In September of the third year of the Han Dynasty (204 BC), the Chu army was cut off from the grain route, and eating became a problem.
Xiang Yu decided to go back and open up the grain road.
Before the army set off, he explained to the great Sima Cao and other generals: "Good life guards Chenggao, assuming that the king of Han comes to challenge, don't go to war, just stop him from advancing eastward." I will definitely be able to kill Peng Yue within 15 days, set Liang Di slightly, and then come to meet the general (I will punish Peng Yue on the 15th, Ding Liang Land, and return to the general). ”
Cao Ji is the benefactor of the Xiang family, the Qin Dynasty Jianghu rescued, helped Xiang Liang settle the lawsuit, and avoided prison. Xiang Yu also took good care of Cao Qi, gave him the high position of Da Sima, and treated him as a relative of the sect.
Cao Ji is grateful to Dade, always with a heart of service, and has been diligent in his work for several years, although he has not performed outstandingly, and he has not made any mistakes. Now that Xiang Yu has handed over the heavy responsibility of guarding Chenggao to him, he is both honored and a little embarrassed - defending Chenggao and preventing Liu Bang from advancing eastward are clearly two tasks. Liu Bang did not have to take the Chenggao route to the east, or to go down the Yellow River or from the south of Chenggao, he could go eastward. Is it important to stick to Chenggao, or is it important to stop Liu Bang from advancing eastward? Or, when Liu Bang swaggered east from outside Chenggao City, should he go out of the city to block the attack?
However, Cao Yu did not object, one of the reasons is that Xiang Yu is not used to others singing against him, which is like saying: "You are not as smart as me!" "Catch him in a good mood, maybe it's okay; When you're in a bad mood, he will pull your smart head off and let you know that being smart doesn't have the strength to work; The second reason is that the mission period is only fifteen days, and the deal will pass, Cao Ji does not believe that he is so unlucky, and he will just face the dilemma of sticking to Chenggao or preventing Liu Bang from advancing eastward.
In fact, Xiang Yu is not sure which task is more important, assuming that Liu Bang wins Chenggao, it will clear the obstacles for the eastward advance; Assuming that Liu Bangdong entered, Cheng Gao's gains and losses would not be so important. Which task should be put first, it depends on Liu Bang's strategy, and now it is not clear Liu Bang's strategy, how to judge which is more important?
Cao Zhi probably understood this meaning, but Xiang Yu didn't explain it clearly, if something went wrong, there was a risk of being held accountable. Xiang Yu's Ding didn't know how many unjust souls were boiling, they may not have really done anything wrong, but there was a little mistake, and when Xiang Yu was in a bad mood, they became the target of anger. He was just Xiang's benefactor twenty years ago, and the main son Xiang Liang was long gone, how could he dare to call himself a benefactor? How dare you believe that you have a gold medal for avoiding death?
His worries seem to be unfounded, but they are enough to affect his judgment and decision-making at critical moments.
Xiang Yu led the main force eastward to Chenliu.
Peng Yue was a guerrilla commander, specializing in smart battles, never fighting hard to the death, seeing Xiang Yu's army arrive, he took the initiative to withdraw from Chenliu, Waihuang and other more than a dozen Liangcheng were automatically abandoned, and still withdrew the troops to the Yellow River and Jishui to wait.
Xiang Yu easily occupied Chenliu, but encountered a little trouble in Waihuang: the Waihuang people held on behind closed doors to prevent the Chu army from entering the city. In recent months, Han and Chu have repeatedly fought over the rear passage of the Chu army, the Han army has cut off the Chu army's grain route several times, the Chu army has recovered several times, and the Waihuang has also changed hands many times, the Han army has come and the Chu army has gone, and the Chu army has come and the Han army has gone. When the Han army came, it was good to say, not to rob the grain, not to disturb the people, to buy and sell fairly, to find people to work and give money according to the price, and to give a little favor to the lonely, widowed, old and weak. It's amazing that the Chu army is here, asking for money and food, and making a lot of trouble. Once the Chu army came, Waihuang suffered a catastrophe, and suffered several catastrophes in a row, and the Waihuang people finally couldn't bear it anymore and spontaneously organized to defend their homeland.
Thousands of people are armed, which is the opponent of the 200,000 Chu army? The outer yellow man was impulsive, picked up the ** and worked for a few days, seeing that the more people died, the more and more people died, he finally calmed down, gave up resistance, and asked Xiang Yu to surrender (Waihuang is not down. A few days, it has fallen).
After Xiang Yu entered the city, the more he thought about it, the more angry he became: he brought so many soldiers, and he wanted to annihilate Peng Yue in one fell swoop, but he was blocked by a group of Diao people for several days, and it was difficult to eliminate the hatred in his heart if he didn't hurt the killer!
He ordered: All men over the age of fifteen in Waihuang should be driven to the east of the city and all of them will be killed.
The son of a doorman in Waihuang County, who was thirteen years old, smart and bold, came to Xiang Yu and said: "Peng Yue robbed Waihuang, and the Waihuang people were afraid, so they had to temporarily surrender and wait for the king to come to the rescue." But when the king came, he tried to kill all the people, and how could the people have the heart to be obedient? There are more than a dozen Liang cities east of Waihuang, and after hearing about this, they must hold on to the city and refuse to surrender again! ”
Xiang Yu was very touched when he heard this. In the past few years, he killed from Wuzhong to Hebei, from Hebei to Guanzhong, from Guanzhong to Qi State, and the people killed can be piled up into mountains (the pit kills tens of millions), not only did no one obey him, but even the people who were afraid of him became fewer and fewer, and now a group of small citizens dared to gang up against him, and it seems that bloody means are not a good solution to the problem. So, he ordered the pardon of those men who were yellow.
After that, from the east of Waihuang, all Liang Cheng did not resist and all surrendered.
After Xiang Yu recovered Waihuang and other cities, he crossed Suishui in the south, planning to sweep the Suinan base area and completely open up the grain route.
Unexpectedly, Liu and Lu Bipeng became much more difficult, and they used the same method that Liu Bang used to deal with Zhang Han in his early years: mobilize the masses, clear the wilderness, launch a full-scale guerrilla war, and attack and harass the Chu army out of nowhere. At the same time, the families of the Chu army were used to carry out a psychological war, instigate the officers and soldiers of Chu to revolt on the battlefield, and contribute to the eradication of the first and the construction of a better future for the Chu country.
Xiang Yu once again fell into the sea of "people's war", that time it was the people of Qi who opposed him, and this time it turned out to be the people under his rule. Compared with Qi Guotian Heng, the Han army's tactics for mobilizing the masses were much more clever, and the experience of dealing with the enemy was also richer, Xiang Yu led more than 200,000 soldiers, facing 200,000 or 30,000 Han troops, and there was no way.
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