Xiang Sui's blood was not shed in vain, that night, the Qin army successively dispatched nearly 2,000 troops to attack the temporary camp of the young marshal army, and were bravely repelled by the young marshal soldiers led by Xiang Sui, the corpses of the soldiers on both sides next to the young marshal camp were all over the place, and the blood was in a depression, but the thin defense line of the young marshal army remained unmoved, and the banner of Chu was still floating in the young marshal army camp. also miraculously played a winless result.

In addition to Xiang Sui fighting for glory for the children of the Xiang family, it is also an important factor that there are some fortifications to defend, and another reason is that the Qin army came from afar on a rugged path, and its physical strength has been affected a lot, and this situation is not obvious at the beginning, but with the continuation of the high-intensity battle, the Qin soldiers on the front line still have a rapid decline in physical strength.

In the second half of the night, Xiang Kang, who was worried that Xiang Sui's army would not be able to hold on, finally made adjustments, and let another general with a different surname who had been unearthed in the actual battle Ding Ji lead a thousand troops to the north, and rushed into the path to rotate Xiang Sui's army to rest. It also allowed the Qin army to successfully break through a section of the fence defense line of the young marshal's army, almost forcing Xiang Sui's army into a desperate situation.

At the critical moment, Xiang Sui continued to fight for the children of the Xiang family, and when he saw that the situation was critical, he immediately personally led a reserve of only more than 100 people to plug the gap, and took the lead in the bloody battle, slashing with axes, slashing teeth, biting stones, and finally blocking the crazy attack of the Qin army, and persevered until the arrival of reinforcements. In addition to letting the main force enter the camp to help the battle, he personally led a death squad to bypass the camp and storm the Qin army on the front line from the flank, sharing huge pressure on the friendly troops in the battalion, and also helping the friendly army vehicles in the battalion to re-plug the gap and survive the crisis.

Then, when Ding Jijun took advantage of the opportunity of the Qin army to retreat slightly, and quickly replaced the exhausted and heavy casualties of Xiang You's army, the also exhausted Qin army basically had no chance to break the camp, in order to reserve the strength of the soldiers to deal with the next battle, Gongsun Qing had no choice but to give the order to retreat, and took the depressed Qin soldiers to retreat for several miles to camp and rest, and was forced to stop this fierce battle that lasted for most of the night.

In the end, Xiang Sui, who was covered in blood, was carried back to Xiang Kang on a stretcher by his own soldiers, Xiang Kang was excited and cried, took Xiang Sui's hand and choked and said: "Brother, fight beautifully, fight hard, I'm not as good as you." The eldest father has knowledge, and he must be very pleased to have a junior like you. ”

Xiang Sui just smiled, and then turned his head and fainted, Xiang Kang hurriedly asked Xiang Sui to be carried down and handed over to the medical staff for rescue, and then just a little calculation, Xiang Kang immediately instructed Zhou Zeng: "Uncle Ya, use my reputation to write a letter to Gongsun Qing Pifu, laughing at him for personally leading the army to come, even our camp of a thousand people can not be broken, persuade him to quickly lay down his arms and surrender, so as not to continue to be embarrassed, and try to mock as much as possible, and strive to make Gongsun Qing Pifu angry like thunder." ”

"Young Marshal, do you want to deliberately provoke Gongsun Qingpifu and lead him to continue this battle?" Zhou Zeng understood what Xiang Kang meant.

"The trail is narrow, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and I have a good place in hand, so of course I want him to continue to fight with us." Xiang Kang smiled treacherously and said, "Otherwise, if he just goes back with the main force of Tyranny Qin with little loss, wouldn't it cost us a lot more to attack places like Pi and Tancheng next?" ”

Zhou Zeng nodded, stopped talking, but immediately picked up the pen to make a book, wrote a mocking letter in the name of Xiang Kang, and handed it to Xiang Kang to sign and seal, and then Xiang Kang immediately sent someone to the front to hand it to the general Ding Ji, and asked Ding Ji to shoot a bow and arrow at dawn to the campsite of the Qin army.

Xiang Kang's letter received a very satisfactory effect, originally considering that the tenacity of the young marshal army greatly exceeded his previous imagination, Gongsun Qing had been somewhat shaken, and had the idea of retiring from the army, but after seeing Xiang Kang's provocative letter, Gongsun Qing was so angry that Gongsun Qing immediately strengthened his determination to continue the attack, and did not discuss with anyone, and directly shouted: "Keep fighting!" The official doesn't believe it, this camp of thieves is really iron, why can't it be pierced! Keep fighting, take down this camp of thieves first! ”

Because of Gongsun Qing's decision, another tragic and cruel offensive and defensive battle unfolded again, in the cold wind of late autumn, the crossbow arrows cast by the soldiers of the Qin army and the young marshal army were like dense locusts, constantly flying in front of the two armies, and the soldiers of the two soldiers were constantly hit by arrows and fell to the ground or were wounded, and the blood stained the battlefield. Then the soldiers of the Qin army holding the long shield lined up like the waves of the sea, wave after wave on the camp of the young marshal's army, and the young marshal soldiers gritted their teeth and bitterly with the thin and broken fence defense line, and struggled to kill the enemy on the opposite side of the fence with spears.

The well-equipped and standardized Qin soldiers brought huge casualties to the young marshal's army in the fierce battle, but relying on the only advantage of the relatively narrow enemy side, the young marshal soldiers who took turns to fight in the bloody battle also made the Qin army pay a heavy price, and the fierce battle was less than three hours, and both sides of the fence were already lying with the corpses of soldiers on both sides, causing both soldiers to continue fighting by stepping on the corpses of their comrades, and the blood flowed down the land, dyeing the swamp east of the young marshal's army camp a large dark red, At the same time, the warlords of both sides have also slashed and killed dozens of their own soldiers who fled from the battle, all of them are desperate to complete their offensive and defensive tasks.

The days in late autumn are short, and the sky is already slightly dark, but the camp of the young marshal army is still standing in front, and even if all the Qin army officers and soldiers who take turns to fight have used their strength, they still have not been able to break through the defense line of the young marshal army. After the preliminary statistics of today's casualty figures, Gongsun Qing's heart was also suddenly cold, after two consecutive offensive and defensive battles, the number of Qin army's casualties and serious injuries had exceeded a thousand people, and the minor injuries were even more numerous, and the losses were so heavy that they directly exceeded a rout suffered in the plain area.

"We can't fight anymore, the thieves clearly want to rely on the favorable terrain to wear us down, and if we continue to fight like this, the old man is not sure to kill the thieves in the battle again, and even the strength to retreat to Xiapi will be insufficient!"

After coming to this conclusion, Gongsun Qing decisively ordered Mingjin to withdraw his troops, withdraw the front-line army, and then immediately re-withdraw to the campsite last night, and arrange and arrange the withdrawal plan. After Xiang Kang received the report, he immediately sent Xiang Guan to lead a team of 1,000 people to rotate the Ding Ji army, which suffered heavy casualties, and at the same time, Xiang Kang clearly told Xiang Guan before the rainy day, saying: "Brother, keep an eye on the tyrannical Qin army and prevent them from retreating overnight!" If you find them retreating, chase me down to the end! This path is just difficult to follow, but it is not suitable for setting up ambushes, so you can safely chase them with all your might, and try to weaken them for me! ”

Xiang Kang expected that at the third watch of the night, Gongsun Qing, who had no strength to win, really retreated quietly with the army, and also imitated Xiaobai, the prince of Qi in the Spring and Autumn Period, and Xiang Kang during the Battle of Yu County, and arranged a hanging sheep drumming plan to confuse the young marshal army. But it's a pity that Gongsun Qing's Dong Shi Xiaofeng didn't receive much effect, and it was not far away, and Xiang Guan, who had been entrusted by Xiang Kang, sent scouts to venture forward and closely monitor every move of the Qin army's campsite, so the Qin army didn't go far, and Xiang Guan, who received the news, decisively led the army to launch a pursuit.

In desperation, in order to cover the retreat of the main force of the Qin army, the team behind the palace of the Qin army was forced to engage with the pursuers of the young marshal army several times, but unfortunately, the road was too narrow, and the Qin army's good battle could not be performed, coupled with the morale of the Qin army, most of the army behind the palace were thinking about fleeing for their lives as soon as possible, for fear of being thrown down by the main force as a substitute for the dead, and every time they fought a battle, they hurriedly retreated when there was not much fighting. The young marshal's army chased with all his might, and caught up with the main force of the Qin army just after dawn, Gongsun Qing had no choice but to let the soldiers abandon the chariots and horses with the army and block the road, so he barely got rid of the pursuit of the young marshal's army and fled to the distance, but even so, the Qin army still fell behind and lost countless times, and lost a lot of weapons and armor, and finally only more than 2,000 people escaped from the Yishui road in embarrassment, ending the journey of the southern expedition at the cost of nearly half of the loss.

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When Gongsun Qing fled back to Xiapi City in embarrassment, the young marshal's army partial division led by Xiang Zhuang also defeated the Qin army's partial division in the field battle that hurriedly returned to Lingxian County to help protect the headquarters, and less than 300 people of more than 1,000 Qin troops fled into Lingxian County under the pursuit of the young marshal army.

The city wall of Lingxian is not short, it is very difficult to break the city by flying ladders alone, fortunately, Lingxian is only a small county town, and there is no urn city to provide double protection, and the young marshal army has previously filled in a section of Lingxian's moat and opened the road to the city, so Xiang Zhuang adopted the tactics of using the crash car and the ladder car to attack the city together, so that the crash car is responsible for impacting the north gate of Lingxian, and the ladder car directly attacks the city wall of Lingxian from the position where the road is opened.

The Qin army was not stupid, and quickly came up with a countermeasure, just saw the young marshal's army dispatch the city crash car and ladder, and immediately prepared a large number of torches, rockets and firewood to fight-for-tat, and prepared a large number of stones above the city gate to crack the young marshal's city crash car, the young marshal's ladder car had just advanced to the city wall, and it was immediately covered by the Qin army's dense rockets. But fortunately, the old Xiang family, who has been a general for generations, still has some heritage, and Xiang Zhuang, the descendant of the Xiang family, has long asked the soldiers to coat the ladder car with thick plaster for fire prevention, so although the rockets of the Qin army are intensive, the effect received is not ideal, even if a few fires rise on the ladder car of the young marshal's army, it is still marching towards the Lingxian city wall.

The biggest danger of the ladder car is within the range of the enemy's torch throwing, and after finally barely approaching the city wall, in the face of the torches and straw bundles thrown by the defenders of the city one after another, the young marshal soldiers are really helpless, so they can only continue to move forward, pushing the bulky ladder car that has gradually caught fire and slowly leaning towards the city wall. During this period, although the crossbowmen of the young marshal army hiding behind the long shield under the city also desperately released arrows to cover, but they had little effect, and they were never able to stop the enemy from setting fire to the ladder cart frantically.

The situation was the same on the side of the city gate battlefield, the young marshal's army under the command of the foreign general Zheng Bu had not yet hit the city gate, and was immediately attacked by the hail and rain on the city wall, and the first city crashing car was quickly smashed and completely scrapped. Fortunately, Zheng Bu was not discouraged, and immediately sent a second crashing vehicle to step forward and attack the city gate again.

The thunderous shouting echoed on the battlefield, after paying a lot of price, the ladder car that had been on fire was still difficult to lean on the city wall of Lingxian County, opening the road for the young marshal soldiers to reach the city, Xiang Zhuang saw the great joy, hurriedly ordered the drum to cheer, and commanded the army to attack the city, more than 500 young marshals outside the range of the city wall also immediately rushed to the city wall like a tide, part of them rushed directly to the ladder car ladder to go to the city, and the other part carried the ladder to impact the wings to share the pressure for the main attack team.

It is a pity that the young marshal's army failed to succeed in this siege, because the action of the siege troops was a little slower, and the ladder truck, which was seriously on fire, soon collapsed on its own under the trampling of the young marshal soldiers and the enemy's attack, turned into a pile of raging fire, and burned and engulfed many young marshal soldiers, and at the same time, the flying ladder of the young marshal's army was also attacked head-on by the enemy, and it was impossible to rush to the city wall alive or dead. Seeing this scene, Xiang Zhuang, who was once full of hope, of course, jumped like thunder, beat his horse and came to Xiang You's array, scolded Xiang You, who was in charge of commanding the ladder car, and asked Xiang You why he didn't personally lead the army to charge to boost morale?

Of course, Xiang You didn't dare to admit that he was afraid that he would be attacked by the enemy if he rushed to the front line in person, so he could only explain aggrievedly: "I thought it could be done, and I didn't need to go into battle in person, so I didn't do that." Brother, don't worry, next time I will definitely go in person. ”

"Tell your people to hurry up, stop crawling like the turtle just now!" Xiang Zhuang roared, "The next ladder truck leans on the city wall, you will immediately lead my troops up!" In such a big battle, if our Xiang brothers don't take the risk to step forward, who would dare to give us their lives?! ”

Xiang You only agreed, and Xiang Zhuang also returned to the flag formation to command the overall situation, but he ran into the liaison messenger sent by Zheng Bu head-on, and said to Xiang Zhuang: "General Xiang, the enemy's troops above the city gate are too dense, and it is difficult for our city crash car to get close to the city gate. ”

I was very satisfied with Zheng Bu's positive attitude, but for the sake of prudence, Xiang Zhuang still ordered: "Don't worry, wait for our next ladder truck to go up, and act under my banner." ”

Zheng Bu's messenger took the order, and at the same time, the second ladder car commanded by Xiang You also stepped forward under the push of the soldiers, and marched towards the Lingxian city wall again, but what made Xiang Zhuang very dissatisfied was that the ladder car still did not push fast enough, and it took a lot of time to barely approach the moat that had been filled before, and at the same time, the city crashing convoy led by Zheng Bu had launched an attack on the Lingxian city gate for the fifth time.

Keeping an eye on the action of the ladder cart with fear, he just saw the ladder cart crossing the moat, Xiang Zhuang couldn't wait to let his soldiers issue a banner, and commanded Zheng Bu and Xiang You to launch an attack at the same time, and Xiang Zhuang's two deputies, Zheng Bu and Xiang You, also immediately handed over the army to his subordinates for a while, and each led a team of 500 people to step forward and carry the flying ladder to attack the city wall. And seeing the young marshal's military lieutenant and the two or five hundred long banners rushing directly, the defenders in the city of course shouted loudly, and all kinds of crossbow arrows and bows were frantically concentrated towards Xiang You and Zheng Bu's banners.

Xiang Zhuang was very surprised, the flying echelon of the foreign general Zheng Bu advanced much faster than Xiang Youjun, in the case of only six pontoon bridges to break through the moat, Zheng Bu's army was faster than Xiang Youjun to kill under Lingxian County, Zheng Bu wearing armor also took the lead, and was the first to step on the ladder to hit the top of the city wall. Xiang Zhuang also scolded when he saw Dazan, "Xiang You, why are you not as good as a foreign surname?" ”

It made Xiang Zhuang worry again, and when he was halfway through, Zheng Bu was suddenly hit by a sheep's head stone that fell into the sky, and he stumbled and fell off the ladder. However, just when Xiang Zhuang was worried about Zheng Bu, the surprise happened again, Zheng Bu quickly appeared from the crowd under the city, stepped on the flying ladder again to hit the top of the city wall, and was inspired by Zheng Bu's courage, and his soldiers were also all brave, all of them competed for the first, biting their weapons and just desperately climbing up, and miraculously someone rushed to the top of the city wall.

In the face of the fierce offensive of the young marshal's army, the enemy defenders on the city wall finally showed some confusion, and the fifth crashing car of the young marshal's army finally leaned against the city wall, desperately picking up the sharp corners of the wood at the front to hit the city gate. At the same time, the hard work paid off, and the second ladder car of the young marshal army finally leaned on the city wall, and the soldiers of the young marshal army rushed up on the burning ladder car, and there were also soldiers rushing up the city wall.

The dawn appeared, but Xiang Zhuang was still angry, because Xiang Zhuang clearly saw that Xiang You's Duwei banner was still under Lingxian County, which meant that Xiang You still did not take the lead and took the lead in attacking the top of the city wall.

This anger was quickly replaced by joy, and on Zheng Bu's side, because the main general personally participated in the ant annexation, the morale of the young marshal army officers and soldiers rushed to the city wall one after another, causing more chaos to the enemy. And what about Xiang You's side, even if Xiang You still hid under the city and did not participate in the ant attachment, but after all, the opponent was only the county soldiers of the Qin army, and most of them had not really slashed people with knives on the battlefield, and their actual combat experience was far inferior to the young marshal sergeant who had already experienced many major battles, so the young marshal army still rushed up a lot on the ladder car that was about to collapse, and the team covering the flying ladder ant attached also made a breakthrough, and some people began to rush to the city wall on the flying ladder.

The banner of the guard appeared on the wall of the north gate, but the reserve of the Qin army was obviously slower, the young marshal army had made a breakthrough on both wings of the city gate, and the fifth crash car also smashed the city gate to the ground.

In the end, it was Xiang You's department that decided the outcome of the victory, taking advantage of the opportunity that the Qin army's reserve was pinned down by the most fierce young marshal Zheng Bu's department, Xiang You's side rushed up more than 200 soldiers in one breath and firmly held a large area of the city wall. As a result, it was also at this time that Zheng Bu's ramming car finally crashed into the city gate, Xiang Zhuang ordered in ecstasy, and Zheng Bu's rear army immediately swarmed into the city, and the Qin army was defeated like a mountain, and even the banner of the guard disappeared on the city wall unconsciously.

Of course, the next battle is not as fierce as before, the young marshal soldiers who rushed into the city are like a sharp blade, directly stabbed into the Lingxian official temple, Lingxian officials have fled or surrendered, Lingxian county orders also obediently hanged themselves, only more than 200 people in their hands were unable to return to the sky, so they could only quickly open the south gate of Lingxian with the remnants and fled to the direction of Huaiyin.

After breaking the city in one fell swoop, the young marshal army was full of joy, up and down were jubilant, but there was a discordant sound in the cheers, when Xiang You and Zheng Bu both returned to Xiang Zhuang's face, Xiang Zhuang's first sentence was, "The first merit of this siege battle is Zheng Bu Zheng Qianren!" When I go back, I will report to the young marshal truthfully and ask him to promote you to lieutenant!" ”

"General Xie!"

Zheng Bu, who had an arm hanging on his chest, thanked him happily, but Xiang You was a little unconvinced, and said: "Brother, it was my people who took the position in the city first and opened our way to the city, Zheng Qianren He is slower than me." ”

"Do you want me to tell my brother all about your performance this time?" Xiang Zhuang's eyes were sharp, and he stared at Xiang You and said, "Do you think that our elder brother is the kind of person who has unknown rewards and punishments, and will only look at our Xiang family's children?" ”

Xiang You closed his mouth, but he hated it in his heart, and said secretly: "What are you angry? Fair rewards and punishments? If it weren't for your usual good relationship with him, he would have been able to give you the title of general first? In the battle of Fu Li, who made the first contribution to breaking the city? If he hadn't held a grudge against me for what had happened before, he would have skipped me over the lieutenant and made me a general! ”

After muttering and venting his dissatisfaction with Xiang Zhuang, he remembered the past when he was forced to bend his knees in front of someone and beg for mercy, as well as the possible reason why Yu Yu's little girl insisted on refusing to marry her, Xiang You quickly turned his anger on someone and resented him.