Chapter 142: The Chu Army Fights Dong'e City
Xiang Yu galloped on his horse, and the black horse that had gone away came to the center of the battlefield in an instant. Xiang Yu strangled the horse, the four hooves of the black horse were beaten, and then the front hooves rose into the air, followed by a loud neigh, Xiao shook the sky, and then landed firmly on the ground. Xiang Yu's heroic spirit, which is rare in the world, immediately attracted the attention of the soldiers on both sides, and this action was as chic as the god of war in the sky. In astonishment, the eyes were focused on him.
When Zhang Han saw General Chu coming to challenge, he praised in surprise: "What a handsome young man!" I wonder who this person is? As soon as the sigh fell, I heard Xiang Yu shouting: "Who will fight the decisive battle?" The voice was like thunder, so panicked that Zhang Han took a step forward and asked loudly: "You kid, what's your name?" Dare to come to death? Xiang Yu replied loudly: "I am Jiangdong Xiang!" Xiang Yan's grandson and Xiang Liang's nephew! Which of you will due? Zhang Han was dumbfounded, because he had heard of Xiang's uncle and nephew, but he didn't know the real situation, so he shouted to the soldiers behind him: "More than ten years ago, our great First Emperor sent the army of Qin to attack Chu, at that time there was a general in Chu, he often lost battles, and finally committed suicide in defeat, this general is Xiang Yan. After Zhang Han finished speaking, he pointed at Xiang Yu on the battlefield and roared angrily: "He! It's Xiang Yan's grandson, grandson! When Zhang Han said the second grandson, he deliberately aggravated his tone, meaning that Xiang Yu may be Xiang Yan's grandson, but there are many cowards in the world who pretend to be grandsons. Because everyone customarily calls those who are cowardly and unbearable Sun Tzu, Zhang Han emphasizes this meaning. When the soldiers understood, they immediately burst into laughter. When Xiang Yu saw this scene, he was furious, so he glared at the enemy formation, eager to swallow them all alive. As soon as Qin Jun's laughter stopped, he saw a general in the cavalry team leap out of the hula and said loudly: "General Zhang, if this kid is not pretending to be a grandson, then he is a real grandson." The true grandson is the old enemy and great enemy of the Qin State, I will cut off his head! After saying that, he came out of the horse and came to the battlefield as soon as he slipped through the smoke, and this person was Peng Sheng, the tiger general of the Qin army.
At this time, the golden drums of the two sides beat in unison, the horn sounded, and the soldiers shouted and cheered together. Peng Sheng relied on his own courage, came to the battlefield, held the big Yue in both hands, and slashed at Xiang Yu with his head and face. Xiang Yu originally wanted to pierce his head with a halberd, but he didn't forget his uncle's explanation, so he sent a weapon to cover it. Hearing the sound of 'clang', sparks flew everywhere, and the weapons of the two collided together, and then the two fought together. Xiang Yu kept in mind his uncle's entrustment, and did not immediately end Peng Sheng's life, so he fought with him for fifty rounds, and suddenly heard a burst of intense drums coming from the position of the Chu army. At this time, Peng Sheng also shouted, slashed a sword, and fled from the battlefield with his weapon in tow. Qin Jun's laughter suddenly became smaller. Xiang Yu didn't chase after him, so he sneered and took his bow and arrows, and saw that Peng Sheng was about to return to the team. Qin Jun was shocked, and his laughter stopped abruptly.
Zhang Han was shocked when he saw the scene in front of him, so he had to send another warrior to fight. The warrior didn't say a word, and came to the field to stab Xiang Yu with a lance. At this time, there was a burst of intense drums again on the Chu army's position. Xiang Yu knew that General Fan had finished the matter on the battlefield, so he mustered up his courage and roared, and a halberd picked the Qin general under the horse, and then took advantage of the situation to hook the Qin general's war horse with the halberd, and captured the horse. Qin Jun was stunned when he saw Xiang Yu so imposing. Zhang Han was even more stunned, and he didn't dare to send someone to challenge him anymore.
At this time, the order to collect the army came from the position of the Chu army, and Xiang Yu laughed and led the horse back. The two armies confronted each other, and neither dared to charge. After a while, Song Yi of the Chu side came to the battlefield again, it turned out that he was sent by Xiang Liang to deliberately provoke the Qin army, so he saluted Zhang Han and said: "General Zhang, the Chu army has won the duel before the battle, which is enough to show that the Chu army is invincible." Now our army has to retreat, because the sergeants have not yet eaten, so they will fight again when they are full. Then he beat his horse and went back. The generals of the Qin army laughed when they heard this. Seeing this, Zhang Han felt inexplicable, so he said: "It's really funny, there is a reason to go to eat in the middle of a war?" So he hurriedly observed the movements of the Chu army. I saw that after Song Yi returned, the position of the Chu army retreated dozens of steps, and then stopped. After a closer look, the chariots and cavalry of the Chu army suddenly dispersed to the two wings, and a neat infantry battle formation appeared in the middle. Zhang Han didn't know what Chu Jun was doing, so he asked Dong Yi and the others: "What tricks do you say they are playing?" Are you really too hungry to move? Dong Yi said: "This must be the first time the Chu army has arrived, and it doesn't know how to fight, and it is afraid that our army will attack on all fronts, so he was scared to say it, it is simply teasing us!" Now that the enemy's infantry battle formations are exposed, and the position has not yet stabilized, if our chariots suddenly attack them, they will be in disarray. Wait until the position is chaotic, and then attack with infantry, and what about cavalry, what are you afraid of? In this battle, Chu Kou must be defeated and Xiang Liang must be captured alive! "Yes, Xiang Liang is not Xiang Yan, what are you afraid of? Besides, Lao Tzu is a hero, and his son may not be a hero! Sima Xin also teased not far away.
Zhang Han listened to the words of the two, jumped off the chariot, personally boarded the lookout car to watch, he said while watching: "The Chu army is a newly formed team, and the combat effectiveness must not be too strong, what you said makes sense." Although our army lost alone, if we used the advantage of the large army to fight against them with a strong chariot army, how could Chu Kou resist? The soldiers said in a solemn Qin tone: "The general gives an order, measure these Nanban, the same goods as Qi and Wei, and they can be done in one battle!" Seeing that the soldiers said this, Zhang Han asked the herald to give orders to both sides of the position, and when he mustered up the courage, he launched a charge. The two starters ran to both sides, shouting as they ran: "The general has an order, shout in unison, and then attack!" All the soldiers shouted in unison: "Kill!" Kill! Kill! The shouts of the Qin army were like the earth shaking, and the Qin army seemed to have redeemed the unfavorable situation of the head-to-head defeat just now.
Zhang Han finally gave the order to march, and he ordered the five hundred chariots to be divided into five echelons and drove towards the front at a gallop. Suddenly, thousands of horses galloped on the battlefield, and the sound of cars rumbled, like a landslide and tsunami. Just as the chariots were advancing together, the herald of the Qin army roared like a lion: "Release the arrow!" I saw that all the archers on the chariot shot extremely sharp arrows in unison, and the arrows flew towards the Chu Array overwhelmingly. When the soldiers of the Chu army saw that the enemy was shooting arrows, they hurriedly covered them with shields, but many people were still injured by arrows. It didn't take much time, and the chariot of the Qin army had already arrived in front of the Chu army. At this time, more than 2,000 engineers had already dug a 500-meter-long and two-meter-wide ditch in the middle of the position, and covered it with a sinking machine cover. At the same time, the Chu army arranged a row of soldiers in the back, and they waited for the arrival of the enemy with a thick rope, and the front end of the rope was tied to the round hole of Shen Ji. At this time, the Qin army had already reached the position of the Chu army, and the soldiers forcefully pulled the plank apart, and a wide ditch was suddenly exposed in front of the Qin army. The tank could not stop at all by inertia. Listening to the 'boom, boom, boom', the horse pulling the cart first fell into the pit, and then those tall and mighty chariots also fell down together, and the cart suddenly turned to the sky. But the wheels were still spinning, and the sound was like a troublemaker laughing up to the sky. The driver behind couldn't brake and crashed into the car in front of him. After a while, the chariots of the Qin army all became bullfights with their feet facing the sky. The armor soldier in the car was also dizzy, crooked his neck and squinted his eyes, and kept shouting 'oops'. At the same time, on both sides of the position of the Chu army, a sharp arrow suddenly shot out in the sky, and the arrows like locusts pierced towards the position of the Qin army. Zhang Han originally wanted to let the chariots charge and show their majesty to the Chu army, but he didn't expect their chariots to fall into the pit, so he screamed in surprise and hurriedly ordered the chariots behind him to stop charging.
Seeing that Zhang Han's chariots had stopped charging, Fan Zeng persuaded Xiang Liang to seize this rare opportunity and ordered the chariots of the Chu army to charge, outflanking the two flanks of the Qin army's position, and ordered the cavalry to charge the central position of the Qin army. In this way, the Chu army took the initiative on the battlefield, they shouted and rushed to the enemy, and those war horses and chariots galloped across the vast battlefield. As soon as the sergeants on both sides received fire, they immediately slashed and slashed. At this time, only the sound of the collision of weapons, the friction of the cuirasse, the shouting of the sergeant, the painful cry of the killed, and the perverted madness of the murderer were all intertwined, and the whole battlefield seemed noisy, and the arrows in the sky were still firing at each other, and some even touched the arrows, and both fell down. In this way, the two sides fought for half an hour, and the cavalry of the Qin army was a little chaotic at first, but they were well-trained after all, although they were slightly weak, but they were still able to show the quality and level of the Qin army fighting each other, and the two sides were in a state of stalemate.
At this time, Xiang Yu's cavalry was struggling to rush in the direction of Zhang Han's Chinese army, and Pei Gong and Lu Chen also rode in a sturdy chariot, wielding extremely sharp weapons, and struggled to lead everyone to kill the Qin army. The blood of the fighters on both sides was sprayed incessantly, and the battle continued for an hour. At this time, Zhang Han saw that the Chu army chariots outflanked from both sides had already taken the advantage, and the cavalry and cavalry were also inseparable, so he wanted to press the infantry as well. At this moment, he suddenly found that Xiang Yu was waving his weapon and rushing towards him, and the soldiers of the Qin State could not resist it. Zhang Han hurriedly mobilized a group of soldiers from the Chinese army, and went to the front to block Xiang Yu, resolutely not letting him approach. At this moment, someone suddenly shouted in panic: "General Zhang is not good, our rear army is already in chaos, and the men and horses are trampling each other!" Zhang Han was shocked and hurriedly asked what was going on. At this time, a sergeant came to report: "General Zhang, Qi General Long and others have been killed from the city, and Tian Heng has also been killed from Stubble." They attacked in two directions, and General Li You couldn't resist it! When Zhang Han heard this report, he was at a loss. Long and Tian Heng had already shaken off Li You at this time and rushed here as fast as they could. Because Long Ji was well prepared this time, coupled with his superb martial arts, he took the lead, and the place he passed through was like entering a no-man's land. Tian Heng also followed behind and killed a happy one. The sudden appearance of these two people was undoubtedly quite a blow to the Qin army.
Although Zhang Han is a veteran, at this time, the entire battle situation has changed. He didn't expect that the Qi army would be killed, and the situation on the battlefield would become more and more unfavorable to the Qin army, so he decisively ordered the cavalry to meet the enemy and the infantry to retreat. For a time, the infantry formation of the Qin army retreated to the southwest, and the military horses of Chu and Qi took advantage of the situation to cover and kill. Xiang Liang saw the defeat of the Qin army from a distance from the position, so he drove the infantry to charge. When the infantry army came to the position of the Qin army, the Qin army had already completely retreated, and the cavalry in front had already chased Zhang Han to the foot of Dong'e City. After Zhang Han and Li You rendezvous, the situation was a little better, and they joined forces to block Xiang Yu's impact again and again. At this time, Zhang Han saw that the situation was already chaotic, so he ordered the cavalry and the remaining chariots to withdraw from the battle and retreat to the southwest.
Xiang Liang was very happy when he saw this, and he wanted to catch Zhang Han quickly. Fan Zeng stopped at this time: "No, General, although Zhang Han's chariot soldiers have suffered heavy losses, the infantry has suffered little losses, and when they retreated, I saw that the banner in front of the queue was not chaotic, which shows that the Qin army is retreating in an orderly manner, and there is Li You to respond." If they are forced to be in a hurry, Zhang Han will fight back, and if the hundreds of thousands of Qin troops fight hard, it is difficult to predict the outcome or defeat. This is a big battle, and if you can win the first battle, it will be a great success. Xiang Liang followed Fan Zeng's advice and immediately ordered Ming Jin. When the soldiers heard the call to collect the troops, they returned to the team and came to the city of Dong'e together. At this time, Tian Rong had already come out to greet the Chu army, and met Xiang Liang and others under the city. Everyone's cheers continued, and they all chanted in unison: "Long live the Chu army!" ……”
After Xiang Liang entered the city, Tian Rong was grateful, and arranged a banquet that night. During the banquet, General Qi praised the bravery of the Chu army. Xiang Liang said: "General Long Ji is also a tiger general!" "Let Long and Xiang Yu meet. The two hit it off at first sight, and they felt sorry for each other. Xiang Liang was very happy. Suddenly, the fast horses of the Qi State came to fly to report the disaster: it turned out that Tian Jiao, the doctor of the Qi State, and the general Tian Jian saw that the King of Qi was dead, and Tian Rong was besieged by the Qin army in Dong'e, so he simply mobilized hundreds of soldiers to coerce the hundred officials to expel the prince Tian City of the King of Qi, and supported the younger brother Tian Jian of the original King of Qi Tian Jian to be the King of Qi, Tian Jiao served as the Xiangguo, and Tian Jian was the general, and then sent 300 chariots to various dangerous places in Jibei to garrison to prevent Tian Rong and Tian Heng from returning to China.
When Tian Rong and Tian Heng heard the news, they were stunned at that time. After a while, Tian Rong gritted his teeth and said: "The King of Qi has just been killed in battle, the Qi army has suffered a heavy blow, and the traitor is seeking power and usurping the throne, this is simply a disaster!" Tian Rong swore: "I must eradicate the rebellion and capture the traitor alive!" He asked Xiang Liang to resign and went back to quell the rebellion. Xiang Liang saw that there was infighting in Qi State, which was also a major event, so he had to agree to Tian Rong's return to China. Ertian immediately led the Qi army and angrily killed Linzi.
After the Qi army left, Xiang Liang ordered Xiang Yu and Liu Bang to lead the chariots and cavalry to pursue Zhang Han, while asking Huan Chu and Yu Ying to reorganize the infantry, and also repairing and equipping the hundreds of chariots and horses that had been captured, so that Ji Bu and Zhong Liwu could reorganize the chariot corps. Later, when he heard that Zhang Han had retreated to Chengyang, Zhang Han hurriedly sent someone to inquire about the news of Qi and prepared to attack Zhang Han with the Qi army. In the Battle of Dong'e, the Chu army won the first battle, which also relieved the siege of Dong'e, broke the myth of the invincibility of the Qin army, and fully demonstrated the potential of the Chu army to fight a big battle, thus changing the situation of repeated defeats in the Shandong uprising.