Han Dang is stronger

Chapter 216 Forced surrender of Zhang Han

When Xiang Yu's messenger found Li Zuoche, Li Zuoche was discussing the military situation with Chen Yu, the general of Zhao State, analyzing the possible price to be paid for taking Zhang Han's camp by force, and in order to send Zhang Han's army from which direction. There was a dispute when the main attack was launched in the camp, but when he heard that Zhang Han had sent someone to contact Xiang Yu, Li Zuoche immediately waved his hand and said, "General, there is no need to argue, this battle is over, Zhang Han will surely drop!"

After speaking confidently, Li Zuoche rushed out of the central tent of the Zhao army and rode straight to the camp of the Qin army. However, when he arrived at the camp of the Chu army, Li Zuoche did not ask Chu to The sergeant notified Xiang Yu for himself, but asked directly to the camp gate officer who came to greet him: "May I ask, general, who is the general on duty at your army's camp today?"

"Reporting to Lord Guangwu, it is General Xiang Zhuang Xiang." The camp gate official replied truthfully.

"Okay." Li Zuoche, who knew Xiang Zhuang, was overjoyed when he heard it, and hurriedly ordered: "Please general, please send someone to guide me to see General Xiang Zhuang. I have something very urgent to see him."

Knowing that Li Zuoche's status was extraordinary, and that even Xiang Yu had to win some face from him, the gate officials of the Chu army camp did not dare to be negligent, and hurriedly arranged for people to lead Li Zuoche to meet Xiang Zhuang, and ended up entering the Chu army's Chinese army camp , when he saw Xiang Zhuang who was in charge of the daily affairs of the Chu Army's camp, Li Zuoche still didn't ask Xiang Zhuang to take him to meet Xiang Yu and the envoys of the Qin Army. Ask General Xiang, did the emissary of the Tyrant Qin army who was meeting with the former general come alone? Did he bring any followers?"

"Guangwu Lord, how do you know that my elder brother is meeting the envoy of the Tyrant Qin army?" Xiang Zhuang was taken aback.

"Don't ask, general, I'll tell you the reason later." Li Zuoche shook his head, and hurriedly said: "Time is precious, please tell me quickly, General Xiang, does the envoy of the Tyrant Qin army have any followers?"

"I did, I brought two followers." Xiang Zhuang replied truthfully, "But they didn't enter our big tent, they were arranged to wait in the guest tent temporarily."

"Great, it saves a lot of trouble." Li Zuoche was so excited that he directly hit his left palm with his right fist, and hurriedly said: "General Xiang, it's urgent, please send someone to take me to the place where the two Qin envoys follow."

"Mr. Guangwu, why are you interested in two servants and the like? You still want to meet them in person?" Xiang Zhuang was confused, but Li Zuoche insisted on meeting the two servants, still Said that this matter was very important, Xiang Zhuang had no choice but to quickly send someone to lead the way, and led Li Zuoche, who had a high status in Zhao State, to meet the two followers brought by Shi Cheng, the envoy of the Qin Army.

When they arrived at the guest tent, two attendants brought by Qin Jun Shicheng were eating in the guest tent. When they saw Li Zuoche, who was dressed luxuriously and had an extraordinary bearing, came in, the two attendants hurriedly got up and saluted. Li Zuoche waved his hands with a smile and said: " You don't need to be too polite, I was just ordered to ask you a few questions, I hope you will answer them truthfully."

"Excuse me, sir, I will answer truthfully." The two attendants replied respectfully.

"What are the identities of the two of you?" Li Zuoche asked.

"Reporting to the superior, we are the personal soldiers of General Shi Cheng, a lieutenant under the general's command." The two attendants replied truthfully.

"Shicheng." Li Zuoche had heard of this name, and knew that Shicheng was Zhang Han's absolute confidant, and he was trusted and valued by Zhang Han, so he nodded and asked, "Then you know, What is General Shi Cheng coming to our camp this time?"

"I don't know, I don't know." The two entourages answered in unison, and then one entourage said: "General Shi just said that he had ordered the general to negotiate some matters with your army, but the specific matters to be negotiated, General Shi himself Didn't tell us."

Li Zuoche checked their words and saw that their expressions were normal, and they didn't seem to be lying, so he smiled slightly and said, "Okay, I've answered your questions, please continue to eat, I'm going back to report."

The two attendants agreed, saluted and sent Li Zuoche away, Li Zuoche walked quickly, and immediately found Xiangzhuang again, and said to Xiangzhuang: "General Xiang, please go to your Central Army Headquarters immediately. For me, please invite General Cao Jiu out to meet me, and say that I have important matters to discuss with him alone. But please remember, General Cao, that this matter can only be told to General Cao alone, and no one else can know about it.”

"Guangwu Lord, this is not easy." Xiang Zhuang said with a look of embarrassment on his face, "General Cao is accompanying my elder brother to meet guests and discuss important matters..."

"General Xiang, please." Li Zuoche begged: "This matter is too important. It is related to whether we can force Zhang Han to surrender and completely reverse the situation in the Central Plains battlefield. General, please do me this favor immediately. Go get General Cao Jiu out."

Seeing Li Zuoche's solemn words, and respecting Li Zuoche's family background, Xiang Zhuang hesitated for a moment, but he went into the Chinese army's tent himself, and walked over to Cao Jiu, a major general of the Chu army who was accompanying Xiang Yu to receive the envoys of the Qin army. Next to him, he whispered in his ear: "General Cao, Li Zuoche, Guangwu Lord of Zhao State, has come and said that he has something very important to ask you to go out and have an interview with him immediately, and he also said not to let other people know about it." thing."

It is good to have a grandfather who is famous all over the world. Although he didn't understand what kind of medicine Li Zuoche sold in the gourd, but for Li Mu's sake, Cao Jiu also stood up after hesitating for a while, saying that he had something to go Deal with it, accuse Xiang Yu and Shi Cheng, and then immediately set out to meet Li Zuoche, and because Cao Jiu's status in the Chu army is higher than that of old man Fan, including Xiang Yu, who likes to be picky. Bo didn't dare to say anything more.

After meeting Li Zuoche, Cao Jiu greeted Li Zuoche and asked Li Zuoche what was the urgent matter, but Li Zuoche refused to answer, and asked instead: "Dare to ask General Cao, how did the talk go?" Is Hanpifu sincerely asking to surrender?"

"It doesn't seem to be sincere." Cao Jiu shook his head and said, "His envoy just asked what kind of surrender terms we can offer to Mr. Zhang Han, and he also made many unrealistic demands. We also need to let Zhang Han continue to command the army he brought over, ensure the supply of food, grass and military supplies, and grant his subordinates marquis and noble titles. We also need to promise that after the overthrow of the Tyrant Qin, we will make Zhang Han the king of Qin and make Qin the original land and city. It was allocated to Mr. Zhang Han. If I guessed correctly, Mr. Zhang Han should have asked him to test our attitude, but he has not made up his mind to surrender."

"It's about the same as I expected." Li Zuoche smiled and said hurriedly: "General Cao, this opportunity is rare. As long as you act according to my plan today, I can guarantee that within three days, Mr. Zhang Han will definitely be killed." Forced surrender, and dare not raise any excessive conditions."

"Mr. Guangwu has such a clever plan? Please tell me, how to do it specifically?"

Cao Jiu asked in amazement, but Li Zuoche's smile became more relaxed, and then he whispered his plan to Cao Jiu and Xiang Zhuang. After hearing this, Cao Jiu was overjoyed, and hurriedly patted his legs and said, "It's a great plan, let's do it this way." , we will act according to plan immediately.”

Xiang Zhuang, who has a stable personality, was a little hesitant, and he didn't dare to act like this without asking Xiang Yu for instructions. Fortunately, Cao Jiu patted his chest and assured him that he would bear all the consequences. The attendants he had brought were tied up, gagged and escorted to the tent of the Chinese army tent, and handed over to Cao Jiu and Li Zuoche.

He was eating in the enemy's camp, when he was captured suddenly, tied up and gagged by Wuhuada, and escorted here, Shi Cheng's two attendants were of course very frightened, after seeing Cao Jiu and Li Zuoche, they whimpered and struggled to return. When he was about to kneel down and beg for mercy, Cao Jiu stopped them and said in a low voice, "Don't be afraid, I have sent people to bring you here not to do anything to you, but as long as you do what I tell you, I promise not to hurt you, I will give you rewards, do you understand?"

The two attendants quickly nodded to show their understanding, Cao Jiu then ordered: "Put your ears on the tent, your general Shi Cheng is inside talking to our former general, listen carefully to what your general Shi Cheng is saying ,quick."

In order to survive, the two attendants had no choice but to follow Cao Jiu's order honestly, put their ears on the military tent, and listen carefully to the conversation between Shi Cheng, the envoy of the Qin Army, and Xiang Yu, and then naturally, listen, listen, when When it was understood that Shi Cheng was negotiating the terms of surrender with Xiang Yu on behalf of Zhang Han, the expressions of the two followers of Shi Cheng, who had not known the inside story before, of course changed drastically, and the timid one was even trembling with fright.

Seeing that the fire had come, Cao Jiu hurriedly had his two followers pulled away, ordered the soldiers to tie them up, took out the cloth in his mouth, and then asked, "Do you understand? Your General Shicheng , I came to our camp this time to negotiate and surrender on behalf of your General Zhang Han, do you understand?"

"Young one, I'll make it clear." The two attendants hurriedly nodded and replied, and then the timid follower immediately said, "Don't worry, general, as long as our general decides to surrender, the young one will definitely obey his orders and will never resist."

"It's good for you to understand." Cao Jiu smiled, and said again: "But this general is worried about you, your General Zhang Han, and your General Shi Cheng, if you know that you have heard such a confidential matter, And if you can’t make up your mind to surrender to us, you will definitely be killed to silence you, and you will die inexplicably, are you afraid of this?”

Cao Jiu hadn't finished speaking when two of Shi Cheng's attendants fell to their knees and said with a pale face, "General, please don't let General Shicheng know that we overheard what he said just now. .”

"Of course I can spare your life." Cao Jiu said with a smile, "As long as you two are willing to surrender to our army of Chu now and do as I command, I will not only guarantee your survival, but also give each of you right now. A reward of twenty gold."

You can live, and there is still gold to take. Of course, the two followers of Shicheng nodded immediately, expressing their willingness to surrender to the Chu army, and Cao Jiu fulfilled his promise. After some explanations, he finally took the two followers and went straight to the Chu army's tent of the Chinese army, and came back to meet Shi Cheng again. Li Zuoche kept a low profile and continued to hide outside the tent and refused to show his face.

When Cao Jiu returned to the central army tent, the negotiation between Xiang Yu and Shi Cheng was still at a stalemate. Because Shi Cheng insisted on speaking up for Zhang Han, Xiang Yu got a little angry and yelled at the case. He said: "Are you sincerely surrendering? Not only do you want Mr. Zhang Han to continue to command the headquarters, but you also want to assign all the old lands of the Qin Dynasty to him. Is there such a good thing in the world?"

"Ex-general calm down, if our general had no sincerity, we wouldn't have sent the future to visit here..."

Before Shi Cheng could finish his words, two of his attendants, who were led into the tent by Cao Jiu himself, had already rushed up, bowed down to him together, and scrambled to say: "General, surrender, we absolutely can't!" If you beat the Great Chu army, you should surrender quickly, the former general of Great Chu is magnanimous, he will definitely let us survive, and he will treat us well."

"General, surrender quickly. That bastard Wang Li forced us to set up camp in Wude. He made it clear that he wanted to force us to die in vain. No one of our 10,000+ soldiers will be able to escape soon. Let's surrender quickly."

The incident happened suddenly, not to mention Shicheng, even Xiang Yu was taken aback, and when he saw clearly that it was his own soldiers who persuaded him to surrender, Shicheng jumped up in shock and asked, "Why are you here? What do you want to do?" ?”

"General Shi Cheng, that's how it happened." Cao Jiu said with a smile, "Just now, your two attendants were out of the tent and accidentally overheard the conversation between you and our former general, and they knew that you were here to negotiate the surrender on behalf of General Zhang Han. , They had long wanted to surrender to our Chu army, so they directly asked us to surrender, and hoped to come in and persuade you to surrender as soon as possible. I saw their sincere attitude, so I accepted their surrender request and took them into custody. Come in, if you offend, please return General Shicheng Haihan."

"What?" Shi Cheng's face turned pale, and he blurted out, "Did you hear that?"

"Yes, you all heard it." The two followers replied timidly.

"you?!"

Shi Cheng was frightened and angry, and subconsciously pulled out the sword from his waist, but Xiang Yu's guards stepped forward immediately and pointed their spears at Shi Cheng, not giving Shi Cheng a chance to act rashly, Cao Jiu smiled and said, "General, don't Don’t worry, they won’t leak the news, I have already promised just now, I will keep them in our barracks, I won’t let them talk nonsense, and I won’t make things difficult for you, General Zhang Han.”

Staring at his two attendants with incomparable resentment, Shi Cheng said with a livid face, "They like to stay, so they can stay by themselves, and I will go back by myself."

After finishing speaking, Shi Cheng bowed his hands to Xiang Yu and said: "Former general, since your army's methods are too bad, I feel that there is no need to talk about it, so I leave."

"Wait a minute, general." Cao Jiu stopped Shi Cheng, and said with a smile, "General Shi Cheng, if you refuse to continue the negotiation, it seems that there is no need for us to continue keeping the secrets for you. After today, tomorrow we will invite you two A personal soldier came to your camp and shouted, and said everything that should be said."

Shi Cheng's face started to turn blue, and he said in a dark voice after a while, "You think that our soldiers of Great Qin will believe the words of these two unknown soldiers."

"The officers and men of your army may not believe it." Cao Jiu began to smile ferociously, and said, "But General Wang Li behind your army, as well as the Tyrant Qin court, may not believe it."

Shi Cheng's face turned from blue to black, Cao Jiu said again: "General Shi Cheng, in my opinion, you'd better not leave in a hurry, it's getting late, stay with us for one night, calm down , Think about it carefully, let's discuss it again tomorrow morning."

After saying that, Cao Jiu ordered again in an irrefutable tone: "Come here, General Shi Cheng, please go down and rest. I'll treat you well, and you must not be negligent in the slightest."

In the Chu camp, the position is high and powerful, after Cao Jiu gave orders, the guards in the tent did not ask Xiang Yu for instructions, and immediately came up to invite Shi Cheng to go to the guest tent to rest, Shi Cheng was alone, his thin arms couldn't twist his thick thighs, so he could only obey Cao Jiu's orders swallowed Arranged, Cao Jiu ordered people to take the two attendants brought by Shi Cheng down to treat him, and then he carefully told the whole story to Xiang Yu, Xiang Bo, Old Man Fan and others who were present.

Finally figured out the truth of the matter, of course Xiang Yu was overjoyed, and said without Cao Jiu's guidance: "A clever plan! We deliberately let the two followers of Shi Cheng know the truth, so we can use the two followers of Shi Cheng at any time to bring This matter was revealed, and Zhang Han was completely cornered, so he could only give in and surrender! If he still refuses to surrender, we can also directly hand over the entourage of Shicheng to Wang Li, and let Wang Li Pifu and the Tyrant Qin court are looking for Zhang Han to settle accounts with Pifu!"

"Why is Li Zuoche's method as vicious as our right general?" Old man Fan also expressed emotion, and said: "But sometimes this kind of ruthless method is very effective. If the old man is Zhang Han, you know After we do this, we will definitely be unable to sleep for several nights."

"Despicable means." Xiang Bo curled his lips and said, "You can't get on the stage."

At this time, Cao Jiu suddenly had an idea, slapped his forehead, and said, "How did you forget such an important person? At this point, I should use my relationship with that person."

"Who is Uncle Cao talking about?" Xiang Yu asked hurriedly.

"Zhang Han's long history, Sima Xin." Cao Jiu replied word by word: "At this time, I just need to use my relationship with him as a friend to tell him about this in advance, and then threaten and lure him. , when Mr. Shi Cheng goes back to meet Zhang Han, he will definitely help us persuade Mr. Zhang Han to surrender, so that Mr. Zhang Han can make up his mind as soon as possible!"

"Brilliant plan!" Xiang Yu slapped his thigh heavily again, and hurriedly ordered: "Quick, Uncle Cao, please pick up your pen and write a letter to Sima Xin, and I will arrange someone to deliver the letter for you immediately."

Cao Jiu agreed, and immediately wrote a letter to his former friend and current enemy Sima Xin, telling Sima Xin of the Chu army's plan to push Zhang Han into a desperate situation, threatening that if Zhang Han did not surrender as soon as possible, The Chu army will make the matter public, and then the Qin court will pursue it. Zhang Han’s confidant Sima Xin must be doomed, and then he will use sweet words to lure Sima Xin, and promise Xiang Yu that after the Qin army surrenders, Sima Xin will succeed Zhang Han in command of the Qin army. He will be rewarded heavily for his surrender, and Sima Xin will also be crowned king after the Qin Dynasty is destroyed.After the letter was written, Xiang Yu immediately sent someone to pretend to be Sima Xin's fellow countryman, and took the letter to the Qin army camp to secretly contact Sima Xin.

Shi Cheng's wavering was far faster than Xiang Yu, Cao Jiu and others expected, and when it was completely dark, Shi Cheng took the initiative to ask to meet Xiang Yu again, and immediately made a big concession after the meeting, promising to do his best after returning Persuade Zhang Han to surrender and accept Xiang Yu's terms of surrender to Zhang Han.Xiang Yu saw that Shi Cheng's attitude was quite sincere, so he also nodded, promised to release Shi Cheng immediately and go back to deliver the letter, and threatened: "Go back and tell Zhang Han that if he doesn't send someone to agree to surrender before sunset tomorrow, this general will kill you." Immediately send your entourage to Huai County, and hand it over to that bastard Wang Li!"

"Don't worry, former general, I will definitely bring your original words with me." Shi Cheng promised in a bitter voice, knowing very clearly that if Xiang Yu really did this, then Qin Ting would definitely clean up himself and Zhang Han together, and the end would definitely be the same. Worse than Zhang Han!
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One can imagine Xiang Yu's reaction. Just after hearing Shi Cheng's report that Chu Jun designed and left two witnesses, he could put himself to death at any time. Zhang Han immediately kicked the case in front of him and roared wildly: "Xiang Yu, a shameless villain! The methods are so vicious, I am utterly irreconcilable with you! I am utterly irreconcilable!"

No matter how much you yelled, it was useless. After calming down, he remembered the consequences of Xiang Yu deliberately handing over the witness card to Wang Li. Zhang Han still shuddered and sweated. He was slaughtered by Zhao Gao a long time ago. With the temper of Hu Hai and Zhao Gao, knowing that he secretly negotiated the terms of surrender with the Chu army, he would definitely divide himself into five horses and kill them all. There would be no ambiguity, let alone consider What made him commit crimes and meritorious deeds.So in desperation, Zhang Han could only summon his two deputies, Dong Yi and Sima Xin, to tell them what had happened and ask for their opinions.

Because he was afraid that Dong Yi and Sima Xin would oppose him, Zhang Han asked his own soldiers to make some preparations, but to Zhang Han's surprise, after knowing what had happened, Dong Yi just kept silent, planning not to express his support. He did not express his objection, but his confidant Shi Simaxin insisted on surrendering, and said: "General, the matter has come to this point, we can no longer hesitate, for the sake of our leader, now we have nothing but Apart from surrender, there is no other way to go. Fortunately, the surrender conditions offered by the Chu army are not too harsh, and we can accept it. Why not make up your mind now. Otherwise, wait for the Chu army to negotiate with you secretly. The matter of surrender is made public, General, even if you want to surrender, you may not have this chance."

After all, he is the old man of Qin Ting, and his feelings are still there. No matter how desperate he is, it is still difficult for Zhang Han to make up his mind. In his heart full of worries, Zhang Han turned his attention to Dong Yi, his deputy in the military. He asked with a hoarse voice, "General Dong, what do you think?"

Dong Yi hesitated again and again, and replied: "The last general doesn't know how to make a decision, so I'd like to ask the general to make a decision."

Zhang Han closed his eyes in pain, Sima Xin looked at his words, and hurriedly said: "General, in the current situation, you really can't hesitate any longer. We have been surrounded in Wude, and the coalition forces of the princes have deployed in the upper reaches of Shaoshui again. The fire raft can cut off our retreat at any time. The battle is death, and the retreat is also death. Moreover, the Chu army has designed to catch you. If the matter is announced, even if you are lucky enough to escape Shaoshui, General, you will still be the same It's a dead end. Apart from Yizhi surrender, you really have nowhere to go, General."

After finishing speaking, Sima Xin turned to Dong Yi and said, "General Dong, you are the same. Even if you escaped Shaoshui by chance, the imperial court will definitely suspect that you are an accomplice of the general, and will never let you go lightly."

Dong Yi bit his lip and said: "General, Sima Changshi's words are right. In the current situation, we really have no other way to go except to surrender. For ourselves and for the sake of 10,000+ people who are with us Soldiers who live and die together, surrender."

The words of Dong Yi and Sima Xin finally made Zhang Han make up his mind. After a few minutes of hard work, Zhang Han put his finger on Shi Cheng and said loudly: "Shi Cheng, you go to see Xiang Yu tomorrow morning and tell him that as long as he agrees I have two conditions, we will immediately put down our weapons and surrender!"

"General, those two conditions?" Shi Cheng asked hastily.

"First, Xiang Yu will swear in public that he will not kill our surrendered soldiers." Zhang Han replied: "Second, after the Qin Dynasty is destroyed, I, Dong Yi, and Sima Xin will be crowned kings. As long as he agrees, We surrender tomorrow!"

(End of this chapter)