Chapter 66: Xiang Yu killed himself
Long Hui received information that Han Xin wanted to attack Qi, so he sent Chen Wu to lead the first army of 10,000 people to equip the Western Zhou bronze halberd, the Western Zhou copper shield, the Spring and Autumn Bronze axe, and the 2000 Spring and Autumn chariot. The 10,000 men of the Fourth Army were equipped with the Spring and Autumn Bronze Ge and the Spring and Autumn Bronze Swords. 2000 Spring and Autumn Chariot. Yingbu led the Fifth Army of 10,000 men equipped with 3,000 Celtic chariots, Shang bronze knives, Shang bronze bows, and forged rods. The 10,000 men of the Eighth Army were equipped with bronze beast-faced shields, ten hands, and nail-headed sticks. The two armies totaled 40,000 men. Long Hui faced Chen Wu and Yingbu, and your mission this time was to save Long and General. The two were ordered to leave.
Han Xin led his troops in a battle between the Qi State and the Western Chu coalition army, Han Xin broke through the Qi capital Linzi and pursued Tian Guang to the east, Xiang Yu ordered the dragon and led 200,000 troops to aid him. After Han Xin's feint defeat, he took the method of water attack to cut off the Qi-Chu coalition army, and finally won the victory with a counterattack, when Long Ji had no way out, Yingbu and Chen Wu arrived, Chen Wu led the troops to rescue Long Ji, and Yingbu led the troops to cover behind the palace. The Fifth Army fired 100,000 arrows to stop Han Shin's army. Long Hui said after seeing the dragon, your life will be mine in the future.
Liu Bang led his troops to retreat to Xingyang, collected defeated troops along the way, and sent Han Xin to defeat the Chu chasing troops between Xiao Suo, so that he could breathe and stabilize his position, so he reorganized the army and relied on the Guanzhong base and favorable terrain to fight against Xiang Yu for a long time. Zhang Han, who had been stubbornly resisting, finally committed suicide in defeat, and Liu Bang completely relieved his worries; Contact Peng Yue to disturb the rear of Chu; Send Han Xin to open up the northern battlefield, attack Wei and capture Wei Wang Leopard, break the dynasty, destroy Zhao and kill Chen Yu. Xiang Yu launched a counteroffensive and besieged Xingyang, and the situation was very critical. Liu Bang used Chen Ping's trick to make Xiang Yu suspect Fan Zeng, and he didn't use his tactics to force Fan Zeng to return to his hometown in anger. Liu Bang sent Ji Xin to pretend to be himself to go to the Chu army to surrender and take the opportunity to escape from Xingyang. Xiang Ji stepped up the siege of Xingyang and captured Chenggao.
In order to alleviate the pressure of the Chu army on Xingyang, Liu Bang led the army through Wuguan, Wan, and Ye, trying to lure Xiang Ji south. In order to cooperate with the actions of the Han army, Han Xin also led the army to the north bank of the Yellow River at this time to support Xingyang. Peng Yue is attacking Xiapi. Xiang Ji was forced to lead the army back to the rescue, and Liu Bang took the opportunity to recover Chenggao. Xiang Ji pulled out Xingyang with a fierce offensive and then recaptured Chenggao.
On the one hand, Liu Bang ordered the Han army to hold on to the area of Gongxian to block the advance of the Chu army, and on the other hand, he ordered Han Xin to form a new army to attack Qi, and sent people into the hinterland of Chu to assist Peng Yue in attacking Juyang, Waihuang and other places, and forced Xiang Yu to rescue him again. Liu Bang used a strategy to recover Chenggao again and killed Xiang Yu's general Cao Jiao.
After Xiang Ji defeated Peng Yue, the main force of the Han army failed to fight a decisive battle, and the troops Guangwu and Liu Bang formed a confrontation. Soon, Han Xin annihilated the Qi-Chu coalition army in the Battle of Weishui, completed the strategic detour of the flank of Chu, and sent Guan Ying to lead an army straight to Pengcheng. Xiang Ji suffered from the enemy on his back, and the soldiers were exhausted, so he made an alliance with the Han Dynasty, taking the chasm as the boundary, dividing the world in the middle, returning to Chu in the east and Han in the west. Xiang led the troops back to the east.
The Battle of Qixia was the last major battle of the Chu-Han War, in which about 100,000 people of Xiang Yu's Chu army were completely annihilated, and Liu Bang established the Han Dynasty after his victory.
After the peace treaty, Peng Yue conquered more than 20 cities next to Changyi, seized more than 100,000 grains, and used them as military rations for the Han army, and Liu Bang took advantage of Xiang Yu's retreat to lead the Han army to launch a pursuit of Xiang Yu in Yangxia to lead the Chu army, capture the Chu general Zhou General and 5,000 Chu troops, Liu Bang to Guling, ordered Liu Jia to cross the Huai River, capture Shouchun, and send people to rebel against the Chu State Sima Zhou Yin.
At this time, Jin She was still attacking Xiang Han in Jiyang and defeated him, and then joined Liu Bang with Chen County to attack Xiang Yu. Xuanqu Hou Dingyi, Fenyang Hou Jin Qiang and the surrendered Chu general Lingchang took the lead in breaking through the Guling defenders and broke Zhong Lifu, Xiang Yu fled south to Chen County, Liu Bang and Guan Ying met in Luyi County, Zhoukou City, Henan Province, Yixiang Township, Liu Bang led the Han army to take the initiative to attack (there are Zhou Bo, Fan Xu, Guan Ying, Jin She, Xiahou Ying, Gu Feng, Ding Yi, Jin Qiang, Lingchang and other generals), and killed more than a dozen generals of the Chu army under Chen. Xiang Yu was defeated at Chen, Chen Gongli surrendered, and the Han army occupied Chen County.
After the victory of the Han army in the battle of Chenxia, Xiang Yu was already at an absolute disadvantage. Pengcheng had been captured by Guan Ying, cutting off his retreat and unable to return to his hometown in Jiangdong, Liu Bang had sent Yingbu and Liu Jia to capture Shouchun, and Xiang Yu's great Sima Zhou Yin rebelled in Shu, making it impossible for Xiang Yu to retreat from this route to Jiangdong. The north and south roads were not passable, Zhou Yin slaughtered six counties with the troops of Shu County, and Xiang Yu continued to flee, wanting to go to Huiji. Liu Jia, Zhou Yin, captured the city father to intercept Xiang Yu, Xiang Yu fled to the wall, Liu Bang and Liu Jia, Zhou Yin, rendezvous, Han Xin and Peng Yue saw that Xiang Yu was gone, and also went to meet Liu Bang.
After Han Xin, Peng Yue, and others met Liu Bang, the Han army had more than 600,000 troops participating in the battle, and in December, the 100,000 Chu troops retreating to the south of the Yangtze River were surrounded layer by layer. The Han army took 300,000 people led by Han Xinqin as the front army, Liu Bang dispatched Kong Ju as the left wing, Chen He as the right wing, Liu Bang sat in the middle army, and Zhou Bo, Chai Wu and other reserve troops were on standby behind Liu Bang's army. Han Xin personally led the front army to launch an offensive, the initial attack was frustrated and retreated, when the Chu army was preparing to pursue, Liu Bang immediately dispatched the left and right flanks of the Han army to attack the Chu army in a roundabout way, and the two armies fell into a stalemate, at this time Han Xin led the front army to turn over and fight again, and Peng Yue, Liu Jia, Zhou Yin and other princes besieged the Chu army from all over the place, and the Chu army was defeated in the three-sided pinch. Xiang Yu was forced to retreat to the city.
The Chu army suffered a decisive defeat in the Battle of Qixia, but still had fierce resistance. Liu Bangnai designed the Han soldiers to learn to sing the Jiangdong Chu folk song, it was night, there were Chu songs on all sides, and the Chu army from Xiang Yu and below thought that the Han had exhausted the Chu land, and the morale collapsed. Xiang Yu led 800 horsemen to break through to the south at night, and after crossing the Huaishui, there were only more than 100 horsemen left around him. The Han army did not discover that Xiang Yu had escaped until dawn, and the Han general Guan Ying led 5,000 horsemen to chase and kill. The Chu army got lost for a time and was caught up in Dongcheng. After several conflicts, there were only 26 people left around Xiang Yu, and the chief of Wujiang suggested that he go to Jiangdong, but Xiang Yu consciously raised troops and had 8,000 Jiangdong children to follow, and today he returned alone, without the face to see Jiangdong's fathers and elders, and did not want to cross the river.