Han Dang is stronger

Chapter 238
Zheng Chang's attitude was extremely tough. Although Xiang Kang had already proposed to use Jingshui and Bashui as the boundary, Zheng Chang still held a chicken feather as an arrow and, as Xiang Yu's plenipotentiary representative, forced Xiang Kang to hand over the entire Guanzhong and go south. Hanzhong became the king, and his attitude was as firm as if nothing happened to Xiang Yu and he could crush Xiang Kang to death at any time.

Fortunately, both of them just wanted to stabilize the other party for the time being. After nearly an hour of negotiations, Xiang Kang and Zheng Chang quickly reached a negotiation. About one-fifth of the land in Guanzhong south of the Wei River was allocated to Xiang Kang as an enclave, but Xiang Kang could not station more than 6000 troops in the enclave of Guanzhong, and the capital could not be built on the Guanzhong Plain. At the same time, he had to wait for Xiang Kang to go south to Hanzhong to build Xiang Yu was able to send someone to send back Xiang Kang's wife and children and Li Shiqi after the capital.

After the negotiation was concluded, Zheng Chang really hoped to sign on the spot and get the ironclad evidence that Xiang Kang promised to give up [-]% of the documents in Guanzhong. Dare to let Xiang Kang see that he was really anxious to reach a negotiation and gave birth to doubts, so he could only nod and agree, and promised to kill the horse in three days with Xiang Kang, and formally signed the alliance.

But the matter was not over yet, Xiang Kang said casually: "Doctor Zheng, there are still three days left, how about we invite Pei Gong Liu Ji who is stationed in Hangu Pass to participate in the oath to kill the horse?"

"Why did the right general call for Pei Gong to participate in the oath to kill the horse?" Zheng Chang asked doubtfully.

"Three reasons." Xiang Kang said casually: "One is that I want to find a witness to the oath, and the other is that after the oath to kill the horse, I plan to retreat directly to Bashang to station. Peigong is here, just in time to take over for my brother. The land and city I gave up, thirdly, I want to have a careful talk with Pei Gong, resolve the misunderstanding between me and him at Hangu Pass, and discuss in person how to coexist peacefully in the future, lest we have grudges and conflicts in the future .”

The three excuses given by Xiang Kang were somewhat far-fetched, and Zheng Chang was inevitably a little suspicious, planning not to agree immediately, but Uncle Zhou next to him snorted coldly, stood up and said: "You General, the last general is right, right? The generals don’t believe in our sincerity of reconciliation at all, and they want to prevent us from suddenly turning our backs and defeating Peigong first and then taking Hangu Pass, so the defenders of Hangu Pass will definitely not easily enter the pass.”

Xiang Kang didn't say a word, but looked at Zheng Chang suspiciously, Zheng Chang also came to his senses, and realized that Xiang Kang was testing his negotiating sincerity. He makes peace.

But it’s okay, Zheng Chang knew that Qi’s army was marching towards Hangu Pass on the way here, and he was going to replace Liu Laosan to guard Hangu Pass, so that Liu Laosan could free up his hands to enter the pass and establish the periphery of Hangu Pass Even if Liu Laosan enters the pass, he does not have to worry about the safety of Hangu Pass.So Zheng Chang did not hesitate, and immediately smiled and said: "General Zhou, please don't misunderstand. Since General You has this request, in order to prove our sincerity in reconciling with General You, I will immediately send someone to invite Pei Gong to come to Ning Qin." Take the oath."

Xiang Kang nodded and warned again: "Doctor Zheng, I have something to say first. If Mr. Pei finds any excuse not to come, I will definitely not sign the oath of alliance."

Zheng Chang readily agreed, and agreed on some details with Xiang Kang. After returning to Ningqin City, Zheng Chang sent his accompanying officials to rush back to Hangu Pass immediately, asking Liu Laosan to come to Ningqin immediately to take the oath of alliance.

At the same time, after Tian An arrived at Hangu Pass with more than 2 Qi troops, Liu Laosan, who had already discovered that something was wrong, obediently handed over the control of Hangu Pass, and transferred the headquarters to the east gate of Hangu Pass. outside the army camp.During this period, although Wei Ji, the supervisor sent by Xiang Yu, urged Liu Laosan to immediately enter the Guanzhong and implement Xiang Yu's order to build the outer barrier of Hangu Pass, Liu Laosan used the excuse that he could not stimulate Xiang Kang and undermine Xiang Yu's peace talks with Xiang Kang. Do everything possible to delay the excuse.

It is a pity that on the morning of the second day after Xiang Kang and Zheng Chang reached negotiations, when the envoy sent by Zheng Chang rushed back to Hangu Pass, Liu Laosan could no longer find any excuses—Xiang Yu wanted Liu Laosan to enter Guanzhong , Xiang Kang also took the initiative to invite Liu Laosan to enter the customs to participate in the oath, what excuse could Liu Laosan use to refuse to enter the customs?Wei Ji, the supervisor sent by Xiang Yu, had just listened to Zheng Chang's request, and immediately urged: "Pei Gong, don't waste time, hurry up and set up an army, and go to Ningqin to participate in the oath of alliance."

Liu Laosan agreed with a smile, but still ordered the camp to raise troops. He just smiled and asked the envoy sent by Zheng Chang: "You General can trust me so much, and asked me to be the witness of the oath?"

"Pei Gong, Doctor Zheng made it clear that the right general asked you to participate in the oath of alliance. One is that he trusts you and wants to discuss how to get along with you in the future." Let’s see if we really want to reach a negotiation with General You. So Dr. Zheng ordered you to enter the customs immediately, and don’t delay the important matter of the former general.”

Liu Laosan smiled and thought in his heart, and said to himself: "Xiang Kang is really just for this purpose? If he is really going to swallow his anger and sue for peace, it would be easier to say, enter the customs to take over the city land he voluntarily gave up, I just don't think about it too much." It's hard to make a fortune. But if this little Zhuzi has ulterior motives, and even knows about Xiang Yu's accident, wouldn't I be going to the tiger's mouth when I enter the customs this time?"

When Liu Laosan was undecided, the news of Tian An's request to see him suddenly came from outside the tent. Liu Laosan, who was about to buy time, went out of the camp to meet him in person. Unexpectedly, just after meeting, Tian An bowed his hands to Liu Laosan with a smile on his face and said : "Congratulations to Peigong, congratulations to Peigong, this time he enters the customs to take over the land of the city. It is difficult for Peigong not to make great contributions to the state of Chu. The general rewarded him for his meritorious deeds a few days ago, and gave Peigong a title and a city. Don't forget Please have a glass of congratulatory wine next."

"If there is such a day, of course I must invite General Tian to have a few drinks." Liu Lao Sanqiang replied with a smile.

"How is it? Is Peigong's army strong enough?" Tian An couldn't wait to ask again: "I heard that General You agreed to give up all the land in the city east of Bashui and north of Weishui this time. Won't there be some shortcomings?"

Before Tian An finished speaking, the old rascal Liu Laosan already knew that Tian An was jealous of the money, food, materials, treasures and beauties on the fertile soil in Guanzhong. What I said is very true, I am also worrying about this matter, and I want to ask General Tian for help, please come inside, we will go in and discuss carefully."

If it was changed to normal times, it would be more difficult for Tian An to take advantage of Liu Laosan, but the situation is different now. He has already guessed that something happened to Xiang Yu, and he is very suspicious of Xiang Kang's insistence on inviting him to enter the customs. For the purpose, Liu Laosan is of course eager to pull a dead ghost to use as a shield for himself.So as soon as Tian An was invited into the tent, Liu Laosan took the initiative to invite Tian An to lead an army to enter the pass with him, to help him take over the land and city in the pass, and to prevent the young generals who refused to surrender or the former Qin army from making chaos. Tian An, who coveted the benefits of Guanzhong, couldn't ask for it. Of course, he agreed, and immediately decided to personally lead [-] troops into the pass to help Liu Laosan take over the Guanzhong territory.

On the contrary, Wei Ji, the supervisor sent by Xiang Yu, and the envoys sent by Zheng Chang had objections. They were all worried that Tian An's uninvited entry would cause Xiang Kang to misunderstand, but Liu Laosan waved his hand and said, "It's okay." Anyway, the day after tomorrow will kill the Mameng oath, there is still time anyway, we just need to send a fast horse into the customs immediately, tell the situation to General You, and ask him to agree to let General Tian enter the customs as a witness."

Tian Anda, who was eager to enter the customs to reap the benefits, nodded his head and strongly agreed with Liu Laosan's proposal. He also ignored Wei Ji and Zheng Chang's envoys, and immediately wrote a joint letter with Liu Laosan, sending horses to Ningqin and Xiangkang Contact and ask Xiang Kang to agree to Tian An's oath to witness the killing of horses.Then Tian An couldn't wait, so he personally led the army and joined forces with Liu Laosan to enter Guanzhong that day. Wei Ji and others objected, and Tian An said that if Xiang Kang didn't agree, he would go back to the pass immediately. Tian An and Liu Laosan toss about casually.

Fortunately, in the evening of that day, Liu Tian's allied forces had just arrived at Huting, and the messenger who went to contact Xiang Kang sent a reply, saying that Xiang Kang raised his hands to welcome Tian An's army to enter the customs. Out of the corners of his mouth, he wished he could have wings, and immediately flew to the hinterland of Guanzhong to grab money, food, and women. Liu Laosan was also determined, knowing that even if Xiang Kang wanted to play tricks, he would have Tian An to share the pressure for the dead ghost.

In addition, because Xiang Kang had repeatedly swallowed his anger and was forced to give in, Liu Laosan certainly felt greedy. He felt that in order to avoid a war with the coalition forces of the princes, it might not be impossible for Xiang Kang to voluntarily give up [-]% of the land and cities in Guanzhong. , and if this is the case, not only can I make great contributions to Xiang Yu, but I can also reap countless benefits, even if I don't want to be rich.

Greed did not completely confuse Liu Laosan's mind. In the afternoon of the next day, Liu Tian's allied forces had just moved to the vicinity of Ningqin. In preparation for running away, Tian An urged Liu Laosan to set up camp under the city of Ningqin, but Liu Laosan refused on the excuse that Xiang Kang could not be misunderstood. .

When Liu Laosan set up camp, Xiang Kang also sent an envoy, bringing pigs, sheep and fine wine to visit Liu Laosan and Tian An on his behalf, and politely greeted Liu Laosan's current situation. Liu Laosan smiled He was hypocritical and courteous with Xiang Kang's emissary, and he even presented a rather rich thank-you gift in return for Xiang Kang's greetings.But after sending Xiang Kang's envoy away, Liu Laosan immediately arranged for people to go to Ningqin City to deliver an order to Zhou Bo, secretly ordering Zhou Bo to flee to the east of the city immediately when Xiang Kang suddenly turned his face, and come to join his main force. hesitate.

"Pei Gong, why did you give Zhou Bo such an order?" Fan Kui next to him asked puzzledly: "Xiang Kang's little Zhuzi, there is no sign of turning his back? He even gave us a gift, why should we be so guarded?" he?"

"You know what!" Liu Laosan scolded angrily, "I'm too familiar with that little bastard Xiang Kang, hiding a knife in his smile is his forte, the more polite and affectionate he is to us, the more we have to be careful, be careful Only by sailing for thousands of years, do you understand?!"

After the reprimand, Liu Laosan ordered the whole army to let his army loosen outside and tighten inside at night, be careful to prevent sudden changes, and arrange special manpower to set up secret sentries outside the camp of our own army at night, and try our best to fight for our own army. Strain time.Still after making these arrangements, Liu Laosan murmured: "After tonight, I will be fine. Tomorrow is the day to kill the horse and make an oath. Xiang Kang is a hypocrite, and he values ​​credit the most. He signed the oath." Generally speaking, you won't turn your face easily."

In the first half of the night, Liu Laosan was so nervous that he didn't dare to close his eyes. After a long time in the middle of the night, there was still no movement outside the camp. Only then did Liu Laosan feel relieved and lay down on the couch He closed his eyes and rested, but even so, Liu Laosan still did not dare to take off his armor, and his weapons were always within reach.

"Clang clang clang clang!"

Liu Laosan was not nervous in vain. When Si arrived sooner, a gong suddenly sounded outside his army camp, which woke Liu Laosan who had just fallen asleep, and waited for Liu Laosan to take up his weapon and rush out of bed. At the time of tenting, there was already shouts of killing outside Liu Jun's camp, and countless torches rushed directly towards Liu Laosan's camp.Seeing this scene, Liu Laosan's face immediately turned ashen, and he said word by word: "Sure enough, there is a fraud!"

Fortunately, Liu Jun's soldiers were well prepared, and the secret whistle outside the camp called the police in time. As soon as the enemy rushed to the vicinity of Liu Jun's camp, many Liu Jun's soldiers rushed to the fence and shot arrows to stop them, but they were not directly attacked by the enemy. succeed.What made Liu Laosan so angry was that when he rushed into the large tent of the Chinese army to command the battle, Wei Ji, the supervising army, rushed in and shouted: "Where is the enemy coming? Pei Gong, this is the enemy who is here!" Raid our camp?"

"Is there even a need to ask?" Liu Laosan shouted angrily, "Of course it was Xiang Kang, that little bastard. Thanks to you, he forced me to enter the customs. Now we are in big trouble!"

"General You? How is that possible? Isn't he going to make an oath with us tomorrow to kill the white horse? Why did he send troops to attack us overnight?"

Wei Ji's unbelievable exclamation hadn't finished yet, when a soldier outside the tent came in to report and said loudly, "I want to report to Pei Gong, the enemy outside the camp saw the flag of General You, and it is General You who came to command the troops!"

"Very good!" Liu Laosan gritted his teeth and said, "Lead the army to attack my camp personally. Xiang Kang's little Zhuzi really hates me to the extreme! Order the whole army to guard the camp to the death, and be sure to block the attack of Xiang Kang's bandit army." attack!"

"Wait!" Han Xin, who had already left a deep impression on Liu Laosan, stood up and stopped, and said loudly: "Pei Gong, since Xiang Kang came here personally, the troops he brought must be elite soldiers. Your new camp has neither walls nor ditches, so it is absolutely impossible to stop Xiang Kang's strong attack. As the only plan for now, we should decisively abandon the camp and go east, otherwise the losses will only be greater!"

Glancing at Han Xin, Liu Laosan hesitated for a moment, considering that it would be a pity to retreat directly like this, and Zhou Bo's troops in Ningqin City would be completely isolated, and said: "My army is well prepared and we can fight. Hold on for a while."

Liu Laosan quickly regretted his decision. Although his army was indeed relatively sufficient and temporarily blocked the first wave of the Young Marshal's attack, the Young Marshal really hated Liu Laosan so much. During the fierce battle, Ding Ji, the young general who volunteered to serve as the vanguard, rushed to the front line and personally swung his knife to slash people and kill the enemy. The soldiers of the Young Marshal also threw a large number of expensive rockets at Liu Jun's camp without hesitation, which quickly ignited countless military tents and caused huge chaos in Liu Jun's camp.

Then, within a short time of the battle, the young generals rushed a gap in the fence of Liu Jun's camp, shouting revenge slogans and rushed into Liu Jun's camp, the rear army rushed in, slashing wildly with red eyes. Liu Jun’s soldiers who were not wrapped in red cloth were killed. Even Liu Jun’s strong general Fan Kuai led his troops to intercept him, but he failed to drive the young commander out of the camp. Other fences in Liu Jun’s camp were also broken through one after another. The soldiers of the Young Marshal rushed into the camp shouting.And when Xiang Kang personally led the rear army to launch a general attack, the slogan of capturing Liu Ji was heard directly among the soldiers of the young commander.

At the same time, Long Qi and Zhujishi also broke through the camp of the Qi army in the north. The Qi army was originally weaker in combat effectiveness, and it was not as prepared as Liu Laosan's army. Of course, the situation was even more miserable, and it only took a moment Just in time, the young generals directly broke through the camp of the Chinese army. The soldiers of the Qi army scattered and fled in all directions. Countless people knelt and surrendered. Rescue.

The same is true of Liu Jun and Zhou Bo's troops in Ningqin City. Although the Young Marshal Army did not cut down trees to make any siege weapons to avoid the enemy's alertness, and did not take the opportunity to launch a siege, but Zhou Bo followed Liu Laosan's order. Leading the army out of the city to meet Liu Laosan, he was immediately attacked head-on by the cavalry of the Young Marshal Army led by Guan Ying. Put on the soldier's clothes, mix into the crowd of defeated soldiers and flee to the southeast path.

"Catch Liu Ji alive! Kill him!"

The long-suffering anger of the young commander's soldiers completely turned into a raging fire, like wildfire starting a prairie fire, quickly engulfing Liu Jun's outer camp, killing the frightened Liu Jun soldiers to the ground, blood pooling , Then quickly surrounded Liu Laosan's Chinese army camp on three sides.Seeing that the defeat was decided, Liu Laosan didn't dare to have any illusions anymore, so he could only quickly order Cao Shen to lead the army behind the palace and flee to the way he came with the defeated soldiers. Unfortunately, the young commander's pursuit was extremely resolute, and he was quickly defeated. Liu Jun's rear team, under the personal leadership of Xiang Kang, entered Xiaohan Road.

During this period, the soldiers of the Young Marshal successfully captured Tian An, the general of the Qi State, but when the news was reported to Xiang Kang, Xiang Kang didn't even blink his eyelids, and immediately shouted: "Don't worry about him, what should we do?" Whatever you do! Chase with all your strength, today I only want Liu Ji's head! I only want Liu Ji's head!"

The narrow Weihan Road somewhat helped Liu Jun's defeated soldiers block the offensive of some young commanders, and also escaped the bad luck of being surrounded by young commanders, but the narrow road also made the poor soldiers of Liu Jun suffer, and they fled desperately. Liu Jun's defeated soldiers pushed each other and trampled on each other. Countless people were trampled to death and injured. Knowing that they will kill the enemy when they see them, and they will cut them when they see them.

Only Liu Laosan knows why Xiang Kang hates him so much, but Liu Laosan just wants to regret it now and has no chance. In order to escape, Liu Laosan even ordered his own soldiers to kill Liu Jun who was standing in front of him While the soldiers were galloping furiously, a thought suddenly appeared in their minds, "I really deserved it, now, I can no longer be good brothers with Xiang Kang."

(End of this chapter)