Just when Wang Ling's thoughts were in despair, Fan Xu suddenly led his troops to kill from the rear, "General Wang, don't be afraid, someone will come to help." Seeing this, Long Ji did not retreat, in his opinion, it was just one more person to die.

However, Fan Hao was menacing, not wanting to fight with Long Ji, mainly to rescue Wang Ling, "The Han thief is not Erer, and he will kill his head with me." ”

Long said nothing, the first to rush over, Wang Ling saw the situation and grabbed a war horse, so he ran to the rear, Fan Hao saw this, directly stopped the Chu army in front.

"General Chu dares to fight me!" Fan Hao shouted at Long He, Long He sneered, and immediately rushed forward with a gun, and went straight to Fan Xu's door.

Fan Hao turned sideways, and the halberd in his hand quickly hit the spear, one shot and one halberd were entangled, and the dragon hurriedly dragged it back, and Fan Hao was also unwilling to fall below, and stabbed forward violently.

Long He shook off the spear and grabbed Fan Xu's halberd directly with his left hand, but Fan He was very strong and immediately picked up, while Long He was pressing, forming a stalemate.

And the dragon had a free right hand, and wanted to throw out the spear and stab Fan Hao in the chest, Fan Hao saw that the situation was not good, and suddenly exerted his strength, and the halberd was directly broken into two.

Seeing that Wang Ling had disappeared, Fan Hao did not do much entanglement, and immediately led his troops to retreat.

Wang Ling and Fan Xu took different routes, so the dragon chased Fan Xu, and could not meet Taigong's men and horses at all, and Fan Xu's war horse was in a hurry, and the dragon chased for more than 20 miles, so he had to let him escape.

Liu Bang was in Xingyang, and when he saw that the prince and Wang Ling were safe and sound, he was overjoyed, and immediately ordered the people to hold a feast, "The prince has to return, and the general has made great contributions." ”

Wang Ling placed wine and saluted, "The second time is not the clever plan of Pingnan Hou, so that Fan Hao will go to support, if not, the tomb will be rested." ”

"Brother Wang, don't be like this, as the so-called plan is in the people, the success is in the sky, the success of the plan depends on what the people are doing, don't be humble now." Lu Yan also waved his hand and said.

After three rounds of drinking, Liu Bang's face gradually became serious, "Now that the prince has returned, there are not many soldiers in Chu, and the king of Henan, the king of Hengshan, the king of Western Wei, and the king of Han have all surrendered, so if you send troops to Pengcheng, you will be able to take it in one fell swoop." ’

"Besides, Xiang Yu was checked and balanced by Chen Yu and Tian Rong, it must be difficult to take care of the capital, this is a godsend, and the capital of Chu should be occupied as soon as possible." Liu Bang said excitedly.

All the generals thought that this method was feasible, but Li Sheng sighed, "Although the king's move is fast, the rear march line is too long, from Xingyang to Pengcheng for a hundred miles, if it is cut off by Xiang Yu, the whole army will be in danger." ”

"There is no need to worry about this, a lot of grain and grass can be stationed in Xingyang, and the army can drive straight in, and there will be no such worries." Xiao He said very firmly.

When Lishan heard this, he didn't say more, and on the same day, Liu Bang ordered Xiahou Ying Cao Shen to be the front, leading 10,000 horses, and the rear generals followed Liu Bang and led 300,000 troops to Pengcheng.

In April 2005 BC, that is, in the second year of the Han Dynasty, Liu Bang took Xiang Yu to stick to Chengyang, and led the army of five princes with an army of about 400,000 people to attack Pengcheng, the capital of Chu, and his strategic deployment for attacking Pengcheng was as follows:

Xiao He guarded Liyang and raised military funds to go down the Weishui and Yellow River to supply the front.

Liu Bangqin led Wang Ling, Lu Xuan, Jin She, Changshan Wang Zhang Er, Henan Wang Shenyang, Han Wangxin, Wei Wangbao and other princes' armies as the middle column, from Luoyang through Yongqiu, Suiyang out of Pengcheng, Zhang Liang as the military division, Chen Ping as the participant.

At this time, Liu Bang was still worried that Xiang Yu would not attack Qidi and turned south, so Liu Bang secretly ordered Peng Yue to continue to harass Liang Di to confuse the overlord and cover the flank of the Han army.

Cao Shen was the front, leading Fan Xu, Guan Ying, Li Shang and other departments, since the siege of Jin crossed the Yellow River, Fan Xu attacked boiled dates, and defeated the Chu generals Wang Wu and Cheng. Cao Shen and Guan Ying attacked the Tao, broke it, and Chu defeated Long and Wei Xiangxiang. Cao Shen has set the Tao town, so Fan Xu went south to meet with the middle road of Waihuang, since with Guan Ying, Li Shang pursued Long and Xiang other armies, to Huling, with Li Shang captured, that is, with the middle road to join the division.

At this time, Liu Bang's army had arrived in Dianjun, and when he saw Cao Shen, Zhou Bo and others defeating the soldiers of Chu from the flank, he was overjoyed, and ordered the generals to rush to Jiejun to meet the division and arrive in Pengcheng together.

Today's Pengcheng, all are old, weak, sick and disabled, Xiang Yu led the army to attack Qidi, so that there are few defenders in the capital, seeing that the Han army is coming, many civil and military officials are abandoning the city and fleeing.

But there is one person who did not escape, and he stayed in Pengcheng very firmly, this person was the uncle and grandson Tong sent out by Lu Yan at the beginning, and after several tosses, he finally took refuge in Xiang Yu's disciples.

Everyone else dispersed, and when they saw that Shusun Tong was still sorting out the soldiers, they all admired this person's loyalty to the overlord, and so many soldiers still had to defend it.

And Liu Bang was not far from Pengcheng at the moment, and when Shusun Tong saw that the overlord's people were almost gone, he immediately ordered the soldiers to tidy up Pengcheng's palace, and then open the city gate.

When everyone else was there, it naturally couldn't explain the surrender, but now that they are all gone, although Shusun Tong is a Confucian in the Western Han Dynasty, he is still very wise to be a man.

After Liu Bang entered Pengcheng, he felt that his uncle and grandson were not simple, otherwise he would not have made such a wise decision, Lu Yan knew that his uncle and grandson were talented, so he recommended it to King Han and stayed under the account.

Uncle Sun Tong is very scheming, he was an official in the Qin Dynasty at first, and then he took refuge in the King of Chu.

So I explained to everyone, in fact, my uncle Sun Tong is not willing to compete for fame and fortune, and the surrender of the Han King is not because he sees the Han King powerful, but because the Han King is an elder, and he can arrange the Zhou rites with peace of mind under the account of the Han King, so even if the world is chaotic, the etiquette will not collapse, so Lu Yan gave him a chance to sort out the etiquette of the Han family temple.

After Liu Bang captured Pengcheng, he followed the advice of Zhang Liang and others, ordered the garrison of Zhou Luhou to go down, and at the same time worshiped Peng Yue to live in Liangdi for Wei Xiang. He also ordered Fan Hao to attack Zoulu, Fangqiu, and Xue in the north, and then ordered Cao Shen to lead the army to garrison in the area of Yixian, Zaozhuang, Zouxian, Qufu, and Ziyang in present-day Shandong Province to cover the safety of Pengcheng.

The above deployment sounds very complicated, in fact, it is to draw a half circle around Pengcheng above it, as for the southwest is the territory of Yingbu, naturally there is no need to make too many deployments, after all, the suspicion between the king of Jiujiang and the overlord is obvious to all, otherwise, the attack on Qidi will not only send a few thousand troops.

As for Liu Bang, he lived in the Chu Palace and received Xiang Yu's beauties and money. The soldiers set up a high wine meeting every day, cheered and drank, thinking that if they won Pengcheng, the world would be just around the corner.

At that time, the specific army situation was also very clear, in addition to the soldiers sent by Liu Bang to garrison various places, as well as the soldiers of Fan Hao to guard Zou Lu, there were about 300,000 people in Xiao Dang and Pengcheng.

Now that Liu Bang has won Pengcheng, he will not send anyone to supervise Xiang Yu's army, and now there are Han soldiers on three sides, no matter which direction Xiang Yu attacks from, it is useless.