Chapter 169: Prominent Encirclement
"Uncle! Uncle! Why did you just leave? Why did you just leave? Uncle ——! ”
"The little nephew is not filial! The little nephew is not filial! The little nephew was a step too late and couldn't come in time to save you! The little nephew is not filial! ”
Kneeling in the wind and rain, Xiang Kang, who was extremely emotional, ignored the muddy water and mud all over the ground, and desperately paused in the direction of Xiang Liang's martyrdom, crying loudly, crying until the sky and the earth changed color, the Great Wall cracked, and no matter how Zhou Zeng, Chen Ping, Li Shiqi and others persuaded him to no avail. In comparison, although Xiang Guan, who is also a child of the Xiang family, also cried into a tearful person, his appearance definitely could not catch up with Xiang Kang's sincerity and sincerity, which made people feel that he was not as filial as Xiang Kang.
Even Shusun Tong, the number one scum of Confucianism in the late Qin era, cried more emotionally than Xiang Guan, and was held by several disciples, Mr. Shusun Tong completely forgot about the slow treatment and humiliation he received in front of Xiang Liang, and cried so loudly that he almost fainted, and cried bitterly while crying silently, "General! You are the Optimus Pillar of Chu State, the pillar of the country! What do you want us to do without you? What do you tell us to do?! ”
"Right General! Don't rush to be sad just yet! The military situation is like fire, and the violent Qin army may send troops to kill at any time, and at this time we should give priority to dealing with a strong enemy! Otherwise, we won't even have a chance to avenge the general! ”
In the end, Uncle Zhou, who had personally interrogated Dong Peng's messenger, came over and shouted, which made Xiang Kang calm down a little. Seeing that Xiang Kang's crying stopped for a while, and he raised his ugly face stained with sewage to look at Uncle Zhou, Zhou Zeng and Chen Ping took the opportunity to echo and said: "General Right, General Zhou's words are reasonable, at this time, we can't be in a hurry to be sad, we must first deal with the tyrannical Qin army that wants to trick us into Dingtao and fall into the trap, first solve the current predicament, and then have hope to avenge the general!" ”
Xiang Kang's biggest advantage is that he can listen to persuasion, and this time it is the same, despite the grief in his heart, Xiang Kang still cheered up, barely held back his tears, and got up with the support of Zhou Zeng and Chen Ping, while asking Bo Zhanzhi to wipe the sewage and tears on his face for himself, he said with tears in his eyes: "The tyrannical Qin army over there in Dingtao, have you figured out the situation?" How many enemies are there and are we sure to deal with them? ”
"The right general forgives the sin, and he hasn't figured it out yet." Chao Zhi replied: "The blockade of the Tyrannical Qin army is too tight, and it is difficult for our scouts to enter within ten miles of Dingtao, so our scouts have not yet explored the specific situation of the enemy. ”
"If the traitor of our main force sent by Dong Fei is not lying, the tyrannical Qin army in Dingtao should be thirty or forty thousand people, and there are also an unknown number of tyrannical Qin guards in Dingtao City." Uncle Zhou took over the conversation and said, "This number was asked by me from that traitor's mouth just now. ”
"So much?" Xiang Kang frowned and said, "If there are really so many violent Qin troops on the Dingtao battlefield, we are not sure that we will defeat the enemy in one battle." ”
"Right general, the last general thinks that he can't venture east anymore." Chao Zhi said: "The Tyrannical Qin army designed to lure us to march eastward at full speed, proving that they must have made all preparations in Dingtao, and we must be more auspicious if we continue to march into Dingtao, for the sake of our army, we had better withdraw our troops and return to Wanqu as soon as possible, and then go south from Wanqu to Yuxian County, and withdraw to Pengcheng through Suiyang, so as to avoid being surrounded by the Tyrannical Qin army." ”
The withdrawal route proposed by Chao Zhi is undoubtedly the safest and most secure way for the young marshal army to retreat at present, Xiang Kang had already thought of this withdrawal route during the interval of crying loudly, so Xiang Kang did not hesitate, and immediately nodded. But before Xiang Kang could make up his mind, Uncle Zhou objected: "General Right, I'm afraid this road is no longer passable, if the last general is not mistaken, the tyrannical Qin army may have penetrated from the north bank of Jishui to Wanqu, and cut off our road to Xue County." ”
"How do you know? We didn't find anything like that on the road, did we? Xiang Kang asked suspiciously.
"The last general carefully interrogated the fake messenger just now, and in addition to asking about the approximate strength of the Tyrannical Qin army, he also asked about an important piece of information." Uncle Zhou replied: "In the afternoon of the day before yesterday, the Tyrannical Qin army suddenly split up an army to cross north to Jishui and left the Dingtao battlefield. Although the false messenger did not know where the Tyrannical Qin army went, the last general boldly speculated that the Tyrannical Qin army probably discovered that we were approaching Dingtao, and in order to cut off our retreat, they divided their troops to take the path on the north bank of Jishui to Wanqu to cut off our retreat, and they were also ready to encircle us with the Tyrannical Qin pursuers. So if we turn around, we will probably fall into the trap of the Tyrannical Qin army. ”
"So, aren't we going nowhere?" Xiang Kang gasped.
"General Right, don't worry, we still have a chance." Chao Zhi hurriedly said: "The Tyrannical Qin army is still in Dingtao at this time, as long as we turn around immediately and speed up, it is entirely possible to rush back to Wanqu in advance before being caught up by the Tyrannical Qin army, and preemptively defeat the Tyrannical Qin division that may penetrate Wanqu and open our retreat road." ”
"General Chao, with all due respect, I'm afraid it's dangerous for us to do this." Uncle Zhou said: "If there is really a Tyrannical Qin division interspersed with Wanqu, then they will definitely go all out to take a defensive position to block us and buy time for the Tyrannical Qin's pursuers, once we can't defeat the Tyrannical Qin army blocking the road in time, the consequences will definitely be unimaginable." ”
"And." Uncle Zhou added: "It's the beginning of the time now, at this time to turn around and retreat, if we go slowly, we will definitely be caught up by Dingtao's violent Qin army, but no matter how fast we go, the sky must have been completely dark when we retreat to Wanqu, and it is raining heavily in the middle of the night, and how dangerous it is to go south directly from Wanqu, we don't need to think about it." ”
Xiang Kang's brows furrowed, Chao Zhi also began to get nervous, and said, "If you say that, aren't we really nowhere to go?" ”
"No, we should still have a chance." Uncle Zhou replied: "When I asked the fake messenger just now, he also said that more than 10,000 prisoners of our main force were held in a prisoner of war camp outside Dingtao City, and they were closely ......guarded by the tyrannical Qin army. ”
Before Uncle Zhou could finish speaking, Xiang Kang's eyes, who had also asked about this situation, suddenly lit up, and he patted his thigh and said: "There is a way, since the Tyrannical Qin army wants to leave the army to take care of the prisoners, then they will definitely not send all their forces to pursue us, we can completely lure the Tyrannical Qin army to divide their forces again and again, and break the Tyrannical Qin army of Dingtao and Wanqu, and it is even possible to rescue our captured soldiers!" ”
"General Right is really resourceful." Uncle Zhou praised sincerely: "The last general racked his brains just now, and finally saw this opportunity to break through, I didn't expect that the right general just noticed that the tyrannical Qin army had to leave troops to guard the prisoners, and immediately thought of a plan to break the enemy, and the last general admired." ”
Xiang Kang, whose eyes were red and swollen from crying, finally showed a little smile, and he was not polite to Uncle Zhou, and immediately issued the command, and arranged the tactical plan to ambush the Qin army in turn, but he didn't notice that Bo Zhanzhi beside him had been watching his expression, and his eyes were full of admiration, and he said secretly: "It's all sick like this, and you are still so calm and calm." ”
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At this time, the young marshal's army temporarily stopped advancing, and of course it had been reported to Dong Fei by the Qin army scouts, Dong Fei was very nervous, for fear that Xiang Kang would see that something was wrong, and immediately turned around and retreated westward, and he was ready to lead the army to pursue early. However, Dong Peng was still quite calm, and without determining the main force of the young marshal's army to turn around and retreat, he still patiently held his troops still, allowing the Qin army to continue to occupy a favorable position, waiting for the main force of the young marshal's army to come from the net.
Dong Fei did not wait in vain, and after a while, the scout Pegasus sent a good letter, saying that after a slight pause in the young marshal's army, it had already rushed towards Dingtao, and the marching speed was faster than before, Dong Fei heard the great news, and quickly ordered the army to prepare for the attack, and also arranged for 8,000 troops to stay in Dingtao early to take care of the Chu prisoners of war who had been disarmed, so that he could free his hands and lead the rest of the army to pursue the young marshal's army with all his might.
There is only one thing that Dong Fei regrets, about an hour later, although the young marshal army let Dong Fei drive into the suburbs of Dingtao as he wished, but unfortunately Xiang Kang was very cunning and only let the general Zheng Bu lead the 3,000 troops first, and the main force followed five miles away, and rushed directly into the ambush circle of the Qin army without stupid heads. At the same time, the front team of the young marshal's army also sent scouts to closely search both sides of the road while marching, which basically shattered the hope of the Qin army to directly ambush the main force of the young marshal army, and also forced Dong Fei to launch an ambush in advance and attack the front team of the young marshal's army on three sides.
"Kill!"
Suddenly beating the drums of war. The Qin army ambush soldiers who killed from the front and both sides of the road successfully killed the front team of the young marshal army by surprise, so frightened that Zheng Bu could only quickly turn around and run away with the army, the Qin army seized the fighter plane and chased after Zheng Bu's ass to the front of the main force of the young marshal army, the main force of the young marshal army hurriedly lined up to meet the battle, and at the same time quickly transferred the baggage grain cart to the west, the Qin army rushed to kill, and the main force of the young marshal army in a hurry to meet the battle became a group.
Because the Qin army had already exposed its true strength, it was found that the main force of the young marshal army who had been fooled did not dare to fight, so it was just a force to temporarily force the Qin army to retreat, and immediately changed the rear team to the front team, and retreated at full speed in the direction of Wanqu. Dong Fei, who had long expected that the young marshal's army would have such a hand, was not anxious, and quickly pursued with the Qin army's pursuers, biting the buttocks of the main force of the young marshal army, dragging down the retreat speed of the young marshal army, and calmly following the young marshal's army westward.
The rain continued, sometimes heavy and sometimes small, completely wetting the clothes of the Qin army and the young marshal soldiers, and on the muddy and slippery road, the two armies with all their bodies wet moved forward one after the other, with three steps and one slippery. However, although the march was hard, Dong Peng, who was also covered with rain, always smiled confidently and calmly, firmly believing that he would be able to catch the fighter this time, and completely wash away the various shames he suffered in front of Xiang Kang, and couldn't help but look forward to the wonderful scene after he broke the main force of the young marshal's army.
Xiang Kang is also very decisive, after running west and escaping for more than 20 miles, seeing that he could not get rid of the Qin army's pursuers, Xiang Kang immediately made a decision, and chose a narrow section of road with woods on both sides, so that the soldiers abandoned some of the baggage vehicles with the army to block the road, so as to temporarily block the pursuit of the Qin army.
Of course, this is the opportunity that the young marshal army is waiting for, the Qin army's chasing troops have just crossed the narrow section of the road where the young marshal's army abandoned the baggage, and among the woods on both sides, there are immediately war drums ringing in unison, and the two armies of Zhong Liwu and Long He, who were ambushed on both sides of the road, immediately killed left and right, blocking the waist and impacting the front and rear connections of the Qin army, and at the same time, the main force of the young marshal army also immediately turned around, shouting and launched a counter-charge against the Qin army front team led by Dong Fei himself!
"Why is it ......, it's an ambush again?! Why did I fall for it again?! ”
Dong Fei wanted to cry without tears, the nightmare of the Qin army reappeared, the ambush of the young marshal army killed left and right cut off the front and back contact of the Qin army in one fell swoop, and cut the Qin army into two, and the main force of the young marshal army that turned around and killed back was like a tiger descending the mountain, and like the tide rushing, directly rushing to the front team of the Qin army that had lost contact with the rear.
"Steady! Steady! Fight back, rush through the Chu thief to intercept, and retreat back and forth! Don't panic! Don't panic! ”
shouted not to panic, but Dong Fei, who had been bullied by Xiang Kang and became nervous, was more panicked than anyone else, and even forgot to arrange the team behind the palace, with the army that could be restrained around him just desperately rushed to the way he came, the vision was not smooth in the heavy rain, and under the extreme chaos, the Qin army actually trampled on each other in broad daylight, trampling on countless Qin soldiers who unfortunately fell to the ground, and the main force of the young marshal army took the opportunity to rush and kill, and quickly completely defeated the front team of the Qin army, forcing the Qin soldiers who were surrounded by the front and rear to scatter and flee. In the end, seeing that the situation was not good, Dong Peng had no choice but to flee south with some of his own soldiers as he had done when he was bullied by Xiang Kang before, and fled to the south under the cover of wind and rain.
After the front team of the Qin army was defeated, the leaderless rear team of the Qin army also quickly collapsed under the counterattack of the young marshal army, the ghost cried wolf and ran for his life towards the road where he came, and Xiang Kang, who was sick and went into battle, did not hesitate, snuggled in Bo Zhanzhi's arms and commanded the commander to command the main force of the young marshal army to pursue at full speed, and the footsteps kept killing under Dingtao City.
When he chased and killed under Dingtao City under the heavy rain, the sky was already close to darkness, but the young marshal soldiers did not dare to rest, and used the lights to discern the direction, expelled a part of the Qin army's defeated soldiers as free forwards, and directly launched an attack on the Qin army camp outside Dingtao City.
At this time, the young marshal soldiers who were pursuing in the rain were of course very tired, but the Qin soldiers who stayed in the camp were waiting for work at ease and had sufficient physical strength, so it stands to reason that it should be difficult for the young marshal to break through the Qin army camp again. But fortunately, seeing the sudden killing of the young marshal's army, more than 16,000 Chu army prisoners in the prisoner of war camp also decisively launched a riot in order to escape for their lives, and cooperated with the young marshal's army to attack before and after, first successfully killed the Qin soldiers guarding the prisoners of war, and then took the weapons that had just been snatched or picked up to cooperate with the young marshal's soldiers to attack the enemy camp, and successfully entered the Qin army camp, forcing the remaining Qin army to abandon the camp and flee, and also frightened the Qin army county soldiers in Dingtao City did not dare to go out of the city to die.
After fighting a textbook-like battle, after the successful reversal of defeat into victory, the young marshal soldiers and the reborn Chu army soldiers were of course thunderous, and no matter how tired they were, they were all happy, but Xiang Kang once again fell into a cry of pain, because in the Qin army camp, the young marshal soldiers also successfully recaptured Xiang Liang's body, and Xiang Liang's body, who had a great kindness to himself, was carried to Xiang Kang.
After putting Xiang Liang's body into the coffin, Xiang Kang endured his grief, wiped away his tears, and let the army rest outside Dingtao City for one night, and the next day he hurriedly marched west with the army and the prisoners of the Chu army who had been reorganized overnight, and retreated at full speed in the direction of Wanqu. Although Dong Peng gathered some remnants of the defeated generals in the distance to the south of the Dingtao battlefield, he had lost all his grain and grass baggage, and his weapons were also lost, so he could not continue to pursue at all, so he could only send people south to contact Zhang Han, and once again because of the fiasco, he asked Zhang Han for his guilt, and at the same time sent people to hurriedly go east to contact Ji Hu, who was interspersed with Wanqu fortification, and told him that he could no longer go over to cooperate with the attack.
Although the young marshal army fought beautifully, the result was a pit Xiang Yu and others who were chased and killed by the main force of the Qin army, Dong Peng was defeated by Xiang Kang and the Chu army prisoners of war were rescued by the main force of the young marshal army After the news was sent to Zhang Han, Zhang Han, who had already chased and killed his single father, jumped like thunder, in order to vent his anger, regardless of the continuous heavy rain and the difficulty of the road, he resolutely took the main force of the Qin army to continue to pursue the remnants of the Chu army who fled south in a hurry, and directly pursued to the city of Fengyi in one breath, and defeated the remnants of the Chu army again, beating Xiang Yu and Liu Laosan and others together with tears, and shouted injustice," Zhang Handpifu, did we dig up your ancestral grave, or robbed your daughter, why did you chase and kill Fengyi and refuse to let us go? ”
That's not all, after beating the remnants of the Chu army, the main force of the Qin army, which had been cut off from grain and grass, also slaughtered Fengyi City again, pouring out the monstrous anger of the young marshal's army on the innocent people of Fengyi, and Xiang Yu and Liu Laosan, who fled east to Peixian, didn't even dare to breathe, and quickly fled to Pengcheng with Liu Laosan's family and Xiao Henan, and finally got rid of the pursuit of the main force of the Qin army that could no longer maintain the grain and grass.
There is a return, and it is also Dong Fei's subordinate Ji Hu who is unlucky, or when the main force of the young marshal's army returns to the vicinity of Wanqu, the Qin army messenger who took the north bank road to deliver the letter sent the news of Dong Fei's division to Ji Hu, Ji Hu complained bitterly, and was afraid of being attacked by the young marshal's army half-crossing, so he did not dare to risk crossing the river to flee north immediately, and was forced to choose to close the camp to protect himself, imagining that the young marshal's army would be eager to go south, give up attacking the army camp and flee south directly.
It was only a fantasy, and Xiang Kang, who was expected to be unable to quickly chase after the main force of the Qin army, in order to avenge the main force of the Chu army and retreat to the south more safely, decisively went into battle again with illness, and personally commanded the young marshal army officers and soldiers to storm the camp of the Qin army's partial division, and successfully broke through the camp of the Qin army's partial division on the same day, and killed the Qin army's partial division, Ji Hu, the main general of the Qin army's partial division, on the battlefield, and greatly vented the vicious spirit of the main force of the Chu army's defeat, and then calmly went south and retreated to Suiyang, which was still controlled by the Chu army.
A few days later, when he saw Suiyang City from afar, Xiang Kang, who was still not cured, breathed a sigh of relief, and couldn't help but think of the scene when he met Xiang Liang for the first time in Suiyang after coming to this era, and silently recited his name to Xiang Liang, and his clothes were wet with tears. This time, Xiang Kang was really crying.
"General Right, don't be sad, people can't be resurrected after death, the general has a spirit in the sky, and he will definitely be able to blind when he sees that you can lead the army to break out of the encirclement, and also rescue his body and the captured soldiers of the Chu State."
Bo Zhanzhi's soft comfort did not alleviate the pain in Xiang Kang's heart, on the contrary, Xiang Kang couldn't help but bury his head in Bo Zhanzhi's arms, and sobbed even more sadly, although Bo Zhanzhi was ashamed, but he was moved by the family relationship between Xiang Kang and Xiang Liang, and he could only let Xiang Kang rub in his arms to vent the sorrow in his heart.