Liu Laosan has always been good at understanding the weaknesses of human nature, although Sima Wei is not the commander of the Zhao army, and like Chen Yu and Shen Yang, he has already given birth to the ambition of rebelling against Zhao Zili, but when it comes to the life and death of the Zhao army, Sima Wei, who is still the general of Zhao State, still can't bear to leave the Zhao army and flee for his life alone, and is as cheeky as Liu Laosan to sneak away.

The Zhao army now also needs someone to stand up and replace Chen Yu to preside over the overall situation, Zhang Ao's mutiny to seize power has seriously hit the morale and morale of the Zhao army, and has completely disrupted the order of the Zhao army's camp.

Because of this, after Zhou Chang, a small partner in Peixian County sent by Liu Laosan, got in touch with Sima Wei, Sima Wei, who was still a little responsible, immediately remembered that he had more important things to do, and he couldn't leave the main force of the Zhao army for the sake of a Chen Yu, and at the same time, Li Zuoche also strongly persuaded Sima Wei to focus on the main force of the Zhao army, Sima Wei was forced to have no choice but to roar angrily, and promised to hand over the mission to Liu Laosan to chase and kill Zhang Ao's defeated army, and ordered the Qi army led by Tian Li and Tian Du to help Liu Laosan. Then he hurriedly returned to the Zhao army camp with his army to preside over the overall situation.

The current situation in the Zhao army camp is worse than what Sima Wei and Li Zuoche feared, the rear camp is completely chaotic, and even the Chinese army camp has been affected, the generals of the Zhao army have their own troops to wait and see, and several armies are already packing their bags and preparing to flee for their lives. And what made Sima Wei's nose even more crooked was that he had previously ordered Chen Yu's subordinate Wei Xiu to lead the troops out of the camp and line up to intercept the upcoming attack of the young marshal's army, but this order had not been executed yet, only more than 10,000 Zhao troops followed Wei Xiu out of the camp in a hurry, lined up outside the front camp gate, and symbolically formed an interception defense line.

It's barely good, the young marshal's army is only urgently dispatching 6,000 troops to the Zhao army's camp, Sima Wei barely has a little time, so Sima Wei didn't dare to have any hesitation, and immediately pulled one of his own personal soldiers in front of him, and shouted: "Go and tell Wei Xiu that if you want to survive, you should immediately take the initiative to go west to meet the enemy, and no matter what, you must temporarily stop Xiang Kang's thief army and buy me time!" ”

Yelled and sent a personal soldier to give orders, Sima Wei rushed directly into Chen Yu's handsome tent, ordered someone to blow the horn, and summoned the generals of the Zhao army to immediately discuss the big tent of the Chinese army, fortunately, the generals of the Zhao army also desperately hoped that someone could stand up and act as the mainstay, and soon rushed to the handsome tent after hearing the horn, Sima Wei stood in front of Chen Yu's handsome position and roared like thunder, roaring: "Lao Tzu doesn't have so much nonsense, the general was kidnapped by Zhang Ao's traitor and left, Xiang Kang's rebel thief is about to be killed, if you want to live, just listen to Lao Tzu's command!" Take all your troops and fight to the death with Lao Tzu out of the camp and Xiang Kang's thief army! ”

"Generals, life and death are at stake, I hope you must not hesitate, you must obey General Sima's command!" Li Zuoche also said loudly: "In the current situation, we can only unite under the banner of General Sima and work together to kill and retreat Xiang Kang's thief army, so as to keep the main force of our Zhao army!" Otherwise, our remaining nearly 100,000 soldiers of the Zhao State may not be able to return to the Zhao State on horseback! ”

"I am willing to listen to General Sima's orders!"

The Zhao army, who had no choice, clasped their fists together and replied neatly, while Sima Wei waved his hand and shouted: "Then go back to me immediately, immediately lead the army out of the camp, and fight to the death with Xiang Kang's thief army!" ”

The remaining less than 70,000 Zhao troops hurriedly left the camp, and the Zhao army Wei Xiu, who was forced by Sima Wei to take the initiative to go west to meet the enemy, was also in the eastern suburbs of Hangu Pass and the young marshal's army in front of the Ding Ji Division, in order to buy time for Sima Wei as much as possible, Wei Xiu was quite smart and chose to arrange the strongest defensive circle formation to intercept, Ding Ji, who had accumulated countless experience in actual combat, was not stupid, and without waiting for the Zhao army to complete the formation, he decisively ordered two thousand troops to charge, and won the opportunity for hand-to-hand combat before the Zhao army stabilized the formation, At the same time, let the remaining 4,000 troops form a cone formation, and Ding Ji personally raised his sword as the tip of the cone and launched a general attack on the Zhao army.

This is also the first field battle between the young marshal army and the princes' coalition army, in the huge shouting and killing, the cone formation of the young marshal army is like a sharp arrow, directly pierced to the circle formation of the Zhao army, directly splashed out of countless blood and limbs, the young marshal army officers and soldiers who are eager to take advantage of the fire are all like tigers going down the mountain, fiercely wielding weapons and stabbing and killing, killing the demoralized Zhao soldiers on their backs, screaming and falling to the ground continuously, and like a sharp knife, the Zhao army's queue is raised inward, almost directly into the fragile interior of the Zhao army's round array.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Wei Xiu could only personally bring the reserves inside the circle array to reinforce, and it took a lot of effort to barely withstand the charge of the young marshal army, but the soldiers on both wings of the young marshal army were unceremoniously, roaring and slashing the Zhao soldiers who came to intercept them back again and again, and smashed a deep pit on the Zhao army's round formation, and continued to move forward, weakening the Zhao army's interception queue little by little with the momentum of crushing, although the middle and grassroots generals of the Zhao army also mustered up the courage to lead the army to the top of the army, But it still couldn't stop the advance of the young marshal's army.

Then, Xiang Kang had just led the main force of more than 20,000 young marshals out of Hangu Pass and assembled an army outside Hangu Pass, Ding Ji's department made a breakthrough and forcibly tore a gap in the Zhao army's round formation, and Ding Ji's front team, which was covering the battle outside the cone-shaped formation, took the opportunity to rush into the inside of the Zhao army's round formation, and slashed the Zhao army soldiers who were still fighting hard from behind, Wei Xiu was forced to order a counter-charge and continue to buy time for the main force with cluster melee.

The combat effectiveness of the Zhao army is indeed not weak, and the experience in melee is also quite rich, even if the quality of individual soldiers is not as good as that of the young marshal army who has always taken the line of elite soldiers, it is not without the power to fight back one-on-one. It's a pity that Zhao Jun's military heart is really panicked now, from top to bottom I know that something big has happened to my army, the defeat on the battlefield of Hanguguan has long been cast, knowing that it will be defeated, the combat effectiveness of the Zhao army soldiers has naturally been seriously affected, even if they have to fight hard in order to survive, they will immediately retreat at the first opportunity, ready to flee for their lives at any time, so even if the front team of the young marshal army is pulled into the melee, the Zhao army crowd is still constantly retreating, and there is a danger of collapse at any time.

The front team of the Zhao army finally failed to escape the end of collapse, Guan Ying and Yang Xi had just led the cavalry of the young marshal's army to help, and they had just entered the battlefield from the right flank, and the demoralized Zhao army Wei Xiu's department completely collapsed, Wei Xiu even gave up the effort to restrain it a little, and the first to turn the horse's head and flee for his life, and the Zhao soldiers fled all over the mountains, Ding Ji led the young marshal's army to chase and fight, while desperately slashing and killing the defeated soldiers of the Zhao army, while expelling the enemy's defeated soldiers as the vanguard, Assault the main position of the Zhao army arrayed outside the camp.

Fortunately, the front team of the Zhao army led by Wei Xiu did not fight in vain, and using the time they had gained, the remaining Zhao army had already poured out and lined up a huge mixed battle formation of infantry and cavalry outside the military camp. At the same time, Sima Wei was also very decisive, and the Zhao soldiers who did not hesitate fired their bows and arrows at their own defeated soldiers, and expelled the defeated soldiers of the Zhao army who fled directly with a dense rain of arrows, saying that he would not give the young marshal army a chance to expel the defeated soldiers and rush into the ranks of his own army.

Seeing that the arrows of the self-army were raining arrows, the defeated soldiers of the Zhao army could only obediently disperse to both sides and flee to the open place where no one was around, even if there were many casualties, but they did not disrupt the main force's queue. The young marshal's army Ding Ji's department could not withstand the dense arrow rain of the Zhao army, so he had to temporarily retreat and retreat to a distant place to wait for the main force to come over for reinforcements.

Xiang Kang personally led the main force of more than 20,000 handsome troops to the scene, and when he joined Ding Ji and Guan Ying, the time was close to Shen Shi in the afternoon, and seeing that the Zhao army camp was full of devastation, and there were collapsed tents and fences everywhere, the young marshal generals were naturally overjoyed, and rushed to ask Xiang Kang to launch an attack immediately, taking advantage of the opportunity of the demoralization of the Zhao army to break the enemy in one fell swoop. Xiang Kang was very calm, first carefully observed the situation of the Zhao army's battle formation, and then said: "Don't be in a hurry, it's not an opportunity yet." ”

"General Right, the thief army of Zhao has just experienced civil strife, and the army's morale is chaotic, now is not an opportunity, when is it an opportunity?" Zhu Jishi asked very strangely.

"The thief army of Zhao has poured out of the camp, and is ready to fight to the death, at this time to launch a strong attack, even if we win, we will definitely have to pay a big price." Xiang Kang replied: "Wait a minute, when the Zhao State thief army has passed this breath and its morale has exhausted, it is not too late for us to launch an attack again." ”

After that, in addition to ordering the young marshal's soldiers to stabilize their positions and carefully prevent the Zhao army from taking the initiative to attack, Xiang Kang hurriedly sent people to Zheng Bu, who was staying at Hangu Pass, to give an order, and asked Zheng Bu to immediately organize people to make torches and dry food to send to the main army, so as to prepare for a long confrontation with the Zhao army. The young marshal's generals did not dare to insist on opposition, but immediately returned to their headquarters, led the army to confront the Zhao army from afar, and patiently waited for the fighter to appear.

After another period of time, seeing that the young marshal's army had never launched an attack, the generals of the Zhao army led by Sima Wei were of course confused, and they didn't understand what medicine Xiang Kang was selling in the gourd, but Li Zuoche sighed and said: "No wonder Xiang Kang's little vertical son has won a hundred battles since his debut, and he has not tasted a defeat so far, this little vertical is really good at using soldiers." ”

"What does Guangwujun mean by this?" Sima Wei asked very strangely.

"Xiang Kang refused to rush to attack, because he knew that we were now in a fighting spirit, and even if we could defeat us, we would definitely have to pay a certain price." Li Zuoche replied: "That's why he chose to avoid the front for the time being, and wanted to wait until our morale was exhausted before launching an attack, so that he could defeat us at the lowest cost." ”

"Is that so?" General Sima Wei was suspicious and said: "He is not afraid that we will ease this breath, the army's morale will no longer be chaotic, and it will be more difficult to fight?" ”

"In this situation, we can still breathe a sigh of relief?" Li Zuoche smiled bitterly and said: "Our soldiers are just trying to survive now, so they are holding back enough strength to prepare to fight with Xiang Kang's thief army, the confrontation has been going on for a long time, and the desperate thoughts have gradually dissipated, and I think of the chaos in the camp and the capture of the commander, our army will only be more demoralized, the morale of the army will be more affected, and it is not the opponent of Xiang Kang's thief army." ”

"General Sima, then let's not waste time." A Zhao general next to him shouted: "Taking advantage of our soldiers who are now ready to fight hard, simply take the initiative to attack and directly kill the Xiang Kang thief army!" ”

"What stupid are you talking about?" Li Zuoche scolded angrily: "Our army is already panicked, and we take the initiative to attack, once we can't succeed, our morale will definitely decline faster, and we will only lose worse!" ”

After scolding General Zhao for his bad ideas, Li Zuoche hurriedly said to Sima Wei: "General Sima, now we have only one way, that is, to quickly let the rear army in the camp load the grain and grass, prepare enough dry food and torches, and at the same time arrange the rear of the elite army, and retreat as soon as it gets dark, so as to keep our Zhao army more." ”

It's a pity that in history, if the rulers of Zhao State could listen more to Li Zuoche's good policies, maybe there would be nothing to do with Xiang Yu, Han Xin and Liu Laosan, and the same is true for this historical plane, Sima Wei, who was temporarily in charge of the army, only thought about it for a while, then shook his head and said: "It's not so easy, retreat at night, we will definitely lose even more." The best way now is to take advantage of the fact that our soldiers are still willing to work hard, and the troops are also superior, and take the initiative to launch an attack to kill Xiang Kang's thief army, and then we can calmly withdraw from the Hanguguan battlefield and keep the main force of our Zhao State. ”

After that, Sima Wei didn't allow Li Zuoche to say more, so he decisively ordered to play the banner, beat the war drums, urge the soldiers on both wings to attack, and take the initiative to attack the young marshal army with a total strength of only more than 30,000 people. ”

At the same time, in the banner array of the young marshal's army, seeing that the army of Zhao State actually took the initiative to attack the own army, Xiang Kang of course almost didn't smile crookedly, and said with a wild laugh: "You still dare to take the initiative to attack, I really think you died badly!" Command the whole army, stand firm, and beat the Zhao thief army to the point that their mother can't recognize it! ”

Li Zuoche's hope was disappointed, and Xiang Kang, who was ridiculed by everyone as not good at battle battles, was actually not really afraid of battle like a tiger, but almost every time when he raised his troops, he fought with weakness and strength, and with fewer enemies, and there was no way to avoid a huge battle as much as possible.

After the young marshal army also made the soldiers of Zhao want to cry without tears, after taking the Xianyang arsenal and seizing a large number of sophisticated weapons produced and manufactured by the Qin court with a lot of money, the young marshal soldiers who were once quite chaotic have already been fully equipped with standardized production of the best Qin crossbows, and the crossbow arrows shot not only have greater momentum, longer range, and significantly higher accuracy!

With the command of the middle-level generals, the young marshal soldiers with Qin crossbows in their hands were like machines, constantly taking turns to step forward, and through the Wangshan Mountain, the feather arrows were shot neatly, and the bullet-shaped arrows drew countless air currents in the sky, and the Zhao soldiers who were charging forward quite accurately hit the Zhao soldiers who were charging forward, and the remaining momentum was still lingering after directly penetrating the shoddy leather armor on the Zhao soldiers, and continued to drill into the bodies of the Zhao soldiers. Blood was splattered on more of the Zhao soldiers.

Unable to parry such a violent rain of arrows, the first wave of the Zhao army's attack was quickly repulsed, Sima Wei was furious, and immediately sent the supervision team forward, forcing the Zhao army soldiers to attack again, but no matter how the Zhao army supervision team persecuted, the Zhao soldiers still could not rush to the front of the young marshal's army to start a close combat, and finally when the rear team was forced to increase the front line, the Zhao army soldiers reluctantly rushed to the front of the two wings of the young marshal army, and started hand-to-hand combat with the young marshal army.

The troops were at a disadvantage, the young marshal army on both wings once fought very strongly, and the formation was forced to shrink again and again, and it was not easy to rely on the dense formation to withstand the charge of the Zhao army, Sima Wei also decisively urged the front army to advance, and hit the Chinese army position of the young marshal army head-on, but unfortunately the Chinese army position of the young marshal army was denser, and it was continuous from beginning to end, no matter how the Zhao army soldiers attacked, they were never able to rush closer, on the contrary, they were shot with heavy casualties, and were forced to retreat many times.

Sima Wei, who refused to give up, increased his troops to the front again, but after a fierce battle for a long time, whether it was the battlefield on both flanks or the frontal battlefield of the Chinese army, the Zhao army failed to make any breakthrough, and was always in a stalemate with the young marshal's army. Sima Wei was even more furious, shouting and ordering the third round of war drums to be sounded and the third large-scale charge was launched. ”

Sima Wei didn't pay attention to Li Zuoche's advice at all, his eyes widened with copper bells, but he just glared at Xiang Kang Shuaiqi in the distance, and he just wanted to have his wings and fly there to cut the famous oily and powdery Xiang Kang with one sword!

Sima Wei was angry and helpless, when the sun was slowly setting, the third large-scale of the Zhao army was still killed and retreated by the young marshal's army, and the morale of the Zhao soldiers, who had not been able to attack for a long time, was exhausted, and at the same time, they were hungry and tired, and their combat effectiveness was greatly reduced. Xiang Kang seized the fighter and decisively ordered: "Order the whole army, prepare for a general attack!" Wait until you take the camp of the Zhao State thief army and then eat! ”

As soon as the order was conveyed in place, Xiang Kang decisively ordered the drum of the general offensive to be sounded, and the officers and men of the young marshal army, who had been gaining momentum for a long time, also forgot their hunger for a while, and shouted to directly impact the Chinese army of the Zhao army.

No matter how much you shout, it was useless, the army was already unstable, and the morale that was only boosted in order to survive was exhausted after the frustration of the active attack, and the young marshal soldiers rushed to the front of the battle against the rain of arrows they hurriedly cast, and the front team of the Zhao army was immediately in chaos, and then collapsed into an army, and the morale of the young marshal army was like a rainbow, and they successively broke the multiple phalanxes of the Zhao army, and killed directly towards Sima Wei's handsome banner!

"Beat the drums! Total Attack! All-out attack! ”

The situation was too critical, Sima Wei could only order a full-scale general attack in a hurry, but unfortunately the morale of the Zhao army had declined, even if the new force of the rear team stepped forward, it could not stop the tide of the offensive of the young marshal army, and it was quickly defeated, and the soldiers of the young marshal army were like a rush, and in a blink of an eye, they were killed less than two hundred steps away from Sima Wei's banner.

Praise Sima Wei, even at this time, he still did not turn the horse's head decisively like Liu Laosan and ran, just urgently transferred the flag array, with the flag and golden drum to the back of the right wing that has not yet been attacked by the enemy, and organized the army to continue to resist stubbornly, but it was still useless to do so, with the complete collapse of the Chinese army's position, the two wings of the Zhao army did not fight and were in chaos, and before the young marshal army turned around and killed, countless Zhao army soldiers had already fled with their heads in their hands, Sima Wei scolded, "Piff! A bunch of horsemen! Useless dog thing, give me stability! Hold it for me! ”

"How old are you? Are you really the general of our Zhao Kingdom? These are the heartfelt words of countless Zhao soldiers.

At this time, the front team of the young marshal's army had changed the direction of the charge, and went straight to Sima Wei's banner formation, and the soldiers of the Zhao army scattered and fled for their lives, Li Zuoche also hurriedly pulled Sima Wei and told him to run, Sima Wei was helpless, so he could only yell loudly, and then turned his horse's head and fled with his own soldiers. And after his handsome banner fell, the main force of the Zhao army also collapsed completely, and even the camp and grain and grass were too late to carry, shouting and fleeing everywhere, the young marshal soldiers chased and killed with all their might, kicked off the Zhao army camp, and killed the Zhao army soldiers in the pursuit.

Still when the pursuit reached Caoyang Pavilion, the transport team of the young marshal army sent by Zheng Bu caught up with the main force of the own army, handed over the dry food and torches made in a hurry to the main soldiers, and after eating a little dry food in a hurry, the main force of the young marshal army picked up torches and continued to chase again, and Leng was to pursue to the city of Shaanxi County in one breath. As a result, what made the defeated soldiers of the Zhao army bitter was that the defeated soldiers of Zhang Ao, who had fled before, had already entered the city first, controlled the county seat of Shaanxi County, and did not leave them a foothold where they could breathe, Liu Laosan and the Qi army had already fled so long ago that they could not even see the shadow, and the young marshal army pursued the soldiers quickly caught up, and the defeated soldiers of the Zhao army, who were hungry and tired to the extreme, had no choice but to put down their arms and kneel and surrender, only part of the army continued to flee east with Sima Wei, and the main force of the Zhao army with a clear banner in the morning, It also completely disappeared in one day.

By the way, after the war, Xiang Kang gave Mr. Uncle Sun the first merit very fairly, and encouraged him to make persistent efforts and continue to make contributions to the young marshal's army on the diplomatic battlefield in the future, but Mr. Uncle Sun did not appreciate it at all, and just wailed in front of Xiang Kang, "General Right, you can not want this first meritorious officer, just ask you not to let me send an envoy to the enemy camp in the future!" Xia Guan really doesn't like to be an envoy to take risks! ”