Chapter 54: Victory in the first battle

On the south bank of the Zhangshui River, the Zhao army and the Chu army were fighting fiercely, and the Zhao army was suppressed to the death.

Xiang Zhuang witnessed the battle situation and got carried away, these Zhao troops became his appetizer, the main force had not yet fought, he first fought a victory in the defensive battle.

Just as Xiang Zhuang was complacent, a soldier hurried up to him.

"General, it's not good! Zhao Jun is here! ”

Xiang Zhuang looked in the northwest direction, only to see countless black shadows running towards him, it was the cavalry of the Zhao army.

"Quick... Meet the enemy..."

Xiang Zhuang was taken aback at first, and then hurriedly gave an order.

An enemy suddenly appeared behind them, and the Chu soldiers were also taken aback, and their morale was suddenly frustrated.

A thousand cavalry in the Chu army turned their horses and rushed towards the Zhao army.

Ouyang Ling, who was a few miles away, saw the enemy cavalry and said to Qian Fan: "I'll give you a task, take your subordinates, rush up and drag them." ”

Qian Fan received the order.

The five hundred and fifty men in the cavalry were divided, and Qian Fan led the way to continue to rush forward.

Soon, the cavalry of the Zhao army and the Chu army were in close combat.

In terms of individual combat ability, the cavalry of the Zhao army is comparable to the cavalry of the Chu army, just because the Chu army has more than 20,000 cavalry troops, while the Zhao army has only a few thousand, and the Chu army is far stronger than the Zhao army in terms of cavalry.

But at present, the morale of the Zhao army is higher, even if more than 500 people are against 1,000 enemy troops, they still have not fallen behind.

Qian Fan was extraordinarily brave, waved the weapon in his hand, and killed several enemies in a row, unless the enemy swarmed up, otherwise no one could be defeated.

Ouyang Ling led the remaining more than 1,000 people, bypassing the cavalry in the fierce battle, and rushed towards the enemy army at the fastest speed.

In the absence of stirrups, if the war horse charges at full speed, when it suddenly stops, as long as the riding skills are slightly worse, it is easy to fall down, but when the enemy army is raided, it must be attacked when its foothold is not stable, and it must rush up at the fastest speed, Ouyang Ling can't care so much.

"Zhao Jun is here..."

Originally, the battle on the bank of the Zhangshui River was fought on the banks of the Chu army, and in addition to the cavalry, most of the foot soldiers of the Chu army participated. When it was discovered that the cavalry of the Zhao army was attacking, the cavalry of the Chu army quickly met it. Xiang Zhuang sent out some more foot soldiers, if the cavalry could not resist the enemy, it would depend on the foot soldiers to resist.

"The Chu army is surrounded! The Chu army can't escape! ”

Thousands of Zhao soldiers on the north bank of the Zhangshui River shouted in unison.

After the reserve of the Chu army fighting on the shore was urgently transferred, the morale was suddenly affected, listening to the words of the Zhao soldiers on the other side, the Chu soldiers thought that the Zhao army had a lot of people coming, and the morale was frustrated again, and some of the soldiers panicked.

"Brothers, our reinforcements are coming, kill me ......"

After hearing the shouts of the people behind them, they thought that a large number of reinforcements were coming, and launched a fierce offensive against the Chu army like chicken blood.

Fighting on the bank of the south bank of the Zhangshui River, the Chu army originally had the advantage, but with the transfer of reserves, morale was frustrated, and the soldiers panicked in their hearts.

The infantry of the Chu army, which was urgently dispatched to resist the cavalry of the Zhao army, both halberd soldiers and shield bearers, had just arrived at the predetermined position and had not yet had time to form a defensive formation, and the Zhao army had already rushed up.

The cavalry of the Zhao army under the leadership of Ouyang Ling rushed into the flock like a fierce tiger and rushed the Chu army into chaos.

However, because there were no stirrups, nearly 200 soldiers of the Zhao army failed to sit down and fell down when they suddenly slowed down.

When the Zhao army's war horse sprinted at full speed, the speed reached fifty kilometers per hour, and the inertia brought by the sudden slowdown or stop made the soldiers who fell from the horseback directly cause the cervical vertebrae to break, most of them were limb fractures, and only a few stood up to fight the enemy.

Capture the thief and capture the king first, and the first thing Ouyang Ling has to do is to take down the enemy commander first.

When he saw that the enemy's main general was trying to escape into the camp, he immediately led a group of soldiers to rush over, and the already chaotic Chu army's infantry could not resist at all, and soon fought a bloody way.

"Where to escape..."

At this time, a small number of Xiang Zhuang's personal soldiers tried to escape into the camp, and when he first entered the camp, Ouyang Ling had already caught up.

The camp itself has an arrow tower, on which the soldiers can shoot arrows to attack the enemy, but in the battle of crossing the river just now, all the archers have been drawn out, and the Zhao army rushed to the camp, and there were no archers to shoot arrows at all.

In the camp, Ouyang Ling rushed to Xiang Zhuang and waved his weapon to fight.

At this time, the Chu army, whether it was a small number of soldiers in the camp or soldiers fighting outside the wall, was demoralized, and panic spread.

The battle on the bank of the Zhangshui River has shown a one-sided situation, the Chu army retreated while fighting, and when Xiang Zhuang fled into the village, the Zhao army on the north bank of the Zhangshui River changed to another slogan.

"Xiang Zhuang has escaped! Xiang Zhuang escaped! ”

Li Zuoche, who was standing on the wall of Jinsuoguan, always paid attention to the battle situation on the other side, and let thousands of soldiers on the north bank shout slogans, which was his order. When he saw Xiang Zhuang fleeing into the camp, he promptly ordered to change the slogan.

The Chu soldiers were already in a panic, and when they couldn't see the main general, they naturally thought that Xiang Zhuang had fled, and their morale finally collapsed, and they fled one after another.

The infantry of the Zhao army, who crossed the river to fight, finally opened a bloody road and pursued the fleeing enemy.

The cavalry outside the village slaughtered the enemy completely one-sidedly.

In the camp, the cavalry of the Zhao army killed the enemy soldiers with all their might.

Ouyang Ling and Xiang Zhuang fought alone, among the generals of the Zhao army, Ouyang Ling was considered to have a relatively high force value, but Xiang Zhuang's force was not weak, and he could not take it down for a while.

Before leaving, Li Zuoche gave him an order that if he caught up with the enemy's commander, try not to kill him, and if he could be captured alive, the credit would be greater.

Ouyang Ling didn't know why he gave this order, since Shangfeng had an order, he would carry it out without discount.

The Zhao soldiers, who rushed into the camp, quickly dealt with the nearby enemy.

"Let's go up together and capture him alive!"

Several soldiers went up together, one of them had a halberd hooked to the horse's leg, the horse fell to the ground, Xiang Zhuang fell, and the soldiers swarmed up and captured him.

Soon, Xiang Zhuang was tied up tightly.

For being captured alive, Xiang Zhuang looked unwilling and said, "Hmph! King Xiang won't let you go! ”

Ouyang Ling said: "Report your name!" ”

Xiang Zhuang raised his head and said: "Lao Tzu is Xiang Zhuang, the younger brother of King Xiang!" My brother won't let you go, you're all dead! ”

The generals of the princes of the world all know that Xiang Zhuang is Xiang Yu's cousin, and he captured a big man, and Ouyang Ling is even happier in his heart.

Ouyang Ling said loudly again: "Put down your weapons, those who surrender will not be killed!" ”

The Chu soldiers in the camp, no one had the heart to resist anymore, and they laid down their arms and surrendered.

Xiang Zhuang was then escorted out of the camp.

"Xiang Zhuang has been captured alive, surrender quickly, and those who surrender will not be killed!"

Outside the camp, the original Chu army had collapsed, and after hearing the shout, he looked at the gate of the village, Xiang Zhuang was really captured, and most of the fleeing soldiers stopped, threw down their weapons and surrendered, and only a small number of soldiers fled around.

The first battle against the Chu army was finally won.

The soldiers on the north bank of Zhangshui cheered.

Li Zuoche was overjoyed in his heart, and issued the corresponding order in time.