There are three reasons why Liu Laosan's army was able to miraculously defeat the Qin army that was blocking north and successfully rushed to the shore of Gushui to cheer for the young generals. First, Liu Laosan's army's combat effectiveness was actually not bad. There were also Cao Shen, Zhou Bo and Fan Kuai's first-class Qin generals in the team, who played the role of a mainstay. Second, the Qin army sent by Zhang Ping to block was not the Qin army Longxi elites who resisted head-on by the young generals, but an ordinary army composed of Mount Li and a few veterans of the Qin army. The combat effectiveness was simply not comparable to the real Qin army elites.

The third reason is the most outrageous. Liu Laosan, who is very lucky in history, has exploded in his character and has lost his luck!

Why did Liu Laosan leave? The situation is exactly like this. As Xiang Kang estimated, after Liu Laosan, who had never been vague about the anti-Qin incident, decided to send troops to reinforce Pengcheng, not only did he not have any idea of ​​watching the fire from the other side of the river or taking advantage of the situation without losing, but he also brought all the seven thousand troops he had accumulated to Pengcheng, and was determined to help Xiang Kang protect Pengcheng. Of course, it was also to protect Liu Laosan himself. Once Pengcheng was lost, the next goal of the Qin army must be Liu Laosan who was close to him, so Liu Laosan could not do it even if he didn't want to fight.

After receiving Xiang Kang's request to arrive at the battlefield in Pengcheng as soon as possible, Liu Laosan, who owed Xiang Kang's favor, did not hesitate. In addition to asking the army to speed up the south, in order to arrive at Pengcheng as soon as possible, Liu Laosan also divided the army into two and personally led 3,000 troops to go first with light equipment, and asked Cao Shen to lead the rear army with supplies, food and grass and then followed closely.

As a result, an accident that no one expected suddenly happened. The front army led by Liu Laosan himself had just widened the distance from the rear army and was immediately discovered by the Qin army scouts. After that, the Qin army scouts had no time to confirm whether there were other troops behind Liu Laosan's front army. They immediately rushed back to the Gushui battlefield to report the news to Zhang Ping, and falsely reported that Liu Laosan had only about 3,000 troops, and was misled by the scouts, and they always despised the combat effectiveness of the anti-Qin rebel army. Zhang Ping only distributed 3,000 troops from the camp defenders to head north, and then paid attention to the Liu Laosan army that he looked down upon at all.

Zhang Ping's carelessness of underestimating the enemy was of course in vain. After encountering the Qin army that was blocking the north, Liu Laosan, who was actually close to the rear army, decisively formed a formation to meet the enemy, and used insulting methods to lure the Qin army to attack his own battle formation. The Qin army was trapped in a trap and attacked. Liu Laosan's troops firmly resisted and fought with the Qin army. Then, after Cao Shen led the rear army to arrive, the Qin army caught off guard had no chance to fight in a formation and was forced to fight with the large army of Liu Laosan.

The prisoners in Mount Li fought to get pardoned by the Qin court. The main force of the Western Expedition that was able to defeat Zhang Chu in the water was the main force of the Qin army's elite Xianyang Lieutenant Army as the core backbone. After the troops left Hangu Pass, they won many battles. It was also because the elite Longxi soldiers of the Qin army played the role of the Dinghai Ding. Although Zhang Han's reorganization training during this period, their combat effectiveness was greatly improved, and their formation combat capabilities were not comparable to ordinary anti-Qin rebels. However, they were still a new army in their bones. They could move forward like the young commander army and be invincible. However, they were at a disadvantage and soon revealed their true colors.

Especially Liu Laosan had several fierce men. In the melee, Fan Kuai, who held a dog-slaughtering sword, led the soldiers and rushed among the Qin army crowd, as if they were entering a deserted place, cutting melons and vegetables, and killed fifteen Qin soldiers in one breath. Zhou Bo, a drummer who had been practicing martial arts since childhood, also took his subordinate army to cut off nine Qin soldiers' heads in the melee, which completely drove the morale and fighting spirit of Liu army soldiers. Unable to withstand these two world-class generals and Liu army soldiers who were good at melee, the Qin army, who was almost all prisoners in Lishan, collapsed quickly and fled like a group of rabbits chased by evil wolves. Liu Laosan's army pursued with all their might and successfully attacked the north bank of Gushui, helping the main force of the young commander army who was already in trouble to break the stalemate and reversed the battle situation on the south bank of Gushui in one fell swoop.

Later, the reason was found out. The Qin army scout who had misreported military information was immediately executed by Zhang Ping's car. He was not allowed to be buried after his death. The body was thrown into the barren mountain to feed the wolf.

Later on, the attacking army was directly killed by the young commander army soldiers. Although Zhang Ping, who was furious, immediately dispatched troops to reinforce the camp, while mobilizing troops to protect the defeated troops on the north bank and preventing Liu Laosan's army from attacking the Qin army camp, he reorganized the army to launch an attack on the young commander army again. However, the Qin army soldiers whose morale had been seriously affected could no longer exert the previous indomitable momentum. After repeated charges, they could no longer have a large number of soldiers rushing to the top of the camp wall like before. They were always firmly blocked by the young commander army soldiers. They were also killed by the young commander army soldiers with their condescending advantages and were forced to retreat more than once.

Knowing that this was a sign of the morale of the army that was already depressed, all the generals of the Qin army advised Zhang Ping to withdraw his troops as soon as possible and reduce losses. After reorganizing, they came to attack the camp again. However, Zhang Ping refused to listen and insisted on launching another large-scale attack. Unfortunately, Zhang Ping's dying struggle had almost no effect. The young general's military camp wall line, which had been shaking many times before, seemed to have become a wall of iron. No matter how the Qin army beat and attacked, it stood firm, and it was bloodless.

Finally, when it was about to dark, Zhang Pingcai could not help but make people ring the bronze slug of retreat, and returned to the camp with a lot of regret and anger. Seeing this, the young generals were of course cheering. At the same time, after the cheers, many young generals on the front line immediately lay down on the top of the camp wall, making deafening and exhausted snoring.

It was also at this time that Xiang Kang breathed a sigh of relief, and then he realized that his underwear was cold and had been wet with nervous sweat. However, Xiang Kang was too lazy to pay attention to these things. In addition to arranging the reserve team to the wall to replace the front-line army that was extremely tired, he sighed and said, "I finally survived. After surviving this battle, as long as the main force of the tyrannical Qin army should not come to Pengcheng, the remaining battles will be much easier."

"Young Marshal, are you too optimistic?" Zhou Zeng, who accompanied Xiang Kang to witness the fierce battle throughout the whole process, was still scared. He was afraid that Xiang Kang would be optimistic and underestimate the enemy, so he hurriedly reminded: "This battle against the tyrannical Qin army was a heavy casualty, but our losses were not small. The strength and overall strength of the tyrannical Qin army were still above us. Why is the next battle easy to fight?"

"The tyrannical Qin army launched such a large offensive and failed to take down our camp. The morale of the army will definitely be seriously affected. Even if we attack our camp again, it will definitely be difficult for them to show the momentum at the beginning of today. Our soldiers have survived such difficulties today. We will definitely be more confident in fighting the battalion next time, so I can be sure that we will fight easier and more beautifully in the battalion next time."

Xiang Kang explained confidently, and said, "And Zhang Ping and other generals of the Qin army are not fools. Seeing that our camp is so difficult to chew, in order to reduce their army losses, they will definitely find another way to attack us. As long as they don't fight with us head-on and have the idea of ​​taking shortcuts, our chance to kill them will come."

"Kill them?" Zhou Zeng was shocked and asked hurriedly: "Young Marshal, the enemy's strength is far above us. In addition to trying to keep a steady support, you also want to defeat the strong with the weak?"

"Of course, since the tyrannical Qin army came to the door, of course I have to do my best to kill them." Xiang Kang smiled and whispered: "Wait. I gave Xiang Han a secret order before, asking him to immediately let Fu Li County Magistrate after confirming that Feng Zhong went north from Jiujiang..."

After hearing Xiang Kang's shameless tricks, Zhou Zeng certainly applauded. Xiang Kang remembered something again and asked, "By the way, where did Liu Ji's troops go? Have you sent someone to contact us?"

It was also coincidentally that Xiang Kang had just asked this question, and his personal soldiers took the opportunity to lead an envoy from Liu Laosan and told Xiang Kang that Liu Laosan's army had failed to attack the Qin army camp, and had retreated to the bank of Gushui in the north of Pengcheng to establish a camp, asking if Xiang Kang needed Liu Laosan to cross the valley water south the next day, and to the south bank of Gushui to meet with Xiang Kang. Xiang Kang quickly calculated and quickly said to Liu Laosan's envoy: "Please report to Pei Gong, and say that he would not thank him for his kindness. I remember this favor today. As long as I have a chance in the future, I will definitely pay double the rewards. But there is no need for Nandu Valley Water. Is it easy to come and go back now? I should ask Pei Gong to set up a camp on the north bank to cooperate with our army's battle."

The envoy of Liu's army agreed immediately, and Xiang Kang asked Zhou Zeng to write on his behalf, and wrote a copy of the order for him to let the young commander stay in the county defenders on the spot, and handed it over to Liu Laosan's envoy, saying: "Please take this back and hand it over to Pei Gong. If what I expected is not bad, the tyrant Qin army bullies your camps. They are not strong enough and have weak power. They may cross the river to attack your camp tomorrow. If your army feels unsure of defending the camp, you might as well retreat directly to the north. I will never care. If the tyrant Qin army pursues you closely and you are in a critical situation, you can use this order to enter the county town for a while. Please remember only one thing Pei Gong wants to remember. If possible, please help me to restrain the tyrant Qin army pursuing you for as long as possible and buy time for me."

Fearing that Liu Laosan's envoy could not remember his explanation, Xiang Kang sent Xu Shu to meet Liu Laosan with him, and introduced his meaning to his face. As a result, Liu Laosan immediately understood Xiang Kang's meaning as soon as he heard it. He immediately nodded and said, "Go back and tell Mr. Xiang, I understand his plan. Please rest assured that as long as the tyrant Qin army divides troops to attack my camp, if I am not sure to defend it, even if the tyrant Qin army does not want to pursue our army, I will try my best to lure the tyrant Qin army to pursue it and share the pressure as much as possible."

After Xiang Kang was reported, after the Qin army withdrew its troops back to the camp, just that night, the chief general of the Qin army, Zhang Ping, decided to send troops to attack Liu Laosan the next day. The reason was no different. In this battle against the camp, the Qin army lost more than 5,000 troops in total on the two battlefields of the north and south sides of the north and south sides of the Qin army, seriously injured more than 800, including nearly 2,000 elite Qin army, who suddenly wiped out one-third of the elite Qin army.

The reason is that in addition to the tenacious resistance of the Young Marshal's army, the key to the Qin army's death and injury was so heavy but nothing was gained. The damn Liu Laosan successfully rushed to the north bank of the Gushui River, boosting the military morale and morale of the Young Marshal's army, resulting in the success and failure of the Qin army's battle in the attack on the camp, turning victory into defeat. Therefore, Zhang Ping of course hated Liu Laosan to the extreme, and asked someone to build a floating bridge over the Gushui River overnight, preparing to launch a large number of troops to the north bank of the camp the next day to attack Liu Laosan's army, which was not yet solid in the camp.

He did it as soon as he said that the next day, the sky was just dawn, and the Qin army, whose physical strength had not yet fully recovered, dispatched 20,000 troops in one breath, led by Yao Ang to Liu Laosan's camp to fight. Liu Laosan did not dare to be negligent when he heard the news. He quickly led the army to run north. Yao Ang led his army to chase for more than 20 miles in one breath to stop. However, just when Liu Laosan had driven away from the Qin army, Liu Laosan actually set up a camp thirty miles north of Pengcheng, and was ready to go south to continue to reinforce Pengcheng at any time.

After reporting the movements of Liu Jun, Zhang Ping, who had already hated Liu Laosan deeply, was of course furious. Without any consideration, he decided to send 10,000 troops north and carry food and supplies to continue to deal with Liu Laosan. The generals of the Qin army advised him, saying that they should not divide the troops to fight at this time, but Zhang Ping refused to listen and insisted that Chen Kan, the only general who supported his troops, led his army north to find Liu Laosan to settle the new and old accounts.

The partial division of the partial division was sent out, but Zhang Ping had no good idea for the next battle. Although the Qin army's strength and strength were still above the main force of the Young Marshal's Army, when he thought of the arduous battle during the last battle of the camp, even Zhang Ping himself was inevitably a little worried and did not dare to rashly decide to continue to attack the Young Marshal's Army's camp. Therefore, there was no need for other Qin generals to persuade and advise. Zhang Ping subconsciously gave up his idea of ​​continuing to do it blindly and began to rack his brains to figure out how to win unexpectedly, to play with his own strengths, and to avoid his own weaknesses.

This certainly hurt Zhang Ping's mind, because the biggest advantage of the Qin army now is field formation battles, but Xiang Kang was extremely cunning. He guarded the camp and didn't come out to fight field formation battles. Provocation and insults were useless, just like a tiger gnawing a hedgehog. He turned over and couldn't find a place to quit.

Fortunately, as the saying goes, people will be humble and will be rewarded. Xiang Kang, who has done many evil deeds, received retribution. Just as Zhang Ping was worried about how to break the deadlock, the Qin army scout suddenly brought a man who claimed to be the messenger of Fuli County Magistrate Fuli County Magistrate to Zhang Ping. The messenger not only brought a letter of handwritten by Fuli County Magistrate Duan Zhu, but also brought a list of money, grain and material reserves for the young army in Fuli City, so that Zhang Ping knew that Fuli was a big piece of fat, and also asked Zhang Ping to send troops south to attack Fuli City as soon as possible. At that time, Duan Zhu would try to steal the city gate and welcome the Qin army into the city.

After looking over and over again, he looked at Duan Zhu's letter of request for surrender for a long time, and carefully checked Duan Zhu's expression of the messenger. Seeing that his expression was obviously uneasy, Zhang Ping thought about it and suddenly slapped the case in front of him and shouted: "Come, take this man down and push him out and behead him!"

The personal soldiers in the tent sang promised, and someone immediately stepped forward to capture Duan Zhu's messenger. Duan Zhu's messenger was of course scared to death and quickly shouted: "General, please spare your life, what did the villain do wrong? Why did he kill the villain? Did the villain do nothing wrong?"

"What did not do wrong?" Zhang Ping sneered and said, "You went to Duan Zhuan to offer a plan to surrender, and wanted to deceive the general into splitting the troops for Xiang Kang's rebels, so that Xiang Kang's thieves could take the opportunity to get things from it. The crime should be damned! You still say you did not do wrong?"

"General, it's wronged! It's wronged!" Duan Zhuo's messenger quickly shouted for justice again and explained: "The villain was really sent by Duan County Zun. The villain was not sent by Xiang Kang. The villain really came from Fu Li. If you don't believe in the general, look, in order to deliver the letter, the villain rushed all the way and wrung his shoes on the road!"

As he struggled, the messenger really raised his feet, revealing that he had worn out the soles of his shoes. Zhang Ping was still suspicious and shouted: "Don't argue! Tell the truth quickly, who sent you here? If you dare to lie again, behead you immediately!"

Duan Jae's messenger was so aggrieved that he almost cried. He kept calling for injustice, saying that Duan Jae and he were sincerely preparing to surrender in the city. He also said that Duan Jae, who had previously served as a prison officer in Xu County, was forced to surrender to the Young Marshal's Army by the county magistrate and county magistrate. He never dared to forget his identity as an official of the Qin Dynasty. When he heard that Zhang Ping's army was attacking Pengcheng, he hurried over to send a letter to surrender. Unfortunately, Zhang Ping still didn't believe it, and slapped the case in front of him and shouted: "Turn it out and behead him!"

The personal soldiers who had already taken Duan Jie's messenger down again sang their promises again, and immediately dragged him out of the tent. Duan Jie's messenger cried out for justice, and were so scared that they peed their pants on the spot. However, after Duan Jie's messenger was lifted out of the tent, Zhang Ping immediately let out his personal soldiers captain and whispered: "Go and see the situation, and ask the executioner to stop at the last moment."

The captain of the personal soldiers took the order and left. After a moment, the captain of the personal soldiers returned to Zhang Ping with a smile and said with a smile: "Report to General, just as soon as he was put on the court, the executioner's axe was raised, and the man was shocked to death. However, he never changed his words and kept saying that he had come to surrender sincerely."

"That should be true." Zhang Ping also showed a gratified smile on his face and ordered: "Take him to the customer account and have a good hospitality. Send someone to call Yao Ang here and say I have good news to tell him."

The captain of the personal soldiers acted according to the order, and soon, Zhang Han personally arranged for Zhang Ping's deputy Yao Ang to enter the tent. Zhang Ping did not hesitate and immediately told Yao Ang what had happened just now, and showed Yao Ang a list of food, grass and supplies stocks that the young commander of Fuli County was hoarded by Duan Zhu and the young commander's army in Fuli City. Then he said to Yao Ang: "General Yao, this is a good opportunity. As long as we divide an army into Fuli and take Fuli city with Duan Zhu's support, then Xiang Kang's rear thief will not only have nowhere to defend, but we can also seize a large amount of food, grass and military supplies to solve the problem of our shortage of food and grass. I plan to seize this opportunity and let you lead 10,000 troops south to obtain Fuli. What do you think?"

After carefully understanding Zhang Ping's interrogation of Duan Zhu's messenger, Yao Ang was inevitably a little moved, but after careful consideration, Yao Ang raised two more questions and said: "General, if Duan Zhu is really determined to surrender in the city, it is indeed a good thing. But have you ever considered it? What if the messenger is in a dead end who doesn't know the inside story? Also, we have already divided 10,000 troops to pursue Liu Ji's thief, and then divided the troops south to attack Fu Li at this time, wouldn't it be too much to divide the troops? What should we do if the Kang thief took advantage of our opportunity to divide the troops too much and suddenly sent troops to launch a counterattack? "

"The messenger may indeed be a dead room without knowing the inside story, but it may not be big." Zhang Ping pointed out: "First of all, our scouts caught him on the road leading to Fuli. His clothes and expressions were obviously like he had just walked a long way. Then Duan Zhu's letter of surrender was covered with his Fuli County Magistrate's seal, which can be proved that it was written by him, not the hasty forgery of Xiang Kang's thief. And if Duan Zhu really did a trick to surrender, what could he get? When our army arrived at Fuli, he would fight if he had the chance. If he had no chance or found danger, he would retreat immediately. What would he lose? From Pengcheng to Fuli, there was a horse flat, and there was a road to marching quickly. Are you afraid that you would be surrounded by ambushers of the treacherous thieves?"

"That's right, but how can we deal with the danger of division of troops too much?" Yao Ang asked again.

"There is no need to deal with it, and there is no danger." Zhang Ping replied: "Our army's strength is more than twice that of Xiang Kang's rebels. Even if we divide up ten thousand troops to go south, the remaining strength will still be more than him. Not only can we maintain our own strength, but we can still have the upper hand in formation and field battles. And after you leave, I will immediately order Chen Kan and ask him to take the Northern Line army back to Pengcheng to meet with our main force. Wouldn't we be more at ease?"
Chapter completed!