As Xiang Kang analyzed, after learning that Puyang was quickly broken by the young marshal's army, although the Qin army's white horse defenders issued an alarm at the first time, they only sent people to contact the main force of the Qin army in Thorn Plains and the Qin army stationed in Aocang, and did not notify the Qin army's mobile force Dong Kan's department - I can't do it if I want to, I don't know where and where Dong Kan's army is, so Dong Kan's army that withdrew to Puyang from the north bank of Guangwu is about to arrive in Baimajin, and they don't know that Puyang has actually been taken by the young marshal's army. At the same time, the main force of the young marshal's army has also moved to the north bank of the Yellow River, waiting for him to return to die.

However, Dong Kan, who was entrusted with the important task of maneuvering by Zhang Han, is not a careless person, no matter how anxious he was to return to Puyang, he did not forget to send scouts to open the way in front, as far as possible to grasp the situation in advance, there is no stupidity to just know how to rush forward, as a result, this also won a certain amount of early warning time for the Qin army, Xiang Kang just left the ferry terminal with the main force of the young marshal army and marched westward, and the Qin army scouts quickly reported the situation to Dong Kan, giving the Qin army time to respond in advance.

Knowing that the main force of the young marshal army suddenly appeared in front of him, Dong Kan was of course taken aback, in addition to subconsciously immediately ordering the army to stop advancing, he hurriedly asked the current location and approximate strength of the main force of the young marshal army, and the Qin army scout answered truthfully, saying that the main force of the young marshal army was only ten miles away from the Qin army, and the strength was more than 20,000 people. Dong Kan frowned even more when he heard this, then immediately looked up to see the sky, and asked casually, "What time is it now?" ”

"It's just past the first hour of the Shen hour." The subordinate general next to him replied immediately.

"It's still an hour before it gets dark at the earliest." Dong Kan muttered in his heart, and then quickly made up his mind and said: "Order the whole army to form a battle formation immediately, seize the time to drink water and eat dry food, and prepare for battle." Assign men to cut down trees and make torches for use at night. ”

"General Dong, why do you still want to form a formation?" Guide hurriedly asked: "The enemy is outnumbered, and our army is tired from marching, should we seize the tense time to retreat?" ”

"It's because our soldiers are tired that we can't withdraw." Dong Kan said: "We came all the way in a hurry, if we don't take a break and retreat immediately, we will definitely be caught up by the main force of the thief army who are waiting for work, and it will be difficult for us not to lose the battle at that time." Only by forming a formation immediately, allowing our soldiers to seize the time to rest for a while, and then meet the enemy with our strong formation, and force back Xiang Kang's thief army, and then can we quickly retreat under the cover of night and get rid of the pursuit of the thief army. ”

Gui De and other Qin generals woke up, hurriedly clasped their fists and sang promises, and quickly sent orders to the whole army, so that the soldiers of the Qin army who were tired from the rush should seize the time to drink water, eat and rest temporarily, so as to meet the main force of the approaching young marshal army, and at the same time assign people to cut down nearby trees and prepare torches for the night march.

When the three quarters of Shen Shi was approaching, the main force of the young marshal army led by Xiang Kang personally rushed to the scene, and saw that the Qin army did not retreat in a hurry, but on the contrary, formed a mixed phalanx of infantry and cavalry to prepare to fight with him, Xiang Kang couldn't help but be a little surprised, and said: "Dong Kan, this thief, is very capable of making decisions on the spot, and when he found that we were approaching, not only did he not escape, but on the contrary, he formed a battle formation to prepare for the battle, and it was clear that he wanted to use his strengths and avoid weaknesses, and use their strong formations to temporarily kill us, and then retreat under the cover of night." ”

Knowing that Xiang Kang didn't like battles, Chen Ping, who was next to him, hurriedly suggested: "General Right, we can't let the Tyrannical Qin army get what we want, we should not rush to attack, and wait for the Tyrannical Qin army to withdraw before we do it, so as to avoid their specialty." ”

Xiang Kang was a little shaken for a while, but when he saw from a distance that the Qin army was transporting the freshly cut trees back to the position, Xiang Kang immediately changed his mind and said: "We can't miss the opportunity, if we don't seize the time to launch an attack, defeat the Tyrannical Qin army before it gets dark, and give them time to prepare for a night battle, it will only be more difficult for us to annihilate this Tyrannical Qin army." ”

After that, Xiang Kang, who was notoriously disliked to fight in formations, immediately issued an order, so that the main force of the young marshal's army immediately formed a phalanx to prepare for battle, and after the order was issued, the young marshal generals who were familiar with Xiang Kang's temperament were of course all surprised, and they all said in surprise: "The sun came out of the west today?" Our right general actually doesn't play tricks in the war, and he wants to fight with the tyrannical Qin army in a dignified manner? ”

Surprise is surprise, the fighter is precious, in fact, the main force of the young marshal army, who has never neglected the training of the formation, still quickly formed a battle formation, or formed a square formation with high requirements for the commander's command ability, and then Xiang Kang did not hesitate, the phalanx had just been listed, Xiang Kang asked his own soldiers to play the banner, ordered the young marshal army to send 2,000 troops from the front team, directly knocked on the front of the Qin army's battle formation, and ordered Zhong Liwu to send troops from the right flank, leading the army of 3,000 to attack the left flank of the Qin army's battle formation.

"General Right, with all due respect, are you a little bit of a?" Chen Ping cautiously reminded: "Although the students don't know much about battle battles, they also know that when fighting battles, they should first send a small group of troops to repeatedly test to find the weaknesses of the enemy's battle formation, and then avoid the strong and attack the weak, and attack the enemy's weaknesses." Now you don't make any temptations, launch an attack directly, and focus on attacking the left flank of the Tyrannical Qin army, if the elite soldiers of the Tyrannical Qin army happen to be on the left flank, we are afraid that we will suffer a loss if we fight like this. ”

"It's almost time, and the days are short in late autumn, so we don't have time to try." Xiang Kang replied very directly, and said: "It doesn't matter if the enemy's elite is on the left flank, if we storm their left flank, we can directly kill and injure their elite forces, which is conducive to our next battle." ”

Seeing that Xiang Kang's answer was straightforward, and seeing that Uncle Zhou, the most powerful general under Xiang Kang, did not stand up against it, Chen Ping, who was not good at military affairs, had no choice but to shut his mouth and let Xiang Kang mess around. On the other side, Dong Kan sneered when he saw Xiang Kang's arrangement, and said: "Don't make any temptations, as soon as you come up, you will use so many troops to attack, and they all say that Xiang Kang Xiao'er can't fight, it seems that this is really not wrong." ”

This is also the first time that Xiang Kang has faced the enemy head-on since the beginning of the army, and the result is quite satisfactory to Xiang Kang, although the young marshal army attacking from the front was quickly killed and injured by the Qin army's strong crossbow, but he still gritted his teeth and rushed to the close place, winning the opportunity to fight with the Qin army in close quarters. At the same time, the Zhongli army that attacked from the right flank also acted resolutely, and after paying a certain amount of casualties, it also rushed to the vicinity of the left flank of the Qin army, fiercely brandishing weapons and fighting with the Qin army in close combat, although it failed to move the Qin army's position, but also successfully entangled the left flank of the Qin army.

Xiang Kang was indeed very anxious, it had only been about ten minutes since the hand-to-hand battle began, and Xiang Kang actually ordered Long He to lead three thousand troops to attack to assist Zhong Liwu in strengthening the offensive against the left flank of the Qin army, but Chen Ping was of course dumbfounded when he saw it, and he didn't understand why Xiang Kang attached so much importance to the left flank of the Qin army, but Dong Kan, who was hiding behind the Qin army, raised his eyebrows, vaguely discovered Xiang Kang's intentions, and said secretly: "Won't it?" Didn't you say that Xiang Kang was not good at battle? ”

Dong Kan's Qin army is no more than 10,000 people, excluding the right wing and the frontal middle army, there are only five teams of 500 people that can be deployed on the left flank, and the 2,500 army wants to resist the 6,000 young marshal army The pressure is naturally very huge, and what's worse is that the rear army of the young marshal army led by Long Ji is not directly joining the frontal battlefield, but detouring back to the north of the left flank of the Qin army, attacking the flank of the left flank of the Qin army, and joining forces with Zhong Liwu to storm the left flank of the Qin army from two directions, the pressure on the left flank of the Qin army is naturally multiplied, and the fierce battle is only a moment, The left flank of the Qin army was struggling and had to ask the Chinese army for help.

Forced to have no choice, Dong Kan could only hurriedly transfer a thousand troops from the Chinese army to reinforce the left flank, but what made Dong Peng dumbfounded was that Xiang Kang sent Li Shang to lead 3,000 troops into the left flank battlefield of the Qin army, far back behind the left flank of the Qin army, and rushed behind the left flank of the Qin army from the rear, and used the 9,000 army to flank the more than 3,000 troops on the left flank of the Qin army on three sides.

At this point, Xiang Kang's intention was already very obvious, that is, relying on his numerical superiority in troops, taking advantage of the weakness of the relatively open terrain on the left flank of the Qin army, to attack the left flank of the Qin army with more battles and fewer attacks. And this method is stupid, but it makes it impossible for the Qin army to crack it, forcing Dong Kan to obediently continue to replenish troops to the left flank, and at the same time pray for the blessing of the gods, so that his left flank can withstand Xiang Kang's three-plate axe and persist until the turning point appears.

Prayers are destined to be useless, under the command of Xiang Kang, Zhong Liwu and Long He and other generals who stormed the left flank of the Qin army were originally first-class fierce generals in this era, seeing Xiang Kang repeatedly increasing troops on the left flank battlefield, he also understood that Xiang Kang had high hopes for himself, so he did not need Xiang Kang to send people to urge him to supervise the battle, Zhong Liwu and Long Ji had already rushed to the front line, and personally led the young marshal soldiers to fight bravely, and the Qin army on the left flank was swayed one after another, and the Qin army on the left flank could only gradually change into a circle formation of different sizes, and fully turned into a defensive position.

At this time, the sun was gradually setting, and the sky was about to get dark in a blink of an eye, but the offensive of the young marshal's army was still surging like a tide, and the swords and spears frantically greeted the soldiers of the Qin army, and gradually put pressure on the positions of the Chinese army of the Qin army from the flank.

"Shameless dog thieves, they will only rely on more to win less! If General Ben's strength is the same as yours, you don't want to have any chance in this battle! ”

No matter how unwilling Dong Kan roared, he still couldn't save the doom of the collapse of his left flank, when the sky was about to get dark, he couldn't resist the crazy attack of the young marshal's army, the circle formation on the left flank of the Qin army collapsed one after another, and a large number of soldiers fled into the Chinese army's position to hide, and the three young marshal armies on the left flank took the opportunity to take the flag as a guide and launched a fierce attack directly on the flank of the Qin army's Chinese position. Xiang Kang, who had a strong army, took the opportunity to urge Zheng Bujun to step forward and storm the Chinese positions of the Qin army with torches.

It was still extremely miserable, and in the light of the few torches, the young marshal soldiers followed one after another, shouting and launching a wave of impact on the Chinese position of the Qin army, and the Chinese army of the Qin army was forced to reinforce the left flank twice before, and the strength of the troops had been weakened, and the queue was affected by the defeated army, and it was inevitable that the fight would be more difficult.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Dong Kan could only make a quick decision, mobilized his right-wing army to reinforce the Chinese army, and attacked the flank of Zheng Bu who was attacking the young marshal's army from the side, in a vain attempt to temporarily force Zheng Bu to retreat, and Xiang Kang waited for this opportunity, the right wing of the Qin army had just started, and the left wing army of the young marshal's army immediately went out to attack the right wing of the Qin army with great momentum, pulling the Qin army into a full-scale melee.

The situation of all-out melee is still extremely unfavorable to the Qin army, the young marshal army is already good at fighting melee battles, which will have the upper hand again, the morale is high, and the strength is also in an absolute advantage, and it is inevitable that the battle will be more handy, and the Qin army, which is mainly composed of Lishan prisoners, will be killed in horror, screaming again and again, and forced to turn to the defensive in an all-round way.

After fully turning to the defensive, although the Qin army will still be able to support it for a while, Dong Kan knows very well in his heart that unless a miracle occurs, the battle of the self-army will be undoubtedly defeated, and Xiang Kang, who still has enough troops in his hands, only needs to wait patiently for a while, and wait for the young marshal army on the front line to exhaust the Qin army, and then calmly put it into the reserve, and the Qin army will definitely only be left with the end of being wantonly slaughtered. Therefore, Dong Kan had no choice, first accepted the kindness of his own soldiers, immediately changed into the clothes of a soldier, and then hurriedly rang the golden cymbal to collect the troops, fled with the Qin army, and retreated to Chaoge to protect the army as much as possible.

Dong Kan still underestimated Xiang Kang's command ability, the Qin army had just begun to retreat, under the command of Xiang Kang, the cavalry of the young marshal army, which had been gaining momentum for a long time, immediately attacked under the leadership of Guan Ying and Yang Xi's second general, bypassing the battlefield and directly pursuing Dong Kan's banner, at the same time, the Qin army that retreated in a hurry was also in chaos, and in a blink of an eye, it was rushed apart by the young marshal army on the front line, and fled all over the mountains.

The victory has been decided, but at this time, Chen Ping, who has been worried about it beside him, breathed a sigh of relief, and couldn't help but smile at Xiang Kang: "General Right, everyone says that you are not good at battle battles, you only like to fight field battles and win by surprise, now it seems that this should not be right, you don't seem to be so good at battle battles?" ”

"Do you want to hear the truth or a lie?" Xiang Kang asked rhetorically, and then immediately said: "The lie is that this time I don't have a chance to win by surprise, I can only fight head-on, so I have to fight this battle." ”

"As for the truth." Xiang Kang smiled slightly, and said: "Actually, I'm not really afraid of a battle, it's that I really didn't have the opportunity to fight a battle before, every time I fought before, either the troops have been at a disadvantage, and the battle has been more auspicious, and I have to rely on tactics to win, or my troops are in an absolute advantage, and the enemy does not dare to fight a decisive battle with me. ”

Xiang Kang was a bit bragging, if it wasn't for Xiang Liang's personal teaching in Pengcheng, which greatly made up for Xiang Kang's weakness of not being good at fighting, maybe Xiang Kang would still not dare to confront the Qin army today. However, it obviously doesn't matter if it's bragging, after relying on the superiority of troops to defeat the mobile troops of the Qin army in a battle, the young marshal's army easily killed more than 4,000 Qin soldiers and captured more than 1,000 people in the pursuit, and forced Dong Kan to abandon the banner and flee for his life, and in one fell swoop dealt a heavy blow to the mobile troops left by Zhang Han in the rear, and won a big victory.

After the battle on the north bank, Xiang Kang immediately crossed the Yellow River south of Baima with the main force of the young marshal's army and returned to the battlefield on the south bank. During this period, although the Qin army Su Tuo's department took advantage of the opportunity of the main force of the young marshal's army to temporarily leave Puyang, and launched three large-scale attacks on Puyang in two days, it was always helpless to take Puyang Jiancheng, on the contrary, the losses in the battle were quite small, so just found out that the main force of the young marshal army turned around and returned to Puyang, Su Tuo could only immediately stop the siege and start preparing to withdraw to the thorn plain.

In the same way that Dong Kan underestimated Xiang Kang's ability to fight, Su Tuo also underestimated Xiang Kang's precautions, the main force of the young marshal's army was still during the river crossing, and the young marshal's army Zhu Jishi, who was previously responsible for monitoring the White Horse Qin Army, immediately marched eastward, and came to Puyang to obstruct Su Tuo's withdrawal, and successfully arrived in Puyang before Su Chan led the army to retreat, biting Su Tuo's tail, when Su Tuo forcibly retreated, in addition to Zhu Jishi's decisive pursuit, Chao Zhi also took the three thousand defenders in Puyang City to join the pursuit, teamed up with Zhu Jishi to slow down the retreat of the Qin army, and bought precious time for the main force of the young marshal army to catch up with Su Tuo.

Then, near Dunqiu in the east of Puyang, the main force of the young marshal army who came lightly and fought with the Qin army again, Xiang Kang personally put on the battle, led the young marshal army and the Qin army Su Chan to start the battle again, and relied on the brave battle of the young marshal army soldiers, once again defeated the Qin army in the battle of the formation, killed Su Chan to a great defeat, successfully completed the established tactical plan to break the Qin army's reinforcements, completely cut off the Qin army's Yellow River transportation, and let the main force of the Qin army fall into a food shortage crisis.

The good news has been continuous, first the Qin army defenders of the White Horse saw that the two support armies were defeated by the young marshal's army, and in order to survive, they took the initiative to open the city and surrender, and offered the control of the White Horse City and the White Horse Ferry to the young marshal's army, and then Xiang Yu also took the initiative to send someone to send the news, introducing the situation that the main force of the Qin army was forced to abandon the Julu battlefield and retreat south and the main force of the Chu army won a great victory in the Zhanghe. Xiang Kang was overjoyed when he heard the report, and hurriedly called Uncle Zhou and others to discuss how to further cooperate with the main force to fight.

When he fought the tactical application, it was still Uncle Zhou who showed his strengths, and just after learning about the general situation of the Julu battlefield, Uncle Zhou suggested to Xiang Kang: "General Right, we should contact the former general as soon as possible and ask him to send an anti-Qin righteous division to attack Dangyin and cut off the road for the main force of the tyrannical Qin to withdraw directly from Thorn Plains to Chaoge." ”

"If this move is successful, then we can take the initiative on the north bank, if the main force of the Tyrant Qin does not retreat to the west, we will intercept the main force of the Tyrant Qin on the spot in Baimajin, and cooperate with our main force to attack the main force of the Tyrant Qin in front and back. If the main force of the Tyrannical Qin does not dare to retreat westward from Baimajin, we can also go directly north from Baimajin to Dangyin to reinforce the friendly forces, and join forces with our friendly forces rushing to Dangyin to block the westward advance of the Tyrannical Qin army. In short, no matter how the main force of Tyrant Qin chooses, we all hope to completely cut off the retreat of the main force of Tyrant Qin, and join forces with our main force to inflict heavy damage or even annihilate the main force of Tyranny. ”

Xiang Kang was silent, not because Uncle Zhou's strategy would not work, but because Xiang Kang was worried that if he really annihilated the main force of the Qin army in Handan County, he would lose the opportunity to enter the Guanzhong by taking advantage of the situation, and gave up the opportunity to attack the Guanzhong to his overlord cousin.

Fortunately, Xiang Kang's conscience has not been eaten up by the dog after all, considering that the destruction of Qin must be the most important thing at the moment, and if Zhang Han is given the opportunity to turn the tables, what kind of mistake will his brave and unscrupulous overlord cousin be, even if he enters Guanzhong from Nanyang Wuguan, it is possible that the main force of the Qin army who returned to the division in time will make dumplings in Guanzhong, Xiang Kang thought about it, but nodded and agreed to Uncle Zhou's suggestion.

The letter was quickly written, and the reliable messenger was quickly dispatched, but after the messenger said goodbye and left, Chen Ping cautiously reminded Xiang Kang: "General Right, General Zhou Shu suggested that the former general divide his troops to attack Dangyin, although the tactics are very correct, but the student spends the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain, and the former general may not necessarily listen." ”

"Why won't you listen?" Xiang Kang paused, then immediately came to his senses, and said lightly: "Whether Brother he listens or not, I have done my best anyway, if he doesn't want to accept my kindness, I can't help it." If my uncle had a spirit in heaven, he would only blame him, not me. ”