367 The old land is coming
Sima Xin led the army to speed up its march and soon reached the southern line of Yishui, where the army crossed the river and continued some distance eastward.
Hearing the news of the sentinel cavalry dispatched, Sima Xin learned that the two armies of the Yan Dynasty had converged, and the counterattack offensive of the two armies was in full swing, and the three cities of Raocheng, Wuyuan, and Wusui had been conquered.
Seeing this, Sima Xin avoided his edge and ordered the soldiers to camp in concealment, and the two armies of the Yan Dynasty really left only a few soldiers and horses to garrison the three cities, and the rest of the large army continued to attack to the north.
This was in the hands of Sima Xin, Sima Xin quickly attacked and recaptured the three cities in one fell swoop, and Prince Dan heard the news and urgently ordered the Chinese army Sima to lead troops to counterattack.
Prince Dan ordered this Sima to lure the Qin army over, and had already set up a pocket array to encircle and annihilate it, but unfortunately Sima Xin had already seen through his plan, and wiped out this Yan army on the way to pursue, and cut off Sima's head and raised it high to stimulate the enemy.
Prince Dan put on a look of preparing for a large-scale attack, and ordered the troops to be dispatched to cooperate with the Dai army to capture Yangcheng and Qu Rebellion, and Sima Xin knew that he had to speed up when he learned about it.
Sima Xin did not intend to resist head-on at all, but took a detour to lead the army into the two cities of Xiawu and Sanqiu, and decided to gradually consume the enemy army by defending, and the two armies immediately entered a stalemate.
On the side of Xiangping, the defenders in the city cooperated with the soldiers and horses of the two cities of Xiangdong in Liaodong and completely repelled the Qin army after paying heavy casualties.
Liu Xiang learned that the army of Prince Dan was in a stalemate with the Qin army, so he ordered Jiang Chen and Jian Xin to lead the soldiers to defend the city, and he brought Lin Yao, Zhao Ziyi, Guo Yue, and Xiahou Zhang to lead 2,000 cavalry to help.
At this time, Wang Jian also learned that his rear was attacked, and after looking at all the generals under him, he reinstated Qian Feiguan and ordered him to lead 30,000 horses and horses in the old department to help Sima Xin, and ordered Zhang Han and his son Zhang Ju to lead 30,000 soldiers and horses to accompany him.
Guan Fei's soldiers and horses were still staying in the mountains and forests fifty miles away from Xiangping, and when they heard the scout say that Liu Xiang was leading the army to the old land of Yan, Guan Fei couldn't bear it anymore and led the whole army to go.
After a day's advance, Liu Xiang led the soldiers to the old land of Yan Kingdom, and was about to continue to advance in the direction of Yangcheng, but found that there were Qin troops nearby from time to time.
Because the Qin army took the lead in seizing Sanqiu, the distance from Sanqiu to the bank of the Yishui River was blocked by the Qin army, and Liu Xiang decided to rush over in desperation.
After a brief arrangement, Lin Yao and Zhao Ziyi each led fifty cavalry to charge, and these fifty cavalrymen were all heavy cavalry horse archers, all wearing heavy armor and holding cavalry crossbows.
Lin Yao and Zhao Ziyi each rushed to the front with courage, and the two of them broke through the Qin army's defense line all the way, and fifty cavalry followed closely behind to release arrows.
After the soldiers of the Qin army reacted, they gathered together and surrounded them, Lin Yao and Zhao Ziyi each took a part of the cavalry, but they were all divided and could not form an advantage.
A Qin general was about to shout on a tall horse, but he was shot in the back and rolled off his horse, and all the Qin soldiers saw that the person who jumped on the horse with a spear was Liu Xiang.
Liu Xiang took advantage of the fact that the soldiers of the Qin army beside him had not come back to their senses, and the dragon spear in his hand danced like a rain, and instantly swept down a large number of people and horses, and then threw a sword at his waist to assassinate a Qin general.
Seeing this, Deputy General Sima Xin immediately led more than 100 horsemen to Liu Xiang, who saw it from a distance and stuck his spear on the ground, pulled out the long crossbow on his waist and aimed at it, quickly pulled the trigger, and the crossbow arrow flew out.
Due to Liu Xiang's extremely skillful mastery of loading arrows, the three arrow boxes in the long crossbow body and the three arrow boxes on his body were all used up, only to see a cloud of blood mist omitted, and there were countless people in the Qin army who fell off the horse.
The deputy general of the Qin army was furious and accelerated to kill, and had already rushed to a place only a few dozen steps away from Liu Xiang, Liu Xiang was also staring at him and preparing to attack with a gun, but he burst in and saw this person rolling into the saddle and falling off the horse and dying, it turned out that Lin Yao was quick to take the first step.
According to the deployment set by Liu Xiang, Guo Yue and Xiahou Zhang led the army to arrive and bite the soldiers and horses on the left and right flanks of the Qin army.
Tossed by the sudden Yan army, the soldiers and horses on the left and right wings of the Qin army had already run away, so they were defeated by the Yan army after a while, and the Yan army immediately surrounded and killed the Qin army.
Sima Xin's deputy general Zhou Ping saw that he couldn't resist it, and decided to save his strength and did not stop the Yan army anymore, and Liu Xiang finally arrived at the city of Yangcheng with his men and horses.
Liu Xiang arrived in Yangcheng City to explain his intentions, and Prince Dan was overjoyed and handed over 20,000 people to his command, and named him the vanguard of the front and supervised all the soldiers and horses in the front.
Zhou Ping entered Sanqiu and thought that Sima Xin had signed up for the matter, and Sima Xin said after listening: "You said that the enemy general Shuai Qi is marked with the word 'Liu', it seems that Liu Xiang has rushed to reinforce him, I heard that the outside world said that this person is so powerful, I want to pay a good visit to him."
Guan Fei, who had already entered the city on the side, said: "General, now that Liu Xiang has just won, he will definitely be arrogant, it is better to lead the army to Yangcheng now, and lure them out of the city to intercept and kill Liu Xiang."
"General Guan's words are simply alarmist, no wonder you have been attacking Liaodong for a long time, but you have not seen the news of your department, and the battle reports that came later are all about the morale of others to destroy their own prestige."
When everyone heard this, they raised their heads and saw a person walking outside the door, it was Yingtian, Yingtian said: "Even General Wang Lao is afraid of Liu Xiang a little, which is enough to show that this person's ability must not be underestimated, we should gradually exhaust the enemy army step by step, General Zhao, please tell me what I think."
Ying Tian turned out Zhao Ben behind him, Zhao Ben said: "Today, only Liu Xiang is a big trouble for our army, and the rest of the Yan generals are not to be afraid, now Liu Xiang has entered Yangcheng City, and he can mobilize a large army to besiege Yangcheng, so that he has no time to take care of the rest of the Qufang land, and then use an army to capture Qu Wei and other enemy walled cities, which is the best policy."
After hearing this strategy, everyone sighed at Yingtian's foresight, Guan Fei thought: "Seeing that this Sima Xin has some ability, instead of getting rid of him now, it is better to keep him to destroy the Yan State first, and no matter how big the matter is, we have to wait for the Qin State to unify the world."
Then, Guan Fei said to Sima Xin: "I am willing to be the vanguard of the front and the leader of the general."
At this time, Zhang Han on the side said: "I am willing to lead a team of soldiers and horses to attack Qu Wei, and I wish the general to conquer Yangcheng as soon as possible and capture Liu Xiang and Prince Dan alive."
After listening to what Guan Fei and Zhang Han said, Sima Xin immediately agreed to the request of the two of them, and ordered Guan Fei to lead several 5,000 soldiers and horses as the vanguard, and first arrived in Yangcheng to test the enemy's reality.
Under Sima Xin's other dispatch, the Yingtian unified army also quickly arrived outside Yangcheng, and cooperated with Guan Fei's soldiers and horses to form a siege of Yangcheng.
Liu Xiang saw that the Qin army was only besieging the city but not attacking it, but it had already blocked the siege of Yangcheng, so he hurriedly discussed with Prince Dan the strategy of retreating from the enemy......