If he can be sure that he can defend the camp, then even if the Western Chu army runs first, Han Xin will have the courage to defend it in Yexian County, and even believes that as long as he can stalemate for a while, he can still create a miracle, defeat the strong with the weak, defeat the more with less, and defeat the main force of the Han army with more than 90,000 with more than 30,000 Nanyang troops!

However, there is no way, the counterweight trebuchet of the Han army is too powerful, and it is the same as playing the camp that Han Xin has spent countless hours and painstaking efforts to build and reinforce, of course, not to mention the camp of Liu Laosan, which was built in a hurry a few days ago, there is no camp that can ensure the safety of the army.

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 to chase and kill, in order to preserve the army as much as possible, and in order to keep the hope of the Nanyang army's comeback, and in order to save his precious life, Han Xin can only choose to abandon the camp and retreat in front of the Han army for the third time, and there is no opening to stop Liu Laosan from letting the Nanyang army urgently go out of the camp and withdraw the order.

A hasty retreat under the enemy's sword has always been a great test for the commander of the army, and if there is even the slightest carelessness, an orderly retreat is likely to turn into a total rout, and the losses may even be worse than being defeated head-on by the enemy. Therefore, although it was clear that Liu Laosan was also a good tactician, and there would be no big mistakes in arranging the deployment, Han Xin still hurriedly searched for Liu Laosan, and hurriedly asked Liu Laosan: "King, which general do you plan to let lead the army?" ”

"Fan!" Liu Laosan replied without thinking about it: "Although this vertical man is reckless and stupid, but he is absolutely reliable in fighting tough battles, only by letting him lead the elite soldiers to fight the palace, can he hope to stop the pursuit of the Han thieves and give our main force time to retreat!" ”

"Not enough!" Han Xin immediately said: "The Han thief is treacherous, and Xiang Kang's traitor is also a good soldier, so he wouldn't have expected that we would use our elite soldiers to stop his pursuers." If he divides his troops into two teams to pursue, with the strong generals and elite soldiers as the front team, and the enemy is the rear army of our palace, and the rear team bypasses the battlefield and pursues at full speed, it is still possible to catch up with our main force. ”

Although he had never been pitted by Xiang Kang, Liu Laosan never dared to underestimate Xiang Kang, and quickly nodded, admitting that there was indeed such a possibility, and hurriedly asked: "Then in your opinion, how should we retreat?" ”

"Retreat in three teams." Han Xin replied in a deep voice: "Our main force is the first team, General Zhou Bo leads the first army as the second team, and General Fan Xu is the third team. ”

Liu Laosan nodded again, but he didn't dare to be completely reassured, after a little calculation, Liu Laosan gritted his teeth, and simply passed Fan Xu, Zhou Bo and Zhou Kesan to the front, and instructed them: "In a while, we will retreat in four teams, this king will lead the main force in the front, and the three of you will each lead 4,000 troops, Zhou Cao will be the second team, Zhou Bo will be the third team, Fan Gou, you are the last team!" If the thieves catch up with you, all of them will be given to the king to fight to the death, and buy time for our main force to retreat! If you are separated, you will all meet in Yangcheng! ”

Fan Hao and the others did not hesitate, and immediately clenched their fists and sang a promise, and took over the difficult task of leading the army behind the palace with a resolute expression. Han Xin next to him nodded silently, and also admitted that Liu Laosan's arrangement was more secure, and he was more hopeful of bringing the main force of the Nanyang Army back to Yangcheng as much as possible. Immediately afterwards, the officers and men of the Nanyang Army had just finished assembling out of the camp, Liu Laosan immediately gave an order and personally led the main force of more than 20,000 Nanyang Army to take the lead in setting off, while Zhou Ke and Zhou Bo and other generals kept in mind Liu Laosan's arrangement and led the army to the south in turn, and the troops were divided into four teams to withdraw to Yangcheng, which was eighty miles away.

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On the side of the Han army, although the commander of the Southern Front Corps of the Western Chu Army, Li Ji, was still a little moral, and 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 of the camp overnight to assemble such a big move, and it was still destined to not escape the eyes of the Han army scouts, in fact, as early as the period when the Western Chu Army left the camp in advance, the Han army scouts who had been closely monitoring the camp of the Western Chu Army had already rushed north and reported this important situation to Xiang Kang.

As mentioned above, as early as the attack on the camp of Han Xin's army during the day, Xiang Kang had expected that Liu Xiang's allied army was likely to abandon the camp and retreat this evening, and he had already prepared the Han army officers and soldiers to pursue overnight, so after receiving the scout's report, Xiang Kang was neither surprised nor panicked, but immediately ordered the Han army soldiers to assemble out of the camp, distribute dry food torches, and prepare to launch an overnight pursuit, and then beat drums and gather generals in the Chinese army's tent to gather and gather the generals of the Han army to arrange pursuit tactics.

In a moment, 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: "This king has just received a scout report, the Western Chu thief army is already assembling out of the camp, if nothing else, the Western Chu thief army will soon retreat south, as soon as the Western Chu thief army runs, the Nanyang thief army will definitely follow, and will not stay and wait for death!" Fighters are rare, tonight we would rather let the Xichu thief army slip away, and we must not let the main force of the Nanyang thief army run, we must take this opportunity to kill the main force of the Nanyang thief army for this king, and avenge our Hanguguan soldiers and Wancheng soldiers! Do you understand? ”

"Understood!" The generals of the Han army answered neatly.

"Good." Xiang Kang nodded with satisfaction, pointed at the dragon and said: "Long And, today's attack camp is the main force you fight, it stands to reason that this king should let you rest, but there is no way, the combat power of the Nanyang thief army is not bad, and there are many fierce generals, so you must continue to participate in the war today, and you have to serve as the vanguard of the pursuit for this king!" ”

"Please rest assured, your subordinates are not tired!" Long He immediately replied: "As long as you can find revenge on the Nanyang thief army, your subordinates will have no problem fighting for another day and night!" ”

Xiang Kang nodded and said: "Give you eight thousand elite soldiers, take the lead in departure, if nothing else, Liu Ji's traitor will definitely use the elite soldiers to strengthen the queen of the palace, and fight to the death to stop us from pursuing, you have met the queen army of the Nanyang thief army, just give the king a decisive battle to the end, and make every effort to annihilate the rear team of the Nanyang thief army, don't care about the pursuit of the main force of the Nanyang thief army, as long as you can eliminate the elite of the queen of the Nanyang thief army, it is a great achievement!" Go ahead! ”

Long He hugged his fists and sang a promise, and immediately rushed out to lead the army in pursuit, Xiang Kang pointed at Zhu Jishi again, and said: "Zhu Jishi, Liu Ji and Han Xin are both treacherous people, and they will definitely guess that we may bypass their rear battlefield and directly pursue their main force, and it is very likely that a second army will be arranged, which we can't afford not to guard." So this king also gives you 10,000 troops, follow the dragon and the general set off to the south, if the dragon and the general is entangled by the rear team of the Nanyang thief army, bypass the battlefield and pursue it with all his might, if the Nanyang thief army really has a second palace army, you will be responsible for dealing with it, if not, you directly catch up with the main force of the Nanyang thief army, and you don't have to hesitate, fight to the death with all your might, and the reinforcements will arrive soon! ”

Zhu Jishi, who had been resting in Hanoi for a period of time before, also hugged his fists and sang a promise, and immediately rushed out to lead the army to pursue southward, and Xiang Kang commanded: "Guan Ying, Zhong Lifu, Gongsun Tong, the three of you will follow the 35,000 cavalry under the command of this king as the third team, and go all out to pursue the main force of the Nanyang thief army!" Ding Ji, you and the rest of the civil and military forces led the army to stay in the camp. ”

The generals clasped their fists together and sang a promise, but just when Xiang Kang was about to open his mouth to announce the disbandment, Lou Jing, who was named a squire by Xiang Kang, suddenly bowed his hand and said: "King, it is difficult to detect the accurate enemy situation in the dark night, and the threat of the Western Chu thief army cannot be ignored. ”

Considering that it may not be impossible for the Western Chu army to turn around and participate in 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 ordered: "Brother Feng, you take 10,000 troops as the fourth team, follow south, and use it as our general reserve to prevent any eventuality!" ”

Feng Zhong excitedly agreed, and Xiang Kang also announced the disbandment of the account, letting the generals of the Han army go down to lead the army to prepare for departure, and then it didn't take long for Long He, who hated the Nanyang army to the bone, to lead the army to launch a pursuit, and the rest of the Han generals also led the troops in order to attack.

Let's take a look at Long He's pursuit first, because the Han army is well prepared and moves quickly, Long He led the army just to the south of the Nanyang army camp a few miles away, and caught up with the last Nanyang army Fan Xu's department, according to Liu Laosan's order, seeing the Han army approaching, Fan Xu immediately asked the army to stop, turned around and prepared to fight, and then the Han army just caught up to the front, Fan Hao took advantage of the opportunity that the Han army had not had time to regroup, and decisively led the army to charge, He also rushed to the front with the Dog Slaughter Treasure Knife that he had deceived from Xiang Kang, and roared with red eyes, "Kill!" Kill the thieves and take my life! ”

Thanks to Xiang Kang's expectation that the Nanyang army would be the queen of the palace with elite soldiers, so that Long He led the elite soldiers of the Han army who were in the prime of life and well-equipped, and the Long and the army were not directly defeated by the elite of the Nanyang army, and thanks to Xiang Kang, who sent the most courageous dragon in the Han army to fight against Fan Xu, when Fan Xu carried the dog slaughtering knife in the Han army crowd invincible, like entering no man's land, someone in the Han army stepped forward and defeated the number one fierce general under Liu Laosan.

In the fierce battle, by the light of the torch, I saw Fan Xu, who was covered with black meat, rushed left and right in the crowd of soldiers, none of them could be, the proud dragon was of course furious, and immediately personally raised the spear to fight with Fan Xu, Fan Xu, who likes foot fighting, was not afraid, and not only fought with the dragon and inextricably with the foot battle horse, but also caught the gap and slashed the front legs of the dragon and the horse, and lost the dragon and dexterity, jumped off the horse in time and was not overturned, after standing firm, the dragon couldn't help but be even more angry, simply threw away the spear and drew the knife to fight, Fighting with Fan Xu in the chaos of the army, the wind and clouds changed color, each of them is difficult to meet the real opponent of Fan Xu and Long and while fighting hard, while shouting happily, it is really an iron broom brush copper pot, every family is hard.

Long Ji himself fought hard, but in this way, Long Ji Jun was of course inevitably entangled by Fan Xujun, and it was impossible to draw his hand to continue the pursuit in a short time. Fortunately, Xiang Kang's arrangement was thorough, and it didn't take much time for Zhu Jishi to chase the second team of the Han Army to the near battlefield, seeing that the Long Ji Army was really temporarily blocked by the enemy, Zhu Jishi of course did not make a fool to join the battlefield and waste precious time, but just took the army to continue south, and then after more than half an hour, he successfully caught up with Zhou Bo's department of the Nanyang Army.

Like Fan Xu, seeing the Han army's rear team chasing after him, Zhou Bo, who had been practicing martial arts since childhood, immediately led the army to turn around and decisively charged to the Han army, Zhu Jishi led the army to meet it, although he had the upper hand in terms of troops, but the Nanyang army's will was tenacious, fighting fiercely, and the vision was not smooth in the middle of the night, so he could not use the advantage of his strength to perform any tactics such as outflanking and encircling, so he could only rely on the soldiers to fight in clusters, and he was also completely entangled by Zhou Bo's army, and could not continue to pursue south.

Xiang Kang's side, after leading 40,000 foot cavalry to bypass the battlefield of the Longhe Army and go south, he pursued to the battlefield where Zhong Liwu was, and vaguely saw that the enemy's strength was not much, Xiang Kang of course shouted that he was lucky, and was extremely glad that he was well arranged, and took into account in advance the problem that the Nanyang Army might arrange a second palace army, and then hurriedly led the army to continue to bypass the battlefield where Zhu Jishi was located, and continued to pursue south with torches, and kept urging in his mouth, "Chase!" Chase! Be sure to catch up with the main force of the Nanyang Thief Army! ”

Continue to the south, and after chasing out a distance of more than ten miles in one breath, a large area of torch light finally appeared in front, and the soldiers of the main brigade of the Han army cheered, and hurriedly accelerated their speed, and went all out to kill the enemy in the south, but Xiang Kang was relatively calm, and quickly stood up in the car, trying to look ahead, judging the enemy's strength with the help of the number of torches of the enemy, but unfortunately, the light in the dark night was too poor, and the distance was still relatively far, even if the battlefield experience was already very rich, Xiang Kang still hadn't been able to quickly judge the number of the enemy's troops.

In the end, it was still when Zhou Ke led the 4,000 Nanyang army to launch a counter-charge, and was about to rush to the front of the Han army, Xiang Kang's face changed greatly to confirm that the enemy was not much, and the enemy who was killed by the recoil was still not the main force of the Nanyang army, but Xiang Kang found out that it was too late, the Nanyang army had rushed to the front of the Han army, and directly launched a fierce battle with the soldiers of the Han army, and there was no way to make adjustments, and divided the troops to meet the third palace army of the Nanyang army, and freed up his hands to continue to pursue the main force of the Nanyang army.

"Oops! I didn't expect Liu Laosan to be so cunning that he even arranged a third army of the queen palace! This guy is more treacherous than I am! ”

While complaining bitterly in his heart, Xiang Kang refused to give up, and hurriedly considered whether he should let Guan Ying lead the cavalry of the Han army to come forward in a roundabout way and pursue the main brigade of the Nanyang Army alone, but considering that the cavalry in this era was not strong enough combat effectiveness, Xiang Kang inevitably hesitated a little. But fortunately, at this time, Xiang Kang suddenly remembered something again, and he was immediately overjoyed......

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Taking advantage of the opportunity of Peixian's friends to sacrifice their lives for their palaces, Liu Laosan has taken the main force of the Nanyang Army to the south with light travel for more than 30 miles, and successfully opened the distance between him and the Han army's pursuers, and kept turning back in the car, never seeing the Han army chasing, Liu Laosan was of course both happy and proud, and said with a sneer: "Xiang Kang little traitor, you must not have thought that this king would actually arrange three armies to be behind the palace in turn, even if your pursuers can bypass Fan Gou'er's battlefield, they will only be stopped by Zhou Bo and Zhou Cao's army, I want to catch up with the main force of this king, and dream! ”

"King, I've been out for more than thirty miles." Xiahou Ying, who drove the car for Liu Laosan, turned around and said: "Our soldiers are too far behind, we must not stop to rest and collect our fallen soldiers!" ”

"You can't stop, you can't stop for a while!" Liu Laosan's voice was full of emotion, and he shouted: "Our time now is all exchanged for us by Fan Hao and Zhou Bo, and it must not be wasted!" Go south at full speed, at least you can't rest until you reach Dushu, and the soldiers who have fallen behind let them go to Yangcheng to meet us by themselves! ”

Knowing Liu Laosan's bearish temper, Xiahou Ying didn't dare to disobey, but hurriedly urged the horses to run fast, and the soldiers of the main force of the Nanyang Army also gritted their teeth one by one to speed up, racing against time to go south at full speed. The results also proved that Liu Laosan's decision-making was wise, and after a while, the Nanyang soldiers behind suddenly shouted, "Someone is catching up!" An army is catching up! ”

"Is it our rear army? Or is it the pursuer of the Han thief? ”

Liu Laosan's heart sank, and when he hurriedly looked back, he saw that the torches on the road from the north were chaotic, and there was indeed a team chasing after him, and then immediately after, Xiahou Ying, who was driving the car for Liu Laosan, suddenly blurted out: "It's not good!" The sound of horses' hooves is dense, it should be the cavalry of the Han thief! ”

Liu Laosan hurriedly listened carefully, and sure enough, he heard the sound of dense horse hooves, and his face suddenly changed, because the Nanyang Army's controlled territory 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: "Quick, tell our army to stop and line up to meet the battle!" The Han thieves let the cavalry pursue alone, and their infantry brigade must still be far behind, and if the Han thief's cavalry is defeated, we can retreat with confidence! ”

The reason why Liu Laosan looks down on the Han cavalry so much is because the cavalry combat effectiveness of this era is generally not strong, there is no high bridge saddle and no stirrups, and most of the cavalry with poor riding skills can only dismount and fight on foot when they are in short combat, if there is no infantry to cooperate with the battle, let alone break the infantry battle formation, it is extremely difficult to fight with the infantry in hand-to-hand combat, so Liu Laosan is full of confidence in the cavalry of the Han army to kill the cavalry.

In fact, after the main force of the Nanyang Army in its early 20,000s stopped and lined up to meet the battle, he saw that the Nanyang Army lined up in a dense queue, and without saying a word, he fired arrows at the crossbow of the self-army. Seeing this scene, Liu Laosan immediately understood the intention of the Han cavalry, and said with a sneer: "You want to entangle us and buy time for your infantry brigade to pursue, don't you?" Dream! ”

"King, let our chariots be at the forefront." Han Xin advised: "The whole army maintains formation and continues to retreat south, and if the Han thief cavalry refuses to give way, let our chariots rush up to open the way." ”

Liu Laosan accepted this suggestion without hesitation, and immediately asked Xiahou Ying to lead the Nanyang Army chariot soldiers forward, and asked the Nanyang Army Brigade to maintain the formation, and continue to march south at a brisk pace, ready to engage the Han cavalry in close quarters at any time. As Liu Laosan and Han Xin expected, the cavalry of the Han army really did not have the courage to fight hard with the main brigade of the Nanyang Army, and chose to keep going south, always keeping a certain distance from the Nanyang Army, and did not dare to launch a charge and engage the Nanyang Army in close combat.

"The thief horse team raised by the son of a bitch really didn't dare to fight hard with Naiweng." Liu Laosan smiled smugly, and shouted: "Speed up, the Han thief cavalry dares to fight with us, so we will fight with them!" ”

The Nanyang army that Liu Laosan and Han Xin jointly trained was indeed good, even if they went south at a fast pace, the queue was still quite neat, and there was never any sign of chaos, so that the Han cavalry was like a tiger gnawing hedgehogs, and they could not find the slightest opportunity to launch a charge and assault, so they could 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 still refused to be satisfied, and when it was expected that the Han cavalry would not dare to fight in close combat, he went south to a flat area suitable for chariot combat, and Liu Laosan decisively ordered to charge, and the chariots and horses marched together, shouting to kill the Han cavalry who were weak in close combat. Then, as Liu Laosan expected, seeing that the Nanyang Army launched a charge, the cavalry of the Han Army really fledged to the south, and took the initiative to open the distance between the main brigade of the Nanyang Army.

"Don't waste time! Burn the wind! ”

When Liu Laosan proudly shouted this order, the Nanyang sergeant behind him also shouted again, "Someone is here again!" Another army is coming! ”

Liu Laosan quickly turned around, saw that the torches on the road from the north were dense, and sure enough, another army was chasing, and when he listened carefully, he found that there was no sound of horses' hooves, Liu Laosan's heart suddenly sank again, and he said secretly: "It's infantry!" How can it be? It stands to reason that Fan Xu, Zhou Bo and Zhou Ke could not be defeated by the thieves so quickly? Xiang Kang, that little traitor, how many troops did he send to pursue this king? ”