255 When civil and military friends compete with each other, they will establish the king and recruit people's hearts.

In June of the second year of Qin II (208 BC), King Chen's general Zhao Ping attacked Guangling but failed. When he learned that King Chen was defeated, Zhang Han led the Qin army to counterattack. Because he crossed the Yangtze River to Wuzhong, he entrusted King Chen to enthrone Xiang Liang as the upper pillar country, and ordered Xiang Liang to quickly lead troops westward to attack Qin. Xiang Liang then led 8,000 soldiers from Jiangdong across the river to the west. At that time, Xiang Liang learned that Chen Ying conquered Dongyang and sent people to contact him, and wanted to join forces with him to fight westward.

There is a wise man named Chen Ying in Dongyang County, who is kind and respected as an elder in the county. A young man in Dongyang killed the county magistrate and gathered 20,000 people to support Chen Ying as king. Chen Ying's mother advised him: "Since I married into the Chen family, I have never heard of my ancestors being noble. Today, you suddenly gained fame, which is not a good omen. It is better to listen to my wife, and retreat to others. If you succeed, you can also be named a marquis and a prime minister with this merit. If you fail, you will be easily avoided and will not become the target of public criticism at that time."

Chen Ying followed his mother's words and did not dare to accept the title of king, but explained to the generals: "The Xiang family has been famous for generations, and they are all over the border of Chu. If they want to accomplish great things, the generals are incompetent. If Xiang Liang calls on everyone and I rely on them, I will definitely be able to destroy Qin!"

The soldiers who were originally going to follow Chen Ying's command were moved by Chen Ying's words and expressed their willingness to join General Xiang Liang's command to serve him. Chen Ying then led 20,000 troops to Xiang Liang. Xiang Liang led his army across the Huai River, and there was a powerful general Ying Bu, and General Pu also brought the army to Xiang Liang. Xiang Liang had 60,000 to 70,000 people, and stationed in Xiapi.

The most outstanding generals who came to join Xiang Liang were Ying Bu. When he was in his prime, he was tattooed in Qin Fa, so he was also called Ying Bu. After being convicted, he was sent to Mount Li for labor. At the time of Li, hundreds of thousands of prisoners were employed for hard labor. Ying Bu often interacted with the disciple Changhao, and then waited for an opportunity to lead the crowd to escape and sneak into the area near the Yangtze River to be a hero of the strong Liang.

At that time, Wu Rui, the magistrate of Fanyang County, was very upholding the people's sentiments and was known as Fanjun. In the first month of the second year of Qin II, Yingbu learned about the news of Chen Sheng's uprising and went to Fanyang to meet Fanjun. At that time, Yingbu had gathered thousands of people. After seeing Yingbu's mighty posture, Fanjun used his daughter to be his wife, and used some weapons and money in the county treasury in Fanyang County to equip Yingbu's troops, so that he led his troops to raise an army to respond to Chen Sheng. However, he joined Xiang Liang's army halfway and became the number one general under Xiang Liang.

In addition to Ying Bu, Chen Ying and General Pu who were fighting in the future, there was also a strategist who claimed to be Fan Zeng to come to serve Xiang Liang. After seeing Xiang Liang and other generals, Fan Zeng first analyzed the reasons why the Chen Sheng power, which was defeated by Zhang Han, failed.

He believed that when Qin destroyed the six kingdoms, the Chu people hated the deepest, and people still missed King Huai of Chu who was wrongly killed by the Qin people. Therefore, the prophecy that "although Chu has three households, Qin will surely be destroyed" is reasonable. The reason for Chen Sheng's failure was that he established himself as a king because he did not establish the King of Chu. Although this could make Chen Sheng ascend to heaven from a civilian to a king, this could not fully utilize the anti-Qin forces on the territory of Chu, which led to the inability of Chen Sheng's power to be extended and eventually destroyed under the attack of Qin general Zhang Han.

Then Fan Zeng proposed his anti-Qin strategy. He believed that since Xiang Liang crossed the river, the generals of Chu came to rely on him because the Xiang family had been the generals of Chu for generations. People thought that he could restore the Chu country. He suggested that he should obey the wishes of the people and support the descendants of the King of Chu. After hearing what Fan Zeng said, Xiang Liang immediately regarded Fan Zeng as his think tank and resolutely accepted Fan Zeng's proposal. He spent a lot of effort to find Xiong Xin, the grandson of King Huai of Chu, Xiong Huai, who was herding sheep for others among the people, and reinstated him as King Huai of Chu, and reestablished the Great Chu Kingdom.
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