Chapter 189: It's better to be famous than to meet
On behalf of the main force of the Han army, he first contacted Xiang Kang to negotiate, and Han Xin, the brother of Han Cheng, the king of Han, is definitely the best choice! There is no other reason, when he was in Pengcheng, he heard that Han Xin turned out to be Han Cheng's brother, the famous snobbish Xiang Kang not only immediately changed his attitude towards Han Cheng, but also pulled the relationship and sent weapons desperately, but also praised Han Xin, who had never met, every word was full of admiration, Han Cheng was very impressed by this, and he wanted to follow the main force of the young marshal army to pick up cheap, Han Cheng of course ordered Han Xin to go out first, and would not think about other people.
Han Xin himself is also very happy to accept this task, because Xiang Kang is now absolutely notorious all over the world, as long as he is a person who cares a little about current affairs, there is no one who does not know that the old Xiang family of Chu has a villain, one day earlier than Chen Sheng and Wu Guang, he raised an army against Qin, recovered a large area of the old land of Chu, bullied the Great Qin army in the Huaisi area to tears, and defeated the partial division sent by Zhang Han many times, creating countless battlefield miracles. Therefore, Han Xin not only admired Xiang Kang more, but also admired it very much, so naturally he would not refuse the opportunity to meet Xiang Kang as soon as possible.
Of course, Han Xin was also very puzzled, he didn't understand how Xiang Kang, who was thousands of miles away, knew that he was a nobody, and he still admired himself very much in and out of his words?
The mystery finally came to the moment of unraveling, and after quickly settling down the more than 1,000 rabble he brought, Han Xin rushed to the door of the young marshal's camp for the first time to ask for a meeting, and what flattered Han Xin was that Xiang Kang, who was famous all over the world, personally came to the gate of the camp with the main civil and military forces of the young marshal army to greet him, and when Han Xin hurriedly stepped forward to salute, Xiang Kang couldn't wait to stop Han Xin, took Han Xin's hand and said happily: "The general doesn't have to be polite, I have heard the general's name for a long time, like thunder, I can see it today, Xiang is really fortunate in three lives." ”
"The right general has said it." Han Xin hurriedly and modestly said very sincerely: "Han is just an unknown person, how dare he be the right general to make such a comment?" On the contrary, the prestige of General Right is known to everyone in the world, and no one knows it, and Han Xin can be summoned by General You, which is the real luck of Sansheng. ”
"The general is modest, modest." Xiang Kang laughed, pulled Han Xin up and walked to the camp, and said excitedly: "General Han Xin, please come inside, the banquet has been prepared, we must have a good drink today." ”
Not to mention, the first impression left by this Han Xin on Xiang Kang is really quite good, he is eight feet five inches tall (Qin ruler, one point and nine or six meters), almost a head taller than Xiang Kang of medium stature, with a good face and a good appearance, and his gestures are quite general-like, how do you look like the legendary soldier Han Xin, so Xiang Kang, who has been extremely sparse in history, in addition to being extremely affectionate to Han Xin in his speech, he also made up his mind early and was ready to pull Han Xin over at all costs.
On the contrary to Xiang Kang, the main civil and military forces of the young marshal army are not so cold to Han Xin, especially Xiang Kang's most trusted Uncle Zhou in military affairs, and he is even more unconvinced by Han Xin. Defeated those tyrannical Qin armies? ”
Uncle Zhou's question just scratched the itch in Han Xin's heart, and he immediately replied quite triumphantly: "Let General Zhou laugh, although Han Xin was mistaken by Brother Wang and was used as a general, but because we started the army too late, Brother Wang has not many troops in his hands, and I have never had the opportunity to command the army alone, only the battle against Yanling was my own responsibility, fortunately, I did not disappoint Brother Wang, and finally took Yanling by luck and captured some grain and grass and military supplies." ”
"Yan Ling?" Xiang Kang next to him said in his heart, why don't I remember that Yingchuan has a county called Yanling? Puzzled, Xiang Kang also subconsciously looked at the map of Yingchuan hanging in the tent, but the result may be that it was dark and the light was too poor, and Xiang Kang still did not find the name of Yanling on the map.
"There is no Yanling City?" Ding Ji, who happened to be sitting next to the map, was also confused, looked back at the map and looked around, and asked curiously, "Where is Yanling City?" ”
"Yanling is not a county seat." Yu Que, a demoted official who is familiar with the geography of Yingchuan, took over the conversation and introduced: "Yanling is a market in the southeast of Changshe, because it is protected by the city wall, so the locals of Yingchuan like to call him Yanling City. ”
The young marshal army present couldn't help laughing, Han Xin also found that something was wrong, and hurriedly added: "In addition, in Xuxian, Xiangcheng and Xinzheng and other places, Han also led the troops to defeat the violent Qin defenders who went out of the city to fight. ”
Uncle Zhou was silent, he really couldn't understand how Han Xin's insignificant achievements could be worthy of Xiang Kang's attention, Xiang Kang was also a little strange, he didn't understand how the legendary soldier immortal Han Xin was so proud of such a small victory. But after thinking about it, Xiang Kang coaxed himself again: "Don't worry, everyone needs to grow and experience in actual combat, Han Cheng raised his troops too late, and his subordinates are all a group of rabble, Han Xin can fight like this, which is quite good." ”
At this time, Han Xin, who vaguely found that the atmosphere was not right, had already changed the topic and explained to Xiang Kang: "General Right, there is something I must ask for your forgiveness, you send a letter to our king to temporarily contain the tyrannical Qin army of Changshe for you, Brother Wang originally wanted to do his best, but there was no way, the tyrannical Qin army of Changshe had already sent troops to the north to attack the main force of our army, our army was weak, and Fu Jiting had no danger to defend, so Brother Wang and Zhang Situ They could only temporarily make a decision to temporarily avoid the edge of the tyrannical Qin army, and take the main force to the north to meet with General You, Seek your help from the right general. Failed to achieve the instructions of the right general, and asked the right general not to mind. ”
"It's okay, it's a trifle." For the sake of the face of the soldier immortal Han Xin, Xiang Kang wiped this matter with a wave of his hand. However, after thinking about it for a while, Xiang Kang hurriedly asked again: "General Han, where is the violent Qin army that went north from Changshe now?" When will you catch up with your main force? ”
"This ......, the right general forgives, this general is not clear."
Han Xin's answer made Xiang Kang dumbfounded again, and Uncle Zhou next to him hurriedly said: "General Han, can you immediately send someone to contact your main force and find out the movements of the Tyrannical Qin army as soon as possible, this is very important to us. ”
"Very important to your army?" Han Xin asked suspiciously, and said, "Your army is strong and strong, so why do you care about the tyrannical Qin army that is chasing from Changshe?" ”
Uncle Zhou was also dumbfounded by Han Xin's rhetorical question, and said strangely: "General Han, don't you know that we are going to attack Yang Zhai?" The main force of the county soldiers of the Tyrannical Qin army actually went north from Changshe to pursue you, and we can just ask the main force of your army to lure them to a decisive battle? Defeated the main force of the county soldiers of the Tyrannical Qin army in the field battle, so that they could not return to Yang Zhai to defend the city, wouldn't it be much easier for us to attack Yang Zhai again? ”
Han Xin opened his mouth wide, and said with embarrassment on his face for a while: "It turns out that General Right is planning this, okay, no problem, the last general will immediately send someone back to contact the main force, please Brother Wang find out the movements of the Tyrant Qin army as soon as possible, and try to lure the Tyrant Qin army to fight with you as much as possible." ”
After that, Han Xin really immediately ordered the servants, asked the servants to return to the camp immediately to deliver the order, and sent people to contact the main force of the Han army. Xiang Kang, who was sitting in the middle of the main seat, was inexplicable, and couldn't help but say in his heart: "Even if a famous general needs time to grow, Han Xin's starting point is too low, right?" ”
Then, Uncle Zhou, who always remembered Xiang Kang's advice, tried Han Xin many times, and tried to understand Han Xin's ability to use troops, but Han Xin turned out to be decent, although there were no major omissions, but there were no bright spots, and his understanding of strategy and tactics could only be ranked in the second rank at most, not to mention that Uncle Zhou, who was not as talented as Tianzhong, and even Long He and Zhong Li, who were still accumulating military merits under Xiang Kang, could not catch up. As a result, although Xiang Kang's face was impassive, he wondered in his heart, "What the hell is going on?" This is also considered a soldier immortal? ”
"Let's take a look again, maybe Han Xin is only good at actual combat, not good at talking on paper." In the end, Xiang Kang could only comfort himself like this, and ended the banquet for his idol Han Xin with a strange stomach.
In the early morning of the next day, the main force of the Korean army, which was about 8,000 troops, also caught up with the main force of the young marshal's army, out of trust in Xiang Kang, Han Cheng and Zhang Liang also visited Xiang Kang at the first time, and after exchanging a farewell, Zhang Liang asked Xiang Kang with a shameful face: "General right, forgive me, yesterday our army scouted mistakes, and just found that the violent Qin army of Changshe had signs of gathering and immediately reported to our king, causing our king to mistakenly think that the violent Qin army was going north to pursue our army, so he could only leave Fu Jiting immediately to avoid the edge, But in fact, the tyrannical Qin army of Changshe did not go north, so we can't lure them to fight you in a decisive battle. ”
He had long suspected that Han Xin didn't tell the truth last night, Xiang Kang could only sigh, and then said very generously: "Uncle Zhang doesn't have to mind, forget if the Tyrannical Qin army doesn't come, we just need to hurry up and rush to Yangzhai as soon as possible, and don't give them the opportunity to rush back to Yang Zhai first." ”
Zhang Liang nodded hurriedly, and took the initiative to express his willingness to lead the main force of the Han army with Han Cheng as the pioneer and lead the way to attack Yangzhai, but unfortunately Xiang Kang couldn't believe the marching ability of Han Cheng's rabble, and under the pretext that the main force of the Han army was tired from afar, he insisted on letting the young marshal army continue to go first, rush to Yangzhai as soon as possible, and let Han Cheng and Zhang Liang lead the army behind. Zhang Liang and Han Cheng, who were outnumbered, did not dare to insist, and immediately obediently agreed to Xiang Kang's request.
There is also something that makes Xiang Kang sad, during the camp of the young marshal's army, when Xiang Kang casually asked about the situation of Zhang Liang's family Han Li, who had helped him a lot, Zhang Liang told Xiang Kang with a sad expression, saying that Han Li, whose real name is Zhang Li, had unfortunately died in Xu County.
Then, of course, Xiang Kang did not dare to waste any more time, and took the main force of the young marshal's army all the way to the outskirts of Yangzhai City, and personally led the army to guard the city. Xiang Kang did not hesitate when he saw this, and quickly went to the bank of Yingshui to explore the hydrology, and adopted Uncle Zhou's suggestion, and decided to storm the Yingshui ferry in the eastern suburbs of Yangzhai and forcibly cross the river, saving time and showing off the military might, as well as the living force that tried to kill and injure the enemy outside the city.
A day later, the main force of the young marshal army quickly prepared to rush to the ferry, during which the main force of the Han army also arrived at the Yingshui ferry under the leadership of Han Cheng and Zhang Liang and others, but just when the main force of the young marshal army was about to launch a rush to cross, the scout flew to report that the Qin army rescue troops led by Cheng Xu Wei of Yingchuan County also rushed to within twenty miles east of the ferry. As a result, it was clear that the Qin army had only more than 6,000 reinforcements, and the young marshal and all the generals immediately asked for orders to lead their headquarters to defeat the Qin army reinforcements for Xiang Kang.
After thinking carefully for a moment, Xiang Kang made up his mind and said, "Let's concentrate on rushing and letting Han Cheng and them deal with the violent Qin reinforcements, I want to take a closer look at what kind of quality our friendly army is." ”
"Right General, it would be better to place an army on both flanks of our position." Uncle Zhou suggested: "Otherwise, if the South Korean army is not in a good position, it will be troublesome if the defeated army disrupts our ranks." ”
For safety reasons, Xiang Kang still nodded and agreed to Uncle Zhou's suggestion, and immediately ordered Li Shang and Ding Ji to lead an army to garrison the two flanks of the position to prevent any eventuality, and ordered Zhou Shu and Long He to lead the troops to take on the heavy task of rushing to cross, and lead the main force to respond in the center, calmly meet the enemy on two fronts, and fight separately.
In a short time, the rush began, and nearly 1,000 young marshal soldiers under the command of Long He drove large and small boats, shouting and swaying towards the west bank of Yingshui, the Qin army on the west bank was like rain, but it still could not stop the brave impact of the young marshal soldiers, and the fleet quickly crossed the center of the river and gradually approached the west bank. At the same time, at the request of Xiang Kang, Han Cheng and Han Xin also led the main force of the Han army to form a formation and intercept the Qin reinforcements coming from the east.
God gave Han Xin the opportunity to perform in front of Xiang Kang, seeing that the young marshal's army had launched a rush to cross, in order to share the pressure on the defenders on the west bank, Xu Wei of Yingchuan County, who had only more than 6,000 troops in his hands, still resolutely launched an attack on the ferry, and also ran into the interceptors of the Korean army. As a result, seeing this situation, Xiang Kang no longer cared about the situation of the crossing, and only focused on paying attention to the battle between the Han army and the Qin army.
It's a pity that on the battlefield, the performance of the main force of the Korean army led by the soldier Han Xin made Xiang Kang fall through the glasses, and before the Qin army rushed into the range, the soldiers of the Han army had already hurriedly released arrows under the command of Lingqi, wasting a large number of arrows and not achieving much effect, and then when the soldiers of the Qin army rushed to the Korean army in close combat against the rain of arrows, the Chinese defense line of the Korean army, which was obviously not strict enough, quickly bent back, completely exposing their rabble nature. At the same time, what Xiang Kang couldn't understand was that the position of the Chinese army had just been tightened, and Han Cheng and Han Xin immediately commanded the troops on both flanks to flank the front of the Qin army, regardless of the fact that the Qin army still had sufficient reserves available, as if they only planned to force back the front team of the Qin army without considering the reaction of the rear team of the Qin army.
"It's a typical rogue tactic." Chao Zhi, who was better at battle next to him, made an evaluation and said: "I just like to bully people with more people, if I can quickly defeat the front army of the tyrannical Qin army, then it's easy to say anything." If the front army of the Tyrannical Qin army survived this wave of onslaught, held on for a while, and waited for the rear army to find an opportunity to make a move, Han Cheng and them would definitely be defeated. ”
Xiang Kang was silent, and only after a while muttered in his heart, "This is the use of soldiers by the soldiers?" If Han Xin is at this level, I don't want such a soldier. ”
Having said that, the performance of the main force of the South Korean army is actually not completely useless, at least the morale and fighting spirit are relatively high, although some disregard for the head and tail, prematurely invested the troops of the two wings, but relying on the local strength advantage, Han Cheng and Han Xin's rabble still fought vigorously for a time, and the front team of the Qin army that was attacked on three sides was out of breath, but as the battle continued, the front team of the Qin army, which had a relative advantage in weapons and equipment, gradually formed a circle formation, and the soldiers of the Korean army gradually ran out of options. was blocked by the Qin army outside the circle formation, and no matter how much the impact was, it could not break through the small circle formation of the Qin army.
Then, as Chao Zhi predicted, when the morale of the Korean army gradually began to fail, Cheng Xu Wei of Yingchuan County, who was obviously good at battle battles, decisively dispatched the troops on both wings, and in turn attacked the two wings of the front team of the Korean army, joined forces with the trapped front team, and attacked the Korean soldiers and soldiers inside and outside, and soon reversed the situation on the battlefield and gradually gained the upper hand.
If Xiang Kang encountered such a situation, he would definitely let the rear team stabilize their positions in order to cover the retreat when the front army lost, but the so-called soldier Han Xin once again made Xiang Kang fall through the glasses, and he recklessly sounded the drum of the general offensive war, so that the rear team of the Korean army would attack in a vain attempt to turn the tide of the war by relying on local strength advantages. Seeing this scene, Xiang Kang could only sigh and said: "Sure enough, it's better to be famous than to meet, and it's better to be famous than to meet." ”
Fortunately, the main force of the South Korean army was a mess on the eastern front, but the battlefield on the western front in charge of the young marshal's army was full of joy, and two waves of river-crossing troops successfully rushed to the west bank of Yingshui, occupying a large area of the west bank position, and also beat the Qin army reserves that were hurriedly dispatched to the ground looking for teeth, retreating in embarrassment, and the success of the crossing has seen the light of day. Therefore, Xiang Kang was not in a hurry, but he just went to order the soldiers on both wings early, so that Ding Ji and Li Shang would immediately dispatch after the rout of the main force of the Han army to flank the pursuers of the Qin army, so as not to drive out the rabble under Han Cheng as the free forward, and disrupt the Chinese position of the young marshal's army - that Xiang Kang had to slaughter Han Cheng with one sword!
As expected, when the third wave of the young marshal's army successfully rushed to the west bank of Yingshui, the rear team of the Qin army on the battlefield on the eastern front really sounded the drums of marching and fighting, maintaining a strict formation and slowly approaching the battlefield of the front army that had been fighting in the dark.
After the defeat, the main force of the Korean army really fled directly to the position of the Chinese army of the young marshal army for help, while the Qin army was just the front team in a chaotic formation to pursue it with all its might, and the rear army still maintained a strict formation to prevent any eventuality. The result was also okay, the young marshal army on both wings was very decisive and immediately killed, one left and one right to attack the Qin army's pursuers, which did not make the Korean army defeated panic, and directly rushed the Chinese position of the young marshal's army.
The battle situation reversed again, the experienced young marshal army officers and soldiers attacked like a tide, only one photo of the Qin army's pursuers rushed people on their backs, screaming constantly, although the Yingchuan Qin army, which had been bullying the little thieves in Yingchuan County, also resisted hard, but still could not stop the fierce offensive of the young marshal army, and was soon forced to retreat, Ding Ji and Li Shang's second general were in hot pursuit, forcing the Qin army's rear team to quickly change formation, set up a circle formation to resist the impact of the young marshal's army, and cover the retreat of the front army to reorganize the team.
At the same time, after Han Cheng left Han Xin and Zhang Liang to reorganize the army, he also came to Xiang Kang breathlessly, but saw that the young marshal's army had crossed the river in large numbers on the high ground and basically controlled the Yingshui ferry. Xiang Kang didn't bother to pay attention to Han Cheng's flattery, and just asked directly: "May I ask King Han, just now your army launched a general attack, I don't know if it was your decision, or did you listen to other people's suggestions?" ”
"It's the suggestion of Han Xin, the widow brother." Han Cheng replied: "Shicai Xindi thinks that our front army is tight, and if the stalemate continues, it will inevitably be defeated, so he suggested launching a general attack to gamble, and the widow followed his advice in order to retreat the violent Qin army for the right general as much as possible." ”
Xiang Kang was completely speechless, and only after a while did he say in his heart: "At most, second-rate level, such Han Xin, I don't want it." ”