In the second year of the invasion of the border of the Yue Kingdom, that is, in the sixth year of the reign of Helu (509 BC). The prime minister of Chu State was dissatisfied with Wu's invasion of Qianyi and Liuyi, and was angry, so he played King Zhao and wanted to increase the army of Wu to avenge the revenge of Qianyi and Liueryi.

King Zhao was fourteen years old and had become a beautiful young man. The queen mother Meng Huan gradually returned to the government of King Zhao, but the matter of cutting down Wu was important, and King Zhao could not decide, so he gathered the courtiers to discuss the proposal of fighting Wu.

"The state of Wu has been invading our country for many years, so that the people cannot live in peace, and the soldiers dare not remove their armor. Wu Bing was unrighteous and untrustworthy, and the first monarch took advantage of the mourning to cut down; Later, because of the capture of the remnants and candles, the Wu soldiers captured Shucheng; This time, it was the sword of 'Zhanlu', which led to the fall of the border city. In order to stabilize the border and prevent the trouble of the Wu army, the minister asked the king to send troops to attack Wu, survey the border defense in the first war, dampen the vitality of the Wu country, and never stop the trouble of the Wu army! ”

Gongzi Zixi, Ziqi and the Chu Wang clan all held opposing opinions, Zuo Sima Shen Yinshu knew that the state of Chu was sluggish, and the national strength was declining, and he was already at a disadvantage in the confrontation with Wu, and he also wrote against the invasion of Wu.

"Since the succession of the king to the throne, the state of our country has been sluggish. Loyal ministers can't be used, good generals are not known, but the talents of the great Chu are withered, and there is no trace of the masters. The minister asked the king to clean up the court, be diligent in the people, and first settle the inside and then cut down the outside. If the king rashly sends troops, the ministers think that the victory or defeat is unpredictable. ”

However, the state of Chu was in the hands of Nangwa at this time, and he instigated the generals of the army to write to King Zhao to support his strategy of defeating Wu. For a while, the officers and men of the army, with the support of Nangwa, wrote to King Zhao one after another, asking to send troops to avenge the revenge of Qianyi and Liuyi.

King Zhao saw that Nangwa insisted on cutting Wu, so he had to agree.

In the summer of that year, the general Hua Fan was the vanguard, and decided to set out from Echeng, and personally led 60,000 soldiers, known as 80,000, down the river, wanting to attack Qianyi and Liuyi.

At this time, the defender of Wu State guarding these two cities was the general Zhuan Yi, who led 10,000 Wu troops to defend Qianyi, while Liuyi only had 3,000 men and horses stationed.

Finding out that Nangwa gathered troops and horses to conquer the state of Wu, Zhuan Yi hurriedly sent an envoy to report to the king of Wu, while waiting for the battle, ready to defend the city.

King Wu knew that the Chu division was coming, and ordered Sun Wu to be the general, and the Wu member was the deputy, and led the troops to engage Nangwa.

At the end of August, the Chu army arrived in Qianyi, and the vanguard Hua Fan first divided his troops to attack Liuyi, and broke through the city of Liuyi in less than three days. Seeing that the Chu army was strong, Zhuan Yi was afraid that the Chu army would be surrounded and suppressed in Qianyi City, so he led the main force to retreat to Chaocheng to defend it, waiting for reinforcements. Only a few stragglers were left to harass the offensive of the Chu army.

Hua Fan took Qianyi without a single soldier, and the defenders of Liuyi only symbolically resisted for a while, and also retreated to Chaocheng to join Zhuan Yi.

Seeing that Hua Fan easily recovered the two cities, Nangwa was overjoyed. It was decided to hold a pre-military meeting to discuss the next goal of the Chu army.

Nangwa raised the tent and said to the generals: "This time the sword has been unsheathed, and the state of Wu has repeatedly attacked and harassed our borders, occupied my city, and killed my border people." Ben Shuai was ordered to attack Wu today, and he must attack the main force of the Wu army and remove the border troubles of our Chu State. Now that our army has recovered the lost territory, according to the intention of this commander, while Wu is not ready to fight, he drove straight into Wu and caught him off guard, I don't know what you think? ”

As a pioneer, Hua Fan was the first to go out and said: "The ministers of the court and the central government often have fear on their faces when they mention the courage of Wu soldiers, and they are afraid of Wu. But judging from this fight, this Wu soldier does not have three heads and six arms, and the young general, as the vanguard, is willing to lead the troops deep into the Wu realm and ask the main force of the Wu division to fight a decisive battle! ”

Nangwa is overjoyed. The commendation said: "The general's courage is commendable. Now that the main force of the Wu army has shrunk to Chaocheng, the vanguard can lead an army of 20,000 to attack Zhuan Yi in Chaocheng. Ben Shuai led the army behind, as reinforcements, we fought with the main force of the Wu army in Chaocheng! ”

Hua Fan received the order and led 20,000 Chu troops to Chaocheng.

At this time, Sun Wu and his soldiers had already led an army of 40,000 to Chaocheng. Set up a large camp in the first ten miles of Chaocheng and wait for the Chu army to come to fight.

The army of Chu also arrived, and the two armies set up camp in Chaocheng and formed a confrontation. The two sides sent envoys to agree on a date for the battle and prepare for a major battle.

In late September, the two armies went to war. The Chu army led by Nangwa was opposed by three armies in the traditional way: the middle army was the middle army, and the left and right armies were set as the flanks.

But on the Wu army's side, there is no clear formation. Outside the Chinese army, it was divided into many small detachments, mainly foot soldiers, which were self-contained, forming a circular barrier on the outer edge of the Chinese army. And at the forefront was the front army, which had extraordinary attack power and gathered the elite troops of the Wu army. Consists of fast riders, chariots, death squads and archers.

Nangwa saw that the formation of the Wu army was strange, and he was wondering in front of the formation, and the drums on both sides had sounded, and the time for the decisive battle had arrived.

The shouts of the soldiers shook the heavens and the earth, and the battle flags covered the sky and the sun. The two armies are like two rushing and roaring rivers, entangled in one place.

As soon as the front army of the Wu army heard the sound of the drum, it was like a dagger stabbing towards the Chu array. The former army of the Wu army was the vanguard and resolute, and according to Sun Wu's order, he wanted to penetrate the defense line of the Chu army.

The vanguard of the Chu army, Hua Fan, relied on his martial arts and was brave and invincible, and boarded the car to break into the Wu camp. With a Ugin spear in his hand, he had already stabbed several Wu generals under the car in an instant.

The front army of the Wu army was not moved by Hua Fan, and still only cared about attacking forward, and went straight to the Chu Zhong army. The purpose is very clear, no matter what the fetters are, to take the Chinese army's bag tile.

Nangwa saw clearly from the Chinese army's platform, knew that the Wu army's forces were concentrated on the front army, tried to tear through the defense line of the Chu army, and then rushed to the front of the Chinese army and directly took the commander of the Chinese army.

Nangwa was startled and waved the flag. Command the Chu army to intercept layer by layer and block the sharp blade of the Wu army.

Although the Chu army had a slight advantage in terms of strength, due to the arrangement of the finished formation, although the Chinese army had flank protection, the defense in the center was weaker. Therefore, the Wu army gathered heavy troops in the front army, highlighting the blade-like offensive.

This battle was completely dark, and the wind was miserable.

Hua Fan rushed into the Wu army's formation, and he was already bleeding heavy armor. At this time, the emperor was exhausted, and Che Zuo had been killed in battle. Hua Fan was about to withdraw to his formation, but he saw a white-clothed general in front of him, heroic and in his twenties, and the royal car blocked his way.

This general is the vanguard of the Wu army.

Since he was a child, he has been practicing martial arts with his father, and he has won the true inheritance of his father, with swords, guns, swords, halberds, and skillful martial arts skills. This perseverance makes a long halberd, and has the courage of ten thousand people. Seeing that it was General Chu, he didn't answer, and stabbed Hua Fan with a halberd.

Hua Fan used his spear to push the halberd to the right, but he felt a numbness in the tiger's mouth, but the halberd was very heavy.

Hua Fanxin said that this Wu general has extraordinary arm strength, and he knew that he had encountered an opponent, so he cheered up and used twelve points of strength to fight with this young general.

The two were fighting in the Wu army array, and the chariots staggered back and forth more than a dozen times, and at this time, a yellow horse rushed out of the Wu army array. The man had a beard on his face, but it was Gu Xin, I saw him clamping the big horse with his feet, holding the bow in his left hand, and holding a silver arrow in his right hand.

Hua Fan saw the emperor lying in the car, knowing that he had been killed by an arrow, and he couldn't care much at this time, so he kicked the body of the emperor out of the car, holding the horse with one hand and the reins with the other. Hua Fan saw that he was alone on the chariot, so he wanted to flee back to the battle by car.

But how could Zhuan Yi and Gu Xin let it go? Zhuan Yi turned the chariot sideways, flew vertically, jumped out of the car with a halberd in his hand, and the chariot blocked Hua Fan's way. Na Guxin had already set up an arrow in his hand, and shouted, the bow was like a full moon, and the silver feather arrow was extremely fast, and with a "click" sound, it passed through the heavy armor on Hua Fan's body and nailed it to Hua Fan's thigh.

Hua Fan's body was planted forward, and the war horse was frightened and dragged forward, but Hua Fan fell out of the car.

I saw that a few warriors rushed out of the Wu army, stepped forward to tie up Hua Fan, and then quickly retreated into the formation.

The two armies fought until sunset, each suffering casualties. However, Hua Fan, the vanguard of the Chu army, was captured by the Wu army, and Zhuan Yi and Gu Xin killed several Chu generals in the battle, and the Chu army was almost broken by the Wu soldiers.

When the two teams of Chinese armies Mingjin withdrew their troops, the two armies returned to their respective positions, retreated to the camp, and made an appointment for a decisive battle.