Time turned back slightly, returning to Xiang Liang's Chu army camp and Yingbu, Lu Chen, and others' anti-Qin coalition army camp, both of which were broken through by the Qin army in one fell swoop.

Standing on the high ground in the camp of the young marshal's army, Xiang Kang saw his uncle Xiang Liang's camp fire with his own eyes, and the crowd of Qin soldiers with dense torches killed in the Qin military camp, Xiang Kang's heart was like a knife, and he was extremely worried about the safety of the hero's second uncle Xiang Liang, but he was helpless, even if he knew that Xiang Liang was in danger, he had no way to send reinforcements to reinforce Xiang Liang.

Xiang Kang really couldn't help it this time, the Qin army moved too suddenly, in the camp of the young marshal army, only Feng Zhong's department, which was at the second-line level in combat effectiveness, had some preparations in advance, and entered the camp battle in time, sacrificing his life to block the Qin army's assault charge, and it was impossible to pull out to rescue Xiang Liang. Several other teams of young marshals, including the army directly under Xiang Kang, were all killed by the Qin army by surprise, the generals panicked and the soldiers panicked, and some soldiers who were too nervous ran out of the tent, almost causing a camp roar, and the generals and generals were panicking to restrain the soldiers, restore order and assemble the army, so naturally there was no way to immediately send troops to reinforce Xiang Liang.

Therefore, Xiang Kang couldn't, so he had to watch the movements of the battlefields nervously, while silently praying for God's blessing, so that his heroic second uncle could avoid this catastrophe and survive this crisis smoothly, and also prayed to the gods in the past to open their eyes and bless the Qin army's stray arrows to accurately hit his third uncle's throat or heart in the melee, helping the old Xiang family get rid of a disaster in advance.

Fortunately, although the combat effectiveness of Feng Zhong's department is poor, the number of troops is very sufficient, and there is some geographical advantage, so no matter how crazy the Qin army is, the young marshal soldiers under Feng Zhong still gritted their teeth and held the fence defense line, and never gave the Qin army any chance to enter the camp of the young marshal's army. As the other young marshal soldiers slowly passed the panic period of the sudden attack, and gradually gathered into an army to join the camp battle, the young marshal army camp gradually stabilized the situation, and began to be able to meet the Qin army's attacking troops in an orderly manner, basically shattering the Qin army's hope of breaking through the camp of the own army.

It was still at this time that Xiang Kang, who had been nervous in his heart, breathed a sigh of relief, and couldn't help wiping a cold sweat, and sighed: "Dangerous, if it weren't for Brother Feng's timely response and preparation, we would be in danger today." ”

"Young marshal, with all due respect, our danger is only the beginning." Uncle Zhou, the guest general next to him, still couldn't speak as always, and immediately stood up and poured cold water, saying: "Our friendly camps have been broken by the Tyrant Qin army, even if the terrain is open, it is impossible to be annihilated by the Tyrant Qin army, and it will definitely be defeated by the Tyrant Qin army and flee." When they are gone, all the pressure is concentrated on our army, so our danger is only the beginning. ”

Xiang Kang nodded slowly, looked at the camp of the Chu army and the camp of the anti-Qin coalition army that had already ignited the sky, and quickly made up his mind and said: "Survive tonight, hold on until the Tyrannical Qin army retreats and rest, we will retreat immediately, and we can no longer entangle with the Tyrannical Qin army here." ”

"Young Marshal, if you really plan to withdraw immediately, then the general suggests that we had better start from now on, make a fire and make rice immediately, and hurry up to make dry food rice balls, so that we can retreat at full speed." Uncle Zhou made another suggestion, and said: "Xiang Zhuguo and General Yingbu were defeated by the tyrannical Qin army overnight, and they definitely didn't have time to bring grain and grass cooking utensils, we can make as much dry food as possible, and we can also use it to reinforce them at any time, lest they retreat hungry and affect our eastward retreat." ”

Xiang Kang nodded, and immediately ordered the army directly under him to start making rice immediately, and directly lit a fire in the camp of the Chinese army to support the pot and make rice that was easier to process. And then, Xiang Kang directly patted Uncle Zhou's shoulder, and said very sincerely: "General Zhou, you are a great soldier, Wei Bao has no eyes, but he just uses you as an ordinary general, it is really too wronged to you." Come and help me, I can't treat you badly, Wei Bao I'll go and tell him, as long as he gives you to me, I can agree to whatever the conditions. ”

Uncle Zhou is not stupid, of course, he has long seen that Xiang Kang intends to win him over, and at the same time, Uncle Zhou is actually very moved by Xiang Kang's respect for himself, and his words are obedient, but as a general of the Wei army, Uncle Zhou, who attaches great importance to the word 'loyalty', is difficult to make up his mind to make the decision to betray the master, so after hesitating for a while, Uncle Zhou can only reply like this: "Thank you for the young marshal's wrong love, but this matter is too big, please give the young marshal a little time to think about it." ”

Xiang Kang continued to persuade very sincerely, but Uncle Zhou still couldn't make up his mind, Xiang Kang had no choice but to agree to let Uncle Zhou think about it for a while, while Chen Ping next to him was rolling his eyes, sometimes looking at Uncle Zhou, sometimes looking at the direction of Wei Bao's escape, and gradually made up his mind in his heart......

A rare spectacle appeared on the battlefield, outside the camp, the young marshal army and the soldiers of the Qin army fought bloodily, desperately attacking and defending, fighting so dark that flesh and blood were splashed. Inside the camp, countless young marshals and soldiers in armor were hurriedly lighting fires, washing rice and cooking rice, and they were also very busy. But fortunately, the young marshal soldiers who had improvised fortifications to defend finally blocked the attack of the Qin army, and persisted until it was all dark, and also persisted until the physical strength of the Qin army soldiers was seriously reduced, and they were forced to collect their troops and return to the camp to rest, surviving the catastrophe.

Although they successfully held the camp, when the Qin army was forced to retreat, there was not much cheering in the camp of the young marshal army, and many of the young marshal soldiers were so tired that they didn't even have the strength to cheer, and they just sat on the ground and gasped for breath. Xiang Kang didn't have time to count the losses, but hurriedly arranged for the Chinese army team that did not join the battle last night to temporarily take on the task of the rear army, carrying dry food and drinking water to distribute it everywhere, and at the same time hurriedly summoned several important generals of the young marshal's army, announced that he would immediately abandon the camp and go east after resting for an hour, covering the defeat of Xiang Liang and the anti-Qin coalition army to withdraw to Suiyang.

"Brother, isn't it too urgent?" Xiang Zhuang questioned and said: "Our soldiers didn't have a good rest last night, and after half a night of fighting, they only rested for an hour and immediately withdrew their troops, will it make our soldiers work too hard?" ”

"This time it can only be a soldier who has wronged us." Xiang Kang replied very directly, pointing to the Qin army camp in the distance and said: "If we don't hurry up and retreat immediately, when the army of the main force of the violent Qin relaxes, it will be too late for us to retreat." ”

"What if the Tyrannical Qin army launches a pursuit immediately?" Xiang Zhuang asked again.

"We'll talk about it then." Xiang Kang replied: "If nothing else, Zhang Han will definitely not let his tired main force immediately send troops to pursue, but will only let the rear army left in the camp last night to dispatch and delay our retreat, so when we just retreat, our pressure will definitely not be very great, and then as long as we find a way to get rid of the entanglement of the Tyrannical Qin army, we will hopefully open the distance with the Tyrannical Qin's main force and smoothly withdraw to Suiyang." ”

Seeing that Xiang Kang had made up his mind, and considering that once the main force of the Qin army recovered, the army would immediately face pressure heavier than the mountain, so Xiang Zhuang didn't say anything more. After Xiang Kang thought about it for a while, he immediately ordered: "Immediately arrange a messenger to ride a fast horse to the east to find our Xiang Zhuguo, first, to understand his current situation, and second, to ask him for orders, asking him to allow our army to withdraw to Suiyang immediately, and to take on the task of the palace to protect the whole army to withdraw to Suiyang." ”

"Young marshal, you seem to be doing this too much?" Feng Zhong smiled bitterly and said: "At this time, in addition to our army, there is also that army that can bear the heavy responsibility of the palace, why bother to go to Xiang Zhuguo to ask for an order?" ”

Xiang Kang glanced at Feng Zhong and said meaningfully: "Big brother, the situation is different now, it's not too much for me to do this." ”

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At the same time, after escorting many captives and leading the army to withdraw to the Qin army camp, Zhang Han didn't even have time to take a sip of water, and he didn't pay attention to the Qin army generals who rushed to congratulate him, but immediately instructed Dong Fei, who stayed in the camp last night: "General Dong, immediately draw 30,000 troops from the army that did not participate in the battle last night, bring enough dry food for two days, and find that Xiang Kang Xiao'er led the army to retreat eastward, and immediately send troops to pursue, be sure to entangle Xiang Kang Xiao'er's thief army, so that he can't retreat at full speed, Give our main force back to reinforce you and buy you time. ”

"General, it's impossible for Xiang Kang Xiao'er to retreat so quickly, right?" Dong Fei was very puzzled and asked: "Although his thief army suffered little losses last night, the soldiers must be very tired, even if they want to retreat, at least they have to rest for a while, right?" ”

"Don't underestimate the immediacy of this traitor." Zhang Han replied: "Retreating before the main force of our army recovers is the only chance for this traitor to retreat with his whole body, he will not not go for it, if we don't prepare early, let this treacherous boy slip from under our noses again, it will be too cheap for him." ”

Hearing that Zhang Han was reasonable, Dong Fei no longer hesitated, and hurriedly went to organize the assembly of the rear army of the Qin army, which had not participated in the battle last night, and rushed to make a sufficient amount of dry food to prepare for the pursuit. Then, as Zhang Han expected, an hour later, when the soldiers of the Qin army in charge of the pursuit were still receiving dry rations, the Qin army scouts sent news from Pegasus, saying that the young marshal army had abandoned the camp, and even the military tent had no time to pack up and load the car, and only carried grain and grass weapons and went directly out of the camp to the east, striding towards the way from which they came.

Hearing this news, in addition to admiring Zhang Han's foresight, Dong Fei urged his soldiers to hurry up and get dry food, and at the same time couldn't wait to let the soldiers of the Qin army who had already received dry food come out of the camp to assemble in order to launch a pursuit as soon as possible. As a result, at this time, Zhang Han also came to Dong Fei again, and advised: "Be careful on the way to pursue, you must prevent Xiang Kang Xiao'er from tricking again, and in turn killing you by surprise." ”

"Rest assured, the admiral, the last general will never be fooled again." Dong Fei replied very confidently: "No matter what tricks Xiang Kang Xiao'er plays this time, the last general will definitely not fall for his tricks again, and he will definitely be entangled to the death, and you will have time to catch up with him." ”

Zhang Han still has a lot of confidence in the ability of his deputy Dong Peng, so Zhang Han didn't bother anymore, personally sent Dong Peng out of the camp, and watched him lead his troops east to chase Xiang Kang, and then ordered the main force of the Qin army to seize the time to rest, pull out the camp and march east early tomorrow morning, and go at full speed to pursue the young marshal army that was already lonely.

Looking at the situation on Dong Peng's side, the physical strength is relatively sufficient, and it is lightly armed eastward, just past noon, the front army of Dong Fei's department easily caught up with the young marshal army led by Xiang Kang himself, Xiang Kang had no choice but to let the rear army quickly turn back to fight, and it took a lot of strength and time, so it was not easy to kill the front team of the Qin army, and continue to advance eastward before Dong Fei's main force arrived at the battlefield, Dong Fei chased after him, forcing Xiang Kang to go west at full speed, and was forced to join the front army with the decline in physical strength. And at sunset, he was caught up again by the Qin army.

Being chased too closely by the Qin army, the sun was already gradually setting, and it was easy to be defeated by the Qin army in the dark night if he ran further east, so Xiang Kang had no choice but to order the whole army to turn around and form a formation to prepare for a decisive battle with the Qin army. It's a pity that Dong Peng refused to fight hard with the main force of the young marshal army who jumped over the wall in a hurry, decisively ordered the army to take a defensive position, and waited for the young marshal army to rush to death, Xiang Kang did not dare to risk charging into battle, and chose to command the army to retreat slowly, gradually distancing himself from the Qin army.

Xiang Kang's prudence saved the lives of countless young marshal soldiers, when it was dark, seeing that he could not get rid of the entanglement of the Qin army, Xiang Kang decisively chose to let the young marshal soldiers rest on the spot, Dong Fei was not in a hurry, and also let the Qin army rest on the spot, biting the main force of the young marshal army at a distance of only two miles. And after the news was sent back to the ranks of the young marshal army by the scouts, Xiang Zhuang, Xiang Guan, Chao Zhi and other generals were inevitably a little nervous, and they hurriedly came to Xiang Kang one after another, and asked Xiang Kang: "Brother (young marshal), the tyrannical Qin army is holding on to us, and our retreat speed is not fast, isn't it a way to go on like this?" ”

Contrary to Xiang Zhuang and the others, who were in a nervous mood, in the light of the bonfire, although Xiang Kang's face was full of exhaustion, his expression was very relaxed, and he said: "Don't panic, the Tyrannical Qin army can't bite us, as long as it is past tonight, we can easily retreat." ”

"After tonight?"

Xiang Zhuang and the others were greatly surprised, and Uncle Zhou next to him, as well as the soldiers surnamed Han behind Feng Zhong, looked at Xiang Kang curiously together, patiently waiting for Xiang Kang's next step. Then after Xiang Kang finished talking about his retreat plan, Uncle Zhou and the soldiers surnamed Han also said in their hearts together: "Amazing! Although I am still lacking in many aspects, I am afraid that I am not a little short of it in terms of intrigue and trickery. ”

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At the same time, in the ranks of the Qin army, in addition to arranging a large number of sentry posts and continuing to closely monitor the camp of the young marshal's army two miles away, Dong Peng also told the generals of the Qin army: "We must be more careful tonight, in addition to preventing the rebels from fleeing east overnight, we must also prevent them from jumping over the wall in a hurry, taking advantage of the opportunity that we have no time to build fortifications, and launch a night attack, which is also the usual means of Xiang Kang's rebels, we must be careful of the embankment." ”

The generals of the Qin army agreed together, and resolutely carried out the duty task arranged by Dong Peng, arranged for the army to take turns to rest, take turns to prepare for battle, and be ready to meet the shameless sneak attack of the young marshal's army at any time. Then as Dong Fei expected, the first shift was just over halfway, and in the darkness not far away, there was the sound of horns and gongs and drums, and the soldiers of the Qin army who were on duty at night did not dare to slack off, and quickly got up to prepare for the battle, and Dong Fei, who was woken up by the horns and gongs and drums, also immediately jumped up and picked up weapons to prepare to supervise the battle.

But it was also very strange, the sound of horns and gongs and drums only sounded for a moment, and soon disappeared without a trace, and at the same time, half of the young marshal sergeants came to rush to kill, and the soldiers of the Qin army and Dong Fei were inexplicable, in addition to continuing to be on strict guard, they carefully sent a few scouts over to check the movement. However, only two of the four scouts sent out returned, reporting that they had been ambushed by the cavalry of the young marshal's army, so they had lost two of their companions, and at the same time there was no movement from the far side of the young marshal's camp, and there was no sign of troop movement.

"Xiang Kang Xiaoer, what kind of medicine is sold in the gourd?"

Dong Fei was inexplicable, but he had already suffered enough losses and had been fooled, so Dong Fei did not dare to risk sending troops, so he could only let the army continue to rest in turns and be on strict alert. But just after the second watch, the sound of horns and gongs and drums came again in the darkness in the distance, and the Qin army hurriedly got up again to prepare for the battle, but the sound of horns and gongs and drums still disappeared quickly, and at the same time, there was still no young marshal army coming to rush and kill.

At this time, Dong Peng, who was familiar with military books, finally came to his senses and scolded: "Dog thief, you want to play a trick that suddenly comes to you in the middle of the ten fakes, and you want the horn and gongs and drums to paralyze us again and again, so that we can take it lightly, and then suddenly launch a real surprise attack to catch us off guard." ”

"General Dong, what should we do then?" General Zhong asked.

After a little calculation, Dong Fei made up his mind and said: "Ignore them, according to the original plan, respond to all changes with the same, take turns to let the army rest, and take turns to prepare for the battle, it is hard to do this, but as long as we entangle Xiang Kang's traitors, we will win this battle!" ”

The generals sang a promise, and at the moment the Qin army will continue to strictly restrain the team, be careful to beware of the young marshal's sudden plots, and every time they hear the noisy sound deliberately made by the young marshal army, they get up to prepare for battle, but after being disturbed twice by the young marshal army, Dong Peng suddenly came back to his senses and exclaimed: "Not good! Xiang Kang's rebel thief shouldn't be playing the golden cicada shell, right? Deliberately beating gongs and trumpets with a small number of cavalry, so that we feel that he is ready to sneak up on our camp at any time, and take the opportunity to march west with his army of thieves overnight to get rid of our pursuit? ”

Considering this possibility, Dong Fei didn't dare to hesitate any longer, and hurriedly sent a team of cavalry east to investigate the situation in the camp of the young marshal's army, and then, as Dong Fei expected, it didn't take much time for the cavalry of the Qin army to investigate the enemy's situation to send someone back to report, saying that although the campfire in the camp of the young marshal's army was still burning, and the grain and grass vehicles were still in place, the main force of the young marshal's army was nowhere to be found! Dong Fei was furious when he heard the report, and immediately shouted: "The whole army gets up and pursues immediately!" No matter what, you have to catch up with Xiang Kang'er's thief army! ”

After finally discovering that they had been deceived, the soldiers of the Qin army, who were extremely angry, immediately got up and launched a pursuit, in order to catch up with the young marshal soldiers as soon as possible, even the grain and grass vehicles that Xiang Kang was forced to abandon were difficult to pack, and directly crossed the camp of the young marshal army, striding towards the east at full speed, Dong Fei also took the lead, rode his horse and rushed to the front, with red eyes and just shouted, "Quick!" Fast! Speed up! Be sure to catch up with Xiang Kang Xiaoer! Be sure to catch up with Xiang Kang Xiaoer! ”

Marching at full speed in the dark night, after marching eastward for about seven or eight miles, the formation of the Qin army inevitably had a lot of chaos, and at the same time, the soldiers of the Qin army, who also did not dare to rest last night, also experienced a rapid decline in physical strength, and the soldiers felt very tired, but Dong Peng, who was riding a horse, did not notice it, and the soldiers of the Qin army with the formation that had been seriously elongated just marched eastward at full speed. As a result, at this time, the front suddenly beat loud drums, and a young marshal army on both sides of the road immediately came out to attack the Qin army, and at the same time, there was also a young marshal army brigade in front of the front, attacking the Qin army on three sides.

"Why did I fall for the trick again?!"

Dong Fei howled in despair, and hurriedly wanted to gather troops to fight in clusters, but unfortunately the young marshal soldiers not only rushed extremely fast, but also kept yelling wildly, "Fight!" Spell out a way out! Fight your way out! ”

There is nothing more terrible than the combat effectiveness of an army when it is on the verge of despair, from top to small it is clear that if this battle fails, no one from the army will want to return to Suiyang alive, so no one in the young marshal army has not forgotten the fatigue and tiredness, and no one has not used the strength to eat milk to rush and kill madly, just one charge, the long line of the Qin army was cut into three pieces, and at the same time, the young marshal soldiers who were killed in front of the army were even more at a loss The soldiers of the Qin army were cried and cried and cried, and fled in all directions. Without hesitation, he directly killed Dong Fei's banner, and with red eyes, he wanted to capture the thief and capture the king first, and directly kill Dong Fei, the culprit!

Unable to withstand the crazy offensive of the young marshal's army, the Qin soldiers around Dong Fei broke up one after another, Dong Fei's face was full of tears and sweat, desperately shouting and restraining, but it was always useless. In the end, he was forced to have no choice, Dong Fei could only take the kind advice of his own soldiers, throw down the handsome flag and give up the command, beat the horse and fled to the dark place with his own soldiers. As a result, Dong Peng's doing so of course led to the direct collapse of the Qin army, and it didn't take long for the young marshal army to be killed and completely collapsed, and he fled all over the mountains, but fortunately, Xiang Kang did not dare to chase and kill with all his strength, and quickly defeated the Qin army's pursuers, and immediately gathered the army to rest on the spot, and the next day the sky was just dawn, and he quickly fled with the main force of the young marshal's army, and rushed to Suiyang to escape for his life.

The news that Dong Peng's department was overshadowed by Xiang Kang was not until noon the next day, when the cavalry of the Qin army was dispersed, reported to Zhang Han, who was leading the army eastward, but when he heard the news, Zhang Han, who was riding in the car, not only jumped directly from the carriage in anger, but also pulled out the sword on his waist, slashed at his carriage with a heavy sword, and roared madly: "Xiang Kang Xiaoer! General Ben is not with you!! ”

"Brother, don't be upset." His younger brother Zhang Ping kindly persuaded: "Although General Dong Fei was defeated, our main force is intact and can continue to pursue." ”

"Chase a fart!" Zhang Han yelled angrily: "At this time, how can we still catch up with Xiang Kang's treacherous traitor?!" If you chase Suiyang again, won't you be pulled into a war of attrition by the traitor again? ”

Zhang Ping obediently closed his mouth, and the generals of the Qin army did not dare to speak anymore, but after a long time, Sima Xin said cautiously: "General, or we will withdraw our troops, after repeated battles, repeated tug-of-war, our soldiers are already very tired, the grain and grass are almost used, and Suiyang is too far away from our rear, and the grain road is vulnerable to threat." It is better to withdraw from the army, return to the area of Chenliu to rest and recuperate, and then come to settle accounts with Xiang Liang and Xiang Kang in the future. ”

Zhang Han kept his face silent, and after a long time, Zhang Han sighed and said helplessly: "If we miss this opportunity, if we want to kill Xiang Kang Xiao'er in the future, we will definitely only be more difficult." It's a pity, in fact, I'd rather let Xiang Liang, the old thief, escape, than let Xiang Kang, the little thief, have a chance to escape! ”

After saying that, Zhang Han, who was angry in his heart, said to the generals of the Qin army next to him: "Do you know? The night before yesterday, after we broke through the camp of the old thief Xiang Liang, we caught one of his thief's brother Xiang Bo's personal soldiers, and asked an important news from the mouth of the personal soldier, before we were in ambush in a sneak attack outside Suiyang City, in fact, it was Xiang Kang that thief sent someone to steal our cooking smoke, judging our night attack time from the number of our cooking smoke, and he also expected that we would attack Xiang Liang's old thief's camp with a partial division, and then for tat, single-handedly arranged a counterattack tactic that would be calculated, and our main force was defeated. ”

"Is it him?" The generals of the Qin army were all surprised, and said one after another: "It turned out that this thief saw through our actions, and we always thought that the old thief Xiang Liang did it." ”

"That's right, it's him." Zhang Han sighed helplessly, and said from the bottom of his heart: "In fact, compared with Xiang Liang's old thief, Xiang Kang, a treacherous thief, is our most difficult enemy and our most dangerous enemy." ”