Chapter 500: The End of the Overlord
Assuming that Xiang Yu can stay awake and healthy, know the great changes that have taken place on the battlefield of Surabaya Pavilion, and decisively issue an order to break through, then needless to say, with his world-beating divine power and superb martial arts, coupled with the courage and unity of the Jiangdong soldiers directly under him, even if the Western Chu army is already bound to lose in this decisive battle, and it is doomed to suffer heavy losses, Xiang Yu also has a great confidence that it will be as successful as the battle of Qixia in history, and it is definitely not hopeless to escape back to Pengcheng and escape back to Huainan Jiangdong to make a comeback.
But it's a pity that the gnashing hatred and jealousy of the scum cousin have overwhelmed Xiang Yu's mind, completely making him lose his mind, coupled with the long-term massive blood loss and the darkness and blur in front of his eyes, he can't see or see the surrounding situation and the huge changes in the battlefield situation, Xiang Yu has also become a dying beast that relies on instinct to act, only knows how to wave a steel spear on the battlefield to rush left and right, regardless of the crazy stabbing of the enemy and me, even if he accidentally injured his own soldiers, he didn't know at all.
Of course, this is a bitter pity for the poor Jiangdong soldiers of the Western Chu Army, and they can't rush forward to intercept the formation of the Han army's heavy armor soldiers, and they dare not and can't bear to leave Xiang Yu to flee for their lives, so they can only try to protect their beloved and loyal Xiang Yu, while watching the rapid approach of the Han army's reinforcements, countless Jiangdong soldiers shouted with tears, desperately begging Xiang Yu to wake up as soon as possible and retreat backwards, but it had no effect at all.
After a slight delay, the reinforcement brigade of the Han army had already arrived at the scene, and then needless to say, the Li Shang who rushed to the front of the front shouted, and immediately rushed towards Xiang Yu's banner with the front team of Han reinforcements.
During this period, there were finally Jiangdong soldiers who couldn't resist the fear in their hearts, and began to throw down Xiang Yu to flee for their lives, but more Jiangdong soldiers were resolutely guarding around Xiang Yu, and used a hastily formed circle formation to fight to the death with the Han army soldiers.
Xiang Kang's personal promise of heavy rewards also gradually began to spread in the ranks of the Han army, inspired by the rich rewards, countless Han soldiers as if crazy, against the Jiangdong soldiers of the Western Chu Army who had been heavily surrounded, all kinds of weapons all the time to the Jiangdong soldiers of the Jiangdong Army, one by one following Xiang Liang, Xiang Yu to cross the river to the north of the Western Chu Army soldiers cut down and overturned, and then the knives were divided into corpses, spears stabbed into honeycombs, red eyes and desperately forward, to fight for the opportunity to cut off Xiang Yu's head with his own hands.
However, even so, the soldiers of the Han army still did not shake the determination of the Jiangdong soldiers to protect Xiang Yu, and the vast majority of the Jiangdong soldiers still united under Xiang Yu's banner and fought with the soldiers of the Han army, who were several times their strength.
Zhou Lan's headquarters of the Western Chu Army, which was closest to Xiang Yu's banner, did not give up, even though his subordinates had begun to flee continuously, Zhou Lan still insisted on repeatedly attacking the position where Xiang Yu's banner was located, intending to join forces with Xiang Yu's direct army to break through.
The same is true of Ji Bu's army, which has been surrounded by three Han army of 10,000 people, even if there are enemies on all sides, Ji Bu did not flee south with the army, and is still leading the soldiers under his command who have hastily formed a circle to fight hard, preparing to take on the heavy responsibility of the palace to cover Xiang Yu's retreat.
In the face of the absolute disadvantage of troops, all the efforts of Zhou Lan and Ji Bu turned into futility, after the military genius Zhou Shu led the reinforcement brigade to the scene, he had just confirmed that Xiang Yu had been surrounded, and Zhou Shu immediately personally led the army from the right flank of the Han army to detour, interspersed with the junction of Ji Bu and Zhou Lan's two armies, cutting off the road connection between Ji Bu and Zhou Lan and Xiang Yu's two armies, and would rather give the defeated troops of the Western Chu army in the south a chance to flee than give Xiang Yu any hope of breaking through. - Of course, this is also related to the fact that Uncle Zhou doesn't know Xiang Yu's current situation, otherwise, Uncle Zhou can rest assured that he can go south directly and give priority to dealing with other Western Chu troops in the south.
Maybe it's a return to the light, when Uncle Zhou did this, Xiang Yu, who was almost in a state of madness, suddenly regained some of his senses, and the one-eyed who had suffered serious blood loss and was almost blind also saw the surrounding situation clearly, and then it was at this time that Xiang Yu, who was shocked, remembered to shout and order, ordering his direct army to break through to the south, and the Jiangdong soldiers who finally waited for this order were also excited and cheered, and hurriedly surrounded Xiang Yu and desperately rushed south.
But it was too late to do so, even if it relied on the sacrifice of Jiangdong's soldiers to the death, after paying an extremely heavy price, Xiang Yu's troops and Zhou Lan's remnants of the army would merge together, but when they continued to break through to the south, they were stubbornly intercepted by the Han army's Zhou Shu's troops who had been interspersed with the front in advance, no matter how crazy the attack, there was no way to rush through the interception position of the Han army, let alone completely disperse the dense horizontal formations of the Han army urgently arranged in front of them.
What's worse is not only that, in other positions on the battlefield, Liu Laosan and Ding Gu's two armies have been dispersed, Wang Fen's troops have been surrounded, less than half of the troops have been left, and Ji Bu's troops have also been surrounded, although the remaining troops are more than Wang Fen, but because they have been forced to form a circle to fight, they have completely lost their ability to maneuver, and can no longer move an inch, and on the battlefield further south, after quickly defeating the two commandos of the Western Chu Army with weak troops, the first and sixth teams of the Han army's front line attacked left and right, Together with the second and third teams in the front, they surrounded the Eastern Secret Department of the Western Chu Army, so that the Western Chu Army was completely at a passive disadvantage of fighting for each other, not to mention that they were rescuing each other, but it was difficult to break through and escape alone.
Of course, there is still a little hope for the Western Chu army, that is, if the garrison army led by Master Xiang Boxiang can decisively attack and rescue the trapped Western Chu army, then the Western Chu army may still have a little hope, but unfortunately, seeing that the main force on the battlefield outside the camp is critical, Master Xiang Boxiang not only did not muster up the courage to lead the army to attack, but on the contrary, he couldn't wait to start packing up the jewels, ready to leave the camp and flee alone.
In such a situation, the Western Chu army can only rely on the instinct of survival, up to Xiang Yu himself and down to the ordinary soldiers, all of them are red-eyed and desperately rushing to the south, the soldiers in front have just fallen, and the companions in the back immediately make up for it, and the front servants and servants strive forward one after another, desperately wielding the weapons that have been incomplete and fighting to the death with the dense enemy in front, fighting for position space with the Han army soldiers inch by inch, and forcibly opening up a bloody road in the jungle of swords and spears with flesh and blood.
Of course, this is doomed to be useless, the troops are abundant, the interception team of the Han army was defeated and immediately set up two more lines, the cycle of front and rear is endless, like a copper wall and iron wall, it is dead in front of Xiang Yu and the soldiers of the Western Chu army, and the crowd of the Western Chu army is like a snowball of sunshine, constantly melting and shrinking, no matter how the Western Chu army rushes left and right, it is impossible to break out of the vast sea of Han army soldiers.
In the desperate southward assault, Wang Fen's army was first cut in half by the Han army from the waist, and then it was divided and surrounded, and the soldiers died countless people, Wang Fen's side soon left less than 500 soldiers, and when more Han soldiers and soldiers completely submerged his banner, his banner soon disappeared on the battlefield, Wang Fen himself suffered more than ten wounds, and finally died of exhaustion, and the remaining 20 or so Western Chu soldiers around him could only choose to throw down their weapons and kneel to surrender.
The Oriental Secret Department also dispersed, relying on the advantage of close distance, the Oriental Secret took part of the remnants of the defeated generals and fled back to the Western Chu military camp, and then the Han army pursued the soldiers followed his banner and killed the Western Chu army camp that has not been built so far, Master Xiang Boxiang also decisively threw down the Western Chu army camp, and took his baby son Xiang You, the jewel fine soft and a little army to the south to flee for his life, and the rear army in the Western Chu military camp, where most of the wounded soldiers were injured, also collapsed, and fled out of the camp all over the mountains. The cavalry of the Han army, which lacked close combat ability, took the opportunity to chase and kill, like wolves chasing rabbits and sheep, slashing the defeated soldiers of the Western Chu army to the ground with corpses, and beheading countless prisoners.
The Western Chu army led by Ji Bu has been fighting tenaciously and hard, but as the fierce battle continues, there are only about 3,000 people left around Ji Bu at this moment, and they are completely annihilated by the Han army, and it is only a matter of time.
The slogan of surrender and not killing has already resounded throughout the battlefield, seeing that there is no hope of breaking through, the exhausted Western Chu army ranks also continue to appear in the generals and soldiers who throw down their weapons and surrender on their knees, and this situation is rapidly becoming more and more, Xiang Yu, who has temporarily regained his eyesight, saw that he roared continuously, and resolutely ordered the officers and soldiers of the Western Chu Army to kill these scum traitors, but he still couldn't stop the wavering people from throwing down their weapons and running to the crowd of Han soldiers to kneel and surrender, and they couldn't break through the encirclement of the Han army that was getting smaller and thicker. And at this moment, there were less than 8,000 soldiers left in the Western Chu Army around him.
"King! King! ”
In the chaos, Zhou Lan, the general of the Western Chu Army, with his face covered with blood and sweat, quickly rushed to Xiang Yu, who was fighting on foot, knelt down on his knees, and shouted with tears: "King, you can't rush out!" Surrender, you and the King of Han are cousins, for the sake of your siblings, he will definitely not kill you! Surrender. ”
The shouting and killing sound on the battlefield was too loud, and it was only after Zhou Lan shouted the above words again that Xiang Yu understood what he meant, and immediately exploded his chest, clenching the already bent steel spear and shouting: "What did you say? Do you want this king to surrender to the Han thieves? ”
"King, it's useless to fight any longer, for the sake of our remaining soldiers, surrender ......, ah!"
Before Zhou Lan's crying and pleading were finished, Xiang Yu had already stabbed him in the chest with a curved steel spear, and after shaking off Zhou Lan's corpse, Xiang Yu strode forward again with red eyes, roaring and rushing towards the crowd of Han soldiers like an ocean, "Follow this king!" Deus Ex! Take my life! ”
After Xiang Yu once again went into battle in person, he did achieve certain results, leading the remaining officers and soldiers of the Western Chu Army, and rushed the three interception horizontal teams of the Han army one after another in one breath, but when Xiang Yu rushed to the fourth horizontal team of the Han army, the huge feeling of dizziness hit again, so that he couldn't help but staggered and fell on one knee on the battlefield full of bloody corpses.
"King!"
The loyal guards immediately rushed forward and used their bodies to block the spears stabbed by the Han soldiers for Xiang Yu, but Xiang Yu could no longer see and hear the surrounding situation clearly......
In fact, at that time, Xiang Yu did not particularly pay attention to Xiang Kang, who was inconspicuous among the Xiang brothers, and the most impressive things were just that he regarded the thin Xiang Kang as a top move, throwing it into the sky to play, and once because he didn't catch it in time, he broke the young Xiang Kang into a cry, and was scolded by Xiang Liang and two uncles, and was punished not to eat dinner that day.
Time shuttled, Xiang Yu continued to think of the reunion between himself and Xiang Kang after many years of separation, at that time Xiang Kang was already the world-famous Xiang Shaomarshal, Xiang Yu was just a lonely and unknown Jiangdong Volunteer Army general, but Xiang Yu ignored Xiang Liang's repeated warnings in advance, deliberately in front of everyone, and once again lifted Xiang Kang, who was still thin, to the sky with one hand......
"Brother, it's me who is not good, I deliberately didn't give you face at that time, because I was jealous of you, I was jealous of you, and I wanted others to think that I was better than you, but I didn't expect that my jealousy and envy for you at that time was just the beginning. If only you weren't so good and good, I would definitely not have come to this point with you, and I would definitely treat you like any other brother. You are indeed stronger than me, more powerful than me, I don't hate you, I just look at you and envy you, so I must share a high level with you. ”
"But brother, even if you are stronger than me, it's useless, tell me, brother, to bow to you, kowtow to you and beg for mercy, you are delusional, even if I Xiang Yu dies, I will die vigorously, standing up to the sky!"
After muttering these words, Xiang Yu didn't care that it was close to pitch black in front of him, but he still stood up with his spear, and resolutely pushed away the guards who came up to support him by feeling, roared, and rushed forward again, "Xiang Yu, the overlord of Western Chu, is here!" If you want my first horseman, just come here! ”
Even if he was already on the verge of dying, after stumbling into the crowd of the Han army, Xiang Yu still frantically knocked down no less than twenty Han soldiers, but correspondingly, with the huge consumption of physical strength, Xiang Yu, the overlord of Western Chu, who was almost exhausted in blood, could no longer support it, driven by his personal dignity, Xiang Yu could only roar again, and used his last strength to swing a spear wildly, smashing several Han soldiers in front of him, and then throwing down the steel spear that had been seriously bent, and pulled out the sword on his waist......
"Brother, you won!"
After shouting out the last sentence of his life, Xiang Yu stood up straight, wiped his sword to his neck, and then raised his head to face the sky, standing resolutely to meet the arrival of death, and suddenly remembered another past incident in his mind, that time he was punished for falling Xiang Kang and was not allowed to eat dinner on the night of the night, Xiang Kang secretly made a bowl of meat porridge made by his second uncle and mother for himself and sent it into Xiang Yu's room.
A warm smile also appeared at the corner of Xiang Yu's mouth, and stayed on Xiang Yu's face forever.
After Xiang Yu's death was reported in front of Xiang Kang, Xiang Kang also cried on the spot, almost fainting to the ground, and Xiang Kang's crying was not only pretentious and performing, but also a lot of it came from the heart, because Xiang Kang knew very well that if there was no resolute rescue of Xiang Liang and Xiang Yu, there would be absolutely no possibility for him to stop Zhang Han's army in Suiyang, and if there was no Xiang Yu leading the princes to be restrained on the battlefield outside the Guan, it would be impossible for him to follow Liu Laosan in history and take the shortcut of Wuguan to the north to destroy Qin. It can be said that if there is no Xiang Yu, there will be no self today.