It's time to go back and take a look at the battlefield of the Central Plains, after the anti-Qin coalition army successfully forced down the Qin army under Zhang Han Ji, in order to get the opportunity to be crowned king, the clever Liu Laosan made a decisive move, under the banner of cutting off the retreat of the king of the Qin army, with a group of iron buddies and nearly 10,000 troops rushed to Mengjin, and directly entered the Cuihan Road, seizing the advantageous position in the military pass in advance.

If Liu Laosan's army could not successfully capture one of Xin'an, Mianchi or Shaanxi County, then within a few days, Liu Laosan's army, which had only arrived for ten days of grain and grass at the time of departure, would be in danger of running out of food; Or Wang Li moved fast enough and immediately sent troops to launch a pursuit, cooperating with the Qin defenders in the Cuihan Road to flank the attack, then even if Liu Laosan's army was not completely annihilated, it would definitely suffer heavy losses and withdraw from the competition for the throne in Guanzhong in advance.

Fortunately, Liu Laosan's luck is notoriously good in history, and this time it is the same, because the Qin army of Zhang Han's department surrendered too suddenly, and the garrisons in Cuihan Road, which had been hiding in the rear, were seriously negligent and guarded, and they were not psychologically prepared for a vicious battle at all, and even when Liu Laosan's soldiers came to Xin'an City, the Xin'an Qin army stationed outside the city did not have time to withdraw to the city to defend the city, Liu Laosan seized the opportunity and decisively launched a strong attack, breaking through the Xin'an Qin army camp in one fell swoop, killing the Xin'an Qin army and seizing Xin'an County, not only successfully planted a nail in the Cuihan Road, but also cut off the main artery connecting Wang Li and Guanzhong, and helped the anti-Qin coalition army complete the strategic encirclement of Wang Li's headquarters of the Qin army.

Liu Laosan's good luck is not only this, at the same time, Wang Li's main force has just withdrawn to the Mengjin Ferry, and the Qi army that took the lead in the pursuit followed like a hungry wolf that smelled blood, successfully biting Wang Li's tail, and also took advantage of Wang Li's eagerness to cross the river to flee south, severely damaged Wang Li's palace team, and robbed Wang Li's troops of the military grain and grass that they had not had time to transfer, only to divide 20,000 Qin troops to the west to pursue Liu Laosan, giving Liu Laosan time and opportunity to gain a foothold in Xin'an.

Then, on the battlefield of Xin'an, relying on the brave performance of Cao Shen, Zhou Bo and Fan Xu and other fierce generals at the end of Qin, Liu Laosan's army successfully repelled the attack of the Qin army's partial division, and defeated the partial division sent by Wang Li, forcing Wang Li's partial division to withdraw to Henan County, once again disrupting Wang Li's wishful thinking of holding on to Cuihandao, and becoming a roadblock for Wang Li's withdrawal to Guanzhong, so that the main force of the anti-Qin coalition army can settle down and deal with Wang Li, calm down and patiently look for the weaknesses and breakthroughs of the Qin army's Yellow River defense line.

After a stalemate across the Yellow River for a period of time, the Zhao army also showed bravery, relying on some ferries collected in a hurry, the Zhao army's division of Shenyang succeeded in rushing to the lower reaches of the river, taking the lead in breaking through the Qin army's defense line, and insisted until Zang Di led the Yan army to rush to reinforcements, and then the Chu army's fierce generals Yingbu and Chai Wu also followed across the Yellow River, completely crushing the Qin army's hope of sealing this gap, and as the anti-Qin coalition army crossed the river more and more, Wang Li's main force to hold on to Mengjin became more and more meaningless, had to decide to take the initiative to abandon the Mengjin ferry and go to other battlefields to deal with the anti-Qin coalition forces.

It stands to reason that Wang Li's main force gave up Mengjin and retreated directly to Hangu Pass is undoubtedly the most secure strategic choice, and Wang Li, who has lost contact with Guanzhong, also intends to fight to the death, risking the danger of being trapped in the Cuihan Road by the anti-Qin coalition army, and the consequences that may be held accountable by the Qin court in the future, leading the army to withdraw directly to the Kui Han Road, but the action of the anti-Qin coalition army is too fast, Wang Li's troops have just started to retreat, Xiang Yu decisively urged the army to launch a rush to cross, and the downstream Chu State, Zhao State and Yan State troops also immediately rushed to respond, Leng once again disrupted Wang Li's tactical plan, and also made meritorious contributions to defeat Wang Li's subordinates, who were eager to retreat, on the way south.

Wang Li's army, which had been defeated in successive battles, was depressed, and the morale was even more depressed, and the separation of the soldiers was also very serious. At this moment, the strength of the Qin army under Wang Li's department is less than 80,000, the soldiers are exhausted, there are many wounded, most of the grain and grass are lost, and the overall strength is extremely weak, not to mention that it continues to compete with the main force of the anti-Qin coalition army led by Xiang Yu, that is, the main force of the Zhao army or the Qi army whose combat effectiveness is inferior to the Chu army is pulled out, Wang Li does not dare to say that he can deal with it with confidence.

What's worse is that Xiang Yu, the overlord of Western Chu, can't do anything else, but he is very good at fighting and grasping the fighter plane, Wang Li's department is only a little delayed under the city of Henan, Xiang Yu has already commanded the anti-Qin coalition army to build two wide pontoon bridges at the Mengjin ferry, and quickly crossed the river with the main force of the anti-Qin coalition army to chase after him, and rushed to the Henan battlefield at noon the next day, forming a crushing trend for Wang Li's department, Wang Li had no choice but to command the army to repair the camp and temporarily resist the attack of the anti-Qin coalition army with fortifications, On the other hand, he sent people back to Guanzhong to report to the Qin court, and asked Hu Hai and Zhao Gao to send reinforcements to him as soon as possible.

Xiang Yu was also quite patient, knowing that at this time he hastily launched an attack, although he was sure to defeat Wang Li, but he was not sure to annihilate Wang Li, the last main force of the Qin army outside the pass, so Xiang Yu was not in a hurry, in addition to commanding the anti-Qin coalition army to surround the small city of Henan on all sides and completely trap Wang Li's department, he also sent a messenger with a letter to contact Wang Li, persuading Wang Li to follow Zhang Han's example, and lead the army to lay down his arms and surrender.

Xiang Yu miscalculated, although Wang Li did a lot of things very inauthenticly, but he never wavered in his loyalty to the Qin court, and categorically rejected Xiang Yu's kind persuasion to surrender, and asked Xiang Yu's envoy to drive out of the camp directly. Xiang Yu was furious when he heard the report, and immediately wanted to urge the army to attack, but his absolute henchman Cao Zhi stopped Xiang Yu and persuaded: "The former general doesn't need to be angry, Wang Li's puppet is now a turtle in the urn, and he can reach out to catch it, but after all, there are still seventy or eighty thousand tyrannical Qin troops under the command of this puppet, and if the dog jumps over the wall in a hurry, it will still pose a big threat to us." In the opinion of the following officials, it is best for us to use both grace and power, so that we can annihilate Wang Li, the last main force of the tyrannical Qin court outside the pass, at the lowest cost. ”

"How do you use both grace and power?" Xiang Yu asked.

"The former general forgot to surrender our Zhang Han army?" Cao Ji asked rhetorically, and said with a smile: "Anyway, this army has no weapons and can't be of much use, so we might as well let them take turns to go into battle, shout and surrender outside the camp of the Tyrannical Qin army, shake the morale of the Tyrannical Qin soldiers, and select one or two messengers of sufficient weight from among them, let them carry Zhang Han's letter of persuasion, and then go to the camp of the Tyrannical Qin army to persuade Wang Lipifu to surrender." ”

As soon as Xiang Yu heard this, he felt that it was quite reasonable, so he immediately ordered it to be implemented, and ordered Sima Xin, who succeeded Zhang Han to lead the Qin army, to organize people to take turns to go into battle and go outside the Qin army camp to shout for surrender. Then not to mention, Cao Ji's method really had a certain effect, seeing the former comrades-in-arms shouting and persuading them to surrender outside the camp, the soldiers of Wang Lijun, who were heavily surrounded, were really affected a lot, and that night, more than a dozen local Qin soldiers in Sanchuan County escaped from the Qin army camp and ran to kneel in front of the anti-Qin coalition army to surrender.

Hearing that the persuasion was effective, Xiang Yu immediately stepped up his actions under great joy, while instructing Sima Xin to send more soldiers to run outside the Qin military camp to shout and persuade him to surrender, and at the same time forced Zhang Han to write a letter to persuade Wang Li to surrender, and ordered the Qin army to surrender to Shi Cheng, and then go to the Qin army camp to persuade him to surrender with Zhang Han's letter.

After sending Shi Cheng to the enemy camp full of hope, Xiang Yu once believed that even if he could not succeed in recruiting today, he would definitely be able to further shake the Qin army's determination to resist, but what made Xiang Yu thunderous was that before noon, there was a scout Pegasus to report that Wang Li had sent a Qin cavalry out of the camp to raid the Qin army soldiers who were persuaded to surrender outside the camp, and the unarmed Qin army soldiers were directly dispersed, and dozens of people were killed. Xiang Yu was furious and hurriedly asked, "What about our messenger?" What's going on with Shicheng now? ”

Without waiting for the scout to answer, a personal soldier quickly walked in from outside the tent, and said to Xiang Yu with a fist: "Former general, the tyrannical Qin army sent someone to send the head of our envoy, saying that if you dare to send an envoy to persuade you to surrender, it will all end like this." ”

"Wang Lipifu, I swear to kill you!" Unexpectedly, Wang Li was so stubborn that the envoys were directly killed, Xiang Yu did not hesitate in anger, and immediately shouted: "Give Ji Bu and Huan Chu an order, and ask them to lead the men and horses of their headquarters out of the camp and attack the camp of the tyrannical Qin army for me!" Then give the orders to the troops of Qi and Zhao, and tell them to also send troops to attack the camp of the tyrannical Qin army! ”

"Former general, our preparations are not perfect enough, and we can't rush." Cao Yao's kind persuasion failed to have any effect, and Xiang Yu, who was so angry, still insisted on sending the army to attack the camp immediately, and personally went out of the camp to watch the battle, urging the anti-Qin coalition army to storm the Qin army camp.

The result of the frontal assault made Xiang Yu even more angry, and the Chu army, the Zhao army and the Qi army went into battle together, and dispatched more than 50,000 troops to attack the camp in turn, from the afternoon to the evening, the anti-Qin coalition army actually failed to break through the Qin army's hastily repaired fortifications, on the contrary, there were quite a lot of casualties. Although this has a lot to do with the lack of preparation of the anti-Qin coalition army, but in a fit of anger, Xiang Yu still hated Wang Li to the extreme, and in order to avenge the shame, Xiang Yu even sent someone to send an order to all departments of the anti-Qin coalition army, annecating: "Who can obtain the head of Wang Li's puppet, and be crowned king after destroying Qin!" Jianguo Nanyang South County! ”

Wang Li's head can be replaced by a king! There are also large tracts of land in Namyang and Namgun! Xiang Yu's announcement of the heavy reward immediately boosted the morale of the anti-Qin coalition army, and the generals of the six countries who coveted the throne were all gearing up, all of them desperately urging their subordinates to hurry up and prepare offensive weapons, Xiang Yu also ordered Sima Xin to take the Qin army to prepare a large number of offensive weapons as soon as possible, and launched a frontal assault on the Qin army camp again two days later.

Learning from the lessons of the last failure, Xiang Yu launched a strong attack this time, not only dispatched more than 150,000 combat troops in one go, but also adopted Yingbu's suggestion, and ordered Sima Xin to dispatch 40,000 Qin soldiers to assist in the battle, forcing the Qin army to carry soil and stones, risking his life to fill the Qin army's camp trench and open the way for the anti-Qin coalition army.

This scene is very tragic and desolate, under the persecution of the army of the six countries, the Qin army soldiers who have not even changed their uniforms and flags are forced to carry heavy earth and stones forward, opening the way for the anti-Qin coalition army to attack their former comrades-in-arms, and the soldiers of the Qin army wearing the same military uniforms have opened their crossbows and arrows, silently shooting sharp feather arrows at their former comrades-in-arms and siblings, countless Qin army soldiers fell in a pool of blood with screams, and died under the arrows of their former companions with tears, and Wang Li's sergeants, who did not have many military supplies, were also forced to helpless, can only be a heavy heart to keep casting crossbow arrows and killing unarmed comrades.

The tragic situation of the Qin army is not only that, after the Qin court unified the six countries, it was stationed in the northwest region all the year round, and countless soldiers were recruited from outside the customs to serve in the Guanzhong every year, Qin Shi Huang and Qin II built a large number of buildings, built palaces and mausoleums, and every year they had to levy the people outside the customs to serve in the Guanzhong, and were often treated differently by the officials and soldiers of the Qin State, insulted and bullied, and now the identity is reversed, and the soldiers of the six countries outside the Guanwai who are fed up with the evil spirit will naturally not miss the opportunity to take revenge.

"Move! Move! You Guanzhong Qin dogs, move it for me! Bring me the stone and straw bag on it! ”

The majestic roared loudly, the soldiers of the army of the six countries kept waving leather whips, whipping the Qin army soldiers who moved stones and picking soil, the Qin army soldiers moved a little slower, and they would be beaten immediately, not to mention, it was not at all deliberately delayed Qin army soldiers did not suffer less leather whips and fists and feet, among them, those who gritted their teeth and swallowed their anger were better, just beaten and scolded, some unconvinced Qin army soldiers responded in words and eyes, but immediately attracted more violent beatings and abuse, and it was not uncommon for those who were beaten to the point of bleeding, and some dared to fight back, was immediately cut down and stabbed to death, and the resentment of the Qin army's soldiers was so angry that it almost became substantial.

For the anti-Qin coalition army, the Qin army's surrender was certainly not in vain, and when it was close to noon, the Qin army's soldiers finally filled in many Qin army's camp moats after leaving corpses and seriously wounded people all over the ground, Xiang Yu no longer hesitated, and immediately urged the six armies to step forward and launch a strong attack on the Qin army's camp from four directions at the same time.

With the thin fortifications, the soldiers of the Qin army gritted their teeth and worked hard, but the attacking team of the anti-Qin coalition army was undulating like the waves of the sea, and as soon as an army retreated, another army immediately shouted and charged forward, constantly slapping on the Qin army camp like an isolated island, and the corpses of the soldiers on both sides of the war were scattered all over the Qin army camp, and the blood flowed.

Coveting the heavy reward promised by Xiang Yu, the princes from all walks of life had no reservations in this battle, and all of them dispatched the most brave and warlike elite troops under their command, and the same was true of the Chu army, the main combat force of the anti-Qin coalition army, not to mention the fierce generals of the Chu army such as Yingbu, Ji Bu and Chai Wu, even Feng Zhong, who was notoriously ambitious, rarely worked hard to win it, and personally took the army sent to him by Xiang Kang to rush into battle, and was the first to lead the army into the Qin army camp - although he was quickly driven out again by the red-eyed Qin army soldiers.

The front is hard, even the young marshal army is absolutely impossible to resist such a fierce offensive, not to mention the Qin army Wang Lisuo, who has been at the end of the road, and the fierce battle has reached the time when the sky is slightly dark, the Qin army camp has been rushed out of more than a dozen gaps of different sizes by the anti-Qin coalition army, the Qin soldiers on these battlefields can only rely on flesh and blood to resist desperately, the number of casualties has risen sharply, the defense line is crumbling, and it may be broken at any time, and the well-prepared anti-Qin coalition army calmly lit torches, Early on, he put on a posture that he would not withdraw his troops if he did not take the Qin army camp.

When it was dark, Su Jiao, the general of the Qin army in charge of the Xiying position, was shot in the neck by a stray arrow, and was killed on the spot, the Qin soldiers were in chaos, and the Zhao army responsible for attacking the west gate of the Qin camp took the opportunity to kill into the Qin military camp, and took the lead in sounding the death knell of the fall of the Qin army camp.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Wang Li's other deputy, Shibuma, ventured out of the East Gate position he was responsible for, and quickly rushed to Wang Li, who personally commanded the main battlefield at the North Gate, and said loudly: "General, there is no hope, we can only break through the siege quickly, and now that it is completely dark, we can take our army out as much as we can." ”

Wang Li's face was pale, and he first looked at the Xiying battlefield, which was hopeless, and then asked Shima, "Where to break through?" ”

"Northwest!" Shibu hurriedly pointed to the direction of the breakthrough that he had long been optimistic about, and said: "Just now, the last general noticed that the traitors who were forced to fill the trench by the thief army were gathered in that position, and if we break through there, they will definitely not resist desperately, and we must have the greatest certainty of breaking through." ”

Looking at the location where the Qin army's soldiers were assembled, Wang Li nodded decisively, and then immediately sent someone to send an order to contact the generals of the Qin army, and agreed to use the fire in the big tent of the Chinese army as a signal to work together to break through to the northwest.

In a moment, the Chinese army tent of the Qin army was ignited by Wang Li's own soldiers, and soon a sky-high fire was ignited, and the generals of the Qin army who received the order also commanded the army to launch a breakthrough, shouting and rushing out of the camp, killing with red eyes to the northwest direction where the breakthrough was most likely to succeed.

At the same time, seeing that the Qin army's Chinese army was on fire, and the Qin army of the four gates abandoned the camp one after another, Xiang Yu immediately understood that the Qin army was preparing to break through, and quickly ordered the anti-Qin coalition army to prepare to intercept and pursue, but then when confirming the direction of the Qin army's breakthrough, Xiang Yu was stunned again, and said a little strangely: "How could the violent Qin army break through to the northwest?" To the north is our Chu army, and to the west is the Zhao army, both of which are the strongest fighting armies, how can the violent Qin army still break through in the direction of the most difficult hand? ”

"Former general, not good! It was the assembly location of the Tyrannical Qin army! Old man Fan was the first to come back to his senses and said loudly: "The Tyrannical Qin army wants to use their surrender as a breakthrough to break through!" ”

"Oops!" Xiang Yu complained bitterly in his heart, and while regretting that he did not drive the Qin army soldiers who had completed the task of filling the trench back to the camp in advance, he shouted decisively: "Go and give an order to the soldiers of the Tyrannical Qin army, telling them to block the Tyrant Qin army no matter what, if the king slips away from the puppet, this general will not spare them!" ”