"There's no way out, if you want to live, give me a back fight to the death! Kill the tyrannical Qin and take my life! ”

Cornered by the pursuit of the Qin army, Xiang Zhuang, who had always been accustomed to following Xiang Kang to steal and play tricks, rarely took a hand, decisively turned the horse's head on the bank of the valley, and urged the soldiers and horses to turn back and fight to the death, in a vain attempt to take advantage of the dangerous situation of fighting against the water, stimulate the combat effectiveness of the young marshal soldiers, and create a miracle by killing and retreating the Qin army.

It's a pity that the effect is not as ideal as Xiang Zhuang hoped, there are too many young marshal soldiers who are too panicked and afraid, and secondly, because Xiang Kang and Xiang Zhuang did not tell the soldiers of the army that there will be such a thing before this, and there are not too many young marshal soldiers who heard Xiang Zhuang's shout, so there are not many young marshal soldiers who decisively follow Xiang Zhuang to turn around and face the battle, and most of the young marshal soldiers are still in a serious state of chaos, or run around like headless flies, or fled east to the west gate of Pengcheng for help, and even some people jumped into the cold and biting valley water, swam to the north shore to escape for their lives, and there was no scene of the whole army turning back and fighting to the death as Xiang Zhuang hoped.

By the way, the officers and men of the young marshal army in the chaos did not flee westward to the main camp of the young marshal army, because the young marshal army also dug two trenches to protect the camp outside the east gate of the camp, and the trenches were also buried with sharp sharp stakes.

Fortunately for Xiang Zhuang, when deducing the tactical changes, Xiang Kang had already found that Xiang Zhuang's troops might be defeated and unable to control the situation, and made certain preparations in advance, just saw Xiang Zhuang's flag turn south, Xiang Kang immediately let the young marshal soldiers in the camp beat the drum to cheer, dozens of cowhide drums were beaten neatly, and the young marshal soldiers who were already familiar with the attack of the drum also subconsciously turned around to meet the enemy, and finally did not let Xiang Zhuang and his personal army fight alone, and died in vain.

It's still a pity, the defeated soldiers of the young marshal army can only do this step, there are two thousand elite Longxi elite as the backbone of the Qin army's chasing morale is like a rainbow, even if the defeated soldiers of the young marshal army are forced to trap the beast and fight, it is still unable to block the fierce offensive of the Qin army's pursuers, on the narrow battlefield, the Qin army pursuers are still striding forward, slashing spears and stabbing axes, killing the young marshal soldiers who dare to stop are ghosts crying wolves, corpses are all over the field, and quickly continue to suppress the activity space of the defeated soldiers of the young marshal army, and gradually force the defeated brigade of the young marshal army to the narrow area on the south bank of the valley.

Seeing this scene, Zhang Ping, who led the Qin army in the distance to the south, of course laughed, constantly laughing wildly at the incompetence of the defeated soldiers of the young marshal's army. Xiang Kang was so anxious that he was sweating profusely in the camp of the self-army, for fear that Xiang Zhuang would not be able to restrain the team, resulting in the defeated brigade of the self-army being forced into the valley by the Qin army, causing heavy losses, and he was even more afraid that the special troops led by Zhong Liwu would not be able to complete the preliminary plan and could not help Xiang Zhuang turn things around and reverse the defeat at a critical moment.

Fortunately, after being oppressed to the limit by the Qin army's pursuers, after they were so crowded with each other that they couldn't even insert a needle, the defeated soldiers of the young marshal's army, who had no way out, finally gradually broke out of their courage and blood, in order to survive, but also in order not to give their lives in vain, the defeated soldiers of the young marshal army plucked up the courage to sacrifice their lives to fight, and fought head-on with the powerful enemy on the opposite side one after another, and there was no situation that Xiang Kang was most worried about - the defeated soldiers of the young marshal's army were forced into the valley by the Qin army's pursuers, drowned and drowned countless people, and the corpses were piled up so that the valley water was cut off.

The battle also entered the white heat, under the night sky, with the help of the faint light of the torches, the soldiers of both armies were like crazy, one only put their weapons on the opposite enemy to beckon, in the screams of continuous people were cut off arms and heads, blood and brains splashed together, the murderer was immediately killed, even if the killed person fell, he had to desperately hug the enemy's legs, create an opportunity for his companions to avenge himself, hugging the people who rolled on the ground and wrestled them were not uncommon, the sword was broken and smashed with the hilt, the spear was broken and stabbed with the tail of the spear, and the fist was beaten, Stoned and bitten with teeth, the beast-like howls rose and fell one after another on the chaotic battlefield, and the shouts of killing merged with the sound of war drums, and the sound was heard for miles.

The offensive of the Qin army's chasing troops was also delayed because of this, but Zhang Ping in the distance was not anxious at all, because Zhang Ping still had a full 10,000 rear troops available in his hands, which was enough to prevent any eventuality. At the same time, the Qin army's pursuers are still holding the upper hand, and the defeated soldiers of the young marshal's army are completely supported by one breath, and after a long time, this breath is discharged, and the Qin army's pursuers will be able to kill all the defeated soldiers of the young marshal's army immediately, so of course Zhang Ping does not need to be a little anxious. But......

But it was too far away, and because it was too dark, what Zhang Ping didn't see was that in the chaos, there was a gradual change in the crowd of Qin army's pursuers, and some Qin soldiers with white cloth tied to their left arms did not want to kill the enemy, but took advantage of the opportunity of the Qin army to fall into chaos because of the vicious battle, and suddenly attacked other Qin soldiers from behind, or suddenly smeared a sword on the neck of the companion in front, or suddenly stabbed the back of the companion's heart from behind, and even someone very viciously stabbed the sword into the valley of the other Qin soldiers, and directly stabbed the companion** , and then immediately flee away, hiding in the chaotic crowd.

This situation has also happened from time to time on the battlefields of ancient and modern China and foreign countries, and it is not surprising that some soldiers either have a grudge against their comrades, or hate the oppression of their superiors, and take advantage of the chaos to suddenly stab the black knife and shoot the black gun, and kill the people they don't like. But the blame is that these Qin soldiers don't seem to have any specific goals, only when they seize the opportunity, they desperately assassinate other companions, regardless of whether these companions know each other or not, whether they have offended themselves to death, and they just indiscriminately attack their companions.

The battlefield was too chaotic, and this situation was not quickly discovered by the Qin soldiers at the beginning, but as more and more Qin soldiers were assassinated, the surrounding Qin soldiers gradually discovered that the situation was wrong, especially after seeing those Qin soldiers assassinate the soldiers from behind, the Qin soldiers understood that it was not good, and quickly yelled and asked what those Qin soldiers were doing, but those Qin soldiers didn't care at all, and immediately ran away.

"Someone is killing our own people! Stop him! Get him! ”

Seeing the murderer, the Qin soldiers shouted and chased, which caused the already chaotic Qin army to inevitably become more chaotic, and those Qin soldiers with white cloth tied to their left arms also took the opportunity to move more rampantly, and immediately started assassinating their companions when they caught the slightest opportunity. And after some of the more intelligent soldiers of the Qin army came back to their senses, they soon discovered a terrible truth, "Thief army! There are traitors who have put on our clothes and blended into our army! ”

"There's a thief in there! Traitors have come in! Watch out for traitors disguised as our soldiers and infiltrated our army! ”

Even more panicked shouts rang out, causing the Qin soldiers to panic, and they didn't care about the enemy but just looked at their companions around them, looking for the enemies who had mixed into the ranks of the self-army, and the Qin soldiers who had specialized in assassinating their companions before were even more reckless in fishing in troubled waters, shouting while greeting their companions with their swords, "Traitor!" This is a traitor in disguise! ”

"I'm not!" The wronged Qin soldier hurriedly shouted injustice, but unfortunately the other Qin soldiers around him were dizzy, and when they heard the shout that he was a traitor, they immediately chopped their weapons and stabbed him into his body, chopping this unlucky Qin soldier into meat sauce alive.

There are also Qin soldiers who have discovered the real traitors, but when they are fighting with those real traitors, those traitors keep shouting, "I want to fight, I am my own person!" Help me, this traitor is going to kill me! ”

Such a situation can be seen everywhere in the chaotic army of the Qin army, causing the Qin army to panic, no longer have any intention to move forward to kill the enemy, looking around just to find the enemy who has mixed into the own army, and the defeated army of the young marshal army, who has been cornered, took the opportunity to counterattack, not only recaptured a large number of positions, but also occupied the upper hand on the battlefield in turn.

At this time, the situation in front was finally reported to Zhang Ping, hearing this bad news, Zhang Ping was stunned at first, and he couldn't understand how the young marshal sergeant wearing the color of the Qin army uniform mixed into the self-army team, and then recalled carefully, Zhang Pingyou finally came back to his senses, and screamed like a pig: "It must be when we are chasing and killing the traitors and defeating the army!" At that time, our front army had been disrupted, and the traitors had ambushed our false soldiers outside their camps, and they had taken advantage of the chaos to infiltrate our ranks! Xiang Kang'er! How could you be so insidious and shameless, you could have come up with such a bad move! ”

It was too late to find out that it was fooled, the front army had been completely messed up, and if he wanted to quickly screen out the young marshal soldiers dressed as self-sergeants, even the gods could not do it, so in desperation, Zhang Ping had no choice but to let people hurriedly ring the bronze cymbal to collect the troops, and ordered the front army to retreat and regroup, and find out those damn young marshal soldiers and soldiers!

It's a pity that after the bronze cymbal sounded, the Qin army in front immediately retreated, but Xiang Zhuang, who had long known that there would be such a thing, immediately led the army to launch a pursuit, and in turn bit the tail of the Qin army's front army, not giving the Qin army's front army a chance to calmly retreat the whole team, the Qin army's heart was flustered, and they had to guard against the young marshal's soldiers who pretended to be Qin soldiers, who were already dead, and were killed by Xiang Zhuang's department, which was already dead, and the ghost cried wolf, and the casualty figure caught up with Xiang Zhuang's department almost instantly.

At the same time, at this time, something happened that made Zhang Ping's soul fly away, and the Qin army camp in the west suddenly rose on the fire head, and at the same time, there was also a Qin army fast horse flying report, saying that there was a young marshal army taking advantage of the opportunity of the main force of the Qin army to leave the camp, and suddenly killed from the darkness in the southeast and attacked the east gate of the Qin army camp, and the east gate of the Qin army camp had been destroyed by the young marshal army last time he stole the camp, and there was no way to continue to hold on behind closed doors, and was directly killed into the camp by the sudden young marshal army, killing people everywhere and setting fire, Although the Qin army still had 8,000 defenders in the camp, the area of the camp was too large, so it was impossible to stop it, so it could only send someone to Zhang Ping for help.

This time it was Zhang Ping's turn to sweat all over his face, and he wanted to hurry back to the army to save the camp, the young marshal army would definitely take advantage of the fire to rob and pursue with all his might, the Qin army was flustered, and it was even more difficult to stop losing the battle, if you didn't save it, in case the grain and grass were lost, the Qin army in Pengcheng would definitely not want to fight again. And after thinking about it, Zhang Ping, who was quite reasonable, was forced to make a painful choice, and shouted: "The rear army stepped forward, stopped the rebel army, and bought time for our front army to regroup!" Leave him alone! ”

After that, Zhang Ping also added another sentence in his heart, and said secretly: "Even if the grain and grass are lost, it doesn't matter, it's a big deal to withdraw to Xiao County and get food, as long as you keep the army!" The army is here, everything is easy to say, and if the army is lost, everything is over! ”

Although Zhang Ping's choice was painful, it was very correct, because at this time, the reserve of the young marshal army led by Xiang Guan and Chao Zhi was already lined up in the camp, and when the Qin army returned to save the camp, the reserve of the young marshal army would immediately attack, taking advantage of the opportunity of the Qin army's panic to expand the results of the battle. But Zhang Ping chose to fight on the spot, and Xiang Kang was completely helpless, and couldn't help but sigh: "It's a failure!" It's hard for us to have a big win in this battle tonight. ”

As Xiang Kang expected, although the young marshals and soldiers of Xiang Zhuang's department had greatly improved their morale, they still couldn't take any advantage after encountering the rear army of the Qin army that was fighting on the spot, and they failed to shake the position of the rear army of the Qin army after two charges, on the contrary, they were forced into the narrow space between the camp of the army and Pengcheng by the rear army of the Qin army again. At the same time, after relying on the cover of the rear army to get rid of the pursuit of the young marshal's army, the front army of the Qin army also hurriedly reorganized in the distance, screened the traitors, and led five hundred young marshals to infiltrate the Qin army.

During this period, adopting the suggestion of Old Man Fan, Xiang Kang also decisively sent Xiang Guan to lead the people of his headquarters to the west to help the commando team of the young marshal army led by Long Ji to attack the Qin army camp, and continued to force and lure Zhang Ping to withdraw immediately, but Zhang Ping, who was heavy on the army, was unmoved, gritted his teeth and refused to return immediately, and slowly retreated with the Qin army's front army, which had hastily reorganized the team, without giving the young marshal army a chance to continue to disrupt the army. Xiang Kang had no choice but to quickly send someone to contact Xiang Guan and Long He, asking them to withdraw from the battlefield immediately, so as not to be dumpled by the Qin army.

This battle lasted until the end of the day, and the young marshal's army did not defeat Zhang Ping's troops in one fell swoop through chaotic battles as Xiang Kang expected, although there were many enemies, but the casualties of the own army were also quite small. However, Xiang Kang's main concern was not this, when it was completely dark, Long Ji and Xiang Guan's department had just returned to the camp, and Xiang Kang immediately asked Long Ji, "How is it?" Did you burn the food of the Tyrannical Qin army? ”

"Returning to the young marshal, the burn is burned, but whether it is burned or not, the end will not dare to guarantee." Long He replied dejectedly: "The Tyrannical Qin army is too tight, and the last general only has a thousand troops in his hands, and he just rushed into the inner camp of the Tyrant Qin army, and it didn't take long for the last general to be forced out, so I dare not guarantee whether the grain of the Tyrant Qin army has been burned." ”

Xiang Kang hurriedly turned his gaze to Xiang Guan again, but Xiang Guan's expression was more embarrassed than Long He, and said: "Brother, I'm sorry for you, I just rushed into the inner camp of the Violent Qin army not long ago, and I was forced out by the Violent Qin army who jumped over the wall in a hurry, and I couldn't set fire to all the inner camp of the Violent Qin, and I don't know if I burned all the grain and grass of the Violent Qin army." ”

Xiang Kang smiled helplessly, but he couldn't blame Long and Xiang Guan, so he could only be forced to be happy, and praised Zhong Liwu and Long He, who had performed well last night, and promoted them to lieutenants, but in his heart, Xiang Kang still let out a long sigh and said secretly: "This battle, I'm afraid it still has to be fought!" ”

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"This battle! There's still a fight! ”

At the same time in the camp of the Qin army, Zhang Ping was also roaring almost the same words, because after collecting the troops and returning to the camp, he hurriedly counted the losses, Zhang Ping found that although the grain and grass of the army were indeed burned by the young marshal army, the remaining grain was still enough for all the Qin army, including Chen Kan and Yao Ang, to eat for more than five days, and at the same time, the loss of the Qin army's troops was not large. The overall strength is still far above the main force of the young marshal army, and it is definitely not a chance to reverse the battle again, let alone a fool's dream!

It is precisely because of this that Zhang Ping categorically rejected the general's suggestion to withdraw the army, and while sending people to Xiao County to urge grain and grass, he also sent people to urgently summon Chen Kan's subordinates, who had already gone north, to quickly return to the division and join the main force. And for Yao Ang's department, which had already gone south, Zhang Ping's attitude was even more resolute, not only did he not send someone to ask him to return to the division immediately, but on the contrary, he urged him to hurry south to fight Fu Li, and clearly explained that Fu Li County ordered Duan Zhu to surrender if it was really the best to surrender the city, and it didn't matter if Duan Zhu was deceitful to lure the enemy, Yao Ang's department just let go of the siege, as long as Fu Li was taken and the grain and grass and military supplies of the young marshal's army in Fu Li City were captured, the Qin army would definitely have to fight this battle!

In the next day or so, taking advantage of the fact that the Qin army had not yet returned, Xiang Kang, who was unwilling to be unwilling, continued to try to win by surprise, but unfortunately in front of Zhang Ping, who had already suffered a big loss and knew how to learn a lesson, Xiang Kang was really completely helpless this time, and at the same time, the main force of the young marshal army was also very tired, and it was difficult to launch a large-scale decisive battle again in a short time. Therefore, Xiang Kang couldn't, so he had to watch the Qin army go north and quickly return to Pengcheng, re-strengthening the strength of the Qin army.

But there are also things that make Xiang Kang a little relieved, first of all, Liu Laosan continued to play his virtue of focusing on the great cause of opposing Qin, and once again led the army to the Pengcheng battlefield to reinforce Xiang Kang, and secondly, the young marshal's army carefully probed accurate information, although the Qin army scraped the ground in the area of Xiao County, but still did not get much food to send to support Zhang Ping, so Xiang Kang can also conclude that as long as Xiang Han and Feng Zhong can hold Fu Li and not give the Qin army a chance to seize food supplies, then even if the army still can't repel Zhang Ping, it is sure to boil Zhang Ping until the food is exhausted, so that the battle of Pengcheng ended in a draw.

In such a situation, the battle for the county town of Fuli has become the key to the battle of Pengcheng, if the Qin army can win Fuli, the balance of victory will immediately be on the side of the Qin army, and as long as the young marshal army holds Fuli, at least it can also keep the draw of the battle of Pengcheng.

In order to keep abreast of the situation on the battlefield of Fuli, the scouts of the Qin army and the young marshal's army continued to travel to and from Pengcheng to the galloping road from Fuli, and constantly clashed and fought, and both sides had to lose several scouts and several fast horses at the end of the day, but Xiang Kang and Zhang Ping did not feel distressed, but they also sent more scout fast horses, so that they could keep abreast of the movements of the Fuli battlefield at any time.

Of course, Zhang Ping and Xiang Kang naturally did not work hard in vain, on the morning of the fourth day after the end of the night raid, a Qin army scout whose horses had already run and foamed at the mouth finally brought Zhang Ping the latest battle situation on the battlefield, Zhang Ping, who had long been anxious, couldn't wait, and asked as soon as they met: "How is it?" General Yao Ang, did you leave the city? ”

The Qin army scout who came to report did not answer immediately, and knelt down on Zhang Ping's knees with a thud, his mouth was not open, and tears of pain had already fallen on his dusty face............

"How is that possible?! How can it be?! ”

Immediately after, Zhang Ping's desperate roar also echoed in the Qin army's camp, miserable as a wounded beast, and sad as a helpless lamb, a poor lamb.