The Battle of Pengcheng took place in the early days of the Chu-Han dispute, when Xiang Yu was extremely brave, leading 30,000 elite soldiers to defeat Liu Bang's 560,000 soldiers.
According to the historical records, the Chu army of 30,000 against the Han army of 560,000, under the leadership of Xiang Yu, the Han army of more than 200,000 was killed twice.
But imagine carefully, the ratio of the number of the two armies is close to 1:20, and the Han army has killed more than 200,000 people, which means that on average, each Chu army has to kill 7 Han troops, which is almost impossible.
Therefore, there must be other mysteries in the battle of Pengcheng, which caused the phenomenon of the Han army's heavy defeat, so how did the Han army suffer 200,000 casualties?
As we all know, at the end of the Qin Dynasty, the peasant uprising broke out, and all parts of the country responded, among which the resistance of the nobles of the six countries was the most fierce, and the descendants of the royal families proclaimed themselves kings and announced the restoration of the country.
At the same time, Liu Bang, who was far away in Pei County, had also successfully revolted, led 3,000 men and horses, and called himself Pei Gong, but at this time Liu Bang did not have the name of raising troops, and his strength was relatively weak, so he led his subordinates to defect to Xiang Liang.
At this time, Xiang Liang didn't expect that a small Pei Gong could become the biggest stumbling block on the road to the hegemony of Chu in the future, and personally destroyed Xiang Yu, the overlord of Chu.
After defecting to Xiang Liang, Liu Bang developed obscenely, at this time the royal families of other countries had established themselves as kings, and Xiang Liang also supported Xiong Xin, the grandson of King Chu Huai, as the king in order to occupy the righteousness.
Before the westward expedition to Qin, Xiong Xin and the generals agreed that "the king who enters the customs first", at this time, it is impossible to see that Liu Bang, a relatively weak force, will enter the customs first.
At that time, whether it was other princes and kings, or Xiang Yu, who defeated the Qin army in the Battle of Julu and became famous in the first battle, had a better chance than Liu Bang to enter Guanzhong and become kings.
But Liu Bang ignored it, and directly took Guanzhong to accept the surrender of the Qin Dynasty and get this opportunity to be crowned king, such a result is obviously not acceptable to others, especially Xiang Yu.
So Xiang Yu asked Huaiwang Xiong Xin, hoping that Xiong Xin could come forward to abolish the agreement at that time, so that everyone could accept it, but Xiong Xin simply replied with two words: as promised.
There is no way for Xiang Yu to do it, but Xiang Yu broke the Qin army of 400,000, and now he let Liu Bang, a "little person", take away the fruits of victory, which must be unbearable, so Xiang Yu asked his subordinate Yingbu to eliminate Liu Bang.
Liu Bang's army was less than 100,000, and he would definitely not be able to defeat Xiang Yu, so he could only pretend to surrender and express his submission to Xiang Yu, thus escaping at the death-bound Hongmen banquet.
Unexpectedly, Liu Bang, who was reborn after the catastrophe, had already made up his mind to crusade against Xiang Yu.
At this time, Xiang Yu was powerful, in 206 BC in the Xiting to divide the kings, in order to prevent the kings from becoming bigger, Xiang Yu re-divided a lot of fiefs, and the princes and kings divided a lot, which also laid a hidden danger for the future.
And Xiong Xin didn't listen to Xiang Yu's opinion before, and insisted on making Liu Bang the king of Guanzhong, which made Xiang Yu resentful, so Xiang Yu ordered his subordinates to kill Xiong Xin secretly, giving Liu Bang and other princes a reason to raise troops.
But at this time, Xiang Yu's soldiers were strong and strong, and Liu Bang did not dare to touch his head easily, so he secretly developed, encircled Han Xin and other famous generals, and also took the opportunity to attack Zhang Han and other Qin Dynasty generals, completely occupying the territory of the original Qin State.
At the same time, Xiang Yu also fell into a predicament, in the fiefdom of Qi State, the former Qi Prime Minister Tian Rong raised troops to make a living, in fact, Tian Rong was a very capable person, but when Xiang Yu was crowned king, he did not have his share.
With a heavy army in his hand and a very strategic self, Tian Rong was definitely not convinced, so he set himself up as king and began to attack the other princes of Qi, and within a few months, Tian Rong occupied almost the entire Qi country.
Xiang Yu had no choice but to lead his troops to Qi to deal with Tian Rong, in fact, at this time, Xiang Yu already knew that Liu Bang was also in trouble, but the two sides could not take care of it, plus at this time Zhang Liang wrote a letter to Xiang Yu, in which he said that Tian Rong wanted to join forces with Zhao Guo.
After Xiang Yu found out, he directly led his troops to the State of Qi, which gave Liu Bang an opportunity, and Liu Bang began to encircle other countries and prepare to fight against the State of Chu together.
At this time, other vassal states were also constantly fighting for various reasons, but most of them were willing to fight Chu with Liu Bang.
In September 206 BC, Liu Bang found an excuse, claiming that he was going to pick up his family and sent his men to lead thousands of troops to try to attack the state of Chu, but was stopped by Xiang Yu's troops.
At this time, Liu Bang's cautious character was reflected, and he temporarily gave up Vachu.
After that, Liu Bang began to conquer other small countries, consolidate the rear, and soon subdued the King of Wei, King Yin and others, and his military strength was extremely inflated.
In April 205 BC, Liu Bang gathered a coalition of princes from many roads, and finally had the confidence to compete with Xiang Yu, so he led a total of 560,000 troops from all the princes to kill Xiang Yu's territory.
At this time, Xiang Yu was still dragged in the quagmire of Qi and couldn't extricate himself, he never thought that his old nest Pengcheng was sneak attacked, and when he wanted to bring the soldiers back to help, Pengcheng had already been occupied.
Next, if Xiang Yu insists on going his own way and letting the army return to Pengcheng to attack Liu Bang, he will definitely fall into a situation where he will be attacked by the enemy on his back, and it can be said that the situation is extremely dangerous.
But I have to say that Xiang Yu is really a rare brave general in the world, at this moment, Xiang Yu can be said to be isolated, but he still believes in his own strength and decides to fight on both sides.
On the one hand, let other subordinates continue to attack the Qi State, on the other hand, he led 30,000 elite soldiers to the south and quickly attacked the rear of Liu Cong's coalition army.
After the encounter between Lu Bianqiu and Fan Xu, Xiang Yu adopted the tactics of encircling and blitzkrieg, using the cover of night to ambush, and at dawn, attacking the flank of the Han army from the west.
In the face of Xiang Yu's sudden attack, the Han army was caught off guard, relying on the prestige of the overlord, and Xiang Yu's subordinates were all elite, it can be said that the coalition of princes of Liu Bang could be said to be chopping melons and vegetables, and it didn't take long for the coalition army to mess up on its own.
In this battle, Xiang Yu killed nearly 100,000 people of Liu Bang's allied army near Pengcheng, which greatly boosted morale, and Liu Bang was still holding a celebration party in the city at this time.
Hearing that Xiang Yu's elite was coming, he could only resist in a hurry, but the morale of the coalition army had collapsed, and Xiang Yu brought all the cavalry, under a charge, the infantry could not resist at all, and by noon, Liu Bang's coalition army had collapsed, and Liu Bang could only flee.
Under the pursuit of Xiang Yu, the Han army was annihilated by hundreds of thousands, but most of them fell into the water and drowned, and trampled each other to death in a panic, which caused the miracle of 30,000 breaking 560,000.
After the Battle of Pengcheng, the Han army was defeated, and many princes who fell to Liu Bang turned to Xiang Yu, and Liu Bang no longer dared to underestimate Xiang Yu, so the vigorous battle between Chu and Han began.
In the end, we have learned that Liu Bang defeated Xiang Yu under the camp step by step and won the world, so it is said that fighting for the world since ancient times is not only brave, but also strategic.