There are three reasons why Liu Laosan's army was able to miraculously defeat the Qin army that was blocking the north, and successfully killed on the bank of the valley to cheer for the young marshal's soldiers, one is that Liu Laosan's army combat effectiveness is actually not bad, and there are Cao Shen, Zhou Bo and Fan Xu's first-class generals in the late Qin Dynasty, which played the role of a mainstay. The second is that the Qin army sent by Zhang Ping to block it is not the elite of the Qin army in Longxi that the young marshal's army resists head-on, but an ordinary army composed of Lishan prisoners and a few Qin army veterans, and its combat effectiveness cannot be compared with the real elite of the Qin army at all.

The third reason is the most outrageous, Liu Laosan, who was extremely lucky in history, followed his character and broke out, and he took the dog Xiangyun!

Why did Liu Laosan go to Xiangyun? The situation is like this, as Xiang Kang estimated, after Liu Laosan, who had never been ambiguous in the anti-Qin matter, decided to send troops to reinforce Pengcheng, not only did he not have any idea of watching the fire from across the strait and only taking advantage of the situation without taking a loss, but also brought all the 7,000 troops he had accumulated to Pengcheng, and he was determined to help Xiang Kang keep Pengcheng - of course, it was also to protect Liu Laosan himself, and once Pengcheng was lost, the next target of the Qin army would definitely be Liu Laosan, who was close at hand, so Liu Laosan couldn't do it if he didn't want to.

After receiving Xiang Kang's request to rush to the Pengcheng battlefield as soon as possible, Liu Laosan, who owed Xiang Kang a great favor, did not hesitate, in addition to letting the army speed up to the south, in order to reach Pengcheng as soon as possible, Liu Laosan also divided the army into two, personally led 3,000 troops to go first, and let Cao Shen lead the rear army to carry heavy grain and grass to follow.

As a result, at this time, an accident that no one expected suddenly happened, the front army led by Liu Laosan had just opened the distance from the rear army, and was immediately discovered by the scouts of the Qin army, and then the Qin army scouts did not have time to confirm whether there were other troops behind Liu Laosan's front army, and immediately rushed back to the Gushui battlefield to report the news to Zhang Ping, and falsely reported that Liu Laosan only had about 3,000 troops, and was misled by the scouts, and had always despised the combat effectiveness of the anti-Qin army, Zhang Ping only separated 3,000 troops from the large camp defenders and went north, Then he paid attention to Liu Laosan's army, which he looked down on at all.

Zhang Ping's carelessness of course cheapened Liu Laosan in vain, and after encountering the Qin army that went north to block, Liu Laosan, who was actually close at hand, decisively lined up to meet the enemy, and used insulting means to lure the Qin army to send troops to attack their own battle formation, the Qin army planned to attack, Liu Laosan's department resolutely resisted, and the Qin army fought in close quarters, and then waited for Cao Shen to lead the rear army to arrive, the unprepared Qin army also had no chance to fight in formation, and was forced to start a melee with the overwhelming Liu Laosan army.

Lishan convicts fought in order to obtain the Qin court's pardon, and were able to defeat Zhang Chu's main force of the Western Expedition in the water, relying on the Qin army's elite Xianyang Lieutenant Army as the core backbone, and the soldiers won many battles after sending a letter to Guguan, and it was also because of the Qin Army's Longxi elite played the role of Dinghai Shenpin, during which although Zhang Han's reorganization and training had greatly improved its combat effectiveness, and its combat ability was not comparable to the ordinary anti-Qin army, but it was still a new army in its bones. But a downside soon revealed its original form.

In particular, there are several fierce men under Liu Laosan, in the melee, Fan Xu, who is holding a dog slaughtering knife, took the lead in the soldiers, and led the soldiers of Liu Jun to rampage in the crowd of the Qin army, as if entering a no-man's land, cutting melons and vegetables in one breath to slash fifteen Qin soldiers. and Zhou Bo, a drummer who has been practicing martial arts since childhood, also led his army to personally cut off the heads of nine Qin soldiers in the melee, which completely drove the morale and fighting spirit of Liu Jun's soldiers. Unable to parry these two world-class fierce generals and Liu Jun's soldiers who were good at melee, the Qin army, whose soldiers were almost all prisoners of Lishan, quickly collapsed and fled like a group of rabbits chased by vicious wolves, while Liu Laosan's army pursued and killed with all its might, successfully assaulting the north bank of Gushui, helping the main force of the young marshal army that was already in trouble to break the stalemate and turn the tide of the battle on the south bank of Gushui in one fell swoop.

Later, the reason was found out, and the Qin army scout who misreported the military situation was immediately executed by Zhang Pingche, and was not allowed to be buried after death, and the body was thrown into the barren mountain to feed the wolves.

Later, after the attacking army was directly killed and retreated by the young marshal's soldiers, although Zhang Ping, who was furious, immediately dispatched troops, while sending troops to reinforce the battalion, covering the defeated troops on the north bank to return to the camp and preventing Liu Laosan's army from taking the opportunity to attack the Qin army camp, while reorganizing the army to attack the young marshal's camp again, but the Qin army soldiers whose morale had been seriously affected could no longer play the indomitable momentum before, and repeatedly charged many times, and could no longer have a large number of soldiers rushing to the top of the camp wall as before. has always been firmly blocked by the young marshal soldiers under the camp wall, and was also killed and injured by the young marshal soldiers by virtue of their condescending superiority, and was forced to retreat more than once.

Knowing that this was a manifestation of the frustration of the morale of the army, all the generals of the Qin army advised Zhang Ping to collect his troops as soon as possible, reduce losses, and come to attack the camp after regrouping, but Zhang Ping did not listen, and insisted on launching another large-scale attack, but unfortunately Zhang Ping's dying struggle almost did not receive any effect, and the defense line of the young marshal's barracks wall, which had been crumbling many times before, seemed to have become an iron wall, no matter how the Qin army beat and impacted, it stood still, and it was useless to break the blood flow when the head was touched.

In the end, when the sky was about to get dark, Zhang Ping had no choice but to let people ring the bronze cymbal to collect the troops, and returned to the camp with a stomach full of remorse and anger. Seeing this scene, of course, the young marshal officers and men were thunderous with joy, and at the same time, after the cheers, many of the young marshal officers and men who were on the front line immediately lay down on the top of the camp wall, making a deafening snoring sound of exhaustion.

It was also at this time that Xiang Kang breathed a long sigh of relief, and only then did he find that his underwear was cold, and he had already been soaked with nervous sweat, but Xiang Kang didn't bother to pay attention to this, in addition to arranging for the reserve team to go to the wall to replace the front-line troops who were already exhausted, he sighed and said: "I finally survived this battle, as long as the main force of the Tyrannical Qin army does not come to Pengcheng, the rest of the battle will be much easier." ”

"Young marshal, aren't you too optimistic?" Zhou Zeng, who accompanied Xiang Kang to witness this vicious battle throughout the whole process, still had palpitations, afraid that Xiang Kang would be optimistic and underestimate the enemy, so he hurriedly reminded: "In this battle, the violent Qin army suffered heavy casualties, but our losses are not small, and the strength and overall strength of the violent Qin army are still above us, why do you say that the next battle will be easy to fight?" ”

"The Tyrannical Qin army launched such a big offensive and failed to take our camp, the morale of the army will definitely be seriously affected, even if they come to attack our camp again, due to the psychological impact of today's battle, it will definitely be difficult for them to play the momentum at the beginning of today, our soldiers have survived such difficulties today, and they will definitely be more confident in the next camp battle, so I can be sure that we will be able to fight more easily and beautifully in the next camp battle."

Xiang Kang explained confidently, and said: "And Zhang Ping and the other generals of the tyrannical Qin army are not fools, seeing that our camp is so difficult, in order to reduce the losses of their army, they will definitely find another way to attack us, as long as they don't come to fight with us head-on, and have the idea of opportunism, our chance to kill them will come." ”

"Kill them?" Zhou Zeng was taken aback when he heard this, and hurriedly asked: "Young marshal, the enemy's strength is far above ours, in addition to wanting to wait for help, you also want to defeat the strong with the weak?" ”

"Of course, since the Tyrannical Qin army took the initiative to send them to the door, of course I have to do my best to kill them." Xiang Kang smiled and said in a low voice: "Wait, I gave Xiang Han a secret order before, so that after confirming that Feng Zhong was going north from Jiujiang, he would immediately let Fu Li County Order ......." ”

After listening to Xiang Kang's shameless tricks, Zhou Zeng of course applauded, but Xiang Kang remembered something again, and hurriedly asked, "By the way, where did Liu Ji's soldiers and horses go?" Did you send someone to contact us? ”

It was also a coincidence that Xiang Kang had just asked this question, and it happened that his own soldiers had brought a messenger from Liu Laosan, and informed Xiang Kang that after Liu Laosan's army failed to attack the Qin army's camp, he had already retreated to the bank of Gushui north of Pengcheng and set up camp, and asked Xiang Kang if he needed Liu Laosan to cross Gushui south the next day and go to the south bank of Gushui to join Xiang Kang. Xiang Kang quickly calculated, and soon said to Liu Laosan's envoy: "Please return to Pei Gong, just say that the great favor is not grateful, I remember this favor today, and as long as there is a chance in the future, I will definitely double the reward." But there is no need to cross the valley water in the south, it is easy to come back to the current valley water, or ask Pei Gong to set up camp on the north bank and cooperate with our army to fight. ”

Liu Jun's envoy agreed, and Xiang Kang asked Zhou Zeng to write for him, and drafted an order for himself on the spot to let the young marshal's army stay in the county and garrison the army of Liu Laosan, and handed it to Liu Laosan's envoy and said: "Please bring this back to Pei Gong, if my expectations are not bad, the tyrannical Qin army bullied your camp is not strong enough and weak, and it is likely that they will cross the river tomorrow to attack your camp, and if your army feels that it is not sure to hold the camp, you might as well retreat directly to the north, I will not care." If the Tyrannical Qin army pursues you closely, and your situation is critical, you can take my order to enter the county and stay in the county for the time being. There is only one thing to keep in mind Pei Gong, if possible, please help me to contain the tyrannical Qin army pursuing you for as long as possible, and buy me time here. ”

Afraid that Liu Laosan's envoy would not be able to remember his explanation, Xiang Kang sent Xu Shu to cross the river with him to meet Liu Laosan, and believed his meaning in person, but Liu Laosan immediately understood Xiang Kang's meaning when he heard it, and immediately nodded and said: "Go back and tell Young Marshal Xiang, just say that I understand his plan, please rest assured, as long as the Tyrannical Qin army divides troops to attack my camp, if I am not sure to hold it, even if the Tyrannical Qin army does not want to pursue our army, I will try my best to lure the Tyrannical Qin army to pursue and help him share the pressure as much as possible." ”

Xiang Kang expected that after the Qin army collected troops and returned to the camp, it was just the evening of the same day, and Zhang Ping, the chief general of the Qin army, made up his mind to send troops to attack Liu Laosan the next day, for no other reason, today's camp battle, the Qin army lost a total of more than 5,000 troops on the two battlefields on the north and south banks of Gushui, and more than 800 were seriously injured, including nearly 2,000 Qin army Longxi elite, and at once wiped out one-third of the Qin army's elite.

And the reason for this, in addition to the stubborn resistance of the young marshal's army, the key to the Qin army's heavy casualties but no gains is that the damned Liu Laosan successfully rushed to the north bank of the valley, which boosted the morale and morale of the young marshal's army, and led to the success of the Qin army's attack on the camp, turning victory into defeat. Therefore, of course, Zhang Ping hated Liu Laosan to the extreme, and asked people to build a pontoon bridge over the valley water overnight, preparing to send troops to the north bank the next day to attack Liu Laosan's army, whose camp was not yet firmly established.

Just do it, the next day the sky was just dawn, the Qin army, whose physical strength had not fully recovered, dispatched 20,000 troops in one go, led by Yao Ang and went straight to Liu Laosan's camp to kill, Liu Laosan did not dare to slack off when he heard the news, and quickly led the army to the north, and Yao Ang led the army to chase out more than 20 miles in one go. However, just when the Qin army had already driven away Liu Laosan, Liu Laosan actually went down to the village thirty miles away from Pengcheng in the north, and put on a posture of being ready to go south to continue to reinforce Pengcheng at any time.

Before and after the report of Liu Jun's movements to Zhang Ping, Zhang Ping, who already hated Liu Laosan deeply, was of course even more furious, and decided to send 10,000 troops to the north without any consideration, carrying grain and grass to continue to clean up Liu Laosan, and the generals of the Qin army persuaded hard, saying that they should not divide their troops and fight at this time, but Zhang Ping did not listen, and insisted on letting Chen Kan, the only general who supported his troops, lead the army to the north to find Liu Laosan to settle the new accounts and old accounts.

Although the strength and strength of the Qin army are still above the main force of the young marshal army, but when he thinks of the hard battle in the last camp battle, not to mention the generals and ordinary soldiers of the Qin army, even Zhang Ping himself is inevitably a little worried, and he does not dare to rashly decide to continue to attack the camp of the young marshal army. Therefore, without the persuasion of other Qin army generals, Zhang Ping himself subconsciously dispelled the idea of continuing to work recklessly, and began to rack his brains to calculate how to win by surprise, promote his own strengths, and avoid his own shortcomings.

Of course, this made Zhang Ping very sad, because the biggest advantage of the Qin army now is field battles, but Xiang Kang is extremely cunning, he just doesn't come out to fight field battles when he guards the camp, and provocation and insults have no effect, just like a tiger gnawing on a hedgehog, turning it over and turning it upside down and not finding a place to put it down.

Fortunately, the so-called cheap people have their own harvest, and Xiang Kang, who has done a lot of evil, ushered in retribution, just when Zhang Ping was worried about how to break the deadlock, the Qin army scout suddenly led a man who claimed to be the messenger of the young marshal army Fuli County Order to Zhang Ping, the messenger not only brought a handwritten letter from the Fuli County Order, but also brought a list of money, food and material reserves of the young marshal's army in Fuli City, so that Zhang Ping knew that Fuli was a big piece of fat, and also asked Zhang Ping to send troops south to attack Fuli City as soon as possible, and Duan Zhu would try to steal the city gate at that time, Welcome the Qin army into the city.

After reading the letter of invitation to surrender for a long time, and carefully checking the expression reaction of the messenger, seeing that his expression was obviously uneasy, Zhang Ping thought about it for a while, and suddenly patted the case in front of him and shouted: "Come on, take this puppet down, push it out and cut it off!" ”

The soldiers in the tent sang a promise, and immediately someone stepped forward to capture Duan's messenger, who was of course frightened and quickly shouted: "The general spares his life, what did the villain do wrong?" Why kill villains? The villain didn't do anything wrong, huh? ”

"Didn't do anything wrong?" Zhang Ping sneered and said: "You go to Duan to offer a trick and surrender, and want to divide the army for Xiang Kang's rebel thief, so that Xiang Kang's thief army can take the opportunity to make trouble from it, and you deserve death!" You still say you didn't do anything wrong? ”

"General, you have been wronged! Wronged! The messenger hurriedly shouted again, explaining: "The villain is really sent by Duan Xianzun, the villain is not sent by Xiang Kang, the villain is really from Fu Li, don't believe the general, you see, in order to deliver the letter, the villain hurried along the way, and wore out his shoes on the road!" ”

Struggling, the messenger really raised his foot, revealing that it had worn through the soles of his shoes, but Zhang Ping was still suspicious, and shouted: "Hugh has to quibble!" Let's be honest, who sent you? If you dare to lie again, you will be beheaded immediately! ”

Duan Zhu's messenger was so aggrieved that he was about to cry, and he just shouted injustice, saying that Duan Shu and he were really preparing to surrender the city, and said that Duan Shu, who had previously served as a prison in Xu County, was coerced by the county order and the county Cheng to surrender to the young marshal army, and he never dared to forget his identity as a Great Qin official, and heard that Zhang Ping's army had hit Pengcheng, so he hurried over to send a letter to ask for surrender. It's a pity that Zhang Ping still didn't believe it, slapped the table in front of him again, and shouted: "Push it out, cut it!" ”

The pro-soldier who had already taken down the messenger of Duan sang the promise again, and immediately dragged him out of the tent, and the messenger of Duan was crying and crying for injustice, so frightened that he peed his pants on the spot. However, after Duan Zhi's messenger was set up out of the big tent, Zhang Ping immediately bowed to the captain of his own soldiers and whispered: "Go and see the situation, and tell the executioner to stop at the last moment." ”

The captain of the pro-soldier took the order and left, and after a while, the pro-soldier captain returned to Zhang Ping with a smile on his face, and said with a smile: "General Yu, just after the court was set up, the executioner's axe was not raised, and the man was directly stunned. However, he has never changed his words, and has always said that he is sincere in surrendering. ”

"That shouldn't be true." Zhang Ping also showed a pleased smile on his face, and ordered: "Take him to the guest tent, so that he can be entertained, and by the way, send someone to call Yao Ang, and say that I have good news to tell him." ”

The captain of the pro-soldier acted according to the order, and then soon, Zhang Han personally arranged for Zhang Ping's deputy Yao Ang to enter the big tent, Zhang Ping did not hesitate, and immediately told Yao Ang what had just happened, and showed Yao Ang the letter of surrender written by the Fuli County Commander Duan and the list of grain and grass hoarded by the young marshal's army in Fuli City, and then said to Yao Ang: "General Yao, this is a good opportunity, as long as we divide an army to go south to Fuli, and rely on Duan's response to take Fuli City, then the rear of Xiang Kang's rebels will no longer have nowhere to defend, In addition, we can also capture a large amount of grain and grass and military supplies to solve our problem of lack of grain and grass, I plan to seize this opportunity to let you lead 10,000 troops south to get Fuli, what do you think? ”

After carefully understanding Zhang Ping's interrogation of Duan Zhu's messenger, Yao Ang was inevitably a little moved, but after thinking about it carefully, Yao Ang raised two more questions and said: "General, if Duan Zhu is really determined to surrender the city, it is indeed a good thing. But have you thought about it, General, what if this messenger is a dead man who doesn't know the inside story? Also, we have already divided 10,000 troops to the north to pursue Liu Ji's rebels, and at this time, we will divide our troops to the south to attack Fuli, wouldn't it be too much to divide our troops? In case the rebels take advantage of our excessive division of troops and suddenly send troops to launch a counteroffensive, what should our army do? ”

"It's possible that the messenger is a dead man who doesn't know what's going on, but it's probably not big." Zhang Ping pointed out: "First of all, our scout was indeed caught on the gallop road to Fuli, and his dress and demeanor were obviously like he had just walked a long way, and then the letter of invitation to surrender was stamped with his Fuli County Order Seal, which can prove that it was written by him himself, not a hasty forgery by Xiang Kang's rebels. And take 10,000 steps back and say, even if Duan Zhupifu is really cheating, what can he get? When our army arrives in Fuli, we will fight when we have the opportunity, and if we don't have a chance or find danger, we will immediately retreat, and what can we lose? Pengcheng to Fuli is a horse Pingchuan, and there is a gallop road to march quickly, are you still afraid of being surrounded by the ambush of thieves? ”

"That being said, how can we deal with the danger of us being too divided?" Yao Ang asked again.

"There is no need to deal with it, and there is no danger." Zhang Ping replied: "The strength of our army is more than double that of Xiang Kang's traitors, even if another 10,000 troops are sent south, the remaining troops are still more than him, not only can they protect themselves, but they can still have the upper hand in formation and field battles." And after you leave, I will immediately go to Ling Chen Kan and ask him to quickly return to Pengcheng with the army of the northern front to join our main force, so that we can sit back and relax even more? ”

Yao Ang still hesitated a little, but Zhang Ping no longer shared with him, but urged: "It's so decided, go and prepare, as long as you take Fuli and capture enough food and grass for us, the initiative on the battlefield of Pengcheng will be completely in our hands, the opportunity is rare, we can't miss it, go quickly." ”