Hearing the news, Xiang Yu quickly led thirty thousand chosen men to rescue Cheng Peng. After several battles, Xiang Yu defeated Liu Bang and recovered Pengcheng. Hundreds of thousands of troops of Liu Bang suffered heavy casualties, and even Liu Bang's father Taigong and his wife Lu were captured. Liu Bang himself fled to Yang Rong and Gaoping (now Gongxian East) with dozens of cavalry, and then gained a foothold and rallied.
Soon, overlord Xiang Yu came to attack Yang Rong. Liu bang had just been defeated, and the team was short of food and grass, so he sent someone to make peace with Xiang Yu. Xiang Yu knew that his rear was still unstable and wanted to agree to make peace. Fan Ceng, the father of Asia, stood out against it. He said to Xiang Yu: "It is easy to completely destroy Liu Bang. If you agree to make peace and let him go, you will regret it in the future. " Xiang Yu thought Fan Zeng was right, so he sent troops to besiege Yang Rong.
When Liu Bang saw that peace could not be achieved, he used Chen Ping's double spy to sow discord between Xiang Yu and Fan Zeng. Xiang Yu sent messengers to Liu Bang's military camp to negotiate, and Chen Pingxian invited the National People's Congress to hold a banquet to prepare the banquet. When the emissary was about to sit at the table, Chen Ping suddenly appeared and deliberately pretended to be surprised and said, "Oh dear! I almost made a mistake. I thought it was an emissary sent by my father, but it turned out to be an emissary of King Xiang! " Say, call a person to withdraw the banquet, brought some coarse grains to the messenger. The emissary went back to report to Xiang Yu, who became suspicious of Fan Zeng and thought that he had an affair with Hanwang, depriving him of some rights.
Fan Zeng was very angry when he saw that Xiang Yu had been cheated by Liu Bang. He said to Xiang Yu, "Since the world affairs have been decided, Your Majesty should do it himself. I am old, please let me go home to support the elderly! " Xiang Yu has always been unwilling to accept other people's opinions. When he heard Fan Zeng say that he was leaving, he felt that someone was nagging in his ear, so he agreed and sent several soldiers to escort Fan Zeng home. Fan Zeng wanted to help Xiang Yu win the world wholeheartedly, but now he retired and went home. He felt that all his ideas were in vain, and he was very sad. He fell ill on the road, got a poisonous sore on his back and died a few days later.
After Fan Zeng's death, the overlord lost an adviser. Although he can still beat Hanwang by strength, he is no match for Hanwang in terms of wits and wits.
Seeing that the overlord surrounded Yang Rong, Hanwang Liu Bang adopted Ji Xin's strategy, asking Ji Xin to take the car of Hanwang at night and take two thousand armored women to open the east gate of Fuyang to attract Chu troops. Hanwang personally broke through the west gate with dozens of cavalry and fled to the elevation.
In 203 BC, the overlord attacked the elevation. Hanwang escaped from the north gate of the elevation. Overlord occupied the elevation. At that time, Han Xin, who was sent by Hanwang to attack Wei, Yan and Zhao, played very well and occupied a large area of land. Hanwang also wants Peng Yue's army to harass the overlord's rear and cut off the food and grass supply of the overlord's army. The overlord was forced to return to fight Peng Yue. Hanwang Liu Bang took the opportunity to counterattack, recover the elevation and March into Guangwu.
Overlord just recovered some places from Peng Yue, and heard that the elevation was taken away by Hanwang, so he hurried back to deal with Hanwang. March to Guangwu again, and camp with the Han army across the stream. The overlord challenged Hanwang to fight with Hanwang. Hanwang didn't dare to face the battle, but he scolded the overlord before the war. The overlord was furious. The archer in ambush shot an arrow at Hanwang, and an arrow hit Hanwang's chest. Hanwang was afraid that his army would shake, so he secretly pulled out an arrow, bent down and touched his toe and said, "Good boy, this arrow hit my toe!" " "He ordered the Han army to hold its ground and retreat to the elevation for rest.
At that time, Han Xin and defeated in Qi, but also attacked in Liang, cutting off the route for providing foodstuff. When the overlord was embarrassed, Hanwang sent someone to make peace, on condition that the overlord let Hanwang's father Taigong and his wife Lu go back; Chu and Han are bounded by a gap, with Han in the west and Chu in the east. The overlord agreed to this division of "Chu-Jianghan boundary", released Liu Taigong and Lu, and retreated to the East.
Hanwang saw the overlord withdrawing troops and wanted to go west to Guanzhong to recuperate. Sean and Chen Ping suggested, "Now we have occupied more than half of the world, and the vassals have joined us. The overlord of Chu is tired, and if he doesn't take this opportunity to destroy it, it will be tantamount to releasing the tiger to the mountains and leaving behind future troubles. " Hanwang adopted this suggestion, tore up the peace treaty, sent troops to pursue the overlord of Chu, and sent people to inform Han Xin, Ying Bu and Peng Yue to cooperate in the battle, and promised to give them large areas of Linzi, Huainan and Daliang after the victory.
At the end of 202 BC. Hanwang Liu Bang joined forces with Han Xin, Ying Bu and Peng Yue to pursue Xiang Yu. Han Xin set an ambush on all sides in Gaixia (now southeast of Lingbi County, Anhui Province) to lure Xiang Yu, the overlord of Chu, and surround him. In order to shake the morale of the Chu army, Sean called people who could sing Chu songs and asked them to go to various camps to teach Han soldiers to sing Chu songs.
In the evening, just after the overlord went to sleep, he suddenly heard all the soldiers in the Han army camp singing Chu songs. He sat up at once and said in horror, "Didn't Liu Bang shoot down all the places in the State of Chu? Why are there so many Chu people in Hanying? " Overlord is unhappy, can't sleep well anymore, so he has to get up and drink to relieve boredom. His wife Yu Ji followed the overlord for many years. When she saw the bully unhappy, she came to persuade him. Overlord's Xu, also outside the camp, screamed "Xiao Yi Xiao Yi", as if to persuade Overlord to rush out. Overlord asked someone to take the horse away, but the horse refused to move a step and kept barking at Overlord's camp. Overlord felt terrible in his heart, and he couldn't help singing a song casually:
It is difficult to pull out the mountain, but you will not die when it is unfavorable.
What can I do without dying? What can I do if I am worried?
The lyrics mean: I have my own strength and fame, but I am unlucky, and Wu Zhuima is also wronged for me. Concubine, concubine, what can we do? Yu Ji was very sad to hear the song of overlord, and advised him not to take her to heart, so it is very important to make a quick breakthrough. The overlord took concubine's hand, and tears fell down, and several people around him bowed their heads and cried. In order to reassure the overlord, the concubine took out her own sword and committed suicide when the overlord turned around. When overlord saw that concubine Yu was dead, he rode out in the dark with the remaining 800 soldiers in Jiangdong.
At dawn, the Han army found that the overlord had broken through and quickly sent troops to catch up. Bawang crossed the Huaihe River, and his 800 people were only over 100. Overlord wants to return to Pengcheng and rectify the military forces. I made a comeback, but I got lost when I walked and was caught up by Han soldiers. More than half of his men were scattered again, leaving only 28 people.
Overlord looks at the thousands of Han soldiers who catch up with him, and then at his own 28 soldiers. He doesn't think he can run this time. He said to twenty-eight soldiers, "I have been in the army for eight years now and have experienced more than seventy wars." I have never failed. I finally ruled the world. Now that it's reached this point, it's only a few days, not to say that you can't fight. I can't live today, but I still have to fight three battles, win three battles, break through the encirclement of the Han soldiers, kill their generals, cut down their military flags, and let everyone know that God wants me to die, not that I can't fight. " After that, he organized 28 people to divide into four teams and rushed out in four directions. They agreed to meet at three places near Shandong. Overlord shouted and rushed ahead. He quickly beheaded a Han general, and then beheaded a captain of the Han army, killing and injuring hundreds of Han troops, highlighting the tight encirclement and counting the numbers. Twenty-eight people sacrificed two others.
Xiang Yu, the overlord, came to the Wujiang River with 26 people (now Wujiangpu in the northeast of Anhui Province and County), just in time for director Wujiang to wait there with his boat. The director of the pavilion said to the overlord, "Although Jiangdong is small, Fiona Fang has more than 1,000 miles of land and hundreds of thousands of people. You can still be king there. I am the only boat here now, please get on board and cross the river quickly! When the Han army comes, we can't find a second boat and we can't cross the river to catch up. " The overlord said to the pavilion director with a wry smile, "God wants me to die, so why should I cross the river?" ! At that time, I took 8,000 soldiers from Jiangdong across the river to conquer the world. Up to now, none of them came back with me alive. Even if the elders in Jiangdong sympathize with me and let me be king, how can I face them? "He pointed to his own xu, said to the director," I know you are a kind person. I have been riding this horse for more than five years. When it comes to fighting, it only knows to rush forward and never retreat. It once took me a thousand miles a day. I couldn't bear to kill it, so I gave it to you! " Say that finish, overlord dismounted, and commanded the other 26 people to dismount, and hand-to-hand combat with the Han army.
The two sides fought for a while, and all 26 of the overlord's men were killed. The overlord killed hundreds of people by the Han army alone, and he himself was injured in more than a dozen places. As soon as the overlord turned around, he saw Lv Matong, the general of Sima in the Han army, familiar, and shouted, "Isn't this my hometown Lv Matong?" Lv Matong was a little embarrassed when he heard this. He pointed to the overlord and said to Wang Jin, another general of the Han army, "This is the overlord." The emperor's father said to Lv Matong, "I heard that Hanwang offered 1000 pounds of gold and a bounty from Wan Huhou to buy my head. Now I will give you this benefit! " Say that finish, sword commit suicide. He was only 3 1 year old when he died.
After Xiang Yu, the overlord of Chu, died, Liu Bang won the world, officially proclaimed himself emperor, and established the Han Dynasty, known as Emperor Gaozu in history.