Zhang Han's use of troops was as cautious as in the legend, even if the young marshal army demolished the city wall of Xiangyi when it retreated eastward, he directly made it clear early that he wanted to make a fuss about the Qin army's grain road, and at the same time, the strength of the Qin army was also nearly four times that of the young marshal army and the anti-Qin coalition army, but Zhang Han still kept in mind the principle of the soldiers who attacked and surrounded the five sieges, and refused to take the risk of dividing the troops to surround the camp of the young marshal army and the anti-Qin coalition army on all sides, and chose to set up camp in the west of Suiyang, preparing to concentrate superior forces and break the enemy with a frontal attack.

On the third day of arriving at the Suiyang battlefield, after some intensive and rigorous preparations, Zhang Han dispatched 120,000 troops in one go, and the troops launched an attack in two ways.

knew that Zhang Han wanted to cut off his wings, hit his military morale, and then free up his hands to deal with himself, but Xiang Kang had no way to crack Zhang Han's strategy, so he could only command the army to stick to the camp, and at the same time prepare in advance to send troops to reinforce the friendly camp. And Yingbu, Lu Chen, and Wei Bao did not dare to slack off, and all went to the front line to boost morale, and commanded the soldiers of the army to defend the camp to the death.

The battle entered the white-hot from the beginning, the Qin army led by Dong Fei directly invested 4,000 crossbowmen to start a long-range battle with the young marshal army, covering the trebuchet of the Qin army to go forward and attack with stones, the young marshal army also used bows and crossbows and trebuchets to return the color, and the Qin army was smashed to the earth, the sun and the moon were dark, although they did not fall into the downwind, but they could not repel the enemy.

The battle on the side of the camp of the anti-Qin coalition army was more intense, the main force of the Qin army, which had an absolute advantage in strength, launched a fierce attack from the east, west and north at the same time, the dense feather arrows almost obscured the early spring sun, and the flying rocks in the sky smashed the camp wall and the sheep and horse wall that the anti-Qin coalition army had worked hard to pile up, and there were potholes everywhere.

Under the cover of long-range weapons, the main force of the Qin army, which had strong troops, dispatched tens of thousands of infantry in one breath, divided into ten teams, taking turns to carry sandbags and firewood bundles forward, to fill the trench outside the north gate of the anti-Qin coalition army camp, although Lu Chen's department responsible for guarding the north gate also desperately released arrows to stop, but the Qin army's attitude of filling the trench was very resolute, and any soldier who dared to throw down the sandbags and firewood bundles and retreat would be immediately beheaded on the spot by the Qin army's warlord, coupled with the crazy suppression of the Qin army's bow and crossbow, Therefore, countless bundles of firewood and sandbags were still thrown into the anti-Qin coalition army's camp protection trenches, gradually accumulating and filling up many sections of camp protection trenches.

Seeing that the situation was critical, Lu Chen could only use the reserve team to step forward early to help shoot, in a vain attempt to prevent the Qin army from continuing to fill the trench, but the tenacity of the Qin army soldiers made the soldiers of the Lu Chen army staggered, completely like a group of single-celled organisms, blindly just carrying soil and stone firewood bundles forward, frantically filling the two protective trenches that the anti-Qin coalition army had worked hard to dig, unless he was killed directly, even if he was injured by an arrow, he would never retreat, no matter how he had to throw the bundle of earth and stone firewood into the trench, and even the corpse of the Qin soldier who fell next to the trench was also pushed into the trench, Pave the way forward for the attacking army.

Unable to withstand the desperate stuffing of the Qin army's soldiers, the two camping trenches outside the north gate were quickly filled with a number of roads that could be passed directly, Zhang Han did not hesitate, and immediately dispatched 3,000 troops to knock on the north gate of the anti-Qin coalition army's camp, and the Qin army outside the east and west gates also sent troops at the same time, carrying a large number of pontoon bridges to rush forward to build a bridge across the river, so that the anti-Qin coalition forces at the east and west gates could not free up their hands to reinforce the north gate.

When shooting at a distance, no matter how many casualties the Lu Chen army had, it could barely support it, but when it came to the attack and defense of the camp wall, the Lu Chen army soon felt extremely difficult, even if Lu Chen sent the most elite army under his command to the camp wall to guard, but the soldiers of the Qin army still shouted and rushed to the camp wall one after another, rushing the defense line of the Lu Chen army to the ground, and there was an emergency everywhere, and Lu Chen could only quickly send an envoy to Xiang Kang to report the emergency, asking Xiang Kang to send troops to reinforcements quickly, Xiang Kang was helpless, In order not to let the fiasco of the friendly army shake and hit the morale of his army, he could only immediately send Zhu Jishi to rescue Lu Chen.

Xiang Kang's decisive decision saved the camp of the anti-Qin coalition army, Zhu Jishi and the young marshal soldiers had just passed the camp to join the battlefield, and Zhang Han had already dispatched two thousand Longxi elites to strengthen the attack, fortunately, Zhu Jishi's army landed on the wall in time to help the Lu Chen army withstand this wave of fierce counterattacks of the Qin army, and the camp of the anti-Qin coalition army was not directly broken by the Qin army. But in this way, Zhu Jishi's subordinates no longer had the opportunity to remove the camp wall to rest, and were forced to die on the front line, fighting to the death with the Qin army that rushed in turn, and the losses were not small.

Zhang Han never gave up the frontal assault on the north gate of the camp of the anti-Qin coalition army, in addition to letting the army take turns to attack the camp wall, but also never gave up filling the trench, and as the trench was filled in more and more, the attack surface of the Qin army attacking the camp became wider and wider, and the pressure on Zhu Jishi was also increasing, and he had to fight with the soldiers of the Qin army who rushed to him with his life almost every minute and second, and he could not get any chance to rest.

The combat effectiveness of the young marshal's army is indeed stronger than that of Lu Chen's rabble, but compared with the Qin army, it is even inferior to the ordinary Qin army, which is mainly composed of Lishan prisoners, let alone Zhang Han's trump card Longxi elite. Therefore, even if Zhu Jishi's department has a condescending geographical advantage, after being repeatedly consumed by the soldiers of the Qin army who came forward in turn, it is still gradually unable to parry, forcing Zhu Jishi to send someone back to the camp to report the situation to Xiang Kang in order to prevent accidents, and ask Xiang Kang to send reinforcements again.

"Why did Zhu Jishi ask me for help so quickly?"

Complaining with great annoyance, and then looking at the anti-Qin coalition camp that was fighting in the dark, Xiang Kang suddenly woke up and blurted out: "Is Zhang Handpifu doing it on purpose?" He knew that the armies of Lü Chen, Yingbu and Wei Bao were not as good as my army, so he deliberately attacked them again and again, forcing me to send troops to reinforce Lü Chen and them again and again, so that I could consume the army in Lü Chen's camp and then calmly attack me? ”

After finally waking up to Zhang Han's intentions, Xiang Kang only thought about it for a moment, and immediately instructed Xiang Zhuang: "Brother, you bring six thousand troops over, and no matter what, you must help Zhu Jishi defend Lu Chen's camp." ”

"Brother, I'm leaving, what if there is danger on your side?" Xiang Zhuang asked worriedly.

"It's okay, I'm facing a tyrannical Qin division here, and I can hold it." Xiang Kang shook his head and said again: "Go quickly, first help Lu Chen and them survive today, and then we will find a way to solve the problem that friendly troops will be attacked by the Tyrannical Qin army." ”

Xiang Zhuang had no choice but to hurriedly allocate troops and horses, and went out from Beiying with 6,000 young marshals to rescue friendly troops whose combat effectiveness was completely unreliable. And after Zhang Han Yaoyao saw this situation, he immediately snorted coldly, "Smart enough, I saw General Ben's intention so quickly, and directly dispatched a sufficient number of troops to reinforce the other thief armies." But it's useless, as long as there are waste thieves like Lu Chen and Wei Bao, they will always be your flaws and weaknesses. ”

Today's battle, on the surface, it seems that the Qin army is the main attack on the camp of the anti-Qin coalition army, and the main force of the young marshal army is just a feint, but in fact, this battle is completely the young marshal army soldiers are fighting hard, in order to help the friendly army to hold the camp, Zhu Jishi and Xiang Zhuang's young marshal army officers and soldiers one after another, take turns to fight to the death on the wall, and the Qin army is bloody and fleshy, with heavy casualties, and pay a very huge price, and finally persevered until it was slightly dark, forcing the Qin army to withdraw and go back to rest. During this period, although the three servant armies of the Young Marshal Army also fought desperately, their combat effectiveness was limited, and their role was not very large, and they could not share too much pressure on the officers and men of the Young Marshal Army.

In this way, between the officers and men of the young marshal army and the officers and men of the anti-Qin coalition army, of course, there are some estrangements and contradictions, the officers and men of the young marshal army complain and ridicule the incompetence of the friendly army, and are dissatisfied with the friendly army, but the anti-Qin coalition army is very aggrieved, and they feel that they have also shed blood and sweat, and they have made great efforts, why should they be mocked and looked down upon by the soldiers of the young marshal? is also a little dissatisfied with the young marshal's army, and there are gaps.

Because of this situation, that night, Yingbu, Lu Chen and Wei Bao also hurriedly got together to discuss, during which the three of them also calmly admitted that their army was indeed not as good as the young marshal's army, and without the help of the young marshal's army, it would be impossible for the self-army to hold the camp, but they still didn't want to take the initiative to ask Xiang Kang to take over and become Xiang Kang's subordinate generals, just wanted to ask Xiang Kang to agree to let his army move to the young marshal's barracks to avoid becoming the target of the Qin army's key attack.

But a new problem has come again, since he is unwilling to accept Xiang Kang's incorporation, how can Xiang Kang dare to let Lu Chen and other troops enter his camp and become his confidants? Besides, the total strength of the anti-Qin coalition army reached more than 13,000 people, and hastily moving the camp to the camp of the young marshal army would definitely disrupt the battalion defense deployment of the young marshal army, and Xiang Kang was certainly even more unlikely to agree.

When they were worried together, news came from the camp gate, saying that the Qin army had sent an envoy to deliver the letter, and there was a handwritten letter from Zhang Han to be handed over to Lu Chen. Out of curiosity, Lu Chen agreed to accept the letter, but after carefully reading Zhang Han's letter, Lu Chen immediately scolded, it turned out that Zhang Han's letter turned out to be to sow discord, saying that Xiang Kang refused to let Lu Chen, Yingbu and Wei Bao's army enter the camp of the young marshal's army, because he couldn't trust Lu Chen and others, and sooner or later he would abandon Lu Chen and others as outcasts, and persuade Lu Chen and others to defect, and suddenly gave Xiang Kang a knife from behind, took Xiang Kang's head to himself to ask for merit and reward, and enjoyed the glory and wealth rewarded by the Great Qin court.

"Zhang Handpifu, it seems that he really wants to hold us back." Yingbu sighed: "If we continue to be stationed here, Zhang Handpifu will definitely concentrate his forces to attack our camp in the future, forcing us to ask for help from Young Marshal Xiang, and it won't be long before Young Marshal Xiang doesn't say anything, his subordinates will definitely have conflicts with us." ”

Wei Bao, who understood this truth very well, was silent together, and they were also helpless, and then at this time, another soldier came from outside the tent to report, saying that it was Xiang Kang's newly appointed counselor Li Shiqi who had come to the camp to ask for a meeting, and he wanted to discuss something important with Lu Chen, Yingbu, and Wei Bao on behalf of Xiang Kang. - By the way, when he saw the official document signed by Li Shiqi in the army, Xiang Kangcai, the king of white characters, finally knew that he had inadvertently caught a big fish, and at the same time immediately made up his mind to let Li Shiqi replace Xu Shu and become his own diplomatic liar.

Eating people and having a soft mouth, owing Xiang Kang so much favor, of course, Lu Chen, Yingbu and Wei Bao went to the gate of the camp to greet Li Shiqi in person, and after respectfully inviting Li Shiqi into Lu Chen's military tent, Lu Chen also took the initiative to hand over Zhang Han's letter. Li Shiqi smiled after reading it, and said very eloquently: "Zhang Han Zhuzi, it's just a fool's dream, General Lu Chen, you avenged the old master, and personally killed the traitor Zhuang Jia who betrayed King Zhang Chu, the name of loyalty and righteousness has long been famous all over the world, Zhang Han Zhuzi actually dared to be whimsical, and came to General Lu to bring humiliation on yourself." ”

Pleased to be praised by Li Shiqi, Lu Chen hurriedly said: "Thank you Mr. Li for your false praise, I have already ordered someone to take down the Tyrant Qin Envoy, and I will ask Mr. to take the Tyrant Qin Envoy back to Xiang Shaoshuai and ask him to send it at will." ”

"I'm not busy with this matter, I'll talk about it later." Li Shiqi shook his head and said with a smile: "Three generals, the old man came to the camp this time to apologize to you on behalf of Young Marshal Xiang. ”

"Young Marshal Xiang apologizes to us?" Lu Chen, Yingbu and the others listened to it, and they all said: "Young Marshal Xiang is sorry for us there, why should he apologize to us?" ”

"Our young marshal Xiang didn't think well before, and you fell into danger, so I must apologize to you three generals." Li Shiqi said very sincerely: "Young Marshal Xiang, he considered that you are a friendly guest army, and for the sake of command convenience, he did not let you bring the army into our camp and arranged for you to set up another camp, but he didn't expect that doing so would cause you to become the main target of Zhang Handpifu, so that you would be forced to resist the main force of the tyrannical Qin with weak forces, and completely fall into a passive disadvantage. This is a mistake in his thinking, so he asks the old man to apologize to you on his behalf. ”

"The young marshal is so polite." Lu Chen said movingly: "Setting up camp alone is actually a request made by us ourselves, how can we still make Young Marshal Xiang apologize to us for this?" Besides, if it weren't for Young Marshal Xiang to send troops and reinforcements in time, I'm afraid that our camp would have been breached by the Tyrannical Qin army today, and it would be too late for us to thank him, how could we make him apologize? ”

Ying Bu and Wei Bao echoed one after another, all honestly admitting that this matter had nothing to do with Xiang Kang, while Li Shiqi waved his thin old hand and said, "The three generals don't have to be modest, it is the fault of our Young Marshal Xiang that they did not stop you from setting up camp alone, so about this matter, our Young Marshal Xiang must apologize to you." Also, in order to make up for his previous mistakes, Young Marshal Xiang also asked the old man to ask you to adjust the camp, so that you would not be directly targeted by the main force of Tyranny Qin again. ”

"Young Marshal Xiang wants us to adjust the camp? How to adjust? ”

Lu Chen couldn't wait to ask, and he couldn't wait for Xiang Kang to take the initiative to ask his army to move to the camp of the young marshal's army, but what made Lu Chen, Yingbu and Wei Bao couldn't believe it at all was that Li Shiqi suddenly pointed in the direction of Suiyang City and said: "The young marshal wants to ask the three generals to lead the troops into Suiyang City and take on the important task of defending the city for our army." ”

"Young Marshal Xiang asked us to camp in the city?"

Lu Chen was so surprised that he couldn't believe his ears, Yingbu and Wei Bao were also surprised, and hurriedly said, "How can this work?" When we entered the city, wouldn't Young Marshal Xiang's soldiers and horses have to bear the burden of confronting the tyrannical Qin army head-on? ”

"Such a heavy burden, of course, cannot be borne by our army alone." Li Shiqi smiled and said: "After the three generals enter the city, please be ready to attack and rescue at all times, and when you see that the situation of our army is critical, I hope you will send reinforcements in time." Of course, if Zhang Handpifu sends troops to attack the city, our army will also send troops to attack the back of the tyrannical Qin army in time to share the pressure for you. In this way, the two armies of yours and ours are fighting each other, wouldn't it be better to compete with the tyrannical Qin army? ”

Li Shiqi is indeed a genius in negotiations, if he asks Lu Chen, Yingbu and Wei Bao to enter Suiyang City as soon as he comes up, Lu Chen and the others will definitely immediately feel that Xiang Kang is looking down on them, and wants to drive them into the city so as not to continue to pull the young marshal's army back. But Li Shiqi turned against the host as a guest, first said something to apologize for Xiang Kang, and then politely persuaded Lu Chen and others to move to Suiyang City, Lu Chen and the others did not lose their self-esteem, and of course they would not cause any extraneous branches. So just a few humble words with Li Shiqi, Lu Chen and the others happily agreed to lead the army into the city, and no longer became a flaw and weakness in the defense line of the young marshal's army.

The matter is not over, after agreeing on entering the city, Li Shiqi said to Wei Bao again: "There is another thing I want to ask you for, your subordinate Uncle Zhou, who had previously predicted that Zhang Handpifu would come to Suiyang this time, and he would emphasize the former power and ignore the reserve, exposing the weakness of the grain road, and now this matter has been fulfilled." After your army entered the city, it is inconvenient to contact each other, in order to facilitate the future grain robbery and food shortage, our young marshal Xiang would like to ask you to temporarily lend General Zhou, who is familiar with the situation in Dangjun, to him for a period of time, so that he can help us at any time Young Marshal Xiang formulate a plan for grain robbery. ”

"Okay, okay, no problem." Wei Bao, who didn't like Uncle Zhou at all, agreed, and said, "I'll arrange for Uncle Zhou to come to the camp when I go back, and let him go to Young Marshal Xiang's account to listen to it for the time being." ”

In this way, under the skillful persuasion of Li Shiqi, in the second half of the night, the anti-Qin coalition army hurriedly pulled out the camp and moved, and stationed in Suiyang City, which had the smallest danger factor, overnight, and at the same time, Wei Bao's general Zhou Shu also temporarily entered Xiang Kang's army and was used by Xiang Kang as a temporary staff officer. And when the news of the anti-Qin coalition army stationed in Suiyang City was reported to Zhang Han, Zhang Han was stunned at first, and then couldn't help but sigh and said, "Xiang Kang, this traitor, is really extraordinary!" I didn't expect him to have the courage to let other weak bandit troops enter the city and station themselves to deal with the frontal attack of our army alone. ”

Sigh to sigh, in order to seize this rare opportunity to completely annihilate the main force of the young marshal's army, a day later, Zhang Han personally commanded the troops and launched an attack again. However, when it was still time to really storm the camp of the young marshal's army, Zhang Han found that it was definitely not so easy to take the camp of the young marshal army by attacking it head-on, and he had to pay an immeasurable price.

In the fierce battle, the young marshal soldiers who no longer had to worry about the safety of the friendly army had no distractions, and shot the Qin soldiers who stepped forward to fill the trench with strong bows and crossbows to suffer heavy losses, so that the Qin army paid a heavy price to barely open a few roads to advance, and when the Qin army launched an ant-attached attack, the young marshal soldiers with strong troops relied on the favorable terrain of water in the south and the city in the east, and took turns in the two battlefields in the northwest where they could only withstand the enemy, and attacked the Qin army's attacking troops head-on, beating the Qin army's casualties even more heavily, and the corpses were even more accumulated.

What made Zhang Han even more angry was that because of Xiang Kang's favor, the armies of Yingbu, Lu Chen and Wei Bao, in order to repay their kindness, really sent troops from the city in a fierce battle to raid the flank of the Qin army's attacking troops, sharing huge pressure for the young marshal's army. Although Zhang Han easily divided his troops and defeated them, the righteous actions of the friendly troops still effectively stimulated the morale of the young marshal soldiers and made them fight more resolutely and defend more tenaciously.

Xiang Kang was a little surprised, and finally barely got the opportunity to attack the ant, and the Qin army, which was filling the trench while attacking the camp, took the initiative to give up the opportunity to quickly fill the trench of the young marshal's army to protect the camp. As a result, just when Xiang Kang felt inexplicable, Xiang Yang suddenly rushed to Xiang Kang with a face full of ecstasy, and shouted loudly: "Brother! Here it comes! Second Uncle's reinforcements are finally here! I have arrived in Yuxiang, and it is only less than fifty miles away from Suiyang! ”

"No wonder Zhang Handpifu suddenly retreated." Xiang Kang suddenly realized, and then he was also excited in his heart, and said secretly: "It's finally here, this time it's not only more certain to hold Suiyang, maybe there is also hope to create a miracle and repel Zhang Han's main force head-on." ”