Although there was a secret intention to run away if he could not fight, but in order to strive for a counterattack into victory, Gongsun Qing and the generals of the Qin army still used a lot of strength to prepare for this decisive battle, in addition to deciding to dispatch all the troops of the Donghai County soldiers directly under Gongsun Qing, and also transferred a team of 500 people from the Xiapi County soldiers to participate in the battle, expanding the number of troops to more than 4,000 people, and making up enough money for a head-on battle with the main force of the young marshal's army.

In addition, in order to boost the morale of the army and boost morale, Gongsun Qing asked the grassroots generals of the Qin army to hype up the Achilles' heel of the young marshal's army that they were not good at fighting in battle, and also repeatedly boasted about the strength and horror of the Qin army's battle formation, so that the Qin soldiers felt that as long as it was a frontal decisive battle, the army must have a great confidence in victory. At the same time, Gongsun Qing also promised a heavy reward, promising that every time the Qin soldiers cut off a head on the battlefield, in addition to being promoted to one level, they would also be rewarded with hardware, so as to boost the morale and fighting spirit of the Qin soldiers with titles and bounties.

Not to mention, Gongsun Qing's actions have really had a little effect, in order not to be swallowed up by the flood, and because of the covetousness of Gongsun Qing's promised reward, the spiritual outlook of the Qin army has really improved to a certain extent, and the rumors in the army have decreased significantly, and the top and bottom are just busy sorting out weapons and equipment, replenishing crossbow arrows, feeding war horses, and overhauling chariots.

The next morning, the Qin soldiers who had had a full breakfast assembled on time, Gongsun Qing gave another order, and the city gate of the east gate of Xiapi was immediately opened, and the four thousand Qin troops marched out of the city gate in a procession, and slowly forced to the young marshal's camp more than six miles away under the personal leadership of Gongsun Qing.

The reaction of the young marshal's side was very fast, and before the Qin army had all walked out of the city gate, the scouts of the young marshal's army had already returned to the camp and reported the news to Xiang Kang. As a result, when they heard the news, Zhou Zeng, Xiang Zhuang and other young marshals were of course smiling, and praised Xiang Kang's clever plan like a god, and sure enough, Gongsun Qing was forced to jump over the wall in a hurry and was forced to go out of the city for a decisive battle. Xiang Kang only smiled slightly, and then ordered in a calm tone: "Order all armies to prepare for battle immediately, strictly guard the camp, and no army is allowed to fight without my order." If the Tyrannical Qin army attacks our camp, they can only repel with random arrows. ”

"Why?" Xiang Zhuang asked very strangely: "Brother, I finally forced the Tyrannical Qin army out for a decisive battle, why didn't you fight?" ”

"The Tyrannical Qin army took the risk of going to war, and it must have been fully prepared for mobilization before the war, and the morale was relatively high, and it was not good for us to send troops to fight at this time, even if we won the war, there would definitely be many casualties." Xiang Kang explained, and said: "So this battle can't be rushed, we have to first exhaust the morale of the Tyrannical Qin army, and then send troops to fight, so that it is most beneficial to us." ”

"But what if the Tyrant Qin army retreats?" Xiang Zhuang asked worriedly.

"The dog jumped over the wall in a hurry, how could he retreat easily?" Xiang Kang smiled and said, "It doesn't matter if he really retreats, as long as we are ready, we can send troops to chase after us at any time." ”

Xiang Zhuang nodded, and hurriedly returned to his team with the generals of the young marshal's army to lead the soldiers to prepare for battle, and Xiang Kang asked Xiang Yang to immediately arrange a messenger, explained to the envoy, and asked the envoy to follow the plan, and then asked Zhou Zeng to organize the rear army to make dry food, so that it could be distributed to the soldiers to eat on the battlefield, and he was ready to fight for a long time early.

The movements of the Qin army were also very fast, the young marshal soldiers guarding the camp had just entered the combat position, and the Qin army had already bullied the vicinity of the young marshal's camp, and quickly lined up two miles away, and set down the invincible Qin army formation when sweeping the six countries, heavy crossbows and chariots mixed formation, located on both wings, slightly protruding forward, the cavalry was behind, the Chinese army was in front with light crossbowmen, the main force of chariots and infantry was in the rear, and Gongsun Qing led the flag array stationed in the left wing cavalry to command the overall situation.

The battle formation of the Qin army had just been established, and before Gongsun Qing could send someone to fight outside the camp of the young marshal's army, the young marshal's army camp ran out first, trotted to the front of the Qin army with a white flag, and shouted loudly: "Listen to the violent Qin army, since you dare to come to send you to death, then you just wait for a while, we will immediately send troops to fight you to the death!" ”

After shouting, the young marshal's envoy, who was already in a dangerous position, immediately turned around and ran, fortunately, the Qin army in front did not shoot arrows, but just sent someone to report the situation to Gongsun Qing, Gongsun Qing snorted coldly after hearing it, and sneered: "I know that you Xiang Kang Xiao'er will not miss this opportunity, come quickly, this official can't wait!" ”

Of course, what happened next made Gongsun Qing speechless, and said that he would go out of the camp for a decisive battle after a while, but the soldiers of the Qin army waited for nearly half an hour, and there was still no movement in the camp of the young marshal's army. In the end, he couldn't wait, Gongsun Qing simply sent a messenger to the door of the young marshal's barracks to ask Xiang Kang why he hadn't sent troops yet, and the messenger quickly brought back the reply of the young marshal's army - Xiang Kang was praying to the ghosts and gods, asking Gongsun Qing to wait patiently for a while.

"Praying for ghosts? The traitor raised by the son of a bitch, playing this official as a monkey? Gongsun Qing was furious when he heard this, and roared: "The right wing stepped forward, knocked on the thief camp head-on, and forced the thief to come out for a decisive battle!" ”

"Slow down." Wu Ping, the general next to him, was quite calm, and hurriedly dissuaded: "There are many thieves and our army is small, and the camp of the thieves is on a high ground, so it has a condescending advantage. According to the opinion of the subordinates, it is better to wait a little longer. ”

Quite able to listen to persuasion, Gongsun Qing calmly withdrew the order to attack head-on, but Gongsun Qing was still angry, and shouted: "From the Chinese army, send some soldiers with loud voices to step forward, go to the thieves camp to insult, and force the thieves to come out for a decisive battle!" ”

After the order was delivered, the very common scolding battle on the cold weapon battlefield also began, and twenty or thirty loud Qin soldiers rushed to the outside of the young marshal's barracks, and tore their throats from Xiang Kang's eldest father Xiang Yan to Xiang Kang's unborn children, the words were vicious, mean and tricky, and even ordinary young marshal sergeants couldn't help but be angry when they heard it. However, after the news was reported in front of Xiang Kang, Xiang Kang laughed and said, "Let them scold!" also asked our soldiers to scold back, and provoked his Gongsun Qingpifu to attack the camp! ”

According to Xiang Kang's order, some loud young marshals and soldiers also launched a counterattack, and they also greeted every family member of Gongsun Qing viciously, especially Gao Tang, who focused on Gongsun Qing's parents. The Qin soldiers reported the situation to Gongsun Qing, who was furious and wanted to order an attack on the camp several times, but was stopped by the subordinates next to him.

Between the verbal insults between the officers and men of the two armies, time passed rapidly unconsciously, and in a blink of an eye, a whole hour had quietly slipped away, but there was still no movement in the camp of the young marshal's army, and there was no sign of sending troops to a decisive battle. The soldiers of the Qin army standing in the wilderness were shivering by the cold wind of early winter, their faces were blue and white, and the little morale that Gongsun Qing and the generals of the Qin army had finally mustered up before was also gradually drifting away with the wind in the cold wind and disappeared.

Vaguely finding that he seemed to have fallen for Xiang Kang's evil again, Gongsun Qing could no longer bear it, and despite the opposition of the generals under his command, he forcibly sent the right-wing army forward to attack the camp gate of the young marshal's army head-on. The result was the same as Wu Ping and the generals of the Qin army expected, the Qin army had just approached, and the young marshal's camp was immediately full of arrows, so that the Qin army could not come forward at all, and could only be forced to return fire with bows and crossbows, and then because the young marshal soldiers had sheep and horse walls to protect themselves, the bows and crossbows not only did not take any advantage against the Qin army, but also suffered significantly more casualties than the young marshal's army.

Encountering such a shameless opponent as Xiang Kang, Gongsun Qing was also helpless, he wanted to launch a full-scale attack, but he was worried that he was not very sure, so he was unwilling to retreat, hesitated, and couldn't make up his mind for a long time. On the contrary, Wu Ping and several generals of the Qin army saw Xiang Kang's intentions, and they all persuaded Gongsun Qing: "Junzun, Xiang Kang's traitor clearly wants to wait for work, and when we are exhausted, we will send troops to fight a decisive battle, if we fall for his tricks, the situation will definitely not be good." It is better to withdraw from the army here, let the soldiers go back to rest and recuperate, and wait for tomorrow to come back to fight the thieves. ”

Gongsun Qing was still a little hesitant, but at this time, a miracle appeared, the gate of the rear camp of the young marshal army suddenly opened, and more than a thousand infantry of the young marshal army strode out of the camp, and directly bypassed the high ground under the camp and launched an attack on the flank of the attacking Qin army. Gongsun Qing was overjoyed when he saw it, and immediately put his plan to withdraw from the army behind, and just observed the battle situation ahead with wide eyes.

The young marshal's army was indeed lacking in the battle, the soldiers and horses on the right wing of the Qin army who attacked the camp had just turned the spearhead, and it didn't take a few rounds of feather arrows to shoot the young marshal's army into the desert and fled, and it was difficult for the Qin army to attack the right wing of the camp, so they immediately launched a pursuit, and Gongsun Qing did not stop it, and he hoped that the infantry of the young marshal's army would flee directly back to the gate of the rear camp, so as to create an opportunity for the self-commissioned officers to take the opportunity to rush into the camp of the young marshal's army.

It's a pity that the infantry of the young marshal's army did not flee back to the camp, but chose to flee to the open place to the east, and the Qin army on the right flank pursued closely, and at the same time let the cavalry come forward in a roundabout way, blocking the way of the young marshal's army, and the young marshal's army had no choice but to fight in formation on the spot. Seeing this, Gongsun Qing was also overjoyed, and smirked and said, "Fighting? Can't ask for it! ”

What happened to Gongsun Qing unexpectedly, after the young marshal army formed a formation and fought, the combat effectiveness was significantly improved, and the hastily arranged circle array was also very neat, the soldiers equipped with swords and spears were in the front, kneeling on one knee, and the crossbowmen were in the back, constantly shooting the right-wing Qin army with feather arrows, which made it difficult for the Qin army to move forward, and also forced the right-wing Qin army to push the only ten chariots to the front of the formation, and charge through the formation with chariots.

Then, something that surprised Gongsun Qing even more, after the ten chariots of the Qin army on the right flank launched a charge, the circle formation of the young marshal army continued to stand still, after the Qin army chariot rushed close against the rain of arrows, the young marshal soldiers in the front row even broke up, or went to the Qin army chariot with a spear, or chopped the horse's leg with a knife, and after paying a certain price for casualties, it simply offset the impact of the Qin army's chariot, and did not let the Qin army break the circle formation of the army, and the Qin soldiers who followed the chariot had no choice, He had no choice but to engage in hand-to-hand combat with the young marshal officers and soldiers who were not in chaos.

"Who will be the leader of the bandits? This traitor seems to know how to fight? Gongsun Qing asked in surprise, but no, the Qin army had too little information about the young marshal army, and the following only reported to Gongsun Qing that the general banner of the infantry of the young marshal army had the word 'chao' written on it, and the rest was unknown.

When the right-wing Qin army was forced to start a hand-to-hand battle with the young marshal's army Chao Zhi, there was a new movement in the young marshal's army camp, the gate of the rear camp was opened again, and another thousand-man team rushed out, and directly killed the right-wing Qin army that was fighting with Chao Zhi, clearly wanting to take advantage of the local strength advantage and give priority to breaking the right-wing Qin army. Gongsun Qing understood this truth and did not dare to slack off, so he could only quickly send the left-wing Qin army forward to reinforce the right-wing Qin army.

The battle was therefore concentrated in the southeast of the camp of the young marshal's army, and the reinforcements of the young marshal army rushed to the battlefield, and did not immediately enter the battle, but waited for the Qin army reinforcements to arrive, and the young marshal army stepped forward to block, and the Qin army on the left flank immediately parried with random arrows, and the young marshal army reinforcements rushed backwards, leading the Qin army reinforcements to the right flank of the Qin army, or when the two roads of the Qin army were about to meet, the young marshal army reinforcements turned around and launched an attack, storming the flank of the Qin army on the right flank that had been chaotic, and the Qin army on the right flank was attacked on both sides, He could only be forced to move closer to the reinforcements, and of course the formation of the Qin army's reinforcements was destroyed in the panic, and the young marshal army and the Qin army who set off in four batches before and after quickly mixed together, fighting endlessly.

At this time, the main gate of the young marshal's camp finally opened, and more than 600 cavalry trotted out and charged towards the Qin army's flag formation, which had lost the protection of the flank soldiers and horses, forcing Gongsun Qing to quickly transfer to the Chinese military formation with the flag array for protection. However, the cavalry of the young marshal's army was not discouraged, and after bypassing the Chinese army formation of the Qin army far away, they galloped directly to the rear of the Qin army's formation and blocked the Qin army's way back to the city.

The killing move of the young marshal army finally appeared, and in the sound of war drums, one after another of the young marshal soldiers trotted out of the camp and ran to the bottom of the high ground to line up the formation, and then, more than eighty young marshal army chariots drove out of the camp, followed by Xiang Kang's commander banner!

"Hit the mark!" When things came to this point, Gongsun Qing finally came to his senses and screamed: "Xiang Kang's rebel thief knows that his thief soldiers are not good at battle, and deliberately uses the division of troops to attract our two wings of soldiers and horses, disrupt the battlefield, and don't give us the opportunity to fight in formation!" And then the main force will really be dispatched and we will face off head-on! ”

Gongsun Qing ordered the recall of the two wings of the army at this time, which is equivalent to showing his ass to the young marshal's army, which is not only doomed to suffer a heavy defeat, but may even lead to the defeat of the Chinese army's phalanx, making the Qin army die even worse. With no other choice, Gongsun Qing had no choice but to let the Chinese army's soldiers and horses stabilize the formation, meet the enemy in a local battle, block the main force of the young marshal army led by Xiang Kang himself, and hold on until the turning point appeared. - Of course, the premise is that the Qin army array can withstand the impact of the chariot of the young marshal's army.

There was no doubt, after leaving the camp with two thousand five hundred troops, Xiang Kang, who knew the weakness of his army, waved his claws, and the flag waved, and the chariot of the young marshal army, which had been lined up in front of the formation, immediately urged the horse forward, trotted and gradually accelerated, and rushed directly to the front of the Qin army's array.

In the thunderous shouts and war drums, more than 80 young marshal chariots rushed like thunder, and bravely advanced against the crossbow arrows hurriedly released by the Qin army, and crashed into the infantry phalanx of the Qin army without hesitation, and like an iron hammer, it directly smashed into the infantry phalanx of the Qin army, and suddenly splashed countless blood flowers, and also broke out countless roars, screams and neighing of people and horses.

did not disappoint Xiang Kang, the chariot of the young marshal army directly crushed the Qin army's five hundred-man small phalanx, and the remaining momentum did not disappear, and it hit the other two small phalanxes of the Qin army, and the young marshal army behind cheered and killed, rushing into the chaotic crowd of Qin soldiers like a torrent, forcing the Qin army to start a hand-to-hand battle with the own army.

Of course, the Qin army suffers from melee combat, and the young marshal's combat ability is indeed a little weak, but after many actual combat experiences in the past few months, the young marshal's melee ability has obviously surpassed that of the Qin army. The chaotic five phalanxes completely collapsed in a blink of an eye, and the Qin troops in the back row were terrified and kept retreating, causing more congestion and chaos.

At this time, the cavalry of the young marshal's army, which had been bypassed the rear before, also made another move, and very cunningly bypassed the Qin army's tightly guarded rear team, and poked at the right flank of the Qin army's phalanx. The young marshal's army was like a bamboo, and it broke down several small phalanxes of the Qin army one after another, and was about to kill in front of the Qin army's banner array in a blink of an eye.

At this point, even if Wu Qi Han Xin is replaced to command the Qin army, I am afraid it will be difficult to have the power to return to the sky, let alone Gongsun Qing, who has only appeared once in the history books. Seeing that the situation was extreme, Gongsun Qing didn't even have the courage to try to redeem it, so he immediately turned around and rushed in the direction of Xiapi, the Chinese army of the Qin army was defeated like a mountain, and it completely collapsed in an instant, throwing down the banner and weapons just to flee for his life, and the defeat was far more miserable than the battlefield on Yishui Road. The young marshal army was in hot pursuit, and the cavalry also charged forward again, chasing Gongsun Qing's handsome banner, forcing Gongsun Qing to let his own soldiers abandon the handsome banner and completely give up the command of the army.

On the other side, after seeing the rout of the Chinese army and Gongsun Qing leading the army to flee for his life, the morale of the soldiers and horses on both wings of the Qin army, which was entangled by the young marshal's army, also collapsed, the soldiers rushed to flee, and the generals also lost their flags and unloaded their armor.

Gongsun Qing's luck was good, and he rode a horse and fled to the east gate of Xiapi, but what made Gongsun Qing extremely angry was that the east gate of Xiapi was still tightly closed until this moment, and Gongsun Qing had no choice but to shout under the city, asking the defenders of the city to open the door quickly.

Answering Gongsun Qing was the dense feather arrows that suddenly shot, Gongsun Qing was caught off guard, and suddenly hit two arrows in a row, when Gongsun Qing screamed in pain, Xiao Xiao was stunned by Xiapi County, and pointed at Gongsun Qing and scolded: "Gongsun Qing is a horseman!" This official has decided to surrender to Young Marshal Xiang, and work with Young Marshal Xiang to overthrow the tyrannical Qin and recover Great Chu. ”

Roaring and scolding angrily, he turned around and fled, and Gongsun Qing, who was desperate to the extreme, wanted to flee directly to Tancheng, but unexpectedly rushed to the opposite side and suddenly rushed to the other side of the Qin army, which was driven out by the cavalry of the young marshal's army, and collided with him head-on in a panic, not only knocked him directly off the war horse, but also stepped on his body and face one after another, directly trampling him into a meat pie, and also caused the young marshal soldiers to spend a lot of effort after the war, and only through the Donghai County Shouyin letter that he wore with him to confirm his body.

After the death of Gongsun Qing, Xiapi County ordered Xiao Xuan to revolt in the line of fire again, and closed the gate of Xiapi City, of course, the Qin army outside the city was completely hopeless, and when they saw the opportunity, they quickly put down their weapons and surrendered on their knees, or quickly scattered and fled, only a very small number of diehards resisted stubbornly, and as a result, they were quickly cut into pieces by tens of times the number of young marshal soldiers and soldiers, and died a miserable death. The 4,000 Qin army was completely annihilated, and the number of soldiers who directly laid down their arms and surrendered to the young marshal's army exceeded 1,600 people.

Seeing that the overall situation outside the city had been decided, the smart and knowledgeable Xiapi County Ling Xiao was of course stunned to open the city gate immediately, and respectfully invited the young marshal soldiers to enter the city to take over Xiapi. However, Xiang Kang did not rush to Xiapi to surrender at the first time, because at this time, Xiang Kang happened to receive an urgent report from Ling County, and the trip was delayed, not to mention, the Ling County messenger who came to deliver the letter also said to Xiang Kang with anxiety: "Young marshal, it's not good news, our partial division has been unable to conquer for a long time when attacking Huaiyin, and has been forced to withdraw from the siege. ”

"On the contrary, that's good news for me." Xiang Kang sneered in his heart, and while reaching out to receive the emergency report, he casually asked the Lingxian messenger, "After our partial division withdrew from the siege, where did we go?" ”

"Returning to the young marshal, I went to Xutai."

The answer of the Lingxian messenger made Xiang Kang vigilant, because Xiang Kang was very aware of the situation on the other side of Xutai, the north was the Xu County Young Marshal Army led by Feng Zhong, and the South was the East China Sea Righteous Army led by Chen Ying. - But fortunately, Xiang Bo had promised to give up the platform to Qin Jia before, so even if he won the platform, it would be difficult for Xiang Bo to eat this city, and Xiang Kang didn't need to worry that he would become a big and difficult person immediately.

The matter is not over yet, and after hurriedly opening the urgent report sent by the new Lingxian County Commander Huang He, Xiang Kang's face was a little ugly again, because Huang Huan reported that Xiang Bo in order to save the face of Huaiyin City, when he informed the rear of Ling County about the itinerary of the army, he asked his messenger to threaten in front of Huang Huan, saying that he had made contact with Chen Ying of the Dongyang Righteous Army, and Chen Ying was also very yearning for the Young Marshal Army, so the Young Marshal Army entered Xutai this time, and it was even possible to directly incorporate Chen Ying, the newly rising Dongyang Righteous Army.

"Whether he brags or not, he can't let him succeed, once he is allowed to adopt Chen Ying, he may be completely dead." Xiang Kang made up his mind and said secretly: "Chen Ying, the rebel army, if it really has plans to surrender to us, it can only let Feng Zhong come forward and directly absorb it for me." ”

Thinking about this, Xiang Kang was somewhat glad that he had already taken precautions, long before arranging for Uncle Xiang and his son to launch the southern expedition, he had already asked Feng Zhong to send someone to try to contact Chen Ying, ready to find out his intentions before trying to co-opt, and although Feng Zhong had not reported the progress to himself afterwards, with his loyalty to himself, he would definitely not forget this order, and he must have laid a little foundation, and it should be much more convenient for him to come forward to incorporate Chen Ying's righteous army for him.