After Liu Bang's troops fled eastward from Hanzhong, they trekked all the way through mountains and rivers and crossed mountains and mountains, and finally arrived at the junction of Yingchuan County and Sanchuan County. This road Liu Bang walked was not smooth, because he was uprooted from his hometown, so nearly one-third of the 60,000 troops fled, and on the way the food and grass were exhausted, he could only cut down on food and clothing, and finally came to Sanchuan County only the hungry 40,000 remnants of the army.

In the past, Xiang Yu divided the princes of the world, Sanchuan County was the fief of Shenyang, the king of Henan, and Yingchuan was the place where Han Wang Cheng founded the country. Han Cheng was weak, and in vain destroying Qin, Xiang Yu deprived him of nearly half of his territory and only gave him five counties for the establishment of the country. Later, the king of Wei defeated Shenyang, the king of Henan, and incorporated all his territory under the rule of Wei, and then was defeated by Ji Bu, so he had to gather troops to go north to Daliang to protect himself. The Jibu coalition army was eager to capture Daliang, and they had no time to take care of Yingchuan, so they only sent less than a few thousand old and weak remnants to garrison it.

This is cheaper Liu Bang, the Han army, which is short of soldiers and food, has worked hard to climb over the layers of mountains, and was originally worried that what was waiting for them was the solemn Chu army, but they didn't expect it to be empty cities. Liu Bang was overjoyed, and hurriedly ordered the camp to march quickly, and on the way, he ordered all the vanguard troops to remove the banner of the Han army and use the banner of the Chu army instead, falsely claiming that it was the vanguard of the south of the Chu State that was ordered to take over Sanchuan County.

Liu Bang was originally a Chu general, and most of his generals were Chu people, so he naturally knew the marching banner of the Chu army well, so it was handy to pretend to be the Chu army. actually opened more than ten cities one after another, including Xingyang in the Xiongcheng of the world, Liu Bang took the entire Sanchuan County without a single soldier.

After occupying Xingyang, Liu Bang quickly sealed the granary and summoned all the officials and villagers in the county to Xingyang, and then announced his identity. In front of thousands of fathers and elders, Liu Bangju spoke impassionedly on the high platform, saying that Xiang Yu was brutal and treacherous and killed Emperor Xiong Xin, and he was the king of Han who was edicted by Emperor Yi and raised troops to order the princes of the world to crusade against Xiang Yu.

I have to say that Liu Bang is very good at buying people's hearts, and the people of Sanchuan County were originally wary of Liu Bang, an outsider who suddenly killed, but they were agitated by his words. In the past, when Xiang Yu destroyed Qin, he slaughtered extensively in the Central Plains, and the slightest resistance was to destroy the city and slaughter the pond as a warning, so the Central Plains Wei and Han had a deep grudge against Xiang Yu.

Liu Bang's first slogan was that Xiang Yu was brutal, liking to kill and kill the lord to stand on his own, which also aroused the deep hatred of Xiang Yu in the hearts of the people of Sanchuan. In less than three days, the Han army quickly swelled from 40,000 to 80,000 troops, and Liu Bang ordered the whole army to fight while sending people to Daliang to inquire about the news of the Chu army.

I have to say that Liu Bang's luck is indeed very good, a rare heavy snow cut off the road, and in addition to Liu Bang's strict blockade, it was difficult for Chu State's spies in Sanchuan County to send the news to Ji Bu for a while, which bought Liu Bang a few days of precious time. When he knew that the Chu army was confronting the Wei army and the Zhao army in Daliang City, he immediately decided to brave the wind and snow to move his army eastward, preparing to rescue the Wei and Zhao coalition forces in a bad situation.

Liu Bang marched eastward this time with great courage and determination, and he brought all the available soldiers with him, leaving not a single soldier to guard the rear. Because he knew in his heart that if he was defeated again this time, everything would be over, and no one would want to follow a monarch who always suffered defeat.

This battle determines whether he, Liu Bang, can turn over. If he wins, it is his Liu Bang's beautiful command to order the princes of the world to crusade against Xiang Yu; If you lose, then you really have nothing.

While the heavy wind and snow brought many obstacles to the advance of the Han army, it also brought an opportunity for the Han army to hide its tracks, until it reached Mengjin Port, the Chu army still knew nothing about this sudden Han army, and Ji Bu was only concentrating on planning a plan to annihilate the Wei and Zhao coalition forces in his camp in one fell swoop.

The days of marching had already exhausted the Han army, especially in the cold winter in the wilderness. When the army marched to the county seat of Guanxian County, 200 miles west of Daliang City, Liu Bang was willing to let the army enter the city and camp for a night to rest for a while, so as to recuperate enough strength to fight again tomorrow.

In the camp of the Han army, a huge brazier was placed in the hall, and Liu Bang and a group of confidants and generals were eating wine and meat on the desk. The rapid march in the past few days has not made Liu Bang, who has fine skin and tender meat, suffer less, and his feet are even more red and swollen in winter, and the pain is unbearable like a needle prick when he gets into the hot water. But Liu Bang still gritted his teeth and persevered, not only did he not say a word, but ran around in the team to boost morale.

Guan County is only a small county seat, and it is also within the sphere of influence of the Wei State. As soon as Liu Bang's army arrived, the banner of the Han army was raised, and the county commander saw that it was the allied army that immediately opened the city gate, and at the same time sent people to spread the news to Wei Wangbao.

Although Guan County is small, there is still no shortage of wine and meat, which makes Liu Bang and others, who have eaten dry food for a few days, can't wait to eat it. Halfway through the meal, there was a pro-soldier outside who reported that he had caught a spy, and he had been wandering outside the barracks to watch, and when he came forward to arrest him, he did not run away, and kept saying that he had something important to ask to see the king of Han.

Liu Bang was full of wine and food at this time, and he was a little bored, so he opened his mouth and said casually: "Bring it up and let me have a look." ”

"No." The soldiers responded and quickly escorted a big man with a lot of flowers up.

This big man is about thirty years old, he is burly and tall, his face is full of fierceness, and he is not afraid when he sees Liu Bang, but squints his eyes and says directly: "You are Liu Bang, the king of Han?" ”

Zhou Bo on the side was furious when he heard this, stood up and pointed at the big man and scolded; "What kind of dog are you, you dare to call the king's name, believe it or not, I'll let people push you down and cut you down."

Liu Bang saw that the big man looked different, so he couldn't help but look at it a few more times, stretched out his hand to stop the wrinkles, and said with a smile; "Yes, I'm Liu Bang, but what's the matter?"

The big man snorted heavily in his nostrils and said; "I have heard for a long time that the King of Han is benevolent and righteous, and he is a rare hero in the world, but when I look at it today, I feel that it is not true, is it that King Han treats strong men like this?"

Liu Bang was not angry, but laughed, and ordered his subordinates to loosen the big man. Anyway, there is a master like Fan Xu in this hall, so he naturally doesn't have to be afraid.

"Come on." Liu Bang grabbed a large piece of barbecue meat in front of him, and then threw it to the big man. "I'm so bold to you, the widow invites you to eat meat."

The big man didn't shirk it, reached out and grabbed the barbecue, and bit it hard, it seemed that he had been hungry for a long time.

Liu Bang smiled and watched the big man gobble up the barbecue, and pointed to the wine altar on the ground; "Can a strong man drink and breathe?"

The big man took a few steps forward and grabbed the wine jar, and said with a nonchalant face; "What's so hard about that?" After saying a word, he looked up to the sky and poured it, and drank a whole jar of wine.

"So arrogant." Liu Bang smiled and applauded loudly, "Strong men, please feel free to eat and drink, and you don't have to be formal." ”

The big man clenched his fists and said in a rough voice: "Thank you King Han for the reward." After speaking, he found an empty seat next to Zhou Bo and sat down with a big grin, and took the food plate handed by the maid and chewed it.

After the big man was full of wine and food, he stood up and arched his hand to Liu Bang; "King Han, I'm full, I'm here this time to bring you a clever plan to defeat the Chu army."

Liu Bang's smiling face suddenly changed, and he turned his face faster than anyone else, pointing at the big man and yelling; "Come on, drag this person down and cut him down."

The big man was stunned for a moment, stunned and at a loss, at this time, several guards had already rushed to tie him up again, and were about to push him out. The big man didn't resist, but just opened his mouth and shouted; "What am I guilty of, why did the king of Han kill me."

Liu Bang squinted and said; "You are a spy of the Chu army, of course I will kill you."

The big man was not convinced, and shouted as he was dragged down by the soldiers; "King Han, I was wronged, I really wasn't a spy of the Chu army, if I were a spy, how could I be arrested."

Liu Bang stopped his personal guard when he heard this, looked at the big man and said with a smile; "Then how can I trust you?"

The big man said loudly; "You go to the city and ask anyone, who doesn't know my name as a baby in Shaoliang Mountain, you will know as soon as you ask. My father died at the hands of Xiang Yu, and I have already sworn to Xiang Yu, how can I be a spy of the Chu State. ”

Liu Bang called several officials in the county to inquire one by one according to his words, and sure enough, they all knew the name of the baby. It turned out that this Guan Ying was the leader of the giant Kou on Shaoliang Mountain, and his father was once the county lieutenant of Guan County placed by the Qin State, and he was killed by the Chu army in the Battle of Yongqiu with Li You, so Guan Ying once made an oath to kill Xiang Yu to avenge his father.

After Liu Bang asked a few people, he believed it all, and quickly stood up and loosened the tie for the baby with a hippie smile, and pleaded guilty in his mouth; "It's the widow who blames the strong man, and he still hopes to forgive his sins and forgive his sins. Come, the strong man please take a seat, and the widow will pour wine for you to be shocked. ”

Guan Ying had just come back from the ghost gate, and the arrogance in his heart had been half a point, and he didn't dare to be too presumptuous, and when he saw Liu Bang coming to pour wine, he hurriedly stood up and pushed it off, saying that he didn't dare.

The two humbled each other again, and Liu Bang said the topic, "I don't know what the trick of the righteous man just said?" ”

The baby's face was faintly proud, and he asked with a smile; "Let's ask King Han, how did you originally plan to attack the Chu army."

Liu Bang hesitated slightly, after all, this involved the secrets of the march, and it didn't seem appropriate to tell the baby to be bold. But after thinking about it again, 'Don't use suspicious people, don't suspect people', so he said calmly: "The widow plans to send troops tomorrow to attack the Chu army from Xiaoguan in the southwest. ”

The baby smiled dryly; "King Han, you miscalculated, although this Xiao Pass is not a big city pass, there are thousands of elite Chu army stationed there, and it is the lifeblood of the Chu army. If King Han and you attack Xiao Pass, then Ji Bu will definitely bring troops back to help, and at that time there can only be a stalemate at most. ”

Liu Bang spread his hands helplessly and said; "I can't help it. Except for Xiao Pass, everything else is blocked by the mountains, and we can't swagger from under the noses of the Chu army......"

Before he finished speaking, he suddenly looked up and saw the color on the baby's face, and asked as if he had an understanding; "What can you do?"

Guan Ying nodded, "If I had changed before, then even if I had the ability to reach the heavens, I would not have any way." But today is different. King Han, do you see, it's snowing heavily, and the river has frozen into ice. ”

Liu Bang's eyes lit up, and he couldn't help but exclaim; "You mean that you can attack the Chu army from behind by crossing the river and making a detour?"

"Exactly." The baby raised his eyebrows. "If you attack from Xiao Pass, I'm afraid Ji Bu will get the news before the pass. The soldier is treacherous, and if even his whereabouts have been exposed, he will lose at least half of his advantage. However, a detour from the Great River would not only save half the time, but also surprise the attack, and Jibu would never have imagined that such a large army would emerge from the west. ”

Liu Bang laughed when he heard this, and patted the baby's shoulder with excitement on his face; "God really helps me, with such a clever plan as Brother Guan, my Han army is invincible."

Sima Cao Shen, who had not spoken all this time, hesitated and said; "Brother Guan, if the water is frozen, then a small force is okay, but if it is a large army like ours, then I am afraid it will be dangerous."

Guan Ying shook his head with a smile and said; "I'm afraid I don't know one thing or the other, yes, the river flows endlessly and only freezes on the surface, but there is a place in the great river where the flow is gentle. In previous years, when the weather was not very cold, it would freeze, but this time it was so cold that there was already a thick layer of ice on it, and I could guarantee that there would be no problem with the army. ”

Liu Bang no longer hesitated at this time, so he laughed and looked at it, "Okay, according to what you said, we will cross the river tomorrow, and then break the Chu army together at night, how about it?" Infants are so talented, are you willing to succumb to me? ”

The baby bowed his head and said loudly; "The last general is willing to be the vanguard, and the three hundred brothers under me are strong in martial arts, so it is better for me to lead the lead and attack the Chu army first."

"Okay, according to what you said, I will make you the captain of the Chinese army, and you will take the position of pioneer."

Guan Ying really didn't deceive Liu Bang, the ice on the river was thick enough to carry the army. After crossing the river, the Han army immediately rushed to the Chu army camp after a short rest, and finally arrived at night.

Guan Ying took 300 henchmen and 10,000 elites of the Han army as the vanguard, and took the lead in launching a fierce attack on the Chu army, while Fan Xu and Zhou Bo each led an army to attack from both sides, and Xiahou Ying then led the Chinese army to kill.

The sudden killing of the Han army really caught the Chu army off guard, and many Chu soldiers ran out of the camp in a panic in disheveled clothes. But after all, the Chu army is a soldier of a hundred battles and has rich combat experience, and Ji Bu also reacted in time after the initial chaos, and issued a decisive military order after another, which firmly stabilized the original crumbling situation, so that the Han army could not drive straight in.

On the contrary, the Han army was mostly new pawns, although it was a sneak attacker, but there was a panic in the army, and after losing its sharpness, it was gradually gained a firm foothold by the Chu army.

Ji Bu sat in the army, desperately resisting the onslaught of the Han army, and on the other hand, sent people to quickly ask for help from Sima Wei and Shen Yang in Dongying, so that they quickly led the army to abandon the attack from the flank of the Han army.

But Ji Bu did not wait for reinforcements from the two, but heard the news that they wanted to escape alone with their army. Immediately furious, he handed over the endgame to the lieutenant general to maintain, and he rode his own troops to intercept the two. ”

Sima Wei and Shen Yang had indeed assembled a large army and were about to flee eastward, but they were stopped by Ji Bu. Seeing that the friendly army was so unbearable, Ji Bu immediately became angry and shouted; "No one is allowed to escape, and if anyone escapes, he will be beheaded.

After saying that, he swung his broadsword and split the waist of a general who had fled from his side into two. His guards also drew their swords and hacked the deserters to death. Ji Bu stopped the rout of the army and forced the Yin army and the Henan army to retreat.

At this time, Sima Wei and Shen Yang had already caught up, Sima Wei saw the body of the general on the ground, and immediately became angry, knowing that this general was his cousin, he couldn't help but ask Ji Bu loudly; "Ji Bu, don't deceive people too much, when will the general of my Yin Kingdom be killed by you."

Ji Bu was unmoved, but glared back viciously, grabbed Sima Wei's shirt and shouted; "You still have the face to ask me why, do you move the truth of cold lips and teeth, you two fools actually threw us down to save our strength. Don't you know that the skin does not exist, the Mao will be attached, and my Chu army is finished, can you still gain a foothold? ”

Under the pressure of Ji Bu, the Yin army and the Henan army turned their guns and turned to kill the Chu and Han armies who were fighting. With the addition of this new force, the Chu army gradually reversed the rout, and the Han army also changed from the initial momentum to the current melee.

At this time, Wei Bao and Chen Yu, who had agreed with Liu Bang to raise troops together, also arrived with a large army, and successively entered from the large camp in the north, attacking the Chu army in the south and the north. Ji Bu saw that the general trend had gone, so he was unwilling to take the remnants of the coalition army to rush out while the coalition army had not yet been encircled, and retreated all the way to the southeast.

Sima Wei and Shen Yang were not so lucky, they were surrounded by the Han army and the Wei army Zhao legion, and were forced to surrender Liu Bang. Liu Bang showed great generosity, not only did not kill the two but saved their thrones, but only let them join the anti-Chu alliance.

After this battle, the Chu army suffered heavy casualties, and Ji Bu fled back to Chu with only 30,000 remnants, and there was no longer a single soldier west of Pengcheng. Liu Bang took advantage of this to become the leader of the anti-Chu alliance in the world, occupying a large territory in the Central Plains and greatly increasing his power.

Immediately, the princes of the alliance in Luoyang gathered the allied forces of Han, Wei, Zhao, Yin, Henan, and Han, with a total army of 560,000, and slaughtered Xiang Yu's capital Pengcheng. And Ji Bu knew that he was outnumbered by the Han army, so he desperately gathered the only troops in the Chu State together and retreated to Pengcheng, and reported to Xiang Yu, who was fighting hard in Qidi.

At this time, Xiang Yu took great effort to capture the capital of Qi Linzi, and Tian Rong was defeated and retreated to the plains, but was killed by the locals. Xiang Yu set up Tian Jiao as the king of Qi and continued to march into Beihai. The Chu army burned down the houses of Qi City along the way, and all of them were killed in the pit fields, and their old and weak women were captured. Qi to the North Sea, many destroyed. The people gathered together and rebelled. Tian Rong's younger brother Tian Heng collected tens of thousands of remnants, and Tian Rongzi Tian Guang became the king, occupied the Chengyang area, and confronted Chu with the support of the people of Qidi. The Chu army suffered successive defeats and fell into trouble.