The battle lasted for more than an hour, and several Han troops that broke through suffered heavy casualties.
Only one group broke through the Chu army's weakest defense line from the southwest corner.
However, they were immediately pursued by the Chu army's cavalry and still did not escape the fate of destruction.
The Han army retreated in defeat, leaving corpses all over the ground.
The Chu army took the time to rest and adjust their formation.
At this time, Xiang Yu had crossed the Huaihe River and returned to the Chu army's eastern camp.
After the Chu army had lunch, Xiang Yu issued the order for Dongying to advance.
He led all the cavalry in the three tigers and Ben to the south to bypass the west side of the encirclement.
Dozens of heavy infantry phalanxes and spear phalanxes of the Chu army advanced simultaneously towards the Han army in three directions.
Flags flew to the sky, drums and trumpets sounded, and the marching steps of the phalanx could be heard clearly.
"General, now our soldiers have no fighting spirit and are hungry.
If we continue to fight, our entire army will be wiped out.
We should surrender Xiang Yu."
One of Zhou Bo's confidants advised Zhou Bo. .
"Shut up and disturb the morale of our army, you should be killed."
Zhou Bo was furious when he heard this.
He drew his sword and stabbed it into the heart of the general.
The rest of his subordinates did not dare to say anything when they saw this.
At this time, Zhou Bo issued an order: "Pass my military order, and the entire army will form an attack formation to fight to the death with the Chu army.
The Chu army's southwest defense is the weakest, so we should concentrate our efforts on attacking this side."
Xiang Han looked at the rolling Han army and shouted to the soldiers beside him: "Send my order to the whole army.
The whole army must guard to the death and not take a step back.
Bring out another 5,000 soldiers from the camp."
When the Han army arrived in front of Xiang Han's formation, 23,000 soldiers of the Chu army's reclamation army were already waiting.
The halberd players and sword players were staggered in rows, and the heavy crossbowmen at the rear were already holding the crossbows loaded with arrows and ready to go.
After several rounds of arrow throwing, the two sides finally engaged in hand-to-hand combat.
Soldiers on both sides tried their best and the battle was extremely fierce and bloody.
A Han army commander thrust an elongated spear into the Chu army's formation.
This was when he saw the power of the Chu army's tiger-and-camp phalanx.
He imitated a cat and a tiger, and used a broken six-meter-long flagpole to mount the spearhead.
Became this spear.
With a "pop" sound, the spear pierced into the heart of a Chu soldier who was caught off guard.
A knife player next to him saw this and swung his steel knife to cut off the spear.
A powerful arrow fired from a crossbow from behind hit the head of the Han army commander at close range.
He screamed "Oh!"
, covered his face with his hands and fell to the ground.
In front of the formation, a Han soldier thrust his halberd into the chest of a Chu soldier.
Unfortunately, I was hungry twice in a row.
I had the intention but was unable to do so.
The opponent also had armor protection, so one blow did not kill the opponent at all.
The wounded Chu soldier swung the halberd blade he had raised with all his strength and split open the opponent's head.
Then he slowly fell to the ground, but he did not let go of the halberd in his hand.
After landing, he stabbed the halberd hard.
It pierced the tibia of a Han soldier who was charging forward, and he fell to the ground immediately.
The soldiers of the Chu army tried their best to defend their front line from being breached.
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However, compared to the Chu army on this front, the Han army had an absolute overwhelming advantage in local strength.
It was also a battle between trapped beasts.
They followed behind, stepping on layers of corpses and rushing upward.
There was a thin layer of sweat on Xiang Han's forehead.
He had already thrown all the 5,000 soldiers who were preparing to maneuver into the battlefield.
But he still couldn't withstand the continuous attacks of the Han army.
If this continued for half an hour, his front line would inevitably be broken through.
Suddenly, he saw a group of soldiers and horses coming out of his camp on the left side of the Han army, galloping towards this side.
These troops were Xiang Yu's 4,000 tiger and elite cavalry.
They bypassed most of the encirclement, entered Xiang Han's camp, and then charged towards the Han army from the camp.
The reason for such twists and turns is that the Han army did not deploy defenses on the left wing.
In order to prevent Zhou Bo from breaking through, the Chu army's east camp and south camp took the opportunity to attack his rear wing and right wing.
The force was weak and not many troops were deployed.
The Wuzui horses took the lead, and the Overlord stood on his horse with a bow and arrow, followed by four thousand strong horses, like flying geese.
The knights also hung their horses on their saddles and took off their bows and arrows.
When they were still fifty meters away from the Han army, they let go of the bowstring at almost the same moment.
Four thousand arrows rushed towards the Han army, and they fell to pieces with a crash.
Then there was another wave of shooting at a distance of thirty meters.
Then the knights put away their bows and arrows and took off their horses.
At this time, the cavalry formation in the flying geese formation was about to rush into the Han army's formation.
Zhou Bo shouted desperately: "Pay attention to the defense of the right wing."
His meaningless order was drowned in a whirlwind and groaning sound.
There were five or six soldiers beside him who fell to the ground after being hit by arrows.
The Overlord's iron-hoofed halberd soon made a bloody path in the chaotic Han army array.
The cavalry behind him penetrated deeply into the Han army array like a dagger, on the edge of the Han army array.
In the area, heads rolled up by sharp horse claws, severed limbs, organs, and blood splattered everywhere.
Soon, Xiang Yu arrived in front of Zhou Bo.
The rebel army had no time to say nonsense, so he raised his halberd and struck.
Seeing that the situation was not good, Zhou tilted his head to avoid the fatal blow.
But the helmet was stabbed to the ground, and a large piece of his ear was cut off, and blood suddenly flowed from his face.
Zhou Bo's weapon was also a halberd.
He endured the severe pain and swung the halberd with his backhand.
He glanced at the waist of Xiang Yu who had already passed by the wrong horse.
One of Zhou Bo's soldiers also waved a short sword with a ring head in his hand and stabbed the side of Wu Zhenma.
A horse spear instantly pierced the soldier's temple, then lifted him high and then fell to the ground.
Xiang Yu turned his body to the left of the horse and swept away Zhou Bo's halberd.
At this time, two Chu army cavalry rushed over and stabbed Zhou Bo's chest and thigh with two horse spears.
Zhou Bo lay back to avoid the horse spear that stabbed his chest, but his thigh was pierced by another horse spear.
He screamed in pain and fell off the horse.
In an instant, he was trampled to pieces by the Chu army's cavalry rolling in from behind.
Just when Zhou Bo was dead, Xiang Yu had already rushed under the Han army's banner.
With just one swing of his halberd, he beheaded the soldiers guarding the banner chariot and chopped off the flagpole of the banner.
The Overlord continued to lead four thousand cavalry in the Han army's formation.
The Han army, which had lost its general and the great banner, had completely lost its fighting spirit.
Xiang Han took advantage of the situation and ordered more than 20,000 Chu troops to launch a full-scale counterattack.
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The remaining eight or ninety thousand Han troops fled like a tide, leaving corpses on the ground and fleeing the same way.
But they had no way to escape.
The previous camp had been occupied by the Xia Yan tribe of the Chu army.
Finally, Xiang Yu gave the order and the Chu army stopped the pursuit, but the encirclement tightened.
Xiang Yu hoped that the remaining Han army could form an organized surrender and did not want the Chu army to spend time to collect the remaining troops one by one and defeat them.
Eighty or ninety thousand Han troops huddled together like sheep in the wilderness.
Soon a deputy general from Zhou Bo came to the Chu camp with a white flag and asked Xiang Yu to surrender
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