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Chapter 71 Unexpected Good News

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The gold-tone copper bar was ringing in a hurry according to Chao Zhi's order. When the three Qin 100-man teams outside the camp heard this, they immediately realized that it was their superiors who wanted to give up the water wheel and return to the camp quickly. Although they felt very sorry, the five hundred-man teams of Qin, who led the three Qin 100 teams, decided to obey the order and immediately ordered the water-gasing team to abandon the carriage and retreat lightly, and quickly marched towards the Qin army camp more than three miles away.

However, even so, Chao Zhi, who looked down on the high ground in the camp, still turned his nose awkwardly. He was tortured by the strict discipline of the Qin army. These three Qin army 100 teams chose to continue to retreat in a row, and did not scatter and flee back to the camp from all directions. Although this move can effectively prevent the young generals from intercepting the road from attacking at any time, the speed of retreat was greatly affected. As long as the speed was not in formation, the young generals' infantry brigade kept pace and took the opportunity to narrow the distance with the Qin army outside the camp. The front team was less than four miles away from the Qin army outside the camp.

"Idiots! A bunch of idiots! I don't see you running so neatly during training. Now I'm in a hurry to retreat. Why do you keep your formation so well? What are you doing?! Send a signal to tell them to disperse their formation, charge at full speed, and come back soon!"

"Master Chao Zuo, what is the signal of dispersing the formation? Why have the young people never seen it?"

The timid questioning of the follower was exchanged for Chao Zhi's big mouth. However, after hitting him, Chao Zhi remembered that there was no ridiculous signal in the Qin army that the army was dispersed and retreated. However, Chao Zhi had no time to comfort the innocent beating follower, but just changed his words and roared: "Idiot! Why don't you send someone to ride a fast horse to deliver letters to them? Tell them to come back immediately!"

When the unlucky person was sending people to pass the orders, the Qin army outside the camp had already lined up to the mile of the Young Commander's cavalry. The Young Commander's cavalry had only left to quickly move to find charge space and stick to the spot. However, what surprised the Qin army was that the Young Commander's cavalry actually chose to trot and prepare to speed up and directly attack their infantry brigade. As a result, the young commander's cavalry did not know how to fight, and the five hundred commander who commanded the Qin army outside the camp also ordered without hesitation: "Stop, form a formation to meet the enemy!"

The flag was waving, and the three hundred Qin troops stopped one after another in a very short time, and arranged the tight square formations in an orderly manner. The Qin crossbowmen who had been preparing for the long time immediately stood or knelt forward, aiming the two rows of bright arrow tips at the Young Commander's cavalry who were about to charge. The Young Commander's cavalry was also captured by the power of the Qin army. They quickly shouted and stopped their horses, not daring to rush to the Qin crossbow formation again. They seemed to passively chose to temporarily confront the Qin infantry phalanx.

The young commander's cavalry pretended to deceive the Qin army outside the camp who was in the game, but he deceived Chao Zhi, the chief general of the Qin army who was looking down at the battlefield. Seeing his army being trapped in a trap, Chao Zhi immediately cursed again, wishing he could put his wings on his body and fly to the battlefield to order the Qin army soldiers to escape quickly. However, due to the communication technology of this era, Chao Zhi could not quickly pass his accurate orders to the Qin army outside the camp. He could only watch the Qin army outside the camp maintain a strict formation and slowly advance, and also watched the infantry brigade of the young commander's army get closer and closer to the Qin army outside the camp.

It must be explained that the Qin army outside the camp was not all blind and deaf, and they did not see the infantry brigade of the Young Commander Army rushing towards them quickly. The reason why the Qin army outside the camp ignored this threat was that they were only two miles away from their own camp and could obtain the main force's reinforcements at any time. At the same time, the infantry of the Young Commander Army did not form a formation, as long as they rushed in a mess. Even if they successfully rushed to the front, they would not have any fatal threat to the Qin army outside the camp - at most they would just delay the pace of the Qin army outside the camp. Therefore, the Qin army outside the camp was so confident and regarded the infantry brigade of the Young Commander Army, which was still a motley crowd, as if nothing was left.

The situation finally changed a little. After the fast horse sent by Chao Zhi bypassed the Young Commander's cavalry, he finally sent Chao Zhi's order to the Qin army outside the camp. However, it was too late to do so. The infantry brigade of the Young Commander's army had rushed to a range of only about a mile away from the Qin army outside the camp. At this time, giving up the formation is equivalent to raising his hands to let the Young Commander's army massacre wantonly. Therefore, the five hundred commanders of the Qin army led the team had to choose to resist the order and said loudly: "Please report to Chao Zuowei, the rioters brigade are approaching. Abandoning the formation at this time is equivalent to committing suicide. Please forgive the general's crime of disobeying!"

After saying that, the 500-strong leader of the Qin army, who was absolutely not wrong, ordered the army to continue to maintain its formation and retreat to the camp gate at normal speed. Chao Zhi had no choice but to order a team of 500 people to leave the camp, gather the orders of the Hou in front of the camp, ready to launch an attack at any time, forcibly pick up the Qin army outside the camp back to the camp.

Of course, the young commander's infantry rushed in a mess was not so stupid that they directly attacked the Qin army's stalemate. They naturally chose the cavalry that rushed towards the Young Commander's army, and joined forces with their own cavalry to stop the Qin army from returning to the camp. When Chao Zhi saw that the three hundred-man teams were trapped outside the camp, he also decisively chose to beat the advancing drum and asked the five hundred-man teams of Qin in front of the camp to launch an attack. He tried to forcibly break the Young Commander's infantry brigade that had not had time to line up and rescued the three hundred-man teams of Qin army that were about to be stopped by the Young Commander's army.

At the same time, the war drums were also shook the sky. Teams of young commanders' infantry soldiers stomped out of the city after striking their squads. One of them was directly holding Xiang Kang's young commander's banner and directly told the Qin army that Xiang Kang had arrived at the battlefield and personally led the army to fight this battle. Chao Zhi was even more anxious when he saw it. He knew that Xiang Kang was planning to force himself to fight to the decisive battle and use his military advantage to bully the few. However, Chao Zhi, who now only wanted to defend the desperate battle to the death, had no interest in the decisive battle, and had no preparations for the decisive battle at all. He could only order the remaining troops to guard the camp and hoped that the troops outside the camp could retreat quickly, so that he could suffer less losses.

The fierce battle was gradually begun. The infantry brigade of the Young Commander's Army who forcibly wedged into the junction of the Qin army continued to form a group, and forced formations were formed in a chaotic but very resolute manner. A large shield snatched from the Qin army in Tong County was also erected on both sides of the left and right to block the Qin army's crossbow arrows and evade behind the shield and fired the crossbow arrows. At the same time, the Qin army who came from the left and right were in normal training, using crossbow arrows to open the way while slowly advancing, just like two iron walls, constantly crushing the square formation that was not tight enough on the young commander's army.

At this time, the young commander's cavalry, who had previously gathered with the self-armed infantry, suddenly came out towards the south Yue people, detoured in a circle, gradually turned around, and rushed directly to the right wing of the Qin army out of the camp without hesitation. At the same time, the young commander's infantry brigade also had a war drum and pointed the flag westward, and rushed towards the front of the Qin army out of the camp without hesitation. The Qin army out of the camp was attacked on both sides and had to stop protecting themselves. However, the young commander's infantry and cavalry kept walking and forced to hit the square formation of the Qin army out of the camp with resolute attitude. The earth-shaking shouts and killing sounds also instantly resounded throughout the battlefield.

"Seven gold! Seven gold! Seven gold!"

The slogan of the Young Marshal Army was very strange, and he always shouted the word "Seven Gold". Everyone worked hard during the rushing, and everyone tried their best to block the Qin army's weapons with the seized shield, while using swords, spears and spears to kill the Qin army on the opposite side. Most of them had red eyes and were excited. However, when the Qin army was forced to fight with the Young Marshal Army, they remembered one possibility one after another - Seven Gold, could it be the price of the Young Marshal Army's acquisition of one of their heads?

If it were the main force of the Qin army that encountered a mob like the Young Marshal's Army, whether it was the southern army of the Qin army, the northern border guards on the grassland, or the Guanzhong garrison and Longxi garrison of the Qin army, then the few turtle punches of the Young Marshal's army would not be able to even hurt the main force of the Qin army, and would have been easily defeated by the main force of the Qin army.

But there is no way to consider that the Qin army was just county soldiers, and it was a temporary army that Xiang Kang hurriedly formed after the rebellion. Although the organization was more strict than the Young Marshal Army, and the military training was more stringent than the Young Marshal Army soldiers with varying quality of the soldier, the morale and fighting spirit were far less high than the Young Marshal Army soldiers who had won consecutive victories. In addition, they were also unwilling to work hard for Qin Ershi from the heart. Therefore, after being beaten by the Young Marshal Army, which was not careless about the head and tail, a miracle happened. The tight phalanx of the Qin army outside the camp actually loosened, and several horizontal teams were in chaos one after another. The Young Marshal Army soldiers took the opportunity to move forward and gradually formed a melee with Qin outside the camp.

This is exactly what Chao Zhi was most worried about. After the front team of the Young Commander's infantry and the Qin army outside the camp formed a melee, even if the Qin reinforcements who went out to rescue joined forces with the Young Commander's infantry, they could not immediately kill the Young Commander's infantry and rescued the trapped friendly forces because the crowd was too crowded. On the contrary, they were successfully dragged down by the Young Commander's infantry. Even if they had the upper hand, they could not form a victory at once.

The young commander's infantry actually relied on one breath to support the army. During the fierce battle, the Qin army on the left and right wings attacked and defended one by one, just like a blacksmith, constantly knocking on the young commander's infantry brigade sandwiched in the middle, and almost every move could knock some young commander's soldiers away. The young commander's soldiers were just greedy for the heavy rewards promised by their superiors, relying on their desire to stand up tenaciously. The west attack and east attack were tenacious and difficult, and they could completely collapse because they could not support them at any time and be completely at a disadvantage and passive.

Fortunately, at this time, the main brigade of the Young Marshal's Army led by Xiang Kang had approached the battlefield. At the same time, Xiang Kang waved the flag early and ordered Xiang Sheng to lead a team of 500 people to use chariots to lead the way to attack the flanks of Qin reinforcements, which suddenly reversed the situation on the entire battlefield.

Tanks have always been a powerful tool to break the formation. No matter how tight the infantry formation is, it will inevitably loosen the formation when it encounters the cluster impact of the chariot. When the Qin reinforcements fought with the Young Commander's infantry, their formation was already messy. When they were rushed by the Young Commander's chariot, they were immediately in chaos. Although they were not cut off directly, they were still broken out. The Young Commander's infantry led by Xiang Sheng took the opportunity to pour into the incision, and the Qin reinforcements were left with the life of being forced to fight.

The melee became more intense. People shouted and horses neighed. The soldiers on both sides fought each other with red eyes. The sounds of spears piercing through human bodies everywhere, and the blood of sharp swords piercing through the flesh everywhere. The roars and screams of soldiers on both sides were endless. Flags and wreckage were flying in the air, corpses and wounded soldiers rolled on the ground and were constantly trampled. Occasionally, soldiers on both sides could also see the tragic scene of soldiers on both sides hugging and fighting on the ground until they died together.

The same goes for the same sentence, after all, the Qin army was just a county soldier that had just been formed. Not only was the combat power far inferior to the real main elite of the Qin army, and its morale and fighting spirit were not high enough. In addition, the military strength was already at a disadvantage, the Qin army gradually fell into a disadvantage in the melee, the formation was completely chaotic, and soldiers kept quietly fleeing from the battlefield. The Young Commander Army took the opportunity to disrupt the situation in chaos, desperately making the battle situation a mess, giving full play to the advantages of more troops and strong morale, avoiding the advantages of the enemy's organizational discipline being stronger than the self-armed army, and gradually grasping the active advantage.

At the same time, in the Qin army camp, the face of the chief general of the Qin army was so gloomy that it was almost dripping. He knew that the situation of the Qin army outside the camp was not good, and he also knew that if he sent troops to reinforce, he would be forced to fight a decisive battle with the young commander's army without sufficient preparation and risk a decisive battle that he was unsure.

Chao Zhi did not dare to take this risk. From the 1,500 people brought by the 1,500 people, 300 people were wiped out by the Young Marshal's army at the Shajidu battlefield. After the Qin army in Tong County was destroyed, although two or three hundred people fled to join, these people were depressed and were not very useful when they arrived on the battlefield. Now there are 800 people out of the camp. The army that Chao Zhi is truly reliable is actually only about 400. The Young Marshal's army reserve team that has not been used by Xiang Kang, has at least 500 people, and they are obviously the most reliable elites, enough to compete with Chao Zhi's remaining troops. Therefore, Chao Zhi has repeatedly weighed the pros and cons, but he still did not dare to take this risk - if he loses the decisive battle, he will really have nothing.

After hesitating for a while, Chao Zhi gritted his teeth and ordered the call to withdraw the troops. The Qin army soldiers on the battlefield outside the camp were as if they were amnesty and quickly turned around and fled back to their own camp. The young army was very motivated and took the opportunity to slash and kill the Qin army, completely collapsed, and killed the three Qin army 100 teams trapped in the distance, killing most of the three Qin army 100 teams trapped in the distance, and fled everywhere. Xiang Kang was somewhat regretful and spitted at the Qin army's camp and said angrily: "You are smart! You really dare to send troops to fight to the decisive battle. You will still lose this battle! But forget it, if you win this defeat, you will be even more able to explain when you go back, and it will be easier to surrender."

In this battle, after paying more than 150 casualties, the Young Marshal's Army successfully beheaded more than 260 people and captured nearly 80 people. He wiped out the organization of three hundred-man teams from the list of Qin's army. During this period, although the Young Marshal's Army was still not good at formation battles, he also forced the original shape of the Qin's army to be exposed. Therefore, even if he failed to defeat the Qin's army in one fell swoop, Xiang Kang was still full of confidence in victory. He believed that even if he could not surrender, he would be confident enough to kill the Qin's army directly, and he had made preparations early and began to plan to defeat the enemy after the surrender failed.

In contrast to Xiang Kang, the chief general of the Qin army, Chao Zhi, fell into complete despair. He attacked the city just for death, and was not sure of staying at the wait for help. Retreat was even more deadly. He died before and after, and it was also difficult to establish himself. Chao Zhi, who had already been a little shaken, was inevitably hesitant and even hoped that Xiang Kang would send him a surrender envoy and give him a chance to choose.

Xiang Kang did not disappoint Chao Zhi. The day after the field war, Xiang Kang sent Xu Shu as an envoy to send a letter to Chao Zhi again. In addition to persuading Chao Zhi to make the right choice as soon as possible, he also clearly stated that he admired Chao Zhi's military training ability very much, and stated that if Chao Zhi was willing to surrender, he would definitely use it, so that Chao Zhi's expertise in training the military formation could be fully utilized. The letters were as many gifts as before.

Unfortunately, the opportunity to abandon the darkness and turn to the light was put in front of Chao Zhi again, but Chao Zhi hesitated again. After thinking for a long time, Chao Zhi still said to Xu Shu with some difficulty: "Please report to Young Marshal Xiang, just say that I appreciate his kindness, but my wife and children are all in the city. I cannot implicate them for my own selfishness."

"Chao Zuowei, this is not a problem." Xu Shu said immediately: "My Young Marshal has also considered this for you. He said that if you lead the crowd to surrender, your wife and children will be implicated, but according to the law of the tyrannical Qin, they should not be executed immediately. My Young Marshal Xiang will take advantage of the opportunity of empty care and launch a counterattack against You as soon as possible. When the time comes, your wife and children will be rescued, and your family will be reunited again."

Chao Zhi was shaken, but after all, he had been an official for the Qin court for so many years, and had no feelings and old feelings. In addition, hesitated for a while, Chao Zhi shook his head and said, "I can't be cruel, so thank you. You go and tell Shaoshuo Xiang that I know I'm not his opponent, but I can't do it if I want me to surrender."

Although his voice and tone were obviously weak, Chao Zhi still asked his confidant soldiers to send Xu Shu quietly out of the military camp. At the same time, he felt extremely disappointed and melancholy. He didn't know whether he made this choice was right or wrong?

Perhaps Chao Zhi was right, because on the morning of the next day, a Shiwu County official boat came upstream of Sishui. The boat was still a familiar person of Chao Zhi. Zheng Lun, the chief official of the Shiwu County Temple, brought the handwritten documents of the Shiwu County Magistrate. Chao Zhi, who was defeated, was frightened when he heard the news. He didn't know whether it was a disaster or a blessing, but he still sent someone to the ferry to bring Zheng Lun, respectfully invited Zheng Lun into the tent to find out what Zheng Lun's purpose was.

Since Chao Zhi may be right, then considering the fact that Zheng Lun, the chief clerk, brought good news, he smiled relaxedly and said, "Chao Zuowei, the county master and we all know about the situation on the side of the prince. Don't worry, our county master has no intention of blaming you, and not to mention victory or defeat is common to military affairs. It is definitely not your fault that this battle will be fought like this. It is because Gu Bi of Tong County underestimated the enemy and was attacked by the thieves and killed the entire army, which implicated you. Our county master has also written the battle situation of the prince of Xiaxiang into a document and sent a quick horse to report it to the county governor of Zhao in this county, asking him to investigate the right and wrong, and give you a chance to atone for his sins. Don't pursue it too much."

"Really?" Chao Zhi was very happy and quickly asked Zheng Lun: "Master Zheng, is he really so magnanimous?"

"Haha, I've been an old friend for so many years, can I still lie to you?" Zheng Lun smiled and said with a smile: "Besides, what kind of temper our county magistrate has? Don't you know whether you don't know about Chao Zuowei?"

Chao Zhi was indeed very clear about the temper of the county magistrate - he was a little too strict with the emperor, he valued money, was also humble in women, and had secretly peeked at his pretty wife with a greedy look. However, now that he was hopeful of self-protection, Chao Zhi also subconsciously threw all these things behind his head. While nodding his head desperately to express his gratitude, he couldn't wait to ask: "Master Zheng, the county magistrate sent you here, do you have anything to explain?"

"Yes." Zheng Lun nodded, took out a letter from his arms, and said with a kind smile: "Chao Zuowei, the county master wants you to withdraw your troops, and quickly lead the army to withdraw your troops. As for the reason, first, the rioters are now in great influence and you are too dangerous here. Second, the county magistrate still cannot summon enough troops to form a county army for a while, and it is difficult to send troops to reinforce you immediately. Therefore, the county master wants you to retreat immediately, guard our city of wise first, and also protect the remaining county soldiers we wise. When the county magistrate sends troops in the future, Chao Zuowei, you will lead troops to help the county magistrate eliminate the rioters and make meritorious deeds."

After hearing Zheng Lun's patient explanation, he read the official document written by the county magistrate of Caiwu who asked him to withdraw his troops immediately. Chao Zhi did not hesitate and immediately nodded and said, "Thank you for your understanding, thank you for your master Zheng for submitting the letter. I will immediately withdraw the camp and withdraw the troops and withdraw the troops."
Chapter completed!
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