As time passed, although the Chu army's attack was still fierce, the Qin army's numerical advantage began to show.
With the support of the public losers who rushed to build boats to cross the river, the number of soldiers of the Qin army crossing the river increased day by day. The numerical advantage of the Chu army gradually disappeared due to successive battles.
If generals such as Xiang Yu and Yingbu had not taken the lead several times to boost morale and ensure that the morale of the Chu army did not drop, I am afraid that this would be the time for Han Xin to switch from defense to offense.
But even so, the situation is still not optimistic. The Chu army cannot eat the Qin army led by Han Xin, and naturally cannot free up its hands to deal with Zhang Han's tribe. In the end, a large number of Qin's effective forces are wiped out, unable to break the situation.
Since the Chu army cannot break the situation and time is on Qin's side, this means that the Qin army has basically grasped the victory. /
Sure enough, the Chu army and the coalition forces of the princes led by Ji Bu totaled more than 200,000 troops. Facing the Qin army of more than 400,000 combined by Zhang Han and Wang Li, the pressure can be imagined.
In a battle, Wang Liqin, who was about to be bloodied and humiliated, led the remaining elite armor-piercing soldiers and golden fire cavalry of the Qin Dynasty to break through the defense line of the princes' coalition forces in one fell swoop, and cooperated with the Luowang Six Sword Slaves and other Luowang who came to kill them. The Shadow Guards implemented beheading tactics and almost killed all the high-ranking princes.
The already weak and low-morale coalition of princes would immediately fall into a rout mode after their command system was knocked out, leaving the Chu army's front line wide open.
Zhang Han immediately seized the opportunity and led his army to violently attack the gap. Although Cao Jiu came back in time to help, he was still unable to withstand the influx of Qin troops. At the critical moment, Cao Jiu himself was killed by an old man with extremely high martial arts skills. Killing, causing the defense line to open.
The Chu army began to collapse. Seeing that there was no way to save the day, Ji Bu led the Chu Shadow Tiger Army, which had just been formed, to make a final charge.
In the end, Ji Bu was killed by Zhong Limei, and his entire Chu Shadow Tiger Army was wiped out.
After defeating the Jibu tribe and the coalition forces of the princes, Zhang Han understood that the more urgent it was at this time, the more impatient it was. After three days of careful preparation, he led the army to go straight to the final battlefield.
Xiang Yu had also received warning from the soldiers of the Chu army who had returned from defeat. He learned that Ji Bu and Cao Jiu were killed in battle, and that the Chu army and the allied forces of the princes in the direction of Jiyuan were defeated.
The current situation is that even if Xiang Yu wants to turn around, all Han Xin's troops have crossed the Yellow River and have an advantage in terms of military strength.
It is already good that the Chu army can maintain its offensive under the leadership of Xiang Yu. Turning around now will only give Han Xin an opportunity to take advantage of it, and the whole army will be annihilated if he is not careful.
When Xiang Yu was in a dilemma, Han Xin helped him make a choice.
It turned out that after the arrival of the entire army, Han Xin was not just focusing on defense. He was also observing Xiang Yu's flaws.
Continuous fierce attacks were too much for the iron-clad people, let alone the flesh-and-blood Chu army.
Han Xin had been waiting for an opportunity to defeat the Chu army in one fell swoop, and this opportunity finally appeared as the news of Ji Bu's annihilation spread back to the Chu army.
On the night when the news was sent back to the Chu army, Han Xin also received the news from the Shadow Secret Guards. He made a prompt decision and attacked the Chu camp at night, leaving no chance for Xiang Yu to breathe.
Although Xiang Yu expected that the Qin army would suddenly leave the stronghold at this time, he still underestimated Han Xin's determination. After many days of continuous fierce fighting and another night attack, the Chu army was already exhausted and faced several times more When the Qin soldiers died, they showed a state of incessant decline.
The battle line was penetrated by Han Xin in several places. Even though there were strong generals such as Ying Bu and Yu Ziqi to fill in, the disadvantage of insufficient troops was obvious. After a night of fighting, Xiang Yu, who knew that the situation was over, had to break camp and leave.
Han Xin selected elite cavalry and pursued them along the way. The Chu army suffered numerous casualties.
Just when Xiang Yu finally got rid of Han Xin's pursuit, a large army suddenly came out.
Blocking the Chu army's return, when Xiang Yu saw clearly who was coming, it turned out to be the army led by King Cheng of Han who was supposed to go to Chu.
For the first time, Cheng Qi showed his commanding ability in front of the people of the world. The Chu army, which was already exhausted, was immediately divided into several sections and fought separately. Most of them were soon annihilated by the Qin army.
Xiang Yu had no choice but to take a small part of the remaining army to escape in other directions.
When Han Xin's and Cheng's tribes reunited and the two armies merged into one, the strength of the Qin army increased again, reaching nearly half a million.
After several battles, Xiang Yu's troops dropped from 400,000 to more than 40,000.
Xiang Yu, knowing that his end was near, did not want to sacrifice any more Xiang children. After ordering his generals Yingbu and Yu Ziqi to lead the remaining soldiers to surrender, he turned back on his Wuzui horse and rushed into the Qin army led by Cheng Fu. , after killing nearly a thousand Qin soldiers, he died of exhaustion.
Xiang Yu wanted to let his father-in-law Fan Zeng and his confidante Yu Ji surrender to the Qin army along with Ying Bu and others, but unexpectedly, both of them were unwilling to live and drank poisonous wine and committed suicide.
Yingbu and Yu Ziqi led 40,000 Chu troops to surrender to Chengqi.
After Cheng Qi accepted the Chu army's surrender, he did not embarrass them, but he could not allow the 40,000 Chu army to return to the Chu land, so he scattered them and distributed them throughout the country.
After annihilating Xiang Yu and the coalition forces of the princes and joining forces with Zhang Han, Cheng Fu decided to divide his troops into three groups, one of which was still led by Zhang Han to sweep Hebei.
The other was led by Han Xin, who attacked and destroyed Qi.
The last group was led by Cheng Qi to capture Emperor Yi of Chu.
The Zhao State, which had not yet regained its breath due to several previous battles, encountered the death of King Zhao and other key figures. Facing Zhang Han's army that once again swept in, the city was destroyed and the country was destroyed without any suspense.
Then Zhang Han sent his army northward and attacked and destroyed the Yan Kingdom without any effort. Wang Li also led the border guards back to the Great Wall defense line at this time to resist the Huns who wanted to take advantage of the civil strife and invade again.
Han Xin once again crossed the Yellow River and attacked the Qi State directly. The King of Qi was also a member of the Tian family. On that day, the top farmers were massacred by Ghost Tathagata. He was spared because he was away on official business. His participation in the uprising of the Six Kingdoms of Shandong this time was just for fun. lively.
Seeing that the situation was over, he surrendered to Han Xin under Tian Yan's persuasion.
As for the Chu State, it was even simpler. Facing Cheng Qi, who had superb martial arts, the battle to defend the city was meaningless.
Every time he attacked the city, Cheng Qi first opened the city gate with a palm of his hand, and then the Qin army attacked.
Less than a month later, Emperor Chu Yi, the leader of the feudal lords, was captured and sent to Xianyang.
The mighty Shandong Six-Nation Restoration Plan all failed.
Although Qin also suffered heavy losses, it also completely wiped out the remnants of the six kingdoms. Even if there were some omissions, there was no threat to the rule of the empire.
After Cheng Qi led the army back to the dynasty, he officially announced that he would merge his fiefdom into the Qin State and completely hand over his power to the third son of Qin, Zi Ying.
Ziying, on the other hand, respected Chengyu as the Supreme Emperor and continued to build the Afang Palace for him to live in, which had been suspended due to the war.
After the war was completely settled, Qin III began a ten-year policy of self-cultivation.
Except for Afang Palace, all other major projects were canceled, which greatly reduced the heavy corvee burden on the people. And some of the too strict Qin laws were modified to make them adaptable to the people of the six kingdoms of Shandong. After these ten years of cultivation, the strength of the Qin Empire was restored.
In the autumn of the twelfth year of the third year of Qin Dynasty, Ziying, the third emperor of Qin Dynasty, appointed Han Xin as commander and commanded 300,000 Qin troops. With the purpose of completely conquering the grassland, he attacked the Xiongnu who had been harassing Qin for a long time.
Han Xin won ten of the ten battles, and finally shot and killed the newly appointed Huns Maodun Chanyu in the decisive battle in the hinterland of Mobei, and captured countless cattle and sheep.
After completely solving the threat of the Xiongnu, in order to solve the threat of the grassland tribes to the Central Plains Dynasty and ensure the establishment of the rule of the Qin Empire.
The Qin State divided and unified the grassland tribes into eight tribes, and implemented a cruel reduction policy for these eight tribes, which stipulated the number of males in each tribe. Once the number of males exceeded, they would either be killed or sent away. Go to the mainland and accept assimilation.
In the 20th year of the third reign of Qin Dynasty, Cheng Qi took back the remaining four phases and shattered them into the void.
