Uncle Zhou's despicable methods completely angered Dong Fei and Sima Xin, so in the early morning of the next day, they got a report from the scouts and knew that Uncle Zhou personally led 20,000 Han troops to kill Jinyang, Sima Xin and Dong Fei didn't even blink an eyelid, and immediately unanimously decided to send troops to fight to the death with the Han army, and use the blood of the Han soldiers and Uncle Zhou to wash away the shame they had suffered!

In order to ensure victory, Dong Peng and Sima Xin, who were very aware of the current situation of the army, also dispatched 50,000 troops in one breath to fight this decisive battle with the Han army from the south, and when the 50,000 Jin and Zhai coalition troops lined up outside the camp, they were still spears and halberds like a forest, banners were like the sea, soldiers were all over the mountains, the queue was neat and picturesque, and the momentum seemed to be the main force of the Qin army back then. - Of course, it just seems that if the overall strength of Sima Xin and Dong Peng's army can still be 30% of the main force of Zhang Han's army, Uncle Zhou can only quickly run away with 40,000 Han army recruits.

More than halfway through, the 20,000 Han troops with mixed infantry and cavalry arrived near the battlefield, and they also quickly arranged the formation to prepare for a decisive battle, but at this time, the Han army's partial division also really exposed the weakness of the soldiers and soldiers who were recruits, and the movements of the formation were too slow and not neat enough, and there were errors in the movement of the infantry and cavalry, or they blocked each other's marching paths, or the infantry occupied the position of the cavalry, and the cavalry was at the position of the infantry, revealing a lot of flaws. Dong Peng, who was old in the battlefield, seized the opportunity and decisively dispatched 2,000 troops to attack the most chaotic left flank of the Han army.

The Han army's infantry cavalry failed to line up in time, giving Dong Peng's soldiers the opportunity to quickly approach, and the chaotic and unordered feathered arrows only caused a few casualties to Dong Fei's soldiers, so that Dong Fei's soldiers successfully rushed to the front of the melee combat, and the Han soldiers on the left flank were forced to start hand-to-hand combat in advance. Seeing this scene, of course Dong Peng and Sima Xin laughed proudly, and Uncle Zhou also nodded slightly and praised it, "It is worthy of the people who followed Zhang Han to defeat Zhang Chu's army and Xiang Liang back then, and really knew how to seize the fighter." ”

Praise, Uncle Zhou casually ordered, when the flag of the personal soldier was waved, more than 1,000 Han cavalry immediately came out of the Chinese army's position, brandished a saber to attack the flank of Dong Peng's army's front team, and helped the left flank of the self-army to resist the enemy. Dong Peng did not hesitate, and immediately invested another 1,000 troops to continue to attack the left flank of the Han army, luring the Han army to continue to draw troops from the Chinese army to reinforce the flank.

Uncle Zhou refused to be fooled, and let the soldiers on the left flank intersect with the enemy's spears with his hands on his chest, sacrificing his life to fight, even if the left flank was in a passive state, he did not send troops to reinforce the left flank, and at the same time sent a thousand infantry from the middle army and the right flank to step forward, trying to attack the enemy's central army position and the left flank position, and reconnoiter the enemy's battle formation weakness with firepower. Dong Peng quickly saw through Uncle Zhou's intentions, and hurriedly said to Sima Xin: "King Jin, the left wing I am responsible for deliberately defeated, leading Uncle Zhou to concentrate his forces to attack our left wing, and you will be responsible for counterattacking later, how about it?" ”

Sima Xin agreed, and Dong Fei ordered his left army to slow down the bow and arrow counterattack, deliberately giving the Han army a chance to fight in close quarters, luring the Han army to rush to the left flank of the Jin Zhai coalition army, and Sima Xin let his army continue to release arrows on the Chinese army's position, and made every effort to suppress the Han army's attack. And Uncle Zhou was really fooled, and when he saw that the right flank of the Han army was successful, he decisively increased his troops to strengthen the attack, and attacked the left flank of the Jin Zhai coalition army from south to north.

The battle soon turned into a typical positional warfare, the Han army and the Jin Zhai coalition army both grabbed the weakness of the opponent's left flank, constantly increased the front line, and attacked the opponent's left flank continuously, both trying to seize the opportunity by breaking the enemy's left flank.

The left flank of the Han army is indeed a weakness, all of them are recruits with serious inexperience, needless to say, the soldiers are all recruits from the Guanzhong Plain, the quality of individual soldiers and morale will are not as good as Uncle Zhou's ace Shangjun Han army, and was attacked by the Jin Zhai coalition army, the longer the fierce battle lasted, the more the wind was lost, only to hold on for more than half an hour, the formation began to shake, and gradually showed defeat, Uncle Zhou saw that the situation was not good, so he could only stubbornly transfer troops from the Chinese army to reinforce the left flank, and once again weakened the strength of the Chinese army of the self-army.

Sima Xin was waiting for this opportunity, just saw that Uncle Zhou once again transferred troops to reinforce the left flank, and immediately beat the war drums, urging his army to march from the front, and stormed the Han army's central army position, the Han army's Chinese army did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly met the enemy with feather arrows, but Sima Xin's troops were abundant, the front army was shot chaotic, and the rear army was still moving forward, and the offensive was undulating like a sea wave, and soon suppressed the Han army's Chinese army to the point that it was difficult to fight back.

When Dong Fei threw all his right-wing troops into the attack, the left flank position of the Han army quickly became urgent again, and by this time, Uncle Zhou had no more troops to reinforce the left flank. Seeing the opportunity, Dong Fei immediately ordered the war drums to be beaten to cheer for the front army, and then his soldiers did not disappoint him, shouting and charging, and finally broke the left flank of the Han army, the Han soldiers on the left flank were forced to flee, and the Han soldiers who attacked on the right flank were also psychologically affected, and the offensive was greatly reduced, and immediately gave the left flank of the Jin Zhai coalition army a chance to counterattack.

The battle has reached this point, of course the Han army is doomed to defeat, Uncle Zhou saw that the situation was not good, and he could only quickly order Ming Jin, and fled with the Han army soldiers, Sima was happy to see it, and was about to order a drum attack, but Dong Fei grabbed him and said: "Don't be in a hurry, the Han thief is cunning, he likes to deceive and lure the enemy the most, we have suffered countless losses, this time we must not be fooled again!" ”

"What then?" Sima Xin hurriedly asked.

"The soldiers are divided into two teams, and they are pursued before and after." Dong Fei said quickly: "I will lead my army to pursue with all my might, you first put your team in order, and then line up to pursue." This will not waste the opportunity to break the thief, but also allow your army to take over my army in the event of a sudden situation. ”

When Sima Xin heard the joy, he quickly agreed, and Dong Fei also led his army to kill from both wings and chase and defeat the retreating Han army with all his might, while Sima Xin quickly withdrew his army, quickly regrouped, and followed the pursuit in formation, ready to prevent any eventuality.

The defeat of the Han army was very wasteful, not only was the queue chaotic during the escape, but also all the golden drum honor guards were lost, and they only fled to the south, while Dong Fei relied on Sima Xin behind him to respond at any time, and he was relieved to just pursue with all his strength, regardless of the fact that the army had been lured into the narrow terrain of the Luliang Mountains on the left and Fenshui on the right, and he just yelled in his mouth, "Chase!" Chase with all your might! Don't be afraid of ambushes, we have a rear army behind us! ”

shouted and chased out more than ten miles, but still did not see the Han army have tricks, on the contrary, they fled more chaotically, riding and galloping, and there were countless people who fell behind and left alone, Dong Fei was naturally more assured, and chased more closely with his army, and soon chased out of the fourteen or fifteen miles of the road. However, just when Dong Pengjun's upper and lower levels were completely taken lightly, there was a sudden sound of killing in the mountains and forests of the Luliang Mountains in the west, and a Han army suddenly came out of the dense forest, screaming and hitting Dong Pengjun's waist. At the same time, the defeated soldiers of the Han army also turned around one after another, shouting to kill the pursuers of Dong Fei's army again.

"Raised by a son of a bitch, there is really an ambush!"

After scolding, Dong Fei did not panic, but just urged the army to meet the enemy at both ends, in a vain attempt to temporarily defeat the Han army, and wait for Sima Xin to go south to rescue. But at this time, dozens of primordial grenades suddenly flew out of the main force of the Han army and the ambush soldiers, and they fell into the dense place of Dong Feijun's soldiers one after another and exploded, and Dong Feijun, who was not psychologically flustered, was suddenly in chaos. - By the way, it is reminded that neither Dong Pengjun nor Sima Xin's army has received the baptism of the original grenade of the Han army before.

"Boom! Bang! Bang! Bang! ”

"What's that? How can there be sudden thunder in winter? ”

Like all the troops who encountered the primitive grenade attack for the first time, Dong Fei's army was all frightened and caught off guard by the original grenade of the Han army, and the Han soldiers took this opportunity to disrupt the chaos, and in a blink of an eye, Dong Fei's army was killed in a big mess, and the soldiers fled countless times, Dong Fei shouted and screamed, and he couldn't control it, and finally there was no way, Dong Fei had to quickly retreat north with the army, and took the initiative to go back to seek Sima Xin's response.

At this time, seeing from afar that Dong Fei's army was ambushed, Sima Xin also sped up to come to the rescue, but Sima Xin's army had just begun to accelerate, and the mountains and forests in the west immediately started to kill again, and countless Han cavalry held high sabers to kill, and the same was to hit the waist of Sima Xin's army, Sima Xin was forced to fight, the formation was rapidly chaotic, and he could no longer form a formation to block the Han army and respond to Dong Fei's defeated army.

In this way, when Dong Fei's defeated army fled north to the scene, the formation of the Jin Zhai coalition army was naturally a complete chaos, the two armies were mixed and stirred, the Jin army could not find Sima Xin's banner, and the Zhai army could not see Dong Fei's handsome banner, plus the Han army had also been killed, and once again used the primitive grenade to blow up the enemy, the Jin Zhai coalition army suddenly collapsed, the generals and soldiers rushed to flee for their lives, and the army could not be formed, and the Han cavalry took the opportunity to charge in clusters, and also specially carried the banners of Dong Fei and Sima Xin to attack.

"Drop the banner and don't let the Han thief cavalry see it!"

Sima Xin and Dong Peng made this decision almost at the same time, and as a result, after their handsome flags were put down together, they themselves were suddenly much safer, but the soldiers of the Jin Zhai coalition army completely lost their command, and fled all over the mountains under the pursuit and impact of the Han army. During this period, because the soldiers of the Han army continued to shout the slogan of surrender and not kill, there were many soldiers of the Jin Zhai coalition army who missed their hometown and took the opportunity to lay down their arms and surrender, and returned to the ranks of their fellow villagers as prisoners.

The Han army pursued resolutely this time and could not be more resolute, in addition to the continuous charge of the infantry, the cavalry also continued to intersperse the front, intercepting the defeated brigade of the Jin Zhai coalition army, and killing the defeated brigade of the Jin Zhai coalition army again and again, without giving the Jin Zhai coalition army any chance to assemble into a group, the Jin Zhai coalition army was completely dispersed, and there were countless descendants, and then the Han army also expelled the defeated soldiers of the Jin Zhai coalition army as the vanguard, and entered the camp of the Jin Zhai coalition army located outside the city of Jinyang, and directly kicked off the camp of the Jin Zhai coalition army. forced Sima Xin and Dong Peng to abandon the camp and flee from the Jin Zhai coalition army, and fled into Jinyang City in embarrassment to save their lives.

In this battle, at the cost of more than 3,000 casualties, the Han army broke the 50,000 main force of the Jin and Zhai coalition forces, beheaded more than 12,000, captured countless ordnance and baggage, and captured tens of thousands of old soldiers of the Qin army who were eager to return to their hometowns, as well as more than 6,000 recruits recruited by Sima Xin and Dong Peng in Taiyuan and Daijun, and won a great victory. And then, Uncle Zhou immediately ordered the Han army to move the camp to Jinyang City and began to prepare for the attack on Jinyang, Sima Xin and Dong Peng were completely helpless, so they could only quickly send people north to contact Zhang Han and ask Zhang Han to go south to rescue.

Sima Xin and Dong Fei were practically useless to send people to Zhang Han for help, because on the same day, they were stationed in Shanwu for more than ten days, and after confirming that the Han army's royal tomb had gone south, Zhang Han was also relieved to take his more than 30,000 main forces south to Jinyang for reinforcements, and when they arrived in Loufu, they learned that Dong Fei and Sima Xin were defeated in Jinyang, Zhang Han did not dare to slack off, and sent people to ask Dong Fei and Sima Xin to defend Jinyang Jiancheng, while urging the army to speed up the march and rush to Jinyang to rescue as soon as possible.

During Zhang Han's southward journey, the Han army's civil and military forces also made suggestions to Uncle Zhou, persuading Uncle Zhou to take advantage of the victory to launch an attack as soon as possible, take Jinyang first, and then deal with the reinforcements sent by Zhang Han with peace of mind, but Uncle Zhou laughed and refused, saying: "What's the hurry? In this way, Jinyang was taken, and Zhang Handpifu received the news, where he would come to Jinyang to die? When the time comes, how much more time and money will it take for us to go north to attack Daijun? ”

"But General Zhou." Cui Guang, one of the four old men of Shangshan, warned: "Jinyang City is already strong and difficult to fight, if Zhang Handpifu's rescue troops arrive, and the remnants of Dong Fei and Sima Xin should be united, wouldn't it be more difficult for us to take Jinyang City?" ”

"It doesn't matter, when the time comes, I will have my own way to oppose the guest-oriented, force the thief army to abandon the fortified city, and take the initiative to launch a decisive battle with us."

Uncle Zhou replied confidently, in addition to dedicating part of his troops to the east to take Yuci, he also ordered the soldiers of the Han army to seize the time to strengthen the newly built camp and prepare for a long-term confrontation with the enemy. The Han army's civil and military forces looked at each other when they saw it, and they didn't understand the confidence that Uncle Zhou came from there - the Han army had traveled thousands of miles, the grain and grass were difficult to transport, and the Jin and Zhai coalition forces had food available in Jinyang City, how could they be in a hurry to launch a decisive battle with the self-army?

A few days later, when Zhang Han led the rescue troops to arrive at Wolf Meng in the north of Jinyang, the Han army not only did not send a soldier to prevent him from going south to rescue Jinyang, but also did not even send troops to guard Fenshui, and let him cross the ferry to the south. Zhang Han's heart was full of suspicions, but Jinyang couldn't help it, plus the grain and grass had to rely on Jinyang's supply, Zhang Han thought about it, or crossed the Fenshui hard, and cautiously arrived at the camp twenty miles north of Jinyang City, and at the same time quickly sent people into the city to contact Dong Fei and Sima Xin, and carefully investigated the current situation of the Han army's partial division.

The current situation in Jinyang City reassured Zhang Han a little, the remnants of Dong Peng and Sima Xin combined, there were still more than 20,000 troops, although they were not the opponents of the Han army's partial divisions, but there was definitely no big problem in holding the city. After the Han army's partial division was incorporated and surrendered, the strength of the army had expanded to more than 50,000 people, and the number of troops was still slightly weaker than that of the Dai Jin and Zhai coalition forces combined, and they did not have any upper hand.

The most confusing thing for Zhang Han's army was still the strange actions of the Han army's partial division, which did not take advantage of the opportunity of Zhang Han's army from afar to send troops to intercept, nor did he rush to attack the city, but on the contrary, he also chose a deep ditch and high fortress to strengthen the camp, and put on a posture of preparing for a long-term battle. In this regard, not only Zhang Han was confused, but several of his henchmen were also inexplicable, and Nei Shibao also said directly: "What the hell is the thief doing?" Neither attacking the city, nor preventing us from meeting with King Zhai of Jin, do they want to consume us? Their grain and grass have to travel hundreds of miles to reach Jinyang, how can they consume us? ”

Zhang Han pondered and didn't speak, and then when he was carefully studying and collecting the intelligence of the Han army, Zhang Han suddenly remembered a question and said in surprise: "What about the thief army of Wang Ling?" Wang Ling's thief army has already gone south from the clouds, why hasn't he come to join Uncle Zhou's thief army yet? ”

Zhang Han's generals were dumbfounded, no one could answer Zhang Han's question, and then, Zhang Han suddenly smashed his fist on the desk in front of him, and roared: "I've been tricked again!" This king bets that the Wangling thief army must still be near the clouds, just waiting for our main force to go south, the Yanmen is empty, and then take the opportunity to sneak attack our Yanmen rear! ”

As if to verify Zhang Han's judgment, at this moment, a messenger stumbled into Zhang Han's Chinese army tent, panting and shouting: "King, there is no urgency!" Our main force has only been gone for five days, and the Mausoleum Department of the Han Thief King suddenly sent troops from the clouds to the west, and killed our Shanwu, there are only more than 2,000 people in the hands of General Zhou, I am afraid that I can't resist it, please send troops to rescue the king immediately! ”

With a bang, the case in front of Zhang Han flew into the air, and at the same time, Zhang Han's face became extremely blue, but the generals of Zhang Han's army were all as pale as earth, and hurriedly said: "King, hurry up and send troops, most of the money, food, and military supplies we have worked hard to accumulate in the past few months are in Shanwu City, if we lose it, we will not talk about expanding the territory in the future, it is difficult to keep Yanmen County and Dai County!" ”

The words of several generals reminded Zhang Han, so that Zhang Han couldn't help but be annoyed again, and shouted regretfully: "Careless, I was too careless this time, we are not only good this time, but even the national capital Dai County is also in danger!" As long as Wang Lingpifu successfully takes Shanwu City and captures the grain, grass and military supplies we have hoarded in Shanwu City, it is entirely possible to go directly westward along the Chi Road and directly attack our national capital Daixian! ”

Zhang Han's words made his subordinates' faces change even more, and he hurriedly urged him to send troops to save Shanwu, Zhang Han shouted helplessly: "At this time, we still dare to divide troops there? Our strength is not as good as Uncle Zhou's, if we divide our troops again, and he takes the opportunity to send troops to attack our main force, won't our main force be in danger immediately? Besides, from Jinyang to Shanwu, even if it is a rapid march, it will take at least eight days, who dares to guarantee that the more than 2,000 troops of Zhou will be able to hold out until our rescuers arrive? If the good is lost first, and the king is waiting for work, won't our division of troops be extremely dangerous? ”

The generals closed their mouths, Zhang Han pondered for a long time with a dark face, and then said: "There is only one way, that is, to take advantage of the combined strength of us and King Zhai of Jin, and slightly better than Uncle Zhou's husband, find a way to kill him directly as soon as possible, and then free up his hands to rescue our rear!" ”