Chapter 350: The Great Battle of Qin and Chu
Luoyang.
In the daily expectation of Yongya, the sun rises and sets.
The wine shop near the water, the position by the window has become a fixed position of Yongya, there is a lack of contacts in the Qin State, and the old department of Liu Bang, who I knew before, is unwilling to meet because he despises him, Yongya is anxious, and what he can do is to wait for hopelessness day by day.
The Wei State, which survived in the gap between Qin and Chu, had come to the end of its annihilation. The one who gave it a blow was the former anti-Qin ally: the state of Chu.
Yongya's bitter waiting in Luoyang, as well as the whimsical negotiation conditions he proposed, did not bring any good news to Wei, and in the face of absolute Liliang, Qin no longer needed to exchange a city in Pingyi for a group of remnants of Wei's defeated generals.
In contrast, Peng Yue was warmly received in the mansion of Jiang Yu in Sanchuan County, which greatly moved the thieves who were accustomed to the simple and rough days of Daze, they did not expect that they would have such a generous treatment when they came to Qin out of helplessness, and what made Peng Yue even more excited was that Li Yuan had promised to meet him in person.
Seven years have passed.
Daliang gradually developed from a ghost capital to an important town on the river, and became the capital of the Wei State again. And the young marquis who was outside Daliang City and only led a group of remnants of soldiers has also grown into the founder of New Qin, the Marquis of Qin who has a reputation for winning and being undefeated.
Of course, there are changes and there are those that remain the same.
In the seven years of changes outside, Peng Yue buried his head in Juyeze, doing his old job wholeheartedly, and now, when he wanted to meet Li Yuan again, Peng Yue was both excited and a little ashamed.
What is Haojie?
Only those who face difficulties head-on and move forward bravely are heroes. And the one who shrunk in the old nest, drinking today's wine with a group of idlers, and shouting that Lao Tzu is the best in the world every day, is just a coward who is despised.
When we meet, we smile and enmity each other.
This meeting between Li Yuan and Peng Yue was very hidden, and the relationship between the Juye bandits and the Qin State was exposed later. The blow to the state of Chu will also be greater. Peng Yue is a powerful counterattack chess piece, and what Li Yuan likes is Peng Yue's familiarity with the situation in the area of Juyeze, as well as the guerrilla warfare method he is good at, which can just restrain the life of the Chu army.
As long as Xiang Yu is still nostalgic for Peng Cheng, then Peng Yue's sharp blade can be inserted into the chest of Chu State at any time, and at the same time, the competition on the intelligence front is becoming increasingly fierce, and the Military Intelligence Department in charge of Yan Le has also increased the intensity of infiltrating Chu State and cracking down on internal Chu State interstitique, and batch after batch of secret works have infiltrated the hinterland of Chu State from different places, and their tasks are different. They took on a variety of tasks such as rebellion, espionage, and sabotage.
While grasping the layout, orders to urgently mobilize troops were also sent from Luoyang to various places along the gallop road. Han Xin's army in Yandi began to press towards the area of Qidi, and Feng Xuanbu, who was stationed in the area of Nanjun, was also actively manipulating the boat, preparing to go east along the river.
In order to deal with the most elite cavalry units of the Chu army, Li Yuan also recalled more than 5,000 cavalry troops from Hexi who had fought against the Xiongnu cavalry, and handed this cavalry army into the hands of Li Zhongxiang.
In the seventh year of the Qin New Calendar, in the summer of June.
After careful preparations, the Chu army attacked Wei in a big way, and the king of Wei was in a hurry. abandoned Daliang and fled westward, but under the city of Xingyang, Wei Baojun and his ministers were all killed by Xiang Zhuangbu, the vanguard of the Chu army, and all the treasures of Wei fell into the hands of the Chu army.
The news broke. To the great shock of those remnants of the Six Kingdoms who still had illusions about the Chu State, they never thought that it was not the Qin State that destroyed the Wei State, but the Chu State from the alliance Shili. What made them even more incomprehensible was that after capturing Wei Bao and others, the Chu army did not escort them back to Pengcheng. And in front of the Qin army on the pass, the Wei army soldiers were bloodily executed or buried alive.
The purpose of the Chu army's actions on the battlefield was to deter the opponent who was about to start a war: the Qin people. At the same time, it is also to use this kind of killing tactics to stimulate the morale of his own army, so that the Chu soldiers forget the fiasco in Yandi, and become a machine with obeying orders in the killing.
Subsequently, the overlord Xiang Yu swore in Pengcheng and raised the anti-Qin banner again, but this time, in addition to the Fan clan in Jiangnan, Xiang Yu could not find any allies who responded to him.
June 15th.
The Chu army sneaked out of the area of Changshan and entered the vicinity of Handan County of Qin, this Chu army looted the township, and prepared to return with wealth, but was surrounded and annihilated by the thief army from Juyeze in the Changyi area, and the Chu army of more than 1,000 people was annihilated, and all of them were buried in Daze.
The battle then spread, and on the 17th, Xiang Yu personally led his cavalry along the river to attack the tiger prison again, and the Qin army guarding here under the command of Jiang Yu, the county guard, held on and did not retreat.
On the 18th, the Chu general Zhong Liwu launched an attack on Handan from the area of Changshan again, this time the Chu army dispatched a total of more than 13,000 troops, this raid, the Chu army is bound to win, because there is only a distance of more than 200 miles from Changshan to Handan, and the Qin army guards the city with only less than 3,000 local soldiers, and the guard is still the former Chu general Ji Xin.
The county guard of Handan is the former Zhao Wangxie.
The lieutenant of Handan County is Ji Xin, a veteran general of the Chu State.
With Xiang Yu and Zhong Liwu's thoughts, the loyalty of these two people to the Qin State is definitely not high, as long as the Chu army is pressed by the territory, Handan will not be a problem.
In order to persuade Ji Xin to surrender, after besieging Handan, Zhong Liwu sent soldiers to shoot arrows tied to letters, using his own example as a reference, hoping to persuade Ji Xin to return to Chu.
However, the facts dealt a heavy blow to Zhong Li, not only did Ji Xin not agree to surrender to Chu, but instead sent fast horses one after another to report to the surrounding Qin cities, and at the same time, Handan City was also hurrying to repair the damaged city walls for a protracted battle.
June 21.
After the first few days of panic, the assembly of the Qin army was finally successfully completed, and more than 30,000 Han Xin's troops stationed in Yandi set off from the area of Jixian County, and marched south to Qidi and Daijun, and in the face of the threat of the Qin army from the north, Xiang Yu hurriedly sent Xiang Zhuang and the Great Sima Zhou Yin to reinforce Qidi.
Tiger prison is on the front line.
The stalemate in the frontal battlefield between Qin and Chu continued.
Xiang Yu, who was missing an arm, surrounded the lonely city of Xingyang with a general, and at the same time, he led the main force to bypass the Tiger Prison Pass, and broke into the Sanchuan County of the Qin State from the Zhongmu area at the intersection of the big river, and in the face of the aggressive offensive of the Chu army, Li Yuan was also high-spirited, and the Qin army in addition to continuing to hold on to the two dangerous passes of the Tiger Prison and Xingyang, and was also actively dispatching troops to carry out interspersed encirclement of the Chu army led by Xiang Yu. (To be continued......)