The conscience of heaven and earth, since his debut under the tent of Huer, the famous general Qin Qiong has never been so useless as in this period of time, even when he was defeated by Zhang Xutuo and Pei Renji, Qin Qiong was not so unlucky, and would be beaten by the same opponent one after another. The few win the many, the weak defeat the strong, they fight without temper, and they can't even find a chance for revenge. This time, he finally got the chance to lead the army to fight again. Of course, Qin Qiong mustered all his strength and vowed to get back this face from Dou Jiande's brother-in-law Cao Dan, and wash away his recent bad luck!
The same is true for Qin Qiong's subordinates. They set off to leave Linfen. Gu Nenggui, Xiong Wei and other generals under Qin Qiong's command couldn't wait to start shouting, saying that this time, no matter what, they would beat Brother-in-law Cao all over the place, and also beat Wang Fubao to death. Dong Kangmai, his deputy, grabbed Wang Fubao and beat him violently, venting his anger on Wang Fubao's superiors and subordinates. Xiong Wei, who had followed Qin Qiong when he was in Qi County, volunteered early and said: "General, please let the last general be the vanguard first, and go to the bandit barracks to fight first. The bandit army will definitely fight when they see that we have few soldiers. A good start!"
"General, I also want to be a vanguard." Gu Nenggui also hurriedly asked for orders, and added: "The last general not only guarantees a good start, but also promises to bring back three hundred enemy heads, and if there is one less general, he is willing to be subject to military law! "
Xiong Wei became anxious when he heard this, and hurriedly argued with Gu Nenggui, but Qin Qiong stopped them, and said with a strange smile: "Since Xiong Wei asked for orders first, then you go first, but you can't open the door, you have to give me the order." If you lose and run back, then Gu Nenggui you go up, but you still have to lose and run back to me."
"General, are you joking?" Xiong Wei and Gu Nenggui were both stunned.
"Of course I'm not joking, this is an order from His Royal Highness Tang." Qin Qiong smiled even more strangely, first explained Chen Sangliang's arrangement to the two right-hand assistants, and then said with a wicked smile: "I was still worried, after all Send those two unlucky bastards to suffer the defeat. Since both of you are vying to be the vanguard, it's up to you. When you both have suffered the defeat and completed the account of His Highness Tang Wang, this general will feel relieved to kill the enemy. "
Gu Nenggui and Xiong Wei couldn't stop complaining when they heard it, and it was too late when they hurriedly evaded it. Qin Qiong had already forcibly assigned the task of fraudulent defeat to them, and the second general could only accept the order with a sad face. Qin Qiong, who let go of his worries, was proud of his love, but Xiong Wei, who was quite brainy, had an idea, and hurriedly said: "General Qin, I will remember the terrain in the Yueyang area. The road to the west of Yueyang City is about 20 miles to the north. They are all mountains and forests, which are the most suitable for ambushes. How about we bluff two battles during the day, take the opportunity to go to that area to ambush at night, and then you, general, go out to lure the enemy yourself, and lead the enemy to our ambush. We take the opportunity to fight out and intercept the enemy. For two stages, if you turn around and attack from both sides, wouldn't you gain even more?"
"Well, I also remember that the terrain in that area is very suitable for ambushes." Qin Qiong nodded in satisfaction, and said: "You can create chaos by attacking the enemy's flanks, and I will take the opportunity to go directly to the leader of the bandit army to gain more confidence. Okay, let's do it like this! "
It was only after agreeing, seeing the smirks on the faces of Xiong Wei and Gu Nenggui, that Qin Qiong woke up and found out that he had been fooled, and roared: "You two fools, dare to play tricks on me, and deliberately want me to accompany you to swindle for a while Right?" After that, Qin Qiong pretended to be angry and lifted the gun, while Gu Nenggui and Xiong Wei laughed and ran away quickly, and more than 6,000 Sui troops also strode towards Yueyang in the northeast direction while the generals of the Sui army were playing and laughing. The pace is also extremely fast.
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The soldiers of the Sui army were relaxed, but Uncle Cao was even more relaxed. When he first received the news that the Sui army was dispatching troops, Uncle Cao, who had just offended Chen Sangliang, asked nervously how many troops the Sui army had and who would be coming. And when he learned that the Sui army's troops were only about 6,000, and that the Sui army's leader was Qin Qiong, who had been humiliated in front of Dou Jun several times before, Cao's brother-in-law suddenly laughed out loud, and said with a smile: "Chen thief's account There is no one to use? Even sending this defeated general of ours here again, does Thief Chen think that he has not lost enough?"
Ruan Junming, Zhang Jinzhong, Yuan E and other brothers-in-law Cao’s confidants laughed and said that was exactly the case, but Dong Kangmai, who had won the victory over Qin Qiong with Wang Fubao, was calmer and said to brother-in-law Cao: “General Cao! , or be careful, Qin Qiong was already famous for his bravery when he was under the tent of Zhang Xutuo in Qi County. He was defeated by our army twice before, but it was because he underestimated the enemy for a while and took precautions. Wang Fubao's rebellion blocked the front, and he was overwhelmed by Taiyuan's allies, losing in strength does not mean that he is useless, we need to deal with it carefully."
Brother-in-law Cao sneered and said, "So what? He is even weaker this time. Our total strength is 16,000, and he only has 6,000 troops, which is 10,000 more troops than him. It is easier to defeat him!" "
"General Cao, it's better to be careful." Dong Kangmai insisted, and then said: "Qin Qiong only led 6,000 troops here, obviously trying to contain our army temporarily, so that we can't fully strengthen the city defense and build a strong camp. It is convenient for the main force of the Chen thieves to send troops to attack our army. In this case, we might as well ignore him and build a fortification as usual, and defend with a strong wall, so as to face the main force of the Chen thieves in the future. If Qin Qiong takes the initiative to attack, we will rely on the fortifications of the city camp to cover and defeat the enemy. It's not difficult."
"It doesn't need to be so troublesome!" Brother-in-law Cao rebuffed with a big wave of his hand, and said, "Qin Qiong's name is too real, so there is nothing to be afraid of. Taking advantage of Chen's main force is still on the way, we will fight with all our strength when he comes, and win a big battle to inspire us." Morale, it will be much easier to deal with Chen thief's main force."
Although I think Uncle Cao’s mentality is too underestimating the enemy, considering Uncle Cao’s narrow-mindedness, Dong Kangmai still did not dare to continue. At the same time, after things have reached this point, Dong Kangmai, who did not like Wang Fubao before, will inevitably miss the old days The comrade-in-arms thought to himself, "It would be great if that bastard was here. Although that bastard is annoying, but following him to fight, at least you don't have to worry as much as you do now."
Linfen is not too far from Yueyang, and a quick march is a one-day journey, but in order to let the soldiers conserve their strength, Qin Qiong, who has learned a lesson and no longer dared to underestimate the enemy, was cautious. The army had just arrived in Yang County and ordered the camp to rest At the same time, many scouts were sent to closely monitor the movement ahead, and they did not dare to directly advance to the city of Yueyang, whose surrounding terrain was far more complicated than that of Yang County, like last time. After the Dou Jun scouts reported the movement of Qin Qiong's army to Uncle Cao, Uncle Cao naturally laughed at Qin Qiong's cowardice, and despised Qin Qiong's army even more.
Early the next morning, Qin Qiong's army continued to march towards Yueyang, and let Xiong Wei lead an army of one thousand as the forward. At this time, Qin Qiong was naturally worried that Dou Jun would not go out to fight, but Qin Qiong soon found that his worry was completely in vain When Xiong Wei's army was still seven or eight miles away from Yueyang City, Brother-in-law Cao couldn't wait to order troops to fight. Fortunately, Brother-in-law Cao was only yelling fiercely. The main force went out to fight, but ordered General Zhang Jinzhong to lead 2,000 infantry out of the camp, first to test the Sui army's reality and grasp the specific situation of the Sui army.
The two armies will fight in the wild, and Xiong Wei, who is destined to be defeated, deliberately arranges a balanced yoke formation that is easy to maneuver but lacks attack power for the convenience of escape. Zhang Jinzhong sneered at the Sui army's formation and ordered the army to deploy a strong attack force. The Sui Army's yoke formation was pierced in half with only one charge, and Xiong Wei, who did not organize the defense at all, went down the donkey slope, and immediately led the army on the way. Fleeing for his life, Zhang Jinzhong won easily, captured a lot of banners and weapons, and killed some unlucky Sui soldiers who escaped slowly. He chased for ten miles until he saw the main force of the Sui army approaching, and then withdrew his troops and retreated to the camp.
After returning to the camp, Zhang Jinzhong, who had won easily and quickly, reported to his brother-in-law that only 5,000 troops from Dou's army would be enough to contend with Qin Qiong's entire army, and 7,000 troops would ensure victory. However, Dong Kangmai suspected that this was a fraudulent defeat of the Sui army, and urged Brother-in-law Cao to beware of Qin Qiong's tricks. Although Brother-in-law Cao didn't agree, he listened to it to some extent, and ignored the other generals' requests to fight, and decided to observe the situation again. Besides.
In the afternoon of that day, Qin Qiong's army approached Yueyang cautiously and set up camp ten miles to the west of Yueyang. Then Qin Qiong sent Gu Nenggui to lead a thousand troops eastward to fight. Ruan Junming, who spoke up, overwhelmed the crowd and was able to lead two thousand troops out of the camp to fight. In order to grasp the enemy's situation, Brother-in-law Cao also ordered Ruan Junming to stand in front of the gate of the camp to fight, while he himself climbed to the top of the camp to observe the situation on the battlefield from a high position.
According to Qin Qiong's request, Gu Nenggui was not as lazy as Xiong Wei this time, but led the army and Ruan Junming to fight in front of Dou's camp with real swords and guns. Even though it was a pretense, Dou Jiande's army was actually pretty good at fighting, so Gu Nenggui, who didn't dare to use his full strength, suffered a lot of losses on the battlefield. After losing more than a hundred people, he managed to get rid of the entanglement of Dou's army and escape. Ruan Junming led the army to chase him all the way. Near the camp of the Sui army, they didn't retreat until they saw Qin Qiong personally leading the army out of the camp to meet him.
More than a hundred soldiers of the Sui army also sacrificed very valuable. Seeing the combat effectiveness of the Sui army and their defeat without pretending, Brother-in-law Cao had confidence in his heart. He truly believed that his army could easily defeat Qin Qiong's army, Immediately decided in my heart to lead the main force to fight the next day, and solve the Qin Qiong army who was nothing to fear in one fell swoop. However, Brother-in-law Cao did not expect that at night, the two generals of the Sui Army, Xiong Wei and Gu Nenggui, who had been defeated in front of his subordinates during the day, each led five hundred elite soldiers to sneak out of the camp and lay in ambush five miles to the west of the Sui Army's camp. In the mountains and forests to the north, he gritted his teeth and waited for the arrival of his main army.
The moment to decide the outcome finally came. In the early morning of the next day, Qin Qiong personally brought 4,000 troops out of the camp, and once again came to the front of Dou's camp to fight. The 8,000 troops were led out of the camp by himself to fight. Dong Kangmai persuaded Cao's brother-in-law not to send troops in person, and was punished by Cao's brother-in-law to stay in the camp.
By coincidence, the place where Qin Qiong and Uncle Cao fought happened to be the place where Qin Qiong was accidentally attacked by Wang Fubao. When he revisited the old place and remembered the shameful past, Qin Qiong couldn't help applauding his horse and went out to fight in person. Uncle Cao sneered and ordered Zhang Jinzhong to lead the battle. The army rushed into the formation and directly attacked the front of the Sui army's position. Qin Qiong pretended to resist and let the Chinese army resolutely withstand Zhang Jinzhong's impact. They fought for a long time without retreating half a step. Brother-in-law Cao got angry when he saw that, relying on the large number of soldiers, he ordered an army to turn around and rush to the right wing of the Sui army. Qin Qiong also began to feign defeat, deliberately let the right wing collapse and flee first, and then led the whole army to retreat under the pretense of being invincible.
Although it took a little more effort than expected to beat Qin Qiong away, the more this happened, the more Brother-in-law Cao believed that Qin Qiong was not a fraud. Under the secret joy, Brother-in-law Cao, who refused to miss the opportunity of the battle, ordered the pursuit immediately without hesitation. , led 8,000 troops in person to hunt down the fleeing Qin Qiong army, looking forward to the rewards after the war, everyone in the Dou army was fighting for the lead, each of them was brave, and one of them ran faster than the other in the pursuit, and they also unconsciously showed themselves. Some formations were messed up.
The 10,000-person marathon started. Because Dou Jiande's army pursued too closely, the soldiers of the Sui army who were scrambling to flee first inevitably experienced some confusion. The messy ones just followed Qin Qiong's banner westward, and uncle Cao became even more confused when he saw this scene. Without doubt, he led the army and charged forward with confidence, chasing Qin Qiong's chrysanthemum all the way to the Sui army camp. As a result, the defenders of the Sui army camp, who had no time to build solid fortifications, saw that the situation was not good, and immediately abandoned the camp and fled westward. Qin Qiong did not dare to expect this temporary camp to stop the pursuit of the soldiers, and took the defeated army directly across the camp and fled westward. Brother-in-law Cao easily won the Sui army camp and refused to give up, leading the army to continue chasing it endlessly.
After chasing another five or six miles to the west, Brother-in-law Cao, who had been on the battlefield for several years, finally found out that something was wrong—why did Qin Qiong's army never intend to flee to the southwest direction of Yang County, but kept going west? This doubt was born, but uncle Cao, who was arrogant on the surface but very cautious in heart, also made a decisive decision, immediately reined in the horse's head, and loudly ordered to stop the pursuit and regroup.
Brother-in-law Cao’s order came a little late, and before the order to garrison had spread throughout the advance, gunpowder bottles exploded in the forest to the north. Xiong Wei and Gu Nenggui each led their ambush troops and shouted out, condescendingly charging Dou’s army in pursuit. The long snake that formed naturally during the battle fought at the waist, and Qin Qiong, who fled to the front, immediately led his army to turn around, and roared loudly to fight again.
"Sure enough, there is an ambush!" Brother-in-law Cao was once startled by the sudden ambushes of the Sui army, but after carefully seeing the strength of the ambush soldiers of the Sui army, uncle Cao laughed loudly again, and shouted: " Order all armies to move closer to our army's commander-in-chief, and form a square formation to play with Chen's army!"
Indeed, the number of ambushes of the Sui army was indeed pitifully small, with only one thousand soldiers divided into two to attack separately. At the same time, the Sui army was still at an absolute disadvantage in terms of total strength, which could not be compared with the current strength of Uncle Cao. Uncle Cao As long as the army is gathered, Qin Qiong's army, which has lost its camp, can be easily exhausted. However, brother-in-law Cao soon discovered two things. The first is that the victory or defeat on the battlefield is never determined by the number of troops. The second is that the generals of the Qin Qiong Army have been teasing him before, and have never really fought against him. Life.
The time for revenge and shame has finally come. The generals of the Sui army, from the general Qin Qiong to the ordinary soldiers, all roared with red eyes, roared like thunder with blood boiling, and slashed and killed all the enemies facing them like a tiger descending a mountain. The generals and soldiers of the Dou Army, who had the combat effectiveness of the army, were caught off guard. They couldn't cope with the generals of the Sui Army who had suddenly raised their combat effectiveness by several levels. The ambush led by Dou Jun also successfully penetrated the waist of Dou Jun, cutting the long snake formation of Dou Jiande's army into three sections.
During the scuffle, Qin Qiong was of course directly attacking at Brother-in-law Cao's commander-in-chief. Although there was Zhang Jinzhong who rushed ahead, Zhang Jinzhong immediately commanded the army to intercept him, but Zhang Jinzhong was stunned to see that Qin Qiong, who took the lead, was Like cutting tofu with a steel knife, he easily pierced through the Dou army's horizontal troops blocking in front of him one after another. Like chopping firewood, the Dou Jun horizontal team intercepting in front was split in half.
Fortunately, Qin Qiong's target this time was not Zhang Jinzhong. He led the army and rushed past Zhang Jinzhong. Zhang Jinzhong did not dare to go up to stop him. A little numb, and an idea immediately came to mind, "He didn't fight us seriously before!"
Then naturally it was uncle Cao's turn to be frightened. Behind him was Xiong Wei leading the soldiers of the Sui army to slash and kill. Apart from yelling, there was no thought left in my mind, "Hold it! Hold it! Hold it up! Shoot the arrow! Shoot the arrow! Shoot the arrow!"
Shouting had little effect. In the panic and crowding, Dou soldiers had no time to form a dense horizontal line to stop them. The feathered arrows shot in a hurry were not without much power, but their accuracy was ridiculously poor. Qin Qiong continued to advance all the way, and Ma Qian rose and fell Jian Dou's soldiers fell to the ground one after another, and in a blink of an eye they were within thirty steps of Uncle Cao. And at this moment, Uncle Cao, who had been on the battlefield for several years, finally came to his senses, and shouted two absolutely correct orders, "Put down my handsome flag! Run!"
After shouting, Brother-in-law Cao led the horse and fled to the open south. His standard-bearer also quickly put down the damned Cao character flag. As a result, Qin Qiong could no longer be found in the chaos. Brother-in-law Cao, the generals and soldiers of the Dou Army who had the opportunity to gather together and wait for reinforcements had a bad luck. Without a target to approach, the various departments of the Dou Army could only scurry around on the battlefield like headless chickens. The soldiers of the Sui Army took the opportunity to charge and fight fiercely, killing Dou Jiande's army to the point of howling ghosts and wolves, causing heavy casualties. And then naturally, even after Dou Jiande proclaimed himself emperor, the soldiers of the Dou army, who were not good at fighting tough battles, ran for their lives one after another, while the various ministries of the Sui army took the opportunity to move closer to each other and return to the army, led by Qin Qiong, to chase down the enemy's defeated army.
At the same time, after receiving the news that Uncle Cao’s brother-in-law was in ambush, Dong Kangmai, who stayed in the camp, immediately led two thousand troops westward to respond in case of emergency. However, Dong Kangmai’s action was still a step late. It was too late to save the doom of Dou Jun's defeat, and he had just arrived near the battlefield, and was immediately smashed by the defeated soldiers of his own army, and was forced to join the fleeing team. The Sui army drove out the enemy's defeated army as the vanguard, and chased them all the way to the gate of Uncle Cao's camp, beheading and killing many prisoners.
At the critical moment, Cao Dajiu’s arrangement of the defenders in Yueyang City played a role. Seeing that the main force was defeated and fled back, he was afraid that his own army’s defeated troops would rush to the camp. Xian, quickly led two thousand troops out of the city to meet and attack the flank of the Sui army. Qin Qiong had too few troops to dare to take risks, so he could only quickly order the army to garrison the whole team and line up to kill Gao Yaxian. Opportunity, watched helplessly as the defeated soldiers of the Dou army fled back to the camp under the cover of Gao Yaxian.
"You guys are lucky today!" When retreating, Qin Qiong, who was not satisfied with the result of this victory, pointed at the Dou army camp with Ma Li and cursed bitterly, "Today I thought that there were few soldiers. When our main force arrives, look at me. How can I kill you all!"
"Chen Thief is only six thousand vanguards and he is so powerful. When his main force arrives, how can we resist?" When Brother-in-law Cao finally escaped back to the camp, he discussed with the generals in fear, "The mountain road from Yueyang to Shangdang is too narrow and rugged. , It is not suitable for the main force to march at all. We are stationed in the isolated city of Yueyang, and it is difficult to get our main force to rescue. If we continue to fight, it may be difficult to retreat. Otherwise, let’s take advantage of Chen’s main force, so we should retreat first.”