It was similar to the Linji War in history, Zhang Han also defeated the main force of the Wei and Qi coalition forces with the overnight raid, laying the foundation for the victory on the Linji battlefield in one fell swoop.

It was a bit unbelievable to say it. Facing the main force of the Qin army led by Zhang Han himself, Xiang Kang, who had never defeated a war since the rebellion, was trembling and did not even dare to get too close to Zhang Han. However, the main force of the Qi army to rescue Linji, Tian Dan, still underestimated the enemy and looked down on Zhang Han.

However, Tian Dan was also a little arrogant, because Tian Dan was indeed good at fighting. When Zhou Fu, the prime minister of Wei, who was Zhang Chu's minister, went north to attack Qi, the Qin army in Qi was basically vulnerable in front of him. Zhou Fu quickly captured several Qi-di cities. However, after Tian Dan used a trick to kill the county magistrate of Di County, he actually used the hasty county soldiers to fight Zhou Fu's main force all over the ground and had to retreat to Wei. Later, Tian Dan swept the fallen leaves with the autumn wind and quickly captured more than 30 Qi-di cities. During this period, he also won every battle and was invincible. His achievements were no less than Xiang Kang, a time traveler, so Tian Dan was of course unable to do so.

Secondly, Tian Dan also had the strength to challenge Zhang Han. In addition to bringing more than 80,000 Qi's main army, more than 60,000 Wei's army was helped by Wei's prime minister Zhou Fu from the eastern front. With paper strength alone, it was enough to fight head-on with Zhang Han. In addition, the main force of the young commander army who stationed Chen Liu was also one of Tian Dan's confidence, so after approaching the Linji battlefield, Tian Dan even took the initiative to attack the Qin army.

Tian Dan's rashness hit Zhang Han's thoughts. Zhang Han's use of troops is very similar to Bai Qi, a famous general of Qin State. He likes to show his weakness in front of a strong enemy, avoid his edge and paralyze the enemy, and then suddenly kill and attack the enemy unprepared. Therefore, facing the active attack of the Qi army, Zhang Han disagrees with all opinions and deliberately let the Qin army in Pingqiu area defies defeat and retreat, allowing the Wei and Qi coalition forces to break through the Qin army's blocking position and run directly to the city of Linji.

The purpose of the Wei and Qi coalition forces in this trip was to rescue Linji. After successfully meeting with the Linji defenders, the Wei and Qi coalition forces certainly thought that their chances of victory were in their hands and began to relax psychologically. Even if the general named Zhou Fu's tent, Zhang Han was deliberately deceiving defeat and paralyzing his army, Tian Dan and Zhou Fu, whose military talents were even worse than Tian Dan, did not accept it. They even sneered at Uncle Zhou's warning and did not take it for a while.

As a result, Zhang Han had a chance to surprise. On the same night when the young commander defeated Li Youjun, Zhang Han suddenly dispatched the elite troops in Longxi under his tent and advanced with his corps. He suddenly sneaked into the Qi army camp at Linji City. The Qi army was caught off guard and was directly killed by the Qin army. Suddenly, the Qin army was in chaos. The main force of the Qin army took the opportunity to attack again and defeated the Qi army in the chaos. However, Zhou Fu once again rejected the suggestion of Zhou Shu to let the Wei army stick to the camp and took the risk of sending troops to reinforce Tian Dan at night. As a result, not only did not play any role, but was also in chaos by the defeated Qi army. The Qin army took advantage of the victory and broke through the Wei army camp again, and killed Tian Dan and Zhou Fu in the chaos. In just one night, the Wei and Qi coalition forces collapsed and disappeared.

After the disastrous defeat, Tian Dan's cousin Tian Rong fled directly to Dong'a with some defeated Qi troops, while the Wei army was scattered, and only a small part of them fled into Linji City. The rest were either forced to surrender or fled to other places in a panic. Zhang Han was not in a hurry to chase and immediately surrounded Linji City again. While sending envoys to contact Wei Ju, he forced Wei Ju to open the city to surrender with the threat of massacre, and quickly increased his troops on the southern front, preparing to deal with Xiang Kang, the jumping clown.

The rapid defeat of the Wei and Qi coalition completely disrupted Xiang Kang's wishful thinking. Originally, for Chen Ping's sake, Xiang Kang planned to do his best to help Wei Ju, join forces with the Wei and Qi army to hold Zhang Han, wait for Xiang Liang to come over to help, and then consider whether he could defeat Zhang Han in advance. However, the Wei and Qi coalition suddenly suffered a crushing defeat. The defenders in Linji City were weak and could not play any role. Even if Xiang Kang was able to do anything, he would not dare to come to Zhang Han head-on. So Xiang Kang had no choice but to go south by Zhang Han's main force and quickly recalled Feng Zhong's troops to chase Li You's defeated soldiers, and prepared to retreat east quickly to avoid the sharp edge of the Qin army's main force.

Feng Zhong, who was chasing lightly, acted quickly. On the afternoon of the second day after Xiang Kang received the news of the destruction of friendly troops, Feng Zhong quickly withdrew to Chenliu City with his troops. At the same time, Xiang Kang had already asked someone to load the food, grass and supplies in Chenliu City, and quickly moved to the downstream. As a result, Xiang Kang was quite surprised that at this time, Wei Bao, the younger brother of Wei Ju, who assisted Zhou Fu in commanding the troops, actually fled to Chenliu with more than 2,000 defeated generals in the south and asked for assistance from the young commander's army.

Time is precious, and Xiang Kang didn't have time to meet Feng Zhong and Wei Bao who arrived almost at the same time, and directly invited them all into the Central Army's tent to discuss matters. Fortunately, Xiang Kang breathed a sigh of relief that Wei Bao, who was still calm, did not force himself to send troops north to rescue Linji, and also took the initiative to express his understanding of Xiang Kang's retreat decision - because the strength of the Young Marshal's army was indeed too far from the main force of the Qin army. Feng Zhong also agreed with Xiang Kang's retreat decision, thinking that a real man could bend and stretch, and he had to run when it was time to run, leaving green mountains and burnt in the future.

However, on the issue of where to retreat, Feng Zhong, who has always been obedient, rarely had a disagreement with Xiang Kang. Originally, Xiang Kang planned to retreat to the Mangdang line, confronted the main force of the Qin army with the complex terrain of the Mangdang Mountain area, waiting for Xiang Liang's main force to come for reinforcements. However, Feng Zhong felt that it would be too a pity to give up the hinterland of Dang County that he had finally taken down. He strongly advocated retreating to Suiyang, the governor of Dang County, and confronted the Qin army on the Suiyang line to wait for assistance.

"Young marshal, Sui Yang was taken down by the last general, and the situation there is more familiar." Feng Zhong said with great confidence: "The last general must admit that if it were not for our main force who had wiped out the Dang County Princess Dang army first, the last general would definitely be difficult to take down Sui Yang, because Sui Yang's city is very strong and a frontal attack is extremely rare, and it is enough to hold on for a long time. If such a strong city is given up directly, it will not only be too a pity, but it may also be used by the tyrannical Qin army as a foothold and threaten our army's western front at all times. Even if our army successfully repels the main force of the tyrannical Qin on the Mangdang line, our western front will be difficult to have peace."

Of course, Feng Zhong's words also make some sense, but considering the overly open terrain of Suiyang and the far distance from the rear of Pengcheng, Xiang Kang was still a little worried and refused to adopt Feng Zhong's decision. But at this moment, a general of the Wei army who accompanied Wei Bao to pay homage to Xiang Kang suddenly spoke and bowed to Xiang Kang, "Young marshal, the general of the Imperial College is a foreign minister. He should not take the liberty to interrupt, but this matter is too important. The general of the Imperial College still has to say a few words. General Feng Zhong said very much, our army should retreat to Suiyang, and must not retreat directly to the Mangdang line and give up the initiative in the battlefield."

"Uncle Zhou, this is the Central Army tent of Young Marshal Xiang. Is there any share in your conversation?" Wei Bao scolded unhappily.

Fortunately, Xiang Kang was a very good at learning from the public. He didn't care about Wei Bao's generals casually. He also asked the Wei general who was called Zhou Shu by Wei Bao: "General, you said that our army retreated to the front line of Mangdang and would give up the battlefield to take the initiative. What does this mean?"

"Report to the Young Marshal, because the terrain in Suiyang is open, it is extremely beneficial for our army to intersperse and detour and attack the weak points of the tyrannical Qin army." Uncle Zhou bowed and said, "The general of the People who used the army carefully studied Zhang Han's method of using troops, and found that this People who used troops like to focus on the front and neglect reserves. He liked to concentrate superior forces on a battlefield to take the initiative, but the protection of the rear food route was obviously insufficient. So when he was in Chen County, he gave the two generals Lu Chen and Ying Bu the opportunity to revive Chen County twice, and then gave the Young Marshal you the opportunity to attack Yangwu and cut off his food route. Therefore, the General of the Young Marshal can conclude that in order to annihilate the Young Marshal's main force and avenge his partial army, Zhang Han's folk will inevitably concentrate their troops to attack Suiyang again, and will not leave too many troops to guard the rear and protect his food route."

"In this way, our army's opportunity will come out." Uncle Zhou continued: "Although Suiyang is the governor of Dang County, it is far away from other cities. The nearest Meng County is still in the north. It is far away from Zhang Han's food route, which is very conducive to the army's interlude and raids and surprise attacks. When you are facing Zhang Han's food route head-on in Suiyang, you only need to divide some partial divisions to fight and directly threaten Zhang Han's food route, making Zhang Han's food route difficult to take care of and run away. When his teacher and veterans are tired, you will definitely get the chance to win!"

"But the situation is completely different when retreating directly to the Mangdang line." Uncle Zhou continued to point out: "There are many cities in the Mangdang area, and they are very close to each other. It can easily make Zhang Han's servants find a safer place to store grain. It is very convenient to transport grain from the front line. It is definitely very difficult for the Young Master to attack and rob grain. It is difficult to force Zhang Han to divide his troops to protect the grain route. Moreover, the last generals in the Mangdang area have also been there. There are more than a dozen mountains there, but the mountain is not high, and it is only suitable for a small number of troops to intersperse and detour. It is difficult to achieve the effect of surprise victory. In addition, if the Young Master, you divide the troops to defend the Mangdang two cities, it is also easy to give Zhang Han the opportunity to defeat you one by one, which is far less beneficial than concentrating troops in Suiyang."

When Uncle Zhou talked endlessly, Xiang Kang listened intently, but the personal soldiers surnamed Han who were standing behind Feng Zhong were shocked. They looked at Uncle Zhou carefully and couldn't help but say in their hearts: "I didn't expect that there were such a capable person in the throng of the Wei army, who could be just as different from my views? If this person was not only proficient in strategy but also very proficient in tactics, I'm afraid that this person's ability to use troops would not be inferior to me."

After Uncle Zhou finally finished speaking, Xiang Kang gradually thought about it for a long time, and then he gradually realized that Uncle Zhou's words were indeed very reasonable. The terrain in the Mangdang area was relatively complex, which was more suitable for him to steal and cheat. However, the only dozen small hills in that area were destined to be difficult to cover up his large-scale mobilization of troops and suddenly launched a sneak attack. At the same time, he had to defend Dang and divide his troops to defend the city. If he didn't do it well, he might be defeated by Zhang Han. At that time, he would not have time to regret it.

After thinking about it carefully for a long time, considering that Sui Yang was tightly pinching Zhang Han's water and land grain road behind Huai Si, Xiang Kang made up his mind, nodded, and said, "General Zhou's words are reasonable, Brother Feng is right. We should not retreat directly to the Mangdang line. That's it, withdraw back to Sui Yang, and resist the main force of the tyrannical Qin army's advance eastward, waiting for our reinforcements to reinforce!"

After saying that, Xiang Kang looked at Uncle Zhou with great appreciation and said in his heart: "If the next battle proves that his opinion is correct, this person must be dug up and let him use it for me."

After making up his mind to retreat to Suiyang, Xiang Kang quickly arranged a retreat plan and arranged for Feng Zhong's troops to retreat first after a series of battles, and rushed back to Suiyang in advance to organize the people to strengthen the city defense and repair a solid camp similar to the battlefield in Pengcheng so that his army could station for a long time. Then he arranged for Xiang Zhuang to take on the task of the rear of the palace, and he led the main force of the central army to carry Yingbu, Lu Chen and Wei Bao three servants as the second team, and tried to carry the food and grass along the way to transfer the military supplies and supplies along the way to Suiyang.

In addition, out of morality, Xiang Kang arranged several more works to rush to Linji overnight to contact Wei Ju, telling Wei Ju about his helpless decision to withdraw his troops, and suggesting that Wei Ju abandon the city as soon as possible, or go south to meet him, or not go abroad, and wait until he has the opportunity to make a comeback in the future.

Xiang Kang underestimated Wei Ju's character a little. The next morning, Feng Zhong and his troops quickly retreated to Suiyang. In the afternoon of the same day, news came from the northern line that Wei Ju had opened the Linji gate after he had obtained Zhang Han's promise to give up the massacre of the city, and surrendered to Zhang Han. Then Wei Ju also burned himself to death in the city. He was very noble to exchange his own death for the continued survival of the military and civilians in Linji.

Hearing this news, Wei Jiu's younger brother Wei Bao of course burst into tears and fainted. Xiang Kang also ordered the entire army to hold a funeral while crying, and sacrificed Wei Jiu, who was of good character, to express his respect for Wei Jiu and to buy the hearts of the people in Wei. Then Xiang Kang did not dare to hesitate at all. Early on the third morning, he quickly took his main force to give up Chen Liu and retreat eastward, for fear that he would walk slowly and be entangled by Zhang Han's main force.

This is also the first time that the main force of the Young Marshal's Army was forced to retreat for a long distance under the threat of the enemy. Of course, the morale of the soldiers was not very high. Xiang Kang's face was a little gloomy, and it was rare that he had no smile all day. Fortunately, he was well prepared to retreat, so there was no chaos. Even with a large number of military supplies and three vassal troops with severe qualities, the main force of the Young Marshal's Army retreated to Yongqiu City in the afternoon of the same day, and had not been caught by the Qin army's pursuers for the time being.

All the stock of grain and grass in Yongqiu City had already been loaded on the car. As soon as Xiang Kang arrived at Yongqiu City, the grain team immediately left the city to meet Xiang Kang. Seeing that time was just Shen Shi, Xiang Kang did not hesitate and quickly let the army continue to advance westward and seize the time to quickly get away from Zhang Han's main force. But at this time, Xiang Yang hurried to Xiang Kang and bowed and said, "Brother, there is an old Confucian scholar named Li Yiji who wants to pay homage to you, and he also said that there are very important things to say to you in person."

"Li Yiji?" was stunned by this somewhat difficult name and could not see it, but when Xiang Yang said that the person who came was old and a Confucian scholar, Xiang Kang changed his mind. While letting the army continue to advance, he also asked Xiang Yang to take Li Yiji to meet him.

In a moment, an old man wearing a square hat of Confucian scholar was taken to Xiang Kang. Xiang Kang looked at him casually and saw that he was about sixty years old. Although he was thin and taller than an ordinary adult, he looked very arrogant. He did not lean over and bow down when he saw him. He bowed casually even if he bowed, he saw that he was a good person with Old Man Fan. Fortunately, Xiang Kang had long been used to dealing with such people. Not only did he not mind the old man's rudeness, he also bowed back and said with a smile: "Old sir, thank you for your hard work. What is the important thing that you have to see me if you have something to do?"

He looked at Xiang Kang up and down with a sneer, and the old man spoke, and said arrogantly: "I heard that Young Marshal Xiang is respectful to the wise and humble and polite. I thought it was true. Now I have seen it with my own eyes and realized that it is better to meet than to be famous. People in the world say it is just an exaggeration."

"Old man, what do you mean?"

Xiang Yang next to him was furious. Xiang Kang could not help but stop Xiang Yang, and then lowered his head and looked at his situation carefully. Then he immediately found something was wrong. He quickly whipped off the horse, stood on the ground and bowed to the old man and said, "The old man taught me a lesson. As a junior, I was really a bit too rude to answer the elder on the horse. The boy corrected it and apologized to the old man."

Seeing that Xiang Kang respected himself so much, the arrogant old man who claimed to be Li Yiji nodded and said, "Sister Xiang, you came in a hurry and left in a hurry, but because the tyrannical Qin army was about to arrive, you can't fight with him, so you can only retreat immediately?"

"What the old man said is very true, that's exactly what he said." Xiang Kang nodded and said, "Mr. Li, you have heard that the tyrannical Qin army has over 200,000, and has already captured the Wei Du Linji and forced the King of Wei to death. The boy has only 40,000 soldiers and horses. He is really unable to fight against the enemy and has to be forced to retreat and avoid his edge."

"Young Magistrate, you want to leave your soldiers and family members behind?" Old Man Li suddenly raised his voice and said, "Young Magistrate, when you captured Yongqiu, you were greedy for the large population of Yongqiu, and sent people to recruit soldiers from each township and pavilion in Yongqiu. In order to help you destroy Qin, many Yongqiu people gave up farming and joined your army. Now the tyrant Qin is about to make a comeback, and you will be willing to carry these Yongqiu soldiers away from their relatives and leave their families to go west. Young Magistrate, are you not afraid that the tyrant Qin army will retaliate against their families? Or use the family of these soldiers as the mainstay and force them to betray you? Not to worry that your new recruits in Yongqiu will carry you on the way because they miss their family members, and shake your morale?"

Xiang Kang was silent. In fact, the soldiers missed their family members and often had deserters in the ranks of the Young Marshals. However, Xiang Kang had always protected the rear very well. Most of the soldiers and their families were in the rear of the safer Young Marshals. Therefore, this situation was not serious and did not cause too serious consequences. But not long after occupying Yongqiu, he immediately gave up after recruiting a large number of soldiers and did not consider the feelings of local recruits. Xiang Kang had never encountered this situation before, so Xiang Kang had never considered this hidden danger.

After hesitating for a while, Xiang Kang bowed to the old man Li and said, "Mr. Li has given me some advice. I was really not careful about this. I was also determined to let these soldiers get rid of their troops and return home, but the new recruits in Yongqiu have been recruited by me. If they are disbanded on the spot, they will inevitably hit and shake my main force. It is really a dilemma. If Mr. Li has a wonderful plan to teach me, please give me some advice."

Seeing Xiang Kang so humble, Old Man Li finally showed a smile on his face and said, "This is not difficult. Since the young marshal has this intention, he will immediately draw out the new recruits you recruited in Yongqiu and let them form an army separately. He will be ordered by your trusted generals to stay in Yongqiu for you. When the tyrannical Qin army chases you to Yongqiu, your generals will let Yongqiu recruits choose their own way out. Those who are willing to go west to chase you, and those who are unwilling to leave will be dismissed on the spot. In this way, Young marshal, you can not only eliminate hidden dangers, not affect the morale of the army, but also attract the hearts of the people of Yongqiu, and at the same time you can gain some Yongqiu warriors who are willing to follow you wholeheartedly?"

Xiang Kang suddenly realized and hurriedly bowed to the old man Li to thank him, and immediately ordered: "I'll order the entire army to stop moving temporarily, and draw out all the new recruits we recruited in Yongqiu, and form a separate army to let them stay in Yongqiu!"

The personal soldiers agreed and quickly went to convey the order for Xiang Kang. The old man Li nodded with satisfaction and said, "Sister Xiang, I can't guarantee it, but I'm Li Shang, the younger brother who has already joined your army, I can guarantee that he will follow you again. At that time, I may also follow the army and go with your younger brother. I hope you will be willing to include it and reward me with a bowl of rice. I don't have other skills, but I can write and calculate, and I'm very good at talking and persuading others. Maybe I can help you."

"You are good at talking and persuading others to fight? With your temper, if you meet Old Man Fan, will you be screaming if you don't fight?" Xiang Kang murmured in his heart, but he still bowed and said, "Since that's the case, that kid is at Mr. Li, the old man in Jinghou, Suiyang."

"Suiyang?" Old Man Li raised his white eyebrows and said quickly: "If the Young Marshal decided to retreat to Suiyang, then when passing by Xiangyi, please do not forget to flatten the city walls of Xiangyi. Doing so may also have a great effect on your future."

"Planting the city walls of Xiangyi?" Xiang Kang was completely stunned, because Xiang Kang immediately remembered an important question. If he had leveled the city walls of Xiangyi, then the Qin army's grain transport team would not have any reliable foothold from more than 200 miles from Yongqiu to Suiyang? Will the self-army want to harass and cut off the Qin army's grain route, which will not have countless space and opportunities?
Chapter completed!