When he came to Pengcheng, the Qin army led by Zhang Ping was definitely as strong as it was, with clear armor and banners covering the sky, people like foxes and horses, and murderous momentum like bamboos. But when it came time to be forced to leave the battlefield of Pengcheng, the soldiers of the Qin army led by Zhang Ping were sneaky like a group of grass thieves, not only did they not dare to continue to make a big fanfare, but they didn't even dare to go west in the broad daylight, and chose to quietly pull out the camp in the middle of the night, and secretly retreat like thieves.

The Qin army can't retreat, it was already burned a lot of grain and grass by the shameless sneak attack of the young marshal's army, and the partial division Yao Ang's division that went south to seize the grain was unexpectedly defeated on the Fuli battlefield, and the loss was so bad that he couldn't even go north to return to the division to meet Zhang Ping, and the area of Xiao County and Xiang County, which had already been emptied by the young marshal's army, could not raise any grain, and the land transportation of grain was not only huge and slow, but the grain route could also be threatened at any time, if Zhang Ping did not hurry up with the Qin army to withdraw to Dangjun to get grain, the remaining more than 30,000 Qin troops would definitely starve to death on the battlefield of Pengcheng.

Zhang Ping's withdrawal must also be sneaky and sneaky, for no other reason, although the god-damn young marshal army had suffered some losses in the Battle of Pengcheng before, but the strength still exists, the vitality is still there, and there is still the strength to continue to launch a large-scale war, at the same time, Peixian hooligan Liu Laosan also took his rabble on the north bank of the valley to watch and delay, although he can join forces with the young marshal army to attack, if Zhang Ping retreats, if he is not hidden, get rid of Xiang Kang and Liu Laosan, the two top hooligans in the world, as soon as possible, once they bite their tails, delayed the speed of withdrawal, so once the Qin army's accompanying army food and grass were used up on the road, it would be difficult for the main force of the Qin army not to be molested, bullied and raped by these two hooligans.

However, it is a pity that Zhang Ping still seriously reached the level of scoundrels of Xiang Kang and Liu Laosan, the two top hooligans in the world, in fact, just received the news of the fiasco of the Qin army in the Fuli War, Xiang Kang and Liu Laosan expected together, guessing that Zhang Ping would definitely lead the army to retreat within one or two days, not only sent scouts to closely monitor the Qin army camp day and night, but also prepared to send troops to pursue in advance, and also arranged for their mobile troops to wait for orders day and night, always ready to attack immediately when the Qin army retreated, beat the water dogs, and made the Qin army worse, send charcoal in the fire! So......

"The thieves are coming! The thieves of the North Shore are also here! Fast! Pack up! Load all the tents! ”

"Cut the pontoon! Don't let the thieves on the north bank cross the river! ”

Therefore, the dream of the Qin army's smooth retreat has become a flower in the mirror, the moon in the water, and even before the Qin army soldiers have finished cleaning up all the tents that shelter from the wind and rain, the young marshal army led by Zhu Jishi has already rushed to the front of the Qin army's camp, and Liu Laosan also sent Fan Hao to lead an army of 2,000 from the north bank to directly impact the pontoon bridge and ferry built by the Qin army before, forcing the Qin army soldiers to cut the pontoon bridge in embarrassment, and dare not fight head-on with the anti-Qin rebel army for the first time.

Fortunately, Zhang Ping had arranged the army of the palace before, and at the critical moment, the Qin army's Chen Kan Division, which had suffered the smallest loss before, blocked Zhu Jishi's troops, and finally won the Qin army time to load all the baggage and retreat, but was bitten by Zhu Jishi's tail, and the retreat speed of the Qin army could no longer maintain full speed, and could only maintain the distance between the queue and the rear army and slowly retreat, and Zhu Jishi's department was like a hungry wolf, constantly wandering behind the Qin army, always ready to suddenly pounce and tear off a piece of fat from the Qin army.

What made Zhang Ping even more frightened was still behind, although the soldiers of the Qin army destroyed the pontoon bridge in time and avoided the doom of being pursued by the young marshal's army and Liu Laosan, but Liu Laosan's army, which was blocked on the north bank of the valley, not only did not give up the pursuit, but also accelerated its speed, and went straight to Xiao County along the north bank road, and the speed of the army was far above the main force of the Qin army.

The young marshal army was responsible for the pursuit, and Liu Laosan was responsible for attacking Xiao County, which was located on the north bank of the valley, which was the previous agreement between Xiang Kang and Liu Laosan. The reason why Xiang Kang and Liu Laosan adopted this tactic was that the Qin army had to pass through Xiao County when returning to Dangjun in the west, and it had to cross Gushui north to enter Xiao County, and Liu Laosan's troops only needed to rush to Xiao County first, so it would be difficult for the Qin army to enter Xiao County to rest and recuperate, and then retreat calmly, which could greatly increase the difficulty of the Qin army's main force retreating westward.

Xiang Kang and Liu Laosan agreed on this tactic together forced Zhang Ping to temporarily change his retreat plan, knowing that the self-army could not outrun Liu Laosan, who was advancing lightly no matter what, Zhang Ping turned his heart on the side, and simply sent a fast horse to return to Xiao County first to deliver the order, so that the Xiao County defenders were ready to abandon the city and retreat, just wait for the main force to arrive in Xiao County, and immediately take the remaining grain in the city across the valley and retreat with the main force, throw Xiao County back to Xiang Kang, and wait for the future to take revenge.

When the sky was light, Xiang Kang and Liu Laosan, who had already made sufficient preparations, each personally led the main force to launch a pursuit, and then the main force of the young marshal army relied on the entanglement of Zhu Jishi, and successfully caught up with the Qin army at noon, and exchanged hands with the south bank of the Qin army's valley water, but the Qin army, which was in a hurry to retreat westward, had no intention of fighting, and retreated on its own without resisting for long.

Before the Qin army formed a good formation, the main force of the young marshal's army had already turned around and fled for several miles, Zhang Ping scolded Xiang Kang's shameless despicability, but there was no way, and at the same time, he did not dare to let the Qin army, which had almost no rest last night, continue to rush overnight, and was forced to choose to sleep in the suburbs, so that the army took turns to guard the camp to prevent the young marshal army from launching a sneak attack.

At the same time, Old Man Fan, who insisted on coming with the army, also made a suggestion to Xiang Kang, suggesting that Xiang Kang gather the cavalry of the young marshal's army, organize it into a separate army, and travel back to the front of the Qin army's flank when it was dawn, so as to raid the enemy formation when the fighter plane appeared, help the main force break the enemy, and at the same time can also receive the effect of containing the Qin army, so that the Qin army does not dare to retreat at full speed, and can only maintain a strict formation and slowly advance westward, so as not to give the cavalry of the young marshal's army the opportunity to take advantage of the chaos to attack.

Old man Fan's suggestion made the young marshal army unanimously applaud, but Xiang Kang was a little hesitant, the reason was not that Old Man Fan's idea was bad, but that Xiang Kang lacked good cavalry generals under his command, and Xiang Kang had also organized the cavalry to fight separately several times before, but the effect of changing several cavalry generals was not ideal, and the role was quite limited, which would make the enemy faced by the young marshal army stronger than the previous enemy, Xiang Kang of course had to worry that even if he did this, it would not play much role, on the contrary, it might lose a large number of valuable cavalry. ——In the Jianghuai region, war horses are not just ordinary.

"Brother, let me go." Xiang Guan stood up and volunteered, saying: "Among our Xiang brothers, I have the best riding skills, let me lead the cavalry to fight, I will not disappoint you." ”

After hesitating for a moment, considering that sooner or later he would have to form a cavalry army that could fight alone, and too much gain and loss would not only miss the fighter, but also make his cavalry unable to get the opportunity to experience actual combat, Xiang Kang nodded and said: "Okay, brother, please, be careful, you must not force your hand if you don't have a chance, the road from here to Dangjun is still very long, what we have is time to slowly clean up the tyrannical Qin army, you don't need to hurry." Also, don't fight head-on with the cavalry of the tyrannical Qin army, our cavalry is still very weak and not their opponent, so you must know how to avoid its edge and hit it unprepared. ”

Xiang Guan happily agreed, and took Xiang Kang's military order overnight to transfer the cavalry of each battalion of the Young Marshal's Army to assemble and form an army separately, and at the same time, it was natural that the nobody, who was directly subordinate to Xiang Guan and successfully left a deep impression on Xiang Guan, also followed Xiang Guan into the cavalry team of the Young Marshal Army, and was also appointed by Xiang Guan as the cavalry commander of the Young Marshal Army.

That night, the despicable Xiang Kang used his signature tactics again, and successively sent a drum and gong team to beat gongs and drums near the Qin army's camp several times, interfering with the Qin army's rest, and the Qin army, which had no camp protection, was both frightened and frightened, and was tormented by the harassment tactics of the young marshal's army, and the morale of the army was greatly affected.

After receiving the news, the main force of the young marshal army immediately launched a pursuit again, and more than 1,800 cavalry of the young marshal army led by Xiang Guan stepped forward from the flank and rushed to the front of the Qin army, successfully forcing the Qin army to slow down, and also forcing Zhang Ping to hurriedly send the Qin cavalry to attack and expel the cavalry of the young marshal army who was wandering beside him, Xiang Guan kept in mind Xiang Kang's advice, and decisively avoided the edge of the Qin army's cavalry, which also became a hidden danger in front of the Qin army.

When it was close to noon, the main force of the Qin army was only less than ten miles away from Xiao County, and Liu Laosan's department, which rushed to Xiao County first, was in strict order on the north bank of the valley to prevent the Qin army from crossing the river and entering the city to station, and the Qin army in the county seat of Xiao County also loaded all the grain that could be collected, ready to go south out of the city at any time, and met the main force through the bridge built before the army.

At this critical moment, the cavalry of the young marshal army, which had disappeared before, suddenly appeared in front of the soldiers of the Qin army, but to the surprise of the Qin army, the cavalry of the young marshal army did not attack their army, but chose to raid the Gushui bridge outside the south gate of Xiao County, and also killed the Qin army defenders on the bridge with lightning speed, set fire to the bridge, and then waited for the Qin soldiers in the city to hurry out of the city to rescue, the two temporary bridges that had been built hard had already ignited a skyrocketing fire. At the same time, Liu Laosan saw that there was a advantage to be taken, so he immediately divided his troops to storm the Qin army's bridge, forcing the Qin army of Xiao County, who was trying to extinguish the fire, into the city.

Originally, Zhang Ping also hoped that after meeting with the Qin army in Xiao County, he would be able to replenish some food more or less, but the bridge was destroyed, and the grain trucks on the north bank of course could not cross the river to replenish, so in the case that the food in the army was only enough for today's use, Zhang Ping had no choice but to order the army to form a formation at the ferry, while sending people to repair the bridge, while fighting head-on with the main force of the young marshal's army.

The strength of the army is still at a disadvantage, Xiang Kang of course continued to choose the tactics of containment, while confronting the Qin army in the field, while pinning the hope of preventing the Qin army from meeting on the north bank Liu Laosan, fortunately, Liu Laosan was never ambiguous in this regard, not only decisively sent troops to block the Qin army from building a bridge, but also sent an army to directly attack the city, with a temporary rush to build a simple flying ladder and hit the wood to storm the east gate of Xiao County, forcing the Qin army in the city to be distracted and unable to fully cooperate with the main force of the Qin army to build a bridge.

In the shouting, Liu Laosan's soldiers continued to rush to the vicinity of the ferry to cast feather arrows with feather arrows shot from the north and south at the same time, shooting and killing the soldiers of the Qin army who were grabbing the bridge, even if they had to pay a certain price for casualties every time, they never gave up. Fan Xu, who was in charge of the siege of the city, took the lead and led the soldiers of Liu Jun to attack the east gate of Xiao County with limited flying ladders and simple bumping wood, and once rushed directly to the head of Xiao County, causing great chaos to the defenders of the city. And Liu Laosan's main force was even more desperate, and he even rushed to build a flying ladder directly on the formation, and every time he built a plane, he immediately sent it to the east gate and handed it over to Fan Xu to help Fan Xu continue to attack the city.

The madness and bravery of Liu Laosan's department successfully hit the morale of all the Qin soldiers, causing the Qin soldiers on the south bank to be unable to concentrate, and they had to always pay attention to the situation on the battlefield on the north bank, and also forced the Qin army in Xiao County to lean eastward, making it even more difficult to cover the main force to build a bridge.

In the end, there was really no way, Zhang Ping, who jumped over the wall in a hurry, simply urged the army and rushed into the main battle formation of the young marshal army with all his might, while Xiang Kang calmly faced the battle with the help of Chao Zhi, who knew the most about formation warfare in the young marshal army, and commanded the armies to hold their positions steadily, and fought with the Qin army, which was still fighting with the trapped beasts, and the sky was dark, and the sun and moon were dark.

If it is replaced by in other circumstances, the main force of the young marshal army who is not good at fighting in formations may not be sure to be able to block the full impact of the Qin army, fortunately, at this time, the situation is special, the Qin army that is about to run out of food is panicked and anxious, and has not been able to rest well for two consecutive nights, and the physical strength has decreased significantly, so under this long and long dissipation, the young marshal army not only miraculously withstood the attack of the Qin army, but also used the advantage of fighting in formation to kill the Qin soldiers who forcibly attacked with heavy casualties, and their morale fell even more.

In the end, it was still Liu Laosan who broke the deadlock, relying on the repeated strong attacks of forgetting his life, Liu Junjun finally seized a position in Xiao County, the famous fierce general Fan Hao Daxi at the end of Qin personally went to the city, brandished his own dog slaughtering knife, and killed more than ten Qin soldiers in the melee, killing the Qin army into complete chaos, Liu Jun's soldiers took the opportunity to flock to the city, successfully seized the key points of the city tower, and covered the city under the Liu soldiers successfully crashed open the city gate, Liu Jun's soldiers entered the city in a big way, killing people everywhere and setting fires, mainly composed of Lishan prisoners Xiao County's Qin army completely collapsed, can only quickly open the west gate of Xiao County and abandon the city to break through.

Then, as Liu Laosan's red banner was planted in the south gate tower of Xiao County, the Qin soldiers who were fighting the south bank were also in an uproar, and the offensive was suddenly sluggish, and Zhang Ping's face was even more pale to the extreme, knowing that the army no longer had any chance to obtain the supplement of grain and grass in Xiao County, and it had to run hungry for a day or two, and then it was possible to eat a full meal.

The enemy's morale slipped to the bottom, such a good opportunity was placed in front of him, if Xiang Kang didn't know how to seize it, he would be too sorry for the young marshal soldiers who had died in the battle before, the flag waved, the war drums sounded, and the young marshal army, which had been on the defensive, stepped on the drum and launched a comprehensive counteroffensive, the Qin army, including Zhang Ping, was unintentional and unintentional, and went west without saying a word, in order to reduce the burden, he also abandoned the baggage vehicles loaded with camp tents and ordnance, and escaped more than ten miles in one breath to get rid of the pursuit of the young marshal's army.

At this time, the new bad news suddenly came, Yao Ang, who fled to Xiangxian in embarrassment, sent someone to contact Zhang Ping, saying that he was in the process of fleeing west because of the lack of food, and even the physical strength of the cold belt was reduced due to hunger, and he had just crossed the Zhuyi controlled by the young marshal army and was caught up by Feng Zhong not far away, and was defeated by Feng Zhong again, and the losses were extremely heavy, only more than 1,000 remnants of the defeated soldiers reluctantly fled to Xiangxian, but the grain and grass in Xiangxian County were pitiful, and the young and strong had already been evacuated by the Qin army and the young marshal army in turn, almost like an empty city, Therefore, Yao Ang could only decide to abandon the city and go west, and flee to Mangxian for the time being.

"Xiangxian can't go." Zhang Ping came to a conclusion with a pale face and said: "Feng Zhong's traitor must have taken Xiangxian at this time, and if we go to Xiangxian again, we are destined to die in vain." ”

"General, where are we going?" A subordinate general asked.

Zhang Ping didn't answer, and turned to Dong Ke, the county supervisor of Dangjun County, who had been ordered to help him before, and asked: "Dong Yushi, you are more familiar with the situation in Dangjun than me, do you think we should go that way?" ”

Dong Ke hesitated for a moment and said: "General Hui Zhang, if you don't go to Xiang County, there are only two ways to go back to Dang County from Xiao County, one is to go north to Xiayi, but this road is farther, and Xiayi has been occupied by the former Xiang Kang rebel thieves, and it is still controlled by the thief army. ”

"What about the other way?" Zhang Ping asked.

"It's going straight to Dangxian." Dong Ke pointed in the direction of Dangxian County, which is slightly southwest, and said: "This road is relatively close, in addition, Dangxian has also been recovered by us before, there is some grain and grass in the city, if it goes well, we should be able to get grain and grass supplies in Dangxian." But ......, but ....... ”

Speaking of this, Dong Ke was obviously a little confused, and Zhang Ping urged impatiently: "But what? If you have something to say, you don't have to have any scruples. ”

"But Dangxian is just as close to Xiangxian." Dong Ke voiced his worries and said, "If Feng Zhong's traitor rushed to Dangxian before us and blocked our way, we would no longer have any chance. Therefore, although the road in Dangxian is close and there is also food and grass supply, it is likely to be more dangerous than going to Xiayi! ”

After wiping the sweat and dust on his face, and thinking carefully for a moment, Zhang Ping made up his mind and said, "Go to Dangxian!" ”

"General, Dangxian may be more dangerous than Xiayi." Dong Ke hurriedly reminded.

"There will be no danger." Zhang Ping pointed out: "First of all, the first point, Feng Zhong's traitors are chasing Yao Ang, Yao Angxi fled to Mangxian, he is likely to pursue Mangxian, and he has no time to pay attention to Dangxian for the time being. Secondly, Xiang County is also a certain distance from Xiao County, whether it is Feng Zhong who sends someone to the north to investigate, or Xiang Kang who sends someone to give him an order, it is impossible for him to quickly move to Dangxian County and prevent us from entering the city to get food. Therefore, unless Feng Zhong is an immortal who anticipates the enemy's opportunity, it is impossible for him to arrive in Dangxian County earlier than us and block our way. ”

Feeling that Zhang Ping's analysis was reasonable, the generals of the Qin army also nodded in agreement, and then Zhang Ping did not hesitate, and immediately led the hastily reorganized army to the direction of Dangxian, divided the only dinner into several portions to save food, and fled to Dangxian to get food in hunger and disgrace. And after the scout of the young marshal army reported the movements of the Qin army to Xiang Kang, Xiang Kang was also taken aback and blurted out: "Oh no! The Tyrannical Qin army did not go to Xiangxian, but went to Dangxian, and must have received the news that Feng Zhong had moved west to Xiangxian, if Feng Zhong just stayed in Xiangxian or went to other places, our hope of annihilating the tyrannical Qin army would be in vain! ”

"Young marshal, you might as well immediately send a fast horse to Xiangxian County, and let General Feng Zhong immediately move to Xiangxian County to block the way for the violent Qin army to flee west!" Zhou Zeng suggested.

"It's too late, wait for my messenger to rush to Xiangxian, and then wait for Feng Zhong to react and rush to Dangxian, the tyrannical Qin army will definitely enter the city and get food." Xiang Kang shook his head, but he still had a glimmer of hope, and said: "Now we can only hope that a miracle can appear, I hope that Senior Brother Feng has a long-term vision and can see this step first, and send an army to Dangxian County to help us stop the Tyrannical Qin army, as long as he does this, we will be at least eighty percent sure of annihilating the Tyrant Qin army." ”