Han Dang is stronger

Chapter 239
No matter how much the young generals hate Liu Laosan, there is nothing they can do about it. Liu Laosan, the ancestor of Liu Huangshu, the life-saving master on the battlefield, has excellent and outstanding genes in escaping. Xiang Kang personally led the army to chase and kill Hu Ting , still failed to catch up with Liu Laosan, who was covered with billowing dust and smoke behind his buttocks, and the army of Qi State stayed behind at Hangu Pass to meet him. Xiang Kang didn't want to take the risk of the exhausted army, so he had to let go with a roar, and closed his eyes bitterly. The army, withdrew to Ningqin to reorganize the army and preside over the overall situation.Liu Laosan took the opportunity to flee back to Hangu Pass with his remnant soldiers, saving his precious life.

In the battle between Ning and Qin, although it is regrettable that he failed to kill Liu Laosan, the Young Marshal's results in other aspects were very gratifying. They beheaded a total of nearly [-] people in the Taolin Sai night attack and pursuit battle, and in the Ningqin defeated Liu Laosan's partial division outside the city, beheaded nearly a thousand, wiped out nearly [-]% of Liu Laosan's troops in one go, and made Liu Laosan no longer have any power to fight back in front of the young commander.At the same time, the Young Marshal basically wiped out the Qi army on the banks of the Weishui River, captured more than [-] soldiers of the Qi army, and captured Qi army general Tian An alive. The total casualties of the Young Marshal's Army were only over a thousand, and it can definitely be said that they had won a complete victory.

It is also because of this that after the young generals led the army back to the camp, they all shouted happily and let out a breath of anger. While ordering the rewards of the three armies, Xiang Kang immediately announced in public that he would take the opportunity to enter Hangu Pass and retake it. Hanguguan holds the strategic initiative, and the young generals and generals clap their fists and sing promises together, gearing up for another big fight.

Zhang Liang and Chen Ping, who had become partners inadvertently, were relatively calm, and they stood up together and said to Xiang Kang: "General You, take this opportunity, we should enter Hangu Pass as soon as possible, but before entering Hangu Pass, we must There is an important issue to be solved, which is what excuse to use to attack Hangu Pass and start a war against the Qi army currently guarding Hangu Pass."

"What excuse is there?" Zheng Bu hurriedly said: "Xiang Yu listened to the slander, slandered our right general to become king in Guanzhong without authorization, and insisted on attacking us with the allied forces of the princes. We were forced to fight back. Isn't this an excuse to go to war?"

"This excuse can be used." Zhang Liang said: "But General Zheng, don't forget that the former general sent Zheng Chang as his envoy and offered to negotiate with us to resolve the dispute. To start a war, isn't it a teacher who has no name? Give someone a handle?"

Zheng Bu thought about it carefully and found that it was the same, and he was a little stunned. Chen Ping also said: "I also think that this excuse cannot be used to declare war on the former general. In addition to the fact that the teacher is unknown, it is also equivalent to the coalition of princes who promised to join hands with the former general to attack us. Forced to the opposite side, let us become the public enemy of the world, the target of public criticism, it is difficult to divide the princes outside the pass by uniting vertically and horizontally, reduce our enemies, and strengthen our strength. If we want to go out and develop in the future, it will only be as difficult as climbing the sky .”

"Then what excuse should we use?" Zheng Bu asked hesitantly.

"It's best to have an excuse to start a war that can divide and divide the princes outside the pass." Zhang Liang replied: "It is the best policy to only target some enemies and give other enemies room to turn around."

Zhang Liang's answer was too general. Zheng Bu, who is not good at strategy, of course heard the cloud, but fortunately Xiang Kang himself is a master in this field. The middle one is the king's decree, concealing the news that my elder brother is seriously injured and dying, pretending to be my elder brother's reputation, sending envoys to pretend to make peace, preparing to deceive Guanzhong into usurping the king, and trying to let his henchman Liu Ji secretly harm me , I was forced by Xiang Bo, and I was forced to fight back. I decided to send troops to attack Chu's rebellious minister, Xiang Bo, to maintain the dignity of my Chu king's decree. The princes outside the pass who help Xiang Bo are guilty of the same crime as Xiang Bo, and help our army to crusade against Chu's rebellious minister. Xiang Bo will be rewarded with money, grain and land."

Before Xiang Kang could finish his sentence, the young generals present, Jun Wenwu, had already roared with laughter, and Zhang Liang, who had a close relationship with Uncle Xiang, also burst out laughing, and said, "General You, so you hate Master Xiang so much. Master Xiang has a shit bowl on his body, so you are not afraid that people in the world will say that you are not filial?"

"I can't tell the people in the world that I took the opportunity to monopolize Guanzhong because I knew my brother was seriously injured and might die, right?" Xiang Kang smiled and said, "But I didn't completely wrong my brother. Uncle Ji, I bet that if he tricked me into handing over the matter in Guanzhong, he must have had a hand in it. It is justifiable to send troops to attack him. Also, in order to save the country, King Chu Mu of our Chu State fought against his father, King Chu Cheng Let’s meet each other, I am just imitating the sages of our Chu country by killing my relatives righteously.”

Knowing the grievances and grievances between Xiang Kang and Xiang Bo, and Xiang Bo's various bad behaviors towards Xiang Kang, seeing that Xiang Kang took the opportunity to take revenge and insisted on holding the shit bowl on Xiang Bo, Zhang Liang had no way to object, just nodded and said : "It's a good way. It not only allows the princes outside the pass to have an excuse to preserve their strength and sit back and watch the success or failure, but also announces the news that the former general is seriously injured and will die. Well, even if the former general survives and regains control of the army, we still have a chance to negotiate a peace with him, so that we won't end up in an unresolvable deadlock."

"General You, in order to gain the moral upper hand, we'd better have someone write a statement to spread the word to the world, so that everyone in the world will know why you, General You, turned against the troops outside the pass." Chen Ping suggested: "There is also the king of Chu. Over there, General You, you'd better immediately send someone to send a letter explaining the reason why we turned against the troops outside the pass, and by the way, ask the king of Chu to fulfill his promise and officially canonize you as the king of Guanzhong."

Xiang Kang nodded, and immediately ordered his Shusun Tong, who had the best writing skills under his command, to write a book, and wrote his ridiculous pretext for starting the war as a way to spread the civilization to the world, and forcibly established Xiang Bo and Master Xiang as an anti-Qin coalition army The culprit also announced the news that Xiang Yu was seriously injured and would die, in order to shake and hit the morale of the princes' coalition forces.Then he wrote a letter to Xiong Xin, the so-called king of Chu, explaining the reason for the war, and at the same time asked Xiong Xin to fulfill his promise and formally canonize himself as the king of Guanzhong as the leader of the anti-Qin alliance.

Before the matter was over, after thinking for a while, Xiang Kang quickly ordered: "Bring Zheng Chang and Tian An to me, I have something to say to them. Don't interrupt casually, just help me."

After finishing speaking, Xiang Kang beckoned Chen Ping to the front again, and whispered something in his ear, and Chen Ping quickly agreed with a sly smile on his face, saying: "The right general has a wonderful plan, I admire it, please general right!" Don't worry, I will follow your orders."

According to Xiang Kang's instructions, Tian An and Zheng Chang were brought in front of Xiang Kang in a short time. Naturally, Tian An and Zheng Chang yelled at Xiang Kang, accusing Xiang Kang of disregarding morals and opposing Qin Youjun's sudden conspiracy was extremely shameless and despicable.Xiang Kang, on the other hand, kept his composure, and first stopped the yelling of the two, and then said to Zheng Chang: "Zheng Chang, don't confuse this general with black and white. I just want to ask you about the injury of my brother's former general Xiang Yu." What happened now? Is he still alive?"

Zheng Chang was taken aback, and Tian An was even more taken aback. He blurted out and asked, "What did you say? How is the injury of former general Xiang Yu? Is he still alive? What do you mean?"

Xiang Kang glanced at Tian An and said: "General Tian, ​​it seems that you have been implicated innocently. The two rebels Zheng Chang and Liu Ji must have not told you that my elder brother, the former general Xiang Yu, is attacking Aocang Unfortunately, he was shot in the neck by a flow arrow, and his life was dying, and now I don’t even know if he is still alive.”

Although Xiang Kang intentionally mispronounced the location of Xiang Yu's injury, Zheng Chang's expression changed drastically after hearing this, and Tian An's expression turned pale to the extreme, and he hurriedly asked, "How did you know that the former general suffered such a serious injury?" ?”

"The secret work I placed next to Liu Ji, the accurate information I heard." Xiang Kang continued to slander and slander, and said: "General Tian An, didn't you realize that something was wrong? Yesterday you joined forces with Liu Ji After coming to Ningqin, why did Liu Ji insist on stationing in Taolin Sai, where he could retreat at any time? Also, why did Liu Ji’s camp persist for a long time when I sent troops to rob the camp? It took me a while to break through? What does this mean?"

"What does it mean?" Tian An asked quickly.

"General Tian, ​​you are really honest." Chen Ping said with a wry smile: "Liu Ji was prepared, which means that he had been guarding against leaks. We attacked suddenly, but you have been kept in the dark and unprepared. That's why we easily killed you into your camp."

Tian An opened his mouth wide, and finally realized that something was wrong. The location Liu Laosan chose to set up camp yesterday was indeed very suspicious.Xiang Kang looked at his words and saw that he was shaken, so he said again: "General Tian, ​​if you still don't believe, Zheng Chang is here, you can ask him right now, is my elder brother seriously injured and may die at any time? What he said Are you trying to trick me into handing over Guanzhong?"

Tian An immediately turned his head to look at Zheng Chang, Zheng Chang's face was green and pale, and he said after a while: "You are talking nonsense! You are a traitor, you clearly want to monopolize Guanzhong and become king, so you fabricated these words to confuse black and white. "

"I'm talking nonsense?" Xiang Kang said with a sneer: "Well, since you said that this general is talking nonsense, then you send someone back to invite my elder brother here now. If he is not seriously injured and will die, no one else needs to do it. I will immediately slay myself and apologize to the people of the world! But if you deliberately concealed the news that my elder brother was seriously injured and dying, and tricked me into handing over Guanzhong on behalf of our rebels from Chu, I would immediately tear you apart and execute you. courage?!"

Zheng Chang, who knew the inside story, didn't dare to say anything, and Tian An also saw that something was wrong, so he hurriedly asked: "Zheng Chang, tell me, is the former general really seriously injured? Also, are you here to lie to the right general to hand over his hand?" Out of customs?"

It is very clear that Xiang Yu's serious injury will be known to everyone sooner or later. Of course Zheng Chang dare not answer this question. No matter how Tian An asks, he clenches his teeth and remains silent. Tian An is not a stupid person, he soon came to his senses and smiled Said: "Okay! Don't dare to speak, it seems that this matter can't be faked! Very good, the former general was seriously injured and dying, you know, Liu Ji also knows, but he just kept it from me! Very good, very good, at the beginning Jibei County, in order to help you crusade against the Tyrant Qin army, I did not hesitate to take the army under my command to rebel against the Qi State, and took the initiative to accept the command of the former general, so this is how you repay me!"

Zheng Chang still didn't dare to say anything, Xiang Kang saw that the fire was coming, so he ordered: "Detain Zheng Chang to me so that he can take care of him. He is an envoy, but he is not allowed to abuse him at will, and we must not let others say that we are rude to the envoy. Yes, untie General Tian An and set up a seat."

According to Xiang Kang's order, Zheng Chang was taken away immediately, Tian An was also untied by Xiang Kang's personal soldiers, please sit down beside him, Xiang Kang also said to Tian An in a guilty tone: "General Tian, ​​really I’m extremely sorry, because I don’t know if you are an accomplice of Liu Ji and Zheng Chang, for the sake of caution, I can only attack you last night, I hope you don’t blame me for any offense.”

"Don't blame me?" Tian An smiled wryly, and said helplessly, "One word from the right general is light, and it is the lives of thousands of Qi soldiers."

"But General Tian, ​​if you are an accomplice of Liu Ji and Zheng Chang, and you suddenly help them attack me, it will not be as simple as thousands of lives." Xiang Kang's tone was even more helpless, and said: "The whole Guanzhong will be devastated. , the number of innocent victims can only be counted in the tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands.”

His life is in Xiang Kang's hands, and Tian An has 1 dissatisfaction, so of course he didn't dare to vent it, so he could only ask Xiang Kang: "General You, what is the situation like? You can’t tell me carefully, so that I can be a sensible ghost even after I die.”

"General Tian, ​​don't say that. Since you have been wronged and your innocence has been implicated, how can I keep making mistakes again and again, and continue to hurt you?"

Xiang Kang quickly gave Tian An a reassurance, and then told Tian An the so-called facts, saying that he was placed next to Liu Ji to find out the news that Xiang Yu was seriously injured when he attacked Aocang, and he was in danger of dying Xiang Bo, a rebellious minister of the Chu State, was ambitious, deliberately blocked the news, and pretended to be negotiating with him, trying to force him to hand over Guanzhong, so that he could usurp the title of king in Guanzhong. Chance suddenly plotted against him and seized the entire Guanzhong and Hanzhong Bashu lands by force. In order to protect himself, he had no choice but to attack Liu Laosan first, implicating the absolutely innocent Tian An and the Qi army.

Of course, Tian An didn't dare to believe Xiang Kang's one-sided words, but his life was in the hands of others, and Tian An didn't dare to raise any doubts. He could only ask, "You General, what are you going to do next?"

"Of course, it's righteousness to destroy relatives, and to punish my uncle Xiang Bo who blatantly violated the order of the king of Chu." Xiang Kang replied grandly, and then said: "Also, I hope that General Tian will follow the sky and lead the army of Qi to help me. Crusade the rebellious minister Xiang Bo."

"What if I don't agree?" Tian An asked vigilantly.

"Then please General Tian remain neutral and do not help each other." Xiang Kang replied calmly, and then said: "Also, General Tian, ​​it doesn't matter if you insist on helping my rebellious minister, Uncle Ji, start a war with me. I was wronged, I misunderstood and killed many of your soldiers by mistake, in order to express my apology, so no matter what you choose, I will unconditionally send you back to Hangu Pass, let you go back and join your remaining army."

Tian An quietly breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly said: "General You is so benevolent and righteous, he really deserves his reputation, okay, I promise you, after I return to Hangu Pass, I will send someone to investigate this matter immediately, if the truth of the matter is indeed told to General You I will help you defeat Xiang Bo's rebels."

"Thank you, General Tian." Xiang Kang hurriedly cupped his hands in thanks, and said, "There is one more thing, after you return to Hangu Pass, General Tian, ​​I will send troops to attack Hangu Pass soon, and open the way for troops to attack Xiang Bo's rebels. .In order to avoid further expansion of the conflict between your armies and our army, and reduce innocent casualties of soldiers, I also hope that General Tian can take the initiative to let go of Hangu Pass and stop confronting our army by force. In return, I will take the prisoners last night to the Release all the more than 5000 soldiers of Qi State, and let them return to serve under your tent, General Tian."

"Really?"

In troubled times, the army is the lifeline. Hearing Xiang Kang's words, Tian An's eyes lit up immediately, and Xiang Kang smiled and replied: "General Tian, ​​don't you know that juniors have always been as good as they are? Let alone more than 5000 prisoners. It’s the foundation of Huaisi that I laid down with my own hands, why don’t you just give it up to my uncle, General Xiang Lianggong?”

Knowing that Xiang Kang was really keeping his word, Tian An was even more secretly happy, and hurriedly cupped his hands and said: "Okay, I will discuss with my subordinates immediately after I go back, and I will definitely give General You a satisfactory answer as soon as possible."

"Thank you, General Tian." Xiang Kang also hurriedly thanked, and then said: "By the way, General Tian, ​​in order to make your soldiers feel at ease waiting for their release, please go to the prisoner-of-war camp in person and tell those soldiers my decision in public. The soldiers of Qi State who were captured by our army, let them have a bottom line in their hearts."

Tian An hesitated again, but Xiang Kang couldn't argue, and immediately told Chen Ping: "Mr. Chen Ping, please work hard, accompany General Tian to the prisoner-of-war camp, and tell General Tian about the misunderstanding between us and General Tian." To the soldiers of the Qi State, and also to help General Tian to tell all the soldiers of the Qi State of my decision to release them all, so that the soldiers under General Tian's command will not be unstable and do something stupid."

Chen Ping, who had been ordered by Xiang Kang earlier, smiled, and immediately came up to invite Tian Antong to go to the prisoner-of-war camp. Tian An was forced to go to the prisoner-of-war camp with Chen Ping, and told the prisoners of the state of Qi about the so-called dance that happened last night. He also clearly announced the good news that Xiang Kang would release all the prisoners of war of Qi State unconditionally. Needless to say, the results of hearing that he could be released unconditionally, of course, the panicked prisoners of war of Qi State burst into cheers, and their hearts were greatly stabilized.

Then, after entertaining Tian An with good wine and good food, Xiang Kang actually arranged for manpower to send Tian An back to Hangu Pass in a gorgeous float, but after Tian An left, he was confused The young commander of the army asked Xiang Kang: "General You, what do you mean? After finally catching Tian An, he should be used to force the Qi army at Hangu Pass to surrender. Let him go?"

"Using him to force Qi's army to hand over Hangu Pass is of course also a way." Xiang Kang replied: "But first, it is not sure, and it is easy for other ambitious people to take the opportunity to make trouble. Second, it is too unjust. Back then, Tian An In order to help our Chu army rescue the Julu battlefield, he resolutely defected from Qi to join the coalition of princes, and his righteous deeds shocked the world. If we threaten his life again and force the Qi army to hand over Hangu Pass, we will definitely let us go. A discredited reputation will not help us win over and win over other princes in the future."

"But what if he refuses to take the initiative to hand over Hangu Pass?" Zhujishi asked worriedly: "He still has more than 1 troops at Hangu Pass, so he can fight us, so we let him go again. Going back, the morale of the army is stable, if we insist on defending Hangu Pass, it will definitely be more difficult for us to take Hangu Pass."

Xiang Kang laughed loudly, and said: "If Tian An dares to do this, he will be the one who loses his reputation. And even if he insists on defending Hangu Pass regardless of his reputation, it will still be easy for us to take down Hangu Pass. "

After laughing out loud, Xiang Kang said with a sinister smile again: "Almost forgot, I let Tian An go back, and another purpose is to use his hand to clean up Liu Laosan. When Tian An enters Guancheng, we will have a good show."

(End of this chapter)