In 205 BC, during the Chu-Han War between Liu Bang and Xiang Yu for the world, Liu Bang took advantage of Xiang Yu's personal leadership of the Chu army to attack the State of Qi and the State of Liang, gathered various princes, and gathered 600,000 troops to secretly attack Xiang Yu's base area of Pengcheng (present-day Xuzhou, Jiangsu).
Xiang Yu, the overlord who was leading an army in Qi Di (present-day Shandong), heard that the old lair Pengcheng had been attacked and occupied by Liu Bang and others, and was furious, and immediately led 30,000 elite horsemen to return overnight.
The Chu army attacked for a long time all night, without sleep. At dawn, the two armies of Chu and Han (the combined forces of the princes) met under pengcheng city.
Xiang Yuyuan opened his leopard eyes, roared angrily, and smashed into the enemy position first, and a long spear provoked vertical thorns, stirring up a burst of bloody rain, he angrily scolded Liu Bang as an ungrateful villain, and rebuked those princes who betrayed Chu and surrendered to Han:
"Sima Jiao! You shameless yellow-headed child, have you also defected to Liu Bang"?!
"Because you killed Emperor Yi (XiongXin, king of Chuhuai), Liu Bang mourned for Emperor Yi, and you have benevolence and righteousness...".
Before the words could be heard, Xiang Yu roared angrily, like a thunderous voice: "What?! stuff!!
Like a thunderclap in the clear sky, Sima Wei was suddenly shocked, and was shocked to fall off his horse, saying that it was too late and fast, and Xiang Yu stabbed the long halberd into his chest fiercely. Wang Shenyang of Henan had the courage to pat his horse forward, and carefully murmured in his mouth:
"The King of Han has many powerful people, throwing whips to plug the river, and the great king might as well descend early..."
Before he could finish speaking, Xiang Yu waved his spear and slashed at it with lightning speed, and Shen Yang did not have time to react before his brain plasma splashed around, and he screamed for his life.
Xiang Yu slashed two generals in a row in an instant, and the allied soldiers were stunned and their hearts were broken. Xiang Yu turned the horse's head, and just in time he met the Wei King Leopard galloping in front of him. The short soldiers met, the long halberd lost its power, Xiang Yu pulled out an iron whip, and a backhand whip smashed into the head of the Wei Wang Leopard, and the Wei Wang Leopard hurriedly flashed his body, and his right arm was hit by a whip, and this whip was so strong that the war horse under the crotch of the Wei Leopard jumped up. Then the horse, riding in pain and falling to the side, fled with his hooves thrown backwards. Xiang Yu did not chase after him, but instead stood up and rushed to the densest part of the coalition army.
The Chu soldiers were brave, scrambling one by one, like a huge wave to pounce on the coalition army, where had the allied soldiers seen such a lifeless way of playing? One by one, like fallen leaves in the fierce wind, they could not resist and ran south one after another.
The coalition army was beaten by the Chu army, and the generals had no intention of fighting, so they hugged their heads and fled south. The centaurs were anxious to flee for their lives, trampling on the dead bodies, discarded weights, weapons everywhere, blood and flesh soaked into the dirt, a shocking scene of the end times. The defeated army desperately fled south, and the Chu army chased after it, and the generals swept over with spears and swords.
Suddenly, a large river with rapid water flowed in front of them, this was the Surabaya River, which blocked the way of the fleeing Han (princes) army, and seeing that the Chu army was pursuing and killing them without hesitation, the defeated soldiers and soldiers could not care so much, they jumped into the rapids, like a group of ants that were swirling around by the impact of the current, crowded and struggling to float to the opposite bank.
The Chu army shouted and chased up, rampaged along the Surabaya River, countless coalition generals became ghosts under the sword, or fell deep into the mud and could not get out, Shi Zai, Surabaya floating corpses like numbness, the river became red, the river issued a terrible scream, countless coalition soldiers were buried in the terrifying waves. So far, the coalition forces have killed and wounded 100,000 people each.
The combined soldiers who had luckily crossed the river continued to flee southward, while the Chu army pursued them relentlessly, and once again caught up with the coalition troops who were crossing the river in Cangqiao at Jushui. There were too many coalition troops on the shore, and soldiers who had jumped into the water were still climbing on the boat or desperately swimming to the other side. Rafts swirled and even capsized in the rapids. The light of fire, the light of knives, the light of blood, the light of water, mixed with the sounds of shouting and killing, screaming, crying for help, and crying, converged into a tragic battle song. In the Battle of Jushui, more than 100,000 people were killed and drowned by the coalition forces. In addition to the soldiers who died in the Battle of Surabaya, the Battle of Pengcheng, Liu Bang and the 600,000 allied troops of various princes were killed and wounded more than half, and he himself almost died.
Xiang Yu defeated Liu Bang's 600,000-strong army with 30,000 horses, once again creating a classic example of victory with less in ancient military history.
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