Xiang Yu led the army to break the Qin army, summoned the princes and generals at Yuanmen, and all the generals came on their knees, not daring to look up at Xiang Yu. So Xiang Yu became the general of the princes, and the princes were attached to him. In 216 BC, Xiang Yu surrendered Zhang Han's army, but soon after, more than 200,000 Qin soldiers were killed in the south of Xin'an City overnight. In addition, although Xiang Yu cherishes his soldiers, he refuses to pay more food, always loves to do things, and does not listen to the dissuasion of others. I grew estranged from him.

At dusk, I entered the camp and said to Xiang Yu: "Big brother, I want to take the troops back to Anyang and fight the Qin army westward, I don't know if my brother agrees or not?" Xiang Yu thought for a moment and said: "Since Brother Xian has such a plan, it is inconvenient for my brother to keep you, no matter where you are, as long as it is to fight against the Qin army, we are all on the same rope!" ”

I led the old army and Jiang Huan's army to Anyang, at this time my army has reached 100,000 people, thinking that the original army of a few thousand people is now so strong, I can't help but feel a lot of emotion.

About ten days of travel, the army arrived in Anyang, at this time Anyang has long been under my jurisdiction, since I joined Xiang Yu, Anyang is under the jurisdiction of another county commander sent by the Qin Dynasty, this county commander has no ability in his life, but relied on relatives to be promoted as officials in the court, since I left, this county order has not been tried for a few months. Every day, I either teased the birds and walked the dogs, or went to the mountains and rivers, and the county government affairs were basically not managed.

I thought he was going to war, but I didn't expect him to kneel on the ground at once, kowtow to me, and was willing to give up the city to me, and surrender to me, so the whole army entered the city smoothly. I led the army to Xiang Yu and took away most of the army, the Qin Dynasty did not send additional manpower to Anyang, and there were only more than 3,000 people defending the city.

At this time, the Anyang I occupied was only a county, but it was only a radius of 2,000 miles, but in fact, the area of Anyang could reach a radius of 10,000 li, and Anyang County was only a small part. Looking around from Anyang County, Anyang County is located between Hanoi County and Handan County, leaning on the Taihang Mountains in the west and the North China Plain in the east. It is located in the northernmost part of the Central Plains, and can unify the Central Plains to the south.

The total number of garrisons in Hanoi and Handan counties was less than 50,000, so I decided to fight the Qin army externally and expand the area under my jurisdiction. I immediately ordered Jiang Huan and Li Pu to take Hanoi County with 50,000 men, while Zhao Meng and I led 30,000 men to attack Handan County. The rest were left with 20,000 men to defend the city.

In the cold winter season, the weather is unusually cold, and the outside of the city is covered with snow, which is thick, like a quilt. At dusk, I led a large army to begin the siege of the city, and rows of ladders were added, and suddenly dozens of soldiers rushed up, and many people were thrown from the city by huge stones and rolling logs, and thousands of arrows were fired in unison, and for a moment blood stained the whole earth. It's been an hour since the siege of the city, but the city is impregnable, and I can't help but feel a little anxious when I see that the soldiers accompanying me are getting fewer and fewer.

Suddenly, Zhao Meng came to my side: "General, I have an idea, I don't know whether to talk about it or not." "If you have an idea, just say it." I replied without thinking. Zhao Meng said: "This cold winter weather, dripping water into ice, it is definitely not possible to attack with fire, it is better to attack with water." ”

"Water attack, what a water attack method." I was surprised and said, "In this kind of weather, the dripping water will turn into ice, and if the water is splashed on the enemy, it will immediately freeze into ice, and Guangdong will freeze them to death." Zhao Meng said with a smile.

"Okay, just as you say." I immediately ordered Mingjin to withdraw his troops and set up camp five hundred meters away from Handan County. In the evening, I ordered a few craftsmen to build a few water cannons and a few catapults overnight. After everything was ready, I went to bed in peace.

The next day, I ordered the water cannon to be pushed 200 meters away from the city, and the Qin army did not know our intentions, so they just blindly released the arrows, but they were far away. I ordered every six soldiers to stand on the left and right of the water cannon, hold the crossbar and pull and push it together, and pour hot water from the mouth of the cannon, and I gave the order, and the six soldiers pushed the pistons, and the hot water shot out of the water cannon and shot straight into the city. For a while, several water cannons fired in unison, spraying into the city from all directions. Thousands of jets of water will shoot into the city, and the soldiers will scatter and flee. In an instant, everyone was drenched in soup and chicken, the water was still warm at first, and after a while, the wet clothes began to freeze. Once the wet clothes freeze and stick to the skin, the fingers are stiff and can no longer be freed, even if someone helps, the skin is often torn off with clothes, pants, shoes and socks, which is really dangerous. The water in the ground gradually rises and slowly solidifies, turning into gruel.

Suddenly, someone in the crowd shouted: "Surrender, surrender!" If you don't surrender, everyone will freeze to death. The officer defending the city angrily rebuked: "Who is disturbing the morale of the army here? Spies! Pull it out and cut it! The rest of the people threw ice and snow at him, and some of them pounced on him and pulled him off the horse.

Suddenly, the city gate was opened, and hundreds of Qin soldiers poured out, shouting: "Surrender, surrender!" Zhao Meng shouted: "Shouted: "Descend people to sit underground!" Qin Bing sat on the ground one after another. The water column shot over, and the Qin soldiers fell off the city one after another. At this time, more than two feet of water had accumulated in the city, and it had already turned into ice, and it would take at least ten days and a half months to fill the whole city with water and freeze it into a big ice city. But the Qin soldiers had no clothes or shoes, and they couldn't make a fire, so everyone shivered from the cold, and their faces turned blue. Some soldiers hugged each other and borrowed each other's body heat to keep warm.

Suddenly, the city gate opened again, and almost all the Qin soldiers shouted: "Surrender!" "Swarming out. It turned out that the main general had been shot to death by the water column, and this battle did not use a single soldier, so he easily took the city, and he couldn't help but be happy.

Three days later, good news came from Hanoi County that Jiang Huan and Li Pu had captured Hanoi County and the defenders were killed. In this way, the entire Anyang area is under my jurisdiction. After hearing that Xiang Yu claimed to be the overlord of Western Chu, he ordered the princes to divide the princes and kings. I also set myself up as a king, known as: King of Anyang, with 300,000 troops, pointing directly at the Central Plains.