In the night, Liu Jia looked at the heavy rain that had not stopped for many days outside the tent and drank wine.
The rainwater flowed down the eaves of the tent, forming a rain curtain.
Except for the patrol sentries in the camp, the soldiers hid in military tents.
Suddenly he found that the water outside the tent was almost overflowing into the tent, so he quickly ordered his soldiers to pile sandbags outside the tent to waterproof it.
At this time, one of his counselors came in a hurry and said urgently: "General, my subordinates have thought that there is a major hidden danger in our army and need to move the camp quickly."
"why" "General, look at the rain that keeps falling and the water levels in the rivers rising sharply.
If" When Liu Jia heard this, he immediately understood what he meant: "You mean the Chu army will flood us?"
"Exactly."
Liu Jia thought about it carefully and found that this possibility was indeed possible.
The more he thought about it, the more worried he became, and he immediately ordered: "Send my order to the general to move the camp overnight.
Find a place with higher ground to station."
At the same time, the Chu army dug out the last shovel of soil on the embankment on the east bank of the Han River.
The water flowed out along the gap, and the gap became wider and wider.
Finally, the entire river embankment was breached with a hole several miles wide, and the water of the Han River surged out and rushed towards the Nanxiang Plain.
In the Han military camp, the soldiers were grumbling and braving the heavy rain, putting away their military tents and getting ready.
At this moment, a vague "low wall" loomed in the northwest and advanced rapidly towards the Han army camp.
After a while, they rushed into the Han army camp.
Many Han soldiers were caught off guard and were swept away by the water along with some debris.
The soldier who reacted quickly clung to the fixed object and survived.
However, the water level suddenly rose to the height of a person's chin.
Short people could not reach the ground and began to drown.
The Han army camp was gone, and screams for help echoed in the rainy night.
The civilians in Fancheng had already moved to Xiangyang, and the Chu army sergeants guarding the city were also well prepared.
A large number of bamboo rafts were equipped in the city, a large number of bamboo platforms were built, and some houses were reinforced.
Now, all the soldiers of the Chu army boarded the bamboo rafts, and the bamboo platforms and roof tops of the city avoided the flood.
It turned out that where the Han army's barracks were located, densely packed people's heads were bobbing up and down in the water.
Some Han soldiers started fighting and killing each other in order to grab the floating objects.
At this moment, a large number of small boats and bamboo rafts were approaching.
The soldiers of the Chu army on top were waving halberds, spears and other long weapons to slaughter the Han soldiers in the water.
After every stabbing or halberd, a Han soldier corpse would slowly float on the water, and then slowly sink.
The killing continued until dawn the next day.
The sky cleared up for a rare occasion, and the morning light shone on the water full of floating corpses.
At this time, the water level had dropped a lot, and there were still a large number of Han troops soaking in the water with their hands raised in the air, begging for surrender.
The small high ground in the water was also densely packed with Han soldiers.
When they were walking on the boat, the Chu soldiers on the bamboo rafts scolded them.
They threw all the weapons on the shore into the water with dull expressions, and the Chu army began to use small boats to take them away one after another.
After this battle, the Han army in the entire Nanxiang area was completely annihilated, except for the 3,000 garrison soldiers who stayed in Nanyang and the more than 30,000 people who were captured.
Liu Jia's body was discovered after the water completely receded.
It was swollen and had no human shape.
It was only through his clothes that he was identified.
Four days later, a Chu army of 5,000 men arrived at Nanyang City.
The Nanyang County magistrate still wanted to stand firm and wait for help, but he was killed by the county captain and opened the door to surrender the Chu army.
The Han army camp outside Guangling City.
The atmosphere in the Chinese army's tent was so oppressive that it was breathless.
News came one after another that Liu Jia's Han army and Cao Shen's Han army that was harassing Jiangdong were annihilated in the Xiangyang battlefield.
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Liu Bang, who had just achieved some victory some time ago, was now extremely depressed.
The current situation did not go as Zhang Liang expected at all.
Liu Bang raised his lowered eyes and scanned everyone's faces one by one.
When he saw Zhang Liang with his head lowered, Zhang Liang didn't even raise his head.
Just as Liu Bang was about to open his mouth to break the silence, one of Liu Bang's personal soldiers suddenly came.
"Your Majesty, King Peng Yue of Liang, King Xin of Han, and King Lu Wan of Yan each led their troops and horses to leave their bases and return to the north.
They sent handwritten letters."
As he spoke, he handed over the handwritten letters of farewell from the three kings.
When Liu Bang heard the news, he overturned several cases in front of him in anger without even reading the handwriting.
"It's unreasonable.
Who allowed these treacherous things to leave?
Let's see how I deal with them in the future."
At this time, Han Xin persuaded: "Your Majesty, the current war situation is not in my favor.
It is not going as we expected, so retreating now is no choice.
Now that Xiang Jun has captured Nanxiang, he can go down the Huaihe River at any time.
And raid our rear, cut off our food routes, and even go north to capture or destroy Aocang.
Our remaining 450,000 troops are stationed in Huainan, neither advancing nor retreating.
This is a taboo for military strategists.
I hope your Majesty will make a decision soon."
"What King Qi means is, who will guard the land of Western Chu, Huaisi and Chu when we return to our respective families?"
Liu Bang asked, staring at Han Xin expressionlessly.
"Your Majesty has misunderstood me.
When I say retreat, I only mean to withdraw our troops to the area north of the Huai River, south of the river, west of Pengcheng, and east of Luoyang.
That is the area where Your Majesty and Xiang Yu faced off."
Seeing that Liu Bang was silent, Han Xin continued: "As for the land of Western Chu, we don't have to deliberately defend it.
We can just station a certain number of troops to garrison it.
If he wants to fight hard, let him fight.
If he spends effort to occupy this place, It is unlikely that we will withdraw voluntarily.
Then we will be able to take back some initiative and not be as passive as we are now.”
Liu Bang thought for a while and then looked at Zhang Liang.
Zhang Liang still said nothing and just nodded to express his approval of Han Xin's suggestion.
"Well, that's all we have now.
Let's do it according to King Qi's strategy."
Liu Bang said helplessly.
Peng Yue led an army of 150,000 people across the Huaihe River and turned back towards Liangdi.
He was humming a tune along the way and was obviously in a good mood.
Liu Bang suffered several consecutive defeats and lost a large number of troops, horses and territory.
Liu Bang, whose strength was greatly reduced, greatly reduced the threat to him, the King of Liang.
At least Liu Bang can't live without him now, and he doesn't need to be as afraid of him as before.
The important thing now is to preserve your own strength.
He thought that Han Wangxin and Lu Wan had the same plan.
Shortly after these three people crossed the Huaihe River north in three groups, Liu Bang, Han Xin, Zhang Er and others also began to break camp and return north.
Han Xin led an army of 50,000 to prepare to retreat towards Pengcheng, Liu Bang led 300,000 troops to retreat towards Guling, and Zhang Er led Zhao's 100,000 troops to prepare to march to Caoxian County due north.
But not long after they broke camp, the Chu army began to cross the river on a large scale.
Thousands of sails were racing on the river, and thousands of ships were racing together, making it a dark place.
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In this battle, Xiang Yu mobilized six Huben divisions, Yu Ziqi, the 50,000 Jiangdong reclamation army led by Xiang Han, three Huben naval divisions, and all the Jiangdong reclamation army navy.
At this time, a group of 5,000 elite cavalry who were the first to arrive on the north bank galloped towards the south bank of the Huaihe River under the leadership of Xiang Yu himself
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