Xiang Sui's blood was not in vain. That night, the Qin army dispatched nearly 2,000 troops to launch an attack on the temporary camp of the Young Marshal's Army, and were bravely repelled by the soldiers of the Young Marshal's Army led by Xiang Sui. The bodies of soldiers from both sides of the Young Marshal's Army were erect and covered with blood. However, the thin line of defense of the Young Marshal's Army was still standing, and the flag of the Chu State was still floating in the Young Marshal's Army. The soldiers of the Young Marshal, who had only been able to fight with the wind since their debut, also went against the norm and fought a hard battle for the first time, and miraculously achieved a result of unbeaten.

In addition to Xiang Sui's efforts to win glory for the children of the Xiang family, some fortifications are also an important factor. Another reason is that the Qin army came along a long road and its physical strength was greatly affected. This situation was not obvious at the beginning. However, as the high-intensity war continued, the Qin soldiers on the front line still had a rapid decline in physical strength. They could not rush up and could not fight, but were firmly held back by the young generals who had a slightly superior physical strength, and had to rotate the teams many times.

When the fierce battle reached the second half of the night, Xiang Kang, who was worried that Xiang Sui's army would not be able to hold on, finally made adjustments, allowing another general of the other surname to be discovered in actual combat to lead a thousand troops northwards and rushed into the small path to rotate Xiang Sui's army to rest. Gongsun Qing, the chief general of the Qin army, discovered this through the torch of the Young Marshal's army, and decisively strengthened the attack on the Young Marshal's army's camp, trying to take advantage of the relaxed mentality of the Young Marshal's army when they saw the arrival of reinforcements and tried their best to break through the Young Marshal's camp, which also allowed the Qin army to successfully break through the fence line of the Young Marshal's army, almost forcing Xiang Sui's army into a desperate situation.

At the critical moment, Xiang Sui continued to be strong for the children of the Xiang family. Seeing that the situation was critical, he immediately took a reserve team of only more than 100 people to block the gap. He led the bloody battle, chopped the axe and bit the stone, and finally blocked the Qin army's crazy attack and persisted until the reinforcements arrived. Ding Ji, who became the 2500th commander of the Young Commander Army by accumulating merits, was also very brave. In addition to letting the main force enter the camp to assist in the war, he personally led a suicide squad around the camp and attacked the front line from the flanks, sharing tremendous pressure for the friendly troops in the camp, and helped the friendly troops in the camp block the gap again with their vehicles and survived the crisis.

Then, when Ding Jijun took advantage of the opportunity of the Qin army to retreat slightly and quickly replaced Xiang You's army, which was exhausted and had heavy casualties, the Qin army, who was also exhausted, basically had no chance to break the camp. In order to retain the physical strength for the soldiers to deal with the subsequent battle, Gongsun Qing had to helplessly issue an order to retreat. With the dejected Qin army retreated for several miles to camp and rest, and was forced to stop the fierce battle that lasted for most of the night.

Finally, Xiang Sui, covered in blood, was carried back to Xiang Kang by his personal soldiers on a stretcher. Xiang Kang burst into tears and held Xiang Sui's hand and choked up, saying, "Brother, I'm not as good as you in a tough battle. If you know him in the spring of the family, I must be very pleased to have a junior like you."

Xiang Sui just smiled, then turned his head and fainted. Xiang Kang hurriedly asked someone to carry Xiang Sui down and hand it over to the medical worker for rescue. After a moment of calculation, Xiang Kang immediately ordered Zhou Zeng: "Uncle Ya, use my reputation to write a letter to Gongsun Qingpu, mocking him for leading his army in person, but he could not even break the camp of our thousand-person team. He advised him to put down his weapons and surrender quickly, so as not to continue to embarrass him. He tried to mock him as much as possible, so as to make Gongsun Qingpu furious."

"Young Marshal, do you want to deliberately anger Gongsun Qingpian and lead him to continue the battle?" Zhou Zeng understood what Xiang Kang meant.

"The path is narrow, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the location is good. Of course, I hope he will continue to fight with us." Xiang Kang smiled and said, "Otherwise, if he just brought the main force of Qin back with no great losses, we will have to do more trouble when we attack Xia Pi and Tancheng next step?"

Zhou Zeng nodded and stopped talking. He just picked up his pen and wrote a vicious mockery letter in the name of Xiang Kang, and handed it to Xiang Kang for signature and seal. Then Xiang Kang immediately sent someone to the front and handed it to his general Ding Ji, asking Ding Ji to shoot the Qin army's campsite with a bow and arrow at dawn.

Xiang Kang's letter received a very satisfactory effect. Initially, considering that the young marshal's army was more powerful than his previous imagination, Gongsun Qing was somewhat shaken and had the idea of ​​retreating. However, after seeing Xiang Kang's provocation letter, he was so angry that he was so angry that he immediately strengthened his determination to continue the attack. He did not discuss with anyone, and directly yelled: "Continue fighting! I don't believe it. The camp of the thieves is really iron-clad, why can't you beat it? Continue fighting, take down the camp of the thieves first!"

Because of Gongsun Qing's decision, another tragic and cruel offensive battle began again. In the cold wind in late autumn, the crossbow arrows fired by the Qin army and the Young Marshal's soldiers were like dense locusts, flying around in front of the two armies. The soldiers of the two armies were constantly hit by arrows or injured, staining the battlefield with blood. Then the Qin army soldiers lined up with long shields were like waves of the sea, and they were flooded waves one after another on the camp of the Young Marshal's army. The Young Marshal's soldiers gritted their teeth and tried hard to kill the enemy opposite the fence with spears. The blood flowers brought by the spears and warriors continued to splash, and the howlings of wounded and dying were heard one after another.

The Qin soldiers, who were well-equipped and standardized, brought huge casualties to the Young Marshal's Army in the fierce battle. However, relying on the narrow side of the enemy, the young Marshal's army soldiers who fought in turn had also paid a heavy price for the Qin army. In less than three hours of fierce battle, the fence was already covered with the corpses of soldiers on both sides, resulting in the soldiers of both armies being able to continue fighting on the corpses of their companions. Blood flowed along the land, dyeing the swamp east of the Young Marshal's army camp a large area of ​​dark red. At the same time, the supervision teams of both sides had also cut and killed dozens of their own soldiers who had escaped in the battle, and they were all ruthless to complete their offensive and defensive tasks.

The day was short in late autumn, and just after the You hour, the sky was already dark, but the camp of the Shaoshang Army was still standing in front. Even though the Qin soldiers who took turns to fight were still unable to break through the Youngshang Army's defense line. After preliminary statistics of today's casualties, Gongsun Qing's heart suddenly became cold. After two consecutive offensive and defensive battles, the Qin army's deaths and serious injuries had exceeded the huge number of thousands of people, and the minor injuries were countless. The heavy losses were directly surpassed the defeated battle suffered in the plains.

"You can't fight anymore. The thieves clearly want to destroy us by relying on favorable terrain. If you continue to fight like this, I won't be sure to kill the thieves in the formation battle, maybe even the strength to retreat to Xia Pi!"

After reaching this conclusion, Gongsun Qing decisively ordered Mingjin to withdraw his troops, withdraw his front-line troops, and then immediately withdraw his campsite last night, and arrange and arrange a plan for retreat. After receiving the report, Xiang Kang immediately sent Xiang Guan to lead a team of thousands of people to rotate Ding Jijun, who had suffered heavy casualties. At the same time, Xiang Kang was ready to tell Xiang Guan clearly, saying: "Brother, keep a close eye on the tyrannical Qin army and prevent them from retreating overnight! When they found that they were retreating, they would immediately chase me to the end! This path is just difficult to walk, but it is not suitable to arrange ambush, so you can pursue it with confidence and try to weaken them as much as possible!"

In the third update of the night, Gongsun Qing, who had no strength to win, did lead the army to retreat quietly. He also imitated the Qi prince Xiaobai and Xiang Kang during the battle between Tongxian and Tongxian. He arranged a plan to hang sheep and drums to confuse the young commander's army. But unfortunately, Gongsun Qing's Dongshi Xipin did not receive much effect. It was not far away. Xiang Guan, who received Xiang Kang's instructions, sent a scout to venture forward and closely monitored the Qin army's every move. Therefore, the Qin army did not go far. Xiang Guan, who received the news, decisively led the army to pursue.

Forced by helplessness, the Qin army's rear guard team was forced to engage in several battles with the young commander's pursuers in order to cover the retreat of its own main force. However, unfortunately, the road was too narrow and the Qin army could not perform the formation battle. In addition, the Qin army was depressed, most of the people in the rear guard were thinking of escaping as soon as possible, for fear of being thrown away by the main force as a scapegoat. Every time the war was not long, they would retreat in a hurry. The young commander's army chased with all their might. The Tiancai caught up with the main force of the Qin army as soon as dawn. Gongsun Qing had no choice but to let the soldiers abandon all their soldiers and block the road with the military chariots and baggage, and then barely escaped from the young commander's pursuit and fled to the distance. However, even so, the Qin army was still left behind and lost countless weapons and armor in a hurry. In the end, only more than 2,000 people fled out of the Yishui Road in a panic, ending the trip to the southern expedition to the prime minister at the cost of nearly half of the loss.

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When Gongsun Qing fled back to Xiapi City in a panic, the side division of the Young Marshal's Army led by Xiang Zhuang also defeated the guardian headquarters of the Qin army who rushed back to Ling County in the field. There were less than 300 people from the more than 1,000 Qin troops fled into Ling County under the pursuit of the Young Marshal's Army. The side division of the Young Marshal's Army, who had completely worry about it, immediately turned around and, with sufficient preparations, officially launched a full-scale attack on the Ling County city, which had only more than 1,000 county soldiers guarded it.

The city wall of Ling County is quite not short, and it is very difficult to break the city by relying on flying ladders alone. Fortunately, Ling County is just a small county town and does not provide double protection. In addition, the Young Marshal's Army had previously filled out a section of Ling County's moat and opened the road directly to the city. Therefore, Xiangzhuang adopted the tactic of using the city-killing car and the ladder-killing car to jointly attack the city, and let the city-killing car be responsible for rushing to the north gate of Ling County. The ladder-killing car directly attacked the city-killing wall from the position where the road was opened.

The Qin army was not stupid, and quickly came up with a solution. As soon as he saw the Young Marshal's army dispatching the city-killing car and the ladder, he immediately prepared a large number of torches. The rockets and firewood were facing tit-for-tat, and a large number of stones were prepared above the city gate to crack the Young Marshal's army's city-killing car. As soon as the young Marshal's army's ladder truck was pushed into the city wall, it was immediately covered by dense rockets from the Qin army. Fortunately, the old Xiang family, who has been generals for generations, still had some background. Xiang Zhuang, the descendant of the Xiang family, had already asked the soldiers to cover the ladder truck with thick mud and dust to prevent fire. Therefore, although the Qin army's rockets were dense, the effect received was not ideal. Even if a few flares rose on the Young Marshal's ladder truck, they were still struggling towards the Lingxian wall.

The biggest danger of the ladder truck is that it is within the range of the enemy's torches throwing. After finally approaching the city wall, facing the torches and straw bundles thrown by the defenders on the city, the young generals were really helpless. They could only bite the bullet and continue to move forward, pushing the heavy ladder truck that had gradually caught fire slowly towards the city wall. During this period, although the young generals archers hiding behind the long shield under the city also tried their best to shoot arrows to cover the city wall, they did not have much effect and could not stop the enemy from setting fire to burn the ladder truck wildly.

The situation was the same on the battlefield of the city gate. Before the young general Zheng Bu hit the city car, he was immediately attacked by a big rock like hail and raindrops on the city wall. The first attacking city car was quickly smashed and completely scrapped. Fortunately, Zheng Bu was not discouraged, and immediately sent a second city car to come forward and attack the city gate again.

The thunderous shouts echoed on the battlefield. After paying a considerable price, the ladder truck that had already caught fire all over the body still struggled to get onto the Lingxian wall and opened the road to the city. Xiang Zhuang was overjoyed and hurriedly ordered the drums to cheer and command the army to attack the city. More than 500 young army soldiers outside the city wall also rushed towards the Lingxian wall like a tide. Some rushed directly to the ladder truck to step on the ladder, and the other part carried the ladder to strike the two wings, sharing the pressure for the main attack team.

It is a pity that the Young Marshal's army failed to succeed in the siege, because the siege troops were a little slower, and the ladder truck that had severely caught fire soon collapsed on its own under the trampling of the Young Marshal's army and the attack of the enemy. It turned into a pile of raging fire, burning and swallowing many young Marshal's army soldiers. At the same time, the young Marshal's army's ladder was also hit by the enemy's head-on and could not rush up to the city wall. Seeing this scene, Xiang Zhuang, who was once full of hope, was of course furious and came to Xiang You's formation to command the ladder truck, scolding Xiang You, who was in charge of commanding the ladder truck, and asked why Xiang You didn't personally lead the army to launch a charge to boost morale?

Of course, Xiang You didn't dare to admit that he was afraid that he would be attacked by the enemy by rushing to the front line in person. He could only explain with grievance: "I thought it would be possible, and there was no need to go into battle in person, so I didn't do that. Brother, don't worry, I will definitely go in person next time."

"Hurry up, don't climb like the turtle just now!" Xiang Zhuang roared, "The next ladder cart leans on the city wall, you can lead my troops up immediately! In such a battle, our Xiang brothers will not take the risk, who dares to work hard for us?!"

Xiang You agreed timidly, and Xiang Zhuang also returned to the flag formation to command the overall situation. However, he met the contact messenger sent by Zheng Bu and said to Xiang Zhuang: "Reported to General Xiang, the enemy's troops above the city gate are too dense, and it is difficult for our city-killing car to get close to the city gate. Zheng Qianren (a nickname for two or five hundred years) please agree and ask him to send a flight ladder to attack the city to share the pressure for the city-killing car."

I was very satisfied with Zheng Bu's positive attitude, but for the sake of caution, Xiang Zhuang still ordered: "No hurry, wait until our next ladder truck is on, and it depends on my banner."

Zheng Bu's messenger took the order and at the same time, the second ladder truck commanded by Xiang You also advanced forward under the guidance of the soldiers and headed towards the Lingxian wall again. However, what made Xiang Zhuang very dissatisfied was that the ladder truck was still not pushing fast enough and it took a lot of time to barely approach the moat that had been filled before. At the same time, the city-slammed convoy led by Zheng Bu had launched an attack on the Lingxian gate for the fifth time.

He stared at the movement of the ladder truck with fear. As soon as he saw the ladder truck crossing the moat, Xiangzhuang couldn't wait to ask his personal soldiers to issue a banner and command the two armies of Zheng Bu and Xiang You to launch an ant attack at the same time. The two deputy officers of Xiangzhuang, Zheng Bu and Xiang You, immediately handed over the army to their subordinates for command, and each led a team of 500 people forward and carried the ladder to attack the city wall. When he saw the young commander-in-chief and the two-five hundred-ranking flags rushed towards the city wall, the defenders on the city were of course shouting loudly, and various crossbows, arrows and bows were shot wildly at the location of Xiang You and Zheng Bu's flags.

Xiang Zhuang was extremely surprised. The flying echelon of the foreign general Zheng Bu was much faster than Xiang You's army. With only six floating bridges to cross the moat, Zheng Bu's army actually rushed to Lingxian City faster than Xiang You's army. Zheng Bu in armor led the way and stepped on the ladder to hit the top of the city wall. Xiang Zhuang saw it and cursed, "Xiang You, why are you not even as good as a foreign surname?"

It made Xiang Zhuang feel heartbroken again. Halfway through, Zheng Bu was suddenly hit by a sheep-headed stone that fell into the sky and fell off the stairs. However, just when Xiang Zhuang was worried about Zheng Bu, the surprise happened again. Zheng Bu soon appeared from the crowd under the city and stepped on the stairs and rushed to the top of the city wall. He was inspired by Zheng Bu's courage. Everyone under his command was brave, and they all fought for the first place. They bit their weapons and just climbed up desperately. Miraculously, someone rushed to the top of the city wall.

Faced with the fierce offensive of the Young Marshal's Army, the enemy defenders finally had some chaos on the city wall. The fifth city-killing car of the Young Marshal's Army finally leaned on the city wall, and desperately swung the wooden with sharp corners at the front to hit the city gate. At the same time, hard work paid off. The second ladder car of the Young Marshal's Army finally leaned on the city wall. The soldiers of the Young Marshal's Army charged up on the fire-burning ladder car, and soldiers rushed up the city wall.

The dawn appeared, but Xiang Zhuang was still furious because Xiang Zhuang clearly saw that Xiang You's chief lieutenant flag was still under the city of Ling County, which meant that Xiang You still did not lead the way and took the lead in attacking the top of the city wall.

This anger was soon replaced by joy. On Zheng Bu's side, because the general personally participated in the Ant Support, the high-spirited young generals rushed up the city wall one after another, causing more chaos to the enemy. On Xiang You's side, even though Xiang You still hid under the city and did not participate in the Ant Support, his opponent was just a county soldier of the Qin army after all, and most of them had not really swung a knife on the battlefield. His practical experience was far less than that of the Young Generals soldiers who had experienced many wars, so the Young Generals still rushed up a lot of ladder trucks that were about to collapse, covering the Ant Support team of flying ladders and also made breakthroughs. Some people began to rush up the city wall on the flying ladders.

The Guan Guard's flag appeared on the north gate wall, but the Qin army's reserve team's investment was obviously slower. The Young Marshal's army had already made a breakthrough on both wings of the city gate. The fifth city-killing car also made the city gate crumbling. Guan Guard's guide and the reserve team ran back and forth, but he could not care about the east or west. The Young Marshal's army was as powerful as the rainbow, and he successfully climbed the city continuously, and the guards' strokes gradually appeared to escape.

The final decision was Xiang You's troops. Taking advantage of the opportunity that the Qin army's reserve team was restrained by the most fierce young commander Zheng Bu's troops, Xiang You rushed up to more than 200 soldiers in one breath and firmly defended the large area of ​​the city wall. As a result, it was at this time that Zheng Bu's rammed car finally opened the city gate. Xiang Zhuang ecstatically ordered that Zheng Bu's rear troops immediately swarmed into the city. The Qin army was defeated like a mountain, and even the guardian flag disappeared unknowingly on the city wall.

Of course, the subsequent war was no longer as fierce as before. The young generals who rushed into the city were like a sharp blade and directly stabbed into the Lingxian Guan Temple. The officials of Lingxian fled or surrendered one after another. The Lingxian County Magistrate also hanged himself obediently. The guards with only more than 200 people in his hand were unable to turn the world back. They could only quickly lead the remaining troops to open the southern gate of Lingxian and flee to the direction of Huaiyin. The young generals were unstoppable, and successively seized many vital points in the city, easily took control of the four gates of Lingxian, ending the siege battle that had been prepared for a long time.

After breaking the city in one fell swoop, the young marshals were cheering, and the whole army was full of joy, but there was a disharmonious voice in the cheers. When Xiang You and Zheng Bu both returned to Xiang Zhuang, Xiang Zhuang's first sentence was, "The first contribution of this siege was Zheng Bu and Zheng Qianmen! After returning, I will report to the young marshal truthfully and ask him to promote you to the capital lieutenant!"

"General Thank you!"

Zheng Bu, who had an arm hanging on his chest, thanked him happily, but Xiang You was a little dissatisfied and said, "Brother, it was my man who took the city and opened our road to the city. Zheng Qianren is slower than me."

"Do you want me to tell all your performance this time to Ah Brother?" Xiang Zhuang's eyes were sharp and he stared at Xiang You and said, "Do you think our Ah Brother is the kind of person who is unknown in rewards and punishments, and will only look at our Xiang family's children?"

Xiang You closed his mouth, but felt resentful and said to himself: "What's the aura? The rewards and punishments are fair? If you didn't have a good relationship with him, could he be named General first? Who made the first contribution to destroying the city in Fu Li's battle? If he didn't hold a grudge against me before, he should have skipped me over the commander and directly named General!"
Chapter completed!