The two countries are fighting.

Related to the great fortune of the country.

If there is no major deviation, a battle lasts at least two to three months, or even more than one year. For example, the Battle of Changping of Qin and Zhao lasted for two years and six months. If King Zhao had not listened to the slander and misused Zhao Tian as a general, this war would have lasted until when.

From this perspective, if everything is normal, this decisive battle between Qin and Chu will last for a long time. However, in terms of the current situation, the continuous mistakes of Chu, especially the unclear and uncertain decision-making level, gave the Qin army the opportunity to win a quick victory.

Xiang Yu's wrong judgment on the war in the Great Gou was an important factor.

The next series of misjudgments by Zhou Yin, Xiang Han and even the prime minister of Chu Xiang Tuo were another reason, and the reason for these multiple mistakes was that there were major problems in the appointment of talents in the State of Chu.

Only Xiang's family decided.

All those with surname Xiang are kings and princes.

Under the suppression of the Xiang family, mediocre people like Xiang Sheng, Xiang Xiang, and Xiang Han were promoted, while the backbone of Chu, such as Ji Bu and Zhou Yin, were gradually excluded and abandoned.

This is the biggest crisis in Chu State.

Talent.

This is the decisive factor that determines the rise and fall of power.

In the new round of competition after the princes competed for power, Qin was obviously ahead of Chu.

There is no doubt that the overlord Xiang Yu's local tactical command ability is the best choice. Even Li Yuan cannot fight him head-on, because you never know when and in what state Xiang Yu will burst out with a daunting combat power.

But the part and the whole complement each other. If the local power is maximized, it can also affect the direction of the whole; but in comparison, if the overall layout can be comprehensively considered, then the gains and losses of the part are in a broader range, which is nothing.

Wisdom.

It is the best strategy to deal with courage.

In this Battle of the Great Gate, the "Three Lis" and "One Yan" in the Qin army were all good at using wisdom and tricks. Even the weaker Li Zhongxiang was also unique in his wisdom and strategy direction. Otherwise, he would not have decided to return to rescue the Central Army immediately after discovering the abnormal actions of the Chu army.

On the main battlefield of Honggou, Li Yuan and Xiang Yu fought face to face. At the same time, Chen County and Jiujiang County in the southern part of Chu were also changing, becoming another focus of the competition between the two sides.

The three Li’s plan before the war began to show results as the Qin army’s partial division Chen Xi and his team began to move forward.

Chen Xi, the general of the Qin army who was ordered to send troops to Chen County, was a local prince. Under the command of the Han King Liu Bang, Chen Xi also appeared in a semi-independent manner. After surrendering to Qin, Chen Xi performed in the battle against Liu Bang and Ying Bu. However, it was mostly used as an auxiliary, and Chen Xi himself did not have many highlights.

This time, the Qin and Chu fought to the decisive battle. Chen Xi's troops were stationed in the Deng County area of ​​Nanjun, responsible for guarding the large area left after Zhang Ping's army moved westward to Hanzhong, which was used as local county troops. This practice made Chen Xi feel depressed. At this moment, an order from the Honggou Front arrived.

Don’t doubt the employer, don’t doubt the person.

This was Li Yuan's usual principle. Chen Xi led his troops to cross the Funiu Mountains that stretched for more than 400 miles in just three days and nights, and then passed through Yingchuan County and appeared in the Chen County area. At this time, the Qin army, who had already received the order from Yan Le, made a secret move and began to formally contact with the Chu general Ding Gong and lobbying for the return of Qin.

The lobbyist who was responsible for the specific lobbying was also an old acquaintance of Ding Gong, Zhao Ping, a Qin man. This former marquis of melon planting has never been able to make a breakthrough in Yingbu, especially after Lu Jia returned to Qin, he felt that he was very embarrassed and lowered Lu Jia in diplomatic matters.

After Yingbu's Eastern Chu was destroyed, Zhao Ping also had a premonition that there would be a war between Qin and Western Chu, so he resigned early and traveled in Chen County and Jiujiang County as a famous traveler. During this period, Zhao Ping met with Ding Gong and learned about the swaying attitude of the Chu army general.

When Zhaoping heard that the Qin army had 5,000 troops arrived, Ding Gong was shocked and hurriedly returned to Chen County to discuss countermeasures with Ji Bu. You must know that the total number of Chu soldiers in Chen County was less than 3,000, and most of them were the elderly, weak, sick and disabled. When Xiang Yu decided to fight against Qin in the Wei State, he did not consider that the Qin army would move troops from the distant Nanjun area with rapid action.

Originally, if Chen Xi's march was not so fast, Ding Gong and Ji Bu could have asked for help from other places, especially the Wei State was close to it, but now the Battle of the Great Grotto is at a critical moment. Even if they shouted to the sky, Zhou Yin would not send a soldier or a soldier.

After receiving Ji Bu and Ding Gong's continuous emergency, Zhou Yin could no longer sit still.

To the west of the Ganggu, the army of the overlord Xiang Yu was being besieged by the Qin army. He urgently needed to increase his troops to rescue him. If he was not satisfied, he would have to invest reinforcements to reduce the pressure on the Chu army in the encirclement.

The Qin army troops appeared in Chen County, which made Zhou Yin worried. There were two main roads from Daliang to Chu. One was to go to Pengcheng along the river. This road was the flattest recently and was one of the roads supervised by the First Emperor in the past. Unfortunately, thieves were rampant on this road, especially Peng Yuetou from Juyeze. After receiving the secret support of the Qin army, he was extremely rampant. The Chu army's baggage troops were repeatedly robbed and suffered heavy losses.

The second is Chen County in the southeast. This road leading to the hinterland of Chu State is currently an important supply line for the Chu army to survive. Once Chen County is occupied by the Qin army, the Chu army's retreat may be cut off by the Qin army. Even if Xiang Yu defeats the main force of the Qin army, there will be no way to go further.

Of course, this is still an optimistic estimate. If the Battle of Ganggu is unfavorable, even if the Chu army wants to retreat, there is no place to escape. The Qin army appears in both rear routes. No matter which one they take, they will face a fierce battle. Zhou Yin did not think that the Qin army would still be like the time of Yandi, and would let them go with kindness.

After some thought, Zhou Yin was about to send a reinforcement army to return to Chen County, but he didn't expect that as soon as he got the order, he was pushed back by deputy general Xiang Han.

Xiang family governed Chu.

Even the Xiang family's children became more proud. Xiang Han was actually just a distant relative of Xiang Yu. When it comes to close relationships, Xiang Han and Xiang Yu did not have much chance of intersection. In comparison, Zhou Yin, as an old minister of Chu, was closer to Xiang Yu, but the situation was stronger than others. At present, the Xiang family was in power in Western Chu, not Zhou Yin.

Therefore, a guy with mediocre abilities like Xiang Han can rise to the top just because he has the word Xiang in his name. He suddenly rose from a small county lieutenant in Kuaiji County to the level of a general in charge of the baggage.

What made Zhou Yin even more collapsed was that Xiang Han was extremely arrogant and ostentatious. He did not take him as the chief general seriously at all. This time, he made it important to rescue Xiang Yu and directly refuted Zhou Yin's opinion. When most of the middle and lower-level generals in the Chu army succeeded, they also turned to Xiang Han, which made Zhou Yin, the entire Chu army's rear army, the nominal chief general, and Xiang Han had the final say.

Logically speaking, with Zhou Yin's ability, he would not be so easily controlled by a mere Xiang Han, but Xiang Han's words completely lost his temper.

"Sima Zhou, don't forget that there are examples of rebellion in your Zhou family. How could I, Xiang, do the act of letting villains be proud?"

It was this sentence that made all Zhou Yin's ambitions disappear.

Zhou Yin, the general who followed Xiang Liang to cross the river and once ascended the position of Grand Sima of Chu was the uncle of Zhou Lan, the general who failed to escape during the conquest of Yan. When Xiang Yu attacked Qin, Zhou Yin and Cao Ju were responsible for the rear baggage. It can be said that he made great contributions to Xiang Chu. However, after the Zhou Lan incident, Zhou Yin was implicated and deprived of the position of Grand Sima.

Today's Chu State.

Is it because of the Xiang family? Zhou Yin was able to come out again this time, but it was still up to the prime minister Xiang Tuo's words. In other words, Zhou Yin bowed to Xiang Tuo and got the opportunity to perform this time.

After weighing the gains and losses, Zhou Yin finally gave up the reinforcement of Chen County and agreed to Xiang Han's suggestion to continue to increase the reinforcement of the Chu army on the west bank. In order to rescue the main force of the Chu army, Zhou Yin ordered Xiang Han as the main general to cross the river in the future to lead the remaining 10,000 Chu army baggage troops to support Xiang Yu.

The Chu army gave up Chen County.

This means that he chose a tactic of fighting against the Qin army in a chasm.

Xiang Han and his ten thousand people were put on the battlefield, dragging the pace of the Qin cavalry that was originally going to return to the rescue and attack Xiang Yu, using cavalry to deal with groups of infantry who were usually transporting food and fodder, making the Qin army captain who was commanding this cavalry overjoyed. This one-sided massacre scene was the best opportunity to reap military merits.

Surrounded by the circle.

The black horse gradually closed its eyes, and the last drop of blood had flowed out of its body. After the BMW, which had fought for several years, had inevitably experienced aging after gloriously spending the most prominent days of his life.

I saw this old friend who had accompanied him in the battlefield for many years die in pain. On the battlefield, Xiang Yu, who was as hard as iron and murdered, couldn't help but have red eyes and kneel on one knee, and sadness came from it.

There is no general in this world who is always victorious.

Unless he was relieved from his armor and returned to his fields, no longer led his troops to fight, but only relied on remembering the glory of the past to spend the rest of his life, the black horse died, and its battle belonging to him had ended, and his Xiang Yu's battle was not over yet.

On the battlefield, the shouts of the generals and soldiers from both the Chu army and the Qin army were filled with their ears. The familiar and unfamiliar shouts, screams, and the shrill moans of soldiers when they were dying, which stimulated Xiang Yu's numb nerves from time to time, allowing him to wake up from the pain of losing his partner.

Four sides.

All were ambushes by the Qin people.

It is no longer possible to kill the generals and seize the flag and turn defeat into victory.

After seeing the black Qin soldiers beside Li Yuan, Xiang Yu had actually given up. He could no longer kill Li Yuan like he was at Hulao Pass and cut the head of the enemy commander with his own hands.
Chapter completed!