In the face of Xiang Yu's strong attack, even Liu Laosan, Chen Ping and Zhang Liang could not defend Xingyang City in history, so naturally, let alone the two unknown soldiers Luo Xian and Li Yao. When the fierce battle reached the second update, the elite and powerful soldiers of the Western Chu finally entered Xingyang City, cut the bolt and lock it, and opened the Xingyang City Gate.

As the Western Chu army poured into Xingyang City like a tide, nightmare also came to the innocent people of Xingyang. The Western Chu army led by Xiang Yu was originally famous for its cruelty. For various reasons, the whole world was full of rage from top to bottom. After entering Xingyang City, the soldiers of the Western Chu army of course killed men and robbed women when they saw women. Whether it was a white-haired old man or a baby who was feeding, as long as they were caught by the Western Chu soldiers, none of them could escape the poison. For a moment, there were bloody storms everywhere in Xingyang City, and there were also men's dying screams and women's terrifying screams, mixed with the cry of the old man and the children, so miserable that they could not be described in writing.

He had already done his best. After the city was broken, Luo Xian, the Han army's commander, could only quickly lead the remaining Han army soldiers out of the city to escape. However, Li Yao, the magistrate of Xingyang County, who had surrendered to the Han army, was tough at the last moment, and led his whole family to burn himself to death in the county temple. He unexpectedly fulfilled his promise of the death of the city. However, Luo Xian and others were also unable to escape. They had just left the city through the west gate and were immediately surrounded by the soldiers of the Western Chu army who were red-eyed, and were then dismembered by knives.

The massacre was still going on. The soldiers of the Western Chu army, who were full of anger, blocked every passage out of the city, killed all the men who could arrive early, regardless of age, and captured all the young women in the open space in the city. Many Western Chu soldiers directly tore open the women's clothes in the streets and alleys, raped and humiliated them. At the same time, the soldiers of the Western Chu army naturally had to plunder the people's wealth and snatch all the things they could like. For this reason, there were frequent disputes. Xiang Yu was too lazy to pay attention to his military discipline, and just asked the soldiers not to set fire to the house, and did not ask anything else.

The Western Chu army's beastly movement in the city continued until the second half of the night. The Western Chu army and Henan soldiers lined up outside the city were all looking forward to it, hoping that Xiang Yu would issue an order to enter the city earlier so that he could also go to the city to vent the robbery. Unfortunately, Xiang Yu was not good at other things, but he was never vague in war. He was always calm and did not rush to order to enter the city. He was guarding against Ao Cang or the Han army in Guangwu City suddenly attacked and stabbed himself in the back in the chaos.

Facts proved that Xiang Yu's vigilance was right. In the early morning, when the sky was about to be dark, a normal person was most sleepy and wanted to rest after staying up late. With the protection of the last night, a Han cavalry with about five or six hundred people suddenly emerged from the darkness, wielded his sabers and rushed towards the Henan army lined outside the city, and also used primitive grenades to disrupt the Henan army's ranks. The Henan army was already ineffective in combat, and was rushed by the Han cavalry when they were extremely sleepy. Naturally, it was immediately in chaos. It was soon chopped and killed by the Han cavalry and screamed to the ground.

Fortunately, Xiang Yu was prepared for this, but he just whispered to the battlefield. Xiang Guan, the former chief cavalry general of the young commander, immediately led three thousand Western Chu cavalry to charge up and calmly attacked the Han cavalry, which was far less than that of his own army. However, the Han cavalry was extremely cunning. Before Xiang Guan's troops could approach, he turned his horse and retreated northward. Xiang Guan was willing to give up and immediately urged the army to launch a pursuit, roaring and biting the tail of the Han cavalry.

Seeing this scene, Li Zuoche, who had also not slept all night, hurriedly sneezed and reminded Xiang Yu: "King, the Han thief cavalry retreated at once, as if they were deliberately seducing the enemy. Please be careful."

"You don't need to teach me. If I can't even see the Han thief being lured into the enemy, I will be shameless to call myself the King of Western Chu." Xiang Yu snorted coldly, then yelled at the Western Chu cavalry Feng Jie, and ordered casually: "Take your troops to pick you up. If there is any abnormal movement in the Han thief, report it to me immediately."

On the side of Xiang Guan, the Han cavalry quickly withdrew from the battlefield and fled directly to Ao Cang in the northeast. It took less than a moment to whip the horse and fled directly to the northwest of Ao Cang Mountain, not far from the Han army's Ao Cang camp. Xiang Guan had just ordered to give up the pursuit, but he never thought that the Han cavalry turned his horse and cursed at the Western Chu cavalry. Xiang Guan was furious and immediately rushed to meet him. He never thought that as soon as he joined the Han cavalry, there was a loud sound of killing in the darkness on both sides, and a Han infantry rushed out. At the same time, behind the Han cavalry was torches, and a Han army was also fighting out.

All of them were cavalry under his command, and the terrain was quite open. Of course, Xiang Guan was not very afraid of the ambush circles arranged by the Han army with infantry. However, when he looked at the Han army infantry team that broke out from behind the Han army's cavalry, Xiang Guan was suddenly shocked and blurted out that Zhou Shuppifu - it turned out that it was Zhou Shu himself who led the Han army's Aocang defenders to attack to ambush the Western Chu cavalry that pursued!

"Chance!"

These two words suddenly flashed through Xiang Guan's mind, and Xiang Guan didn't think about it, and immediately took the Western Chu cavalry and retreated, and lured the Han army's infantry brigade away from Aocang Camp. The Han army was indeed trapped and chased with slogans of revenge. After a long time, they were lured ten miles away from Aocang Camp.

At this time, as Xiang Guan expected, Xiang Yu, who had never been vague in the war, indeed sent Feng Jie to lead 3,000 cavalry to respond. Xiang Guan was overjoyed and hurriedly sent people to contact Feng Jie first, asking Feng Jie to take advantage of the maneuverability of the cavalry to detour from the flanks to break Zhou Shu's return path, creating a chance for the decisive battle for his own army. Feng Jie understood the gods and immediately followed the plan, and immediately took his cavalry to intersect and raid behind the Han army to intercept the Han army.

A wise man is worried about something, and at a critical moment, Uncle Zhou was also confused. It was still when Feng Jie had intercepted him, Uncle Zhou wanted to turn around and attack Feng Jie's queue to protect the retreat to prevent the Western Chu army from taking the opportunity to launch a decisive battle. When things came to this point, Feng Jie was willing to miss the opportunity to establish a great achievement for Xiang Yu? Of course, he led his army to form a hurried formation and intercept the Han army with all his strength. Xiang Guan also sent someone to report to Xiang Yu urgently, while leading the army to charge at all costs, and sharing the pressure for Feng Jie.

When the news was delivered to Xiang Yu, Xiang Yu was of course so surprised that he could not believe his ears. After repeatedly confirming that Xiang Guan and Feng Jie had entangled Zhou Shu’s army, Xiang Yu decisively ordered Sima Hu to immediately lead the Henan Army to reinforce the country, and at the same time hurriedly recalled the troops entering the city to assemble, intending to seize this opportunity to launch a decisive battle with Zhou Shu, and annihilate the main force of Ao Cang of the Han army in field to reduce the pressure for the subsequent battle of his own army.

In a moment, in addition to the two thousand troops that cleaned the battlefield, the Western Chu cavalry that had entered the city to fight quickly retreated from the city and also quickly gathered into an army. Xiang Yu shouted excitedly and immediately rushed north with the remaining more than 10,000 Western Chu cavalry to the north, and rushed to the battlefield in southern Ao Cang to reinforce. However, what surprised Xiang Yu was that when he led his army to the scene, nearly 5,000 Han infantry cavalry that went out to fight had formed a very strict defensive round formation. The Western Chu cavalry and Henan army were blocked from outside the formation and were shot by the dense rain of arrows from the Han army so that they could not get close.

Seeing this scene, Xiang Yu of course looked up at Xiang Guan, who came up to welcome the Hou, and asked: "How could it be? Haven't you been entangled in the Han thief army? Why are you still giving them a chance to fight in formation?"

"Brother, please forgive me." Xiang Guan replied helplessly: "The thief is too cunning. Seeing that the situation is not good, he suddenly threw out many thunder bombs that would make loud noises. Our war horses were frightened and ran around, so they took the opportunity to form a circular formation."

"Fortunately, Xiao Wang's army arrived in time." Sima Xu, who was next to him, quickly snatched the merits and said, "Otherwise, the Han thieves would have taken the opportunity to escape. Fortunately, Xiao Wang's army had already arrived nearby, so the Han thieves did not dare to take the risk of escaping, so they could only form a formation in a hurry."

"Hurry up and form a formation in a hurry?" Li Zuoche, who was rushing with Xiang Yu, raised his eyebrows and looked at the Han army round formation with great surprise, and said, "How come there are so many long shields to protect the outer periphery of the round formation of the Han thief? Does this look like a hurry up and form a formation?"

It was still because Li Zuoche reminded that Xiang Yu vaguely realized that something was wrong - the infantry circular formation that was established in a hurry, and suddenly got so many long shields to protect the periphery? This was clearly because the Han army had sufficient preparations in advance and had been preparing to use the defensive circular formation to fight the self-arms in the field?

It doesn't matter if it is wrong. What Xiang Yu is most afraid of is the enemy fighting in the field. He immediately asked several generals around him: "Who dares to lead the army to rush forward and open the road to advance for our army?"

After looking at the Han army round formation with a tight organization and long shield protection, several Western Chu generals did not dare to say anything. It was when Xiang Yu's face began to turn black that Xiang Zhuang gritted his teeth and said, "I am willing to go there."

"Be careful." Xiang Yu then turned angry and happy and said, "I broke through the round formation of the Han thieves, and I will remember your first skill this time!"

Unfortunately, Xiang Zhuang's rushing result this time surprised Xiang Yu and others. Seeing the Western Chu cavalry rushing towards him, the Han soldiers who were well prepared first shot directly with strong crossbows and then with bows and arrows. They used long-range weapons to kill the Western Chu cavalry, with many casualties. When the Western Chu cavalry finally rushed to the nearest place, they suddenly threw out primitive grenades to scare the war horses. The Western Chu cavalry's war horses were frightened and trampled on each other and formed chaos. Naturally, they could not threaten the strict battle formation of the Han army. The Han soldiers took the opportunity to shoot arrows continuously, and retreated the Western Chu cavalry's charge, which also caused Xiang Zhuang to be injured in the melee.

Seeing Xiang Zhuang fleeing back with injuries, Xiang Yu was furious. At one point, Xiang Yu planned to lead the army to charge himself. Fortunately, Li Zuoche and Xiang Zhuang stopped him tightly, and both said, "King, the strange weapons of the bandit army have a great impact on our war horses. It is rare to get a hard rush with cavalry. It is not only very dangerous for you to charge yourself, but once you fail, it will also have a huge impact on our morale. It is better to find another way to break the formation."

Previously, I had suffered a great loss in Ao Cang. Now that I was traveling again in the old place, Xiang Yu certainly did not dare to take too much risk. After a little calculation, Xiang Yu adopted Ding Gu's suggestion. While asking Sima Seo to lead the cannon fodder of the Henan Army to come forward to fight for the opportunity to fight in close combat, he asked Feng Jie to lead the cavalry of the headquarters to take advantage of the situation to attack the Ao Cang camp of the Han army, and to avoid the real attack and put psychological pressure on the Han army soldiers - cut off your retreat, see how you will return to the camp?

Uncle Zhou also made an action. As soon as he saw the Western Chu army splitting troops to attack Aocang Camp, Uncle Zhou immediately ignited a pile of grass bunches prepared in advance in the middle of the Han army's round formation, and sent out a signal. Then, seeing the signal from Uncle Zhou, the Han army general Chongda immediately led three thousand troops out of Guangwu City and lined up to reinforce Uncle Zhou.

"Uncle Zhou, do you really dare to fight to the death with me?!"

Xiang Yu's voice was full of surprise and surprise, and then Xiang Yu did not think about it. He immediately waved his hand and asked Ding Gu to lead his army to attack and actively face Chongda for a decisive battle. However, Li Zuoche's face changed slightly and he thought to himself: "Why are you crazy about Uncle Zhou? Although we fought fiercely late yesterday, the soldiers had not rested for almost a night, and their physical strength was greatly reduced, he still did not have much chance of winning? Why should we take a risky battle?"

At this time, the severe physical strength of the Western Chu army and Henan soldiers also began to show that the Henan army's cannon fodder was not fast and was unable to approach the Han army's dense rain of arrows. She was forced to retreat like Xiang Zhuang. Xiang Yu was furious when he saw this. In addition to ordering Sima Huo to urge the army to launch another attack, he also divided a cavalry to attack the Han army's round formation from the flanks.

The situation on the other side was probably the same. Just as I saw Ding Gu bringing the Western Chu cavalry to come, Chongda immediately asked his army to form the most powerful circular formation, using the infantry formation to intensive arrow rain to compete with the Western Chu cavalry, gritting his teeth and fighting with the Western Chu cavalry, and heading against the Western Chu cavalry.

The fierce battle has become increasingly fierce. On the left and right battlefields, the Western Chu cavalry came and went like the wind. The Henan infantry was heading forward and fought with the Han infantry fighting in a formation. At the same time, the Aocang Camp in the north was also shouting and killing the sky. The Western Chu cavalry who forcibly attacked the camp also fought fiercely with the Han infantry left behind in the camp.

Fortunately, Xiang Kang did not rush to invent the high bridge saddle and stirrup. The Han infantry had the capital to fight the Western Chu cavalry head-on. With strong crossbows, strong bows, well-prepared feather arrows, and grenades at critical moments, he repelled the charge of the Western Chu cavalry many times. He fought fiercely for nearly a morning without giving the Western Chu cavalry a chance to break through the round formation of his own army. Xiang Yu was naturally furious and couldn't help but have the idea of ​​leading the army to charge again. However, just as Xiang Yu was about to take action, Li Zuoche next to him suddenly grabbed him and said nervously: "King of Western Chu, you can't be impulsive. The situation is wrong. We may have been trapped!"

"What are we trapped?" Xiang Yu subconsciously brought the word "Another".

"The foreign ministers don't know yet, but the situation is too wrong." Li Zuoche replied quickly: "Yesterday before yesterday, Chen Liu and Daliang's thief army came to die, and it was not hurt by us for free. Today, the Shuppa Zhou suddenly launched a decisive battle to fight a tough battle without any confidence. It is very likely that it was another intention! So we'd better not act impulsively, and we should not rush to put all our troops into the battlefield. We should leave some spare force to prevent it if we are not sure!"

Li Zuoche's obstruction saved Xiang Yu and countless Western Chu soldiers. When Xiang Yu was carefully calculating Li Zuoche's analysis, several Western Chu army scouts suddenly rolled and crawled in the southeast direction. Li Zuoche saw it sharply and hurriedly said: "King, look at the southwest. If you have a scout back to report the situation, it seems something happened!"

Xiang Yu quickly turned his head to look southwest. Seeing that the several self-scouts who were rushing towards him were indeed embarrassed, he was shocked and quickly patted his horse to meet him and shouted loudly: "What's wrong? So anxious?"

"King! Han thief! Han thief! Han thief is here!"

"Brother, it's useless. The thieves came in line. Before we could approach, they had already formed a formation! At that time, the thieves and cavalry came from behind, and we couldn't stop them!"

Xiang Zhuang quickly dissuaded him and said, "Also, our soldiers have not had a rest for more than a day, and they have fought several tough battles in the middle. If they continue, the situation will only become more and more unfavorable to us. Let's go quickly."

Looking at his exhausted soldiers, and the Han cavalry who were watching Dandan in the distance, Xiang Yu, who was not stupid enough, roared helplessly, and took the Western Chu cavalry to retreat to the Honggou Ferry. The Han cavalry followed closely and took the opportunity of the Western Chu cavalry flowing across the river. He suddenly launched a charge and drove the rear soldiers of the Western Chu cavalry down the river. The exhausted Western Chu cavalry was unable to resist the enemy at all. The Han cavalry rushed to the water and screamed shocking the sky. Xiang Yu was so angry that his chest almost exploded. He actually wanted to cross the river again and launched a counterattack. Xiang Zhuang held him tightly and said, "Brother, calm down! Calm down! Brother's main force has returned. If you cross the river again, we will only die in vain, but we will only die in vain!"

With a snap, Xiang Yu slapped half of Xiang Zhuang's cheek, and shouted with one-eyed red, "He is not our brother! He is our enemy! The enemy of our Xiang family!"

Xiang Yu's roar could not save the complete defeat of the Western Chu army and the Henan army. Almost all of the more than 10,000 Henan army were buried one after another. In the end, less than 10,000 Western Chu cavalry brought by Xiang Yu from the battlefield in Qi, in the end, less than 10,000 people fled to the east bank of Honggou. The water of the Honggou River was densely packed, almost all of them were the bodies of the Western Chu cavalry. The bodies were blocked, leaving the Honggou almost no flow. The Han cavalry also took the opportunity to cross the Honggou from the shallow water, killing the poor Western Chu cavalry again and fleeing.
Chapter completed!