If Xiang Liang could listen to Feng Zhong's persuasion and evacuate the Puyang battlefield with the main force of the Chu army earlier, then what happened later would definitely not have happened, and the historical trend in the last years of the Qin Dynasty was likely to be completely rewritten.

The key reason why Xiang Kang was sent south by Xiang Liang to block the reinforcements of the Qin army led by Li You was not that Xiang Liang fell into Zhang Han's discord plan and had doubts about Xiang Kang, but because Xiang Kang's tactical concept was seriously inconsistent with Xiang Liang, and he insisted on his own opinions, saying many things that made Xiang Liang feel bored, Xiang Liang wanted to be out of sight, so he deliberately arranged for Xiang Kang to lead the army to the south alone. But what Xiang Liang didn't expect was that after Xiang Kang left, Feng Zhong, who had a somewhat cowardly personality, actually took Xiang Kang's class and played an eye-catching role in front of him.

Feng Zhong also made Xiang Liang unhappy, the reason is, of course, that Feng Zhong, like Xiang Kang, insisted that the main force of the Chu army should withdraw from Puyang as soon as possible, retreat to the Jishui line to establish a defensive line, and give priority to digesting the victorious achievements of the Chu army, and only cared about expressing his own opinions, but forgot to consider Xiang Liang's feelings. What's worse is that Feng Zhong is not as well-behaved as Xiang Kangjing, and he doesn't know how to make a step for Xiang Liang, and his words make Xiang Liang feel even more unpleasant.

In fact, as early as when Xiang Kang led the army to leave Puyang, Xiang Liang had vaguely discovered that his attack on Puyang was a wrong move, not only wasting the precious time to seize the opportunity to seize the land and city, but also sacrificing the lives of countless Chu soldiers in vain, but the attack on Puyang was Xiang Liang's decision regardless of Xiang Kang's resolute opposition to his own decision, once he stopped, he would definitely make others laugh behind his back, and he couldn't hold his face, so whether it was Xiang Kang's persuasion or Feng Zhong's persuasion, Xiang Liang, who loved face, just didn't want to let go and admit his mistakes, and gave up saying anything, In the end, he was persuaded by Feng Zhong in a hurry, and after Xiang Kang left, Xiang Liang once again launched a frontal assault on the Qin army's camp outside Puyang City.

This battle was very fierce, the Qin army took turns to go into battle, continued to storm the front of the Qin army camp, and successfully rushed into the Qin army camp twice, forcing Zhang Han to use the last capital Longxi elite to counterattack with all his strength, and paid a considerable price, which expelled the Chu soldiers who rushed into the camp, and held the camp dangerously. However, after all, the Chu army was attacking head-on, although there were many enemies, but its own losses were even greater, and the results of the battle were completely more than worth the losses, so Xiang Liang was inevitably even more annoyed and angry, and his face was disgraced.

Feng Zhong was also very short-sighted, early the next morning after the failure of the strong attack, Feng Zhong jumped out again and persuaded Xiang Liang to withdraw the army, Xiang Liang couldn't bear it, and roared angrily: "If you want to withdraw alone, hand over the army, you love to go there and go there!" If you don't have the courage to fight head-on with the tyrannical Qin army, you will hand over the military power to the old man and go to Xutai to serve the king of Chu! ”

Seeing that Xiang Liang was really angry, Feng Zhong, who had a relatively cowardly personality, could only honestly ask for guilt, and did not dare to persuade Xiang Liang from then on, and the other Chu army civil and military forces were also silent, even if they knew that Puyang was already difficult to take, they did not dare to raise the slightest objection.

In the end, it was the continuous autumn rain that gave Xiang Liang the opportunity to go down the steps, the heavy rain continued, the main force of the Chu army had difficulty transporting grain, the bow and crossbow tendon strings were soaked by the rain, and they could no longer open the bow and arrows, and at the same time the battlefield was muddy, and all kinds of offensive weapons were difficult to carry. However, for the sake of face, Xiang Liang, who was unwilling to fail, categorically rejected the suggestion put forward by Yin Songyi, the commander of the Chu State, and did not take the main force of the Chu army to retreat to Chengqiu to establish a Jishui defense line, and chose to take the county road south to Dingtao, preparing to take the first city of Dongjun Dingtao to gain a foothold, and then launch an attack on Puyang after the rainy season is over.

To the surprise of Xiang Liang and the generals of the Chu army, the main force of the Chu army did not go far to retreat, and the main force of the Qin army, which had been hiding in the strong camp like a turtle with a shrunken head and refused to show its head, did not know whether it was alive or dead, and actually took the risk of sending troops to launch a pursuit, Xiang Liang decisively led the army to turn around to meet the battle, vented all the anger of the attack on the field, and beat Dong Peng, who led the 30,000 Qin army to chase him, and fled back to Puyang in embarrassment to seek the protection of the main force, which was a big breath of evil.

This battle also brought confidence back to Xiang Liang's body, looking at the Qin army team with their heads and rats running, Xiang Liang had a cruel smile on his face, and scolded: "Dog thief! If you have the ability to chase and kill, the farther you chase, the better, no matter how you Qin dogs chase, the old man will accompany you to the end! ”

"General, it's better to be careful." Song Yi persuaded: "Although Zhang Handpifu is defeated, but the hundred-legged insect is dead and not stiff, we had better use elite soldiers to strengthen the palace, so as to prevent accidents." ”

Song Yi's persuasion had the opposite effect, and after careful calculation, Xiang Liang actually arranged for Lu Chen's department, which had the weakest combat effectiveness among the main forces of the Chu army, to take on the heavy responsibility of the palace, and also instructed Lu Chen: "If the Tyrannical Qin army comes to pursue again, you can deceive the enemy and lure the Tyrannical Qin army to a decisive battle with the main force of our army." If you can lure the main force of Zhang Handpifu, the old man will give you a great credit! ”

"General, you can't be so dangerous."

Song Yi was anxious when he heard this, but before Song Yi could say the reason for his opposition, Xiang Liang had already snorted coldly and said: "How to beat the old man has a good idea, you have to say more!" ”

"No." Song Yi reluctantly agreed, and muttered in his heart: "You can be crazy, when Lu Chen's defeated army disrupts our main battle formation, I see how crazy you are." ”

Song Yi may be worried about the sky, after the main force of the Chu army continued to retreat south, although Zhang Han quickly sent his general Zhao Ben to follow the pursuit, the Qin army pursued the soldiers and did not dare to fight the Chu army head-on, but followed the main force of the Chu army from afar, as if sending the main force of the Chu army out of the country as a gift, and just sent the main force of the Chu army out of Puyang County, and immediately returned to Puyang. Xiang Liang sneered even more when he heard the report, believing that the Qin army absolutely did not have the courage to launch a pursuit again, and led the main force of the Chu army to the south with a swagger, and then did not pay attention to the movement in the rear.

Of course, what Xiang Liang never dreamed of was that while the Qin army's pursuers deliberately gave up the pursuit, the Qin army's reinforcements from Hanoi, as well as the Qin army's Great Wall Corps, which was originally against the Zhao army, also divided part of their forces to the south, crossed the Yellow River one after another, and joined Zhang Han, who was appointed to lead the Qin army's troops and horses outside the pass, once again expanding Zhang Han's main force to 200,000 people, and quickly prepared for a long-distance attack......

The road is muddy and difficult to walk, the main force of the Chu army took three days to go south from Puyang to the northern suburbs of Dingtao, and there is only one river away from Dingtao, and then the complacent Xiang Liang is not polite, and immediately sent troops to rush across the water level has risen greatly Jishui, but the Qin army Dingtao defenders who are not many troops are decisively attacked, and even rely on the natural danger of Jishui, miraculously repelled the first attack of the Chu army, Xiang Liang was furious, decisively dispatched troops, and sent elite troops to launch a surprise attack again, which was the force to kill the Dingtao Qin army that defended according to the river, Seized control of the Dingtao Ferry.

Then, the main force of the Chu army quickly built bridges, and it took more than a day to build three strong pontoon bridges on the surface of the Jishui River, where the water level soared, and at the same time, the main force of the young marshal army led by Xiang Kang had just pulled out the camp from the Jiyang battlefield and marched eastward, and there were still hundreds of miles away from Dingtao.

Because the Dingtao Qin army once ventured to attack, in order to cross the river safely, Xiang Liang not only arranged for elite troops to closely guard the ferry pontoon bridge, but also let Xiang Yu, the strongest combat effectiveness in the Chu army, cross the river first, and the troops went to Dingtao City to prevent the main force of the Qin army from going out of the city to raid again, and then let the Chu army cross the river in turn and move to the south bank of Jishui.

After Xiang Liang arranged the order of crossing the river, in the pouring rain, Feng Zhong came to Xiang Liang in the rain, and cautiously reminded Xiang Liang: "General, have you forgotten to arrange an army north of the ferry to prevent the violent Qin army from suddenly launching an assault from the north?" ”

"The tyrannical Qin army from the north?" Xiang Liang asked casually.

"General, it's better to be careful." Feng Zhong plucked up his courage and said: "The heavy rain continues, the sight is too poor, it is difficult for our scouts to immediately find out whether there will be an enemy in the north to kill suddenly, the water level of Jishui is also rising, it is difficult to cross the river, once we are attacked by the Tyrannical Qin army, the situation will be too dangerous." ”

"General, General Feng's suggestion is reasonable." Old man Fan also persuaded: "Be careful to sail the 10,000-year-old ship, we had better divide an army and go to the north of the road to stand in formation, so that if there is a situation, our main force will also have time to adjust and respond." ”

Still looking at Old Man Fan's face, Xiang Liang reluctantly nodded and said, "Okay, tell Lu Chen to lead the men and horses of his headquarters to the north and set up a formation on the road to Puyang to prevent the sudden attack of the tyrannical Qin army." ”

Hearing this, Feng Zhong, who had been worried all along, breathed a sigh of relief, but after Xiang Liang's order was sent to Lu Chen in the rear team, Lu Chen was so angry that he couldn't help but complain in his stomach: "Why is it my palace again?" It rains so heavily and you have to be in formation, do you really take my soldiers as people? ”

Quietly complaining and complaining quietly, but Lu Chen did not dare to do anything that blatantly violated the general's order, and was forced to be helpless, Lu Chen had no choice but to obediently lead the troops north to carry out the task, but out of dissatisfaction, Lu Chen still took advantage of the loophole, and led the army to the north only five miles to line up, leaving too much buffer space for the main force of the Chu army.

The heavy rain of the evil gate is getting heavier and heavier, looking up, the surroundings have almost become a water curtain, even if they are wearing simple robes and hats, standing in the open air on the unobstructed wilderness, the soldiers of Lu Chen's army are still drenched all over their bodies, the soldiers are crying bitterly, complaining constantly, Lu Chen also sat on a covered carriage to hide from the rain, venting his dissatisfaction to a few cronies around him, "Isn't this a toss? With such a heavy rain, how could there be a sudden killing of the Tyrannical Qin army? The Tyrannical Qin army has grown wings, will it fly from the sky? ”

"What the general said is very true." A cronie said flatteringly: "And even if the Tyrannical Qin army has wings, such a heavy rain will definitely not be able to fly." ”

"Toss people." Lu Chen sighed again and said casually: "I'd better rest for a while, and wake me up when we cross the river." ”

Several cronies hurriedly agreed, but Lu Chen yawned, and soon hid in the car that could barely hide from the rain and snore loudly............

Suddenly, at this time, in the pouring rain, a Daqin army that was also soaked suddenly appeared in front of the Lu Chen army, and under the cover of the heavy rain, it quickly completed the assembly array, quickly lined up a cone formation that was conducive to assault, and did not hesitate to charge the Lu Chen army, which had already dispersed on its own. And the Lu Chen army was seriously negligent in taking precautions, and even after the Qin army rushed within a hundred steps, some Lu Chen soldiers screamed and issued a warning, "Enemy attack!" The Tyrannical Qin army is here! Kill is coming! ”

It was too late, the Qin army had already rushed too close, and before the Lu Chen soldiers reorganized the team, and even before the sleeping Lu Chen was woken up, the Qin army had already rushed to the front, and without saying a word, he raised his spear and stabbed and pecked at the Lu Chen soldiers, and the Lu Chen soldiers were caught off guard, and they were immediately killed in a big mess, and countless soldiers ran away.

There is no suspense in the battle, the combat effectiveness of the Lu Chen army formed by Zhang Chu's defeated army is the worst one of the main forces of the Chu army, but the Qin army that launched the raid is the elite army in the Great Qin Great Wall Corps, and the combat effectiveness can be counted on the whole day, plus the Qin army is still prepared to attack unprepared, so as soon as the battle is engaged, the Lu Chen army almost collapsed in the blink of an eye, and fled to the Jishui ferry in a mess, and Lu Chen himself was so flustered that the carriage did not dare to get off, so he directly let the carriage turn around on the spot, and fled to the Jishui ferry quickly, He also screamed like a pig while running, "The tyrannical Qin army from there? The tyrannical Qin army that came? Could it be that the Tyrannical Qin army really fell from the sky? ”

It was only five miles away from the Jishui Ferry, and it collapsed too directly and quickly, so when Lu Chenjun just ran to the Jishui Ferry with a shout, the Qin army's pursuers also immediately followed and killed the ferry position, and the main force of the Chu army, which was crossing the river in turn, was also suddenly in chaos, up to Xiang Liang himself, down to the ordinary soldiers of the Chu army, none of them were not scattered, and exclaimed, "Violent Qin army!" How did the Tyrannical Qin army come to kill?! ”

There was still no suspense in the battle, the embarrassed and fleeing Sergeant Lu Chen panicked, and rushed directly into the crowd of the main force of the Chu army to seek protection in order to survive, and the main force of the Chu army, which was already in a state of panic, was even more chaotic, and completely shattered the hope of the main force of the Chu army to assemble in array, and the Qin army pursued the defeated soldiers of the Lu Chen army as the vanguard, and rushed directly into the crowd of the Chu army without hesitation, fiercely brandishing weapons and slaughtering the Chu soldiers who were in a hurry, and the Chu soldiers ran in a panic and fled in all directions, Shouting and screaming like a flock of sheep being chased by hungry wolves.

More Qin army teams arrived, in the wind and rain, countless Qin army soldiers strode forward with five-colored feathers on their heads, unable to command with flags, all rely on the color of the feathers on their heads to distinguish their respective armies, under the leadership of generals at all levels of the Qin army, they rushed into the enemy group, roaring and slashing the Chu soldiers, the main force of the Chu army quickly collapsed, countless soldiers fled, scrambling to rush to the only three narrow pontoon bridges on the Jishui River, and the Chu soldiers on the bridge were also a big mess, some people wanted to quickly cross the river to escape, some people wanted to turn back and fight, Crowded into a ball with each other, there were soon cases of soldiers being pushed into the water.

Xiang Liang is indeed worthy of respect, in such an extremely dangerous situation, Xiang Liang's first thought was not to use his identity as the main general to quickly cross the river with his own soldiers to escape, but to quickly order all departments of the Chu army to move closer to his handsome banner, intending to gather the army together first to block the surprise attack of the Qin army, and then cross the river to escape, as far as possible to save the lives of the army and soldiers.

Contrary to the elder brother, as soon as he saw the Qin army suddenly killing, Xiang Bo was like a frightened rabbit, and fled to the ferry pontoon bridge with his relatives first, and while yelling that I am the master of Chu State, he desperately pushed the roadblocks and stumbled to escape, and miraculously the first one escaped to the south bank of Jishui.

Maybe Xiang Liang should learn from his younger brother who is greedy for life and afraid of death, because although Xiang Liang tried to gather the team, but the various departments of the Chu army that were disrupted by the Qin army have completely fallen into a state of chaos, the soldiers can't find the generals, the generals can't find the soldiers, and the heavy rain will drench the Chu army flag close to the flagpole, which is difficult to identify, so the Chu soldiers are not to say that they are quickly assembled, even if they want to find the army they belong to, it is difficult to reach the sky, so no matter how the heralds rush to the order, there are very few Chu soldiers who are close to Xiang Liang according to the order.

The Qin army also seized this precious fighter plane very firmly, relying on the advantageous advantage of sticking five-colored feathers on its head in advance, and always maintained a relatively complete establishment, rampage in the crowd of the Chu army, invincible, divided the defeated troops of the Chu army again and again, and also killed the soldiers of the Chu army who were fighting separately all over the field, and the flesh and blood flew everywhere, and quickly rushed towards the pontoon bridge to kill, to seize the fighter plane to completely cut off the Chu army's escape path.

At this time, Yingbu, Huan Chu and Xiang Yu and other Qin army teams who had already crossed the river were of course returning to the ferry at full speed, and Liu Laosan, who was crossing the river, also focused on the overall situation, and did not hesitate to order the army to turn around and return to the north bank, but the pontoon bridges were too few and too narrow, and there were countless defeated soldiers of the Chu army who were out of control crying and shouting and swarming on the bridge, completely blocking the road for the Chu army to return to the north bank, so that Xiang Yu and Liu Laosan and others were so anxious that they jumped to their feet and roared loudly, but there was still no way.

What's worse is still behind, after a large number of soldiers crowded on the pontoon bridge, a pontoon bridge that was overwhelmed suddenly overturned, countless Chu soldiers fell into the water, and were swept into the torrent by the river.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the soldier surnamed Han, who was very flexible, hurriedly peeled off a set of soldiers' clothes from the dead corpse, and forced it to Feng Zhong, who had not had time to cross the river, and shouted: "Change your clothes quickly, we are lost, ready to run!" ”

"But what about the general? He doesn't seem to have crossed the river yet, huh? Feng Zhong, who had never found Xiang Liang, asked with a crying voice.

"I can't take care of him!" The soldier surnamed Han yelled: "You are good to me, this is my reward for you!" If you don't want to die, just listen to me and change your clothes right away! ”

After hesitating for a moment, Feng Zhong, whose hands were also stained with the blood of the Great Qin soldiers, still sighed, quickly took off the conspicuous armor on his body, quickly changed into the clothes of ordinary soldiers, and then led the soldiers surnamed Han and the soldiers who could still be controlled by him, and stumbled and fled to the lower reaches of Jishui under the cover of wind and rain and chaos.

Xiang Liang also had the opportunity to emulate Feng Zhong, and in the chaos, a personal soldier also brought a set of ordinary soldier's clothes, begging Xiang Liang to quickly change his clothes and flee for his life, but Xiang Liang slapped the kind soldier in the face and roared: "Who do you think of the old man?" As a general of Da Chu, how could the old man change his soldiers' clothes and leave the army to flee alone?! ”

Xiang Liang's stubbornness brought a catastrophe to himself, in the melee, a Qin army team with white feathers on its head suddenly rushed to the vicinity of Xiang Liang, and immediately saw Xiang Liang riding on a horse and wearing conspicuous armor, roaring and rushing directly to Xiang Liang, Xiang Liang's side of the Chu soldiers fought desperately, but still could not block the cluster impact of the Qin army, forcing Xiang Liang to fight in person, forced to take the Chu soldiers around him to fight and retreat, and retreated to the ferry pontoon bridge in embarrassment.

"Ahh

There was another earth-shattering scream, Xiang Liang subconsciously looked back, but saw that another pontoon bridge had overturned, countless Chu soldiers fell into the water, Xiang Liang was anxious, and the war horse under the crotch suddenly raised its hooves and neighed, Xiang Liang tried to clamp the war horse to see the situation, and found that it was a Qin soldier who stabbed his war horse with a spear, Xiang Liang was furious, relying on his whole body martial arts, and fought hard to split out, directly pecking the head of the Qin soldier.

This is also Xiang Liang's last glory, before his war horse's front hooves landed again, more Qin soldiers have swept in, spears and swords frantically greeted Xiang Liang, Xiang Liang was injured in many places, and the soldiers around him have been scattered, unable to fight again, and was directly stabbed off the war horse by an unknown Qin soldier, and then was added by countless spears, and died on the spot!

Xiang Liang didn't scream, on the contrary, before his eyes lost their luster, Xiang Liang quickly appeared in front of Xiang Yu and Xiang Kang, and regretted in his heart, "Oh no, the old man didn't designate an heir, I'm afraid it's impossible for my two nephews to work together." ”

On July 14 of the second year of Qin II, Xiang Liang, a famous general of the Chu State who had defeated Zhang Han three times, stumbled and unfortunately died on the battlefield of Dingtao.