Xiang Liang called for people in Jiangdong. One day, he said to Ji Bu and Zhong Li: "Huan Chu and Yu Ying are Wu Yue's warriors, who once fought against the Qin army, and they don't know where to hide after the defeat?" Recently, I heard that Tushan in Jiujiang called for soldiers and horses. The two of you have been holding official positions in the county for a long time, so you must be very familiar with them, so now I bother the two of you to go to Tushan and invite them to come and join in the great cause. Ji Bu hesitated: "Ming Gong, these two people's martial arts are world-renowned and proud of the heroes of the world. We have been county officials for a long time, and we have wanted them, and we have some grudges. This time, they may not give face. If we let Xiang Gongzi go with us, if they raise any problems, Xiang Gongzi will be able to deal with them. Xiang Liang said yes again and again, so he called Xiang Yu and instructed: "Yu'er, you will go to Tushan with Ji Bu and Zhongli to invite Huan Chu and Yu Ying to come." Xiang Yu said categorically: "Please rest assured, uncle, I will definitely let them vote sincerely!" So the three of them prepared their saddle horses and set off.

More than one day, the three of them came to Tushan. Tu Mountain, also known as Dangtu Mountain, commonly known as East Mountain, is located on the bank of the Huai River in the northernmost part of Jiujiang County. "Zuo Biography • Seven Years of Mourning Gong" contains: "The princes of Yuhui are in Tushan, and the people who hold the jade silk are all over the world. "Huaiyuan County Chronicles" contains: Tu Mountain, also known as Tu Mountain. Tu and Jing two mountains were originally one, and then after being cut by fault and washed by flowing water, they were divided into two mountains across the river, forming one of the famous small three gorges on the Huai River. In the middle of the Western Zhou Dynasty, King Mu of Zhou once met the princes here, calling this conference the meeting of Tushan. Although it is winter at this time, the bamboo and pine trees in the mountains are very prosperous, the white stones on the roadside are full of moss and blue marks, and the vines and roses on the old branches on the cliff side are upside down, the colors are mixed with green and yellow, mottled and scattered, and it seems that there is a good scenery everywhere. Coupled with the chirping of birds everywhere and the flying of cranes, there is really a feeling: a leisurely day in the mountains, and the feeling that the world has been in the past for a long time. When the three of them came to the bottom of the mountain, they walked along the rugged mountain road to the mountain, and a path led to the depths in front of them. The three of them were walking when suddenly a group of minions blocked their way. Ji Bu said to them: "We are the subordinates of General Xiang Liang, and we have something to discuss with your king, so go and report it!" The minions whistled and ran to report as fast as they could.

It turned out that Huan Chu and Yu Ying were famous Hercules of Wu and Yue, and they were also heroes who resisted Qin that year. When they were young, they also served as generals under Xiang Yan's subordinates, participated in the battle against the Qin army to occupy Wu and Yue, and hid in Huiji Mountain after the defeat. Later, the county guard sent troops to encircle and suppress, and the two defeated the officers and soldiers with their superb martial arts. But Ji Bu and Zhong Liwu are also heroes of martial arts, coupled with the large number of officers and soldiers, Huan Chu and Yu Ying were finally defeated, withdrew from Huiji Mountain, and came to Tu Mountain to fall into the grass. They took advantage of the favorable terrain in Tushan to fight guerrilla warfare, and the emperor was far away from the mountain, and the officers and soldiers had no way to take them, so they gained a firm foothold and became the king of the mountain from then on. After Chen Sheng's uprising, Huan Chu and Yu Ying actively prepared for anti-Qin matters, and recently heard that Xiang Liang had raised troops in Wuzhong, so they wanted to send someone to inquire about the situation and see if Xiang Liang had Xiang Yan's heroism and military talent. However, due to the long distance, the trip has not yet been made. At this time, he suddenly heard that Xiang Liang had sent someone, and he was really surprised, so he hurried out to greet him.

Huan Chu and Yu Ying came to the Zhaimen, and when they saw Ji Bu and Zhong Liwu first, they said angrily: "We were cornered by the two of us, and we fled to such a far place, and you came to the door again?" Ji Bu and Zhong Liwu hurriedly apologized and said, "Two heroes, please don't misunderstand. In the past, we used to serve the Qin State, but now we have supported Xiang Liang, the son of Xiang Yan, as a general, and are ready to raise troops against Qin. This time, I was ordered by him to invite the two to go out of the mountain to help General Xiang Liang destroy Qin and restore Chu. Please let go of your suspicions and let's do something together, shall we? Huan Chu laughed and said, "So that's the case! I have long seen that the Qin State is finished, so I will never surrender Qin, and now it is really the case, haha! "Invite the three of them into the village to talk!" Ji Bu and the others followed Huan Chu to the village, and sat down with the guests. Huan Chu arranged tea first, and then said: "I have heard of Xiang Liang's name for a long time, but his father Xiang Yan is a hero, he may not be a hero!" Zhong Liwu got up and pointed at Xiang Yu and said, "Have you heard of Xiang Liang's nephew Xiang Yu?" Huan Chu said: "I've heard of it, but I don't know what he can do?" Ji Budao introduced Xiang Yu and said: "This son is." ”

Xiang Yu hurriedly got up and saluted. Huan Chu and Yu Ying saw that Xiang Yu was tall and big, with a brocade robe and jade belt, and a very generous outfit, so they exclaimed: "The son is really good-looking, but I don't know what skills you have?" Xiang Yu said: "In the next item, I came to welcome the two heroes out of the mountain on the order of my uncle. Huan Chu said coldly: "If there is chaos today, and there are many heroes everywhere, there are many people like us who occupy the mountain as kings." You just stand up and say that you are the grandson of Xiang Yan, how can we believe it? Xiang Yu patted his chest and said: "I am Xiang Yan's grandson, Xiang Liang's nephew Xiang Yu, this won't be fake!" Huan Chu glanced at Xiang Yu and said, "Even if it's it." When I was in Wuzhong, I heard of your name! It's just that our skills are mediocre, and we will only chase foxes and rabbits in the mountains. If you say that you go into battle to kill the enemy, you are a layman, and you are used to being idle, how can you concentrate on the cause of one spear and one gun? You'd better be smart! Xiang Yu said impassionedly: "Today's Qin State, the second is mediocre, and Zhao Gao is in power, so heroes are everywhere. I heard that both of them have unique skills and skills, so they should eliminate the harm for the world and show their skills, but why are they hiding here in obscurity? Could it be that he was frightened by the Qin army? As soon as Ji Bu heard this, their words were tense, and he hurriedly said: "General Xiang really admires the two of them for their fame and came to invite, do you want the two of you to think twice?" ”

Yu Ying got up and said: "We already know the kindness of the three, but although Qin has no way, the foundation is still very solid, and he can't compete with him unless he is a genius in the world!" It's not that we don't believe you, it's just that we're worried that the uncles and nephews of the Xiang family are mediocre, if they go to answer the call, things won't work out in the future, but they will have to affect each other, which is not good for anyone! Zhong Liwu also hurriedly said: "The two strong men don't know, Xiang Gongzi has learned the skills of ten thousand invincibles, and his martial arts can be described as invincible in the world, please don't doubt it?" Huan Chu smiled and said, "I can talk big, but I don't know if it's true or not?" If you can show your hand, if you really have the ability to defeat ten thousand people, we will follow you down the mountain. Otherwise, you'd better be smart! Xiang Yu heard the meaning, so he asked, "But I don't know how to reveal it?" Yu Ying had an idea and said, "The competition will hurt the harmony." In this way, there is a Yuwang temple under the north mountain, there is a big tripod in front of the temple, there is a weight of a thousand catties, if Xiang Gongzi can push down and help up, and then push down and up, so three push and three up, even if it is invincible in the world, we will follow Gongzi to Wu County. Xiang Yu said: "A gentleman's word, the horse is difficult to chase!" Huan Chu and Yu Ying said: "Never break your word!" Xiang Yu immediately got up and said, "How about going down the mountain to see the ding?" Huan Chu and Yu Ying also immediately got up and said, "Please!" "Everyone went out of the cottage.

After a while, they came to the Yuwang Temple at the bottom of the mountain, and Xiang Yu and the others really saw a bronze tripod with big ears and three legs standing on the pedestal in the middle of the courtyard. When everyone got closer, Xiang Yu found that this tripod was one meter eight high, about four meters in circumference, and estimated to weigh 1,500 catties. Xiang Yu looked at the ding, first circled the ding, and then asked the three little minions to try to push it, but they didn't move. Xiang Yu rolled up his sleeves and pushed forward, and Na Ding fell to the ground, and then helped him up, and everyone was shocked. Xiang Yu thought that if I didn't show my skills here today, they would look down on me, so he said: "Two, just pushing down and helping you up, you can't show the means!" Huan Chu asked, "What does Xiang Gongzi mean?" Xiang Yu said: "I can lift this tripod." Huan Chu and Yu Ying heard that Xiang Yu could lift the tripod up, so they said in surprise: "Don't hide it from the son, we can only push this tripod down and lift it up, even if we join forces, we can only lift it three feet, not above the head." If Childe can hold up this tripod, he will really be invincible in the world! What else do we have to say? Xiang Yu listened to the words of the two, smiled slightly, and rolled up his sleeves to prepare to raise the crown.

At this time, the clock left the inspiration, and hurriedly stepped forward and said to Xiang Yu: "Don't worry, son. Then he turned back to Huan Chu and Yu Ying and said: "There are rumors in the rivers and lakes that one of the two can pull out trees and the other can stomp his feet, but I don't know if it's true or not?" Today, if Xiang Gongzi took great pains to raise the big ding, but the two of them did not live up to their names, it would also disappoint the Chu people? Huan Chu and Yu Ying glanced at each other and laughed: "Okay! Good! Huan Chu said that, he walked to a tree on the side of the yard road, the tree was not to say that it was the thickness of a bowl, and Huan Chu said loudly: "You have to look carefully!" So saying, he moved his muscles and bones, and with all his strength, he bent down, clasped the root of the tree with both hands, and with a cry, he uprooted the tree with all his might. The crowd was shocked. Yu Ying saw that Huan Chu had pulled up the tree, so he pulled up his trouser legs, also shouted, stomped hard to the ground, and then lifted his feet. Everyone saw that he had stepped into the ground a full foot deep. The sergeant's cheers rang out. Xiang Yu and the other three also admired the divine power of the two very much. Since then, people have called Huan Chu 'General Pulling Trees' and Yu Ying 'Stomping Generals', which together are 'Pulling and Stomping Two Generals'.

Xiang Yu was also surprised, thinking that these two really had divine power, so he said, "Now look at me to lift the crown." Everyone came to the big ding, and everyone focused their eyes on Xiang Yu. Xiang Yu lifted the placket, rolled up the sleeves, first put his left hand on the edge of the tripod, put his right knee against the bottom of the big tripod, grabbed the foot of the tripod with the other hand, and then lifted it hard, and the tripod hung in the air. Xiang Yu roared loudly after lifting the level, and lifted the golden tripod high above his head, and his momentum changed color. Huan and Yu were shocked, and even Ji Bu and Zhong Liwu applauded again and again. Those little minions were so shocked when they saw the scene in front of them that they were so frightened that they couldn't wake up. Xiang Yu lifted the tripod up for about a moment, then put the tripod on the ground, then patted the shoulder, kicked his leg again, and smiled casually: "Can the two of you go out of the mountain?" Huan and Yu knelt down at Xiang Yu's feet with a "flutter", and said: "General Xiang is really a god grandfather, even if Meng Ben, Xia Yu, and Ren Cong are alive, it's nothing more than that!" We are willing to follow you in the saddle for the rest of our lives, unto death! The rest of the minions also crawled on the ground together, and many people didn't dare to look up at Xiang Yu. Xiang Yu laughed and helped the two of them up. It has been mentioned many times in the history books that Xiang Yu's "strength can carry the tripod" refers to this tripod carrying the tripod. Xiang Yu has become famous since then, as long as the people in his hometown talk about Xiang Yu's promotion, no one does not admire it. There is a poem praising Xiang Yu Dao:

There are also 10,000 enemies, Cui Wei stands in Haoqiong.

Pulling out the mountain can cover the world, and the number of carving insects is lifted.

Sishang is the best in the people, and the Jiangdong Gai Shixiong.

The chasm can be confronted, but there is only a bow.

Huan Chu and Yu Ying said to Xiang Yu respectfully: "Now please ask General Xiang to go back to the cottage for a drink, and we will immediately assemble the team to go down the mountain tomorrow." Please! Xiang Yu was very happy, so he came to the cottage with everyone. As soon as he walked to the door, Huan Chu immediately ordered the drums to be beaten and the trumpets were sounded to welcome Xiang Yu, Ji Bu, and Zhong Liwei into the village. Huan Chu made the scene very grand, and then slaughtered cattle and sheep, held a big banquet, drank wine in a big bowl, ate meat in a big bowl, and warmly entertained Xiang Yu and others, and everyone had to get drunk and rest.

The next day, after breakfast, Huan Chu first ordered to gather all the horses in Tushan, a total of more than 3,000 people. Then he packed up his belongings, burned the cottage, and fired a cannon down the mountain. The heroes rushed to Wu County with Xiang Yu in their arms.

When Xiang Liang heard that Huan Chu and Yu Ying had arrived, he was overjoyed and hurried out of the city to greet him. I saw Huan Chuqing's face and black hair, his nose like garlic, and his beard like wheat stubble. Yu Ying's red face and red beard, the arch of his eyebrows is like an eaves, and his nose is like a hanging gall, they are all men with high spirits, correcting martial artists, and he is overjoyed, and he immediately named the two of them as captains on the left and right. Huan and Yu were very happy, so they bowed down at their feet. Xiang Liang helped the two of them up: "Both of them are strong men in Wuzhong, today's heroes, and now that God has given you to me, how can the Qin State not perish?" So they came to the city. Ji Bu and Zhong Liwu told Xiang Liang about the two of them pulling out trees, stomping their feet, and Xiang Yu lifting the crown. Xiang Liang was very surprised, so he set up a banquet to celebrate.

At this time, the children of Wuzhong came to join the army one after another, and many of them took up positions. Yu Yigong also sent Yu Ziqi here, and he said to Xiang Liang: "The old man only has one son, now hand it over to the general, let him also follow the army to use, it can be regarded as the old man doing his part for the Chu State!" Xiang Liang was very grateful and arranged for him to serve in the army. Suddenly, a person came up to Xiang Liang and said, "Why doesn't General Xiang use me?" Xiang Liang looked at him and said with a smile: "I asked you to handle a matter before, but you didn't do it well that time, so I can't arrange a position for you, please forgive me!" When the man heard this, he suddenly understood, and he retreated. It can be seen how cautious Xiang Liang is in selecting people. At this time, the soldiers and horses had almost gathered, a total of 8,000 people, known as '8,000 soldiers' in history, and all the counties of Huiji were surrendered.

After King Chen's general Zhaoping was driven out of Tancheng by Qin Jia and others, he led his people south until he came to Guangling, where he stayed for a short time before he heard that King Zhang Chu had defeated Chencheng. After another period of time, the news that King Zhang Chu was plotted against spread everywhere. Zhaoping gathered his subordinates and said: "Zhang Han is going south, King Zhang Chu has been killed, and we have no meaning here." I heard that Xiang Liang had raised troops in Jiangdong, where there were many people, fertile land, and plenty of money and grain, so we went to Jiangdong and persuaded Xiang Liang to cross the river to fight Zhang Han, right? The subordinates said: "There is no communication, and now he is going forward, he may not take us seriously." Zhaoping said: "The king has instructed before: to contact the righteous people in the southeast. Write a fake edict now, and seal Xiang Liang as the Shangzhu State. With such a high title to go to confer a seal, even if there is no relationship, will he still refuse? The ministry said: "It's a pity that there is no seal." Zhaoping said with a smile: "I have the general's seal given by the king, and I can follow the seal of the Shangzhu Kingdom on the other side." When they heard this, they felt that it was very reasonable, so they found a stone, carved a large seal of the Shangzhu Kingdom, and wrote a false edict together, and then sealed it up, and went south with it.

Zhaoping and others came to Wu County, and sure enough, they saw that everyone was in full swing everywhere, and everyone was high-spirited, so he was very happy, so he went straight to the general's mansion to ask to see Xiang Liang. Xiang Liang was very surprised when he heard that Zhang Chu was coming, so he walked out to greet him. After Zhaoping and Xiang Liang met, Zhaoping said: "We were ordered to see you, and we don't know the current situation of the king. As he spoke, he took out the edict and the seal of Shangzhuguo, Xiang Liang was very happy, and the edict read:

Zhang Chu Wang Sheng cautiously told Xiang Gong's subordinates: Gu has long heard that you are the son of Xiang Yan, after the gate, and Xiang Yan died at the hands of the Qin people, and everyone knows about it. Lone Ben is a field servant, and he still knows the righteousness of revenge, so he raised his arms and shouted, and the heroes of the world responded. And after you are a loyal martyr, it is difficult to gather the enemies of the country and the family, is it better to be determined to take revenge than to be alone? Lonely worship you as the Shangzhu State of Chu, and send General Zhaoping to come to give the title, and I hope you will not forget the hatred of Chu, rely on righteousness and loyalty, preside over military affairs, and destroy Qin and restore Chu. In order to make contributions to the present and make a name for future generations.

Xiang Liang was very happy after reading the edict, so he accepted the award, and since then he has called himself the Shangzhu State of Chu. Shangzhu State is the highest military position in Chu State, in charge of the power of soldiers and horses, and is the later generalissimo of soldiers and horses. Xiang Liang unexpectedly received this reward, so he warmly entertained Zhao Ping. Zhaoping said: "Jiangdong is as talented as a cloud, and I hope that Xiang Gong will cross the river as soon as possible, and the people of Jiangbei are looking forward to it!" Xiang Liang said: "The military horses have been prepared, and I will cross the river later!" So he left the summons and others in the army to be used.

Three days later, Xiang Liang saw that everything was ready, so he ordered the troops to rise. On this morning, the military horses were drawn to the sound of a cannon salute, and the procession came to the Dantu River. At this time, the people of Jiangnan crowded on the riverside with wine and meat to see off their relatives. Yu Ji also followed Xiang Yu to the riverside, and the two were reluctant to give up, and finally held their hands and wept, speechless. Xiang Yu said emotionally: "Please rest assured, we will definitely be able to enter the Guanzhong." When the Qin State is destroyed, I will come back immediately to meet you. Yu Ji said: "But as the king said, if you go early and return early, you can only pray for peace." Xiang Yu smiled: "Please rest assured, no hero in the world can surpass me, haha!" ”

At this time, some old men came to Xiang Liang, took his hand and said, "When the general goes today, he will definitely be able to make meritorious contributions." But after you leave, if there are no virtuous parents, my life will not be much better. Xiang Liang made a wish: "Because of the large number of people and horses, I have to cross the river as soon as possible." But please rest assured, if I meet a sage after crossing the river, I will immediately send him to be the county guard of Huiji County, and I will not disappoint your expectations. If this is all done in the future, I will also exempt you from paying taxes here for ten years, and you will definitely have a good life! And the fathers wept and said goodbye. Xiang Liang then said goodbye with tears, and led the soldiers to board the ship and leave.

The woman in Jiangnan sang an amorous parting song:

The leaves are pale, and the white dew is frost; Sending each other off along the clear stream, the journey is long and long; Sing along the river wind, don't forget the good old days.

The leaves are pale, and the white dew is frost; Sending each other along the clear stream, the sail is hung up from the shore; I saw that the wild goose had already soared south, and I rode thousands of times to Shuofang.

The leaves are pale, and the white dew is frost; Send it along the clear stream, send it to the middle of the water; The vast river and the sky are looking forward to the success of the monarch and returning to his hometown as soon as possible.