The next day, when the east was white, the two armies began to line up for battle.

The terrain around Chengpu is complex and varied, with plains where large-scale chariot battles and foot battles can be carried out, as well as hills and uneven platform ravines with lush vegetation that can ambush strange soldiers.

On the Chu army, Cheng Dechen took Xiguang, Donggong Guards and Ruoao 600 people as the middle army, Dou Yishen led the left army, Dou Bo led the right army, and Chen and Cai two ** teams were under the command of Dou Bo. The three armies of the Jin side completely disrupted the deployment, and the Duke of Jin Wen did not personally participate in the battle, but retreated to the top of a nearby hill to "watch from the railing".

Ziyu shouted, "Listen to my orders!" After today, there will be no more Jin Kingdom! "He ordered the right army to attack first. Although the right army was the most numerous, it was the weakest in combat. The addition of the Chen and Cai armies solved many troubles that would not have arisen without their participation in the war. The purpose of the right army's attack was only to test the enemy's combat strength and lure the Jin army out.

The idea of the Chu people was that once the Jin army attacked too fiercely, the right army would immediately take the initiative to retreat, and then the Chinese army would attack and flank the enemy with the right army. This is a rather bold strategy, Ziyu dared to take this risk, because he expected that the Jin Zhong army was shouldering the heavy responsibility of defending Jin Wengong, and would not dare to move easily, so the Chu army would seize the opportunity to defeat the lower army. Once the lower army is defeated and the three armies of Chu are pressed, the Jin State will undoubtedly be defeated.

But the tactics of the Jin army from beginning to end were not what the people of Chu imagined. First of all, Jin Wengong did not fight, and he retreated to the high ground behind the barracks with his guards. Secondly, half of the central army and half of the lower army of the Jin state were transferred to the right flank and used to strengthen the upper army. In this way, only half of the strength of the Chinese army remains, and the lower army is incomplete. But the Jin army did a good job of disguising their movements when they moved, and the state of Chu was unaware of this. In the end, the Jin people transferred the Qi division to the left flank and the Qin division to the right flank; But this action was carried out publicly.

When the right army of Chu advanced not far from the army of Jin, half of Xu Chen's army and the Qi division attacked. Xu Chen has been collecting tiger skins these days, and when he felt that the number of tiger skins was still too small, he drew stripes of tiger skins on some cloth and made some fake tiger heads. When he was about to fight, he put the tiger skin on the back of the horse in the front row of chariots, and fixed the tiger's head on the horse's head.

The war horses of the Jin Kingdom had been trained not to be afraid of tiger skins, but the enemy's war horses were immediately frightened when they saw a row of evil tigers galloping towards them in chariots, and kept screaming "Grandiose", or circling around, or turning around and rushing towards their own infantry phalanx.

Chu's right army immediately became a mess: when the infantry saw the enemy, the distance between the two sides was still very far, but in an instant, the chariot soldiers in front (the infantry did not expect that there was a problem with the war horse) turned around like seeing a ghost and drove towards their array. Some of the chariots rushed in, killing and injuring many people, and did not stop until the wheels were blocked by corpses.

The Jin army was suddenly excited, and rushed into the Chu army with a loud shout. Doubo's chariot had been smashed apart, the flag had fallen, and the snare drum had been crushed; Dou Bo was surging in the crowd, and the orders he gave could not be passed on at all.

The officers could not find their commanders, and the soldiers could not find their commanders, nor their banners; There were shouts everywhere, the soldiers huddled together, they couldn't hear anything, they couldn't see anything. The disorganized Right Army could no longer organize an effective defense, and was thus defeated.

Dou Yishen's left army also attacked, an army doomed to total annihilation, as they were about to face two armies of the Jin State plus the Qin division. Although the right army was defeated, most of the sergeants survived, while the left army was killed or captured except for a few.

As the left army advanced forward, they found that the enemy seemed to be restless. After a moment of contact, the enemy became confused and fled in a hurry. Zixi climbed up and saw that the fox fur was fleeing with the military flag, and in the distance, it seemed that a large number of enemy troops were fleeing—in fact, it was just an illusion created by Luan Zhi and the chariot soldiers hanging branches on the back of the chariot and galloping wildly.

Zixi was blinded by the illusion in front of him, he thought that victory was in sight, and excitedly gave the order to pursue at full speed. The tight formation of the left army was immediately loosened, and they caught up with and slew many of the enemies who had straggled, and cut off the right ear of the corpse, which would have given them a great reward! Driven by the exploits and rewards, the soldiers kept in pursuit, running out of breath, and some even threw away their helmets.

At this time, there was a hill with dense vegetation in front of him, and the Jin army fled along both sides of the hill, so the Chu army divided into two teams to pursue along both sides. But when the Chu army had just passed halfway, an ambush was suddenly killed on the mountain, and this army was the elite army of the Jin State - the pawn of the Chinese army led by Xianzhen!

The Chinese army cut the enemy into several sections with a powerful impact, and the enemy waiting for the enemy on the north side of the hill was half of the upper army led by Hu Yan. The Chu army that was running in the front had just bypassed the hills when it was attacked by the fox Yan, and the fox fur also stopped "escaping" at this time, and turned around and joined forces with the fox Yan to counterattack Zixi.

When Zixi saw the banner of the opponent's main general, he knew how powerful his opponent was, and the Chu people fought against twice their own enemy with a tired army, and it was only a matter of time before they were defeated. But Zixi was still very calm in the moment of crisis, and he decisively ordered a retreat to the west, because there were still some rolling hills not far away, and the army could occupy a vantage point there for defense.

After the left army was temporarily safe, Zixi began to analyze the tactics of the Jin army. He thought for a moment, and suddenly shouted: "All the armies of the Jin Kingdom have been dispatched, and the Chinese army is an empty camp!" The Marquis of Jin must be not far away, and catching him can end the war! He immediately ordered the accompanying Shanrong cavalry to rush out while the Jin army had not completed the siege and pass the information to Ziyu.

At this time, Ziyu had already received the news of the defeat of the right army, and the last news from the left army was that Zixi was letting go and pursuing the enemy. Ziyu keenly sensed that there must be a great conspiracy in this, and Zixi was stepping towards the trap designed by the enemy.

Ziyu immediately sent a liaison officer to ask Zixi to retreat immediately, and at the same time he ordered the Chinese army to form a defensive formation and move forward slowly to accept the defeated right army. Soon the remnants of the defeated army of the right army fled, and they were so embarrassed and exhausted that they staggered along the wedge-shaped flanks, and many fell to the ground and could barely get up. The Chinese soldiers, though angry and sympathetic to their comrades, could only hold their formation and not come out to help them.

Jiang Rong's cavalry on the Jin side arrived first, and they were obviously dazed in pursuit, ignoring the heavy troops of the Chu State in front of them, and also chased down the flank of the array. The cavalry was immediately mercilessly shot and assassinated by the Chu army, and when they realized the situation, they scattered and fled in disarray. The Chinese army was still slowly advancing, more and more of their companions had fled, and a large number of enemy troops had arrived, so the Chinese army stopped and looked at the enemy angrily.

Xu Chen ordered the attack to be stopped, and the Jin army regrouped to face the Chu army, and both sides had no intention of attacking, after which the Chu army began to retreat in an orderly manner. Xu Chen sent some light cavalry to sweep the formation, which caused some small losses to both sides, the Chu army retreated to the foot of the mountain, and the Jin army remained in place, neither advancing nor retreating.