My father, King Chu, was besieged at Gaixia

Chapter 1: The Siege of Gaixia
In the vast wilderness, a huge sun slowly sank under the siege of wind, frost and cold, and the remaining afterglow was weakly smeared on half of the rammed earth wall.

"Master Chang, are you feeling better? The king asked you to go see him immediately." A rough and somewhat familiar voice, with a bit of anxiety, sounded in my ears.

As if a long and deep sleep was interrupted, Xiang Chang opened his eyes with difficulty, climbed up dazedly, slowly turned his head, and looked around hesitantly.

This is an ancient city without a trace of modernity. Everywhere you look, there is endless desolation and ruin.

There were houses of different heights, as if they had been bitten by a dog. The gray thatched roofs were torn into a mess by the north wind. The loess walls were tilted here and there. The north wind blew through the broken parts, raising dust all over the sky and making a ghostly howl. A few tattered flags were randomly planted, fluttering weakly.

As for the horse in front of him, it was a tall and strong black horse, its four hooves paddling the ground anxiously, its big black eyes looking at him uneasily, and from time to time it raised its head and neighed.

A dozen soldiers with capable manners and sturdy looks surrounded him in the middle with worried faces. A tall, strong and sturdy general carefully supported his shaking body. The soldiers' old armor was full of marks of impact from spears and arrows, and the spears in their hands also had many cracks. It was obvious that they were all experienced soldiers.

Where is this? This is clearly an ancient battlefield. Am I dreaming?
He shook his head vigorously. The cold air of late autumn penetrated into his head through his nostrils and seeped into his body through his pores, making him shiver. He kept waking up, as if a thin film covering his body was torn off. His thoughts and consciousness suddenly became clear, and fragments of memories flashed through his mind quickly.

Feelings have traveled through time!

Moreover, he traveled through time and space and became Xiang Chang, the eldest son of the Great Chu State and the General of the Central Army of the Great Chu State.

Since he was born into a noble family of military generals, he followed the army in battles since he was a child. He was skilled in archery and horse riding, brave and good at fighting, and had made many military achievements. However, because he was overshadowed by his father, a man who was as radiant as a god, his name was not even recorded in history. He was truly an insignificant and unknown person.

Xiang Chang blinked, looking at everything in front of him, recalling the new memories that were floating like dregs, with a look of hesitation on his face.

As an executive of a giant group company, he fought for three days and nights to perfectly conclude a crucial acquisition battle. He closed his eyes sleepily and had a good sleep. When he opened his eyes again, he had become Xiang Chang who fell off his horse due to sleepiness!

This is so weird!
The sudden and huge change in identity made him feel a little overwhelmed.

"My neighbor, you can't play with me like this!"

Xiang Chang, who had no experience in fighting between two armies, was confused and cursed inwardly.

Fortunately, however, I have my dad - the truly invincible man - to rely on.

As for his father, it was the Overlord of Western Chu who fought nine battles and won nine victories in order to dig the grave of the unrivaled Qin Dynasty that swept across the world!

He was also the Overlord of Western Chu who established his capital in Pengcheng, enfeoffed 18 princes and commanded the world to obey him!
He was the Overlord of Western Chu who had fought more than seventy battles in his life without ever being defeated. He could be called the greatest war god of all time!
……

Thinking back on his cheap dad's awesome life, which seemed like a life of cheating and which even the protagonists in exciting novels wouldn't dare to brag about, Xiang Chang, as his cheap son, couldn't help but feel a sense of pride.

——With daddy protecting me, what in the world do I have to fear?
With such a truly awesome father, who would he be afraid of? As long as he made good use of his foresight as a time traveler and killed old Liu Bang, he would have a smooth road ahead. He could just wait to take over his cheap father's position as the King of Chu, and live a shameless life with a world hegemony in his hands, beautiful wives and concubines? And his cheap father was a man who valued friendship and was extremely confident. The bloody plots of fathers and sons turning against each other and replacing the crown prince in history would most likely not happen to him.

It seems that the time travel god in the dark has been pretty good to me! After all, the cards I was given are much better than those bastards with dead mothers and fathers, or the army of time travelers from the orphanage!

Thinking of this, Xiang Chang breathed a sigh of relief. For a moment, he was in a very good mood and in high spirits. He couldn't help but want to have some sex.

However, a new memory came to his mind like a hammer hitting him hard, making him see stars, his face turn purple, and he felt dizzy.

—— Damn, all those awesome achievements of my cheap dad are a thing of the past?!

As for the present, it is no longer glorious, no, it should be said that it is at the end of its rope, no, it can be said to be the end of the road.

Because the place they are in now is Gaixia!
That's right, it was Liu Bang who gathered the forces of Han Xin, Peng Yue, and Ying Bu, with a total force of a terrifying 600,000, and set up ambushes on all sides, which eventually led to the defeat of the overlord, who was so famous in history and unparalleled in the world, and eventually died at Gaixia!
And his cheap father, after retreating to Gaixia, had a remaining army of 100,000 troops, but in a gamble the day before in an attempt to turn the tide, he was defeated by the man who was later praised as the God of War, and half of his troops were lost...

How can 50,000 defeated soldiers, who are short of food and clothing, face 600,000 elite soldiers and generals?
Xiang Chang, who could not enjoy the pleasure for more than three seconds, felt as if he had fallen into an ice cellar. He muttered to himself, "Are you kidding me? If you want me to die, just give me a quick death!"

Under the pressure of life and death, Xiang Chang's adrenaline was secreted rapidly, his brain was working at high speed, and he was nervously thinking about how to break the current situation.

Escape? He was surrounded by an ambush from all sides and a 600,000-strong army. He couldn't escape even if he had wings.

Stay? The cheap old man broke through the siege. According to historical records, the Xiang family surrendered under the leadership of Xiang Chan and was given the surname Liu to survive. But would Liu Bang be so generous to himself, the son of Xiang Yu? History has repeatedly shown that entrusting one's life to the kindness of others is a foolish choice.

Leave? Follow my cheap dad to break out? My dad's 800 elite cavalrymen were almost wiped out, and he ended up committing suicide alone on the bank of the Wujiang River, and there was a high probability that he would die.

——Leaving, staying, escaping, all are dead ends, how to play this game?
Under the repeated urging of the sharp soldiers, Xiang Chang, who was in a terrible mood, frowned and climbed onto the horse's back stiffly. The muscle memory of his body was automatically activated, and he squeezed his legs together. The big black horse with human nature moved forward in high spirits.

As he rode slowly, Xiang Chang turned his head and looked around. He found that all the houses in the city were now full of Chu soldiers. There were undoubtedly too many soldiers and horses, and Gaixia City was not very big. Even though there was a defeat in the battle the day before, there were only 50,000 people left in the city, and the houses were still unable to accommodate them. In the courtyards and even on the roads, tired soldiers were often seen curled up in a ball, sleeping soundly despite the cold wind.

Some Chu soldiers tore down wooden doors and windows, lit a bonfire and sat around to keep warm, while they did not forget to mend their clothes and weapons. Some of them tied a piece of simple cowhide or wood on their chests as armor, but most of them only wore thin coarse cloth and rags. As for weapons, they were also varied, including swords, halberds, spears, halberds, knives, and even wooden sticks, dung forks, shovels...

As for the wounded, no matter how serious their injuries were, even if they had broken arms and legs or had holes in their stomachs, in the absence of medical supplies, they were all hastily bandaged and placed aside, relying on their own strength to hold out. The only advantage they had over the soldiers was that they were given priority in being placed in the housing.

Xiang Chang understood clearly: the cavalry following him were only equipped with large horses, armor and weapons because they were led by his cheap father. The rest of the Chu soldiers, like most of them, did not have such sophisticated personal equipment.

(End of this chapter)