Before the Battle of Pengcheng, Liu Bang's Han state formed a Nine-Nation Alliance with the states of Sai, Zhai, Henan, Yin, Korea, Zhao, Dai, and Western Wei.
Liu Bang, the king of Han, sent a funeral for Emperor Yi in Guanzhong, and sent an emissary to the princes: "The whole world will jointly establish a righteous emperor, and the north will be involved." Now Xiang Yu killed The Yi Emperor in Jiangnan, and there was no way out. Widows are mourned, and soldiers are all mused. Xi Fa Guan's soldiers, the three rivers soldiers, the South Floating River, the Han Dynasty, are willing to kill the righteous emperor from the princes of Western Chu. ”
Liu Bang, the king of Han, led the Han army and the princes of the five kingdoms of Sai, Zhai, Henan, and Han to leave Henan in the east and march east along the Jishui. Although the armies of Zhao Guo, Dai, and Western Wei went south, they did not cross the Yellow River and Jishui, and obviously still had to wait and see.
Liu Bang led a coalition army into The Commandery of Yan Commandery, the commander of The Commandery of The Commandery of The County, Xiang Liang, who fled without bloodshed, fled the great general Xiang It, a few years ago Xiang Liang ordered his troops to save the State of Wei, and in the Battle of Linji, the King of Wei and the King of Qi were killed, but the Xiang Liang of the Chu army retained the main force to flee back, and at that time Xiang Liang did not pursue it, but thought that Xiang Liang had saved the army, and the merit was greater than the excess.
If it fights for the commander-in-chief and leads the troops, it must first plan the escape route in each battle, so every battle will be lost, and if it loses, it will flee, and if it flees, it will retreat with all its strength. Xiang Yu was tough on Xiang Yu, with Xiang It as the pillar state (general), concurrently serving as the governor of Yan County, in charge of the old land of the Wei State of Dong County and Yan County, and also including the northeast of Chen County, and the local responsibilities were heavy. Xiang Yu of course knew Xiang It, and in order to enhance his will to fight, he ordered the Fierce General Dragon to assist him.
However, this time, Xiang did not want to confront Liu Bang hard, and all the Western Chu armies only pretended to resist for a while. Its controllable mobile strength exceeded 100,000, but it did not move, or waited for an opportunity. If Xiang Yu did not merge with Liu Banghuo, Xiang Was determined to avoid his attack, even if he lost some cities and troops. The infighting of the Xiang clan has existed since the crossing of the river to the north.
The Han army was the vanguard of the princes' army, and the general Fan Duo was also the vanguard of the Han army, and encountered the Western Chu army Wang Wubu outside the Outer Yellow City. Wang Wu was a close associate of Xiang Qi, the Duke of Zhao, and had under his command the generals Cheng Fu, Huan Bao, Zhu Tianhou, Yu Bao, and so on, and had an elite cavalry. The sphere of influence was centered on Huang, north through Jishui to Dong County, south to Chen County, more than a dozen counties, 20,000 or 30,000 troops.
Wang Wu surrendered on the spot in Waihuang and replaced the yellow Chu flag at the head of the city with a red Han flag, and everything else was the same. Wang Wu refused to lead the army to fight with Liu Bang, and refused to provide military food and horses. Liu Bang reluctantly accepted that if he destroyed Xiang Yu in one fell swoop, Wang Wu was of course the turtle in the urn, otherwise Wang Wu might rebel against the water at any time.
Peng Yue learned of Liu Bang's eastward march and led 30,000 people from Juyeze to Waihuang to defect, hoping to profit from it. Liu Bang worshipped Peng Yue as the State of Wei, ordered him to set up the counties of Yan and Dong Commandery, and allowed him to occupy the former Wei state that had been taken away by the State of Chu.
At this time, the Han army nominally had 560,000 troops of ten kingdoms and ten kings, namely Liu Bang the King of Han, Sima Xin the King of Sai, Dong Fei the King of Zhai, Shenyang the King of Henan, Sima Wei the King of Yin, Han Xin the King of Han, Wang Xie of Zhao, Chen Yu the Dai Wang, Wei Bao the King of Western Wei, Zhang Er the King of Changshan (who had lost the country), and Wei Xiang Pengyue. The Wei state of Wei, the king of Western Wei, had three counties of Hedong, Taiyuan, and Shangdang, and the wei state of Wei xiang Pengyue was roughly a county and an eastern county, and the two countries did not border each other, but Peng Yue these two counties were the basic territory of the Wei state in the late Warring States period, and the population was also larger than that of the Western Wei state.
Fan Huan's army rested outside Waihuang City, changed Cao's army to appear, and went north to attack Dingtao. The town guarding Dingtao was Xiang Xiang, the xiang family's clan, and more than 10,000 people were surrounded.
Xiang Xiang also wanted to learn from Wang Wu to change his banner and surrender, but Liu Bang would not allow him to stay on a dime anyway, which was too dangerous. Under the threat of Cao San's offensive, Xiang Xiang took out half of the military food, war horses, and long-range attack equipment such as bows and arrows.
At this time, Xiang Xiang still retained the possibility of anti-water, especially in the Battle of Pengcheng, Liu Bang's fiasco, Xiang Xiang could completely counterattack a blow, making Liu Bang worse, how about in actual combat?
After Liu Bang went south, Wei Xiang Peng Yue took the opportunity to come to Dingtao City and set up a position, and if Xiang Xiang did not open the city gate, he would attack strongly. Xiang Xiang sent people out of the city, he also wanted to talk, Peng Yue cut down the envoy, the first to climb the soldiers, carrying the ladder, climbing the city rope, the black pressure swarmed up.
Usually, Peng Yue would never dare to take 30,000 people to fight against Xiang Yu's army, but at this time, he was playing the banner of Liu Bang, the fox fake tiger might, bullying people, in the future, in case Xiang Yu Xingshi asked for guilt, he could also push the blame on Liu Bang. Peng Yue also ate through Xiang Xiang's mentality, since he surrendered once, of course, he did not want to fight another battle.
Xiang Xiang did not want to fight, and his army resisted a little at the head of the city, and then surrendered again.
Of course, xiangxiang surrendered to the harvest is not small, he later in Liu Bang's army, in addition to following Liu Bang on an expedition to Yingbu, there is no military merit, but gave the surname Liu, changed his name to Liu Xiang, was named Marquis of Tao, and had 1,000 households. During the reign of Emperor Jing of Han, Liu Xiang's son Liu She succeeded Zhou Yafu as chancellor (the head of the Three Dukes, with an official position of Yipin). Liu Bang's sworn enemy Xiang Yu, whose people served as chancellors in the Han Dynasty, did not dare to imagine. However, the Xiang clan surrendered to Liu Bang and eventually made Liu Xiang the Marquis, not only Liu Xiang, but even Xiang Yu's uncle Xiang Tang, who gave him the surname Liu and the title of Marquis of Sheyang. Xiang it was given the surname Liu, the Marquis of Pinggao, and 580 households.
The next battle was to fight the Battle of Pengcheng, Liu Bang lost miserably, Wang Wu rebelled against the water, but Xiang Xiang was pinched to death by Liu Bang.