After Wang Li buried Wang Jun, he returned to the camp and said to the generals: "Since I took charge of the Great Wall Army, I have never lost a battle in the desert. However, since I started fighting with the rebels in Shandong, I have been defeated in consecutive battles! The previous episode Being defeated by Liu Bang, and this time by Xiang Yu, does this really dishonor the reputation of our ancestors and betray the great trust of the court?" Shejian said: "I heard that the Chu army only brought three days of food after crossing the Zhang River. It means to fight quickly. From a tactical point of view, our army should defend the wall and clear the field, and stand firm without fighting. In this way, within a few days, the Chu army will run out of food and retreat without a fight. Wang Li also agreed: "The Chu army has no food. We have food and stand firm without fighting. This is indeed a good way to deal with the Chu army. Su Jiao said: "Whether we stick to it or start a war, it is indeed difficult to defeat the Chu army with our own strength alone." Now Zhang Han leads an army of 200,000 troops stationed in Jiyuan. Why doesn't he attack the Chu army? This sentence seemed to make the truth clear, and all the generals said angrily: "Yes, yes, yes, why doesn't Zhang Han attack the Chu army?" "The generals advised Wang Li to urge Zhang Han to fight immediately to reduce Xiang Yu's offensive against Julu. Wang Li fell into deep thought for a while.
Suddenly Deng Mao came back panting to report that the corridor had been destroyed. Wang Li was shocked when he heard this and said: "The food roads are the foundation of our army. Now that the food roads have been destroyed and the soldiers have no food to eat, what can we do?" General Su Jiao stood up and said: "General, I will kill and retreat from Chu. Soldiers, and then rush to build the corridor to ensure there is no shortage of military rations!" Wang Li seemed to be full of gratitude, and repeatedly told Su Jiao to build the food corridor. Su Jiao agreed to take the two lieutenants Wu Ming and Xu Cha and set off immediately.
When Yingbu heard that Wang Li had sent General Su Jiao to kill him, he discussed it with General Pu and Han Xin. Han Xin said: "Su Jiao is a general of the Qin State, and his martial arts skills are not inferior to Wang Li's. When he comes, the two generals can take turns to fight. When he shows his flaws, they will kill him by surprise." Yingbu asked General Pu to kill him. Hold the camp and come out to fight on your own. In a short time, Su Jiao arrived and killed him. The two armies faced each other. Su Jiao was fully clothed, holding a steel sword in his hand, and shouted with great power: "Thieves with tattooed faces, do you recognize my general Su Jiao?" Ying Sermon said: "In the past, I raised troops from Xianyang, killing Wang Yun, beheading Lao Kang, and defeating Ying. Kui, haven't I heard of you?" Su Jiao was furious and came to fight Yingbu with his weapons drawn. The two of them killed more than fifty people in front of the formation, regardless of the outcome. Seeing that he could not win, Yingbu feinted his halberd, dragged the iron halberd backwards and ran back to his position.
General Pu saw Yingbu coming back and let him go forward to fight Su Jiao. Wu Ming, who was behind Su Jiao, saw this and stepped forward to block General Pu with his spear. The two fought for more than twenty rounds before Wu Ming was defeated and fled. Su Jiao comes to fight again. The two fought for thirty rounds, and General Pu also ran back to his position. Yingbu and Su Jiao fought for the second round, and the two sides fought for a while. At this time, the soldiers on both sides were afraid that the general would make a mistake, so they ordered their troops to retreat at the same time.
General Yingbu and Pu returned to the military camp and saw that they could not win. Han Xin said: "Su Jiao is very skilled in martial arts and very brave. If you can't fight him, you can use tricks." Yingbu asked if he had any clever tricks. Han Xin said confidently: "I have sent people to inquire about a place called Yan'er Bay to the southwest of Julu. It is high on the four sides and low in the center. There is a dense forest of withered vines inside, where an ambush can be set up. I will take three thousand soldiers there first. There is an ambush there. You two can challenge it again at dusk. As long as we lure Su Jiao into the valley of Yan'er Bay, I will make sure that he dies without a burial place!" Ying and Pu were very happy and asked Han Xin to advance. Go for an ambush.
Zhang Han was in the camp, and Song Wan also came to report in a hurry, saying that the Chu army had destroyed the tunnel, and he went to inspect and was defeated by the Chu general. Zhang Han was shocked and said: "The corridor is the guarantee of the Great Wall Army. If the food cannot be delivered to Julu, the Great Wall Army will be doomed!" He was ready to send Zhang Ping to repair the corridor again. Suddenly Wang Li's messenger arrived. The letter said that he and Xiang Yu were confronting each other. If he was asked to attack the Chu army now, the Chu army would be attacked on both sides. Zhang Han left 50,000 people to guard the camp and asked the rest to participate in the battle. So he formed a huge combat army, beat the war drums, and rushed towards the Chu army's camp.
Yafu heard the sound of the drums and boarded the carriage to wait and see. He saw the Qin army approaching with great force, so he said to the generals: "We have cut off the food route of the Great Wall Army. How could Zhang Han and Wang Li give up? Now Zhang Han is attacking. Here we are, we must resist Zhang Han and not distract the general!" Chen Ping asked: "What should we do?" Yafu said: "I will use formations to stop Zhang Han." Chen Ping suggested Said: "Old General, you can also ask the coalition forces to fight together." Yafu asked people to notify the generals of various countries, and if the situation is urgent, invite them to join the fight. Yafu then boarded the chariot and placed a big drum on the chariot. He asked Chen Ping to hold the flag and Zhao Ping to beat the drum to get ready.
At this time, Zhang Han's army had come from far and near, and the formation looked very neat. The Qin army came to a place a hundred meters away from the Chu army's battle formation and stopped. The two armies faced each other from a distance. When Yafu saw that the Qin army was fully armed, he sent his deputy Xiao Gongjiao to drive to the front of the Qin army's formation. When Xiao Gongjiao came to the front of the formation, he said to Zhang Han very politely: "General Zhang is a famous general of the Qin State. I have admired him for a long time! If we meet here today, we will definitely have a big fight to determine the outcome." Zhang Han He asked: "How to fight?" Xiao Gongjiao said: "Our old general wants to fight with General Zhang in battle formation. I wonder if General Zhang is proficient in battle formation?" Zhang Han heard that Fan Zeng wanted to fight with him in battle formation, and he laughed and said "You Chu people live in the south and don't understand the teachings of kings. How can you know the formation? Haha!" Xiao Gongjiao said: "General, you can't say that. Fan Li is from the Yue Kingdom, Sun Wu became famous in the Wu Kingdom, and Wu Qi finally settled in Chu State, how can you despise the southerners?" This question made Zhang Han not know how to answer, so he had no choice but to agree to the Chu army's formation, and under the protection of two generals, he came to the forefront of the battle formation.
Zhang Han immediately stood still, raised his eyes and saw the Chu camp's queue moving rapidly in the distance. After a while, the entire formation changed and turned into a very spectacular formation. Xiao Gongjiao asked: "Excuse me, General, what is the name of this formation?" Zhang Han smiled and said: "This kind of formation is known to ordinary soldiers of the Qin State. It is called the Three Armies Formation." Xiao Gongjiao saw Zhang Han name the formation. , wave the flag. After Yafu saw it, he turned the three legions into six legions. The three legions in front and the three legions in the back moved left and right with the movement of the flag, which was spectacular. When Xiao Gongjiao saw that the formation was ready, he asked Zhang Han to learn the formation. After seeing it, Zhang Han said loudly: "Old Fan Zeng, how dare you arrange the formation of the emperor's six armies?" Xiao Gongjiao waved his flag, and the Chu army formed a new formation. Zhang Han saw the formation's bright flags and armor, the clanging golden drums, and a murderous aura coming from it. He looked at it for a while, and then said to his left and right in surprise: "This formation is called the Eight Gates Formation, also called the Eight Gates and Nine Palaces Formation. According to Historical records record: Lu Wang, Sun Wu, Wu Qi, Sima Rangju and others in ancient times were all proficient in this formation. Now Fan Zeng is also familiar with this formation. This person can be regarded as a wizard. There is such a person in the Chu army, and he can be regarded as having met. Opponent!"
After hearing this, Sima Xin and others asked what to do. Zhang Han said: "It doesn't matter." He loudly said to Xiao Gongjiao: "There are sixty-four armies in this formation. The armies form a formation. The two square formations in the middle are the central army, and the four sides are dragons, tigers, birds, and snakes. The four dimensions of the formation are sky, earth, wind, and cloud formations. The four directions plus the four dimensions make up a total of eight formations. I heard that the Yellow Emperor’s Juqi Formation had nine formations, one for each side, each with a general in charge; the one in the center was counted as Qi Ling is personally in charge of the general, and the other eight are based on it. The arrangement of the nine formations is staggered with each other, embracing or meshing with each other, making the formations between the formations and the formations between the formations. The formation is symmetrical on all sides, and can be from the front to the back. The back is the front, and the soldiers restrain each other. They cannot advance or retreat too fast or too slowly. The formation has four heads and eight tails. No matter which part of the formation the opponent attacks, any part can be used as the head of the formation, and the other tails of the formation will come to rescue together; attack the formation In the center, both ends come to the rescue. What is this if not the Eight-Army Formation? The four dimensions in the formation are on the outside and are regular soldiers; The result of comparison. For example, if the sky is in the northwest as Qian, the formation in this direction is called Tian Zhen; if Kun is in the southwest as Kun, the formation in this direction is called Earth formation. By analogy, Sunda is in the southeast as wind; Gen is a mountain in the northeast, and the mountains come out of the clouds. The names of the formations in the southeast and northeast are called wind formation and cloud formation. The names of the four square formations are named after the four images. The four images are: Suzaku in the south, Xuanwu in the north, Qinglong in the east, and Qinglong in the west. White tiger, the corresponding formations in the four directions are birds, snakes, dragons and tigers respectively. The central army is held in the hands of the general, and it is also a strange weapon, or the strangest of strange. The four righteous and the four strange can be used interchangeably, and the righteous becomes strange. The odd change is positive. The Chinese army is the main body and will not be used easily unless it is absolutely necessary. Therefore, overall, the Chinese army is the head, and the four-dimensional and four-dimensional eight formations are the tail. Looking at the eight formations alone, the four-dimensional formation extends out of the formation. Outside, it can be regarded as the head of the formation; the four-square formation hidden in the formation is the tail. This formation has four heads and eight tails, and the eight formations are intertwined with each other. If the central army is divided into two layers, it can be called a formation. From ancient times to the present, everyone in military affairs has been proficient in this formation, which is the Eight Gate Formation. If a general is not familiar with this knowledge, how can he lead troops to fight?" Zhang Han finished, Laughed. After Chu General Xiao Gongjiao heard this, he said with admiration: "Since the general knows this formation so well, I don't know if he can break the formation?" Zhang Han said: "What's so difficult about this?" He beat the war drum and prepared to break the formation. Xiao Gongjiao also returned to the formation.
Zhang Han angrily said to his left and right: "It is really unreasonable for a useless old man to cut off our army's food supply and still want to use formations to win the battle? Now take advantage of Xiang Yu's absence and quickly disrupt their camp. Then kill Julu, and attack Xiang Yu with the Great Wall Army!" The Qin army shouted: "Drive back the Chu invaders and capture Xiang Yu alive!" Zhang Han then commanded Sima Xin, Dong Yi and other generals to lead 150,000 troops and divide the troops into eight groups. He shouted to the Chu army's four-dimensional formation and four-dimensional formation respectively and rushed over. He personally commanded a legion to suppress the formation. The Qin army's momentum surged forward like a river bursting its banks. As soon as the two sides came into contact, a terrible sound was heard, including the clash of shields, the chopping of weapons, and the wild shouts of the combatants. Under the command of Yafu, the Chu army watched the Chinese army's flags change their formations and launched an earth-shattering fight. The two sides fought in melee for an hour. Yafu saw that the Qin army was numerous and had no intention of retreating, so he sent sergeants to notify the coalition forces and asked them to attack the Qin army from the left and right sides to reduce the burden on the Chu army.
However, after a while, the sergeant came and said that the coalition soldiers and horses did not dare to go out to fight. They just watched from a distance. Yafu continued to direct the battle, and suddenly an arrow hit Zhaoping who was beating the drum. Zhaoping fell down groaning. Fan Zeng loudly ordered the soldiers to carry General Zhaoping down for treatment, and said to Chen Ping: "The sound of the drums is the morale of the army. If you stop beating the drums, morale will be ruined. I will hold the flag, and you continue to beat the drums." Yafu took the military flag. In his hand, Chen Ping picked up the drumsticks and played the drums. Just as Yafu was holding the flag, another stray arrow suddenly hit his left arm. The arrow penetrated his skin and caused a steady stream of blood. Chen Ping said loudly: "Soldiers, please protect General Fan together!" A group of soldiers quickly used their shields to cover him. Ya's father gritted his teeth and held the flagpole tightly. Chen Ping wanted to replace him. Yafu said: "All the soldiers are looking at this big flag and listening to the drums. If you stop beating the drums, morale will be depleted. If the morale is exhausted, the lineup will be in chaos. You must keep playing the drums!" Yafu endured it! The pain held up the flag, and beads of sweat dripped down from his forehead. Chen Ping saw it in his eyes and felt pain in his heart, so he beat the drums even more fiercely.
However, the Qin army still refused to retreat, and Zhang Han personally launched an attack. He led the Qin army directly to attack Fan Zeng's Chinese army. Fan Zeng saw that the Chu army could no longer hold on. At this critical moment, dust suddenly started flying in the northwest corner, and a cavalry group came roaring towards them like a dragon out of the sea. It turned out that when Xiang Yu heard that Zhang Han was coming to fight Yafu, he asked Zhong Limei and others to guard the camp. He led three thousand cavalry and came straight from Julu. As soon as he entered the position, he stabbed everyone he saw and picked generals when he met them. He killed Qin soldiers until they fell off their horses. The cavalry who followed him were like savage beasts, and each one of them could equal one to ten, and ten to a hundred. Zhang Han wanted to take advantage of the situation to defeat the Chu army, but he didn't expect Xiang Yu to kill him again. He was so frightened that he quickly ordered his side generals and tooth generals to come forward to surround Xiang Yu.
Xiang Yu saw that the things in front of him were daggers, spears, halberds, and halberds, so he used his long-handled moon-swallowing halberd to clear the way forward. At this time, arrows were like locusts in the sky, and swords and swords were flashing on the ground. The soldiers of both sides were fighting and chopping each other cruelly and mercilessly. They were fighting until the sky was dark, the sun and the moon were dark, the ghosts and gods were crying, and the heaven and earth were trembling. Zhang Han saw that Xiang Yu was about to attack, so he hurriedly ordered the entire army to withdraw to the camp. After a while, the Qin army sounded the gong and retreated. Upon hearing the order, the soldiers gathered around Zhang Han's chariot and galloped towards Jiyuan's camp. By the time Xiang Yu attacked, Zhang Han had already escaped without a trace.
