someone, he is sure to pull it back.

It is true that Xiang Liang is a hero, and there is no son who can inherit his family business in the future, but among the children of the Xiang family, it is Xiang Yu who is closest to him and most loved by him.