After Xiang Yu divided the princes, Tian Rong killed The Qi King Tian Du, the King of Jibei Tian An, and the Jiaodong Wang Tian City, unifying the three counties of the State of Qi and restoring the territory of the State of Qi at the end of the Warring States.
Xiang Yu first enfeoffed Emperor Yi to Chenxian County, then sent Yingbu to kill him, and then went north to attack the State of Qi.
Seeing that the East was in chaos, Liu Bang, the King of Han, had not yet figured out a reasonable strategy. Liu Bang's army was almost all Kwantung, and when it came to short-term and medium-term goals, there were roughly two types.
The first group was the Peixian Gang, hoping to send troops from the direction of Wuguan, which was equivalent to returning to Nanyang County along the same route from Li Shang to Hanzhong.
Through several months of hard work, The Tomb of the Marquis of Rang basically controlled most of the central and northern parts of Nanyang County, with a strength of perhaps 30,000 or 40,000 troops. There was a force in Nanyang, and Zhang Ping under Liu Bang controlled several counties, with about 3,000 men. Xiang Yu did not make Wang Ling the Prince of Nanyang, but the Marquis of Yong, and he was always defensive against this Peixian people who had once called Liu Bang a brother. Xiang Yu did not plot against Zhang Ping again, that is, to create a contradiction between Wang Ling and Zhang Ping, Xiang Yu neither wanted Wang Ling's strength to be too strong, nor did he want Wang Ling Zhang Ping to live in peace.
Peixian helped many people to have friendship with Wang Ling, tended to march east along the Han River, and joined forces with Wang Ling, the strength of the two sides was about 100,000, and they could launch an attack according to the war in the Central Plains, and they could also retreat to Nanyang, and then return to Hanzhong if they were not lucky.
The second wave of people was the Non-Pei County Gang, who believed that they should first move south and take Shu County and Ba County in the Sichuan Basin to solve their worries. After doing so, you can send troops out of Nanyang, or you can attack Nan County (LinjiangGuo) from Ba County, and the road to life is wider. At that time, there was no Shu Han established by Liu Bei, but the idea coincided, and if Nanyang County was added, it would be infinitely close to the peak of Shu Han.
Although Xiang Yu gave Liu Bang the titles of Hanzhong County, Shu County, and Ba County, there were not many counties in these three places, and they were also managed by Shu County. At this time, Shu Commandery was too defensive, and had already received a secret letter from Zhang Handan, asking Liu Bang to be strictly guarded against and not allowed to enter the river. Taishou of Shu Commandery beheaded emissaries sent by Liu Bang, but Liu Bang failed to take over Shu Commandery and Ba County.
At this time, the Han army did not know the strength of Bashu, but it was difficult to hear about Shu Dao, and no one thought that it was easy to hit Bashu.
Liu Bang tended to fight Bashu, but did not want to march so quickly into Nanyang County. If Wang Ling was still Liu Bang's younger brother, he would not refuse to follow Liu Bang into the customs and establish his own kingdom in Nanyang. Once the Han army entered Nanyang County, Liu Bei was the guest, Wang Ling was the master, and many people and horses on both sides were familiar with each other, and once there was a shortage of materials, who dared to guarantee that the people of Pei County would not run to the Wang Ling, and the friendly army Lü Ze and others were even more difficult to say. Liu Bang's strategy was to first go south to fight Bashu, and then go north to fight Zhang Handan.
Several major hao clans in Pei County, Yongya had defected to the State of Wei as early as Feng County, Wang Ling had established himself in Nanyang, and although Lü Ze had followed Liu Bang into Hanzhong, Liu Bang had paid a huge price, allocating nearly 6,000 elites to Lü Ze, making it swell to 14,000 people.
Liu Bang had different ideas from the others, he wanted to go north to attack Zhang Handan, occupy Guanzhong, and then dominate the world. The problem is that Liu Bang's own confidence is insufficient, and most people at the bottom are resistant. Although Zhang Handan surrendered to Xiang Yu, it was besieged by the princes and there was no support from the imperial court and friendly forces. A few months before Zhang Handan was out of Guanzhong, Chen Sheng, the king of Zhang Chu, Wu Guang, the false king, Wu Chen, the king of Zhao, the king of Wei, and the king of Qi, Tian Dan, disappeared.
If Zhang Handan sat in Guanzhong, anyone who dared to go to the tiger beard knew that Zhou Wen's hundreds of thousands of people were wiped out in front of Zhang Handan. Guanzhong was not only the Yong King Zhang Handan, but also sima Xin the King of Sai, Dong Feng the King of Zhai, Nei Shi Bao, and Zhao Ben around Xianyang, and these forces rode more than 100,000 troops, at least twice as many as the Han army.
Among Liu Bang's friendly troops, no one dared to fight Zhang Handan. Among the generals of Liu Bang's own army, only a few people, such as Lu Xie and Xiahou Bao, supported Liu Bang unconditionally. Most of the generals of our own army believed that even if we wanted to fight Zhang Handan, we must first fight Bashu in the south and solve the worries of the future.
At the banquet, he told Xiao He, Xiahou Bao, and others that where to fight was the business of the King of Han, and how to fight was han xin's business.
Han Xin also told Liu Bang that Zhang Handan himself had said that Bashu frequently sent soldiers and labor to Guanzhong, and not only did the pawns but also the pawns were evacuated, and even labor service was rarely seen, almost only the old and weak women and children. Moreover, there was no fortification on the leaf, and three feet of weeds grew on the head of the city. The other cities of Bashu were also wide open, and there was no one to defend them except for the old and weak servants.
Xiang Yu and Zhang Handan spent more than half a year together, and Han Xin followed Xiang Yu and knew more about The deployment of Zhang Handan and the Qin army than any general under Liu Bang. Han Xin believed that it was too time-consuming to fight Bashu, the place was so big, it would take several months to control the whole territory, and it was difficult to say what would happen to the Central Plains at that time. Moreover, in the country of Bashu Heavenly Province, there are few people in the land, and everyone will be a big landlord at that time, who is still interested in going out of the Central Plains to fight hard. In fact, only a friendly army needs to be sent, as a partial division, to take Bashu and defend it.
Liu Bang said Han Duwei, are you drunk, I sent a group of people and horses to escort the envoys, a few miles in front of Ye Meng Pass, the other side sent out to block the army entering the pass, there are almost a hundred people, Ye Meng Guan there are also one or two thousand people.
Han Xin laughed heartily, leaned forward and back, and said that from Ye Mengguan to Chengdu, there might be only one hundred people guarding.
Liu Bang immediately summoned Lü Ze, Leng Er, Lin Zhi, Chen Hun, Zhang Cang, and other friendly troops to discuss, and a person had to lead a partial division into Bashu. Everyone looked at each other and did not dare to take up this task, and the meeting was not happy.
In the end, Lin Zhi, a Hao clan who was still a father, took the risk of taking on this task, his troops were less than a thousand, and his ambitions were not as big as those of Lü Ze and Chen Hu.
Two months later, Lin Zhi killed Shu County Taishou and gradually pacified Bashu. Liu Bang made Lin Zhi the Taishou of Shu Commandery (蜀郡太守), and during the Chu-Han War, he had been guarding the Sichuan Basin, and Liu Bang claimed that Tianzi was given the title of Marquis of Pingzhi (平棘侯) with 1,000 households, and was transferred to the State of Yan as the Xiangguo of Lu Xian, the King of Yan.
Han Xin had been closely following Xiang Yu for more than two years, and was not only familiar with all aspects of Xiang Yu, but also knew all about Qin General Zhang Handan and others. In the entire Hanwang clique, only Han Xin and Liu Bang coincided, and they all made going north to take Guanzhong as the preferred strategy, and only Han Xin had such self-confidence. It was Liu Bang who worshiped Han Xin as a great general and gave an overview of the overall situation of the Three Qins in the north.