In the face of Xiang Yu's strong attack, in history, even Liu Laosan plus Chen Ping and Zhang Liang could not hold Xingyang City, not to mention Luo Xian and Li Yao, the two nobodies.

With the tide of the Western Chu army pouring into Xingyang City, the nightmare also fell on the heads of the innocent people of Xingyang, the Western Chu Army led by Xiang Yu was originally famous for its brutality, which will be for various reasons, up and down are full of sky-high anger, after killing into Xingyang City, the West Chu soldiers of course kill when they see men, and rob when they see women, whether it is a white-haired old man or a baby who is breastfeeding, as long as they are bumped into by the Western Chu soldiers, none of them can escape the poisonous hands. All of a sudden, Xingyang City was full of bloody wind and rain, and there were also men's dying screams and women's terrifying screams, mixed with the cries of old people and children, so miserable that they could not be described with pen and ink.

has done his best to do his best, after the city was broken, the Han army Xingyang guard Luo Xian could only hurry up with the rest of the Han army soldiers out of the city to flee for their lives, but Xingyang County, who had surrendered to the Han army once, ordered Li Yao to harden at the last moment, leading his whole family to burn himself in the county temple and die of death, and unexpectedly fulfilled his promise to die in the city. However, Luo Xian and the others also failed to escape, and just came out of the city from the West Gate, they were immediately surrounded by the soldiers of the Western Chu Army who were red-eyed, and then all of them were dismembered by random knives.

The slaughter is still continuing, and the Western Chu soldiers who have been full of anger blocked every passage out of the city, killing all the Xingyang men who can arrive early, regardless of the old and young, and also arresting all the young women to the open space in the city to concentrate, and many Western Chu soldiers directly tore the women's clothes in the streets and alleys, raped and humiliated, and at the same time, the Western Chu soldiers naturally had to loot the people's property on a large scale, and snatched all the things that could be seen into their hands, so there were disputes and quarrels from time to time. Xiang Yu didn't bother to pay attention to his military discipline at all, and just asked the soldiers not to set fire to the house, and didn't care about anything else.

The beast behavior of the Western Chu army in the city continued until the second half of the night, and the Western Chu army and Henan soldiers who were arrayed outside the city were also looking forward to it, wishing that Xiang Yu would issue an order to enter the city earlier, so that he could also enter the city to vent and rob. But it's a pity that Xiang Yu can't do anything else, but he is never ambiguous in terms of fighting, and he always calms down and doesn't rush to order to enter the city, what he is guarding against is that the Han army in Aocang or Guangwu City suddenly attacked, and took advantage of the chaos to stab the army from behind.

Facts have proved that Xiang Yu's vigilance is right, in the early hours of the morning, when the sky is about to dawn, when a normal person is most sleepy and wants to rest after staying up all night, with the last cover of night, a Han cavalry with a number of about five or six hundred people suddenly came out of the darkness, brandished a saber and rushed to the Henan army outside the city, and also used primitive grenades to open the way, disrupting the queue of the Henan army. Soon he was slashed and killed by the Han cavalry and fell to the ground, screaming and shaking the sky.

Fortunately, Xiang Yu had already taken precautions against this, just snorted at the battlefield, the former young marshal cavalry commander Xiang Guan immediately led three thousand Xichu cavalry to charge up, calmly killing the number of Han cavalry far less than his own army, but the Han cavalry was cunning and abnormal, and before Xiang Guan's department was killed, he turned his horse's head and retreated sharply to the north, Xiang Guanna was willing to give up, and immediately urged the army to launch a pursuit, roaring and biting the tail of the Han cavalry.

Seeing this scene, Li Zuoche, who also hadn't slept all night, hurriedly sneezed and reminded Xiang Yu: "King, the Han thief cavalry retreats at the touch of a button, as if they are deliberately luring the enemy, please be careful." ”

"You don't need to teach, if this king can't even see that the Han thief is luring the enemy, he won't have the face to call himself the overlord of Western Chu." Xiang Yu snorted coldly, and then bowed to Feng Zaoyi, the cavalry general of Xichu, and casually ordered: "Take your headquarters to pick up the horses, if there is any abnormal movement of the Han thief, report it to me immediately." ”

Xiang Guan's side, after the Han cavalry quickly withdrew from the battlefield, it fled directly to the northeast direction of Aocang, and it took less than a moment to quickly whip the horse, and fled directly to the northwest of Aocang Mountain, not far from the Han army's Aocang camp, Xiang Guangang ordered to give up the pursuit, never thought that the Han cavalry turned the horse's head again, and scolded at the Western Chu cavalry, Xiang Guan was furious, and immediately waved his division to catch up, never thought that he had just joined the Han cavalry, and the darkness on both sides was a loud sound of killing, and each had a Han infantry rushing out, At the same time, the Han cavalry was also surrounded by torches, and there was also a Han army team to kill.

The troops under his command are all cavalry, and the terrain is quite open, Xiang Guan is certainly not very afraid of the ambush circle arranged by the Han army's infantry, but when he takes a closer look at the Han army's infantry team that kills from behind the Han cavalry, Xiang Guan was suddenly taken aback, and blurted out Uncle Zhou's puppet - it turned out that Uncle Zhou personally led the Han army's Aocang defenders to attack to ambush the pursuing Western Chu cavalry!

"Chance!"

These two words suddenly flashed in Xiang Guan's mind, and then Xiang Guan didn't think about it, and immediately turned around with the Western Chu cavalry, and fought and retreated to lure the Han infantry brigade away from the Aocang camp, and the Han army really hit the plan, shouting the slogan of revenge and chasing after it, and it didn't take long to be lured to ten miles away from the Aocang camp.

At this time, as Xiang Guan expected, Xiang Yu, who had never been ambiguous in the battle, really sent Feng Zai to lead 3,000 cavalry to respond, Xiang Guan was overjoyed, and hurriedly sent someone to contact Feng Zao first, asking Feng Zao to use the mobility advantage of the cavalry to cut off Uncle Zhou's return route from the flank, and create a decisive battle opportunity for his own army. Feng Zai understood and immediately acted according to the plan, and immediately took his cavalry to intersperse in a roundabout way, rushing to the back of the Han army to intercept it.

At the critical moment, Uncle Zhou was also confused, or when Feng Zheng had already intercepted it in place, Uncle Zhou wanted to turn around and attack Feng Zheng's queue to protect the retreat to prevent the Western Chu army from taking the opportunity to launch a decisive battle. And when things came to this point, where was Feng Zheng willing to miss the opportunity to establish a miracle for Xiang Yu? Of course, he led his army to hurriedly form a formation and make every effort to intercept the Han army, and Xiang Guan also sent someone to report to Xiang Yu urgently, while leading the army to rush and kill at any cost, and did his best to share the pressure for Feng Zheng.

When the news was delivered to Xiang Yu, Xiang Yu was of course so surprised that he couldn't believe his ears, or after repeatedly confirming that Xiang Guan and Feng Zheng had entangled Zhou Shujun, Xiang Yu decisively ordered Sima Wei to immediately lead the Henan Army Brigade to the north to reinforce, and at the same time hurriedly recalled the army into the city to assemble, intending to seize this opportunity to launch a decisive battle with Zhou Shu, annihilate the main force of the Han army in the field, and reduce the pressure for the next offensive battle of the self-army.

In a moment, in addition to the two thousand troops who cleaned the battlefield, the Western Chu cavalry who had entered the city to fight quickly withdrew from the city, and they also mounted their horses and assembled into an army more quickly, Xiang Yu roared excitedly, and immediately rushed north with the remaining more than 10,000 Western Chu cavalry, and rushed to the battlefield reinforcements in the south of Aocang as quickly as possible. But to Xiang Yu's surprise, when he led the army to the scene, the nearly 5,000 Han infantry cavalry who went out of the camp to fight had already formed a fairly tight defensive circle, and the Western Chu cavalry and the Henan army were blocked from wandering outside the formation, and they were shot by the dense rain of arrows of the Han army, so that they could not get close at all.

Seeing this scene, Xiang Yu, of course, Xiang Guan, who came up to greet the Hou with his head and face, asked, "What's going on?" Haven't you already entangled the army of Han thieves? How can you give them the opportunity to fight in formation? ”

"Brother forgiveness." Xiang Guan replied helplessly: "The thieves are too cunning, and when they saw that the situation was not good, they suddenly threw out many thunderbolts of that kind that would make loud noises, and our war horses were frightened and ran away, so they took the opportunity to form a circle. ”

"Fortunately, Xiao Wang's army arrived in time." Sima Wei next to him hurriedly grabbed the merit and said: "Otherwise, the Han thief will definitely take the opportunity to slip away, but fortunately, Xiao Wang's army was close at that time, so the Han thief did not dare to risk his life, so he could only hurry up and form a formation." ”

"Hurry up and hurry up?" Li Zuoche, who came with Xiang Yu, raised his eyebrows, glanced at the Han army's circle formation in an extremely strange way, and said, "How can there be so many long shields to protect the outer part of the Han thief's circle array?" Is this like a hasty formation? ”

Still had to be reminded by Li Zuoche that Xiang Yu vaguely found that something was wrong with the situation - the hastily established infantry circle formation, where so many long shields were suddenly brought to protect the periphery? This shows that the Han army was well prepared in advance, and had long been preparing to use the defensive circle array to fight the own army in the field?

It doesn't matter if he finds something wrong, what Xiang Yu is not afraid of is that the enemy is fighting in the field, and immediately asked a few generals around him: "Who dares to lead the army to charge the battle and open the way for our army to march?" ”

Looking at the well-organized and long shield protected Han army's round formation, several Western Chu generals did not dare to say anything, but when Xiang Yu's face began to darken, Xiang Zhuang came out of the queue and said, "The last general is willing to go." ”

"Be careful." Xiang Yu turned his anger into joy and said: "I broke through the Han thief circle, this time I will take your first credit!" ”

It's a pity that Xiang Zhuang's rush this time made Xiang Yu and others stunned, seeing the Western Chu cavalry rushing in clusters, the well-prepared Han soldiers first shot straight with strong crossbows, and then threw with bows and arrows, and first used long-range weapons to kill the Western Chu cavalry on their backs, with many casualties, and when the Western Chu cavalry finally rushed closer, they suddenly threw out a primitive grenade to frighten the war horse, and the war horse of the Western Chu cavalry was frightened and ran, trampling on each other in a chaotic formation, and naturally there was no way to threaten the tight battle formation of the Han army. The soldiers of the Han army took the opportunity to release arrows continuously, and repelled this wave of charges of the Western Chu cavalry, and also injured Xiang Zhuang with arrows in the melee.

Seeing Xiang Zhuang fleeing back with injuries, in a fit of rage, Xiang Yu once planned to personally lead the army to charge, but fortunately Li Zuoche and Xiang Zhuang stopped him, and said: "King, the strange weapons of the thief army have too much impact on our war horses, and it is difficult to succeed with cavalry. ”

After a little calculation, Xiang Yu still adopted Ding Gu's suggestion, while letting Sima Wei lead the cannon fodder of the Henan Army to step forward, and strive for a melee opportunity to open the way for the Western Chu cavalry, and on the other hand, let Feng Zai lead the cavalry of the headquarters to attack the Han army's Aocang camp, and avoid the real attack to exert psychological pressure on the Han army soldiers - cut off your retreat, see how you return to the camp?

Uncle Zhou also made a move here, just saw the Western Chu army divide its troops to fight the Aocang camp, Uncle Zhou immediately asked people to ignite the hay bundle pile prepared in advance in the middle of the Han army's circle array, and cast wolf smoke to send a signal, and then saw the signal sent by Uncle Zhou, and the Han army general Worm Da also immediately led three thousand troops from Guangwu City to kill and line up to reinforce Uncle Zhou.

"Uncle Zhou, do you really dare to fight to the death with this king?!"

Xiang Yu's voice was full of surprise and surprise, and then Xiang Yu didn't think about it, and immediately waved his hand to let Ding Gu lead the army to attack, and took the initiative to face the insect to seek a decisive battle. But Li Zuoche's face changed slightly, and he said secretly: "What is Uncle Zhou's crazy about?" Although we fought fiercely late at night yesterday, and the soldier had hardly rested for a night, and his physical strength had dropped significantly, he still didn't have much chance of winning. Why risk a decisive battle? ”

At this time, the serious decline in the physical strength of the Western Chu army and the Henan soldiers also began to be reflected, and the cannon fodder of the Henan army that charged forward was not fast, and was rushed by the dense arrow rain of the Han army and could not get close at all, and was forcibly repelled like Xiang Zhuang. Xiang Yu was furious when he saw this, and in addition to ordering Sima Wei to urge the army to attack again, he also divided a cavalry to attack the Han army's circular formation from the flank.

The situation on the other side is about the same, just saw Ding Gu with the Western Chu cavalry to kill, and Worm Da immediately let his army form the most powerful defensive circle, and used the infantry strong formation to gather the rain of arrows to contend with the Western Chu cavalry, gritting his teeth and riding on foot, and the Western Chu cavalry was the front.

The fierce battle thus entered the white heat, on the left and right battlefields, the Western Chu cavalry came and went like the wind, the infantry of the Henan Army was the front, and the Han infantry who fought in formation were inseparable, and at the same time, the Ao Cang camp in the north was also shouting to kill the heavens, and the Western Chu cavalry who forcibly attacked the camp also fought with the Han infantry who stayed in the camp.

Fortunately, Xiang Kang did not rush to invent the high bridge saddle and stirrups, and the Han infantry had the capital to fight the Western Chu cavalry head-on, relying on strong crossbows and hard bows and well-prepared feather arrows, as well as grenades at critical moments, they repelled the charge of the Western Chu cavalry many times, and fought fiercely for nearly a morning without giving the Western Chu cavalry a chance to break through the circle of the army. Xiang Yu was even more furious when he saw it, and couldn't help but have the idea of personally leading the army to charge again, but just as Xiang Yu was about to put it into action, Li Zuoche next to him suddenly grabbed him, and said in a nervous voice: "King of Western Chu, don't be impulsive, the situation is not right, we may have been tricked!" ”

"What's wrong with us?" Xiang Yu subconsciously brought another word.

"The minister doesn't know for the time being, but the situation is so wrong." Li Zuoche replied quickly: "Yesterday the day before yesterday, the thief army of Chen Liu and Daliang took the initiative to send us to death, and the head of the man was still unharmed by us, and today Uncle Zhou suddenly launched a decisive battle and fought a tough battle with no certainty of victory, it is very likely that he was trying to do something else!" So we'd better not act impulsively, let alone rush all our forces into the battlefield, and leave a little room to prevent accidents! ”

Li Zuoche's blockade saved Xiang Yu and countless Western Chu soldiers, Xiang Yu was carefully calculating Li Zuoche's analysis, and suddenly a few Western Chu army scouts rushed to the southeast, Li Zuoche's sharp eyes saw it, and he hurriedly said: "King, look at the southwest, you have scouts back to report the situation, it seems that something has happened!" ”

Xiang Yu hurriedly turned his head to look at the southwest direction, and saw that the few self-army scouts who rushed forward were indeed embarrassed, and he was also shocked in his heart, and hurriedly patted his horse and took the initiative to meet him, and shouted and asked, "What's wrong?" In such a hurry? ”

"King! Han thief! Han thief! The thief is coming! ”

The scout of the Western Chu army roared with a crying voice that made Xiang Yu's face change color, and then immediately after, the sound of horses' hooves was faintly heard, and then one after another the crimson Han army flags appeared on the horizon, and countless Han cavalry held high the snow sabers, shouting and charging, like a crimson tide, surging straight over!

"Long live King Han! Long live King Han! Long live King Han! ”

The thunderous cheers echoed on the battlefield, the surrounded Han army Zhou Shu's department, the Han army's insect department that was fighting with Ding Guli, as well as the Guangwu Mountain City, in the Cangcheng on the top of Aocang Mountain, countless Han army soldiers cheered and shouted, celebrating the final arrival of the reinforcements from the army, and the morale suddenly soared to the extreme.

On the contrary, seeing the cavalry of the Han army surging like a tide, the Western Chu army and the Henan army all changed color on their faces, screamed in surprise, and countless people shouted in disbelief, "How is it possible? How did the thief come so quickly? ”

The situation on the battlefield has also been abruptly reversed, and most of the Western Chu Army and the Henan Army, whose physical strength has seriously declined, have been entangled by the Han Army, and they can't assemble at all, let alone form a formation to face the battle, Xiang Yu's side, there are only more than 3,000 mobile troops left, and they can save the east and the west!

It was also fortunate that Xiang Yu was here, seeing that the situation was not right, Xiang Yu decisively made the most correct choice, while ordering all the Western Chu cavalry to leave the battlefield to come over for reinforcements, while leading the only remaining more than 3,000 cavalry around him to launch a counter-charge, in a vain attempt to kill and disperse the cavalry that rushed to the Han army first, and then retreated with the army in formation. And Li Zuoche also acted decisively, and immediately rushed to Sima Wei's side, and pulled Sima Wei and said loudly: "The king is leaving, our army is almost all infantry, there is no hope of withdrawing from the battlefield, take our cavalry across the chasm first!" Otherwise, even if the Han thieves can spare us, the Qianshou of Sanchuan will not be able to spare us! ”

Xiang Yu is always heroic and invincible on the battlefield, even if there are only more than 3,000 cavalry, Xiang Yu still killed a bloody way from the crowd of tens of thousands of Han cavalry in the charge, unscathed and several enemies, but the Guan Ying and Yang Xi who led the Han cavalry were extremely cunning, and they did not go to Xiang Yu head-on, and after passing with Xiang Yu's army, they did not hesitate to rush directly to the Chu cavalry Ding Gu who hastily withdrew from the battlefield, and also relied on the advantage of the sabre, only one charge killed Ding Gu's army on his back, and countless casualties, By the time Xiang Yu turned around and killed, the Han cavalry had already gone far away, and rushed to the other Western Chu cavalry units that had just disengaged from Uncle Zhou.

The cavalry of the Han army completely turned into a dragon on the battlefield, firmly grasping the opportunity of the Western Chu cavalry just to withdraw from several battlefields, avoiding Xiang Yu's edge and specifically picking other Western Chu cavalry to attack, and resolutely using the saber to allow all the Han cavalry to ride on the horse to fight the advantage, leading Xiang Yu's pursuers to rampage on the battlefield, even slashing and killing, slashing and killing many Western Chu cavalry who even needed to dismount to fight, and the flesh and blood were flying, and he deliberately took Xiang Yu to approach the Han army circle many times. The infantry of the Han army also took the opportunity to shoot black hands, and at the first opportunity, they fired arrows at the Western Chu cavalry one after another, and also shot the Western Chu cavalry on their backs, killing countless people.

In the end, after paying the price of countless casualties, Xiang Yu finally gathered the Western Chu cavalry into a group, and did not give the Han cavalry a chance to break his army, but before Xiang Yu could breathe a sigh of relief, more Han infantry had also appeared in the distance of the road, Xiang Yu was furious, and hurriedly pointed at the Han infantry crowd with his spear, and shouted: "Rush up, kill them all!" ”

"Brother, it's useless, the thieves are coming in formation, and before we can rush closer, they have already formed a formation! When the time comes, the Han thief cavalry will kill from behind, and we won't be able to stop it! ”

Xiang Zhuang hurriedly dissuaded, and said: "Also, our soldiers have not rested for more than a day, and there have been several tough battles in the middle, and if we continue to fight, the situation will only become more and more unfavorable for us, so let's leave quickly." ”

Look at his exhausted corporaries, as well as the Han cavalry who are staring at the Han cavalry in the distance, Xiang Yu, who has not been stupid to the extreme, roared helplessly, or took the Western Chu cavalry to retreat to the chasm ferry, the Han cavalry followed closely, and took the opportunity of the Western Chu cavalry to cross the river, suddenly launched a charge, and expelled the rear soldiers of the Western Chu cavalry into the river, the exhausted Western Chu cavalry was unable to resist the enemy at all, and fell into the water countless times under the Han cavalry rush, screaming and shaking the sky, Xiang Yu was so angry that his chest almost exploded, even wanted to cross the river again to launch a counterattack, Xiang Zhuang grabbed him and said, "Brother, calm down!" Calm down! Brother's main force has returned, and if we cross the river and go back, we will only die in vain, and we will only die in vain! ”

With a snap, Xiang Yu slapped half of Xiang Zhuang's cheek, and roared with red eyes: "He's not our brother!" He is our enemy! Enemy of our Xiang family! ”

Xiang Yu's roar of course could not save the Western Chu army and the Henan army of complete defeat, more than 10,000 Henan troops almost all died on the west bank of the chasm, Xiang Yu brought 30,000 Western Chu cavalry from the Qidi battlefield, and finally less than 10,000 people fled to the east bank of the chasm, the chasm river was densely packed, almost all of them were the corpses of the Western Chu cavalry, the corpses were blocked, so that the chasm almost did not flow, and the Han cavalry also took the opportunity to cross the chasm from the shallow water, and killed the poor Western Chu cavalry again and fled.

Xiang Kang's side, after returning to the scene with the main force of the Han army, he saw with his own eyes the devastated and corpse-riddled battlefield of Xingyang Aocang, Xiang Kang couldn't help but sigh softly, and blamed himself: "Blame me, if I wasn't in a hurry to save my family, why would Uncle Zhou and them fight so hard here?" ”