Xiang Liang defeated Qin Jia in Huainan and killed the king of Chu Jingju, whom he had established, while Song Yi of Xiangguo saw the opportunity to defect and surrendered Xiang Liang at Pengcheng.

After annexing Qin Jia's territory, Xiang Liang's power encompassed the entire north and south of the Huai River, as well as the hometown of Jiangdong, and occupied the six counties of Huiji, Zhangjun, Jiujiang, Lujiang, Donghai, and Surabaya, so most of the territory of Chu has been recovered by Xiang Liang.

After finding out the news that Chen Sheng had died in battle, Xiang Liang's subordinates expressed their support for him as the king of Chu. After listening to Fan Zeng's opinion, Xiang Liang felt that calling Wang at this time was tantamount to attracting the direction of attack of the main force of the Qin army, and Xiang Liang was under the banner of his father Xiang Yan. Xiang Yan was loyal all his life, and if his descendants betrayed the state of Chu to stand on their own, it would undoubtedly be a great irony.

After much thought, Xiang Liang decided to give up the idea of becoming king, and instead supported Xiong Xin, the grandson of King Huai of Chu, as the king of Chu. Because King Chu Huai was deceived by Qin, he finally died in Qin, and the Chu people took pity on him. Therefore, in order to enhance the appeal of this Chu regime, Xiong Xin is still called King Huai of Chu.

He also worshiped the great Confucian Chen Ying as the Shangzhu State, overseeing the government affairs of Chudi, stabilizing the rear for Xiang Liang, and he himself personally led all the main army, and went to Dong'a to kill and donate to the Qi Guotian brothers.

At first, Zhang Han just wanted to fake defeat to blackmail Zhao Gao of Xianyang, but unexpectedly, Xiang Liang's subordinates had countless cattle and fierce generals, and Xiang Yu's eight thousand elite horses were unstoppable. The Qin army fled all the way west in embarrassment and withdrew from Qidi. Xiang Liang was worried that Zhang Han and Li You's army would set up an ambush after the peace, so he did not pursue and allowed the Qin army to flee back.

After pacifying Qidi, Xiang Liang summoned Tian Rong and Tian Heng and asked them to make their cronies Tian Jiao the king of Qi. Tian Jiao is the younger brother of Tian Jian, the last king of Qi State, after Tian Jian surrendered to Qin, Tian Jiao lived in seclusion on the seaside, and later heard that Xiang Liang ran thousands of miles in Jiangdong.

Although Tian Jian was the king of Qi, he was short-sighted and had a great power to sit back and watch the five kingdoms be destroyed, and finally the whole country surrendered, which was laughed at by the people of the world. Therefore, although Tian Jiao is the king's brother, he is not supported by all people, and he is even looked down upon by Tian Rong and Tian Heng. Because they were afraid of Xiang Liang's strength, Tian Rong and Tian Heng had to pretend to be welcome, but they were secretly jealous in their hearts.

At this time, Xiang Liang's subordinate Liu Bang reminded him: "The two Tian brothers are not subordinate people, since the general wants to control Qi Di in his hands, it is better to take away their military power, otherwise Tian Jiao has no soldiers and no power, how can he fight the two of them." ”

Xiang Liang despised Liu Bang and snorted coldly; "I don't need you to teach me how to arrange my free assertions. I, Da Chu, call on the five countries to rebel against the tyrannical Qin with benevolence and righteousness, they are our allies, how can I do such a despicable thing. Besides, as long as my army is in hand, even if the two brothers are disgruntled, what can they do? ”

Liu Bang opened his mouth, and wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't continue. He felt that Xiang Liang disliked him, and he could even say that he was disgusted.

Liu Bang and Xiang Liang raised troops almost at the same time, but the circumstances were very different. Xiang Liang and Xiang Yu's uncle and nephew fought smoothly, conquering the city all the way, and now they have become the boss of the Chu State. However, he, Liu Bang, has always wandered around Pei County with thousands of rogues, and has been beaten by the guards several times in a row.

The ideal is full, the reality is cruel. Liu Bang realized his shortcomings and weaknesses at this time, he has Xiao He and Chen Ping, on military generals, he has Fan Xu, Xiahou Ying and Zhou Bo, and Peng Yue is also looking forward to him, so Liu Bang's lineup is also quite impressive. But he was born everywhere, because he was only born in grass, unlike Xiang Liang and Xiang Yu, who came from a famous family, and responded to every call and a cluster of heroes.

This is his most fatal weakness, he has no fame. It's okay for the so-called sons of the Red Emperor to fool the villagers and foolish people, and people with a little bit of brains will scoff at this. Therefore, Liu Bang was a little depressed, so he had to take his subordinates to join Xiang Liang's army, because the entire Chu land was Xiang Liang's territory, and if he didn't mix with Xiang Liang, he would only be eliminated.

On the side of the couch, you will not allow others to snore.

On the way to Xiang Liang, Liu Bang met the most important person in his life - Zhang Liang.

After Chen Sheng raised his troops, Zhang Liang also pulled up a team in Handi to respond to the uprising, but he was beaten by the Qin soldiers and fled south to the Central Plains in embarrassment. Zhang Liang is a wise general, the kind of wise general who strategizes and decides thousands of miles, but he is not good at leading troops into battle. What he is suitable for is the kind of person who sits in the camp tent, pinchs his fingers, and then directs the fierce general to smash the field.

So he failed, and he also ran into Liu Bang, who also failed. Although Liu Bang's subordinates are not short of talents, they are very short of military advisors. Xiao He and Chen Ping are okay to engage in civilian logistics, but they can't keep up with the pace in strategic thinking, Zhang Liang's appearance made Liu Bang see hope, so he redoubled his enthusiasm to make friends with Zhang Liang. Liu Bang's greatest talent is to be good at making friends with heroes in the world and buying people's hearts, Zhang Liang is no exception, and he soon became friends with him, and regarded each other as confidants.

After Xiang Liang set the capital of Pengcheng, he rewarded the princes who came to him, and even Liu Bang's younger brother Peng Yue was named a general, but Liu Bang was the only one who did not receive the reward.

Not because of anything else, just because Xiang Liang doesn't like him. In his eyes, Liu Bang is nondescript, neither a famous family, nor a hero, a civil official is not a civilian official, and a military general is not like a military general, but more like a market scoundrel full of big words. And he also saw ambition in Liu Bang, that restless heart always fantasized about flying Huang Tengda to be the first in the world. This made Xiang Liang very uncomfortable, because he was this kind of person.

Although Liu Bang saw that Xiang Liang didn't like him, he didn't dare to show the slightest dissatisfaction, and he was still respectful and humble and obedient. This is the difference between Xiang Liang and Liu Bang, Xiang Liang has the ability to observe people, but he does not have the capacity to accommodate people, but Liu Bang is not, he is a person who knows how to judge the situation, he is dormant, waiting for an opportunity.

And the opportunity was not long in coming.

Zhang Han retreated to Puyang after several defeats, summoned the commander Shi Sima Xin and the commander Dong Peng to help, reorganized the troops and horses, and met the army of Xiang Liang, who was following from the west.

Xiang Liang's army was in high spirits, so Zhang Han avoided its edge and retreated in several battles, so as to paralyze Xiang Liang. At the same time, he ordered Li You to lead his army to advance to Huaibei and attack Xiang Liang's base camp to disperse Xiang Liang's forces.

Xiang Liang was really fooled. After winning seven battles in a row, Xiang Liang had gradually become arrogant and thought that the Qin army was nothing more than that. After receiving an urgent report from the rear, he ordered Xiang Yu to take tens of thousands of elite soldiers south to block Li You, and he himself continued to attack Zhang Han with the remaining army.

And because he was worried that Xiang Yu's troops were insufficient, he asked Liu Bang to lead his troops to accompany him. After Liu Bang arrived in Chen County, he proposed to Xiang Yu that he should take his subordinates to attack the empty counties in the rear of the Qin army. Xiang Yu himself didn't like Liu Bang, a slippery villain, so he nodded and promised.

After leaving Xiang Yu, Liu Bang turned around and headed east without looking back, because he had already seen that Zhang Han was arrogant Xiang Liang.

What kind of person is Zhang Han, he is a general born in the Qin State, if he only has this ability, then how can he defeat Zhou Wen and kill Chen Sheng. So Liu Bang was keenly aware that there must be a conspiracy in it, this time he didn't remind Xiang Liang, but found an opportunity to run first.

For the first time, Xiang Yu led a large army to fight independently, he was very excited and ambitious, and felt that the world would be his Xiang Yu's hunting ground. After bidding farewell to his uncle, Xiang Yu led his 50,000 elite soldiers to pounce on Li You's army.

These 50,000 people are the elite of the Chu army, including the 8,000 Jiangdong disciples who Xiang Yu relied on to become famous, brave generals such as Yingbu, Ji Bu, and Long Ji, and an invincible commander like Xiang Yu. Xiang Yu's army was as fast as the wind, and suddenly appeared behind Li You's army, and Li You was caught off guard in Yongqiu.

Li Si's death made Li You very sad and angry, and his heart was full of discouragement, he just wanted to lead the army to attack the rebels, and then kill himself after being loyal to Daqin, so as not to be insulted by a villain like Zhao Gao. It's a pity that he ran into Xiang Yu and the overlord of Western Chu, who was invincible to thousands of people, which doomed him to a tragedy in his life.

Li You was a famous general at the end of the Qin Dynasty, brave and courageous, good at fighting and managing the army. When he saw Xiang Yu's army coming out from the rear, he calmly responded to the battle and ordered his subordinates to form a formation based on chariots and horses to resist the enemy head-on, while he personally led his own army to storm the right flank of the Chu army.

It's a pity that he miscalculated Xiang Yu's explosive power, Xiang Yu saw that Li You personally led the troops to attack, and led the army to meet and kill after laughing at the sky. After only one round of fighting, Li You was picked off his horse by Xiang Yu, and finally died under the hooves of Wu Yu. Qin Jun saw that the commander he had always believed in was killed by Xiang Yu so easily, and he immediately fell apart.

The battle of Yongqiu became Xiang Yu's famous battle, and since then the title of Jiangdong overlord has spread all over the world, and the soldiers are all trembling when they hear that they are going to face Xiang Yu. Li You's death also sounded the alarm for the collapse of the Qin Empire, and after his unjust death, there were only two usable armies left in Great Qin, one south and one north.

The fall of Li You's army was undoubtedly bad news for Zhang Han, who had one less loyal assistant and one less available reinforcement on his way to extinguishing the rebels. Now, the hopes of the entire Xianyang and the entire Great Qin are all pinned on him alone. However, he was not too affected by Li You's downfall, and still firmly implemented the original strategic plan.

Xiang Yu's elite soldiers had moved away from Xiang Liang's army. Without Xiang Yu, Xiang Liang's is like a tiger that has lost its sharp minions, and he himself has been carried away by the victory he easily obtained. He began to despise Zhang Han and the Qin army, believing that the fall of Great Qin was imminent, and he began to think about how to establish a new kingdom or even an empire on the ruins of Great Qin if he obtained greater benefits.

He didn't wait for Xiang Yu to come back to help, so he rashly led the army to pursue Zhang Han to Dingtao. In this battle, Zhang Han did not retreat anymore, he gathered all his strength, set up a position on the great plain in front of Dingtao City, and waited for the arrival of Xiang Liang's army.

The largest battle after the first emperor destroyed Qi was launched under the city of Dingtao. The Qin army was a 260,000-strong army led by Zhang Han, Sima Xin, and Dong Peng, while the Chu army was a 300,000-strong Chu army under Xiang Liang, and the two sides were evenly matched.

On the eve of the war, Xiang Liang once ordered the Tian brothers and military ministers to come to support, but the two sides refused for various reasons. Xiang Liang remained unmoved, insisted on pursuit, and finally Dingtao and Zhang Han's main forces of the Qin army collided head-on.

The Qin army under Zhang Han is no longer the crude slave army before the water, the army in his hands has experienced dozens of battles, large and small, successfully extinguished several rebel forces, and has already been reborn as an elite army of a hundred battles. At the same time, in order to support the front line to exterminate the rebels, Xianyang also continuously dispatched elite border troops to supplement Zhang Han's army, which became the capital of Zhang Han's victory.

Zhang Han formed more than 100,000 foot soldiers into layers of defense lines, desperately withstanding the huge attack of the Chu army like a tide, while Sima Xin and Dong Peng each led part of the two wings to slowly outflank Xiang Liang's Chinese army. Xiang Liang was also a commander, and soon discovered Zhang Han's intentions, and ordered the rear army to become the left and right wings, under the command of Huan Chu and Zhong Liwei, to meet the two wings of the Qin army respectively.

The battlefield was stalemate, and the Chu army had a slight upper hand in the middle and was storming under Xiang Liang's command in an attempt to break through the Qin army. On the two flanks, the Qin army had a slight advantage, but it could not break through the defense line of the Chu army for a while.

The nearly 600,000 troops of Qin and Chu fought to the death on the plain within a radius of only ten miles, the blood flowed like a river, the corpses on the ground had been piled up, and the corpses of the Qin army and the Chu army were stacked on top of each other, and it was impossible to distinguish each other.

Zhang Han sat steadily on the platform of the Chinese army, staring coldly at the battle not far away, but he was not moved at all. The scouts in the audience kept reporting the battle situation, and Zhang Han simply nodded.

Zhang Ping on the side couldn't hold his breath anymore, and said with some annoyance; "Big brother, the battle has been fought like this, why are you still sitting motionless like a log."

Zhang Han looked at him lightly and said; "What's the use of being anxious, how many times have I taught you, to be calm and calm for the handsome, even if Mount Tai collapses in front of you, you should not be moved, you are frizzy all day long, let me put my mind down."

Zhang Ping still said anxiously; "The outcome of us and the Chu army is unclear now, you have to think of a way to win."

Zhang Han slowly raised his head and looked into the distance, and said calmly; "For the future, it is nothing more than knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent, planning and then acting. I have already grasped Xiang Liang's weakness and used his arrogance and impatience to force him to fight a decisive battle in a hurry. I've done everything I need to do, and I have a seven-point chance of winning. The remaining three points depend on the will of God and the performance of the soldiers, and it is useless for me to be anxious. ”

Zhang Ping said with some surprise; "So brother, you already have the chance to win, big brother?"

Zhang Han nodded and said; "We will win, but I don't want to win miserably, if we kill a thousand enemies and lose eight hundred, then our victory is meaningless, you must know that there are still many rebel forces in Daqin. So I'm waiting for that three-point opportunity, a big win. ”

This is a soldier who rushed to the stage and prayed; "General Teng reported that the Chu army is attacking fiercely, and his Chinese army is about to be unable to withstand it, so I hope that General Shang will quickly reinforce it."

Zhang Han was unmoved, nodded and said; "Got it, let him keep going, if he loses, I'll take his head."

Zhang Ping asked puzzled; "Big brother, don't we still have 20,000 elite horsemen, why don't we send them to aid Tenghan, or attack the two wings of the Chu army, I think the Chu army is already at the end of the crossbow."

Zhang Han shook his head and said; "You underestimate Xiang Liang too much, he is Xiang Yan's son, and he is also a brave and warlike person, how could he not keep his back? I dare that there must be a reserve army in his army, and if our 20,000 cavalry rushes forward, at most we can only lure out his reserve army, and the army will still be helpless. ”

"Since it is a blade, it should be used on the best knife edge, I believe that Xiang Liang will be unable to hold his breath before me."

This is another scout from the audience. "Report to the general, I found an army twenty miles north of Dingtao, about 10,000 people, speeding towards the battlefield."

Zhang Han's eyelids jumped slightly and asked; "But Zhao Jun?"

"Back to the general, I didn't see it clearly when I was too far away, and I didn't look like a rebel army when I saw it, but it looked like my Great Qin's army."

"Probe!"

"No."

After a while, the scout's long 'report' remembered again, Zhang Han's hand was tightly grasping the seat, and his face was still calm.

The scout's voice was joyful, "General, it has been found out that it is our Great Qin army, and when they met our scout, they raised the banner of the Northern Army and swooped down on the back of the Chu army. ”

Zhang Han couldn't sit still anymore, and stood up excitedly and laughed at the sky; "God bless Great Qin, God bless Great Qin." shouted again: "Zhang Ping." ”

"The end will be."

"Hurry up and ride the camp, and when you see my red flag fluttering, you will go straight to the middle of the Chu army, and follow me to capture and kill Xiang Liang."

Zhang Ping's eyes were red, and he shouted loudly: "No! Then he turned and rode away.

When Han Xin marched south under the banner of the vanguard of the Northern Army in Taiyuan County, the defeated generals of the Qin army defected one after another, and after the destruction of the Liying army, Zhao's power in Hedong was almost uprooted. Because he was taken advantage of by Han Xin, he attacked the city all the way to replenish the supply of grain and grass, and if he encountered a strong city, he took a detour to avoid fighting without fighting.

From Taiyuan County to Dingtao, it took Han Xin less than a month, and the team expanded from three or four thousand to nearly 10,000.

When the exhausted team arrived at Dingtao, just in time for the decisive battle of the main forces of the Qin and Chu armies, Han Xin made a quick decision and led the army to the battlefield without waiting for the soldiers to rest. He also ordered more than 2,000 old and weak clans to be divided into dozens of teams, holding a large number of Qin army black water flags, scattered in all directions, and thought they were suspicious soldiers in the nearby mountains and forests, while he himself led more than 7,000 people to pounce on the empty rear of the Chu army.

This Qin army suddenly emerged from the rear made Xiang Liang shocked, he in order to strengthen the offensive against Zhang Han almost all the rear army into the attack, was so disturbed by Han Xin that the rear of the Chu army was in chaos, and the Chu soldiers who were fighting saw the banners of the Qin army fluttering everywhere in the rear, and they couldn't help but be frightened.

Xiang Liang had no choice but to take more than 20,000 pro-troops around him to kill Han Xin, and Zhang Han, who had been waiting for a long time, led 20,000 iron cavalry to immediately set out, roaring towards the Chu army and the Chinese army. The iron hooves arrived, the momentum was like a bamboo, the Chu army was suddenly in chaos, and the head and tail could not care about each other, and the soldiers turned around and fled and rushed into their own military formation, making the Chu army even more chaotic.

Heng Chu fought and died, Xiang Liang saw that the defeat was irretrievable, and he screamed to the sky and killed himself, while Zhong Liwei led tens of thousands of remnants of the army to flee south in a hurry.

PS: A lot of it has been mentioned, saying that there are too many scenes of supporting characters in this book, and it feels like it is dominating. In fact, Jiang Nan's original intention was to write a complete history of the war at the end of the Qin Dynasty, and Han Xin was just the protagonist, connecting the entire plot in series, and the changes in the entire history were driven by the changes in his circumstances. Since it is written at the end of the Qin Dynasty, if you don't write about important figures such as Xiang Yu, Liu Bang, and Zhao Gao, it will definitely not be a complete late Qin Dynasty. That's why Jiangnan will spend a lot of pen and ink to portray these characters, restore the real characters and battles in history, and write a magnificent new chaotic era at the end of the Qin Dynasty as much as possible.

In fact, the opinions put forward by many book friends also made Jiangnan realize his own shortcomings, such as the description of the details of the war I am not very good at, the conversion of the lens is also a little blunt, and some places are also worn because .......Jiangnan is not rigorous enough, etc., etc., I am trying to improve these things, I hope you can also see my efforts.

Jiang Nan is still a newcomer, the first time I tried to write a historical novel, I hope you will be more tolerant of me, some good suggestions or ideas, please don't hesitate to teach, book review area or exchange group can be, as long as it is reasonable, I will listen carefully. A few days ago, a book friend mentioned to me about Li Zuoche, which broadened Jiangnan's thinking a lot, and correspondingly set a lot of foreshadowing for the future.

And then there's the problem of not being able to do anything with the new.,Hehe.,I've been scolded a lot for this.。 But I can't help it, I'm an office worker, so I can only use my free time to code words. And I write books more rigorously, especially some related historical materials and tactics. I've worked very hard now.,Every day, I spent six or seven hours almost coding words.,Stick to the big chapters of more than four or five thousand words.,These days have exceeded five thousand.,I hope you can be very considerate.。