Jingsuo's defeat and Duo Bu's rebellion made Xiang Yu's confidence drop by five, and he began to doubt himself: Can I really defeat Liu Bang?
What's next?
The hawks, led by Fan Zeng, advocated that they take advantage of their military superiority and launch a key attack on Xingyang to force Liu Bang to surrender. The reason for this is that the Han army's new takeover of Henan and Hanoi has not yet been consolidated, and there is still a hidden danger in Guanzhong that Zhang Han is sticking to the abandoned hills, and the troops cannot be concentrated. The Xingluo Han army is only 100,000, and the Chu army has several times the advantage, if you don't take this opportunity to defeat Liu Bang, and when Liu Bang stabilizes the rear and consolidates the newly occupied area, it will be difficult to defeat him!
**, led by Xiang Bo, believes that it is not easy to defeat Liu Bang. Just imagine, a person who took Henan with 10,000 soldiers and horses and captured Guanzhong with 50,000 soldiers and horses is now holding an army of 100,000 and has a geographical advantage, how easy it is to defeat him! It is better to retreat to Kaifeng and Chen Liu, with their backs to the rear; Leave a group of men and horses east of Xingyang to lure Liu Bang into battle. Assuming that Liu Bang advanced to the plain area, and the Chu army's superiority in strength could be brought into play, it would be much easier to defeat him!
Most of the generals agreed with Xiang Bo's strategy. Xiang Yu then retreated the main force to Kaifeng and Chenliu, and at the same time sent several groups of secret agents, disguised as beggars and merchants, to sneak into the rear of Xingluo and Guanzhong to listen to the news of the Han army.
Soon, the spy came with the news that the Han army was building a Yongtong between Xingyang and the Yellow River, and planned to hold it for a long time.
Xiang Yu muttered in his heart: Our side has withdrawn, but Liu Bang is sticking to Xingyang, has he no intention of entering the Chu State? Or did you see through our strategy of "luring the snake out of the hole"?
In June, new news came from the spies: Liu Bang returned to Guanzhong and appointed his eldest son, Liu Ying, as the crown prince.
Xiang Yu was faintly uneasy in his heart: Liu Bang set up the prince when he was about to fight, as if he was arranging the future, did he really want to play with me?
A few days later, news came: Liu Bang canonized Liu Yuan as Princess Lu Yuan and married her to Zhang Er's son Zhang Ao.
Xiang Yu had no choice but to smile bitterly: The military situation ahead is urgent, and Liu Bang is in the mood to marry a daughter.
After more than ten days, the news came again: Liu Bang personally came to the front line to supervise the battle, the hill was abolished, and Zhang Han committed suicide.
Xiang Yu had mixed feelings in his heart, regret, loss, panic, worry, and all kinds of moods. In the past, he regarded Zhang Han as a door bolt and a gate, hoping that he would join forces with Sima Xin and Dong Fei to block Liu Bang's footsteps in the east. According to the scribes, Yong's man is also stopped, and the plugged person is also stopped, and the king of Yong and the king of Sai, that is, they will be able to block Liu Bang; Zhai's enemy is also the enemy, plus King Zhai's help, he will be able to defeat Liu Bang. Now it seems that whether it is Yong, Sai, or Zhai, they are all invalid. Zhang Han was not bad, and he defended the ruined hill for ten months, effectively containing the strength of the Han army. Now, Zhang Han has fallen, and Liu Bang has no worries!
Xiang Yu expected that Liu Bang would soon be a master of Chu, so he actively prepared for the battle and prepared to give a head-on attack.
Unexpectedly, Liu Bang made an astonishing decision: he ordered Han Xin to be the main general, Cao Shen to be the infantry general, and Guan Ying to be the cavalry general, and dispatched tens of thousands of elite soldiers to crusade against Wei.
Wei Bao actively participated in the battle of Chu organized by Liu Bang at the beginning, wanting to use Liu Bang's power to recover Liangdi. At the Pengcheng Conference, he finally realized that Liu Bang's rule was to inherit the county system of the Qin Dynasty and not to appoint princes and kings. Messing with Liu Bang, let alone recovering the land of Liang, the land of the Western Wei Dynasty may not be guaranteed. Therefore, the wise strategy is to tie up with Xiang Yu and deal with Liu Bang together.
It's a pity that Xiang Yu didn't understand his deep heart, and killed his soldiers and horses in pieces. Helpless, he had no choice but to retreat west with Liu Bang all the way to Xingyang. Liu Bang ordered him to stay in Xingyang, he didn't dare to refuse, so he took leave to return to China on the grounds of his mother's illness, and immediately blocked the key roads after returning, and at the same time secretly communicated with Xiang Yu, asking for reinforcements to resist Liu Bang.
Xiang Yu welcomed Wei Bao's initiative to take refuge, on the one hand, multiple friends are better than multiple enemies; On the one hand, Wei and Guanzhong are only separated by a river, and Chu and Wei join forces to attack Guanzhong and smash Liu Bang's lair. Therefore, he happily signed an alliance with Wei Bao, and ordered him to lead tens of thousands of Chu troops into Wei as Wei Xiangguo and enter Guanzhong.
When Liu Bang heard the news, he first sent Li Shiqi to persuade Wei Bao. Wei Bao didn't listen to persuasion, Liu Bang was no longer polite, mobilized elite soldiers and strong generals, and prepared to be rude!
Liu Bang crusaded against Wei, he could have transferred troops from elsewhere, why did he draw troops from the Xingluo front? The Xingluo Han army was only a quarter of the Chu army, and after the transfer of tens of thousands of troops, the disadvantage was even more obvious; Especially in Xingyang, after the elite soldiers were withdrawn, the veteran soldiers sent by Xiao He just became the main force to defend the city, aren't you afraid that Xiang Yu will take advantage of the weakness to enter?
Liu Bang's answer is: not afraid!
He made the deployment of attacking Wei in order to lure Xiang Yu to take advantage of the weakness.
In order to encourage Xiang Yu's enthusiasm for attacking, he also asked Chen Ping to organize a "professional rumor" and launch a propaganda war. It's enough to use a veteran weak pawn against him! What to say: Chu Nangong has long prophesied, the Xiang family has been a Chu general for generations, until Xiang Yan will have a decline, three generations of ancestors and grandchildren, and his life should die in the military, Xiang Yan and Xiang Liang have all fulfilled it, and now it is Xiang Yu's turn!
Xiang Yu heard these rumors and became angry.
What annoyed him even more was that there were many people in the Chu army who believed these rumors and discussed them in private.
What annoyed him the most, though, was that he himself believed it somewhat, even though he was very reluctant to believe it.
He couldn't wait to rush over immediately and step Xingyang into bricks and tiles.
Xiang Yu was angry, and the consequences were serious! All the generals knew that at this time, they must not say a word against his wishes, otherwise they would be thrown into the ding by him and boiled into broth. Although many of them understand the truth that "the Lord should not raise troops in anger, and he will not be discouraged and cause war", they still showed anger one by one, and begged for war one after another, and no one dared to be a ** anymore.
Others were pretending to be angry, but Old Man Fan was angry, and said to Xiang Yu: As long as the Han army dares to send troops to Wei, they will immediately march to Xingyang and capture Liu Bang in one fell swoop, and they must not miss the opportunity.
Even Xiang Bo, who has always been an old man, thinks that although Liu Bang is using the strategy of "luring the enemy deeper", it is really impossible not to fight him, otherwise what prestige does Xiang Yu have in the army? Besides, I don't dare to fight such a good opportunity, what kind of battle will I dare to fight in the future?
Everyone said a word, shouting and shouting, Xiang Yu finally made up his mind: as long as Liu Bang dared to transfer the elite soldiers, he would take advantage of the weakness to attack Xingyang.
It's a pity that Xiang Yu doesn't understand a decision-making principle: a thing that everyone agrees with 100% is 99% a mistake.
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