In mid-June, Heifu's formal attack broke through the Wuguan Pass in only two or three days, and Xiang Yu was still at a loss at the Hangu Pass, which was hundreds of miles northeast of Wuguan and blocked by the Funiu Mountains and the Cuihan Mountains.

Hangu Pass is to go to Luoyang in the east, to the throat of the Qin State in the west, from the frontline position of the Chu army in Shaanxi County (Sanmenxia City, Henan) to Hangu Pass, there are a hundred miles of land, in May, Xiang Yu took people to walk for five days, sometimes only ten miles a day.

This letter road is the most difficult and dangerous path that Xiang Yu has walked in his life, what Cheng Gao, Kang's father adds up to less than eleven: the road section of Kunshan is mostly in the valley, deep and dangerous like a letter, so it is called Han Valley, here the shore is high, the gorge of the stream, the car is not on the track. There are pines and cypresses everywhere on the left and right, and pedestrians are at the bottom of the deep valley, but when they hear the mournful cry of the old ape in the mountains, it is difficult to see the light of day when they look up.

"No wonder hundreds of years ago, the Jin army set up an ambush here, and the three generals who were able to kill Qin Mugong were all wiped out."

It was Zhong Liwu who spoke, a veteran and spy of the Chu State in the past, and a general under Xiang Yu today, when Fan Zeng stayed in Chu to govern the rear, he seemed to have become the intellectual leader in the Chu army.

It's a pity that since the Spring and Autumn Period, with the division of the Jin State, Cuihan has returned to the Qin State, and the Qin people have set up a pass here, and since then it has been completely based on the solidity of Cuihan - it has then become a nightmare that the Six Kingdoms must go through to fight against the Qin State in the west.

"We've finally reached this point."

When he arrived in Caoyang and could already see Hanguguan from afar, Xiang Yu was full of emotion, from childhood to adulthood, he had heard the name of Hanguguan countless times.

I especially remember that more than ten years ago, in the Xiang manor of the lower minister, the eldest father Xiang Yan also told him the story of Xinlingjun and Chunshenjun twice organizing the Six Kingdoms to join forces and attack Hangu Pass.

"The princes Wen Gongzi generals, each sent generals to save Wei, and I am also in the Chu army. At that time, Wei Gongzi Wuji met the princes in Daliang, and led the troops of the five countries to break the Qin army outside the river and go to Mengfu. Then he took advantage of the victory to chase the Qin army to Hangu Pass, suppressed the Qin soldiers, and the Qin soldiers did not dare to ......"

It was the fourth glorious victory of the Hezong, but it was a pity that the King of Wei was suspicious of Lingjun and failed to continue to expand the results, when the fifth and last battle in front of the Hangu Pass was mentioned, Xiang Yan's voice was much lower:

"At that time, the princes took King Chu Kaolie as the commander, Chun Shenjun as the general, and Pang Xuan as the general. Wei, Zhao, Han, Yan, and Chu went to Hangu Pass, Qin sent troops to attack, and the princes and soldiers were all defeated, and King Chu Kaolie blamed Chun Shenjun and became more and more alienated from him......"

It was the last time that the six countries united to resist Qin, and after that, with the Qin Shi Huang Emperor in power, he began to continue to go east to the Han Valley and wipe out the six countries.

When he set up camp in Caoyang, Xiang Yu told Zhong Liwu: "When my eldest father was alive, what I wanted to do most was to organize the sixth joint column, still make Chu the commander, break through the Hangu Pass, force Qin to restore the Korean community, and return the land of Zhao, Wei, Yan, and Chu. ”

It's a pity that in the end, it was still a contemplation and defeat, and with the defeat of Xiang Yan, the state of Chu was also destroyed by Qin.

"Now, after many years, Xiang Ji has finally realized his father's long-cherished wish, reopened and closed, and stood here with the Chu people!"

Xiang Yu's eyes are like a torch, and he is determined to win this pass!

The state of Chu has been restored, and the reason why Xiang Yu still insists on taking the main force of the Chu army to the west, shouting the slogan of "punishing the tyrannical Qin", is to say that the purpose is to avenge the state of Chu.

The shame of King Chu Huai's entry into Qin is something that every aspiring Chu person has heard since childhood, and if you have to use an analogy, it is just like the Song people often chant "Jing Kang is ashamed, and it is still snowing", Xiang Yu was exposed to it, and the seeds of hatred for the Qin people were planted when he was young.

And what makes Xiang Yu feel even more ashamed is that the place of Chu is 5,000 miles, holding a million halberds, and the capital of this overlord is also, with the power of Chu, the world can be used. However, Bai Qi led tens of thousands of people, Xingshi fought with Chu, raised Yan Ying in one battle, burned Yiling in another battle, and humiliated the king's ancestors in three battles.

Xiang Yu must prove that the Chu people are not cowards who only wear long sleeves and high crowns and chant poems!

Family hatred is ranked after the national hatred, the eldest father Xiang Yan died in the war against Qin, his body was in a different place, it is said that the body was still divided by the Qin people, and Xiang Yu's father also died under the Qin people's spear.

Therefore, Xiang Yu's pursuit is a step further than Xiang Yan's "breaking the letter valley and forcing Qin to retreat" in the past:

"I want to set foot in the Hangu Valley, burn down Lishan like burning my Xiling in vain, enter Xianyang to punish Emperor Qin, destroy the Seven Temples of Qin, and return Qin's humiliation to the Six Kingdoms ten times in the past, and then leave Guan......zhong with the population of the treasures of the Six Kingdoms that Qin has taken."

"This is the way for the big husband to take revenge!"

The Chu people under Xiang Yu also had their own goals, and the regional discrimination in the Qin Dynasty had always been serious, which was manifested in the earlier the region that joined the Qin, the higher the status. The highest is the people of the old Qin in Guanzhong, and the people of Chu are the lowest.

Many Chu people, in the past, came to Xianyang to serve in the garrison, and the officials in Qin often raised their toes, and when they encountered nothing, they remembered that tone until now.

What's more, there is a proverb in Chudi: "The rich are in Guanzhong, and the poor are in Huainan", the wealth of the world is gathered in Guanzhong, so the land of Guanzhong is only a quarter of the world, and the people are only tithes; However, the amount of wealth is even the fifth!

If you can enter the customs, you can take revenge and revenge, and you can grab a sum to go back to your hometown, why not?

So the soldiers of the Chu army came to the west with all their strength, but when they really arrived in front of Hangu Pass, after seeing the appearance of this pass, they were full of confidence with the power of victory, and the bloody generals suddenly lost confidence.

But see the front of Hangu Pass is Hongnong Stream, it constitutes a moat of Hangu Pass, it is early summer, the water flow in the stream is turbulent, people and horses are difficult to cross.

Tens of thousands of people under Xiang Yu's command must cross the Hongnong Stream in the north of Hangu Pass, and after crossing the river, they must go south along the west bank of the river, and enter a narrow road in front of the pass that leans on the high post before they can approach Guancheng, which can only accommodate two horses in parallel, and the army cannot be deployed at all. Not only that, the east and west ends of the Guanlou are lofty loess plateaus, they are like a natural city wall, becoming an impassable fortification for foreign enemies.

And there are still a lot of guards at the pass, Zhao Ben of Sanchuan, and Su Jiao's brother, Su Tuo, the captain of Hangu Pass, guarded by at least 20,000 guards, and only 40,000 of the Chu army came to the pass......

The first to be driven up was the Qin prisoners captured by the Chu army in Sanchuan County, and then the local people who were unlucky, Hangu Pass was well defended, and for a time the arrows at the head of the city rained down, and the rolling wood and stones were also thrown down.

The screams continued, the ladders were constantly being pushed down, and people were falling from above and breaking their heads, and the corpses under the city were piled up one layer higher.

In the shouting of killing, another attack failed, looking at the danger in front of him, Xiang Yu had unwillingness in his eyes, he was full of anger, but he had to admit:

"This pass is the first of the nine stops in the world, no wonder the famous generals of the six countries are often frustrated here."

Xiang Yu is good at field warfare, but the siege of the city makes his head big, even if he has an army of 100,000, Hangu is difficult to break.

And just when Xiang Yu was at a loss for Hangu Pass, a personal guard came to report:

"Shangzhu Kingdom, Chen Yu, the envoy of Zhao State, has arrived!"

After hearing this, Xiang Yu was immediately displeased:

"Chen Yu, he still dares to come to see me?"

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The camp of the Chu army in Caoyang was very unfriendly to Chen Yu's reception, and the guards held halberds outside the camp tent, and Chen Yu had to drill through a bright blade before he saw the Shangzhu State of Chu.

"Subordinate Chen Yu, meet Shangzhu Kingdom!"

Xiang Ji was dressed in a dazzling armor, and after sitting on the desk, he didn't let Chen Yu show him a seat, and said with a sad face:

"Your Majesty? Shouldn't you call yourself a 'foreign minister'? ”

It turned out that Chen Yu had not been idle for half a year, he and Chen Sheng were originally ordered by Xiang Yu to go to Hebei to support the son of the Zhao family who was pro-Chu as the king, but they found that they were one step late, and the grass platform team of Zhao State had already been set up, and there was nothing to do with them.

So the two simply voted for Zhao and helped Zhao to attack Hengshan County, which was the center of Chen Yu's activities when he traveled to the north, and knew many heroes.

So after the second Chen seized Hengshan County, relying on Chen Yu's local foundation, he became the actual controller of the first county, Chen Sheng was made the captain, and Chen Yu was named the bitter king of Zhao by the generous Zhao Wangxie......

But this kind of behavior of leaving Chu and throwing himself to Zhao will naturally cause Xiang Yu's dissatisfaction.

Chen Yu hurriedly explained: "In the past, Gongsun Yan was a minister of Wei and Han in order to attack Qin together, although Chen Yu was awarded the title of Zhao State, he never forgot that he was serving the Chu State......

"Serving Chu?"

Xiang Yu sneered: "That is the case, then Chen Sheng will tell me that Chu, Wei and Han have been stationed in Sanchuan for more than a month, the Han soldiers have been ordered by me to move south to Yingchuan, and the Wei army is guarding Luoyang, and is preparing to attack Hedong, and even Peng Yue of Qi State, and even Yu Pei Gong Lu Ze, have each sent a team of men and horses to help me and escort grain for me, but King Zhao is the only one who has been stranded in Hebei for a long time and does not send troops to come?" Could it be that he wants to break the covenant with Qin? ”

"Zhao Xiaoguo, how dare you do this!"

Chen Yu defended: "King Zhao and Chu fought hard to attack Qin, the Chu army fought Henan, the Zhao army fought Henan, and Zhao Guangwujun broke the Qin army in Hanoi, so Chen Yu was able to see Shangzhu State here, Chu and Zhao should be one, and jointly serve Shangzhu State as the longitudinal chief, how can they listen to the words of the villain, so that the two countries have a ......."

Xiang Yu's face softened slightly: "Then what are you here for?" Come to report the date of Zhao's southward departure? ”

"The subordinates are here, it was King Zhao who asked me to report two things to the Shangzhu Kingdom......"

Chen Yu said: "The first thing is that someone in the name of Qin Gongzi Fusu, raised troops in Haidong, and now has been supported by the people of Liaodong, claiming to be the king of Zhao, and confronting Zang Di, the king of Yan in the north, in Liaoxi, there are changes in the north, so Zhao cannot send all his troops to the south......"

"Fusu!?"

Xiang Yu frowned, but after thinking about it carefully, he didn't think so: "In the past year, there have been many people in the world who have raised things in the name of Fusu, if I remember correctly, Chen Sheng, who went north with you, also falsely claimed to be Fusu in Chen County, so thinking about it, the so-called Qin Gongzi in Liaodong is only afraid that it is also fake, or the plan of the local Qin officials." ”

"It's hard to tell the real from the fake, but you can't help it."

Chen Yufu said again: "The second thing is what King Zhao said himself. King Zhao and his adviser Kuaiche thought that compared with half a year ago, the situation was very different, the north was strong in the past, the south was weak, and now Wang Ben is dead, and the Hefton soldiers and Hanzhong are already strong in the south and weak in the north. ”

"The Six Kingdoms will fight in the Valley, I'm afraid that Heifu will finally get the benefits of the fisherman, if Qin reunifies in the south, Heifu will get Guanzhong, and he will take advantage of the situation and go east to increase troops in the Six Kingdoms."

"For the sake of the Chu State and the world, the Shangzhu State might as well go south to attack Nanyang, so that Heifu had no choice but to retreat, so that the Six Kingdoms, Northern Qin, and Southern Qin can still maintain a three-legged momentum!"

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PS: The second chapter is in the afternoon.

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