In September 209 BC, during the Battle of Shuishui, Zhang Handan drove Zhou Wen out of Guanzhong. Hangu closed, Zhang Handan looked at the defeated Chu army, calmly, pointing at Gu Calmly, he knew that the cruel contest had just begun.
[Zhou Wen's soul torture: For whom am I fighting? 】
Although Zhou Wen withdrew from Hangu Pass, the main force of the army was still there, and the strength was enough to seal the Qin people within Hangu Pass. But Zhou Wen's mentality changed, he was confused, who was he fighting for?
When Chen Sheng, the king of Zhang Chu, worshiped Zhou Wen as a general and sent him out of Chen City for thirty miles, Zhou Wen felt deeply in his heart. However, when Chen Sheng forced Ge Infant to kill Xiangjiang, the King of Chu, and then kill Ge Infant, Zhou Wen's heart trembled. As Chu generals, we are fighting for the Chu state, but King Zhang Chu is killing the Chu state and killing the Chu generals!
When Xiang Liang appointed himself as a Taishou in Huijian County, Zhou Wen strangled his wrists! The son of the old lord finally raised the flag against Qin, but unfortunately, the current pattern, Zhou Wen could no longer throw himself into the Liang Men, and his heart was very painful.
Xiang Liang neither called himself the King of Chu nor honored Chen Sheng as the King of Chu. Chen Sheng's general Zhao Ping had already attacked Guangling City, and on the opposite bank was Huiji Commandery,across the river, and the two major forces were facing each other across the river. If Xiang Liang crosses the river, but does not worship Chen Sheng as king, then only fire and a road will be left. When the time comes, will I support Chen Sheng or Xiang Liang?
Zhou Wenjun took the Chu people as the core, and ordinary soldiers and the Xiang family may not have the same origin as Zhou Wen, but Chen Sheng forced Ge Bao to kill Xiangjiang, the king of Chu, which made the Chu people afraid. We can fight for the heavens, fight for the Chu kingdom, fight for the king of Chu, but what is Chen Sheng? Just by saying, "The prince will have a kind of peace", we are going to fight for you?
In the past two months, Zhang Handan drove Zhou Wenjun out of Guanzhong, and in the past two months, he has made major adjustments.
In order to drive Zhou Wenjun out of Guanzhong, Zhang Handan's 50,000 northern army lost about 2,000, and Zhang Handan bluffed and created an aggressive posture, but in fact he was exhausted and exhausted.
In the past two months, Zhang Handan asked the imperial court for weapons, but fortunately, Zhou Wenjun did scare Qin II, Li Si, and Zhao Gao into a state of ignorance, and gave Zhang Handan a green light.
【Zhang Handan out of HanguGuan】
Zhang Handan's 50,000 northern army was 48,000, and 15,000 were transferred from Shangjun, and these 63,000 northern armies were elite. Commanding the fifteen thousand northern army to the south was the general Sima Feng,000, who was Wang Li's confidant. Guanzhong, Beidi, Longxi and other soldiers 70,000, the local pawns of 10,000, more than 20,000, counting 100,000, this is the traditional area of the Qin state, that is, the old Qin people. Hanzhong, Ba County, and Shu County were 10,000 people, and even more 20,000, counting 30,000. Among the hundreds of thousands of prisoners in Lishan Mountain, 30,000 strong and strong people were selected. Zhang Handan's army reached 223,000, in order of combat effectiveness, the Northern Army was 63,000, the Rong army was 70,000, the local pawn was 20,000, the local was 40,000, and the prisoner was 30,000.
In addition, Qin II and Zhao Gao did not trust Zhang Handan, worshiped Zhao Ben as a general, Andi Shibao as a deputy general, and led an army of 40,000 as a supervisor, not subject to Zhang Handan's control. These forty thousand people and twenty thousand are the pawns in Guanzhong, and the twenty thousand are even more pawns. Zhao Ben was a member of Zhao Gao's clan, and Nei Shi Bao was a goon, and now he was shouldering heavy responsibilities.
The total strength of the Qin army was 263,000, of which 223,000 were Zhang Handan and 40,000 were Zhao Ben.
In terms of weapons, strong bows and crossbows, spears and arrows are also well prepared.
Winter came, the sky began to snow for the first time, and the earth was covered in white, which was also the most ideal day for Zhang Handan.
This section of the Yellow River outside Hangu Pass, between the mountains and mountains, is full of mountains, and unless you climb up to a high place, you will not see the spectacular scene of the rushing of the big river.
The Chu army made sufficient defensive efforts along the way, and all the commanding heights were equipped with fortresses made of earth and stone. Along the way, there were mountain roads, and the heavy siege vehicles and trebuchets of the Qin army were useless.
Zhang Handan waited in Guanguan for two months, and in addition to reorganizing and training the army, he was also waiting for the weather to get cold. During the Warring States period, the eastern princes jointly attacked Qin, the Chu state generally could not withstand the severe winter and withdrew its troops, the southerners did not resist the cold, the warm clothes were not prepared enough, and the ice and snow often froze the dead.
Due to the large population, most of Zhou Wen's hundreds of thousands of people were hungry and could not withstand the cold at all, and they had long begun to drag their families back with their mouths. Even the soldiers who were enlisted in the army in formation were also slipped away. The coach Zhou Wen was disheartened, and he did not have the ambition of two or three months ago, allowing the team to be reduced.
The morning sun rises away from Hangu Pass, and under the sunshine, the weapons and armor of the Qin Army flash and shine, dotted with essence, and spread out the narrow valley plains and hillsides west of Hangu Pass.
The general Zhang Handan, the generals Zhang Ping, Sima Feng, Zhao Ben, and Bao, the protectors of the army, Dong Feng, and the lieutenants Yao Yi, Zhou Zhi, and Su Feng, ordered the soldiers and horses to send out the Hangu Pass, with the goal of destroying the State of Zhang Chu, the State of Wei, the State of Zhao, the State of Yan, and the State of Qi.
The morale of the Chu army was low, and Cao Yang's first line of defense was quickly broken, and Zhou Wen burned the camp to the east, with trap spikes all over the road along the way. The Qin army attacked day and night in a round of attacks, and chased Zhou Wenjun at Shichi, who swung his sword and killed himself.
[Wu Guang died at the hands of his own people]
Under Xingyang City, Wu Guang personally supervised the battle. A centurion and two tun commanders led a hundred men in a line. Everyone took their shields, ropes, hooks, and knives and walked toward the city walls.
"Hum..." A loud noise, a thousand arrows fired in unison, covering the sky and the sun, screaming down.
Many people fell down with arrows, and everyone turned around and ran, running wildly. Everyone knows that the other side can shoot ten thousand arrows, and no one can climb to the head of the city.
"Fleeing from the battlefield, behead." Wu Guang was furious and shouted loudly, saying to the general Tian Zang, "Raise the arrows and kill them for me." ”
Tian Zang did not respond. "Raise your arrows and kill them." Wu Guang's face was livid, and he gave another order to Tian Zang.
Wu Guang stared at Tian Zang, and Tian Zang also stared at Wu Guang, and the two of them were about deadlocked for a few breaths, Tian Zang compromised, and with a single order, long arrows rained down and shot out.
The escapees could not have dreamed that their own people would kill them, and one by one they were caught off guard, and immediately fell a large piece, leaving dozens of undead, injured, liver and gallbladder, "hula" along the front of the two armies and fled for life.
At night, Wu Guang's soldiers were in danger, some were pessimistic and desperate, some were indignant, and some even began to flee.
Wu Guang led the main force of Zhang Chu's army to besiege Xingyang for three months, but could not conquer the city. Wu Guangben was born as a hunter, did not know military affairs on weekdays, and all dispatches were out of law, and he was already lightly taken by the generals. Moreover, after becoming a great queen, she was not as humble as before, and since then everyone has been dissatisfied.
Tian Zang and Li Guisui secretly gathered to discuss secretly, Zhou Wenbing was defeated, and the Qin soldier Zhang Handanbu was coming, if Zhang Chujun was still trapped in Xingyang, once the Qin soldiers arrived, they should cooperate inside and outside, lest they be defeated.
The generals agreed that it was enough to leave the partial division to contain the Qin army in Xingyang. The brigade should retreat to Ao Cang, and with the grain and grass of Ao Cang, they can negotiate with the Qin army, and when the reinforcements of King Zhang Chu arrive, there is still a chance to fight the Qin army back to Hangu Pass.
However, Wu Guang did not agree to abandon Xingyang, Zhang Chujun in these months, Wu Chen called Zhao Wang, Han Guang called Yan Wang, Zhou Shi laid siege to Wei, Zhou Wen entered Guanzhong, Song Liu attacked Nanyang, and other generals also had their own gains, except for the false king Wu Guang, who was trapped in Xingyang City for more than three months and could not advance.
The generals agreed to kill Wu Guang. Tian Zang and Li Gui took wu Guangzhi's head and ordered the battalions to resist, and many people felt that they were very happy, which showed that Wu Guang was not willing to be in the hearts of the army in peacetime, and in recent days, it is even more unattended to regard human life as grass.
[Chen Sheng died at the hands of his own people]
Tian Zang and Li Gui sent Wu Guang's first rank to Chen Du and framed Wu Guang for attacking Xingyang and preparing for rebellion. Chen Sheng knew his original commission, but the matter had reached this point, so he had to push the boat along the water and send an envoy to give Tian Zang Chu Ling Yin Yin and make him a general.
Tian Zang made the coveted Ling Yin, who held the most important army power of Zhang Chuguo, and ordered Li Gui to lead more than 10,000 soldiers and horses to tie down Xingyang, and he himself led 30,000 people back to defend Ao Cang, counting about 38,000 people in the Ao Cang garrison.
Tian Zang led 8,000 elites and tens of thousands of civilians to stay in AoCang, and 30,000 soldiers outside the city posed in trenches to meet the enemy.
The Qin army was approaching Ao Cang, the banner was clear, the soldiers and horses were majestic, the Chu soldiers were afraid, and even Tian Zang was timid.
Zhang Handan did not waste a second, and immediately ordered the battle, and the arrows and stones on both sides were fired in unison, and there were shouts and screams everywhere. Soon the city of Ao Cang was destroyed, the Qin army was like a tiger into the flock, invincible, Zhang Chu's army was defeated, and Yin Tianzang was killed.
Zhang Handan relieved the siege of Xingyang and divided his troops into two routes, the main force attacked Xucheng in the south, and the partial division attacked Yucheng. Wu Xuli was outnumbered and withdrew his troops, and on the way he was chased and killed by Zhang Handan's army, and the defender of The City of Wu abandoned the city and fled.
Before beheading the general, Chen Sheng used the head of Deng Shu to boost morale. This is not the first time Chen Sheng has killed a general, killing Ge Baby in October, killing Deng in December, killing people like mustard, and killing all the generals.
Chen Sheng had no one to use around him, so he ordered Cai Zhi, the leader of the Shangzhu State, to refuse to fight. Cai Ci was a famous soldier, and it was better to give advice or to draw forces from all sides in the account, and let him lead the army to fight, which was really not as good as Chen Sheng's own imperial conquest. It's just a pity that Chen Sheng has long lost the vigor of a few months ago, and he only wants to be a king, how could he risk going to war.
Cai Ci led Chen Sheng, the last elite, to engage Zhang Handan's army in a battle, and it was logical that Zhang Would lose a big defeat and lose, and Cai Zhi of the Shangzhu State would be killed.
At this time, Chen Sheng had already led thousands of his own soldiers out of the city, preparing to go south along the Yingshui River to avoid the war. News came from the southwest of Chen Cheng, and a general named Zhang He led his troops to Qin Wang, and Chen Sheng remembered that there was such a person and urgently ordered Zhang He to block the Qin army.
Chen Sheng changed from a tun chief to a king of Zhang Chu, and it took a month, and then he became a dim lord, but it was only three or four months.
The general Zhang He was killed in battle, and Chen Sheng also fled to Ruyin. On this road, from five or six thousand people, they fled to only a thousand people. Chen Sheng was going to Shouchun south of the Huai River to join Emperor Dengzong, but Shouchun was already in tatters and most people didn't want to go.
Chen Sheng also did not want to go to Shouchun, if he was far away from the core area of the Central Plains, it would be equivalent to withdrawing from the central plains to chase deer, how to order the King of Wei, the King of Zhao, the King of Qi, the King of Yan, and so on. Chen Sheng was still dreaming of an emperor, how willing to give up the newly established dynasty. Chen Sheng made a decision to go east to Surabaya County.
The convoy turned northeast into Surabaya County and came to The Father of The Lower City. At this time, Chen Sheng was already a rebel, only a hundred people, and most of them were close associates of The Imperial Husband Zhuang Jia. Chen Sheng urged the imperial husband Zhuang Jia to enter the city immediately, but Zhuang Jia could not stop and talked with his relatives in secret.
Chen Sheng screamed and scolded. Zhuang Jia held the sword in his hand, entering from Chen Sheng's back and out of his chest.
Chen Sheng's face was vicious and he looked angrily, but he couldn't see Zhuang Jia. Perhaps Zhuang Jia started from behind, and he didn't want to see Chen Sheng's eyes.
Chen Sheng scolded with the last bit of strength: "Ru Nai coachman, make a second..."
Zhuang Jia said coldly behind his back: "The prince will be xiang, Ning has a kind of hu." ”