As night fell, the atmosphere in Xiangyang City was unprecedentedly tense.

Yuan Yi didn't dare to slack off for a moment, and let people guard the city gates everywhere.

Yuan Yi, who was nervous, stood near the south gate, staring at the movement in the distance.

Sima Linhai suddenly appeared in front of Yuan Yi at this time, his deep eyes looked into the distance, and then said: "If nothing else, Wang Xian will definitely attack at night tonight." ”

Yuan Yi, who was already uneasy, was even more anxious at the moment, and kept complaining: "Lord Sima doesn't say anything auspicious, if Wang Xian really attacks at night, there are more than 10,000 people at the city gates, I'm afraid it will be difficult to guard." ”

Sima Linhai was not in a hurry at this time, but said to Yuan Yi: "Lord Yuan, why should you worry, General Yuwen is far-sighted and has already led his troops to ambush on the road that must be passed." ”

Yuan Yi was overjoyed when she heard this, but then calmed down. After all, Yuwen Zhi only has a few thousand people, even if he is ambushed halfway, if Wang Xian comes to his senses, Xiangyang will completely lose reinforcements.

However, Sima Linhai did not think so, and won by surprise with his troops, Wang Xian believed that the defenders of Xiangyang could not go out of the city, so they would not be more prepared on the march, which was an excellent opportunity for a sneak attack.

At this time, Wang Xian ordered the general Chen Kang to be the forward, and he personally led the army behind.

Although Chen Kang was dissatisfied with this, he was helpless. After all, he is surrendering to the army, and he really needs to vote.

The army groped its way forward in the night, and Du Fusang asked Wang Xian to send more whistles to prevent the enemy from setting up an ambush.

But at this time, Wang Xian rarely listened to Du Fusang's words, but said to Du Fusang: "Du Gong is too worried, how many people is Yuan Yi?" How can you have the spare power to set up an ambush? What's more, Yuan Yi is incompetent, and being able to stick to Xiangyang has already impressed me! ”

Seeing the conceited Wang Xian, although Du Fusang was quite dissatisfied in his heart, he also felt that Wang Xian was reasonable. Yuan Yi has more than 10,000 people at most, and if he wants to ambush an army of 70,000 people, he can't do it at all.

What's more, Yuan Yi's troops are all new recruits and remnants, and their combat power is not worth mentioning at all.

Wang Xian saw that Du Fusang's face had softened, and said with a smile: "So it is the best policy to speed up the march and take it by surprise." ”

Yuwen was ambushed at this moment, and the army was in a steep place. He himself had 5,000 vanguard troops, and later specially gathered all the small troops hidden near Xiangyang, with a total strength of about 8,000 troops.

Yuwen Zhi summoned his clan brother Yuwen Ji and said to him: "Wang Xian's troops are numerous, you have asked people to set up more banners on the mountain, and more suspicious soldiers, I have ordered the soldiers to block the road with huge stones in front." Attack only on the mountain, and do not attack down the mountain. ”

Yuwen and Huiyi, and then let people prepare more flags, and then disperse the troops, causing the feeling that the mountains are full of large armies.

Yuwenzhi then summoned Han Ling, Han Ling is the son of Yuwenzhi's general, who is shrewd and has been very popular with Yuwenzhi in recent years.

Yuwen Zhi instructed him: "You take a thousand people, along the mountain road, ambush me for several miles, cut down trees in advance, and when you see me on fire here, use huge stones and huge trees to block the retreat, do not go down the mountain to kill the enemy, prepare bows and arrows, and cut off the enemy's retreat." ”

Seeing Han Ling taking the order, a sneer appeared on the corner of Yu Wenzhi's mouth, looked into the distance and said: "Wei Ran, since the first battle in Chengdu, I am very eager to fight with you again, the first person in this world, it must be me Yu Wenzhi." ”

Chen Kang had already stepped into Yuwenzhi's ambush circle at this time, looking at the surrounding mountains, Chen Kang was quite panicked in his heart.

said to the deputy general Du Jiong, "General Du, I always feel weird, the mountains here are very suitable for ambushes. ”

Du Jiong also sensed that something was wrong at this time, the mountain was too quiet, and there was not even a bird call.

After thinking for a moment, Du Jiong said to Chen Kang: "General Chen, the army is only two miles away from us at the moment, so it can be seen that General Wang is not ready to deal with the ambush, and I think he thinks that Yuan Yi will not arrange an ambush. Yuan Yi has insufficient soldiers and horses, let alone elite soldiers, even if there are ambush soldiers, there are elites behind him, which is enough to deal with it. ”

Chen Kang carefully analyzed and felt that Du Jiong's words were reasonable, but he still urged: "In this way, we will speed up the pace of the march." ”

In the night, Han Ling watched tens of thousands of troops pass under his nose, and his subordinates couldn't bear it, but Han Ling signaled his subordinates to calm down.

At this time, Wang Xian's army had all entered the ambush circle, and Chen Kang, who was in the vanguard, was the first to receive information from the spies ahead: "General, there are huge boulders blocking the road ahead. ”

Chen Kang immediately knew that he had been ambushed, so he hurriedly said: "Quick, quickly notify General Wang Xian and ask him to pay attention to the movements left and right." ”

At this time, Du Jiong ordered the soldiers to forcibly move the boulder blocking the road, just when Du Jiong's soldiers were moving the boulder with all his strength.

Yuwen Zhi was the first to attack, and suddenly the arrows on the mountain rained down, accompanied by boulders and giant trees, and in an instant, Chen Kang's army suffered heavy losses.

Even Chen Kang himself was hit by an arrow in his right arm, and the vanguard troops immediately panicked and wanted to retreat.

At this time, Du Jiong shouted angrily: "Don't act rashly!" Get in line! The shield men formed a formation to the left and right to protect the Chinese army. ”

But the roar couldn't stop the military spirit that had lost the will to fight, Du Jiong couldn't help but say to Chen Kang: "They are all new soldiers, the panic here can no longer be stopped, the general quickly led the guards to retreat first, and joined forces with General Wang's headquarters." ”

When Chen Kang heard this, he knew that now was not the time to be hypocritical, so he hurriedly led thousands of cavalry to rush towards Wang Xian's army.

And Wang Xianzhong's army was also attacked by Yuwen and his subordinates at this time, and the army's morale was scattered in an instant.

However, fortunately, Wang Xian's Yizhou army was elite after all, and it quickly calmed down under Wang Xian's command, and did not panic like Chen Kang's troops because of the sneak attack.

But seeing the flags all over the surrounding mountains, Wang Xian was also suspicious and said, "Where did Yuan Yi get so many soldiers and horses?" ”

Du Fusang was still calm, not surprised, and after a careful look, he said: "It's not Yuan Yi's soldiers and horses, but the Northern Qin military horses, it seems that Yuan Yi has surrendered to Northern Qin." ”

Du Fusang said: "The army on the mountain, advance and retreat to a certain extent, not like Yuan Yi's new army, I expect that there must be ambushes ahead, the general should not panic, although the thief army is huge, but always dare to attack on the mountain, dare not go down the mountain." It is explained that there are not many of them, and we can form an orderly formation, and the top priority is to send troops forward to block the rout of the army in front. ”

In Du Fusang's words, he knew that Chen Kang's troops were mostly recruits, and their execution and willpower were not as good as those of veterans.

After Wang Xian calmed down, he also found that although the Qin army planted flags all over the place and shouted killing to the sky, they did not dare to go down the mountain.

Therefore, Wang Xian immediately ordered the army to form a formation to block the rolling wood and stones, and then ordered the general to lead 3,000 military horses forward, and said: "Order the military horses in front to maintain the formation, and if they attack the formation indiscriminately in an orderly manner, they will be killed on the spot to set an example." ”

Chen Kang led a thousand people to retreat at this time, and just happened to meet Wang Xian's partial general, seeing that the partial future was not good, his crossbowmen were waiting for the battle, and hurriedly said: "The formation of our soldiers is chaotic, and the general will specially open the formation to reorganize the army." ”

Seeing that the cavalry under Chen Kang advanced and retreated to a certain extent, the partial general also knew that it was elite, so he said: "General Wang has an order, the ambush soldiers are the soldiers of Northern Qin, and Yuan Yi has already taken refuge in Northern Qin." There are not many people on the mountain, so you can keep the formation and move forward slowly. Don't be chaotic, if Mr. Du is not bad, the mountain must be an important Jiangling of the Qin army, and now they cut off my way before and after, that is, I want to take advantage of the chaos and take advantage of the chaos, and not to fall into the enemy's plan. ”

When Chen Kang heard this, he felt comfortable in his heart, and then said respectfully: "The last general will take the order." ”

Du Jiong had already pacified most of the front at this time, and the army was in order, but there were still thousands of people fleeing backwards.

Du Jiong didn't care about them at this time, but just ordered the soldiers to cover each other and prepare to forcibly move the barricades.

Seeing this, Yuwen Zhi on the mountain was shocked, and hurriedly ordered his troops to step up the offensive and prevent them from moving the barricades.

But as Yuwenzhi's offensive became more and more ferocious, Du Jiong was even more unpanicked, at this time he concluded that Yuwenzhi's troops were insufficient, and he had to infantry along the way, and his troops were extremely scattered, so he only dared to bluff.

Seeing that the Qi soldiers under the mountain were not panicked at this time, but began to quickly clear the barricades, Yuwen Zhi could only sigh: "There are still capable people in Southern Qi." ”

But after all, Yu Wenzhi's harassment still brought great trouble to the Nanqi soldiers, and by the time Du Jiong cleared the barricades, it was already dawn.

And when Du Jiong was clearing the barricades, those defeated troops who retreated from the front line quickly hit Chen Kang's face.

At this time, Chen Kang and Wang Xian's partial generals effectively set up a buffer zone between Du Jiong's army and Wang Xian's army, so when the panicked rout army arrived in front of the battle, Chen Kang did not hesitate to order everyone not to move forward and turned forward.

However, the panicked rout army had completely lost its mind at this time, and was about to storm the army formation regardless of Chen Kang's orders.

Chen Kang had no choice, only by killing a few people with his own hands, and the army was able to stop the decline.

At this time, Chen Kang said loudly: "General Du is still fighting bloody battles with the enemy in the front, and now you only care about running for your life, are you still worthy of General Du's usual love for you?" ”

It turned out that Du Jiong usually loved the soldiers a lot, and generally did not inflict punishments easily, and ate at the same table and slept with the soldiers, which won the hearts of the army.

Therefore, when they heard Chen Kang's words, everyone stopped.

Seeing that the army's spirit was stable, Chen Kangchang breathed a sigh of relief, and then said: "Sort out the formation, and General Ben will take you back." ”

As soon as the words fell, Chen Kang personally led the troops to rush back, and the soldiers behind him no longer hesitated when they saw this, and followed Chen Kang forward.

Wang Xian's rear army saw that the back road had been blocked by ambush soldiers, and hurriedly informed Wang Xian of the matter.

Wang Xian was not panicked, as if everything had been expected, at this time, the weapons available to Han Ling were basically in a hurry, and they could not effectively harass Wang Xian.

Du Fusang seized the opportunity and ordered Wang Xian to lead the army up the mountain and sweep from the south to the north.

Wang Xian also knew that the opportunity could not be lost, so he led 3,000 elite soldiers to force up the mountain, but because the sky was dark, Han Ling did not realize that Wang Xian had led the people up the mountain.

Just as Han Ling continued to order the soldiers to cut down trees to use as weapons, Wang Xian had already led his troops to rush to Han Ling's ambush formation.

Han Ling's army was suddenly in chaos, and at this moment, there were only a few hundred people near Han Ling, and they were powerless to resist the elite of Wang Xian's headquarters.

Not long after, the soldiers around Han Ling were killed and wounded, and Han Ling himself wanted to break through to the death.

But Wang Xian didn't give him this opportunity at all, and had already blocked two roads, and was about to capture Han Ling alive.

Han Ling hurriedly raised his knife and slashed at Wang Xian, but was stopped by Wang Xian's personal guards, and with the combined efforts of everyone, Han Ling had no choice but to run towards the mountain.

Wang Xian was in hot pursuit, and Han Ling couldn't escape when he saw his wings. After hacking the two to death, he shouted to the north: "General Yuwen, Han Ling did his best!" ”

After saying this, Han Ling drew his sword and killed himself. Wang Xian had Han Ling's head removed, hung on a banner, and then marched north along the mountain road.

Without Han Ling's interference in the west, the pressure on Wang Xian's army was greatly reduced, and then Du Fusang concocted the same method and attacked Dongshan.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Yuwen Ji hurriedly led the army to retreat, and at the same time set fire to the trees to warn Yuwen Zhi.

When Yuwen saw the fire in the east, he knew that Wang Xian's army had attacked the mountain.

However, he did not see a fire on the hill on his side, so he continued to direct the attack.

But after a while, he heard shouts of killing getting closer and closer to him.

Yuwen Zhi secretly said badly: "The Qi army has already attacked, why didn't Han Ling give a signal." ”

It turned out that everyone agreed that once the Qi army went up the mountain and there was a risk of falling, they would light a mountain fire and warn their companions.

Because of the suddenness of the incident, Han Ling failed to ignite the mountain fire in time, so Yuwen Zhi lost hundreds of elites in vain.

Yuwen no longer hesitated at this moment, and ordered the army to retreat along the road prepared in advance.

At this time, Du Jiong had just finished clearing the barricades, and everyone came out of the canyon.

However, Du Jiong didn't know much about the roads in this place, so after he got out of the canyon, he knew where to intercept the enemy army.

Du Jiong thought about it again and again, and decided to stick to his own position to meet Wang Xian's army.

After Yuwen went down the mountain, he met with Yuwen and at the agreed place.

But after waiting for Han Ling for a long time, Yuwenzhi said to Yuwenzhi at this time: "It seems that General Han has been martyred." ”

Although Yu Wenzhi was grieving, he could only retreat at this moment.

When Yuwen asked where Yu Wenzhi planned to retreat. Yu Wenzhi said: "Directly enter Xiangyang, now there are 5,000 soldiers, with the Xiangyang defenders enough to hold on, the reinforcements will arrive tomorrow, if you retreat directly at this time, Yuan Yi's straw bag will definitely lose Xiangyang." ”

Yuwen thought about it, so he no longer dissuaded him.

On the contrary, Yuwen Zhi said to Yuwen Ji: "You take my tiger talisman and go in the direction of Wancheng, and urge them to travel day and night after seeing the soldiers and horses, and if you can get one point early, you can repel Wang Xian one point earlier." Wang Xian's army fought all night, it must be repaired, and the city will not be attacked immediately, I have plenty of time to prepare for the city defense! ”